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B Y THE TIME this issue is in the hands of ,~

BuSine'sS. Farming readers, a delegation of
men representing in various capacities the bean

industry of Michigan Will be on its way to .

Washington to plead befOre the Ways and
Means Committee of the House for a special

tariff bill levying- an import duty on oriental‘j
beans. Simultaneously delegations of growers-
and jobbers W111 leave from California, Colo-~

rado, New Yerk and other navy bean states,
and joining each other in the na-
tional capital will submit such a
mass of evidence as is expected to
induCe Cengress to adopt this
very necessary legislature Without
delay.

A. B. Cook,'”presid‘ent of the
Bean Growers’ Ass’ns left for
Washington the first of the Week.
Others who are expected to go
from Michigan are Christian
Breisch, president of the Bean
Jobbers’ Ass’ 11.; Nathan F. Simp-
son, farmer and manager of the
Clearing House Ass’ 11. _,W. J.
Biles, of Saginaw, andF. EL Lew-
ellyn, of Grand Rapids, bean. job-
bers; and Forrest Lord, editor of
Michigan Business Farming. This~
delegation was chosen at an in-
formal and hurriedly cailed con-
ference at Detroit last Saturday
afternoon, at which was present a
committee of growers and jobbers‘
from California. The California,
men insisted that Mr. Grant Slo-
cum should head the Michigan
delegation, but oWing to Other du-
ties Mr. Slocumqfound :itiiin'pos-’
sible to go. The particular Inen=
selected were chosen because it
was known that they could go,‘
and probably present the facts
and figures as well as any group
of men who might be chesen

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Manipulators Use Jap Bean as Whip

It was broilght out at the conference that

Japanese and Manchurian beans are now im- ‘

ported virtually tariflf' free, as the present
duty of 25 cents per. bushel, does not appreci-
ably offset theJ great difference between the
cost of producing Ja'p and American beans. It
was asserted that the oriental beans can be

produced placed on shipboard, landed in the‘

United States and delivered to almost any
point for four cents per pound. Need we ask

the growers of Michigan how they can com- '

pete With this price? Consumers might claim
. that there Was some advantage to them in this

situation, but as a matter of fact they profit-‘7
For it has been disclosed that the '

very little.
same gentlemen who conspired to bear the
market last Winter while holding responsible
positions with the Food Administration are
still on the job and are using oriental beans
" to fie market on the do-.
mastic product
tksrsn contract for a largo amount of oriental

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urally forcing doWn the price. But when the

3 market gets a little Wobbly they Withdraw,
their quotations and as soon as the demand.

for navy beans strengthens the market, they
again spread: their quotations broadcast over

‘the ~.country In other FWQi‘dS, they play a sort

Of teeter teeter game and no matter which way
they go the American grower gets bumped on
the head They are able to play this game
only because oriental beans are admitted to

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this country virtually free of duty. They are
playing it to the limit now, and the navy bean
growers and jobbers are face to face with the
possibility of utter extinction of the navy bean
industry unless this manipulation and this
competition of the oriental product be checked.
California Costs Are High

The Lalifornia men submitted figures ShoW-
,ing the cost of producing beans in their state.
It is much higherthan' the Michigan cost as
revealed by our recent survey. The California
growers include among their items of cost a
superintendency charge based on a salary of
$3, 600 per year. Hands up piease, you Michi-

gan growers who )Write yourSelves a check for "

’$300.at theend of every. month and on top of
that figure in six per cent return on your in-
vestment! Now, why don’t you do it? It
isn’t because you don’t think that your ser-,
vices are worth anything, but it’s because your
crops don’t return a high enough price to en-
able you to pay yourself a fair salary as a

_ Yet, by all the rules of business,
Mr. Farrier is certainly entitled to charge

, against his buSiness a reasonable salary for his

managerial ability. California growers recog-

nine this fact. They one inoluding this item in

a»

‘ their costs.

. bean and selling it as a native variety.

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Business Farming ’s survey shows
that the cost of‘produCtion for this state will
average around $45 per acre, but this does not
include such items as salary, depreciation of
land and buildings, fire insurance, life insur-
ance and many other incidentals that might be
mentioned and will be made a part of the cost
figures to be submitted to the Ways and Means
Committee.

The delegates who go to Washington will
not be asking anything unreason-
able of Congress. At nearly every
session bills are passed readjust-
ing the tariff scale to meet chang-
ing conditions. The United States
cannot compete with the Orient
in the production of commodities
which are common to that section,
for reasons that are well known.
Congress recognizes this fact and
nearly all other industries are
rightly protected from this ruin-
ous competition. A few years ago
we did not need to fear the in—
roads of the Asiatic bean, as prac-
tically all such were consumed
near where grown. But the fail—
ure of crops in the United States,
the high prices due to the war and
other conditions of the time, have
resulted in an enormous expansion
of the bean industry in the East.
For two years past th e oriental
jobber has been looking to the
United States to supply him with
a market, and he has not looked in
vain. And so, whereas, a few
years back no one gave any
thought to a protective taiifi on
beans because there was no need
of it, today all interested in the
navy bean industry are agreed
that the Oriental product must
bear an import tax if the Ameri-
can bean 1ndustry is to be saved to posterity.

The California growers are insistent that a
duty of at least5 cents per pound be placed
upon the Kotenashi bean which is the princi-
pal competitor of the navy bean In fact, it is
alleged that canners are now putting up 'tI‘IES

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suggested tariff is arrived at by a comparison
of production costs in the Orient with those in
this country, and it will require at least a. 5
cent per lb. duty in order to place oriental and
U. S. beans on an equal footing. In case this
duty is adopted, the J ap bean cannot be profit-
ably sold in this country at less than 8 to 9

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a duty on other varieties of foreign beans, the
size ofthe duty in all cases being merely
enough to protect the domestic producer on his
cost of production.

We want the bean growers of Michigan to
feel that this delegation goes to Washington

full representing their sentiments and their

are. It is the grower, Whose interest is
most vital, and it is the grower ’8 side of the
case that we expect to pee the most vigorously
presented. Mm it will be the grower;5h if
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“NATION CHURCH SURVEY ~
STUDIES FARM INTERESTS

The Interchurch World Movement
of." North America, a co-operative or-
ganization supported by a majority
of Protestant denominations, is con-
ducting a nation-wide survey of re-
ligious conditions that, is estat- to
throw new light also upon the spec-
ial problems of the farmer and the
farm community.

The broad purpose of the investiga-
tion i-s to ascertain the whole truth
as to the country church and partic-
ularly the extent to which it is meet-
ing its obligations and opportunities
in its own community. What it can
do to take a larger share in the ev-
ery day life of the people and how
it may assume a just proportion of
all the civic burdens of its constitu-
ency are to be determined when all
the facts are in hand. -

Actual collection of information
has been assigned in each of 3,000
counties to residents familiar with
local conditions. Their findings are
to be examined by all the denomin-
ation interests of the county in spec-
ial conferences called for the purpose.
These will come to every possible

» agreement as to programs of local
work.

Each rural survey has in mind two
things, the individual church and the
separate community. The church is
examined as to the nature. number,
ages, sex, welfare and occupation of
its members, the extent of its pastor-
al influence, its financial methods, its
relation to all other churches, to
granges and arbors, and its physical
surroundings. such as roads, rail-
roads, trolley lines. etc. The com—
munity is examined as to its popula-
tion, trade territory, social environ-
ments, etc.

When complete it is expected that
maps may be drawn of every rural
county in the United ‘States, showing
every road, railroad, trolley line,
church, school, arbor, grange. social
center, village, hamlet, town, the
boundaries of each church's territory
and the situation of every farm
house in relation to some church or
social center. These maps will be
available for every social purpose
they can subserve. '

 

Foreign Dairy Competition

"European. needs for dairy products
may be largely supplied from pre-
war sources Within two years' time,
and the American dairy industry may
again feel foreign competition on
home markets}; This is the conclus-
ion of Ray C. Potts, specialist in mar.
keting dairy products, Bureau of Mar-
kets, United States Department of
Agriculture, speaking before a recent
meeting of food officials in New York
City.

In explaining the work of the Bur-
eau of Markets in gathering and dis-
tributing accurate market informa-
tion on dairy products, Mr. Potts
pointed out the stabilizing effect of
such information on prices and stated
that fluctuating prices at wholesale
make for wider margins between pro-
ducer and consumer, while stabiliza-
tion permits greater economy in dis-
tribution.

Recent monthly reports on milk
prices in 200 cities have called atten-
tion to the wide difference in distri-
bution costs prevailing in different
sections of the country. While econ-
omies in distribution are possible in
some communities the speaker point-
ed out that a saving of 10 per cent in
the cost of distribution would make
only a very slight saving to the indi-
vidual consumer. A much greater
loss to the public, he said, lies in
paying top market prices for inferior
aunties of dair products. He ad-
vocated standar nation, of methods
of production and distribution with
quality of product as' one of the great

\ needs of the dairy industry.

Fertiliser Tests Show Profit
An increase of more than $60 an
acre in the value of wheat crops has
' been seem-ed by the use of lime and
complete fertilisers in soil fertility
tests made at the Michigan Agricul-

tural College by M. M. McCool and.

partment. This increase was above
the cost of applying the fertilizer.
The following report is sent out
by Dr. McCool at the finish of his
test: " ‘ .
"On untreated sandy soil we ob-
tained $10.56 per acre from the
wheat crop. On soil where lime we.
used the acre value was $25.11 above
the cost of treatment. Where lime
and complete fertilizers were added,
the acre value was $66.00 above the
cost of the lime'and fertlizer. The
fertilizer consisted of one hundred
pounds of nitrate of soda. one-half
being applied at the time of seeding,
and the remainder in the spring as a
top dressing, two hundred and fifty
pounds of acid phosphate and one
hundred pounds of potash applied to
the previous crop.” -'

State Drive Begins in Oakland

With arrangements rapidly near-
ing completion for the inauguration
of a membership

campaign in Oak-
land County, Oc-
tober 16, the
Michigan State
Farm Bureau is
now preparing to
start simi l a r
drives ’ in every
other county in
the state in a
moveme n t t o
strengthen and
correlat e t h 6'
work of all farm
organizations, to
improve facilities
and conditions
for efficient and
economic production and marketing
of farm products. further enactment
of constructive agricultural legisla-
t n and in brief—to promote agri-
cultural interests in every possible
way. '

To carry out this vital program
successfully, a large membership and
adequate finances are necessary,
hence the campaign is now under
way. Workers will be expected to
organize thoroughly every township
in the county so that the most inten-
sive sort of campaign work may be
possible, and every farmer visited.

    

' G. M. Granthan of M. A. O. soils de-

Soldiers’ F arm Herd

Farmers Protest Squirrel Killing

Because of the avidity with which.

many hunters in the vicinity of the
farms and woodsin Washtenaw have
exhibited this fall in the killing of
squirrels. farmers have voiced a
note of. disapproval. according .to one
1 than m.

“The hunters come into our woods
without so much as asking permis-
sion, and then go ahead and shoot
the squirrels, cut down wire fences
and do other damages,” he declared,

The Herd at the U. 8. Soldiers Sol-
diers’ Home Dairy Farm

Out of the 500 acres _ of land
belonging to the United States
Soldiers Home in Washington, D. 0.,
175 acres are devoted to the farm
and dairy combined. On this model
dairy farm there are seven barns for
cattle, one feed barn, three silos, a
hospital, milkhouse, office and othn‘
necessary small
buildings, which
are all arranged

so as to econom-
ize time and la-
bor as much as
possible. All the
buildings of this
dairy are made
of concrete, with
metal finishings.
The exteriors of
the buildings are
pebble d a s h e d.
The cow barns
are amply sup-
plied with day-
-light and air,
large doors at
either end providing perfect ventila-
tion. Metal rails separate the stalls.
while a metal halter suspended from
a rod confines the head of the ani-
mal and keeps her in place. The
troughs are of concrete, the floors
of the stalls are of cork brick,

Grading Calls for Experts

The increasing demand for train-
ed inspectors to» grade grain on the
basis of the Federal grades has caus-
ed the farm crops department of the
Michigan Agricultural College to
start a special course for its students.
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How You Can. Help With the Bean Tariff

HERE ARE three members of the delegation who will represent' H
Michigan beans growers before the House Ways and Means Com—
mittee, who will have to pay their onw expenses.

have the money in their treasury to pay the expenses of their commit-
tee. But the Bean Growers’ Ass'n has no funds.
in fact spent his own money on many occasions in behalf of the bean
Others have done the same.
it has occurred to us that the bean growers of the state might be will-
ing to contribute a fund to take careof the necessary expenses. It is
impossible to go to Washington. stay two or three days and return for
less than $100 to $125. This is quite a sum for each individual to pay,
but if pro rated among the bean growers of the state, it would repre-
sent a very insignificant amount per person.
this public appeal to the bean growers to help bear the expenses of
those who go to represent the growers.
The growers’ representatives will go and cheer-
fully at their own expense if necessary, for they feel that it is a matter
in which the entire future of the bean industry in this state is involved.
They would appreciate some help from the growers, we are sure. No
one has asked us to make this appeal.
that he will have to pay his own expenses but he'll feel a lot better if
If'you think this is a worthy cause and should be
supported, please fill out the coupon below and mail with as large a re.
mittance as you feel you can make.
made of every penny received and expended and if there be any surplus
the amount will be returned pro rats to the givers.

(Be sure to sign name and address very plainly)

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I Michigan Business Farming,
I Mount Clemens, Mich. l
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protect the Michigan bean industry. and I enclose 3 ......... . . . to ‘

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MOM-COURSES W!)
FOR«MIOI!IGAN FAMBOYS
Special short courses in agricult-
ure, planned especially for Michigan
farm boys and girls. will be given by

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the Michigan Agricultural College
during 'the coming winter. The first
:1 than courses, that in general agrl-
culture open on October 27, while
others will start as late as March 1,
at which time the 'second truck and
tractor school will begin. ’

More interest is being taken in the
winter courses than ever before, ace
cording to Ashley M. Berridge. di-
rector. Many young men who are
unable' to'take the four year course
at the college will take advantage of
the special work in preparing for
scientfic agricultural pursuits. In-
creased interest in all farming is
partly responsible for the large num-
bers of inquiries that are coming
into the director’s office.

Nearly every phase of agriculture
is covered in one or the other of the
short courses, which include work in
general agriculture, cow testing and
barn management, creamery manage—
ment, horticulture, poultry, garden-
ing. bee-keeping. farm engineering,
and truck and tractor work: The
courses are open to all Michigan boys
and girls over 16 years or age.

Catalogs and full information re—
garding the work may be had by
writing to the Director of Winter
Courses, M. A. 0., East Lansing.

'Ofiers Farm Roads Advice

Owners of large farms and rural
estates seeking a more satisfactory
type of entrance road have applied
to the Bureau of Public Roads of
the United States Department of Ag-
riculture for advice regarding the
application of bituminous material
on main entrance and much-traveled
farm lanes. The bureau‘s engineers
point out that. such applications may
be made successfully on any farm
road which has already been con-
structed of stone, gravel, or other
similar material, and is in a thor-
reasonably
smooth condition. A coal tar prep-
aration applied cold. or an asphaltic
oil, can be used if applied by the
farm employees, the cost should not
exceed seven or eight cents a square
yard for materials. The compacted
gravel or stone road should be thor-
oughly cleaned of dust and the bitu-
men applied with ordinary sprinkling
pots from which the perforated
nozzle has been removed and the
spout carefully flattened into a sym-
metrical rectangular opening about‘
one-quarter of an inch wide, so that
the material may be poured in a
broad, flat stream. If a large amount
of work is to be done, a specially de-
signed pouring can may be purchas-
ed of dealers in road equipment. Care
should be taken to have an even dis-
tribution, and the quantity applied
should be approximately one-half
gallon to a square yard of road sur-
face. After ap-plying the bituminOus
material, clean gravel or stone chip
should be spread evenly ove the
surfaces and if possible, rolled with
a lawn or field roller. Where gravel
or chips are not available, clean,
coarse sand will serve as a covering
material. It should be spread in suffi-
cient quantity to prevent the bitum-
inous material from adhering to tires
of g vehicles. Attention is
called to the fact that this treatment
should not be made where drainage
from the stables or barns will flow

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Sleep 1m After October as
. The nation will get up one hour
later on October 26. At 2 o’clock on
the morning of October 26, the 138!
Sunday in October, the hands of the

slacks of the United States will be—-

set back one hour, marking the finals
at the daylight saving law. The law
willdiehyact ofcongress at the
overwhelming demand of farmer
and minor interests and with pro-

tests from cities and industrial cent-

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axons F03 MILK have been set
in the Detroit area and also-
where at a figure known to be
below the cost at production—from
the milk producers' standpoint. Need-
,less to say the producers are. dissat-
isfied. How could they be otherwise,
when obliged to sell at a dead loss?

