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‘ insuring World Against Feed‘Shortage

, When Farming is Made as Safe. and Profitable as Other Lines of Business,
FEW WEEKS AGO the the Fear 'of Famine will Vanish people in Belgium, Poland, Rus—

' street car employes of De-
troit went on a strike for
higher Wages, and [for four
lays not a'single street car was seen upon the streets of
that city. The cessation of service caused no end of in-
convenience to hundreds of thousands, but for the most
partthey‘ accepted the situation‘good-humoredly and man-
aged somehOW to get'back and forth from their work. In
a short time the diiferences were adjuSted, the men went
back to work, the street cars beganrunning again and the
public took to riding upon them. And to all appearances
[the traveling public was none the. worse for the experience.

‘ Now suppose that tomorrow’s editipn of the press

‘ _. should announce that the farmers of the nation had or-

dered a General Strike and until

By FORREST LORD

sia, Armenia, and other coun-
tries. And because the sur-
‘plus of the more fortunate
nations was not sufficient to feed them all. great numbers
starved to death. The point I would make is that the
present generation has known starvation, not because of
poverty, but because of an actual shortage of food. With
more than a billion and a half mouths to feed and only
food for, say, 1,449,000,000, somebody had to go without.
At the same time that thousands were dying of starvation
practically the entire remainder of civilized people were
on rations and eating much less than the normal consump-
tion. If there has been starvation once in the twentieth
century there may be starvation again. In fact, it is al-

, most a certainty now that whole
nations will have to go on short ra-

 

certain grievances were adjusted
they would sell no more of their

tions next year and perhaps several
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grain, ~ vegetables, meat, butter, Be Sure to Read m This Issue

‘ eggs, wool, cotton, etc. The an-

t , ii :noun‘cement would be greeted at
l ' first with incredulity. No one
icould believe that human. beings

- :would resort to such a barbarous
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lations are to be fed. i?
‘ Now the cause of all this hunger
was in a sense unavoidable. The
farmers did not go on a strike. .

They did not deliberately curtail rd?
production. On the contrary they

“INSUEING THE WORLD AGAINST FOOD
SHORTAGE.” a. timely subject :01 world
interest (Readers ere urged to submit their
opinions on this topic.) Bead pages 1 and 2

“DAlRY COUNCILS SEEK REFORM IN
MILK MARKETING,” an astonishing dis—
closure of evils that need correcting, page 3

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. ll 314st convinced that the statement . HOPPER MENACE," ..... ,_ Page 4 put forth every effort, without ‘1}
' _ . were true, the mind can well im-' Pointed Comment on' Legislative Matters by stint or reservation, and .many of ‘ '
"i” ' ' gagine thelfear, horror andifinally 3“” ““1““ ff"'" . """ ‘ """ Pa” 5 them produced the biggest crops 7.?"
4 even madness that would anecess-= . . ’ - , , ,, . they had ever grown. They pro- 1
. : aziv—elysseize the populace as the full _ _Watch FofTh‘ese Artie files duced these. crops under the sever- *
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”g j , ~ ~ ,. = significance of the situationdaWn- , _

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‘ ' ' This “deadly parallel” is drawn

:fora purpose. That purpose is to _

impress upon the minds of all that

, . there is not a single living soul but

‘ that is vitally Concerned .in the

“How Louisiana Solved Its Marketing Prob-

‘ lems by State-Owned Warehouses,” And
they didn't call it Bolshevism or'Stste
‘ Socialism.L either.' A special series of ~ar-
ticles written exclusively for Michigan
‘Business Farming by Will Branan, editor
and publisher of the Merchants’ Trade In—
dex of New Orleans.

"The Coalition Committee for. hilchigan,"
what“: is, how it originated and its rela-

labor, without adequate capital,
without adequate assurance that it
they were to receive even a fair
profit on their investment, they
worked—slaved would be a better .
word—twelve to sixteen hours a H

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" ton to organized farmers' movements.

day and harvested a bumper crop.
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"who raises it, the farmer. Strikes, '
,are common things. Scarcely a day

,passes by that the operation of an automobile plant, ,a
street car system, a clothingfactory, a coal mine, or other
industrial enterprises are not curtailed or entirely halted
by a strike of the employes. But the world moves on just
the same, (1 except for the press would probably never
know of these slight industrial disturbances. And yet,
remotely as the public welfare is touched by the occasion-
al hindrances to the production of the luxuries and the
minor necessities of life, great minds are at work to solve
the industrial problems and to make strikes and such
things unnecessary. If it is a matter of public concern that
the causes of industrial strikes be removed, of how im-

‘ measurably greater importance it is that the cause of ag

ricultural unrest be removed.
’ The people of the United States have never known
the fear of, famine. There has always been plenty to go

1 around our national table and usually a little left over to

.end to our neighbor’s across the sea. But our vast plenti-’

lztud‘ephas not been enough thalast two years to feed many,

that. that great potent incentive for
maximum eifort on the part Of all,—-national need,—has
largely subsided, and the difficulties of farming have, if
anything, become greater than ever before, the farmer may
be expected to ease up a bit, and be excused for so doing.
It is not true as a state senator was recently quoted
in the press as saying that the farmers “plan to strike."
But it is a novel idea. to say the least and since the efficacy
and the legitimacy of the strike has been recognized in in-
dustrial circles it may appeal to some who count not the
consequences that the strike might be used to as good ad-
vantage in agricultu ral circles. However, the possibility
of farmers “striking” for higher prices is too remote‘ to"
be even considered. :In the first place they are not well
organized; in the second place the rank and file of the
farmers could never be brought to a position, except that
of direst extremity, where they would use such a horrible
weapon. But individual farmers may “strike,” not for
the purpose of cutting down the supply of food or to force
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Farmers; bakers, butchers, lawyers, manufac-

‘ turers, bankers, etc., are in business to make

money. When any business no longer pays divi.
dends, the incentive for continuing: in that busi-

. ness is removed. The aVerage farmer has reached

that point in his business where production trou-

blescoup‘led with high production costs have just.

about robbed the business of both pleasure and
profit. You may call his mood what you will. It
is sufficient to say that he will not this year or
perhaps next year or many years to come put
forth such herculean eflorts to produce food’ as
he expended last year. There must be a radical
change in the methods of production and market»
ing; there must be more profit when the balance-

sheet is drawn; there must be less work and more ‘

play, if Mr. Farmer is to regain his old interest in
his vocation and produce normal- crops.

It has only been during the last . ear that the
consuming.- public get acquainted w th the. tarm__
or. In former years he was a dim, distant figure
without caste or dignity. His profession was he ~
to be menial like that of a servant or a laborer on
the street. But today he is reckoned as a filial.
wart figure of brains as well as brawn and fit to
take a part in the larger affairs of the nation.
And because the consuming public is now fairly

certatnzterme but merely to mm. are lot “flithifld‘
works“: worry and possible flnancialriessr

   

This 'drainin

      

. 011.11%! Bi- .
yiiherhuigration misses.
on for: thekbetter’.’ 2‘ "
yet not? one single pueblo-t sugmsti’esrror effort
hes-been advanced .to stemdt. Where will it end?
of the. rural population cann'ebgo
comer or later it must show its'ef-

  

on forever;

feet . in abandoned farms» and grave shortages oi.
It is a fact that the average farmer upon.

food.
eighty acres of land can go into almost anyindns.»
trial center today, get a job and earn money« with
less work and. far less ,responsibility than upon
the farm. What, we may well ask, can keep the
farmers at the plow producing food for those who
labor in other fields so long as thishsituation‘ con-
tinues?

Scarcely a statement has been made in the. fore-
going with which the student of economics. will.
not-agree.-
be pretty well appreciated by all concerned but
none as yet has/had the foresight or courage to
suggest a remedy. We are. reminded or the man
who lay sick with fever, while renowned special-
ists gathered 'round. All were agreed that. the
patient was: in a». bad way, but all were. divided as
to what should hedone. And the patient died.

Thewriter is not so conceited as to think that
he can suggest a. remedy that .will put. the farming,
busineSs on its feet and in a position to compete
with other lines of business. . But. it. is a matter.

as ‘i.
sarcomas last. Mfrmrafian'dw 13‘

The gravity of thesituation seems- tor

   
         
   

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a~fm.sug&esi$fln.meetwhelpa; . v, .

Farming does nordvitsmgrsatlytremxanmm
trial enterprise. ' The tumor takes. all thrush“
incident to' themanuiaetnringc‘gemes and: new

 
  

 

tion the'risks' o: the elements: Practically oversr
risk encountered in the manufacturing. process: .

the manufacturer can insure.himself against, but:

the .farmer cannot escape the wrath of the slew:. . L'
If for no other-reason than that the pro- ; _
ductiorr. of his crops is surrounded with vast. 11:11-2. * ‘ "

   

ments.

certainty and potential disaster the farmer: should?

'be in a position to fix the'pri‘ce on-his harvested: '
product commensurate with the cost 0f producing}; '
it, thereby iortifying himself against the ,emrbp. ‘
Lt 'wou’ld‘ber .

tant tells of unseesonab‘le" weather;
had enough fertile farmerz' tov be deprived: of the?
ability to fix the selling price: of his .goodg werehor

exactly in the same position as other manufacture ,

are. But consider; if you» please, the great acute

tional hazards. to; which he lgwubjmt, animals”): .
‘ no longer that the farming business is weak. 1

wobbly. .

Put the farmer; where“ he camregulateithe-supfi
Dly and the. selling price of his product so thattha'
my earn a fireman-d nominal interest on his up;
vestment after all costs of production are. paid;
and the patient will get w’ell. No longer will the:

world need to worry about where the' .

     
      
   
       
     
    

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'well acquainted with the farmer and
the great, harassing problems: pea-
culiar to his business, it is beginning
to look upon him with a more charit-
able eye, to show an interest» in his
problems, and to offer words of ad-
vice.

It is not stretching the truth to say
that no class of people in the world
have had more advice visited upon
them- than the farmers. In this re-
spect the American people have been
prodigal, if not profligate. No Amer-

' ican magazine or newspaper that.
. amounts to anything considers that

it has done its full duty to the public
unless it prints an occasional story
bearing upon some phase of farm life.
Such story often repeats statistics to
show the increased cost of produc-
tion, the increased selling prices of
farm products, the trend of agricul-
tural labor to the city, fluctuations
in acreages, comparative figures of
production, etc., etc., until the read-
ing public is now pretty well convinc-
ed that farming is not so pleasurable
and profitable as generally supposed.-
By awakening public interest in these
matters the great magazines and

newspapers have performed a valua-
ble service to agriculture. Perhaps
their function stops there. Perhaps
in consideration of this. service the
farmers can afford to overlook the
senseless. if well-intended, advice so
freely offered in their news columns.

Anyone who claims that there is
nothing wrong wi-th‘the farming in-

dustry is ignorant. , Otherwiseyhow'

shall. he explain why, while near .
all minor industries pay large di -

d-ends upon the invested capital farm. .

ing, the greatest 01 all industries, of-‘

I “ten pays nothing at all upon the in,-

vestment and a very meagre recom-
pense for personal services? How
shall he explain why men engaged in
that industry are obliged to perform'
the work of two or three men during
certain seasons of the year simply
because they absolutely cannot afford
to pay the wages equal to those of-
fered in the industrial plants of the
cities? His answer will be that this
is a temporary condition and does
not indicate that anything is basical-
‘ The only
reason that industrial concerns can
give to labor the high wages and
short working hours that attract lab-
or from the farms to the city is. be-
cause these concerns are in a posi-
tion to shift the added cost upon' the
public, and suffer no hardships them;
selves. But how different. with the.
farmer. Every additional cent which
he pays to labor must come out of his

. own pocket for the marketing price-A

of his products reckons not-2 Writhnth.t‘
cost .of production. be it greatest.
small; There is something wrong fun-
damentally with farming as a busi-
ness when those .engagedsin. it arm .s

ter’ly powerless to. regulatethe-se ...

ing rice of the product tomeet ,fluc-,
tuat one in the~costof producing the

product. . .
The count population ind-menu:
city-ward. ' he farmers realize it;

the city people realize it: the eco-
nomists realize it; even the govern.

' ment is. cognizant of the trend; And.

all these are worried over it . It" is!
an unnatural movement. It connotes.-

1 an unhealthy condition of rural life.

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mitt about; themselves; had to. depend: upon Wit”; mm;

   
 

   

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SHEEP 0N SHARES
a farm paper

‘I have read with interest and amusement an article in

explaining how a city-firm proposes . putting out sheep: on sfharezr. (:3.
Michigan farms. The said-‘ilrm- to furnish the- sheep and the ”131: of
give them good care and feed them and give the promoter one— ided
the wool and one-half of the lambs. This seems to me like agne-gam
division of the income. from the. flock. What do you thinkio a: e’?‘
paper encouraging farmers to enter into such a partnershp. hem -
C. H. E. -

This is a modern pro-moter’s idea of’uthe old systemof putting
sheep out to double. No intelligent farmer would thmk at leading afid
caring for a flock of sheep. during the year and givmg some slick (h };
promoter one-half ofthe income from the business. It means t a
‘Shylock" is exacting his pound of flesh in terms )f one hundred per
cent interest.
to go through its editorial rooms is not edited by men familiar,
shoe farmi here in Michigan. ,

pryou reigto page 350 in the March 1 issue of the Michigan
Farmer you will find an article-byE. L. Vincent explaining the old
practice or putting sheep out to double. This article seems to bag
created considerable interest and promoters have approached us wi
schemes. to put sheep on Michigan farms on a ha1f_and-ha1f basis, but
we have refused to lend our columns to such propaganda.

In a few instances breeders of registered sheep have found it profit-
able to themselves and to progressive farmers to put breeding ewes out
on a half-and-half basis; the farmer feeding and cariug‘for the flock,
having all of the wool and one_half of the lambs. In such cases the
owner usually does all of the advertising and selling. As a commercial
proposition such an arrangementis too much one‘sided for any prac-
ical farmer to think: of entering. into.——The Editors. .

M. B. F. OFFERS $50 T0 CHARITY

HE FOREGOING letter and comment appeared. in the June 28th
I issue of the Michigan Farmer, owned by the Lawrence Publishing
00., of Cleveland, 0., also publishers of the Ohio Farmer and the

I Farmer. Much as we dislike to engage in controversy
Pennsylvania he fact that M. B. F. is the publication mentionn .

with a contemporary, t
ed in the alleged communicationand the fact that. the editorsof the

Michigan Farmer deliberately sought to belittle ,us we are. forced to a
point of defense. .

We doubt the authenticity of the communicationwhich on'the face
of it appears to have been written by a reader of the Michigan Farmer
and used byth‘e editors as a bona tide letter. We assert that the letter
was not written by a farmer, and we challenge the Michigan Farmer
to produce the original letter, the envelope bearing the cancellation
stamp of the United States postofilce, and other proot that the letter is
what it purports to be, a bone flde communication. from a subscriber to
the Michigan Farmer. Providing the Michigan Farmer can reproduce
in its columns such evidence as will prove to our satisfaction the gen.
uineness of the letter we will donate to the Michigan Red Cross the
sum of $50. . .

We charge that the aforesaid letter was writtenbya member of
the Michigan: Farmer- staff for the purpose of manufacturing sentiment
against a plan which had been briefly discussed in the columns of M.

. B. F‘. We charge that the sole purpose of the Michigan Farmer in in-

venting this letter and commenting upon it was not to protect its read.
are from the machinations of a “slick city promoter" but to turn its
readers against MPB. F.

The merits of the sheep-wool society are, we freely admit, .open to
question. They are largely for the individual farmer to decide for him-
self. Our opinion- nor that of the Michigan Filmer for that'matter,‘
counts for little. The fact that we have received: enlarge 111mm? .

letters fromufarmers WhOthfih‘B. to take advantage.“ tn... mm. an .,

not one single. letter, in opposition to it. is all the evidencew.
that the MichiganFarmer' is barking up the wrong pole. ‘But' this. is

L neither the time nor the piaoevtediscuss the merits‘of'the planr Later“

we shall-have=mere..-to catatonia it: ‘ .
. 'Th‘eylflchimm Format. 'incautiously lays aside its armor when it

. mentions .amarticlezby E. L. Vincent published in its March lit: 13311..

The lasttime we heard from Mr. Edgar Li Vincent he resided in a far

1y, . if. not 2 alwaysiaultlessiy, discusses every phase of, farming from.

fruit-growing to dairying, from hotJronse farming to ranching,» as In.»

sum «in mm. immuwus

. Mrcnresn Busnmss Flame long ago closed its column“ t a. pro-

regionalmriters wheelmow how to tellothors. how todarm, twould.

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w .

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-'- ward, the bran-1 mash. poison which 1

H8 (1093 not 113“ the=.reputatiun,:0121391113- acm!‘
farmer ~or-ocquaintedmithvthe. imingconditionmm; Michigan, H“
2 doeshave the: reputation.“ being a professionalwmm and he “”1““

  

 

 

bread for tomorrow is coming from; '
for farming will" offer the ‘same- in- ‘
ducem‘ents‘to capital as other" indus-

try offers and people Will engage in ‘L
farminghecanse it pays: Oh, to be:
sure, there are those ultra-pract~icalz
people who wilLexclaim that it can—'
not be done. Others-*‘will remonstrate
against. placing. in the. handset the:
farmers the vast power of fixing'the
price ofthe world's bread? and butter
altho the manufacturer or every oth’é
er necessity amhlumy of life. exert? ,
cises that power. Let its be granted; < A '
that there are great and seemingly'in.
surmountabie'diflicuities in the way.‘
Let it be granted that there are at ~
thousand. and one steps to be taken; ‘
a thousand and. one obstacles to be
overcome, before the plan could be:
successfully undertaken. ‘ It will be:
necessary and advisable: from botlr
the farmer's and consumer's point of
view .for the farmer to take over the
machinery of distribution.' It will be
necessary and advisable for the farm;
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the enactment of laws which will pert:
mit him to have control over the
things‘ he produces. After he has:
done all these things and: eliminated?
every waste inthe marketing of hisi
product he must then take the. final!
step looking to the regulation of his: (
supply and selling price. Protest:
against it as the: consuming-sputum
may and undoubtedly will; shoui'dthe:
time ever come when the farmer“ eta >
tempts to take such a step, it now-aw
peers as theonly‘ possible insurance:-
against to‘od. shortage-and hunger.
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Fol-lowing: - Miler. Campbel 1’s revels-w
tions on the wool. situation the Boer i
tnn dealers come back wit the fol-
lowing story to- the press): -
“The Boston W001 Trade associal
tion officially has' taken cognizance. 1)
-of the slur onrthe character and pat”
riotism of. its members by Milo D.
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structed‘Secreta-ry F. Nathaniel Per..
kins. to write to Mr. Campbell and;
ascertain whether he was correctly:

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NEW HOPPER BAIT Usnn

A new poisoned. bait . recipe- for.
grasshoppers has been used success
full by farmers'in various parts. of”.
Mic igan.» When-the priceswor‘ bran
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was considered the most eflectiwe, be; ;
came too, expensive to be in ueve 4-
ends'reaclr. . Sawdust'has beams r
stituted with: fairly-v‘good ‘ succew.
Paris green. hassles Jumped: im prior:
and the. new recipe provides aysnba .s
stitu'te. ' " .
The foliowinr recipe -' is recount
mended'r Intera- 2bushel cf screened t
sawdntvthoroughiywmixeby strum
a pound oi» poisomor. crude arseniousr“
oxide. In a gallon of watervdissulm g . .
Wrasse-mmt minim: ;
add one—half. of a cup or moles”

   
   

 

 

  
   
   
   
   
   

 
 

 

     
  
 
  
 
 

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‘ FITEERIN‘G ==W§ITH MILK .- offers wimper-
gap, : ative need .for auhonsecleaning, according
. .ztoéthe maintains :hoth oi! .rma-ny prominent
farmers as well'msnlwsinessvmen .in the cities.
According‘ to .. evidence obtained by MICHIGAN
BUSINESS Emma, "the 4811203121011 dis most acute
in. the Detroittnrea, which, roughly, radiates-for

      
 

= (Danube-problems ..and solutions‘z-are similar, for
the ethereal-cos of Michigan.

