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can Market Boomed by Enormous Order
lifornia 5 Product bought by Europe

Biggest ScoOp of Year Announced to Michigan Growers Waiting for Higher Prices;
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HE CALIFORNIA Bean

Growers’ Association is an
organization worth while. Organ-
ized a little more than two years
ago, this association absolutely
controls the sale of Vmore than
eighty per cent of all the beans
raised in California. During the
past seven months, while the
bears and bulls have been"grow1-
ing and pawing the earth, the
membership of this association
has kept right along in the even

flde.——-RENRUT.
New York City, May 31, 1919.

 

 

WESTERN UNION —SPECIA L

Market Editor, Michigan Business Farming,
Mt. Clemens, Michigan.
EDERAL EXPORT COMPANY has just closed purchase of two I
hundred thousand bags white beans from California Bean Grow-
ers’ Association to apply on first large orde1 from Sweden. Sale
calls for shipment during next six months, proving that European
trade anticipates heavy purchase American beans even after their
crop is available. This sale disposes of nearly one-half all white
beans in California and is most bullish development of the crop year
and removes the bears’ strongest talking point.

our faith in the final clean up of
the market; and if prices don’t
work to a higher level, then fact.—
ors which have governed ma1kcts
in the past need not be considered
in the future.

Manipulations Disgusting

The bean growers of Michigan
have become completely disgust-
ed with the manipulators, and as
a consequence not more than half
last season’s acreage will be

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' tenor of its way, relying absolute-
ly upon the advice and council
of those in authority, and as a consequence they are going to bring the
growers through without a ';loss a condition thought impossible three
months ago. ~

California had a bumper crop in anticipation of the War demands,
and with the cessation of hostilities the market went to pieces. Before
the Californians had time to figure out the proposition, the orient be-

' gan to dump 1n beans of many kinds and colors—wholly demoralizing

the markets throughout the United States.
Californians Helped Michigan Growers

Secretary Turner, of the association, who handles the sales end of
the business did not get excited, but held the membership together. It
will be remembered that recently he very gracefully stepped back and

permitted three hundred cars of Michigan beans to be sold, without

competition, while he received an order for but one hundred and fifty

cars.

This Government order held the market for a brief period, and
then began the struggle between the bulls and bears, which kept every

7 7 body in hot water, who had beans to sell, for more than three months.

However, the telegram printed herewith shows that the California as-

' sbciation has finally landed with a big order, and the final clean up of

the California crop is now assured, and what is better, the growers,
and not the speculators will come out With a profit.

Means Much to Michigan

>This purchase by the Federal Export Company means much to
those interested in the bean situation in Michigan. The market is at a

i . point right now where the world’s supply must be considered—it is

the only factor to be reckoned with. The available supply of Michigan
and New York beans was never lower at a corresponding period, and

, yet the market has been so manipulated, that the ofl’einig of a half
dozen cars at a price less than current quotations, throws the market
soft its balance,

,getting in their work.
7 beans in Mi chigan elevators have been disposed Of; the movement has

i ’ been slow and the growers have beans which they are mighty anxious

And right here is where the maipulators have been
During the past thirty days, one-half of the

to unload.

 

I We find at country points a few good beans are coming in every
' , with more waiting the call at round seven and One-fourth cents
pound The good news from our California brothers but increases

planted this year. Reports from
, . all sections of the state confirm
that this statement is accurate.

“I have raised beans for fourteen years, ’said a prominent farm—

er the other day, “and during that time I have had just two paying fl!

crops.’

“No beans for me,” said another; “with such unsatisfactory mar—
ket conditions, there’s no money in a bean crop. Too many chances to
take; too many noses in the trough when you do get a crop. I raised
thirty acres last year; not an acre this year.” Hundreds of such re-
plies have been received, and while the bad weather has prevented
many from planting oats, mighty few are going to again turn to beans
——chances too great; help too scarce.

Effective Michigan Organization Needed

Michigan bean growers are without an effective organization.

’While the majority of the growers in California are in the business 011 "

an extensive scale, the conditiOn is exactly reversed in Michigan and
New York. -

Mighty few farmers here go into bean growing extensively; a
few acres as a side line is the usual plan, and herein do we find
the reason why it is practically impossible to organize the bean grow-
ers as efficiently as they are in the West. ' There the grower signs a con-\
tract to sell all of his beans through the association, and he pays a
good-sized penalty if he does not live 11p to his contract.

Sufficient capital is provided through warehouse receipts, partial-

‘ly to finance the growers, and they are thus in a position where they

can outmanipulate the manipulators.

No section of the country can raise a bean that will in any way
compare with the little “navy” or pea bean of Michigan, for canning,
and the time is not far distant when the growers of this product will
get together, and through organization change bean growing from a
hit and miss business proposition to a stable industry-——this will not be
accomplished however until some means are p10v1ded through which
the small grower can be financed.

The growers have had the active support of some of the larger
bean buyers during the past seven months, and some day the story of
the effort put forth to stabelize the price on Michigan beans will be
told. Other large buyers have bulled the market one day, only to
work with the bears a few days later» and the result has been not. only
the" most unsatisfactory market conditions ever experienced, but the

demoralization of the whole industry.

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; '- Boy Scouts to Open Notion-wide Campaign for OneMlllton Assocrate em , p
' The Boy Scout Movement offers unusual one
It needs men,
to act as cummitteemen and as leaders of groups: -
of boys, .I' hope that all who can will enlist for‘
such personal service, enroll as associate mem-.
bers and give all possible financial assistance to;
‘this worthy organization of American boyhood. ‘
Anything that is done to increase the effective- _

. ' Hill PRESIDENT of the United States has,
I by proclamation, appealed in behalf of the

I .. . boyhood of the nation, farm” and town alike

. by extending and strengthening the Boy Scouts

:of America, for character development, citizen-
ship training and Americmization. '

The Boy Scout movement has given organized
boyhood a place alongside the Red Cross and other
great organizations as a National institution- .In
order to extend its benefits more rapidly to the
millions of American boys both on the farm and in
town, who, because at lack of volunteer leadership,
are still without the training of the Boy Scout pro
- gram, Hon. W. G. McAdoo and eminent gentlemen
he has associated with himself as,members of the
‘ Citizens’ National Committee, working in co-oper-
' ation with the National Council of the
‘ Boy Scouts of America, pursuant to
the proclamation by the president of
the United States, have formulated a
program for a nation-wide Boy Scout
Week beginning Sunday, June 8th and
Zintinuing through to Flag Day, June

This will be the first nation-wide
appeal on a comprehensive plan for
the support of the Boy Scout move-
ment. Scouting has been developed
and operated for the last nine years
practically on a self-supporting basis.
Income from registrations, supplies,
and so forth, have about covered run-
ning expenses. Field and extension
work alone have been dependent upon
volunteer contributions.

Become a Member Yourself

The first objective of this campaign
is to secure 1,000,000 associate mem-
bers of the National Council, Boy Scouts of Amer-
ica as an assurance of enlarged usefulness.

This associate membership is offered to moth-
ers and fathers of American boys” and other adult
American citizens upon payment cf $1 or more as
membership dues; in effect and in Spirit a contri.
bution to the movement, the amount to be determ-
ined by each individual. The associate member-
ship, however, is an actual legal identification
with the national body, Without voting privileges
which, by the constitution and by-laws of the Boy
Scouts of America, belong only to regularly elect-
ed members of the National Council.

It is expected that besides'the financial support
which this new membership will give the organ-
ization many associate members will volunteer as
scoutmasters, assistant scoutmasters, member of
troop committees and members of local councils;
and that many others will be active in organizing
new troops of Scouts in connection with their
churches, schools and other institutions and where
necessary, independently of institutions.

On Monday, June 9, it is expected that a popular
mass meeting will be called to consider the report
of the Survey Committee and take steps to extend
the facilities of the Boy Scout program in meeting
local boyhood problems. __

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, will
be devoted to an intensive membership and finan-
cial campaign in accordance with definitely work-
ed-out plans.

Saturday, June 14, will be largely devoted to a
public demonstration in the way of parades and
otherwise by scouts; also by citizens in behalf of
scouts in the form of a festival at a public place
with a feast, speeches, music and scout demonstra-
tions, The most representative citizens in the
community will be invited to assist in this citi-
zens’ demonstration of interest in the scouts of
their community . .

For demonstrations, churches can make avail-
able grounds, their social or other rooms where
the public could resort to see what scouts can do.

The most friendly and comprehensive notices of
the campaign given in
advance from the pul-
pit at all services and
included in church bul-
letins, will be of great
assistance, Volunteer
testimonials sent to the
press, of the value of
scout activities in the
local churches, will
help immensely. Pub-
lic spirited citizens can
render great service in
this campaign especial-
ly by encouraging the
fermation of troops in
connection with the
churches, schools, and
other institutions.

President Wilson‘s
Proclamation

“The Boy Scouts of
America have rendered
notable service to the
Nation d u r i n g the
world war. They have
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important fields.

Scout Training. Makes Good F ormers as. Well as

War Savings campaigns, "in discovering and re-

porting upon t‘hevblack walnut supply, in co—op- _.

crating with the Red Cross and other war work
agencies, in acting-as despatch bearers for the
Committee on Public Information, and in other
The Boy Scouts have not only
demonstrated their worth to the Nation, but have
also materially; contributed to a deeper apprecia—
tion by the American people of the higher con—
ception of patriotism and good citizenship.

The Boy Scout Morement should not only be
preserved, but strengthened. It deserves the
support of all public—spirited citizens. The avail-
able means for the Boy Scout movement have
thus far suilwd for the organization and train-
ing of only a small proportion of the boys. of.

 

The boys ’are going to make a. lot of noise during the next several days in.
campaigning for aid in boys’ work.

Better s'lt up and take notice.

the country. There areapproximately 10,000,000
boys in the United States between the ages of
twelve and twenty-one. Of these only 375,000
enrolled as members of the Boy Scouts of Ameri-
ca.

America cannot acquit herself commensurate-‘

ly with her power and influence in the great per-
iod now facing her and the world unless the boys
of America are given better opportunities than
heretofore to prepare themselves for the respon-
sibilities 'of citizenship.

Every nation depends for its future upon the
proper training and development of its youth.
The American boy must haVe the best training
and discipline our great democracy can provide
if America is to maintain her ideals, her stand—
ards and her‘influence in the world.

The plan, therefore, for a Boy Scout week dur-
ing which a universal appeal will be made to all
Americans to supply the means to put the Boy
Scouts of America in a position to carry forward
effectively and continuously the splendid 'work
they are doing for the youth of America, should
have the unreserved support of the Nation.

Therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of
the United States of America, do hereby recom-
mend th,at the period beginning Sunday, June
8th, to Flag Day, June 14, be observed, as Boy
Scout Week through the United States for the
purpose of strengthening the work of the Boy
Scouts of America. '

I earnestly recommend that, in every commun-
ity, a Citizens’ Committee under the leadershi
of a National Citizens’ Committee, be organiz
to, co—operate in carrying out a program for a
definite recognition of the effective“ services ren-
dered by the Boy Scouts of America; for a sur-
vey of the facts relating to the boyhood of each
community, in order that with the co—operation
of churches, schools and 'other organizations
definitely engaged in work for boys, adequate
provision may be made for extending the Boy
Scout program to a larger proportion of Ameri-
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llwefl as mm. » _ ..

portunity'ffor volunteer service.

trees of the Boy Scouts of America will be a genu-
ine contribution to the welfare of the Nation.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand:

and caused the seal of the United States to be of- :
fixed.

Done this first day of May in the year of our
Lord, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen,
and of the independence 0: the United States of

America, the one hundred and forty- /

third.

( Signed) WOODROW WILSON.

MOTHER’S impression of
United States Boys' Working Re-
serve is given in the following

letter from Mrs. Elizabeth Marion,
of Detroit, Mich:

“When the ‘call to arms,’ as it were,
for boys for farm work first sounded in
our family no one took it seriously but
the boy. He had been secretly nursing
a. grudge against himself for months
because he was not old enough to join
the Marines or enter the Navy. So, the
promised outlook for service to his
country became the absorbing thing
in his life. I knew how he wanted to
do his share, to help in the great
world struggle and the Boys' Working Reserve
work was his opportunity. ’

“On Monday he was told to leave on Wednesday
the let of May, and he was all ready Tuesday
night. We were up very early in the morning and
made the 6.30 train and he
but 791% serious, too, as the young are.

“My oy, as you know, was very fortunately
placed with a young farmer'of splendid habits—a
quietly religious man, who did not swear himself
or want to hear anyone else do so. Not a creature

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on the place, from the dear old collie to the cross ‘

old sow was ever afraid of him; he did not wish to
work or rule by fear. The farm of 200 acres was
entirely worked by him and my son, and as every-
thing was well done and the farm made to pay as
few farms do pay, it meant work and more work.
“The meals were very good and always plentiful
and my boy became one of the little family, shar-
ing evenin the regular Saturday night trip to
town, the one and great dissipation or farm life.
It was,_ of course, a complete change in every way
from city and school life, a very good change, too,
for any boy. Opening up a whole world to him of
where things come from. The fresh air the dif.
ifefieuti food, tléeidlifferent people with their differ-
en vews an eas— ve hi
think about. ga 111 many things to
[“There were lonesome times, too. There was a
little bridge over a creek where the boy from the
next farm and my boy used to meet after the
chores were done, and dangle their feet over the
little stream and talk of home'and then go back

though the dark Quiet hi )3
and to bed. 8 t to the silent house

“But he learned many man useful
the best way, by doing them, (find I feel tfhggguilx:
mer, in spite of the hard work, was well spent
And then when he came home and whispered ‘Mo;
zgegbllngig wli!t'a.it1_ll colulg. Wasn’t it almost as’good

ver 00 e
andsosaid, \‘uon, it was.’ " at his bronzed young face
‘f , back to school, ‘hard as nails:
to be, well contented. We are glad it: 1:33:33:
, 1with 1581;: Boys’ Work-
. ng rve. The

GOOd SOldleTS ervision of the boyga:
. , splendid. I am very
grateful for it and ap-
preciate in his school
life the incalculable in-
fluence for good the
fine teachers and
coaches have in the

forming of his charac-
ter.” ' '

'Boys Deserve Praise '

   

town, Pa., George H.
‘ Donner says;

terest I notice the
plans that are being,
made for the U.. S. B.
W. R.'for the coming
season.
patriotic corps of boys,

their ' success

and help
to the former. - -‘

REMEMBER THE BOYS’ RESERVE.
the ‘

went happy and eager, ,

Writing from J ames- "

“It is with much in- ‘

I think this a -

and they certainly‘den * .
serve much praise for. " '

         

 

 

   
   
  
   
   
    
    
   
   
   
    
     
  
  
    
  
   
  
   
 
 
 
    
   
 
 

  
 
 
    
   
    
   
   
      
     
   
   
 
   

 
 
  


 
 
   

  
   
  

Reports of New

  

a ers t’Live Sleek“ V'ssimia‘t‘ions.
Shipping organisations are Pouring in from. All Parts of Michigan":

Reports from many parts of Michigan come pouring\- in telling of‘the Belleville, and E. W. Meyer and A. Huston of Plymouth. ‘If not already 3? .

 
 

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‘ in urging favorable action on the Mondell Soldiers

“pop” of the farmers in getting busy on co—operative organizations. Here
in the midst of big shipments, especially of veal, live stock shipping asso-
ciations. are or special interest. More than 130 such associations are new
thriving in this state. ,

Among the new Co-operative Live Stock Shipping Associations formed
in the» past two or three weeks, those in Monroe and Ottawa counties seem
to, be especially interesting. At these organization meetings, Mr. A. C.
Raviler of the M. A. 0., stands out with particular prominence, although
thevigor and enterprise of the farmers themselves is the most noteworthy
and striking feature. '

' In the last year about $30,000,000 of business was handled by such
associations in Michigan. Particulars of the organization of some of the
newcomers follow:

A rousing meeting of 150 farmers from VanBuren, Sumpter and
Canton townships, held at Bellevill’e, Monroe county, resulted in forty-three
signing up for a Cooperative Live Stock Shipping Association. This as-
sures the top. price for all live stock to the producer with minimum cost
for handling. . ' '

G. C. Rayner, extension specialist in marketing trom the M. A. 0., ex-
plained the method 01 organizing, while Charles McCalia and George Mc-
Calla of the Ann Arbor Live Stock Shipping Association, explained the
work of an association trom the tarmars’ standpoint. Petitions for signing
up are in the handset H. D. Schweigert, Chris ‘Sweitzer, Frank Merrell,
Irving Riggs, F. C. Fry, Ed. Robson, George 0. Perry and Steve Pearl of

asked to do so, local farmers are urged to see them and sign up.

Monroe and Wayne County Farm Bureaus are cooperating. It-is ;,
through such organization that the farmers are able to get what rightfully
be10111183 to them. . » -

OONKLIN LIVE STOCK MEN MEET

The meeting at Conklin, Ottawa county, for considering organization
of a Live Stock Shippers’ Association was attended by 125 farmers

The matter of organization and advantages to the farmers of this .kind
of an association was thoroughly-discussed by Mr. , Raviler of the State
Market Department, and he made plain to them how much could be saved
to the farmers by this method of marketing stock. ’ '

D. L. Hagerman, county farm agent,‘also explained matters in this
connection. ' "

James C. Chittick was chosen temporary chairman, and Charles Bat-
son temporary secretary. - . .

The plan proposed is a membership organization instead of a stock
organization. A committee of eight was named to solicit membership and
it is desired to secure 75 members by June 15.

FLAT‘ROCK GETS BUSY .

Flat Rock, Monroe county, has a co—operative association. Several .
such associations have been formed in Wayne and Monroe counties with
very satisfactory results. Farmers having live stock of any kind to sell
or fertilizer or dairy feed to buy, should join to make the association 8.

 

 

52,000 U. S. Army Men Write to Secretary
Lane to Learn Details About Reclaimed

Land for Ex-Fighters; Labor
Shortage Argued

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SOldler emrience in France has awakened a ‘7‘ “Witwa

keen desire for farm life and this sentiment
should be encouraged, Secretary of the Interior
Lane has told the house public lands committee,

Settlement bill.

“I have received 62,000 requests irom American
boys in the army that they be given an opportun-
ity to get a farm from thegovernment and we
have not been able to make any kind of a census,"
Secretary Laiue said.

Representative Snell, of New York,‘suggeeted

 

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Soldier-Farmer Attention!

YOU HAVE COME, Mr. Soldier-Farm-
er, to the turning of the road when you
leave camp with the red discharge chev-
ron on your sleeve.
problems have appeared In the Middle
and (my Industry.
Agriculture, the oldest, largest andsurest,
would lead you on the road to health,
real wealth, ownership, independence and
happiness. The factory life is important,
but Mr. Farmer-Soldier, you were trained
Would you break away

from that amd turn into the path to

wages and confinement, {creaking your
training in the most fundamental indus—
try—Agriculture! America hopes not. If
you want to get a good form from the

. government, write to the Reclamation
service of the Department of the Interior '
and if proposed legislation is accomplish-

ed, you will have an opportunity for a ,

real job with a real reward. Think it

MICHIGAN FARMS ARE
SHORT 0F LABORERS

Unemployment in Eastern States Decreased
By Agricultural Demands of Middle
West and South, Says U. S.
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WASHINGTON—A growing demand for tam
labor is decreasing the amount of unemployment,
the United States employment service reports,
showing 227,425 classed still unemployed.

Both the Middle West farming states including
Michigan, and the South reported need of farm
laborers while on the Pacific coats, Los Angeles
and San Francisco reported a surplus.

