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ICHIGAN sugar,.beet growers
will be encouraged to know
that a movement _is on foot
to, consolidate the sugar beet grow-
ers of the United States into one
great national organization which
can cope with the increasing diffi-
culty of securing an equitable price

, for their product and a fair share of
the consumer’s doll‘ar.

An official call has been issued for
a national growers’ convention which
is to be held at Denver, Colorado,
January 26, 1919. The call comes
from the office of the Intermountain
Farmers’ Ass’n, Inc, 306 Judge
Building, Salt Lake City, Utah. “The
national sugar bowl,” says the an—
nouncement, “is in the clutches of a
few powerful corporations which are
so united and organized as to form
a most menacing trust.” Attention
is called to the fact that the trust
is so dominating the situation as to
impel the government to take action
along lines which discourage the
development of the sugar beet in~
dustry in this country by holding
down the price of sugar beets below
the actual cost of production.

Asserting that sugar- beets must
be regarded as one of our greatest
agricultural assets, the statement
calls upon the best growers through
their representatives to meet at Den—
ver and devise ways and means of
securing a fair and just portion at
the profits that under an equitable
arrangement would result to grow-
ers from the production of sugar.

Prominent in plans for organiza-
tion of a National Beet Growers’
sociation is C. G. Patterson, Secre—
tary of the Intermountain F-armers'
Association and a member of the
National Board of Farm Organiza-
tions.

Joining the Intermountain Farm-
ers’ Association in the call for the
meeting are the Farmers' Unions of
Nebraska and Colorado, State Grang-
es of Washington and Colorado, the
Mountain States Beet Gowers Asso-
ciation and the Gleaners. Other or-
ganizations co-operating are the Ida-
ho. Nebraska, Michigan, Ohio and
Kansas State Granges, the Farmers'
Union of California, the American
Society of Equity, Wisconsin Cheese
Producers’ Federation, the Associat-
ed Dairymen of California, the
Equity Co-o-perative Association of
Montana, the Ohio Farmers Co—op—
erative Milk Company, the Almakee
County Union of the American Soci-

ety of Equity of Iowa, and the Na-
tional Board of Farm Organizations.

Michigan Plano Organisation

The sugar beet growers’ commit-
tee for this state is earnestly making
plans for the formation of a strong
and permanent state organization.
At the mass meeting held in Saginaw
a month ago the matter of co—oper-
ating with the Colorado people came
up for discussion, but it was decided
that the season Was too far advanc-
ed to attempt to carryout a mutual
program with the westerners on the
1920 contract“ Nevertheless it was
the sense of the meeting that plans
should be laid for entering into ne-
gotiations with the Colorado grow~
ers or any other growers desiring
the organized assistance of Michi—
gan growers. No plans have yet

been made for sending a delegate to,

the Colorado convention, but it ap-
pears that it would be a wise thing
to do. Michigan is the most import-
ant sugar beet growing state in the
“eastern" district, and should by all
means havela voice in any conven-
tion called in behalf of beet growers.
The Michigan committee has not yet
issued its call for a conference with
the manufacturers but this is ex-
pected at a not distant date.
Sliding Wage Scale
The committee at its last meeting
discussed and practically adopted a
plan} for a sliding wage scale. The
present flat rate, it is claimed, is not
conductive to-efiiciency. Work-men
will go throgh the rows carlessly,
cutting out many beets that should
be left, and when pulling the beets
will leave a good many that do not
come out easily. Sugar beet grow-
ers estimate that from one-half to a
ton of beets to the acre are left in
the ground particularly in seasons of
early fall and bad weather condi—
tions. To make it an object to
workmen to use greater care in
thinning and gathering the beets,
the growers feel that the laborers
should be paid a bonus. The follow—
ing sliding scale arrangement was
suggested: Minimum wage. $28 for
22 to 24—inch rows, $26 for 26 to
28-inch rows, and a bouus (50c to
$1) for every additional ton over
eleven tons to the acre.
Beet Sugar Statistics
At the mass meeting of growers a
committee was appointed to gather
such information as was available
concerning the amount and value of
by—products taken from sugar beets.

Denver, Colo, to be Scene of First National Convention 01‘ Beet‘CrowersLto Strengthen Orgamzafion

This information- has already been
compiled and Will be presented to

the sugar beet growers through an” ,

early issue of
Farming.

Michigan BMess
A Hanna's VIEW OF THE
‘ SUGAR BEET CONTRACT

In your issue of December '20th of
M. B. F., notice you have an article
on the sugar beet question. Have
been, watching the sugar situation for
some time. Have been a grower of
beets for a number of years and have
made a study of the business of rain--
ing beets. I think your article very
good but in some points you have
not made it very clear tov-most of the
growers as to the sugar contract.
You «have taken the very lowest fig-
ures for the basis of your figures for
there are‘not many years that the

sugar content would be as low as 13 .

per cent. Take the year of 1917. 'I
don’t think that beets would test less
than 20 per cent. Now for the rais-
ing of sugar beets think it not a very
fair business in many ways. If a
farmer raisesa prime steer hewgets
the prime price. If he raises a scrub
he gets the scrub price.

Now as to the old contract don’t '

think it fair at all and if the farm-
ers would give the issue a little
thought and study they would see
that it is pretty much one-sided with
the largest part on the company’s
side. During the war-when the price
of sugar was restricted we didn't
have so much chance for complaint
but have been watching to see what
the government is going to do with
the price but as far as I can see the
sky is to be the limit, and if it is go——
ing to be left to supply and demand
any thinking farmer will readily see
the sugar company ’3 final settlement
to the farmer above the guaranteed
price will be determined by the four
months when the price of sugar will
be the very lowest. Take the present
fall for an example. You could not
buy a pound of sugar from our local
factory at all until after Nov. 15th.
I learned from the agriculturist that
they were shipping sugar but it was
to be subject to price, but remember,
Mr. Farmer, they willnot verlook
October when it comes to de ermin-
ing the price on your beets as they
take the average N. Y. wholesale
price for October, November, Decem-
ber and January. Would like to see
the New York sugar market quoted
in your paper. Think it. would be of

benefit to the beet growers as ' “I
cmnot find it in any of the dailies.

The field'nen it: oiir locality are
pl‘d‘tty indentindent this fall. They
say they are just going to ask the
farmer if he is going to raise beets
and if he says no, Just pass on.

I once heard'Patrick' H. Kelly‘tell
a story of two toads in a farmers’
milk can. Org was an optimist and
the other a pessimist. They were
both jumping around trying to- -get

out., The pessimist gave up and
droWned. The optimist kept on
jumping and was taken out in the

morning. Think if there were not
so many pessimistic farmers and
they would do a little more thinking
it wouldn’ t long before we could
get a better contract. .

In any sliding scale arrangement there
must be some basic figure from which to
work. In the suggestive table published
in our Dec. 20th issue. 13 per cent sugar
was used because it was substantially the
same basis used by the manufacturers in
California. who pay for the beets accord-
ing to both test and market quotation.
Surely you would not use a higher test
as a basis, for the higher the test upon
which the minimum price is based, the
less the farmer gets. A good many Mich-
igan best: will test as low as 13 per
cent and some even lower. The test for
1918 beets averaged about 16 per cent.
and the estimated average for the 1919
crop is 14 per cent. or course, these are
manufacturers’ figures. When ’ e beet
growers are properly organized t ey will
know ndtheir own test and:l not be ogligedto
11 upon somebody se’s wor -

631%. manner at determining the aver-
age market price for the settlement at
beet contracts has been thoroughly dis--
cussed at recent meeting: the sugar
beet grOWers and their committee. Mem-
bers of the committee claim that invest-
igation has shown that practically all
the beet susar is disposed of by the man-
ufacturers uring the months of October
November, December and January, and
that it is fair to all concerned to use the
market quotations for these months as
the determining basis. If the supply reg-
ulates the price, it ought to be to the
farmers' interest to have the sugar price
for the month of October taken into con-

/sideration. for that is the month when

beet sugar is normally the scarcest and
the ofprice ought to be ythe highest.
course, the companies are not an-
xious to buy any beets next year. There
is no profit in 20- cent sugar, you know,
and besides sugar might fall like man-
na. from the skies, causing a. surplus and
lowering prices. It is not good business
for the manufacturers to appear eager
to buy beets. The farmers might ask
for a higher price. This ‘pnesing by”
of farmers who need to be coaxed to sign
contracts is merely a part of n. deliber-
ate plan to worry the farmers into s1?
ing their contracts. You are right.
need a few more optimism among

farmers. ey are entitled to much high-
er prices01920 boots and it remains
engruely wiot them whether they get it.
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Improved Breeders and Feeders AnnounceProgram cf Annual Meeting
Breeders’ Associations Will be 1n Annual Session at East Lansing January 14th and 15th

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HE TWENTY- NINTH annual

meeting of the Michigan Im-

proved Live Stock Breeders’ &
Feeders’ Association and Allied Or-
ganizations will be held Wednesday
and Thursday, Jan. 14 and 15, 1920.
On Wednesday, Jan. 14, will be held
the meetings of the following organi-
zations: Michigan Sheep Breeders’
Association. Michigan Swine Breed-
ers’ Association, Michigan Horse
Breeders’ Association, Michigan Hol-
stein-Friesian Association, Michigan
Guernsey Cattle Club, Michigan Here-
ford Breeders' Association, Michigan
Red Polled Breeders’ Association,
Michigan Aberdeen Angus Breed-
ers’ Association, Michigan Shorthorn
Breeders’ Association, Michigan Jer-
sey Cattle Club, Michigan Poland Chi-
na Swine Breeders’ Association, Mich—
igan Duroc-Jersey Breeders’ Associa-
tion and Michigan Chester White
Breeders' Association and Michigan
Breeders’ Association.

The officers 0f the various organi~
zations are preparing interesting pro;
grams and it behooves everyone in-
terested in purebred live stock to at-
tend and boost for his particular
breed as well as learn what his fol--
low breeders in. other parts of the
state are doing. .

Thursday, 31111.18 will be devoted

 
 

meeting of all associa-

tion. this meeting they have so-
its?” “Mutational

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Federation, whose topic is “The On-
ganized Farmer" and Mr. E. C. Brown
president of the National Live Stock
Exchange, whose topic is “The Opera-
tion of the Packing Industry and
Stock Yards Under Government Con-
trol." The program follows:

GENERAL MEETING
Wednesday, Jan. 14., 1920.

At 5 p. m., room 402. Agricultural
Building, joint meeting of all Allied Or-
ganizations—The Health of Michigan
Live Stock, H. H. Halladay, Clinton,
president State Live Stock Sanitary Com-
mission; reports of association secretar—
ies; banquet tendered by the State
Board of Agriculture to members of the
Michigan Improved Live Stock Breed-
ers’ and Feeders’ Association.

Thursday, January ‘15. 1920.

Meeting called to order at 9:30 a. m.,

room 402, Agriculture Building, East
Lansng. ——-Secretary’ 8 report; appoint-
ment of committees; president's address.
Colon C. Lillie, Coopersville; The l-
cultural Outlook. L.
Manchester, Michigan gun; The Operation of
the Packing Industry and Stock BYards
Under Government Control, C. Brown,
Chicago 111.. president monal Live
Stock michan

le-

Meeting called to order at 1.30 p, m.—-—
The Organized Farmer. O. E. Bradfute.
Xenia, Ohio, director American Farm
Bureau Federation; cutie Di-

versified Farm. IL. 8. Shaw, East
u “my; reports of committees; elec-
on

SECTION MEWGS

Michigan Sheep MW Anociatiou.
mean G. Lead, Rm secretary,
V. A. Man, Mine.

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keting’of Wool in Ohio. J. 13. Walker,
Gambler, Ohio; Why We Should Have an
Active Michigan Wool Growers‘ Associ-
ation, C. A. Tyler, Detroit.

Wednesday, Jan. 14,

Michigan Swine Breeders’

President, J. B. Hibbard,
secretary, E. R. Leonard, .St. Louis.