, Thai-Dairy Councilmovemmt, originating this

springrin; Macomb County, . andss ’ into

1. ' neighboringnounties, contains-solemn“ which

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, promise :-to-. ~hei-p’rselvve the emissawitusmefl both
i to..prndueer .anduconsumer. .Ths consumer; pays
meshumired- pert-cent mane-than what the pro:-
ducer= is'rpaid why-the distributors,.; who - walk
away. ,:with.r..that “thundered mums which
should .,be=.divided' to anemohnlaigerwextent he-
tween :the producer,=;andxconsum.er.
'..‘A’ithongh-;8,0‘90 farmers, in the Detroit 70-
mile circle alone, already belong to the Michigan
Mil‘k‘ Producers Association, there are many
producers both in the Detroit area and out of
it who are "not members of one or other of the
“locals,” or community units of the association.
' Each of these iocals in the Detroit area before
this spring had sent tWo delegates to meet-
ings with the Milk Commission at Detroit. This
system seemed too bunglesome and unsatisfactory
to great numbers of' produceers.
But- in the, last few months the Dairly Council
movement sprang into being in Macomb Coun-
,“ty. It was formed with a realization, its leaders
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tion was merely a “paper organization” and
while havingundoubtedly accomplished many» im-
portant reforms in the marketing of milk, had
for some time past reached the zenith of its use
fulness and; was now in need of reorganization,
new life and a-more accurate conception cf the
increasing problems confronting the equitable dis-
tribution of milk. =

Gideon Bryce, of Romeo, now president of
.the Macomb County Dairy Council, and R. G.
:Potts, of Washington, (Macomb County), are
both delegates at largev't-or the Macomb Coun-
oil at the Commission meetings in Detroit.
These two delegates represent the twelve locals
of .~Macomb county and the .24 delegates eligible
to the meetings. ,But these two delegates-
.at-large have twenty-four votes .- at the commis-
sion meetings. They are carefully instructed
and accomplish their missions with dispatch
and efficiency.

R. G. Potts is given especial credit as- the
originator of theidea. H. V. Kittie, county
agent, deserves. credit for putting the project
across, together with splendid co-operation of
the 1150 milk producers of Macomb( organized
in their twelve locals.)

' Dairy Council Spreads

As the nextmeeting of.the commission draws
near in Detroit, it is expected that other coun-
ties will report organization on the Dairy Coun-
cil/basis. Already four counties besides Macomb
are =known to be organized under the new plan
and still others are expected «to come through
with the news that the finishing touches have
been put upon the consolidation of their locals
into county boards.

So far as it can be determined
the dairy council idea, of «making. catalog-1:35:13
crete state producers association out of the exist-
ing system, is brand new. The movement voices
a growing demand from farmers and city con-
sumers for a reduction of the waste, inefliciency
and .proi-‘iteering :ocf =.thehnidd-lemen in our mar-
keting system. ‘
Justto show the progressive and r '
attitude of the Macomb ,Dairy Councielfownlliliglgi
is vmerely typical .of the producers organizing
in other. counties to cut out the, profiteering
and waste, .the =leaders point out the demands

sent to Charles H. Brand, as federal director
.of Markets.

~Rcmodies Proposed by Kittie

Although many , muggy zmnts

~and farm bur—
eaus have been ..distrustad

. . ork hasxts d
rapidly into all- .but eightqcoun’tiesin Michligzi,

"and. unquestionablyrsome not, these :ugents .113-
some :real applause from bathithqmmrand
the- city consumers. _ H.. Va..Kittie,= although

1 sharply criticized whenzmoming to = Hmong,
. county, ;-has=.i‘sawe0 woodfliand Won «'Isupport
p: at least reunites .-nnmher «orthewfiar

‘ _ more in
phenomena. .lHis were in. megard- to-‘the

I My enuncumamculam =tru3hody=inasmuch

homes: triummmbenmclitimes ztovresign in
(reassignme- mamas: dam inuhi'mstom
mensmummmwommmmwosmrmfl
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:se-venty. miles“ ‘from the center .01 that .=city.'

seamen is :maommm cramming» beside

By wanna-E. BURNETT

 

 

. Clean-Up ithhoitDémanded

HE MAGGMBlcmunoil members meal-
, - I ized :a milkamarket cleanup in Detroit .

was imperative (and still is). Ac- ,
.cordinglythey trained several points in .
+a:petition torv a :surveyasent to the gov-
r ornment...Althoughmthe government stated ,
Ethat itt ‘was‘willing to ~make :the survey, it. ,
.ismnablo to begin 10118 .until the consumers
.=-also Join in the request.

. lithe-amattercof'zthe: milk survey not Do-
“ “tacit-is: reservedwsor m-mpeoial article etc .
,rnhe mliflIaedesoon, but enough has been "
L». said. in :nzega'rd :to'it‘toushowfzthe attitude
of'z'bhe farmers. 'mbiszxattitude :may be :more
#blmn‘mghl'y clarified Joy summarizing the ’
petition sent to the government:

.(Eb) limiter-mime ”how many gallons «of
milk are shipped daily to Detroit from
the Detroit area.

(2) Determine the amount
‘ ,sold directly to consumers.

(3) Determine the amount of milk over
and above the amount actually consumed.

This begins the sections relating to the
milk' surplus problem).

(4) Determine the amount of milk con—
verted- into butter and sold directly on the
consuming market.
verted into butter and held

(5) Determine the amount of milk con-
verted into butter and held for speculative
purposes. .

(6) Determine amount converted into
cottage cheese and sold directly on the
consuming markekt. '

(7) Determine amount converted into
cottage cheese and held for speculative
purposes.

(8) letermine amount of milk con-
densed and powdered and held for sum-
mer consumption. (This includes milk said
to «be condensed and used for making ice
cream. The public is not aware of this
practise).

(9) Determine the actual loss in dollars
and cents accruing to distributors through
so-called “surplus.”

(10) Redistrict and plot the City of
Detroit to determine the inefliciency of
the present system of gross duplications
of work, whereby 100 agencies do the work
which' a dozen or fewer could do, with
little overhead additions.

J= . =5

'successor so he has no “ambitions” in theCouncil
work.

“The Dairy Council Movement," said Mr.
Kittie when interviewed during a ride in his
“flivver” which was making one of its break
neck trips over the county, .“was something
.which the farmers themselves started. They
had got sick of getting little or no profit for
producing milk, while the folks in the cities
were paying twice'as much as the farmers were
being paid. The farmers had given up hope
'of real aid from the Michigan Milk Producers
Association as it now stands, although the ob-
iect of the Dairy Council is not tovdestroy but
rather to strengthen .the state association. The
iarmers .call the. present state association a
‘paper’ affair, whereas they require a ‘concrete
organization.’ "’

Mr. Kittle pointed out that one of the great-
‘est needs that the Dairy Council saw for the
state association‘was a greater income, build-
ing up a fund of around a half a million dol-

' of milk

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.viars. With this fund the farmers could in short

order take eyer a distributing plant in Detroit
and supply the-city, in case the distributors re;
fuse to reorganize on a more ,eificient and fair
basis, both to acousumerandproducer. At pres-
ent only onencent-per::.=humdr.ed-:pounds5 of milk-
goes into the estate association's treasury, to
pay a few «salaries-and $90 per -month advertis-
ing'in Detroit street cars,'etc., but the amount is
pitiably small for a big association.

The ‘Dairy Council leaders :would have a
fund large enough topay for a few experts, at
toast one of whom (would make a year-round.
survey of zcond'itions in the city. .At present,
ofweourse, a simple audit of the books of the
commission «nay be: made =as for arithmetical
accuracy, =but there-are-sovmany differences in
the various-parts of theyear that a survey of a
fewrdays uneven ~a dew-weeks-could not get at
thefhasis lot ' things. -

,"The'imacomb’nairy Council already has up-
Iward- ‘Mma‘mand idoliars dn 'its =low-n ==ilund
and 'iaiaegemgeaheadfifimith at little mash: i the

O t

S ‘ V ewrganlzatiom,sSpreadlng mSoutuhem Michigan, Bromine Better

.quomum.

   

ng of .M ilk

sending resolutions. ‘ At present, says Mr. Kit—
t-lc, there is nothing to guarantee the producer,
and augeneral :ru-nd for :the Michigan Milk Pro-
ducers Association would accomplish that very
thing. .
’Malcom‘b Council’s By-Laws

Interest isxshown among milk producers when—
ever the subject of 9. Dairy Council is broached,
even in counties .where reform movements have
not been started. The Macomb County Dairy
Council’s by:laws are reproduced herewith in
case they may be of aid for other counties not
yet eorganized in .the new movement.

Article 1. Name
NSection 1.———=The name assumed by this asso-
ei-ationand'by which it shall be known is the
Macomb County Dairy Council.
Article 'II. Object and Purposes

Section,1.—-Te secure a closer relationship
among the various locals of. Michigan -Milk
Producers’ Association inthe county.

Section. .2.—-.-.T.o encourage discussion of. the
various dairy problems, with a view of not only
disseminating knowledge but also to secure uni-
ty of thought and action in attempting their
solution.

Article III. Membership

Section 1.——-Any milk local which is located
within the boundaries of Macomb County or
which lies outside the boundaries of Macomb
county, but which is contributed to by men
who reside in, and are producers of milk in
Macomb county, shall be eligible to membership.

Section 2.—Application and Election. .All
candidates for membership shall become a mem-
ber of the association on payment of member—
ship fee to the secretary of the Macomb Coun-
ty Dairy Council, such payment being a pledge
of adherence to ‘all by—laws, rules and regula-
tions adopted by this association.

Section 3.—Fees. Each member shall pay
the sum of $5.00 to the secrtary of the Macomb
County Dairy Council, which shall constitute
the fee forsuch members to the association.

Section 4.~—Dues. The secretary of each local
shall pay to the secretary of the Macomb.coun-
ty Dairy Council annually the sum of 250 for
each member in his local, which shfil consti-
tute the dues for such members to the association.
tion.

Section 5.——De1inquency. If any member fails
to pay these dues within one month after date
of maturity, a note of delinquency shall be
mailed to them by the secretary, and if at the
end of 10 days they still remain delinquent,
their membership may be cancelled by the pres-
ident 'and secretary

Article IV Duties of ()fiicers

Section 1.—President. The president shall
preside at all meetings of the association, sign
as‘president with the secretary all instruments
requiring such signature, and shall perform
all duties incident to this ofllce.

Section 2.~—Vice—president. The vice-president
shall act in the absence of the president, and
in the absence or disability of this oflicer a
member shall be chosen to act temporarily.

Section 3.———Seoretary—Treasurer. The secre—
tary treasurer shall be the recording officer of
the association, shall keep a record of all meet-
ings and members, keep a membership roll;
fill outand countersign all membership certfl-
catcs; shall join with the president in the exe-
cution ofall authorized conveyances, contracts
and obligations of the association. He shall al-
so be custodian of all money, goods, property,
and chattels of the association andheld respon-
sible for the safety and preservation thereof;
he shall pay out money or incur obligation in
the name of the association only .as authorized
by the members of the association; he shall
prepareand report to the annual meeting a com-
plete statement of the financial doings and af—
fairs of the association.

Article V. Committees

Section 1;———The Executive Committees shall
be composed of the officers of- theassociation
and two menelected annually, whoshall trans‘
act all routine business. Special Committees
mayuhe appointed or elected at any regular or
special meeting.

.Arulcle VI

Section 1.——~’:l-‘he Annual Meeting shall be held
previous to annual meeting of.
Producers Association meeting. ,

Article VII ‘

Section 1=.—~Each-local shall be limited to one
voting delegate. '

on ——-——-—
Michigan .Milk

Article VIII ~
Section 1wl't‘iwe members shall constitute a.

. _Artlcle IX

:; Bectioné 1,—nA=necial meeting may he called
byswenmdent- orwson the written request of
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.tunnels through all parts ’of the corn,
- ing the ear, which it destroys or injures.

(the danger, now that it has ‘been discovered 7
in our midst. It must be remembered that it
;was not officially discovered in America until
, .1917.
counting for rapid in

ARMERS are writing in from various coun—
F ties telling of pests raising havoc in the

crops, net so bad as some years, but still
pretty troublesome. In many cases the farmers
individuals, because they know of
They
ask for remedies for pests already in their
fields, and also for precautions against pests
which may invade them from neighboring
counties or states. The seventeen— year locust
has been having its fling; the corn borer in
various forms has been appearing; the yellows
have been tampering with the fruit; quack
grass and barberry have been attacked by arm-
ies of workers; the army worm has been mob-
ilizing in neighboring states and may start an
assault on Michigan. Leaf curl, apple canker,
onion black spot and countless others fill out
the long lists.

It almost seems as though, sometimes, that
the life of the farmer must be pledged to a
life of fighting the critters which seek to ruin
his crops, his leisure and his peace of mind.

The fight against grasshoppers has been
without doubt the most intensive of any organ-
ized campaign against pests in Michigan this
year. In the counties of Wexford Grand Tr rav-
erse and Missaukee and a few nearby sections,
the glasshopper hordes caused fxightful havoc.
The farmers have become thoroughly aroused
and this year they have organized to conduct
what seems to be a winning battle against the
hoppers. The special session of the legislature
railroaded through a bill to give state aid to
the fight— against the grasshoppers.
ganizations and county agents have been of
great value in the fight. - -

Even a railroad company joined in and of—
fered to put up for and sprinkle poison along

all its property, in order to make a clean
sweep. -

Individual Farmers Problem

But now comes a farmer writing from Mon—
tomorency County. He is unaware of any com-
munity efforts to drive away grasshoppers, but
he is alarmed at the losses his own crops are
suffermg and is Willing to go to almost any
amount of trouble to drive away the pest. He
also is willing to help keep the hoppers away
from his neighbors’ fields.

In his case, after failing to organize some
of his neighbors in a .big scale campaign, the
next best thing would be to get the poison
spread about in the most effective places in
his own property. Arsenic poisons of various
kinds are known to be veryeffective. These
are usually mixed with sawdust, molasses and
salt. The mixing is important, so the farmer
should ascertain the proportions which should
be maintained, according to the strength of
the poisons used. The dealer selling the
poison usually can furnish such data. The
grasshoppers are lured/by the sweetness of the
molasses and eat heartily of the, mixture and
soon “kick the bucket" in droves. One hun-
dred pounds of sawdust or bran, to four
pounds of white arsenic, eight quarts of molas-
ses, and 24 gallons of water form a good
recipe.

Most county agents are known to be doing
all they can to co—operate with farmers in rid—
ding themselves of crop pests. And county
agents everywhere have been given complete
and varied recipes for pest eradication. The
Michigan Agricultural College sends promptly
any bulletins requested on almost any agricul-
tural subjects, especially in the matter of fight-
grasshoppers and other trouble-makers.

The European Corn Borer

Jackson county’s neighbors are on 1h?»
lookout for one of the most flagrant kinds or
corn borers, according to reports from Jack-
Other counties are said to be troubled.
The corn borer, being such a hide—and—seek sort
of critter, is hard to find and farmers are
obliged to look sharp before the pest has gotten
too far. Other states, including Massachusetts
and Georgia, have been having especially big
troubles to surmount with the borer.

In warning Michigan farmers, it is well to
know how rapid and deadly is the spread of
this pest. An area of 320 square miles around
Beston is devastated by the borer. The worm
includ-

The
big trouble about the borer is that it also does

ing'

,the same trick to celery, beans, beets, spinach,
goats, potatoes, tomatoes, turnips, timothy and

many other plants.
Fortunately Michigan is as yet comparative-
ly free from the pest, but certainly not from.

There are two secretions each year ac-
ucitipiication.

Farm or— .

  
 

By EDWIN BINGHAM

To suppress the corn borer ,one
burn them out of all stalks infested.
when the harvest is over, all stalks, stubble,

weeds and grasses in the infested area should .

be burned over. The work must be done very
thoroughly, because just a few plants escaping
may present one with an entire new mad-
house of borers the following season. The gov-
ernment is so alarmed about the pest that im-
imp1isonmcnt for five years and a fine of $5, 000
are the penalties for anyone guilty of knowing—
ly transporting produce centaining the pest.
If the corn leaves are examined and show
little punctures, some stalks should be cut out
and slitted to see if some of the worms are
playing tag around the inside of the stalk.
Or if little sections of the corn plant, such as
leaves or tassel, mysteriously lop over as

though broken, the same examination should
be made.

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I/l‘HOUGH black spots on onions is a disease
rather than a post. it certainly is a pestii’er-
one thing, ruining $300,000 worth of onions‘in *
the Chicago area. States all around Michigan
are suffering severely from the blight, and Mich-
igandere are striving to keep it out of this state

 

 

ing infected stalks to livestock or poultry; Al.
though it is known to be harmful to feed cica-
das to chickens it is thought that the presence
of the borer causes no harm to either stock or.
poultry. Also by burying the infected corn in
manure and leaving until rotted, one can get'
rid of the pest.

