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mental changes in the exisung systems of cost-finding on;

' '~ food as it is to the interests of the producer of food for

same business principles that make for. success in other
lines of industry. It is fully as much to the interests of
the consuming public by insuring an ample supply of

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3m FARMS of Aesop we find
,. . in story: "The lion and
gyms hosting; together: m

oat-the added of “18.1ch _

film to the ass, _proposing

advance between their two famlh.

2 Mass came to the place of
m overjoyed at the prospect of
w alliance. But when he came
”the lion simply pounced; on the
In; and said to that- fow, “Here is

Million: for today; watch you. here -

”I. an and home a nap; Woe. he-
“firm if you teach M Mg” m:
mm away and the fa: waited.
WNW that his master did not
9% ventured to mice- out. the
smut. the ass and ate them up.
. museum came back he seen no-
t“ the absence 0} the brains. and
a“ the for in a ten-idle voice,
W Moe you dime with the
W “Brains; your majesty." re-
mm for, “it had none, or it never
WA have fallen into your trap.”

\

. BnUT A year ago, Gov. Lynn
Frazier of North Dakota was
invited to a conference in Chi-

emilby John Fitzpatrick, president
ofiitke' Chicago Federation of Labor.
Alt-that conference Fitzpatrick pro..-
poued-ran alliance between organized
lame and the Non-Partisan League.
Glue Frazier, overjOyed at the pros-
_ pmtof fartifying the League-by join.-
mg; hands with a powerful labor' or.
genization. readily agreed that such.
an: alliance would be a fine thing.-
Ancordingly pledges were made and.
the‘pubiic has been waiting. not with-
out a certain amount of trembling
and anxiety for this farmer-labor
coalition to~ show its strength. But
it the. Non-Partisan League and the
Chicago Federation of Labor have yet
discovered that there is anything in
common between them, there is no
outward evidence of the fact.

Last week officials of the American
Federation of Labor, who are largely
responsible for the steel strike and
other industrial disturbances, but
who are now cowering the least bit
before the storm of the public’s- dis-
amnaval sought to. lend a specious
respectability to their Prussian: metha-
min" by' extending an open invita-
tion to farmers. to embrace! their

"cause” and help enforce their" unz— ..

inlmdemands.

Mom Canada comes: the boastful
announcement. of organized labor“
that“. is firmly entrenched in. the or;
mined" ranks of the Ontario tam
call that it is entitled to some or! the‘
out“. for the election of the W
on.» farmers to the legislature: Nb:
urination of this statement, how
”or. has yet been made by the farm-
mawho actually did the job.

My Organized Labor Needs the»
Farmer

, is doing its utmost to insinuate

ltsblf into the good graces of or-
Labor finds that
112.19 not powerful enough alone to

I? IS CLEAR that organized labor

canned farmers.

dictate to the employers and the
government. Labor has been tact-
lem enough to disregard public sen-
timent. Its attitude has been of a.
nmariously public-be-dammed char-
sober. But labor now knows that
public opinion is the greatest power
3 on: earth and that no cause can long
Yum that does not meet with the
We approval. Labor realizes too
“to that it has been indifferent to
film public welfare and has thought-
MW antagonized a great body at
We who. if properly appealed to
Wtheirlnterest properly respected.
now present an irresistible
theedozback labor “pain itsereasona-
”moienonts to. secure better- working;
‘ The industrial. conflict.
3' was formerly a conflict. bee
m1 car i'al and labor with the
WI! sent: went divided: or: it: saw
.Wa wanieacfing; in the» (lemma at»
i ' ga-lras resolvedltseltiinto'a.con-
l't between labor and’ the public
m employing capital steadilflaon
Wines. It mattmnot wheel:
.gfitu is forced to temporarily

. now enjoys.
hour day and the 15- cent hour?

'- fie can bear.

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. Today labor 1s being fairly if not gemnslyt‘rewedt There it
ino longer' such an individual as the.‘
éwages-being paid today are: excessiveThsy are more than; the-trafié
But the. rank and file. of: laboring'men are resenting
, just a fair and “reasonable compensation for the work they do. They
' should be contented. They mid balcontentediweretit not for- their
troublesome leaders who keep them in a turmoil of unrest.
things that these leaders are demanding~ from. society are unreason-
able. Because of their permstency and the political power they hold
these radical labor. leaders: are a menace to. our liberties,,,and all time.
' Americans should resist: their pernicious. efforts to control industry. ht
. Were these leaders attempting to establish justice,.eqnality and. the.
square: deal theyawonld: have the united; support of the. farmers. Blot? _-T
g the. class privileges. they? are demnding: today and are Mug their ':
organized shangtlt to: secure»- make as, mockery“ o£ jmtice;
still believe in: the square deal for all and special privileges to none
‘ they well scorn the false smiles of. the: radical labor leaders and firm
.ibly reject any suggestion that their interests are “identical ” .
if m the course of events it should- become necessary for farmers- tpu ‘
unite with labor against a common fee; the farmers should? take the
lead and protect their united forces against the destroying hand of

‘ .OST of the successful 'farmemof today haveearned their suc-

cess by hard Work and sacrifice. No needto' Wonder then why

their sympatli’mminsthxetimly gocouirte thmemhremfir want, or are

working against bitter odds to earn a decent living.
very well; that. labor hem’t had manque-Mina}? as them and fly

‘harc messed of the mmmmmm Wm ‘

5dittons and higher wages. It' ll fmnaie and aHpgethen gratifying .;

gthat labor has had the power: to secure fen itself the. arbnteges: it" "

Who IS there who would have labor go back to the 12-

Mers knew '

‘pooc laboring: man.’ Some

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favorable-w. position before the great
arbiter of public opinon as formerly.
Labor recognizes this fact. Hence,
its great eagerness to line up the
farmers and farm. leaders. There is
something about the dignified, con.-
servatism and the comparative pros-
perity” 0f the farmers which appeals
to organized labor and which labor
believes might so elevate their cause
in: the. eyes or the public an. to remove»
much: of. the. curse that has» hereto.—
fOre attacherh itself to. some of their
knocks'em’dom—and-dmg- - 'emavont

groan]: them in: mirage;

fhr that: W! m
Magnum wiser leaders: mm revell-w
and; a. little? later om attest: tlm tame.»
are: have; helped them; to get what.
they are utter; will turn. their at"-
tention. to; the famm‘ problem. Bint
this is doubtful. If" the labor leaders
haven't anything to offer to the
farmers now- when they» need their
assistance so badly, does it stand to
reason they will haveanythingtn of.-
fer‘ when they no lbnger' need the
farmer?

Closed Shop Would Thu-0W Inca-w

, RE NOT many of the demands
of organized labor at the pres~
ent time diametrically opposed

to the interests of the farmers? Let
us see what organized elabor wants,
or rather. what organized: labor thinks
it'weants. For one thing, it wants the:
country to recognize the principle 0!
the» closed shop; What is the closed.
she The closed shop is the farm
or factory which employs no labor
except what union officials say it may
employ. Is it: ”strongest that!" In
effect. yes. .The closed shop is ab-
solutely and aim: atlth'e money at
the. lsbomrorganlaotlonlto which: the
employees belong. If a. workman. is.
inemclentr amdii is discharged" against
the-"mshlseothlle unions. theaunionr it:
lmk&.l mutton tor shut dm' the facts
any; It: a. workman who is not a
mom-bet of?- the union wants a job in
twm thenemployer M not’
meanness ’Mimn mum-pm
ot the union. The. closed shop prin-
clple, if recognized and ap lied to.

ganized labor to force upon the. coun-
try such a principle as that?

Labor wants collective bargaining.
That's all right; so do the farmers.
Give it to them, we say. with restric-
tions, but. the kind of collective bar-
gaining that labor wants is not the
kind that it is safe to let them have.
Labor not only wants to. bargain col-
lectively in groups, but it wants to
film its bargain. down: the throat. of‘
every workman in the country; It
wants to. force.- everybody- to. how to
its: wishes and. authority; In fewer
weeds, it wants: to. wreak. industrial
democracy and; erect in its stand; a
labor dictatorship.

GK. 1W mam. Jr...
prelim at the:
Wm; his 1nd;
issued the milowdngmt which
in an illuminating: When; at? some.
at labnr’s most immanent: amends:

marized as follows:

wage. earners to bargain collectively,
through unions remanded by agents
of their mm choosing! It is a one-
sided proposition. It' speaks: of the
‘right’ of wage earners to bargain
in a certain my bat assumes that

there. shall. be no right to bargain in '

any other way. What the unions de-
sire is not the right, but the power,
to has-pin collectively, and, under
the» (am at. bargaining collectively,
tomatoes unions to employers. Their
own-mt hrgaining but dictation.

”Rm onl’y'truly American policy.—
tlio only" truly democratic policy—is-
for. wage earners to bargain collect»
ively or individually as they may pre-

{erudantheymhoable to bar-

gain with employers. Whenever an

mimic complied summers

in collective ins m his
will, his ’riaht’ has been taken from
Mmmdheisno longerarfree man:

’3: We: a absent-0t the. union-

autism no longer free to take.
employment when he so desires:
m an emu-yer is denied: no
right!“ bargain Mint in
who ‘rlfit’ but been m
from1 mm. also, and he became: a
subject ofth‘e union and (to agents.

mucmwwmmmm

tour Mrs. foughhthe
‘ revolutions—the right to: lift; m

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ml! Wmult of hepflnem m.
“inseam
ed the word ‘llberty' woulcfim
have a place in our vocabulary: m-
ulsr government would be '
1y set aside and in its place would. be:
set up a government of, for out UP
the labor Mom outcome w».
emcee: mating; tc'Lthc racket.“ the: '
meals. only ammonia m9. nuns: and}:

.mehnnemm to».

Wmolt. “1:119de

ftbmmmin combo] orthon-
;~m. beam-adv! small)!!!»
é Ghetion, in superfluous of coal pun-
.. diction an} “abut dentin-t “1'

the: poles m 0% cities. tho;
mid be m MM 1’” d!
farmers, We? grow-8. 5m

1‘ hortdculhmifls, m, gm:

mmerchants manufacturers. mim" oun-

.\ am, oh. The proposal is this setting

up of a government by class with. do!
fiance of the rights of all not men-L
bers of that class.

“Wage earners have the right til--
day to bargain collectively if‘ titer
wish. lThey also have the right to:-
bargain individually. They are in
the full enjoyment of unimpaired Ilb-r'
enter of action. Forced bargaining.
through a labor union is not main“
tenuous of liberty—it is their destruc»
tinned liberty. Forced subjection
to. the: mandates of a walking den»
gate is. not liberty—it is seq-£11m
Forcedi membership in a union- as a.
preceqnisite to employment is not
liberty—Aria the very reverse.

“It is. the: plan and practice of lay,

I but unions to limit production and

to establish a standard of speed with
consideration for the least eflflcient
rather than the most efficient. That
policy and practice has resulted in
under-production and has aided may
ter-ially in bringing about the prefif
ent excessive cost of living. That.
practice contravenes sound publloe
policy and is unjust to the great mm-
jority of people who, depend for sue;-
cess upon their own individual indus-
try. enterprise and thrift. Forced
collective bargaining, would be a
wreak—net a right. To speak of it;
as: wright is. a perversion of language.
Freedom to harms!!! either individual.
I}? on new is the only truly
American policy; conductive: to pm
sees and We of the we:
mum"
How the. sm- Affects the Ram“
--T.‘ 13: NET-the; purpose of: this: am-
; isle: tor (harms the morality of
‘ metals; Used with suffix-«com»
Mm at: the rights of others it:
”Mammal if not upheld. Abne-
ed’,, it: is; a. most pernicious weapon.
ms mattsrby whom employed. The.
point we would here nuke is that it:
is mild; to the progress of Amen-
i'oan industry and to the welfare- of?

" 4311613801113: in general that the causes

which may justify the strike be very

clearly defined and adhered to.

The steel strike which was called for

a. no more justifiable purpose than

to tone the steel heads to “recog—

nize the union” is a good example
of the abuse of power at the hands
of a few misguided men. If the
union officials can hold up the steel
plants upon such flimsy grounds,
they can hold up the transportation
lines, control the coal mines. and

'who knows but eventually the very

farms upon which food is produced.

Do the farmers of‘Michigan orVAun-l

mica wish to become a party tux-such

a hold-up game as that?

What Milo Campbell Says Am It.
HERE ARE NOT manyfm'mm.
in» Michigan who. would: ques-
tion: , the. loyalty of Milo. B.

when to the farmers. Hex voice

is raised" in stronger» or more; effective
defense of. the tensors than Mr.
’3. A student. a. thinkol'u'jt
déer, he typifies the" kind of leader
that farmersmprood to follow. lie. '

W has! med elbows more

fish MWMMpI-esenwtiv of

organized labor. He has had e :7

opportunity in the world to. become

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Dom. In an address before
mammal nobleman at he
Wm _ .mnmmm- Mr.
momma-am: . ,

'4'f'rnres‘e striking workmen at
“the stealiflsntshave lett their
jobs- and m‘ guarding thaws '
or the plants with a large. army
.ni: pickets, mobbing landmin-
‘ing those who take their places
"in the shops they have left.
-'?I'hey intimidate tree laborers,
:tbey'commit open Violence to
property. they threaten ides-
truction if the shops open. again -
before their demands are com-
plied With, they ignore .law and
order, they assault and defy
the police and oflicers of the
law. This is'notan exception.
It is but 'the flastmf the hund-
"reds of "likewoccnrrencos Which
drave blackened our recent ‘his—
awry as a 7n ation.

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“.The question or hours. is, no "
longer discussed on its ;
it has‘become simply a gangsta:
grab—of how much Labor'shagllg
demand and how far it can: our—
ry coercion and intimidation.
'Itis this tendency thataiarms
all wise heads, and it was
against this tendency that the
farmers at Indianapolis pro—
tested. . '

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"In recent years there: has
been a shrewd and determined
effort by radical leaders to 'fiwm
a working political alliance
with the farmers. The Micah ‘
realized that they could not
win alone, but if they could in-
v‘eigle the farmers into such-a
combination, it‘would be artery
powerful one.

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bor deny that they counten-
lance riotland bloodshed. and
yet they do countenance the
wicket in every strike, and in
rovery "strike there is underneath
the unwritten purpose. to make "it
effective by preventing :the employer
from supplying their places with free
labor. ‘ "

”It is encouraging, however,
"know that but a minority of the is-
'boring. ‘men are in sympathy with
63:: sort of treason, .‘for it.is nothing
“Federated labor-"has declared war
upon ”the Tanners-0‘! “the "country and
upon *theirdmsiness. They‘hme met
both in National and state conven-
ifloisflorfsuih declarations. fl few
clays ago, do «nausea! I“icing-an.
filmymnufl .an «he
Governor of the State mc‘m- calla
special room ant 11116 Ilegfll‘tune for
“stimuli-alums amsion
the max stiletto“! all! Wow
«it landslndm memes. ‘fl-‘Mt
sounded fine, bnt~ elm dilemm-
_,gram ldid yit filmve lthe warmer “who
maths 106d? »

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“A few days ago, hatter months of
strike, the carpenters won out and
are now 'being paid in “the city at
<Chicago $1 per hour tor eight‘hours,
work, $1.50 per hour “for overtime
and $2 per *hour for “Sundays and
holidays.

“The farmer is the greater expert

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of the two. It requires long years to
learn his trade, while the carpenter
can secure the above wages after two
years’ work and at thewsame-time ob-
tain good wages as an apprentice.
This wage if allowed to the expert
farmer (and every farmer has to be
an expert) Would give him "for his
twelve hours’ ”work per day and for
Yhisfiunday chores, a monthly wage
not $388. That :is {more than four
times the. amount received-by the av-
erage farmer of the country as his
entire compensation "from crops and
:other farm productions for his labor.
Ilt * 4*

“When labor proclaims that its
4th lamest the shortened, -its wages
reminsunhnpairedpr increased, the
«shop sbecome- «unioniaed, .and the cost
mt inning including vised must .be tro-
‘dumd, also dormer begins um see xthe
mamlmwrgmmthe mall ~ of . his date.”

Farmer-W Alliance dis-s Failed
, ‘NE :MORE mutation and I am
‘= 'done. It is from the Adrian
"‘c‘nsram. the editor of which
its "Stuart ‘Perry, one of ‘Michigan's
lbest and most capable citizens. This
newspaper says:
The Farmer’s Position

“When the council of farm bu—

reau’s at Indianapolis this week de-

Even if youflobocomoaqu-ty to his crime, can you trusthim to divide the spoils?

manded a ten—hour day in all pro-
ductive industries, they showed a
true insight into the situation of. the
nation and the world today. Noth—
ing more clear-sighted and sane-
haeaded has proceeded from any body
of men in this whole period of tur-
moil. These men soothe light. They
know that the world’s ~work cannot
bedone on half-time, and that there
will be no prosperity if everybody's
.aim isslmply to grab all he canand
to see how little work he can do.

“The resolutions at Indianapolis
reflect.a”full;appreciation of two very
important ‘truths: first that short
hours tend to raise all,prosperity and
to raise th'elcost of 'lix‘tng to every-
‘body; second, that the present atti-
tude‘ot radical labor is hostile to the
interests of the farmers as a class,
because it forces the farmer to as—
sume new ‘burdens without sharing
any‘ben'eflts. The labor radical says
“We propose to work halfitlme and
draw ‘full pay.’ The ”farmer knows
that agriculture cannot be conducted
on a 30-hour week. He must do a

real day’s work, and he sees that if»

he has to work lull time while the
factory man works half-time, he has
got to-pay the cost of the latter’s idle-

ness .
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of the farmers. 'They were-sus-
picious of the propositionthat
‘the interests of agricultureand
labor are one, and they made little
response to the appeal (of the labor
radicals to unite in a joint war on
business and capital. They listened
to what the radicals had to say: they
sometimes indicated a disposition to
co—operate to a certain extent: but
they did not commit themselves.

H’It is easy to see now whatsort
of a trap had been set for them and
how wise they were to keep clear of
it. It has .grown very plan that'ia'gri-
cultureand radical organized labor
are not allies whoseinterests should
unite them :in fighting business .as as.
:common :enemy. .On the . contrary +lt .
ingrowing‘clearer every .day tin-atria-
lbor .radicalism is .the farmer‘s-worst.
:enemy,a,and that.egriculturezand.‘:hm-
Finess must stand ‘together'to combat
sit.

3! III 1 ’ ‘

“The whole question of labors’anfl,
industrial relations has changed
greatly in recent years. The onerout-
standing fact today is that organized
labor has passed to a very dangerous
degree. under the power and indet-
ship of a radical element whoseaims
and ideals are bolshevistic miller
than American. That is the porten-
tous fact that stares us in the face."

Ijkes Himsclif Known in Washington

A “Disinterested” View of the Farmers’ Various Representatives at the National Capitol

OMEONE sends us a copy of the
S October 15th issue of "Indus-
try,” “a semi-monthly interpreta-
tion of industrial progress,” which
contains an excellent ,ii somewhat ex—
aggerated description of the weak-
nesses of farm representation at the
national capital. The author does
not describe the varying opinions and
tactics of the three farmers’ national
organizations that are now attempt-
ing to function in Washington as
“weaknesses.” That is our own
own term. but after you have read
the article, we think -you will agree
that there is need of existing farm
organizations to organize if they are
to faithfully represent the wishes of
the farmers and leave a worth—while
impress on national legislation.

The author is a bit cruel in his re-
marks about George P. Hampton
and Benjamin Marsh of the~Farm~
ers’ National Headquarters. We have
never met Mr. Hampton but he has
the record of being a very capable

_~man, and regardless of former con-
nections, if, he can “deliver the
goods” bets 9. good man "for the 'job.
"We are acquainted. 31mm with
*Bemsmin'idarsh."idetfhim last spring
when hag-game 111.9.ka on tamer-3'

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to be despised. The writer has also
met Mr. Chas. A. Lyman,'who is the
active Washington executive of the
National Board of Farm Organiza-
tions. His ability and the ability of
the larm leaders grouped about him
can best be judged by the results
they have obtained in securing rec—
ognition for the farmer before Cong—
ress. -

The article, “The Farmer in Wash—
ington” follows: ,

“The position of .the farmers in
the Industrial Conference now in ses-
sion in Washington has been great-
IY’exagge'rated. This conference was
not called :to consider “farm. problems,
Important asthes'eprohlems are; and
wreath ”as they need national atten-
tion; ‘but me limelight has been "to-
men on the “farmers in the center—
‘Mfia. WWc attention has been
, . _. m.mfln?m,ertcanmo-

crate and, {distinct "heath!

  

indication of the place this force has
already achieved, and the attention
which is being paid to it by all other
interests. It is well to understand
its present representation in the Na-
tional Capital.

“In the conference organized agri—
culture has five delegates, T. C. At—
keson, of the National Grange; J. N.
Tittemore..of the American Society
of Equity; C. S. Barrett, of the Farm-
ers' Industrial and (Jo-operative Un-
ion; 0. E. Bradfute, President of the
Ohio State Federation of Farm Bu-
reaus; and L. D. Sweet, of the Am-
erican Potato Growers’ Association.
“the last two being in the public group.
E. T.’ Meredith, publisher of a Tom
paper at Dec Moises, Iowa, is rated
as in sympathy with "the. flames.

‘ “In Washington organized will.
More is represented 'by “fires cep-
uni-tens."
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, a: a damn. it M’tm

is emanating from these three ”head-
quarters.” One is the National
Grange, one is the National Farmers’
Headquarters. The third is the Na-
tional Board of Farm Organizations.

“At the National Grange ofllce,
Prof. T. C. Atkeson is in charge.
Professor Atkeson is a life—long farm-
er who lives at Buffalo, W. Va. He
is master of his state grunge, has
been active in the National Grange
for a quarter of a century, and for
about the same time dean of the Ag-
ricultural College of his state. But
he is a “practical man” and not one
of the “professoriat.” He is thor-
oughly in touch with the 'farmers'
movement and has a record of farm-
er legislative successes.

At the Farmers’ National Head-
quarters, George P. Hamptou. who
calls himself the “managing direct-
or,” is in charge, a keen. clever, ur-
bane, experienced and successful £01-
lower of the game of getting things
from Congress for his clients. Before
Mr. Hampton worked for the farm-
ers heworked for other people, not— .
.ably those who wanted a law psr-
mitting them to make industrial Val.
:cohel and put the Standard'flil Com-
?pany out :of business. They gotitheir
law. but for some rmn Standard
uflil‘otwk :is still highly aunt-d m.
"sham. and air. Hamish is ,
uremia “Mitten. Milt. K

   

 

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‘HAT IS shoddy? . The new
' Standard Dictionary defines it
as follows:“111be1ma11ufactur-
- of shredded rags of stockings,
yarns", flannels. and other soft wool-
fen. fabrics. ” Very well, then, shoddy
is 1117001. And we are assured on high
authority that 80 per cent of the raw
‘ material used in manufactuing “all
L ”wool” clothing is shoddy. The public
of ‘course. doesn’t know the differ-
ence. A few of the “old-timers” still
love to tell about the garments they
"ué'edto buy being all wool and a yard
wide.” ‘Honest measure, honest
. goods, honest quality formerly went
finto‘the manufacture of clothing and
i: .‘:::‘.'e “like iron.” Nowadays, a
strictly “pure wool” garment is an
.oddity. In fact, “there ain’t no sech
animal," or if it exists at all, itris
a. very rare specie. We suppose the
fpopular supposition is that sheep
aren ’t growing as good wool as form-
any.

Just as good wool is obtainable to-
day for the manufacture of clothing
as ever. But the higher grades of
pure wool are more expensive than
they used to be, and manufacturers
have found that there is more profit
in using ‘shoddy" under the guise
of pure wool than the real article it-
self. And that is why'despite its
present high cost, clothing does not
have the wearing qualities it former—
ly possessed.

W'hat is to be done to, undeceive
the public and compel the clothing
manufacturers to restore the quality
'to their goods? For one thing we
must have more wool. That’s easily
solved. This country alone can sup-
"port twice as many sheep as at pres-
ent. But after we double our flocks
will there be a market for the prod-
uct? That’s quite a practical ques-
tion, you know, because we have had
the experience before of being urged
to increase production and after it

" Was properly and plentifully increas-
ed found that there was no market
for the surplus.

The National Sheep and Wood As—
sociation says it will supply a mark-
et by forcing the clothing manufact—
urers to desist from the use of shoddy

1 in the better class of garments and
use “all wool and pure wool” in its
stead. This association claims that
the present supply of wool is insuf-
ficient by far to meet the require—
ments of clothing manufacturers
were they obliged to use the better
grades of wool in the goods they
make. Bus1N12ss FARMING is request-
ed to advise our readers of the plan
of this Association to increase the
consumption of wool and we the1e-
fore publish the following statements
from the Philadelphia Public Ledger:

“In former days wool meant w.ool
“All wool and a yard Wide’ was a
term of some significance. A suit of
clothes. an overcoat, or any garment
'of woOl was expected to be of endur-
ing worth. Today it is not. The
reason is that so much shoddy is in—
troduced into woolens that the
strength of the cloth is impaired.