Meeting called to order at 1:30 p. m.,
room 109——Swlne Feeding Experiments
in P1 egress at M. A. W. Norton,
Jr.; Boosting the Pure-bred Swine In-
dus’try Through Boys’ and Girls’ Pig
Clubs, W. A. Anderson, state leader of
boys’ and girls' clubs; The Public Sale as
a Means of Disposing of Breeding Stock,
W. J] Clark. Eaton Rapids.

1920.

Association
Bennington ;

Wednesday, Jan. 14,1920. /
Michigan Horse Breeder' s Association
President Jacob D,eGeus Alicia , sec-

retary. R. S. Hudson, East Lansing.
Meeting called to order in roomot 38 lit
1 :30 p. m.-—-The Inauguration- '
Americanm Horse Publicity Association
Cam paisn, G. E. Wentworth, superin-
tendent of the Chicago Horse Market Co.-

Tuosday, Jan. 13., 1930 at Noon.
Michigan Hofitein-Friesian Association

President, . Wentworth. Batu ttle
Creek; secretary, Chas. A. Daniels, Oke-
mos.

First annual sale by the Michigan Hol- ,.
inn ode of

stem-Fries Bre Association

76 head of insth and guaranteed ani-

rs

malsh‘all choicely bred and with high _

Tuesdamb January 13,31: 0:80p

Annual‘3 ban net at Plymouth Congre-
La.nsin¢

n“Wednesday“ Jan. 1‘, 1920'

    

cies for the Future,M S. Prescott, Syra-
cuse, N. Y.: Organizing the Holstein In-
dustry. D. D. Aitken. Flint, Mich

Wednesday, Jan.14,1920.

Michigan Guernsey Cattle Club.
President. E. J. Smallidge, Eau Claire:
secretary, C. G. Parnall, Jackson
Room 111 at 9: 30 a. m.——The Sale of
Guernsey Products, H. . Wigman;
31:00 a. m., Judging of Guernsey Cattle
in Pavilion, Prof. A. C. Anderson, 1: 30
p. m., Election of officers and busineSs
of Michigan Guernsey Cattle
Club; .30 Guernsey Cattle on the Isl-
and of 2Guernsey and in America, Harry
W. Griswold. '

Wednesday, Jan. 14, 1920

Michigan Hereford Breeders! Association
President, Jay Harwood. Ionia; sec’y- -
trees, Earl C. McCarty, Bad Axe.
Meeting called to order at 1:00 p. rm.
room Mil—Outlook for Herefords, Allen
Bros, Paw Paw; Does a Show Herd Pa
as an Advertising Proposition, Tony
Fox Pewamo; Breedi ing and Feeding,
Louis Norton, Nashville, father of the
Hereford; Outlook for Herefords in the
North West, Gid Granger, Gaines; Poll-
or Horned. the Most Profitable to
Breed! W H. Anderson. Grand Rapidl:
Foundation for a. Breeding Herd, E.. J.
Taylor, 1 'reemont, Fashionable or Plain
BMEreede the MostEaPrxiofltable for the Av—

    

   
  
  

 

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Axe: Herefords, the Best Breed to Feed
for BeeLJ “Fa Brand, Saginaw.
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Michigan Red Polled Breeders’ Ass" n.
President. N. C. rbison, B 1113- .
secretary. fl. .Peabody, and
in order a: 1: so 1). m., 7
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‘ amnw or the work A

Exchange this year shows
that the .~ Wu POtato

l Growers 'llncimege is making thouv
. sands of dollars for the. members
this seadon.

'me season stunted out with so
large volume of apples which were.
mailed by the Exchange, which
were sold at very high prices for the
farmers. The Exchange -so‘ld cider
apples for the local. associations for
prices ranging trots-31.50 to' $2.15
per hundred.

The price to the farmers was start-
ed by the local buyers at 80 cents
per hundred, butlit did not take long
for the Exchange ‘to get into the
older apple game and the price was

advanced to 81.60111: once. The

writer attended a meeting at Tustin
where the farmers were not organ-
ized and they were selling hand
picked apples No. 1 and 2 at $1.40
per hundred and the Exchange Was

that day. selling cider apples for ,

$1.65 and was returning to their
members $2.20 per hundred for po-
tatoes and the buyers in Tustin were
paying the banners there $1.70, a.
difference of 50 cents per hundred
between the price received by the or-
ganized and the unorganized farm-
ers. .
The prices returned to the farm-
ers by the’co-operative associations
this year has been very much in ad—

. reuse of the prices paid by the local

‘ buyers in most all cases.

‘ are who were'mem'bers.
, also were paying higher prices than |
they could afford to pay last yearand

1 dollars.
"break up the organizations by caus-

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and 22, which was called

.which I always study with

’ favored joint effort in a

The differ-
ence has run all the way from 4 to
50 cents per hundred.

Last year themed was a

market coupled wl a car shortage

.- which worked against the local asso-

ciation or put them at a disadvant-
age on making returns to the fann-
The buyers

by so doing they lost thousands of
They did this in order to

lug dissatisfaction among the mem-
bers. The buyers found that they
could not break the associations by
this method and although they put
several thousand dollars in to break
them, they doubled their number in
Just nine months. ,

This year we have enjoyed a. car

‘ warrant more than 80

falling»

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. I V By W. C. (18.1333: .

m4 Agent Michigan Page Exchange-

shortage for, the market hep advanc-
ed and the farmer who ordered his
potatoes sold and was not {his to

:get them cif'iors week or two has

found that "when they were said he
was returned much more” than he
expected in a great many cases. The
buyer this year has given up the
idea that they can break up the asso-
ciations xby paying more than the
produce is worth and are taking
what they can get with a fair
chance of making a reasonable prof-
it on their investment.

This year is the year when the
loyal members are making good
money and the man who is selling
on the outside is getting let down.

The writer knows of 14 are of

potatoes shippw from one li tle sta-

tion where there were fourteen cars
shipped after the first of June last
spring, by a. buyer and these peter,
toes brought a very low price al—
though many of them were purchas-
ed the fall before at one dollar per
bushel when the market would not
cents per
bushel.

The Exchange has sold 90 cars
of cabbage for its Saginaw associa-
tion. They have sold several care

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MAY UNE ULY AUG 5

of rye and wheat at very good ad-
vances above the regular market.
'llhree cars of rye were sold for the
Melinda association and netted the
farmers around 31.61 cents per
bushel last fall when the elevator
was only paying $1.80 at the time
this was loaded out. One member
at Buelia told me that he had made
over $100 in three weeks above the
buyers’ price on second grade apples
which were sold by the Exchange to
the peddler trade. \—

' At Gowen, a little town just six

miles . from Greenville, after the
farmers organized . a cooperative
marketing association there, the

members were offered $2.14 by the
buyers when the same concerns were
only paying $1.90 in Greenville,
which is the‘leading buyers’ market
of the state.

A man at Sheffield said that his
company was only paying $2.00 per
hundred there and the same firm at
another town just 20 miles from
there, but where the farmers were
organized. was paying $2.40 "per
hundred; so it is seen that the un-
organized farmer is holding the bag
for the organized farmer in as much
as the buyers can take a profit from

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Chart showing approximate trend of cattle market durlng 1919. The chart does not show
the great drop In prlces from Dec. 10th to 20th. when the market slumped to $14.50.

Million Dollars

the one and spend it in another com-

munity to compete with the organ-, ‘ I ‘

iced farmer.

A concrete example of the differ-
ence between the price that the
buyers are paying on a safe basis, is
the Kingsley association in Grand
Traverse county.

and the association was so crowded
that they could not handle them
when he wanted to sell and he went
to the buyer who would only pay
him a price which would net him
$101.66. He waited for a. day or
two when the association could take
them and he received $132.44, a gain
of $30.7 8.

The Exchange has just held one
of. its representative meetings
called to amend the by-laws. This
meeting was held on Dec. 18th and
was well attended by the voting del-
egates from the locals as well as
many members and county agents.

One of the important amendments
to the by-laws was to give the Ex-
change power to hire a competent
auditor to audit the books of the
locals whenever this was necessary
or at lea-st once a year.

One association was organized on
Saturday afternoon, they purchased
a warehouse on Monday and started
doing business on Wednesday. This.
association is located so that they
have members from Kent, Newaygo
and Montcalm counties. They have
shipped several cars of beans and
potatoes and are ”handling all kinds
of farmers supplies. One associa-
tion at Grant has just placed an or-
der for over eight thousand dollars
worth of clover and grass seeds.

The Central Exchange purchased
over four cars of grass seeds last
year and made a saving to their

members of from two to seven dol-

lars per bushel.

To give some idea of the confi—
dence of many of the members in
their local associations, I will give a
little history of the Kingsley Asso-
ciation. This association has been
in/operat’ion about 15 months and on
the start they purchased a ware-
house for $3,000, but soon saw that
this was too small for their needs

(Continued on page 17)

Farmers"~ National Council Explains. Attitude Toward Organized Labor

Secretary Benjamin J. Marsh des “Sled-Length” Political Alliance With Labor Not Desired

 

a net income of over $1,-

 

DITOR Michigan
Business" Farming:
After an absence
from the city for some
time I have just been
reading over the Novem-
ber 8th issue of the MICH-
IGAN BUSINESS, FARMING

great interest. I want to
trespass on your space
briefly with a comment
on some of the articles in
that issue, especially the
one, “Shall Farmers Unite
with Organized Labor?"

May I state that the
National Farmer-Labor
Conference Just held in
Chicago on November 21

by the Farmers’ National
Co-opsratlye Association,
did not in any way e‘n- ll
dorse a complete union
of farmers with organiz-
ed labor. It did not throw
in its lot- with the labor
party, but the delegates
almost without exception,

 

 

of farmers.
colunms and our readers are fairly familiar with it.
aims of all farm organizations, this Council endorses public ownership of the railroads and
the merchant marine, government development of the natural resources, and higher taxes
on income'und profits. This program is radically different from that recently announced by
the National Grange and the American Federation of Farm Bureaus, both of which organ-
izations have declared against govermnent ownership and operation of public utilities, and
have shown no concern whatsoever over the present disproportionate distribution of the tax
In at least one other respect the Farmers’ National Council
nearly all other farm organizations,—it believes in joint action with organized labor to
carry out a legislative program.

The famers can agree en masse upon legislative remedies for the shortcomings of
present marketing methods but they split asunder when they attempt to agree upon broad-
or issues. It is not necessary that all farmers in all» organizations endorse public ownersal to
in order to unite and work together upon the matters more closely associated with their
own business. The same principle can be applied to the suggestion that farmers and organ-
ized labor if they choose on matters in which they have common interests. To do this, it is
not necessary that they split hairs or quarrel over matters on which there is a difference of
If the Farmers’. National Council and the National Board of Farm Organizations
would just forget for the next ,six months all about the issues which they cannot possibly
agree upon andremember only those upon which they can agree. they could bring material
benefits to all the farmers of the United States. i ‘

Business Farming and its readers are very glad to have Mr. Marsh's valued opinions
upon these great questions—Editor. '

burden.

opinion.

of farm organizations which include several state Farmers‘ Unlons- the Gleaner-s, a
number of strong state Granges. the American Society of Equity, and minor associations
The legislative program of this council has been frequently discussed in these
In addition to the general legislative

THE FARBIERS‘ National Council, of which Mr. Marsh is the secretary- ls a federation age

differs widely with p

000 apiece, and the aver,-
of the 18,500,000
families was about $750
apiece. About 6,500,000
of these live on farms, so
that roughly speaking,
12,000,000 families of
this class have to. buy '
their food. Go the aver-
age, families with an in-
come up to $1,500 spent
35 to 40 per cent of it
for food. Of any increase
in the wages which these
families get, particularly
those in the lower rank,
with incomes of $1,200
$1,500 probably an
equal proportion or at
least one-third, will be
spent for more and bet-
ter food. This is clearly
to the farmers advant-
age, always assuming, of
course, that the laborer
is worthy of his hire—-
that is that he works
conscientiously and en-
ergetically. It is clear—

 

 

 

ly to the farmers’ ad-

 

strictly non—partisan way

to secure a joint 1 islative program.
I think that everyone will agree- with
MICHIGAN Business FARMING that an
honest day’s work should be given
for honest pay for a day's work. We
may forget the bid statement that
we are all aslazy as we dare to be.
Any true American will want in, this
time'whcn ”production is essential, to

It,

ing the coming together of farm and
organized labor on ‘a common pro-
gram, are the predatory and monop-
olistic interests of America includ-
ing of course the big financial inter-
ests. "Let us admit that organized
labor has made many mistakes, but
selddm‘have they attempted to limit

-productlon, despiteihe assertion you

 
  

quote from the ' Hon. Jonathan.
‘Bourne. Jig. It is a mistake $11,497:}.
I ‘ lira: is? More

     

‘market.

ed from the rain, and their cattle to
weather the blizzard. '

Farmers will realize, if theystop
to think a. moment, that _the city.
factory, transportation and mine
workers of America are their big
The total value of agricul-
tural products was in 1917 about
319.444.000,000, of which only about
one-tenth. was exported. In 1917

there ‘were 22.10.00.000 families in

 

  

      
   

 

   
 

 

 

   
 

as new summer-omen can
a: ' million received

m we:

vantage that labor shall

get the largest share of what
labor produces since! labor is the
farmers’ big market. Of course
Wall Street wants to reap wherezit
has not sown, but why should the
farmers play Wall Street's game?
In poit of fact a very large percent- .,
age of American families off the '
farm, do not eat as much as-they .
need to maintain their highestefié
ciency. ~We have never had "by
production. in America, we have.“
(continued ensues, =

 

Mr. Sidney Weav- - » ’
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V THE GLEANERS have an-

‘ 'evator interests in the state of
.Michigan, and are organizing

. state.