In any case, 98 per cent of the borers must
be destroyed to have any real effect in eradicat-
ing the pest. Farmers discovering; the borer

Have You Some Muck. Soil on YOur Farm?Then Read. This

should _
Then "

are urged to write to their fa1m papers as
well as to the government authorities,

   

of one of the worst of. crop pests.
Black Spots on- Onion Sets 1

Black spots, censidered to be the greatest“,

factor injuring onions, are Otherwise known

' as onion rot, smudge, mold and neck rot. About ,
150, 000 bushels, valued at $300, 000 are re: » .

parted, for the' Chicago area alone for the
past seasom
made slight advances into Michigan, but
which Michigan farmers are fighting to nip in

the bud,‘now that the states all around are

infected. Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and WisConsin *

farmers keep suffering from the blight, and
unless Michigan“ farmers keep on the alert the
disease will spread liberally into this state.
Being found in many forms, the blight “is
easy to discover. Black spots form near the

surface and rot, into the onion a ways. Inas- -
much as moistureaids the growth of the dis-‘

eased fungus, the oniOns should be dried-as
quickly as possible after they areharvested.
Curing in slatted crates stacked in the

is condemned . as unsatisfactory when the

weather is moist. If the onionscan be cured

in buidings which are kept dry, it is the safest

plan to prevent the blight from taking its toll. .

The Army ‘ Worm Approaches

Rumors of outbreaks of the famous, and

deadly army worm are being heard in Michigan,
Reports have been coming from neighboring

states including Illinois. that Mr. Army Worm
is officially in the fields, solving the
shortage in his own way. Wheat, alfalfa and

.other‘ crops are suffering. Michigan frmers r’e-g

member only too well the ravages of. the lit-

tle soldier worm in years past. So just in case,

the poisons recommended previously have been
forgotten, a specially good recipe is given here:
(This is also a good dose to rid grasshoppers
with).
Mix dry fifty, pounds of
pounds of white arsenic or

and two!

grec ll

bran
paris

taining four quarts of blackst-rap molasses, the
juice of chopped-up rinds of twelve lemons
and about twelve gallons of water. The mash

should be just moist enough 'so that a few'

drops can be squeezed from a handful ofvitn.
Distribute the mash broadcast wherever the
pest is. Scatter it all over fields affected, or dis-
tribute it in strips in front of worms discov-
ered migrating, where they are on the march.
On hot clear days the mixture Should be dis—
tributed either 'early in the morning or around
sundown. On cloudy days, any hour of day-
will do. ‘
Michigan is comparatively free from pests
this year, when other states are' contrasted.
But there is much work at hand right now, as
there always wiil be, to keep Michigan as pest-

‘ free as possible.

By EZRA LEVIN,

M. A. 0., Muck Specialist and Secretary Michigan Muck Farmers

HE SUMMER meeting of the muck farmers
I of Michigan will be held at the Woodward g
Farm, ConstantinehJuly 15. The Michigan

Agricultural College, co-operating with the St.
Joseph County Farm Bureau and Mr. Robert
Zimmerman, manager of the Woodward Farm,
has arranged a demonstration plat, showing
vaiious types of crops growing 011 muck.

There is a number of varieties of oats, hur-
ley, soy beans, corn, alfalfa, beets, spring wheat
etc. All of these different crops are subjected
to different treatments of fertilizers. every var—
iety extending over applications of, manure
alone; manure and acid phosphate; acid phos-
phate alone, and a mixed fertilizer. There "are
also interesting tests on proper amounts of
seed per acre to be sown on» muck. This ex-
periment demonstration is about nine acresin
extent and is probably. the largest demonstra-.
tion of that type that has ever been carried
on in the state on a private farm.

Incidentally, the Woodward Farm at 0011-
stantine represents a fine type of muck farm
in Southern Michigan, and there will be other
things to see which will be of interest to the
muck growers. The meeting is to be held in
the form of a picnic and on the banks of one
of the lakes near the farm. Plans for speakers
have not been arranged, but some prominent
expert will be secured to talk to the growers.

Every man interested in muck agriculture and

. the peat lands of the state from an agricultural

point of view should plan to be there. This is

only one of a series of demonstrations which .

  

Ass’n. '

the office of muck crops of the Michigan Agri-
cultural College has been carrying 011

FARMERS OF JONESVILLE HOLD _
SERIES OF GET-TOGETHERS
One of the most significant, and important
gatherings held at Jonesville in a long time
was the farmers’ meeting which took place
recently in marking the initial step in an ef—
foit to bring the farmers together. One Of the

'main objects of the movement is to bring about

a better understanding between all the people
of the locality.

A half hour’s musical program was follow—

ed by four addresses, all of which were enter- ~

taining, and instructive. Charles ’E. Haines, for
eieven years associated with the Hudson Faxma .
ers’ Bank, spoke on the subject: “A Better

Understanding between the Farmer and thew

Banker. Orville PoWers, teacher of agriculture
in the Adrian high school, gave a talk on the
farmer and the co- operative movement. Prof.

Eben Mumford of M. A. C. delivered an inspi'r- ‘
ing and instructive address on farm and foodw

conditions and problems.
W. M. Wetmorel

and?“ I: ‘
a concerted campaign may keep Michigan clean-f

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cashie'! of the Grosvenorirk
Savings bank, and associated with that insti—
tution for thirty wears, spoke on the subject'

  
 
 

   
     

     
  

 
 
 
 

    
    
   
   
  
     
      
   
    
  
   
    
 
   
    
      
   
  
   
  
  
  
  
    
  
     
    
  
  
 
  
   
    
   
 
  
  
  
 
     
    
    
    
   
   
  
 
 
   
  
  
 
  
   
   
    
  
  
  
  
    
  
   
   
   
   

 

 

 

 

 
  
  
 
 
  

 

 

 

 

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ing Sunday when farmers? day was obse’r 911

all three churches. Prof. Mumford of .
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SCHOOL BOOKS
EPBESENTATIVES of school book pub-
‘hshe'rs made the, Governor believe .that

ion and he included in his list of messages
to'the'. special session the School, book matter.

  
    

est 1 «The publishers claimed they werelnot' getting
wn ‘enough money from the School children of the
int Mg; tats and‘the Governor felt sorry for them.
re: g}-.. ,,Theglfe_vhave been so many liars working on the
the Shiioolbook question and there are so ,tf‘equent-
las ,. Iy:,~charges and counter charges between the
lat ~ 1: rival groups that the wayfarer can scarcely be

in :7 4 expected to know just where he is at.

ire .‘If the publishers had really “been losing
sin- , ‘~mon_ey on Michigan business they would have
.nd . dome forward with their table of costs and

 

;he Iv demonstrated the fact to the legislature and

 

 

‘a‘rzr ."’then there would have been no trouble about
“is ' remedial legislation
;he ., But they did not do this. They said they
as- -~ . . were losing meney and asked us to take it on
is: ‘ 9 faith, which few except the governor, Brower of
as - ' Jackson and a few others; would do. If the
2d. ‘ l Governor had heard the voice of the farmers in

the terminal ware—house matter as readily as
he heard that of_ the School, book publishers,
and'seVeralothers, the farmers might now be
anticipating improved marketing facilities and
consumers might expect ultimate relief from
the exactionsof food profiteers, but, the Gov-
ernor did not hear the farmer and the con-

 

 

nd sumer.
mm They can be relied on to vote the ticket any-
as way, why get excited. Anyway, when the book
'm. ‘~r question came up in the house the war com-
01' menced. Hall of Missaukee, and Mosier of Allegan,
11d ’ who kno'w what they were talking about, pour-
"6-5 ed hot shot. into the project till it's sponsors
it- . were glad to let it "expire by strangulation,
‘88 . ‘ after a whole’day had been spent in debating it.
8.11 Hall’s demeanor brings thoughts of the cru-
e: l . sades and his character seems to be a blending
rs , ' ofthe characteristic of the early advocates of
i? prohibition and the militant believer in pre-
vol! destination. When he said that either the Gov-
ud . ernor or the Superintendent of Public Instruc-
n- ' tion was an unmitigated liar, the sporting ele~
he ment began laying bets on whichwas it.
ns It was one of the greatest scraps staged by
ab ' this legislature. It raged till night and then
2w ' under the cover of darkness the book forces
_. 5 withdrew from the field and the School Children
he .of Michigan for the next two years will get
.5- Q their text books at, probably, not to exceed one
v- 4. hundred percent, profit to the publishers.
ls}- _ SLEEPER SEEKS THIRD TERM ,
1d 7 T THE CLOSE of the special session it
W. A was rumored about the capital that.
'- Governor Sleeper would seek a third
ts . term. If he had-been successful in all the ma-
(1. “chine bui-lding.lmoves fathered by his kitchen
as ,i gi-ca‘liinetfhe might have at his command ap-
,t-i *v‘v-p'ointees- encugh to have "put him across even

augmentauctioneer-yes a little chi'l’y,’ but ,as it
forum? will have to, take~ some chances with his

~,:_ mogd "His, utilities cbmmission and. some'other

  

- I’appointments are‘not generally'regarded as as-
S Igaggflof his‘adminietration“ On‘ the other hand
, frA;;_B.-Cook ot.0wosso, and a man in Ontonagon
.;county have announced that they see little if
anything in his recOrd to criticize. Fred Wood-
"*worth,’whom the Governor made Food and
’Drug Commissioner claims Sleeper is the great-
estl'Governor the state ever -had.' that he comes
from a county from which most of the great
~men-of Michlkan in these days come from: that

 

 

>5 the" state should honor itself by selecting him
It for a third term, or, if there is prejudice
16 . against third terms, and experience seems to
=8 justify the suspection that there is, then the
5‘ state should avail itself of the next best man
6 I - in sight whom he modestly admits is also a
”3 I ‘Huron county man. With 'Groesbeck, who is ,
e ; mighty strong with the rank and file and

l Dickinson, .who has the churches, the drys and
'- I r ' a large per cent of the other farmers with him.
there’fi' bound to be some scrap over the Gov-
) ‘crnorship and in a three cornered contest it
1 «looks as though the Governor could make the
'géothers go some. If there were some dominant
z jifig‘nre among the farmers of'the State who
l”-?£.’eould command the support of] the common‘
{people of the cities as Pingree did, city and
‘couxity alike. there would be nothing to» con.
f‘... but there is no such man in sight and it
., w . look like ‘a three_oornered contest at
best Look them up and get ready. ' ,

*- GEORGE WASHINGTON WELSH‘ ,
Erim’uain constrained to pay our re-
spects: to . the honorable George. Washing-
“ W183). .‘amateur. statesman of Grand
Michigan George will be remember-
’ ‘ ,"s' of .11., B. F. as the publisher
weekly publication, lit-
spe‘ct‘ , which the “Hon. ‘

  
  

 

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By HERB BAKER

George W. hopes to circulate among the farmers
of the. state whom‘ he denounced as “bolshe-
viks” because they think that something might

be done to benefit both producer and consumer'

in the marketing of farm produce and food
supplies generally. _ '

Both the senators and a majority of the rep—
resentatives of Kent county supported the
warehouse amendment, but George and cer-
tain smug middlemen saw danger in the
proposition and George sounded the alarm,
from a deep sighted sense of public 'duty. And
now at the special session George comes across
again and covers himself with glory as a real
guardian of the peoples’ money.

During the regular session, he was the most
joyous junker in the bunch. Salary grabs, state
cmstabulary and- all kinds of jobs for the
faithful had a tireless champion in the Grand
Rapids Washington. His stomach was good. He
gagged at nothing that brought satisfaction to
those with axes to grind. We read in the word
of those who strain at a gnat after having
swallowed a camel,., and our “Fruit Belt” hero
'with such a record straining at an item of $500
to investigate the trap rock road material
proposition is a spectacles of the Gods and men
and especially those men engaged in furnish-
ing the state inferior road material, from the
limestone quarries of the “Thumb” district.
These elimestone men enjoy a practical monopo-
ly of the crushed stone demand for road build-
ing.

If anything should occur to substitute the
Superior trap rock why somebody would stand
to lose by- the change. This is bolshevism pure
and simple and the Grand Rapids George
Washington is agi-n bolshevism wherever it
raises its head. The "Thumb” limestone men
are especially again this trap rock form of
bolshevism and (their smiles of approval when
George argued that the proposition involved
a “needless and ‘useless expense of the peoples’
money,” were really touching they were so ap-
preciative.

Since the writer called attention to Wash-
ington’s part in defeating the warehouse
amendment he has apparently been nursing
his wrath and looking for a chance to come
back with the least self exposure.

. Hit and Run

He might have launched his attack at any
time during the three weeks or the session
with'some assurance of getting the worth of
his money but he'chose to wait till within (if:
teenminutes of final adjournment and then to
“hit and: run."' By collusion'With tho‘eee col-re.
sphndents who habitually ”belittle these to whom

Pennsy Community Combines Dairying and Co-Operation

cently in Pennsylvania and other states are be-
ing adapted or perfected by Michigan farm-
ers. The work in one Pennsylvania town is re-
markable. a .

To make dairying mean much prosperity instead
of drudgery has been the notable achievement in
the Grove City community. Unprofitable methods
with inability of local farmers to gain more than
a meager living from the soil had distributed
seeds of discouragement throughout the communi-
t?-

Upder such conditions the United States Depart-

IMPROVEMEN'I‘S in certain dairy mn‘hofle re

, ment or Agriculture induced the business men and

others of Grove City to establish a creamery.
Built and equipped by home capital, this plant is
operated by the department as a part of its ex-
perimental and demonstration ’work. In three
years Grove City has developed into an advanced
dairy community“ The first day the creamery
opened its doors 20 patrons marketed 78 pounds of
butterfat. By June’so of the same-year, the num-
ber of patrons had increased to 106,’ a year later
to 338, the next year to 579, and at the end of the
third year,‘ or June 30, 1918, it was 614. But the
increase in the income is even more remarkable.

{The first fiscal year, or from July 1, 1915, to June

80; 1916, inclusive, the gross income of the cream-
erywas $82,432; the second year it had increased
to $212,904, and the third year it was $375,596.
Last year one 01 the Grove City hanks increased
its deposits $450,000 'of which approximately one-
third resulted directly from dairy farming im-
provement. ,. ., . '

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they cannot dictate, George’s “remarks” Were
given_ some publicity. Here’s‘ what the hue
Press reporter had George say:

“During the last regular session some mem—
bers of the senate maw a great deal of politi-
cal capital over their refusal to visit the state
institutions,” said Represetnative Welsh. “The
house committees went out and their investiga-
tions resulted in the cleaning up of several
institutions. Now, however, when the fishing is
good and the weather is warm, the senumrs
want to junket and I believe the house should
vote against this needless and useless expense
of the people’s money. The state highway de—
partment is competent to investigate the trap
rock situation. ,

“I would amend this, however, if I could he
assured that Senator Herbert Baker. who has
played to the gallery throughout the entire ses-
sion would be included in the party. During
the session of 1913, Baker started for Europe
to investigate rural credits and the Balkan
situation at state expense, but the senate shut
off the appropriation and left him in New
York.

“‘Old - Baker J unket Recalled

“Two former senators were instrumental in
preventing Baker’s junket to Europe and he did
not forget this when their names came up for
confirmation as members of the new utilities
board. If this senatorial junket will enable
Senator Baker to complete his junket to Europe
via the upper peninsula, the house should ~favor
it.” .

There is a well—known distinction between
the Grand Rapids Washington and the Vir-
ginian one.
to look up its rural credit p‘nns. did not seek
appointment and would not have served as a.
member of trap rock committee, and did not
know that Smith and O’Dell opposed sending
delegates ‘with those of other states to investi-
gate rural credit systems in Europe, though
I'might have known for it was well under:
stood that the banking interests of the state
were opposed to the introduction of a rural
credit system in this "country, with the except-
ions noted. The F. P. reporter of George’s “hit
and run” speech are substantially correct.

The writer, many years ago, attended an
exhibition by a ventriloquist. Seated on each
0: his knees was a doll—a boy and a girl. The
boy’s name was George and his sister took
commendable pride in him. As George gave ex-
pression to the smart sayings of the ventrilo;
quist, his sister would invariably break in with
the observation “George is a smart boy.”

.In contemplation of the splendid legislative
service of the youthful solon from Grand Rap-
ids, the honorable George Washington Welsh,
the writer feels that he is in accord with the'
food gamblers who escaped the menace of the
public warehouse and the limestone men who
escaped by a hai-r’s_breadth the threatened evas-

 

 

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ion of trap rock—the writer feels that he can
agree with these gentlemen that “George is a
smart b‘oy.” ‘

principle that _“In union there is strength,” and at
the present time is admirably organized for profit-
able results. The local commercial club of 200
members has been of great assistance in winning
the confidence of the farmers, in making them feel
at home, in entertaining them and in strengthen-
ing the bonds between them and their town neigh-
bors. The club rooms are now used as headquar-
tors by farmers and their families when they are
in town and twenty of the most progressive farm-
ers are new members. Often the club has been
active in obtaining help for the farmers during
busy times‘ while occasionnally the members
themselves have assisted the farmers in urgent
work. ’ .
The two local banks have supported the “bet-
ter‘ agriculture” movement and one of them has
aided invfinancing the purchase of pure bred dairy
sires and cows. It has brought in eight carlozis
of high-producing animals and distributed the
cattle at cost among the farmers. In addition it
has loaned money for the purchase of better cat-'
tle and for general farm improvement. The bank
publishes a monthly paper which circulates among
the creamery patrons and deals with community
development problems and other topics of inter-
est. Each month it publishes the names of farm-
ers receiving the largest checks from the cream-
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a month. The lists stimulate friendly rivalry
among dairymen and benefit the locali industry.
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fConsolidated Feb. 1, 19-19, with The Gleaner
SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1919

Published every Saturday by the
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M .B. F. an IndependentMedium

T HAS been repeatedly stated by some who
Iwish to curtail M. B. F.’s activities and use-
fulness to the farmers of Michigan that it is
an “organ” of a certain farm organization.
This is absolutely not true. This paper is pub-
lished by a corporation organized under the
laws of Michigan. The names of the officers
of this company, the publisher, the editonand
associates are printed at the top of the editor-
ial page. Every person connected with the
ownership, editing and publishing of this pa-
per is a resident of Michigan and interested
in the welfare of the farmers of the state.

The editorials published on this page are
written by the editor. No one else has a hand
in their origin or composition. The editorial
policies are determined largely by its readers.
Never yet has an editorial been printed in
these columns which did not represent the best
interests of the farmers. The interests of the
farmers come FIRST. Never yet have the ed-
itorial policies of this newspaper been Subject
to the whims or the personal interests of any
individual stockholder. Never yet have these
policies been swayed by any organization of
farmers or other classes of people, unless snob
influence looked to the betterment of the con-
ditions of ALL the farmers. M. B. F. has
been approached by at least one big state-
wide farmers’ organization with an invita-
tion to become its official “organ,” and at
least two large marketing associations have
asked us to become their official mouthpiece.
But in all cases we have refused this induhit-
' able honor they would bestow upon us, for no
publication can be independent at all times as
M. B. F. desires to be if it is in any way con-
nected up in the public mind with organiza-
tions or other factions whose scope of activ-
ities is less than those of the said publication.