“What adds to the complicity ‘ot'
the affair is that a man who has

.handled woolens all his life has dif-

ficulty in telling a cloth that is vi1—
gin wool f1om one that is part wool
and partly shoddy, 01 what piopor—
tion of the cloth is shoddy and what
percentage wool. Only the maker
of the fabric is competent to state.

“But there is one test that is in—

._ fallible. That is the one of wear.

Wool will wear “until the cows come
home.” Shoddy will show its bad
features in short order.

Should Not be Sold as “'001

"“Goods made largely "of shoddy
shbuld not be sold as all wool, 'even
if technically the term is correct. in
idi‘not in the technical sense the term
,i’iihould bedetermined, but in the ef—
' (it. In efiect the buyer is deceived,
tract sWindled. This does not apply
the retaile1. ' Far from it.
Her wants to know absolutely
' unqualifiedly the character of the
’ " Where “reWorked”

  
   
  
  
 
  
   
   
 
 
  
 
    
  
  
   
  
    
 
  
    
   
   
   
   
     
   
   
  
    
   
   
   
  
  
  
  
   
   
   
  
  
  
  
     
    
  
  
   
  
  
   
  
   
  
  
 
 
 
  
  
   
 
  
  
   
  
    
  
   
    
   
 
    
     
  
  
 
 
  
  
  
  
   
     
     
   
   
  
  
  
  
   
  
   
   

 

 
 
   
  
    

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Champion Yearling Shropshire ram and pen of yearling ewes owned
and exhibited at Michigan State Fair by Armstrong Bros.. Fowlerville.

But it is not peculiar to America. The ,

British have the same problem. They
used to have a noble reputation for
the excellence of their woolens. A
man who bought a suit of clothes
“made in Lunnon” was a proud indi-
vidual, and not infrequently would
boast the garmen-t‘never would wear
out. Incidentally he would make disa
paraging remarks about the poor
quality of American goods.

“Now a man in London who buys
“all wool” gets a major portion of
shoddy, just as he does in America.
It is said the British try to do better
by their home trade than their ex-

port, for the reason that the British '

climate is rigorous and the people
must have stout woolens or there
would be much suffering, but with all
their efforts shoddy is making rapid
strides in the United Kingdom, and

especially so since the war began in
11914 and the shortage of wool drove
textile men to consider substitutes or
makeshifts in order to meet the em—
ergencies of the day.

“Technically, shoddy is wool, but
it is wool that is second hand or third
hand. or fourth hand orfflfth hand or
sixth hand or seventh hand or‘eighth
hand. . It comes from, the refuse pile
of the woolen mill or from the old
clothes dealer or the rag? man, and
by being f‘rework‘ed” that is, shredd-
ed and cleansed and carbonized, it
may be used again and again

“111» its pu_re state also; is wonder—
ful in its wearing Qualities; Any one.

who has worn real woolengarments.

appreciates this fact. But’ a lot of
the*stuff sold today as woolen goods
is'not so much wool as it is shoddy.

 

 

this line before another summer.

alone.

 

 

The Sheep- Wool Society

E ARE in frequent receipt of‘ letters from

know what. has happened to the proposed Sheep-Wool Society

which was discussed: in these columns early last summer.
men who were back of the Society have been unable to secure the nec-
essary financial backing. They are not discouraged, however. and we
understand that an existing land company is expanding its facilities to
take care of the very urgent demand in this state for the loan of sheep.
\Ve are quite sure that something big and practical will be .done along
Production of wool can be safely in-
creased, as the United States is still a large importer.
of 1917- 18 we imported over 200, 000 bales of wool from Argentina

readers wanting to

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Co-Op. LiveStock Men to Meet in~ Chicago

R. L. E. Willetof Lainsburg
M ‘is the Michigan representa--
tive on the ‘ofl‘icial commit
tee" of the National Federation
Co-operative Livestock Shippers to
arrange fora permanent organiza«
tion meeting of co-operative live—
stock shippers to be held in Chicago
December" 0 to 4, (International Live
stock show week) on the third floor
of the LivestOCk Recmd Building,
Union Stock Yards. "

The plagram of the work to be
recommended. includes the following:
MARKETS: Plans, of local
local handling, feed—
home, yard facilities, local
and insurance. ‘scales,
TRANSPORTATION: car
feeding in' transit, rates.
legislation for rates, claims, insur-
ance, dirty cars, delays in transit;
TERMINAL MARKETS: terminal
switching. inspection, methods of
handling at the terminal markets,
feeding in the terminal yards, trouble
man switching, commission men
problems, feed pioblems, yard facil-
lties, pro— —ratin'g.

Terminal Mal ket Short Course School

One pr the most constructive and
popular pieces of work to be attempt-

ing at
liabilities
branding;
shortage,

.ed by the National Federation will

be the holding of Short Course
Schools at the leading terminal mar—
kets this winte1 for the benefit of
shipping association managers and

'members, county agents, and all or-
ganizations interested in a better un- .

derstanding of marketing conditions.

.greater profits, etc.

The following resolutions submit-

ted by the committee on Terminal

Short Course Schools will 'serve as
a nucleus around which will be built
a course that will sol-yo our almost
imperative neod' ,

  

of,

1. That short courses be held at
the following central markets as
soon as local conditions warrant: At
St. Paul, Sioux City; Omaha, Kansas
City, Denver, St. Louis. Chicago, De—
troit, and any other points where con-
ditions warrant.

2. That the Bureau of Markets
’be requested, if possible, to desig—

. n-ate a (representative to take direct
Charge of- the short courses at the
central market .s above named in co—
Operation with state celleges. farm-
ers’ organizations and other interest—
ed men, organizations and agencies
in the territory involved

3. That the time of scheduling
such courses be left to the judgment
of those directly in charge at each
loCal market as influenced by local
conditions but that those in charge
or arrangements keep in' touch with

‘the National Federation to the'end

that, insofar as possible, the dates of
short courses, particularly adjacent
points. shall not conflict.

4. That the program for .each
course be arranged by the local di—
rectors, as above designated. The
committee suggests, however,
the ,following,major duties be consid—
ered:

1. Market grading: (a) Grading
on the hoof; (b) Fellow. up at pack—
ing house to observe how grades kill

.out;- (c) Relation of grading to c6-
operati-ye shipment. 2. Accounting.
(a) Efficient uniform systems of ac—
counting fer association managers;
(b) Actual practice in working out
accounts. of a shipment. 3. Gener-
al lectures and resume of successful
methods of handling shipments f
producer to packer buyer: (a)
ing for terminal market. (b) -
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'is known.

.ercises get sentences to write.
that.

Pure-Wool Garments

“Do not misunderstand the situa- -
tion. There is not onpugh firstshand
first-class woo1 in the world to meet

. the world' 3 needs for wool. 111 Am—
e'rica the annual wool clip is only
300, 000, 000 pounds. That is less

than three pounds per capita. The
cotton crop. figured on a basis of 13, -
000 000 bales would be 6 500, 000, 000
pounds, or forty-three times as much
as the nation's production of wool.
It must be understood, also. that all
worsted goods are made of real wool
first- hand wacls and not of “re— work-
ed” Stuff, which is shoddy. Deduct-
ing the large amount of woe] con-
sumed in worsted leaves only a mod-
erate total for woolen goods

“’eakened by Reworking ,

“In the first place. any one who de- .
clares that goods made of 80 per cent
shoddyor 20 per cent- real wool are
not all wool would, be stating an
untruth. Shoddy is wool. There is
no getting away from that fact. But
it is revamped wool. It is wool that
has lost strength through the 're—
working process to which it has been
subjected and the more times ithas
been reworked the poorer in quality
it has become. ‘

More Sheep, More Wool

“There is not enough wool in the
world today for all the needs of the
people. There will be if the cultiva—
tion of sheep receives attention. That
would help decidedly also in simpli-
fying the meat problem. But wheth-
er the ‘sheep crop is increased ornot,
shoddy should not be marketed as
wool.

“To protect the public against
fraud and safeguard the health of
the nation Congress has passed the
pure food law. '~

“Why not a pure goods law?

“There is a thousand times more
fraud in the shoddy that is passed off
as wool than there ever was in the
misbranding of cod.

“There is a use, a legitimate use,
for shoddy, but shoddy should be
sold as shoddy, and not as wool.

“Rag Pile Millionaires”.

“So many men have become rich
through deceiving the public by
means of shoddy that they have come
to be' classed as ‘Ragpile Million-
aires’. Recently, at the textile ex-
hibition in New York, the shoddy
people had booths displaying not
only raw materials, but finished
geods of shoddy. They‘did not call
it shoddy. In fact, they protested
against- the term. They explained
that shoddy was wool and a preju-
dice had developed and had broaden-
ed because of the name ‘shoddy.’
They had determined this should end.
Therefore it .was- to be-known hence-
forth as re-worked wool. And so it
And so it goes into gar-
ments. A suit of clothes may be
shoddy, but it is “all wool” if you
wish to say so. But the public un—
derstands ‘all wool’ to be wool that
is honest wool, fresh. so to speak.
from the sheep’sba‘ck. TherefOre
shoddy is not ‘all wool’ and the pub—
lic is deceived if not defrauded.

\Vant Shoddy Fraud Ended

“A great number of woolen mill
men want to end this shoddy fraud.

“A great number of retail mer-
chants want to stop the deception

“So do various manufacturers

“Why not put an end to it?

“In the schoolhouses throughout
the land children at their writing ex-
One
of the favorites for generations has

been the axiom that “Honesty is the
~best policy. ”

“If it is the best policy, why dodg
it?
“America

1 is going after “world

“trade.

“What will the customer of Am-
er1ca who rbuys “all Wool” garments '
from the American ,nianufactnrer
think When the trousers go lumpy
at the first sprinkle because the can
wool’_' from tho ragpile has becomo/

  

    

 

      
  
  
   
  
   
 


8 WAS STATED
ductory chapter, . the physical
, characteristics. that is, the text-
ure, -water, temperature and air is.
lations of soils are or tremendous
importance in regulating their pro-
ductivity. In view of this we are
now to discuss Soil texture, soil
classification, porosity, weight, and
the things that may bring
changes in soil structure.
The separates or the particles that

make up the soil have well defined;

Clay, which occurs
the

characte1i‘s‘tics.
in 5.practically all formations,

amount may be very small or large,’

has, a'tremendous influenceo-n ‘the
nature of the soil.
muchrwhen it passes from the wet
to the dry condition,” having been ob-
served to change as much as twenty

per cent of its velume. This p1oper-

ty accounts to a great extent for the ‘

formation of undesirable cracks in
field soils. Clay possesses a very
strong retentive power for several
elementstof plant food that are pres—
ent, in, or added to soils. Usually
crops suffer lost from drought when
growing on soils high in clay. , Thus

it. may be- said that these properties -
of clay are of great importance to the

productivity of the soil. and no con-
stituent is more necessary in proper
proportion or. more undesirable in
execss.

Silt or the particles that are next
to clay in size possesses properties,
similar to it, but to.a less degree and
play a very important part in main-
tainingthe proper water supply for
crop ., production. Soils that carry
rather large quantities -of this com-
ponent are not very “quick” either
to start plant grthh in the spring or
to applications of fertilizers other
than they are speedier than those
that contain: large amounts ofclay.

in the intro- ,

- about

Clay shrinks very_

’ ale, Discusses Some of the Physical Properties of Soils

'It should be borne in mind that they
.lose soluble elements of plant food

by washing downward into the sub-
soil faster than the former and far
less rapidly than those" that contain
smaller quantities of the flue part-
icles.

"The sands and the gravel, because
of their sizes, function as separate
particles. They exhibit very low

plasticity and cohesfion. and as a:
consequence art little influenced by.”
Their wa-. -

changes in water content.
fer—holding capacity is low, and be-

cause ‘of’ the large size‘of the spaces
the

between each separate . particle
passage of water is rapid. They
therefore facilitate drainage and en-
courage good air movement. In all
the grades of sand the separate part-

also are very quick in the spring.
properties very desirable in regions

of short growing periods or in the.

production of crops that mature rap-
idly.
That soils very markedly in text-

 

icles are visible to the naked eye, a. :' V

condition

and Clay groups."' Soils that contain

 

This soil is in excellent health. A
well-prepared seed-bed, of course, re-
duces subsequent tillage operations.

 

large amounts of sands are inclined
to be droughty and Ieachy. However,
such are exceedingly responsive to
fertilizers and good management, and

impossible with the silt

This field, being in poor physical
condition, may require two or more
years to have thatcondition rectified.

 

ure is well known, and such varia—
tions are recognized when descript-
ive terms such as sandy, loam and
clay, or light and heavy, and others
are employed when speaking of dif-
ferent kinds of soils. Inasmuch as
the chemical or the total, as well as
available amount of mineral plant

' Medium sandy soils. 3.

soil, the water holding pewer,' as
well as the rate of drainage, the re-

tention of fertilizers, and crop adap— -

tation of soils depends largely upon ,
the amount of the various separates
that compose _them, a knowledge of '
soil classification is essential for
their most successful management.
There are in nature, sand, loam and
clay ”groups of soils as follows:

Sands—1. Coarse sandy soils. 2..
Fine sandy
soils. -

Loams—l. Loam.
3. Fine sandy loam. 4.
5. Clay loam.

Clays—~1. Sandy
clay. 3. Clay.

Broadly speaking, sandy soils are
those havink a very high percent of
sand with small amounts of silt and
clay. loams are those having from 30
to 50 per cent of sand with much
silt and some clay, and clay soils are
those having 35 per cent or more
clay, together with much silt and us-
ually some sand.

Soils belonging to a given class
may vary appreciably in composi-
tion and hence in their va1ious prop-
erties. By way of illustiation, let us,
take the iesults obtained from the
mechanical analysis of several soils.

2. Sandy loam-’
Silt lbam.

clay. 2. Silty

 

 

Soil 5

DIECHANICAL ANALYSIS

CERTAIN SOILS

OF

 

11‘ me (‘ o: irse Medium
Number (iravel_ Sand 8:111er
""‘"—' 12. 31 19
3. 3 6 2 0

0
0.
0.
food and the rate of decay of vege—

table matter, and the physical nat-
ure of the weight of a given mass of

5 8 5
.0 4 8
4 . 2
2 4

 

5 '11‘ine

Silt
l

1 77M’ H
4

Sand
I ’ 20

511“ fine
W i-l

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25 | I

15 l | 40

18 | ‘1 45

8 I ,_ I

9 l l

36
45

'J
It is well recognized that the abil-
ity to classify and judge soils under
(Continued on page 21)

Farmers Make Bad Guesses on Bean Costs

at

able abdut the figures submitted

by over three, hundred farmers
in Business Farming’s recent investi-
gation into the cost of growing beans
it was the fact that no two estimates
Were alike. Let us take the given
radius of ten or fifteen miles in any
leading bean county _of the state. On
average farms in this ‘area there
should not be a variation in the costs
of producing, beans to exceed five
per cent. Yet it is a fact that we re-
ceived estimates from many such
areas which varied as much as fifty
per cent ! When farmers are attempt—
ing to show a judicial body what it
costs‘them to grow beans or any oth-
er crop, their cause is greatly weak—

IF THERE was anything remark-

ened because of the difference in their ,

estimates

This matter of- food production
costs is going to be looked into very
soon by the government. All the
foolish investigations that are being
held into the.,high cost of living will
eventually lead to the question of

cost—cost of producing, cost of mar- '

'keting, {cost of selling.‘etc. And since
the farmer is the rbot of the tree his
costs will "be the very first to be ex—
amined. Suppose next week the fed-
eral government should order a court
of inquiry to be instituted in every
county in Michigan for the purpose
of ascertaining from the statements
of farmers what it costs to produce
their various crops“ What kind of a
showing would our farmers make?
From what we know of the average
farmer' s indifference to cost records
and his general lack of knowledge of
what it does actually cost to produce,
~ We could safely predict that
would make a very poor showing be-

fore such a court, and by their testi-
acre;

many would convict themselves of
the charge that has been - entered
against them, profiteerlng. '

At least a secreuof our readers esti-
mated that it cost- them about $20
As many,‘
fixed the figure: from $20 to'

per acre to grow rheans.

nuniber thought that
era

they.

uhfzh as that if not higher.

 

 

' State of California.

' Harrowing, 100 acres once

Fertilizing . .
Filling ditches

Hoeing
Cutting
Pilin

g ......
Threshing, 12 bags at 65 cents .

 

 

What it Costs in California -

Statement of Cost of Production of Small \Vhite Beans grown by
J. F. McCloskey, of Lompoc, California, during the season of 1918 on
his farm 14 miles east of IlOTflpOC, in the County of Santa Barbara.

Number of acres farmed to br :‘s .

Total number of 100 pound bags produced

Average 100 pound bags per acre

Fair value per acre of land farmed ....................... $400.00
Items of Cost (Average for each acre)

Interest on land investment at 7 per cent .................. $28. 00

(Note: Interest is charged at the rate chalgcd by Savings Banks in
this vicinity upon real propc1ty mortgages.)

Plowing, 50 acres at $5.50 per acre ..... . .

Cyclone, 100 acres twice at $1.00 per acre ....... ., .........
.1 Discing, 100 acres twice at $1.50 per _acre .................
'Chiseling, 100 acres twice-1 at $2.50 per acre .................
Dragging, 100 acres twice at $1. 00 per acre ...............
Ring rolling, 50 acres once at $1. 50 per acre ............... .75
Spring tooth harrowing, 50 acres once at $1. 50 ............

Planting .................. . . . .
Seed, 15 pounds at 12 cents .....
Cultivating. 50 acres once at 75 cents per acre ..............

Sacks, 12 bags at 22 cents
Hauling, $8. 50 per ton ......... . . .
Storage. at 50 cents per ton . . . . . ..
Rec‘f ning, at $1.70 per ton .....
‘ anal servic 3 in superintending 100 agrcs at $2,000 per yr.

........................

TOTAL COST PER AVERAGE ACRE
Cost of production of loo-pounds of beans .

........ ................. 100
......... .......... 1.200
12

 

5.00
2.00

.75

------------------------

........................

1.09
20.00
_.¢_..--
.« . . .$93.11 _

.$'7.75 ,

 

 

 

 

We suppose that these same

farmers would deny cur statement
that the average cost of growing

beans this year of 1919 was between

$50 and $60. per acre, yet we could

Vtake their cost items and prove to

1119111 that their own costs were as
farmers flared":;ogm at $3. 50 per

cdmrespond-

Some‘

ents was $4 per acre. Some rental !

Intae‘st 011 $100 land at 7 per cent
is $7; taxes figure another $1; de-
pletion of soil, 'equal What? Well,
let’s say $2.1t’s mighty low. Add
up. and you ’ve got $10 rental value
without figuring in the amount of de—
preciation on your buildings and «a
half dozen other items that should

beeapmrtwned against that piece of:

“lands The farmers. the estimated $4

as the rental value were losing
least $6 out of their pocket.
Then the figures for threshing
crew board ! If there are any farm-
ers within a radius of fifty miles who
will give board for double the price
estimated by some of our correspond-
ents, just drop us a line _and the
whole M. B. F. staff and their fam-
ilies will come and spend the winter.
How can formers board threshermen
for 25 cents a meal? The answer is ’
“they can’t,” but that’s all a lot of
them figured in the cost of threshing,

So we might go 011 through the en-
tire list of items that made up the
cost blank used in the investigation,
and practically every case we would
find a wide discrepancy in the figures.
The time has come when it is not
safe for farmers to GUESS at their
costs. 'l‘lieptime has come when they
must KNOW their costs. Prof. An-
derson showed extremely good fore—
sight when at the recent meeting of
the milk producers he pointed out in
great detail the cost of producing
milk. It is entirely possible that be-
fore the present investigation into the
high cost of living in this state is
over, farmers will be called into court
to testify, and it’s a hundred to one
shot that some of them will ”‘spill
the beans,” and unknowingly falsify
when they testify as to their produc-
tion costs. The matter of costs is
an extremely important matter and
the true business farmer will lose no
time in seeking the assistance of the
agricultural college to assist him in
keeping cost-finding records.

We show herewith a cost state-
ment from California. Look it over
carefully.' Note that item of $2,000
per year for managerial ability. If
anything, it’ 5 too low. Where is there
a manufacturer employing as much -'
capital as many of our bean growers
have invested who does not pay him-
self fiom $2, 500 to $5, 000 a year
salary for managing the busin 33. Is
the'far'fner entitled to less? at on,
your life.- _That’s an item‘ that most
farmers leave out. Please get it;

.Start in. tomorrow and pay yours

at the rate of 523000- per year,

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Easing-matters farmers and mann-
“Wrote have combined under the
lumen of Milo D. Campbell;
.11an of the national board of
farm organizations and president of
tho National Milk Producers, to com-
but radicalism of all kinds and to
é"help bring the nation back to a firm
industrial basis by means of an edu-
cational. campaign designed to elim-
inate class suspicion and distrust.

‘_‘I am working,” said Mr. Camp-
bell, “on the selection of a committee
which is to be composed of repre-
sentative farm organization heads,
representative manufacturers and
conservative labor men. Radicalism,
the I. W. W. and its ideas are to be
fought to a finish. and the 12,000,000
farmers of the country, I believe are

actively behind such a fight.”

Tanners Lay High Retail Prices of
Leather to Packers

"The packers did it.” said a num-
ber of representatives of the tanning
industry before Judge Wiest of Lans-
ing, when asked the reason for the
high prices of hides and leather.
Glory be, this was one time when they
didn’t lay the crime up against the
farmers’ door.

The American tanners are altogeth-
er at the mercy of the packers, was
the substance of the testimony offered
by the tanners, and are obliged to
pay the prices asked by the packers
or go without, hides. The packers
control the South American hide mar-
ket as completely as they control the
North American market it was stat-
ed and there is no more variation in
the prices charged for these imported
hides than thOSe shipped from Chi-

1‘ cago. Charges of profiteering were
laid to the retail shoe dealers.

If it is true that the Big Five pack-
ers control the hide output of the
country, it is plain to be seen how
little supply and demand can determ-
ine the prices to be paid farmers for
hides.

Wixom Project Big Success
By marketing or buying of prod-
ucts in bulk, thousands of dollars
have been saved for members of
these associations, according to B.
A. Holden, president Of an organiza-
-tion at Wixom, Mich” that has been

, so successful in a general store stock

1 shipping and grain elevator project

that it has not only returned thou-

, sands of dollars in profits to its mem-
.. hers, but has been able to expand to

include several other communities in

. that section of the state.

“' According to Holden, such associa-
tions are absolutely necessary if
farming is to continue on a business
‘ basis. Department of agriculture sta-
‘ stitics gathered in Lenawee county,
I agriculturally the richest in Michi-
1 gen, Holden says, show that farmers,

marketing individually, have made
practically nothing for years except

lands.

Also, he contends people in cities
i will be seriously affected if collective
' bargaining through such community
‘ organizations, is not permitted and
1 now prosecutions under the federal
statutes are imperiling the life of
J these enterprises.
3 Unless farmers get cost of produc-
, tion plus a. reasonable profit, which
1 they cannot'obtain now individually

because of high costs of labor, trans-
‘ portation and marketing, according

to Holden, food production is going
1 to slump off alarmingly, naturally
[ causing the “law of supply and de-
1' mend" to force virtually prohibitive
' food prices in the cities.
, The curtailment of production is
threatening now. R. V. Tanner, Barry
quality agricultural agent, and other
agents in the state agree.
there are many in-

" amazed by high farming costs,
" dreaming: materially crop acreage
my over the winter fewer
W than. usual, which cannot
Faces Wed food supplies in
- same house.

  
  
  

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Delegates from Michigan to assist
in organising the Aurel-lean Farm
Bureau federation in Chicago Nov-
ember 12 and 13 were to be elected
by the Michigan State Farm Bureau
executive council at a. special meet-
ing October 30 in Grand Rapids. The
American Farm Bureau federation is
intended to have» the same aims and
objects in the national field as the
state associations have in their ter-
ritories. which are the correlating
and strengthening of all farm organ-
izations, especially the state farm
bureaus, representing and protecting
of the business and economic inter-
ests of agriculture. This program
was adopted by a national farm bu-
reau organization committee at Go-
lumbus. 0.. October 3.

The Michigan delegation to Chi-
cago will consist 'of ‘C. A. Bingham,
state secretary of the Michigan Farm
Bureau, as voting delegate; as ad-
visory delegates, Ray Potts, of Wash-
ington; Roland Merrill, of- Benton
Harbor; James Nichol, of South Ha-
ven; Fred Cornair, Chesaning.

Although 23 states will be repre-
sented,» only 10 will need to sign the
proposed constitution in order to ef-
fect a national organization.

Oakland Backs Farm Bureau
Preliminary work for the Michigan

Farm Bureau Delegates to , Chicago

State Farm Bureau membership coin-
paign, which has succeeded in lining
up the farmers of Oakland County.
nearly 90 per cent strong. has started.
in Barry county. The drive therewill
be launched the second week in No-
vembcr.