Although many are selling off their
cattle to take up more profitable lines
of business, probably the majority
are going to hide their time until the
next meeting of the Detroit Milk
Commission, and similar bodies
elsewhere the state. The produc-
ers who wil wait have confidence
that the commission lsmerely walt-
ing a more opportune time for putt-
ing the price where it belongs—over

‘ the cost of production.

In other parts of the nation, pro-
ducers are coming or have come into
their own in regard to prices and
profits. The following article, pre-
pared by government experts, tries
to show the methods generally used
throughout the country. Some state-
ments may be doubtful or wrong,.but
it is one of the best documents of its
kind ever drawn up and every milk
producer or dealer should read it:

The following table presents the
prevailing prices of “standard grade
milk” paid by different classes of buy—
ers in various markets of the United
States. The term standard grade
milk is used to refer to that grade of
milk which is most generally sold
within the particular city for which
prices are quoted. This grade of milk

may be either raw-or pasteurized. but '
incase of most of the larger cities it .

is pasteurized milk.

Unless otherwise qualified the
prices given in the first column in the
following table show the cost of milk
delivered to dealers at either city
railroad terminals or at the dealers

distributing plant where deliveries '

are made direct by producers. When
the price paid by dealers to produc-
ers applies to deliveries at country
receiving stations and does not in-
clude payment for transportation to
the city, the average transportation
cost of some dealers .has been added
to- the country station price in order
that the cost- to the dealer (not in-
cluding country station expenses)
may be shown. ‘

The “dealer’s spread” or the dif—
ference between cost and selling
prices for both wholesale and retail
transactions. can be ascertained if
the butter-fat test of milk as deliver-
ed to .diiferent classes of trade is
known. In order to determine the
actual cost price of the grade of milk

sold in any city, it is necessary to'

make allowance of the amount given
opposite each city in the third column
of the table, for each pint of butter-
fat that the milk actually tests above
or below 3.5 per cent (the standard
arbitrarily assumed as a basis for the
comparison of prices given in the
first column of the following table.)
To reduce prices per hundred weight
to either a gallon or a quart basis
divide by 11.63 or 46.53 respectively.

Review of Price Changes

A comparison of the prices agreed
to be paid producers by fluid milk
dealers for milk delivered during the
month of September in the dilferent
markets listed in Table 1 of this re-
view, with the prevailing, prices for
August in the some markets shows
that for the United States as a
whole, “producers prices” increased
approximately eight tenths of a cent
per quart. or 39 cents per hundred-
weight. The average of producers'
prices reported for the East North
Central States (Kentucky, Tennessee,
Alabama, Mississippi) remain the
same for September as for August.
The increases per.hnndredweight for
the other sections of the United
States were as follows: New. England

‘5 cents; Middle Atlantic. 8 '-eonu;
East North Central, 94 cents; .Wost
North Central, 28 cents; South At-
lantic, 3 cents; West South Central.
7 cents; Mountain, 26 coats. and PI.-
ciiic, 9 cents.

‘A comparison of milk dealers’ sell-
lug prices for August and September

*shows that out of a total otvlllvolflos
the retell , prices were increased in
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Trend of, thiOn at Large is to . Set Figures so Pro-
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delivered to family trade amounted
to either 1-2 or one cent per quart.
In only one or two cities did the in-
crease amount to as much 81.2 cents
or more per quart.

Denies’ September Prices
The following table shows the

wholesale and retail prices reported
for “special" and “certified” milk
and certain other dairy products de-
livered at wholesale buyers’ places
of business or at the homes of retail
consumers in various leading cit-
ies. Wholesale prices are reported on
the basis of bulk goods sold to and
delivered at establishments of large
scale consumers or users. Quotations

Producers’ September! Prices

The following table presents a
comparison of the prices per hundred
weight of both common and special
grades of raw milk which have been
altered or agreed to for the present
month by dealers or concerns whose
chief business is the market distribu-
tion of fluid milk. These prices are
to be paid producers who make de-
liveries in their own cans either at
local milk plants or at country ship—
ping stations. They are based on the
prices given for each market listed
in Table 1, of this issue of the re
View and a few additional markets
not included in that table. The much
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for wholesale milk and light cream
have been reduced to a gallon basis.
For heavy cream, the wholesale
price is quoted per pound of butter-
iat. For prices oi “standard milk,”
see table 1 of this review.

given in the following table is to be
explained by the fact that in Table 1
the cost prices to dealers are given
on an t. o. b. city basis, and that
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2 m m n. a; a. a. 9.
Illinois: ............. I 4.12 3.5 4.0 I I I
Chicago .............. I 2.88f 3.5 4.0 | 48—50 I 14—15 I 15 I 9
Peoria ................ 3.60 3.5 5.8 I 35 I 14
Rockford ............. 3.55 3.5 4.0 40 I ‘ 13 14 8
Indiana: .............. I
Indianapolis .......... I 3.37f IStrB F 8.5 40 I 11 13 7
Fort Wayne ......... I 3.25 I Fla Price l 12 14 . 8
South Bend .......... | 3.60 I Flat Price 40 I 11 13 7
Evansville ........... I 3.31b I h 5.54 40—46 I 13 14 8
Michigan: ........... I I I I
Detroit .............. 4.05 I 3.5 4.0 47—52 I 15 6 10
Grand Rapids ....... I 3.48 Flat Price | 42 I 12—13 4 I 8
Kalamazoo .......... I 4.00 Flat Price I 48 I 13 15 I 8
Ohio: ................ I I I
Cleveland ............ I 3.651? I 3.5 5.0 45 I 13.5 15 8
Cincinnati ........... I 3.70b I 4.5 I 44—48 I 13 14 8
Toledo ............... I 3.70 I Fla-t Price I 42—44 I 13——13.5 I 15 I 8—9
Columbus ............ I 3.55 l 4.0 5.0 I l I I

 

Table ' lI—Jloalen’ Wholesale .and Retail
Selling Price for Goods Delivered

Cleveland, Special or grade milk, retail
cents per quart, 20; Certified milk, retail
cents per quart, 30', Comfort] buttermilk,
wholesale cents per gallon, 25; retail
cents per quart, 12; Light cream, 18 and
20 per cent; wholesale. per gallon, £1.80;
retail cents per 1-2 pint, 20: Heavy cream
whole sale per lb, B. it, $1.11.

Chic-co, Special or grade milk, retail
cents per quart, 22; Certified milk, retail
cents "per quart. '25 {Common buttermilk,
wholesale cents per gallon, 40; retail cents
per ulna-t. 10,; Light cream, 18 and 20
for cont, wholesale per gallon, 816.0@

.75; retail cents per 1-2 pint. 16; heavy
mamrwholesale per lb. B. 1"”. $1.03.

Hilwnukoe, Spedal or grade A milk, re-
an cent! per quart, 10: Certified milk, re-
tallconts per-quart. 25; Common Butter-
milk. wholesale cents gallon, 26; re-
tail carotene: quart. ; Light cream, 18
to 80 per cent. wholesale per gallon, $1.60,
retail cent: per 1-8 pint. 16. _
it, pedal or grade A milk, retail
cents per quart, 20; Certified milk, retail
cents per quart. 23; Common buttermilk,
Made 28; retail

ferent stations and railway shipping
points from which considerable ship-
ments of milk are regularly made to
the cities listed in that table. The
“weighted average" prices given in
the following table were obtained on
the basis of the average net prices
applying to the different shipping

‘points supplying each market given

in Table 1. The final averages shown
in the following table, were obtained
by _“weighlng" the average not pro-
ducers’ price of each distinct mark-
et in accordance with the number of
local railway shipping points and
milk stations supplying each of those
cities.

The prices given herewith apply to .

milk testing 3.5 per cent butterfat,
as do also the producers’ prices giv-
en in the first column of Table 1.

 

Table Ill—Bum and Aver-go at Hot
Price- a foodie rs’ Load Delivery

P
East North Omtral, For Standard or
Grade-B Milk. No. of local markets, 192;

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range of prices applicable, $2.69 and $1;
Weighted average price, $4.35; For Spec-
ial or Grade A Milk, No. of local mark-
ets, 7: range of prices applicable. $3.58
and $4.88; weighted average, $4.09

West North Central. lib!- S or
Grade B Milk, No. of local markets, 90:
range of prices applicable, $2.58 and $3.97 ;
weighted average price. $3.33; 1%!- 3909-
ial or Grade A Milk. No. of local mark-
ets, 13; range 0! pr lcable, Si
and $3.90 ; Weighted average'price, $3.66.

 

The Basis of Producers’ Milk Prices

What are the prices of milk based
on? Or what are the immediate bas-
es of the changes in prices? The
answer that milk producers and
dealers almost invariably make to
such questions is that “prices are
determined by the law of supply and
demand.” Economists, or students
of economic values and market con-
ditions, generally offer the explan—
ation that under competitive condi-
tions the “long run average price”
of milk (like that of most other com-
modities) tends to equal the cost of
production plus a reasonable profit;
and that seasonal changes in prices
are caused chiefly by changes in the
demand for and the supply of fresh
milk available for market distribu—'
tion. Undoubtedly those are the bas~
ic factors affecting the prices of all
commodities; but the mere citation
of fundamental economic laws does
not explain the methods by which
milk prices are determined or the
immediate basis of current price
changes.

In most of the more important
milk producing and market areas of
the United States, buyers of milk
stipulate in advance the prices they
will pay producers for milk to be
delivered during certain months of
the year. Formerly it was custom-
ary for milk dealers in some markets
to issue, during September, their
schedules of “winter prices" for the
six months beginning with October

and ending with March of the en-
suing year. Their schedules of
“summer prices” applying to the

remaining six months of the year
were usually issued during the month
of March. Since 1917, however, ad—
vance price announcements by deal—
ers, or price agreements between pro—
ducers’ marketing associations and
milk dealers, have not generally ap—
plied to more than monthly periods.
As a general proposition such
monthly price schedules are formu-
lated on the basis of considerations
of current costs of production and
the available market supply of milk.
But producers and dealers have not
always been able to agree in ad—
vance with regard either to the prob-
able cost of production or the vol—
ume of the available supply of milk
in excess of a particular city's re-
quirements for fresh milk. The re-
sult has been that various bases have
been employed for facilitating price
agreements. Although these price
agreements are variously worded—-
and many of them have certain feat—
ures that are peculiar to only one or
two markets—ewhen reduced to their
simplest terms or most essential pro-
visions, practically all of them fall
into some one of the following seven
classes, which are briefly described
under the two following headlines:

Prices Determined in Advance of De-
livery
1. Price agreements based on gen—
eral considerations of probable cost
of production and the available sup-L
ply in relation to the estimated mar-
ket requirements, with or without
allowances for variations in butter-
fat test or other criteria of the
wholesomeness or quality of the pro—
duct delivered. (At present this is
the prevailing basis of prices paid
by leading fluid milk dealers in most
of the markets of. the United States.)
8. Prices based on the previous
month’s prices of cheese in some
primary cheese market, with an ad-
ditional allowance for-the extra
costs of producing a high quality of.
milk plus the estimated value of
whey for feeding purposes on the
form. I
3. Prices based on the previous
month’s prices of butter in some im-
portant cutter markets like Chicago,
New York and San Francisco, either ’
with or without separate allowances
for the value. of the non-fat content
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‘1 G AME AND mm in Michigan

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‘legislature in an'effort to save the
species from wanton destruction and

‘that the fish of her lakes

, home.

haveior some time been under
therestrictions set up by the

to make them serve as a continuous
good to the public. Although many
farmers have been affected each trap-
ping season in the state requirements
they have not. we understand, been
the ones who did thebiggest damage

‘to the natural inhabitants of our for-
‘ests and lakes.

Naturally the latest
iaw‘has roused protests from farmer
trappers and hunters who know the
game and who are careful and‘do not
waste it. They relaize that green
hunters and trappers from the towns
cause a great share of the havoc.

If the game laws were abolished,

(it is quite evident that the game in

Michigan would not last‘very long.
Some laws therefore are necessary,

.and those which are unfair and‘ un—

duly harsh upon the farmers should
be revised. In order to clear up mis—
understandings, a campaign of edu—
cation on this impdrtant subject has
been set under way throughout the
state. Newspapers are taking up the
matter.

Every farmer voter should be post—
ed on the game laws particularly as
they affect his section of the state.
Discussions might well be held at the
meetings of the arbors, granges, un-
ions, farm bureau groups and other
farmer clubs. One of the interesting
explanations concerning the new
game and fish laws was published as
follows in a Detroit newspaper: ,

Michigan is beginning to realize
and the
game of her forests are not so innum-
erable as the sands of the sea. Also,
that if the state doesn’t begin to
take measures to conserve them the
present supply will be materially de—
pleted.

Under the auspices of the state
game department. and with the ap-
proval of. John Baird, commissioner,
Ed A Nowack, a deputy game ward-
en at Kalkaska, is starting an edu-
cational campaign to teach the young
people of the state the necessity of
conserving the game supply. In Kal-
kaska County Mr. Nowack during the
last year visited 57 schools. talked
to the children, and offered prizes for
the best essays on game and fish con-
servatlon.

The youngsters were all interested,
for virtually all the boys who were
old enough fished and hunted, and
even somelof the girls frequently
played sportsman.

In fact, some of the girls’ essays
were among the best of the 100 pub—
-lished. One of the girls, well versed
in Biblical history, used exhortations
and illustrations from the Bible ad—
vising people against wholesale
slaughter. Then she went on to tell
how the Indians and the Pilgrim
Fathers killed only as much game
as they actually needed. and showed
how modern hunters might well take
a lesson from these older examples.

The campaign will undoubtedly be—
come general throughout the state.
and the help of the department of
public instruction is being enlisted.
And with the youth of Michigan en-
gaged in another children’s crusade
on behalf of the game and fish of the
state, the next generation ought to
see the offenses against the game
law reduced to a minimum.

These infractions of the .law have
been numerous, a fact which could
be gleaned from the State Fair exhi—
bition of but a few of the weapons
and implements confiscated‘ from
hunters who,were violating the game
regulations. All manner of traps,
snares and deadfalls with which the
hunter captured his prey were shown
at this eXhibit. Some of these traps
are legal during certain seasons, but

the deadfalls aretgexceedingly cruel _,

and slowly crush theranimalto death
’Or break its back,'so are never al-

' lowed. .. Many spears, used withikcks

(bright lights employed in a boat at
night to see the fish which are lying
on their backs at the bottom ‘of the
lake.) are‘among the- confiscated wea-
pqns. These lights stupefy the fish
so that a man can drive his spear

 

to gain a, large supply of , fish, but
.ertsmen look» on. this. method as
wardly

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Thus the fisherman is able.

'Opposition _"to. 'Laws‘itCauses Educational, Campaign gimp;
“ ~ by State Game CammissiOner-‘i. " ‘
‘ educational propa-

except in the case of certain obnox-
ious fish. ‘

Dynamiting °the lakes so that all
the fish in that part of the water have
been killed is another disastrous
practice which has resulted in the
wholesale depopulation of our lakes.

‘But with the young army of the
State completely aroused this is not
likely to happen any more.

     

By means of

ganda' Michigan ought to realize what“?

it has inithe way‘ of wild life, an

what that Wild life'means in the way
of food supply. ‘ If proper restric-
: concerning the
killing, of fish and game, much should
be accomplished towards the reduc-
.tionof the high cost ‘of ,living. .In
the past we have been guilty of sing-

» of the‘changes recently enacted by

tions , are observed

 

 

 

 

 

Mr. I. B. Careless bumps into the new game law.

 

 

St. Joseph Stages a Tractor Demonstration

HE FIRST and only tractor

I demonstration which has ever

been conducted on a competi-
tive basis in Michigan was held at
Centreville, St. Joseph County. Sep-
tember 24, 25 and 26. From the
standpoint of machines entered it
was not as large a demonstration as
one or two others which have been
pulled off. Owing to strikes, trans-
portation, scarcity of help, etc., some
of the machines entered had to be
left out during two days, but for
real value in the way of furnishing
information to the farmers as. well
as the tractorvmen themselves, it
was the real stuff.