Those who haVe been consistent readers of
M. B .F., will testify that we have at all times
maintained an attitude strictly independent
of all outside influences excepting the best in-
terests of the farmers. Rigid adherence to
this rule has not always been good bUsiness,
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any organization is detrimental to the welfare
of both itself and its readers. Our readers
will therefore perform a valuable service if
tHey will clinch that lie every time it comes to
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A Funeral Without Tears

’ w‘AS the night before July 131:. All

over the land, in a thousand barrooms

and 'cafes men and women slouched before

bars or over tables, drinking. Some, so far

_ gone in their cups that they. had all but for-
gotten the disaster that impended, were glad

and gay. But others, to whom an evening thus

Editor ,

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"simian would be a
che ' ed cock-tail fr ‘ '

lems of the day and tease the stomach into a
receptive mood wouldno longer be a matter of
a simple order and a tip to the Waiter. It
would be a thing beyond the reach of the aver-
age citizen, banned by law and soon to be
frowned upon by custom. ‘ ' .

So upon the evening of the dearth of booze,
trembling hands clutched the . glass it little
tighter, bleary eyes looked with a regretful
fondness upon the liquor it contained, and
draughts wereitakengslowly as if to coax the
taste and the warmth to linger a trifle longer
than usual. But there were no tears. ' Time-
honored as the drinking of liquor has been
and firmly fixed as the habit of drinking a so-
cial evening glass had become upon those who
sat at the last sad rites of their favorite, to
all appearances the occasion aroused no deep
emotions. It was a funeral without tears.

Nation-wide prohibition has come. By the
action of Congress and the proclamation of
the president forbidding the manufacture and
sale of intoxicating liquors on and after July’

1st, the condition for which a million women

have prayed and a million men have worked
thru county local option, became a thing of
reality almost over night. M. B. F.‘ has
been a persistent champion of prohibition
from the day-the first copy was printed. It
has taken an aggressive fight in the campaigns
to destroy or restore the traflic in this state. It
has published hundreds of editorials and ar-
ticles showing the destructive effect of liquor
upon health, morals and efficiency. In taking

this stand it has had the nearly unanimous.

support of its readers, and feels that it is en-
titled to no small share of the credit for ban;
ishing and keeping the saloon out of Michigan.
And the vetes of the farmers of Michigan
have likewise played a very large” part in
strengthening the campaign for nation-wide
prohibition, and they” may justly feel with
much pride and thankfulness that the adop-
tion of the amendment to the federal consti--
tution which ends the manufacture and sale
of intoxicating liquor for all tiine to come is

in a measure traceable to them.
T HE EDITOR of a southern Michigan
daily raises a question as to the sincer-
ity of the efforts of certain farm leaders “to
do something for the farmers.”' This editor
cannot convince himself that any man or
group of men would give up their time and
money for 'the furthereance of a cause unless
they expected to be eventually reimbursed
with either money ‘or position. .. Assuming
that this was true, our editOr friend believed
that such men and such cause should receive
the opposition of all honest-minded people.
While it is true that human nature is es-
sentially selfish, the nature of some humans is
more selfish than that of others. For instance,
we have the man. who never lifts a finger to
help a friend without there being an obliga-
tion implied to repay the favor. We have the
man whose sole thought and purpose is to
make money and secure position. He sup-
ports or opposes all matters according to the
dictates of his pockeet book, rather than his
conscience. On the other hand, there is the
man who lets scarcely a day of his life go
by that he does not speak a kind word or per-
form a kind deed to make the life of someone
else brighter. He does this often at the ex-
pense of time, money and'convenience. He
is the man who in the majority of cases takes

Two Classes of Individuals

such stand upon public matters as is best in~-.

accord with the public welfare, even though
opposed to his personal interests. ‘ Conscience,
and conscience,'alone, is his prompter.

The former individual frankly preys upon
the public. His wares are well known; his
motives well understood. The press and pub—
lic confer uppn him honors,’and call him a
“jolly good fellow.’_” Butithe man who’serves
others without recompense. is looked upon with
suspicion. 'Beneath his cloak of charity, 80
argues the average mind, there must be con-

L M 7‘ e "
. hémany deluded
souls drew the courage ~tc combat! the prob.

,3 blistering sun turns the green of the crops

Press- Yes, Yes, it’s a strange wand:

  
     

    
  
   

   

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public hails it ; influence:

you so.ӤGreat philanthropists," . p.
cm, great'leadere, have been slaught’ « e
on' the altar of public opinion for trivial milk
takes and shortcomings and their workscas
into the mire of oblivion; while selfish bpp ,, ,1
tunists who have never turned their‘hand' m
the public weal, charm the public into y
hypnotic state of obiesance by the power of 11
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‘ HERE ’8 a bit of popular verse that runs ,
like this, “ Pack all your troubles in your _v
old kit-bag 'and smile, smile, smile.” We“
think {the editor of a certain farm paper must .
have been playing this on his phonograph
when he was inspired to write an editorial ex-
horting his readers 'to,“keep smiling no mat— .
ter what happens.” .' ‘ ~ . .
“The man worth while is the man who can
smile when everything goes dead wrong,” is
the way; the poet sings his praise of the stal-
wart-hearted who weather the storms of ad:
versity with a smiling countenance and an un—
shaken faith in that old fatalism that “every-
thing will come out all right in the end.”
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haps penned by those who have never known p0
the fear of Want or sickness of death. To be qu
able to smile in the face of disaster is, indeed, .t “V
a great virtue, but to be able to act, grim-vis— :

aged and sober-minded,—to avert that dis- all
aster is a greater and by far more practical "
virtue. It is not often that ”everything goes dr}
dead wrong” with the man who forgets; to ca]
smile long enough to lose himself in serious
contemplation of the problems with which he gm

may be confronted. To smile much is to think
little. , ‘

We know of :no other class of people who ,
.take their troubles so lightly as the farmers, a '
statement that will amuse those who in their
ignorance have put the farmer down as a
chronic kicker. Millions of .people live through
a decade without meeting the slightest dis-
couragements. They either have money safely
and profitably invested which produces a fix-
ed income, or else are working upon salaries
which are paid to them at stated intervals. _In . » ]
either case, they have little if‘any financial ‘

 

worry. But the same cannot be said of the
farmer, who almost annually encounters un- du.
expected losses which in many cases take away
' all the profits for the year. Considering the Its
highly speculative nature of his business,—— adc
speculative with respect ’ to both the ele- ‘i
ments and ,to the marketing of his products,—
the hard liibor he must put‘ in to produce his.
crops, the difficulty often encountered in fi— 2
’nancing his operations,——considering all these '1
things» the farmer is the lightest-hearted in- ‘
dividual on the face of the earth. He is a past for
master of‘ smiles. But who can smile when ' .

Wit
to a sickly brown and all one. can do‘ is to '
stand with folded hands and watch the leaves
curl and the plants droop to ‘the parched
earth? Who but a poetic philosopher can
smile when along about the middle of Sep» 13
tmber comes a frost that nips a gelden harvest
in the bud? And who but the persistent_farm- ' " '
er can mask his face with a grin and buckle in
again and again in the spring of the year to ’
retrieve the losses of the previous year!

 

Down in Toledo on the 4th of J uly two
men stood upon a raised platform and pound-
ed each other with their fists for about ten
minutes, while forty thousand peeple stood in
the boiling sun, yelling like maniacs, and tried
hard to get the worth of the million or so dol'
lars they had paid to see the spectacle. Sever-
al hundred reporters were on hand to chron-
icle the event and later gave to the public a
million-worded etc of their Mpressions of ._
Jack Dempsey'sde (eat of Jess Willard. Be—~ '
yond a doubt had these two worthies indulged
in fist'cufls on the main street of Toledo my
would have been put-in jail and written-hp

next morning in the-police columns, {5:8

  
   
   
  
  
    

 
   
 

     
   

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SHARE WITH YOUR NEIGHBOR
YOUR BEST IDEALS

HERE’S HARDLY a house one

I can enter where the wife and

mother hasn’t some helpful de-
vice to save steps, or some household
convenience which lightens hep lab-
ors. Then let’s share them with each
other. Below are a few gathered here
and there. What have you to offer?
Send them in direct tolhe editor, and
I am sure that they will be appreciat-
- ed by all of our readers:

There’s the subject of keeping cool
these hot days. Most housewives know
of the little scheme of airing the
house early in the morning, and then,
before the sun gets hot. of drawing
the shades and closing the doors to
keep out the hot air. Of course those
who live on electric lines so thatthey
have the benefit of electricity in the
home and can have electric fans are
fortunate, but an ingenious farmer
can rig up a fan which will serve very
nicely with a belt and ‘wheel device
which will be effective if the windmill
is working. And a sewing machine
has been used before now to produce
a cooling fan. A homemade refriger-
ator can be made by lining a heavy
box with Wet burlap and with a pan of
water evaporatin’g from the base. If
you want more definite instructions
relative to the latter named devce,
write direct to the United States De-
partmnt of Agriculture, Division of
Publications and ask for The Farm-
er's Bulletin on this subject.
just been published and is not listed
on the older'lists which are sent out,
but it will be sent free of charge.

Speaking of Bulletins and helps fur-
nished by the Government: There is
hardly a subject which comes up for
discussion on the farm that has not
been covered by Governmenth experts
who are paid by us through our taxes,
therefore, feel free to write the Gov_
ernment for Bulletins dealing on the
subject whch puzzles you. There is al-
ways a BEST way to do a thing. Per-
haps you are using a tedious method
which could be elimi‘hated if you only
knew how. Get the habit of calling
for help. Below we pub—
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profit be sent for by every
reader of this

p a g e, i f you

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Farm Home Conveniences ...... ’. . .. 927
Home Made Fireless Cookers and
Their Use .......................
A Simple Steam Sterilizer for Farm
Dairy Utensils ...................
Home Canning by the‘ One-Period
Cold Pack Method. ...............
Home Canning of Fruits and Vege—
tables ‘
Preparation of Vegetables for the Ta-
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Cheese—Economical use in the diet
Care of Food in the Home .......... ._
Economical Use of Meat in the Home 2.
Use of Fruit' as Food ..............
Home Production of Onion Seeds and
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Bread and Bread Making” ........
Making Butter on the Farm ........
Home Storage oi? Vegetables. . .' .....
Saving Vegeable Seeds for the Home
and Market, Garden ..............
Home Made Fruit Butters ......... ..

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of United States enjoy in being able
to get these Bulletins and especially
those concerning the canning of vege-
tables, as this is one of. the newer arts
it having been practiced by the com-
mercial canners only for a long time.
but now, because of the simpler de-
vices made known to us. is gradually
becoming universah , ,‘

The Department of Agriculture at
washington is sending experts in

home canning to France, at the re—'

quest or the French Minisater of Ag-
‘riculture.
nanced by the American Commission
for devastated France will visit French
agricultural schools much the.»s‘ame as
the demonstrators from our own state
agricultural colleges visit the schools

 

 

HE Friends that love us always
In the good- iimcs and the bad;
The friend's that Jone us always
Are the friends that keep us glad.
The friends that cling in tempest
As they do in calms are those
That have made the paths of hard-
ship
Seem the paths of song and rose.

The friends that love us always

When we go their way or not, ‘

Arc {hr fn‘cnds that hearts remem-
bcr

 

 

The friends. That Love- Us Always

_ In the dreams of tender moments

When the others are forgot.

The friends that stick the clasest.
When the trouble grows the worst;
Tho friends that love us always
Just the way they did at first.

They arc the crowning jewels
Of the coronets we weave

When the troubles start to leave;
And we lisp their names forever
And we see their faces clear—
Thc friends that love us always,
In the sun and shadow, dear.

 

 

 

 

How to Make Cottage Cheese on the
Farm
Food for Young Children ...........
School Lunches ....................
Cooling Milk
Farm
Farm Household Accounts .......... .
Roses for the Home ................
Back Yard Poultry Keeping ........
Standard Varieties of Chickens .....
Natural anr Artificial Brno...lng of
Chickens ........................
Squab Raising .....................

and Cream

' Duck RaiSing ......................

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and clubs, giving a three days’ can
ning demonstration at each, for the
benefit of domestic science teachers.
American systems of canning seem lit-
tle known in Europe, though Great

Britain has shown great interest in.

our methods for some years past. The
British housekeeper has, in the past,
specialized in jam or preserve, rather
than canned fruit such as American
housewives put up so lavishly, and has
done very little if anything in canning
vegetables. We think that in the Unit—
ed States more vegetables will be can-

f ed this year, than ever before.

SUMMER N EEDLEWORK

LATE DOILIES are be-
P coming more and more
popular for the light
luncheon a n d p a r-
ties. They are easily
laundered and make
the table look very
the table look very
attractive. We are
'sure that many of
our readers will be
glad t o begin

this s e t, t h e

large p i a t e

dolly of which

w e s h o w

t h i 3 week,

and smaller

design will

b e s h o w 11

next week.‘

Th 1 s i s

the b l o c k

pattern of

the p 1 a t e

d o i l y i n

grape d e-

sign which

is, part 0 f

the beauti~

ful dining set

11 o W b e i n g
published. The

work is commenced
as in t h e center-
piece at th e lower
edge and crocheted

until edge is 15 --

meshes wide. One side‘ie

then crocheted t o t h e -

corresponding point on
the ’ other side: then, the
. s ' . secondsideisnnade. The
two sides are Joined byw‘

«.

This mission, which is fi-,

‘ and 34 inchs waist measure.

- ial.

. . visa!!! for.
, “the «eight central spmi work

 

 

 

 

 

 

No. 2426—-Girls‘ Dress. Cut in 4 sizes:
8. 8., 10 and 12 years. Size 8 requires 1
yards of «91-inch material for the dreSS.
and 1% yard for the uimpe.

Nos. 2879-2881. Ladies' Costume.’
‘Naist'2879 cut in 7 sizes: 3436, 38.40.
‘12, 44 and 46 inches bust measure. Skirt
2881-cut in 7 sizs: 22, 24, 26, 28, 30. 32
A medium
size wll reduire 5 yards of 44—inch mater-
Width of skirt at lower edge is
about ll/zgyards. Two separate patterns.

No. 2880.—Boys' Suit. Cut in 5 sizes:
2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 years-" Size 4 requires
2% yards of 44-inch material. ' -
, No. 2863—Ladies' Apron. Cut in 4
sizes: Small, 32-34; Medium, 36-38;
Large, 40-42; and Extra Large, 44-4
inches bust measure. A Medium size 're-
duires 5% yards 01' 36-inch material.
Width at lower edge. is about 21;" yards.

No. 2882—Girls Dress. Cut in 5 Sizes:
4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 years. Size Srequirea
1% yards of 27-inch for the guimpp, and
2% yards for the dress. ' '

No. 2902—Ladies' Cage. Cut
sizes: Small, 32-34; ediu
Large, 40—42; and Exxtra Large, 44-?
inches 'bust measure; Size Medium will
requre 3% yards‘ of 54-inch, material.
without nap. - - _'

No. 2871—A Simple Dress. Cut in 4
sizes: 2, 4, 0 and 8-years. Size 43re-
quires 2 yards of 86-inch material.

No. 3 9~—'~Missee Dress. .
sizes: 16. 18 and 20 years. Size 18. will
require 5%» yards .of .86 inch material. if
skirt is made withgtucks. and 4% yards it
made without tucks. Widh at,g-lower»
edge is about'IZ—a ytard. " , '-‘.

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' EAR CHILDREN—How would
‘.‘ you like to take apeek into our

. offices to see how things really .-
p.operate in‘getting the children’s de-

partment in the final form? Just
imagine you are fairies and you all
can get around the desk at once.

Do you believe. in fairies?
there any such things?

Of course, there are no fairies you
can see. But people give the name of
‘ kind ,fanciful
thoughts which make felks hangy
when tired and blue. Some people, in
their minds, picture such thoughts as
beautiful liiitlepeople, dancing, float-
ing, singing, and always smiling and
playing. Some folks actually believe

Are

I "there are tairies you can see in the

forests in the moonlight.
You are safe, however, in believ-
ing this much: that every time you

speak or do a kind and thoughtful

thing for yOur parents er friends .you
may make them happier, (whether
they show it or not). Also you make
yourself happier, preferably it. is in
a healthy vigorous way. I like'the kind
of a boyfairy thoughts that swim and
play ball or work all day in the
fields without a whimper, or the girl
fairy who sings at her work of help-

 

 

 

ing about the house or of playing or

picnicing.
'Our guessing contest of the ten great
men is almost over and I am very glad

,xhat so many of you have been faithful
as I am sure that you will have learn-

ed adot about some of our great'men
which you did not know before. This
week we show the ninth great prize.
Just one more after this week and then
the award of prizes to the faithful who
have been able to guess them all. Of
course I know that some of my little
folks haven't been taking the paper all

‘the time, so they couldn’t be expected

to guess them all. - .

And in the congest for prizes for the
best stories on‘W, at you expect to do
when you finish school,- we are still
continuing to get some very good let-
ters, akfew of which we publish. this
week.——-Aifectionately yours, “Laddie.”

FROM otm BOYS AND 'GIan

Dear Laddie: I am a little girl ten
years old I am in the sixth grade. Our
school is closed. because our teacher has
pneumonia. I have two kittens named
Bunny and Nigger and a dog named Bus-
ter. We have three horses and one colt
and another colt a day old. This is the
first time I have written to you. Some
day I will be graduating out of the 12th_
grade, then I am going to college. When
I get back from college I am going to
Detroit to learn music, and” then I am
going to be a music teacher. My father
and mother are going to, give me the
money to go.-—Ida May Wynn, Brimley,
Michigan. . _

- Dear Laddie: As I have been readi

_ .— the letters in the M. B. F. every. week,.
,‘ thought I Would. write and ask the girls
1. who write to the M. B. F. to.

write to me.

C I an: 1-1 years old and ’ in - the, seventh '5

7‘ 01 My lfinther runs a _ in: hone}
_'_37‘7;_J;;-.-1heln her when not in school. .
hairs a: brother 13 years oldand a sister.--
I' at aide—“Ions Greene, Hart. Mich.

 

 
   
 

 

"Aéajl‘ine seen but “One
4121: ’ ‘ ' ~ pr; 7,1.

Midi.

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a W ,

' on an 80-acre farm.

~ girl 14 years of age and was in the ninth
'grade, but our school was out today and

I passed Linto the tenth. Our teacher’s
name was David Barnard, but our teach-
er for next year’will be Mr. Gates. I live
I have two sisters
and one brother. Heping to see my letter
in the M B. F., I will close—Dora Shaw,
Blanchard, Michigan

 

Dear Laddie: I have never written to
you before, so will write today. *We live
on an 80-acre farm and have eight head
of cattle and two horses. I have six rab-
bits and expect to have more. I am going
to write a story on what I am planning to
do when I graduate, and hope to win the
prize, and also hope to see my letter in
print. I am 12 years old and in the eighth
grade.—~George Hanner, Almont, Mich.