, success.

 

neunced the purchase of
Armour & Company’s el«

a half million dollar corpora-'
tion to; handle what is claimed
to be the biggest farmers’ co-
operative enterprise in the
middle west. The physical as-
sets of Armour & Company
include two terminal elevators,
one located at Big Rapids and
the other at Grand Rapids, the
latter being not only the larg—
est bean and grain elevator in
the state of Michigan, but also
one of the best equipped plants
In the United States. Both
are fully equipped to care for
grain and beans in any condi-
tion. and they will be used as
terminal plants, with receiving
station and elevators distribut—
ed throughout the state. Aside
from these plants the com-

 

pany has an interest in a large
number of local elevators; general
ofiices at Grand Rapids and sales

agencies in most of the large term— ,

inals.

The investments of the great pack-
ing firm in Michigan’s elevator bus-
iness consisted of a half interest in
the Lewellyn Bean Company, and it
was under the name of this company
that Armour & Company carried on
their bean and grain business in this
The president of the Lewellyn
Bean 00., is Mr. Fred E. Lewellyn of
Grand Rapids. one of the most suc-
cessful and best known bean men in
the state, a man who has probably
done more than any other man or
group of men to stabilize the bean
market the past year or two and to
see that farmers secured a fair profit
on this product.

“Yes, it is true,” said Mr. Lewel-
lyn, when interviewed by an M. B.
F. representative, “Armour & Com-
pany have sold out their Michigan
interests to the Gleaners. The deal
has practically been closed and with-
in a short time the Gleaners will be
in .full charge of our plants in this
state.

“The move was inevitable,” con-
tinued Mr. Lewellyn, “I have realiz—
ed for a long time that farmers
would some day control the distri-
bution of their products as much as
their production, and
would have something to say about
the ultimate price just as all other
business men do. I think the time
has come when the business inter—
ests of the country should recog-
nize this fact and treat the farmer
as a business man.”

Asked if: the present business or.—
ganization of his company would go
with the company into the Gleaners
fold, Mr. Lewellyn emphatically re—
plied:

_ “Yes, sir; every man in my organ-
ization will come to the new corpor—
ation with the intention ofomaking
the business the biggest kind of a
Not only myself but the

best of Its klnd In the United Sta

that they .

men who are associated with me are
firmly‘convinced that a great future
lies ahead of this co-operative
enterprise, and we arevall going into
this new company with the feeling
and understanding that we are to
be joint co-operators with all other
interests. Co-ope’ration has come to
stay, and it is our future life work
to complete and strengthen the chain
from producer to consumer. We are
going to see that every one connect—

THls HUGE termlnal elevator In frond Raplde Is now owned and ope!- etod by Gleaner farmers.
es and Wm go a long way toward solv Inn fennel-8'

ed with the enterprise has a real in- ‘

tereslt in carrying out his part of the
plan.
object for farmers to co-operate in
selling their products, but for con»
sumers to co-operate in purchasing
these products.”

“What are your future plans? Is
your chain of elevators complete or
do'you expect to take on additional
elevators from time to time?" Mr.
Lewellyn was asked.

“Well, you know,” he replied,
“there’s no limit to a co-operative
proposition of this kind. It can be
as big as you want to make it. We
will add new elevators just as fast
as the need for them develops. We
don’t intend to encourage the build—

ing of elevators in sections that are,~

not populous enough to support one.
There are already too many elevat-
ors in certain sections of the state.
all competing with each other and
just barely making both ends meet.
There is no use of the farmers hav—
ing from twenty to forty thousand
dollars invested in elevators at every
four corners. Where there is room
for an elevator and our investigat-
ors find that there is a chance of
making it a financial success. we
shall build and operate. Aflmodern
elevator represents a large invest-
ment of money and while we will
probably not find it good business to
erect elevators at all points where
farmers want Uhem, we do expect to
have a warehouse ,or shipping sta-
tion in every principal town of the
state where farm products may be
taken in and forwarded to our big

We will not only make it an -

, companies of the state own a str'ng.

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terminals at Big Rapids or Grand
Rapids for finishing and distribu-
tion. ” a

“Is this large central organization

‘with local elevators acting as branch--

es to be preferred to the locally own-
ed and Operated plants?” we. asked
Mr. Lewell.yn

“Why certainly, "‘he said with a
smile,
vato‘rs for farmers for many years,
and I have learned from experience

that a central selling and buying or-

ganization is absolutely essential to
the constant success of such enter-
prises. Nearly all therig elevator

of elevators, with their chosen ma -
agers in charge. Were this not the
most satisfactory and successful
pla-n, restassured they wouldn’t,fol-
low it. The Gleaners" co-oper-ative

plan carries out the idea of the cent-1

ral organization. I was attracted to
this plan several years ago, and at
the time I said to myself that if the
Gleaner folks held to the plan they
would succeed, and I guessed it
ight. That’s why I’m glad to cast

y lot with the Gleaners and help
the farmers of the state to put their
business on a solid financial basis
through .co—operative marketing.”

The Cleaners claim to be the pic-
neers in the co- -operative field in
Michigan. The whole idea back of
the Gleaner organization and its var-
ious enterprises is “co— operation,”
through the application of which
every individual receives a portion
of the benefits which, he helps to se-
cure. The Gleaners have applied
this principle to their marketing or-
ganization, the Clearing House,
which is just what its name signifies,
a clearing house for the products of
its members and for the supplies
which they desire to buy.

The first central Gleaner distrib-
uting agency was established in the
city of Detroit in \1906. Since then
the growth of the marketing organ-
ization has been rapid. Two years
ago the association fOund it neces-

. It Is
marketlng dlfi‘lcultles.

“I have been operating ele-n

ear-y? to ”insane ' its capital
. . stuck in order to take care of
its accumulating

Nathan F.” Simpson, former

j engaged as general manager
and the business was expand-
ed until it, embraced seven
modern elevators and eight
buying stations. But even this

handle the vast volume of bus-

mess that began to pour inl

and the purchase of Armonr’s
interests was the next logical
step. Mr. Lewellyn has been
virtually opeiating a number
of farmers’ eleVators during the

, critical period of the past two
v-years, by supplying them with

'working capital,xtaking. their

products, and
the them net interest earnings. It
is understood that the majority
of these elevators will be tak-
en over by the Gleaners.

We are advised that the Gleaner
Clearing T—Iouse will continue as in
the past, and that its capital will be
increased to care for a number of
branch elevators which will be es.-
tablished this season. All elevators

will be under one central manage-’

ment, and through thisplan operat-
ing expenses will be reduced to the
minimum. The Gleaner’s Corpora-

-tion will be able to secure ample

capital, and all of the local elevators
will be financed from this source.

There is nothing unique or new, from "

a business standpoint in the Glean-

er plan as outlined several years ago. -
These organized farmers claim and‘

rightfully so, that “bi-g biz” has no
monopoly on the right to organize
under the corporation laws of . the
several state. "The big elevator com-

panies of Michigan, all centralize as-

to management and operation. One
company owns 57Velevators; others
from ten to thirty.- The steel trust.
standard oil, the packers—all of the
big business enterpriSes are organ-
.ized on this plan.

The Gleaners, having secured a
broad-co—operative law a few years
ago, areenabled to build a “big co-
operative biz” on 'the regulation
“big biz” foundation. The Farmers
«will, own all of the elevators, and at
the same'time they will have an in-
te1est in the sales, service and man-
agement organization. We under-
stand that the sale 6f stock will in
no way b‘e.confined to members of
the Gleaner organization," and that
at least one co-operative canning
factory will be established during the
coming summer. The Gleaners be-
lieve that the business of mark-
eting farm products is not different
in its basic principles than any otho
or commercial business, and that it
requires large capital and credit to
protect the investments against the
ups and. downs of fluctuating mark-
ets.

The Hot Water Treatment fdr «Wheat Protects vthe'Seed from Smuttand Other Diseases

OW TO OBTAIN seed wheat of
high quality, free from stink-
ing and loose smuts, anthrac—

nose. Weak kernels, rye, cheat, cock-
le and other pests, with little effort
or expense, has been demonstrated
very strikingly this year in over
thirty Indiana counties, particularly
in Shelby county. As a result of
these demonstrations axsystematic
move is on foot now to make it pos-
sible for every wheat grower in that
state to obtain such seed in the near
future.

A big'step in this direction was
taken the past fall when‘ more than

. 4,000 bushels of seed was treated
for . more than
v-ofthe 92 counties of the state. In

400 farmers in 49
'eightl counties, central treating sta~
tion‘s solved the problems of treat-
ing the seed, but in. the remaining

41, the work was done largely on
individuaL farms,

with extension

men or county ag1icultural agents

V'N-oither doing the work themselves or
‘lnporvising the work of the farmer.
“ :_the soecatled _

'n the fall of 1.917-

ms of the world warand the. urgent

 

modified hot water seed treatment
was unearthed from the old govern—
ment publications with the idea of
trying it on some few wheat grow—
ers who might be willing to have a
small part of their seed subjected
to such a process. The treatment
was known to be effective in con-
trolling the loose or black head! smut
as well as the stinking smut, but
had been used very rarely and then

only by the plant doctors who em- '

.ployed it chiefly for scientific and ex-‘
was dis- .

perimental purposes. It
covered some twenty years ago by
a Scandinavian botanist, Dr. Jensen,
and later modified by the scientists

of the United States Department of;

Owing to its seeming
hOWeVer,

Agriculture.
impracticability,

in this undertaking was nut an easy
one, since no grower was very anx-

no con~'
sistent attempt had ever been made.
to use it, to any extent, on the farm..

The task of securing co- operators.

ions to have his seed wheat “cool?"

ed. ” However, owing to the press-_

were lagging. behind at

lemand for more wheat a few patri-
otic farmers were found .who were
willing to take a chance on it. The
work was in charge of F. J. Pipal,
of the Division of Botany, Purdue
University Agricultural Extension
Department, in co-operation with the
county agricultural agents and the
United States Department of Agri-
culture. About four bushels were
treated in each case.

The results were very gratifying in
every case, except in which the seed
was. killed owing to the im)roper
handling after the treatment. The
loose Smut disease, which is borne
within the kernel and therefore can-
not be reached with tlfe fermalde-
hyde treatment, was practically elim—
1nated from the treated crop, al-
though as much as one- -fifth of the
crop Was destroyed by this Bdiseasg

' , he untreated fields.
Alt-ho the tree-fed “stando

    

  
   
     

 

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of the untreated stands until har-
vest. Ernest Thornburg, of Randolph
county, president of the Indiana
watched his "cooked” plot with con-
siderable interest, cut and threshed
it separately and found that it yield-
ed 10 bushels more to the acre than

the untreated field, which had 8 per '

cent loose smut and a t ace of. stink-
ing s-.n1ut The grain from the treat—
ed field was also of much better qual—

ity in other respects. Mr. Thornburg'

used it all for seed last fall and as
he reported, he had a. wheat crop this
summer such as he had never had
before. .