The tractors arrived on the scene
of action on Tuesday afternoon where
the first thing on the program was
the drawing for plots. This was
followed by some preliminary plow—
ing to get everything in good work-
ing order. The plowing test proper
was conducted on Wednesday on a
splendidly located field one mile east
of Centreville. The field was as near-
ly uniform aspossible and ideal for
a test of this kind. This field had
been previously measured up and di—
vided up into strips containing slight—
ly over two and three acres in each
strip. The two acre strips were al—
lotted to the two bottom tractors
while the three acre strips were giv-
en to the three-plow outfits.-. Each
tractor was alowed to plow two pre—
liminary rounds on its particular
plot in order to adjust the plows and

‘outfit before the beginning of the
’test. At 9 o’clock all
were emptied and fuel was weighed
in from the > common Source (a
‘Standard’Oil wagon which was on
the ground.) Each tractor. operator.
specified the kind of fuel (gasoline
or kerosene) he wanted and this was
weighed into the tank. The amount
of fuel allowed was'in proportion to
the size‘of the plot and the number
of plow bottoms. Each machine was
given approximately three gallons of

fuel (exactly. 40 poundS) .pei; acre

and plow bottom, with apint of'g‘as-
. oline extra for starting the machine.
‘1 Owing to the diii‘lculty in draining
some of the fuel tanks, the precess
of filling tanks was a slow one and
consequently we were late about
starting the test. When all the tract-
vors were supplied with fuel Profes-
ssrilsnsselean raised the Alas; page.
an

.r‘u

“and “.19. strictly tnrbmggn .

was the 9.1.39"?! forth}

fuel tanks '

54““; 4.,

machines were off to a flying start.
All of the machines plowed until they
had either completed their plots or
run out of fuel. Four machines suc-
ceeded in finshing up with their al-
lotted fuel while the rest had to have
an extra supply before they could
complete their area. During the
plowing test there was an observer
(a local farmer) keeping tab on his
particular tractor, checking them up
on the depth of plowing, etc. Eight
inches was the depth of plowing re-
quired and the tractors were given
credit forextra' depth ..or charged
with any deficiency which might be
found. Running the test in this
way. it’was to the interests of the
tractor men to keep the plows down
to the required depth as they all rea—
lized it was the number of cubic feet
of earth turned over which counted
in the contest. When the tractors
stopped for want'of fuel or at the
completion of the plot the ground
was measured again and if there was

any fuel left 'this was weighed out‘

and the tractor given credit for this
amount of fuel. So we now have
figures on the, time required, the

cubic feet of~ earth turned over and.

the amount of fuel used to complete
the test. This We consider very val-
uable data. . . 1‘ " Jr
Thursday and Friday the belt pow-
er .tests were conducted on the fair
ground at Centreville. The tractors
were taken in- the same order as the

number of their plots in the plowing:

contest. The machines were run- into

a roped‘Space where they were‘belt-'

ed to a Prony Brake. The ‘Prony
brake consists of two pulleys on. a
shaft. The one pulley is for the belt
while the .other has an), brake..fitted
over it to which is attacheda lever
whiCh rests on a plathrm scale. As
the brake is tightened, pressure is
. brought to bear on theyscale and the
number. of pounds of pressure is
weighed. The operators kept tab on
.the speed of the tractor, the speed
of the brake and the time: The speed
“and the'pressure on the scales: ”was
taken into consideration in figuring
the beltpower. ' Each tractor "was
given a thirty minute Wpreliminary
run‘to get everything adjusted and
the test proper was run for a period
of thirty minutes. Belt power was
' figured six times on each tractor at
intervals“ 0 five, minutes

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fins these ' ” ‘

allow

 
   

   

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"lukewarm, fl} _,
Squid them in. "cold stora‘ e "for: We»

couple of' years, tone" shi‘ ped batik
’here‘a'nd soldgat 30 cents‘agpoun‘d,
although not fit to eat by“ thistime,
But, briefly, the doctrine flenunci-
ated by the"stategamedepartment is
simply the. observance of the law
Andof course the observance of the
. law necessitates a knowledge of it.
Attention is, therefor-e. called .to some

. the legislature. '
One of the changes affects the hunt-
ing pf partridge... The rapid-deple-

. i. tion of the partridge supply ‘in the

past -made necessary 'very "strict laws
on partridge hunting, but'this year
, an, open season on partridgegis- ,as-z
.sured. These may 'now be hunted
in such Upper Peninsula counties as
are not clOsed by local petition, from
Oct. 1 to Oct. 31 inclusive. In the
deer Peninsula they may be hunt-
ed from Nov. 1 to Nov. 30 inclusive.

The bag limit is five in one day.
ten in possession at any onetime.
During any one calendariyear no per-
son is allowed to kill more than 25.

The state and federal laws con-
cerning duck hunting are now ident-
ical.‘ The season to be enforced in
Michigan henceforth on ducks, geese,
brant, Wilson er jacksnipe, coots and
gallinules, is Sept. 16 to Dec. 31, both
inclusive. '

One piece of legislation will de-
light the heart of the deer'hunter.
Now, deer hunting parties of"'four
may secure camp permits entitling
them to one deer—formerly this per-

, mission could only be obtained for

parties of six. . ,
The new law erects the divisionary
‘line in Michigan for the hunting of
muskrats according to the respective
seasons, on range five. This line is
the north boundary line of Arenac,
Gladwin, Clare. Osceola, Lake and
Mason counties. North of this line,
but not including the counties nam—
ed, muskrats can be trapped frOm
Oct. 15 to April 15. South of this
line they may be taken from Dec.
15 to April 1. Rifles of no more
than .22 caliber can now be legally
used in killing muskrats. '
' The status of the skunk under the
game law has fallen greatly, or rath-
er has collapsed. It has now been
taken from the list of the protected
animals and placed with the predate
ory beasts. Under the new law the
skunk may be killed. trapped, smok—
ed out or dug out, and is common
.prey for all.

There are now two zones for rab-
bit hunter’s'in Michigan. The divid—
ing line is the same as that for musk-
rats. North of that line rabbits may
be hunted from Oct. 1 to March 1, in-
clusive. In the zone south of that
line they may be hunted from Nov.
1 to March 1, also inclusive.

A shorter season is made effective
on beaver. These may be trapped
from Nov.. 1 to April 15. The sea-
son formerly extended, to May 14.
The season is also shortened for ~ot-
ter, fisher, martin and mink. These
fur-bearing animals may be trapped
this year from Nov. 16 to Feb. 14,'in-
clusive instead of until March 15,"as
formerly. . .
hunting are changed to Oct. 15 to
Dec. 31 instead of-tfrzom Dec. 15 to
March .15: ' ‘

Theolosed season has been extend—

"ed frofir192-0 to 1921 on black and
gray squirrels and all pheasants.

A bount‘y'has been placed on wood—
chucks and crows, 50 cents on the

former and 25 cents on the latter.
Two bounty lawsinstead of one now
include all noxious birds and pre-
datory animals. Township. villa‘ge

\.

The dates ' for raccoon .

and city clerks ar ethe proper officers ,

to‘ issue" certificates for bounties- on
weaselsgit hawks, crows; owls -. and
‘woddchincks. : . _ , -.

A specific law provides punish—

.iment’ for ' Violators who" niblest game

and insectivorous birds in any .man—
er. This, law was made necessary by

.the conduct of certain aviators '- at

Seltridge Field, Mt. Clemens. some

. handed for, shooting ducks" 9n. :the
$257 . up litr- ,, some

months ago. when" they were "approa-

 

 

   
 

  

 

 

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' ‘An' ”Old‘ Fable 'That Proves a Big .Fact
A certain man had several sons who were always quar-
relin'g with one another. And try as he might, he could
not ge‘t them to live together in harmony. So he deter-

- rmined to convince them of their folly by the“ following

, means:

. (XIX 4-1‘

   
        

He bid them fetch a.bundle of sticks and invited each
in turn to break it across his knee. All tried and all
failed. And then he untied the bundle and handed them
the sticks, one by one. They had no difl‘iculty at all in
breaking them. “ There my boys,- ” said he,’ 'united you
will be more than a match for your enemies, but if you

   

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\ Aesop, in his ancient fable, in his :‘fTogether
You Win,” voiced no new faCt.

Throughout the historyof man , the reallybig things
in life have been achieved by organized effort.

In pre—historic times, each man worked alone,
supplying the crude needs of himself and family.

Civilization, however, has been the history of

the development of organized effort. The

gathering of people into great cities—the build-

ing of wonderful structures and gigantic, indus-
' trial institutions.

Labor began centuries ago to organize and there-
by raised itself from practical serfdom to the good
earnings and working conditions it enjoys today.

Manufacturers in every line of business have
Organized and thereby protected themselves
against ruinous competition and insured fair
prices for their products.

Farm folks alone have lagged behind in this
great development of organized effort.

While all the world has been organizing, the
farmer has been working alone, buying alone,
selling alone.

Organizations working along restricted lines
such as we have in our own State have done
great things and will do more.

 

But, in spite of all this, the farmer is still at the
mercy of the organized manufacturers of every-

thing he buys and of the city organized markets

ing machinery in selling every thing that he raises.

There is not a progressive farmer anywhere but
realizes that in order to' solve the farmer’s prob-
. lems of high producing costs, lack of labor and

Join the Michigan
State Farm Bureau

. ICHIGAN SIA

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Executive Offce:

  

 

 
 

e mercy of those who attack you. ”

game! and separate, your weakness will put you at

~AESOP’S FABLE

 

 

TogeterYou Win

   

vanishing selling profits, a powerful farmers’
organization is absolutely essential.

Today, the farmers of Michigan are creating
such an organization.

' The farmers of other states are well on the way.

If Michigan only equals the record being made
in Illinois a year from now over 75 per cent of
all the farmers in Michigan will be enrolled in
this great organization.

We are going to beat Illinois. We are going to
beat all the other states in the Union.

We want every farmer in the State a member of
the Greater Michigan State Farm Bureau.

With such an organization as this we can solve
the problems that are confronting us——we can
reduce our production costs and solve our help
problem—we can market our products for a
fair return, not only on our investment but on
our labor. We can secure legislation which will
be favorable to the farmer.

The great organization campaign starts actively in
Oakland County on the morning of October 1 5th.

Other counties will follow as rapidly as they can
be worked, until every farmer in Michigan has
been visited personally and asked to join at a
yearly membership fee of $10—$55 to the County
Bureau and $5 to the State. This will give ample
funds to accomplish the great work we propose.

But don’t wait. Get your counties organized
well in advance of the State organizers. Learn
all the details about this great movement by
communicating with Mr. C. A. Bingham, State
Secretary, Birmingham, Mich.

It is Organized
for Business

 
   

      


 
 
  
  
 
 
    
 
  
 
  
  
 
  
    
   
  
  
 
 
  
  
 
 
  
  
  
 
  
   
 
 
 
  
   
   
  
 
 
 
  
    
   
   
  
  
  
  
 
 
 
 
  
  
  
 
 
  
  
  
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
   
  
 
  
 
  
  
 
 
  
   
  
 
 
   
   
  
  
  
   
  
 
  
  
  
  
  
   
    
 
 
 
  
 
  
 
   
 
  
 
 
   
  
  
 
 
   
  

 

SATURDAY, OCTOBER _11. 191!

Published every Saturday by the
RURAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1-.
GRANT S U11“. Clemens, malign-
' LOC , . . . . President and Oontribu Editor
FORREST LORD ........... Vice—President an Editor

 

 

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ASSOCIATES
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M. Lamb .................................... Auditor
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Collective Bargaining

‘1» UIT YER kiddin,” jocularly exclaims

the editor of the Rosenbaum Grain
Review commenting upon the desire of the far-
mers to bargain collectively, “not only in their
own interest, but in the interest of the consum-
ers.” “Any time,” adds this witty writer,
“the average of the horny-handed takes his
hand off his own pocket book, ‘in the interest
.of the consumer,’ call me early mother dear.”
But in a more serious strain our trade paper
friend declares his intentiou of fighting col—
lective bargaining “to the limit of his ability.”

There, there, calm yourself, brother editor.
You wouldn’t use up so much valuable space
to tell us that the world is round or the war is
over or that Congress is having a fit over the
League of Nations. We know you are against
collective bargaining. You don’t have to tell
us so. We know that you and your brothers in
the grain trade, the vegetable trade, the live-
stock trade, and all the other farm produce
trades will fight collective bargaining to the
limit of your ability just as you have resisted
every effort of the farmer to secure economic
freedom.

We have had some misgivi gs upon this col-
lective bargaining propositio ‘ ourselves. We
can’t fall for it simply to show the farmers
that our heart is in the right place. We can—
not approve of legislation that gives to the far—
mer an absolute monopoly, wipes out all com—

petition and leaves the consumer entirely at.

the mercy of the producer. We do not fear
that the type of farmer who raises the bulk of
the food today would abuse this privilege, but
we do fear that were such favors granted to
those engaged in farming selfish capital would
at once be attracted to exploit agriculture and
profiteer under the protection thus accorded
by the government. It is to the farmer’s even-
tual welfare that he does not at this time ask
for unbridled license in fixing the selling
prices of his products.

We have only to review the recent fluctua-
tions in market values, which cost the farmers
millions of dollars, to appreciate the justice of
the farmers’ demands that they be given legal
means for controlling to a certain point the
selling price of their products. Supply and de-
mand have had very little to do with the enor-
mous losses the farmers have suifered the past
seVeral months. Cost of production has been
ignored by the influences which are tearing
down the grain and live stock markets, and the
farmers are poWerlem to cover their loses or
prevent further declines. Who,- besides those
who are the sole beneficiaries of such a system,
can stand up in its defense. Who with jus-
tice can say that all is well with the farmer and
that he has no “kick” coming? ’

Farmers should be permitted to bargain col-
lectively, and to withhold their crops from

market until the price bid for them shall equal

 

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protection of an industry, «is‘r'ight,

dustry and make it possible for invested capi-
tal to return a fair dividend. But a tarifl' that

'enables a manufacturer to make exorbitant

profits is indefensible. The right to bargain
collectively is needed at the present time to
make it possible for farmers to secure a fair
return upon their labor and invested capital.
But the abuse of this privilege should not be
tolerated. It is possible to accord to farmers
at this time the right to bargain collectively
without imperilling the interests of the con-
sumer one iota. _
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Think Twice, Mr. President

UMOR COMES from Washington that

president will remove the war ban on al-
coholic liquors at an early date. There is o. si-
multaneous statement that Kentucky distill-
ers are prepared to flood the country with
booze the instant the president signs the order.

Think twice, Mr. President. You have said
that these are critical times. You are aware
that men are saying and doing things today
who in their saner moments would laugh at the
folly of their actions. Unbalanced zealots are
preaching mob. rule, strikes, sabotage, incen-
diarism, even the overthrow of the govern-
ment. Would you add fagots to the fire?
Would you place dynamite where there. is now
only flash powder? Would you release the
stuff that fires men’s brains into a consuming
confiagration of reason, and send them off up-
on expeditions of rapine, destruction of prop-
erty and murder? .

Think twice, Mr. President. The people
have declared for national prohibition. What
excuse can you give for tilting the lid for a
paltry two or three months in order to satisfy
the clamorings of a small, Selfish group of citi-
zens? Will you be prepared to accept the con-
Sequences,——to face the wrath of the people—«if
you in an ill-advised moment give liquor once
more a free reign and invite the nation to an
orgy of drunkenness? .

t C It
In Memory of Roosevelt
HE CAMPAIGN is on, nation-wide, to
secure funds for erecting a suitable me-
morial to Theodore Roosevelt. The appeal for

funds inthis state should meet with instantan- .

eous response from _Mr. Roosevelt’s thousands
of admirers. No state in the union stood more
loyally by Mr. Roosevelt than did Michigan
during many trying political battles, and if
the respect the people of Michigan had for the
great statesman during his life has survived
his death, Michigan can be counted upon for a
generous contribution. It is quite unnecessary
to enter againthe portals of the hall of fame
in which the deeds of Roosevelt are recorded.
Admitting all his faults, remembering how bit-
terly he fought against the decrees of fate duh-
ing the last year or two 'of his life, and ac-
knowledging his mistakes, both those who
would like to have been his supporters and
those who were his enemies know that he was
great, and that the spirit of the man who now
rests upon Sagamore Hill still lives and will
live thruout the ages. It is fitting that the na-
tion should erect a monument of enduring
stone to his membry, and every citizen should
feel it a personal obligation and privilege to

contribute to the cause.
# fi i t

A Bonus for the Soldier Boys

HE AMERICAN LEGION has just tak-

en a step which may have far-reaching
effects in further disturbing the financial and
currency standards of the nation. Several
branches have voted to petition congress to
pay every soldier and sailor a bonus in the
form of a $50 Liberty bond for every month in
the service.

We have had a feeling that the nation has
not fully paid its debt to the young men Who
gave up active business careers to fight for
their country. In North Dakota, that notori-
ous strong-hold of non-partisans, the people ’5
conscience, was quick to gecognize this debt

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one individual who can't forget it. That won
the soldier himself, and the subject ha been
rcp‘eatedly discussdhi gatherings of dialect!

branches 0! m0 American m. '.‘.

Congress and the natlm at large hm'had
every opportunity to liquidate this debt upon

ajust, safe and’ractloal basis. Ithasnot
done so. The ini having been left to the

soldiers themselves, they have been quick to
grasp it, and now present a plan which in-

volves a further issuance of bonds totalling.

nearly six billion dollars, and may, if adopted

' have a most detrimental eflect upon the credit

of the government. Liberty bonds are being
used extensively in trade and to float an-
other imus in such a. huge amount to
individuals whose first step may be to
convert them into cash, will, we are
afraid, greatly depreciate the current val-
ue of the bonds already issued and increase
the circulating media of barter and exchange
to such an extent as will greatly aggravate the
present situation in which we find ourselves by
reason of our inflated currency.