More than half the unemployed were reported in
New York City, where the estimate ran that from
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that there now existed a shortage of farm labor,
and enactment of, the pending legislation might
accentuate that shortage.

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not be kept a farm laborer for hire when he could
own a tarm and till it for himself."

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i. Triéksof BigFive Pack

a meeting to discuss how they should meet
- the demand for packer-investigation, called
for in the Borland Resolution. A memorandum
was prepared in which the statement was made:
“We must try and justify our efficiency and hone
esty' to both producer and consumer.” ,
This was back in 1916—July 20. .
Only the recording angel—~and he only, if he is
an expert accountant—ecould'check up on the hon-
‘ esty of the packers. The statement in this regard
by Mr.‘ Rush C. Butler, who was formerlycounsel
for\Cudahy Packing Co_, reads thus: “The expendi-
ture of.$25,000,000 by the packers in a single year

,1 R EPRESENTATIVES OF the big packers held

in any manner they see fit to spend it, would not -

begin to repair theinjury”, of the publicity given
by the Federal Trade Commission to the packers’
methods. This shows that they recognize the fact
that they are.not efiicient.

Mr. Butler's other statement, “If a small part of
what the commission says about the packers be
true, the department of justice ought to be im-
peached .from the attorney-general down,” shows
what the packers themselves feel they are guilty.

. and suggest punishment for the department of jus-
tice for not punishing the wrongdoing. The public,
producer and consumer alike, are greatly interest-
ed in the question 01? whether or not the packers
are really cfiicient. A study of their methods will
show that the whole meat packing industry—en-
tirely aside from any question of honesty in its
transactions—is conducted in a most unscientific
way, which results in injury to both producer and
consumer; but because .of certain loaded dice, in
enormous profits for the packers themselves.

Armour Admits “Big Biz" Faults

Mr. J. Ogden Armour, in his prepared statement
before the House Committee on Interstate and For-
eign Commerce on meat packing legislation, stat-
ed: “Great size in itself does not cause efiiciency,
but great efl‘lciency eventually runs to size." Mr.
Armour admitted that the small packers are more
efficient than the big packers and stated to the
senate committee on agriculture, “In a small way
(the small packers) make more money relatively
than we do. Their percentage of profit is greater
than that of the big packers—I think it is a mat-
ter of record that the small packers make more
money than the big packers because they do-a
limited business, and this is recognized. Every
small packer will tell you that he makes more
money than the large packer in a percentage way."

He admitted that the small packers, paying the
same wages or practically the same as the big
packers, can make a larger percentage of profit
than the big packers. Mr. Armour admitted, ‘.‘Vol.-
ume, unless it is intelligently directed, is no good."

In an examination of Mr_ ArmOur, the following
discussion occurred: «

“Mr Heney: ‘And was it your theory that it was
a good thing for the country—for the consumers
as well as the packers—that the packing business
should be monopolized into one corporation which
would make a monopoly. would it not?’

“Mr Armour: ‘Yes, I think so.’

“Mr Heney: ‘Is that your belief—~that that would
be an ideal condition?’

“Mr. Armour: ‘Why, yes, we thought that by
doing that we could save many, many millions of
dollars lost in the duplication of the business.’ "

Mr. Armour frankly admitted the fact establish-7
ed by the investigation of the Federal Trade Com-
mission that they are trying to get complete mo-
nopoly of the meat packing business of the coun-
try, although he, earlier in his examination, ad-
mitted that such combination was not economical.
He also let the cat out of the bag as to their meth-
ods, not of efficiency but of slaughtering competi.
tion, in his statement: “Of course, Mr. Heney, a
big man. I suppose, if he has got money enough,
can kill off the small man.

Couple this with Mr. Armour's statement: “It
is a matter of record that the small packers always
make more money than the big ones."

Packers Spend Much on Ads
The expenditure by the packers of millions of

. dollars during the past twelve months in an effort_

to convince the public of their virtues and efficien-
cy has been of no avail. The record shows that

the packers' size and profits are due—not to ef— .

ficiency in any way—but to privilege. One of the
best proofs of this fact is that private capital is
unwilling to go into the meat packing industry. It
. would be willing to take its chance on relative ef-
, ficiency but it realizes that it must face unfair
competition. Back of the minor inefficiencies of
therBig Five, is the outstanding fact that the sys-
tem they have built up is economically unsound
and fundamentally inefficient.

The major part of the livestock slaughtered in
the. big packing plants comes from west or the
Mississippi River. while most of these plants are
located east of the Mississippi River or near to
it, The packers themselves admit that the shrimp
.“ agein a 400 mile haul from St. Paul to Chicago
‘ ’fiounts to about $1.29 per head, an amount equal
is), tho-profit” Which they claim to make per head.

 

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_ BymBEN'JAMIN o. MARSH”
(Secretary of the Farmers’ National Committee
onvPacking and Allied Industries.)

The‘ big packing houses are located far from the
chief sources of supply, from 100 to 500 miles. 01!
the 227 independent slaughtering companies do-
ing an interstate business, 17 are located in Illi-
nois, 10 in Chicago alone; eight are in Indiana;
eight in-Iowa; 11in Kansas ;' 22 in New York, of

which 17 are located in New York. City; 18 in _

while Ohio alone has 41, 27 of
which are in Cincinnati. Ten states have no such
slaughtering establishments. To be sure, there
are 623 independent firms engaged in local or in-
trastate trade which slaughter one or more'kinds
of animals. _ ,

The Federal Trade Commission, which prepared
a list of these independent slaughtering firms
states, however, “The‘Commission does not make a
positive statement that all of the firms enumerat-
ed are really independent of one or the other of
the Big Five It is known that some of them are
very closely tied up with the big packers by leas-
ing or other arrangements.” '

The packers claim that part of their efiiCiency is
due to their ownership of stockyards, but the pack-

Pennsylvania;

 

 

organized farmers in America are back-

ing legislation based on the Federal
Trade Commission’s recommendations on
the meat packing industry, which they seek
to haVe incorporated into a bill.

They realize that the packers did not un-
derstand the temper of editors and publish-
ers or farm journals when they assumed
that, because they tendered a luncheon to
them, they could get these publishers and ed-
itors to favor the packers editorially.

There will shortly be sent out a summary
of the investigation of the Federal Trade
Commission and the hearings on the meat
packing industry to some half million farm-
ers and others throughout the country, in~

' eluding many in Michigan. The object is to
help obtain legislation on the meat packing
and allied industries which will safeguard
the rights of the small producer and the con-
sumer alike. .

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ers have not established any important stockyards
independently . They have forced the owners of
stockyards to sell their stockyards to them, and
almost without exception, they put in from $1,000,-
000 to $10,000,000 of watered stock, upon which

they insist they, have a right to earn dividends, »

and often get a big bonus from commercial bodies
to boot. _ .

Packer-5’ Tricks Enumerated

The packers have used improper methods and
not efficiency in getting a market for their by-
Mr. A. R. Urion, formerly chief counsel
for Armour and Co., wrote a letter showing how
this was worked in Pennsylvania to protect the
dealers who were selling the packers’ oleomargar-
ine: “I give you the following information to be
disseminated among those who are associated with
us in Pennsylvania oleomargarine. The source of
my report you are familiar with. I give you data
on the subject received Saturday_ Have been giv.
en ppsitive assurance by the big man that there
will not be any suits brought in this case during
the time/named on the tinted goods, provided that
they are not too yellow. That is to say, you must
not go to extremes in color, but that the regular
run 01 goods will be all right"

The packers claim that their trade in groceries,
etc., has been built up through their efficiency and
that they. have undersold the grocer because they
were more efficient. Mr .William F. Bode, of Reid,
Murdoch & Co., of Chicago, testified that the pack-
ers get special railroad service and enjoy particu-
lar privilege.
packers own about 30,000, get fast service and a
privately owned packer car' is a refrigerator car

especially equipped for'fresh meats. The pack-

rs’ car-minimum is 10,000 lbs. for packing house

products; the grocers’ or jobbers' car minimum is.

15,000 lbs., which means 50 per cent' greater cost
to the grocer or jobber. The tariff for a full car-
load of packing house products provides for 30,-
000 lbs. minimum, while the jobbers' minimum for
his products to certain destination is from 38,000
to 40,000 lbs. The packer, not-satisfied with quick
service for his perishable products, uses his refrig-
erator cars to get fast service for non-perishable
poducts, thereby, getting special service and spe-

‘cial rates which enable him” to undercut the groc-

er and jobber. On the same shipment from Chi.
cago to Pittsburg, the grocer pays $2.07 and the
packer pays $1.68 on 250 lbs., giving the packer an
advantage of 39c on. thisshipment. ,

As Mr. Bode pointed- out to the committee, .on'
' the" mostconservative. estimate,.tbe packers would
save*$7

 
 
 

 

000,000, on everyil-fvl'o 000 'peddl'er‘ cars on

   

h Out Small Dealers are Revealed at . Washingt
a movement of 100 days during a year.- The packa‘ '.
, ers also succeeded in getting a decision from the
solicitor of the-department of agriculture that the}
wrappingaround ,ham or shouldergor a piece of:

The refrigerator cars, of which the .

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bacon, does not censtitute a wrapping. and i?th

wrapped ham and .bacon are" not in package form. -

This meant an advantage of around $7,000,000 to
the packers. The packers also secured what is

called a “killing in transit"=_rate., If theyshipcatg
tie to Chicago from Omaha, it would cost them file .7 g.
per 100 lbs, but the rate on fresh meat is, 5655c per ."l; 1 =
By getting this “killing in transit? rate,
the packers are enabled to save almost half ofthe '. '
rates which others have to pay. . ‘ _ .. »: _ ,
The department of stockyard supervision in the _ '

100 lbs.

Bureau 0: Markets found that the packers were
under-weighing live stock.

tee:
weight, of all the livestock that crimes into Chica-

go is quite a factor,.and we have established that
it means $10,000,000 to $20,0000,00 a year going in-

towthe pockets of the farmersthat formerly went ‘
into the pockets 0: the packers." ..
Mr. Armour, before the senate committee, _ad-.
mitted that his company invested heavily in their ,
plants in South America andvdid not include in‘
their statements their profits made there because '
thep reinvested these profits in their South "Amer- W

ican business instead of declaring dividends. He
also admitted that they shipped cattle from South
America to our ports in orderto break live stock
prices.

Lots‘of Packer Propaganda
The packers havefound it wise to keep in with

,the railroads. Mr, Armour admitted that he was

a considerable stockholder in the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & St. Paul railroad, a director in the Illinois
Central railroad; at least a small stockholder in
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, and also in the Chi-
cago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad. Mr. Ar-
mour stated: “I have always been pretty careful

when I go to borrow money from any other bank ,

than one I am a director in, not to do anything

that could be criticised by any other stockholder ,

or any other director.” While this may have been
the policyo: Mr. Armour, the principle has not al-
ways been adhered to. The Federal Trade Com-
mission subniitted a list of the banks affiliated
with the packers and reported that an a recent

date these banks had outstanding loans to the Big, ’

Five packers totalling $65,416,710“, of which sev-
eral millions are loaned to Armour & Co., and sev-
eral of them loans had no security whatever Thus
the Chase National Bank, a Wilson Bank, had in
1917 a loan to Armour or $1,000,000 with no secur-
ity; also one to Cudahy Packing Co. of $300,000;
to Wilson & Co. of $925,000; and to a subsidiary
company of Armour’s of $145,000.

The packers have made every effort to swing in

live stock producers so that they would join hands '

with the packers yin mulcting the public. On Sept.
8 1916, Mr. Andrew D. White, publicity agent for
Swift & Co., wrote to some ‘01! the leading packers:
“It seems that most of our trouble in the past year
or so has come through misunderstanding by stock
raisers and feeders of the packers’ economic po-
sition and it is deemed expedient that a campaign
of education with paid advertising be directed par-
ticularly toward this class of people,"
time previously he had suggested a perce tage of
advertising for Swift of 16 per cent; Armour of

29 per cent; Morris of 15 per cent; Cudahy of 10 _

per cent; and Wilson of 10 per cent ,
The packers have tried their best to get the live
stock growers in with them but without success

for the‘iivestock-growers and farmers of America

have insisted upon good business methods rather
than collusion with the big packers to bolster up
the packers’ inefficient methods The packers made
every effort to “take” in the editors of farm papers
and tendered a luncheon to them in order to get
them-«in a friendly frame of mind. Occasionally it
worked ‘

The packers exploit the producer, exploit the id- .

borer and exploit the consumer. The labor leader,

who organized. the employees in the Chicago stock»
yards» and elsewhere two «year’s ago, stated to the .
writer that if all the directors and managers of ‘

the packing plants above the superintendents drop-
ped out, the business could go on just as well, pro‘

viding it were financed. The packers’grip and suc- ‘
cess has been due not to efficiency in any marked.
They want to keep. ,, .
The waste of having the big;
source of supply ‘ ' »
' amounts to more than the value of the by-products - ,
Producers and consumers may .1 "

measure but to stacked cards.
up this,process.~
packing plants far from the

of the big packers. _
this bill—4—a monument to the big packers‘ met:
fiency, In our next articlmfisive will explaining
pending legislation to dealfwith the in ' p ski 1

the small packer. on an; even_‘ ..
business museums lithium;
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charge of this department, testified to the commit— . -
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' .otiesti‘onsiy , How'manywarehouses would you
Qfifi-v'fo'r Michigan? What kind of farm 'pro-
(in would the warehouse buy of the farmer?
, _.Would they buy direct from individual farmers or
«through farm organizations? Would the farmer
receIVe a higher price for' his 'products-thaxi‘he
eeuld get another markets? Would the consumer
be able to buy any cheaper?——‘—J. K., Pempcii, Mich.

   

 

' STATE HANDLES GRAIN.

' ENATE BILL N0. 20 declares the purpose Of
,9: the state of North Dakota to. engage in the
V , business of manufacturing and marketing
. j, ‘. farm products and‘to establish .a warehouSe, ele-

. ,vator and flourmillisystem under the name of ,
5' ' , the" North Dakota Mill'iand Elevator Association.
’ . 'All money raised by the mill tax for terminal
elevators is appropriated to Carry out the provis-
ions of this act and in addition $5,000,000. in

  

ciation. *
, People of North Dakota already have a very
. definite idea of the immense benefits to accrue

flour mills. The people of this state know that
in the past farmers of North Dakota literally.
have been robbed of millions cf dollars annually
th’ru unfair dockage, systematic under-grading
and the manipulation of market prices.‘ It is
. generally conceded that state-owned . elevators
4 and flour mills can put an end to these practices.
The North Dakota Terminal Elevator and Flour
Mill association—under the management of the
Industrial Commission—has the power tobuild,
buy and lease elevators and flour mills, fix the
price of grain and its by-products, and to buy,
manufacture and market all grains and their
by-products. In' short, the state will undertake
to do what is now doneby monopolistic interests
' which have long. controlled the grain industry.

Heretofore, most of the farmer’s obligations
fell due___during the threshing season, so that it
oftenehas been necessary for a farmer to haul
his grain to town as Soon as it was threshed and
, sell it immediately that he could meet his debts.
" Usually the market at this period is driven down
by those grain gamblers, who own the storage
facilities, to the lowest point of the year, and
'thus the farmers of this state have been depriv—
ed of millions and millions of dollars rightfully
theirs. '

 

ARMERS OF America should remember that .
Fthe vigorous campaign against government

ownership and operation of the railroads is be-
ing financed by the farmer’s old enemy, the privil-
aged financial interests ‘
“The Bankers’ Association and the Railroad Se-
curity 'Holders’ Association announced some
months ago that they would start a campaign
against government ownership. They are entitled
togtheir point of view, but the farmer has always
had the good sense to know that'the big financial
interests and his do not jibe. Every reactionary
in America wants the railroads returned to their
present owners; but not as they were before.

~ Railroads Want U. S. Cash
The stockholders of the railroads do not'want to
return to the old system which they built upand
claimed was perfect, with competition between
lines. They would doubtless like to abolish the In-
terstate Commerce Commission, and if possible,
all regulatory bodies, but if they cannot abolish
them, to determine who shall do the regulationg.
They also want the government to subsidize
the roads by guaranteeing them big dividends. The
railroad owners, in plain English, are seeking a
subsidy of‘half a billion dollars a year from the
American people, and as much more as they can
make it. They are more bold than modest. They
haVe millions 01' ‘money to spend and a. powerful
lobby at Washington to get it. The farmer will
remember, however, that under private ownership,
_ railroad rates were constantly increasing and that -
' no farmer can shift freight rates to the consumer
’ of his products—they come out of the price which
- the farmer gets. .j
, Railroads are receiving from 5 to 40 per cent
dividends today on their stock which includes at
least $7,000,000.000 or watered stock on which they
are-not entitled to earn a. penny. If the railroads
are. returned to private ownership, they will be apt
tofcontin-ue getting nearly one half, billion dollars
, i‘unearned— dividends on this watered stock. The
firmer. Win‘pay a lot .of it. ' -; _
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, HAVE BEEN a reader of your valuable paper

"bonds was authorized by the legislature for cap—- -
. ital of the North Dakota Mill and Elevator asso-- '~

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or for
V Under" the provisions of this law, it will be
possible-161'- a farmer to haul his grain to town
and stor‘eit in or consign it to one of the state
terminal ' elevators. When his grain is in the
state terminal elevator he will be given a ware-
house receipt for it and upon this warehouse re-
‘ ceipt he can borrow money from the Bank of
. North Dakota or any of ,its subsidiary agents.
The farmer does not sell his wheat. He merely
’ deposits'it with‘-the terminal elevator, which at-
tends to the marketing and his grain may not be
disposed of until weeks or even months later,
when the market is likely to be much higher.
The warehouse receipt, however, permits the
farmer to get part of the selling price of his
. grain in advance so that he can pay 011' his obli-
gations ahd not be compelled to sacrifice his
wheat at an unreasonably low figure. Later, when
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How would it be to have the state own a bunch
of terminal elevators like this to store the farm-
ers’ grain! Read the details of the plan as worked
out in North Dakota. - »

Railroad Owners are After ‘Ca‘sh From Farmer Tax Payers by Seeking U. S. Subsidies

NOTES FROM THE FARMERS’ NATION-
AL COMMITTEE ON TRANS-
PORTATION, WASH- -
IN GTON, D. C .

the war,‘ this is largely due to the fact that the
government had to guarantee to the stockholders
enormous dividends to make sure that they would
not interfere with government operation of the
railroads. Even so, many railroad officials have
been throwing sand in the machinery.

Rates would have increased much more had the
railroads remained under private operation during
the war because the owners would have had to payu
the same wages, would have demanded the same
dividends, and could not have bought supplies so
cheaply, while they could not-have borrowed mon-
ey at the‘ low rate of interest at which the govern-
ment borrowed, to put the railroads in shape after
they had been looted by the financial interests of
America. -

High Dividends Guaranteed

Wall Street and its allies, and those with whom
they were associated before and during the war,
knew that the guarantee of high dividends would

, tend to discourage government ownership and this

is why they “patriotically” demanded this guaran-
tee. We had to win the war so we paid them, and
the people were obliged to fill the hat for financial
interests of Wall Street. During the war about
400,000 additionafmen were employed on the rail-
roads because many of their most experienced men
volunteered or were drafted, and the new men
were not as experienced nor as enicient as the old
ones. The men not needed on the railroads, now
that‘peace has come and the old men are returning

‘ to take their jobs, will gradually be .dropped. If

the railroads are returned to their owners, they
will claim the credit for this saving—just what the
government would effect if they operated the rail-
roads. , In“ all probability. if the railroads are re-
turned to their owners under .‘pre_war conditions,
the patrons ,of the railroads will: pay nearly one
billion dollars a year immediately, which they

F armors Should be

. that has thus far been presented was whether or

'lers in railroad stocks this enormous sum and a

and inheritance taxes and by taxing monopoly of

mean an additional saving to the public of at least
$6,000,000,000 to $7,000,000,000 a year.

to gain by the return of the railroads to their pres-
ent owners—and everything to gain and nothing
to lose by government ownership and democratic
operation of the railroads. Will the farmer perm-it
himself to be fooled by Wall Street and its agents,
or will he have sense enough,to instruct his Unit-
ed States senators and his representatives in the
House not to play Wall Street’s game again, but ,
to retain government operation of the
and give it a ‘fair chance?