Sentimentjn Barry is strongly in
favor of the farm bureau movement,
according to J. P. Powers publicity
director and organizer for the state
farm bureau, who is there assisting
the county farm bureau officials in
the work. He expects that Bai ry will
break the remarkable membership
record being set in Oakland county.

The campaign 0f the state farm

bureau- will- reach Montcalm and Al»

legan counties next and then sweep
into Lapeer, St. Clair, Genesee, Wash-
tenaw, Kent, Clinton, Tuscola Eaton
and Van Buren immediately after-
ward.

The statewide enthusiasm greeting
the farm bureau movement was the
all absorbing topic of the meeting of
the executive committee of the Mich-
igan County A-gents’ Association in
J acksOn two weegs ago, Agents Brody
of St. Clair, Gregg of Wayne, McVit-
tie of Tuscola, .Nash‘ of Branch,
Sheep of Jackson, .Olds' of, Kalama-
zoo, Hagerman of Ottawa, Tanner of
Barry. and Carr of Kent, were at the
meeting.

Michigan Delegate Reports Farm Congress

John C. Stafford, of Lawrence,
Mich, was the only one of the several
delegates appointed by Gov. Sleeper
to represent Michigan at the-39th ses-
sion of the Farmers' National Cong-
ress to be present at that gathering
which came to a r so last Thursday
night at Hagerstox» .1, Maryland. Mr.
Stafford kindly‘sends Michigan Bus-
iness Farming and its readers the
following story of the convention:

Dear Editor: At the 39th session of
the so-called Farmers” National Cong—
ress, twenty-seven states were repre-‘
sented. Some were like Michigan with
one delegate present. It came to a
stormy end tonight. The main body
of the congress was made up of peo.-
ple from Ohio and Maryland, Ohio
having about 400 people present. A.
great many of these came in autos
and were under the leadership of A.

P. Sandells. moving Spirit of the
“Cornstalk Club ” in the last Ohio
legislature. The motto of “Buckeye"

farmers is‘ elect farmers to the leg-
isla‘ture, see that they get together
when there and support agricultural
measures irrespective of party affili-
ation.” This looks like a winner;
anyway the “buckeyers” made it win.

“The wildiness at the close of the.
congress was caused by the fight be-

tween two so-called farmers organi—

zations in Washington. The National
Board of Farm Organizations which
the retiring secretary of the congress
Mr. J. H. Patton, denounced as a‘
“Wall St. concern" and the Farmers’
National Council and afiiliated. organ-
izations. The committee on resolu-
tions refused to ,“afiiliate” with the
“Wall St." concern and Mr. Patton
being marked as the, man. who; could
have put it over was attacked by a»
whispered campaign which came into
my ear in such phrases as “he is in
the pay of. the labor leaders,” a So-
cialist, a Bolshevist, etc The facts
are that Mr. Patten is a wealthy Cari
olina cotton grower who lives in
Washington part of the time and is
a very fine type \of American citizen.
But he was ousted from the secrtary-
ship of the congress by base methods
which were unwittingly abetted by-
the enthusiasm of the “Buckeyes"'
for their leader in. the last hour of
the congress. _

.“I secured; a. resolution urging con-
gress to support our efforts to. put a.
duty on. J apanese. beans. Had, quite
a time. in the committee onresolu-
tions to get the, cotton growers on:
the committee, to see the need of a
tariff. on beans but they finally did;
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One of thalamus visited latherecent

‘ agricultural tour of: Calhoun.
county by over 150 farmer. and: high school students. moons wwoom-
ductedbytheFamBhreonundeI-fliemidm of County Adult Paul G.
Jamieson. Monyoanlhonn’slhraesoandm cocoon-tut 1mm,

3. cents per cwt. less

0. town tint their
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wool. as! men sessions '
American producers. of wool should

be interested in prices oilered. at the»
1 which are.
being held in the city of tandem,

English woolen

considerable or the wool sold at these
auctions is bought by. American man-
ufactureu, at prices, which seem relac
tively high compared to the prices»
that are being paid American produo
era. The report of one of these auc-
tions by the United States. Depart-
ment of Agriculture says: _ ’

"Alt‘ the wool auctions on October
2nd, 14,650 bales were offered. The.
best greasy merin-os from Queensland:
brought $1.27, and the finest scour-ad
merino combings from Sydney'real.
lzed $1.76. There were also oflfered‘
30_000 bales of South African free
wools, greasy merinos- bringing 65
cents and scoured snow whites $1. 23
The sixth series of- London wool auc-
tions closed on October 3rd, with cat-
alogs of 8 860 bales. During the ser-
ies it is estimated that about 80, 000
bales have been purchased for Con-
tinental (European), 10,000 for Am,-
erica and 45,000 for home mentors.
The sales. closed with a very firm
tone, and, prices at best point of the
series. Compared with August sales
merino wools showed 'a rise of 10, to
15 per cent; medium to fine cross-
breds 10 per cent ahgve above August
prices; the best of t e" coarser grades
5 per cent higher. Inferior and shab-
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Farmers Vote Support

Steadfast support to the federal
government in combatting attempts
of “certain radical elements to viti-
atc and destroy American institu-
tions” was pledged in a resolution
adopted at the opening session of the
thirty-ninth annual meeting of the
farmers’ national congress, at Hag-
erstown, Md.

Asserting that the causes underly-
ing a present industrial unrest have
brought the country to the verge of
a “crisis” the resolution declared
the “conservatism of the American
farmer must be eternally on guard to
prevent the development and Spread
cf radical theories which would sub-
vert the fundamental principles of
the American government "

Illinois D‘airymen Accused
Chicago milk dealers are telling

some rather incriminating things
about the eight officials of the
Illinois Milk Producers’ Ass’ 1!.

who were indicted because of the
methods they used in getting fair
prices for the members of their asso-
ciation. They claim that the milk
association officials threatened them
with the loss of their business if they
did not pay the prices asked for by
the farmers. Three farmers also test-

ified in court that they had been -

forced to become members of the as-
sociation against their will in order
that they might have a market for
their milk. They ,claimed that when
they attempted to sell milk durin
the strike of 1916 that members 0
the association halted them on the
outskirts of town, took their milk
my from them and sold it for forty
than the price
they had been offered.

If the members of the association
are proven guilty of employing such
tactics they will be harshly judged if
not convicted or an offense, notwitln
standing the fact that organized lab-
or ”gets away” with its picketing
threats and violence in order to keep
workmen from taking the place of

; ’ strikers. The menace of the strike

lies in its abuse and when any class
of. people be they laborers, farmers,
capitalists or what not, attempt to co-
erce others into joining their strike.
they are stepping over the line of
both laws and morals. Farmers
should take a lesson from the ditficnb
ties: in which the.» Illinois producers
now can themseim, and if 31;:
sites! and? it nm to “In
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, ' the arrival of- a bit of break-
, . t-ibefore boarding an outbound train. Just

cheese the table set a portly gentleman seem-
111eg not at unsatisfied with the figures which
represented the total cost of his breakfast, po-
litely presented by waiter No. 6. “There,” he

   

, said as he handed me a copy of the “Morning -

Tribune,’ ’and pointed to the big head lines
across the market page, “at last they have
caught the profiteers in their own hog-wal-
Tlows- right on their own farms.’
“Hog run heavy; prices on the slide. Yester-
day’s best quotation $8. 60 below July top”
The well- fed gentleman smiled with satisfac-
‘ tion as he followed the porter who cal ried his
grip to a parlor car headed west.
t O i

URING the afternoon of the same day, I
heard a young Indiana farmer tell of his
experience. “I engaged in the hog business
five years ago, and have been striving to make
a go of it. I Have kept an accurate account of

all costs, have a good productive farm to back
my operations, and have had a long experi--
» ence in the business. During ’16 and ’17, I
made a little money—that is, made it as farm-
ers make money—I came out with something
‘ to the good for my labor. This year I had a
good drove and they were coming fine, I fig-
ured correctly, and the hogs were finished off
just as the last of my corn was fed. I had or-
dered cars, but atailroad strike delayed ship-
ment for three weeksland I was obliged to buy
high-priced corn to keep my hogs in trim. In
_ the meantime “high cost of living” became
the principal topic of conversation, and by the
.time my hogs reached Chicago, the packers
' were staying off the market—and to make a
long story short I lost every dollar I had made
in the two yearspand all of my labor, work
and worry. for 1918 besides. I am through‘
with the 110g business.” «
t i 1.

FORTY-FIVE 'CENT-S per pound was the
price I paid for pork .chops in a Detroit
market the other day. “I thought the price of
pork had tumbled?” ' “Well it has,” said the
market man, “pork on the hoof has gone
down, but you see the packers have high- -pric-
ed pork on hand, and we can’t expect lower
prices until they get their money out. ” An ex—
planation, with an apology for the packers, if
you please. The Indiana farmer had high-
priced pork on the hoof. Mighty little consid-
eration was given his interests when they pull- .
ed out the props, and destroyed the profits of
three years of hard, grilling work. Many weeks
have passed since “pork on the hoof took a
tumble,’ a’nd yet this drop has not as yet per-
colated down through the maze of transac-
tions sufficiently to have affected the retail
price of meats in the least- That this unex-
pected and unwarranted drop in the market
, Will decrease production of hogs no one will
question. Simply another instance of “lower-
ing high cost of living,” by discouraging pro-
duction. And the cor-pulent gentleman is un—
doubtedly wallowing 1n his hog wallow on the
ocean beach at Santa Monica.

- o o o -

ERTAIN INTERESTS have been much

concerned of late, because of .the fact that

the farmers Were getting together. AgitatOrs
have been drawing comfortable salaries right .

here in Michigan during the past five years,

securing contributions from large interests,

. we: were told that there this grave danger oi
[the Bolshenk doctrines spreading among the ,.

~ amen. of this state; It is somewhat refresh-

~ ‘ing, therefore, to read 1n comer s Weekly, an
‘ ed; . N y'*-Mark Sullivan, its editor, who has.
r9111 (1 tun. right among the far- 4-

 

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jammed; station, Chicago, impa-'

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Ways take to bed' With yOu.F11r111ers" don’t en-
gage in releutions. I mean by that that far-
, there who own their farms don’t engage in rev-

olutions. Farmers Who are mere serfs on large
estates owned by absentee lords under a me-
dieval system of land tenure—such farmers
are the most determined of revelu'tiOnists and
are the only successful ones; I have previously
pointed out that the only thing that is going
to be permanent in the Russian revolution is
the dividing up of .the land. Asgsoon as the
new owners begin to feel secure in their titles,
and lose any fear of the grand dukes coming
back and taking it away from them, then the
Russian revolution will, be over.) Farmers
who own their farms don’t engage in revolu-
tions. And the largest single group in the
population of America is the farmers. Those
of us who spend most of our lives in the towns
forget this, but the politicians don’t forget it.
In any presidential election in America the
farmer and his sons contribute over a third,
and close to a half, of the entire vote.”

We are making progress toward better
things, when the leading periodicals of the
country take sufficient time and use sufficient
space to turn the shield of discontent and note
what is written on the other side.

‘34 9* fl
- HE “WOODS are full of stock—sales-
men,” writes a farmer friend; “and we

don’t know whether we should ‘unloose the
dog or invite them to dinner.’ ” Possibly the
safest way would be to “unloose the deg,”- for
the average stock salesman knows how to turn
the trick, and before dinner was over, your
name would be on the dotted line. Last week
I met a bevy of sleek stock salesmen from In-
diana, and they'were finding good picking in
the vicinity of Bay City and Saginaw selling
coal mining stock to the farmers. One of the
fellows told me that he cleaned up $250 that
day through stock sold to farmers in the vicin-
ity of Reese. Farmers should, remember, that
at best, they simply hold the bag in the stock
game. The average Salesman gets anywhere
from fifteen to twenty-five dollars out of every
one hundred dollars worth of stock sold; and
in many instances the promoters are presented
with a block of stock ranging from $25,000 to

, $100,000 for the use of their names. No doubt

there are good stocks on the market, but we
have found no stock peddled by salesmen, that
_ is good enough to be advertised in the columns
of this publication. Stock certificates, neatly
engraved and printed in colors, look nice on
the walls of an outbuilding—we are of the
opinion however, that wall paper would be
just as, effective and cost much less.

It II it

HEN, THE WAR was on, and‘ every-

' body doing double duty, we got accus—
tomed to seeing women and children out in
the fields doing men’s work. We thought lit-
tle of this innovation, for women were taking
men’s places in the factories and munition
Within ninety days after the armis-
tice was signed the army of WOmen workers in
the cities was demobilized and they went back
to their homes and shops. Not so on the farms
of the middle west. During the past summer
and fall, and right now in closing up the sea-
son’s work, thousands of wives are aiding their
husbands' 1n the fields, and thousands of mere
children are aiding 1n picking up potatoes and
topping beets.’ When will. free-wife and child
{labor on the farms be eliminated? All other

. classes of producers and laborers have so ar-

ranged their business. alfairs that women and
children are no longer doing the harder tasks.

.Did you ever hear of the wives and children

of lawyers, doctors, teachers, preachers, mer-

chants, mechanics. or laborers, grinding away
fit the hard muscular work in order to make a

If the be true, why should the Wives

 

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,‘drenmf the farthers’bs obliged to work; -

    

SAT in the sales-office of one of Detroitis.,4

large manufacturing plants the other after-
noon, *and' was mightily interested in a series
of maps Occupying a prominent place on'the
walls. Every state in the union was there, and
,the peculiar things about these maps was that
they were shaded here and there; some black,
some yellow, others red. I asked for an ex-
planation and was told that those maps repre-
sented crop'conditions in the different states"
of the union. Ilerc was something interesting _
crop statistics and conditions vividly set forth 7 ~ '
in the office of a manufacturing plant. Surely
these fellows must own farms; they certainly
show a keen interest in farming. “Yes,” said
my friend, “that dark-shaded section over
there, covering a portion of South Dakota,
shows where the drought raised havoc with
the crop. And here we have a section where
excessive rain—fall ruined the prospects and
here, note that circle shading off from deep red
to rose-colored. There is where the east caught
a nine-inch rain-fall in thirteen days, and
caused the loss of practically the entire wheat
and oat crop." Interesting, indeed, but what
have these conditions to do with selling auto-
mobiles?” “\Vell, ” said the master salesman,
“you ought to know that when we are figuring
on our output we cannot depend upon selling
automobiles 11 lieu there is a mop failuie and
farmers are not prosperous.” And yet that
company manufactures automobiles, ninety
per cent of which go into the cities and are
purchased by business men. And again came
ringing into my thoughts the words of Daniel
Webster: “Farmng is the foundation of the
nation’s progress and prosperity.”

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ARIFF REVISION is going on down in

Washington, and there is no doubt but
that the result will be a higher tariff. The
question of tariffs is as old as The pyramids; :1:
therefore a discussion as to the merits and de- -
merits of this plan of protecting infant indus-
tries is outof place at this time. But the
whole idea seems to be to protect the American 7,
working man from the pauper labor of Eur- fr'
ope; and incidentally of course, to get a little 1'
revenue money. But here is where the shoe .
pinches. Over in India the farmers, if such
they may be called, hiie labor at twelve cents
a day. Russia went India one bct,ter and be-
fore the wai, paid laborers in the field six
cents per day Over in Manchuria the bean
growers l111everv ‘goode helpc, thanke e, ”for
twelve cents a day band a dish of rice and get
an ocean freight rate on beans so low that San 1
Francisco is just next door. :53;

Before me is a special circular sent broad— '

cast to dealers by a wholesale gioceiy house
telling about the little “Brown Beans,” from

South America.

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SPECIAL DRIVE
South American

BROWN BEANS
4 1-2c Per Pound

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or that works for six, eight or twelve cents per
day‘ ‘pauper labor.’ Probably agriculture,
being the oldest industry on earth 1s no longer
classed as an infant. And yet we find indus
tries.” Why not give the farmers a chance at
whiskers still protected as “infant indus— .
tries. ” Why not give the farmers a chance at;
the “Protection Nipple?” . .

  
  
  
  

   
 
 

  
  

    
    
 

   

     
 

  

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second-clas- matter, at Mt. Clemens. Moon.
‘ ' P'rhnary' Law in Danger

. ”HE BOSS politiciansofthestate ought to
feel...very grateful to the Newberry bunch
for; spending. a. tortune' in violation. of the pri-
mary law. It. gives them a plausible excuse

‘ ing that .it encourages the very thing it was in—
‘ tended to destroy, namely, the purchasing of
' public office, The present investigation into
; the.Newb.erry campaign expenses is going to be
‘ atrying period for the friends of the primary.

-T-he Corrupt Practices Act, aimed to pre-

vent abus’es under the primary system is

. like any law that seeks to protect a prin-
ciple—good when enforced; Worse than use-

” less when violated. ‘ A primary system
that will let a rich man get away with
some of the things Mr. Newberry got! away
with is worse than the most boss—controlled
convention ever-held in Michigan. Such alaw
enablesthc' rich to sway public opinions, dis-
«we; public judgment and turn the. people’s
convictions upside down, by the profuse ad-
vertising of statements that. too frequently are
highly exaggerated if not altogether false. This
method; means, in. effect, the buying. of individ-
ual votes.-

Scnator Herbert E. Baker had a bill before
Minot session. of. the. legislature to put poor
memon the. same footing with rich men by giv—

' ingl them. an equal hearing, before the public

Moan- equsal cost. The bill provided that the

' state-should. issue a pamphlet containing the

announcements‘ofi all candidates, and that no

candidate should be permitted to advertise in

any other medium. Did the bill become a law?

; No. The legislature. could hardly mar its rec-

. ' 0rd. of consistent indiiference to public wel-

«' fare by entertaining such a. proposition as that.

. The corrupt practices act must be en-

‘ forced. It would be cruel and unsports-

' f manlike for‘ us to recommend that an ex-

ample bc made of: Mr. Newberry and

. that gentleman be made- to" pay the pen-

alty of an oflense which was committed: by

others long: before Mr. Newbemy got into poli-

tics and which the public. by its silence has

condoned. Mr. Newberry is getting, punish-

nentvenwgh. Biomass-soar tha‘mullzofi a man

i who has enjoyed thoaraspoctbfizother people to

- ; know that a federal court is making his name

» l a; W in his native» state. The imewga-

idiom Willi? domgocdacw’enltbmgh» it may never

‘ faultsulavcwyicoiom Brought tol'sdbtes others

ilvfinmmeing sacs-noises int-themserot their men
”' ‘1 gamma: sochilnglzmbl‘xiflcfiiefif

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‘ Inimirccenbtissmwoilthe DbtrcitS‘wtur-
‘ NW morefl-lmmentsr worm presented
" ainSt it. The editor. points-teaspoon: ofilthe
or -"{and ridiculous exceptions that occur un-
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E for picking, the lawto pieces and almost prov- .

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“Criticizing the sacroSanct primary election sys-
tem,in Michigan is something- akin to high treas-
on. Rem .cn'uumnolim linden-immmfldn
public or endorse it. 1n..'nri\rate.- , Legislatorsuwho
rave in safe places, against its numerous revela-
tions ungainly!” cannot bring» Woeswmwaer
mend.itsmevisiongonuthesflmr. of eithnr hm. blot
only does the Michigan primany permit a candi-
date for United ‘States senator-to rmr on bots: the
Democrat: and Kenmmanwtlckm- attitl’te'sam‘tfine,
but it. blinded. Detroit. last: m, into nominating
and. electing tor state. representations, house. the
ink had well dried; on._his naturalization paper‘s, a
Russian whose. Americanized name resembled that
oil a. weimmown politician. ‘

“Massachusetts has just: comerthrough a similar
though more: unpleasant: experience. State Treas-

. urer Burrill was ineligible for reelection under the
constitution, but an- obscurity named Buvrrel'i ran
{or the rumination on the Republican ticket and
w-onwapparentriy because of, Bar's-filler reputation.
The Boston... Herald. says the. nominee “has served
in the legislature, but in fitness for the office ranks
far below the average member of" that body.;”
which is evidently one of. tits-meanest things- {Hie
Herald could seat. The Herald adds: '

“ ‘The first bill. to- go before. the- legislature
should be the restoration of the convention sys:
tem tor the nomination of state officers; Scrap the
popular primary!" .

“Idaho has already done that. Michiga-m in. spite
of. all the political confusion the primary has. cre-
ated, has not yet been ableto persuade itself that
a. party convention should. have. a voice in. the se-
lection; of. the party’s: candidate for governor, oven
with the primary preserved.”

 

' President and Prohibition

     
 

5' .. , _ a _. . “Quill.
T O ATTEMPT to analyze the president’s
peculiar reasoning upon this matter of
prohibition isto attempt5 the impossible. The
president is- a good politician. Even the Re-
publicans will admit that.
isn’t, playing politics. when he vetoes the bill
to cufomcc war-time prohibition. Intelligenta
gentleman as- he is, he must know that any .
compromise with the. liquor element or any-
easing. of liqudr control. is dead against the
wishes of the maiori-ty of American people.

He has.- tried to explain. his veto by saying
that the war is actually over and. that itjis not
good policy. or ethics. for the government to
longer enficnee a measure which. the people
were promised. was. merely a war-time emerg-
ency mmre,——~or something- to that area.
Fortunately Gongresscouldnft getihis point of
View and promptly passedthe bill over. his ve-

. to. So. bid. farewelLya'friends. of. booze, to'any
hopes you may have. fondled that there might
be a brief tilting of the lid.

. There. are at least. four good reasons why the
wheels of the brewery and distillery should
remain silent and the doors of the saloon kept
closed, and all the excuses, subterfuges and
ethies’od our ingenious president. with respect
to booze be dumped into the gutter. Here they
are: ,

1. Shortage of sugar. It would be acrim-
inal waste to divert a single pound of sugar
into alcoholic beverages at this time.

3‘. Shortage of coal. The coal situation is
riculture’ is hampered and harnessed by' lack
of’ labor. They ' should not ' be makerjprosqed
by being forced to ensue! into: competition wish

, the'brewery for the-em mph 0!! available

15.1501? .

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desperate: mmsm:mmw
enormousrquomfitieslof . wall: as“ wish": :it

lwnhnviwhmd

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pant—leg. It. made me shiver afl‘think” of the
pleasant warmth. of. myghousez I Had i“fit left"

But r kept on and in five minutes bad farm- : i

m Miriam the keen, bracing air and
the" smbsmelfingv leaves: that lime-rod“ the
groans. .. - . . -
Fearadnlt peopielook forward With anyd'e
gree of‘plsamfi'torthercmning‘ef fibfi'vand3'fin-
ten; M, 1" dare say that flowers» and? liot
weather and ice cream cones and" picnics
would beams» mamrtonous if - one had-*i‘to- put
up with them- tilrce hundred and si-xtysflvo
daysncm oi— the yuan r ‘t least the!» Mildew
thesturdy and out-door loving people of‘Miob—
igan. So let us: be glad, that fall and winfier
come to'give «us a- change in the scenery and
put a little pepxintomrr torpid‘l‘rvemand’ make
us hustle to keep warm. '
The other day I received a letter from a
very dear friend, a: philosophical, God-fearing
man who always seestthec sunshine back of the
clouds and the smiles behind the tears. He
said": “What a. lovely fall we have had. But
this kind of weather-cannot last much longer,
and soon old Father Winter with his gar:
ments of mantied white will be stalking-in- our
midst, and people will sit by-the cozy fires and
speculate'on what fate has instoreéfor themfl’
I sometimes wonder if God did». not have the
w'elfarmof His people as well. as the needs- of
Nation in mind when He created the seasons
and. gave one period» of enfOrced-L confinement
in the indoors where. we cobld sit. by the fire
and think over the expenisneacf the~pastand
speculate upon the future-without being called
on to crank up the flivver or drive the cowsout
of the garden. Appreciation» of thehome and
family and of. the good thingsfiof life is-never
more. keen than during, those precious hours
when-'man. basks before the warmth ofthe fire
and the smiles-of his loved ones While the
storm. rages outside. ' . ‘ _

 

Pink Billslfor Pale Raepio
T HE PRESIfiENTIA‘L poll? laboratory is

busy. Candidates am; preparing the pink-
est and most seductive pills ever offered to a
suffering public. They araguaranteed to cure
this consuming money—grabbing and money-
spending fe‘verof'the populace, and are deadly
poison to the Bolsheviki bug:

Gav. Lowden oi“ Illinois, offers the best-look-
ing piliswe'liafve yet seen advertised. Put up
in attractive-“boxes containing a complete,—oh,
very mpiete,—-d€scriptfon of their merits,
these pills ought to find a ready sale. The gov-
ernor, in" announcing his. candidacy for presi-
dent, makes the fb’rl'owing modest claims for
his pills :—

1. Will reduce federal extravagance in ap-
propriations. ‘

2‘. Will. reduce federal taxes.