Even better results were obtained.
by John Meiks. of Shelby county,

s

Whose treated plot yielded 15 bush-
: els more to the acre than the uni *'
treated, altho the latter was on for:-
tilized ground while the former re-
ceived no fertilizer at all. The Meiks -:.

untreated field had 20 per cent 0081

business. .

warden of Jackson prison, was ‘ 1

extension was not Sufficient to‘

guaranteeing -.

   
 

  
 
     
     

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King Oosterb’aan~ VeemarJlengerveid

g N: 'OLSTEIN enthusiasts are very
' 5-7 - , » ‘ busy" these days preparing for
" ‘ the Michigan Holstein Breed-
r are first annual sale, to be held at
’ iihe Michigan Agricultural College,

'at East Lansing, Tuesday, Jan. 31,

when seventyasix of the finest of
purebred black and whites will

.[ . - change. owners. The program is de-
‘7 , V [ dared. to be the greatest of its kind
ever billed in the state and big
crowds of spectators are "expected.
'~ Starting a series of annual sales, the\
Holstein breeders are making special
- efforts for a splendid opening affair.

- ‘ The kings and queens and crown
princes of the purebred world will
adorn t‘he‘st'alls at' the college when
the sale takes place. The DeKol,

mos, Mich., is secretary of the H01-
stein breeders and- a .member of the
cemmittee. The.» third committee-
man in charge of the occasion is Al-
bert E. Jenkins.

One of the high lights brought out
by the galaxy of purebreds at the
sale is the important part which the

~cow testing asSocia'tionsare playing

in the raising of\dairy standards in
Michigan. There are‘more than a
dozen of these associations active in
the state and many are being organ-
ized. Business Farming has started
a“ series of short articles about these
associations,‘giving the names of
members, the names and records of
the ten~ highest cows, and other in~
teresting material.

Another,- point to notice about the
big auction is the national aspect.
Buyers are expected from. many
states. Michigan has been building
up a world wide reputation for pure-
bred Holsteins. The recent cattle
census of Livingston County threw
a bombshell into. the camp of the
claimants. of the best dairy district.
Action of the various“catrtle organ-
izations is largely the cause (if the
splendid record which Michigan has
tacked up for herself. Breeders

 

Dor
milk to her credit for a 30 any test.

 

Hengerveld, Korndyke and Pontiac
and many other highest grade pedi-
gree names can be recognized on the
mist-.3 The best herds and the best
breeders were called upon in the
arranging of the auction, and the
breeders’ guarantees are provided
, for each head.
Just tos-how samples of the cal-
ibre of the animals on the list, we
* .— point out the feature that sixteen of
‘ ‘ the animals have dams with more
' ' than 30 lbs. and up to 33. 5 lbs. to
their credit. One has a record of 1,—
100 lbs. per year. Four cows boast
30 lbs, of butter in 7 days. It is in-
’ teresting to note that many are soon
I to freshen and that-all are bred to
bulls from dams with 30 to [45. lb.
’ ' . records. " .\
~ " Among the seventy females, in all
stages of lactation, we find the fol—
lowing group of average records:
All full. age records average 7 days.
27.93 lbs. butter; 5861 lbs. milk;
four yr. old recordsaverage, 7 days,
25.85.1bs. butter; 540.9 lbs. milk;
three year oid ‘records average, 7
days, 34. 28 lbs. “butter; 497. 9 lbs.
[.mi-lk; two year old records average,
'1 days, 18. 94 lbs. butter; 396. 4 lbs.
, milk.
Experts at the Michigan Agricul-
‘ [anal College are taking active inter-
ear in the gamma expect all sorts,
nth!) WW to be extended to the
' ttend the suc-
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a De Koli Oosterbaan is one of the Holstein aristocrats with more than 3.000 pounds of

from Texas "and Australia have vis-
ited Mic'higan’in the past few months
to buy purebreds, and the long list
if Michigan winners at the Interna-
tional Live Stock Show in Chicago

was a further boost for Michigan
breeding. ~
Mr. Daniels. the Holstein secre-

tary has made the following state-

By VERNE E. BURNETT

’ for one day, 90.0 lbs.

ment about the cattle at the big
Lansing sale: “The animals selected
are all sure profit makers and it will
pay to raise many more like them.
Many have 30 day records. A few
have semi-official yearly records up
to 1,100 lbs. butter, 25,000 lbs. milk.
Six bulls have dams with records up
to 33.5 lbs. butter and 675 lbs. of
milk every seven days. The entire
herd is sired by better than 30 lb.
bulls. Two are ready for heavy ser-
vice. All cattle are from herds un-
der state or federal supervision for
tuberculosis eradication and sold
With a 60-day guarantee. Moreover
all were selected from the best herds

   
     
         
        
       
     
      
    
    
  
  
  

Aagglo Hengerveid Pontiac

milk for one day, 103.2. Semi-offl-
cial for 282 days, milk, 18,8588 lbs.;
and butter, 758.6 lbs. Mark B. Cur-
dy, consignor.

King Oosterbaan Veeman Henger-

 

    
   
  
  
   
  
   
 
  
  

 

 

Lane Regina De Kol,

in Michigan and that is going
Some 1”

It is impossible here to give the
high lights to be offered at the sale,
but numerous breeders have sent to
Business Farming pictures and short
accounts of the animals to be pre-
sented. A few of the list of royal
Holsteins connected with the auc—
tion follows:

Dora De K01 Oosterbaan (22541.)

Record at nine years, 11 months, 20

days: seven days, butter, 32.47, and
milk, 745.5; thirty days, butter,
130.29, and milk, 302.0. She is the

dam of a 24.4 1b., 3 year old, a bull
calf by a 43 lb. sire and one refer-
ence sire in the great sale.

Grover Lane Regina DeKol (314,-
196.) Record at two years and four
months: seven days. butter,, 21.04
lbs., and milk, 460. 8 lbs. At three
years and seven months, butter,
29. 66 lbs. ., and milk, 594. 5 lbs Milk
She is the dam
of a heifer born April 5, 1919, con-
signed to the sale.

Aggie Hengerveld Pontiac. Rec-
ord: butter, 26. 28; milk, 618. 3;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gro a heavy producer herself,
heifers at. the Great Sale of Holsteins at Lansing.

— on display.”

" installment. Jan. .13, surely is
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is dam of one of the most promising

veld (22541.) Sire Sire Korndyke
Veeman Hengerveld. Dam: Dora De-
Kol Oosterbaan. Record: seven days.
butter, 32.47 lbs., and milk, 745.5
lbs.; 30 days, butter, 130.29 lbs.,
and milk, 3022.0 lbs.

College Belle Butter Lass. Record:
butter, 7 days, 32.69; milk. 7 days,
71.16; butter, 30 days, 133.42; milk,
30 days, 3035. 011 semi-official work
now, and will finish with about 1,100
lbs. butter and 25000 lbs. milk. Bred
to Pauline Sir Pontiac. He from a
twice 30—lb. cow. Due March 2.

Rhea Hartog Elzevere 2d (309,-
925.)

Topsy- Hartog Pet Canary (244,-
856.) Butter, 32.11 lbs., and milk,
551.0. Owned by Charles S. Heeg.

Canary De K01 Wayne, 609 lbs.
milk, 27 lbs. butter in 7 days. Sire:
Travis Cadillac Lad. Owners, Lake
Side Dairy.

The date of the sale is considered
especially opportune, inasmuch as
prominent breeders from all parts
of Michigan will be gathering at the
state capitol during the same week
for the annual meeting of the Mich-
igan Improved Live Stock Breeders
and Feeders Association and Allied
Organizations. This series of meet—
ings will be at Lansing, January 14
and 15. The Michigan Holstein
Breeders Association is one of a long
list of breeder associations which
will join hands in Live Stock Im-
provement Week. Thus it is felt.»
that a more opportune time could not,
be found for the first annual sale of
H‘olsteins.

Here is what one prominent breed-
er in the state says regarding the
sale: “The. big auction of Holstein
purebreds at Lansing, Jan. 13, is a
landmark in the history'of Michi-
gan live stock. I believe it to be the
greatest affair of its kind ever held
and that none can well afford to miss ’
it. His more of a state exposition-
than merely a sale, inasmu’ch assume
of the state’s choicest stock will be '

    
  
 

  
 
 
   
  
 
 

  

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at Lansing will be made in a later
issue: It is believed that the ac:-
sembling of so many purebreds each
year for a sale will be a fine .
for the dairy business, and th’

  
  

  

  


 
    
 
 
  
   
  
  
  
    
 
  
  
   
 
   
    
 
 
   
      
 
   
   
   
 
 
   
      
 
   
   
  
  
     
  
 
   
   
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
      
   
  
  
   
   
   
    
   
   
  
  
    
   
    
  
    
  
    
 

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[HE IMPORTANCE of proper

amount of soil water to crop

production cannot be overesti-

, mated. Water is nature's great sol-
; vent and it is largely through this

action that plants are enabled to obi
in solution for their
'Moreover, it is essential
for the movement of the salts from

' - the roots to the stems and leaves of

the plants. We know that wood,

shay, fruits, and even flesh, if kept

perfectly dry do not decay. It is
known that a vigorously growing
plant must be supplied each day of
hot weather with water in amounts
equal to or greater than its weight,
otherwise, it withers or ceases to
grow, and that the total amount of
water taken up by the roots from
the soil mass and lost through» the
leaves to the atmosphere may exceed
500 lbs. for each pound of dry ma-
terial produced by the plant, or
about ten million pounds of water-
per ton fronran acre of land. To
state» it differently about ten million
pounds of water must be furnished
by one acre of soil during the grow-
ing season to a crop that yields one
ton of dry matter, or,“curred” pro-
ducts. It is common knowledge that
soils saturated with water are un-
suitable for other than water loving
plants. On the other hand a region
that is not supplied with sufficient
water is a desert regardless of its
composition. Thus ilt is obvious
that a comprehensive knowledge of
the subject is very desirable.

We are to discuss many phases of
this important subject but in this
article the water supply, the forms
in which water exists in the soil, the
amount present in‘ differenttsoil
classes and the things that affect the
water retaining capacity of soils are
to be considered.

The supply of moisture in soils
depends primarily on the rainfall.
The exceptions are where artificial
irrigation is practiced or where wa-
ter is brought to a region through
some porous substratum and then
reaches the'surface by hydrostatic
pressure. The following table shows
the annual precipitation for differ-
ent portions of the earth's surface:

Precipitation on Earth’s Surface
Annual Precipitation Percent of earth's

land surface

Under 10 inches ................... 250
From 10 to 20 inches ............... 30.0
From 20 to 40 inches ........... -...20.0
From 40 to 60 inches ...... . ....... 11.0
From 60 to 80 inches ..... ......... 9.0
From 80 to 120 inches .......... ... 4.0
From 120 to 160 inches............ 0.5
Above 160 inches ............. 0.5

‘ 100.0

It is seen from the table that 5-5
per cent of the land area receives
less than 20 inches of rainfall an-
nually, while only 5 per cent receiv-
es over 80 inches. In the United
States fully 50 per cent of the total
area receives less than 20 inches of
rainfall, and over a very large part
of this the growing of crops is prac—
tically impossible except under irri-
gation. In almost all regions where
crops depend upon rainfall, its un—
equal distribution. or the frequent
recurrence of periods. of drouth, re-
sults in reduced yields.

.In almost every season in some
parts of even so small an area as. a
single state crops are injured to a
greater or less extent by drouth. In
some cases the dry weather occurs

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Moisture in Terms of Money . ..

ANY FARMERS testify that they have made more money be-

cause they took the time to get acquainted with the science of
soils. In this article, Prof. M. M. McCool, of the M. A. (3., presents
some facts which may aid many farmers in getting the best value
from the use of their land. Perhaps you are in a section troubled '

with annual drouthswhich make your crops shrivel and die.

But

if certain elements were mixed in with your soil, enough moisture
might be held to tide over the vegetation until the rains come.

