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HE WORLD’S greatest bull, as Rag Apple the Great
, is called, has been bought for $125,000, probably the
record high price for abull, by a Michigan man, Mr. Rob-
ert Pointer, of Detroit. The purchase was made recently
in a sale at the Cabana farm near Buffalo.

The shifting.of this famous stock into possession of a
Michigan man is considered as merely a feature in a gen-
eral campaign for better live stock for this state. But the
history of this particular bull is especially interesting to
the Michigan breeders who own the thousands of H01-
steing oi which Michigan boasts.

Just consider his marvelous and incomparable in-
dividuality, breeding and world-record backing. _

He is truly a magnificent specimen of a Holstein bull
and, though only two years and four months old, weighs
2,200 lbs: ' -

He is sire of a bull calf whose three nearest dams
have higher average records than have the dams of any
other bull in the world. '

’. The herd he heads 'will stand in a class by itself.
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has been termed the" :$125,000 bull. Besides his intrinsic

   

Michigan Man Buys World’s Best Bull

Detroiter Pays $125, 000, Record Price, for famous Rag Apple the Great

value as a sire, he will bring that amount of prestige to
the herd he heads.

This “VVorld-VVonder Bull” was born Dec. 22, 1916.

He is: The only 50-lb. bull in the world.

The only bull from a 50-lb. dam.

The only son of Segis Fayne Johanna, the first 50-lb.
cow and the dam of the world record family.

The only hull with a 48—lb. and a 47 -lb. sister.

One of a very few bulls with four sisters above 40—lb.
His sisters have higher average records than have any
four sisters of any other bull.

His two nearest dams were both world champions,
one being the first 50-lb. cow, the other the first 38-lb.
cow. Their official records average 44.36 lb.

His three nearest dams all made world records. Their

records average 42.71 lb.
His five nearest dams each made world records. Their

records average 39.06 lb.
His four nearest dams were all world champions.
Their records average 40.92 lb.
The records of his six nearest dams average 37.41 11).
His dam, chis Fayne Johanna, 50.68 1b., the U. S.
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,1 ‘ “Salaburg three years ago.

4farmers are hustling. .
*from all corners of the state telling of farmers
. organizations preparing to build or ‘buy shares in

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TCHIGAN FARMERS are showing activity
these days‘which few states can boast. Es~
pecially along co_operative lines. Michigan
Reports have flocked in

el vators. _,
county farmers for example, are among the
st‘ecfiolders of a $601300 corporation just organis-

“eil‘to take over the prmrty and business of the

ch built an elevator in

Bay Farmers Help Buy Elevator
The account from the Bay City Tribune on the
transaction contains the following points:

V'l‘he Cass Bean a Grain Co., of Bay City, has fil-
ed articles of incorporation with the secretary of
state at Lansing. It, has an authorized capital of
$80,000 and has taken over the property and busi-

' § .j ness of the Cass City Grain 00,, which constructed

an elevator in Salzburg three years ago.

‘ ‘-' , (‘William E. Shelling who was local manager of

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- the Cass City‘Gra'imCo" is the principal stockhold-
' . er in the newcompany and will remain in charge

of the business. The other stockholders are em-
ployes of the plant and a number of Bay. county
farmers. The change makes the concern a com-
.pletely’ local organizationand it is no longer a
branch of the Cass City concern", _,

Branch County Co-Operators‘ Work Strong

A strictly farmersrelevator is going up at Bata- _

via station in Branch county, according to reports '
coming by way of Jackson.

The Farmers' Cooperative Association, which is
becoming stronger every minute, ,is soon to begin

» the construction of a large warehouse at Batavia

station, where members can buy supplies of all.
kinds in quantities at a reasonable price.

The feasibility of constructing a fire-proof grain
elevator at that place is being discussed. The as.
sociation believes Batavia station is central for a
large productive farming area, and that the rail-
road line there gives them a direct outlet to both
eastern and western markets.

The possibility of a grain elevator being built
near the Air Line tracks in Union City has been
taking form. Representatives of a large elevator‘
construction company have been looking over the
grounds, and the conditions seem to be favorable.

Ingham County to Have Co-Operative Elevator

A number of. farmers are planning to organize
a cooperative elevator company at Okemos, to car-
ry on the business of buying and selling all kinds
of farm produce and operating a grain elevator.

About half of the amount necessary to do busi.
ness with was pledged in less than a day. Those
interested are considering the purchase of t ’e
Linn produce place, or the building of a new
vatcr.

Bhlawassee County Farmers Active

To show the co-operative activities in Shlawas-
'see county, the following reports through Durand
are given:

The farmers in the yicinity of and- to the
number of seventysfive assembled to discuss co—op.
erative probleme, in connection with t e Farm Bu-
reau work.

Mr. Sidney S.‘ Smith gave a short talk on the
“Value of Farm Bureau Work.” Mr. Smith has had
unusual success in organization in Genesee coun-
ty and is a firm believer in the ability of farmers
to market their own produce in a comparative way.

Mr. George C. Raviler, marketing specialist from

the Michigan Agricultural College, outlined some-

what in detail the plan of organization used by the
Plymouth Agricultural Association. This associa—
tion was started and managed by him and is one

of the most successful co-operative organizations in‘,

the state.

The ofllcers of one of the local co-operative ship-
ping associations were so impressed with Mr. Rav-
iler's plan that they met with him at the close of
the meeting and decided to hold a meeting of their-
officers and directors with Mr. Raviler, to ado 1:
plans for the same kind of an organization in Sh a-
wassee county. This meeting will be held some

‘« time about the middle of June.

The question of shipping wool in car lots thru
local shipping associations was taken up and dis-
cussed by Mr. Vern A. Freeman, sheep specialist
from the Michigan Agricultural College; Accord-
ing to this plan, wool is gather d at some central
point, graded by an expert or, sent from the
commission house and is then shipped and sold by
a commission firm.

There are a number of farmers in Shiawassee
county who have wool left on their hands and are
not satisfied with the price that is being offered
them by local buyers. ' Mr. Freeman has been
working in Shiawassee county looking over the
prospects and is confident that enough farmers are
interested to insure the shipment of at least one

car load from this county.

Anyone wishing to get in touch with this propo-

- sition should write or call H. E. Dennison, Owosso,

Typical Week in Clinton County

Here is sample of a busy Farm ‘Bureau week in
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sixteen counties meeting at Flint. These confer.
shoes are held-at intervals of six to eight weeks

and,whi 'attendance' is not compulsory, the coun- .

ty age are expected to attend. , The prihcipal
subjects studied at this confrence were the differ-
ent phases of community organization and com-
munity programs of work. These conferences. are

very helpful to the boys who are doing‘the county
agent work and go a long ways toward keeping

them from becaming discouraged. They get ideas

that help them to overcome the difficulties and a

change that tends to keep them from getting stale
on the job. There are nohotel accommodations in
Flint so it was necessary to drive home in the cr-
ening. , ' ‘ ,
Wednesday, the assistant federal market direct-
or, G. C. Raviller, met with the representatives of

three co-operative live stock shipping‘associations‘

at the Farm. Bureau offices and discussed with
them the State Live Stock Shipping association.
These associations throughout the state are form-
ing, .a state-wide federation and as soon ..-a's ar-
rangements can be made will maintain a central
omCe'th‘at will direct the destination of the various
shipments and also assist in overdoming difficul-
ties which are common to local co-operative associ-
tions . ‘ - .
Thursday was Community Day at Mople Rapids.
A veryiinterestlng program was carried out by the
people of that community. A number of the dis-
cussions seemed to back the feasibility and import.
ance of the Farm Bureau in the community, the
county, the state ahd the nation. Mr. M. J. Payne
had charge of the meeting. H. D. Douglas, F. M.
Conley, S. P. Horr and. R. 0. Blank were'the prin-
cipal local speakers. Dr. Ward H. Giltner, head

of the Bacteriological department, at the Agriculr

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WHAT'S YOUR COUNTY DOING? ' .
HA’T is your county or commmiity cen-
ter doing these days toward helping

along the good cause of commonsense 00.01»
partition! On this page are reports from”
many parts of Michigan, showing the splen- ‘
did activity everywhere. But many commun-
ities, which are doing things just as big or
bigger, do not human to be represented
here in this issue. us and the world hear
about your work. Write in the details, and
much of them will be printed, not only cost»
ing credit on your own county but stirring
up sleepy neighbors. The farm industry in
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(ify. He talked very entertainingly of a number
0 things but the main theme or his address lay
around his special ’line, that or bacteriology ~and
brought out vividly the importance of bacteria in

our every day living conditions. Talks were inter-'

spersed by music, both vocal and instrumental, the
band furnishing a very lively part of the program.

Friday afternoon Dr. Newton, of the state de~

partment of animal industry, assisted in making a
diagnosis of some sick hogs on the farm of Frank
Malkin in Victor township.
hog cholera was suspected but a second post-morh
tem examinatibn fai ed to show any signs of the
disease. , '

Friday evening an enthusiastic group of rabbit
and envy breeders filled the Farm Bureau's offices
and a round of interesting discussion was indulg-
ed in. A temporary organization was formed and
lens made that make the future look bright for
he rabbits in Clinton county.

Notes From Sdhoolcraft County (U. P.)

Just to get a glimpse of work in the Upper Pe-
ninsula, read the followingnlispatch from SchooL
craft county:

County Aient George F Kinsting is visiting the
farmers in t e vicinity of Seney to interest them in
(lo-operating Marketing plan, which seems to be

gs for a successful career in this county. By June
£ , the time when the formal organization was to

ave taken place. the county agent hoped to have
200 farmers as members. .

The iollowi have signed in addition to those
who attached eir names to the agreement at the
first. meeting and which were announced in the
Manistique Tribune at that; time:

Hiawatha: He Mayer, Calvin Blush, John H.
Byers George H. avis, G. H. Hyland, Simon Kep-
ler, Winurt. Nelson Furry, Mike Holek, Amos
Rose, G. Dodge Frank Halves, William Byers.
Ernest Raymond, H. Marks, Joseph Kaulflust, A. L.
Byers. ~

COoks: Peter Demers, Dominic Soupers, William
Popour, Wm. B. Casemore, Christ Peterson, Albert

Huebsdler E. J. Smith, Luther Siddall, William ,

Hartman, James Kelly, W. J. Oliver, Charles Law-
son, John Tanguay, Jules ll‘anguay, John M Mid-
da , John R. Archambeault. e. a. Wolfl.'Josepli
Arc embault, Navis Pupore, J. J. Hardy. Mike Fox.

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Commune Elana-to} and ‘;Mo;ike¢ting societies Flow in fromailMtchrgan

Clinton was represented at a conference of . berts, Herbert Olson, Peter Lawson, Charlesj‘fioi. .

, ,beinz, John Haindl.»

  

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' Gulliver: IsaacPalley,‘ o: D. Parker, Fred Nel-
son, Helmar Bjorkman, John1Gust Carlson, Peter
A. Johnson, Joseph McCullough, 'John Tardy, C.

A. McIntyre, W. Salter Gulliver, William Wayles, .

M. A. Rector, F, Clare, John Willaida.
Wool Marketing in Gladwin

0. iii. AtWater, Gladwin county's agricultural'ag- ’

ent, has written a report of activities in Gladwin
, county, featuring cooperative” wool marketing.

-Co-operative’ wool marketing, according to the

ent, is mating with universal‘success wherever

i is. being-tried-out in Michigan and adjoining

. states. As a result of this plan, wool growers are

getting a considerably better price for their wool

than'was first being‘ offered and are being shown .

the value of different grades. .
,The flat rate buying, in practice in Michigan, is

not a stimulus to grow the best grades, a poor

grade bringing as much.~as a good one. The grow!

or producing'a superior article should get a better —

price. ,, »-
The plan now devised and being followed in
Michigan is to secure pledges for several thousand?

. pounds of W001, to‘be brought to Gladwin, on a cer.

tain date, at which time a representative of a re
liable‘ commission firm will grade, the wool into its.
reflective grades and buy or consign as the grower
desires. - ' - .
The following grades are 're resenta i
wool market in’Michigan and grices ”2?“?! if:
on sales in Southern Michigan at the present mar-
ket prices. '

Fine blood combing ~wool ________________ 300-3%
One-half blood combing, as fine Shropshire-

and fine wool cross . 56c.58c

Three-elghths b100d combing as Shropshire 540-57c '

One-quarter blood combing. as Oxford type_’_60c-55c
Coarse of braid, as Cotswold and Lincoln___40c-650

Less than two and one-half inches goes as cloth-
ingand sells five to eight cents per_'pound less than '
combing. wool in its representative grades. Wool
full of burrs andchaff is also sold at a difscount.

” Cow Testing Association , ,

The program for the Gladwin Count Farm Bur-
eau placed special emphasis up0n the ormation'of
a cow testing association for the county. This is a
means 0 keepi a cost account and record- of ev-
ery cow 11 your rd at a very small cost. In fol-
lowi up this we k the unprofitable cows are dis.
card and pro is ones put in their place. You
can not afford to keeprpoor cows.

A tester is secured to kee complete records of
production and feeds for each 001 n the herd. He
visits each horn in the association once per month
and compares the records for the remainder of the
month upon this data. Cost of production is what
we are wanting in all of our farming operations.

‘ The cost of a reliable man is from $2.50 to $3
per day and board. You can not get this work done
any cheaper if you do it yourself and the chances.
are you will not do it at all. Let us all boost for,-
better dairy cows because it pays in dollars and
cents. ‘

SAGINAW ADOPTS COMMUNITY PLAN

Complete organization of the Saginaw County
Farm Bureau to permit of the community plan,
great increase in siliciency and influence and af-
filiation directly. with the state body and indirect-
ly with the national body was effected during a”
meeting held in the court house recently. More
than 75 influential farmers 01 the county attended
this gathering and it was the largest of its kind
ever held here_

To bring about this change, which opens a score
of possibilities to greater progress on the farm it
was necessary to revise completly the organization,
bodies of other states. Under the new order the
county body is governed by a board of ten directors
which includes the officers and heads of the vari-
ous committees. 7- -

Fred-Corneir of Chesaning, a prominent farme
and for years one of the most active in the county,
was chosen to bo'president. W. G. Shannon of Mer-
rill, is secretar and Lawrence Bannan of Burt,
is treasurer. e committee chairman are as fol;
lows: R L Smith of Hemlock. on soils and drain-
age; W. B. Hackett of Tittabawassee, on market-
ing; John Vei'tengruber' of Frankenmuth, on dairy-
ing: LawrenceBannan of Burt, on livestock; Chas.
Girmus of Bridgeport. on farm legislation and
management: Mrs. K. B. Mathewson of Bridgeport
on boys’ and girls' clubwork; and Mrs. Otto Bow-
get of Birch Bun, on home economics.

There has been organized, as all know, a State
Farm Bureau which, in fall, will join with similar
bodies of other states in effecting a national organ-
ization.- Saginaw. county has afiiliaited itself with
the Wolverine bureau and its committeeman on
mm legislation and management will be its di-
rect representative there. When thenational body
has been completed this county will have afvery,
strong connection with it and will be parbof a

great organization of the winners of the United

 

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:Michigan Specially Interested in Quotations
' Just Reported; 63c Paid for High
f Grade; Auctions Are Well -
- - Attended

. The first Government wool market “report has
been issued by the Bureau of Markets, United
States Department 01 Agriculture; It covers (1110.
tations on bright domestic fleece w‘ool in all grades
also territory, California and Texas wools. Prices,
based on actual sales in Philadelphia and Boston,
are quoted on grease wool, showing the range and
estimated shrinkage. - _ ‘ .

Michigan dealers are especially interested in
these reports, inasmuch as- Midhiganfsaheep rais-
ing industry has been booming. Information has
been dimcult to obtain on the wool market here-

tofore. .

Fine Delaine grease wool is selling at~63 to 68c; ’

one-halt blood staple territory, 62 to 63¢; Cantor-
nia choice 12 months, 49 to 540, and Texas fine, 12
months, 33 to 480.‘ - , '

Government'wool auction sales on May 23 were
well attended with interest of dealers and marine
lecturers centered oh fine wool's. Medium and
low wools receiving slightly more attention than
at previous sales. ‘ "

Special cables to the Bureau of Markets state

that the second series, or Government colonial
wool auctions at London show a rise of five per
cent for flner grades compared with closing values
at April sales. Medium descriptions were unchang-
ed while coarser wools ruled slightly lower;
' The detailed wool market price report and suc.
ceeding monthly or semi'_monthly issues will be
sent to anyone interested upon application to the
Bureau of Markets, Department 01- Agriculture,
Washington, ,D. C.

. travel quick, safe, and comfortable.
tend neighborhood limits, bring more people in-

. and trading centers of the world.

- «ING comm“

Paved roads are giving an ever-increasing

,eli’are'fof service in providing, safe, permanent,

.dependable highways. for heavy mater truck
(tramc, relieving ‘railroads of much short haul,
lessening terminal congestion and in these ways
making the handling and shipment of supplies

needed both at home and abroad much easier.
Good roads benefit a community by making
They ex-

to personal touch with each other, increase so-
cial opportunities and remove the monotony of
isolation. They bring greater content to the
youth on the farm. make city and country near
neighbors, reduce illiteracy by increasing school
attendance, and thus develop a broader knowl-
edge ot life and higher standards of living.
. Paved roads make daily rural mail delivery
a tact.'Every home in the community is put on 8
~ new wire with the political, financial, industrial
The best
thought in‘every line or human endeavor is
transmitted .daily to the communities served by
a network of paved roads. A, paved road saves
more than it costs. It is open to maximum traf-
iic all the year. It brings greater freedom and
ease all around in essential travel and trans-

.portation. It permanently increases land values.
But we need more good roads now. We need

permanent roads, like concrete, that ‘will bring
these‘beneflts with them and leave disastrous
drawbacks behind—roads that will not bank-

-'rupt the community with a heavy maintenance

expense.

ROSENBAUM, GRAIN EXPERT DIES

Every branch of the grain industry mourns the
sudden taking away of Mr. Joseph Rosenbaum,
who died recently at Pasadena, Calif., of heart
failure at the age of 81 years. He was a pioneer
in the grain industry and is known chiefly, per-
haps, by his connection with the Rosenbaum Re-
view, published at Chicago.

EXCEEDALI.

With the Exposition Three Months Away, ,~
Participants Signing up in Some Depart-

ments, Surpass Final Total for.
Previous Years

Although it is three months before the opening
of the Michigan State Fair, entries in many de-
partments which have been made up to date ex-
ceed those ior'the entirle fair last year. Entries
still are pouring in for amusements, agieultural,
industrial, and other exhibits, and for all the oth-
er teatures of the fair, which is to lie held this
year from Aug. 29 to Sept. 7. ‘

Reports from fairs all over the country show
the same conditions, indicating this year is to be
one of the West in history for fairs.