3. Will reduce cost of: living.

4. Will uproot Bolshevism. -

5.. Will develop an immediate. cmstructrv
economic policy for the nation. ’

Give these: wonder-pills. to. those who. want
them, but. actor as we-prafer a difiorent kind
of pill. It can. be. black. and. bitter. as. gall,
but if ibis labelled “common sexism.” we’ll
swallow it. .

 

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hwwm «no.
m.myu‘smt¢il parts! '
mm: surnames-m ‘1
seashore-slop {And-whetmdsrme
farmers to mask "fut teeny work-
ers areibsfing mid tor‘his ‘tssks.
041: old hISBFbGRI-a «wwspmps‘Srs m
playing fth‘e me for all they no
mil!!!" em comes! mement-
tuzral :papers are‘ following the "lead. '
Just let the 1am and the-labor-
erczpwt s new tinket in the new and
IUW‘Ofl it. ' .

   

No unseen or omnipotent'power is V

going to help the farmer or the» la.—
bonersnetther‘wiitl 'mjeipmers that be,
slop tilmn .‘Iuifil they are forced
down. whomever the people «is
some if it is used in the rightad'rl-
room. We have just shaken.“
the yoke of military despotism and
now while the shaking waned isthe
time to ream, sire ‘mveor «and who
monopolizer. The farmers and the‘
laborers-should cmtrol. one «large, ma-
ttoaalrdwily paper me tram Gny»in-‘
tee-est but that of the people. Some
people believe that the only way to
get reform is to vote for the principle
but it has been proved that we can
get legislation for thepeopl-e by vot—
ing tor the man. It has been proved
by the Non—Partisans of North Da-
kota that each member pays $16.00.
The Non-Partisans furnish the fund
for their candidate to make the cam-
paign For «suite and when he gets
elected he represents the» steeple but
the old 'mctinnm‘y parties out their
men'in thefl-‘eldand aristocrats 'fu-r-
n-is‘h the {mods for campaign-s and
when clawed represents special rpriv—
isms-s. Only by keeping the farmer
and city‘m‘ker .oppwed‘toearflr oth-
er can “the oidgangistuy in power.
bet 2qu all 'pull together in 1923).—
E. W., Mdm "much. »

”Whatever We‘Mr axmntmmgfumt
the any ‘workws and who lanai-own“
farmers should unite «for political char-
nwny‘we v'feel'fll‘ke ammrhim these ques-
tions: "“2871: you 'a'fimer’?” ”Do-sou
m w' ‘myermememm a
marshals-r ion?" “Bayou-vex-
nne‘t tolbo’n‘ent by s eh an alliance as you
“WW' 'l‘he‘majdflty’ ‘bf them, "ir' they
spoke the men. we ‘ rainy as
inflows: "miss, I rm 3.2mm." “No. I
«ammo Maud. I tam:arumn£er-or i am a
mml‘hand.” "Yes, I..hwe“heen-a mem-
ber of rumor union '(or) ‘No. '1 law
never been a. masher of a sober um.
brat mind in thejclty. “Yes, I mzve plo—
litical ambitions and I m'ou‘ld like to
have ‘the united support of the tarmers
and laboring 'men." I have no‘doubt ‘but
what there are honest-to-God land-owning
and working farmers who THINK they
am mun advantage m-agficurm e in
tenemal in a. political union with - gan—‘
ized labor. My acquaintance with farm
lea‘ders ‘leads me to the conclusion, how-
ever, that the vast majority of land 0WD-
img armors are agamst such a plan, and
I know that most of the farm leaders are.
notwithstanding that some might ben-
efit politically by such a. coalition. Or—
ganized labor has everything to gain and
nothing to lose by clasping hands with
you. You have little to gain and much
to lose. Would you like to be a party to
the demands that organized labor is mak-
ing at this moment? If the coal mines
are closed down because the miners don't
get a six—hour day and a. five-day week.
would you like to be considered by the
public as being a silent sponsor for all
the loss and suffering that would result.
Do you think that the majority of the

clahns of organized labor are justified? '

Do you not suffer as much if not more
than any other class 01' people by the ar-
bitrary and exorbitant demands of a. few
visionary labor leaders? Think- before
you leap. What are the advantages you
claim exist in a. political union with 1a«
bor? ‘Who constitutes the “old gang” that
is keeping farmers ‘and laboring men
apart? Don't you realize that the farm-
ers and farm women of Michigan are
strong enough numerically to control any
state election, if they \are so nrlnd/ed'.
without being subjected to the unjust
whims ot'clty labor bosses? If we farm-
ers would lay off dreaming and visual-
mg‘and theorizing for a spell, and D0
the ‘thtngs'we sayvovught to be done, "we'd
have :no need for the questionable sup-
port of the labor unions, in electing the
right kind oi: men ~to representusF-Editor.

line been a. very close sender '01
your paper ever “hesitates been an
existence and have read many good
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tonal in direction was topoint out that
the 's'ame‘me’dom bt‘wpech should be al-
lowed alto low. is well as high, and
that‘it the mom: orator was hauled to
jail for holding “the government up to
com-n the same treatment should be ap-
plied to the. platform speaker. It in our
ml ‘to denounce the {161101313ch ‘01! the
President ‘and the government of the
United States of America we seemed to
excuse the “ogging” of Senator Reed. We
be: to be forgiven—Editor.

 

VIEWS OF AN UPPER
WLA 1mm
I thought (when 'I told you to. dis-
continue my paper that I’diad not need
R, but I still derive much benefit from
“it, by comparing prices here with
prices outside. I notice your quota-
tions 'as low .as 7 1-.2c live weight
beef «(probably county comm—d-
ent's report.) That is What the buy-
ers here offer, then charge from 2.0

.to 30 cents per pound for boiling

meat. I saw them buypotat‘oes. from
farmers at~$2 per bushel and the
same day sell them right across the
street at 75 cents a. peek. People
coming from lower Michigan price
fresh vegetables, such as tomatoes,
cucumbers-and such and find as high
as twelve times the price of the same
things in Detroit. I joined the timb-
er workers unious her-e, hoping that
in the near future we might start a
store of our own as they have done
in other tow-us, for instance, 'Munis-
ing. 1 was told they sell bacon at 28
cents which the merchants here ask
50‘cents for. -When first approached
by the union I said “No, we have
what is supposed to be the best gov-
ernment .1n the world. Why should
the people tu‘ke'matters in their OWn
hands, “but after all this noise about
extra profiteering and how the 'gov-
emment ‘W‘as going to punish those

  
  
  

 

 

 

 

 
 
    

who profiteered and then did nothing
only arrests. few producers who were

not at all to blame, ’as the example!

here in my own town sh-oWs, then
whot-good-does it do to elect oflilcers
and high dozens of paper-collared
fellows at thousands of dollars ex-
pense who do not try to get results.
It would be better to save our money
and each community paddle its own
canoe if we get no protection through
government lines.

The capitalists of today are taxing
the poor as hard as the Britains did
at the time of the Boston tea party,
and only by the states standing firm-
ly unit-ed could they overcome their
oppr-essors. The same way only can
the producer of farm products and
those who produce the labor over—
come the oppression of the trusts.
United we stand, divided welfall. The
monopolists of today are like the
salami—keepers. abusing their privil—
eges until the people must r‘ise‘up in
a body and take away from them
what they now have. I have always
been strong 01] Americani'snl but the
situation of today does not look like
Americanism and must be handled
accordingly.

From the beginning man was sel—
fish as when Cain slew his brother
Abel, and so on down through time.
When the Puritans settled this coun—
try they depended for their very ex-
istence by'uniting and helping one
another. and thereby praCticed the
Golden Rule. But as people have
grOWn richer in dollars they have
grown poorer in the grace of God
until the “first thing they know this
country will be in some such state
as Russia or others of those less—en-
lightened nations—~E. 1L. A... ‘Newbev'zzy.

 

 

Dear Edytur: ‘

' the worst of it.

seen the Parson, but he didn’t.

 

 

 

   
  
  
 

 
 

 

'What air we goin‘ to do with them airyplanes?
life hell for my cows who don’t do nothin' during the day but keep
their eyes on the horrison and their tails between their legs. lookin' for
them flyin’ devils, an’ my bhiekens air so scairt of the whirr of them
engines that they drop their eggs wherosoever they may be when one
of them 'm-achjnes flys over the farm.
when I tell you that Parson Peters was out to the farm the other day and
got hit smack in the eye with an egg that oncpf them crazy hens laid
just as she was passin’ between the Parson‘s vision and one of them
airypdanes in her frenzied effurts to find refoogc.
While the Parson was prancing around fishin’ the egg

out of his eye and tryin’ to get a bolt onto his temper, Old Barney bust-
. ed‘ his halter strap and came toarin’ out of the barn. He’d oughter
Be jest brushed past the Parson right
where his coat tails ported and the Parson was percipitatcd square into
ther tub of water that stood by the pump.
'morttfyd in my life ‘nnd when I é-lsetlpcd the Parson out of the tub I tried
to make him see that it wasn't-old Barney’s fault and if it hadn’t been
for that goldarned airyphme it wouldn't have happened,‘only I spoke
wuss than that but not as wvuss as the Parson spoke when he came out
attire bub. Anyway the water washed off the rest of the egg and the
Parson dumb into ”his buggy in high dungeon and went ‘homeand Mi-
randy was horror-fled and said didn't I have no respect for the clergy?
‘And Wrwh'y I’m asleim’ you, what air we going to do with them
y 8313351131133? Ifyou’ve .got any .suggeslnn to make please do so and I .
i will. make "it mu your while by renewin’ my paper ‘for another six h

Yours

Airvale, Mjch.. Nov. 1, 1919.

They're" makin’

Mcbbc you won’t believe me

But that wusn‘t

Dear me, I never was so

in angziety.
”JOHN JOHNSON JONES.

        
      
 
  
  
    
   
   

  
  

 

 

  

~' mm hm , '
Woods. ‘But I (tenths;

about ’
advocate the

so splendidly
statue of God,

, others have
' property by more w-hichanne
not pleasing in thought of God and atom.
The. xmrld is full of Calais who are flayw
ling their broth; ;- .»\-‘be‘ls, through. the WS-
sion of their .«t ’..--lmess. But Will 302!
think any be‘m'r of the A'bels if .fliey
turn and flirty their brother,Cains? Ag-
riculture is too big a giant to play the
part of Abel. And ngriwl‘ture has Itoo
big a. heart‘to be a Cain. You’ve (seen
pictures of giant of mythology,
who supported the earth upon liisgneat
shoulders, haven‘t you. Well, somehow.
the farmer, personif‘ying agriculture. re—
minds me constantly of Atlas. He its. bit;’
and he actually supports the earth. when!
it seems Just as ridiculous for this M
Agriculture to whimper or go into a
rage because 'of unjust ‘burdens use It
would be for Atlas to shed tears «or hr—
dulge in tantrums boom some umhl'y
pigmy pulled hiS'ihair: Absolutem’tml
of the earth lies within the hands :of‘thh
organized farmers. “They have thepow-
er, by peaceful and legal mea‘nsto’mmm
the laws and reflect men to 1mm Who
laws. If they do not exercise volvrisupower
who can pity them her the museum“
of their Mummne?~—-‘Edmr.

I am enclosing a clipping and I
think it of sufiicient interest and
‘wish you might publish it in your
paper so that your readers maykrnow
and i wish every farmer in the state
and in the United States for that
matter might know the fat-is here
stated. I am at present am empdmm
in the Buick Mover (lompany‘srp'lant.
I see and know these things first
hand. I also know that while man--
.nfaczturing companies are paying the
highest wag-es ever paid no one is
satisfied for when the laboring mz‘n
goes out to spend his earnings he
gets little in exchange for it. I saw
a statement in the Grand Rapids
News lately of earnings of General
Motors Company. The net Win-gs
for first six months of present your
were in routed numbers 48 millions
of Gum-0111'!) investment bf'izmo
imillions. Every dormer should quit
farmingirandago into the man-Mur—
ing game. It does not require so
lunch nhilhty’zas farming.

Unitas condttions change atom
Michigan .will be abandoned. "Irv-o
good bands will earth a better inning
in Flint than macs-t nary Numb Wi—
gan farm this year. it‘s dead wrong
for farmers to flock to the cities but
what shall we do? Liv-e on Johnny
cake and Wear old clothes or‘get'mxt.
I for one propose to hold on to my
form for a life in the open is the best
life in the world to lead, but newer-
t’iheless just now it will be necessary
ilor thousands to leave northern
Michigan or starve. They say,
”You’re no tanner or this would not
be true.” They lie and the truth is
not in them. All this dirty ta’lik
against the flamers is camouflage to
cover up their own crookedness.
When a merchant sells an article for
10 or a 100 times what it costs he is
a. good business man, but. if a farmer
should have a, good crop and strike
one of these rare yours when the
price is good he is a hog if nothing
worse. The GEI‘llllLllS were gentle-
men beside many of our present day
business men. They went out to kill
and destroy. They made no pretense
of beingnnything else, but the mod-
ern business man tries to make you
think he is your friend. but a high~
way robber is a gentlemen beside
bim.———Geo. A. M., Ir'I/in t. Mich.

You statement about business men is
pretty sweeping. Granting all that you
say is true concerning the enormous prof-
its of certain butnufacturing concerns
who are making a popular commodity and
whose profiteering should undoubtedly be
curbed and punished, the same does not
apply to the average business man. Manly
manufacturing profits are large.
newspapers never tire of telling about
the "gains," "'proflts," ”melons" and
other evidences of prosperity in the mans
ufaeturing business. The Wet prom

. appear to be in the manufacture of com
essentials. That is the reason why the“
is so little public outcry against them.
I drink you will find that the average bui-
lnoss neurone grocer. the hardware mor-
clnrst, the clothing dealer, the shoe man.

etc.. are mid-rig only a reasonable Fe-r'

turn on their investment. Mr «profit
per unit of goods sold may appear to. be
exorbitant, .
large. our .0 servation showsaus, ’ ti)
average- more}: t or the avenue-atom g, ‘
city mly becomes hidependonthr: "
off. like fifflex is thgtt tgiwwamud
many 11 t ‘s nose so int. n .
?few in thein . ' '
WWM’ i

xl't

fiorcible censure .of thym-
erty of others even if was»
acquired their

Miss, “

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but we wilHat-erftry to“ find‘ispacclfor nor:
9 tions of it. I am sure that, our readers
would be interested, in knowing who t: '-

costs ‘to manufacture well-known articles
and what the profits of the-makers. are
reputed to be.—-Editor. ’

OPPOSES BEAN TARIFF

I want to compliment you on your
handling of public questions in your
issue of October 25. You have vis—
ion—and courageu Too many news—
papersmand especially agricultural
publications, are afraid to have opin-
ions fo'r fear of offending subscrib-
ers. ' ' ' ' .

In your page on “What the Neigh—
bors say,” I' notice Mr. Martin’s

“capitalist.” Mr. Martin is right;
the farmer is not a capitalist in the
accepted understanding of that word.
There are three factors in produc-
tion—land, labor and capital. The
ownership of land does not make the'
farmer a capitalist. The formula
runs about as follows.

Labor applied to land produces
wealth; wealth applied to the pro-
duction of more wealth is called cap—
ital. Now the farmer is a land own-
er, a laborer and a capitalist, but his
interest in the capital end of the pro—
gram is so slight and his interest in

capitalist interests are completely
submerged by the labor interests.

The farmer is above all things a
wealth producer. Of course he is
compelled to exchange some of that
wealth forplows, cultivators. etc.,
and these are actually capital
wealth used to help him produce
more wealth; yet he is primarily con-
cerned about labor, and it is eco—
nomically wrong to 'put him in any
other class. His interests and the
interests of wage workers are ident—
ical, and the sooner they do “team
work” the better it will be for the
country.

I think you are wrong in advocat—
ing a tariff on beans. Granted the
bean grower . will be benefltted
(though of this I am not sure.) it
will be made an excuse for exploit-
ing farmers generally to accept tar-
iff duties on a hundred things they
need and which make these articles
much more expensive to them.

The few dollars some farmers
3 will gain on beans will be taken
, away from farmers generally, twice
‘ over on the prices they will pay for
. tariff protected articles.

As a rule the tariff is simply a grab
game. As heretofore worked in Am—
' crica, it has benefittcd only a con1~
‘ paratively few manufacturers—never
; wealth producers whether in factor-
. ies or on farms. Wages are lowest,
iin “protected” industries, and the
proportion of American workers in
these tariff—protected industries is in-

 

 

variably also thc lowest. Show me
.21 tariff protected industry of any
proportion, and I' ' will show you ;.

(almost) except Americans. ‘ ’And'
they work the longest hours at the

smallest pay, andglive in tlle'l'lllVOSi

unsanitary li'a'bitations. , ’

, Regarding “‘Bublic Ownership,”
which you advocate in thejright spir—
it, my “formula’? as to what is a pub-
lic utility, and therefore ought to be
public property; isn little different
from yours. I think monopolies ought
to be publiclyowned. But what is
a monopoly? Well, anything that in—
volves the use of public property for
private profit. To be sure the line

between what is public business and

what is private enterprise is variable;

it depends on circumstances. But

surely there ought to beno differ—
ence of opinion regarding the danger

of allowing our great. highways to

be privately owned and the public

exploited. The same is true of water

systems, postdffice‘ business, light ‘nnd

heat—Judson- Grcncll, Ann Arbor,‘
Mich, secretary Michigan Site-Value

'Taa: League. ‘

, Your complimentary remarks make me
want to agree With all you have said, but
I'am afraid I cannot do so. How can the
interest of the farmer and the wage-
worker be identical with those offlhis em:
ployer, When all interests are common in-
ter‘e‘sts? ‘ As a. matter of fact all ‘inter—
ests are common. .. But until the minority
of wage-earners, farmers and capitalists
realize that injustice of any kind is a
boomerang which‘al‘wa s Worksuit-s-way
d natty comes back
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wonder at the farmer being called a‘ -

the labor end is so great, that his ,

working th'erejcve'ry, nation Honour-m .

_ ing ing requirement: “1‘ *' "F F Su
.right of wayfences shall be prov - ’ '

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far apart. - That the average farmer finds -

itineccssary to. workginthe fields with his
hired;men does not make his relations to
his hired men the same as the relations
between one hired man and Another. The
farmer holds ' exactly the“ same position
With respect to his hired help as the small
manufacturer. does to his hired help. Both

 
 

work with and among their employees

Yet, you would not class ths'thous‘ands
of small manufacturers among their Wage
workers. It IS economically 'wrong to

put the farmer in the capitalist class. if
you accept the commonly accepted though
incorrect interpretation of that phrase.
But it is equally Wrong to put him among
the'wage—earning class. As- I pointed out

" . é'Viilii f . us 5/.
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. :80 turns the tariff .onbeem‘s- p
ed. I might remind you‘that those Who exe
ploit .the farmers need, * no -' further

   

‘ interests of ,'

excuse for seeking writs en' the - things L

the farmer has to buy. ’They' have been
soaking the farmer: right end'left. Now
the farmer has a. chance ‘to. do a little
(soaking on his own account,‘ so why dis-
courage him? Isn’t it going a. bit far
to theorize ‘as to the effect of the bean
tariff on other tariffs when virtual ruin
stares the bean grower 'in the face as a.
result of the Japanese competition? If
you've got any defense to offer against
the competition of the cheap labor of the
Orient, we’d be pleased to have you sub-
mit it.—Edltor. ~

 

 
 

(IA Clearing Department for farmers’

tention given to on oomplnlnts or requests'
meet. We on her. to serve you.) '

 

USE THIS DEPARTMENT

MICHIGAN Business Farming was

one of the first form papers in the
United States to‘ put in a “Service De-
partment” through which «subscribers
might secure informationuipon any and
all topics. The, volume of questions
submitted to this department shows
us that our judgment was good. In
this department we aim to be of per-
sonal service to individual subscrib-
ers, and questions from perplexed read-
ers are welcomed. No question is too
difficult for us to at least attempt to
find an answer to. No matter what.
your difficulty, feel free to submit the
case to us and our editorial staff will
do its best to solve the problem.—
Editor.

 

 

 

AN ABANDONED ROAD

A strip of road running north and
south in Osceola county is about two
rods east of line. Mr. O owns land
along this road and there has been
about $200 worth of work put on new

road, but it is impassable yet. He.

claims he can build a fence along on
each side of track on old road within
six inches of wagon track, which
would stop traffic and he claims he
will arrest anyone that undertakes to
do improvement work on the old'
road which is in a very bad condi.
tion. This road has been in use for
over 30 years. Could this be done or
not?——A Reader, Osceola, County.

Unless old road has been abandon-
ed by lawful proceedu-re its use for
that length 0f time would make a
public highway and he wouldyhave no
right to interfere with'its use. unless
its use for the 30 years was merely
permissive upon the part of the own-
er and no claim upon the part of the
public that it was a highway.-—W. E.
Brown, legal editor.

 

PARTY REFUSES TO BUILD

A and B agree to build the line
fence between them. A‘builds his
share. but B does not. A cannot use
the land for pasturetlll. B- gets his
‘share built. Would it be neCeSSary
for A to give B any number of days’
notice before A builds it for him?
Will you. please, advise through your
paper at your earliest convenience?—
A Subscriber, Sherman, Mich.

The statute provides that if either
party refuses or neglects to erect and
maintain the part of any fence us-
signed to him the fence viewers may
give him notice of reasonable time, in
which to build the fence and if he
fails to build the same the other oc-
cupant of the adjoining land may
build the some. By taking proper
steps and serving proper notices the
cost and expense may be assessed
against the delinquent owner. It‘is
quite a difficult procedure? and
should not be undertaken except with
the assistance 0f competent advisor-—~
W. E. Brown, legal editor.

RAILROAD 'FA-ULT ‘ j
,Has a railroad any right to remove
the cattle guards from-crossing high-
way, without replacing» them again?
——E. J. W., Gad/lilac. -
The statute concerning fencing of
railroad tracks contains the follo -
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everydiyt troubles. Prompt, not I. t-
for information sddrossod to'_ is d:ps:t-

trackaof the railroad at such highway
or street crossing.” The Supreme
Court has decided that “A railroad
company is under obligation to pro-
vide and maintain cattle guards and
connecting fences at the point where
its fenced tracks leave its unfenced
yard.”——W. E. Brown, legal editor.

HIRED HAND BREAKS AGREE-
MENT g ‘ .
A hires"B in the. spring for eight
months work.
wood. a house to live in and a gar-
den spot but after five months work
and being overpaid $30 B'is dissatis-
fied and quits. He continues to live
in A’s house but is working by the
day for neighboring farmers. A
wants B to get out but the man will
not go until his garden has been har-
vested. Can B stay?——A Subscriber.
If B makes a. contract’to work for
eight months and quits work before
theeight months are-up, he is liable
for damages to his employer. Such
damages are usually estimated upon
a basis of being all that it costs his
employer to have the work completed,
for the contracted time less the
amount he would have paid to B. If
B simply had the house to live in
while he worked for his employer
and quits Work he must quit house
also or be liable to his employer for
all damage, use and occupation for
the unlawful detention of the house.
——W. E. Brown, Legal Editor.

CAN.HOLD CROP FOR DAMAGES

I have a little proposition that I
would like to know the outcome of.
A man put in three acres of cats us-
ing his “manure on a. piece of land
not owned by him, doing the plowing.
harrowing and drilling, now the
party that owns the farm offers him
$42.50 for his work on the three
acres, but he said his’ work amounted
to $89.75 which I think is ridiculous
for three acres. Now if the owner
of the land cut «the cats, what would
the outcome be, there being no agree-
ment between the two parties—~13. 0’.
L.

If the man who put in the crop
was a mere trespasser in putting in
the-crops then he has no right to
the crop himself but if it was merely
understood that he might put in the
crop then he has the right to harvest
it and if the owner of the land cuts
it without permission he is liable to
damages for his, acts of trespass. If
the man lawfully put in the crop he
Can not be compelled to sell to the
owner except upon his own price. If,
however, he was a trespasser in put-
ting in the crop but did no damage
to. the owner; and the owner refused
to treat him as a tenant but appropri-
ated. the crop and thereby the work
and labor and the manure furnished,
then he would have to pay what the
'crop was reasonably worth—W. E.
,zB'roum‘ legal editor. ., _- _-

 

DIVORCE-SUIT AND SEPARATiion.
‘ Can It husband sue. his wife torso

divorce and still stay in the signs"
house with _ her and, child? : ,Pecpl'o
tell mono. he cannot. Please-let'frne

, know'ifu you _Will.‘—~Th,e Mothje‘r. ' "
‘ A husband-may still; 1 " '

Jamaal...
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onderful _ Response

Michigan State Farm Bureau

Goes “Over the Top’ ’

Never before in history has agriculture displayed such
keen endorsement as it’lhas given the Michigan State Farm
Bureau since the campaign for membership began.

;’As you already know, the campaign opened in Oakland

County on October 15th. ‘

Solicitors entered and canvassed one township at'a time.