Again, perhaps you have soil which holds too much water.

The

message on this page is the result of experiments tried out by thou-

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early in the spring, in April or May,
but it occurs mere often in July or
August, at the time when the_.grow-
ing crops are in greatest need of
moisture. At the University of Illi-
nois the distribution of rainfall is so
irregular that in the past twenty-
five years seven Aprils have been dry
or have had less than two inches of
rainfall,"‘and during this same time
four May-s, eight Ju'nes, five Julys,
six Augusts, and eleven Septembers
have been dry, or a total of 41 out
of 150 growing months for the 25
years. In the southern third of the

state the distribution is still more "

irregular, and drouth is more injuri-
ous there, because of the greater
evaporation and the character of the
soil. This illustrates quite well the
conditions generally in the humid
area. ‘

Water exists in the soil as grava-
tational or surplus, film water and
unfree. ‘

If water is added to a vessel of
soil until it just stands on the sur-

face it is said to be saturated, soak- .

ed with water, or water-logged, and
naturally the pore spaces are com-
pletely filled with water, the air be-
ing displaced or forced out of, them.
Now if these is an opening made in
the bottom of the vessel the surplus
or gravational water will drain off,
the amount so lost depending main-
ly upon the texture. Similar condi-
tions maintain under field conditions
in case of the finer textured soils af-
ter a heavy rainfall, the length of
time required for the surplus water
to drain away depending much upon
the texture and nature of the sub-
soil. If the subsoil is rather coarse
in texture or perforated by roots of
plants or lower forms‘of life change
takes place quite rapidly; if compact
and fine in texture it is much slower.

Inasmuch as the rooots of plants
must have sufiicient air for their ex-
istence the surplus water in the soil
is extremely undesirable, since it
makes the solution too 'weak for
plant growth and also forces out the
air fro-m the pore spaces and as a
result the whole soil mass becomes
in a stagnant or unsanitary condi-
tion. It is sometimes stated that this
water cannot be taken up by the
plants." This is untrue,- and if'it'did‘
not become in an unsanitary condi-
tion the plants would not perish un-
less the soil solution became too di-
lute.
may be grown to maturity ._ in ves-
sels of well or river‘water, provided
frequently renewed.

In fact. wheat or other crops r.

Much of our information concerning
the nutrition of crops has been de-
termined by such means.

Now after the free water has
drained ofi the soil is still in a moist
condition. The amounts of water so
held exclusive of that which still re-
mains when plants wilt in it may
be spoken of as the maximum film
capacity of the soil. It is-held main-
ly on the surface of the particles or
groups of particles as the water film
that clings to a pebble when with-
drawn from the water, and is easily
removed by plants, readily passes
into the atmosphere as vapor and
freezes when the temperature reach-
es about one and one~half degrees
lower than the freezing temperature
of pure water. It may be assumed
that the thickness of the film of water
that surrounds a small soil particle

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roots of plants strike to much deep,—
er zones in the soil. In case of very
shallow rooted crops itmight tide
them over a few- days of drouth and
thus be of great benefit to them.

It is well recognized thata given
volume orweight of vegetable, mat--
ter in various stages of decay retain
much more water than the sam‘e
quantity of soil, acting in like man“
ner to a. sponge. This is exemplified
by the mucksoils above referred to.
The addition of manure or muck to-
soils may appreciably increase their
water holding power. Thus, green—
house/‘managers and others change-
the soil in this respect when they in-
corporatewith it leaf mold, compost,
muck and similar‘substances. When
we take cognizance of.the fact that
manure or other crop residues are
added to the soil in relatively small
amounts, it seems that their import-
ance in increasing the water hold~

'ing power has been unduly emphas-

ized by. some. It is no doubt used
by some as an argument to stimu-
late the interest in the practices of
manuring and green manuring the'
land and perhaps ‘is' justifiable.
Warm soils have a lower film wa-
ter retaining capacity than cooler
ones inasmuch as their attractive
power for water is weakened and in
addition its fluidity is increased.
Thus a soil should retain more film
water in the spring than in the sum:
mer'or other times when the tem—
perature is higher. 7
g If a plant is grown in a mass of
soil until wilting takes place, due
lack of water, then removed and the

_ soil weighed, heated in a drying oven

under the above conditions is about.

the same as that surrounding a large
one. Therefore, it follows the vol-
ume of soil that has the largest
amount of internal surface spoken of
previously is able to retain the larg—
er amount of film water. We have
also learned that fine textured soils
are so characterized and consequent-
ly have greater maximum film water
capacities than coarser ones. Muck
and peat soils retain large quanti-
ties of water after they have drain-
ed.

“The maximum film capacity
soils is also influenced somewhat by
the structural relationships, the
finer textured ones especially are
capable of retaining more water
when in a loose than when in a com-
pact condition. Soils under field or
naturalflcondltions will retain less
water than if under laboratory con-
ditions inasmuch as they are usual—
ly more compact. The amount of
water held by compact and loose
soils, after having been saturated
and' often permitted to completely
drain has been determined. A sandy
soil held 5 per cent water when com-
pact and 7 per cent when loose. ,

and 28 per cent when loose and a
muck held about 100 under the

former and 200 under the latter con-v

dition.

The water retaining.- capa-city of i a...

soil should always be determined—an»-

' der field conditions otherwise the re-

sults may be misleading. Since the
degree of compactionor firmness. of.

'a..sofl changes little if ”any below the

depth of plowing this increased wahsr/
retaining capacity does not: amount
to much when one considers'that the

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.clay- held :14 per, cent. when compact

of‘

several hours and again weighed, it
will be found to have lost an appre—
ciable amount of water. This water
that is held so strongly by the soil
some chemically by the minerals and
the remainder on the surface, that
the plant cannot make use of it, may
be spoken of as the unfree or com-
bined water, and the point in the
water content where wilting takes
place is called the WILTING POINT
of the soil. This form of water is
lost or removed from the soil only
as vapor, some of‘it may condense on

~ .~ mts of plants amt then is nade
use of by, tihe plant. Although it
cannot be removed directly by the
crop for its growth it probably aids
in breaking down minerals in the
soil, or in the oxidation processes.’ in
some instances that is near its upper
limit.

The amount of unfree water in the
soil when plants wilt is governed
mainly by texture and theyegetable
matter content. Where wheat was
grown in vessels of soil sealed at the
top, until wilting took place and the

» amount of unfree water determined,

Sand contained about one, fine sand
about three, learn about eight, clay
loam fifteen-andxmuck about forty-
fivevper- cent respectively:

It is thus seen that texture has a
tremendous influence upon the
amount ofwwater' lament inl'the' soil»

» when the plant Wilts, F‘ine- textured

soils wreaths-Manama water.
than the total x-a-mount'rof-ntim Water
held by sandy soils in the fields.
Moreover, vegetable matter increases
the amount, of. unfree water,“ ex-

emplified-yin. the-muck; : fi‘hns; indist- ;

cussing the. exact of: vegetable mat... - '
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LIVESTOCK SHIPPERS UNITE

More than 300 cooperative live- ,
‘ stock shipping delegates, represent— _

ing 21 states and four Canadian

' provinces, assembled in Chicago in

December and unanimously perfect-
ed a permanent NatiOnal Federation

1 of (lo-operative Livestock Shippers.

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> The following states

stock shipping associations in

“intothe hundreds, of thousands

in the order
named were represented by the
largest delegations: Iowa. Michigan,

Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, South
Dakota, Minnesota. Other states
represented were: Nebraska, Ohio,

Kansas, Oklahoma, Washington, Col-
orado, North Dakota, Missouri Ten-
nessee, New York California, Ken—
tucky, Louisiana. Pennsylvania and
Canada. ~—

The following officers were elect-

ed:

Knute Espe, Ames, Iowa, presi-
dent; C. E. Compson, Remus, Mich,
vice president; John Miller, Galva,
Ill., treasurer; Selby E. Peterson,
Waconia, M’inn., acting secretary;

Earl J. Trosper, 906 Royal Insurance"
Bldg. Chicago, organizing secretary;‘

0. Hoover. Longmount, 0010., direct—
or; T. M. Patterson, Agricultural
College, Miss., director; A. S. Ander—
son, Beresford, S. D., director; C. H.
Gustafson, . Omaha, Neb'.', ‘
H. M. Phillips, Palmyra, M0., direct-
or; J. F. Larson, Ellsworth, Wis.,
director and M. E. Sherman, Kendal-
ville. Ind., director.

Knute Espe has organized 12 live-
his
‘home oeunty (Story) one of which
he serves as president. He is asso-
ciated with W. T. Murr, famous
Cheater White breeder, who is well
and favorably known among the
live stock men of the country. C. E.

'00mpson is state manager for the

Michigan Federation. of Co'-operative
Livestock Shippers and one of the
most able men in the movement.

John Miller is president of the
Farmers’. and Grain Dealers' Associ—
ation of Illinois, an officer in one of
the oldest livestock shipping associ-
ations in Illinois and a recognized
leader. Selby Peterson is treasurer
of the Minnesota State Federation of
Coeoperative Livestock Shippers. It
has been largely through his efforts
that eight bills of immense benefit
to the Minnesota livestock shippers
have been put through the Minne-

Agrioultural Agent l’roposes Turkeys to Combat Grasshopper Pes

W. P. Hartman says Northern, Michigan Climate Suited to Raising of F owls Which Will Rid Country of Hoppers

P. HARTMAN, agricultural
and industrial agent of 'the
G. R. & I. R. R., who for a
number of years has taken a keen in-
terest in Northern Michigan agricul—
tural problems, has written the Ag-
ricultural College suggesting the
more extensive raising of turkeys as
a means of combatting the grasshOp—
per pest which annually costs the
farmers heavy losses. Mr. Hart-
mann’s letter follows:
«Undoubtedly, one of the most de—
structive ' pests in northwestern
Michigan the, past three years has
been the grasshopper. Losses due
to this single insect: has mounter:
. 0
dollars from damage to pastures,
grain and vegetable crops, and even
young frlut trees.

‘ The infested area has been mater-
ially extended each- year. Probably
a careful survey would show deubl-
ing of the area the past season. The

cycle of three seasons may work, but'

it occurs to me as a false theory to
proceed on the assumption that the

.. grasshopper will be extinct. or of lit-
' » tie Consequence,
. fourth year. or that natural enemies

next season, its
or weather conditions will control it.
I am Convinced from observations

distinctly a state pbrgblem:

    
 
 

director; '

As head of a committee composed
of men from every department of
Michigan Agricultural college, A. M.
Berridge, is now engrossed in the
task .of ~ completing arrangements
for Farmers' week to be held at the
college February 2 to 7, inclusive.

Many“ speakers of country wide
reputation have been engaged to
address the various. assemblies,
while still others will be added to
the list within the next week or two.
E V. McCollum, of Johns Hopkins
university, who is rated as one of
the leading nutrition experts of the
United States, will be one of the
principal'speakers. Dean Vivien of
Ohio State university, and H. C.
Taylor, chief 0f_farm management
bureau, Department Of Agriculture,
in Washington, D. C., will also be
heard in addresses of great import«

sota legislature. Earl J. Trosper is
the originator of the National Fed—
eration idea and it his been largely
through his efforts that the federa-
tion has been successfully launched.
He is a recognized agricultural lead-
er and both practical and impartial
in his work. ,

The objects of this federation in
agenera-l way are as follows. To
encourage better and more ec0nomi-
cal methods in the production and
distribution of livestock and live—
stock products; to promote co—opera—
tive education, and to encourage the
organization of co-operative live-
stock marketing organizations; to
develop uniformity in the plan of or-
ganization and method of operation
of local livestock shipping associa-
tions; to aid such organizations in
problems of general interest in trans-
portation, handling and marketing;
to lease, ‘* buy, build, own, improve,
mortgage, sell and. control such
buildings and other real and person—
al property as may be necessary in
the conduct of its operations; and
to perform any other work which
may be of benefit to its members or
helpful to the industry.

The national and state federations
will be financed on a small member-'
ship fee and a per car charge basis
which will be regulated from time
to time to meet the shippers’ needs.

act-ion of County Boards of Super-
visors is bound to prove a disap-
pointment, for some boards will, as
in the past, go the limit in providing
funds to buy poison, while others
will be indifferent to the seriousness
of the situation.