G. Wf‘Dickinson, secretary-manager of the fair,
has been forced to build a number of additional
pavements to take care of the condessions Which
have reserved space for this year’s fair. Big in-
creases in space have llinen made for all exhibits

"From presnt indications,” Mr. Dickinson said,
"it is certain there will be double the number of
exhibitors in, every (repartment this year, over
the number last year. The condition is indicative
in a big way of the prosperity of the country.”

SOIL IN NEED OF PLANT FOOD
A'striking picture of the present trend of acre
yields may be drawn from figures shown in the
acre yields of the principal crops, over a very
long period.

Below are the ten-year averages for the fir, and
last decades, show the decline:
Average yields per acre.
29.6 bushels 26.1 bushels
28.4 bushels 26.7 bushels
_____________ 12.2 bushels 14.4 bushels
Potatoes 80.5 bushels 66.7 bushels

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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- 1 One of the Detroit papersrecently, in'running a g’oo’d- roads edi-
tion, printed the now famous, cartoon .by W. A. Ireland, as repreduced
lathe 11pm” gleft hand cerner of the above illustratihn.‘ J nstas David, ,
' '11 his cry, had a Goliath to slay, the people-of America have the
business foverconii'ngfiad Roads, according to Mr. Ireland,

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the artist and that view might apply to most states.

5But Michigan Business Farming rises to point out that the peep. j
of Michigan, the farmers especially, have gene the rest of the net
one better by slaying Our State’s Bad Roads, by‘ means of voting fifty;
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this automatic plow which runs in spirals or

maybe you’ll take it seriously just as many
farmers are doing. Folks laughed when the plans
of the binder and the tractor— first came out, but a
few took the things seriou'Sly because they saw
some real value. If. the farmer who thinks things
over approves this idea of the spiral plow why,
we' re ready to boost it. If he disapproves, we don’t

MAYBE YOU’ LL laugh when you read about

,claim much for the implement’ .s future.

At any rate, the machine is causing great inter~
est from one end of the c0untry to the other. Mich-

‘tigan is noted for its inventiOns and its interest in
, inventions When one of the editors traveled thru

Michigan farm country a few years ago, the farm-
ers fairly flooded him with ideas for inventions 0f
Therefore we feel that M B.
F. readers will be especially interested in the fol-

“lowing article.

Machine is Named “Synmotor”
Just to show the national interest of the device
we mentiOn that Literary Digest devoted consider_
able space to the subject, which was first sprung by

a writer in Popular Science Monthly. Part of the

comments follow:

“An automatic cultivator which runs in a spiral
and steers itself is described herewith, ” says Lit-
(rary Digest. Of course the farmer who uses it
must give Up the 01d straight 11ne plan and plant
everything in spirals, but this Would seem to be
no real objection to the device. The originator
calls it “a farm-hand that never tires or asks for

ay,” and he calls on leaders to “sit on the porch
and watch the synmotor doing the heaVy work"
this being the name with which the
unique machine has been baptised.
It may be detached from its central
drum if desired, and may then be used
like any Other motor—to churn butter,
for instance.

“It was not alive, apparently," says
Popular Sctence,‘ ‘and no human being
seemed to be concealed about it, and
yet the thing was seen cultivating a
ten-acre farm in New Jersey. Down
the rows of corn it went all alone, and
never bruised a blade or chopped 3
root It was uncanny to anyone who
had never beheld such a sight before,
and even to some who had.

“It worked nights, too. Dimly out-
lined in the white moonlight, it could
be seen threading its way with almost
human intelligence and with maths
matical precision, while the farmer
slept peacefully in his near-by mans-
ion and dreamed of waving corn-tas-
sels. Around and around the field the
thing moved, around a center which it
continually approached. The corn had
been planted in a spiral formation
about a tall post capped with a circu-
1111' drum or cask.

“Inspection reveals a wire extending

PEACH LEAF CURL IN MICHIGAN

Samples of Peach Leaf Curl which have just
been sent in to the Michigan Agricultural College
lead Dr. G. H Coons, specialist on plant diseases,
to predict that the disease will be very common in
Michigan this year. The cold, wet spring is held
[responsible for the pieseut condition, as Leaf Curl
is known to flourish after a backward spring.

When trees are infected the curled leaves drop

. during June and July, the trees losing all their

leaves in severe cases. The loss of the leaves cuts
down the crop, if it dops not destroy it entirely
Trees affected with Leaf Curl winterkill
during the following winter.

“It is too late to take any measures to control
Leaf Curl this year,” says Dr .Coons. “Thle Spray
to control the disease must be made before the
buds Open or the parasite cannot be reached. Bore
deaux mixture and lime— sulphur are two of the

best spray materials for Leaf Curl control."

Insurance of the crop by spraying at the proper
time is strongly recommended for future years
The disease is tee destructive for orchardists to
take a chance that this spring weather will be fav-
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FARMERS TO BUILD AT METROPOLITAN
It has been definitely decided by the Farmers’

association at Metropolitan, near Iron Mountain;

to put in a. grist mill at that place. For some
time the farmers have been interested in the
project and have been raisin': the necessary cap-
ital for a grist mill. We have been told that
$5, 000 has been subscribed and work on the con-
struction of the mill win start as soon as possi-
ble. An effort is being made to obtain permis-

sion from the C. & N. W. railway company to ~
build the mill on their property near the track, »

and in the event that htis falls thru another site
will be procured. The mill will have a capacity
of 2:5 barrels of flour per. day. ,

 

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The synmotor revolves by means of a
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to a central drum, around which the‘ wire winds
itself as the work of cultivating proceeds. That
explains the spiral movement. The wire shortens

' as well as in the straight course.

.cle's, ecah section being plan-ted

 

itself by the same amount each trip around, and
is used for steering the machine. Yes,- it is a. ma-
chine, after all.
ed, can not stretch “and an ‘-el-ectro-coated surface
protects it from rust. Its total wei ht is less than

The wire, being perfectly temper- ,

two pounds, yet a pull of six hun’ red pounds is »

required to break it

"‘The machine is a narrow tractor of special
make and is called a ‘synmotor.’ Engine is a come
pact but very efficient gasoline type of about four
horse-power. To the framework can be attached

any of the usual implements for cultivating the?

land. Plowing, hoeing, harrowmg and the many
other operations are performed in the spiral path
A gang-bar for
the attachment of the implements may be used so;
that several rows may be cultivated at the same
t me.

“When the synmotor is utilized on a large seale‘ "

the farm is divided into convenient ten-acre 'ciru'« '

and cultivatéds:
separately. Any vacant spaces .between adjacent
circles can be utilized for fruit_trees, buildings; or
the like. For that matter, the intervening spaces
can also be cultivated by merely disengaging the
steering Wire and utilizing the tractor in the c‘us-
tomary manner.

“For intensive farming and over-lapping sea-
sons, the accuracy of the synmotor in following a
given track is of great advantage. The machine
does not disturb the small plants and it can work
very closely to the rows. The working tools are
spaced the exact distanCe between rows and do not
swerve from the spiral course. Strawberries, peas

and other vegetables can be cultivated
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MICHIGAN—STRAWBERRY STATE

CCORDING T0 the U. S. Department
A of Agriculture. only four states,

Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey and
Tennessee, outrank Michigan as a producer
of strawberries. This crop when properly
managed is a money-maker; the soil and
climate of Michigan are well adapted to
the culture of the fruit; and profitable
markets are close at hand. In 1910 Mich-
igan’ s strawberry acreage was 8, 051 acres.
It is probably much larger now, but not as —
large as it ought to be. The following table
gives acreage of various states as of 1909:

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Divs. and States, Acres and States
New England: S. Atlant.—Con.
Maine. 698 N. Carolina. 6,420
N. Hampshire 310J S. Carolina 815»
Vermont . . 276 ’ Georgia .. .. 890
Massachusetts 2.016 Florida . . . 1,848
Rhode Island. 140 E; South Central
Connecticut .. 993 Kentucky 1 653
. Middle Atlantic: ‘ Tennessee . . . 10,761
, New Yo 6,382" Alabama . 1,167
New Jersey . . 8,684 Mississippi . 77
Pennsylvania 4.136 . South Central .
E. North Central Arkansas . . . 7,381
o .. ..... 4,706 Louisiana 3.670
Indiana ..../ 2,574 Oklahoma 826
Illinois , , , , 5,410 Texas . . . . . . 2,161
Michigan . . . . 8,051 Mountain:
Wisconsin . . . 2,863 Montana. - . . . 265
W. North Cent... - . Idaho . ....... . 698
Minnesota .. 1,873 Wyoming 24
Iowa, , , , , 2,917 Colorado .. . .- 1,326
Missouri . . 9.04.8 NeW, Mexrco 20
.North. Dakdta. ‘ 88 Arizcna‘ . . . . A 58
South Dakota 226 ‘Utah '- - - - .- t . 1 719
Nebgaaska . 562 «Nevada , ' '5 .
,Ka‘nsa ’ Pacific: ’ ‘ ‘ " " ‘
Smith Atlantic: . Washington. '. ‘
Delaware '. . re 11
Maryland .. . Cali ornia ‘
Dist. Colum..
Virginia . . . .
W. Virginia. .

Illustrations shown herewith are by
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SUMLIER CROPS IN FRAMES

The hotbeds and coldframes in the,
average garden are allowed to stand
empty or grow up to weeds after'the
spring vegetable plants are removed.
In the small garden especially, this
space should not be wasted. The soil
in the frames is generally heavily ma-
nured so that it will produce luxur—
iant growth. Of course there is no

frames in growing summer crops; al-
tho these may be replaced in the fall
to give protection to the crop growing
within the frame. .It will be surpris-
ing to most gardeners, to find how
much a summer crOp will produce
even in a 6x12 ft. hotbed.

Other vegetables that will succeed
when set in frames are egg-plants,
peppers and bushsquash. Three or
four plants of- each may be set in the
frame in the spring about the time to-
matoes, etc., are being set outdoors.

MICHIGAN ALFALFA SEED

Michigan grown alfalfa seed is appparing on the
market for the first time since the introduction of
the crop into the state. Heretofore all Michigan
alfalfa has been raised from seed imported from
other states. The local seed is particularly valu-
able because of the fact that it has been produced
by plants which are winner-hardy under Michigan
conditions.

Michigan growers of alfalfa must be'careful not
to plant alfalfa seed which has been grown in the
south as southern seed will not be dependable in
Michigan. Turkestan seed, for instance, will not
withstand Michigan Winters, while Peruvian seed
osie s1 sevens meisemqmos 9111 111 111110.13 peas pue
dangerous.

Only northern grown seed from the Dakotas,
Montana and Minnesota, or native alfalfa from the
central and western states should be grown in
Michigan.
particularly hardy strains. ,

When Michigangrowers are producing a large
amount of seed the production of alfalfa in the
static will be on a much more depndable basis and
it has been demonstrated that the seed can be
grown profitably in the state.

 

PACKING LEGISLATION OUTLINED
WASHINGTON—Legislation for Government
control of the great meat packers is expected tain-
clude, the following points on which farmers have.
been working:
Separation of the '11th yards, the great live

stock markets from packer control

Divorcement of the refrigerator car lines and

. w._,

Placing the packers under. Federal licensle. ..

need for the sash or covering of the .

The Grimm, Baltic and Cossack are

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_.;..0,m‘cien"t basis; ~ Michigan’s-fl army. . .of purebred

opening for grazing purposes. ,It -all =tends to

‘A' Michigan 3 man has paid. $125,000 for than.

:1] 015.019..“9 Gréat,-- the price being,,perhaps the
'A‘Ereatestfle'verg paid .' for a' sire." .An .sexam'pl'e' o‘f '-

" other activity in ; regard; to'the state’s purebred
7 :rlivestock is shown'in- the reporter W. C- Cribbs’
- Antflmfieceives Registered J‘simék' _
The last addition to Antrim'flcounty’s purebred
live stock was a car load brought to this county,
: by Mr. Fred Smith of Elk Rapids. Mr. Smith is
«one or the board of directors of the Michigan
, Live Stock Exchange and is very much interested

" . "lintthe‘hllildinsyllp‘fif thealive. stockmstanqu for

Ndrthern' Michigan.

' He purchased thisicar' ‘of ,Shorthorns‘ Land

shipped themto Antrim county. He has :placed »

the entire load among the farmers herepwho are

getting the view of what this “kind 'of live stock
will do, for the countyas well. as themselves.
There have been more than fifty head. of regis-
tered cattle brought into this county 'since the
first of the year. -

-'Four other farmers of South Milton township
who have engaged in Guernsey breeding and had
previously purchased females, have purchased a

" Guernsey bull of the Ballard Bros.\of Niles,
Mich. . ~~ ‘
If this movementis kept up, there will be such
a change in the livestock-of this county that the
value will double every two- years on cattle.
Good live stock means more to this part of Mich-
igan than any other one thing, from the fact
that there are so many acres of'good pasture
lands, which are not valuable for cultivated
crops on account Of being hilly. -
Alpena to Oust Scrub Sires

A case of an effort to better Michigan’s live
stock is told "by news from Alpena.

A meeting of the executive committee of the
Alpena County Farm Bureau was held recently
in the office of the county agriculture agent, and
a plan of operation was proposed which will be
inaugurated at once by the bureau.

The committee took for its major project “The
Elimination of the Scrub Sire,” which means

' that the farmers of this county are going to go in

strong for better live stock and lots of it, thus
developing one of the big resources of the coun-
ty. The committee also proposes to engage in
what may'be called a, campaign for. better rural
schools, as its members are thoroughly alive to
the fact that schools are one of the most im-
portant assets of a rural community, and this
committee has determined to go after Alpena
county’s school problem in a manner that will
benefit the communities. ‘

As another bit of evidence that the farmers
of this county are getting in the game in earnest
and are almost progressive lot of citizens, Coun-
ty Agent C. O. T. Scheetz was authbrized to pur-
chase a first-class moving picture machine for

‘use in the difierent committees in connection
with the demonstration of farm activities. This
machine will be run bya storage battery, so that

IVESTOGK work has continued. to show.
.-_great activity. inuMichig'an' during the past ~'
g " ”jg... week-.3 'NeW'shipping associations are being

:-’ formant: old ones. are reorganizing on a more-

afions Forme

.: stock vhas,,;been “increased, and vast areas are

<..show1,_,experts;pointout, that Michiganfin‘pro-s.
, .. postman. to her area, has! a chance'of» being the

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it may be used in any rural school or town hall, .

and will be purchased as soon as possible that

its usefulness may be had while its need is great-

> est to the members of the Farm Bureau. '

Shipments Sent From South

' Another example of stock activity is reported
rom the Upper Peninsula._ -

Within the past sixty or ninety days, about
200,000 head of cattle and between 500,000 and
800,000 head of sheep will~ be
"shipped into the upper peninsula
for grazing purposes, so confident _
have western cattle men become
in the future of Michigan’s north—
ern peninsula. .

Michigan is the talk of _the
southwest. Even in New England,

4“

llcity for this section of the coun-

try have been "established, there is

an increasing interest. . ..
Cattle me°n of the west are so

isthe best grazing, country in the _

Uhited States that many of the

right now are. investing. _ . .
Cattle from Southwestern Unitn

 

edfitates, valued at close, to $100.-

000, are arriving in .. Schoolcrafi . -
,unty, 19°. graze on cut-over lands,

. “h have b 11 found to bericher

' than exist ,

".Thdlarger shipment consists of a trailiload

comprising 1,000 Texas steers, which 'will' be
shipped from some place in Texas May 25 by
King and; Cannon.
$75,000 and will be placed on 15,000 acres of
.4 land owned by the Consolidated Lumber Co., and
'jtheNorthern Michigan Land Co.,-in the vicinity
.ofDodge’sLa-ke. (Asthese cattle'will winter, on
\this land food willhaveto be providedas well
‘as shelters, ..which will mean the investment of
an additional $10,000 or $15,000. ' '

. Ten carload’s of young cattle which are arriv-
ing here arebeing'brought by Hawkins and Davis
of Idaho,'the latter being the son or W. G. Davis,
the sheep man. This herd consisting of 300
head is. valued at$20,000 and will be placed on
land owned by the Consolidated Lumber Co. in
the Snii‘th' Creek district. -
-_Wexford Development Urged

. Development of the wild, cut-over land in and
.adjacent'to Wexford county, is urged by -W. P.
-Hartman, agricultural development agent for the

» _.G.‘-‘R._ &"I.,railroad. Livestock raising, he-points-

out; is'one of the most profitable investmen
that could. be made for this county. ts
“No‘ section in the oeuntry," he said “is bet-
ter adapted to a variety of farm products than
‘Western Michigan. There are millions of acres

 

 

Detroit Man Pays $125,000 for 2-year-

1 old Holstein Bull

BUFFALO~Ragapple the Great, a 2-year-
old bull, was sold for $125,000 at the dispers—
al sale of the stock farm of Oliver Cabana,
Jr., recently. The price is said to be the
highest ever paid for a sire. Robert Pointer
of Detroit, was the buyer. Another Fair-
view Mata was sold to John T. Shanahan, of
Buffalo, for $35,000. She is a producer of
47.11 pounds of butter a week.

In reference to the above dispatch from

Buffalo, one will notice other matter else-
where in M. B. F. . This record-smashing
transaction bya Michigan man merely em-
phasizes the leadership this state is work-
Iing toward in live stock affairs. The in-
creased use of thoroughbred bulls, the for-
mation of new shipping associations, and
the extension of stock growing are report-
ed from many parts of the state.

 

 

 

 

 

 

of land in Michigan lying idle that are badly in
need of development. Three-quarters of this
acreage isaccessible for immediate use. .

“Upper Michigan is way ahead of Western
Michigan in live stock production. In the west.
the ranchers figure on 20 acres to one sheep and
25 acres to one cow. In this section the aver-
age is two sheep and one steer to the acre. I’ve
seen where there 'have been 12 animals to one
acre.”

The use of wild land for grazing purposes has
long since passed the experimental stage, he fur-
ther declared' This has proved successful, in
the light of profits accrued.

Among the things Mr. Hartman suggests as
profitable ventures are the raising of sugar beets
and “ships’ knees” from stumps. An effort is
being made, he stated, to secure an appropria_
tion tom the state to make up a train for land
clearing demonstrations.

Mr. Hartman works in conjunction to give

, soldiers this land for improvement purposes. He

refutes the charges that most of these lands are
sandy, swampy or unproductive. There are

many acres of Western and Northern Michigan
lands that compare favorably with any land in
the country, he says.

This shipment is valued at ‘

-milk——keeping it clean, cold and covered.

Otsego‘s 25.0002Accre Cattle Ranch -

The Yuill brothers of'Vanderbilt,' and Horner
brothers, of Eaton Rapids, both oWners of large

tracts of cut-overlands in: Otsego county, are or-

ganizing'the Otse‘go County'Cattle cempany, and 5
are planningto turn 25,000 acres of their land.

-i~nto a cattlera-nch. , , .

. They ~will'graze from 300 to 400, cattle this” ‘
.summer and expect to. increase the herd to‘sev— :

eral times as many. nextyear.