Engaged Carefully '

between the final selling price and the amount
advanced on his warehouse receipt, less the act—
ual cost to the state.

This plan has been in operation in Australia,
New.Zealand, many of the countries of Europe
and in terminal elevators on the Pacific coast
and in Canada. This system will effect a saving
of several cents on every bushel of grain grown
in North Dakota and as this state produces about
250,000,000 bushels annually, this‘saving will
aggregate several million dollars to the farmers
of the state and indirectly benefit the business
man as "well.

 

PEOPLE MUST TAKE INITIATIVE

E HAVE intentionally refrained from dis-

‘1» cussing the details of operation of the pro-
posed- terminal warehouses. In the first
placewe have not yet been confronted with the is-
sue of whether or not we should authorize the
state to build these warehouses. The only issue

not the legislature should give to the people the
opportunity to vote upon the proposal. We em-
phatically believe that the people should have that
opportunity.

We say in all candor and truthfulness that if the
people of Michigan were to be called upon with-
in the next ten days to vote for or against this
warehouse amendment, we would unhesitatingly
advise them to vote against it. Why? Because
the intervening time would be altogether too short
for either us or the the voters to investigate the
plan and arrive at an intelligent understanding
of its various provisions. When in doubt on an
amendment to the constitution, the safe plan is
vote "no.” But if the people were to be given a
chance to vote on the warehouse amendment at
the fall election in 1920, eighteen months hence,
the question of submitting it to them had to be
decided at the present session of the legislature.
Not only was the time too short in which to satis—
fy all members of the legislature as to the merits
of the amendment, but details of operation which
might appear practical today, eighteen months
hence might have to be rejected altogether. So it
was useless to enter into lengthy discussions of
how the proponents of_ the measure expected to-
‘day the proposition was to work out a year and a
half from today. Moreover, these were matters to
be decided by the voters rather than by the legis- '
lature. But now that the legislature has refused -
to submit the amendment to the people and they
must take the initiative, we must be more con-
cerned with the merits of the scheme.

would be saved under government ownership.
This includes dividends on watered stock, which
governmentpwnership would wring out, too high
dividends, and waste of competitive operation. The
farmer can not afford to pay this but the rail-
road’s alternative is a big government subsidy.
Under government ownership, purchasing can be
pooled an dthe government can get lower prices
than the individual railroad.

Mr. Paul M. Warburg, of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., for-
merly a member of the Federal Reserve Bank
Board, is reported in the New York Times as say-
ing, “A return to par for Liberty bonds, accompan-
ied by a recovery of only half the shrinkage in
values of railroad securities in the last few years,
would give to the nation an addition to its taxable
wealth of about $3,000,000,000.” Liberty bonds
have not been hammered down over $500,000,000,
certainly, therefore, Mr. Warburg makes it clear
that owners of railroad stock want the roads re-
turned to private owners so they can cut a melon
of two and a half billion dollars. That will not
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basis for constant boosting of-railroad rates.

The owners are not entitled to receive over
about $12,000,000,000 for all the railroads of the
country. Under government ownership this whole
amount can easily be secured in a few years by
taxing swollen unearned fortunes through income

land and other natural resources. This would

The farmer has everything to lose and nothing

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The State Legislature Again in Session

HE LATE lamented State Legislature is

again in session—and here’s hoping that
members will enact a good-roads law and
then quickly adjourn that no more of the tax
payers’ money may be squandered. The .gov-
ernor has some special matters to be consider-
ed, and no one knows just how long the boys
will tarry in the capital city. By a majority
of 333,383 the voters of Michigan said they
have not changed their minds since April 7.

Just what the good roads bill will be when

but it is now’prOposed to have the governor,
‘ state treasurer, auditor general and highway
,; , commissioner, act as a board which will have
~ charge of the financial end of road building.
The present legislature will undoubtedly ap-
prove the issuing of ten million dollars’ worth
of bonds to cover the work for the next two
years. >

'5: It is proposed to have the bonds run from
51;" ten to thirty years; with an annual interest
#3; rate of five per cent.' And these bonds will be
“5’ exempt from state and county taxes and per-
haps from the federal income tax. Right now
these bonds will not be gobbled up by invest—
ors, although there will be no trouble of-dis-
. posing of them as fast as the money is need-
ed. But within a few years five per cent bonds
V' will be at a big premium, and the annual in-
:1 terest budget to be paid by the taxpayers, will

 

 

be of sufficient size to cause the average tax

payer to sit up and take notice. -.
The tax payers of Michigan are very fortu-
nate in the fact that the highway department
' is not only presided over by an able and con-
scientious commissioner; but

   

the boys get through with it, is hard to tell,- '

: ftr’ibutmg

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’_ The Farmer at the Forks of the Mindset Road

, HE FARMER has proceeded slowly

along the highway ‘leading‘ to profitable
markets, and has-now reached the forks in the
road—he is deliberating whether he shall keep
right straight ahead: or-take the road prepar-
ed by others, and from which many obstruc-
tions appear to have been removed. his well
that he proceeds with due caution from this

' point. Every step of the journey thus far has

been difficult; innumerable obstructions had
to be removed, and many difiiculties encounter-
ed and overcome.

And now, as he looks forward and sees
many more difficulties to overcome'alo g the
co-operative highway, it is but natura that
he hesitates, and finally listens to the very-on-
ticing propositions presented by those Who
claim that they have'solved all of the prob-
lems, and would. now join resources and jour-‘
ney with him marketward. Strange, isn’t it,
that no one came to his aida few years ago
when organized greed was sapping the very

life out of the farming business through com-

binations as complex in their operation as they
were merciless in their dealings

Progress ever and always leaves problems in
its wake—those who would progress must of
necessity remove the obstructions, else they
can not proceed. The moment the farmers
undertook to’jointly own and co—operatively
operate the elevators, they stepped out of the
beaten pathway which. leads to the market-
place, and in attempting to change the meth-
ods of distribution, they very promptly and
very naturally met many problems, which
were theirs to solve, before they could fully
enjoy the fruits of progress.

The most encouraging aspect of the whole
situation is found in the fact that the jobbers
in farm products now realize that co-operation
has come to stay; that finally the farmers will
own the elevators and place a finished product
upon the consumers’ market. A few years
ago the larger elevator interests would not
even recognize the co-operative companies;
now they not only recognize them, but are
willing to lend a hand. And it ’s a grave ques~
tion whether the farmers should grasp the
proffered hand at present or not. '

Isn’t it possible that the lions appearing in
the highway just ahead of the co-operative pil-
grim, are securely chained, and that now as he
has passed through the slough of despondency
he will find the journey less tiresome from
this point on? This is no hour for discourage-
ment; no time for making quick dicisions. The
farmer must have his own co-operative organi-

the Question

is: .“Have you an .orgamz

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is they 'know that every dollar
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one dollar’s worth of good roads
eand too, where most needed.
. We have started out on a good
: roads program; an immense
'" amount of money is available, for
‘ the purpose—here’s hoping that
Michigan will show the way to
better things by building good
roads better.
Some of those connected with
. the Sleeper administration have
a seen a great light since the ad-
journment of the legislature;
and they are wondering why
they permitted a few blockheads
to place the administration in
such an embarrasing position in
connection with’ the state ware-
house proposition. It is quite
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HE FOLLOWING advertisement, and .. “the
, letter were. received at the ofiice of Michi- if ‘_ 33.," Two
gen Business Farmifig recently: ' ‘ ' ‘ flier
Please run the attached ad in your next ! .7 ‘5?“
issue. .We will make; prompt remittance g is ’
1' covering cost of this ad immediately upon _ ' . fig
receipt of bill; ’ . :er
‘MAKE YOUR OWN BEER4—Don’t fen
, pay outrageous prices for a little can of film
. extract to make your beer. 'Make it your- " , stir-
self. We tell you how. No fake or hum- ' t "“3
bug proposition.‘ Meney back guarantee. - ' 3
Instructions, s1. . ’ ' . ““1
, Chemists, V :3:
What. do you think (if this anyhow! The Own
owould-be advertisers knew Michigan is a dry int
state and presumably that Michigan Business prc
Farming lived up to what the overwhelming . big
majority of farmer voters have shown—that ' " up!
.they‘are against the whole kit and kaboodle of ‘ 01“
liquor fakes and humbugs. ‘ ‘ 1
It is an insult, worse than. the gOld brick 0’3
stunt, to the intelligence of the modern busi- ' $.11)
ness farmer. The answer to this type of ad m5
mightquite probably be like the following: 1811
A city schemer once sent broadcast an ad, an:
headed like this, “A Sure Way to Get Rich; all!
Just Mail One Dollar for This Great Secret of. l i “03
, Success.” To the thousands of queries the ad- ’ ’ ,ori
vertiser sent a little card with these words— do:
“Work Like Thunder and Never Spend a ’. E
Cent.” ‘ ' ,. . 113'
Another bunco ad type is the famous stunt 11::
of running a heading like this—‘ ‘Double Your :31
Money; Sendfius a Quarter and We’ll Tell You ed
How.” The reply was in the form of a short i ire
letter reading thus: “Convert your money in- “I
to bills and fold them in the middle.” “8
Booze ad men, too, are probably not above "’1
such tricks to get your money. But they find W]
a thick wall of horse—sense and indignation. ' 2;:
They haven’t heavy chances of big success. p0,
~ r.
Changing the Perspective . in:
UR EDITOR, Forrest Lord, has for the to!
past two weeks, been in North Michigan ” g e“
' studying conditions as they affect the farming ' “1‘
business in that section at first hand, refresh- . :1:
ing his mind and filling his lungs with the .
clear ozone of. that far-famed country, unsur- , 0.
passed in the whole world. Mr. Lord comes in
from that country, because he, like every . gr,
. man connected with our weekly, m,
l1 in an editorial or business ca- r ' br.
pacity is a true Michigander, - ' pe
born and bred close to the soil at
of this old state of ours. ' '4 S35
We, here, will welcome him 111
back to his desk and you, loyal _ . 3r
friends of M. B. F., will wel- a:
\ come him back to his pen— ‘ . he
‘ though confidentially, you will ' '
be slightly in error in so doing, "5 ga
as he uses a rattling typewriter. ' M
which on occasions, as you may - I 1
well guess, gets slightly bet-up! . sh
If you have problems in your — pr
part of our state which need the j i in
attention of M. B. F., now is the ‘. ' th
time to tell us of them. The ‘ '30
roads are good and getting bet- . ' i _

ter and an editorial written ;

_ from your farm house, whether . i

it be near the Ohio line .or along , 1
the shores of Lake _ Superior," .w.‘
will be closer to your needs and . :15

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make farming a more profitable '-
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1,, I’l‘here are many like “A Farmer’s
’ ifs," who are‘of destructive rather
If. an constructive natures, and who

uld‘ abolish capital and wealth the
ery essence of personal zeal and am-
ition, claiming that the laboring class
fnot receiving justice at hands of

' papital while it is a proven fact that

finer-e than 80 per cent of the men of

' great wealth and men who' ' have prov-

‘E‘n their superiority and ability in po-
ifiions’ of great responsibilities ‘came
directly‘o'r indirectly out of the labor-
‘Ling classes.

* ,~-; There is no handicap over ‘the Amer-

fican‘laberer because of occupation, but
rather there is an open deer of. oppor-
tunity to every honest, upright man
who will spend his spare "time, energy,
intelligence and ability toward im-
proving and equipping himself for a
bigger job rather, than heaping fuel

1‘ upon the fire of bitterness and antag-

onism against private-owned industry.

I do not desire to detract from So-
cialism any of its potential factors,
when I say that Socialism in its true
originality . and interpretation had

' many plausible features, but Social-

' ism, as an instrument, in the hands of
anarchists, ’I. W. W.’s, bolsheviki or
any and all" associations and organiza-
tions of “Foreign Born" or heathenish
origin is a, deadly peril and should be
dealt with by a firm and steady hand.

Socialism is of European birth and
has been an absolute failure in the

. ' land of its origin, and like many an:

other undesirable from across _the

same waters, while it has been allow- .

ed to feed. and» prosper in the land of

, freedom and opportunity, yet when its

strength is sufficient, it is ready to
rise up and strike a death blow at the
very vitals of its own nourishment.
When you advocate government own-
ership of our great industrial institu-
tions, contending that because the
postomce is efficiently managed, you
are greatly in error. You should know
that competition is a very potent fac-

‘ » tor in the industrial world and if you

eliminiate the possibilities opcompe—
'tition by government control, you are
also destroying motives of individual
amlbition, efiort and .ability.

The postoifice is maintained by the
government for the accommodation of
~all, but cannot be compared to the
”great industries of the United States,

many of which had their origin in the

brain of some millionaire, no laborer,_

perhaps, working ten or twelve hours

, at. the shop or in the field, studying,
sketching, planning, figuring, often far
into the night instead 0f keeping with
presentrday Socialistic ideas, “lying
down on the job for eight hours and
demanding six hours per day with ten
hours’ pay.” "

garding the Russian problem, but do

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not desire to make this article lengthy:~

I think however, that “Farmer’s Wife”
should take this matter at once to the
demand-

that Russia, too, might “amount to
something,” quoting‘her own passage.
~H’omer D. Kenyon, Grctiot County.

 

MOST MEN ARE HONEST
Most men are hone-st, humane and
It is the trag-
edy of life that they are caught help-
lessly in a social system that blinds
them to the broader good of humanity
nd".obSCures their vision with 3. rar-
‘w’ Self-interest. Even where men
lmpse‘ the injustice of present con-
_ ‘ionsthey areheld back from advo-
as ' z-thercause "of" industrial justice
" " canomic and hence_intellect-
‘ nce to the ruling class.
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of modern life; many'a politician si-
lences the inner Jpromptings of, justice
for "the s'ake;;of realizing political am-
bition. Our whole system is permeat-
ed with the gravest dishonesty and
hypocrisy and even, honest men are
compelled to acquiesce in the dishon-
es'ty. Here and there are exceptional-
ly bold minds that,are censtrained to
speak out regardless of consequences;
but'the average humanbeing has not
this moral courage. The workers, of
course, are encouraged by their eco-
nomicself—interest to oppose the rule
of capital when they once understand
this rule as it relates to their class.

'Why should the problems of peace
be so much more embarrassing to our
governments than the problems of
war? Why is it that governments ca-
pable of rising to the necessity of
maintaining millions of men at de-
structive tasks cannot rise to the ne-
cessity of maintaining these same men
at‘productive tasks? The answer is
Capitalism, the private control of pro-
ductive industry.

, Bolshevism is the great scareword
with the capitalist press just now, but
the terrible social injustice that exists
on every hand doesn‘t appear to cause
our. capitalist press very much con-
cern.

Why is it that the presses or LIOS
Angeles, Cal,, wouldn’t publish the
speech of Miss Louise Bryant who
spoke before a big audience in that
city and told the cold facts about Rus-
sia. Miss Bryant is an editor of Me-
Call’s Magazine and was war corre-
spondent for several American news-
papers. She saw the whole 'Russian
revolution. She met all the leaders in-
timately. She wrote a book about
it which has been favorably reviewed
by our leading literary journals. She
testified before the senate investigat-
ing committee and now she is touring
the continent, lecturing on the Russi-
an Revolution.——S. H. Slagle,

 

MILITARY TRAINING

It was with much interest that I
read your editorial in theM. B. F., re-
garding universal military training,
and to say the least, you hit the nail
exactly on the head.

During the past conflict I have serv-
ed in the army aw private, non—com-
missioned officer and commissioned of-
ficer and never in any organization
but where there was a certain element
preaching universal military training
through nothing else but pure abso-
lute selfishness.

The prospect of a soft position for
themselves spurred on by newspapers
and with pure selfish motives, that of
having a, large trained army to bluff
and bulldoze where private interests
are concerned. The same element
would gladly have plunged us into a
recent Mexican war to protect private
investments.

It is this movement that has made
the average American soldier suspic-
ions of all organizations sponsored by
well known military aspirants.

We fought to destroy the curse of
Europe, not to ignite it. Our forefath-
ers fought to destroy any semblance
of militarism and with this as a basic
law laid the foundation of the power-
ful nation we are. It is not patriotism,
not the kind that made a people con-
sisting of. every nationality in the
world fight as one to down the curse
of their father-lands. By all means
crush it.——Howcrd H. Churchill, Im-
lay City. -

THE DOG TAX

I feel it necessary to speak about
the dog tax. Someone says in your
columns that dogs should be castrated
to make them lazy and. useless, and
then a $100, tax levied. I don’t be-
lieve he~is a full-fiedged farmer, to
talk like that. At least he never could
have owned a good dog—the only

' cheap help farmers egfer have, espec-

ially sheep farmers.
I know 'what a good dog is worth. I
always keep one and always pay tax

on him and he keeps my sheep. There '

is no loss on dogs;' but what if high
taxes are paid? . ,

I know there are lots of worthless
curs kept; and worthless curs keep
them'and pay no tax. We don’t need
such dogs. , '- '

I’ve. been over the country buying _

stock and nev heard one farmer who
was not a friend to a good farm dog.
-——J W.,Johricon, Elmhull, Mich.

 

 

 

, A GOOD CHEAP sILo"

Most farmers consider a silo a good
thing and would be glad to have one,
if it were not for the expense They
think they cannot afford one just yet,
and so they continue to do without
one year after year. Perhaps they are
thinking that later they can build a
permanent one of concrete or tile, but
not just yet. ‘

The story of how one Wexford coun-
ty farmer solved the silo problem may
interest some of those who want a silo,
but think they cannot afford one.

This man wanted a silo, wanted it
badly; in fact he wanted two of them,
and he got two and they keep the all.
age all right, while, as for the ex-
pense, the two silos cost him less than
$12. in cash. "'

The farmer had sand and gravel
close at hand, and he did all the work
himself, so that the only cash outlay
was for cement, and he has two silos,
ten by fourteen feet each. He simply
dug two holes in the ground, ten feet
in diameter and fourteen feet deep,
mixed his concrete andplastered right
on the walls, and he had his silos all
right, and was not troubled with froz—
en silage either.

Most people advise against a silo’s
extending into the ground, but a man
with a fork could throw out silage
from the bottom of a ten to twelve
foot silo, and a little ingenuity would
rig a hoist, for one which went deeper.

A silo fourteen feet in depth is not
deep enough for the best results, but
this farmer can dig down around his
two feet into the ground and build a
concrete well up to a height of six,
eight, ten or twelve feet, and put on a
roof. A wall of that height would not
need to be heavy, hence would not be
so very expensive, and it would add a
lot to the capacity of the silos.

There is one thing I would want to
make sure of before building a silo so
deep in the ground, and extending
above . Would there be any danger of
foul gas accumulating in it? With an

open silo only fourteen feet deep there -

would not be danger, but if it were en.
closed above the ground to prevent free
circulation of the air, gases might
form.

Where water level is low enough
so that water would not bother, a silo
in the ground is both practical and
cheap, and might well pay for itself
several times over in a single season
where an early frost prevented the rip-
ening of the corn crop—Apollos Long,
Wemford County.