What. I am Gong to Do When I Graduate
unto .

When I graduate from the 12th grade
I plan to be a medical doctor and go to

~ in Europe.

     
    

college in the United States and two years
Why I plan to become a
doctor is to benefit my folks and country
and, save people from diseases so that this
country, with my help and the help of
others. will be the healthiest country in
the wOrld. To get the money to take me
through college I plan to be a traveling
salesman for medical tools and medicine.
I think I would do all I could to become
a great doctor, would not you?

 

Dear Laddie: I have read the boys’ and
girls' letters and will try and write, too.
I am a girl 11 years old and in the 7th
grade. I live on a. farm of 90 acres. We
have. two cows, two heifers, about 70
young chickens and two horses. For pets
I have four cats.
than myself. There is a creek running
across our farm. I would like to have
some of the girls write to me. We take
the M. B. F, and enjoy it very much. The

I have two sisters older -

Will close hoping to see my letter-

 

 

Dear Laddic: I wrote to you onceh?
fore, but did not see my letter in print; ;
am a girl 8 years old and in that,
at school. I lve on an 80-acre farm. W,
have three horses Well, I will close, ho",
ing to see my letter in print—Etta Wen}; 7.‘
er, Chesaning, Mich.

  

 

Dear Laddie: I have never written‘tgr.
you before, so I thought I would writdg‘s"
My father takes the M. B. F..and I ilk“
to read the letters: from the boys and};
girls. I live on a 90~acre farm two an .'
one—half miles from Vassar. We have” '
car which I drive a great deal. I hav
no brothers or sisters, and for pets I hay
a dog, Rusty, a cat, Snookins, and a ra‘
bit, Mary. We have five horses and set-q
en cows and Rhode Island Red chi‘ckko ‘
I take music lessons and can play qfim
good—Lucile Bldg-man, Vassar, Michigan;

   
  
   
    
  

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’ Blessings on the ' '

.. Good Cook

She certainly makes life worth Living.
What is money, or position, or popularity, or anything else to any one
where food is unobtainable?
To a man in that position any cook would be satisfactory, or the cook
,, could be dispensed with altogether and the food taken without prepar-

ation. ,.
But why not appreciate our good cooks in this land of plenty without
waiting until we lose them before we come to an understanding of their
real value. ..
Appreciate them enough to provide them with the really good materials _ <
with which to work. Encourage them with a little warranted praise

» occasionally. ~~ ,
Tell them what a splendid meal they prepared and how you enjoyed it, ;
then see to it that they have 1

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  Lily White #

“The flour the, best cooks use”

on hand at all times, and you will be amazed at the goodness of your
Breads, Biscuits and Pastries. .

A littleappreciation and the right kind of materials will make a lot of
difference.

Of course a good cook will be able to bake good Bread from the ordinar-
ily good flour, but if you desire something a little better, more light,
flakier, with a delicious flavor and splendid color LILY WHITE FLOUR
should be used.

Remember, LILY WHITE FLOUR is sold with the understanding that
the purchase price will be refunded if it does not give as good OR BET-
TER satisfaction than any flour you have ever used. -

This guarantee is backed up by thirty-five years of successful milling’ .
and an investment of more than a million dollars.

 

Anyway, show your cook you appreciate her by providing her with LILY;
WHITEFLOUR, “The flour the best cooks use.”

/

VALLEY CITY MILLING COMPANY
“Grand Rapids, Mich,

 

 

 

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, . _ TRADE.

. ess continues to'expandvin a
derful manner in the west, re~
"almost unanimously reflecting
sing sales, strong prices, with
suggestion that the buying has
, here near reached the top. Fun—
entally the prosperity of the
ing communities through the
Is West is responsible for the
died revival in all lines of trade
‘ “with the wealth of the farm
sea as a foundation, the manu-
nring and trade lines are feeling
stimulus and prosperity is extend-
to-all lines.

tool and“ iron production is in-
. easing steadily, lending its enor-
Hus impetus to industry all along
‘- line, with builders now accepting
‘ higher cost standards and gOing
and with programs that have been
tarded for several years. June was
best month the steel mills have
(1 since last October, with every in-
ation that before many weeks, the
lants will be on a full capacity basis.
.Reflecting the tremendous buy-
g power of the country are the re-
flrts from mail order houses which
dicate June business was fully 20
erCent above that of June,1918. The
olu’me of mail order business is one
1 the best trade barometers in the
est and for this reason the showing
ade it significant.

No less significant however are the
sreports covering general merchandise
use from wholesalers and jobbers.
ll June records for shipments cf dry
[goods and general merchandise were
exceeded the last month. The num—
ber of buyers in the market were
”double the number of arrivals a year
‘ go. Regardless of the continued
ing trend of prices for nearly every
mmodity there is no diminution in
‘i‘éae demand. Buyers in some cases
6 trying to not only buy their fall
d winter stocks but are even plac-
. ners covering their needs of next
i; _ ring.

’2 Financial conditions continue
.Qavorable, with a good demand for
’ommercial paper, and no suggestion
j. far of lack of available funds for
fvll purposes, the call for money to
juove the crops not interfering ma—

al- needs. Money in Chicago has
on ruling at 5175 @6 percent on
llatera1;- with commercial paper,
4 @ 51/2 percent; 6 percent over the
(i unter.
Traffic conditions show improve—
'ent, increasing tonnage from the
“peebmills and general merchandise
Fuses swelling the total carried by
me roads. Crop outlook is but little
paired, although some fears are
ntertained in regard to the oats crop
in account of high temperture dur-
the filling period. Wheat har-
st is well under way, and this grain
11 soon be moving freely, bring big

 

   

 

 
 
   
 
   
    
  
   
   
    
  
    
  
   
  
   
   
    
  
  

GRADE iDetroit ZChicago}. N. Y.
2 Red ..... J 2.35 2.50 2.34
2 White .., 2.33
2 llixcd . . I 2.83

 

 

. WHEAT CROP OUTLOOK
,Harvesting of winter wheat has
chressed to Southern Kansas, Mis-
,‘uri, and Illinois and only in a few
tions has rain interfered with this
rk. New wheat has commenced to
its in Texas, Oklahoma and south-
Kansas. Generally speaking
‘ is of good quality. The wheat
p of Montana has suffered great-
loflses than any other state from
of moisture and abnormally high
Limited areas promise

Black rust reports
been received from both Da-
pd Minnisota, following heavy
drank growth. It is feared
10]) more rust disease. Add—
oisture is needed in some
”Hi the three spring wheat

’ e: in other sections sun-

necéssary. Cut worms and
are in sections of the
shunt forwheat crop

 
 

 
 

      

_ s“ on .BUSIans AND ,

{rially with the supply for commer~ ‘

 
  

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in‘ Canada assuming serious aspect.
With grasshoppeers in Saskatchewan,
cut worms in western districts and
extreme drouth in' Alberta, rains on.
June 26 have partly reduced the men-
ace. .

 

Oats have been fairly quiet and firm
although the prospects are rather'un-
ecrtain. In Michigan it is one of the
weakest crops this year, together with
many other states which report unfav-
orable weather for the crop. Oats have
been in good demand.

Detroit quotes oats: Cash No. 2
white, 731,5 cents; No. 4 white 72 cents

Chicago quotes: No .2 white, 71%
to 72%; No. 3 white, 70% to 711,5J

    

GRADE

 

| Detroit I Chicagol N. Y.
No. 2’Yellow . . 1.88 2.05
No. 3 Yelow .. 1.92 1.86%
No 4 Yellow .. 1.90

 

 

 

 

Corn acreage is eXpected to decrease
around 5,000,000 acres, according to a
forecast of government crop reports
for July. It is further predicted, that-
the falling off of acreage will be great.
ly increased. This is expected to off-
set gains in acreages in southern
states.

Conditions are below normal for this
reason, as weather has been unfavor-
able in some parts of the corn belt. But
sections shipping most of the grain,
have fared well. And it is upon this
factor that prices most depend.

 

According to a large bean oper-
ator in this state the bean market will
“come back". July and August are
normally heavy export periods and it
is more than likely that the small bal-
mice of beans left in the hands of
American producers and dealers will
find a ready market during those
months. Bean trading in Detroit is
slightly more active this week, but
whether this is due to actual outside
orders or is the work of manipulators
we are unable to say. The price quot.
ed on the Detroit market this week is
$7.25 per cwt. ? ‘

The testimony submitted at the
hearing of Messrs. Kimball and
Gerkes, who it is stated manipulated
the bean market to such an extent
as to deprive producers of milions of
dollars, is now available and efforts
will be made by BUSINESS FARMING to

 

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secure a correct copy thereof. This
testimony shows beyond doubt that
had the bean market been left to take
its natural course, Michigan produc-
ers would have received a great deal
more for their 1918 crop.

    

Timothy

Light MiLIISt'nd. Tim. .
30.50 37.00.35» moo 33.50 34.00
Chicago 32.00 cameo” encore.“ 30.00

788.50 19.00-85.00 80.5..
40.00 43.00 85.00 40.00

29.50 81.50
30.00 35.00

 

Light Mix. Olav. 1211:. Glover

Detroit 35.50 80.00 33.00 340060.00 91.00
Chicago 30.00 31.00 28.00 300014.00 21,”
.Pitts . . 20.50 27.50.10.00-23400
N. Y. . .35.00 39.00 81.00 30.00

HAY TRADE CONDITIONS

Old hay is moving marketward
rapidly and in quantities that has
demoralized eastern markets. Much
more hay has appeared than has been
expected, generally, and considerable
Canadian hay is appearing. Condi-

 

 

 

 

 

' tions throughout the East and South-

east are most unsatisfactory. Middle
Western markets are easy but are in
better shape than two weeks ago.
New hay of all descriptions is coming
into many. of these markets and qho-
tations for new tame hay is supplant-
ing old. Much of the new hay arriv-
ing is of poor quality.

Shipping Point Notes

Isabella Co., Mich—There is no
hay left in this section, which is un-
usual for this time of year. EXtreme
prices brought out all available sup—
plies. The farmers are just starting
to harvest the hay crop; there will
be very little timothy, the crop run—
ning from clover to light mixed.

Eaton 00., Mich—The acreage of
bay to be cut this year is about 60%
of the average of other years. The
crop is fairly good, what there is of
it. Farmers were obliged to cut their
meadows ten days ago to get feed for
their teams. There is no old hay left
in this section, so there is none to
move. Usually there is more hay at
this season of the year.

Gratiot Co, Mich. —There is no
hay left in his section as it has all
been shipped out. The prospects for
the new crop are very good.

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The old potato deal is
over.
tion of the market during the last
half of June, the market strengthened
a little and offerings in good condi-
tion were in demand at around$2.50

practically
After the practical demoriliza-

@$2.75 per 150 pounds. Thousands
of bushels of badly sprouted and‘off

 

 

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.. {l H. .‘rli
WASHINGTON. D. 0., July 12. 1919.
-—Last Bulletin gave forecast of warm

wave to.cross continent July 13 to 17,
storm ane 14 to 18, cool wave 15 to
19. -

 

Next warm'wave will reach Van-
couver about July 17 and temperatures
will rise on all the Pacflc sope. It
will cross crest of Rockies by close of
July 18, plains sectons 19, mridian 90.
great lakes, middle Gulf States and
Ohio Tennessee vallys 20, eastem sec-
tons 21 reaching vicinity of Newfound-
and about July 22. Storm wave will
follow about one day behind warm
wave and cool wave about one day be"-
hind storm wave.

These .two disturbances cover July
13 to 25, or about two weeks. The

 

 

     
 
  

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reader shoul‘dbe carefu to folow- each

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THE WEATHER FOR THE WEEK

- six days later.
1’ basis of all weather events and con-
' sists of a warm wave followed by a
. storm wave and the latter followed by

. sowly' drift eastward.

....._.._.-...._.._...-....

MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING _

disturbance separately and not mit it
up with the one that crosses conti-
nent about six days earlier, nor with
the one that crosses continent about
A ”disturbance” is the

a cool wave.

The two weéks now under discus-
sion—July 13 to 25~is xpccted to be-
gin with cooler than uua. followed by
up and down temperatures, but more
er temperatures near July 25. Where
up than down, ending with much high-
not otherwise ocated the date are for
meridian 90. as the weather features
If you do not
understand meridian 90 send for Fos-
ter’s Weather Map—it is free to sub-
scribers of thi newspaper.

The storms July 13 to 25 are not
expected to be very severe, ‘but they
will increase in intensity from Ju 13
to 25. Greatest storms of July' ya
been expcted from July 2 to 12. .

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‘ graded potatoeswore, however, sold
at an enormous loss to producers and
handlers. ’

New potatoes are firm and prices
stay up. City consumers are paying
75c. a. peak and there is little chance
that’ the market will ‘go below 50¢.
a peck before the late potatoes ar—
rive. ' ‘

 

There is no strength in the rye

market. It is stated that certain
restrictions still prevent the free
movement of rye to Europe which
undoubtedly has a bad effect upon
the market. ’

The opinion is freely expressed
‘that upon the removal of these re- ’
strictions rye prices will respond to
the foreign demand. However there
have been many predictions made asto
the rye market which have failed to
materialize that there is no safety in
banking upon them. Rye is quoted
this. week at $1.42.

 

Receipts in all departments at tho
zDetroit stockyards were very small
last week and it will give the whole
saler a chance to clear up on beef es.
pecially, on which the trade has been

dull for several weeks. Bulk of the re.
ceipts arrived in much better shape
than usual last week, there being only
one car that contained much dead, al-
though the weather was very warm. .

In'this car there were 14 dead hogs,
which will lose the shipper around
$800 on account of the hogs being
loaded in a dirty car with old cattle
bedding that should have been remov-
ed before they were Ioaded and clean
sawdust or sand bedding used. Ship-
pers are urged to be careful in this
weather when hogs are selling higher
than ever before. '

The quality of the hogs offering we:
only fair, but they were picked 13
quickly by the Detroit packers
prices that were higher than ever be-
fore. ‘

The hog prices opened this week
with $22.15 for mixed heavy grades
and $20 to $20.50 for pigs.

In the cattle division the quality
was very common, there being hardly
a=load of good dry fed steers on sale.
The market became more active when
it became apparent that the run Would
be light and everything was cleaned
up at prices averaging as follows in
the last few days: '

Best heavy steers, $13 to $13.25; best
handy weight butcher steers, $11.50 to
$12; mixed steers and heifers, $10 to
$10.50; handy light butchers, $9 to
$9.50; light butchers, $8 to $8.50; best
cows. $9 to $9.50; bu cher cows, $8 to
$8.50; cutters, $6.75 0. $7; cannon-s,
$6.25 to $6.50; best heavy bulls, $9 to
$9.50; bologna bulls, $8 to $8.50; stock
bulls, $7 to $7.75; feeders, $9.50 to $10'
stockers, $8.50 to $9; milkers and
springers, $75 to $125. ,

The veal calf trade grew stronger
than about a year ago and were $2 to
$2.50 higher. Best grades, $18 to
$18.50; common and heaVy, $11 to $17.

The sheep and lamb 'prices averaged
as follows: ' ‘

Best lambs. $17.50 to $18; fair
lambs, $16 to $17; light to common
lambs, $14 to $15; yearlings, $13 to
$14; fair to good sheep, $7.50 to $8;
culls and common, $4 to $6.

J. C. Kendall, of Grass Lake, was
busy in thecattle division last week
and gathered in 92.good feeding cattle
which he shipped home, where he had
plenty oof goodpasture. ‘ ?

The Michi an Central has issued a

.very valuabl, circularan the proper

loading of live stock, which» is being
sent to? all Michigan" shippers, and if

proper attention is‘f‘hatd'. to its con ' "
tents it Will" be a great help and .... .

live stock ‘ to" market, in ._

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.110:.to 25c- hizher; .
$21.25 "120’. 2;" heavy weight,
, .. medium Weight,
$21.30 to $22.20; light weight, $21.40
to $22.25;]ight light, $20 to $21.85;
heavy-packing sows, smooth, $20.55 to
$21.25; packing sows, rough, $19.75 to
$20.50; pigs'$18.50 to $20. Cattle: Re.
ceipts, 5.000;. strong beef steers, medi-
um, and heavy weight, choice and
prime, $15'to $16; medium and good,
$13 to $15.50; common, $11.25 to $13;

_ light weight, good and choice, $13.75

to $15.25; common and medium, $10 to
$13.75; butcher cattle, heifers, $7.50 to
$13.75; cows, $7.25 to $12.75; canners
and cutters, $6 to $7.25; veal calves.
light and handy weight, $17.25 to
$18.25; feeder steers, $9.25 to $12.75;
stock’er steers, $8 to' $12. Sheep: Re-
ceipts, 10,000. Strong; lambs, 84 lbs.
down, $15.50 to $17.75; culls and com-
mon, $9 to $15; yearling wethers.
$10.50 to $14; ewes, medium, good and

— choice ,$7 to $9; culls and common. $3

to $6.50.
East Bufi'alomDunning &. Stevens re

port: Cattle—Receipts, 5 cars; steady. .-

Hogs: Receipts, 5 cars; strong; heavy
and yorkers, $22.75 to $23; pigs, $21.25
to $21.50. Sheep: Receipts, 2 cars;
steady; top lambs, $18 to $18.50; year-
lings, $12 to $14.50; wethers, $9 to
$9.50; ewes, $7.50 to $8.50. Calves, $7
to $21.50. .
DETROIT MARKET LETTER
Potatoes—Receipts. heavy. Slow sale.
Quality in most cases poor. Market 40c
to 60c per cwt., in sacks. The above
has reference! to carload lots, small
lots selling about the same.-
- Beans——The bean market is not as

 

yet good. Hard to-dispose of carlots.
iPrices on small lots somewhat improv.'
ng. , .

Fruits and' Vegetables—Michigan

raspberries and cherries demand good;
receipts light. There are storage facil-
ities for all perishable fruits.

Veal-Veal market higher for good
quality. Many coming to market in
worthless condition account weather
conditions. '

Dressed Hogs—Dressed hogs are in
good demand and bringing better
prices. '

Eggs—Market firm. Weather condi-
tions unfavorable for freight and ship-

ments. Fresh receipts by express are
preferred. Good quality bring good
prices.

Poultry—Receipts light but good de-
mand. Broilers in very good demand-
Large varieties bring ton prices. Hens
sell quick at quotation.