Aid for Those Who Need It

0RD COMES that several national farm

loan associations in the northern part
of the state have been dissolved because the
Federal Land Bank refused to make the de-
sired loan against the security ofiered. It. 1|
alleged that appraisers were sent to examine
the farms who were residents of lower Mich-
igan and unfamiliar with the type of northern
Michigan soils. It is also stated that these men
proceeded in their examination as if of the set-
tled conviction that these lands were practic-
ally worthless and great caution should be
used in recommending leans against them.

One visiting the upper counties of the
state is not impressed at first glance With
their agricultural possibilities. Generally
speaking, the farms do not have 'that air
of prosperity about them that is char—
acteristic of the farms in some of the low-
er counties. Here and there a farm, is seen
that compares favorably with the best in Mich~
igan. The farm buildings are well-bunt and
well-kept. The fences are of the best mater-
ial.. The orchard shoWs the result of careful
and intelligent attention. ‘ Modern equipment
and conveniences are in evidence, and them-
tire place beSpeaks a progressive owner. Y1ew-
ing such farms as this, one must take 1t for
granted that the soil is fertile and productwe.

But the average type offarm in northern
Michigan is a disappointment. If its owner
has prospered his premises give no indication
of the fact. For they have a sort of down-at-
the-heel appearance which deceives the obser-
ver as to the true character of the soil. But
if one were to go back to the earliest history
of that average farm he would find in the ma-
jority of cases that the owner started in with
scarcely a dollar to his name, went in debt
for everything he bought, built his buildings
at odd moments, and underwent hardships,
discouragements and set-backs as can only
come to the man who attempts to farm with-
out capital or credit.

The purpose of the federal farm loan sys-
tem is to provide financial aid to those who
need it and cannot easily and cheaply secure
it through the regular channels. If any farm-
ers in the United States come within this class,
should not the farmers of northern Michigan
be counted foremost in the lot? If appraisers
are Sent to that section who permit their
judgment to be swayed by their prejudice or
ignorance and appraisa' the land so low that
it loses its desirability as security, the purpose
of the federal aid so far as northern Michi-
gan is concerned, is thereby defeated. We
shoiild like to see the Federal Land Bankat
St. Paul make a thorough investigation of the
agricultural situation in northern Michigan
and establish a policy that will permit of
greater assistance being given to the farmers
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an expense to me that I
had to call my boy's at- -
tention to it. We supposed we
were growing beans at a profit
until last evening when we sat down
and filled out the blank clipped from

' M. B. F‘. Our-yield per acre you will

notice is no less than the average for
the state, according to threshers re-
turns for the past two years. Our
charges for growing this crop are
not exhorbitant. -~ I have refused $6
per day overseeing the building 01 a

. county road past our farm and my

eighteen year old boy with the team
could have gotten $7 per day all
summer. But we decided to work
for nothing on the farm. sixteen
hours each day so that the eight hour
city man would not go hungry.
Will you kindly tell us then, M. B.
F., how much longer we must do this.
We have been offered $160 per acre
for the farm and have just about
decided to sell it, send the boy to
the M. A. C. and more to the city.
There is a fine 80 acre farm for

sale nearby which I offered to buy for
this boy last spring but he- don't want

it. He has seen the folly of workin
hard all day to produce a crop and
sell it for less than cost of produc-
tion. There never was a time when
there was so many farms for sale as
there is now. Farmers have discov-
ered that it is costing more to pro-
duce a crop than they can get for it.
and that they are working early and
late just for the fun of it while the

city man is working only 8 hours and“
getting from five to ten dollars per

day.
Every afternoon at 4330 we can
hear the carshop whistle blow and

‘euerybody connected with the shop

or with the railroads quit work while
we farmers toll on till bed time.

Farmers throughout this section
are wondering if it would not be a
good plan for them to adopt the 8-
hour day, work about half their land,
let the balance rest and take things
easy. Would not the price of farm
produce advance so that we would
not have to grow it at a loss and
would we not have inore time to visit
more time to spend in the'eity at the
movies, lectures and social functions,
without moving there, and have more
money than we now have. What do
you think of it?
thing it we are to keep the boys on
the term. Sincerely yours—J). G.
Stiff. '

Your letter calls to mind the oft-re-
peated charges that farmers never rea-
lize they are losing money until some of
their "half—baked leaders and farm paper
editors come along and stir them up. ' It
mav seem strange but it is nevertheless
a fact that many farmers loSe money
every year and don’t know it. But th- y
remain in businesa live fairly comfort—
ably. buy motor cars and seem to get
along pretty well, which makes their r
sition the harder to understand by the
city consumer.- If we look at farming as

an industry as we’rightly shouldand com-n

pare it to other industries in which cap-
ital and labor is employed we find that
it exists and apparently prospers only be-
cau'e those who are employed in it are
willing and obliged to work much longer
hours at much less pay than those en-
gaged in other industries. For some rea-
son we find it very hard to force into the
consciousness of the average city man
that all who live upon the farms toil upon
it and are not paid full measure for their
labor. We cannot fairly compare the
profits of the business of farming with
those of the business of merchandising un-
til we allow every individual who per-
forms labor upon the tax-ms a recom-
pense for that labor just as the city mer—
chant pays a. wage to his employee. Few
men engaged in the city professions and
trades expect that their families shall
be wage earners in the business, or be—
ing so expect that they shall labor for
nothing. In fact, the average city man
who often criticizes the farmer severely

“because of his complaints would View

with repugnance the suggestion that his
wife and children perform such ordinary
and arduous labor as the women

children on mo t of our farms are com-
pelled to perform, if they are to "rem" n
in business, live comfortably, buy a mo-
tor car, or getalong fairly well.”

any less today than formerly. The
trouble is that tho. farmer is awakening
to the consciousness that he is toi_

while other people spend their substan—
ance in riotous living; that his capita‘
returns at best only a meagre six, to ten
per cent while other capital paws double
and treble returns. Hence, the present
dissatisfaction among the farmers, and
their demands for an “eight hour day."
‘time and a halt tor over-time.” “collect-
ive-bargaining." and other privileges en-

joyed by labor and ca. ital in other fields.

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A SATISFIED OO-OPERATOR

ENCLOSE a fair estimate of my

bean crop for this year. As I

have not yet threshed, of course,
cannot give you exact yield per acre.
I helped one of my neighbors thresh
beans today. the first job our beaner
has done this year. He threshed
eight acres and got 216 bushels of
about 27_bushels per acre, but this
was an exceptionally good crop, qual—
ity almost perfect withc..scarcely a
pound pick.

Beans right around here are better
than last year, but is other parts of
Enron county not so good. I have
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derstanding among farmers {Or mu—
tual benefit and better prices for sev-
eral years, but farmers seem to be
slow to grasp the principles of co-
operation. Last April, thru my ef—
forts were organized the Pigeon Live
Stock 'Ass’n and to date we have
shipped 16 cars of live stock, and in
less than three months’ time we had
the drovers practically put out of
business. We now have 191 mem-
bers and there isn’t a shipper but
what is thoroughly Satisfied and
would not think of going back to the
old way of shipping. The $3 per car
more or less now comes back into
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another case of eliminat-
ing the middleman. -I am
an ardent reader and sup-
porter of your paper and
wish that it would he in
the home of every farm-

er.

Now just a final word in conclu-
sion. Please do not let that farm-
er’s candidate for governorship slip
your mind. Jim Helme or Herb
Baker will do, and I will do every-
thing in my power to help land our
mam—Wm. S., Pigeon, Mich.

Editor’s Note: Your neighobr is par-
ticularly fortunate to secure 2‘! bushels
of beans from an acre of ground. Have
him tell us how he did it, as there are
quite a few thousand farmers in the
state who would ’like to follow his ex-
ample. As you may know the average
will run much less, probably not to ex-
ceed nine or ten bushels per acre. It ev-
ery Michigan grower could secure 27
there wouldn’t be any complaint. A good
farmer governor would be flne.—Edtior.

RE she comes, homeward
bound, with “a bone in her

tcet ,” and a record for looking
into many strange ports in six
short months.

If you had been one of her proud

sailors you would have left New York
City in Jan uary, been at Guantanamo.
Cuba, in February, gone ashore at Port

of Spain, Trinidad,

in March and

 

stopped at Brest, France, in April to
bring the President home. In Mar the

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Arizona swung at her anchor in the bar-
bor of Smyrna, Turkey. In June she
rested under the shadow of Gibraltar
andi’nMshewasbackinNchork

\ harbor.

Her crew boasts that no millionaire
tourist ever globe-trotted like this. There
was one period of four weeks in which
the crew saw the coasts of North Amer-
ica, South America, Europe, Asia and
Africa. ‘

An enlistment in the navy

gives you a chance at the education of
travel.
with new people, new places, new ways of
doing things.

Your mind is quickcncd by contact

Pay begins the day you join. On board
ship a man is always learning.
work to be done and he is taught to do it
well. Trade schools develop“ skill, industry
and business ability.
planned by experts.
each year with full pay. The food is fine. A
full outfit of clothing is provided free. Pro«
motion is unlimited for men of brains. You
can enlist for two years and come out
broader, stronger, abler. “The Navy made
a man of me” is an expression often heard.

There is

Work and play are
Thirty days furlough

Apply at any recruiting station if
you are over 17. There you WiII get
full information.
the rear- Ling station,
Postmaster.

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importance to the mother than

‘ THERE ISN'T a question of more

§ plied:

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that relative to her children’s
education, if she be a progressive

‘mother who wants her offspring to

ave just a little better education

than she enjoyed and so be able, be-

cause of that better foundation, to

’more easily cope with the problems

confronting them in later life. And
.yet this year we are faced with a
.dearth of teachers, and why? Un-
doubtedly partly because they receive
are money for their work in other
has. and also have Work the whole
ear around, but by no means is this
ewhole reason.
In our oflice

there are two ex-

1 , school teachers who have only last

year given up teaching to take up
clerical work. And when I asked
lthem the reason, one immediately re-
“Well, you know I just love
my work and most of my pupils, but
did you ever stop to think that you

: are not only held responsible for the

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I department, etiquette, etc.,

regress each child under you makes,
ut you are expected to teach them
and then,
if you ‘have occasion to correct or
unish them. you are very often crit-
cized by the parents. , I tell you it

' ls'no small task to please the par-

ents of every pupil as well as the

f Ichool board and with all do your
1 work conscientiously and well. "

- operate

Why not get near your teacher—
the teacher who has charge of your
children for so many of their waking
hours five days in the week. and co-
with her. Did you ever

teach school? if so, then you know
. something of the work the teacher

; has to

keep the attention of her

‘ classes near the end of the day, keep—
3. ing some interested in their studies
J while she hears others recite, and

i

, their parents;
i them life;

then when the day’s recitations are
over, there are the papers to correct
and the lessons to prepare for the
next day, which often takes three out
of five of her evenings. Mrs. Dillen-
back has put the story into a little
poem—we hope that the case cited is
an exception. Public sentiment can
do much along this line as well as
all other lines of public improve—
ment.

“Those who educate children well
are more to be honored than even
for these only give
these the art of living

[ well."—Aristotle.

. YACATION’S PAST—HOW'S BEST

  

OSSIBLY the best benefit we de-
rive from going away from home
for a vacation is appreciation we

have of our homes and of our work
when we return.

How we look forward and plan for
that vacation period all through the
year. resolving to go here or go there
.——to see this or to see that; then
when the time nears we secure all
the folders and advertising matter

ossible in order that we may deter-

ine just which offers the most for
lthe time and money—and then final-
1y we ’re off.

So it was with the writer. A vs:
cation spent at a popular resort
where you spend a lot of money in
order to live in a summer hotel and
dressed for every meal in a different
outfit, didn’t appeal to us. We want-
ed to see something we had never
seen before—to go somewhere; rub
elbows with our fellow men and see
haw the other half of the world liv—
ed, rubbing off corners in the con-
Hot. And so finally the Thousand
liland and Saguenay trip was the

e decided upon. There were
~$venty who finally made up a party,
, ‘orted by a representative of the
Canadian Steamboat and Railway
lines. There was the tired business
man with his equally tired wife; then
there was the man and his wife who
had plenty of money but who couldn't
go to Europe this year because that
lo'l‘t of travel isn’ t encouraged yo t.

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ing the beauties of their own land,
fer, although we were in Canadian
waters or on Canadian soil most of
the time, it seems as though we were
sort of sisters, the relationship of
these two countries having been so
closely cemented since the war. Then
there were the girls who. like our-
selves had saved for a wholeyear
from their office earnings for the.
trip and were alive to every thing.
and enjoying themselves every min-
ute of the time.

The trip never grows monotonous
because of the many changes. , You
are obliged to change steamers at
Buffalo and take the trolley around
to Niagara and along the Gorge
route to Queenstown where a small

steamer is boarded which takes you.

as far as Toronto. There another
change is made for a smaller one,
which carries no night accommoda-

that instead of being tied to a dock
we were tied to an ocean going
freighter which was loading with
bales of paper pulp, the chief indus-
try along the shores of this coun-
try. There we learned that during
the short season of three months the
Canadian government would ship

.from this one port two million tons
mEns-

of paper pulp; to France
l'an'd, supplying alm’oit their“‘entii'e
need, while New York City alone

Itékes the product of two and one-

half acres of this spruce “1;?“
.day to supply paper enough
circulation of 91}, 1111111011 which papers

of course go all over the world

I wrote was manufactured.

. At Toronto. Montreal and Qdebec ' '
our stay was so limited that in order

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The Country Teacher

T’S FUN to hear the people talk about the country teacher— .

We still expect rare discipline and genius quite in learning.

We say as soon as school begins, “Her salt she is not em mug.
We talk of it till fall of night and in the mummy 11mm, '
We wish such frolic was our right and pathway strewn with flowers.
To work at nine at play at four (we housewives die of envy)

The children straightway take it up, and carry it to school——

And then we set the supper UP till evening’s twilight cool,

Because the children had to; stay, COUNFOUND THE IDLE TEACHER
And thus it is from day to day—sometimes we add a feature—-

In form of spicy note or slur we send her by a youngster,

And then we raise a/n awful stir and want the board to bounce her,
Because she had to uSe a whip if she would run the school,

We set the children up to skip because she’s mean and cruel.

From day to day she labors on with ne’er a care or trouble——

That Jack or Mary, Grace or John does not proceed to double.

We read the evening papers through and deem it most alarming——
Five hundred teachers have skidooed and taken up with farming.

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tions in the way of extra state rooms
as the steamer is simply used to
shoot the rapids along the St. Law—
rence, and so after' this exciting af-
ternoon and arriving at the quaint,
picturesque old city of Quebec, we
again changed boats for the larger
boat which was to take us up the
Saguenay to Ha Ha Bay, way up
where the mountains rise higher and
higher until at Echo Bay they form
two peaks known as Capes Eternity
and Trinity, either of which islarg—
er than Gibraltar. On this salt water
stream, we forgot that it was. not
yet winter and unless we donned
every article of clothing we could
get one. we were a “goose flesh suit”
much to our discomfort and against
our will. For the tang of the salt
air made us remember that we were
near the Labrador current.

However it told the enthusiastic
fishermen on board that the cold
trout streams were near at hand and .
that in the same stream We were
traversing was to be found the beau- -
tiful salmon. Some .of these fresh
fish were served to us‘ on beard our
boat and whether it was our. appe—
tites or the fish, I can’t say, but sure-
ly never did fish tasteso, good.

0n the way we stopped at Touda-
sac, the first French settlement in
this country, and there, with the ex-
ceptionwof; the 1-..tourists, French is
spoken entirely. A Wonderful sal-
mon fish hatchery engaged our at—
tention at this point as Well as an
old CathOlic church, 272 years old,
long ago supplanted by a. newer.”
larger edifice.

At St. Alphonse. on Ha Ha Bay,
we tied up for the night, and when
we woke in the morning we found:

       

 

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we boarded the famouns ”rubber-

neck” wagons w1th which every city
abounds, and do you know I really

feel sorry for the rich folks whoflare
so well off that they have their own"

cars and chauffers, as they truly miss
a lot. Those fellows on these wagons
in spite of their fooling, will give
you more real information about a
city than you could learn in a whole
week by yourself. Have you ever
noticed that they were usually like
thepolicemen, Irish? .

We all laughed heartily
pointing to a hill toward which ,we
were coming, he called it the most
artistocratic ' and popul‘ar.."“Rest
in that country, and then
a moment later we spied the tomb-

stones which told us the kind of a,
No one is-
allowed to be serious on a. vacation
trip. Nearing a quaint little wooden.