'Vanderbilt will be the shipping point for these' y
The-Michigan. Central at this point has:
The rail-Z ;«‘
way company has been sent arequest for better: -.
shipping facilities frOm Vanderbilt, as the stock =

cattle.“
a small stock yard'for 'such shipments.

yards Will have to be largely'increased. ‘
John Yuill, a member of the firm of Yuill

I Brothers, is a, firm [believer in stock raising pos- ‘

sibilities in this section, and predicts that thous-
ands of cattle will be added to the herds already
on grazing lands of Otsego ,county, every year,
and for a long time to come.

'STATE'aBUSY WITH STOCK SALES
In addition to many big live stock sales-men-

tioned in recent issues of M. B. F., or in other”.
parts of this issue, similar sales are reported at .

Flint and Howell recently.

'Eight thousand‘dollars’ worth of registered H01.
stein cattle were sold at public auction recently
at the John Herron & Sons farm on W. Court St.,

Flint. The sale, which was conducted by George '

Eaton, lasted only four hours and was attended by
about 150 persons. Among the milch cows‘ sold
were two of the best of the Herron herd, which
sold for $410 and $340 each. Other milch cows sold
for an average of $250 per head.

Several head of young stock were placed on the
auction pltaform and brought immediate sale. One
yearling registered Holstein heifer sold for $262,
a flve-week-old calf for $130, a four-week-old calf
for $160. Other young stock was also sold at an
average of more than $150.

LACK OF ICE HURTS MILK TRADE

Keeping milk fresh and sweet this summer is
likely to be more of a problem than usual. Cold
is the most important single factor in keeping
milk sweet, and ice is usually necessary to ac—
complish this. In most natural ice sections of
the country, however, there is a marked scarcity
of natural ice. Heretofore, in regions where 85
per cent of American milk has been produced,
natural ice has been plentiful and cheap, and has
been the principal means‘by which a perishable
food product has been sent long distances to
market Without spoilage. As a result of the
mild winter in many sections little natural ice
was harvested, and since in the north the manu—
facture of artificial lee is confined principally to
the larger cities it is doubtful if this product
would be available to milk producers even if the
price could be made satisfactory.

_On acount of the lack of ice, dairymen will be
compelled to use scrupulous care in the produc-
tion and handlingof milk and cream, say dairy
specialists of the United States Department of
Agriculture. It Will be necessary to adhere more
closely than ever to the three C’s in caring for

One of the most important factor ' '
the bacterial count in milk, and ”$111131 {332511125
its keeping qualities, is the sterilization of uten-
sils. Pails, strainers, separators, surface cool-
ers, and shipping cans must be cleaned and ster-
ilized. preferably by steam. Every farmer who
can afford it should possess a steam boiler and
sterilizer. If he feels that this is too great an
expense, there are other sterilizers on the mar-
ket, cheap, but efiicient, which will render milk
utensils sterile. A satisfactory home-made ster—
ilizer has been developed by the United States I
Department of Agriculture and can be made at
a cost of about $10. Complete di—
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tained by adressing the Depart—
ment at Washington, D. C.

In cooling milk dairymen should
use facilities already existing, such
is cold water in wells and springs.
When milk is drawn from the

Cow it has a temperature of about
95 degrees F. In the north, well
and spring water generally varies
in temperature from 50 to 60 de—
grees F. By the use of surface
coolers and a tank of cold run:
ning water, milk can quickly be.
cooled and held within two to
four degrees of the temperature
of the water.

During warm weather it may be
necessary to ship or deliver milk,
twice a day. This would have a
tendenby to check spoilage, espec-
ally of evening milk which is more‘

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SATURDAY, Jun; 14, 1919

'1'. mus, . .
Detroit Ofllne: 110 Fort 81:. Phone, Cherry 46 9] r

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GRANTI SLOCUM. .Presldent and-Contrlbu E
FORREST LORD ......... Vice-President 9. Editor
M, SLOCUM.Secretary-Treasumr and Publisher

‘ ASSOCIATES , . .
Mabel Clare Ladd. . . .Womeu’s and Children!!! Dept.
William E. Brown ............... .Legll

ONE YEAR. 82 ISSUES, ONE Dom.“

' Three Years. 150 Issue- ....... ; .......... ....,.$2.0i)
. Five Years, 360 new

........................ $8.00

Advertising Rates: florty-flve cents per state line.

. 14 lines to the column inch. :76! lines to pace.

Live Stock and Auction Ssh Advert! .: "We ofler
special low rates 'to reputable breeder-URI?! 11‘“ 3W5“
and poultry; write ug‘tor them.

OUR GUARANTEED ADVERTISERS
We remecttully ask our readers to favor our adver-
tisers when possible. Their catalogs and prices are
cheerfully sent free. and we guarantee you against loss
providing you say when writing or ordering from them.

“I saw your ad. in my Klohigan Business Farrgl‘nzgi _
" Entered as second-class matter, 'at Mt. Clemens, Mich. «

 

 

_. Crops AreLooking Fine, Thank You ~ ' '
. ,ROPS LOOK goodin Michigan. From
Lake Superior to the ,Ohio- line rye

stands waist to head high. Hay hasattained

a luxuriant growth. Fall—sown Wheat leeks
the best it has in years. Oats are well along
andveven the Stubborn corn gives promise of a
bumper crop.

The cold wet weather of early May was
most discouraging. 'It hampered plowing and
delayed seeding. 'Then one fine morning old
Sol truned a defiant eye on Jupiter Pluvius
and after vanquishing that grouchy old war-
rior smiled benignantly upon the earth,mellow-
ing the soil and giving life to the seed within.
On Monday gardens were planted. Thursday
morning the tiny green shoots of radish, let-
tuce, etc., made their appearance. Corn came
up in less than a week after the seed was plac-
ed in the ground, and many fields were in
need of cultivation by J une 1.

Crops that get a good start in springtime
can laugh at the attacks of enemies which de-
stroy crops that do not have so one ioious 8.
signs
of a successful crggyear-is favorable growing
weather in the s ' g and early summer. This
year the condi one are exceptionally favor-
able and the probability of J was frosts which
in other years have been muncmus and se-
vere, seems very remote this year.

The success of the crops is a matter of per-
sonal concern to M. B. F. Bad weather that
harms the crops causes us as much disappoint-
ment and good weather that helps the amp;

gives us as much pleasure as though, indeed,

we owned every field and farm affected. No
one feels more keenly than we the loss of
crops by frost, drouth or pests and no one
welcomes more gladly the advent of good
growing weather that insures bumper crops
for the farmer. So we are «feeling uite ex-
uberant over the fine weather of t e past
three weeks for we feel that it gives promise

of a good year for the farmers of Michigan.

 

That Farmer Candidate

HE FARM organizations seem tor; be'

wavering in their determination to nom—
inate a farmer candidate for governor in
1920. Sixty days ago, in conference assem-
bled, the farm leaders unitedly~ announced
their intention of taking a hand in the politi-
cal campaign of 1920. From all parts of the
state the farmers enthusiastically endorsed
their action and have been waiting for an an-
nouncement of the candidate. . It se-I that
they are to be disappointed. .For reasons not
clearly understood, the 281110! of the farm or-

‘ ganizations has cooled andit’s a. toss-up as to

whether they will abide by their earlier decil-

" ion or leavethe field enthclycleur to file pro-
Mounds. ' o _ A .
a “We are closesnmig’h atelier-mere of Mich-
mic know that they/want to. greater vows

.. suing ete-

, Department
. Frank R, Schalck ......... ...Clrcu1ation Departmen‘t

   

vidc ether ocurces revenue. to relieve;
mun-den on m property, constitute/n
{very ' strong argument for the election of a
farmer governor and more ' actual ,_ farmer"
members of the legislature in 1920. '

The natural leaders of a ‘farmers’ political
campaigners the eXisting farm organizations.
'Until affew months ago these organizations
were torn and kept apart .by petiw jealossies.
Then they- joined-‘hands and theforce of their
unity Was demonstrated at the state conven-
tion. ‘ Following the convention their respect-
ive legislative committees met in frequent and

joint session and the latest - development of -

their» fraternizing was their decision to enter
thepolit’ical field in 1920. But something hap-
pened. What, waldo not know. Have the .old
jealousies crept out anew Have the old
wounds of distrust opened up again? - We de-

' ‘voutly hope that it may not be so. The times

are critical. Using‘the words of every‘fa’rm-
ers’ organization. in existence we again",re-~

. mind them and our readers that the farmers

must co-operate now in economic and political
enterprises or else forever after hold their
peace, ‘ " '

\ I I O l o, 4..
Fallure of the exxstmg farm organizations

' to respond to the demands of the farmers for

political action is almost certain to result in
the formation of a farmers’ party. Fer some
time the National Non-Partisan League has
‘had its eyes upon Michigan. .We may fairly
assume that the One thing that has discourag-
ed it from organizing the state is the appar-
ent unity and strength of the Gleaners, the
Grange and the Farmers’ Club. Should these
organizations now show their lack of unity by
their inability to act in political harmony,
they will open the door to the Non-Partisan
League. And the League will find the farm:
ers waiting and willing to accept its leader.
ship. "

We cannot believe that any of Michigan’s
farm organizations want V the Non-Partisan
Leagueto come to this state. These organiza—
tions embrace ‘ probably three-fourths of the
farmers of the state. Their leaders are able,
conservative, yet aggressive men who have ac-
complished great things for agriculture. ’Tis
for better-that they should unite upon a sane
and practical legislative program which might.
have the support of many city interests
than to permit the Non-Partisan League- to
come in with a program that has yet to *be
tried and proven good. It is to the best in-
terests of everybody concerned that the farm
organizations sign a new pledge of faith and
take some definite action looking to participa-
tion in the 1920 campaign. ..

 

The Tenant Complaint

T ’8 A QUESTION as to who complains the
most against the, other, the tenant or the
landlord. The tenant or the hired man is con-
vinced that his landlord or employer is the

stingiest and hardest man alive to deal with; »

The landlord or the employing farmer fre-
quently complains that his tenant or ’hired
man is "shiftless, lazy, good-for-nothing and
not fit to associate with the pigs he feeds.
With such cordial relationships existing be-
.tween the two, is it any wonder that we have a
farm labor and a tenant problem?

Who is at fault? Both. There are some

hard masters among the fanners. Hard work ‘

and close pinching have made them figure
closelyr—too closely,—and. they exapt every
ounce of effort pomible from the men when
they unploy. Their interest in the welfam of
thotenant or “hind man” ceases when they
havefulfilledtheletteroftheircontract. A
fair-but too many,——eompel their tenants to
five and raise their families in unsightly, un- “
unitary houses and still expect them to be
Mudgivefullmeosurefor‘ihewnges
that are paid to them. ‘

0am outer hend there aretemnis who
are newcrnfixfiod. They envy the pmemions -

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quarters for his tenant and family. deserves to
{be 06mm ’ ‘ ‘ ‘. ' ‘ - V

{There is a business reason Why .
should-take a keener interest in the comfort of
the people who work for them. The farm lab-
or shortage Whi‘ch loomed upduring the war

“isalmost as acute today as ever, despite the .
fact that hundreds of thousands of geod farm '

hands have been released from the service.

turning to the,.cities for work. The larger pay. ”

and easier hours appeal to them, "and. the-.-

treatnient, many of them received'hack :on the

‘ farm instill fresh in their memories. we know” - ;'

right well that the farmers are paying i‘all f

they can aflford to pay for hired help. But in -

the majority of cases the dissatisfactiOn on
the part of the farm tenant is not a question
of wages or shares in the crops, but a question

of liVing conditions and treatment. We are

very sure that farmers would find it profita-
ble to invests. little money in fixing up the
homes of their tenants for hired men and to
treat them more as equals andless as menials.

Michigan’s Real Co-Operation
COOPERATIVE ownership of elevators
by farmers, has always been talked
about and urged. But this year the farmers
‘ surely are getting busy in actually carrying
out cooperative elevator work. The last few

. weeks have been especially productive of good;

results. -

Based on the news from all parts of the
state for the past week, there are at least two
kinds of (so-operative elevators making their
appearance. One is the kind either built or
bought by the farmers alone, without help or
interference of any outsiders. The other kind
is that in which the elevator men, elevator em-
ployee or others and farmers may join to ‘be-
comestoekholders. -

According to the news reports, a strictly
farmers’ elevator is going up in Branch coun—
ty. At .Okemoso near Lansing, it is reported
that farmers are organizing to establishi’co—
operative elevator in that vicinity. Thme are

‘ only typical of the reports constantly coming
in from many sections, of strictly farmer-own-
ed elevators. It is withthis kind that the far-
mers might naturally feel themselves most
safe. But here is the other type of ownership
spoken of: , ,

In Bay county, we are told that farmers
and elevator. employes have joined together
with a local grain company manager, as joint
stockholders in the new $60,000 corpora-
tion,« known as the Cass Bean and Grain Co.
This reminds one also of the proposition rais-

,ed by Mr. Chatter-ton, to allow farmers a half

interest in his elevators. .

It is possible thht some communities would
be benefited more by one method and some by
the Baker, depending upon the character of

the men and conditions involved. In anycase, ‘

ranks the old appeal of caution. It seems
inevitable that things are working out so that
ultimately the funnel- will have «the say—So
in the system which market: «this produce. Al—

ways remember that. "The result is sure. But .

each community now faces its own, private
problem of this year and next (year to some

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'of their Owniamiliesiand yet permit,their" ten» ; .
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cannot \undemtand it. .Our only explanation .1 - "
is that times farmers, having sufi’ered the pen- j .
alties of privitionflaemselves expect their ten: ,
ants to go thru the same mill. If this is their ;
’ attitude, it is Wholly wrong. ~Thc farmer-who ,
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~ menses Army No. 2.1:. does

not. feed: on potato.vines or root in,

_ the ground like a mole, hey, it one
' nensesau oily tongue, lives on the int
= ot‘tholand, swings in a ssivel- chair

sadzronioysthe comforts at life; Are
inning we'foremut. mission is to die-

‘tato w‘the farmer what he must do

and what he shall not do sndbet oi

gall to heep‘hls D—d mouth, shut; etc. .

Now comes Chapter Two. The
Warehouse Amendment. .has been
strangled and Br. Ito acted as the
goat, but hols no worse than the rest.
They all took that. solemn" oath to
serve the people, although I believe

it lathe beet thingout. of fail. I hope '

this will aviakea those who. slept so
soundly ‘and‘ those who wore smoky
glasses can see without them now.

The men sitting in our legislature, .

taking the peoplels money and delay-
ing a most needed measure, should be
recalled from office at once. Their
standpoint cannot be classed progress-
ive or pro-American or called Bolshe-
vism, and we surely can’t call- it Pro-
German, so it must be Pro-Proflteer.
Their act is a mockery on democracy,
and WHO are the evil-doors who stand
behind them? This may serve as part
of an answer: 15 cents a. quart for po-
tatoes censumers paid in Detroit_ The
bulk of Iosco county’s crop moved out
at 60 cents per bushel; toward the last

they gradually were raisedto 90 cents. .

Beans fared worse; one farmer took
1,300 lbs. to a buyer and received 337
Another farmer sent his son with 1,-
900 lbs. to the elevator and received
$95; sent same amount and quality
the second time and did not exceed
$10.

Now let this wise salon from Wash-

' ington get busy and figure how much

’wages the average farmer can pay and:
find that bank account he speaks of.”
No matter which way the farmer
turns he is handicapped. VWe learn
that men are walking the streets and

' will not work, for five dollars a day

common labor. Why? The landlords
take $50 for two reoms and 805 is
$75 per month for a three-room .flat.
Then potatoes are 15c per court and

everything is in, proportion.

Referring to people's ownership of
the railroads, this would prove the
right time to look over the records at
Washington and find who built those
roads, the people or the railroad cor-
poration. It has been made public
that the people paid $16,000 per .mile

. 'to roads running across the prairie.

$26,000 per mile rolling country, 346;-
000 per mile mountainous region, to
say nothing about the land granted
which certain roads received four sec-
tions wide and as; rates the road was
built. This would prove the railroad
corporation only own the‘“water stock
in said roads and the people are the
real owners now.

Referring to the Gooderoad Amend. A

ment, there is a strong sentiment that

. the road reward‘fund be repealed and

use the entire automobile tax for good
roads only. ' .
The M. B. F. is rendering good ser-
vice to the people and it’s a medium
where the farmers or any citizen can
exchange their opinions.
farmer on the head of the ticket for
governor or any other state oillce, Mr.
Kramer or Alcona. county, is right; the
politicians have, the honey and the
money; and Mr. Kiss of Hillsdale, hits
the nail on the- head—our press at
large is under the control of the'blg
business.
the M. B. F. should do all- he can to
help its circulation in order to reach
the people so they learn the facts.—-

.0. H Anschuctz, Tamas flay.

' f WHY BANK, STOCKHOLDERS our

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on where the, bank; and the class of
business it eaters; t0,

It is, done asxiollows: - .

-Mr.' Smith wishes. to borrow and
goes to the bank and leaves his note
for two-months for $1,000 and has, we
will say, 310 taken out, or pays $10
in cash at discount, the rate being 6

percent.

Mr. Smith gets figures of $1,000 in
his bank pass book it he settles the
bank discount. . ,7 -

Mr. Smith gives‘ Mr. Jones his check
nor $500 and Jones deposits. that check,
which is depositing DEBITS, although
his deposit is called MONEY.

And Smith pays interest on "Bank
bookkeeping figures” or ”Bank credit?
which is a. sort oi credit swapping
clearing house brought about by using
some 91 the government’s money and
the government’s 1espectahility and a
house to do business in.

It the government issued all ' the
money and loaned actual money, and
paid depositors three per Cent and
loaned at six per cent it would require
very cr’etul and economical manage-
ment to pay expenses, and it wouldbe
necessary to pay bank clerks aobut $30
per month, the sort of salary paid now
under the PROITEERING method of

swapping credit.
The NonoPartisan League sees this

state of things CLEARLY and is tak-
ing steps to do away with this condi-
tion by installing a state banking sys-
tem. . -

Thus we shall see if Frank W. Blair,
of Detroit, was correct when he said
last summer (1918) that BIG BUSL
NESS MUST CONTROL the govern-
ment—Ezra R. Averill.

 

LAWS ABOUT ROAD BUILDING

When a road has been duly petition-
ed for and accepted by a county board
of road commissioners or by the state
highway commissioner, under the pro-
visions or the Covert Act, said board
shall cause a detailed survey with the
necessary blue prints of said road to
be made and so far as possible shall
furnish an estimate of the probable
cost of said road and a copy of said
survey and estimates shall be filed
with the clerk oi the township or
townships to be traversed by said road.

Said petition shall state the type and
width of said road and whether it shall
he made. of gravel, concrete, or other
road building material.

No contract for the building of said
road shall be awarded until at least
ten days shall have elapsed from the
date of filing the specificationsand es-
itmates with the township clerk.