A Record

on October 28th, reports for the first twelve days of‘ the
campaign were telephoned and wired to the Secretary’s
office in/Birmingham, Michigan. Here they are in brief:

Number of working days . . . . . . 12
Number of townships in Oakland County canvassed 10
Total number of farmers actually solicited . ' . 720
Total number of membership checks signed . . 634

Eighty-eight and one‘eijghteenth per cent (881/1870)

' of" all farmers Visited joined.

What Happened in the First Township

The wonderful response that met the solicitors in the first
township visited is just'an example of the enthusiasm that
the Michigan State Farm Bureau organization has awakened
throughout the state: 4

Addison Township was first. Just about a year ago, ,3 ) C.,

B. Cook, Oakland County Agricultural Agent, travelled
into this same township in the northeastern corner of the
county to confer with a group of prOminent farmers on the
organization of a cooperative buying and selling association.

“Nothing doing,” was the greeting Cook received. “Why
you’ll never get the farmers up here to back a proposition
like that; they’re the deadest crowd anywherein the county.”

However, knowing this territory was virtually solidly de-
voted to agriculture, it was decided by the Michigan State
Farm Bureau Membership Campaign Organization that if
the drive’Were 'started there it would show conclusively
whether the farmers of Michigan are alive to the need of
an organization to promote and protect their interests.

Six solicitors entered'Addison Township in the morning.

When night came, ninety per cent (90%) of the farmers in

Addison Township were members of the Michigan State
Farm Bureau.

Some Examples

It is interesting to get down to specific examples and
realize the enthusiastic reception that the Michigan State
Farm Bureau solicitors received.

Some men approached wanted to pay, on the spot, for three
years’ dues. Others wanted to put $50 or $100 behind the
Michigan State Farm Bureau movement, and when told that
one $10 membership was all that a man could have. they
took out memberships for different members of their family.

One farmer, 75 years old, who has lived all his life on the
farm told the solicitor who visited him, “I am glad to see
the farmers of the state waking up. It’s time.” '

Some. Were Missfled—And Why

Canvassers report that a great number of farmers were not
at home when they called. These men who were missed are
now asking for the opportunity of joining. They will be
given this opportunity at a later :late by a local man in each
community.

Response is Sta te- :Wide

Every mail coming to the Secretary’s office at Birmingham
is full of letters from various counties requesting that they
"be put on the canvass list immediately. Thirteen counties
are now in line for the campaign and organization plans are
being completed for them. At least a dozen others are ask—
ing for next place on the list.

Farmers from all over the state are writing in to the
Secretary’s office stating that they want a chance to assist
in some way to help complete this great organization.

The Michigan State Farm Bureau expects to have, within
two weeks, solicitors from the ranks of the farmers of the
state which will enable them to complete the work in each
county in at least two weeks’ time.

From 'now on, the work will move rapidly. If your county
is anxious to join in with this movement right from the
start, it is none too early now to communicate withthe
Secretary of the Michigan State Farm Bureau and solicit
his organization assistance for the earliest possible moment.

The success of the Michigan State Farm Bureau is an

assured fact. The farmers are stirred up as they never -

were before. The great majority of the 200,000 farmers of
the state will soon be “Organized for Business.”

. C. A. BINGHAM, Secretary

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State Farm Bureau

 

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WEEKLY TRADE AND MARKET
,, . The condition of the grain markets
= ,zi'bontinues to improve, and the pre-

   
 
    
 
  
    
  
   
   
    
  
 
 
  
  
 
 
  
  
  
  
  
    
    
   
  
    
    
    
  
    
   
   
     
   
    
    
   
  
  
   
 
     
   
   
   
   
   
   
  
   
  
   
 
  
  
 
 
  
      
   
   
 
   
  
   
   
     
   
   

‘01 M. B. F. that markets would
strengthen and prices range \higher
fire being verified. The biggest pres-
t obstacle to a strong bull market
the acute industrial situation.
, Farmers ought to love their friends,
the labor leaders, for bringing about
such a chaos in industrial affairs as
exists today.
i The coal strike is of consuming
' ~‘. Importance to the entire country.
Nearly half a million coal miners
have left their work, and the nation’s
industry is slowly entering an era of
‘ paralysis which will shortly become
- complete unless the strike is settled.
Present indications are that. enough
of the miners will go back to work
. in defiance of the strike order to des-
_. troy the effectiveness of the strike, in
' which ,case the crisis will soon be
over. Untold suffering and financial
loss will result if the strike is con-
tinued indefinitely. Excepting for
3 the uncertainty that exists as a re-
) sult of the strike general business,
financial and market conditions are
encouraging. It is said that foreign
, nations are arranging further bank:
'. lng credits with American bankers
and will soon be in the market for
; enormous quantities of our commodi-
ties, of which food will form an im-
portant item. If normal business
Conditions prevail the next few
? months, we may reasonably expect
. great improvement in the markets
for farm crops.

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‘ WHEAT TERMINALS CONGESTED

 

mngmcser-zs VBUSHEL, Nov. 4, 1919‘
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No. 2 Red ..... 2.24 2.24 2.85
No. 2 White 2.22

No. 2 . Mixed

 

pleases—.51“...

 

M.-. ‘Grade' :fiilDetroltthhlcagoi NIT.
N0. 2 Red ..... 2.22 2.21 i 2.34
No. 2 White 2.20 2.21 2.34
No. 2 Mixed 2.20 2.20 I 2.33.

 

 

 

The car shortage which is new be—
ing felt. in nearly every state has
been the cause of much congestion
at points where wheat is in storage
for domestic re-shipment and export.
’l‘he wheat market is showing increas—
ed strength and we look for higher
prices within a short time.

We have a very indignant letter
from Milo Campbell protesting vig-
orously against the policy pursued by
the administration with reference to
the wheat embargo. It seems that
several months ago a secret export
embargo was placed on wheat in or-
der to “make the price cheaper to
the American consumer," but now
that the major part of the crop is in
the hands of the elevators and job-
bers it is proposed to lift the embar—
go. Foreign nations are very much
in need of American wheat and it
requires no foresight to see what
would happen to the price if the em.—
bargo is removed and free exporta-
tion permitted. Here is one more
mistake that may be added to the
voluminous list made by the present
administration simply because the
farmers had no man as secretary of
agriculture or to act in any other ad-
visory capacity to the President to
present their claims.

 

7 com: PRICES PER 30., NOV. 4, 19197
‘ Grade 7 [Detroit IChicagoi N. V.“
N0. 2 Yellow .. .l 1.60 l 1.53 1.10
i No. 3 ‘r’cllcw .l 1.60
,' .l 1.58
i

lilo. .4 Yellow .. +_
PRiCEs ONE YEAR AGO

 

 

 

_ _~»_:'7Grade iDetroit [Chicagol HIV:
N0. 2 Yellow 1.45 l 1.39 1.53
No. 3 Yellow 1.35 l 1.35 ' 1.48

‘, No. 4 Yellow 1.35 l 1.23 1.43

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'Wet weather. car shortage, ins-

.pmnent in labor conditions in
ping circles. bullishness of farm-
‘ and improved hog market are.
the quintet of reasons given for the
recent improvement in corn. Last
leek corn gained a total of Go on
,, e-Detroit market and about 40.011 ,
She Chicago market. There are still

dictions made in the last two issues.

e believers in lower corn . prices

 

 

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the market page is set in type.
' within one-half hour of going to press.—-—Editor.

 

month. ,Corn'advanced Zc.

firm.

Corn advanced; at a, bushel yesterday;
oats, éc; rye, 3&1; Buyers lay advance andmioity of supplies to '
farmers ‘who are unwilling to sell at present 1091' levels. Beans, lit-
tle firmer, buttrading dull. Cattle IWeI. Slicep steady. Hogs firm.
' ‘ CHICAGO—Nov. 6th.—Greatest strength in grains in over
Great activity all grains. Dealers
unable to get enough to fill December contracts. Farmers blamed
for scarcity. Hogs 20c higher, top price $15.10. Cattle and ’sheep

   
   
  

  
  

 

 

 

(Note: The above summarized wiles are. received munch ballrnee of
They contain last minute information up to

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market "declined from $7 to $6.75.
_ and awe go to press this week the
market is without life. The different
_ market prognosticators present var-
ious reasons for the. decline. One
firm that has been particularly in—
sistent that beans would not go low-
er are blaming the “shorts" for the
. present condition, but if the “shorts"
are at fault, they have plenty of
ammunition to back them. up. No
matter how strong may be the bear-
ish influence of firms that have sold
short and must seek low-vpriced beans
there comes a time when a greater
influence, the law of supply and de~
mand defeats their efforts. If it is
true that there is a present demand
for Michigan beans that will permit
the elevatOrs to payrefarmers $7 per
cwte as, claimed by some, that price
shmld soon prevail. We are not so
optimistic, however. Granting that
the “shorts" are bearing the market
and that the present price is unwar-

 

 

 

rantably low, we cannot see any hope

 

 

but as a trade paper points out they

are “in the minority.”

The trade

generally and the farmers are talk—
ing of higher corn prices, and we be-
lieve the recent strength that has de—

veloped is only a starter.

Export

business has been greatly hampered
by the strike of the longshoremen but
we. are assured that most of these

have gone back to work and that the-

export movement will pick up soon.

OATS QUOTED HIGHER

Oats did not. show as much

strength last week as corn, but never—

theless it advanced 1@2c per bushel
on nearly all

markets. Normally

oats should be showing considerable
strength as it is not only influenced
by all the conditions that are stimu-
lating the corn market, but in addi—
tion the crop is very short and deal-
ers need not fear lower prices.

RYE AND BARLEY BOTH PICK UP

 

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A little export business is being
done in both. rye and barley and high-
We have
repeatedly stated that rye was at an
abnormally low figure in comparison
with the. price of wheat, but that lack
of export demand was responsible.
With the increased demand from for- '-
eign countries, we argued, rye should
Germany is 8.

er prices are anticipated.

do very much better.

great rye bread eating country and "

is expected sooner or later to be- WEE—FLEET}, SlszZd (8.31119
come a large purchaser of American Detroit ..... 2.05 " 2.55T
grown rye. The crop is short and Salim?“ """"" Egg E'ggx
any large purchases for oversea ship. 19131ka 2265 “2150

ment is bound to boost, the price. P'Riés'sw'DNE‘YEAR use” a
Keep your eye on the rye market. Detroit ...... 732.7"... 2.1 ""2106

Detroit’ prices: $1.36@1.38 N0. 2 Sixth '.'.'.'.'.:::::::::il»:Zs 1:173

rye; $2.60@2.75 NOV. 3 barley.' New VOI‘k .............. 12.5er 2.40

BEANS STILL WEAK

 

for higher prices until after the first
of the year. We hepe we-are mis—
taken in this. In any case, bean
growers will do well to sit tight and
watch developments. Today’s price
to the farmer is too 1011. Wait till
the market strengthens before sell-
ing your crop.

 

POTATOES s'rnamc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There was very little doing .last
week in the potato deal. The move-
ment was moderate, less than‘ the

 

 

 

 

PRICES ONE YEAR AGO

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ssnnrlneas PER cw1'.. Nov. 1,4919

_____Grado |Detr0i;t_lwchlcago~*l N. Y._
c. H. P. ....... 6.15 1.75 1.15.
Prime ......... 6.50 1.25 1.25
Red KldpeyLu 11. 0_ 13.00 13.50?

Kennashls are quotefitWSGJS infiflewvirle-i

previous week, and the demand was
just fair. There were few price
changes and those upward. Farmers
in all states are free sellers, but the
movement is somewhat handicapped
by lack of cars. The present week
opens with a stronger feeling. Prices
to producers in Michigan have in-

 

Grade Detroit Chicago I N. Y.

. . P. ...... 9.00 10.50 10.75
Prime ........ 8.00 9.50 1 0.25
Red Kidneys . . . . 1.050 11.06 11.512

 

The bean market shows no im-
Last week the Detroit

provement.

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creased slightly over the previous
week, western Michigan points re- ’
porting as high as $1.10@ 1.15 per
bushel to the producer. We have'
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THE-WEATHER

‘ As Forecasted by W. '1". Foster for

Foster's Wathar Chart for 1919

 

WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 8, 1919.
—W’arm waves wil reach Vancouver
about Nov. 9, 15 and 21 and temper—
atures will’ rise on all the Ped‘fllc
Slope. They will cross crest of Rock-
ies by close of. 10,. 16 and 22: plains
sections 11, 17‘ and 23; meridian: 20,
great lakes. middle Gulf States. 011.10—
T‘ennessee valleys 12, 18‘ and 24; east-
ern sections 13, 19 and 25, reaching
vicinity of Newfoundland about Nov.
14, 20 and 26. Storm waves will to]-
low about one day behind warm waves
and cool waves about one day behind
storm waves.

These disturbances will dominate
the weather of North America from
near Nov. 9 to near Nov. 26. Near
Nov. 9 the storm forces will be at their
greatest intensity but no great storms
are expected. Quiet weather is ex-
pected from 14 to 18 an dvery severe
storms from 20 to 28. It requires four
or five days for these storms to cross
the continent from Pacific to: Atlan ic
coast and the reader should ta e
enough interest in the newspaper re-
ports to know where these storms
are every day; then these forecasts
will be 0t much- m'eaten value.

Brain and snow. fallsou that suds of
the high and. 10a! nearest the. piece
from whence. comes. the moisture. At
time of tile- storms ipned as
the. W that. .119“ will! be;
evapo ted‘ in the cam an and
Gulf of Mexico and therein“ the”
and 'snow will fall on 1121‘ W-
eldes oaths highs and low‘. The law-
mWstorm centers into W. a”

cluods assemble, the warmestiewe her”-
oceurring in their southeast qua to.
The highs bring the cool._clear

 

 

 

F O R T H E W E E K.
MICHIGAN BUSINESS FABMNG

weather. Frosts are expected to ex-
tend‘ southward following each of
these storm periods and most precip~
flatten is expected south of the high
ridges that run east and west. .Tem-
perotures of this. 1.2 day period
expected to average a. little warmer
than usual east. of the Rackies crest
and‘ a little cooler than usual west of
that line. Average‘of cropweather for
winter grain and for picking cotton
and gathering corn will be fair. Keep
your pickets alert for the bad. storms
Nov. 20 to 28..

These bulletins have long urged that
the agricultural element more thor-
oughly organize, This. necessitymust
be apparent to all close observers.
The word capital, now so much in use
in our public affairs, has particular
reference to large wealth that exten-
sively employs wage labor. These two
elements are rocking the boat. They
and their dependents may represent
three million people, old and young.

‘ Those employed in-agriculture number

about forty millions and their Wealth
is at least as large as that of capital
and labor combined. This leaves
about fifty-four millions of people not
directly interested in. what are term—
ed capltal and labor. but very much
interested in their products. I refer
to the states only. .

If the three million cannot agree
and in their bitter struggle threaten
to tear down the temple. the ,ntl
which would ruin the ninety-seven
millions of people in the states. A
can doubt what will happen? In this
thumtcned destruction of our race, the
amie'ultural elements, which. include
my all the We in agricultural

’ sections. the farm. punter-audited:-

er, WW come: a remforc ,m
1on well e
ery country on' E‘arfiz. is much in the
m. ' .M- ‘ states. m
Sam must lead the W min. and
again he will, rescue our race, as
did in. thoagyeat world war.

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year’s potato market. and. we feel .
that this confidence is shared by both
producers and shippers,

 

APPLES DECLINE
Extremely warm weather prevailed
in the east last week and had a very

”I bad effect upon the apple market.

In addition, the strike of the long-
sheremen prevented the export ship-
ment of quite a quantity which had
to be sold in New York City causing
a temporary flooding of the market.
The present. condition of. the market
can be expected to continueuntil the
weather becomes colder and the ex-
port movement again picks up. Ap-
ples are selling. ‘at retail in the city
of Mount Clemens for 1,0@15c a,
quart. Farmers are receiving not
to exceed $2.50 per bushel, mostly
$2, so it is plain that someone “in
between” is taking the‘usual toll.

 

ONIONS FIRM}

The onion market rules steady to .
firm. Prices in Detroit on the yellow
varieties run about $3.50@3.75.
Cleveland and Chicago markets re-
port sales as high as $4.50 per 100»
lb. sack.

 

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The grape season is rapidly com—
ing to a close. pmtlcally: all of the
remainhgsu , ,beinl‘ahleldvin “the
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4 were recently made in New York at,
. $130 per ton. Catawbas are also be-
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A NEW VOCATION FOR WOMEN

‘ OMEN WHO are obliged to
V‘/ earn their own living and have
a liking for the great out of
Wdoors as well as those women of. the
farm's who have a little spare time
and are anxious to earn some money
of their own, will find the work of a
medicinal garden most fascinating.
Not until 1ecently has it come to
the attention of 0111 people that me-
dicinal plants, which have such a

high value could be successfully and ‘

profitably raised in Michigan. Since
the industry started, the number of
women engaging in this line of work

has brought to the attentiOn of men.

the fact that it was opening up a new
way of earning a living for women.

The best grade of seeds must be se-
cured so that a uniform quality of
plants can be secured, and at first it
will probably be better for the novice
to attempt. but one or two plants,
such as peppermint Which has been
found to thrive in Kalamazoo county.
and Where the industry has attained
importance

Last yeal the Un‘ivers1lty,ot Michi-
gan made a special study test of
these gardens and is now prepared
to give advice to anyone wishing to
undertake the work. They will tell
you what plants are best suited to the
soil and climate where you live and
how to secure the seeds and where to
market your product as well as giv-
ing expert advice on the cultivation
and curing of the drug plants and
preparing them for market.

YOUR PERSON '5' “' . REP R ESENTA-

TIVE

NDER head of “Personal Service

Shopping Bureau,” the editor

has attempted help you supply
your needs. It is not our desire or
intention to buy for you what your
home merchant handles, but in every
small town there is a multitude of lit-
tle necessities which a woman finds
dead for as well as some 0f the little
frills and fads which she would like
that the small town merchant could
not afford to stock up on. It is to fill
this need that this service has been
instituted. Remember there is noth-
ing you may not need which cannot
be secured, and the large city shops
and department stores are replete
with just the little things you would
like for Christmas. Let me suggest a
few of the things I have seen in the
stores which would make excellent
gifts and which I am sure your own
merchant cannot supply you with,
for the small sum of $1.

There’s a wonderful rubberized
apron which has a bib that extends
well down to cover the skirt which
comes in a check which can hardly be
told from gingham. There are three
colors to choose from_ blue and white,
pink and white, and black and White.
These are invaluable for wash day.
and will save a pile of laundry work
if Worn all the time when doing the
toughest of your household tasks.
When soiled, you simply lay them
flat on a table and wash them off
with a cloth or sponge. Surely they
will repay any housewife in time as
well as energy. They are also a good,
practical gift. Oh. and there are small
child-size ones for only 50c which
make a wonderful feeding apron as
they almost cover the little tots.

Who is there who has enough
handkerchiefs? Personally we buy
only everyday handkerc‘hiefs, know-
ing full well that when anyone is un-
‘ decided what to give us they will
know that they are perfectly safe in
choosing. a- dainty handkerchief, and
so we sort of hold off getting any
pretty handkerchiefs ‘ until after
Christmas. For the woman of quiet
taste there are the dainty embroider—
ed pure white ones or the fine ones
With a tiny hemstitched border and

the initial neatly embroidered in the .

corner, A very good value can be
secured in these handkerchiefs, three

a dollar, all boxed in a pretty
Then for the girl's
those brightly col-

tmasi box.’
11.131 adore".

 

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ored little “hankys” so much in

vogue now which match the suits or .

lend their brilliance to another wise
'conservative out'fit, an equal number
can be secured for the same amount.

If. you want Something which will
please small son or brother a. flash
light with batteries Which can be re-
placed, will surely set him smiling
on Ch1istmas morn.

Another gift which is always a safe
one to give when you are in doubt
as to just what‘tzhe--~recipient-may de-
sire, is a box of plain, good 'white
stationery. Better the small-sized
box with the good quality paper, than
the fancy b0x for as sure as you in-
dulge in the gayly decorated Chi'ist-
mas boxes, you will find that the
quality of therpaper is inferior,

However, the above are Simply sug-
gestions. You who are with the mem-
bers of yohr family daily. hear them
wishing for some little luxury'they
cannot afford and resolve to get it for
them. Do‘not despair if you cannot

ALL SUMMER long it stood out
there
A slripltng trcc‘
poor.
The field that mothcrcd it seemed
bar'c
As any
moor;
I saw it first one sunny day
As I was passing in a train
And something in me seemed to
says
“Thole stands a tree which 97 cw
in vain.’

ill—shaped and

wind-blown Scottish

Behind it were the distanthills
On which were ranged majestic
trees,

fills
No place in Nature’s harmonies.
This is an outcast from its clan
Deserted by its fellow-kind,
01’ little use to God or man.”
And. then I dropped it out of
mind. .

Then came a (lay in autumn. when
The woods with gold seemed all
ablazu
I passed along that way again
And turned upon the scene to
gaze.

 

 

Edited by- MABEL CLARE LADD

Thé Lone, Tree

“Surely,” thought I, “this wealcllng I

sends us the following very excellent
suggestions as to the method of can-
ning without sugar:

Fruit Canning \Vhen Sugar Is Short

; Having noticed your‘ editorial on
the sugar shortage and the difficulty»

farm wives have in obtaining it for
their canning, I must say a ..word Of
course “it is possible it is more con-
venient to use the sugar as you can
yours fruity'but I have canned- man-y

qua1ts without sugar; even when it'

was plentiful. _When berries and
summer fruits come on all at once it
takes considerable money to obtain
sugar enough to care forit so I have
made a practice of canning. without
used for pies are canned sour; the
used for pies are canned sour;; the
pie is finer in flavor, more like, fresh
pie. if sweetened when made. Much
of the fruit intended for preserves is
also canned sour and then during the
winter when the sugar is more plen—
tiful and the demands on my purse

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There stood the outcast, garbcd in
red,
Blending its
green
brown
spread,
No longer
mean.

scarlet with the

And _a71d purple richly

"poor and gaunt and

It seemed as if some Master Hand
Had rightly placed that lonely
tree
Upon that stretch of banen land
Ewactly where it ought to be.
The landscape with its splendors
rare
An incomplctcd work had been
Without that stripling standing
'~ ' there , ,. ~
To splash its scarlet on.the scene "

Who knows when life‘s great tasks».
are done
But what the outcasts. mean and
base. .
Shall. in the scenes we look upon,
Find that they also fill a place!
Perhaps as lonely trees..thcy stand
Seemingly lost to God and man. '
Yet spending their days on barren '
land
To serve the beauty of His plan.

By EDGAR A. GUEST.

 

 

 

 

find it, in your own town. Just send
on your commission to me—'—tell me
what you want to pay and I will
gladly do your shopping for you.

OUR READERS’ OWN COLUMN

N THIS column from week to week

we will publish helpful hints sent

‘11 by‘sub‘scribers. questions you
wish‘ some other reader to answer.
and in fact anything and everything
which you may want. It’s your col-
umn. What do you want to know?

The following inquiry has been re-
ceived from asubscriber. Surely there
are numberless readers who know
just how to wash a Lamb’s Wool
blanket, who will be glad to share
your knowledge with not ofily this
reader but all others who read with
interest from week to week, the help-
ful suggestions contained in this col-
umn. -'

Women’s Department,
BUSINESS FARMING:

Could you or anyone in this do-
partment tell a reader how to wash a
lamb’s wool comfort? I have one to

MICHIGAN

wash and am of the opinion that. I‘:“

could wash it with water and a good
wool soap, but don’t like to plunge
until I get some experience. I watch
this depa1 tment with
ideas and short cuts and hope to send.
in a few sometime. —Mrs. W. M.

 

Following the issue in which we
made mention of the: sugar shortage.
of. our mail . W

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interest for ,

 
 

' is a. wonderful

are not so many, I secure the sugar
and make up my preserves. My jelly
is made the same way. I cook and
strain the fruit, heat the juice and
can. It will keep indefinitely.——_B. E.

 

Editor Woman’s Dept_ M. B. F.:

_I am a reader of your farm paper
and think the department for the wo-
men very helpful. Could you print a
receipt in this department, for citron
peel to be used in fruit cakes? I have
a number of citron 011 hand that I
would like to utilize in this way but
have not been able to find out just
how to make itH—Mrs H. S. 0 ‘

 

The following recipe is 'one which
is good for any fruit. You can use it
for watermelon, orange and lemon
peel as well as citron. Therefore we
are sure that many of our readers
will be glad to get—it as citxon neel‘is
not only delicious in fruit cake, but
improvement for
mince pies. .,

Candied r "ruit

The fruit to be candied should be
washed, peeled or pared, if necessary,
cut or sliced, and dropped into boiling
water for two or
Diain we.';l “we! With syrup made
by boiling one pound of sugar for

‘each pound of fruit with one cupful
flf’Prs' .

of water. Boil rapidly. for
minutes; remove from tin- '
slim.“ Stead over 121 ,.