Rest Camp it really was.

building, we were told that it was
the most popular “Flatiron” building
in the city; only later to read on the

sign board “Chinese Laundry. ” And;
on one corner'we passed there Was a}
brewery, a church, a boarding house”;
Our guide described
that as being the only corner on earth ‘_
where you had salvation, starvation, .
ruination and education all on one;
Oh yes. old and young, rich.

and a school.

corner
and poor, we all left our dignity at

. home and spent nine delightful days,

but so much did we see and so fast

did we travel that when once more

we sighted Niagara Falls, and knew
that we were again on American soil

poem below very aptly expresses it;
' The Spot That God Loves Best ,‘

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and near home, we felt like the little?

   

 

‘The starting point of the sunny south

Is the place where the north is not;

We call it east where the welCom‘e suh

Fir-st tints the rosy skies;

We call it west where the shadows fade,

When the evening twilight dies; .

We call. it north where the snowdrifts pile,

When‘ the wintry blizzards blow , -- 1

We call it south where the orange blooms
And the meet magnolias grow;

. We will travel east, we will wander west,

To the north ”or south we'll roam; .
If we're” still in' insight of the Stars and

T123211: is home, sweet home.

starry banner shall floaraloft,
From the calm Pacific shores
To. admixed. rocks of the far-off coast.

, Where the broad Atlantic roars,.

There is no north and therp is no south,
And we know no east, no west, - 1
For any old place in the U.

Is the spdt that God loves best. .

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SOME HELPFUL HINTS ‘4
Belding, Mich.
Editor Mich. Business Farming. _
Dear Sir:

I am a reader of your farm paper
and notiéed in the July 12 issue that
you ask for helpful hints from house-
wives. I will send a few 'that are
very helpful to me. and would like to
have you, print the suggestions.—
0 D., Belding, Mich. * ‘

For cleaning the outside of a
copper boiler which has become
tarnished and stained, instead of
spending hours securing and polish-
ing, tryusing a piece of old woolen
cloth wet in kerosene and see what
perfectly good and quick results you
obtain.

To clean a water pitcher which has
become coated with lime try soaking
well with good vinegar and see how
easily it can be made clean.

To bake a crust for a lemon or
cream pie, try baking it on bottom
of tin instead of the inside. It will
be more satisfactory when baked.

Try using paper under the burner
to your oil stoves and see how much
easier it is to be kept clean.

Instead, of putting baby to bed
nights cross and irritable try cool-
ing him 'with a luke warm sponge

bath and see how much sweeter _he

sleeps.

SEEN IN CITY SHOPS

'The most popular color for fall is
brown. Persons with. brown or au-
burn hair and with hazel or brown
eyes will find this color most becom-
ing; However, if it makes you look

‘sallow as it does some, don’t be dis-

couraged, as the ever-popular blue is
shown just as much and doubtless
will be worn even more;

Then there is fringe again—nar-
row and wide. Some of the after-
noon dreSses and evening gowns have
a whole Overskirt of long fringe,
making you think of the HaWaiian
dresses. Fringe is so dressy that it
really shouldnot be“ worn for street
costumes? .. «

Shoes for “best” promise

,

to be

high again—«as high as fourteen inch—

es, now that the restriction imposed
by the war has made it possible for
the manufacturers to use as much
as they desire. And the prices are
equally high ~

 

, ESSAY 0N “GEESE” ~

OHNNY Truehard of St. Louis.

Mo., Won first prize in a compe—

tition on “geese” recently. John‘-

ny maynever develop into a Shakes-

pears, but he is original
Here is his start:

"Geese is a heavy set bird with a ,
head on one side and a tail on the "

other. His feet is set so far back on

his running gear that they nearly";
miss his body. Some geese. is gandJ "

ers and has a curl on his tail. Gand-

ers don"t lay or set They just eat,

1011.1 and go swimming. If I had to

be' a geese I would 111111er be a gan
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ions season is the fall! How
we do’ love'to walk" beside. the

road andiscuif our feet in the leaves,

and what. splendid. fun .it isto go
nutting,;gather=ing in our store for
wintereven as the squirrels do. When
the cellar and barns are fullwwe have
a great deal to be thankful for, and
thisvyear especially with the war over
we have more cause than 'usual‘ to be
thankful. fl - -. I

There are to bertwo. prizes for
Thanksgiving. One . for the best
drawing of a subject fittinglfor, the
holiday and..the other for the best
story- of why! you are thankful on
this holiday. Now get busy, children
and see if you can earn one of these
prizes. »

Several original prizes have been

. received but it is too early to award

a prize. Perhaps next week we can
publish one and tell you who the
prize winner is.

And though it is very early there
is a whole army of our Children’s
Hour members earnestly striving to
get the Wonderful Christmas presents
thatvI am awarding for just a little
work. Are you one of them? It’s not
too late if you hurry. Send in and
ask me all about it.—-—Afl’ectionately
yours, “Laddie.”

OUR BOYS AND GIRLS

Dear Laddiez—I am a reader of the
“Children’s Hour.” and would like to be a
member" of the Christmas Club. My father
.takes— the M. B. F. and says it is the
best paper he has ever taken. He can
hardly wait until it comes each week.
Our school began September 8th. We
have a school of 23 pupils and our teach-
er is Mrs. Dowling. I like her' very
much. I am 13 years old and in the 9th
grade. I passed the 8th grade exami—
nation last year. Well my letter is get—
ting long so I will close with lots of love
to all the children.—-Rebecca Hayes, Bai-
ley, Mich. .

 

Dear Laddiez—We take the M. B. F.
and I enjoy reading the letters from the
boys and girls. This is the first time I
have written. I am a boy 13 years old
and in the 7th grade. I like my teacher
and like to go to school. For pets I have
a pair of pigeons which are very pretty.
During my vacation I help work on the
farm for we have 110 acres. I would
like to hear from any of the boys and
girls. I hope to see my letter in print.—
John Klug, Abbottsford.

 

Dear Laddiez—This is the first time I
have written to you and I hope to see my
letter in print. We live on a. farm in
northeastern Michigan. I have four
brothers. I am 11 years of age and go to
school, being in the 5th grade. There are-
three in my grade. My teacher is Miss
Harriet arpenter. There are 17 1mm"
in our school. I have six studies—Thel—
ma Keith, Ponca.

“A generous lad's mybrother Ned,"

Said little Johnny Levitt
He takes the middle of the bed

And leaves me both sides of it."

 

Dear Laddiez—I am going to write an—
other letter and would like to see it in
print. I wrote once before but did not
see my letter. I enjoy reading the let-
ters of the boys and girls and also "the
D00 Dad-s. They sure are mischievous lit—
tle people. The last two M. B. F's we re-
ceived did not contain the Doc Dads. I
go to school and am in the 5th grade. Our
school started September 3 and I was
We have lots of
fun. We sometimes; play Step. Maybe
someof the‘ boys‘ and girls would like to
have me teach them how to- play step
The first thing‘we. do is .to have one
person stand still and hewill tell the rest
to go ten steps away. \ The one stand
still will count- five and while he; is ’c’ounta
big they take as many steps as possi-
ble without his seeing them but if he
sees anyone step he will give him so
many steps to get to where‘ he :has been
blinding, but if he can't get there in as
.many steps as he is given he will have to.
be the one that blinds for the next game
alter the rest have all gotten there. Whn
we blind we always put our hands over
our; faces . Maybe you . children won’t
.like this game but I think it is ”fun to

y it. Well my'letter' is. getting quite

so I guess I had‘better save room

for another little girl's lotion—Mildred
Ponca. . . ,

, Dear buddies-4111mm the first time I
hvp ever written ,to. you. I ama girl 10

years or. age and live on'an loo-acre farm. -.

have one brother. Leonard. We have
~ur horses, one cow and 25 t
are"? was “I”

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THE JUNIOR COOK
Cornmeal Mush

Three cups of water; three-quart-
ers teaspoon salt; put in a two quart
pan and bring to a‘ boil.

Just before the boiling begins.

:while the bubbles are ready to dance

up from the bottom, shake in- very
slowly: one cup of yellow cornmeal;

stir till smooth and then cook for
_ The.
success of this cornmeal depends on,

ten; minutes over a slow flre..

adding the cornmeal gradually. just
before the water boils. If'do‘ne
right the mush will be smooth and
delicious.

MARJORIE DAW
WHEN Marjorie and .her. twin

sister, Ellen, went to spends.
week’s , vacation ~with Uncle
John, they didn’t half guess all the
fun they would have. They knew
about feeding the" chickens and
watching the milking and riding to
town with Uncle John when he took
the great cans of milk to the after-
noon train.
about Tip. .
Tip was a pretty little white dog-.—
not so very little either but just the
right size to play with little girl vis-‘
itdrs- He had lived at Uncle John’s
only a week when the girls came and
so he was almost as much of a
strager as they were. Perhaps that
was why he thought it was so jolly to
romp around with them and to ex-
plore all the sights of the farm.

One morning when the three were
running through the orchard they
spied a teeter-totter; a great, big,
high teeter-totter with the board to

But they didn’t know_

ride on. all set in place as tho Uncle
John had just been out to fix it for
them. (And who knows but he had
for itwas he who suggested their go-
ing to. that partcf the orchard that
morning?) 3

“What’s it for?" asked Marjorie.

“To teeter '0n, silly,” laughed El-
len. ‘V‘Don't you know, we had one
in‘ the playground.” ,

“But that was red and green," an-
swered, Marjorie, ‘g‘and this isn't
painted ‘at all."; . ' . ,

. “But it teeters just the same,” said
Ellen. “Now you hold that and Mar—
jorie and I'llhold'this just so. Then
we’ll climb on together. Wait n‘ow !
Don’t you climb till I do !"

‘ There’s one thing about being a

.twin——both folks are sure to be about

the same size and Marjorie and Ellen
found that very convenient when they
got on that teeter. They each crawl-
ed on ‘very carefully, balancing the
board just so; then they bounced.
oh. just a very little bit, and got the
board ., to sWaying and there they
were teetering just as fine as you
please._ '

But Tip didn’t fancy that one bit.
He felt very much left out and he
barked his opinion of teeters and par-
ticularly of this teeter till the girls
stopped in mid air to decide what to
do about him,

“Let me down very slowly,” sug—
gested Ellen, “and I’ll grab him up
and he can ride with us.”

So she wiggled and squirmed till
she got near the ground, then she
made a grab for Tip and settled him
on her lap.

“Now let's go up," she said. But
the teeter didn't move. With Tip’s
weight'added to her own they kept

the board down close to the ground.

“Let me down!” shouted Marjorie
getting a .bit frightened at her long
stay in the air, “let me down, Ellen! ”
But the teete rdidn’t move.

“Let me down,” she shoutedagain,
“I want to get down !"

Then she suddenly realized what
the trouble was. ‘

“Tip," she called, “Tip!
here to me ! Here, Tip l"

Come

The little fellow looked up the
long, slick board then looked ques-

tioningly at Ellen.

“Yes, Tip," nodded Ellen, who was
getting anxious about her'sis'ter but
was afraid to get up for fear. the
board would come down too sudden-
ly and hurt Marjorie, “yes, Tip ! Go
to her."

The dog started up the long board
——one step. two steps and he was still
safe. Maybe he could do this queer
thing his little mistresses wanted him
to do. Three steps—he was getting
braver now—four steps, five, and he
touched the middle with his reached—
out front paw. He passed the middle
and the long board began to sway.
Ellen’s end left the ground and the
two girls, evenly balanced as long as
Tip was in the middle, hung teeter-
ing in their. Just at thit minute,
when both girls were reaching their
toes to catch, the ground and steady
the board, Uncle John called from
the fence, “Need me, Marjorie Daw?
Or can tip take care of you?”

Marjorie wasn’t afraid any more

and she called back, “Tip’s taking
care of us. uncle ! We’re going to
teeter a long time”. And she did.

Such a very long time that her uncle
nick-named her Marjorie Daw for the
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A few readers report the refusal
of local elevators to buy wheat at
the government price; We would like
to have all such instances referred
to us for investigation. In reporting
such cases. be sure to give all the
particulars. There is no change in
the wheat situation. Practically all
sales are now being made on the
basis of the government’s guarantee,
and the crop is plentiful enough and
moving fast enough that no prem-

 

iums are offered. Detroit quotes:
Wheat No. 1 ,white, $2.25; No. 1
red, $2.27; No. 1 mixed, $2.25.
CORN

Grade lDet’oit ' Ch'gol N. I.
No. I Yellow .... 1.52 1.51 l 1.85
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The corn market reached its low-
est level last week, and many believe
that it has touched bottom. Quite
a large number of farmers have
rushed the balance of their old crop
to market, fearing that prices would
go even lower. This is, of course. a
mistake and one for which all the
farmers of the country suffer. While
it is true that the quality of this
year’s corn has never been excelled,
and that there is to be a large quan-
tity to meet all needs when the new
crop is harvested, it is preposterous
to think that corn can go any lower
because of the much higher prices
of other grains. Speaking of the
corn situation the 'Price Current
Grain Reporter says:

“New England is speculating on

the future price of corn and has a
good buyer for deferred shipment,
paying a big premium for grain that
will not reach them until next May
to October. This buying ahead in
volumeis a factor in the situation
that sooner or later will have an ef—
fect on the price. as it will mean
larger distribution whether the price
advances or not. It is this constant
speculating that helps greatly to
stabilize the market. Farmers are
apparently becoming more familiar
with the use of grain futures as a
price insurance proposition, and
there has been a large amount of
December sold against standing crops
which will move later in the season.
In many instances the producer will
secure a price for his grain in this
manner far above the prevailing
level."
. Yes, and in many instances he will
secure a price in this manner far
below the prevailing level. The spec-
ulators who gamble in futures will
use every means at their command to
keep market prices down.

The speculators who thus gamble
in futures will use every means at
their command to keep prices down

 

that they may fill their contracts
without a loss.

OATS
- (irkuiefl I Dct’oit term] iv‘. Y.
Standard ........ .74 .73 I .80
No. 3 ‘P‘EY. ..... l .73 l 7.72 I

Farmers are not very keen to sell
oats at the present low levels. The
crop is way short, and should the
export demand pick up prices should
go materially higher. We expect to
see higher prices quoted on oats by
the'first of the year.

RYE AND HARLEY

Rye and barley markets still cling
to the levels established several
months ago, and the demand is un-
certain. Detroit quotes $2.40@2.50
for No. 3 barley. and $1.42 per
bushel for rye. The future of the
rye market depends almost entirely
upon the export demand. It is be-
lieved in some quarters that Ger-
many will become a large buyer of
this grain this year in which case
there should be higher prices.

BEANS

The bean market has recovered
from its September slump and prices
are slightly higher all over the coun-
try. The Detroit market this week
quotes $7.30 per cwt. for the best.
“Butthis price is a long way from
»-what it ought to be. Trading is
very active, if we may believe the re-

Weekly Crop and Market Review

HE TWO BIG influences affecting general trade and market con-
ditions the past week have been the steel strike and the illness of

the president.

The steel heads claim that the strike is practically over

and that the men are going back to work. At no time have any of the
larger mills been forced to close completely, although their output has
been greatly reduced. It is easy to see how the fear that the strike might
cripple other industries, injects an element of uncertainty and weakness

in all trade deals.

The president’s illness has had a powerful ef-

fect and the concern shown in his condition shows how much the people

value his influence.

If President Wilson should die, we would lose the

strongest figure in our national life, and for a time might drift about
like a ship without a pilot. It is not to bewondered at that many peo-
ple enter trade deals under these cicrumstances with fear and tremb-

ling.

There is virtually no change in the general aspects of the grain mar-
kets. The government and the speculators who set deliberately about a
few months ago to force down prices. have succeeded admirably in one

respect.

They have slaughtered the corn market, demoralized the live

stock markets, and smashed the bean market to smithereens, but the con-
sumer still pays the same old prices and the graft goes to someone in be-
tween. The farmers everywhere are showing a strong desire to take hold
of the situation and protect their interests, but they have to proceed
with great care lest they be hauled into jail for wanting a fair profit on

their investment.

against farmers’ organizations thruout the country,

There are a score or more criminal actions pending

but the greatest

crime that can be laid against them is that they sought to remove the
middleman and charge the consumer what their product is worth. \Ve
are going to have an accounting soon. The farmers are perfectly willing
to go before the bar of the court of public opinion for a verdict. 9
We think the grains have reached their-lowest levels and that there
will come a reaction. A review of the grain trade papers shows a some-
what greater confidence in the future of the grain markets than has
been noted'for'some time; The bears have gone back to the old Argen-
tine bugaboo, although it must be remembered that this club was held

‘over the heads of the producers all last Winter, without success. The for-

eign demand has slackened, however, and we need not expect to see any

great activity in the grain markets for sixty or ninety days.

The car

shortage looms up as a big problem Already many sections are unable
to ship products for lack of cars and under this circumstance the farm-

ers find it difficult to sell at any price.