From the splendid w rk of the
College, the County griculturai
Agents, some Boards of Supervisors
and others,'1ast year, we are all
aware of the results to be expected
from concerted action in the appli-
oation of poisoned bait. In other
states, and in alimited way in_Mich-
igan, the turkey has amply demon-
strated itself as an active and effect—
ive enemy of the grasshopper.

Would it not be altogether feasi-
ble for the College to put on an en-
ergetic campaign first, to arouse all
farmers and particularly those locat—
ed in the central and northern Sec-
tions of the lower peninsula to the
seriousness of the grasShopper;~"‘sec-
ondly, 'to thevalue ofethe turkey in
combating. the pest. Incidentally. the
turkey as a rule, does well in north
Michi n and is a profitable branch

or poultry husbandry, properly hand-.

led. It }mws ae’d fattens on a grass

. hopper diet.

. One of the first steps of the cam-
paign wbuld be to locate available

  

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commercial prices —.»

Next iL order.
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dustrial Agent.

land free from grass-hoppers.

    

8, 000 Expected to Attend Farmers’ Week

ance to the farmers of Michigan.

Probably the feature exhibit of
the week will be that of farm crops
in the pavillion of "the agricultural
building. Practically the entire
prize winning exhibit which repre—
sented Michigan in the international
show at Chicago will be on display
there. Rosen rye, Red Rock wheat
two types of grain developed at M.
A. 0., form‘ the greater part of the
exhibit.

The poultry show, in charge of
Prof. C. H. Burgess, head of the
department of poultry husbandry at
the college, will be another feature
of the week. To enter the show
birds must have won a first prize in
some authorized competition, but
even with this strict regulation a
large entry list is assured.

Throughout the entire two days’
session the large delegation of live-
stock shippers, representing 21 states
refused to disagree. The National
constitution recommended by the of-
ficial committee was adopted with-
out an important change. All state
delegations were eager that the or—
ganization stand on its own feet to
the end that all co-operative live—
stock shippers, regardless of location
or affiliation with other farm organ-
izations, be accorded uniform recog-
nition.

The following states went on of-
ficial record at the meeting request—
ing the services of the organizing
secretary in helping them perfect
state federations of livestock ship-
pers: Indiana, Fort Wayne, Dec. 11;
Colorado. Ft. Collins, Feb. 15; Illi-
nois, prior to Feb. 15; l'owa, South
Dakota, Wisconsin made definite
plans to federate, date to be, an-
nounced later.

Successful short courses for man—
agers and others interested have al—
readvbeen held at St. Louis and
Kansas City. Similar short courses
will be held following the holidays
at all the leading terminal markets
including Omaha, Sioux City, Den-
ver (Dec. 20) Chicago, Detroit and
St. Paul. Dates to be _ann0unced
later.

eggs and these lists procured through
the co- -operation of the County Agri-
cultural Agents, Development Bu-

reaus, agricultural departments of
transportation lines, and others.
May I suggest that, in order to

arouse enthusiasm and to get the
program in line for the early spring
hatching, a publicity campaign ought
to be inaugurated at once—Signed,
W. P. Hartman, Agricultural and In-

 

Prof. C. H. Burgess of the poultry
husbandry department of the M. A.
C. and Prof. R. J. Baldwin, exten—
sion director, state that they believe
Mr. Hartmann’s idea is good, and
that as a matter of fact the college
has had the subject under considera-
tion for some time. It is being pro-
posed that the'supervisors in the
counties where grasshoppers are a
menace to the crops, purChase com-
mercial turkey eggs and sell them
to the farmers at oost. ,

Prof. Burgess declares that he
has evidence to prove his claim that
three hen turkeys and their broods
of'young can keep 100 acres of
He
also says this experiment has been
tried out in Michigan as well as
other states with great success.

Over a. year ago Mr. Hartmann
wrote the editor of MICHIGAN Boer.
mass FARMING about this matter and
‘ bed; an article at that time.
; 1? endorsing his idea

~well as a solution to the grasshopper

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RECORD ASSOCIATIONS MEET

The annual meeting of the Nation-
a1 Society of Record Associations
was held in December at Chicago,
111., the membership being limited t0‘
registry associations recording pure-
bred livestock. The meeting was call-
ed to order by Jess C. Andrew, Pres-
ident, who briefly reviewed some of
the difficulties ‘which the record as—
sociations had encountered in main—
taining the purity of their records 2
during the past year, but emphasized
the fact that owing to the memor-
able decision obtained by the Per—
cheron Society of America the rights
of record associations were now
thorou hly defined in the courts and
that te officers of other associa-
tions were now in a position to ex-
ert the heavy hand of discipline
upon those members who were un-
appreciative of their responsibility
as purebred breeders.

    
 
  
    
   
 
  
    
    
  
 
  
   
 
  
     
   
  
      
  
   
    
   
   
     
   
    
   
   
 
   
 
    
 
  
 
 
  
   
 
  
 
  
  
    
    
  
  
     
 
  
  
   
 
    
  
    
    
  
 
   
  
     
   
   
  
   
  
 
 
 
  
  
  
   
   

 

N. E. Michigan Scores Heavily

Northeastern Michigan scored heav-
ily at the International Live Stock
show at Chicago, Nov. 9 to Dec. 6, due
to the enterprise of Prescott & Sons,
owners of a ranch which has become
famous at state fairs and has for.
years carried off honors at the inter-
national show. This year t-he Pres-
cott’s Richland Farm Shorthorns car- i.
ried off the following prizes: 1‘.

Shorthorn bull, two to three years '
old, fourth prize, competing in a class
of 15 animals; Juniox yearling, 12th
prize, in a class of 22; senior bull calf, ‘J
sixth prize in a class 0f 26; junior
bull ca.,lf third prize in a class of 25;
senior yearling heifer, 12th prize in a.
class of 30; junior heifer calf, 12th
prize in class of 35; Suhortthorn “get
of sire” eighth prize in a class of 12; -
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Annual Meeting \Villiams Twp. Union

To the members of the farmers co-
operative union of Williams Town-
ship, Bay (30., notice has been given .
out that the annual election of of-
ficers will be held in the town hall
on Saturday afternoon at one thirty,
Janualy 10,1920. Each member is
requested to be present to take part
in electing the officers for the ensu-
ing year and hear the annual report
of the Treasurer and to renew their
membership to the farmers’ union of
Williams Twp, writes Irving B. Dav-
is, Secretary.

weeks lat'eSr we published a letter
from one of our readers in Otsego

county, giving his experience in re-
gard to turkey raising.

“One pair of good turkeys ” he
said, “is all you need for a start "
Some advocate buying turkey eggs
and setting them under a hen, but
he found the turkey hen the best
mother, requiring less care and
watching. The White Holland turke
eys was his choice, because they
were very tame and did not wander
so far fromhome as most breeds. He
declared the main things, to make
the business a success are keeping
the newly hatched turkeys shut in .
the chicken yard for the first couple
of weeks and feeding them hard-'
boiled eggs mixed with mumbg and
oatmeal. Also keeping the turkeys
until they are at least three— —quarters
grown. in the dry during damp and
rainy weather, and in the spring
feeding the 01d birds in the evening
to get them in the habit of staying
at home nights. »

Turkeys are not only valuable as
destroyers of grasshoppers but the
raising of them for market at the
present prices, ought to be a very ~~.
profitable business. It requires very
little of your time, and we cannot
see why turkey raising in Michigan
shouldn’t prove a financial success as

  
  
 
   
  
   

     
 

     
 
   

   
 

  
  

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_ ,. WHAT IS. LOWER :

The feeling that all grains are
about to enter a short period of low
prices has already attested the wheat
market, and prices are from two to
four cents a bushel lower. Another.
influence is the fact that the Grain
Corporation has dispbsed of a large
part of its surplus holding to the
mills who are now loaded up with
wheat and looking for a market for
their flour. Bears are using the ar-
gument that Eur-ope will buy little
of our wheat because Australian
wheat can be purchased at such low-
er prices, but this argument will not
wash. We feel that wheat is the one
grain that, aside from temporary set-
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trend. Nor is the demand for this
‘WHEAT PRICES PER 30.. DEC. 80. 19:9
Grade Ilneuelt Tainan-#276 [.5
No. 2 . . .
.No. 2 Whlte . .I2.48 I
No. 2 Mixed . . .I7 I. I
PRICES ONE YEAR AGO
Grade [Detroit Ichlcegol N.
No. 2 Re ..... 2.30 I 2.30 I 2.36—
No. 2 White . .l 2.28 228 I 2.34
No. 2 Mlxed ..I 2.26 I 2.27 I 2.88

 

 

 

grain to be entirely credited for this
supposition. A large port of the
crop is in the hands, of speculators

' who will of course see to it that they

do not lose. Were the farmers still
in possession of any considerable
amount of the 1919 crop, there might
be another face to the matter.

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"can" PRICES PER BU., Dec. 30,1919
Grade [11753.15 [Glue—re} N. V.
No.2YelIow...|1.50 I146 11.59
No. 3 Yellow .. .I 1.48 I I
m.AVolm...I144 I I
unless 010571175175— A80
men. lDetroit IChIcage_ I'I._“ v.
No. 2 Yellow 1. 81
No. 3 Yellow . . 1.55 I 1.60 1.15
No... c “How 1 .50 I 1.52 1.10
The anticipated holiday slump and

the tactics of the bears have hit the
corn market and it has sagged a bit
for the past four or five days. It is
quite generally believed in the trad.-
ing' centers that the movement at
corn is about to increase very ma.-
teri‘ally and unless an unexpected ex-
port demand should develop, it can-
not be disposed of at existing prices.
We merely repeat here what we have
said before, that there may be a. tem-
porary and 'possibly sharp decline in
corn prices.

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Grade [Detroit [Chlcagol N. _,_V-_—

Standard ....... .89 I .85 I .85
No. 3 WhIte . . .I .88 I .83 I
I No. 4 Whlte . . .I .81 _ I 77_ I
PRIGE7877 ONE 'YEAR [[80

Gradehw IDetroIt 71%|ch N. V.

I Standard ....... .74 I .71 I .79

No. 3 White . . .l .73 I .70 I .78

No. 4 White . . . .72 I .69 I .77

 

 

 

One thing that strengethens our
belief that the weakened condition of
the grain markets is largely the work
of speculators is the fact that oats
has been in sympathy with corn and
is a cent or two lower. Everyone
knows that the oat crop is short and
that higher prices are inevitable and
there is not good reason why there
should be the slightest decline in
prices. The visible supply oi: oats is
less than half of what it was a year
ago at this time- We predict a de—
mand for cats from eastern and tor-
eign points which cannot be filled at
any price until another crop is: har-
vested.

RYE DECLINES; BAKERY. man:

Quite without reason, rye dropped a
couple cents a «by or two mu-
Christmas. The year’s supfly of rye
b inadequate and, the “mend iron

* ahreadhgnod. Ryeimnotenaper—

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DETROIT—Grain markets strengthen and go up with rush;
potatoes firm, beans quiet and steady. Seeds in demand. and steady.
Hay firm and in demand. ,

CHICAGO—00m prices go up with news of 50 jump in Can-
adian wheat price Oats rise two cents. Provisions bullish. Hogs,

higher, and cattle uncertain.

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Weekly Trade and Market Review

E ARE about to enter the great “beer” mason. At this time of

the year the speculators who must force the market down to make

a clean-up, corral all their “beer stories,” and march them in solid
phalanx into the exchange pits and the market newspapers. It is. a case
of “now or never,” and particularly so this year since practically every
prediction that has been made by the bears for the past four months has

fizzled. Virtually nothing has happened the way the bears said it would;

it has been a “discouragingly bullish” season all through, but the month
of January and the first part of February will be the

bears will frolic if at all.
Following the holiday season during which prices of farm products

held up surprisingly well, there has been a slightly weaker tendency in
grains. The coal strike has can

sod tigbte
prices have encourage farmers to sell, and now that grain

grain and supplies the past sixty days a e been very inadequate.

vancing

cars are to be given the right of way a more liberal movement is antio-
ipate'd, and there may be a short era of lower prices. We do not fear,
however, that. the slump will be as serious or lengthy as the “bears” are
predicting. We do not think that it will last through the major part of
January and possible into February. During this period of the year
there is a slight pause or partial suspension of business throughout the
country. The inventory is taken; plans for the ensuing year are laid
out; and industrial activities in general are at a low ebb. So whatever
may happen to the market the next thirty days will be due to natural

causes and farmers need have no alarm.