The net profits accruing to any con.
tractor from the construction of said
road shall not exceed the sum\ of! ten
per cent of the amount paid for the
highway labor and for material fur-
nished tor the construction of said
road, due regard being bad at all times
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good material when purchased. in the
open ‘markst including drayaxe on the
same, and further, said contractor
shall receive not more than twenty per
cent of the net cash value of his equip-
ment as determined by and between
the contractor and the board of arbi-
tration hereinafter created, as a de-
preciation and werhman’s compensa-
tion fond.

Any township board may contract
with the county board of road com-
missioners or the state highway com-
missioner. at any price below that of
the lowest responsible bidder for the
contract for the doing. of the work and
may perform the same under the di-
rection and supervision of the man?
agar or said county board of roadcom-
missioncrs or of the state highway
commissioner.

A township board shall have the
right to fix the price to be paid‘per
day or per cubic yard for the perform-
ance o: the highway labor-

The township clerk and the super-
visor of each and every township tobe
traversed by the road petitioned for,
{ogether with the; manager and score-
ary of the county board of road com-
missioners shall constitute a board of
auditors with whom all bills for lab-
or, ior materials furnished and for
other expenses, duly vouched for under
oath shall be filed and said board of
auditors shall also constitute a board
of arbitration to whom all disputes be-
between labor and contractor shall be
referred.

All other expenses attending the sur-
vey, etc, of said road shall be a direct
charge upon said road district.

The per diem compensation for said
board of auditors shall be the same as
that paid \to supervisors—George P.
Hale. ”mph“.

FARM LABOR SHORTAGE
So much has been said in regard to
the lack of help on the farms I feel

called upon to take up the cudgel in

behalf of the workingmen. The farmers
and their wives are to blame for the
men and women going to the cities to
find employment. When they are in
the cities they work reasonable hours.
They have some recreation and they
can icel assured of their Sundays and
such holidays as the 4th of July, Dec-
oration Day, Labor Day and Thanks-
giving Day. They can look iorward to
a holiday. Such days go by unnoticed
by some iarmers.

One is sure of his money every week
or two. He does not have to ask for it
and have the farmers and their wives
comment on his spending so much.

If the farm laborer can’t afford to
keep a house for himself, the employ-
ers too often give him a lit 19 ‘old
mow in the rear of the house and pick
out the shabbiest furniture in the
house to put in the room.

The farmer as a rule wants a man to
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Sympathetic Song on Sprouting Spuds

ONIE MORNING Pa gets up and. shouts that all our spuds
. must lose their sprouts; it sure would be a busy day,
So we should start ’em right away; an’ laws; we had a bin chock
full and every spud had sprouts to pull. And Pa remarked it
would be fun and he would join when chores were done. . lint
when he’d gone to feed the pigs, he chewed the rag With Neigh—
- bor Briggs. So it was quite a spell before he sauntered thrn
the cellar door. But in the meantime dear old Ma, who docsn t
pass the buck like Pa, did not attempt to wait and shirk, and
’Twas she who led the way below,
and ’course, I followed her although I felt reluctant, I can-
fess, because it seemed a dirty mess. But when your ma.will
lead the way you feel ashamed to sneak away. And SISter said
, we surely should stick by our ma, so true and geod. So Sls put
It on an old kid glove to grab the tubers from above; and style
or not, a girl can sprout—.-Just watch ’em and you’ll never
doubt. Without the slightest bit 'of fuss a girl can beat the
best of us. And Sis could chatter: too, and not slow up her
speed the slightest jot. And she could make the old hours slip
quite swiftly with a laugh or quip. Now, don’t you think I m
running down old Pb‘ in all thisraving roun’ :_ but Pa, he likes
to talk and smoke and stop his work to crack a joke.
' Andihus we hope ’twill always be. with all” our toilamd
,' _ ntry—and thus therefs not the " , . _
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slightest harm with

 
  

i, be, able-to keep men in~the no“

day. The custom of a community

bathe it

meniikam,

‘ waist.

Have a‘ pleaant room tel-then?! ”
rocker and airline comforts in it. _ ,
-A man does not always want tokeep,
his family in an old shell or ram-j
shackle concern. ' . . '
When the farmers and their wives .
admit that a man is a. man, it will
keep more help on the farms. A man
doesn’t care about being. pointed out
as “my hired man.” Furnish him a
neat room, because sometimes a fellow
working on a farm has left In very.
good home in some town. ‘ -‘

.The day of the downtrodden, ever-
worked hired man on the farm is past;
labor is getting more learned in the
ways of the world and when the farm-
er gives the hired men and women a
square deal he will keep them on the
farms—A. B. Dicrigan. -

 

“WE’LL REMEMBER THOSE W110

‘ VOTED AGAINST US”

I am read to circulate a petition to
initiate the Warehouse Amendment.
Send the the petition and let us get
busy. I am ready to help pay part of
the expense if you want it. You: are
the farmer's friend. We will remem-
ber the men who think .we- do not
know enough to vote right and wish '10
exercise autocracy over us. Yours for
right and equity—John E_ Nash, Hem-
bcr Gladwm County Road Commis-
sion. . ‘

 

ALL SIDES OF THE QUESTION

I do not agree with you on a good
many things, but I like to see both
sides and see what other peOpIe think,
I do not have much sympathy for a
paper that does not stop when the
time is up. I think they should be boy-
cotted. A person will soon subscribe
tor a. good paper when it stops com-
mg.

You claim to keep out of politics,
but I think you favor the Democrats
in nearly every issue. I am an all- _
American and believe in America first
and in being able to take care of our-
selves. I agree with you on universal
military training, but I believe in a
small but eflicient state of prepared-
ness. I also am for a high protective
tariff, both for protection to our in-
dustries and laboring men and for rev-
enue also. '

Your market reports are the best
part of your paper, I think. Well you '
have had enough of my mind for once
I guess, so will close—Respectfully
Lean J. Smith, Utica, Mich. ’

 

SELL, PEN OR COOK ROOSTER ’

As soon as the last eggs are set the '
usefulness of the roosters has ceased
and they should be disposed of. On
most farms the best plan is to sell all
roosters as soon as the breeding see~
son has passed. If it is desired tosave
especially valuable males for next
year’s breeding. they should be separ-
ated from the hens and kept enclosed
thruout the summer_ Several roosters
may be put in the same pen without
serious trouble. Unless the rooster is
unusually good he should not be saved.
as cockerels give better fertility and
better breeding service than old males.
and the feed bill for keeping the old
birds will go a long way toward buy-
ing a vigorous cockerel this fall—M.
A. B.

FARMERS’ UNION MEETS

Kawkawlin Township Union held a.
meeting recently and it was very large.
1y attended. We added thirty-eight
new members to our union. We now
have a membership in our union of
120 up to this date—Peter LaFlame,
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HOLIDAYS FOR FARM HANDS

Is a farm hand at work by the month
entitled to the legal holidays, i e., if he
should not work May 30, July 4, etc...
would he be entitled to have his pay

, for such days thesame as if he work-

ed?——0."S. H. Plainwell, Mich.
'I do not find any case directly applic-
able to farm labor. Our Supreme Court f
has twice decided that a teacher was ’
entitled to full pay although school:
was not in session upon a hall . ., Th
language suggests that there , lithe
a difference between a pub ‘ pl .
ment and a private one. I 1 - be g
the opinion that no deductions:
be made from a farm laborer... .
ly wages if he; did not work one

  

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PERSONALITY

.. * HIS IS THE month when schools close for
‘the summer; the examinations ‘so dreaded,

are over, and happy childhood care-free for a
short time. Their characters are in the develop-
ing, and their young faces have not yet taken on
the lines of character, but we older folks are, in
the eyes of the world and our fellow mien, under
examination all of the time. On the blackboard of
a city school I recently saw written this quota-
' tion: “God never announces his examinations.
What you are flashes out when you do not know
anyone is watching you." And it made me pause
and tliink.‘ ‘For character and personality are
'c‘losely allied. Both are those little habits and in-

from. anyone else. .
HP Schwab, theisteel king who has made such

,a striking success] of life says: - "

is all your own, You can’t give it away, nor can
it be exchanged for another's if you would."

“You influence others through. this 'peculiar
power of yours, but it always remains your own.

a Indeedvin the veryexercise of this- power you
strengthen and fix. it."

How we admire those persons of pleasing per-
sonality. who make'us feel, when we have been
with and talked with them,‘ that life is indeed good
and it does not follow that a person with a charm-
ing manner is weak, for our greatest leaders, our
diplomats have to be tactful, which is only another
expression for making your personality serve the
end of determining what you will do and be.

It has been reported thru our newspapers re-

cently that in Springfield, Mass, the city has start-
ed a six months’ campaign of courtesy. There are
no dues, and for a wonder they have no badges or
buttons, but each person wishing to assist in the
campaign signifies his or her willingness to let
actions speak louder than words and to be polite
to every person. no .matter how much courage this
may take. The idea of the originator of this
scheme was that at the end of six months, the hab—
it would be formed, Springfield would be a good
place to live in and visitors in the city would be
impressed by the kindness and cordiality of her
citizens. All business men know what a tremen-
dous valuation is put on “Good Will," which has
a very decided worth when disposing of a business.
There are telephone companies who hire the “girl
with the voice with a smile” and the very largest
and most prosperous mercantile establishments in
our country run their business on the strict rule
that “the customer is always right.” True, there
may be a few who will take advantage of this rule
to “put something over on the company." but they
would hardly dare go away and tell of it, where-
as, the merchant argues, if you disputed with them
and left them unsatisfied they might prejudice
others, and they simply figure their loss to cost
of advertising.

 

GLEANIN GS FROM THE GARDEN

F YOU wish to send flowers some distance, pick

them at night ,and put them in water until

morning, then wrap them in newspaper, before
packing, making each bundle airtight. 'It is also
stated upon good authority that one teaspoonful of
charcoal added to the water in which flowers are
kept will enable you to keep them as long after
they are cut as when they remain on the plant.

Keep the palms and ferns thrifty and fresh by‘
wetting with cold tea, working the damp leaves
intmthe soil about the roots.

If you desire to slip geraniums in a hurry, make
a little slit in the end of the stem and insert an
oat in it. You will be surprised how this encour-
ages the roots to grow.

Don’t fear to leave your house plants for a few
days while you take the much-needed rest this
summer. Just group them around a pail of wat-
eryand put a rag or a piece of yarn from each
plant to the pail of water and this will insure the
plants absorbing enough moisture to keep them
from wilting while you are away.

A well-known English authority on flowers says
toalways allow the leaves of daffodils to ’die down
rather than to cut them as the sap should go back
.into the bulb. For same reason it is not good for
the bulb to out too many of the leaves with the
flowers

Most people make the mistake of over-crowding
flowers. Itlmay be‘allrightto bunch flowers when,
one wants to wearthemnbut arrangedin a vase in
the house, they are much more artistic if allowed
tagspread, and be of uneven length, just as they
grow, and unless you have a very large vase", a
very few flowers are sufficient to cheer the room.

. Another scheme tried by many with good results

in retaining cut flowers is first to.scald the vases,
n which they are to be put and then put 'infive or
six; drops of sulphate or ammonia“ before filling

 

mm with cold water; And at n ht, take them

”onto! thevases, sponge the stem Inclean, c‘ol'd
,- twitter; remove any withered. and let the
flamers stand up to their}: puma solution. of

L. “-Mv- w“. . - .-

   

dividualities which make us somewhat different,

"In your personality you have something which I

' brush while it is still hot.

.forvn‘othing. - Sometimes wean.

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Edited by MABEL. CLARE LADD.

pure soap and Water and let them stand in a cool
place. In the morning cut the stems a little way
with a sharp penknife (this is. better than shears

as scissors nip the pores and prevent the stems.

from absorbing moisture), then let them standin
:clear, cold wate‘r'for a couple of hours before ar-
ranging in the shallow vases andg‘you will be Well
repaid for your trouble. . ' I

Plants in bloom need morefwater than th0se in
leaf. _ . . . ' .., ~

 

- JUST'A»F¥3W11¥INESABQfiT‘WALLS _,
- E- .ARE'. gladvthatf; our -»sisinnersfi are _-taking
‘ such:.anl .a'ct‘ive‘epart in {this section {or our
' ~ 2‘ - pages and: u have round? (out, that? it is

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interesting _, 50’ yeariahd i'tlifatii olffirei making" use
of it, we will mmmnfitfi-le th'or .three'more
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articles; on this; - subject 'dh'ring . - the
months, , beginning with thiijdrfiicle. .

The home, decorator of interior 75311.5. runsa‘cross
a lot of problemsrwhieh the ordinary inersori'knows
nothing or: Sometimes we nmiwnet removes as

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' CHARACTER
. E NEVER rose to fame, never starred in
any game, ,
Never made a lot of money men's aliens
tion to attract;
He had never won a prize of a, noticeable
size, ‘
And the brilliancy of glory was‘a charm
he plainly lacked,
Men of state would pass him by and would .
never catch his eye,
None would ever read his value in the
fashion of his coat. .
In just this his worth is told, that his word
was good as gold, -
And there wasn’t any banker but would
gladly take his note.

He was not a great success, never mentioned
by the press.
There were very 'fcw who knew him, but
no one had ever heard
Any hint of shame being connected with his
name . ‘ .
And no one of him had hinted that he ever
broke his word.
He just toiled from day to day, in a calm
and easy way, .
Never sought the hills of glory or the
- pomp and power of rank.
But he lived his whole life through, in an
honest way and true ' _
And whene’er he wanted money he could
get it from a bank.

There may be in world success, greater
thrills of happiness.
There may be compensation in the loud ap-
plause of fame. ‘
But when all is said and done he life’s best
reward has won
Whose character is witnessed by an undis-
honored name.
Though he lives apart alone, and is very lit-
tle known
And the plaudits of the people round about
he’s never heard;
He can hold his head erect, for he owns the
world's respect
When men say it to his glory that he never
broke his word.
(Used by permission.
Edgar Guest.)

 

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mouldy walls, all of which require different treat-‘
ment. Then again we find walls discolored from
leaks around chimneys‘, causing the walls to be
stained with creosote which is one Of the hardest
problems‘ we have to deal with. I have had good
success with the latter by treating the stain as fol-
lows: .

First, using cold or luke warm water, wash out
the stain as well. as possible, then allow the wall
to dry. Pulverize alum and dissolve it in hot wat-
er (the hotter the better), using all the alum the
.water will dissolve, then apply the mixture with a
This Will form a thin
film, like glass, over the statin. Letthis thorough--
ly dry and then go over the wall with a wall finish,
brushing as little as possible. Wall ”paper may be
applied over the same if the“ stainjs not too bad.
The best permanent remedy is, of 'Oéurse, tolocate
the place where the Stain lat-coming” from and then'
stop the cause, otherwise younwill have your work
\ leak around the
chimney and sometimes. nus sued. from the ,
chimney itself having a large flue; When it rains,

aside“ 01 the chimney,

     
    
    
      
 
   

 

 

 

ter.
With . .

Thealabastine company has recently given up '-
. the folloWin‘g formula to stop stains, . .
states, is a sure cure for the worst creosote, salt 7’
To each five-pound ; ,.
package of alabastine, either white or tinted, .‘addf"? '
one pint of boiled Linseed Oil, then add one pint
of any good varnish. This will form a paste. Stir—{V

which,"~ it -.

peter or water stained walls:

thoroughly and thin with naphtha, gels'olzl~ e —' 3011- ;f

turpentine until it spreads easily under the . rush:
If the stains are severe, use the mixture 8. little—'1 :

soaking up the soot as it goes, 'and finally oozing: \-
through a soft, porous brick and through the pies:
These of course are the worst cases to'dealg',

 

 

 

heavier over them, coating the entire surfac ”7-591. .-

covered. 7 '

This size willnot only seal walls and prevent“
stains and creosote from coming thru, but new
One coat ofthis-size will-in;
'sure you a foundation for a firstclass tinting Job.~

acts as a first ‘coat.

4 This size should dry from 24 to 36 hours. The same
sizewill also answer asa, firstcoat'on walls for
'oil‘ or paint or flat. Alabastine is peculiarly .adapt-
ed for this siZe as when mixed with oil, it turns
into an oil cement. . ._ ’. ' ‘
- The ~folldwing preparation should appeal to any.-

‘one who” has walls to finish as’the' fact,that- it

contains" an oil size makes, it take the place of a

regular oil aim and at the same time it"furnishes

a first coat of varnish for the walls.

 

 

LESSONS lN'HO‘ME COOKING

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Conducted by Miss Elizabeth Mathoson, of the
‘ Valley City Milling Co.) '

Fats for Cake 'Making

'VERY RICH cake will be close-grained, while
one that contains but a small quantity of fat
will be perous and will’dry out quickly.
Too much fat causes the cake to crumble and an
excess will cause it to be‘heavy. .’ '
If melted fat is used be careful not to have it

hot as it will cause the cake to be coarse in grain ‘

and not so light as it should be.

Most recipes‘call fer butter, but at its present
price, I believe, but few of- us use [butter for cook-
ing, having learned the butter substitute we like.

There‘ are upon-the market many vegetable fats

and oils which give perfect satisfaction when used .

according to dirwtion. It is but fair to the man-

ufacturers Of these products .to use them according ‘

to the directions given; for they have tried out
their product before putting it upon the market

and wish their customers to secure the besttre-

suits from the' use of‘their product. -

The reason why a smaller quantity of these fats I

than of butter is needed is because butter contains
more moisture "and therefore has less shortening
power than the othr fats. Most, ‘if not all,>of these
fats require the addition of salt.

Below are given a few equivalents to one-half
cup of butter;

One-half cupful of chicken fat; one-half cupful oi'
lard less one 'tablespoonful; one-half cupful of lard
substitute less one and one-half tablespoonful: one-
fourth cupful of butter plus three tablespoonfuls of
lard; one-fourth cupful of butter plus three table-‘
spoonfuls of lard substitute; one-half cupful of oil less
one tablespoonful. , ‘ . .

Cold “later Cake

One cup fat; 2 cups sugar; 3 cups flour: 1 cup cold

- water; 1 cup chopped walnuts; 2 cups chopped rais-

ins; 3 beaten eggs; 1 teaspoon nutmeg; 2 teaspoons
cinnamon; 1 teaspoon soda.

Scald soda in a bit of boiling water and add last. .

This recipe makes two good—sized loaves of es-‘
pecially good cake which improves with age. '
Devil’s Food Cake‘

Melt two squares of chocolate, add 1/2 cup sugar
and 1/2 cup milk, either sweet or sour. Cook until
the mixture thickens, but do not let it boil. Re.
move from fire and stir in the yolk of one egg,
Let stand until cool.