Butter—Dairy butter is holding up
Prices ranging close to
last week. Good quality of dairy in de-
mand. '

Egg Cases—Firms can supply one
with . egg cases. Once used egg
cases, 25c each, carlots. 22c; chicken.
coops, $1.40 each; turkey coops, $1.75
each, f. o. b. factory point.

Fat Hens, 300; light hens,’ 28c; old
cocks, 180; broilers, 45 to 50.0; geese,
23c; turkeys, 380; ducks, 35c; spring
ducks 36 to 40c; No. 1 veal, 25c; No. 2
veal 20 to 24.

Dressed hogs, light weight, 26c;,hea-
vy, 23 to 250.

Maple Syrup, Extra Grade, $2.50 per
gal.

Dairy Butter. 40 to 45c according to
quality. Eggs. new laid, candied, poul-
try farm whites, 47c; p‘oultry farm
brown, 460.. Current receipts, 43c. Po-I
tatoes, track, 400 to 60c cwt. bulk. Out
of store about the same in small lots. .,

Carrots, Parsnips and Turnips, 500 to
$11 a bushel in small lots.

 

DETROIT GROWERS’ MARKET

Red raspberries were the dominating
feature of the eastern and western-city
markets Monday morning, the supply
being plentiful at unusually high
prices. Early sales in" large lots were
generally made at $15 per bushel 'for
red berries. The, demand was chiefly
from grocers who only partly cleaned
up the market at that price. Later in
the morning the hucksters held off in
their purchases until a concession of‘
from $1 to $2 per bushel. Few cur-
rants and cherries, were offered, cur-
rents bringing around $9 per bushel,
cherries around $10, and gooseberries
7.50. New tomatoes from local green-
ouses‘ sold in considerable quantities
gt :5 perm-pound basket, for best
)land, Russia; Armema and other.
fancy stock. Some choice grades were
flamed o‘fvat $4. Greens were in good

I [supply and sold generally 10c higher

the fieturday range of prices.

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_ fieLVMishes were in good sup-
ply‘ and generally were disposed of at
50c‘"'per dozen bunches. All berries

  

were'a‘carbs With the exCeption of rasp-

berries, which sold at $10 to $11 per
crate for red berries and $1 less for
the black. ' - .

Asparagus, _$1 to $1.50 doz. sch...
beets, 30c.to 50c doz. buchs; “beet tops.
50c to 600 bu.; wax beans, $4 to $4.50
bu.; green beans 4.50; lima beans,
$5 bu.; cabbage $1.75 to $2.25 bu.; car-
rots, 350 to 40c doz. bchs; cucumbers,
$1.15 to $1.25 dozen; cherries, $10.50
bu.; currents, $8 to $9 bu.; endive, 50c
to 650 bu.; kohlrabi 75c doz.; hd. let-
tuce $1.50 to $2.50 per bu.; leaf let-
tuce: 60c to 75c bu.; mustard, $1 bu.;
green onions. 25c to 300 doz. bchs;
potatoes, 80c to $1 bu.; radishes, 75c
to 80¢ doz. bchs; raspberries, red, $13
to $15, black, $11 to $13 bu.; rhubarb,
250 to 30c doz. bchs; romaine, 60c bu.;
tomatoes, $4 to $5 per 14_lb. basket;
turnips. 40c per doz.; celery, cabbage,
$1 per bu.; eggs, 47c doz.; butter, 60c
pound: dressed veal 25c to 260 pound;
live chickens, 33c to 34¢ lb.

FARMER EXPRESSES HIMSELF

As a, farmer of 30 years of varying -

degrees of success, I feel free to
exxpre myself, on some of the
problems which I think can be
solved to the benefit of all farmers.

We will never be in a very strong
position if we depend altogether (in
organized farm societies, for the
reason that there are a great num—
ber of splendid farmers who for
some reasOn or other do not affiliate
with team dlubs, etc. These men
will do most anything honorable for
the farm movement of the nation as
a whole, but from some discourage-
ment in years agone, perhaps some
political reverse. some financial blun-
der in co-operative enterprise, they
apparently have made up their
minds to become for the balance of
their days a sort of social tightwad,
distrustful of everything, but still

' they are prosperous and have both

character and, reputation.

Secondly, I claim that the sup-
port of this class is needed by the
more modern element and the proper
channel to follow to gain their sup-
port is along flnancial lines, to wit——

- show the conservative 'man a better

investment and absolute security for
his money or bonds and you will
have his moral suppport for every
farm enterprise and political feature
as-well.

Just now this same man is the
idol of the state and private bank
and nothing we can do to pry him
loose to our own -beneflt will sue-
ceed unless we give him better per
cent and security which would not
be hard to do, “largely educational."

Third, there are, in the rural dis-
tricts .of Michigan. hundreds of

thousands Liberty and other bonds.

Many were. not taken in free will
but in good will, upon request of the
.War Department. Many (holder's
were obliged to pay local interest
rates at the bank to hold same.
Many are selling at a discount as
money commands 7 per cent at least
anddarmers tire of carrying 4% per
cent, hence the temptation to sell.

“We say “hold”. but we offer no
easy way to obtain runn‘ing expense
money at low rates;

Fourth, we are handicapped in

~ many ways, which could be very eas—

ily remedied, partly by bill in Con-
gress allowing Liberty and Victory
bonds to be taken as subscriptions
to National Bank stock, also to be
accepted by U. S. treasury as se-
curity for National Bank notes,
which they are not now. At least ar-
rangements should be made to have
the Federal Reserve take ‘them in
some way so that the holders collect-
ively at least could have the same
privileges. as members of the Fed-
eral..reserve now enjoy.

Fifth, it is a strange. limitation

we are placing on our own power '

and privilege to be constantly refer-

ring to North Dakota for criticism
when there are laying in the strong"
box of farmers‘a much greater pow;
er than North Dakota is. possessed
of should we be able to- make‘ it
available to be used by the Agricul-
tural interests of the state; the best
wait on Congress or the Legislature
security in the world. We need not

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ins the bond ‘ pub; f
capital stock, much'..thel same
building and loan association-s
now and as they make, your loans on
agricul ural live stock, ware-houses
certific tes. ‘ ’ .

Publish a list of your stockhold- throwers “ud 013392170“) DIV-9?.
ers in the County paper, which got a red bull at cud make ed
shouldbe owned by the Association scarce. .- , , .
and you may soon forget there ever . . ‘.
was a State Bank; furnish-a clerk at It“ m1il3dle-31anbjogggr 13111131323?
auction sales; have a few stock- mil“ 23' mare :1. 1: few cents a q ,
holding tellers in each township who ilmn in 11;]950 tllfe didn't pay me
could give clearance papers to chat- in , ’In 1925;“,3} I reckon what
tel note makers, and the machines jobbé‘rs is left’ll be cartin’ a bai
would run smooth and silent, and chain aroun' their legs ,
no doubt in time the Association ' .. a .' "
would be a veritable trust company As weather prophet, I predict-
f0? aged farmers. - ain’t goin' to be any “Democrati‘e‘-

Then a farmer would not build ther" at election days for the ‘ '
all his grain bins on the farm. He after mm ' '
would build some at the railroad - o o .
track and sell at convenience. My boy Al was in the Argonne.

Sixth, the trend of the habits of says his lost leg won’t keep him-
our people is in the direction where fightin' the real war that's jest,
it will take more money to finance ed up in Michigan politics. "
the running expense account, and, r r ‘ .
for the far future we are about to _ Land doesn’t make crops; we
leave a legacy of debt in shape of that do the trick. A savage'll ru
road and drain bonds for posterity to best of land in a year or two, w
pay or renew. Thus do we see that 'real farmer’ll persuade poor '13:!
our finance must be brought more change its mind an” grow crops.
under our control than heretofore. Macomb County.

Lastly we are sending our best
help away to business schools and
why Should we not have them placed
in positions to account for us when
graduated—E. Richardson, Huron
County.

 

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cure ’em.' '

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T0 LATE T0 CLASSIFI

 

FOR SALE—3 FOX TERRIER,
pups, 9 weeks old, Price, $8.00
Address, Mildred V Blanck, f
Box 226. '

FOR SALE—160 ACRE FAB“, -
loam, all improved, well fenced. A»
well, 8-room brick house, bank barn d
Other buildings all first class 00 '
Eight miles from Bad Axe and
from Ubly Wm.Frantz,'Sr., Ubly,
R. F. I). 2. - .

 

SOME BONEHEAD FERTILIZERS

I see city sassiety folks is hollering
for high grades of butter. But, by gar,
I don’t make butter for sale if the kids

 

 

"IT pays to feed silage, and the loss silage
costs the more it pays. Filling the silo i
the biggest cost. By the use of International ensf .
lage cutters farmers get the most. out of men, power,
horses and time. There are five sizes -— one of which
you ~can use with profit. On every size there Is.
every adjustment and convenience needed for quick.
economical filling. . . .

Internationals feed easily and do not choke they elevate
ensilage into the highest silos smoothly and safe y. The fans
on the flywheel throw the cut fodder 15 or 20 feet and then
blow it the rest of the way. The different parts of the ,
mechanism are perfectly timed, wearing an even flow of the '
fodder provided the feeders keep the table fulL Tnero is no
choking, jolting or chopping.

Every silo owner nee s a silo filler of his own jue the same
as he needs a plbw, planter, mower, or binder 0 his own.
It pays. . ".

The service that goes with every International implement *
contributes no little toward the prestige and popularity of the .
line. It is always alert and prompt, resultful and intelligent-A

Fill your silo cheaply— hi it well. To do so buy an Inter '
national enslla e cutter. There is an International ’deale! ,
nearby who, wll show you the various t pee. Or, writethe .,
address below and full information will 0 sent. ‘

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inders Push ln ers w e e der: | t”
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hreshers (.om lnetlxgrswg En: la“ Cutters _ A.
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4 . glsk Ha ‘ows Cfimkblnaat (an twat?“ linker & Shredder-
El racto a r we a as n a ‘ .
E“ prln [I giant-rows Ballot Presses C m!"- “M
eg- ooi arrows . rearaSenaratora
rchard Harrow: _ l’lutiulrSudi-gflukiu. ,F' e rlglders ..
1“ go” Pulverizers ‘ . ‘ unur preaderl
mm... ‘33:: 1r“! “as safe
Power Machines ref 11 “I. “Eons
7 Kero ene En lnes r a cast 00631 e fucks
Gaso lne nu nes al & Grass cod tel utters
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wiping, are cash in full with order, .3 Count
,9“ irony of. figures, .both’ in the, body of, the ad .
“ regardless of number of times ad ,runs.'_'There
Copy must reach in. by Wednesday of preceding week. You

3 cents 'a Word for eachiss’ué,
ho... discount.

" eh) us continue our low rate by malt
Address, Michigan Business Farmlng. Adv. Dep't, Mt. Clemens,

NOTE:

An illustration helps greatly to sell farm
$10 extra. for each insertion of your ad, you
graphic reproduction of your houseor barns
of your ad. Be sure to send us a good‘ clear

' purpose ’

_. FARMS AND LAND

 

FOR SALE—120 ACRES, 30 CLEAR-
ed, balance good land, naturally drain-

. fenced, two good wells. fair
'uil'dings, main road—mile from town, 70
Dds from school. $30 an acre. Poor
health reason for selling. Raymond .Gar-
lty, Alger, Mich.

 

: FARIHS FOR. SALE—BIG LIST OF
,, farms for sale by the owners. giving
1113 name, location of farm, description,
rice and terms~ Strictly mutual and co-
perative. between the buyer and seller
and conducted for our members. GLEA N-
V’ R CLEARING HOUSE ASS’N.. Land
pt" Gleaner Temple, Detroit.

 

AOO-AOBE EQUIPI’ED FARM. IN-
come last year over $5,000. Nearly new
2-room house, baths, hot, cold water,
‘as-lighted, cement floor main barn, big
second barn, litter and feed carriers, gar-
,ge, store houses, all ggood‘; smooth ma.-
hine-worked fields, wire-fenced pasture,
:2 ‘much wood, timber, fruit. 0n main road.
f.convenient town_ Aged owner for quick
.sale incudes 10 cows, long list farm im-
plements etc., at low price $8,000, easy
terms. Details this money-maker page 41
Catalog Bargains 19 States, copy free
.‘STROUT FARM AGENCY, 814BE Ford
3L1‘dg., Detroit. ,

 

_, .MICHIGAN COUNTRY HOME IN

“the College County" for sale—Immedi—
.. ate possession; spring crops in; on long
"term contract-if desired, fully equipped
« 200 — acre dairy-farm with established
. state inspected~ herd, registered .Holstelns,
. headed by 34—11). Kin;r Korndyke Sadie Vale
g-‘bull: two good farm homes within 16
‘j'minutes of State Normal College, 40
;,-_minutes of University of Michigan, 60
minutes of Detroit, 90 minutes of Toledo.
over good roads. With or without cat-
jtle and eqnu‘ipment. William B. Hatch,
1,.gYpsilanti, .- lch.

 

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towner, Millersburg, Mich.

Krau th,

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low..- ntepwrnomm- :
' .'° 'tormsfon classified ads
as, one 1mm} each .; in] and
and in the address? do rate

rem

g your remittance enactly right.—
chlgan. A

property. By adding
can have a photo-
printed at the head
photograph for this

 

 

FOR SALE—67.85-ACRE FARM, 9N
account of poor health, for quick sale in—
cluding crops; will take $2,150, $1.000
down, from one to five years on balance;
35 acres Cleared, balance easily cleared.
Come and look it over or write. John
Rose, Billings, Mich.

MISCELLANEOUS

CORN HARVESTER—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-
vester. PROCESS CORN HARVESTER
CO.‘. Salina, Kan.

WANTED

 

EVERY FORD OWNER T0 “’RITE.

us for a descriptive circular of Hassle!-
shock absorbers for Ferd .cars. This
circular will tell you howto save one-
third of your tire expense, the cost of
your gasoline, and the upkeep of your
car. We want men to sell I—Iassler sholck
absorbers to Ford owners In every 0-
cality. ROBERT H. HASSLER,
Indianapolis, Ind.

Inc.,

 

STOP! READ AND INVESTIGATE!

For Sale—Two finely bred registered
a 32-11). bull; due soon; ages 3 and 4
Holstein cows; good individuals; bred to
years. Price $300 and $325. 0. L. Hu-
-lett & Son Okemos, Mich.

" AUTOMOBILE non SALE

I want to sell my 1918 series, six—cyl-
inder, seven—passenger Studebaker. I have
driven this car one season, only. It is
in fine mechanical condition, was painted
dark grey two months ago; looks and
drives like a new car. Cord tires. all in
good condition, will last easily five _to
eight thdusand miles. This‘car is easily
worth $1,260 (to duplicate it- in Size,
power and appearance with a new car
would cost more than $2,000); but I will
sell this car for $975 cash. or $1,060
terms andtake Liberty bonds or bank-
able paper. I will deliver and demonstrate
the car to purchaser anywhere in the
lower peninsula. This is a bargain for
any farmer with a ‘larfe tamily who
wants a. big car at smal car price, If
you are interested write at once to Box
12, care Michigan Business Farming, Mt.

. Clemens, Mich.

 

Send Us Pictures of Your Live Stock -

MICHIGAN is a great live stock state and many of her farmers have

as choice animals as can be found anywhere. If you have a prize
“marcgor. stallion, a pure-bred dam or sire, a prize-winning pen of poultry,

‘1 Sheep or hogs,—or any animal of which you are particularly proud, send
‘ up (1 photograph and story. Address Editor Michigan Business Farming,

Mount ‘0 lemons, Michigan.

 

 

 

 

 

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YOU WANT THIS WEEKLY IN YOUR

'MAIL BOX EVERY

: SATURDAY, BECAUSE-—

-——-—tt brings you all the news
hiding the plain facts.

-——it tells you when and where to

what you raise!

of Michigan farming: never ~

get the best prices for

-———it is a practical paper written by Michigan men close to

the sod, who work with their

sleeves rolled up!

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

‘7" “ One Subscrip-
‘ tion price
to all!

ONE YEAR...
THREE YEARS...”
FIVE YEARS ..... $3

....$1

No Premiums,
No free-list, but worth
. more than we ask.

I-—_————————_———‘—————_

1110me BUSINESS FARMING, Mt. Clemens, Mich.

Dear Friends:—

Keep M. B. F. coming to the address below far. . . . . . . .years for

16:. which I enclose herewith 3. . . . . . . . . in money-order,

I, currency.

Name .......

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‘ Armament; ~ shamans, . ~

Why knotf‘ have a Farmers Put—y 5L
and elect the whole state ticket in .

1920 fromthe governor, down? I be
liove we can do it.

Now ,that the women are voting,
with the votes ofthe farm employes
and some of the laborers in the cities
and towns would go with us we would
poll a big vote. Ever since our state
had a constitution we have been rep-
resented by all classes of men except
farmers. . .

Isn’t it about time we had our in-
ning? Haven’t we been waiting a good
while for our chance at the bat? We
ought to be able to put a ball over
now eh? Aren’t those new laws and
reforms the farmers of North Dakota
are putting over, dandies? Will be
better for the town peoplethan those
they have been living under, will they
not?

Farmers are the biggest class of .

purchasers on earth when they have
any “min of the realm” to do it with.
When the farmers are prosperous
business is booming, good times for
every one.
when the farmer is hard u all other
classes of men are hard up also; busi-
ness of all kinds closes up and thou-
sands of men are in the bread line. ‘
~ It is hard for most men to under-
stand why politics should have any-
thing-to do with ‘ '
g o o d or bad

And on the other hand,‘

«it "n assess

undated- ... ,artiéi'e- entitled. three ?' ',

Life of the Hired Man’s Family on the
Farm,” (written by a readerl'inV-a'
May number. ' ~ ' ‘

Now, I am a farmerjs wife and we“ -'

live on a farm of 100 acres which we
bought ' and-paid - for with "our own
hard work. iwish to. relate just one
of many experiences. with hired help,
not meaning that all men are the same
and let some one judge where the
fault lies. I, for one, do‘not think the
farmer is always to blame, yet we are
not all perfect by anv means.