 

TARIFF FOR BEAN IMPORTS

Recently I noticed an. article with
reference to the increasing of tariff on
imports and it strikes me that a little
action on the part of the state of Mich-
igan might have to do with the increas-
ing of tariff on beans. particularly Jap-
anese beans that arecoming in this
country and that are now possibly
making the price for Michigan bonus
as far as the Wholesale groom" and con-
sumer is concerned and beyond a ques-
tion of a. doubt it i.- due lo the Japan—
ese Kotenashi beans that our Michi-
gan stock is selling at present level

We have been'putting forth every
possible effort that we might get the
price of beans up to at least $8 to the
farmer which would have to do with
increasing the production Of beans in
Michigan particularly now at seeding
time Don’t you think something
.might be accomplished by taking the
matter up with Mr. Bordney and oth.
are at this time, that our senators and
representatives might be well posted
-on the situation and vote accordingly.

There are several matters with roi-
erence/ to marketing which I would
like to discuss with you some time and
if you come over this way would be
glad to have you come in. .

I have three elevators with 300 farm-
er stockholders that have been run—
ning from one to six years each and
are on a paying basis and have paid
the farmer dividends on a basis of 10
per cent in all cases. ,

This is due to long experience and
efficiency.

The problem of marketing farmpm-
ducts from the farmer to the consumer
at the least possible cost is a question
which is troubling most of the farmers’
organizations. In most cases it is
costing them 10 per cent and better
and which can be done for 5 per cent
or less as part 1,01! elevator cost—G. 8.
Weflman , Grand Rapids.

 

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' N ovember,

0., Allegan County.

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bit of , y experience. ‘ ..
most profitable way to raise rabbits [
(hares) is to let them have free range} "
And if they can have the run of a cloy-'
e'r pasture they will come out fat and
inlfine condition in the fall. If the
.snow should fall before they are mar:
keted carrots and cabbage will keep
them fat. I put the feed in acertainl
place night and morning and the lab-
bits are always waiting for it. E
The best time to market them is in
December, Janpuary and
February, as people in general have
not awakened to the fact that domes-
tic rabbits are fit for food the whole
year through. ' 3 .
The buyers prefer them hog dressed, .
with fur on. They sell from 15c‘to 2.30
per lb. If one cares to go to the troll-

ble of working up a trade among the , '

a

large hotels in the city, he can geta
fancy. price for them. 7‘

We could not begin to supply the de-
mand for dressed rabbits last year. fl
truly believe that the rabbit industry
is coming into its own—G. W. Wt, 41-
legan County.

THE LEAGUE OF NATION‘S

This international ,questiouhas been
considered in many different ways.
The House and Senate have a doom
ment which outlines the most import~
ant measures for the people Of all na-
tions to agree upon to prevent war in
the future and to place a bar‘against
territorial seeking rulers, stake set-
ters, professional war makers who
only seek great profits out of war.

1st. Said document calls for peace
first
2d. To elect an International Con-

gress by the people of all nations.
(Professional war makers could not be
a member of said Congress). Said
Congress would only hays power to
draft such an international document,
then it must be approved by the poo.
pie of all nations by a vote and that
such paragraphs which may not prove '
beneficial to all be improved and
amended for the welfare of all nations.

3d. Said Congress to find the right
autocrat or as many as there may be
and bring them to a strict account,

4th. Place the war power in the
hands of the people of all nations.
5th. That all grievance must be
brought befire said Congress and if
it fails to secure a settlement, then
the people have the final say how to
such a grievance, by boycott or war.
6th. Disarmament by all nations on
land and sea, except for domestic pur-
poses.
'7th. Freedom and self-government
by the people who desire same. .
8th. Freedom of the seas to all. no.-
tions. '

‘10th. This great war is the mother
which gave birth to 22,000 millionaires
and it requires no prophet to point
out the right father. 5

llth. A safeguard against war, re.
ferring to interest in Mexico, which
the people may adopt. All territorial
seeking rulers, war criers, profession-
al war makers, stake setters, profit—
eers, regardless of age, must fight and
hold the front trenches and our boys
will act as reserves. This would be
the acid test—0. H. Amschuetz, Ta-
was City.

BONDED WAREHOUSES

In 1892 while editing the Kansas
Commoner I went to Decatur, Tex., to
debate with Congressman Bailey, later
United States senator, the much re-
cently talked of bonded warehouse
system as advocated by the Farmers’
Alliance. At that time Mr. Bailey was
in his ascendancy and before they
knew he was a tool of Standard Oil:'
he was leader of lower house and later
of senate; was a fine speaker, adroit,
smooth, stow—B. E. Klee, Hillsdale (3’0.

3010st WITH WEAK neonnorvns

I think that'the last issue of the
MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING is the
best yet. Those fellows who imagined
that the farmer has but few support‘
ers through the medium of the press.
will get their eyes open to the fact
that the tillers of the soil feed the
world and must and will have s N
thing to say in regard to their rig
in legislation, although some of "
own men in the legislature have] a‘
weak backbone when a pressure“ lg?
brought to bear upon the spot-+4,

     
  
  

 

 
   
        
        
 
   
        
     
      
         
  
    
       
     

 
  
 
    
  
  
    
   
 
  
  
 

 
  
  
  
  
    
   
   
   
 
  
    
   
 
 
 
 
   
  
 
  
 
  
     
     
   
   
      
 
    
      
     
 
    

  


 

 

 

 

  

WITH THE BRIDE_S

OME TIME AGO I asked the readers of this

paper to tell me just what they - would like

their section to contain, and, incidentally, ask-
ed if a page devoted to house building, ideas about
interior decoration or even a page devoted to the
prospective bride would be interesting, and I wish
you might just peek into my mail and see how
many requests I had £01 a page devoted to sugges-
tions for the trousseau of the bride-to—be, of games
to be played at showers and of suitable refiesh-
ments to be served, and almost without exception
the correspondent asked me “not to print her let-
ter with her name and address,” so we will just
have to comply with the requests without printing
them

First I am goingto show.you a very attractive
set of initials which can be used 'by the prespec-
tive bride in marking her linen. This custom of
marking the linen for the -“Hope Chest” is a very
old and a very pretty one, and makes the plainest
linen take on a “dress‘ed<up" appearance. .

A sort of rivalry seemed to have developed be_
fore the war in the matter of entertaining for the
prospective bride, until a great deal of the pleas-
ure was taken from it because of the fact that
while many girls might wish to entertain for the
happy friend, still the pace had been set for show-
ers, until the cost would be burdensome and’ in
some cases prohibitive. A party need not be .so
expensive if the one planning it is clever and will
use the materials at hand, which are often much
prettier than those bought at exclusive shops.
Those in the cities send miles out into the country
to get the wood flowers for table decorations when
they entertain, while many in the country seem
to feel that they are not doing their best unless
they can afford to send into town for expensive
place cards, fancy crepe paper, favors, etc_ rI'he
following suggestion for a shower is not expensive
and will afford no end of fun for all who partici-
pa e.

“The Shining Hour Shower"

In the first place invite those whom you wish,
very informally, because if you personally talk
with each one, you can better explain to them just.
what you will expect while a written invitation
would have to be very long in order to cover the
subject

Ask each‘girl who comes, to wear a "wash
dress,” and bring with her some little gift for the
prospective bride which will be ‘suggestive of a
spotless house. Showers there are galore, but
most Of them bring to the bride the articles which
are decorative or very expensive, while every bride
must have just those things with which to keep
her house bright and shining, which count up so
fast when they have to be purchased. Give each
girl a list of the guests invited so that they may
confer together and not get duplicates, and then
if some of them don’t know exactly what you mean
by a “shining hour shower," tell them that set of

three dish towels would be a very good gifit with '

which to keep the pots and pans bright, while a
set of three or six tea towels would make her glass-
ware just sparkle Bath towels and wash rags, we
'are necessary “clean up” helps .while for the girl
who is a little independent and just as soon give
something to create a little-fun, a good scrub brush
with a box of Old Dutch Cleanser would certainly
cause a good laugh and at the same time be very
acceptable to the future housewife. Of course the
list is almost limitless and other things will sug-
gest themselves to you such as silver polish and a
chamois cloth stove polish and a stove mitten, a
mop, a broom and dust pan and of @urse kitchen
aprons and dust caps are very appropriate.

For amusement the hostess 'can furnish as her
gift, dust cloths, which she will hand to the guests
to be hemmed, providing a gold colored floss for
the work of~hemming.

The following .menu may be served: Egg salad
and sunshine wafers; ice cream and sunshine cake

and coffee, or orange marmalade with sunshine bis-r

cuit and tea served from a shining tea set. .

The table or tables should, of course, be centered
with a 'bunch of yellow flowers, the flower being
dependent upon time or year. If very early in

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Edited by MABEL CLARE LADD.

June the yellow roses will furnish a wonderful
centerpiece placed in a. glass bowl, while a little
later the daises or brown-eyed Susans make their
appearance, and also the California poppies, and
the low bowl of nasturtiums is always pretty and
effective.

Another way of prolonging the fun is to have
the guests wrap their gifts so that they will not
appear to be what they are, and then have the
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The Hope Chest

IDDEN AWAY in the attic-
Grimy with cob—webs and dust,
Is a dear little, queer little oak chest
Whose hinges are covered with rust.
Long years ago a grandma
Knelt as a snowy bride,
To gaze at its wealth of treasure
And fondle with girlish pride—
Piles upon piles of Whiteneses .
Made by her patient care
And reflecting in part the brightness
or, girlish dreams, hidden there,
Caught as it were, by the shuttle
At work o’er the noisy loom—
The power to make of a hovel,
A garden of infinite bloom. _
Many an hour had grandma, 7...,
Toiled for the days in store— .1
Till the heavily laden hope-chest,
Scarcely could close its door.
Rich is the groom .who chances
To claim such a bride so fair,
For along with the girlish fancies-—
Her soul is reflected there.
By C. SHIRLEY DILLENBACK

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

borrowed of the hostess for the occasion, or if sev-
eral wish to go together a brand new one may be
purchased by some of the guests and later given to
the bride This should be carried in by some One
chosen by the hostess to assist her. The one so
chosen will hastily don bungalow apron and dust
cap, and with sleeves rolled to elbow, bear in her
burden. The basket should be covered of course
with a large towel or a couple of towels, and bear

on ”the top the rinscription‘ on a. paste board"

“Brighten the Corner Where You Are. "

The following is a yery good guessing game for

.the guests to amuse themselves with before the

refreshments are served and the real fun of the
shower begins:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Ti'ouSSeau contest ,

1.—A knock at the door? Wrap.
2. —A shady nook? Veil.

3. —-—A flower in which she walks? Ladyslipper
‘4. -—Part of a. saddle? Skirt.‘ ,
5. ——-A baseball enthusiast? Fan. '

6. —An article much used in dry weather? Hose
7. —-Two shoe soles? Par asols

8——-What a politician talks through? Hat. . j
. 9—A ranchman’ s hope and despair? Stock
10. —-What does the tramp ecunt? Ties.

11. —A houseekeeper’ s despair? Waist.
12.——Sir Chanticleer’s pride? Comb
"13. ——'l‘he fox hunter' s trophy? Brush
14 .———Norway’ s leveliest trees?
15. Baggage the elephant never loses? Trunk.
16. —Where you’ll send bride’ s letters? Ad-dress.

 

 

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(Conducted by Miss Elizabeth Matheson, of the
- ' Valley City Milling Co.) *
CAKE MAKING
Every bride yearns to be able to make delicious
cake. Miss Matheson, who conducts this depart-
ment, has given Some helpful hints and will an-
swer any questions on the subject you may ask.
Those of us who do not recall some dismal fail-
ure in cake-making are indeed few in number. It’
is to be hoped that these few lessons on cake ma. _
ing may be of help to those who haVe had failures
without knowing especially why they didn’t have
success.
First of all let us come to an understanding or
what constitutes a good cake. It should be fine
and even grained and delicate in texture. It

-should be light and tender and moist, but not

sticky. It should break easily but should not crum-
ble. It should be well baked, the crust being thin
and tender and of uniform color and thickness.

But before we go farther let us consider some
'of the common faults of our cakes, that we may
rectify them Many of us find that our cakes rise
high in the middle or on one side of the tin and
have an unsightly looking loaf. This shows either
the use of too much flour or too hot an oven. And
the best of cakes can be spoiled in the oven! Too
hot an oven causes the crust to form before the
cake has completed the rising, and then the uneven-
ness results.

A coarse— grained cake indicates insufficient mix-
ingor measuring, or the use of a poor recipe. The
sugar used should be fine-grained, since it dis-
solves into smaller particlees than does the coarse-
grained, and the cake has a finer grain. I find time
in creaming the fat and sugar is time well spent,
and I believe many a cake is coarseggrained sim-
ply because of insufficient labor at this point. Work
it until it is actually creamy as the word implies.

Eggs giVe a certain lightness and a fineness of
texture to cake and help to hold together the other

ingredients.

If cake is sticky it is either insufficiently baked
or too much sugar has been used. Too much flour
will make it too dry. A variety of Causes may make

a cake heavy: Baking in too cool or too hot an '

oven; too little baking powder, too much fat; or
too much sugar.

It should not be necessary to have a new recipe
for every cake made, but, if one has a good reliable
recipe and understands a few of the underlying

principles of substituting various ingredients, they .

can make any variety of cakes from the same
recipe.
a good standard cake recipe. Use accurate level
measurements and the result will be unfailing Sift
flour once before measuring alWays.

One cup fine granulated sugar; one-third cup fat;

,two well-beaten eggs; one-half cup milk; one and
'flveeighths cups Lily White flour sifted with two

level féaspoons baking powder Flavor to taste.

Cream fat’ and sugar thoroughly; add well-beat-
en eggs and again beat thoroughly. Add milk and
then the flour and baking powder. After adding
the flour beat Only enough to make the batter
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, EAR CHILDREN—'1‘ h 6 J3“!

.. shownrin the ’laSt puzzle picture
Q was certainly a “sticker" for
' 'mostoi my little friends, Wasn’t it?

every one Who has a phonograph or
victrola will Immediately know who
John McCormick is, although so few
» lot-you recognized his picture; He was
, Irish by birth, but, like many other
. great men came to this country of ours
because he had heard of‘its wonderful
possibilities, and here he'has lived for
many years helping us to enjoy the
beautiful songs which he sings so eas-

izenship papers and become, a full
fledged American citizen. How many
of our great men in this country are
foreign born but realize that this 'is
the country of great opportunities and
come here to make their fame and for-
tune, just like McCormick, while we,
whoare born here, sort of take things
for granted You never become great
without hard work, no matter how
many opportunities . this country at-
fords. We must work and work hard
. if we would become one of the success-
ful ones,.and as I have shown you
through the picture puzzle faces great-
ness does not always lie in one direc-
tion, but there are great men in every
walk of life so the idea is to find out
what we like to do best and then work
hard at that one thing, and not try to
do a lot of different things, for success
comes only when 'we keep everlasting-
ly at it.

I think the D00 Dads must be farm-
era, although I didn't know it before,
but perhaps the spring fever got them

A-ndyet "he is a truly great man and.

ily. Lately he has taken out his 0111', . in the 4th grade at school.

(Send letters for this (Dept, direct to “Laddie,” care Mich. Business Farming,

—anyhow this week they are having
the best “kind eta time, plowing and
planting.~ Let us follow their exam-
ple of make of our work play. That is,
just play we want to ‘do the work we
have to. do most of anything on earth,
and pretty soon we will find that it is
really-truly play, and rwhen we are
grown up we will find that the great-
est game ot life is our business—Af-
fec'tionate‘ly,~ “Laddie.” ,

 

Dear. Lad_die——Well I haven’t seen any
letters from Rosebush so thought I would
write. This is the first time I have writ-
ten to you. I am agirl 9 ytiil‘s old and

y teacher'
name is'Mrs. Anna L. Crawford. She 1:
my. cousm. I live on a 60-acre farm. My
papa takes the M. B. F. and likes it very
graph} My letter; is getting quite long. I

e to see n rint.—-R th
Rosebush, Mich. p u McShea,

 

Dear Laddie——~I am ‘a boy 15 years
old. I have ‘been reading the boys’ and
girls’ letters in the M. B. F., and like
them very much. I have never written
to you before so I thought I would try it
once. I live one—fourth of a mile from
school. There are about 36 pupilsiii our
school, and our teacher is Miss Williams.
I have two brothers and two sisters. We
live on a 10-acre-farm and we have four
horses, four cows and three head of
young cattle. Our nearest town is eight
miles away. It is called Sand Lake but
there are two stores less than one-half a
mile away and a church and a black-
smith shop I hope to see my letter in the

B. F.——Millard Cook, Sand Lake, Mich.

 

Dear Laddie—I have never written be—
fore so thought I would w-rite now. I
am a girl 12 years old and in the 7th
grade. I live on an 80-acre farm. We
have two horses and six calves. I like
the D00 Dads very much. I have one
brother, He was a soldier. I like to read
letters and stories that other children
write. My letter is getting long so I will
close—Helen Parks, Weidman, Mich.

  
    
 
  
  
     
  
   
    
 
 
  
 
    
  
 
   
 
  
  
   
 
 
   
  
 
  
 
 
  
 

  

Dear paddle—J have written to you be-
fore but did not see it in print so thought
I would write again. I like to read the
letters of the other girls and boys. We
take the M. B. F. and like it fine. I am a
girl 11 years old and in the 5th grade. I
had a birthday the 20th of this month.
We have 56 little chickens that came off
the 14th of this month For a pet I have
a blue rabbit. I go to school nearly every
day. Our school will be out nine weeks
from Monday. We live on a 40-acr’e farm.
We have two horses, four cows and four
young calves. My father has a Ford
can—Fern Cook, Wheeler, Mich. '

Dear Laddie—-I have never written to
you before so I thought I would try and
tell you a little about myself and home.
I am a boy 13 years of age and am in the
8th grade. I go to the Sherwood school
about a mile from my home. My teacher’s
name is Emory L. Ingersoll. I live on a
farm of 200 acres. I have a brother who
is married. I am a Boy Scout of America.
There are three patrols of us, eight in a
patrol. On our farm we keep four
horses, 17 head of cattle, 60 sheep and
some hogs So you see between going to
school and doing chores it keeps me busy
most of my time. My father takes the
Michigan Business Farming and I enjoy
the children's hour vcry much—Paul MI
Wakefield. Elsie, Mich.

Dear Laddie—I have never written to
you before but will take time now. My
father takes the M. B. F. and I read the
stories in it and like them very much. I
live on an 80-acre farm and have nine
calves and five cows and two horses. For
pets we have a dog and a cat. I am 12
years old and am in the 6th grade. We
had a box social at our school to join
the Junior Red Cross and made $34.40;
I will close with some riddles: What has
four eyes and can’t see? Ans. Mississip-
pi. How can you get down from an ele-
phant? Ans. You don’t get down from
an elephant; you get down from geese.
What table hasn’t any legs? Ans. Mul—
tiplication table. I hope to see my letter
pr‘inrted soon.~—Orpha Higbee. Gladwin,

ic

Dear Laddie——I am writing to let you
know that I like the story of “Stumble
and Tumble" very much. I go to school

 

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every day and I am'in'the 6th ,grade. My
teacher‘s name is Edith Cory. She is a I,
very good teacher and I like her'very .
much because she is so good to us. _ Wm:
are going to get a. water fountain tor-tile?
school. We had a social butdid not make,
enough so we are g ing to have a dance.._
Well I ll have to stop.-——Alice.'M,o_oro:L
East Jor an, Mich. ‘

Dear Laddie-——This‘ is the first letter.
have written to you. We take the M ~33
F. and I like to read the letters and stay
ies in them, I am in the 7th grade andraim.
13 years old. I have four sisters and 09:6
brother. For pets we have a dog and, ,»
cat. Both are yellow and very playgirl.
They sleep together. Mildred French;
Riley Center, Mich. . »

 

Dear Laddie—This is the second time'I.
have written. I did not notice my other
letter in print. There are so many boys:
and girls writing that it is impossible for
you to get all of the letters in DUEL. 1
think that the puzzle in the paper March '
15 was Roosevelt. We girls have a new
teacher for the Spring term, Miss Ald-
ridge. I like her very much She whine!
and pleasant. Well I will close and. let
some of the other children have the res
of the page—Delia Burton, Mesick, Mich

Dear Laddie—I thought I would write
‘to you and tell you I guessed the picture
in the March 15th paper must have been,
err-President Roosevelt. I wrote toyoux
once before when Longfellow was in the
paper. We live on an 80-acre farm and .
we have three cows, threehorses and
three calves. There are three girls in our
school in a spelling contest and we are to
go to Blanchard and spell. The three best".
are to go to Mt. Pleasant. I am one“:
the contest. Well I will close as I will
have to study my spelling—Minnie Wood
Blanchard. Mich.