The general opinion of those engaged in industrial enterprises as
to the businem conditions in 1919 is one of optimism. It is predicted
that the year will witness an unprecedented building boom and. that the '
railroads will be in the market for enormous~ supplies to’keep up the
work of bringing their tracts and rolling stock up to their former state
of perfection. About the only uncertain questions of importance that

will confront the nation will be the disposal of the peace treaty,th.c

settlement of industrial strife, and the stabilizing of the foreign money
It is unfortunate that we are to have a presidential election
How-
ever, those who hold the purse strings of the country, claim that. the
election of a Republican president would do more that any other thing
to strengthen the confidence of Big Business and encourage it to ex-
pend Michigan Business Farming views the future with the utmom
confidence that prosperity will continue on the increase and that the
scales of social and economic justice will tip a. little closer to the perfect
We expect to see organization among the farmers greatly
strengthened and broadened and the way opened up for the universal
recognition of our oft-repeated assertion, that “farming is a business,”
and must be treated as such. We shall, of course, continue to do our
part to bring about the changes in marketing methods and legislation

exchange.
this year

balance.

as it usually brings about a condition of uncertainty.

that are necessary for the perpetuation of this truth.

period when the

up on the movement of
Ad-

 

The live stool: markets held their

' own during the Christmas week and

latest advices show hogs, cattle and '

- sheep on a higher level than prevail-

ed a week ago. This was true at in
live stock markets. There ib- quite
a difference of opinion as to what»
may happen in the hog market the
next thirty days but nearly all look
for very heavy runs throughout the
entire months. Here‘s what two
commission houses has to say about
the situation through the Price Cur
rent Grain Reporter:

“We are approaching the period in
the winter hog packing season when
the East will be a dominating fact-
or in the making of prices- We have
called attention several. times recent-
ly to. the fact that after Jan. 1. Ohio
and Indiana would be practically '
marketed up on their winter crop of
hogs. This would bring Eastern
buyers to the western markets, and

it the, consumption oi! hog products , '

continues normaL. it will be hard to
break the hog market. A me
many are anticipating a very hear
run at hogs. in January. This is log-
ical, for the country hag not, up to
the present time. really loosened up.
Railroads are not furnishing oars up
to the demand of the shtppus and
hogs are gaining weight very rapid-
ly and should there be. an. shortage
in the number at hogs. this year com-
petent stockmen so! the deficiency
in numbers would he made up by ex-
tra weight. Should: it turn out that
January hog receipts are as heavy
as is anticipated, the month of Ian.-
uary might. be the low period fa

og prices in this‘winter’s packing
deacon. We have [felt all the time
that hogs would sell lower during
this winter’s packing season than
they have sold so far, but‘ our pre-
diction is threatened with absorption
into the - realm of uncertainty——
W. G. Press &. 09., Chicago.

 

“Summing up the features of the
hog situation, Clay, Robinson 8' Co.
say: ’Prospocts are favorable for a
good acting" bog market in the near
future. 01 course, we are goingto
have a very heavy run the latter part
of January and through February,
but until? these big rune materialize .
we think the trade will give a good
account if itself. There are bound
to be Insults in the trade on dim ed
relatively large receipts; but for the
near future we look for these de-
clines to be offset by advances reg-
istered on days of curtailed re-
ceipts} n \ .

BEANS ABE STEADY

 

IEAN PRFOES PER own. DEC. 80. 1819

 

 

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G. H. P. ...... I 7.35 I 7.15 I 7.75
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THE WEATHER FOR THE WEEK 'Elmfl'xi;.g':.z;zI1:.§I125: I335

As Forecasted by W. T. Foster for MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARIIIING

that will cross meridian 90 during
the week centering on Jan 16, and a.
less severe set of storms crossing
meridian 90 during the week center-
ing on Jan. 5.

These storms, or ddsturbances. con-
trol all the weather features; - warm,
cold high winds; rain, snow, sleet;
frost, tornadoes. hurricanes.
all these accompany nosing every
Interested readers of these

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peratures 1195 on all the Mac dots tam! comm weather events.
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plains section: 1.1.2 and 8.; meridian “a: n on mm, aground“, 013m
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Bean's in the Detroit market have
risen close to $7.50 and this week

,have been holding" steady, although

the trading is not eswcially acti‘ye.
Farmers in Michigan show a- dispo—
sition to- hold back their beans at the
present unsatisfactory prices, al-
though some are moving to market.
Letters from tamer-t- say that it they
could get at the incoherence” ‘3
price around $8 they Would phat a.
crop at. beans next year. The attitude -
of the farmers is idem to be set.-
ting the speculators to mm The
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week w on. rim to demand demand.
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Mild-.75 usually interiors consider-
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Wes, following the We
quiet. are in m min and .11
Arm norm k Quoted for spade end
all vegetables in most markets.
Detroit man are quota?! it

tor a. 150-15. suck. There he been '
lime eeflvtty in mine end other

asters states due to the cold wave

The apple market continue: 10!

 

and steady moms hem: ample “0 .

meet mnemonic. The trait buy-

" ing movement has turned to oranges

and a ruit. Vegetables were
firmfwitlhatmcderele excrement. Cab-
bage continues to bring tram $2 to
£2.50 for good stock. -Ruta.bagas
have advanced in price -and are now
generally bringing $1.50 a. bushel.

Increased supplies of poultry are
being taken up as quickly as offered,
the market onssme being firm.
Dressed pork was in moderate de-
mand, but offerings were small. But-
ter and eggs / are dull, consumers
waiting for lower prices and buying
accordingly.

 

ANNUAL MEETING (OF

BREEDERS AND FEEDERS.

(Continued from page 2)

min hem; Red ‘Poll' Steer as a. Feeder.
E. g. Peabody Grand Ledge; Red Poll
8?.“ “1%;
on
ase, Wednesday, Jan. ‘14. 1920 '
Michigan Aberdeen Angus Breeders Asd'n
President, Alexander Minty, Ionic;
secretary, Ward Hathaway, Ovui.
Meeting called to order at 2.00 p. m.,
room 405.—Breedl.ng erdeen
Cattle for a. Third of a. Century, 0.
.:nb,..iET ET ET
How We Ca.

omote ' Further the Interests of

Aberdeen Angus Cattle, F. H. Higgins,
assistant s‘ecre American Aberdeen
Angus Breedws‘ detisn.

Thursday Jan. 15. 1920.
Me an Shorthom Email-ow Ass'n.
Pmflyaptwge Smith. llArbor; see-
1013-11 0 ~ app! ' ' .
‘mohns .esfled to queer at 4:40 . 31..
com 10H v resentative of the
foam aormexfinedom' Association will
roses: to discus the adv ' ent of
interests in Michigan.

‘ orthour settle
‘ hi. In use.

may a. F. massif, Kalamazoo.
de mmder stem 9. u...
are preparing an interesting program
mate mum mt m. Mme. m

at 11 Wednesday, Jon. 1!, 1920
Michigan. Poland China. Wine Breeders’

. Association.

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ens who saw the demonstration fields
to try thehot water treatment on a
larger scale in the fall of 1918. Goun-
t'y Agent R. Q. But, of Shelby coun-
ty, realised'thst he would not be
able to meet the demands Ham his
farmers for treating seed if he had
to '13s the original method or treat-
ing e‘pec‘k or two at a time. Can-
sequently he set his brain. to work
end devised an outfit which treated
tour bushels at a. time he established
9. central treating station at Shelby-
ville, the county soot. The heating
apparatus consisted of two large vote
to hold hot water, one at 120 degrees
F., and the other at 129 degrees F,
and 9. large wooden framed drum,
lined with heavy use screen to hold
the grain when steeped in water.
The drum was raised and lowered by
means of a chain pulley and oper-

_Several hundred Shelby county
tarmers became so Tnte’rbsted in the
results of the hot water treatment
that last June iley node an inspec-
tion My of the thirty or so fields

"son with treated seed. The tour

occupied two days and extended u:
every pert of the county, extension
men or tensors talking on some

v phase of the hot miner treatment or

pure seed.

The farmers who wished to have
seed treated soaked it in cold water
at home and then brought it to the
central treating station where it
wee subjected to the “cooking” pro-
cess. After the treatment it was
spread out on .a floor, sacked as soon
as cooled 01! and taken home again
to dry. More than 30 iarmers tool:
mugs oi this opportunity, most
or them being limited in the amount
of seed treated, to 4 .bnshels each
When their plots were check up it
was bound that the treatment preo-
ticailly eliminated both smuts, while
in the untreated fields loose smut

ranged from a few to 20 per cent, ev-
eraglng 11.7 per cent, with stinking
smut also prevalent in some fields.
But this was not the only benefit re-
sulting from the hot water bath. It
was very noticeable in many fields
that kernels with low vitality were

 

etxthe’treetedplots were " y
a halt inch longer then-those on. the .
corresponding untreated fields. ., .

The hot water tneetted seed 31-,
lords the grower further opportun-t
ity to improve the wheat crop. Al-r
tho it would be quite impracticable
on a large scale it was a. simple task
to go over the z-ecre seed plot and
more all rye, chest, cookie. wild,
onion and garlic, and even pleats or
mixed varieties or! wheat when these
were not numerous. Thus the grow-
u- was ethic to obtuin very desirable
kind of seed. tree from weeds as well
as smuts.

More than a hundred other demon-
strations, distributed over 30 coun-
ties produced as gratifying results as
those in Shelby county, and the
method promises to put wheat grow-
ing on I much more mfiable basis
than heretofore. Farmers consider
it very practicable as well as desir-
able. The seed from the treated
plots will receive special attention
and will be multiplied from you to
year until there is sufficient amount
to supply every grower in the coun-
’ty. This will require from four to
five years. When that is "accomplish-
ed it should increase the average
grain yield by at least 25 per cent.

The process of treating seed wheat
on individual farms by the hot water
method and sewing it on special seed
plot will sppear in the next issue.

    

 

 
 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
  
   
 

  

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“Same to You, Good folks, Same to You.” :

“N MY DESK this morning I find an ex-
ceedingly large number of letters, and

A Christmas and New Year remembrances—eall

breathing the same spirit of comradeship; of
good cheer and best wishes for the New Year.
So many, indeed have been the kindly remem-
brancestliis year, that I wish it were possible
for me to visit every home, if only to open the
door and shout: “Same to you, good folks,
same to you!”

The letters of commendation, too, bring en-
couragement and happiness to the busy office,
and I shall see that those who have labored
with me in carrying forward the work during
the strenuous year just past, and to whom
great credit is due for their loyalty and inter-
est, have the satisfaction of reading your words
of good cheer and encouragement. Kind
friends you have indeed furnished all lubri-
cant necessary to keep the wheels of interest
turning smoothly during a twelve-month.

I am sure 110w that there is a “law of com-
pensation,” Some times one feels that the eas-
ier way, the line of least resistance, is the
more comfortable way to travel. Our motives
are so often misunderstood, it seems. So ”hard
to make others understand why we take this
position or that. It isn’t an easy matter, my
friends to take a stand for what you know is
right, when you must stand for a time, alone,
simply because others can not, or will not, un—

' derstand.

It is a mighty easy matter for a publication
to play the game, to consider the money end of
the proposition before deciding whether a
question is right or wrong. But to loyally
serve, to work for the common good and truth-
fully represent those who place their interest,
to a certain extent in your hands, and place re-
liance in what you say; to disregard the fin-
ancial end; so very necessary to your success,
is quite another thing.