 

  
  

  

three minutes, . '

1m: weekend guest hungrlly.

utes again and repeat the heating"

and Cooling for four to six days, ac- ,
cording to how rapidly the water: is,
drawn out and the syrup is absorbed. ‘

The fruitc'plumps slowly, and. the

gradual «increase in the denSity-‘of the .

syrup caused by the many cookings
insures tender fruit which’ is filled
with syrup ‘After the fruit is trans-
parent and bright, lift it from the
syrup-and dry_i'n the sun or in a cool.
oven.

 

EAR LADDIE;'—We like the M.

B. F fihe and are sending our

,_ 1enewal today As you asked

us to .send helpful hints I. thought I
would send this, little story, as most
'women enjOy a new recipe. Yours

for the good of the farmer.——Mrs. J-_

G. Van Luren. Durand, Mich. 111-1.

 

“Those \Vho waste Not, “(1211i Not"

“wen, Aunt Anna, what are You
doing now?” exclaimed the guest
pulling up a low, splint-bottom chair.
“New potatoes on a winter night?"
she quizzed curiously.

Aunt Anna nodded and smiled
friendly-like. “They’re a pretty good
substitute for new potatoes,” she said
“and I cook ’em the same way; heat
’em up with cream and a bit of but-
ter and season nice with pepper and
salt and sometimes for a change a
sprinkle of parsley out of my Window
box. In fact, pa and I like ’em bet-
ter’n really new potatoes. Pa always
takes the trouble when he digs ’em to
pick up and sort out all the little po-
tatoes. ‘Waste not, want not,’ pa :11-
Ways says; but I sometimes think it’s
because he likes the little ones best.

You know they are of a much richer
'flavor, just a nice, good, rich bite in
each one. The larger ones are coarse-
grained, and sometimes hollow, and
sometimes black at the center " said:
Aunt Anna.

"‘But aren’t these perfectly awful
to peel?” inquired the guest, “So
small?“ 1 ~;

“Oh, I take ’em when I have timefl
rejoined her hostess. “Now, this
morning I was ironing and it wasn't
a bit of trouble to cook enough of
these small potatoes, all sorted as
they were,.for several messes. They
peel easier cold, so I just drained 'em
when they were done, and set ’em
aside; and now this afternoon when
I’m sort of tired it’s a real 1est to

. sit here in my sunny window and

peel potatoes. What I don’t want to
warm up tonight I’ll cover and set
in a cool place. They’ll keep nice for
two or three days.”

“And you cock them like new pota-
toes?” mused the guest.

“Oh no, not 1.;ways," hastened Aunt
Anna. “There’s lots of ways to
serve little potatoes.
make a cream sauce and just heat ’em
up so. And again, I.pile ’em around
a bit of butter if the meat is pretty
lean and spiinkle ’em with pepper
and salt and_ put in the oven to-
brOwn over. They’ re as nice fixed
that way as baked potatoes, and
that’s as nice’as anything ever gets,
to be," affirmed Aunt Anna positive-
ly. But sometimes on special occa-
sions, 'I go to a little more trouble. I
make a thin cream sauce; puta layer
of it in a baking, dish_ then a layer
cf little potatoes salted and peppered,
then a sprinklingof dried beef shredl-
ed real fine, and-more cream .‘sauce,
and so on till my dish is two-thirds
f.ull Over the top I sprinkle half a

cup of grated cheese and flatten it‘ '

down with... a spoon. It doesn’t take
long to bake with a good fire and it
makes a supper dish that's real appe-
'tizing' and nourishing}!

tics."
“It sounds awfully good".

    
  
    

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ber of very good Thanksgiving

pictures have been received,

’_ “and I am sure that our artist is going .

to have a great task deciding which
2.35 the prize winner.
"'fweek of Thanksg1ving you will see

However, the
the prize picture published. Right
here let me remind you again that,
colored pictures are
very pretty. they will not reproduce
or show up in our paper as we use
only a black and white print as you
know,. therefore when‘ - sending in
drawings which you hope will win a
prize. send them in blackand white.

You know I told you in. my little
Christmas letter which so large a
number of you have received, that if
the prize- you wanted for a Christmas
present wasn’t there to tell. me what
you most wa'nteda’nd I w0uld tell you
how many subscribers you must get
One of'our little readers
got so anxious that he couldn’t wait.
but he seemed to' know that if it was
at all possible I would send him what
he wanted so he sent on three sub-
scribersand before this paper reaches

,-you, Harold McDonald, of 'Evart. will

have received the gift he moSt want-
ed,la flash light. _
When we were packing Christmas

gifts the other day, one of the ladies

in the office wanted to buy a football
for her small son, and was very dis-

appointed when I :told he. that she‘

would have to go to the stores for it,
for the balls I had were only for the
beys who won them—none are sold,
so all stand an equal chance of win-
ning just what they work for. At—
fectionately yours, LADDIE.

' OUR BOYS AND GIRLS

Dear Laddie—This is the fifth time I
have written to you and I like to write.
Thanks to Anna Boudro and Katherine
MacNaughton for writing to me. I will
Write a story of “In a Minute.” ‘ Love to
all the boys and girls? Your friend., as
ever, Ruth McShea, Rosebud, Michigan.

In a. liIinute

Once upon a time there was a little
girl abouth years old and her name was
Laura. She was always saying “in a
minute " One day her bird got on the
floor and the door was open as somebody
is always doing. The cat came in the house

and grabbed the bird and out the door

he went Laura’s mother hollered to her
to come and get the bird and she said “in

'a mminute as soon as I get this line of
'drawing done,”

and there was a. wild
chase on the lawn _ She Came in the house
with the bird in her hand crying 'and her
mother said, ‘fthere may be very ~many
things that will happen in a minute,” and
it taught her a lesson. ‘So she never
forgot it and always came When she was
spoken to.

 

Dear Laddie—Q—This is the first time I
have written to you. I am a little girl

. ten years old and in the fourth grade at

I have hazel eyes and brown curly
I live on a farm Of eighty acres.

school.

We have about 30
For
pets I have 8 rabbits and two dogs and
two kittens
age 7 years, Warren, 3 years and Vlaive
I can cook, bake and do some
parts of house work. There are 17 child-
ren in 0111 school I want to pick up po-

have three horses.

tatoes to cam my own Christmas money.

I think the D00 Dads are funny little
I wish some of the girls of the

. B. F. would write to me. We take
the M. B. Fuand like it very much. "’I
am sending a picture for cHallee’en.
Will close, hoping to see my_letter, in
print. Thelma Woodard, McBride, Mich.

 

Dear Laddie—I am a girl 11 years old.
My birthday is the 6th of May. I am in
the 7th grade at school. I like to go to
School quite well. Is rted to schoOl
when I was 5 years old an have not miss-
ed a grade yet. ‘I have written to you
before but my letter was not in print. 5-1

.like to read the D00 Dads, letters and
I live in town. We,

stories very much.
own a 160 acre farm the first house out
Of the corporation.
Roy and Clarence and one sister, Minnie.
My school teacher’ s name is. Miss Rourke.
We live right across the road from the
station; We- used. to have a Ford car but
we sold it the first of June and expect to

have. another one. . I hope to see my let-r

tor in print. Well my letter is getting
101}; so Will nose; Ezaliah Sherman.

Lamar-“medians: is the first 11mg 1
gain. in the seventh

  

   

 

I have three brothers, Clyde

I have two brbthers,’

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seven. sisters, my brothers’ names are Au-
gust, Alfred, Rudolph and John. My sis-
ters' names are Anna, Teresa,- Marie,
Pauline, Edna, Mildred and Minnie. I
also have one pet,.her name is Mizzie and
one dog; his name is Dewey. My father
takes the M. B. F.. I like the D00 Dads
very much. The puzZle which was in the
M. B. F. was an ostrich. Am hoping my

letters will be in print. Ida Schleben, Rogr

ers, Mich. R. F. D. No.

Dear Laddie—My father takes the M. 1

‘B. F. and he likes it very well. I like to
read the letters from the girls and boys
and I would like to hear from them. I am
11 years old and in the sixth grade. I
like my teacher very Well, her name is
Miss Kreutzer. We are having vacation
now. We have three cats. We have not
had thepaper for a long time. When I
was trying to win the contest of the great
men and the next week the paper didn’t
come. I would like to see this letter in
the paper next‘ week. Goodby, from Dor-
othy Briggs, Blanchard. Mich.

 

Dear Laddie—I wrote to you once and
was going to write again but I lost your
address and just found it. I am going to
send in a. little drawing bye and bye for
Thanksgiiving, see if I can’t get a prize
too. In the M. B. F. we got this week I
saw a story in it and the title of it was
“Marjorie Daw” and
of my little baby sister, her name. is Mar-
jorie. I would like very much to become
a member of the Christmas Club. Please
tell me all about it. From Miss Violet
Grover. Wiscrosset, Mich.

Dear Laddle—I am a girl 14 years old.
I am through the eighth grade. I have
four' brothers, they all go to school ex-
cept one. We live on an eighty acre farm.
We have eleven cows and five calves, also
four horses. I also wish to join the
Christmas Club. Please send me a list
of prizes and rules of the Club. Find en-
closed a drawing for the Thanksgiving
contest. Hope I get a prize. Yours truly,
Irma McCormick, Lansing, Mich, R 3.

Dear Laddie—I am a girl 11 years old
and have written to you once before. I
am in the 7th grade at school. My teach-
or is my sister. I like her fine. I have
two brothers and one sister. My broth-

 

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WHAT CAN A LITTLE GHAP D0?
By John Ovenham

What can a little chap do
For his country and for you?
What can a little chap do?

0

He can shun all that’s mean.
He can keep himself clean,
Both without and within—
That's one good thing he can do.

His soul he can brace
Against everything base,
And the trace will be seen
All his life in his face—
That's a very fine thing he can do.

He can look to the Light,
He can, keep his thought white, ‘
He can fight the great fight,
He can do with his might
“’hat is good in God's sight——
Those are excellent things he can do.

Though his years be but few,

He can march in the queue

0f the Good and the Great,

\Vho battle with fate

And won through— '
That’s a wonderful thing he can do.

And—in each little thing

He can follow the King;

Yes, in each smallest thing

He can follow the King,—

He can follow the Christ. the King.
——From Princess Mary’s Gift Book.

 

 

 

ers' names are Lloyd and Clarence. My
sister’s name is Donna. I live on an 80
acre farm. We have four horses and two
colts. For pets I have a dog and two
cats. Will close, hoping to see some of
my unknown friends sometime. Your
friend, Miss Lena Bearss, Memphis, Mich.

Dear Laddie—This is the first time I
have written to you. I am a gi1l 10 years
old in the sixth grade. My teacher’ 5 name
is Miss Marie Williams. I have two
sisters and two brothers. For pets I have
a dog, cat and goat. We have a cow and

‘a calf. We live in the county. I wish
some of the girl's would write to me. Hop-
ing to see my letter in print. Velma Mc-
Ewan, Alpine, Mich. .

 
 
 
 

 

MASCULINE NAME PUZZLE .

1. Behead and curtail a man’s
name and find an untruth.
2. Be'head and curtail a man’s

name and find an article of furniture.
3. Behead and curtail a man’s
name and find a tiresome person.

4. Behead and curtail a man’s
name and find a girl’s name.
5. Behead and curtail a man's

name and find to tear.

 

2. Richard—Chair.
Arthur-Ruth.

1. Felix—Lie.
3. Robert-Bore. 4.
5. Andrew-Bend.

Nuts to Crack

1. What kind of cake should a.
jeweler eat?

Answer: Gold and silver cake.

2. What holds all the snuff in
the world?

_ Answer: No one knows (nose.)'

3. Why is a coachman like the
clouds?

Answer: They both hold the reins.

4. What is it that if you name it
you break it?

Answer: Silence.

5. When is it easy to read in the
woods?

Answer:
leaves.

6. If you throw a
into the Red Sea, what will
come?

Answer: Wet.

When autoumn turns the

white stone
it be-

7. Why doesn’t Sweden send her

cattle abroad?

Answer: Because she
Stockholm.

8. What is the best material for
kites?

Answer: Flypaper.

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to know about heating your home. Puts
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them to subscribe to Michigan Business Farming for one year at
81. 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, lig Brotur 1101‘” Sister to 1he‘1’lp you.

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.4. '11-.0 1:.- s a o .‘4 to 65.935, " '1 "'

hiprices. Nothing but the beét‘mas
in ”demand, however. The .fnllewing

‘ ..prices prevailed: fispring. dhicknns,

151195.133 @2411; small, 211 @23c hens
“We; smms,.1m0c;. .roos‘t—
geese, We;
turkeys {use
‘per pound. . -

1am mess—i m-«Bnomsépmsr

'Detroit I'maitlreteof‘lboth ~‘the’I-fresh-= "and
~packed.‘bra.ntls. .
...able‘d li'fiarmers to keep the inxanket
1pre11y well mppimd, xlmt with the
morning Izot :eoldter weather eggs arse
expected Ito advance rapiiily "T‘rsslh
eggs are quoted by jobbers at 6'0???
630 .per dozen.

 

EUMER
The supply of“.bu’tter.on.ythelDetro‘it
.maruliet ismmple to meetmllridemnds.
esfiuying Its active. «Prices maid aatithe

‘The reaction in the livestock
market from a weak, declining con—
dition 110 a stronger and <wdvanein~g
trend has come~ somewhat sooner
thrmwempected. The "change is ”very
noticeable in the hog market. and
is largely accounted for by‘the sud-
den drop in receipts. Theatotal nf
hogs marketed in (lilieago last Week
was only about sworflnrds of the
l total for the previous week showing
I either that ~{runners have their choice
«stock pretty 'well :oleaned 1111) '01! that
'Ithey are willing reread longer rath—
‘er than ‘sellmt‘themresentxlowsprines.
IEBsimeuhoas tapped the-iflhicago unar-
.~‘lret.-luts’t Iwesiz sat. 13114.16 Which His
somewhat 'higher “than ~prices"of ‘Itlre
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mayors «again «entering «he chemist
”1111111118. 1111mm scale. With “the tie-
vival of the export'business‘hogs Will
climb again, sure as preaching.
”$T9'35’0 was the top price o‘fiesed
in Chicago lastweek for prime steers.
This is the best mice that has been
paid for nearly three months. ’llhe
market is very slow, however, for
medium grades, and there is a mum
it coming into the market at this
season of the year. One of the laug-
est and most reliable commission
houses in Chicago offers the follow—
ing- advice to live stock feeders: “We
do not advocate the holding 'of any
in- finished condition

 

nor do we see any advantage to lbs
I gained in holding stock that is not
putting on beef as well as it might.

  

where miplmty of magnum mm
' 'i‘irerlate‘fall'has our

reporting of the week are: Fresh
.creamary. firsts. 6041‘11‘211; 1.1110811
baseman, in 11-.lb. vbrirhs, +62séiafivivc'
‘sper ilIb.

. ” ' ‘ 11mm
1.1131111“, 32's; Wisconsin tw1ns.$11-4

_Wliseonsln- double daisies, 380; 11111—
burger, 33:@ 34c; domestic Iblcbk
Swims, 35\@40Ic; 110ch Wind
guilds 1410@!2c (par lb. _ ’

Dressed calves .arenn fairly good
demand. this week on the Milt
market, but hogs are dull ”The p-
Iceut ength in the market on .111.
‘ihcgs d not airecte'd the 1115931111111“
"market up to the “time or :31?ng b
press. 'jPrices quoted are: 1Dress-ill
calves, 21*@ 28c; dressed ‘hogs, TS.
200 according to weight and quill-
lty.

mammals!!!) SHIOHDR

'Last'week saw another advance in
clover-seed.” 'Demand‘ .is‘goo‘d but‘th»
'supply is at times Ivory-scarce. ”$430
per bushel wva‘s‘l'the price paid curt-ho
"Detroit market last Saturday. Al-
~sike was “quoted at E$29.25 and tim-
othy, f $5551).

.Liye ‘Stoisk Markets Gain ’Straufih

DETROIT, ”Nov. '4.——*Cattle: closed
25110 500 lower end dull at chelde-
'ciine; quality common; Ibest heavy
«steers, "$1r2'(a‘7'<$1'~3;-Ibest I‘hendy weight
"butcher steer-s. ’$9’I@’$1 0; mixed steers
aa’nd heifer-s. $38*@“$39;; handy “light
»-b1rtchors. $7¢@¥$7:50: light butchers,
"$5530 (0343150; Ibest cows,--‘$-8@7$81‘75;
butcher cows, $7((D'-$7.50; cutters,
”$5.50; “banners, ~i$5® $5.26; "best
‘Ih‘eavy «131111337. \Vealiowl‘ves: Mar—
ket opened «steady, closing zdull best
”$118 ($1319; l’falr Ito *goo'd missus;
culls. ’I$*10¢td¥$-I3 heavy growers. W
$7. ishespuunil has-mos: 'Imfiibs ‘26 to
taco flower; snoop Isteeidy; equality
«common; ‘~hest ‘lrmrbs. -Il$II3éfi0€il¥$1.-I4;
‘tair Ilanihs, Rimrsmo; Right Ito
'mnnmmi lambs, mssmyiorm); “Mir
to good ”$1er QGIWT; minis 1111111
common, W430. 'Hogs: Market
steady; ms, “5*!“ 215; «111111in hogs.
$15.

IWGAQQ. Nov. ‘:4.‘*-M0§Bi 3&0 to
”$0 cents Ihigher; 1111111, Skim
3-3 1630.; tap, WY 5 .22 5. ; heavygirib’llliifi

$111530Q; _med-i.nm, 1.3511141651@:&15s851;
light, $14.60@$I5s16;7 light lights,

”$14.25 @$14.’8‘5; h'ea-vy‘paok’ingm’ws,
ismoot‘h. $1.4 [111$ 1.4.‘5’0; .pankin g :aows,
""9 Fill $ “"9‘31d 3 VII @ 92."? I $ ”Wm”

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washed. 15.@7.80; '3-8 blood, unwash
ed, :66 @I6-‘Z'c; 11-4 blood, rumwashed
I65'@66c; 1 2, 38, 1-4 clothing, 56
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on foreign than: imported} into this:

country; that the 1mm: tumors:
competé on at least equnli terms!
tithe» chm labor of' the Oriental‘

’lleanmsodilcing countries: ‘

"find! whereas, the County of Klimt:
’18 the secondr most populous county?
imthe state. »

"Em! wherem tli‘e WVTBOI'G on
tlie came 01! Kent in regular ses~
stout assembiled, beiievirg“ hr the er:
tom of the Michigan Biean G‘rowers’
slid; Michigan Bearr Jobbers’ Associae

lion »
“Be it Resolved; that the Board of
Supervisors so assembled endorse

sutdwefferts and a.» copy-offthese. reso—
lutions be forwarded to Hon- Joseph
W; Fordney, chairman, committaemn
vegetated messes: requesting:~ him to
useyhis best efforts to hnwe the news
easy; legislation passodlto bring about:
theid'esimd protection.”

We understand that: the board? of
superfluous oi? Shlamassee. countm
puswd'fw resolution» or similar import.

Miomm B‘Usmnss. Famine is para
ticuimrlyr imaged with the6 active
coeperation accorded by‘some of the
wide-awake country newspapers in
the bean district. Mr. G. E: English,
of the Huron County Tribune, gave
over. a. half-page of'his paper to the

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THY. lilI 'RON COUNTY nilfi

Bu: Em! Grows

Thai bun. thfl’
mm Tot-9:1. combinations to dose

amount to $147; 10, which will permit '
shunt: us being: applied. on; the ex- 6
This will :'
help: very. materially, and while we ;
would: lilac additionab sunport, we are
sure that the: delegates will: amused» j
ate this much asststaneev from» the i

senses" of eacif delegate.

farmers. The fml‘owing have con- ;
tributed since our last announce- »
mom».
Mal-.acdinowlcdgsd, Now. let
issue ______________________ $111039 »
Edgau Burk, St: Jb'hns ________ ‘51? ‘
B. B1 Reynolds; BendoxL _____,-_ 1.00‘ f
Geo: Wakefield; Elldonwnu, 1.00 .
J. T. MhC‘u‘llum, Breckenridge 1.00
Hugh MtiM‘ilian’, Freeland‘ _____ 1.00 ;
Jas. ’Miller, Chesaning _______ _. 1.00
H: R. Nelson, McBride: ________ 1.50
Farmers? Cleaners/owe Union,
Pineonuing, C; Kitchem 598’? 5109 ‘
Hurley. MOrgan; Bard Ance_____ .50‘ .
W. J.-Strother, Lake. Odessa___. 1.0.0‘ 5
Roman. Harms: Keenan“--- 1.00
Clarence—Schwanoheck. Eamon 1.00
J.~ F'red Smith, Barron ________ 1.00‘ 1
Arnott Wood, Flush‘ing‘2 ______ 2:00
Henry and O. C: Hanetl’,
Williamsb‘nrg» ____________ 1.00‘
J‘. M. Knami BoynerGity; _____ 1:00.
Fraser (Teeter! Grange, Willard» ‘
Donaldson, seo'y: Binconning. 1o. 00»
Jae. E.- McBride» Cdsewdlle__._. 2.011
Fired?" Heine Dem; _________ 1.00
Geo. nutten’mcher, St: Chari'el 1. co
B‘ert Smith, Mbntrose;_______ 1.00
J.’ Beemer, Flushing; , .50
Jam 0'. Bell, Stanton--. ..,______. 1.00

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A.“ 11 013 Kent County.

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Inquire. Frank Thayer. Twining, Mich.

 

Bil-A BIG MICHIGAN lVIONE'Y-MAKER
$5,400.‘ This farm has yielded 300 bu. p0:
tatoes per acre,'30 bu. wheat, 60 bu. oats,
other crops in proportion; on improved
road, near fine RR town. Bumper crops
from 55 acres machine worked loam scil
tillage, clay subsoil; 25 acres wire—fenced
pasture; home-use wood, great. variety
fruit. 2-story 6—room house, basement.
stock barn. poultry, hog, corn houses, etc.
$5,400 gets all, part cash. Details page

- 75 Strout's Fall Catalog, 100 pages farm

bargains 23 states; copy free. STROUT
FARM 'AGENCY, 814 B E, Ford Bldg.
Detroit.

 

80 ACRES GOOD CLAY LOAM LAND
for sale. 55 acres cleared; 2 1-2 miles
from market. Good house and barn; 55
acres under cultivation; bargain at $4,000.
For sale on reasonable terms.
ANDRE‘V “H ORR. Blanchard, Mich.

 

FARMS FOR SALE—BIG LIST OF
farms for sale by the owners, giving his
name, location of farm, description, price
and terms. Strictly mutual and co-oper-
ative between the buyer and seller and
conducted for our members. CLEARING
HOUSE ASS'N. Land Dept, Palmer and
Woodward .‘\\'c.

 

WANT TO BUY A SMALL POULTRY
and frut farm near city. Address Box
12, R 3, Gladwin, Mich.

T0 SDTTLE AN ESTATE; NICELY
located water power flour and feed mill
Dairy farm in con—
nection. Excellent opportunity for a man
with one or two sons to engage in a prof—
itable business. \Vrite for description.
LOW price and easy terms. H. 05-
trander, Morley, Mich.

 

 

FOR SALE—ARBOR LA‘VN STOCK
farm of 110 acres located in the rich
dairy county of Livingston on state re-
ward road, 7 miles from Howell. one of
the greatest Holstein centers in the U. S.
Clay loam soil, very productive, well
drained, good buildings, tile silo and milk—
ing machine. On milk and mail routes.
2 1-2 miles from depot, elevator and stock
yards. A very pleasant. home. W. B.
Reader, Howell, Mich.

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nail file. Silver bolsters and lined with
brass. Blades are of highly tempered
steel.

YOURS for only three new subscrip—
tions to BUSINESS FARMING at $1.00
each. Get busy today. Call on three of
your friends, get them to subscribe. Send
us their subscriptions and the knife will
be sent prepaid without cost. ' .

Michigan Business Farming,
Mt, Clemens, Mich.

 

 

 

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'well pattern 1-847,Rogers Bros.‘ ,.Tea-
'5poon's post paid at" $2.312 per. set of six.

00., Lock box 535, Clare, Mich. ,

 

RAILWAY TRAEFIC INSPECTORS;
Splendid pay and expenses; travel if de-
sired; unlimited advancement. No age
limit. Three months home study. Situ-
ation arranged. Prepare for permanent
position: ~ Write for booklet C. M. 62.
Standard Business Training Institute,
Buffalo, N. Y

 

FOR SALE—THREE; RIULES, 2 FIVE
months ld, one yearling, dark browns,
well mat bed. for price and terms address.
F. L. Irish, Owosso, Mich.

 

WRITE .FOR SOUVENIR, GIVING
photos and plans of Sioux City’s new $4.-
' 000,000.00 Alfalfa and Cereal Milling Com-
pany’s Plant, no cost to you. Alfalfa &
Cereal Milling Company, Grain Exchange
Building. Sioux City, ~Iowa. -

 

BUY FENCE POSTS DIRECT FROl‘I
forest. All kinds. Delivered prices/Ml-
dress “M. M." care Michigan Busmess
Farming, Mt. Clemens, Mich.