Fortunately, the situation in

Michigan is not bad and we have had no reports of where local shippers
are unable to get all the cars they need.

 

 

long as Jap beans are imported into
this country in such huge quantities
there can be no hope that prices will
reach a level which wil pay the grow-
ers a fair profit. If the special tar-
iff bill goes through, there is a very
good chance that beans will go up
at once.

Regarding the present activity in
the market, Mr. L. A. Nixon, editor
of the Bean Bag, writes us as fol—

lows, under date of September 30th.

“Although we have no direct re-
ports or any strong foundation for
our opinion we feel as if the market
will be a little stronger this week
than last.
ers in pegging the market has been
a strong factor, and rumors of short
crops in the Orient will make the
Japs higher in their prices with a
consequent betterment of the domes—

 

 

Foater’s Weather Cher! for IDIQ

WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 11,
l919.—-Warm waves will reach Van-
couver about Oct. 10, 14 and 19 and
temperatures will rise on all the Pa—
cific slope. They will cross crest of
Rockies by close of 11, 15 and 20;
plains sections, 12, 16 and 21', meridi-
an 90, great lakes. middle Gulf states,
Ohio-Tennessee valleys 13, 17 and 22;
eastern sections 14, 18 and 23, reach-
ing vicinity of Newfoundland about
Oct. 15. 19 and 24. Storm waves will
follow one day behind warm waves and
cool waves about one day behind the
storm waves.

These storms will dominate the
weather of this continent from near
Oct. 1 Mo near Oct. 24. Temperatures

. will fluctuate but, while the season
calls for a general trend downward of
about 9 degrees I expect the average

trend to be upward more than 10 de-

" greesfr‘omOct. 9t021andthen a

cold wave that will bring a great fall,
causing frosts to threaten northern

* parts of the cotton belt.

The tw0 principal storms of the
month come within this 14 day weath-
er period and they will largely increase
the amount of precipitation which will
continue to be in about the same sec-
tions as fo the past three months.
These principal storms of October will

THE WEATHER FOR THE WEEK
As Forecastcd by “7. T. Foster for MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING ,

 

occur during the five days Conn-H“
on Oct. 12 and 25 and last storm will
be unusually severed and will prob-
ably develop two sets of storms one,
described above, the other a tropical
storm which may develop into a hurri—
cane.

These hurricanes are not well under-
stood; they constitute one cause of the
occasional failures of these forecasts.
The hurricanes often destroy the
transcontinental storms, turning a
high temperature upside down and int
8. cold wave or bizzard. Mr. Glines.
of Winnepeg, did more than any other
man in furnishing means for solving
these great weather problems, but he
died before he reached the important
question of tropical hurricanes. "‘
transcontinental storms and the crop-
weather controlled by them have been
solved. If the tropical hurricane .was
solved—dand it can be—North America
would be immensely benefitted. Who-
ever provides for solving that problem
will accomplish a great work for his
or her race.

These October storms will greatly
benefit the principal winter Meat sec—
tions, particularly where winter grain
is sown for pasture, but in the spring
wheat sections, . north of the high.
ridges that run east and west, precip-
itation will continue short because the
moisture must come from the Gulf of
Mexico and will be precipitated on
the south side of those ridges. Pre-
cipitation will continue to be heaviest
in the cotton state and in the Arizona.
New Mexico country. ’

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' advance sharply.

  

tic market. We believe beans will
go up now, not a great deal, but we
believe and hope that the low' tide
in the market has been reached. or
course, prices have been lower here-
tofore and may go down again, but
the demand is bound to come soon-
er or later and we believethe mark-
91. will re—adjust itself very soon."

 

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POTATOES

A subscriber writes that he is
holding his potatoes and wishes our
advice on the future of this market.
We will not advise, but we will be
glad to give our opinion. We know
that the yield is short of last year’s
by many million bushels. Moreover,
a great many ' sections. Maine, New
Jersey, Minnesota, and Wisconsin and
reporting an epidemic of rot which
is ruining millions of bushel. The
trade papers are full of reports of
potatoes rotting in local- warehouses,
in transit and on the market. Con-
sequently the demand is poor and the
price not what it ought to be. Mich-
igan’s crop is in excellent condition,
we understand. and with the othc
states putting out such a poor qual-
ity, our prices ought to command
premium prices. Maine farmers are
getting only $2.50@2.75 per 165-ib.
bag, whilst Pennsylvania farmers:
are selling freely at $2.50@2.75 p.
cwt.. Minnesota reports a good de-
mand from nearby states which or-
dinarily grow their _own require-
ments. At the present time the mar-
ket is weak and draggy, but this is
not due to a surplus of supplies but
of the poor condition. Neither buy-
ers nor consumers will purchase sup-

_. plies for winter storage that are in

poor condition. We may expect thh
condition to continue until the poor-
er qualities are cleaned up, and then
the inarket ought to come into its
own. We feel that Michigan pota-
toes should bring a higher price than
the producers are now getting. The
Detroit market quotes $3.76 per 160
pounds, Michigan, round whites. Pro-
ducers are receiving from $1.50 to
$3.00, according to the locality.

FRUIT AND POULTRY DULL

The fruit market and the poultry
deal suffered the chief blows, from
the farmers' stan point, in Detroit

and a number of other markets dun-i

ing the past week or so. Consumers
did not appear so active as usual.
Grapes, however, are scarce and
firm. The vegetable deal is slow, in
face of plentiful supply and slow de—
mand. .A moderate supply of eggs
and butter in Detroit is accompanied
by firm markets. Quotations follow:

Butter—Fresh creamery, firsts, 56
@57 1-2c 1b.; fresh creamery in 1-
1b. bricks, 59 1-2@620 1b.

Dressed hogs—«Choice country
dressed,xunder 150 lbs, 25@26c;
over 150 lbs.. 23 @240 per lb.

Eggs—Fresh eggs, 49@57c per
doz., as to quality.

Crabapples—$3.75 @ 3 per bu.

MAINE POTATO AND BEAN CROP -

CROP ARE SHORT

The potato harvest is well under
way here in Maine with yield per
acre above the average but the acre-
age much less than for some years
past. The quality is of the best. but
the price offered at present is not
enough to cover cost of production,
being only $3 to $3.50 per barrel. but
if the dealers can get the most of
them into their hands they will for:
get that it is unlawful to sell by col-
lective bargaining, and the price will
Beans are very
good in quality and yield but acre—
age is greatly reduced. Apples are
not very abundant. but owing to the

' shortage of sugar the price is not so

high as it should: be. Speaking of
profiteering, who gages the scale of
profit on beans? I know of mer~
chants who pay at the rate of 16
cents per quart and sells at the rate
of 82, cents per quart, and other pro-
duce on the name’scale. This

W
.have something to do with the high

cost of living and the lack of profit

in farming.-—R. L. Herrick. West'

Paris. . Maine, Sept.’29th. .- f . .

 

 

  


 

 

 

 

Off. course you undoubtedly have, if
* you ever went in on that fascinating
business.~ Probably you struck some

new stunt which might help other-

trappers get 011 the right track Mich-
igan Business Farming wants to
further such an exchange of hints
and therefore ofl'ers prizes for the
best letters on “How I Have Made
Monex Trapping."
Letters should all be in
her 8 because a specials
is being prepared for the last of Nov-
ember. ,

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Novem-

HAY TRADE BACKS LIFE

Trading in the hay markets of the
nation lacks life during the last sev—
eral days and values are rather easy.
Reports from New York state that
there are plenty of shipments arriv-
ing for the trade, especially since the
buyers are fighting shy of the mark-
ets at present. Tame hay production
totals 86.723,000 tons, according to
the government report for September
and this report has had a tendency
to’make consumers feel that present
prices are too high. Thus buying is
none too encouraging. Producers, on
the other hand, state that they aren’t
getting cost of production plus a
reasonable profit.

From the Detroit market comes
the following report: Scarcity of cars
is holding back the hay movement
and a. firm market is quoted. A few
cars come in from Canada, but de-
mand could easily take more. Quote:
No. 1 timothy, $29.50@30; standard
and light mixed, $28.50@29; No. 2
timothy. $27.50@28; No. 3 timothy,
$23@25; No.1 mixed, $24@25; No.
1 clover, $24@25.

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LIGHT APPLE CROP

The apple market condition indi—
cates a rather light general crop in
the United States, with liberal early
shipments, resulting in prices higher
than last year. The northwestern
boxed apple crop is the largest on
record and of excellent average
grade. The eastern barrel apple crop
is the lightest in recent years and
includes much light grade stock. Crop
is generally light. Canada’s large
crop will likely take care of the
heavy foreign demand anticipated.
The low tariff on Canadian apples
is not likely to keep them much out
of this Country. Demand in big Am—
erican markets has been good. Mich-
igan’ s crop has been very light, and
good prices are reported in numer-
ous places.

Detroit quotes Michigan apples,
small, $1.25 to 1.50 per bushel. The
best apples bring down from $2.25
to $2.75 per bushel,

Plenty of early apples are in
sight, according to the government
reports. causing a tendency toward
lOWer prices in some markets. Car-
lot figures for apples thus far this
season are one-half heavier than
last season up to date, nothwith-
standing the lighter total of the
crop for this year. It appears that
the early yielding apples are doing
much better than the late yielding
varieties. Michigan, Delaware, Illi-
nois and West Virginia are shipping
well in excess of last year. while Vir-
ginia and‘ Arkansas are shipping
three times as many as
Some of these shipments are going
into storage, although the amount is
hard to estimate.

 

DETROIT LIVE STOCK

The Detroit cattle market last
week closed strong at the following
prices: Best heavy steers. $11.75@
14.00; best handy weight butcher
steers, $9@10; Mixed steers and
heifers, $7.50@8.50; handy light
butchers, $7.50@8; light butchers,
$6.50@7; best cows, $9. butcher
cows, $7@8; cutters, $5.75@6; can-
ners. $5@5.50; best heavy bulls, $8;
bologna bulls, $7@7.50; stock bulls,
86.00617; feeders. $8.50@9.50;
stockers, $7.00@8; milkers and
springers, $60@125.

There was a good run of sheep and
lambs and a.good active market for
them all the week. Best lambs, 815
015.50; fair lambs, $12.50@14;
light to common lambs, $9@11. 50;
fair to good sheep. $6. 50@7. 25; culls
and common, $3@4. 50-.

In the hog department the trade
was dull and dressy all the week,
not one day in the week was any-
thing sold until afternoon. Monday

. they brought~ $17.25 for mixed

 

  
 

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last year. »

 

’ grades, and $17 for pigs. Tuesday
1 they: were the in E011

lottery”;
bringing $16 50 and imixed hogs
$16. 50 to $16. 75, with the bulk of
sales at $16.7 5. Wednesday they
went off >25c to 351: more selling at
$16.50 for mixed and. $16.25 for
pigs. Thursday they broke badly
and were 50c to 75¢ lower.

CHICAGO LIVE STOCK

Hogs: Receipts, 10,000; higher,
heavy, $15@16.50; medium, $15.25
@1670, light, $15.75@16.75; light
lights, $15.25@16.50; heavy pack~
ing sows. smooth, $14@14.75; pack-
ing sows, rough, $13.50@14; pigs.
$15@16. Cattle, reCeipts, 4,000;
steady; beef steers, medium and
heavy, choice and prime. $16.50@
18.25; medium and good, $11.25@
16.50; common, $8.50@11.25; light
good and choice, $15@18.25; com—
mon and medium, $8@15; butcher
cattle, heifers, $6.50@14.75; cows,
$6. 50@13. 50; canners and cutters,
$5. 50@$6 50; veal calves, $19. 25@
20. 50; feeder steers, $7@12. 50;
stocker steers. $6.25@10; western
ranges beef steers. $8@15; cows and
heifers, $6.50@13. Sheep, receipts,
15,000; firm, lambs, $13.75@16.15;
culls and common. $9@13.25; ewes,
medium, good and choice, $6.75@8;
culls and common, $3@6.25; breed—
ing, $7@13.25.

PEA MEN LIEET

Pea growers for the W. R. Roach
& Company Canning factory, will get
together, Saturday afternoon, Octo—
ber 11. to discuss matter pertaining
to the pea crop for the
1920. They have found out with
the increased costs of labor, fertil-
izer, machinery, etc., that they can-
not grow green peas for three cents
a pound and make any profit The
factory pays a flat rate of three cents
a pound for green peas delivered at
their plant at Kent City. They
charge $3.00 per bushel for seed;
four bushels to the acre is usually
sown. The straw is elevated to a big
stack for ensilage. A farmer is en-
titled to ensilage equaling 25 per
cent of the gross weight of peas and
vines he brings in. They charge him
one dollar per ton for the ensilage
he gets.

COMPETITIVE TRACTOR

DEMONSTRATION

(Continued from Page 4)

figures Were averaged. All figures
and readings were recorded on a
large blackboard where they could
be easily seen by the assembled
crowd. Some of the tractors ran
somewhat below their advertised belt
power. Some just made it while oth—
ers ran considerably over. Taking
it all in all, it was a mighty success—
ful and satisfactory contest.

The crowds were very much inter;
ested in all the tests. It is estimated
that a crowd of fully ten thousand
people witnessed all part of the tests
at different times during the three
days taken in conducting it.

The demonstration was arranged
by the St. Joseph County Farm Bu—
reau in co—operation with the St.
Joseph County Fair Board. J. M.
Wendt, County Agricultural Agent.
had general charge of all arrange—
ments. Professor H. H. Musselman,
Professor of Farm Mechanics at the
M. A. C., acted as Field Manager dur-
ing the contest and he was assisted
by Messrs. Wrench, Straight. Boon-
stra and Flour of the M. A. C. and
County Agents Nash and Jamieson,
of Branch and Calhoun counties res—
pectively. Much credit is due the
entire management for the way in
which the entire demonstration was
conducted. It means something to
put on the rst actual tractor test and
obtain for Michigan Business Farm-
ers actual figures on tractors by an
impartial management. The figures
on these tests will be given to the
public through the" medium of the
press in a short time or as soon as
they can be figured over by the man-
agement.

U. S. SURVEY OF SEP-
TEMBER MILK PRICES
(Continued from page 3‘,
plus an extra alowance for special
quality of milk. and sometimes an ar-
bitrary allowance for variations in
seasonal costs of production.
1 4. Prices based on both butter and
cheese prices as shown by agreed
upon quotations for a period of a
month preceding the to of the an-
nouncement of prices 0 be paid for

 

 

 

season of‘

x

the ensuing month. This cemposite
thesis (a combination.-. of the bases~

(2) and ( 3) just described) has been
used for several months is the New

,York market and the prices obtained
by the use of this basis is practically ,»

an average of the two prices obtain-
ed by the use of two formulas similar
to those in use in the Minneapolis
and Evansville markets. The allow-
ance of value of whey, skim milk, ex-
tra costs of quality and variations in
seasonal costs of production, vary
with different localities.

Prices Based on Current Month’s
Prices of Milk or Manufactured
Milk Products

5. Same as arrangement (3) ex-
cept that prices cannot be determin-
ed until several days after the end
of the month in which delivery of
milk was made. (This arrangement
exists between certain dealers and

producers in the Louisville, San Di-
ego and Indianapolis markets.)

Keep Them on tIie Job

00 know the dangers of neglecting

i painful lameness, bruises and swell-

mgs. Put Sloan' s Linimcnt on the

job and let it relieve those poor dumb

faithful beasts from suffering. Just apply

a little quit/1011i rubbing, for it penetrate:
and keeps the animals efficient.

For family use, too, Sloan’s Linimcnt soon
relieves r/mtmatir winger, lumbago, mf-
neu and mrmen ofjoz'nt: and mmclu. A
bottle around the house is a thoughtful
provxsxon for first aid emergency.

Slx times as much in the large bottle as

you get in the small size boulc. Bear in

mind. Sloan‘s Linimcnt has been the

World‘s Standard Linimcnt4 Jot thirty-
cl:l1tycal’s.35c..70c..

returns devdealsrs: >
co-operative concerns such an at?
rangement often applies to all milk
handled, whether sold in the form of

private
however,

milk products. In case of
milk marketing concerns,

such a price basis is sometimes ap—‘

plicable only to “surplus milk" that
has been converted into various man-
ufactu‘red milk products.

7. Prices contingent upon the pre-
vailing prices of milk in some laige
centers of consumption or at various
condensaries, cheese factories ‘or milk
stations supplying a large market.

(Such price agreements are very
common among many small scale
milk dealers or manufacturers of

cheese or condensed milk.)
GEORGE LIVINGSTON.
Acting Chief of Bureau.

Young Men and Women
are Needed

for high grade ofllce positions at
good salaries.
A brief course of study \villpre-
pare you. We secure the posmon.
Opportunities to “01k for expens-
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request@ for free catalog.

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IMPORTANT NOTICE

Thresb When You’re Ready

r ELIABLE information has reached us that many farmers
this year are experiencing difficulty in getting their
threshing done in time to save their crop.