In our cake bowl, cream 1/4 cup of fat and 1/2
cup of sugar. Add one egg and the white left

’ from the egg used in the cooked mixture, 1,4 cup

of milk, either sweet or sour, the cooled chocolate
mixture, 1 teaspoonful vanilla or cinnamon, amine
cups of Lil White Flour, sifted with one level tea:
spOonful baking powder and 1 level teaspoonful
soda. Bake in moderate oven. ' , .
Sour milk gives a darker, a richer and a tender-
er cake than the sweet milk. Use the soda this
recipe calls for, even if ou use sweet milk, for
there is acid in the chocolate Which the soda will

neutralize. Sometimes one prefers to use cocoa in- ‘ ‘

stead of 'chocolate. This should reall be done by»

Weight, rather than measure, but'% Gup’bf cocoa 13 ~ I

about th equivalent to one square of chocolate, .
Itz-is a good plan to scald the cocoa with affew :

drops of boiling water, just enough to make itlthe :~' I

consist‘enc‘ of meltedgohocolate.- ‘Thia‘rcinoveé in? -
raw-taste more me be- An hear! all the-fat. a‘s ‘

 

 

 

 
      
  

 

 

been‘removed in the manufacture of cocoaiitvis’a.

good plan to increase the quantit etrfat the recipe
calls forabout 3‘5 tablespoontul for each an riser
cupfuiof cocoa-used. . ~~ - ‘ 2 . -

 

 

    
        
       
     
  

    
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

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EAR. CHILDREN—Again this
week we hey the picture of a
. efgreat man; he seventh in our
passing contest 01 ten great men.
Winch you tell ,me Who he is, tell me
an you know about him as it is inter-
sting to print on our page with your
’t‘ters, so that all the other children

 

fen may learn or them.

"'Qne (if our little readers Vera" Cam-p

field or Buchanan, had guessed five“

. correctly and writes me that they

~ missed the paper in which Charlie
Chaplins picture appeared. and 1 am.
sure that I should have been inclined
to have let that pans and counted her
he perfect as she was not: to blame had
it not been for the factthat she missed
the sixth one, guessing Richard Hob-
son instead of John Mccormick, the
great singer. And one little- girl ‘
thOught- this wasn'ta fair picture to'
show as she couldn't ”find anyone who'
could help her but it is hard“ to pick‘
up any' of the late illustrated mags-i
zines without finding therein pictures ‘
of all the great artists, and I am sure
:hat this Will teach you to be observ-
n8

For'the benefit of those who haven’t

been able to finish the contest, you
know there are prizes offered for the
best stories of how you expect to spend
your vacation and what you expect to
be when you finish school and begin
to earn your own living, so if you have
failed to earn the prizes offered in

~ this contest, try for one of those and
in the meantime We will continue this
contest and you can learn something
more of the great men, whom we
shall still show, as there are three
more you know .—Affectionately yours,
“Laddie.”

 

 

 

 

 

The Seventh Picture shown in our
guessing contest of ten great ~men
Tell me who he is and what you know
of him.

Dear Laddie: Having read the inter-
esting letters in the M. B. F., I thought
I would try, too. I am 11 years old and
in the eighth grade. I have one brother
and four pets; we have a white rabbit and
three kittens We pull clover for the
rabbit eveiy day. I wipe the dishes, do
chores, such as gather the eggs, get the
cows feed the pig and get the grain for
the horses, also many other chores. I
iron small pieces. . I can sew, knit and
crochet. also bake cake and biscuits. When
I finish school I hope to take a business
course. I belong to the Liberty Bell Bird
Club: my teacher appointed me for/ sec-
retary of the War Saving society of our

" school. My garden seeds are planted. My
little brother and I play lots; we gather

" flowers as there are so many on our farm,

, such as lilies violets and May flowers;
another thing' we do is to mold dishes
~ Irom clay; It is fun. We wet the clay
“and r’nold it into dishes and let them dry;
they get very hardt t.hen As my letter is
go getting long” I will close, hop to leg
"this in Nut, as it is my second letter.—
id’son Fenton, Michigan“,

   
 

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- y _ ,_, @e have 10:: - .
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candy and en

, age is 16 years
and one big one.
We have four horses. For this
Who are not informed of these great . papa. I am 10 years old and in the 6th
grade ——Gladys Rickert, Saranac, Mich. .

 

, DeafiLaddie: I will write you a letter-
, because I have not written before. I am
a boy eleven years 01d and I am :ln the and liVe in "a store. I wrote once before
but did not see my letter in print but I
ng' help father. and hope to see this one in the paper. We
I am in the seventh

sheep; aftég; 11335:: 09:32 311396. .OlQJVSb Y8 grade 118% year, Ipassed from the sixth

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pets. -——Glbert Dorcey,‘ Hale, Michigan grade 6 have had our exams we

seventh grade. I am intending to stay
at home this vacations.

mother on the fami.

 

I live on an 80-acre farm.

A Bad Girl

Persons," Burt, . Michigan.

 

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have 9 pets, 4 rabbits. 4 cats and a dog.

 

 

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.1 I x . ‘ , (Send letters for this Dept direct to “Luddie,” care Mich. Business Farming, Mt. Clemens, Mich ) ‘ T

shake hands andr kiss you and he will eat brohtres and one sister. I am going to

I have one sister and write a story, so Will close. - ' .
y xsister's name is Margaret
and my brother's name is Glenn Glenn
is helping papa drag. He is in the sev-
enth grade at school and is 12 years old.
Margaret is in the 11th grade and her
We have six little pigs

Once upon a time there was a. little girl
whose name was Isabel. One day she
asked her mother if she could go flower-
ing. Her mother said no. Isabel ran
We have two cows and away and went to the woods. After she
was there a. little while she saw a big
vacatiOn I am gong to help mamma and snake. It scared her very much and she .
ran home and told her mother that she
would never run away again—Marjorie

Dear Ladd‘ie: I am a girl 12 years old

’ ’ Ihave 2 brothers and 1 sister. My school
This is the first time I has been (hut a weelki Fridayt.h -I have a.
wheel. so as my -0 est bro er. I will
w° have 3 horses and 5 COWS- I haVe 3 ,close.——_—-Marion Fowler, Goodells Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Laddie: I haVe never writtenbe-
fore so thought I would. My father takes
the M. B. F, and thinks it is a very nice

paper. I like the stories and letters and?
also liked the “Giants of Lill1putania,’, r,

and the D00 Dads. I am a girl 10 years

old and I can knit, crochet am I am

learning how to tat. I think it is quite
hard don’ i: you ’ We have a. school of. 19
p.11pils. I have one brother named Rus-

sell. I weigh 661/..110u11ds.1 have $40 .
in Wax Swings Stamm. ——Dorothy— Riot.

Otisville, Michig

 

Dear Laddie: I have never written be-
fore. and just had time to write Monday
evening Our school let out on the "20th
of May. My teacher‘s name is more,
Notestine. I like her very much: -My
birthday was the 10th of May. ,We-have
4 calves and 7 milking cows. I have two

brothers, their names are Fred and Pau+u

Fred was 3 years old on March19. I am
10 years old and in the sixth grade. Fred

is 11 and in the sixth grade. I will 3.113..

wer any letter that is sent to me. ———Esther
Evers. Petoskey, Mich

 

You Probably Never
Thought of This

'11

Every flour is not all flour.

A kernel of wheat is composed of various substances, several of which are
not flour, and it requires very careful milling to separate _a_11 of the in«

ferior material from the _r____ea1 flour.

To begin with, we clean the wheat three times, sCour it three times and
actually wash it once before it goes onto the Rolls for the first break, so

that no dirt may get into the flour.

Of course. after crushing the kernel the various substances are all mixed

up together; in other words, the bran, middlings, lowgrade, clear and
straight are mixed up with the high grade flour and a separation must

be made. ‘
All inferior materials are eliminated from

Lily White

“The Flour the best Cooks Use"

It is all clean, pure, wholesome, healthful flour, every bit of it.

r .‘

We could sell flour at lower prices if we were to leave the inferior porn
tions of the wheat berry in the good flour, but the good flour would be

damaged.

And we desire LILY WHITE to continue to be the best flour it is
possible to produce; we want it to continue to give the same splendid

satisfaction it always has given.

To give such satisfaction it must in be pure, choice flour, consequently

we take out a_l_l of the undesirable materials.

YOU are the one who really gains by this, for when you buy LILY'
WHITE FLOUR you obtain a_1_1 flour, of the very choicest possible

quality.

Every flour is not all flour and will not give you as good satisfaction as
LILY WHITE, 807mm buying flour insist on having the best and the
purest, LILY WHITE, “The flour the best cooks use.”

‘VAigLEv fol-TY MILLING COMPANY

Grand Rapids, Mich.

   

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

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seems; sun rnsmt, continuous
' Wholesale and retail trade and indus-
rial conditions are more uniformly fav-
orable than at any previous time this
fyeus, and the chief source of complaint
“(Entributiwa trade now is that present
J~ shortages of merchandise in many lines is
Groves-ling past ultra-conservatism in or-
f . Mus. Especially is this new in retail
lime. '

The only lack of favorable uniformity is
‘ that noted in crop reports In the south»,
where continued rains are putting eottbn
further injthe grass, and from-the south-
‘ , west, where hmesti‘w ofa bumper crop
is interfered with. by the some trouble.
" , 0n- the other hand muchnneede'd rains
' have helped spring wheat and newly plant-
ed. earmark! farther east, warm weather
has auctioned growth on farms and in
gardens; The tenor of wholesale trade
reports is as good as ever in all lines and
heater in some hitherto lagging trades.

 

\ ., MICHIGAN W00]. I! BOSTON
the Weekhas been quieter both in Bos-
ton and. in the west, although some of
the Boston houses having new woois ar-
riving are doing some business in the fine
and half-blood wools at prices about on

the present level of cost forthe new wools.’

Buying in the west has continued with less
eagerness at about the levels of values
prevailing a week ago. Foreign markets
are holding firm, with competition fairly
steady at the river Platte. The goods
market’ is on a firm basis. Quotations are,
Michigan and New York fleeces—~Fine un-

  

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washed, 67@7OC; 1—2—blood unwashed, 66 '

@680; %-b100d unwashed, 60@61c.
(Local wool quotations on page 2.)

 

WOOL MACHINERY INCREASE

WASHINGTON.\—Wool machinery in
operation on May 1 shows an increase of
about 10 per cent compared with April 1
of this year, according to the Bureau of
Markets, Department of Agriculture,
which reports that conditions are again
approaching normal in the amount of
wool machinery in operation.

Machinery used in making woolen yarns
shows 83 per cent of cards and 83 per
cent of spinning spindles in operation on
May 1, compared with 73 ad 72 per cent
respectively, on April 1. Active worsted
machinery also shows increases with May
1 figures at 77 per cent for combs, and
14 per cent f0r spinning spindles, compar-
ld with 66 and 64 per cent, respectively
on April 1. ‘

Sixty-four per cent of looms were in
operation on May 1 against 64 per cent
on April 1 and 46 per cent on March 1 of
this year.

    

 

GRADE

I Detroit | Chicagol 'N. Y.
No. 2 led ..... 2.50 2.60
No. 8 Red . . . .

No, 2 White . . 2.48 .
No. 2 ‘Mlxed . . 2.48 , . .

 

 

The wheat market has continued rath—
er quiet. Prices at Detroit have fallen a
few cents, though the quotations from
New-York are the same as a week ago.
The Michigan state crop report on wheat
follows:

The average condition of wheat is 97
in the state and northern counties 98 in
the southern and central ccounties and 95
in the Upper Peninsula. The condition on
May lot was 98 in the state 100 in the
southern counties 96 in the central coun-
ties and Upper Peninsula and 94 in the
northern counties. The condition one year’
ago was 66 in the state, 52 in the southern
counties 46 in the central counties 65 in
the northern counties and 96 in the Upper
Peninsula. The total number of bushels
of wheat marketed by farmers in May at
134 flouting mills was 69180 and at 60
elevators and grain dealers 9,448, or a
total of 78,628 bushels. Of this amount
65,366 bushels were marketed in the
southern four tiers of counties, 11,436 in
the central counties and 1,826 in the north-
ern counties and Upper Peniusla The es-
timated total number of bushels of wheat
.marketed and consumed by growers in
the ten months August—May is 2,600,600.
One hundred and eight mills, elevators

and grain dealers report no wheat mar-
keted in May.

  

 

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”Reduction ot holdings to

slam ,
We. , Prices were nervous.

   

 

,ths,;390.000,bushelv1‘nuimm ma _ .
' to w on the corn ‘

 

 

 
   
 

 

 

People who are looking over the too of
the stool list into thedistaat future-theit
is, distant by months. posdbly a your or
two-are- asiting some rather punishing
questions and the answers thereto are
contradictory. coming from various sourc-
“- : ,. '

Without challenging the soundness or
the expectation of a big general bushes
in the fall, the inquiries run tome sup-

'ply of food stuffs, particularly grain, and

the consequent eite‘ct on prices.‘ We is
an all-important subject inasmuch as the
whole range of primedown to a cut!
button depends largely on the figures at
which wheat will sell. , .

Opinions Differ on Outlook

One Chicago man with broad vision de-
precates the idea that food will decline
much because of the certain expiration
of the government guaranty term and the
possible action of the president in exer-
cising his discretion relating to
price, some time during the next crop
year This commentator takes the ground
that Europe and other parts of the world
have been so crippled by the war that
in the next year or twa the output of
cereal crops must be a restricted one.
It is not merely the devastath areas in
western Europe, but the unproductive
condition of Russia and the Balkans, and
the shortage of working men. As against
this one authority calls attention to the
increased use of machinery in Europe as
well as the necessity of hard work forc-
ed upon the population. ' As to machfnery,

it will take a year or two to supply those

willing to use it, who never have used it.

Partly the discussion of this subject is
provoked by the confirmation from the
fields of the immensity of our wheat crop
of 1919. Figures just compiled by P. S.
Goodman show a probable aggregate of
1,300,000,000 bushels which is at the very

: Grain market nervous and prices somewhat lower after
. rises last week. Hay steady; potatoes take drop.

Study is. Made of Future Prices of Grain

that '

 

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topofthelistofesmby-euthorfl-
attve experts. It is reckoned that in the
next few months the United States will
hays at the minimum 660,000,000 bushels
of wheat available for export. This al-
lows between seven and eight bushels not
eapi'ta for domestic use. whereas the fig-
are is solemnly less than six. Add to
this 150,000,000 bushels from Argentine-
and Australia and possibly 260,000,060
from Canada and you have a. total of 1,-
090,606,060 bushels available in excess
countries to supply shortage countries,

Hui-um d Year's emu

Never in any year preceding the war
did the deficit countries take from the
surplus countries more than 665,000,000
bushels. This has happened in two years.
Thus far this year we have exported 407,-
600,000 bushels Mr. Hoover has estimat-
ed that Europe, excluding Russia, will
need as a minimum 700,000,000 bushels of
wheat and rye, and as a maximum 850,-
000,000 bushels in the harvest year begin-
ning August 1. Throwing out of these fig-
ures the moderate quantity f rye, one
can see there will be a ma eria.) surplus
left in the countries estimated as having
1,000,000,000 bushels to spare during that
period. 0

But while wheat is the key, one should
not forget the terrrible shortage of food
animals in the afflicted countries. The
price of meats in the United States will
have its part in the prices of commodit-
ies generally. In the wheat line, too,
some account'must be taken of the fact
that consumption per capita has increased
considerably;

The test will come when our govern-
ment guananty on wheat ceases. It is
said that the governments of Europe would
like an open market for this commodity,
but are restrained by the policy of the
United» States.

 

Unrest in the labor world appeared to
exert a distinct weakening influence, and
so likewise did reports that food needs
abroad were less urgent. In addition, Ar—
gentine offerings to this country were said
to be on the increase.

As for the condition of the corn crop
in Michigan Secretary of State Vaughan
has issued the following:

“The acreage of corn planted or to be
planted as compared with last year is 98
in the state and northern counties, 97 in
the southern counties, 101 in the central
counties and '96 in the Upper Peninsula.
The condition of corn as compared with
an ayerage is 88 in the state, 83 in the
southern counties, 92 in the central coun-
ties, 96 in the northern counties and 94
in the Upper Peninsula.

 

 

 

GRADE Detroit Chicago N. Y.
Standard . . . . . 3 .69 ' 379%
No. 8 White .. .7236 .6834 .
No. 4 White .3 .7134

 

 

 

Reports from Detroit and New York
show no change in cats. Chicago, how-
ever, has noted fluctuations, mostly in
harmony with the action of corn. Oats
opened this week in, Chicago slightly low-
er than the opening last week.

 

 

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WASHINGTON, D. C., June 14,——
Last bulletin gave forecasts of warm
wave to cross continent June 22 to 26,
storm wave 23 to 27, cool wave 24-.to.
28. This will not be a great storm,
but it will be one of the most severe of
three storms of this June. The fore-
casts for June were that {the north
third of the cultivated parts of the
United States and Canada would get
from about to below normal rain ;-‘mid—
dlo third rom about to above normal
rain and t e cotton states above normal
and most rain for June were within
three days of May 31, June 14 and 29,
Dates for least severe storms and least
rain wore within three days of June

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The major, or larger storms ‘ cross
ntinent from west to east, on an av-
Ee-g‘sj of about six days apart. Th
tute the index that points to al
er changeson this continent. To
. r from weather fore-
ie assess for the reader to
we .of , transcontinental

rgo neighborhood has a
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THE WEATHER FOR "THE WEEK
As Forecastcd by w. '1‘. Foster for MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING

to weather matters than others. I
would be pleased to assist local crop-
weather clubs made up of subscribers
to papers that regularly publish my
weather forecasts. These local clubs
could take up questions of local inter-
est, as do similar clubs in many cities.
I solicit correspondence on this subject.
Always inclose stamped and addressed
envelope." Clubs should meet once a
month.

Next warm wave will reach Van-
cpuver about June 26 and temperatures
will rise on all the Pacific slope. It
will crose crest of Rockies by close of
27, plains sections 28, meridian 90,
great Lakes, middle Gulf states and
Ohio-Tennessee valleys 29, eastern sec—-
Home 30, reaching vicinity of New-
foundland about July 1. Storm wave
will follow about one day behind warm
Wave and cool wave about one day
behind storm wave. -

This disturbance will be very much
the same, as the preceding in all. its
features, except that the cool wave of
the latter will go to lower degrees than
in the former and rainfall of. latter
will be greater then in the former ,

I still expect too much rain last
half of June for alfalfa and early
small grain harvests _Watch the per-
iods of» greatest and least amounts of
rain within'three days of given dates.
They will‘not all be correct but they
will 'be better than guessing.

 

 

 

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Lansing thus:
"The condition of} oats as compared with
an avmge‘xls '81 h'the state, ’81 in the

southern counties, 90 in the central coun- ' .

tiss.- 99 in the northern counties and 95 in
the Upper, Peninsula. The condition one

year ago was 98 in the state, 100 lathe '
southern counties, 99 lnthe central coon-f ‘

    

have Jumped somewhat in
the Detroit markets. Recent quotations

are: I!" cash N6. 2... 81.52.. This is
four cent. more than the preceding. week.

_Barley.in Detroit is quoted, cash No. 3, -
82.86682.” per ewt. This“ shows no
change ayer the week before, thus indi.
cating the quiet which 'has been prevail-
ing in that section.

We crop report-s: . *
- ' Rye

_ The condition of rye in the state, south-
ern and central counties is 96, in the
northern counties 100 and in the Upper .
Peninsula 95. One year ago condition in
the state was 72, in the southern coun-
ties 70, central counties 66, northern/coun-
ties 77 and Upper Peninsula 92.