After we were married we worked
for my uncle two years for eighteen
dollars a month. I did the housework
and my husband attended to the out-
door work. With several cows to milk
and a lot of horses and colts“ to look
after and hogs to feed besides follow-
ing a team/ all day iii the field and
many times no help to do the chores
at night. Of course we do not think
of asking any man to do the same,
but a young man came to hire out to
us from Grand Rapids. He was rais~
ed- on a farm and his wife‘was educat-,
ed in a boarding school in Boston.
Mass. - ‘

They came and looked over the place '

and were pleaSed with everything and
we gave them the wages they asked.
besides many other things. like twen»

- ty bushels of po-
tatoes and a fat

 

times, but the.
fact remains that
they do. Then all
d e p e 11 ds upon
whom we have at
bat in our legisé
lature, doesn't it?
Notwithstanding .
high prices, are
farmers prosper-
ous? If they are,
why are so many
getting cold feet?
Why is it that
so many in one
of the best sec-
tions of our state
on good farms,

 

must have
. .IIP
' - ‘morlel arch for‘

the

heroes.

hog, all the fruit
they wanted to
can and use -on
the table, house:
rent and'garden
‘and nearly an
acre to put in late
potatoes, a n d
summer w o o d.
The house cone
iained five rooms
- and had been
plastered and al-
so newly papered.
There was a new
cistern ‘an d a
pump and it Was
just across the
road from the

IN BUGLAND
Bug — They}
put

that me-

returned

 

 

with SOOd build-
ings an (1 other .
improvements, can’t pay their fire
insurance? Insurance has to be paid
by the man who owns the mortgage
on the farm.

Aren’t we travelling over the same.

road Denmark did before her farmers
got sufficient control of her lawmak-
ing bodies to hold the balance of pow-
er? With her things went from bad
to worse until she was threatened
with depopulation. People left there
just as fast as they could get money
enough to bring them to this country,
‘ But after the farmers got control of
‘was, not long until Denmark became
one of'the‘most if‘not the‘ most pros-
porous countr _ _.
that when the farmersfof that country
went to .bat the ._ Score meant some-
thing good fOr every man, Woman and
child within her borders, didn’t it? So
they set us a precedent, didn’t they?
In giving the farmers of this country
the balance of power or partial con-
trol we are not going at it blindly;
we ought to be as smart as the Danes
were.

If I am any'guesser North Dakota
will soon be the best governed state

and the most prosperous and the best.

to live in by all classes of people,
thanks to her farmers, of any in our
union. Can't we do as she has done?
Aren’t we as smart at the North Da.
cotans? We don’t have to join the
Non-Partisan League either, but we
can have a farmers' party made up of
all the old parties. Aren't we the goat
for all other;cl~asses of men? During
the “late unpleasantness’” didn’t our
own government make us the goat?
Didn’t they set prices on all of our
most important commodities?
set a price on anything we had to
buy? Was that using us fair? If it
were fair to set a priceon what we
sold why wasn’t it fair to set a price
on what we bought? , ' ,
Laboring men outside of the farms
got their demands didn't they? And

are stillgetti-ng them. Why? Because-

“in union there is strength." There-

fore doesn't it follow that we must,

‘have a big sprinkling of honest to

God farmers in our state and United 1'
States legislatures to put-us on a par ,

. or equality with other classes of men?

~ A. A. ,Lambemannzm 09mm. 1, ‘r

\.

on earth. -' So 'we See '

Did it .

chiefly on its past name. .
This coutry bashed considerableex- ‘

. barn .where it
was handy to do the chores. They
also had a quart of milk each day.

Well, everything went all right till
about harvest time; then someone told
the man he was not getting enough
pay for his work. Then he began to
shirk and neglect his work; We said
nothing. When we began to cut corn
and dig potatoes one morning he did
not show up,‘ so we saw there was
trouble coming. The consequence was
he quit us when-we most needed help
to harvest our 1fall_crops. ‘ ,

.1 had- divided with them my canned '

fruit Itha_:was already sweetened and
‘cherries'all- pitted and put up just as

.3

I‘did'fOr myself, fox-"whenethe‘y came”

here they had nothing. at all and he
even asked me to advance". $.20to'pay
for the van to bring him but from'the

_ Rapids, and I did it. -. Then he boarded

with us three weeks while his wife
was in Chicago having a. good time be-
fore they settled in their home. We
charged him.nothing‘,' and I had my
housecleaning to do and 400 little
chicks to take care of and did it alone
and said nothing for we needed help.
And what happened? We were left
alone. All he had to do was take care
of three horses and do the team work.

My husband and I looked after the
other chores,, except once in a while
we would be away but not often. When
he did the milking" alone he took all ,
of one cow’s milk home.

I say if hired help were morathank-
ful for what is done for them there
would not be so muchfault finding.
More theyrget, the worse off they are,
till they can learn their lesson same as
I did and be thankful and saving—A
Farmer’s Wife, Allegan County. ‘

BUMS AND BOMBS
Democracy of late has been a terri-
bly abused word, like many other ex-
pressions it seems to have deteriorat-
ed in genuine value and is now. living

-.

perience with bums-"and with bombs.
eludes, mat-he industrial ‘t'yrants who
encourage the desperate to hurl bombs
aniihefis ...th, .' ' hgli"

" Society would abolish both. That ~in-, ."

 


IV 2': “ Input?

T (A Clam Int , ' farmer-5’
[Nation'flrouflo all tempt-into or request-
» more hsrs tee-or" you.)

everyday. troubles.
for informatLon addressed to this depart-

Prompt, careful at-

 

ASSISTANT P. M. INPOLITICS
..,Pleas'e~advise me through columns
'of your paper “an assistant post-
master can hold any elective or ap-

pointive oflihe?——A.~E. G.-, Midland.

County.

I d0'not have access to the postof.
lice regulations, but I am under the
impression that the assistant post-
‘master is not eligible to hold any oth-
er civil office, except notary public.—
W. E. Brown, legal editbr.

APPEAL FROM COMMISSIONEBS
Kindly advise me if thereis any ap-
peal from a highway commissioner’s
state, county or township decision In
choice of route for a highway? It so to
whom? _ -
We have a road on east side of
. farm and now parties are trying to
get one across place through barn
yard Can state acquire right of way
by only paying for same at so much
per acre at farmrvalue for farm pur-

pose or will other values have to be
Charlene/Ia; ,

cousidered?—-G, B. 11.,
County. , ‘ ‘ ‘, ,

The law, provides that any person
beinga‘ free-holder, or a holder of land
by homestead rights, within the town;
ship, who may conceive himself
» agrieved by the determination of the
commissioner in ‘laying out, altering
or discontinuing any highway, or in
his award of damages, or in his refus-
al to ”lay out, alter or discbntinue any
highway, may within ten days after
such a determination or' refusal, ap-
peal therefrom to the township board.
He must deposit $25 which will be re-
turned to him,‘ if the appeal is sus-
tained. If not, it will go to meet ex-
penses of the appeal.

. Before land can be taken. for a high-
way, there must be paid therefor, not
only the value of the.real estate tak—
en, but the other damages that neces—
sarily result therefrom, like the de-
struction of fences or buildings, or
other appliances taken for the pur-
,pose of the highway—W. E. Brown,
legal editor. ‘

OAN CONTROL OWN FARM

I bought a. farm of 80 acres with my
first husband's money and my second
husband is working it._ I furnish ev-
erything.~ Can he sell anything off the
place, or will he have any share of
_ the crops and what share, if any, if
he would-be mean about it? May I not
control my own farm just the same if
he .is working it?—-Mrs. E. 17., Oak-
land Gounty.

As the farm and all the appliances:

belong to you, have absolute control
thereof. Your husband has no right to
sell or dispose of anything on the
farm. except What you have given him
the right to dispose of, or to sell. Your
individual property is under your ab«
solute control, Without any restraint
from your husband, and he has no
right therein, during your lifetime.-~
W. E. Brown, legal editor.

ABOUT THE FENCE LINE

i am buying 80 acres of land in Hig-

land township. Just moved here this
spring. I have one forty back in the
woods that I am not using this year.
One of my neighbors has turned five
cows and two horses on me without
permission. Can he be made to pay
for the pasture at pasture rate? Now,
my part'of the line fence is in a swamp
and is full of water. The posts have
been burned off but the wire is there
yet. Some of his fence is down too.
Now have I got to stop my work to
'build that fence before I can collect
pasture money, or can I hold cows and
horses for trespassing? Please let me
know what I can do to getthe money?
——J. N R..', Oakla/nd County.

If the line fence is divided and as-
signed you would have to prove to the
satisfaction of the court or jury in an
action for damages that your neigh-

bor’s cattle came upon your premises.

through a defect in his part ofthe line
fence. He would have to pay as dam-
ages phat the pasture was worth and
1". what ,
reunites been divided and
him keep up then he
rs cams

‘ assigned

.. other poultry house.

injury :Was done to the field be-A ‘

fence until it has been divided and
to each to build.——W. E.
Brown, legal editor.

COMMON LAW MARRIAGE

After a. couple havelived together
as man and Wife for five years, and
then apart for seven months, has eith-
er the right to marry someone else?
There was no thought of marriage
when they started to live together.
About a month ago the man met a
girl whom he would like to marry. Can
the woman, after living with the man
make him support her? I was told.
that after a couple have lived together
for a. number of years there must be a
divorcex This couple do not care to
live together again. I will look for
your answer through the columns of
the MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING. I
will also thank you very much for
your advice—A Farmer, Benzie Coun—
ty. -

If a mamand a w'oman capable of
contracting marriage, live together as
husband and wife, by agreement, this
constituteswhat is known as a com-
mon law marriage. , Neither can marry
another without divorce. If their liv-
ing together was meretricious from the
commencement. each is at liberty to
leave the other and marry whomsoever
they please.——W. E. Brown, legal ed-
tor.

STRAW SHED POULTRY— HOUSE
Tenants and other persons desiring
a temporary shelter for poultry would
do well to consider a straw shed house.
Such ar house is very simple to make
and Will serve as excellent quarters
for poultry during at least one winter.
If a supporting frame is built before
threshing time it is no extra. trouble
to blow thestraw from the threshing
machine over and around this frame to
form a shed completely closed in with
straw on all sides excepting the south.
4 supporting frame can be easily
made by setting a post for each cor_
ner of the prOposed shed and placing
across the top of these posts heavy
poles to form the supports for the
framework of rails, boards, or light
poles, which will hold Up the straw.
After the straw has been thrown over
this frame, a front such‘as is used on
any modern poultry house can be built
on the south side. This front should
include some open space and some win-
dows to provide ventilation and fur-
nish light. The inside of the house
may be equipped with ‘dropping boards,
meets and nests, just the same as any
A straw shed
house of this type 20 feet square on the
farm furnished shelter for 125 hens.
These birds came through without a
frozen comb and laid all winter.

If such a house becomes infested
with mites during warm weather, the
birds can be allowed to roost outside
during the summer months and a new

house can be built each threshing

time. -

 

 

CORRECTION!

MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING
desires to make the following
correction, contained in the fol-
lowing letter from J. W. Nichol-
son. secretary_treasurer, Mich.
Crop Improvement Association.
The mistake was one of proof
reading.

“I notice in' the last issue of
your paper that in speaking of
the saving of bundles of grain to
be fixed up for samples for fairs
you make the following state-
ment: ‘Store where not (lamp
and keep ‘ in extremely dry
place.’ '_ .

“This statement should read,
‘Store Where not very damp and
yet not in an extremely dry
place.’ In other .words farmers
desiring to prepare sheaf sam- .
pies for fairs should store them
in a moderately cool, shady place

A- where the leaVes will not dry out
much more rapidly than the
stems. ' -_ . ‘

' “If allowed to dry too rapidly
or placed'in too dry-a place the
' grain or grass shatters. ' Of

 

mold."

 

 

 

 

,; course, 11‘ it is too damp it will , ‘ _ '
’ ‘ ' cannons. mum. Street. Marshall. Mich.

Coca-Cola is a perfect
answer to thlrst that no

imitation can

satisfy.

Coca-Cola quality, recorded
in the public taste, 18 what
holds it above imitations.

Demand the genuine by full name
f—fllcknamco encourage substitution.

.TH-E COCA-COLA Co.
ATLANTA, GA.

 

 

 

 

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' 3600 no. Guarantee‘
‘Manufacturers of high-

de Tires sell us their

Secon s " It an average
Ranucrion 0F ¢o%.
Smashed

'lsln I.Skid Tub»:

.45 . 02.05

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12.30

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Thousands of our satisfied customers are getting .
from 4000 to 6000 miles service—why not you'If
Pay After Examination. 3% Discount for Cash With Order. '
We ship 0. O. D.. subject to inspection. When
ordering state it Clincher, 0. D. or S. S. are desired.
ORDER TODAY—prices may jump. Full infor-
mation on request. Address,

Philadelphia Motor Tire Co.,

244 N. Broad Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA.

 

 

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BROOKS' APPLIANCE.
the modern- scientific
invention. the wonderful-
new discovery that re-
lieves rupture will be
sent on trial. No ob-
nonous springs or pads.
Has automatic Air
Cushions. Binds and
draws the broken parts
Ither as you would a
ten limb. No selves.
ies. Durable. cheer.
Sent on trial to prove t.
Protected by U. S. pat-
ents. Catalo no and mess
ure blanks In led free. Send
name and . address. today.

 

 

 

Good Low-Priced Farms »
can be had in Vermont. The tide is running back to
the fertile, home-like valleys of the Green Mountain
State. Right at the door of the great eastern markets,

' with productive farmlands fl,
surprisingly low cost, Vermont.
holds his Opportunities for in-fi
dustrious farmers. Vermont's on
craze yield per me for 0 ml.

crops is nearly two and one-M1-
tunes the average return for “I.
Home crops in the United Statem- ‘
Area and population considers: '
Vermont in the first I h
the Union. Write for ‘ "as;
"Vermont Farms for 81h”-~)ul»
. iished by the State of 7m ' 1

7 Harry A. Black, Secretary Of 8%"

 

Montpelier.

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my subscription

In; sm-muuafirwfluum

has ecome so opular m it: at our year. .
thousand. have goon called for to replace, on M
old towers, other makes of mills, and to leplnog “
Imall cost, the caring of the earlier

Aermotors, ma ing them self-Oil-

inthscncloaed motor .

keeps in c oil and '

keep. out dust and

rain. The Splash Oil-

ing stem constantly _ a

flood- cvcrybearing with od,prc- .

venting wear and enabling) the . ‘

mill to pump in the lightest reeze.

 

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003d. 3'53: $1.5 $2.1. each carrying half the!

a make Gasoline zines. Pumps. Ta
Water Supply Goods and Steel Frame So

Write IERMOTOR 00., 2500 Twelfth 3L. GIN“

 

You just keep things humming and ‘17
will keep M F. coming—Ella. Stee

Grand Traverse. county.

We like the paper very much—Fred
Pollman, Osceola county. " ”i

I appreciate your aper and I tf
you mean to help us camera—Ed. Jan
son, Livingston county, ' _ .

Am sending one dollar for renews.
your good paper.—W.
lock,, Mich

I am pleased with M. B. F.
another years—:—
Booker, Osceola county. . ,

As we deem it the best paper '

most instructive paper that is being.

fished—Frank Garn, Wexford on
Please send me M. B, F. for ' (in
It looks to me 'lik a. splendid "
the farmer to have. So many :33;
of no particular value—Edwa. ’_
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”change-sine ofedfier :oopyfas often as you wish.

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oi.- avoid conflicting dates we will,
out coat, list the date of any live
* In]. in' Michigan. If you are
daring a sale advise us at once
(1 in will claim the-date for your
’ Is Live Stock Editor, M. B. It,
,‘Olemens.

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' WWD STOCK . . ‘

z . l ‘ .120, .(EEREEOB’D ITEEBS. .ALSO
mom. nu.“ 1° :3.“ “rs francs:
' 'i m: am an 2 ngussas eers: o ' .

‘ HOLSTE’INS, ‘ :Ownersanxious to sell. Will hel buy.500 -
SHROPSHIRES ‘ aoommission. C. F,'Ball. Fairlie d, Iowa. ,

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ANGUS. : tLAKEWOOD'I“fl.".RlEll"(3lR135 ‘

DUMS. 13% holw many but how googiuA ftew

-—'—-———“—— awe eve oped;< beefy, young 11 s ' or

non D- WELL-51.1111“, IIICH. male, blood:iineszamd-ttndividuality No. 1. .

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i’HOLSTEIN—FRIESIAN

 

 

    
   
   
 
  
  

r
l . ill , , . by agricultural societ-

u ies begun in 1886. At the

close not the year 1897. competitive

tests between Holsteins ”and Jerseys.
were made on 73 different occasions.

. resulting in an excess of .lproduction «of

f the .Holsteins of 23% over the Jer-

aseys; an average per day of 1.992

_rle. for the Holstein and 1.614 for the

Jersey.

HOLSTElN-FRIESlAN ASSOCIATION OF
AMERICA, Box 295 Bratileboro, Vt.

 

 

 

MUSOLFF BROS.’ HQLSTEINS

We are now booking orders for
oung bulls from King Pieter Segls
yons 170506. All from A. R. O, dams
with credible records. . We test an u-
ally for tuberculosis. Write for p ic-
es and further information. -

ButterTests I ‘ .

 

 

 

Music! Bros.. South Lyons, Michigan

 

FOR SALE—HOLSTEIN'BULL DALI?
om good producing cow and first qual-

, _ty sire. $75 for quick sale. F. W. Alex-
ander, Vassar, Michigan.

 

 

A REAL BULL
Just old enough for service. His sire is
giro of the best 31 lb. bulls in the state;

  
   
 

is dam a 28 lb. cow of great capacity.
, is‘three nearest dams average, fat, 4.46
, , er cent; 514.8 milk 7 days.
. 200 if :sold soon.
(well. Michigan,

Priced at
Harry '1‘. Tubbs, El-

 

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-‘ 4 'TWIN BULL CALVES
. .Born October 29, 1918;
Wilma Segis Korndyke 104008;
record, 24.35 lb

milk
for articulars.——C. &
orvll. le, Michigan.
88-LB. ANCESTRY
FOR SALE—Bull calf born Feb. 8,
Sire, Flint Hengerveld Lad whose
am. a. 88.105 4—yr.-old record. Dam,
7 lb 1'. 2-yr.-old, daughter of Ypsiland
ir Pontiac DeKol whose dam at 5 yrs.
5 a ecord of 35.43 and 750.20 lbs. in
$5..“ rice, 830011103.
r e or ex en ed 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 convi .
murself. Good stock always g3:

sale. Howbert Stock Fa
* fi-Claire. Michigan. rm, Eau

 

 

sired b 811‘
am's ‘ '

s. butter and 621 lbs. of ”e' Herd ‘Buus' Manet“ oxmrd Fox
in 7 days: tine straight calves. Send
A. Ruttman, Fowl-

 

 

 

. MOISTEINS OF QUALITY .7
AVERAGE RECORD OF TWO amen-
v: estudamsi‘ofviherd sine 15.35.07 lbembuttel‘
and/rm ribs. milk for 7 days. M1 for
male-with .3159 >lbs.- .dam and 10 mearest
'dams average over ‘31 lbs. in seven *days.
E. A_ ‘HARDY, Rochester. Mich.