Individual or Community Tbresbers

We have in stock, ready for immediate shipment, grain thresh-
ers of sizes that can be opex ed by small steam engines—or any

Give us the size and kind of your power and let us quote you
on a thresher suited to your needs and power.

Wire or Telephone ‘YOur Order at Our Expense

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Port Huron Engine & Thresher Co.,
Box 100, Port Huron, Michigan

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In the case 3011 ,- .

fluid milk and cream or disposed of. '
or held in the form of manufactured~ .,

    
  
 

  

  
  
  
 

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farms for sale by the owners, giving his
name, location of farm, description, price
and terms. Strictly mutual and co— oper-
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conducted for our members. C IN
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BEST CLAY LOAM
Owner, John Me-

80 IMPROVED.
soil ,$2,000. Terms.
Gregor, Kendall, Mich.

 

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FOR SALE—40 ACRES OF GOOD
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20 x 30. 16 x 26. Orchad. Good water.
Buildings worth $3000. Address, J. C.
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AGED W'IDOVV SELLS 2'15 ACRES

$4500, with 3 horses and 2 colts, 6 cows,
2 calves, 4 wagons, harness, 2 mowing
machines, long list implements oats, hay.
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to town stores, easy drive RR town, near
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poultry houses. $4500 gets all, easy terms.
Details page 22 new Fall Catalog farm
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FOR BARGAINS IN NEW AND USED
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Michigan. Cash with order. Special
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good quality, graded ripe potatoes, pref-
erably grown on sand. Price by the bush-
el on carlp‘ad lots up State price first
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animals weighing 130031_bs. Will sell the
two colts for $150. Also five months old
mare colt for $90. DelOs F. Wilcox, Elk
Rapids, Mich.

Seeds 6 Wanted

 

Michigan Grown
Winter Vetch, Rye and Vetch, June
and Mammoth Clover, Alfalfa, Sweet
Clover, Alsike and Field Peas. Known

Varieties of Garden Peas, Beans and
other Garden Seeds, of High Germination
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.in- in good shape.
marketed, as prices are too low.'—-‘
A. 'F. W.

ST. CLAIR,

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(E)—.-—Farmers
sowing wheat ’

are
and
rye.
fine for all fall Work. The recent
rains put the land in, fine condition
for fall seeding.
crop in this locality. Potatoes are 1
poor crop here. Apples as non to
speak of. Nothing going to market
now. _ Farmers too busy to go to
market. Lots of auction sales and
prices good. Quite a large acreage
of wheat going in. The following
prices were altered at Smith Creek.
wheat. $2.10; red, $2.15; cats, 65;
rye, $1. 20@1.30. - Hay, No. 1 tim-
othy..$18@20; No. 1 light minted,
$17@20; beans, (0. H. P. Pea),
$6. 50; bulk apples, $1. 00 bushel;
potatoes, $2. 25; cabbage 10c each;
hens, 22c; springers, 26c; eggs, 50c
sheep $8@10; lambs, $10@12; hogs

15@17; beef steers. $8@10; beef
cows, $6@9; veal calves, $17@20.
—I. J.

MANISTEE (N)—The farmers are
picking apples and husking corn.
Some still as yet sowing grain, fin-
ishing harvesting beans and various
other work. Weather is quite moist.
Rains frequently terribly heavy. Soil
is wet now. I do not think the farm-
ers are selling much now unless it is
apples. I do not know what farm-

‘ers are holding for higher prices pos-

sibly potatoes or rye or apples and
corn. Farmers here are not seem-
ingly buying much now- or building
much. Prices for apples are good. No
rye being bought as yet as I know of
or corn or mulch hay. Beans not
threshed yet or late potatoes dug
either or many chickens being sold.
Butter is 50 cents, eggs, 40. butter-
fat 57. Beef is worth 5 to 8 cents
alive; pork 14 to 15 alive, 18 to 20
dressed; veal 10 to 13 cents alive,
18 to 20 dressed; live hens 20 cents
a pound; spring chickens 20 cents;
beef hides 25 cents a pound; horse
hides, $10.00 each.——-I-I. A.

SAGINAW (S. W.)-——The farmers
are sowing their wheat. It is getting
a little late but the soil is in fine
shape it is up an inch high in a week.
Commenced to thresh beans which
are of good quality and yielding from
10 to 20 bushels per acre. Some are
husking corn which is very good.
Not much goingto market at present
prices. The following prices were of-
fered at St. Charles: Wheat $2.05;
oats. 640; beans (0. H. P. Pea)
$6.25. Poultry, hens, 20c; butter,
60c; butterfat, 65c; eggs, 46.—G. L.

ARENAC (E)—Weather has been
very hot and dry and most impossi-
ble to plow for fall grains and the
consequence is that very little fall
grains are being sown here. Fall
grains are disappointing in being
threshed and that also has a tendency
to make it less. Prices on stock is
very low and mest of the stuff going
to market is rather thin. Auction
sales are not bringing very extra
prices. Good cows going as low as
$60 where last fall were sold as high
as $125. Sheep also show the de-
clines and hogs follow suit. Beans
are down fifty cents and-talk of still
lower prices. Many farms changing
hands, some moving to the city oth—
ers retiring—M. B. R.

JACKSON (E)—The following
prices were offered at Jackson:
Wheat, $2.10; oats, 800; rye.$1.25;
Hay. No. 1 timothy, $26; No. 1 light
mixed, $25; straw, $10; wheat-oat,
$10; potatoes, $2.50; onions, $2.25
hens, 28c; springers, 320; button—59c

butterfat, 600; eggs. 500-; sheep, 9c;:-_
beef steers.

lambs, 13c; hogs, 17c;
10 1-2c;. beef Cows, 7c; veal calves,
18c.———B. T.

OCEANA (S. E.)———The farmers
are still putting in grain. digging po-
tatoes,” husking corn. ‘ The weather
is'eloudy with some rain. Had ‘a

light frost recently. Soil is in good
condition for plowing. Farmers ”are:

selling rye and potatoes, onions. api-
pies, peaches- pears. 8.0111339 wheat
being sowed this fall.

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Molasses not only makes the,
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Progressive stOck men, have
found that molasses feeding puts
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One quart is considered equal
to three or four quarts of‘oatslt is
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?LAW 0N HYPNOTISM

Tell me ifa personhas a right by‘.

the laws of Michigan, to use his will,

mind and personal magnetism or so- 3 .
called by' some p'eeple' hypnotic .forCe, ;

on other people, with ~or without
them willing 'to be a mind wrestler?

—-A reader. Wébberville‘. , ' ' ' '

I am 'of the opinion’ that the laws
of Michigan will'permit' a person to
exercise his Or her “Will; mind and
personal magnetism” for the purpose
of securing a good husband or wife.
I would'also ‘b'e of’the opinion that
the “hypnotic forcef.’ wealdnotwork
on one'iwho was not willing. “Bark-
us must be willing l" ‘

Many strange cases in which hyp' {common to seed rye the second year

notism became inVOlved have been
the subject. of both legaland medi-
calinvestigation. The books refer
to the=case of Hayward, who was
‘hanged in St.‘Pau1. Minn., in 1895,
accused-'of having induced Blitz, by
hypnotic suggestion, to murder Miss
Ging. Blitz was sent to the peniten-
tiary for life The case of Czynski is
commented on also. Czynski was
tried in the higher courts of Munich,
Bavaria, on the charge of having had
recourse to hypnotic suggestion in
order to win the affections of a woman
of high social position and obtain
her consent to live with him in crim-
inal intimacy and subsequently to
marry him, after he had subjected
her to his will imposed upon her by
his power of hypnotism and was con—
victed upon the charge and sentenc-
ed to prison after a protracted trial.
These tWo cases have been many
times commented upon and in one
'editorial it was said that there are
few cases in which the hypnotized
subject will not refuse to do a wrong
act or to submit to a wrong no mat-
ter if it be suggested and that
scoundrelism cannot flourish on
hypnotism, and the case of the mur-
der of Miss Ging, and the confession
of Hayward and the statements of
Blitz that he was hypnotized by Hay-
ward to kill Miss Ging has been in-
vestigated? and found. to be mostly
false and while it is not safe to as—
sert that crime never was or can be
committed with the aid of hypnotism
experience has taught that such a
case is highly imggobable. Another
author says with“r’e"ference‘ to the
case of the murder of Miss Ging that
it would be quite outside-of any is-
gal experience to accept as entitled
to any credit the waking story of
murder committed by the accused

while‘under hypnotic influence. Such

statements should be entitled to ’no

credit and I know of no: authority.

which would justify the position that
the subject, on awakening from a
hypnotic trance, could remember all
or relate anything done while under
hypnotic influence and it would be
a very unsafe proposition of law in
regard to testimony to-place a wit-

ness ina hypnotic~trance and'vto...aC'.-,...

cept as truth the 'statement of events
that he in that state described as
having occurred at-“a previous time.
It is said that Hayward undoubtedly
possessed a strong influence over
Blitz but the latter never claimed it
hypnotic and th plea was never

made in (10196113er .Ihyward hired.

Blitz to do the deed for $2 500 and
when he found his gco‘urage failing
drugged him with whiskey in order
to nerve him up to doing the- deed“

A prominent author 'says:. “A
hypnotized person can not be made,
to do that which is against his char-
acter or ethics or anything that it

was impossible to make him. do. un-.

der general daily conditions, without
the aid. of suggestion or magnetism.

Because if that which he- is suggest--
ed' to do should be something that.

his whole nature and scul revolt
against the experiment .will fail and
' the influence of the experimenter
‘ will be at an end. A hypnotized will
obey When acts commanded do not
. antagonize the moral standard he has
set up fer himself; but criminal or
immoral suggestions meet the auto

  
   
  
  

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though? it is claimed to have been in-
“ fluenced by “hypnotic influence.”—

W. E. Brown, Legal Editor._

SEEDING RYE AFTER RYE

In reply to the inquiry of your
subscriber concerning planting rye.
which you recently forwarded, there

' is no special objection to seeding rye
Q after rye if the soil is in a good state
- of fertility.

However, it is generally
recognized that crops planted in re-

tation give better yields than when?”
This applies to

grown continuously.
rye as well as to other crops. When
a clover seeding fails it is not un-

in order to seed clover again.
The fact that rye gives .better

better yields on depleted soils than

the other cereals has'led to the'be-'
lief that 'it is. hard on the soil. The

crop is a hardy feeder and seems ables

to extract food frOm soils when
many other plants cannot, however.
I do not believe the idea? that it is
especially “hard on land" is 'war-
ranted. —C. E. Millar, Associate Pro-
fessor of Soils, M. A. C.

'I-IO“? TO CHECK MILKWEEDS

Concerning the letter regarding
milkweeds, which Mr. G. L. B., of
Michigan, wrote Michigan
Business Farming we have obtain-
ed the following data:

Repeated cutting of the milkweed
plants at the time they are in bios-
som and item when they spring up
afterthe cutting will ordinarily so
discourage the milkweed in pasture
lands that it will die out in a couple
of years or 'so. If the land is put
into cultivation and cultivated fre-
quently, using a sharp-edged sweep
cultivator so as to cut the stems off
below the surface of the ground, the
milkweed can sometimes be practical-
ly exterminated in one season, but
usually it is desirable to put the
land into another cultivated crop

next year unless it is planted in the
spring to some rank growing crop
that will smother out the milkweed.
——E. A. Bessey. Professor of Botany,
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T0 CONSERVE THE -
STATE GAME LAWS
(Continued. from page 4)
Perhaps the most important change
in game legislation is the measure

levying a license on all hunters who

travel the woods at all times. In the
past poachers have often declared,
when caught hunting without a li-
cense, that they were merely in pur—
suit of noxious birds or predatory
animals. But under the new law
this ingenious bit of evasion won’t
save them. Henceforth, if you wish
to hunt at all. you must buy a li—
cense and carry it with you. The
only exceptions made concern those
hunting on the lands domiciling them
likewise their minors.

Changes in the fishing laws affect
brook trout and open and small-
mouth black bass. The open season
has now been made uniform for the
state from May 1 to Sept. 1 for brook
trout, and June 16 to the last day of
February for the bass.

Such are the new game and fish
iaWs in eflect in Michigan. A strict
observance of these and the other
regulations will help to conserve the
game of Michigan and keep this state
in the front rank, so far as the in-
habitants of its lakes and rivers and
the wild life of its forests are con-
cened. When the effects of the new
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with prices :
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Horse or Cow hide. Calf or other skins
with hair or fur on. and make them
into coats(for men and women). robes.
rugs or gloves when so ordered. Your
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them and be worth more

Our illustrated cal-lo. gives I. lot of
information. It tells how to take 011'
and care for hides; how and when we .
pay the freight both ways; about our
sale dyeing process on cow and home ‘
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live stock 0310 in Michigan. It you
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Oct. 17, Hot-stems, Fajrvlew Farm
12mm Mich.

Oct. 23, Holsteins. Livingston
Do. Holstein Breeders’ Assn, How-

N07. 11. Poland. Chinas. Wm. J.
mzm Rapids, Mich.

Nov. 12, Poland Claus, Stony
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Choice Registered Stock

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well 10:13": with the calves from an
Jam or Sire, m Pontiac We
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11 heiters for sate; also bulls any age:
, either polled or horned. Earl C. McCarty,
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‘12» mmnn s'rnnns. ALso
know at 10 or 15 1 quality

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Shorthom and Angus steers‘E to 1000 lbs.
Owners unions to sell. wm- , We
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seer sweet ... "Stu“ is"
W - v ope , young s
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en in September is sold. I now have the
heifer to freshen in January And the 4 me.
old bull. Also 3 heifer calves. Herd un—
der State and Federal inspection Pedi-
grees on request. Vernon Clongh. Par-
ma. Mich. ‘

== HOLSTEINS ~=
OF QUALITY  

‘12LARGEoouv‘semns
Due to W m m

Strongly bred in Pontiac and Co-
mum 4th Johanna families. Also
four 1 year old heifers and 'a 3 year
oldhendsimfromnzti lb.3year
old dam.

ILA. HARDY

Rochester, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

sired by a son of
Bull Calvesm‘nd Heater-van
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Butter
Boy and by a son of King Segis De K0!
Komdyke, from A. B. L). dams with rec-
ords of 181-5 as Jr. two year old to 28.25
at full age. Prices reasonable breeding
considered.
WALNUT GROVE STOCK FARM
W. W. WM, Napoleon Ends.

 

 

 

Bull Last Advertised rs Sold
now otter a yearling bull, sired by YP— »
SILAND KING KORNDYKE CAN—
ARY. a 28.213 lb. mmadson of KING
OF THE PONW‘IACS‘. and from
RHODA CLTFDEN’S CROWNIN’G 4
SHIELD 38D. :1 24.97 lb. daughter of
BUTTER BOY 'J‘RYNTJE DE ROI...
and one of the most beautiful cows
you ever saw.
Price $20.
80‘! F. FICKIES, Clmsuning, Mich.

 

 

 

TM’LN BULL CALVES
Born October 29.1918; sired oy Sir
Calamtha Segis Komdyke 104008 dam’s
record. 24.35 lbs. butter and 621 lbs of
milk 'in 7 days; time stra' ht calves. Sound
for particulars—P. & A. uttman. Fowl-
r-rr'viile. Michigan.

$150 BULL CALF

Born June 3 Well marked, very ram
and first class individual. Sire, Flint
Hengervelld Lad. Whose t .
have records that average 82.65 lbs. m-
but and "135.15 lbs. nfilk In 7 days: Dam
of cult is I mflanghter of King se-
gie and 1 individual with '3 rec- "
0rd of 20.66 lbs. butter in 7 days. For
description write to

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Also .2 heifers. Herbert Shun - 3,
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' to $259.00. Wm» 1. Bell. Rose (fifty, Mich.

We are now booking 0‘ for '
{mag bulls hon: King Pieter Sam's
., IYBSDS. All from A. R. O. lune
with credible records We test amu-
ally for tuberculosis. Write for prie-
es and further infomnaflnn.
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BULL CALF5,‘ M‘gévrns OLD. AND

' . AUTY. 85 per
. cent white, straight as a line. Sired by
31-].b. bull am his dam is just one of. the
- best cows I ever milked, a granddaughter
gonna: thanm Lad. Prim $150.00
» name 'a - sale. Hnr T Tabb,
Elwell. Michigan. rzv ’ S

 

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Bull last advertised is told. Thi-
one born June 7,, 1918. Siren! by m
51:31 01151311201182) fianfizgjblfli
A en rms er _ ' Ram
Pontiac Lass. Two nearlgu dam: m
m of this calf average 37.76 lbs but.
ter 7 days and over 14.5 lbs. in
days Dam, ~a granddaughter of
of the Pontiac-s. Sir Gelsche w
Segis and DeKol Burke, A “main
Herd tuberculin tested annuanx ’

BOARDMAN FARMS, Jackson, Itch.