Barley

The acreage of barley sown or that will
be sown as compared with last year is 9!
in the state, central counties and Upper
Peninsula, 92 in the southern counties and
96 in the northern couties.

 

The bean market has firmed up again.
According to a report from Rochester, N.
Y., the export demand is having a large
effect on prices and everything that is‘
sound is being picked up as fast, as qf- ‘
fered. There has been no material
change in the prices to growers in this
.state. Some sections report difficulty in
selling, at 86 a hundred. An enormous
quantity of all varieties of beans has been
moved the past 'sixty days -and holding-
have dwindled to a point which should
insure a better market for future offer:
ings. ' The bean deal has practically

ninety days yet to run. Holdings in grow-
ers’ hands are very light and it seems
certain that the demand will be equal if
not in excess of the supr before an—
other crop comes on to the market.

 

 

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Markets
lwhite-sk’d .
Detroit .. .. .. ..l 2.40ewt. 2.88M
Chicago .. .. ....| 2.05m. 3.00m
TAKE DROP '

The old potato market is weak, and
there is some question as to whether i
will get any stronger before the season
closes. The unseasonably hot weather (1'

late May forced out large holdings in
city storage houses and arrivals from
shipping points were badly sproutedanl
spoiled, all of which had a very bad of.
feet upon the market.

Driving through the country last week
I noticed many loads of potatoes on their
way to maret. All I saw were in good
condition. At Pentwater, in Oceana coun-
ty. I saw several hundred bushels soil
at 90 cents a bushel, which was exactly
fifty cents a bushel less than potatoer
were bringing at the same time in Do
troit.

In the May 3rd issue we advised our
readers as follows: “Farmers. should
have their spuds pretty well 016 their
hands by May 20 or June 1 at the very
latest. Prices should reach high enough
levels. by that time to make it unsaf:
and unwise to hold longer." Again. in the
May _10 issue, we wrote, “We again cau-
tion our readers to unload their,holdinp
a little each week from now, on as til
season is drawing rapidly to a. clan
and none of them should take a chants
of getting caught while holding the bag
Prices are a little off right now so don‘t
sell until'the maret stife tthens.” . >

About May 20th the market stiflenfi
up and values ranged higher until about
June 51 when the hot weather brought mi ,
the city suppliesl‘andweakened the more . -

ket. Those. otour readers who listed at? ,

on our suggestions should~hnye radial.

the top price ~of the” season and this

who ignored them and, are still, =

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'HAY TRADE cosnrrross
The hay markets continue firm this
Nut-week under light supplies. Trade
does not halt in consequence of the ex-
' ceptional prices, asked, but has been
quite active during the week following
the holidays of the week previous. West-

 

 

 

 

‘ em Vmarkets are easier as new crop hay

is“ coming into competition with the old

’L if and yalues are reduimd. Th? 01‘! bar now

. .mmnMB F944“ 0

"coming forward is of poor quality as
mews are being cleaned up preparatory,
to the harvest and, to take advantage of
high values. Terminal stocks are low and
there is little hay in transit. Farmers
have been delayed in their work-byfwet
weather throughout the spring, but the
hot weather for the past ten days has
created great activity in planting in the
' portion of the United

' B i . Blankets are strained and mod-
» ‘ e21? increases in receipts would break
them, but with the small amount of old
‘hay left and the activity of farm work,
there is little immediate prospect of a
heavier movement.

 

Detrolthutter: Fresh memory, 50

051:: per lb.
New York Butter Letter

New York. June 10. 1919.——The past .

week has been one or! depression for most
butter receivers. For several days up un-
til Thursday of this week there had been
no active demand for butter. While there
was some local consumptitciln. .out-of-town
bu on were absent and ere was no
speculative or export demand. On the
other hand, receipts were extremely large

and advance notices indicated that pro-,

auction was still on the increase. For
about four days the markst was practi-
cally demoralized and it was feared that
- that condition might remain for some-
time as there seemed to be no signs that
'a change for the-better would take place.
However, on Thursday, there Was a con—
siderable speculative buying and sales
were made for foreign delivery. It has
been very noticeable for the past several
months that the market has been quick to
, react as soon as there was an entrance
of even-some small factor that would have
some bearing on the general situation. ,In
this instance local buyers sensing that
speculators and exporters might become

large purchasers, decided that it would be .

wise business policy to lay in consider-
able stooks of butter. As a result of all
the buying activity, a marked increase in
sales took place yesterday and the price
advanced 2c. ‘
From about Wednesday of last week
until Friday the market seemed 'to gain
strength but on Saturday tactically all
the increase in price had taken
place during the week was lost and ex-
tras fell to 6551.0. There was continued
weakness at the outs“: of the present
week and on. o. decline of lo tol-
lowed. On W ay. because of no
buying the price 1011 to 1520. when 'it’held
until today when the price ed as
mom". Became! the marketing-
{MW Friday. the market closed firm on
that. day with established quotations as
follows: EXW. 540; hither scoring
than extras, 64% @5501 firsts. 52033960;
seconds, 50 @510. Unsalted butter is new

mom well because in addition to the
1&1 demand. there lms’been tonne .buy-'
in: for storage and the quotation .ie at a
we: nuotationg .tor
'salted buttbr

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Ween-m ”a; m on:

i {It slew cases, 390; candied storage walked
m inflow one s. 40:: .002.

~ : ”higher again, especially“
‘ > *the sh, rtage or southerapo— ‘

39.00 40.00 37.00 33.00 8500 “M -

'Two tablespoontul
soda solution are sufllcient for one gallon
In order to make the -'

Detroit {Live [Steak nudist ‘

Detroit—«Cattle: W5 last we’e , 1,.
517, last 2.619, market very dull; best hea-
vy steers, $13; but My went butch-
er" steers, 812®$12.25; mixed steers and
heifers, 811506812; handy «light butch-
ers. $‘10@311; light butchers. $9®$9.50;
$850609»; *cutters, $7; banners, $6.25@
belt cow; $9.60@$10.25; butcher cows,
$6.50: bot MW bulls, $30 60.9.75; bolog-
na bulls. $3668.50; stoc bulls, $7.50@
“3 WE. $10@$11: StO era. 38@'$9;
milkers and springens/ $66®$150. Veal
calves:.. Receipts last week Were 1,871;

  

market steady; best. 8.16@§16-50: 011118. ‘

$106313. Eliheep and lambs: Receipts
this week 984, last 2,233; mafket very
dull, es'peciallylso on sheep; best dry fed‘
mambo. simian: lambs..$12@813; light

to common lambs, $10@811: spring, $17 .

@51160; fair to good sheep. $8; culls
last Week, 6,222, last 6.765; no hogs .on
and common, $4@$6.50. Hogs: Receipts,
sale; prospects lower;

Chicago Live Shock Market

. V _ Chicago:——Hogs: Receipts, 36,000; mar-

ket unevenly 25 to 4.00 lower closing weak;
early top, $20.15 ; practical top late, $10.90.
Bulk, $19.75@$119.85 ; heavy weight,
$19.80@$19.90; medium weight, $19.65@

‘31900; light weight, $19.40@$19.85; lights

$18 @.$19.65; heavy packing sows, smooth,
$19.40@$19.65; packing sows. rough, $19
@$19-40; pigs. $17@$18. Cattle: Re-
ceipts;:\,3.000; ,good beef steers and best
she-stock, strong to 250 higher; others and
bulls steady; calves, 250 higher; feeders
steady; beef steers. medium and heavy
weight. choice and prime, $15@$16.26;
medium and good, $12©$15; common,
$.10.76@$11.85; light weight, good and
choice, $12.40@$14.85; common and med-
ium, $9.75@$12.50; butcher cattle, heif-
ers, $7.25@$13; cows; $7®$12.50;- can-
ners and cutters, $5.76@$7 ; veal calves,

' light and handy‘weight, $14@316; feeder

steers, $9.60@13o; stacker steers, $7.50
@12.25. Sheep: Receipts, 14,000; ’best
dry fed lambs stead-y ; others slow to low-
er; spring lambs 25c lower; ewes, trade
demoralized, some selling $1 lower; lambs,
84 pounds down, $12.25@$15.60; 85 lbs.
up, $12@$15.60; culls and common, $9@
811.75; springs, $16.50 to $18.75; year-
ling wethers, $10.25 to $18; ewes, medi-
um and choice, $7.50 to $9; culls and
commons, 831,007.25.

East Bufl’alo.—Dunning & Stevens re-
port: Cattle: Receiptps, 40 cars; mar-
ket slow. Hogs: Receipts, ‘30 cars; low-
or; heavy and yorkers, $20.90 to $21;
ppigs, .380. Sheep: Receipts, 15 cars;
lower; top lambs, $16; yearlings, $12.50
to $13; wethers, $11 to $11.50;
810 to $10.50. Calves, $7to$7.50.

 

ONION MAGGO‘!‘ REMEDY FOUND

' There are three common root maggots "
making trouble at present in Michigan, .
on ;

One of these works on onions one
cabage cauliflower rape, mustard and, in
fact, all the members of the mustar fam-

llY: while the third is a general, eeder ,
and may be found on many garden plants, ':
although its favorite is seed corn in the 1‘
lull and beans. This latter species is the ;
one commonly Jmown in Michigan as the

bean maggot. The adults of these mag— i
gots are flies closely “resembling house- .
files, only much smaller, and it happens I

that the adult files of the onion maggot
hogs sweets just as dearly as do other

before they lay the eggs which normali-
ilfotgglemto the maggots that make all th:

To do this use about twenty small bas- ‘
Distribute them over .

iris toitheflale‘re.
e on on e to be rotected, placin
them on the troundan keep these pangs
supplied with a little poisoned syrup from
the time that the tents appear above
ground until the gangs: is past. The
pans should be covered over with wire
screen of a mesh just small enough to
prevent bees from ettin in but coarse
enough to aocommo a e tiese small files.

A. \ inch mesh wire on does rather
. This screen will make it im-
‘31 is for poultry and wild birds to

n the MP

The noise syrup. is naiade by dissolv-

es. ammo. “m W
l .o

and adding a pint 314ng water

The addii .. . _,.-.- «Winn

molasses. .
more attractive to

es the
the

coinage anyone from ~
I! one cannot get

senite of sodium one can
as toilows: 'Boil 111.
must never be used t s .for
other purpose, it pound 6 commercial
white arsenic and ‘2 pounds of m soda.
remaking soda) .in one-halt gallon 01: boil-
in water (This is the some as Kedzie
mixture stock solution wiflaout the lime).
s or this ”Benito ‘of

which

of the preparation! 10m
syrup. (2-; on maggots add t
.of this solution to one 3&- .
km water and-a pint of molasses. ’

mafia-0am at Melony I. A.
be . ..
& 1grind mmwomwh

 

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for you, are sure MW $0291;nt
the interact the men.% 1m-
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N the olden days folks put the world on the

back of a fabled giant called “Atlas.”
, day progressive farmers put a world ofwork
l on the shoulders of an -

International Kerosene Engine

rThis sturdy, reliable, willing, inexpensive
servant is doing more today to take drudgery:
'_out of farming than any other one factor.
tackles scores of jobs about the farm—such
as sawinghwood, pumping water, cutting feed,‘
t e fanning mill, etc., and disposesof,

them swiftly and satisfactorily.“ 7 p ‘
o . Ration’s fer the smallest size cost less than 15¢ per
‘ hour—pretty cheap board for a ”jack-of-all-trades"
that does the work of a dozen men.

,so hard. Slip all the pesky little jobs to an Inter—
inational.» It conserves your time and labor and fat-

tens our purse. There are three sizes, 1%, 3 and

., all operating on kerosene or gasoline.
International dealer nearby will go over this"
oint, and explain why itS‘
Or write the address)

An

work wizard, point by
“credentials" 'arc gilt e go.
@elpwaugi full iniormatioujvilrldbe‘sfiuppl‘igd)”

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R29 which bleaches the stalks
mt: ,than boards or dirt. A still

marks the produotoi the gardeners-jut

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grin?“ and better
_ of water-proof
paper, 10 or 12 inches high held lnplace by
was arches. is applied to 0 rows almost
astoutasemanosnwalk.
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Sides weighs about 60 lbs. This is a fully
4‘ - tested trucking necessi which has dem- \
castrated its value. rite for circular.

THE RUSSELLOID COMPANY
Dept. M Harrisburg, Penna.

  
     
  
 

 
 
 
 
 
  
   
   
   
  
    
   
    
   

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items before spring. The next few months is the time you will do your burn“
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help us. co tinnem 1! low. rate ”bi "
:I'sh'BIIUIgIOSS F‘W- .

~An illustration helps greatly to sell farm property- Byaddihl
810-extra- for. each-insertion of your ad, .you can have ‘
, your house. or barns printed at ,.
of~your ad. Be sure to send us a good clear photograph Or this .

 

,5 ”renown snounns 183 '- ACRE

‘Farm’, 5 cows and pleasant 7—room house,
' -mod.ern dairy barn, etc., convenient
yan't' es. 150 acres level tillage, 'high
cult vation, good corn, potato, grain land;
spring-watered pasture; estimated 1.000
[Scords wood; bearing apple orchard. ‘ Own-
’ r buy, ,on larger farm puts price. down
0 only $2,800, easy terms. Details page
.41 Catalog Bargains 19 States, copy free.
ISTROUT FARM AGENCY, 814 B 13., Ford
Bldg, Detroit, Michigan_

 

FARMS IN SOUTHEASTERN NORTH
Dakota; Stutsman and other counties,
:ma'ny highly improved,
:o‘or’n‘munities, near market, school
church. $25 to $50 per acre, 16 per cent
‘fash, balance crog payments or easy
erms. .Write for ig list, John B. Fried
00., owners. Jamestown, N. D. -

FARMS FOB SALE—4316 -L '1‘ OF
farms for. sale by the owner , giving
his name, location of farm, description,
price and terms. Strictly mutual and co-
opsrativebetween the buyer and seller
an conducted for our members. GLEAN-

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ER CLEARING HOUSE ASS’N., Lands

Dpt., Gleaner Temple, Detroit.

FOR SALE—160 ACRES 1,4 MILE
east and 1,5 mile north of Morley Mecos.
ta county, Michigan. Nearly all level,
gravel loam soil. Nice place for tractor
farming. 180 acres under cultivation;
30 acres wood lot and pasture. Nice or-
chard; good seven-room house, cellar, nice
shade. Windmill, water in housezdouble
garage; good barn; silo and other build-

 

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PAY FOR vM-Y RANCH OB FARM
land with clover seed._ Money loaned for
live stockist 6 per cent, in amounts equal
to first (payment made upon purchase.
,an G. Krauth, Millersburg, Michigan.

 

- vWANTED—ls to 40 ACRES OF HIGH;
well-drained, gravel loam, sloping to the
south or West, close to shipping point.
.Not more than '50 miles from =Detroit.
Will deal with owners only. .'Address N.
Grant Currie, 153 Harrison Ave; De-
troit. Michigan. ‘

 

FOB SALE—85% ACRES‘ 1% MILES-
west of Chelsea, Mich, Washtenaw coun-
ty.; 65 acres plowed land and rest is used}
as pasture, but can be used asya good
‘ hay land ; two-story barn with five horse.

stalls and 21 steel stanchions; 100¢ton tile
silo; chicken coop granary, 9.room' house},
small orchard. hele milk is shl‘igiped to
"Detroit .Roy C. Ives, Chelsea,’ ich. .

MISCEiLANEOUS '

. POTATOES . i
We have a few hundred! bus, of Petoskey
Golden Russets left: they are keeping
fine this cool weather in our cave cellar.
Breeding tells With potatoes, as well as
corn or live stock. We have hill-selected
for type as well as yield for 8 years, This
grade of seed is free from scab and well
worth the money; only $5.00 per 150-lb.
sack. TWIN BOY,FARM, Alba, Mich.,
E. D. Post, Prop. ‘

 

 

 

CORN HARVESTEB—ONE-MAN, ONE-
horse, one-row, self-gathering. Equal to a
corn binder. Sold to farmers for twenty-
three years. Only $25, with fodder binder,
Free catalogue showing pictures of har-

 

    
  
  
   
    
       
   
    
 
  

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

  
      
   
     
      
           
 
 

 

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what you raise!

the sod, who work with

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v-—.—it is a practical paper written
p-——it has always and will continue to

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no matter whom else it helps or

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. had become pretty rusty'and_~Was' full
‘ Qf'h'Oiefs-i” . ' . ' ' - I I

And it’ might have been, there, 'yet‘
but for the fact that, With‘mo‘re stock
, accumulating on the' place, another

it 'was used as the inside form for a
concrete tank, .and was left -
enltrly in place. ' perman
irst, the tank was moved to the
place desired, and a circle marked on
the ground, the size 0: the, tank. This
. as then removed, and a
16 inches larger than the, first; marked.
1A trench was dug betWeen the lines,
to a depth of fourteen inches ‘ 7
Then a lot of scrap boards were cut
eight inches longer than the height of
the iron. tank. About every other one
was tapered slightly at one end, and
algal: in (place, the taper came at the
, ore uce the to dia ‘
teal; when finished. p meterof the
e cement ratio as about fou t
one, mixed rather soft. Trhi:
iwas1 pouzjlelad into the trench;
no or ‘ e top of the ground, at t
outside, and the inside ground in th:
circle was covered to a thickness of
about six or seven inches, being about
an inch thicker in the middle.

, Anold steel stock tank began to. Ia I
‘ f on a'neighbc’s farm, and it was 1'9""
. placed "by a new\‘one. This cl'd’tankf ~
- was‘ thrown onto the iron pileg'fl‘and‘.

tank was needed in another letr—BTi't '

larger circle, '

to one '

uponethe2spit'='concrete.i~ itawas turned

.V evenly "upon the Whole: concrete.-

; A stoutwlreghbopifour inches small;

eruthancthe diameter oft,the outside Of

the trench’: was "made, ‘, and; the boards *

then/clipped into" place side by side,

the botton‘is' below the: .tbp ‘0: the '“

ground, ’ tight. against. the trench wall,
and the tops against the .wire neop‘.’_A
little concrete poured in held ~~ the
boards in place, and blocks out to fit,
when inserted between the metal, tank
, and the boards, kept the form‘space‘d,

«In this way the tank was gradually

built up. Oldwire, Vrodsand long belts

‘were placed at the bottom edge and “-
through‘ the mixture 'as..,it.was built , '

completely around the tank.» .

r: The top was finished off as shown in;
the cut, the ”Concrete lapping over the
edge of‘th'e rim .on the steel tank, to

up, with one or two wires running

«prevent water from running or seep- "

inr down between
the metal. ' '
-‘ A hole was made through the top

the concrete and .

for the inlet pipe, and this was put in ,

place soon afterthe forms were filled,
and the joint made solid with cement. ,
.- This has .been in use ibr several

years andis doing satisfactory ser- '

vice. The owner, however, is thinking

ahfdjtamped until the —_bcttiomfresterl « ~ '

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mobiles in the same

period of 62 per cent. Percentages
do not mean everything, but at the
same time it can easily be seen that
reductions cannot be made as quickly
or to so great an extent where the ad-
vances have been smaller.