 

Dear Laddiel—I have been reading the
letters in the M. B. F. and like them very
much. I am 12 years old and in the 4th
grade, I have six brothers, two in the
army, and two sisters. We own 800
chickens, five horses, eight cows, and two
cats. This is my first letter. I live on a
farm of 160 acres. Well, as my letter is «
getting long I will close.——Rosie Kubiah.
Don, Mich.

 

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The DooDads are great mimics.
They have heard so much about
i greater production that they have
decided to try..theirrhand at farm-
L ing. Doesn't'lPoly ~make a great
' plowman? He couldn'tvget his mice
to pull until he got one of the Doc
Dadsto coax them along with some
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f’f‘ffiirong. for the little fellow is hold-

.1138 his nose: They are making the
work 3.0 hard that Flannelfeet,
“$30713 wondering it he. should
i >11 , sin for cruelty to animals.

    
    

  
  

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Mirage which he has in, the pen. He
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The Doc Dads go in for Greater Production

with themesd but the crows seem to
be eating'it as fast as they can get it
into the .ground. Rely is chopping
the woodyfor thevkitchen fire. A chip
from his "axe has struck his little
helper on the nose. ‘Here are Percy
Haw Haw, the Dude, and Smiles, the
Clown. Percy is all dressed up like
Smiles ». is
boasting to him‘ about the; big fat

thinks heis doing, bin-share in

greater production.
like some people, like to eat frog’s
legs.
would you? What in the world have
those Doo Dads got in the pen? One
is tugging on the rope; another is
prodding it along from behind while
the D00 Dad on the roof is ready to
lassoo it when it gets its head out.
Sleepy Sam, the Hobo. thinks he is
in for a big feed . He is trying to
. steal that big juicy pie, but'he is so ,

The Doc Dads,

You wouldn’t like to eat them,

ing to be disappointed for that little ~
Doo~Dad with the fork will jab him
, in~ the back. See that cross-looking
old fellow doing his washing. He has
washed the Baby Doo Dad and put
him out on the line to dry.
that a funny thing to do? The'soap ‘,
, suds are flying. in every direction_s_
.Old Doc sawbones, who has charge}
,_ of the Doo’Dads’ farm, noticed them
falling and he thinks it is mini ,5
To tell the truth the D00 Dadshdon?
like work very well, but i in tone
hoped they hereahix” . ‘2 "
them for. their lab9r~ .: QT-

  

 

 

 

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flat the nation is entering on an era
mmercial expansion that may con-
. lily set many new precedents, each
lng week‘s advices make clearer.
, every import line is as yet partici-
vigorously in the forward move-
‘ "t, but some records already have been
Mn, both in magnitude of transac-

  

sign uncertainty with the delay in actual
‘ ptlon of the peace treaty, have not pre-
‘ ed a further broadening of demands:

files AND TRADE coivm'rlons

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Grains inclined to rise after drops. Market rather unsteady.
Beans strengthened by sales to Europe. Provisions slightly stronger.

 

 

non. overseas markets
,BOSTON WOOL MARKET

'-".l‘he wool market has been less active
fills-week at the seaboard, but prices re-
gain firm according to the Commercial
-Eulletin In the west there has been
mtfi-‘her more buying again this week at
prices which have been fully firm, com-
1m with earlier prices for the best half—
M and fine wools The foreign mar-
‘h‘dts are firm The shipping situation in
.Buonos Altos is still troublesome, but it
lol- belleved that another month will see
fire situation there clarified. The mills
m generally well sold ahead and are not
attempting to do much business at this
moment

Quotations are: Michigan and New
York fleeces—fine unwashed, 52@53c; de—
laine unwashed, .67@700; 1— 2— blood un-
washed, 66@68c; 1%; —blood unwashed,
58@60c. ‘

WOOL SALES OPEN IN TEXAS

San Antonio, Texas—In the first large
wool sale here this season, 47 cents a
pound was paid for 60,000 pounds of short
fleece today, and 44 cents for 115,000 lbs.
of 12 monthS' clip. This is the largest in—
‘land wool shipping point in the United
States and between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000
pounds will be concentrated here by mid-
summer, '

 

 

 

GRADE IDotroit I Chicago! N. Y.
No. 2 Bed ..... I 2.55 I 2.60
No. 3 Bed....I l I
No. 2 White . 2.113 I
No. 2 Mixed ..| 1 2.53 I I

 

The wheat market has been quiet and
easy during the past several days. A
slight falling of price has been noted, ac-I
oompanying‘continuous reports of the
bumper wheat crop and of arrivals of
Argentina grain.

INCREASE IN WHEAT STOCKS IS

SHOWN
, ‘WASHINGTON, D. C.-—Commercial
stocks of wheat reported in a survey made
by the Department of Agriculture for
Agriculture for May 1, 1919, amounted
'to. 93,873,147 bushels. These holdings,
reported by 9,857 firms—elevators, ware—
houses, grain mills, and wholesale dealers
-—were nearly three times as large as the
stocks held,by the same firms a year
earlier, the actual percentage being 289.7
per cent of the 1918 stocks. -
The figures refer to stocks actually re-
?ported and do not represent the total
commercial stocks of the country nor
do they include stocks on farms
Visible Supply Figures Compared

The commercial visible supply figures,
, as" published by the Chicago Board of
Trade for May .1, 1919, show 49,502,000
‘bushels of wheat, as against 2,777,000
bushels a year earlier. The correspond-
’ ing Bradstreet figures show 55,247,000
bushels, as against 7,572,000 for 1918, As
compare with the same date last‘year,
these figure“, as well as those obtained y
the more extensive survey, show a v y
great relative increase in commercial
. stocks of wheat on May 1. 1919.

 
   
   
    
   
  
   
  
    
   
    
    
  
   
    
  
   
   
  
   
  
  
  
   
   
  
    
   
  
    
      
    
 

The commercial stocks of other cereals
reported for May 1, 1919. according to
the department’s statement. were as fol~
’ lows: Corn, 20,000,316 bushels; oats,
50,787,249 bushels; barley, 25,060,638 bus;
rye, 21,736,760 bus. These stocks repre-
Sent the following percentages of the cor-
responding stocks on May 1, 1918: Corn,
39 per cent; oats, 93.6 per cent; barley,
174.1 per cent; rye, 418.2 per cent

The commercial stocks of flour and corn
meal, as reported for the survey were as
.tollows: Wheat flour, white, 6,008 529
"barrels; who‘e- wheat and graham flour,
‘45, 868 barrels; barley flour 24, 991 bar-
, rels; rye flour, 200,196 barrels, corn flour,
‘ 10,588, 306 pounds; corn meal, 9, 703, 019
5 pounds; buckwheat flour, 22, 526, 580 lbs., -
mixed flour, 45, 697 035 pounds These‘
“links represent the following percentages
otfihe stocks on hand a year ago: Wheat
Mr, white, 118.9 per cent: whole-wheat
.graham flour, 44.7 per cent; barley
r, 3.4 per cent; rye flour, 41.8 per
7 ; corn flour, 32 1 per cent; corn meal,
‘90:: cent; buckwheat flour, 379 4 pet
3; mixed flour, 185. 4 per cent.
Stock! of Selected Commodities

   

  

  

  
  

grocers and warehouses report-
1 owing commodities in the quan-
éated: Cleaned rice, 103, 833, 586

 

 

 

pounds; rolled oats, 45, 578,214 pounds;
canned salmon, 115, 543 781 pounds; can-
ned tomatoes, 228,197,071 pounds; can-
ned com, 98, 843, 065 pounds; sugar, 192 -
395, 926 pounds. Them stocks represent
the following percentages of the corres
ponding stocks on hand May 1, 1918:
Beans, 130.1 per cent; rice, 135 per cent;
rolled oats, 111.8 per cent; canned sal-
mon, 128.7 percent, canned tomatoes,
199 1 per cent;
cent; sugar, 84.7 per cent

Stocks of condensed and evaporated
milk were reported by condensaries, cold
storages. warehouses, and wholesale gro-
cers as follows: Condensed milk, 33, -
464,078 pounds; evaporated milk, 90 752 -
523 pounds. The hbldings of condensed
milk reported for May 1, 1919 represent—
ed 86.5 per cent of the stocks held by the
same firms a year earlier, while the hold-
ings of evaporated milk represented 85.7
per cent of the May 1,1918 stock.

 

canned corn, 165.9 per.

markets In sympathy with fluctuations
of. corn and oats, rye and barley shifted
slightly

In Detroit arye, cash 'No 2, is quoted as
quiet at 81.4

Barley, in 8the some market, is quoted‘

thus: Cash No. 3, ”Wampum porewt.

 

Beans have jumped in the past several
days, one day alone showing an advance
'of 25c. The big factor was the sale of
half of all the white beans in California
to Sweden. This scoop by the Western—
ers was made possible by the association
of bean growers in the coast state. Par-
ticulars of this event are given‘ on the
first page of this issue,

 

 

GRADE Detroit Chicago N. Y.
No. 2 Yel ow .. 1.93
No, 3 Yellow . .I 1.83 I 1.66%I
No. 4 Yellow ..I 1. so I 1. 66%|

Markets IChoice R’dI B’d White
lwlilte~sk'd Bu.k

Detroit . . . . .. . .I 2.10 cwt.| 2.00 cwt.

Chicago . . . . . . . .I 2,00 cwtl 2.00 éwt.

 

Corn has recovered somewhat, owing to
active buying and the market at Chicago
was strong Bulls have not much con-
fidence in ‘ their cause for the next .few
days. They think the big run of corn
will last probably a week, during which
time they will not have much to say.
When the present run is over and re—
ceipts drop back to remain small till af—
ter harve'1t, they expect to come to their
own again; and many can see no reason
why July should not go as high as May.
This is based on a belief that there is not
much corn in the country and Argentine

_ receipts will not be sufficient to bring

pressure on the market.

 

 

GRADE IDetroit 'ohicago N. Y.
Standard . . -.I .73 .70 310%
No, 3 White I 32% 418%

No. 4 White | .7134

 

 

Oats are as much as ever in short sup—
ply and receipts are not increasing, but
the weakness in Chicago has taken the
gloss off and grains are quoted lower.
Shipping demand is slow as ever and de-
mand for local consumption is not large.

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Lack of news concerning rye and bar-
ley prices indicates the quietness in those

The potato market has been unusually
quiet. The market for new potatoes is
attracting considerable attention.

 

 

Murketsl l .

Light Mix.IBt’nd. Tim. Timothy
Detroit 87.50 38.00l36.$0 37.00 36.50 87.00
Chicago 35. 00 36. 00I34 00 35. 00 33.00 34.00

 

Pitts '. 40 00 40. 50 9‘7 50 39.50 83.50 35.50
N. Y. . .4.? 00 48. 00 45. 00 47. 00 41.00 43.00
Markets

Light Mix, Clov. Mix. Clover
Detroit 36 50 87.00 35,50 38.00 84.00 36.00
Chicago 34.00 35.00 33.00 34.00 20.00 30.00
Pitts . . 38.00 39.00 36,00 37.00 35.50 36.00
N. Y. . 45.00 46.00 42.00 44.00

’ Further advances have been made in
eastern market values this week as sup-
plies continue very small and trade. is
sufficient to absorb the offerings; reports
of involCes show however, that there has
been an increase in country loading with
holidays last Friday and Saturday, the
markets showed some accumulation when
they opened on Monday. Arrivals at west-
ern terminals are increasing; new alfalfa
is becoming a factor, although the qual-
ity of the offerings is still low. Much of
the new hay is heated and damaged, The
movement of new alfalfa began earlier
than usual this year but there was less
old stock’ in the country than ever before.
Weather conditions all over the country
have been particularly bad for pressing
and hauling, but with a fortnight of good
weathe' an increase can be expected. It
is reported from Canada that the recom—
pressors at Montreal will close down soon

 

 

 

As Forecastcd by 11’.

Foster’-

ealher Chart for fine-1919
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WASHINGTON, D, C., June 7, 1919.
—-Last bulletin gave forecasts of warm
wave to cross teontinent June 17 to 21,.
storm wave 18 to 22, cool wave 19 to
23. Temperatures for this period,
east of'Rockies, will average below
normal, rainfall above normal, storm
force below normal. West of Rockies
crest temperatures will average above
normal, rainfall below normal. storm
forces below normal. Soon after this
storm wave passes your section will
be one of the best times for outdoor

rk, particularly alfalfa harvest.

omo good days also between June 7
and the time storm wave. following
that date, strikes your section.

Next arm wave will reach Van-
couver 9. out June 22 and tempera~
tures will rise on all the Pacific slope.

 

 

THE WEATHER FOR THE WEEK
T. Foster for MNJHHGAN BUSINESS FARMING

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it will cross crest of Rockies by close
of 23, plains sections: 24, meridian 90,
grout lakes, middle (1qu states and
Ohio Tennessee valleys 25, eastern
sections 26, reaching vicinity of New-
foundland about June 27_ Storm wave
will follow about one day behind
warm wave and cool wave about o‘ne
day behind storm wave.

Very much the same as the previous
storm except that ramfall will in-
crease east of Rockies. .1 crm forces
will be a little greater and tempera—
tures of the cool wave will go a little
lower. it will increase in all features
in eastern sections,

June 7 to July 6 east of Rockies’
crest, rainfall will slowly increase, giv-
ing too much rain to cotton states,
hard-pan sections of middle latitudes
and sufficient rain north of latitude 37.
Rainfall will decrease and be below
normal on Pacific slope.

Indications are that June rains will
make trouble in the harvest fields in
some of the states but will favor the
Earn crop where hard-pan does not ex.

 

 

 
 

 

and this will tend to divert hay to U S.‘
markets. The amount of available old
crop hay, however, is the smallest on ‘rec-
0rd and the markets for the balance of.
the sea-son will be sustained according y.

All reports indicate a new crop of excel-
ent quality and record yield The acre-
age will be little if any smaller than a
year ago.

 

Saniiac 00., Mich—There is no hay left
to move because when prices were good
there were plenty of cars and hay moved
freely, The spring has been very wet and
meadows are good.

 

Eggs are in slow demand and ordinary
fresh receipts are quoted lower. Receipts
at Detroit are liberal and the consumer
Is the only buyer. Packers are not ac-
tive in the market and there is nothing
doing for export. Firsts are quoted at
42$éc; extra firsts, in new cases, 43 34c.

   

BUTTER

 

  

NEW YORK BUTTER LETTER.
New York, May ‘31.——Reports from the
butter producing areas indicate that con.-
dltions are very favorable for the great—

est production in years. At the present
time it looks that the receipts during the
month of May will run 25 per Cent higher
than those of May, 1918. With receipts
running so high it is very apparent that
speculative and export buying must be-
come more active than at present else we
will see a marked decline in price. About
the middle of the week reports reached
New York that muchbutter wasabeing stor-
ed in the middlewest by speculators. That
report caused speculators in the east to
become more active and a considerable
such buying took place. However, it
proved to be a short lived activity and
quickly subsided. There has been no ex.-
port demand of late to speak of and re-
ceivers are wondering if the early indi-‘i
cations of a warked export trade were
false. There is no question but that the
price of butter during the summer months 1
depends entirely on the activity of spec- .
ulators and exporters. If there is no ‘
awakening on their part in the near fu-

' ture we may expect to see a marked do-

cline in the price of butter.

Receipts have been high during the
past week. Demand was comparatively
slight and the result was a decidedly weal
feeling in the market with a decline ll
price. As stated above there was some
speculative demand during the week which
stimulated the market slightly and
caused a slight recovery in price. How-
ever, unless speculators continue active
anothenbreak is‘ sure to come. On last
week Saturday there was a sharp break
Of 20 per pound in the price of extras.
That was followed by declines of 1-2c Ol‘
both Monday and Tuesday. On Wednes-
day the price advanced 1—20 and on Thurs- ~
day there was a like further gain. In the
afternoon on Thursday the market he
came very weak and receivers were an-
xious to shade their prices; very little
builtr was sold Friday being a holiday,
no business was. transacted. Established
quotations at the close Thursday were as
follows: Extras, 56%@571/é€; higher
scoring than extras, 573469580; firsts,
55@561/zc, and seconds, 526354360 The
differential in price of unsalted butts
over that of corresponding grades (1
salted remains at 3c.

 

STOCK MARKET

Liv'E
Th‘run of veal calves was the feature .
of the market, there being over 2,700 on.
sale.1ast week, the largest run on record5
Prices began to decline last Thursday,

DETROIT

they were around- $2 a hundred lowa
and very dull, prices averaging as follows:

Few sales of choice, $16.50; bulk (1‘
good, $15.50@$10.00; culls, $11.00@9l3.

In the cattle depart1nent,the trade wal
dull and draggy all last week. Butcher:
are all well supplied with beef and claim
little is selling and it is little wonder at 1
the consumer is getting tired of paying the?
high prices asked by theretailer, which
at many places is out of- all reason. Whlh
there are only a few cattle on sale it way
very hard work to dispose of them and
some could not be sold at all

The general market, barring can
which held steady, was 50c lower on
steers and all -kinds of butchers, apd fl ,
lower on. bulls. Shippers are advise ‘
use care in buying grease s as they

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USE IT ON ALI. UVBSTOCK
To Kill Lice, Mites, Flees,

To Help‘fideds‘émgmu and

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USE IT IN ALL BUILDINGS

To Kill nae... Germs and Thus

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FREE ROCKETS.

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

We will send you a booklet on how
to build a hog wallow, wh1ch Will keep
hogs clean and healthy.

We will send you a booklet on how

Write for them to
Animal Industry Department of
PARKE, DAVIS 8r. CO.

DETROIT. MICH.

 

  

‘ '320.60@$20.75; pigs. 5210.2602050; rou-

to keep your hogs tree from insect para- .
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heifers, $120 , .66.; , _
are. $11.5,0-0$11.73j‘; ,‘x’ {butcher-s; :90
310; best cows, 311031750 3, butcher cows,
$9@$9-75l oormnoneows 87.50088) can-
nem. 30.50 9.3.6.15 ‘;‘ best; heavy bulls. no :
bologna, bulls,‘ 38.669.89.50; stock bulls,
$8088.25; feeders; swans; smokers. $8
@8935; milkers and springers. $66©$1I5.

Veal calves—Market dull; best grades,
$16©$16; cull-s. 8110‘18,

Sheep and larnbt—Market steady;\best
lambs, .315: fair lambs, $18®814; light to
* common .310@812; fair to good sheep,
' . $8.60@$9.50; culls and common. $6©$8.