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{craniachoioeof‘lfi hendnagistaeredi
stein cattle. .Am ovemtockei ' -
Pieter Segis Lyons No. 170596 Herd Sim.
H. A. Smith. Wixom. Mich.

. THE DAM OF OUR SIRE WAS
Grand Champion at the Grand Rapids
fair this your. Bull calves for mine at
reasonable prices. C. L. Elliott & Sm.
Okemos. Mich.

 

 

MORTIOIN
new no you naN'rr 1 rm ll
HHORTHOBN hrer ClL‘T‘F Can put you an
much with best milk or beef strains. Bulls
all ages. Some females (1‘ (Emma.
President Central .Mjchlgan Shorthom
Assrrri'afion. McRr‘ides. Micki: 1.

SHORTHORN THREE M: e.

snot 'r a o it N
3 polls. 5. 8 and 18 .mo."s old for sale, red
and red and White. Bates breeding. will
. Satisfaction guaranteed
or money refunded. Write or come and
see, Wm. D. McMuI‘llen, Adrian. Mich.

SPECIAL OFFER 'SHOBTKOB‘NS—
COWS. $250.00 lib 3309.990. Bulls. $399.90

 

 

 

 

‘No 90K FOR SALE AT meNT.
_ - Breeder. W S. Huber. Glad-

win, .m.
In 1“. VAN RUBEN CO Shonhorn

Breeders" Association have young stack
for sale. mostly Clay bneeding Write
your wants to the secretary, hank Bai—
jJay, :Eartfnrd. Mich

THE BARRY COUNTY SEGRTHOBN
Breeders Association announce their fall
catalog ready for distribution. Soc-tan,
Scotch Top and Milking Moms list-
ed. Address, W. L Mpe Sec, Milo,

 

at the w" in. ; daughter of Pm- breed. :1 we nor—E. 1. IA!-
the -m De Kali 2nd. A few M11 LOB, Fremont. an.
calves for ale '1‘. W. Spmgue, R .2, Bat-
-fle Greek, um. i ANGUS
. RAISE A $1“! BABY BEEF
M0501” HOS! HOISTEIM mm your gnae dairy cow by me of n

' h‘O‘rns, like sire.

to 10 months. Bred heifers. Well bred.
.and good individuals.
'J.A.mfiell&5a Ramona.

Thousand Dollar Angus bull. Less than
32.00 service fee. Write for our co-op—
' erative community plan; also our method
. of marketing beef and milk, by use or a
cheap bane made calf mead. There is
money in it for the owners of grade cows
everywhere. Cows of Angus blood not
' necessary. If of mixed blood. calves will
come black, thick meated and wathout
Geo. B. Smith, Addison,
Mich.

 

BED POLLED ,
‘_-—___
RED PGLLED CATTLE. 0111331)
and Tunis sheep and large Yorkshire
; s-wme. E. S. Carr, Homer, Mmh.

: WE OFFER PURE 811MB. RE!) POLL—
We at reasonabte pficas. Bulls 7

 

 

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The dewood Jersey Farm
Breed s or Majesty strain .Jeme Ca:-
tie. Beg Bulls, Majesty‘s ()3th Fox
1343!!“ W \Lady
Herd tuberculin-tested. Bull
sale out or R. of M. Majesty dams.
Alvin Balden, Capae. Michigan.

% SWINE

POLAND CHINA

WONDERLAND “BIL-LARGE TYPE
Poland Chinas Some creating good
spring boa.s and a few Ju-n-e sow pigs at
private treaty. Holding a few boars and
all my early sows for my sale Nov. 11th
and Col. Ed. Bowers. South Whitley, Ind,
and at Cal. Putter Calm m
Cmmdseethemmhmliv.
,ing. nae liver-5' any time.

Was. a. CLAIRE
R No. 1 Eaton Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

China boat. 18 mo. old. Won every.
thing in his..class at the Ohio State Fair
in 1918. Liberty bonds or cash. Lone
Cedar Farm, Pontiac, Mich,

. ARGE TYPE Poland Chimes, .

 

 

’ WARE AND GETS OF APRIL
far-row, out of sows weighing 580
lbs. at 17 mo. cad and from a sire of size
and quality. Come and see them. G. H.
Carman. It 3, Grand ‘Blanc, Mich
POLAND CHINAS

5.316 TYPE warn QUALITY

Pigs, a'om L's Big Orange 291317. both
sex, for sale. Prospective buyers met at
Sr Johns. J. E. Mygrants. St. Johns, Mic‘h,

' . (1. SP8 no
BIG m P EITHEIR Slug-[GS-
;.A.. A. W001) a SON, Saline, Michigan
Warner ALLEY 3:“ 53,5“- 32:;
watch of 1919 crop sired by Arts Sena-

tor and Orange Price. I thank my cue- ,
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HEREFORD BULL CHEAP
Being obliged to change herd bulls, we
offer our three year old Double Standard
Hereford hull cheap it taken at once. Is

‘pertec’t’ly 231e,.
013m 4% 'G nun, Hudson, Mie‘h.

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men. A D. GREGORY. - lama. Mich.‘
ARGE TYPE mus!) in a [N n .

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prize-winning boars. Price reasonable.
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tern of Disher’s Giant None better in
m Gm: will In. lat. Bred
to . a Bob by Him a Big
Bob on out of Lady by Sampson
by, Long King. - reasonable.

ED. WILEY. 8 ' Mich.
_ L. 'T. .P. O. BOW AND .7 ”FIGS B!
side. Price $109.00. Spring bear ready
utter Nov. ht. Belt-or

am Mr sis
selected now. he longest and toilet lat
ever on the term. 11. 0. Swarm, School-
craft Mich

m 8
China boars. A and I]; m. The
farmer’s kind mere prices. F. M.

P1889“ & Son, Fowler, men.

 

Me, "I! m.
kind thatmnkes good. Call or write. ‘3.
R. Leonard, St. Louis. Mich.

 

‘ BIG TYPE POLAND CHINA PIGS.
sand by Bebe-Link, by the 2nd Big Bob
Michiglm Buster by Giant Buster, an
Bag Dee Homes 5th, by Big Des .floines.
Also sows bred to these boar. G. L.
Wright, Jonesvi'll'e, Mich Jonesville is lo.
cated 15 miles north of the Ohio and In-
diana line. '

A New Herd Boar

(his name 3ig 80b Mastodqn

sired by Caldweli Big Bob, champion of
the would in 1917.. His dam is Mastodon
Josie; we is a daughter of A’S Mastodon
the Grand Champion at Iowa State Fair
in 1917. Ready to ship boars.

(Come and see him)

C. E. GdBNANT, Endp- m, Mich.

L ,

mkst-EARSTJ have been breeding
' ' ' Big Type Poland China
lags of the most approved blood lines.
Om- new herd boar “Michigan Buster” is
a mighty good son of the great “Giant
Buster" dam "Mouw's Miss: Queen 2;"
Same breeding! Litter of 14. We are of-
fering some sows bred for fall farmw. J.
C. Butler, Portland,’ Mich“

 

 

 

 

 

130300
DUROC JERSEYS “W" "‘3'
. ~ "' EITHER SEX.
ready to ship Oct. 15 from large litters
and best breeding. cratcd f. o. b. Bank-
ers 15 to 18 dollars. Two ads last spring
brought orders fior over 100 more than I
had. Boys and Girls Clubs Ann Arbor

 

FOR sen: _ 3mm Poland‘

1 .
' BREEDERS Amnom , ,

' If you two flan“ .- I. ale this fall, write us .now and

l m we new!

Stumble/freedom Mommas-m
h Infill Meant male late.

..

have 25. one boy refused 6‘5 dolars for
pig. Satisfaction or money back Pedi—
grees furnished-
B. E. KIES,

. A . .
uroc Opportunity

We are now booking orders for July

and, Sept. pigs cheap, .Also March and

April pigs of either sex. Shipped C. 0. i9,
EASIER, isms... B. l Howell, me.

P. 0.. Hilhdnlc, m

 

 

S “7'! NE. 13830

D’UROC JERSEY
Nice bunch of

Saws and GU18 all sold.
fall pigs, both sex, sired by Brookwater
Tippy Orion No. 55421, by Tipm’ Cut, out
of dam by the Eruac' ipal 4th and Brook-
mter Cherry King. Aiso herd boar 3 y-r.
old Write for pedigree and DriL't-s Sat—
isfaction guaranteed. 'fins. “Mei-hill &
Son, Salem, nil-ch.

Peach Hill Farm

Monet us It the Fun
Bred Gilts n1] SOLD.
IN W001) BROS. - - Romeo, .Mich.

 

MEAnowvmw Edit REGISTERED
Duroc Jersey Hogs and Jersey Buns. J.

' E. lion-is. Farmington, Michigan.

nonoc Bonus .3an ran an.
vice. also high class sows bred for sm-

mer 9a . to Odors Ea . a. '
biggest pic at his an over a duration-
al Fart Stock Show. Newton 88311111341,

St JohnS. Moi.

5 moo com nNn e sows
P33 foam Austin‘s Wonder No. 13591: .
for delivery November 1. Write for ped-
igree and prices. sidearm. guaranteed.
C. my a; ‘80-. PIN Paw, Mich '

2‘0 IA. BER.“ .JIB— .
any Beam Pale. 37.5.

We have some other hours for $80 '
C. 3. Davis & Son. 3. '1. my. Mich. .

 

pom om“ non: \‘ nos.
Gram at ' r Ginny King or
830 at 8 melon. - -

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istu-ed. E. .E‘ Cam Ann Arbor, mob.

 

 

 

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DHROC BOAR-9 me am
ready to: men. 6“. RM“- p

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LEONARD’S Big Type Poland (mgr:

  

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BredGilts w ewe.

89113: Pigs. Everything shipped 6.0.0
and registered hymn name. If
you want the best,

J. CARL JEWETT, Mason, Mich.

 

 

 

 

HAMPS HIRES

 

8734 HAMPSHIRES RECORDED [H
the association from Jan, 1 to Apr. 1_ ’19.
Did you get one? Boar pigs only for sale
xfiOWN 12hr: W. Snyder, St. Johns. Mich"

. a-

. in. SHROPSBIRB BREEDER.

'enid blooded am: here.

Dortmund-net Ila-1.1m,
1

Type quality, calm-81nd fleece
Cooper and Better Breeding. No
First ten $100.06
to 84.0.00. ‘Baluuee of the rams includ-
ing some cranking Hampshires $50-00 one

No fairs this your but believe me we have -

mom mmmleedtothe
fume.

Kori-10K PM; Converter. m

Hampshire Rams

Registered yearling rams weighing
up to 200 lbs. for sale. Also ram lambs.
A well built :10th lot. Satisfaction
guaranteed.

 

 
  

C. U. HAIRE.

West Branch. - - Michim

 

 

LAWNDALE FARM HAMPSHIRES
Spring pigs for sale, male and female.
W. A. Eastwood, R. z. Cheenning, Mich.

 

HAMPSHIRE BOARS
The kind that please, of superior breed—
ing and good quality. Six-ed by Moss's boy
and Col. White. The letter has never
been donated in the show ring. For
price and dew-inflows address, Gus Tho-m-
as, New Lothrop, Mich.

 

 

BREED.“

 

GREGORY FARM BMKSHIBES F03
profit- Choice stock for sale. Write your
wants. W. 8. Com, White Hall. Ill.

FOB SALE—REGISTERED BERK-
shire gilts and boars. Mach and April
(arrow. Also Aberdeen—Angus bull calves.
Russell Bree. R 3, Merrill,‘Mich.

 

 

 

CHESTER WEITE‘S

FARMERS INCREASE YOUR PROF-
its by raising pure bred Chester Whites.
Send. orders now for fall pigs. Ralph Co-
sene, Levering, Mich“

 

 

CHESTER WEI‘I‘ES—A FEW
boa-rs, fall pigs in pairs or trio:
most prominent bloodlines at reasonable
prices. Registered free. F. W. Alexand-
er, Vassarjfich.

 

10:13:11,253

Registered . Yorkshires

fro- Wed strains
HATCH nu). Ypsilanti, Michigan

- FOB

 

SALE BERKSHIRE BOARS ' .

ready for service. I an: booking orders
for mm? tall litters. fitted by Symboleer’e
Onward 3rd, write we your wants. A. A.
Pattnll‘o, Deckervllle. Mich.

SHEEP
REGISTERED HAMPSHIRE SHEEP

Choice Stock flow Sale
Ewes and Rams, $25 to $56 Each

J. M. Williams No. Adams. Mich.

BLACK. TOP DELAIF]: SHEEP. 50
pure bred rams for sale. Newton &.
Blank. Hill Crest Farms. Perrington,
Mich. Farm 4 miles straight month of
Middleton. ‘

SHROPSHIRES
For sale. a. good bunch of ram lambs
rfiolwh ready- Dan Booher, R 4, Evan.
c .

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

OXFORD DOWN
Rm AND RAM LAMBS
Best breeding. Arkell No. 3334 sire of
lambs. 0-. M. York, Ellington. Mich.

 

LEICESTER SHEEP; mm. min.— ’

 

ing rams and ram lambs sired b import-
ed ram. Also Berkshire Hogs. gl‘mhurst

#0 LARGE, HEALTHY, REGISTERED j ‘

Shropshire ewes. mostly 2 year olds. Also
large. vigorous ram lambs. ready for ser-
vice. Flock established 1890. C. Lemon,
Dexter. Mich. i “

MAPLE LAWN FARM SHBOPSHIBES
Rams and ram lambs. High bred. well
wooled and registered. A. E. Bacon &.

Son, R 5, Sheridan, Mich .

FOR 30 Registered Shropshire Rams.
40 Registered Shropshire Ewes.

SALE Harry Potter & Son, Dtvieon, Mich

Five Registered Ramboniziiot Rams.
Robert J. Noon, R 9. Jackson, Mich.

SHROPSHIRE YEAKLINGS AND RAM
lambs of the best wool mutton type.
Also 0. l. C. hogs of all ages. Write. and

get my prices.
G P. ANDREWS. Dansville, Mich.

F01! SALE: Improved Black Top Be-
laine Merino Rams. Frank Mrabseher,
Laingfiburg. Mich.

Registered Merino Yearling Rams:

Three at $25.00 each. Good fleeces,
reasonable size and conéition. Certificate
of registry furnished if required. ’13. N.
Ball. Hamburg. Mich. ~

PE '1' STOCK

RABBITS

RUFUS BED BELGIAN KAIES. P1111.
igreed and registered stock. Prices right
and satisfaction guaranteed or money re-
funded upon mum 0! stock. Write the
Vernon Hill Rubbitry. Lock Box 6“.
Clare.

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

Yearling Pallets and Cockenis
We “if“ 3. C. White Leghorn Yett-

ii

8. C. and B. C. Whit
horns; Ancom.
Rabbit; four breeds.
price list.
STATE Fens ASSOCIATION
Bloomingdale, Mich.

Geese, Turkeys.
Please semi for

 

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8. G. “1111‘! WHORE COOKER-
eis. English strain. Sired by Ouch 386
egg record. Mrs. A. J. Gordon, R 3. Dorr,
Mich

“ODE ISLAN D RED S

MARCH HATCH!!!) R. 1. RED COCK-
erele. Both Combs. Write for prices and

 

 

 

order early. interlekes Farm. Box 4.
Lawrence Hitting; n.

WYASDm
”suing, comm: AND wni’fi
Wyandottes; eggs from especial mat-

i-ng $3 per 15: $5 per 30: $8 per 50; by
parcel post prepaid. Clarence Browning.
Portland. Mich. R 3

“on "In GEESE w

WHITE Pm- ' .txs AND WHITE

CHINESE GlESE—MRS. CLAUDIA
mun, EELSMLE. Mien.

 

 

MS. Almont, Mich.
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AUCTION SALE .

d. i > .. ....72 Head... .
Medium Type Poland China” Hogs
(52 sows and 20 boars)

* ‘ NOVEMBER 12, 1919

STONY CREEK STOCK FARM;
~ ‘ Write for Catalog.

PEWAMO, MICH.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

REGISTERED
_ » HOLSTEINS

 

 

 

‘4

BULLS,
COW {5ND
HEIFERS

: Rob’t. R. Pointer & Son
Dearborn, Mich.

 

 

 

 

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This dandy outfit is
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I Aluminum Collapsi-
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All we ask you. to do in to call on two of your friends and get
them to subscribe to Michigan Business Farming for one year at
$1.00 each. Have. them sign their names and address on the blank
below, mail it to us and the OUTFIT will be yours.

Get your Father, Mother, Big Brother or Sister to help you.

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“ Thank You ”!

Hersey. Mich" Sept. 24. .1919.
Michigan Bueine- Farming.
Dear Sir:
“Itseenuiongtlnomelmmio-em
farm in your paper but I sold out In August from the ad-
vertisement and want to say thank you." '
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