There is another angle to be consid-

ered. When the War Industries Board
greatly reduced the supply of mater.
ials to «the automobile manufacturers,
and when it became impossible for
them to get materials delivered, many
of them—and this’ shortly before the
armistice—announced more or less
considerable advances in their prices.
As soon as the armistice was signed
and the government relaxed control
over the material situation, the cause
for this advance price was removed
and the prices could again be reduc-
ed. The farm machine manufactur-
ers also petitioned the government for
the right to raise their prices shortly .
before the armistice, but were refus-
ed that privilege, being offered as
part compensation certain allowances
in. the price of a certain kind of steel.
Had the farm machine manufacturers
been permitted to make this raise
which they declared to the, govern-
ment would be necessary, they also,
could at the present time be announc- I
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. . Pieces a wash of ur Cement to k ‘ ' 1 .
. F ti 1 it , R t 2, B t . PR ESS CORN HARVEST R f h - P as ma, e “a 31'
2' Morl:§,p§dricgi1§::: WI' 6 011 6 0! agegalmmo n. E 3n ix Si (371:: gear; forced down into the proof, as the inetal tank has continued if
. the large circIIe ngdto the outside of to rust, and water gets beneath the ..i, **
m- . . . , an the old tank was bottom.—-—Dale R. VanHorn, Nebraska. ' {if '-
CONSIGN YOUR UV STOC T0 Price of an Automobile and the Price of a Binder :2
. ‘ Beca . , s!
CLAY ROBIN SON & C O -..... ......
, e ductions in th 1% y announced re- , search into the secret files of the man- %
LIVE STOCK COMMISSION does not H 9 pr “es Of their cars, it ufacturers, it is just possible that the 5“
, price of f ecessarily follow that the margin of proflt'in the automobile bus; I
Chicago South St. Paul South Omaha Denver Kansas City d s arm 31301111165 can begreduc- iness is slightly larger than it is in 3"
Em Buffalo Fen Worm Em St. Louis Sioux City :m'n p113 at: 2333122103: ' t ’ the farm implement
E] P South St. ose h - ‘ “ . ‘.
:30 J p of prices until all ‘busmess. The agi 1—
i g the reasons are cultural implement ,
. counted, business is an old '
. . . For instance, it is . business which has '
1c gan Ive toc nsurance 0. ,estimated that th e come down from the
. . prices of farm tract- dam of cheap labor
INDEMNIFIES Owners of Live Stock—Horses, Cattle, Sheep and Hogs ors during the time, and cheap materials
Against Death by Accident or Disease . 1915 to 1918 advanc‘ and it1 is a1 highly
Saginaw Grand Rapids ed forty-six percent. 2 Effpg'iotfivihés’; “:9:
While an average ad- UNDERSEA NEWS ‘ SOD-S any advanceg
V vance was 'made on -
y l _ in price excepting
ll ten of the most p01)- F m Newsboy Extra! En”: such as were abso—

lutely necessary and F

demanded by condi-

tion have not been feasible because of ~»

conditions within the industry. i
Furthermore farm machines being ~'"

of such importance and necessity to .. 3:
the health and well being of the total ’ " 2;

population of the country, conditions
within it'have always been under the
close scrutiny. of the congresses of the
various states and of the, national
government. Farm machine manu-
facturer's have shown no great desire
to maintains margin of profit beyond
that necessary to repay a- reasonable
return on-capita‘l’ invested. ..In a new
industry like the automObile business
and one not so vitally concerned in
the essentials of life, it seems reason-
able that the manufacturers w0uld‘
have more latitude in extending their
margin of profit. We do not mean to
intimate that the automobile industry _.
has been at all extravagant in", its , ,
profits, but it does seem that its. mar-
gin might'be greater than for the
farmimachine i‘ndustry.‘ _, . j "
So it is hardly fair to asSume sim- "
ply because the price of [automobiles , ’
and certain other: commodities have} ‘
been reduced since the signing oftli'e
armistice and the beginning of ' the»
peace; conference that the [pr-ice offing“
ricultural equipment should .f'oll’éijvgfir
suit—Contributed ‘ by ""Aariqultur _
Familiar-Anya. ~ _ ‘ . ’ I

   
  
    

 

 

 
 
    

 
 
 
 

 


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his mentiit to your farm, don't let
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power and is constantly
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the same for you.
~ Write and let us tell you more about
it. Also ask about the Red River
Special—the thresher that‘ save: the
farmer's thrash Mll.’

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INFORMATION BUREAU

Build 149 Broadway New
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garment yBulleti tins or answer any in-
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Is Your Farm for Sale?

"juries out o plain description and 11;.

“.1801“! it in for one, two or thug

Michigan and you
fis’nggyer.

at to sell or- trolls

I311; . _ ad today. Don't

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kofthg‘lezdlrl unltoreplnce.”

.155 so to: each. word. initial or groin: of 4
’ .smhere's no cheaper or better way
' No agents or.

At the annual spring consignment
sale of the West Michigan Holstein
breeders held at the West Michigan
State Fair grounds. the cow from
Buth Brothers, Comstock Park, top-
ped the sale at $775. Her sfi'e is from

10-year- old cow.

county consigned stock to this sale:
,W. R. Harper, Middleville—S- fe‘
males.

H. E. Rising Woodland—1 female.

males. ,
F. D. Cutler, Wayland—6 females,
1 male ' .

The cow, Ridge Artis Veeman Hen-
gerveld consigned by H. H. Barnum,
born on January 19,1916,sired by S11
Korndyke Veeman Hengerveld, who
has a 30 lb daughter also a. 29. 91 lb
four- year-old daughter. that averaged
over 100 lbs.. of milk for seven (7)
days.. The Sire is a son of the first
30- lb. daughter 0f Sir Veeman Henger-
veld who has now 17 30-lb. daughters,
and whose dam is a sister to Northern
Forbes D who at 5 years of age gave
39. 87 lbs. of butter. in- 7 days—134. 54
lbs. in 30 days. This cow topped the
Barry county bunch at $375 while an-
other cow from .the Barnum herd
sired by the same bull brought $320.

, The Rising cow nearly a 2- -year_ old,
whose sire is King Segis Pontiac Jo-
sie from the 25-1b. 4—year—old daughter
of premier sire 0f the world and she
has a. 40-lb daughter that averaged
over 100 lbs of milk for 7 days. The
dam of this cow at 4 years 8 months
of age gave 18.17 lbs. of butter in 7
days and 442.80 lbs. of milk. She sold
for $355.

From the Cutler farms the female
Rosebud» Bernice De Kol Paul, whose
sire is from the first 31- lb. cow in the
state of Michigan, Sweet Friend Aag-
'gle, and whose dam has a. record of
20.13 lbs. of butter and 491 lbs. of
milk in 7 days: This cow sold for
$325. Three (3) of the cows from the
Cutler herd came back to Barry coun—
ty. All Of these cows will have calves
soon from the Mighty Rag Apple and
will be bred back to the Mighty Rag
Apple the next time.‘

Robert Cook, of Hastings, purchas-
ed Rosebud Lena Korndyke Pieteitje,
lborn December 19,1916 at 2 years av-
eraged 14 35 lbs. 01'. butter and 356. 30
lbs of milk in 7 days. Her sire is a
grandson of the premier sire of the
World, King of the Pontiacs, who has
more 40 lb more 30 lb more 20 lb
and more A R. 0. daughters than any
other sire in the world. The site's
dam is a 23- lb. daughter of Beauty
Pietertje Butter King, whose dam is
a. 30—lb. combination of 30 lb cows.
Her dam is an A. R. 0 granddaughter
of Sir Pontiac Rag Apple Korndyke,
who has a. 33-110. four- -_year old and
whose dam is a 31 lb cow, while his
sire has a. 41-111. four- -year-old the sec-
ond dam has a 26- lb. sister. She is
one of the finest animals in the sale
- and look at the mighty bred bull to
which she is well along in calf.

Rov Erway purchased Mary Pride
De K01, born February 18,1913. This
is a splendidly bred young cow that
should interest you. She is a grand-
daughter of Sir Vale Daisy De K01
Paul, who has a 29- lb. daughter that
gave nearly 600 lbs. of milk, while the
sire is by a son of Sadie Vale Concord-
ia’s Paul De K01 3rd who has a 29- lb.
daughter that made over 1,000 lbs. of
butter in one year Her dam is a.
granddaughter of Beryl Wayne De
Kol Paul, who has a 32 lb daughter,
and he in turn a son of the first 27-
lb. cow while the second dam has two
25-1b. sisteers and she is an A R. O.
cow. Just notice that she is bred to
one of the very greatest bulls in Mich-
igan and consider _what her calf will
be worth:

Mr. Erway also purchased Mazie
Jane De Kol Paul born January 20,
1913. This is a well bred young cow
that Will just go out and make a p10-
fltable producer. Her sire is by a
good transmitting 3011 Me Sadie Vale
Gaucordia's Paul De Kol 3rd, whose
daughters have some splendid milk
and butter. records and the sire’ s 'damv
has a 25431. sister as well ~33 several
other large producing sisters. Her
dam has a good combination "of blue
lines and her sire has a 23-lb. four-
year-old daughter Her. calf by the

 

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3 38-1-13. 3 year-old- daughter of a 32- 1b.'

The following breeders from Barry .

Harold H. Barnum, Woodland—4 fe-l

 

 

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because you like its taste, its _, ' 1

quality, its genuine gratificaa

tion. It satisfies thirst. J *

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cessfully imitate it, because its quality _

. is t1lindelibly registered in the taste of - -

the American public. -

 

Demand the genuine. by full name
~——nicknames encourage substitution.

THE COCA-COLA Co.‘
ATLANTA, GA.

 

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This handy combination plyers will cut and splice wire, pull
staples, grip pipe rods and nuts, and has a selewdriver attachment
The “Hawkeye” is drop forged and case hardened, highly nick-
eled It will work in closer quarters than any wrench, and is
light, compact and easily carried in the hip pocket.

YOU CAN GET IT EASILY ‘

All that is necessary is to send us $1 for only one NEW subscrip-
tion to Michigan Business Farming and the plyers will be mailed . ,
to you postpaid. Call on a neighbor or two, Show him a copy of the ’ ’ 9:
paper and ask him if he doesn’t want to subscribe to the only inde-
pendent farmers’ weekly owned and edited in Michigan. You:
will be surprised how easily you can get his order.

Then send us the subscription on blank below and mail it to us with
the dollar bill. The plyers come to you immediately after we receive the
order. ’Remember the subscription must be a NEW one—not your

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MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING, Mt. Clemens, Michigan I
One dollar is enclosed herewith for which send Michigan Business #1

Farming every week for one year to

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Send Plyers to me postage paid. ‘

 

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or copy as often as yen wish. Copy or
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it will cost *for 13, 26 or '52 times. You
before date of lean . {Breeders’ Auction,

breeders of live stock and
in type, show you a proof ‘and tell you what
changes must be receive’ one week
rite to-‘ayi ,

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., . a: . ‘- ' ma TYPE 2. o‘, GILTS BBED iron annuities
CATTLE CHOICE REGISTERED srocx 3°va “far”- A- A- W “ H ‘ ' ' -’ ,
noLSTnm-rnmsuii , 7———~——— M ' ., ‘ glmggflmlgs nl'Econnnn 1N
PERCHBRONS, POLAND CHINA sow AND men-r Did a. gom an. to Apr. 1319.:
_ .t . a, nine fan-owed A ril 28; sired by yo 8“ one. Boar pigs only for sale
! HOLSTElNS, - 5!)”.wa bi. “1°33ng EighBOb' ”0% 1:111] w-.8n)'del'. St. Johns, Mich”
. so 0 er - ._ . _ .
MOPSHIRES’ old at a. bargain, Has litters o
ANGUS. C. L. Wright, Joneeville. Mich.
, | _ DUI! i .. cnnsTEa WHITEB
Avfaéiiiy tgognrnygro 001m” mitt; ti; MED—Flt, I'll-MIRA. llCiI. WALNUT ALLEY Iggfysrnllmn aneTEB WHITE
“’0 are. ge, ace en . ' w t an, Orsae'at ric th
wégg‘figeifgngfigfig cagge 00:8th I. F. D. "m i ’ s. eh of 1919 crop six-oiliggmk~ mysztus- 50“. Either sexp es at will interest
HOIBtBIII-Friesian ' ws 0 e

. . breed are lar e,
weighing 1000 to 1500 lbs, and Mia
an excellent quality of beef.

l“)I-S'i'flm-FRIESl-Al‘i ASSOCIATION OF
“MA; Box 295 Brattleboro, Vt.

 

 

 

E. L Salisbury Breeds High Class

Holstein-Frieda!) Cattle

Twenty dams of our herd sire
Walter Lyons .
average 30.11 lbs. of butter in seven
(133's. Nothing for sale at this time
but young bull calves.

E. L. Salisbury, Shepherd, Michigan.

 

 

 

MUSOLFF BROS.’ HOLSTEINS

W.”- nr-e now booking orders1 for
young bulls from King Pieter begis
Lyons 170506. All from A. R. 0. dams
with credible records. We test annu-
ally for tuberculosis. Write for pric—
es and further information.

Muslon’ Bros” South Lyons, Michigan

 

 

 

 

FOB. BALE—HOLSTEIN BULL CA
from good producing cow and first qual-
ity sire. $75 for quick sale. F. W. Alex-
ander, Vassar, Michigan.

 

A REAL BULL

8 1d enough for service. His sire is
giieto? the best 81 lb. bulls in the state;
his dam a 23 lb. cow of great capacity.
His three nearest dams average, fat, 4.46

er cent; 514.6 milk 7 days. Priced at
200 if sold soon. Harry ’1'. Tubbs, El-
weil, Michigan,

 

TWIN BULL CALVES
. Born October 29, 1918; sired b3 Sir
Calantha Segis Korndyke 104008; ams
record, 24.35 lbs. butter and 621 lbs-of
milk in 7 days; due strai ht calves. Send
for particulars.—C. & A. uttman, Fowi~
erville, Michigan.

 

38-LB, ANCESTRY

FOR SALE—Bull calf born Feb. 6,
1919. Sire, Flint Hengerveld Lad whose
dam has a 38.105 4-yr.-old record. Dam~
17 lb, Jr. 2-yn-old. daughter of Ypsiland
Sir Pontiac DeKol whose dam at 6 yrs.
has a record of 35.43 and 750.20 lbs. in
7 da. Price, $100 F,O.B.

Write for extended pedigree and photo.
L. C, KETZLER, - Flint. Michigan

 

 

PREPARE

For the greatest demand and future
prices that have ever been known. Start
now with the Holstein and convince
yourself. Good stock always for
sale. Howbert Stock Farm, Eau
Claire, Michigan.

 

 

 

, sired by a son of

Bull Calves Friend Hengerveld

. .12: K rues

Bo and by a son 0 ng egs e o

i{o¥ndyke, from A. R. O. dams with rec-

ords of 18.25 as Jr. two year old to 28.25

at full age. Prices reasonable breeding
considered.

WALNUT GROVE STOCK FARM
W. W. Wyckoff. Napoleon, Mich.

 

 

 

 

REGIETEBED HOLSTEIN BULL 0L1)
enough for service. Sired by a andson

a good A. R. 0. record. Write for prices
and pedigree. Also a few females. Ver-
non Clough', Parma, Michigan.

 

HEIFER CALVES SOLD. DEED
Yearling and young cow for sale. Price,
$150 and $250, C. L. Hulett a Son. Oke-
mo, Mich. ,

 

 

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The Wildvvood Jersey Farm

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

Alvin Balden, Capac, Michigan.

 

 

GUERNSEY

 

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

GUERNSEYS WE HAVE A m.
Heifers and cows for
sale, also a number of well bred young
bulls—-write for breeding. Village Farms.
Grass Lake, Michigan. "

 

 

 

 

' Guernsey Bull
Regatered For Sale .
Born April 26 1918 Price $50
Last one lefti All the others advertis-
ed in M, B. F. have been sold.
Wm. T. Fisk, Vestaburg. Mich, R. I

ABERDEEN-ANG U8

ABELEEEN 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
€32.03:th Stock Farm. Ionia. Michigan.

 

 

 

SHORTHORN

HORN FOR SALE AT REA-

SHORT sonable 1vgrices. Mug“:
ize—winnin Scotch Bull, ester 0 e _

I5’76147, in mgany suites at head of herd of

50 0d t e Short orns. .

E. glsi. Payithurst, Reed City, Michigan.

 

snonrno’nNs. 10° HEAD TOPrisch;
lect from. Write me your wantS- Mich
reasonable. Wm. J. Bell. Rose CIW- , '

‘ E VAN BUREN CO Shorthorn
Brrégiers’ Association have young stock
for sale, mostly Clay breeding. Write
your wants to the secretary, Frank Bai~
ley, Hartford, Mich,

THORNS and POLAND CHINAB
Efliold out. None for sale at pres-
ent. F. M. Piggott & Son, Fowler. Mich

 

WANT? 1 represent 41

glignfiglgglg breeders. Can put you in

touch with best milk or beef strains. Bulls

all ages. Some females. C. W. Crum.

President Central Michigan Shorthorn
Association. McBrides. Michig :i.

 

win, Mich.

NO STOCK FOR SALE AT PRESENT.
Sihorthorn Breeder. W, S. Huber, Glad-

HEREFOBDS

Write today. Ralpn '

‘OWIS‘. Levering. Mich,

 

 

_ . MICHIGAN CHAMPION ‘HEBD‘ Ol' ‘-
of (301th Johanna Lad, his am has,

3188*??? RF:- - msmegogflggflnl warm DB. w. A. EWALT, Mt. Clem-

‘ Leo ' ' / ens, Mich, for th
8, ALI. SOLD; White Shepherd Pupppies; natural heel-
ce and one bull
~O. ’Swartz. Bchooieraft, Mich.
EVERGREEN

IG‘ TYPE r. 0.
Bold, nothing fo

r sale now, but
lacks this fall.
thank my many
atronage and every
eased with my hogs.
Gamant, Eaton Rap-

customers for t
customer has b

Large Type Po

that inquiry for L.
e boars ‘to Wm.

land China Hogs

T. P. C. serv-
Clarke, Eaton

and bought another,
eight and one-half miles
see me in my new home.

haVe two fine breedin

. g hue
and light steel '
All stock up ' pedigreed
mile west and
south. Come and
Free livery from

WM. J. CLARKE,
Eaton Rapids, MichiganV

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MEADOWVIEW FARM. B'EGISTERED

8 pigs for sale;

B
Moms, Famm} Lon GIANTS FROM

large and health
P0nca._Michigan.

ton. Michigan.