’Hogs—Market mixed, 150 hlgher; pigs
$19.50; mixed hogs/$20; pigs steady.

EAST BUFFALO LIVE STOCK P310138
Cattle—Receipts, 1.300; dull;

Hogs—Receipts. 4,060; active; heavy mix;
ed and yorkers,- $21.76; light yorkere,

  

 

ghs, 8183760319: stage, 8180:16: stock—
ers, 821.60@$21.76,

Sheep and lambs—Receipts, 2,100; ac—
tive, steady and unchanged.

 

CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET
(U. S, Bureau of Markets)
Hogs-Receipts, 29,000; market active;
mostly 250 higher; active; top $20.70;
bulk. $20.35@$29,60; heavy weight $20.45
13520.65; medium weight, $20,30@$20.7Q;

light weight, $20@$20.60; light lights,
$18.85@$20.85 ; heavy packing sows,
smooth, $19.75 @32010 ; packing sows,

rough, $19.25@$19.75; pigs, $18@$19.
Cattle—Receipts, 10,000; beef steers
slow; early, sales about steady; butcher
stock 250 lower; veal calves 31 lower;
beef steers medium and heavy weight
choice and prime $15.40@17.35: medium
and good $12,50@$15.65; common $11.75@
$12.65; light weight good and choice $13
@315.60; common and medium $10@13.25
butcher cattle, heifers, $7,75@$13.75;
cows, $7.50@$13.60; canners and cutters,
$6.25@$7.50; veal calves light and handy
weight, $14.50@$16.25; feeder steers, $10
@514; stocker steers; $8@$18.
Sheep—Receipts, 10,000; market mostly

Lambs, 84 pounds down, $13.50@$15.40;
85 pounds up $12.50@$15.25; culls and
common $9.50@$12.50; springs, $17.25@
$19.25: yearling wethers $11@$'13.25;
ewes medium, good and choice, $9.75@
$10.50; culls and common $4.50@$9.50.

 

QUOTATIONS FROM DETROIT

Butter—Fresh creamery firsts. 54@560
per 1b.

Poultry—Broilers, 60@650; springs, No.
1, 880840; at hens, 870880) stage, 26@
27c; leghorns, 87@880; ducks, 88®40oz
geese, 24®26o;.turkeys, ”@400.

Feed, jabbing prices—In 100-11). sacks,
to Jobbers: Bran, 348; standard ‘ mid-
dlings. $50; fine middlinze. 856; coarse
cornmeal. 866.60®$67.501 cracked 00111.
3710872: corn and oats c , 8660857.

Flour, 10 bin: prices—Spring patent,

18.50 818. 6; afncy soft winter patent.
318.50 218.76; ”second winter patent,
812.760 18; winter straight, $12©$12.-1l5.

Hides, jabbing prices—No, 1 cured, 800;
No. 1 green, 280; No. 1 cured'veal kip.
400: No. 1 green veal drip, 380; No. 1 our-
ed calf. 600; No. 1 green 08.11, 590;No.1
horsehides, 818; No. 2 horsehldes, $11;
No. B hides, 10 and No. 2 kip and cal: 15‘0-
lower than the above prices; sheepskins,
as to wool, 500 to 84 each,
Strawberries—$8 to 88.25 per 24—quart
case. .

Potatoes (car later—«In sacks of 150
lba. $8.50 to $8.60 per sack.
lemons—$6 to $5.50 per box.

NOW potatoes—Bermuda $6 per bu.;
$17.50 to $18 per bblf; Florida, $10.50 to
$11 per bbl. and $3.75 to $4 per bu.

Fresh vegetables—Asparagus, $250 to
$2.75 case; carrots, $8.25 to $3.50 per
bu. ;. new carrots, $2.75 to :8 per hamp—
er: turnips, $2 to $2.25 per bu,; cucum-
bers. hothouse, $1.50 to $1.75 don; beets.
81 bu.: cauliflower. $2.50 to $2.75 per
crate; egg plant, Florida, 36 to $6.50 per

 

33 to$3,25 per hamper; greenuonlons, 20
to 800 per doz.; green peppers, 85.60 to $6
per case: Florida celery, $0 to $7 per

crate and Sl‘to $1.40 ‘per (102.; rhubabr,
4.6 to 500 per box.

———___

Mr. Farley, a. prominent and well-
known ramm- or Calhoun county.
raised a 13-acre field 0! Wolverine cats
the past year and states that hardly
a single plant had lodged; the yield
averaged 76% bushels per acre. This

 

 

crop at extra fine quality cat; was de-
livered to 8. M. Isbell 6 Company,
seedmen, at Jackson. Michigan, to be
used tor seed purpose. only. The
crop was inspected and certified to be
pure mdigreed stock by the Michigan
Crop Improvement Association. A
measured bushel 'ot. re-cleaned Wol-

verine seed oat; weighed just 49 “13..
not an ounce lent. . -

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as the large creameryman, you can no more , ,
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CHICAGO


: ,You 'will need a supply of . Solvay ’s Three Essential
, Plant Foods this fall. , . g ,
3 3 3 We sincerely advise you to. order far enough in ad-
' ‘ ,vance to insure getting your full share at the time you-
need it. ‘ ‘ .

During the Spring, so many orders 'for Solvay
Pulverized Limestone were placed at the last minute by
farm owners that it was impossible to supply them all.

_While thisiis a Substantial endorsement of Sol-
vay’s Products, we should much rather have been noti- ‘ ,

‘ ' fled in advance by our customers.

Notifying us in advance——a month or two in ad-
vance—'guarantees your supply at the exact tune you
want it. -

._ THREE PRODUCTS . .

, Remember that we have three essential plant foods
for you now—Solvay Pulverized Limestone—Arcadi-
an Sulphate of Ammonia(20.75 per cent Nitrogen)
——and “U-S” Potash (50.54 per cent Potash).

     

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E E a THE SOLVAY PROCESSCO.

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Western Canada for
‘ _ years has helped to feed
_ the world—the same response
bility of production still rests upon her.
While high prices for Grain, Cattle and Sheep
are sure to remain, price of land 18 much below its value.

Land capable of yielding 20 to 45 bush-

els of wheat to the acre can be had on .
easy terms at from $15 to $30 per -5,
acre—good grazing land at much less.

' “is Many farms paid for from a single year’s crop. Raising
‘0 \ cattle. sheep and hogs brings equal success. The Government
.. encourages farming and stock raising. Railway and

‘- Land Co’s. offer unusual inducements to Home Seek-
ers. Farms may be stocked by loans at moderate interest.

Western Canada offers low taxation. 8 arkets and ship-
ping; free schools, churches and healtlgaflfilmate.

For articular: as to reduced railwa n ofhnd. ill 5- -3
(irate?! literature. etc.. enoly to Supt. ’0! m“ Ca-n.. “or a;
M. V. McINNESS ,
178 Jefl'erson Ave.. Detroit. Mich.

~ Canadlun Government Agent.

 

 

 

 

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- Standard Binder . I Wine
1 I
The State Prison appropriation is $1,770,000 for two years.
Profits of prison industries lower that sum and decrease your

taxes.
. T BUY FROM. YOUR OWN FACTORY
. y " 2 . EULLY GUARANTEED
Cash Price Time Price

Gm June 1,.’W$21.OO Payable Oct.15.$21060

Made this season—11,000,000 lbs. .
MICHIGAN STATE PRISON INDUSTRIES

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so

needed by, farmers had been abrul

cut off. You, will remember that .p .

to August, 1914, Germany had been:
the exclusive source of potash. . When .

potash was bought itlwas German pot-
ash. Potash and Germany were .syn-
onqmous, just as most kind-slot dyes
and Germany were synonomous. 3

Before anyone realized it, war was

,,.on—Germany was blockaded, and it

rather sé'emed that America hence
mm was up against it for potash.

” , A shortage in .potash would be more

or less disastrous to some 01' Ameri-
ca’s leading farm products. Beet and
potato, growers, as well as owners of
muck farm land farms, needed potash
ever. so often for their soils.

In fact, so serious was the need that
it became apparent something had to
be done. While America could run
along for some time on the stock of
potaSh on hand, it could not continue

Just a Journey into

0
I dreamed I was in Swine-land down
in a southern clime; I

Where hogs were fat and» hogs were
thin,'but all exceeding fine.

The morn was clear, the feed was good
the pigs seemed really happy;

They wandered here and there content
a group that looked quite classy.

The day passed on,

.[velop a, product ‘1; . ‘

*made' here" hetero. and about which no
" one-had ever -th0ugh_t "very .6 sepiy. tit.
“meant th‘e’investr‘nent in- research}"ex- -'
Perimental.and- poduction. facilities of; ‘
' ‘ And the outcome] ,
might or might not be_' worth the ef- .-

enormOus'i funds.

fort. *' ‘ ,

The American dye industry also has. 3

been" put firmly, on its feet, with the

forceful support of American com; ':

panics.

* They had the necessary courage to .3

risk their capital, » backed by their

faith in América; In 1915 they besan‘

the experimental work and have per-

sisted though’three years of large ex-p

penditures of money and many disap-
pointments until they can new place

American potash 0n the American '

markets.

the Land. of Porkers j .

So down the slope he took his way to
3 get his pork or bacon;

But bacon hogs were on the job; they
were not .to be taken.

As near the feed-lot Rastus came the,

bacon fellovvs scented trouble;
They raised their heads in quicksur-
prise, their speed they .made it
double. -

Old Rastus saw the

 

the sun shown
hot, the fat ones
said “the shade”

So off they hiked;
they left their
feed, and ’neath
the trees they
laid;

The thin ones smil-
ed and shook
their heads, said
“what care we
for weather,”

Our flesh is hard,
our hair is red,
our Wind’s as
good as ever.

Us}.
HARM!“

As ’neath the shade the fat ones lay,
they snoozed and wheezed and
grunted; -
The thin ones kept right on the job so
growth would not be stunted;
The sun was hot, they didn’t stop, no
matter what came after,

They seemed to have one end to gain,

good- bacon for the packer.

Old colored Rastus lived near by, his
pickaninnys many,

He plowed and hoed for. things to eat,
but meat, he had not any;

But when he saw the sleeping porkers,
his thoughts began to wandah,
Says he “they're‘ fat, their breath is

short, they can’t outrun this niggah.

    

VERY NOISY'

“That must be one of those‘Jazz
Bands, I’ve heard about."

bacon slip away
with , ease’ of
lightning,

So on a sleeping
porker fat he
put a grip quite
tightening;

The porker floun-
dered,. writhed
a n d squealed,
its cries the air
was renting,

' When back the ba—
con fellows
came, -old Ras-

, tus’ act 'resent—

, ing. '

..__:___ A.

'With snappy eyes and bristles raised

they charged the dark intruder,
And soon he knew, that when a babe
ha'wasn’t any under;

The pig escaped, and Rastus flew to "

bushes for a shelter _ -

The drove so lately organized now
traveled off together.

3N0w let this little fable teach a les-

son to us all,

Together We accomplish much, alone
we’re sure to fall.

’Though champions of respective
breeds, our aim’s remuneration,

And profitplus introduction comes by
thorough organization—ELM B._

Canada has Developed, Hardy Species of Fodder

WINNIPEG, MAN—After experi-
ments lasting over a period of five
years, the Manitoba, Agricultural Col-
lege has developed'three hardy species
0: fodder corn which mature early
and are suited to a climate that has

heretofore‘barred corn as a,successfu1 ,

crop in this province.

These are Quebec 28, and the dwarf
varieties, Gehu and Free Press. Pro-
fessor L. S. Klinck, MacDonald Col-
lege, Quebec, is primarily responsible
for the development of Quebec 28 and
he furnished in the summer of 1913
the original seed for the Manitoba ex-
periments.

This seed with several other varie-
ties. was placed in the hands of J. H.
Bridge, assistant in the husbandry de-
partment of the Manitoba. institution,
who planted them and from the ears
produced selected seeds for the next
season’s planting.

The same procedure was followed

in the following three years, and then,
in .the spring of 1917 some samples
were supplied by British Columbia
University, of Quebec 28 developed in
that province. This new lot was in-~
terplanted with the Manitoba selec-
tions and in the spring of" 1918 a final
test was made.

Planted May 30, the corn was husk-
ed September 26 and 27, and produced
the following resultsz—Quebec 28, 101
bu. of cobs; Gehu, 79 bu., and Free
Press 47 bu.
ties is now being supplied by the Man-
itoba government to farmers who wish
to raise corn for fodder. 1 1

Goverment- aid. and encouragement
in the raising of live stock, it is eit-

pected, will thus be strongly'supple. '

mentedby enabling ‘the' farmers of
the province to raise the kind of fqd-
der that has played so large apart in

thedevelopment of live stock in’ Iowa ' 3

and other states in the United States.

 

 

What the Neighbors Say

I wish to thank on for your paper. It
has helped me, an please keep at some
of these higher up as you have done in
the past year. With best wishes for you
and yours. From a. family of ten—D.
H. Grouch, Traverse City. -

  

     

Enclosed find a money order for one
dollar for which please send me our -p_a~
per for one year. Surecan’t be w thout it.

-—Melbourne T. Hewgatt, Milford,- Mich.

Enclosed ~find one dollar to a. l
fiubscription to the best farm pappelr ypui‘i:

shed.-:Go.».to it Hal, and ma your com--

a e mover ., ow less—T.- .. Schwinck,’, ,3

ortth’ranc ' Mic .

_ . Wm maple ~cs "y m the Men.
F. . tor the sub- - f.

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no ‘lté:90minx'£~pa°9'- some

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The little, lifiht, fast running
tractors may e all right for
plowing but they will net do for
threshing. To run a thresher you
. . want a power plant with a. heavy
preserve power. ' Power that not

only runs the thresher when con-.

ditions are ideal, bdt that does
- not stall when bothered With wet

bundles or over‘ feeding. You

get the right power for threshing
' when you get the ‘

. Nichols-Shepard
' V O
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_ It is designed as a power-plant
for threshing. It works like a
steam engine when attached to
the thresher.

It has two cylinders with a strong
main shaft and a heavy flywheel which
stores the cum to pull through those
unexpected overloads. It has a strong.

. sturdy frame with enough weight to
hold it in place. It burns kerosene and
distillate and is as economical as a gas
engine can be made. .

It. is also ’a good power plant for
piowxng and other heavy farm work.

Writefor C in'ular:

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31.25 per bottle at denier: or delivered.

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one bow-in book ever printed. "grown

in modoof Heavy DOUBLE GALVAN-

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Gote- nnd Barb Wire. Low Factory Pris-I. Mk.
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headof HolSteins

ers Sale Company, at Howell last week
marked area-letter day in Holstein his-
tory in this- part of Michigan, Seventy
head Were sold including a. number oi.’
calves, under six months and a year old,
and the average «$298.95 each, including
calves, was probably the highest yet
reached at any sale in Livingston county,
Over $20,000 changed hands in a very
short period of time, as follows:

Consigned by J. A. Campbell & Son,
Farmer—Gretchen Colantha Korndyke to
R. C. Wriggins, Butler, Pa.., $315; Kat-
rina Korndyke Pontiac to W. C. Hendee
and Son, Pinckney, $230; Korndyke Ponti—
ac Belle DeVries to J. Polcott, Perry,
$310; Lena. Wallentje Pontiac to R. L,
Francis, Cheboygan, Mich., $360; Pride
Maplecrest Burton to H. Drumhiiler. Bath,
$425; Princess Wallentje De 01 2nd to
Herbert G. Hill, South Lyon, 3240,

BY M.I-I Daniels and Son—Alice Pearl-
lea Pletje to H. Drumh‘ilier, Bath, $205;
Cantrilia Segis King to J. W, Patterson,
Apollo, Pa... $395; male calf to Fred C.
,Oesterle, Webbervilie, $205.

By M. E. Dunning—Substitute cow to
N. S. Grubbs, $330; Onno Geiske Cres-
cent to J. S, Rankin, Bad Axe, $180.

By FreemanJ. Fishbeck—Daisy DeKol
Oakhurst-to C. R. Yunger, Kittaming, Pa...
$320; Lady Hengerveid Vale Houwtje to
Clifford Gordon, Charlotte, $265. _

By T. B. Gilkes——-Victoria King De Kol
to J. W.’Patterson, Apollo, Pa., $340 ; male
Howtje Cornucopia Lad to F. E. Young,
Charlotte, ,Mich, $300.

By F. S, Jenkins and Son, Lansing—-
Beauty Hartog Gelche to R. L. Francis...
Cheboygan; female calf to R. L, Francis,
$155; female calf to R. L. Francis, Che-
boygan, $210; Queen of Great De K01 AQ-
bekerek to J. L. Roche and Son, Pinckney,
$230; Miss Canary Pontiac De K01 to R.
L. Francis, Cheboygan. $625; male calf to
I. Drain, Perrington, $115.

Jenkins & Daniels, Lansing—Bonna
Jean De Kol to Ed, Drumhill, Bath, $375;
Substitute to R. L. Francis, Cheboygan,
$625; Cossa Bay De K01 2nd to R. C.
Wiggins, Butler, Pa., $230; Coosa Bay
De K01 3rd to I, Ballshouse and Son, Pa.,
$355; Ealine of Maple Grove, $205; fe-
male calf to Leverne Hart, Bath, $125;
female calf to J. W. Patterson, Apollo, Pa,
$130; Flossie Dale De K01 2nd to Keith
Hoover, Toledo, $500; Lady Tesla of Ma—
ple Grove to R. L. Francis, Cheboygan,
$195.

By Roy Lannen—Female calf to N. S.
Grubbs, Pittsburg Pa., $155; Winnie De
K01 of Ferndale to Geo. Datt, Valencia,
Pa., $270.

By R. B. McPh'erson—Alfalfadale Korn-
dyke Princese to R. L. Francis, Cheboy-
gan, $500; Cluny Colantha Ykema Wayne
to J. C. Buth, Grand Rapids, $415; Den-
ver Beets Segis 2nd t J. C. Buth, Grand
Rapids, $385; Kornd ke Axie De K01 to
Clark and S'tarkweather, $245; Korndyke
Ethel De K01 to E. S, Nash, Howell, $210;
Retta Traverse De K01 to N. S. Grubbs,
Pittsburg, Pa., $400; Vale Champion Mo-
bel Beam to J. W. Patterson, $425.

By Musoli’t Bros, South Allen—Agnes
Johanna Korndyke to Geo. Datt, Valencia,
Pa_. $345; Berdie Jocopline Mechthilde to
J. L. Roche and Son, $195; Butter Maid
Pet Segis Pieter to J. L. Roche and Son,
$425; Butter Maid Segis Pieter, twin to,
J. L. Roche and Son. $425; Diana Coruco-
pia Segis to E W. McNitt, Grand Rapids,
$400; Diana Segis Pieter to R, L. Fran-
cis, $225;'Kathleen Segis Pieter to J. M.
Weimeister, Brighton, $165; Mollie of St.
Anna Butter Girl to Geo. Datt, $705 ' M01-

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.Blanche Seg’is Korndyke to C.