 

“'ANTED—Small. quantity of buck-
wheat hon’ey. Please state price. Ad-
dress Box A. care Michigan Business
.Faflrming, Mt. Clemens, Mich.

 

FOR SALE—CHEESE WIAKING OUT-
fit. Address, L. Simpson, Charlotte. Mich-
igan, R 11.

 

FOR SALE—ONE 8-16 II. P.
kerosene tractor, fine condition. 12 h. p.
Alamo engine on trucks. 6 h. 1). station—
ary engine nearly new. All ready for bus—
iness. Write or see. J. S. Dunsford,
Mariette, Mich.

 

“Potatoes, Tilly and Marsh Hay Wanted"
We want good quality, graded ripe po-
totbes, preferably grown on sand. Can
use carlots 0r bag lots. We furnish sacks.
Write quantity and lowest price in your
first letter. We are in market for large
quantity of baled marsh shay, also good
timothy and clover hay. What have you
and what is your price? We sell cull
beans. Get our prices. Reference: Fed-
eral Commercial and Savings Bank, Port
Huron, Mich.
PORT HURON STORAGE & BEAN 00.
Port. Huron. Mich. _

SOY BEANS WANTED

If you expect to have any Soy Beans this year we
Ihsll be glad to have you submit samples with the
amount and variety. Ask for envelopes.
0. Wk SCOTT & SONS co.
No. 2 Main 8 . ' Marysviiie, 0.

Seeds Wanted

'Mlchigan' 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
and 1919 crop. Send samples for test.

The C. E. DePuy 00. Pontiac, Mich.

Mr. Farmer, Attention

WE ARE IN THE MARKET FOR ALL
KINDS OF CLOVER. SEED. SEND A
4 OZ. SABIPLE AND “'E WILL TRY
AND BUY IT.

SIOUX CITY SEED CO.
Millington. Mich.

 

 

 

TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

We oifer a large registered Hol—

stein bull calf, 9 per cent white
with excellent breeding for a

$50 Liberty Bond. Send for pedigree and

photo.

W. O. HENDEE & SON, Pinckney, liIich.

 

 

 

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. .A'NTRIM (W)—-—Farni§i‘j8; doing
of everything; Potatoes

'Weather; variable. . Hea
Farmers _. selling 4 .' otsltoes.
and cattle. Potatoes bring about $1.10
per bushel. About 200 per ‘cwt. better

, through Potato,.Growers’ Exchange .than

on hogs, 110 alive—N. T. V.

IOSCO—Farmers are ploughing and
attending auction sales. for some reason
the farmers are selling their farms and
we are having auction sales at the- rate
of. two or three a week. .Nothing much
going to market.
with a small crop of white potatoes is
the report. The contract or red potatoes
was a large crop, Beans not threshed
yet. The grain was a very light crop—-
A. L

CLARE——Crops are all harvested and
farmers are finishing the bean threshing
and fall plowing. ,Beans are the best in
years. with goodyield and practically .no
culls. The following prices were offered
at Harrison last week: Wheat, $2.00
oats, 70c; rye, $1.20; No. 1 light mixed,
$25; rye straw, $10; beans( C. H. P. Pea)
$5.85; potatoes, $1.75 cwt.; hens, 180;
springers, .180; butter, 520; butterfat,
64c; hogs; 12c.—V. W.

MONROE (W. .C.)——We are, having
some wet weather last week. It is bad
‘for husking and digging potatoes. Some
farmers are through blisking. and have
,started fall plowing. aWheat is looking
‘fine. Some is getting quite a' heavy top.
Auctions are coming thick these days, and
farm stuff moves at a fair figure, es-
pecially cows are going high. from $75 to
$200. Farms are still changing hands
and the price is still going u.p.—'—W. H; L.

MECOSTA—Potato digging is nearly
over. Some’ are'husking corn and some
are plowing beans. Threshing is nearly
done. We have had plenty of rain lately.
Some are selling potatoes and beans. Oth-
ers are holding their crop. The following
prices were offered at Hersey: Wheat,
$2.07; corn, $1.20; oats, 64c, rye,. $1.20;
No. 1 timothy, $25; No. 1 light mixed,
$22; beans (C. H. P. Pea) $6; red kidney
$7.; potatoes, $1.75 cwt.; butterfat, 64c;
eggs, 50c—L. M.

SAGINAW (S. W.)—The beans are
about all threshed. They were better
than most of the farmers expected and
the quality is fine. We are having good
roads and weather for harvesting sugar
beets. They are turning a ’good tonnage
to the acre. There isa lot of-fall plow-
ing being done. The following priees were
offered at St. Charles: Wheat, $2.05; oats
65c; No. 1 timothy, $19; No. 1 light mix-
ed, $18; beans (C. H. P. Pea) $6; hens,
20c; springers. 20c; butter, 60c; butter-
fat', 600; eggs, 560.—G. L.

CALHOUN—Farmers have their seed—
ing done. Potatoes dug and are husking
corn. Potatoes are not a large‘crop but
are very nice. They are worth $1.25 per
bushel. There is some very good corn.
The weather is fine, lots of rain. Grain
is looking fine. The prices paid in Bat-
tle Creek are: wheat, $2.13@2.15; oats,
75c: rye, $1.25; No. 1 timothy, $28; po-
tatoes, $1.25; hens, 200; springers, 200;
butter, 600m eggs, 66c; lmsb, 10®14c;
hogs, 12c: lambs, 10@14c; beef cows, 5
@7c; veal calves, 10@13c.-—-C. E. B.

TUSCOLA—Farmers husking corn and
ulowing. Lots of rain now. Soil is too
wet to work on clay land. Farmers are
selling potatoes at Mayville, the only
place they are buying just now. We are
getting $1.05 a bushel. One man took
in 200 bushel/in one day and did the
same for three whole days running with

a 14 mile haul, that is, with a Ford
truck. The following prices were offered
at Caro November 1 : Wheat. $2.05 ;

corn, $1.70; oats. 03c; rye, $1.13; No. 1
timothy, $15; beans (C. H. P. Pea) $6.25;
potatoes, $1.00; onions, $2; cabbage, 1
and one half cents per lb.—H. B. C.

LAPEER Farmers are busy finishing
fall plowing and corn husking. The weath-
er has been very good until the last few
days when we have had some rain which
will help the wheat and rye. Some lambs
and hogs going to market. Not many
cattle being sold now. Hay is at a stand-
still. The following prices were offered
at Imlay City On Nov. 1: Wheat, $2.10;
Oats, 600; rye, $1.20; hay, No. 1 timothy,
$18; No. 1 light mixed, $16; straw, rye,
$6; potatoes, $1.15; onions, $2; hens, 180;
springers, $18@200; butter, 60c; butter—
i'at, 64c; eggs, 60c; sheep, $5@6; lambs,
$10@12; hogs, $12: beef steers, $8; beef
cows, $5 @6; veal calves $15@17.—C. A.
B. ’

 

MISSAUKEE—Farmers are trying to
finish their rye sowing but it is so "wet
most of them cannot get on the ground.
What rye that is up is look-ing good and
the same with wheat. Potatoes nearly
all dug and turned out better than ex-
pected. What corn that was not put- in

aged by .the rains. There was a threghy
ing machine Co. formed at Stittbville re-
cently. They purchased a grain sepa-
tractor, engine and tank. The oflicers are
Chas. Bick‘el, pres; H. E. Nowlin, sec.,
and Leon Sherman, Tress. The follow-
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_ MONROE (N. E.)——We havebeen hav- _
mg finest kind of fall weather, somehavo
finished husking corn, lots of corn to
husk yet. it is a good quality, all hat?
but does not yield as good as expecte ,
ears are short. Having a good rain to-
day. Wheat looks fine, acreage small.
very few potatoes raised here, some ship-
ped in, they cost $1.55 per bushel at
Newport off the car. Lots of farms for
sale also a great number ofauotion sales,
poor attendance and not selling good at
all within 40 per cent of two months ago.
There is no; regular price for'anything,
buyers are buying as cheap as they
can, not much moving, pretty well sold
out—G. L. S. ' '

LAPEER :Farmers beginning to Sell
their surplushay and beginning to fall
plow. S'tock looks good also fall wheat
and rye. Rains during the last" month
are helping late pastures. Many farmer's
selling stock on account of, shortage of
feed owing to the dry summer. Many
farmers are selling out by auction sales
on account of scarcity of farm labor and
high wages in the cities.
prices are being paid for. farm produce
at Lapeerz; wheat, No. 1 red. $2.10; corn,
$1.30; oats, men-.7, $1.25; No. 1 timo-
thy, $22; No. 1‘light mixed, $21; ’ryo

 

straw, $8; wheat-oat straw, $8; beans,
(0. H. P. {Pea)‘$6 cwt.; potatoes, $1.05;
onions, $2; springers. 16@19c=; butter,
658; butterfat, 66c; eggs, 55c; sheep,
6c; lam‘bh, 10c; hogs, llc; veal calves,
live, 14@L7c; wool, 60c; apples, $2@
2.50.—-H. E. .R.

MASON—Farmers are
toes, picking appl s, husking corn and
getting their roo crops into winter
quarters. Frequent, rains keep the soil
wet but not enough to hinder fall plow-
ing except in the low places perhaps.
Crops generally have moved tOi market.
Not much has been held. Chas. G. Ped-
ersen of Amber has a fine crop of po-
tatoes averaging around 18 to 19 salable
potatoes to‘,a hill. One hill contained 42
potatoes of which 22 were salable. He
has not yet finished digging so the yield
per acre is not known. The Mason‘ Coun—
ty Farm Bureau met at Scottville, Sat-
urday, October 25, at which time mem-
bership dues were fixed at $5 for the
county and $5 for the state. A member-
ship drive is to be put on soon. The fol-
lowing prlces. were offered at Scottville
recently: Potatoes, $1.05@1.08 per
bushel; hens, 18c; springers. 18c; but-
terfat, 670; eggs, 55c.—B., M.

SHIAWASSEE—Farmers are securing
their corn crop. Bean threshing is near-
ly all done, many are holding theirs on
account of uncertain market. Wheat in
ground is showing well. Weather condi-

digging potae

'tions being very favorable for its growth

the past two weeks. Very little, if any,
wheat was sown in this section until af-
ter October 1, owing to the dry fall, but
the rains of the past few days have been
very favorable for the late planted wheat.-
The following prices were offered at Cor-

‘unna on November 1: Wheat, red, $2.10;

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white, $2.08; corn, 800'@$1; oats. 67c;
rye, $1.20; No. 1 timothy, $20; No. 1 light

mixed, $18 ; straw, rye, $7 ; wheat—oat,
$6; beans (C. H. P. Pea) $5; potatoes,
firsts, $1.10; culls. 40c; onions, $1.20;

cabbage, 3c per 1b.; hens, ‘21c; springers,
22@24c; ducks, 18c; butter, 62c; eggs,
.58c; sheep, $6.50@7.00; mllch cows. $125
@150; veal calves, 18@20c; wool. 720;
apples, $2; grapes, 80 ‘per 1b.-—D. H. M.
MANISTEE—The fall crops are about
all gathered except corn and the most 0
that is in silos. Some are thinking 0
shredding the stalks if it . will at
raining long enough: to let the corn d .
Potatoes are nice but, light crop. Beans
the same in these parts. Some tanner-
are putting up silos others are lettinc
theirs stand empty. There is ‘ .. .
selling- hero- except apples and they".
about all gone. Hogs took a. drop hero r.
so don't: have much about them. Then.
”amniotiauction sales but ’thero'don’t
seem: tote anxious to buy, all ' '
sell. Feeding cattle is at a. standstill- an
feed is too high. The following rice: ,
were offered here recently: Whose

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corn, 31.2.0; cuts. 929: we. $1.20: No‘f
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litmteurs, and others who, profess
to believe than social smashing!
almost everything is the “great cure-
all for thegrea-t dissatisfied.

“At the National ;,Boa‘.r11 ct. Farm
Organisations, the. chairman of the
board is Milo Campbell... an whiclaw- -
yer who owns a. dairy in Michigan
and let-he secretary clan active, ef-
ficiemsorgaanmmonkirGWn as the Na-
tionaL M1112 Producers. ‘ But Mr.

. Campbell-does not spend much time

in Washington. *In charge or the of.
fice is Charles AQ Lyman, secretary.
He owns- a farm in..Wisconsin and
gives it “absent treatment,” creat-
ing the caucuses. on his hands by
stenographer, a press
agent, stencil cutter. duplicating mam

- chine and an addressing machine lov-
ertime and very efl‘i‘cient‘ly. But Mr.

Lyman is handicapped in his efforts
to keep his board before as wide a

. public as Professor Atkeson and Mr.

Hampton can reach, because each of
them has an honest-to—goodness print-
ed “organ.” and Mr. Lyman’s effort
to keep up by using a duplicator
greatly interferes with his successful
efforts. to secure legislation.

“So :much for the personnel. Now

' for what they really represent. The
‘National Grange only represents it-

self. It is composed of thirty-three

state granges, some weak and some
_' very strong, totalling, they say in

their literature, “more than seven
thousand subordinate granges. and

six or seven hundred thouSand active '
; grangers.”
' pass words and initiations and regal-
‘ ia,.but it is more than fifty years? old

It is a secret society with

and has been active‘in securing a

large par-t of the legislation to help
[farmers during most of that period.

“The Farmers’ National Head-
quarters claims to represent a num-
ber of separate groups of farmers.

; Analysis seems to indicate that it

represents just the radical groups,
and radical parts of other groups.

- Evidence and credentials fail to show

that it actually represents the Non-

Q

tai'n state units of. the Farmers’ U'n- x '1 I

lforcdtul swings “1‘3- PIW Plan ’

" 'm_ Ewan
swish, 1310: mind. We Esau?“ In: t. ‘
Washington... Geeoen: and Wade
are. amiated with Hampton's. .head- _,
; quarters ,instead of their own. 'Cerv

 
  

Tion are round torega‘thermg Irere; Mr.
.‘Ha‘mpton, Mien he wishes to fune— -
tion with great force, organises a
"Mortal Committee” and new has:
one. on transportatim which is for ~
govemrment ownership of. everything _
in sight; one on packing plants, also .
for g0vernment ownership; one on
eachflof such other topics as is cap-
able of being twisted into a policy
of radicalism. ' ,

“In the National Board of Farm
Organization's. is found a group of
mutual admiration associations. with:
a fine showing on paper, and an or-
ganization so loose and elastic that
at any semi-annual meeting any one
organization which seriously wished
.:to do so, could without difl‘iculty. cap-
‘ture the whole board and all its as-
sets and liabilities. It includes one
State Grange which-flocks by itself,
Pennsylvania; the national officers
of the Farmers’ Union (while the
state Officers of its two biggest state
Unions are with Mr. Hampton); the
president of the Farmers’ National
Congress (whose constituents refus—
ed by a three to one vote to join);
the National Agricultural Organiza-
tion Society which now has at least
a dozen members; the National Coun-
cil of (lo—operative Associations, an—
other overhead association; the
Pennsylvania Rural Progress Asso~
ciation, which exists only in Gifford
Pinchot’s office desk; the American
Association for Agricultural Legis-
lation, all college professors, the Jew-
ish Farmers’ Federation, not repre-
sented at the last meeting; and final-
ly, the various dairymen’s organiza~
tions, real farmers, with a real rea-
son for federation, real members and
real officers.

“The. weakness of this board was
shown in its September session where
less than twenty men representing
national agriculture other than thflse
from the nearby states, were in at-
tendance. If, for example, the Penn-
sylvania State Grange had wished to
do so, it could have easily put enough
men in the gathering to have elected
its own program. The fact that no
one does this is the best indication
of. the importance of this organiza-
tion.” '

 

 

 

 

. Faun Loan Question Box

 

 

 

(So 'mawy inquiries are received at
this office relatrloe to the federal farm
loan system that we have decided to

. inaugural-e a. question and answers

column. .he tnformatlom presented
below is taken from a bulletin issued
by the Federal Land Bank at St. Paul
and covers most of the questions we-
have received. Am; readm‘ desiring
ml‘zo'rma'l'lon not given below is re-
quested to write us.) ‘

 

What is a F‘Bderal Farm Loanl—It
is a loan made to farmers through the
Federal Farm Loan System, by a Fed-
eral Land Bank, upon real ”estate
mortgage security. This system was
established by Act of Congress, known
as the Federal Farm Loan Aict~ which

' became a law July 17, 1916. The Fed-

eral Land Bank of this district‘ (No.
7) is located in St”. Paul, Minnesota,
and is chartered to do business in
lZVJECsconsin, Minnesota and North Da-

0 a.

Is a Federal Farm Loan different
me-a simple interest loan! If so, in
what respectsr—Yes, a Federal Farm
Loan differs in, many particulars

. from a simple interest loan. The
‘ most important advantages of a Fed-
, oral Fem Loan me:

1. Lm-,ra1n~or interwar
2. Long ‘term of loan. . ,
3. Amortization: plan a! repayment

gory-lean. ,

mmutnmt 5.. are time is
which rate is'uainorm W-

 
  

' Farm: Loam run- fora-per-
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the farmer from any anxiety about
its renewal; the semi-annual payment ‘
0: $32.50 on each $1,000 is ail that
ever falls due.

Give an example of an Amortized
loan—A. farmer who borrows $1,000
through the Federal Farm.Loan Sys-
tem pays $65 a. year in semi-annual
payments of $32.50 each, until the
loan is discharged. This is of course
635% of the sum borrowed. We com-

imonly say that he is paying 5%% 7"

interest and 1% on the principal. .But
the way it works out is this: His r
first payment is applied as follows:
$27.50 on interest and $5.00 on prin-
cipal. _The interest on the next pay-
ment is figured at 5%% on the re-
duced amount of principal of $995.00
(because Of his first payment on prin-
crpal of $5.00) and is applied as fol- [a
lows: $27.36 on interest and $5.14 on
the principal. He continues making
payments of $32.50 each six months
during the 34% years. but the inter-
est payment is constantly growing
smaller and the payment on the prin-
cipal, is steadily growing larger, so .
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_years, he is paying $1.71 interest and
$30.79 on (the principal. By means of
his small payments his principal is
redu-cedjittle by little so that at the
end of 84% years ”It is completely
'wiped out. . '

In what amounts. and on what bas-
is are Federal, Farm Loans made!—

Federal Farm Loans. are made. in
amounts from $100 to “0,000, The -
max-mm amount that. can helm .
on any: term-is 150%,, or» elk-hit at
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more-milk than yours and .‘V
I never force them—

Krmue Dairy Feed contains
ulna high rode ingredients
but no alfu fa nor molasses.
Com like It. complete
analysis of this and all other
Krause and Badges Feed: is

ubllshed In convenient book-

! form. I! will be sen! to
you free upon request.

Badger Monopoly Feed Is
mflled from cleansed whale

corn, bar-1w and cab by our
Individual pace». I! ur-

nlshcs an ideal cube}: ale -

xlion cf Mc- cow’a ratba
amuse fl llwh,awtd and

easily dig: and- supplies
I ncccua 4 amt to turn
feedllnto mix;

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cotton seed meal, gluten feed,
Jar-uh

511:4...an 4m and Jmfiloee
cows to drink Melt needed

«Infllvqfwakr. Cotslllnll. :

Chas. A. Xmas/Milling Co.

816 CliffSL,‘

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been milling the finest and most

Forcing and, ruining your herd.

cows yield
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You cannot govern the fat per-
centage of milk and you cannot
force the cow to yield more than
a healthy normal supply without
ruining the cow. Therefore, the
obvious course is to bring up
the body endurance, health and
strength to the very highest point.
When we effect this, we secure
the greatest milk yield and the
richest milk that nature intended
that particular breed of cow to
produce without forcing.

Badger Monopoly F ee'd. is the only
carbohydrate feed of its kind; no
other feed can provide such body-
strength and energy. On the
etha- hand either Badger Sweet
Cud orKrause Dairy Feed will sup-
ply the extra protein which is so
needed for high milk-production.

 

 

When used in combination these
are the perfect, balanced safe ra-
tion for cows.

Consult usebout your feeding prob-
lems; for fifteen years we have

 

 

carefully prepared dairy feeds.
We are able to advise you how to
maintain the health of your cows
and how to keep your milk supply
up to its fullest extent without

 

The best Feed Dealer in your
locality sells Krause and
Badger Feeds.

If he cannot supply you with
exactly what you wish, send
us his name and you will be

 

 

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Write for our free folderen
humour; millenyield.

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Get Started Trapping Now!
T _ OurT prices for skins are high, and it’s no trouble at all"

mcr, or to buy a new automobile. Inst get a bunchon egextn
armer mad e over $3000 last season trapping on his firrrTn—and

This FREE 300K Shows You How

Just off 111‘. press—the big est and ten“heat Trapo

kind of traps to get. fwhere and how to set
them, what kind of bait to use for the
various animals, how to kill and skin, and

how to ship to get the top prices.

We Pay Highest Prices and Send
Cashb y Return Mall.
ufacturers and tanners. and can
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RAW F URS

WANTED

Mr. RAW FUR SHIPPER—
We want your raw furs.

Put your own assortment on them and
lfwe cannot net you more than you expect. we w1ll

return them to you, express paid. Our price list is yours for the asking.

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Get More For Your Furs and ~
Quicker Returns This Year

Th1s1s your yearto make big money. Your furs will T
the price you gm: in the old .
p to

can al- Padothousanda of friends one happen in a tow ears ‘;
pay more (or treat the em right- -|-a ways pay 2: pncesu .f.¥n,-

wail-stretched furs don' tcharge com mi in o-- mail your chec a few care after .
because manufac— Set yourbundle.sn our furs tsepia“ mush ms 11,": and .‘
repaying more. re ar11 the em ire not :satisT 0wica your return 9 ,

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with hair or fur on, and make them
into coats ( for men and women). robes.
rugs or gloves when so ordered. Your
for goods will cost you loss than to buy
them and be worth more.

Our illustrated catalog gives a lot of
information. It tells how to take 011'
and care (or hides; how and when we
pay the f1 eight both ways; about our
sale dyeing process on cow and horse
hide. calf and other skins; about the
fur goods and game trophies we sell,
taxide11ny.etc.

Then we have recently got out an-
other we call our Fashion book. w holly
devoted to fashion plates of mutts,
neckwear and other fine fur garments.
with prices: also lur garments remod-
olod and ropTalred.

on t wait,

on— me 8.113

th berks if you need both. Address
671 Lye

LET US TAN

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You can have either book by sending
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Established-189’ 1..

Nor the Largest

the equal in business integrity
of any fur heuse that sends out

"I; TN. I.
tilled Fr

ee‘

T caution becomes necessary.
look up spring holes and dig thomj ,

, leaving it lying partly submerged or,

Tsm’all doorway at one side, where the

“ ‘be given 111 other. articles. .. , '

boys to get out the traps and prepare
for a profitable catch of fur. There
was never a time in history when the
pelts of our common fur-bearers were
so much in demand or so valuable as
at present—mot even those days just
following the Civil War. Furs are
fashionable and milady has the
money to buy, hence prices are high.
Who ever heard of a two dollar musk-
rator a twenty-dollar red fox until
the last few seasons? There is a.
golden opportunity just now open for
the man or boy who has a little spare

In the first place, no trapping
should he done until the pelts are
prime The old idea that trapping
is permissable during the months that
contain an “r" in the'spelling has
long since been discarded. Most
states now protect the fur-bearers,
allowing trapping during the cool
months only. In the Middle Atlantic
states the first of November is quite
early enough to think of putting out
the traps, while in the latitude of
Virginia one will do better to wait
until latcl.
are the best months for the business,
although the traps may be left out
doling Febiumy unless an over-
abundance of snow makes the W01k
impractical. This is not likely to oc-T -
cur from the middle states southward
but is quite likely to happen in north—
ern NewYoTrk. However, profession-
al {rappers continue to trap right
through the winter with good suc-
cess.

It is well to get ready to begin
business the first of November, un-
less the laws of your state expressly
forbid it. This brings up the sub-
ject of looking up the law, so the
first thing to be done is to get a copy
of the game laws of your state. This
may be done by addressing the com-
missioner of fish and game at your
state capital. Some states make it
necessary that a trapper obtain writ-
ten permission to set traps before it
may besdone on another person’s

time to devote to the trap line 1 '

December and January ,

    
  
  

J 'n the" Parade
Start now and ship every skin you handle
‘this season to the greatest fur house in
the greatest for market in the world.
Abraham For 00.. t8 Louis.

You areabo'nt to start the greatest for .
season in the history of the fur trade-you
will receive the highest prices for your ‘
11391]: ever knogn and: T: you wfiptovery fl.

arcoming you 0 your a men
send them to the A Fur 80. W0
have cleaned out a of. our old supploy';
lock stock and barre andhave nothin
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Write today and get in line with the
moat successful for institution in the
World. Ourtremendouslylarge busi—
ness was built; _on a policy of Fair
Grading and best Prices to the
:- . pper. and today we are in a
" ‘better position than ever to carry
out this‘ 'winning” policy. .‘
Don't ship a single skin to any
other fur house before you have ‘
carefully investigated the Abra-4
ham Fur Co. of St. Louis.