 

DOGS

ose beautiful Sable and

n Champion-

RABBITS

_TH,E RIVERSIDE RAB ‘

IsaoffzfiengGisomtg very fine Flag-{TRY
an , the '

color, Bred from 15 tlbhave the Size and

Sh Giants
stock, registered

blacks and light steels 1iIBriSteel greys,

eedin d .-
ng stock 2 months and up? Alfo
ks. dark steel
and registered.

0 weight Satisfaction
guaranteed or '
Member of N. Brngney refunded. Send

. A. and S. M. B. and
deliver the good:<_

F- E. Andrews,

‘ Williamston. Mich,

.BELGIAN HARE
Prices reasonable. nglalfloB 8 A LE'

Alanson, Mich, R

nd A. Ste '
'- 1. Box 50-A. ward,

GOOD STOCK
y. Black Giant Rabbitry.

 

SWINE. BRED

y Brookwater

PEDIGREED n
Hare bucks. UFUS R

faction Ellaranteed, -Hanley Bros._ Sails.

No. 55421, by St. Louis. Mich

the P i
water Cherry K r ncipal 4

or pedigree an

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also high class EADY FOR, SEE.

ewton , Barnhart.
Rabbits—Belgians ;

end for explanation of fall chicks and

STOCK ALL SOLD. new catalog"

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"TWO YOUNG
00 Jersey Boarg
stock shipped; e
allowed. Fricke

prize—winning
smooth type, ad

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weigh from 150

PEACH HILL FARM

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ED BELGIAN
Prices reasonable,

R. 3.

POULTRY

HOMESTEAD FARMS

Fall Chicks for Spring La

rown Leghorns; Anconas; Black Mi ~
orcas; Barred Rocks: R. 1. Beds; Vrvl'

yore—White and

Wyandottes. All breeds hatchin s.
Turkeys,- Geese D k —-—g egg ‘
delivery. , . no a, Cockerels for fall

New Zeelands,

. BLOOIINGDALE FARMS ASSOCIATION
Bloomingdale, Mlch..

Nflovrn nocxs ‘

CHICKS~ROSE AND SINGLE-00MB
Reds,and Barred Plymouth Rocks, 25 for
$4.26; 100 for $16; July and August de-
livery. Circular free. Interlakes Fara.

4. Lawrence, Mich.

MUD-WAY—AUSH-KA FARM OFFERS
Hatching Eggs from Parks bred—to-lay
Barred Rocks and “Regal
Wyandottes at $1.50 per 15; White Run—
ner ducks, $1.50 per 11;
geesie, (4100 (sicdh. Orders 11
rece ve _ r or now. Dik ' . ' .
Dryden, Mich. e C Mflm'

Dorcas” White

White Chinese
lled in turn as

OHN’S BIG BEAUTIFUL BA
Rocks are hen-hatched REED

good layers; .30 eggs, 3_00; 1
Postage paid, 3 00- $8.00.

lars, photos. John Worthon
R0
”BARRED PenCKZnWINNEBS. Won

. quick growers.

Cockerels, $4.00. .Circu-
, Clare. Mini}.

1
d Cockerel nd 4th

Cockerel at Chelsea Big Show.

from Pen 1 $2.50 per 15; “cm“?

Pen 2
$2.00 per 15, or $5.00 er 50. . ‘
Carrier returned). By parcel
SAM STADEL. . '

 

 

 

TEN-MONTHS-OLD-BUIL

Bull last advertised is sold. This
one born June 7, 1918. Sired by best
son of famous $30,000 bull heading
Arden Farms herd, King Korndyke
Pontiac Lass. TWO nearest dams to
sire of this calf average 37.76 lbs. but-
ter 7 days and over 145 lbs. in 30
days. Dam, a granddaughter of King
of the Pontiacs, Sir Gelsche Walker
‘Segis and DeKol Burke. A bargain,
Herd tuberculin tested annually,

BOARDMAN FARMS, Jackson, Mich.
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WOLVERINE STOCK FARM

ant to tell you about our Ju
Helrdeire. “Kins P0"“.8°.Lnndo mo"
d ke Segis," a. son of King of th
, figs, his dam is Queen Some of

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3. daughter of Pontiac Clothildg (1)3533? i

and Prince Segis Korndyke. a r
gambination of breeding. g 9.3:
We .are breeding this young sire to
the daughters of Judge Walker Pieter-us
our Senior. Herd Sire .whose a,“ five
dams each have records above 39 lbs he ,
81” has two 30 lb. sisters. 0 ‘ "

      

 

    

   

    

 

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- 10 ed beef young, bulls for
$32 difl‘ogdplineg an individuality No. _1.
If you want a pre otent sire, that Will
beget grazers, rust are. early maturers
and market-toppers, buy a. registered
Hereford and realize a big profit on yogr
investment. A life-time devoted t9rAY°
breed. Come and see me.—E. J, -
LOB, Fremont, Mich.

10 or 15 loads fancy quality
333113511 and Angus steers 5 to 800 1516s.
Owners anxious to sell. Will help bliy 0
commission. C. 1“, Ball. Fairfleld, owa.

lower Michi
HQGS Randall, M

Not how many! but how good! A few

120 HEREFORD STEERS. ALSO

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f1; ingrandson of Grant Buster and other
prise-winning boars. Prices reasonable.
L. W. Barnes and Son, Byron. Mich,

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our. (L’s—YOUNG so
10 pigs, Son's registered
gan, $110 to
anchester, Mich.

WS WITH 8 TO
and delivered in

anus. THAT ARE nabs—a. o. co
bined with high eggs-product“
ens, per setting. 15. $1.50. ir- p

ALLEY HERD myer, Williamston, Mich.

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Boar pigs, gran
Perfection 5th

Chelsea. Mich.
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50,000 FINE, HUSKY, W}: i
horn Chicks of grand ITE LEG
June and July delivery
everywhere by mail at $13
for wt 31%" direct. Full satisfaction
guaran ee . ree ca a 03. Hollan -
ery, Holland, Mich, R. 7. . d Hatch

laying strain for‘
- Shipped safely
er 100' $6.50

raiser: easements
as: eagerness.“
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Grass Lake, Michigan. - - . ’

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:CHICKS WE SHIP THOUSANDS, DIF-
f'erent varieties; Brown Le-
horns $13 hundred; booklet and test -

menials. Stamp appreciated. Freeport
Hatchery, Box 10, Freeport,‘ Mlch.’ -

HATCHING EGGS

 

 

 

MY BARRED P. BOOKS ARE GREAT
winners, extra layers. and yellow 1683
and beaks. Eggs by express :1. 60 per
.Baum-
gardner. Middlevllle Mich” R 2.

S. 0.3 B. BLACK MINOBCAS: EGGS
from pen No.1, $3. 00 per setting of 15;
pen N0 2 $2. 00 per setting. {Selected eggs
from. main flock $7. 00 per 100. R. W.
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LAYING
100 for 7 00
Harrison, ich.

BABEIL‘D BOOKS.
by parce spost. L. 13.8137.

FOB SALE—EGGS FOB HATOHING
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“i 35-ngde1'111'? Melvin, Mich.
: horn s 1.50 01-15333
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W Ch 3 40 cents each. Mrs.
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BARBED DOCK EGGS FROM LAY-
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for people w c we ld not have to have
chicks shipped. Georg
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8828 s a n as
Whitroau p “9 Oil? Arnold,Co e:-w
man. ,

EGGS FOB HATOHING. MP. awn!
Legho 7 MlchitggnAgr cu ural Col-
lege—bro trap nest roosters with our
flock at present 333.80 0. Mc-
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HATCHING EGGS — PLYMOUTH

Rocks, all varletles and Anconas. mus-~-
trated catalogs .Sheridan Poultry Yards
Sheridan, M1ch..cl:'t.

 

per _
daYe

Any man or woman who has
the use of a conveyance can
make that amount right in
the county where they are now
flying, taking subscriptions for
this weekly.

Hundreds of farmers are
only waiting for some no to
ask them to subscribe or the
weeklfith at is the talk of all

Mvvlc igan.

owant earnest,

nfsa men an

who wil evote
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women
or part of
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mph because, it
use ”goblin—

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go off said:

team and a pair in the lead.
said to every tractor salesman who
has talked to me:
can put a tractor on my farm that will
do my work as cheaply as my Perch- .
erons, I am ready to buy a tractor.” I
mean it, too. for I am in the business
of farming as a money-making propo-
sition,
power can be so perfected that it can
compete successfully with good Perch-

winter, when I prophet! my two boys
that I would do the shores for them.
As I leaned up, against the south side
of the barn, out of the wind, the hired
man scattered out‘aiload of corn fod-
der across the meadow. That was the
hay for sixty odd head of Percherons
that night. Then I,took a sack of cats

» and went to feed the calves, all Here-

fords and all alike. A farmer friend
visisting us said that he never saw
such ”an impressive sight in a cattle
lot before. As we went from lot to
' lot feeding e Herefords of different
ages I could see plainly why this
man was so pleased. As the calves
just weaned came running up over
the hill bucking and shaking their

heads all as white as snow, my heart
was moved and I gave them a little
more oats than I ever did before, be-
cause I, knew that even though feed
was high and scarce, every bushel of
oats theSe calves ate was going into
money making cattle. The cows, the
young heifers, and the sire of these
calves, all fared extra, well that’Sun-
day evening for I like to see them eat,
go away, and lie down contented, as it
were at the ‘end of a Perfect Day.
No sooner had I finished the cattle
part or my chores, than I heard old
Sidonla nickering at the barn door.
There were all the Percheron mares
with foals waiting for a' bite of
grain. That told me that the boys had
'been in the habit of feeding these
faithful matrons and their colts just
as I like to feed the calves. I 7 let
them all in and gave them a wash pan
01' cats in each box, mother and foul
alike. When they had finished, I turn-
ed them back to the pasture. This
friend watching the mares and colts
"Where is your tract-
or?” I said, "Let’s go into the house
and I'll tell you why I don’t use a
tractor. This is my reason. Twelve
years ago. I bought the old Percheron
mare Sidonia, in foal, her yearling fil-
ly and a weanling. She was then
eleven years old. From that start, I
have produced thirtymine head of liv-
ing Percherons, fifteen head of which
have been sold at a total of $7,350.
There are now on the farm twenty-
four moredescendants or this old
mare that I value at a little over $6,-
000 at present values for Percherons. ,
_I sold one stallion out of this old mare
for $1,300. I don’t farm with a tract-
or because I can't afford it. More
dollars' worth of,_Percheron.s are sold
off my farm every year now than. my
total feed bill and the mares do the
work of tilling a section of land, be-
sides last spring my attention was

called to the fact that we were plow-

ing for corn with three 14-inch two

bottom gang plows and that the power
we were using was fifteen pure bred
mares and every one of them heavy in

foal. We hitched three in the rear
I have

“Whenever you

and whenever mechanical

eron mares in working my land and.

doing it cheaply, I am ready to buy a
tractor and son oi! some Percherous.
This friend who wayvisiting me has a
tractor and twelve hundred pound.
horses.
working together on Nebraska farms,
but one seldom ever finds good draft
horses and a, tractor owned by the
same man.

These are usually found

After my friend left that evening.

my wife was curious to know why it
to‘gk. me so 1911: to do the chores. She
'. do
lot of time shoring)!
admit that it took longer than Iliad

“Youthinkthebmwaetes
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anticipated because I like to. stand
and watch the calves and the colts

wintry coats and tossing their saucy -

Semi-Solid Buttermilk is an
with nothing added—only t e

any other preservative.
keeps it fresh.

from feeding it.

when fed Semi—Solid.

~—~y0u have

Chicago
Omaha
Winfield Kans

 

 

 

eat. She said: “Our boys take after
their father in some things and I ex-
pect that is one of them." That set
me to thinking and I wondered if the
fact that we were breeding Percheron
horses, Hereford cattle, and Duroc
Jersey hogs was largely responsible
for my boys staying on the farm in-
stead of seeking the city. Young men
are usually progressive and want to
get ahead and there is no way that
they can accomplish so much on the
land as by breeding good pure bred
live stock. Then every bushel of
grain or ten of hay that is raised and
fed into such animals, goes much
farther and makes more money than
if fed into commOn scrub stock. I
have been a cattle feeder and breeder
ever since I came to this farm in Ne-
braska, twentyeeig’ht years ago and al-
though I have been in the Hereford
business only a few years. I can see
plainly that our farm will net $5.00
now every year from our white faced
cattle, where it wouldn’t make $1.00
before when we raised and fed com-
mon stock cattle. Whenever a father
can go to his son and present su’cfii en-
couraging figures it makes a splendid
argument why the boys should stay
on the farm and raise good live stock.
Then the doing of the chores becomes
a. pleasure instead of a burden and
more often than not successful farm.-
ers are made out of men who other-
wise would be failures—H. J. Ho-
Laughun, Doniphan, Nebraska.
‘ ——‘
«A‘MABKET AND PRICE" PHRASES
Market Excited: This represents
a condition. of uncertainty and a de-
cided bullish tendency on the part of
the seller. It suggests an upward
tendency and considerable price fluc-
tuation.
Market Stronger: This represents
a condition of increasing confidence
on the part of the. seller with likeli-
hood that the resent demand will
consume pr sup and sup-
plies in sight can be absor ed at pre-
vailing or slightly higher prices.
Market strong: This represents s

~.

re creamery buttermilk
water is taken away.
It is not modified by the addition of sulphuric acid or
Its own natural lactic acid

We Guarantee Every Barrel of Semi-Solid

We guarantee that Semi-Solid Buttermilk is pure
and unadulterated-sterilized and pasteurized
a safe feed and you will be satisfied with the results

Savestrain—Saves Time—Saves Money

Saves grain because it bahnces the grain ration
Saves time because hogs and poultry aftten quicker
Saves money because you don't
pay freight on the water content of the buttermilk and
you don t have to feed so much high-priced corn.

Semi— Solid Buttermilk is used
by the packers and other large
feeders in car load lots.
Agricultural Colleges have de—
monstrated by actual test that
Seml- Solid Buttermilk will fat-
ten hogs faster and save grain.

Seml— Solid condensed Butter—
milk is put up in 500 1b. barrels
it ready to feed
whenever you want it.
Solid keeps fresh any length of
time in any climate.

QUICK SHIPRIENT FROhI DETROIT FACTORY
01 from the closest of the following plants:

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155m SOLID surrERMqu
‘ “Make ’ Em Grow Fast!’ ’

Feed Your Hogs and Poultry
Semi-Solid Buttermilk

lt Keeps Them Healthy and Gets Them to Market Earlier

READ THIS LETTER

 

April 28, 1919
Consolidated Pro-
ducts Co.

We are glad to
inform you we are
deriving excellent
results in feeding
Semi—Solid Butter-
milk to our hogs
and poultry. We
never had them
grow so rapidly
and develop such
bone and flesh as
they have since
using Seml~Solld.
Kindly ship us
another barrel as
soon as possible.
We do not want
to run out of this
feed. a

Moraine Farm,

Dayton, Ohio.

It is

The

Semi-

 

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Cincinnati
Lincoln, Neb.
Sioux City

Kansas City
Denver
Benlcla, Calif.

Seml— Solid is in big demand so let us know Now how
much you will need.

Send Your Order To

CONSOLIDATED PRODUCTS CO.
Dept. MJBJE'. Home Office Lincoln Nebr.

 

 

condition of firm confidence on the
part of the seller. There may be a
good demand and supplies may be
relatively light so that the seller is
likely to stiflen the price at the first
opportunity.

Market active: This repdesents a
condition of quick sale, good demand
and a generally healthy condition.
There may be no decided change in
prices, although it usually indicates
an upward trend.

Market firm: This represents a.
condition of strong cinfldence in gen-
eral conditions, resulting often in
the strengthening of a price range,
but seldom in actual price advances.

Market steady: This represents a
normal movement with steady, con-
sistent trading showing no decided
change one way or the other.

Market unsettled: This repre-
sents a condition of uncertainty on
the part of sellers and usually indi-
cates a weaker tendency. There may
be no actual price changes one way
or another. Represents a waiting
attitude with spasmodic trading.

Market dull: Represents light
trading and suggests a condition of
uncertainty and possible depression.
There may not be any actual change
in prices.

Market weak: This may be used
in describing a condition of actual
price decline with the possibility of
further decline and represents a de—
cided lack of confidence on the part

of the seller. It may also be used
when no actual price declines have
taken place but with large supplies
on hand and heavy supplies in sight,
it is the prevailing opinion that a de-
cline is inevitable.

Market weaker: This is a com—
Earative term and refers back to con-
itlons of the previous day. It may
re resent an actual decline in price,
31 hou h the relation of market to,
rice s ould not be the governing fac-
or. The reporter should conclude
'by his “sense" of the market that
less con dence exists than when the
market steady. _
Market demoralized: This terns
is to be used only in very unusual ,
cases and represents a condition .
when stock cannot be moved at any

  
 

  

   

  
    
    
   
    
    
   
       
        
   
 
    
  
  

 
 


 

 

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ET US PAUSE Just a few minutes in the'rush
L 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! .
Ila/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 farmabut thank God, Michigan had ac-
cording to the 1910 census over 176,000 farm own-
ers 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 are 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
which they will have to sell, then—the 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
the buyer or elevator man what he is paying—a
good business farmer sets a price on his own pro.
duce 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 Busy
muss FABMING——and every season since has con~ ‘

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EAR FRIENDS of M -.B Fe—I hope .7611 T

will read this message, every word of: ,

it. It will pay you to do it. Theater
are stirring times. conditions change over 5
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 justS
three minutes to read this message. Please
do it now. ,

    

Publisher.

 

 

 

 

 

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 ourfarmers all of
the information which the buyer gets—for both

sides must have the facts to drive a good bargain. ,

Your Uninformed Neighbor an Unintendingg

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 DOOR
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 buyers.

It was to keep all the producers of Michigan in.
formed that this weekly was founded and our
value to you in maintaining the price Of you r 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 marloets in both the allied and ene.
my countries are begging for just the kind of food

Geo. M Slocum Publisher, Michigan Business Farming, Mt. Clemens, Mich. '

Dear Sir: ——The following whom I know to be farmers. desire to subscribe for One Year and promise by their signatures below to pay One Dollar af-
.ter harvest this fall, or by November first, 1919. Sincerely,

your subscriber,

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l L that Michigan produces in great. quantities.

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-- -than has been seen in’ years .
the world, Will not get to foreign markets, because;
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,price of Wheat is assured and Michigan has a
greater acreage and a better stand at this writing
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fer the fancy packers, but the p1.ce will be high
because its California, Colorado andpAsiatic infer-
.)iors Will go'to other markets.
all will be big money 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 this fall

and winter but all through the summer months.
when the trend of prices is being followed.

How We Meet the Summer‘Rush Time

From time 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 what its importance.
We have dene the shucking beige, you get only the
meat. So we make the statement that any [arm-
er in Michigan, no matter how busy his dayS can
well afford the few minutes it takes to read every
issue of his M B. F. and any farmer Who will do
it will find himself many dollars, perhaps hum
dreds ahead when it comes to marketing his crops

’ or live stock in the tell.

And Your Uninformed 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 aim 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 busingss farming in

in Michigan.

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