McDonough, $560; bull calf of King Pieter
Butter Boy to J. C, Buth, $500; King
Segis Pieter to W. B. Miller, Howell, $505

By Roy W. Skinner, Highland—Aaggie
Wayne Highland, $260; Cantrilla, Belle
Hengerveid to H. E, Smith, Charlotte,

$255,; Cantrilla Belle Lenore to R. C. Reed,

Howell, $250; Cantriila Highland Belle,
$130; Hengerveid Belle Lenora to R, C.
Wiggins, $310; Hengerveid Highland Lass
to R. L. Francis, $175; Hengerveid Model
Segis to Chris Hansen, Lansing, $240;
Highland Zora Alta to J. P, Olcott, Perry,
$155; Queen Aaggie Highland Wayne to
N. S. Grubbs, $205; Queen Model Wayne
to Chris Hansen, Lansing, $170; Werlm-
berc Aaggie Hengerveid to C. R. Yunger,
Tittaming, P3,, $290; Werlm‘berc Aaggie
Wayne to Clark and Starkweather, $205;
Werlmberc Zora Alta 2nd to A. L. Smith,
Howell, $240. ’
Parley M Taft—Dora Blanche Segis
Korndyke to C. R. Yunger, $300; Doris
R. Yung-
er, $300. .
E A. Vanderbeck, Dimondale—Female
calf to Carnie Institute, Pittsburg, Pa.
$150; female calf to Charles Fenton, Rich—
nacarad, $155; female calf to Chas Fenton_

By Frank Wessinger, Howell—Mechth-‘
ilde Fayne Beauty to_J. L. Dayette, -New'-
ark, Del., $390; Miss Maple Crest Fair to

Inch Dairy Co.. Perrington, Mich., $170,

Wolverine Oats—A “Bumper’?
Variety

It, is generally conceded that in or-
der to obtain good yields or cats one
must change his seed stock every few
years. Mixtures occur by way of
threshing machines. etc.

01' the newer, high-yielding variet-
ies" of oats suitable to our Michigan
30113 andcllmate, the New Wolverine
Oats are one of. the ."best and most
promising in regard to adaptability
and high yielding as,_well as feeding
qubijfifi‘fizfl 9n the lighter soils the

 
       

   

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This sturdy. reliable, willing, inexpensive
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sales advertised here at special low rates; ask for them. Write to-"ayl,

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this "heading to henest breeders of 1iv¢ fitoi’k ”imam ’4 I . ‘ , ' ‘
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CATTLE

' HOLSTEIN-PBIESIAN

 

 

E. L. Salisbury Breeds High Class

Holstein-Frisian Cattle

Twenty dams of our herd sire

,. Welter Lyons

, average 30.11 lbs. of butter in seven
*days. Nothi forealeatthistlme

but young bu] calves.

Iii. 1.. Salisbury. Shepherd, W.

 

’csoxca' REGISTERED'STOCK

PERCHERONS, ' i '
HOLSTEINS, '
SHROPSHIRES,

ANGUS. ‘
DUROCS.

mammm
LEEMI

 

 

 

 

 

 

' ,MUSOLFF BROS.’ HOLSTEINS
_' We are now booking orders to!
2?: bulls from King Pieter Segis
- 115 170506. All from .A. R. O, dams
th credible records. We test annu—

, for tuberculosis. Write for pric-
es and further information.

Hula! Bros., South Lyons, rMiehigan

 

 

 

 

A REAL BULL

Just old enough for service. His sire is
one of the best 31 lb. bulls in th -
m3 6 state,

His three nearest dams average, fat, 4.46
per cent; 514.6 milk 7 days. Priced at
$200 if sold soon. Harry ’1‘. Tubbs Ei-
well. Michigan, ’

 

TWIN BULL CALI/ES
Born October 29, 1918: sired by Sir
Calantha Segis Korndyke 104008; dam‘s
record, 24.35 lbs. butter and 621 lbs. of
Elsi-$93111; dlays; fléiegtzaigfiit calves. Send
uars.— . . utt i -
erviile, Michigan. man' POW}

FOR S {is-LB, ANCESTRY
ALFr—Bull calf born F b.
1919. Sire, F‘lint Hengerveid- Lad Silhoge
dam has a 33.105 4-yr.-old record. Dam
17 lb, Jr. 2-yr.-old, daughter of Ypsiland
[Bugs Pontiac dDeiflglfi whose dam at 5 yrs.
8 recor o . 3 and . .

7 da. Price, $100 F,O.B. 760 20 lbs in

L. C, KETZLER, - Flint. Michigan

 

 

 

PREPARE

For the greatest demand
We t:.:.t has ever known. agar;
now with the Holstein and convince
y‘oluerself. HGoobdrtstgttzk always for
. ow e ock F
Claire. Michigan. arm' Ea“

 

 

 

sired by a son
Bull calves ggiendK Iliengerveig
Boy and by a son of King Seogis geutltér'
Korndyk from A. R. 0. dams with rec-
2???qu ‘1‘ .25 algflJr. two year old to 28.25
consider ego. cos reasonable breeding
WALNUT GROVE STOCK FA
W. W. Wyckoi'f, . -Napoleon,Rl\b/}ich

 

TEN-MONTHS-OLD-BULL
Bull last advertised is sold.

    

This
one born June 7, 1918. Sired b b
son of famOUS $30,000 y .est
Arden Farms herd, bull heading

Killg Korndyke

Pontiac Lass. Two nearest dam

.sire of this calf average 37.76 -- s to
ter 7 days and over 145 lbslkinbustd

days. Dam, a granddau ht -
of the Pontiacs, Sir Ggiscire 0%512ng
Segis and DeKol Burke, A bar 'er
Herd tuberculin tested annually gain,

BOARDMAN FARMS, sacks”, Mich

 

 

 

'WOLVERINE STOCK FARM

1 want to tell you about ou
Herd Sire, ”King Pontiac Lunar; Jllilmor
dyke Segis,” a SOD 0f King of the 13:13!—
acs, his dam is Queen Segis of Brooks d)-
a daughter of Pontiac Ciothilde De k8,
2nd and Prince Segis Korndyke a 01
combinationbof greedinhg, ' great

We are rec ing tis Youn _
the daughters of Judge Walkergpiilffrtio
our Senior Herd sire Whose first flJe,
dams each have records above 30 lb Xe
also has two 30 lb. sisters, HoWs,c 0
you ‘0 Wrong by buying a bull calf at}
this popular line of breeding? 0

T‘ W' Sprague, Battle Creek. Mich

60Pride Alcartra Pontiac De Kol No. 349 —
3 has recently completed a s - ’
record of 29.33 lbs. butter from €2,583 (11:53:,
milk, at the age of 3 years, 2 mos. and 10
days. ,

Her sire is a son of Kin Se 1 -
tiao Alcartra, the $50,000 bugll mgdsangn
of Barbara Pietertje Butter boy 32 43
lbs. butter in 7 days at 4% years' '

Her dam is Little Maid Adaline De-
Kol No. 140579, having a 7 day record of
fibsgalbls‘g bubtttteé' from 66.25 lbs. milk and

. s. u er rom '
in 30 days. 2,680.5 lbs. milk

The dam comes of
blood on both sides, her sire 02231 p113
. dams grandswe both being brothers to
i _ £1.31 ngrst h351—llibldcoilif’ Colantha 4th’s Jo-

. , w o e a world’

all ages and breeds in 5 records over
' from one day to a year,

, “:1 sold the dam for $1,200 and topped
the sale atthe Central Michigan Holstein
Bibeders' Sale, Feb, 15th. 1919, at East
- Lapping, Mich. Andrew T, Dirr. Prop.,
~er t Holstein. Fame. we

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a. 23 1b. cow of great capacitv.‘

Write for extended pedigree and photo“

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every division ,

  
    
    
  

 

 

FOB BALE-+3 REGISTERED HOL-
stein Bulls old enough for service, from
daughters of aO-aib. bull and King Korn-
dyke Sadie Vale 25th. Ask for pedigree
Jcadhprice. James B. Garge’tt, Elm Hall.

(3 .

REGISTERED HOLSTEIN BULL OLD
enough for service. Sired by a grandson
of Coiantha Johanna Lad; his dam has
a good A. R. 0. record. Write for prices
and pedigree. Also a few females. Ver-
non Clough, Parma, Michigan.

 

 

EG. HOLSTEIN BULL CALF from
good producing Cow and sired by a.
No. 1 bull. Price $50.00 for quick sale.
F. W Alexander, Va.“ ar. Michigan.

 

HEIFER CALVES
Yearling and young
$150 and $250,
mo, Mich.

SOLD. BRED
cow for sale. Price,
C. L. Hulett & Son, Oke-

 

 

 

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nonrnonss and POLAND (inn-us
all sold out. None for sale at pres-
ent. F. M. Piggott a Son, Fowler, Mich

WHAT no You WANT? l.represent ii
- sn’onrnonn breeders. Can put you in
touch with best milk or beef strains. Bulls
all ages.‘ Some females. 0. W. Crum.
President Central Michigan Bhorthorn
Association. McBrides. Michig .1.

N0 STOCK FOB‘SALE AT PRESENT.

Kim-thorn Breeder. W. 8. Huber,.G|ad- ,

win, Inch.
annulus

LAKEWOOD HEREFORDS

Not how man ibut how good! A tow
well-developed, youg- boils for
sale, blood lines iridiv uality No. 1.
If you want a figment sire. that will
beget grams, :- ers,
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.

180 HEREFORD BTEEBS. ALSO
know of 10 or 15 leads fancy quality
Shorthorn and Angus steers 5 to 800 lbs.
Owners anxious to sell. Will help buy 500
commission. C. F. Ball. Fairfleid, Iowa.

 

BROWN SWISS

WANTED—BROWN sw1ss KEIFEBS.
State age, breeding, and price. J. Howard
deSpelder, Greenville, Mich.

HORSES

FOB SALE-FOUR—YEAB-OLD REG-
istered Ciidesdale Stallion, a State Fair
Winner. D. T. Knight, Mariette, Mich.

 

 

IFyoejnet wantto"keep
‘ ceow”lnyeowwilldo.
' But if you went thrifty
I cows M will conserve
feed; that will show real
,v profit everyday“ the car,
you must have Jane‘s. y
vu-tiee reeds as

can't m M to Jerseys on

an" cAm: two
i New York cm

 

 

 

The Wildwood J erseyt F arm

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

Alvin Balden, Capac, Michigan.

 

GUERNSEY

 

FOR SALE—REGISTERED GUERN-
sey Bull Calves, 4 months old; Top Notch
breeding, A. M. Smith, Lake City, Mich.

FOR SALE—FIVE REGISTERED
Percheron horses, three stallions, two
mares, all blacks and Mipriced to sell.
0. 8. Young, Shepherd. ch.

 

early maturers :

- Smith,

nunoo BOABS READY non 8En§_ ‘

class serve bred for sum-
to Orion‘s Fans?!" Kingi the

biggest i 0 his 9 ever at tern ion-
al at gtgck Shes: Newton Baruhart.
St. Johns, Mich.

vice, also high
mer farrowin

 

,DUEOCS; BBED STOCK ALL 801-1.)-
Wili have a limited number of yearling
its bred for August farrow. Order early.

ewtc‘m dc Blank, Hill Crest Farms, Per- ,

rinton, Mich.

 

”TWO YOUHG BBOOK'WAI'EB; DUR-
oc Jam'Boai-s, ready for service All

prepaid

airy Co. Addressm Fric-
ke Dairy (30.. or Arthur W. Mumford.
Peninton, Mich.”

BEGIS'I‘ERED DUBOO BOA“ PROM
prize—winning Golden Model, family,
th type, adapted for mating with the

 

amoo
comer-boned females for early maturing
pigs. Subject to immediate acceptance
and chalfe without notice. I will crate
and shi or 250 per. ound. Papers if de-
sired 3 extra. Sen $50 Will refund
difference or return entire remittance it
reduced oifer is cancelled, Pigs will
weigh from 150 lbs. to 200 lbs.
Addison, Mich.

PEACH HILL FARM

REGISTERED DUROC JERSEY GILTS,
bred for fall farrow. Protection and Co‘—
onel breeding. Our prices are reasonable.
Write or better still, come and make your
own selections. Visitors welcome. In-
wood Bros, Romeo Mich.

 

 

FOR SALE—TWO REGULAR DUROC
Jersey boars, wt of October farmw;
weight, 150..lbs.; sired by Orion Cherry
King 6th No. 79931; dam by Defender.
C. E. Davis & Son, Ashley, Miclt. R. L

MEADOWVIEW FARM

Registered Duroc Jersey Hogs. Buy
your spring pigs now.
.1. E. Morris, Ferminmn. Mich.

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HOGS

. POLAND CHINA
BIG TYPE P. 0. SPRING PIGS. EITH-

 

er sex. From choice bred sows and sired

by a grandson of Grant Buster and other
rise-winning boars. Prices reasonable.
. W. Barnes and Son, Byron, Mich,

o. I. (L’s—YOUNG sows wrrd 8 TO
10 pigs, Bows registered and delivered in
lower Michigan, $110 to $125. Fred N.
Randall, Manchester, Mich.

SAGINAW VALLEY HERD O!’ 0.1.033
Boar p _ grandsons of Schoolmaster and
Perfec on 5th. Sows all sold. John
Gibson, Bridgeport, Michigan.

 

 

BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS—ONE
thirteen months old boar. weighs 500 lbs.,
register and a sure breeder, price, $75.00
crated. Spring figs eligible to registry
ready to ship, 8 .2 apiece. Leland Reid,
Twining, Mich.

POLAND CHINA 80W AND EIGHT
pigs, nine fan-owed April 28; sired by
Bob-o-Link by the 2nd Big Bob. Price
8200. Also offer Bob-o-Link, 14 months

 

old at a bargain, Has litters of 13 to his,

 

GUERNSEYS giggling A m.

and cows for
gall? alsolta fnungberdof well bred young
u s—wr e or rec in . Villa 6 Fa
Grass Lake, Michigan. g g rms.

 

Registered ($11131 Bu“

Born April 26, 1918 Pric

l.as_ i one left! All the others advgrfifisg
ed in M, B. F. have been sold.
Wm. T. Fisk, Vestaburg, Mich, B. 2

ABERDEEN-ANGUS

ABE» EEL' 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. or call and
see us. .
Woodcote Stock Farm. Ionia. Michigan.
from

ANGUS BULLS and HEIFERS

chmce registered stock. Also
have some nice Registered Duroc Boars
ready for serv1ce. Will crate and ship
for $50.00. Geo. B. Smith & Co., Addi-
son. Michigan.

snonrnonn

SHORTHORNS FOR SALE AT REA-
- sonable prices. The
prize-winning Scotch Bull, Master Model
576147, in many states at head of herd of
50 good type Shorthorns.

E. Parkhurst, Reed City,

 

Michigan.

 

FOR SALE—TWO FINE SHORT-
horn Bulls, 13 months old; at farmers'
prices. Clarence Wyant, Berrien‘ Cen-
ter, Mich.

 

SHORTHORNS, 100 HEAD T0 SF!
last from. Write me your wants. Prices
reasonable. Wm, J. Bell. Rose City. MiCh-

 

FOR
Polled Durham Cattle. Herd bulls.are
grandsons of Whitehall Sultan and Avon-
dale C. Carlson, Leroy. Mich.

 

, THE VAN BUBEN CO Shorthorn
Breeders’ Association have young. stock
for sale, mostly Clay breeding. Write
your wants to, the Secretary, Frank
Bailey. Harttord. Michigan, 121'

SALE —— SHOBTHORN' AND

 

credit C. L. Wright, Jonesville, Mich
WALNUT ALLEY 5:6 33,333. gt;

watch 0. 1919 crop sired by Arts Sena-
tor and Orange Price! I thank my cus-
formers for their patronage.

A. D. GREGORY, - lonia, Mich.

 

MICHIGAN CHAMPION HERD OF
Big Type F. C. orders booked for spring
pigs. E. R. Leonard, St. Louis, Mich.

m TYPE P. C. gilts. bred for April
arrow. the big smooth kind.’ A. A.
WOOD & SON. Saline. Mich.

 

 

L'. S. P, C. BRED GILTS, ALL SOLD:
two boars ready for service and one bull
boar. H. O. Swartz. Schoolcraft, Mich.

 

EVERGREEN FARM BIG TYPE P. C.
Boars all sold, nothing for sale now, but
will have some cracker jacks this fall.
Watch my ad. I want to thank my many
customers for their patronage and every
customer has been pleased with my hogs.
Enough said. C. E. Garnant, Eaton Rap-
ids, Mich,

BIG TYPE POLANDS.

 

‘ GILTS ALL

sold, one yearling sow bred to farrow
May 29th. for sale. 0. L. Wright, Jones-
viile. Mich. .

4‘—

Large Type Poland China Hogs

Write that inquiry for L. T. P. C. serv-
iceable boars to Wm. J. Clarke. Eaton
Rapids, Mich, instead of Mason. 1 have
solfi 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 town.
WM. J. CLARKE.
R. No. 1, Eaton Rapids. Michigan

 

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MEADOWVIEW FARM. REGISTERED
Duroc Jerse Hogs. Spring pigs for sale:
also Jersey ullsr J. E. Morris, Farming-
ton, Michigan. '

 

DUBOC -JERSEY SWINE. , BEE!)
Sows and Gilts all sold. Nice bunch of
fall, pigs, both sex, sired by Breakwater
Tip y Orion No. 55421, by Tippy 00L, out
of m by the Principal 4th. and Brook-
water Cherry Ki . Also herd boar '8 yr.
old. Write for peeeifree and prices, Sat-

,faction .guarant . Thee. VMerhlil ;&‘

Salem. Michim. ‘ ' . * ‘

 
      

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Shadowland Farm
0. I. C’s.
Bred Gilte m M” and June-

Booking orders for
Spring Pigs. Everything. shipped C.0.D.
and registered in buyer’s name. It
you want the best, write k

 

 

 

 

 

 

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J. CARL JEWETT, Mason. Mlch.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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8734 HAMPSHIRES RECORDED IN .1

the association from Janul to Apr. 1, '19.
Did you get one? Boar pigs only for sale
now, John W. Snyder, St. Johns, Mich,
R. No. 4.

BEBKSHIRES ~
REGORY FARM BEBEBHIBES for
. Profit. Choice stock for sale. Write

r wants. .
W. SéuCORSA. White Hall, Ill.

REGISTERED BERKSHIRE BOABS,
ready for service, A few guts and sow-s
bred for May and- June farrow; also
spring pigs. Chase Stock Farm, Mariette,
Mich.

CHESTER‘ WHITES

 

MARCH AND APRIL PIGS,
CheStersfrom prize winning stock; ill
pairs or trios; at reasonable prices—1‘.
W. Alexander, Vassar. Mich,

REGISTER]! CHESTER WHITE
PIGS for sale 3% prices that will interest

 

you. Either sex. Write today. Ralph
Cosens, Levering, Mich.
| RABBITS

 

THE RIVERSIDE BABBI'I‘RY
Is offering some very fine Flemish. Giants
that are Giants, that have the Size and
color, Bred from 15 lb. stock, registered
and pedigreed stock; dark steel greys.
blacks and light steels. Breeding does
and young stock 2 months and up. Also
have two fine breeding bucks, dark steel
and light steel, pedigreed and registered.
All stock up to weight; Satisfaction
uaranteed or money refunded. . Send
ember of N. B. F. A. and S. M.-':.B-. and
stamp for reply. I can deliver the goods.
F. A. ASS' . ~ ' , '
F. E, Andrews, thliomston, menu.

 

 
   
   

   
   
 

 

  

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Alanson, _ , 1.,‘8. 1.391150’4' - . ,

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‘ delivery.

Lab . glans; New Zeelands

Bel ' . . .
Sen for explanation of fall chicks and

,_ ’_ new catalog.
1WIGDM£ runs assocunon
Bloomingdale Mich“

rnmourn aooxs

- omens—Rosa AND SINGLE-00MB
Reds and Barred Plymouth Rocks.” for.
84.25; 100 for 816; July and August de-

:livery. Circular free. Interlakes Far

Box 4, Lawrence. Mich.