Order an Abraham Smoke
Pump. Holds the world' s record 1
for long-distance smoking and 1a
a sure winner.

Price Postpaid. $2 Each ,
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can ’t do without them. They have
many new features which no other traps“ have.

Our catalog tells you all about them

cheapest but“ thebest. Writetoday—aone cent
to bri you one dollar’ s worth of for

information.“ on’t delay—Writ e today.

Abraham 1"an

213-215 N. Mall! St. Dept. 404

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land. This can usually be obtained
without difficulty. Some states re-
quire that the trapper’s name shall I
be stamped upon the trap. This is a

small preliminary that should be .at— ,
tended to before the trapping season '
opens. Whether the state law .re~
quires this or not, I believe it is a
good precaui'ion to take. The name
may be stamped with a small steel
die, made for the purpose, upon the
spring of €119 trap. Should someone '
bent onthicving find the trap, he is,
quite like‘y to leave it if it has your
name on. It is practically useless
to him. .as the name cannot readily
be removed.

Some weeks before the opening of
the trapping season it is well to go
over the territory where one intends
to twp. and look up the locations for
the sets It is assumed that the farm
boy will use steel traps, as it is not
practical in these days to use home~
made contrivances. When the season
opens, the skillful trapper is all ready
to put' out the traps. Steel traps will
he set upon logs across streams, in
banks or rivers, and in the dens of
the fur—bearers. Look up these spots
some time beforehand.

If you wish to trap for mink, take
a trip along the woodland brook,T if
thexe is one in your territory, and
prepare the spots to make the sets.
All kinds of Wild animals are more
or less wary of changes made in their
accustomed haunts. By making these
Tchanges some time before the traps
are set, the creatures become accTuS-,
tomed to the new order of things,
hence when the traps are put in. less
I like to

out, «leaving a body of shallow water
two or more feet across. Thp use 6'1
such holes will be explained -fiter.- If
you can find a hollow log near the
river, move it down on the bank,

lengthwise of the current close to
the water. Such a place is very at-
tractive to the mink Build a few
small stone enclosures, leaving a.

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SHIP YOUR

to Clay Export C0.
Tangier: who ship to us are
conv1nce that we can and do
live up to our promises. That's

why. they continue sending us all
o. thyelr furs. Why not do the same?

You, too, wil find that we pay
higher prices, because we have

A World-Wide
Fur Market

in Russia, China, England,
North and South America. We
sell wherever we get the high-
est prices. Therefore we can
pay you more money than
others do. Ship to Clay Export
Co. and get these great
benefits of the world' a
beat markets.

Send for High
Export Price List

, and Free Book
W11 to for price list and Free
Book, “Trapping Secrets" — the
steel: trapp ing book written.
Train the success secrets of
world's greatestB hoppers-—
Crockett, Carson Boone and
others. ISenéiléoo to 2:):-
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cost money these days-
Your old fur coat can be
relined,; New Fastener!
and Rips sewed and went
a good» many seasons yet.
Our Catalogue, samples

or linings are free.
We make a specialty

of of repairing and mak-
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dill" As this animal is found al-
most eyerywhere and in some locati-
ties very abundantly, it is well to
consider the 1:1le skunk. "Traps for
skunks are 'uSually set in de-,ns hence
be sure you knoWig“ Where all the
skunks 111;. 'your neighborhood dwell.
The dens are usually found airing the
sides of rocky ravines or in oak
Woodlands -Ldok them up before—
hand.
occupied. This may be ascertained
by observing the entrance. Should
you find a long black or white hair,
it is pretty certain that you have
found the den of a skunk” Often it
Will be found that ,quite a numbei
dwell in the same den. g'

— The matter of baits should be eon-
sidered some time »
trapping operations. One can pur—
chase a scent, many kinds‘of Which
are offered for sale" by advertisers. \In

some ways the. Commercial scents are.

but the trapper cannot‘d‘e-
pend upon them Wholly. 'A bait-that
is valuable for minks, ra‘coons and
foxes, also for- otters. skunks and,
foxes, is; fish ‘oil. This should be
made some time before the traps are
to be set. Procure a quantity of fish,
something like small shiners,.chubs
or pickerel. Any soft-scaled fish Will
do; and the more fat they Contain the
better. Chop these, and put in a
glasspreserved jar. .Put on the coy.—
er and fasten, but-do notwput. any
rubbe1 under the top. Set this in
the sun, and allow it to rot for .a few
weeks. ,When the oil rises to the
top, strain out the~refuse material,
and'you will have a substance that
will attract many of the Willi creat—
ures. Old meat that is .Wellrotted
is very" attractive to foxes It is well
to procure something of this sort and
have it “ripening" for Brother Rey-
panda—By 0. H. 0., in The Practical
Farmer.

valuable:

! DATE Nov.

in advance . of ‘
. ity soils,
vbroader

' vegetable

‘tain more-than 25 per cent of

‘eonditions is highly desirable

the farm owner and manager. It is
undoubtedly true that many possess
a general knowledge .along these
lines.,esp‘ecially With respect to the
soils of the immediate vicinity in
which they live, but on the other
hand, those Who are sufficiently well
informed to be able to accurately
judge soils conditions in another, or

. unfamiliar section or state are fewer
' in number.
» terest,
.samples of soil the composition of
-It is easy to tell if a den _is ~1

If one has sufficient in-
and application to obtain

which is known, and become so fam—
iliar With them by comparing each
with the, other in: the wet and dry
condition that he can distinguish one
class from the other and then take
samples from fields and make com-
parisons With the former, a thorough
knowledge of soil classification may
be acquired in a relatively short time.

The ability to judge the productiv-
however, is the result of
experience, and certainly
such conditions as the kind and char—
acter. of the predominating vegeta-
tion or plant growth. the color of the
subsoil, the climatic conditions, and
o:hers mentioned later on must be
taken into consideration.

The above classification refers to ‘-

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so-called “mineral soils” or those in 3

mass and the vegetable matter rel-
atively little. Inasmuch as forma—

'tions in which the vegetable matter
-is in the ascendency are olirequent I
» occurrence.

the scheme of classifi-
cation of such generally in use should
be given at thistime.

-Which- the mineral matter makes up ' ‘
.bytar the larger portion of the soil

Owing to the ‘

great influence that the presence of ‘

matter has _upon various
properties of soils, those that con—
this
material to a depth or 8 inches or

deeper are generally classified as.

vegetable or peat and muck soils.

Such deposits in the Pacific North— l

\

west. Coast region are popularly
spoken of as “beaverdam” soils.

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Sired by

Smooth Wonder 3d
7 Orange. ‘DesMoines

Joe’s Equal

Sailor Bob

W. DesMoines

Gertsdale Supreme

MY DATE
Nov. 1 1

MY TIME
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the farm 4 1-2 miles southeast of; Eaton Rapids and 2 1-2 miles northwest of Onondaga. SALE BEGINS AT 1 P. M
your bids in my care to Perry Johnson, fieldman. Get on my mailing list for a catalog. ' g

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friends of our paper, too! ~

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They are

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Such Dams. as

Lady Knox 7th
Lady Buster

Lady Giantess 4'
Molly Surprise
Wonder Princess

MY DATE
Nov. 11

MY TIME
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tsunumit-m cutie: 18, ”or“ «anxieties» chanted”

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To avoid conflicting dates we will
without cost, list the date of any
live stock sale in Michigan. It you
are considering 5 sale advise us at
once. and we will claim thedate tor
you. Address, Line Stock Editor.
M. B. E, Mt. Siemens.

Nov. 11. Poland Chime, Wm. «J.
Clarke, Eaton Rapids, M Mich.

 

Nov. 12, Poland Chm. Show
tockF Farm, Pewamo Mich.
Nov. 12. Holsteins. Anni T.

Loomis, Owosso, Mich.

Nov. 20. Percheron horses, chart-
horncattle and Poland China hats.
E. A. Stokes Gowen, Mich.

 

 

 

 

M-CAJ‘TLE

. nommuwnmsux

Calves Last Advertised are Sold

now have s bull calf born September 8th, misc

   

 

 

the heifer to fresh on in January. 35 1b. backing.
Write for prices and pedigrees
VERNON GLOUGH. Pam. Mich.

 

-= 11015111115 ~—-——-—1
OF QUALITY

12 LARGE COWS & HEIFERS
Due to Freshen This Fall

‘ ~ Strongly bred in Pontiac and Co-
' imba-‘tflr'hhma Mics. who: 1
.“tdu'l'Mr'thMsmIIalgt your . 1,
old hard sire {tenant’s lb. '8 your ‘ ,
obi dam. ' 1’

E. A. HARDY

Rochester, Mich.

sired by a son of

Bull IVESFW Friend Hengmveld

Kol Butter

Boy and by a son of King Scans De K01

Korndyke, from A. R. O. dams with rec—

erds of 18. 25 as Jr. two year old to 28. 25

at full age. Prices reasonable breeding

considered.

\VALNUT GROVE

W. W. Wyckofl.

 

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STOCK FARM
Napoleon Mich.

 

 

Bull Last Advertised is Sold

now oflel a. yearling bull, sired by YP-
SILAND KING KORNDYKE CAN-
ARY, a 28 20 lb. grandson of KING
OF THE PONTIACS‘, and from
RHODA CLIFDENS CROWNING
SHIELD 3RD, a 24.97 lb. daughter of
BUTTER BOY TRYNTJE DE KOL,
and one of the most beautiful cows
you ever saw.

 

 

 

. size at this calf averagel 37276 Lbs. hut.

CAI-HI...
Holstein, twelve young
year heifers, one pm bre
years old. (’13.. of 2

mt a be): M" F
:lerodl. BerrIen Ocean. Michigan.

H ATCH HER D

cents and Federal Tested)
YPMIJN’II. MICHIGAN
Otters young sires out of choice admo-
ed registry dams and King Korndyke Art—
is Vale. Own dam 34.16 lbs. butter In"?
days;; amuse 2 nearest dams 37. 61.8
nearest. 33 93, to nearest 2.7.83.

EV“!!! 8109K rm nmcrs 0.90
fun their herd. We «re well pleased with
thaalves iron out Junior geld lire Po
globudoxcm an. whoiisason or
of the? entices” 1mm 0 daughter of Bon-

um 3.! ecu:
mambo: m

 

gtlcc alumna? De K01 2nd. A icw bull calves {or
IV. Mich.

Mme, R. 2, Battle Creek,

 

 

“USO-EFF 'BRQS.’ HGLSTEINS

We are now booking orders for
young bulls from King Pieteor Segjs
Lyons I70306.A11 from A R. deals
with credible records. We test annu- ‘
ally for tuberculosis. Write for pric-
es and further information

-Muslelli’ 81-05., South Lyons. Michigan

 

 

ML CALFE MONTHS OLD AND .A
BIAWY. 85 per cent white

fimight as a. line. Sired by 31—1b.bull and his
dam is just one of the best cows I ever milked, a.
randxlzwsllter of 001231457111. Johanna. Lad. Price
1450.00 for immediate so 118].
ARRY T. TUBBS, Elwell, Michigan

 

TENLMONTHs-onmimm. '

Bull last advertised is sold
one born June 7,1918 Sized by best
4m at tenuous ”0.00.0 bull heading
Auden Farms herd King Komdyke
Pontiac Lass TWo nemat dams to

This

tor 7 days and over145 lbs. in 30
days Dam. a. crews-treat” of King
.6! the Readers. Sir Webw Walker
"chis and Deiioi Burke A may” ‘

.Herd tu-beneniin tested annually
BOABDMAN FARMS, Jackson, Mich.

 

 

 

 

UR 82 13.191333 mm: amp
Champion at the Grand Rapids fair this year.
His site’s daugher won 337. 50 prize money. His
-sire.1s brother to King Segis Pontiac Count, the
leading», prize winner of the breed. Several of our
cows are sisters to the Champion 4 year old of
Hi lean last year. The rest are from a 27 lb.
11 of the great bull Johan Hengerveld Lad.

Bull calves for sale at i'lPlSHl'llible prices.

0. L. HULETT a. SON. Okcmos, Mlob.

A GREAT OPPORTUNITY

We have for sale a Holstein Calf born
Dec. 22 last from an own brother to a
world‘s champion Jr. 4 yr. old and full
brother in blood to the cow that was
world’s champion cow. His own sister
and two sisters in blood have each’ pro-
duced over 1,200 lbs. of butter in a year.
If interested send for pedigree.

HILtCREST FARM. KAEAMAZOO. MIGH.

 

 

BHORTIIORN

HAT DO YOU WANT? I represent 41
SHORTIIORN breeders. Can put you in
touch with best milk or beef strains. Bulls

 

 

r '- 2
, . . ”use $1“) _ . all ages. Some females C. W. Crum
R03 1*. BILBIES, (hesunmg, Mlch- President Central Michigan Shorthorn
Association, McBrides, Michigan.
SHORTIEORN CATTLE, BIG TYPE
Elmwood StOCk Farm Offers 13. C. pigs. “Correspondence a pleasure. J.
bull (win-s from good producing dams with A. ll Hanley & Sons, St. Loni-s, M101].
0. records 111111 sired by '1'. «11111113011 of Pontiac
Iwrmhlu and Pond»! PM 1’1 us very xnaename. SPECIAL 010111131; SHOR'P‘KGRNS—

AUGUST RUTTMAN Fowlerville, Web.

$150 BULL CALF

Born June 3 Well marked, very large
and 111 at class individual Sire, Fimt
Hengeivcld Lad. Whose two nearest: dams
hznc I'ccmds that avcmgze. 32 66 lbs but-
ter and 735. 45 lbs. milk in 7 days. Dam
of calf is a granddaughter of King Se-
gis and a perfect individual with 3. rec-
0rd of 20. 66 lbs. butter in 7 days. For
desc1iption write to _

Mich.

L. C. KETZLICR. Flint,

I offer two registered H01: tein M1308
and 10 years old, latter with an A. R
almost 19 lbs. Heifer 18 months momoa
14-1b. two year old. all bred to a 330 lb
grandson of King Segis Pontiac Alamo,
the $501.00 bull hotter calf born April 18
I919 from a 27— lb. bull Howard Ems:
Eau Claire Mich

 

 

 

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Choice Registcrcd Stack ,

PERCHERONS
HOLSTEIN S -
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Cows. $250.00 to $300.00. Bulls, $200.00
0 $250.00. Wm, J. Bell. Rose City, Midh.

 

use screen mm SALE AT PRESENT.
Short-dawn Breeder. W. S. Huber, Glad-
win, Mich.

 

YEP: WAN RUBEN (20 Shorthm‘n
Breeders‘ Association have wag shock
for sale, 11:19sz Clay b: It: Write

your wants to the ~:1eeretary. Frank Bai-
ley. Karat-om}. Mich.

 

WHY WWW mm m.
cm Acceleration announce their fall catalog ready
for distribution. Scotch. Scotch Bop stud “Elem
Sherman Retell. Address
W. I... Time. 8811.. M510. MIDI).

 

m sane—«men EGAN ~
Stanfieml:l%iled18hmthmm Bull Calf barn-
Apr. 112. One red smother-n Bull Calf, bom-

pull-81nd,gotby‘Iflwk‘sPoms}!IhfllicI"?Z

we-..
2mm Actaulckiiyeu‘

,Lrvsf

JUST recount» 8
'HEW nnns. —- NOW
have 160 head. We ofler you anything de-
cither sex. horned er polled, any m
Priced mandate. The Mommy‘s. Bad
Axe, Mich.

no manual) suns.
knew of 10 er 115 had: uncr 1181.3:
3mm“. ”d fimuWin‘u“ 1% It:
more one as e
ennui-elem c. F; Ball, m , 1m

HARWOOD IEREFORDS

“If you want a start from the Grand

iterator-d Bull of Mini!!!“ see

us. Your; buns from 9 to 13 mths

Barf-t We. Come end see. Jay H3?“
wood 0:. Son, Ionic. Mich .

O . -

Registered Hereford Cattle

10 good bulls now tor scLe Elem six
months to 2 sears Old. Game and as them. they
can‘t help but: please you. stock ms. of the
blue ribbons home with us this? fall from lead-
ing fans of the s.tate
STONY GREEK STWK FNRM. Pewamo. MIGII.

LAKEWOOD HEREFORDS

Not how many but how good! A few
well-developed, beefy, young bulls for
sale, blood lines and individuality No. .1.
If you want a proponent sire, that wall
beget grazers, rustlelrs, early maturers
and market toppers buy a registered
Hereford and realize a big profit on your
investment. 'A lifetime devoted to the
breed. Come and see me.—-E. J. TAY-
LOR, Fremont, Michigan. .

 

 

 

 

 

 

ANGUS

RAISE A $000 BAB'Y BEE?
tram your gowe dairy cow by use of a
Thousand Dollar. Angus bull. Dean M
£2 00 service tee. Write for our ccvopv
erative community plan; also our method
01' marketing beef and milk, by use 95 a
cheap home made calf meal. “there 1's:
money in it for the owners on Me com
everywhere Covers of Angus 111‘ch not
necessary. It or mTXed biodd,ca1vesr'will‘
come black, thick meated and without
”horns, like Site. Geo. 135311117111, “m,
Mich. ‘

 

 

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~ JERSEY

The Wildwood Jersey Fem

Breeders of Majesty strain Jersey-m
tie. Herd Bulls, Ma‘jestys Oxford Fox
1814214 Eminent Lady’s Majesty 150934.
Herd eubeiculin- tested. Bull calves for
sale out of R. of M Majesty dams.

Alvin Balden, Capac. Michigan.

 

 

FOR BAKE: 'RMISTI-IED JEMEY SELL. 2:
years old. Kind andvgentle and sure. Write for
pedigree. J. E. Farmington, h.

'. if)
mething right good in a

,1 . , . I f'
WHEN IN lfm'i‘.” P. 0. hour just come and

sec or write W. J. liagclshaw, Augusta, Mich.
POLAND CHINAS

BI; G T Y P “’1?“ {EU 'bLIT’Y

Pigs, from L’s Big Orange 231817, both
sex, for sale. Prospective buyers met at
St. Johns. J. E. Mygrants, St. Johns, Mich.

Walnut Alley Big Type, Ears
I will sell .13 head at Ionic Fair grounds
Nov. 5 in the Wesley Hill Sale. 7 sired
by Arts Senator No. 328539; 6 sired by
Orange Price No. 3277433. Semi for cat-
aloguc.
A. I). 316136933X.

Morris,

SWINE

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11mm . Mich.

 

“NPRMG WING

.bcars. summer and [fall pigs

 

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' film we AID am no: a“. 0'0!-

”gonmhookedi for [all pticud. .3606 sows Ea???
"whine mun e amp
91“!!!" P. 0. Row 1!.

Gillies. W'est Bundl- m;

L. '1‘. P. G. 130W AX!) ‘l‘ PIGS EX
side. Price $100. 90. Spring boar many
after Nov. lst. Better engage your pit
selected new. The lHongast and tallest in;
ever on the farm .Swartz. School

craft, Mich.
We have been breeding’
EURZSYE Big is?!” Poland Gilda
he: I of the most approved blood that
Our newy herd boar Michigan Buster" is
good can of the great Giant
Buster" ydam “Runw’s Miss Queen «1:?
Some breeding! Litter of 14. We mitt-a
term: some sows bred tor fall tamer. J «
0‘. Butler. Portland. Mich. .-:J

m TYRE P. O. GHOIGE SPRING
boars fromo'lowa’s greatest herds Biz
boned husky fellows. Priced right. - -_./
m MATHEW‘SO’N, Burr Oak, m.

LARGE TVsPE P. 0.]..ARGE8T HI HIGH. VISIT
my herd if looking for a boar pig that is a lit-
tie blazer and better bred than you here Den
able to find. and satisfy your wants. Come and
see the real big type both in herd boats and
breed sews. Bears in service L's Big Orange
Lord Clansman, Orange Price and L’s Long Pros.-

nses paid of not as represented. Prices

LIVINGSTON. Mich.

LARGE TYPE P. 0. SPRING ”AM

and: gilts now ready to ship Also om
Fall Yearling Boar and Fall Pigs. Clyde-
Fisher. St. Louis, Mich” R R. 3. “

 

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reasonable.

W. E. Fauna.

 

 

WONBEEBIA NED HERDnLNBGE TYPE
Roland Chimes Some cracking good
spring boa 3 and a few June sow pigs at
private treaty. Holding a few boars. and
aili my early cows for my sale Nov. r1111
cmi' Cal. Ed. Bowers South Whitley, 1111.,
and Col. Porter Caistaoek, Eaton Rapids.
Come and. see the two greatest boars liv-
ing. Free livery any time.

Wm. J. cmw
R” No. 1

Marlon Rapids, Mich.

 

.Fafl-R. summon: “BE POLAND!

boars. April and may renew. Pros

Miner's kind at {numeric prices. FUN.
Piggott & Son, Fowler, Mich.

 

m
Hillsdale. Co. Blair where

'seventy eight head of Polands were u:-

hlbited I won seven premiums. A litter
at strict under six months sire Bob-c-
Lihlc, dam Titanic Hazel Two shown hi
nnkr year took Lst and 2nd.'1‘vco show:-
ing in six months class took lst and 2:111.
‘01“; int prize bear and two gifts of this
litter left.O.t11ers by same sire aim
either sex by Michigan Buster. - ~
0. L. wmnm, Jonesville, Mich;

A. New Herd Bear
(I... name)Big Bob Mastodon

sired by Caldwell Big Bob, champion: at
the world in 1917. His dam is Mastodon
Josie; she is a. daughter of A's Mastod‘on'
the Grand Champion at Iowa. State Fair
in 1917. Ready to ship boars.

(Come and see him.)
C. E. GARN ANT,

 

 

Eaton Rapids. Mich.

LEONARD’S Big Type Poland Chin.

Hours, all ages. The
kind that makes good. Call or write.
E. R. LEONARD, St. Louis, Mich.’ '

 

 

 

DUROC

Duroc Opportunity

orders to; July

Also March and

Shipped C. O.
Howell. Mich.

PEACH 'HlLL FARM
We are offering a few choice spring boars. a!

March and April furrow. They are of Protection
breeding, out of prize winning stock.

 

We are now booking
and Sept. pigs cheap,
April pigs of either sex.
EAGER, BROS., R. l

 

 

 

 

A
16884-——545109.Paui Quack,
Ste Marie, Mich. ., R 2, Box 70.

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1‘..HAI§T,I§t Lannie, Mich. Frees 0373111000- B$Siqfitfmlom 'Mich.
.m} 'IYI’P'Exl’.( -mmnms,m - ‘
or sex. From chemo hood ms and stated moo BOARS 0F SIZE, QUALITY
by a. gemadson‘ of Grant; Fischer and: other and breeding. including several State
.vm-wmns hams Prise pm Fair winners. Newton Barnhart, St.
-1... W Barnes and 81m, moron, wen. Johns. Mich.
., . ' L PRB$ '50 «01: 11mm ounce.
1 ‘ M; ' bi wflw s ring hours. will weigh 20!)
h Tan &8 gmwtbetffl mm...
~ WWW“ totality” Mali-My - c. DAVIS ebsou. AshlcY. Mich.
Was-mg: : on. as ‘ -
tersest-m.‘mmr in. ' '
m. mmi‘mwm first. had MOO BOARS figgml’sfifi):
Jam", 3,3331: m‘wimw 1!: may for service. Geo B. Smith, Addi-
by Long King. Priced reasonable. son. Mich.
JOHN D. “WILEY.

 

 

  

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; «sales ginormous in Mm“. mm Ohio and Indiana. as 'theemam
‘ ' Field Ian "I Miaflsan gent M
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wt] Wt any reader of tilfi m ,'

    

_Schoolcraft, Mich. %
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I 825 at. 8 weeks Old. Will be ready Nov.
hazel-e» guaranteed

1‘- AMER!!- - .
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IEHILLIP'S PRIZE WINNING ounces FOR
Milan,

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mafimflm 01.11.

   

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Litter Mdsons of Superba King

swag/$150111 u 8 weeks, registered, de-
livered Dec. 1. Choice April gilts same
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ADIERICAN MERINO RAMS FOR

sale. Write for prices.
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FOR SW? REG; 1mm 01'».
ford Down rams. W. B. White, Cap—
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lugs and ram lambs, good quality, 1:

size and well wooled. $25 and $30 each.
H. A. HEBBLE‘VHITE, Armada, Mich.

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ing rams and ram lambs sired by Efmport-

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Stock Farms Almont. Mich.

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attractions a few of our best herd sows and one yearling boar.

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SALE BERKSILIRE BOARS

ready for service. I am booking orders-
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Onward 3rd. write we your wants. A. A.
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registered Berkshire boars, furs-30s what
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