' i i . ._ .sired by gafson of.
. mmves Friend I-vfiengerveld

’ ' ‘ De Ko‘l . Butter
Boy and by a son of King .-Begis De Kol
Korndyke. from A. $8.. '0. damswith rec--
ends 201' 18.25 as Jr; two year old to 28.25

at full age. Pricesreasonabie breeding

 

WALNUT GROVE STOCK FARM
W. W Wyckoff,

 

Napoleon, Mich.

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

HERE’S SOMETHING

THAT “ilLI. BE WORTH LMORE DIOX-
ey in a few weeks. A registered Holstein
heifer, bred to a grandson of the $50,000
bull; due to freshen Aug. 21, ’19; color
80% black' price, $250. A registered Hol—
stein cow 1 years. old; bred to same sure
as mentioned above; due to freshen Sept-
11. ’19: color 80% white; price, $250.
Guaranteed .free from disease.

H. E. "BROWN. BREEDSVILLE, MICH.

HEIFEB OALVES SOLD. BRED
Yearling and young cow for sale. Price,

$150 and 3250, C. L. Hulett & Son, Oke—
mo, Mich.

JERSEY

The Wildwood Jersey Farm

Breeders of Majesty strain Jersey Cat-

 

 

134214; Eminent Lady’s Majesty 150934.
Herd tuberculin-tested. Bull calves for
sale out of R. of M. Majesty dams,

Alvin Balden, Capac, Michigan.

 

 

FOR SALE—REGISTERED JERSEY
bulls ready for service, nd bull calves.
Smith & Parker, R_ 4_ owell, Mich.

GUERNS EY

° Guernsey Bull
Registered Fons“, .
r11 26, 1919 Price 350

Egg? 3:2 left! All the others advertis-"
ed in M, ’B. F. have been sold. _
Wm. '1‘. Fish, Vestaburg, .Mleh., B. 2

, ABERDEEN-AN GUS

'ABERDEEN-ANGUB CATTLE
We are offering'atattractive prices, a
number of *high-zc-lass young bulls, well
able to headthebest herds in the land.
'Best in :blood lineage on either-side .of the
ocean. Write for price list. or call and

see

 

 
 
 
  
  
   
    
   

;E..L. :Salisbury Breedsl-ligh Class
:5,:..&H}olstem-’Friesian Ca’ ttle
.Twenty dams .of our herd sire

_ 30 livatter Lyons

manage . s. .of butter .in seven
KW. ..Nothinz for sale .at this i
ggm.-young bull calves. t me
' ~127qu Salisbury, Shepherd, Michigan

 

 

Woo‘di’ote Stock Farm. lonia. Michigan.

snow“! can

i S THGRNS PUB SAL-E AT BEA-
" SHOR ' — songbilel: ‘ mPrices, M13191
1 ‘ ~ i nin Scotch u , aster o e

’ I53311621647“, lln mganystates at head of hard of

, e ' Shorthorns.
£19 3%? gxpkhurst. Reed City, rMichigan.

 

   

THE 'BABBY 00. 'SHO‘B'I‘HORN

 

 

 
     
  
   
      
     
       
  
    

." . iTEN-aM‘O-NTHS-OLD-BULL

.lzaull ‘.last advertised is mold.
be; «born June 7, 1918. Siredby $31,:
’ _n-.of .famous «$30,000 .bull hog-ding
‘ en Farms herd. King Korndyke
. Tw.o nearest dams to:
re of this calf average 37.76 lbs. but.
7 37-: days and over. 1.45 lbs. ‘In’ 30
aye. Dam, .a .granddau hter of King
1 the Pontiacs, Sn- .G lsohe Walker
”13.8.1141 DeKol Burke" ,.,A.»ba;‘gain
’fierd tuberculin tested ,fiml’ipally. '

' Association wish to announce
. 324:2;m193nst for about October 1,
. of the best beef .or milk strains. Write
our wants to W. L. Thorpe, Sec'y., Milo,

 

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PIGS for 'sale atprices that will interest
You. elimitherneex; Write todayar-rRaIph
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ner sex. From-choice bred v'sows andsired .
-by a grandson of Grant Buster and other»
iprheewinning boars. Priceya'easonahle.
L. W .Barnes and Son, Byron. Mich,

 

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Rambouletbe ewesforsale; also four ewes
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:August and Sept. farrow. A. A. Wood .8:
Son, Saline, . Michigan”

POLAND CHINA 80W AND EIGHT
pigs, nine farrowed April 28;» sired by
Bob-o-Link by the 2nd Big Bob. Price
8200. Also offer Bob~o—Link, 14 months
old at a bargain, Has litters of 13m his ‘
credit. 0. L. Wright, ~Jonesville, Mich.#‘

WALNUT ALLEY m“ TYPE. Gm

all sold. Keel)
watch of r919 crop sired by Arts Sena-
tor and Orange Price. I thank my CUS'
formers for their patronage.
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.M‘ICHIGAN CHAMPION HERD 'OF
Big Type P. 0. orders booked for spring.
pigs. E. R. Leonard, St. Louis, Mich. ,

L. s. P. c. BOAns ALL sou). HAVE
a few nice fall Gilts, bred for fall far-

Ionia,, Mich.

 

EVERGREEN FARM 1310 TYPE P. 0.
Bears all sold, nothing for sale now, .but
will have some cracker jacks this fall.-
Watch my ad. I want to thank mY'manY
customers for their. atronage and every
customer has been p eased with my 038-
Enough said. O. E. Garnant, Eaton ap- .
ids, Mich.

Large Type Poland .Clnna Hogs
Write that inquiry for L. ,T. P. C. serv-
geable boars to Wm. J. Clarke, Eaton

a ids, Mich, instead of Mason. 1 have
sol my farmuandubought another. one
'mile west and eight and one-half miles
mouth. Gomevand see me in my new home.
Free livery from town.

. J. CLARKE. _ ,
R. No. 1, Eaton Rapids. Michigan

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_ MEADOWVIEWFABM. REGISTERED
Duroc Jersey Hogs. Spring pigs for sale;
also Jersey Bulls.
= ton, - Michigan.

’DUBOO BOABS READY FOR SER.
'vice,wa1so.high class sowe bred-for sum-
King the

age ever at nternation-

l ‘ est 18‘ o
bigg p Newton Barnhart,

a1 ‘Fat Stock Show,
St. Johns, Mich.

"TWO YOUNG 'BROOKWATER, DUR-
cc Jersey Bears, ready for service. All
.gtock shipped :--express prepaid,.inSpection;
allowed. Fricke Dairy Co. Address Fric- .
ke Dairy Co, or Arthur _W. Mumford,
Perrinton. Mich."

REGISTEREDADUROO BOARS FROM
prize-Winning Golden Model family},
, smooth 13:pe,1 adapted for mating with the '
iooarsernboned females for early maturing-
ngs_ Subject to immediate acceptance‘
and'ichange without notice I will crate‘
- and ship for 25c per (pound. Papers if de-

ired,3 extra. Sen $50. Will refund;
: ifference or return entire remittance if;
:neduoed offer is cancelled, Pigs -wii1‘
‘weig from 150‘lbsuto 200 lbs. Geo B.i
Smitll, Addison, Mich. g

- REACH HILL FARM '

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lonel breeding. Our prices. are measonabln. ;
fWrite or‘better still come and make your.
own selections. V sitors -welcome. fin-g
.wood Bros. Romeo Mich.

: DU OCS; .3319!) =£MK1¢ALL iSOLD.;
- Will ave a .limited number-not yearlins'v
. ilts-“bredfor August furrow. *Order earlyu
. ewton &"‘.Blank, :HillCrest Farms, filer-i
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BEDIGBEED .RUFUS _RED BELGIAN
Hare bucks. Prices reasonable. Satis-
faction, guaranteed. Hanley Bros, R. 3.
St Louis. Mich. . .

 

 

DOGS

WRITE DR. W. A. EWALT, Mt. Clem-
ens, Mich, for those beautiful Sable and
White Shepherd Pupppies; natural heel-
ers from farm-trained stock; also a few
purebred Scotch Collie Puppies: sired by
“Ewalt’s Sir Hector.” Michigan Champion
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' POULTRY
, S. C.‘ 'WHITE ”LEGHORN
400 Yearling Pallets

S.-O.-Leg~hor-ns with colony laying record.
will besold‘ in lots of 6, 12, 25, 50 and
loo—August delivery.

Fall Chicks for Spring layers—White and
:Brown Leghorns; Barred Rocks. -

Cockerels, Ducks, Geese, Turkeys.

Belgian Hares, New Zeelands, Flemish
‘Giants. -

BLOOMINGDALE FARMS ASSOCIATION
Bloomingdale, Mich.

 

 

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JULY CHICKS SOLD. ORDER. FOR
August delivery;u 25 for $4.25, '50 for' $8,
100 for $16_ «. re-bred .Rose and Single
Comb Reds and Barred Plymouth Rocks
prepaid by parcelpost Circular free. In-
terlakes Farm, Box 4, Lawrence, Mich.

 

:MUD-WAY-AUSI-InKA FARllI OFFERS
you an opportunity to.become acquaint-
ed with the Parks bred-to-lay Barred
Rocks at small cost; breedin pens of five
yearling. hens and male bird at $20 for
quick sale. Dyke C. Miller, Dryden, Mich.

 

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80,000 FINE, HUSKY WHITE LEG-
horn chicks of grand laying strain for
July delivery. Shipped safely everywhere
bymail. Price, $12.00 per 100; $6.50 for
.50. iOrder direct. _ Prompt shipment. Full
satisfaction guaranteed. Free catalogue,
Holland Hatchery, R 7, Holland, Mich.

WYANDOTTE

SILVER. GOLDEN AND WHITE
Wyandottes: eggs from especial mat-
1ngi$3 ;per 15,; '$5_.per 30; $8 per 50; by
parcel post ‘prepaid. Clarence Browning
Portland, Mich. R _ '

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CH‘CKSWE SHIP .Tnovsanns, om-
ferent 'varieties; Brown Leg-
horns. .1513 uhmidred; . booklet and testl-
mania-ls. -, Stamp wprpreciaied. Freeport
Hatchery. ,Box .10. Freeport. Mich

Baby G] - ' .8. 0.9WHAI'1‘E-v and Brown
. .. , .Legharns. .Good laying
strainsofiarge ,white eggs. Guaranteed
to ‘reach you in firstoclass. condition by
parcel. ‘LOata‘rlogue with price list free.
Wolvam:_flntchemy,-LB 2, v‘Zeeland, Mel).

£;HA’-I‘CH"I’NG EGGS

MY BARBER :P.~,'BOGKS‘ ARE GREAT
winners, extra layers. and yellow legs
and. beaks. "Eggs by express, $1.50 per
15,;rby2parcelpost, v$2Lper*15. G. A. Baum-
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from 3~Baxsron Single Cemb -Whlte Leg-
honnssaaofii eggs: strain. 'l-lbp' cock, $1.65
per 15 by manager 50; chicks, 20 for

5. R, S. ’~W~ocdr , Melvin, Mich.

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Mtablev dairyjcows, «so to the in;-

~Dairy Cattle Club was

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Tom Groves titty
tensive work of“ the home pow-test-

ing * association which has worked ‘

for the shipping in of better dairy
animals and the shipping out of low
producers. Farmers have heeded the
evidence of the milk scales and the
Baboock test. One dairyman found
that nine of his eleven cows were
“loafers.” He immediately sold
them to a local butcher and pur-
chased profitable stock to ta-ke'their.

places. The Grove City Cow Testing-

Association- records for 1917 and
1918 show that it cost an average-:01!

- $74 a cow to feed the 262 cows that

completed a year’s test—approxi—
mately $50§ to feed to lowest proé

ducers and $97 for the cows whose-

average production. was 400 pounds
or more of butterfat a‘year. One

cow in the 400-pound class yielded .-
feed

more income over cost of
than an entire group on. 26». cOwsvthat
averaged only. 100 pounds-of fat 9.
year.

Work of the Bull Association»

' Two co-operative bull associations,
Jersey and Ho: stein- Friesian, have
been orgagnized since the develop-
ment work began. Each of these or-
ganizations is divided into four sec-
tions or_ blocks, with one w'buli to
each block. The Holstein-Friesian-
Bull Association consists of 25- farm--
are who subscribed $75 each. for the.
purchase of four registered Holstein:
sires of meritorious; breeding. To
avoid inbreeding, the sires areschangv
ed from one block to another every
two years, and according' to this
plan, the bulls now in use will be
serviceable for the next eight years.
Thus each member of the club gets
the use of a fine sire while the or—
ganization is able .to keep its, bulls
at a maintenance cost of about one-
sixth of what it would be if each
herd were headed by a separate bull;
The Jersey bull Association was or-
ganized along similar lines. This
campaign for better ‘breeding has
brought about the establishment of
more than forty pure-bred herds in
the community during. the last year.

The Guernsey Breeders! Associa~
tion at Grove City; consists: of 28
members, owning 711. registered
Guernseys, each member either own;
ihg: outright or jointly~ an woefully so-.
looted: 1 registered sires...

In the min, the dairy cattlezin:
the' community are freea-fromrtube'm
culois'; more than 100’ herds hm“
successfully passed two annual -.~ or
three semi-annual: officiai.,tu1bercuiim:'
tests. .As a resu-lbiheyf hayerbeem tn.»

.cluded in the tuberculosis-tires ae=~
credited herds listed by the U. S. new .

partment of Agriculture.-

Boys and Girls .Working Too-
The Boys’ and Girls’ Pure-Bred
organized
more than a year ago With 53 mem.
here. In addition to the cattle club
there are pig clubs, garden clubs,
canning clubs, and a club recently
organized under the direction of the
county agent known as “The Young
Farmer Club ” in which eligibility.
to membership requires the winning
of a prize in some “worth while"
contest. —~

In spite of the high price of build‘

.ing materials last year, 26 new sil-

os have been built while 57 old
barns have been remodeled and
and equipped with such improve-

. ments as concrete floors, up-to~dato,

stanchions and better lighting and
ventilating facilities. In the Grover
City district, dairy developments has .
made such rapid proress that many
dairyman have had. to keep their
cattle in barns not designed for such
a purpose. However, using these old
barns has allowed the dairyman to
devote more" of ' their capital: in; ”1‘45

"purchase of high-producing cattle.

Another organization, .known. as.
the Grove City Federal and Sta
Accredited Dairy Cattle Show an

Sales Association, encourages the do- _
velopment of healthy herds and.» tin...

exhibition and sale of dairy cattle. ,
Eachamemher must. furnish :itheaeca

sale or exchange. Once a year the
holds a round-up picnic and
ow. Inst year, 1, 600

.511.

. per own-:1 hens; 28; springers; 26; but.

  

and disposiw chandesira'bio cows.

Under the supervision; of: a? quali»
fled man,» practicailly» any farming
community, it is believed. can im—
prove ‘its organization, farming meth-
ods, market; opera‘tions, and similar
activities. Whenever such a commun-
‘ity' tackles the business of self-ad-
vancement energetically inthe prop-
er mannor. a spirit of confidence
will prevail and work well begun
will go forward to still further suc-
case.

The foregoing information comes
from a recent. publicatio: of the U.
S. Department of Agriculture, “How
Dairying Built up a Community."

WHAT I LOOK FOR IN CALVES

I want them. well.bred,' and; to get
that kind I go where well: bred ones
are . About half of the 121 loads I en-
tered at the 1917and‘ 191-8- Internation-
al shows were pure_breds, though a
few of them were from herds that had
not kept up the pedigrees. I take a
trip out through Iowa and the Aber-
deen-Angus districts of Illinois every
fall when I start to get together the
calves that are to be my entries for the
following show. I buy them right
from the cow"s side.

I want to see the sire and dam if
possible, as well- as the calf, or if not
the sire and dam, as many near rela-
tives as possible. Shape, type and fin-
ish all appeal to me in picking out the
calves then. I want a calf full of
quality and style. I want the head up
like a bird-ha bright countenance. I
want a leg under each corner of the
calf, with nice quality in the bone;
coarse bone means coarse meat on that
bone when the animal is finished.

The top and bottom lines oi a grand
champion steer prospect should bepab
allel with a deep body between these
lines. The rib must be well sprung,
and broken off neat and. square at the
tailhead I look for a short neck, well
set on shoulders, with good style, and
‘cut up neat around the throatlatch, so
that the flushed steer cuts meat to the
jawbone.

A short head, wide between the eyes;
and carrying a heavy jaw, are charac-
teristic of a" good feeder that I never
overlook. Neat, small cars, well set up.
to give a keen bright appearance, go
with an eye like a bird. I look for an
oily coat of hair on a loose hide with
plenty 01 stretch; A low flank, with a
straight hind leg. below- brushed by a
short tail, about: completed the picture
of my grand champion prospect.

Given the breeding. and the mati
up so that ail. look. like peas. all the
is necessary 13mm: the grand cham-
pious is- to get: them: hnmand feed and
fit them for the} big days when the
judges hang. the ribbons; As pick

Aberdeen-Angusvca-lvesy the prop .-iin.._, A ‘

ish is comparatively easy, as no oth-
er breed can be-.fltted and help up
withoutgolng'bad like an over-ripe ap-
ple if not shown just when they are
ready—E. P. Hall, Mechwwicsburg, Ill.

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, WEXFORD, (West) -— Everything
was burning up until a few days. ago
when we had a nice rain. It helped
everything except the hay that was
beyond recall. Hay- will be a short crop
in this vicinity. Most- ali other crops
look good. The following prices were
gaizd at Cadillac on June 27—Wheat.

0; corn, shelled, $3. 75; cats: co
mm- 31. 86;; beans, W; potatoes; $1.6

teer, 45; butterfat, 52; 6885, 40. —S. H.
8. Harriette, Mich» June 27.

VANBUREN, (West)-—This sections .
finds the farmers busy in -
ing and spraying. The cold springiheid .-

es worls-

them back but now they are fully as

large as they were a year ago at this: :
time. Help remains scarce, so the work.
Corn .

is not up to what it should be.
is looking good; knee-high by Fourth
of July. Grain is turning, harvest will

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Every part of this truck is built to last from.
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Michigan before fall. If you have even the
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more of this Michigan—made truck. especial.-
ly adapted for your farm.

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We will accept the coupon below the same as
cash for full first payment of $2 on any 1919

model New Butterfly Cream Se arator. Don’t

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5aves You $2 touse’on yourfarmgnd your

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you save all expense of cata- are not pleased ~
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give you the benefit of this saving if you back at our expense
send the coupon below. Furthermore, isn’t and we will PAY the frei git
it better to have one of these big money- charges both ways.
making machines to me instead of a catalog don t risk a singleo
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like to see just how much We cream you would
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select. For example—if you choose a 38 machine, you have
only 33611111 to pay in 12 easy payments or only $3 a month.
. . If you select the $47 mach e y u will have only 345 left to
. ' pay in 12 easy payments of nly .75 a month—and so on.

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