   

 

MUD-WAI-AUSH-KA FARM DEFEBS
Parks bred—to-lay
a1 Dorcas” White
1.50'per 15;'White Run-
ner ducks, $1.5 or 11‘ White Chinese

filled in turn as
Dike C. Miller,

Hatch! ’ Eggs fro
Barred s and “
, Wyandottes at

geese, 400 each. rders
received. Order now.
Dryden. Mich

OHN’S BIG. BEAUTIFUL BARRED
Books are hen-hatched, quick growers.
good layers; 30 eggs, $3.00' 100.
Postage paid. Cockerels. $4.00.

$8.00.
Circu-
lars. photos. John Worthon. Clare. Mich.

 

THOROUGHBRED BARRED ROCK
Vigorous

Cookerels and females.
stock; good layers; eggs for hatching.
Satisfaction. guaranteed.
man, Jr.. R. No. 1. Pigeon. Michigan, ~

BARRED

 

ROCK WINNERS. Won 1

Eggs from Pen 1 $2.50 per 15; Pen 2
$2.00 per 15, or 5.00 er 50. B . '
post. Carrier returned). y parcel
SAM STADEL. - Chelsea. Mich.

 

.SHEPABDS' BUFF ROCKS; PRIZE
Winners at the big Detroit Poultry Show
1919. I have two grade pens mated. I
will hmch my winner from these mating.
I will have a limited5 number of eggs to
spare at $3 per 15. If you want some
good Bull! Rocks order one or two of these
settings; they will please you. Satisfac-
tion guaranteed. Irvin Shepard,- Chesan—
mg. Mich.

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. LEGHOHN

50,000 rum. HUSKY. WHITE LEG-
horn of grand laying strain for
June and July‘delivery. Shipped safely
everywhere by mail at 318 pier 100; $6.50
for 60, rder direct. F‘u satisfaction
guarantee . Free catalog. Holland Hatch-
ery. Holland. -Mich.. R. 7,.

 

 

DBED-TO-LAY WHITE LEGHOBN .
leading M. A, C. Demonstration Farm isn
1918. Average production for 150 hens
last year 186 eggs each. Eggs for batch.
$321M". I Glégbglrn om :mstgim "it: R’
in; Mich. It 2. Box I54. ' mu-

 

P ROFITABLE DUFF LEGHORNS—mv

have twenty pests of especially mg
Single Comb Butts that are not only mat,-
ed for exhibition but, above all, for prof.
itable an production. Em at very recs.
onable prices. Our that will interest you
.. ease ask “Inge Fang,
0.2.. Lake. Michigan. .

- A, anon: renew» me
naps THAT an: nuns—s. 0. con.

bi ed with high eggs-producing qua]
23, per setting, 15. 1.50. F. r. wh’fg

 

Susy/er. Williamston, Mich.
B. C. B- 1. White. Law.
pure white husky fellows,

COCKERE
action may”).

ricee reasonable, satist
1good. O. E. Haw-ley. , Ludington. Mich.

WYANDOT'I‘E

WHITE WYANDOTTES “Exclusively”
' for 15 years. Fine Birds. Best

 

lay'ers. Keeler’s strain, Eggs, 15, 31.25;
100, $6.50. Cockereis, $2 00.
Nick Fleck, R. 6, Plymouth. Ind,

 

SILVER, GOLDEN AND WHITE
Wyandottesfl e gs from especial mail-
ing, $13 pegtls; Saigercfo: $8 pgr 50; by
pal-ca 3 pa rep arence rowning.
Portland, Mic ., R. 2.

 

CHICKS

CHICKSWE SHIP THOUSANDS, DIF-
terent varieties; ’Brown Le -
horns. $13 hundred; booklet and test -
~ monials. Stamp appreciated. »Freeport
Hatchery, Box 10. F‘reeport, Mich. -

romaine

 

‘I wnrrn HOLLAND ' rum: noes
, 1- sale. Twenty-flv cents each. Harry
‘ 3’“... Mayvil-le, Mich.

' 0TH BRONZE commits —
M' ' thorou hbred, for sale. Gob-
15-3 1133., Hens 9-1,. lbs.

I . ._ t .00 to $35.00 to
. do?
“fin humming- “it. luv 9“:

  

 

 

Robert Bow-

Pen, 2nd Cockerel and 4t
Cookerel at Chelsea Big Show. Hatching1

 

 

  

 

from Barron Single". Comb

horns- 300:3 strain 'I-lb. cock

. Woodru Melvin. Mich.

W (3h 10 . Pekin 23101:. 3
. ‘ . case 6
Claudia Begs. Hillgepie. Mich. “

chicks, shi .
Dockervinexzpfich. Route 1. ex 69

em postpaid. s. o. W. Orpington
White Guineas. 82. 0d
man. Michigan,
Leg
loge-bred trap nested
Kay. Hersey.
ARRED ROCK EGGS-
Chelsea show. Specie.
0 Second $2. 15; 35.50. P. P,
a
Mich.

. P; prepaid. Mrs. Geo.’ Weaver.

P
Lake. Michigan.

HATCHING EGGS —
Rocks, all varieties. and Anconas

Sheridan. Mich. R. 6

 

HATCHING EGGS WANTED
iness Farming want
Eggs. .

this column will sell them in a hurry,
Write out your ad and send it in.

cost to run.
Address Poultry Dept... M. B, F.

sank” , . ”muse
m. ' Eggs 1%? . me for {2.00.
' by normal. sly. kin-risen. ich.‘
r03 canny—adds Eon. naronme

White Iieg
er 10’s malt '4 r 50. omcks.‘2 for
?5. R. b ‘ a? '

1.50 er 15 u
"n m" . £50 fob 8.
cents each. Mrs.

B REILBOOK EGGS FROM LAY-
ing s rain; $1.50 per 13, Custom hatching
for people who would not have to have
Mrs. Gear 9 C. Innis.

lmromrm noes smos of"?
ell Arno .’ Cole:

was FOB. n'a'rcnmo. sic. WHITE
home; 7 Michigan Agricultural Col-
rooetere with our

flock at present: eggs. so each. Geo. Mo-
Mich.

WINNERS AT
pen. $2.60, 16;
Prepaid.
rrier. Minted. Sam Stadel. Chelsea.

HATCHINGEGG’ m" m..-
bred Barred Rocks,
Ringlet strain; 15 for $1.50; 30 for 521$?
4 1 e

I’LYMOIIIJTH
lus-
trated catalog, 3c. Sheridan Poultry Yards

Hundreds of readers of Michigan Bus—
to buy Hatching

If you have any to spare, a little ad in

We
will set it in- type and tell you what it will

         
  

   

CENTS A WORD PEI! ISSUE. To maintain this low rate, we are on "
1101106 to eliminate all book-keeping. Therefiore', our terms on classified" ,. ,
each'm'u' are cash in full with order. Couflt‘as one word each initial and:
is 5 SP0!!!) of figures, bothin the body ofthe ad and in the address. The rate
1 cents a word tor each.iesue, regardless of number of times ad runs. There
'3 11:“; discount. Copy must reach us by Wednesday of preceding week. You *
A d dr elp us continue our low rate. by making your remittance exactly right— -:-
99'. Michigan Business Farming. Adv. Dep’t, 'Mt. Clemens, 111011188!)-

NOTE:

_An illIJstration helps greatly to sell farm ro ert . B addin
$10 extra for each insertion of your ad. you ganp hayve ay. photogi
graphic reproduction of your house or barns printed at the head
3533;: ad. Be sure to send us a good clear photograph for, this

 

 

 

 

 

 

FOR SALE—so nouns, WELL ranci- .
ed, spring creek good orchard; 66 acres.
clear. rest wood lot and pasture; near
school and railway rural mail. telephone,
Spring work comp eted. For particulars
write Isaac G, Fischer. Bellaire, Mich. '

FARMS F01! SALE—BIG LIST 01'

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

WANTED—5 to 40 ACRES OF HIGH,‘
well-drained, gravel loam. sloping to the
south or west. close to shipping point.
Not more than 50r'miles from Detront.
Will deal with owners only. Address N.’
Grant Currie, 163 Harrison Ave, De-
troit, Michigan. "

TWO MILES SOUTH OF REED CITY
80 acres, all improved, heavy rolling lan .
Base barn. tool house, granary, pigpen
orchard house. with crops, $4,500.00. Wil
also sell cheap 3 horses, tools, hay, straw
and oats. One—third cash. long time for
balance. Isaac and H. B. Grant. Reed City. ,
Michigan.

FOR SALE—85V2 ACRES, 1%, MILES
west of Chelsea, Mich. Washtenaw coun-v
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. 9—mom house;
small orchard. Whole milk is shipped to
Detroit, Roy C. Ives. Chelsea, Mich.

FARMS AND LAND
295 ACRES $12,700, WITH PB. HOBB-
es, 9 Registered Cows, 3 bulls, 9 heifers.
# calves, brood sows, pigs. complete line
arm implements including manure spread-
2!," refiners, etc. on State road. only mile
RR. town. 8 miles manufacturing city.
no better markets. 175 acres strong loan
tillage. clay subsoil. cuts heavy hay. r315-
68 his crons. oil-cow creek-watered pas-
ture, estimated 1600 cords wood, 100.000
ft. timber. splendid fruit. Beautiful 12-
room. house. slate root, barns complete
working buildings. Owner made well-to-
do on this farm wants to retire now, so
quick buyer gets everything, $12,700. easy
$3213.13 Details agid picture page 42 Cat-
argams States. copy free.

STROUT FARM AGENCY 81
Ford Bldg, Detroit, Mich. ’ 4 B. C”

PAY FOR MY RANCH OR FARM
land With clover seed. Money loaned for
live stock at 6 per cent, in amounts equal
to first payment made upon purchase.
Jno_ G. Krauth, Millersburg, Michigan.

sronn BMW
five livmg rooms above. Warehouse fix-
tures complete. A bargain if taken soon
Peter Cook. Fowler. Michigan.

FARMS [films’ourr‘uEASTEafi'Noiifii
Dakotah; ISututsman and other
many ig- y improved, i well .
communities. near market? schoolaetggg
church. $25 w $50 per acre. 15 per cent
cash. balance crop payments or easy

terms. Write for big list Joh '
00.. owners, Jamestown. “N D.n B. Fried

 

 

 

 

 

Counties,

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS

 

CEDAR FENCE POSTS, 3 T0 4 INCH
tops. 8 ft. long; good and sound, 15 cents
each, car lots. Tamarack posts, same

price. C. W. Osmun. Tower. Mich.

 

. POTATOES

We have a few hundred bus, of Petoskey
Golden Russets left; they are keeping
line this cool weather in our cave cellar.
Breeding tells with potatoes, as well as
corn or live stOck. We have hill-selected

grade of seed is

TWIN BOY

sack. FARM, Alba, Mich..
E; D. Post, Prop.

for type as well as yield for 8 years. This
from scab and well
worth the money; only $5.00 per 160-lb...

 

can hinder. to farmers for twenty-
three years. Only $25. with fodder binder,
Free catalogue ehowi

00.. Saline. Kan.

 

dollars per acre.
acre down, balance long time 6%.
paymeys can be made with clover seed.
John G. Krauth, Millersburg. Michigan. -

 

FARMERS AND HORSEMEN. FOR

$8.00 I will on receipt for. making

is. °‘ is .3“ “norm. “are
resa . ams. at a , .

RED. No. 8. y c

 

STUNT FULLER. WANTED—I WANT
to buy a good second-hand steelyard or
screw stump uller. Address L, B. Lewis,
Beaverton. ichigan.

 

A BUSINESS PROPOSITION. STOP
Thin Listen. Are you making the most
of your Poultry Opportunity? If not.
why not? The whole world is-your mar-
ket for food stuff, especially the poultry
on your terms must have its just share in
an ever-increasin egg market. Try the
Silver Spangled amburg, the everlasting
layers and quickest fowl grown to mature
early, With every setting of eggs. Balance
of season will send a:- for feed for
rréattglr‘ingischicks afid flogolaying hens, Per
s eggs : e s. 8. Mr .
G. A, Proctor. Vassar. Miclf.g 3 a

 

    
   
 

 

 

NEW SOUTH WALES -
lNFORMATlON BUREAU"

er Buildi 149 Broadwa
Yor City will 0 pleased to seny av!
ernment Bulletins or 'answer any
quiries regarding opportunities, r

tanning, stock'raisins'. fruit
mining and investment in New Son '
WaleS.

AUSTRALIA

 

 

 

  

Is Your Farm fersale? .

Write out. “a”

phh We;
are 50 for eaoh'word. initial or gran of
figures. Send it in —tor one. two or ee
0! selling . farm. in one .
dealdlreot with the humus agents or
upstream

There's no yhenper or m,

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‘ and you

. Don't

 

ooaN HARVESTlB-ONE-MAN, ONE-
horse. one-rowéosglf-gathering. Equal to a

pictures or bar.
vector. PROCESS I00 N HARVESTER

BAINY LAKE SETTLEMENT FARM
and Ranch Land; 160 acres up. Ten to
fifteen One dollar an.
Time

—he found it “filled with up to-date pep” -
and he “wishes he had a paper like it
in his native state”---but, read his letter
for you. self.

PORN. WHEAT.

0A.”. m“. It. in OORFMAN. .1. P.

oxvmen gunman: m
anal. ”ION. 17x2 \\' terror:

ifiuy (01mm Zfior‘m

{Hacienda Feb. 27. 1019.

 

liiohigen Easiness Farming.
lit. Clemens. Mich.

Deer Sireu- .
Fortune has brought 0 sample copy

of your paper under ay observation, and for further proof

of vim and snap. I borrowed the next copy. and find it also

filled with up-to-date pep. so you will please find enclosed “
e P. O. I. O. for one dollar, for e year's hubsorivtion to

“The Iiobigan Business Farming" beginning with the larch

first issue. It is nearer my idea of e tern paper or

any farm paper 1 have read: 1 only wish we had a paper like it
in this my native state; Our home is located in e "Garden Spot"

in wood county. Ohio.
Here's to all the good you can do.

Respectfully yours.
W0. I. 3. German.-
Custer, Ohio.

As a good business farmer of MICHIGAN,

you ought to send in your subscription to M. B. F.
While you are about it, send in you ’ C7
neighbor’s too. -

 

 

       
       
     
   
  
 
   
   
 
 
   

  
     
  
    
   
 
     
    
   
 
    
   
   
     
 
 
     


      

  
  
 
 

 

 

 

   
 

    

    

 

 

 

 
  

     
       

 
 

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ET US PAUSE just a few minutes in the rush

of our farm work here in Michigan to consid-

er the course we shall steer these coming
busy months.

In all recorded history no similar condition ever
faced the tillers of the soil in any country.

First: Because in these United States of Amer-
ica, alone today and for the first time, do the men
who ‘plant and till and harvest, own the 'land they
work!

In every other land the tiller of the soil is a
peasant, who gives half or more of all he produces

'to the land-owner.

Even some states in America are drifting to the
tenanted farm—Abut thank God, Michigan had ac-
cording to the 1910 census over 176,000 farm own-
are on her 210,000 farms!

Thus this is particularly Michigan’s greatest op-
portunity and it is well that we pause a moment
to consider the harvest this fall as well as the
planting today and the blights which come to
harass us tomorrow.

If it is-true that there aro- more than 176,000
owners of farms in Michigan who must go to mar-
ket before twelve months have rolled around with
the “$600,000,000 in live stock and farm produce
whiéh they will have to sell, then—tho condition
of the markets, the study of the trend upwards or
downwards must be the most important work of
the real business farmer.

The Old Days and Methods Have Passed

It is no longer necessary for the farmer to ask
thebuyer or elevator man what he is paying—a
good business farmer sets a price on his OWn pro-
dice which will pay him a profit above the cost
of production and then tells the buyer at what
price he will sell.

The danger lies however, in the uninformed far-
mer, who, employing the methods of past genera-
tions,‘ stampedes his produce into market at any
opportune time and so demoralizes prices that
months are required for recovery.

We at the outset placed the markets as the
corner'store on which to build MICHIGAN BUSI-
ans FARMING—and every season since has con-
firmed our sound judgment in so doing.

' The~ “Uninfol'med”——Your Worst ] Enemyh'

 

 

“'" - ' l
EAR FRIENDS of M. B. F.—I hope you '
will read this message, every word of
it. It will pay you to do it. These

are stirring times. Conditions change over

night. You, farmers" of Michigan, face an
opportunity for profiting from the abund-
ance Of your harvest never before presented.

Your problems are ours. It will take just

three minutes to read this message. Please

do it now. ' , -

   
 

. . 71’) ' ,
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We do not claim to be seventh sons of a seventh
son, not prophets, but our market editor is told to
spare no expense in getting for our farmer‘s all of
the information which the buyer getsefor both
sides must have the facts to drive a good bargain.

Your Uninforrn'ed Neighbor an Unintending'
Enemy

When your next door neighbor decides to sell
all of his beans’just a‘ few weeks after harvest,
while the roads are good and he needs the money
——EVERY BAG HE HAULS PAST YOUR'D‘OOR
LOWERS THE PRICE? ON THE BEANS YOU
ARE HOLDING—because ten thousand others,
just like your uninformed neighbor, are that very
morning wending their: way like foolish sheep to
be shorn by the wily bilyers‘.

It was to keep all the producers of Michigan im
formed that this weekly was founded, and our
value to you in maintaining the price of your pro-
duct is measured exactly in proportion to the num-
ber of farmers we reach and keep informed thru
this weekly. '

Safe \and sane farming will make farming a
good business. Nothing else can.

Prices for Your Crops Are Bound to be High
This Fall '

Hungry markets in both the allied and one-
my countries are begging for just the kind of food

r------‘.--- '“YbUR NEIGHBORS WILL GLADLY SIGN TO PAY AFTER HARVEST. . "' """'"""""'""'""'

,Geo. M_ Slocum, Publisher, Michigan Business Farming, Mt. Clemens, Mich.,

Dear Sirz—Tfle followingwhom I know to be farmers, desire to subscribe for One Y
ter harvest this fall, or by November first, 1919. Sincerely, your subscriber,

 

 

«the world, will not get to foreign markets, because L

'and winter, but all through the sumfiier months, ‘

ear and promise by their signatures below to pay One Dollar, af-

_______ R.

that Michigan produces in great quantities. The
price of wheat is assured and Michigan has a
greater acreage and a better stand at this, writing
than has been seen in years _ Beans, the best in

their high quality keeps them in United States
for the fancy packers, but the piles will be high
because its California, Colorado and Asiatic infer-
iors will go to other markets. Corn, rye and oats,
all will be big meney» crops in Michigan this year, ,
therefore the importance of careful marketing is
magnified and all the“ producers of-our state must ‘
be kept informed not just at selling time thissfall ,-

when the trend of pricesdis being folloWed.

A How We Meet the Summer Rush Time 1,

From this first of June to the first of September,
every line which appears in this weekly has been
double-distilled, because no active business farm-
er has time nor patience to wade thru pages to lo-
cate a news: fact no matter whatits importance.
We have done the shucking here, you get only the
meat. So we make the statement that any faring ‘
er in Michigan, no matter how busy his days, can i .
well afford the few minutes it takes to read every .
issue of his M. B. F., and any farmer who will '10 .
it will find himself many'dollars, perhaps hun-
dreds ahead, when it comes‘to marketing his Crops
or live stock in the fall. .

And Your Uniformed Neighbor?

You take the blinders from his eyes and the
shackles of peasantdom from his feet, when you _
tell him of M. B. F. and ask him to subscribe. You
multiply our strength -to fight your battles when
you add his name to our list. But bigger still is
the advantage to you of placing in the hands of
your neighbor the information which will- keep
him from dumping his produce on a declining
market. ‘-

Yours for a season of real business farming i
in Michigan. , "

 

 

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