You can’t travel very .far down the business
highway without cbming to the forks in the
road. It is not difficult to locate the road you
should travel, but many sign boards are allur-
ing, and especially is this true when one knows
that they point out the easier way. It is quite
true that we have noit always been 011 the pop-
ular side, but your generous support, kind
friends, proves that you feel that we have very
often been upon the right side. _

The “law of compensation” is bringing its
reward. So many good friends commending
our work; so many offering encouragement; so
many “lending a hand,” and adding their
neighbor’s name to our subscription list; so
many, many loyal men and women of the farm
boosting for “M. G. F. ” Surely you have given
us a good start on our journey through the
New Year. And a Happy New Ye ear to you,
good folks. We shall press on; “Peace if pos-
sible, but the Truth anyway.”

##3##

HERE DO WE GO from here, Boys?

The old year has passed and as we stand
upon the threshold of the New Year, our hand
yet upon the latch of the door just closed, we
are- reminded of the refrain caught up by the
brave soldier lads, when ordered to break camp
with no idea of their destination: “Where do
we go from here, boys, where do we go from
here?” 'We have passed through a year of un-
certainty, and have now entered a year with
general conditions even more complex. We

_ don’t exactly know where we are going, but let

us rejoice in the fact that we do know that we
are on the way to better things. We can, of
course, close the books of the old year, as of.

I yore, and turn a new leaf—but to that new

ledger page we must of necessity Carry a whole

, lot.

it it t C
I suggested two weeks ago that while the

Tminers had gone back to work, the coal strike
‘ .110 means settled. This prediction was ”g“; t
' ‘ ~‘ f f

mine owners never had, ahd. the opinion that
they never Would give the consumer re resen—
tation On a board of arbitration. The ’aimer-
Lewis memorandum preposed to create a com-

‘mission, with full power to investigate and

settle the trouble between mine operators and
mine workers. One of the three members on
this Commission was to represent the public—-

' the consumer’" and this commission was asked _
to settle the trouble without increasing the

price of coal.

Now the mine owners claim that there was
no such agreement, that it was proposed to
have a government commission to act with the
miners and mine Owners, to the end that the
strike might be settled—a sort of referee as it
were. In the past all diiferences between the
mine owners and miners have been settled be-
tween the parties directly involved—never be-
fore has it even been proposed that the dear
public should have a hearing. And the con-
troversy was usually settled 1n this way.

Scene: Sitting room in large hotel; present
a government representative, the president of
the miners’ union and the chairman of the
mine owners committee. , The government
agent speaks: “Well, boys, really now, what
is the trouble?” “We demand more wages,”
blurts out the president of the mine workers
union. “Well, by gosh, we won’t pay them
another durned cent,” retorts the chairman of
the mine owners committee.‘ “Tut, tut, tut,
boys, we will never get together by following
this plan. Listen to me:

“You miners want ten per cent increase;
you mine owners certainly would not object to
a little more profit for yourselves. Dead easy
boys, dead easy“ We will add thirty cents per
ton to the cost of coal; you take your ten per
cent Mr. Miher, you absorb the rest, Mr. Mine
Operator.” “i don’t care who pays the in-
creased wage so long as it does not come out
of our profit,” says the mine owner . “It’s the
ten per cent increase we are after,” replies the
miner. And the very next morning the daily
press gives out the glad news that the strike is
settled and all is “quiet on the Potomac.”

#“ I! t it

The United States occupies considerable
space on the map of the world, yet it has front-
ier contact with only two countries. Our good
neighbors across the line on the north and
northeast have never caused us trouble. The
line fence, once established has been held and
jointly kept in repair. We have neighbored
with our cousins, borrowed from them, loaned
to them, bought from them and sold to them.
When in trouble we have helped them, and
when Uncle Sam gets into trouble the Canadi-
ans will be the first to proffer their aid.

On the south we have a far different border
line and a far difierent situation. The Christ-

ian Science Monitor in speaking of this border

and
soldiers strung

line says: “The Mexican border is space,
emptiness and cactus, with

 

 

Ann‘ Arbor, Michigan
December 1-0, 1919

Mr. Grant Slocum,
Mt. Clemens, Michigan‘
Dear Sir:

I like your page in M. B. F.
1919. Here is how it strikes me.

In your first editorial on the Industrial Conference
you cite the inability of Class to consider the inter-
ests of the main body of the people. Next you take up
the coal situation and must admit that only an ulti-
matum from the most powerful place can protect the
shivering masses from the selfish squabble in the neces-
saiy business of digging coal The next topic is im~
p01 tent because it points out that you have been plac-
ed in the fortunate or unfortunate position of being
accountable, ndt to yourself, but to those friends who
place their confidence in your sincerity to do the best
thing for us all for the price, their confidence. I smile
with you at our esteemed secretary's conclusion—min-
us the machinery necessary to produce tha desired ef-
fect. And I say Amen to the sentiments in the rail-
road paragraph. The fact that I~ read the page pro-
duced the following resultt

Since workers, organized or not, operators organiz-
ed or not, and producers of all sorts under the compe-
titive system of distribution cannot seem to give the
seruice' that the consumer demands, and since it is ev v-
ident from your own pen, that the union of the con-
sumers is able to put it over, as in the cast of the rail-
roads and the mails; Why doesn’t some trusted repre-
sentative of. those who would see the standard of life
raised for us all come out flat—footed for a s'ys’cemo

issue of December 6,

   

 

     
    

   

   
 
 

ods wherein the producer the farmer. miner, operator
and manufacturers of .all Sorts who deal in the ne-,
cessities aged lii'teazreIlf paid 951st; ~ and. t »»

,cral of the United States and the -

distribution by the Government similar to tried moth—-

 

along the sluggishsshne river, from-,th father

side of which comes, ever and won, an one» i ~
plained bullet. ” Trouble has ever been brew- ‘

ing along this line, for some reason this bad
bleed has been passed along from one decade
to another.

W hYI, /

If Uncle Sam really understood the MeXi- ._

Cans, the real brown people of that land of
sand, of cactus, of rocks, and lost opportuni-

How different from that imagin-A ..
ary line which is the only border on the northi j_' '7

  
     

ties, and the Mexicans understood the desires ‘

of the people who labor for the comm'On good,

who only ask for that which is rightfully theirs;

on this side of the line—if they understood and

\

we understood—edo you really think that these.

bronzed humans beyond our southern border
line would seek ever to kill and destroy? Don’t
you wonder some times what has caused this

bitter feeling ,between MeXicans and Ameri-

cans, and who keeps the kettle of hatred boil-
ing? And isn’t it possible that hogs are wal-
lowing at the source, and polluting the stream
which runs this way? .

##flt

”It will take you just five minutes to step on
the ferry in Detroit and land on the dock. at
Windscr, Canada. Thousands of workingmen
and women reside in Windsor and work in De-
troit, going to and from their work every day.
Last week the bankers'had to get together and
try to stabilize Canadian money. Tire Detroit
United Railway company will not accept Can-
adian money, at any value, on either their city
or interurban lines. You cant get rid of a
Canadian bill on a bet; and when change is
made both parties look for King George ’s head
——if it shows itself, the buck is paSSed on.

The English pound sterling, normally worth
$4. 865/8 in our coin, dropped as low as $3. 65,

the German mark, with a par value of about.

24 cents, is right now worth about two cents
and the Austrian crown nominally worth 20 1- 3
cents is now worth a' half penny. Europe’s

‘ foreign credits have been'strained to the point

of exhaustion during the past 'five years; her
national wealth has been mortgaged to the ex-
tent that a second mortgage would be about
worthless, and her accumulated financial
strength was all spent for destructive purposes.

England, France, Austria and
many want to buy raw materials: and food
products from the United States, but their
money has so depreciated that they can’t get
enough cash together to make a decent pur-
chase. The purchase of food and fuel require-
ments alone by the nations of Europe would.
require an expenditure on their part of. nine
billion dollars, providing their money was at

par with this country. Under the present
rate of exchange this . amount gwould be
doubled. ' ' ' ‘

Noted financiers say, that the United States
has already financed Europe to the limit‘of
safety; and that we need our cash here at
home. And with the League of’Nations held
up by the Senate there is mighty little chance
of helping them further with a big loan. And
there you are All of the natiOns of Europe
bankrupt; thousands upon thousands literally
starving to death for want of food; commerce
and industry must be built again from the
foundations—and all for what purpose? \Var
is hell.

# # i i

The agreement between the Attorney Gen-
packers,
brings to a speedy close the agitation that has
been going on for years between the Govern-
ment and the“Big Five.” Under the agree—
ment the packbrs will drop all side’lines and
devote their time to buildmg up the packing
business and its related '~ 1ndustr1es—~butter.
eggs cheese, poultry, etc. And best of alI the
Union Stock Yards Company at Chicago ‘Wlll
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‘ ehdep... When it i
4&1cti'on of beef or muttbn, the hay-
requirements may be reduced 50,

* materials.

\ materials.
‘ and stacking above the earth are

the feeder. .
fed for the pro-

per cent The warm, succulent sil-

'age‘rseems to stimulate, the appetites
of the animals, causing them, to cone
rsume and utilize larger quantities of
.feed. Most beet browers estimate
_ that be.et.top silage has a value about

one- -thlrd to one-half that of alfalfa
hay.

These points are discussed in de-
tail in Farmers‘ Bulletin 1095. “Beet
Top Silage and other by- products of
the Sugar Beet,” which was recently

issued by the United States Depart-l.

-n1ent of Agriculture This bulletin

‘ advocates the use of beet top silage _'

to aid in meeting the shortage of
hay and other forage. It illustrates
good methods of constructing pit

silos and gathering and siloing the .
,tops, and makes other important

suggestions in regard to feeding the
silage, m.olasses, etc based large-
1y upon reports of beet groweis and
stock feeders.

Balanced Ration Recommended“

'. “Beet, pulp and molasses, by-prod-

ucts which have an established value
with stock feeders. should-be fed
with a moderate allowance of hay
or other feed in order to make a bal—
anced ration." the bulletin says.
“At the present. price of beet mo-
lasses many feeders are finding a.
mixture of molasses with hay or
with pulp to he profitable. This fur-

' nishes a variety and stimulates when

fed in regulated quantities.

“In feeding beet top silage, about
30 pounds per 1,000 pounds weight
for cattle and 3 pounds per head for
sheep each day seem to he most. sat—
lsfactory.

“Animals not accustomed to beet
top silage should be given a small
quantity at first and the feedings
gradually increased until the normal
ration is reached.”

Other important points given in
the bulletin follow:

A good crop of beets will yield
from 3 1-2 to 6 tons of. processed si—
lage.

- The average cost. of gathering the
tops and filling, packing and finish—
ing the silo is about $1 a ton ’

It is extremely important. that the
tops be gathered and put into small
piles promptly— after the beets are
topped. The dirt may be easily
shaken from the tops while the leav-
es are still fresh. It is imperative
that dirt and sand be eliminated.

* The fundamental factors that are
involved in making good corn silage
also apply in making beet-top silage.

Pack the mass thoroughly to exclude-

the free air and then seal tight. Good
silage requires thorough packing.

It is not necessary to r1111 the tops
through a silage cutter. Some feed-
ers prefer to do so, however,-to avoid
the possibility of lambs choking on
the mowns

The same structure that is. com—
monly used for putting up cmn si—
lage may be used for beet top silage.
Because beet tops pack in a very
dense mass, the structure will some—
times crack and spread and thus al-
low air to enter. A well—built. silo
is reasonably safe.

Making beet top silage does not.
necessarily involve a cash ’outlay for
The natural 'earth silo
and stacking dliove the earth are

.both successful. Concrete side re-
'taini'ng' walls are- advisable under

certain conditions, however.
Making beet top silage doesrnot

necessarily involve a cash outlay for

The natural earth silo

both successful. Concrete side . re-
taining walls are advisable under
certain conditions, however.‘

An‘ emelleni quality of Silage is

= made by stacking the tops entirely

above the earth and then packing-

{=4th thoroughly. “The spoilage loss-
' 13 greater than when the structure-

or the pit sue is used;

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Silage is not a balanced ratiom It

~should always be supplemented by

other feeds.

Silage is a carbohydrate and bal-
annes with alfalfa hay, which is rich
111 protein.

The fermenting-process in the silo.

largely corrects the cathartic salts in
beet tops.

The most profitable use is made of
beet tops when they are siloed and
fedwdth alfalfawhay or other ferage
and possibly supplemented with
grain or concentrate feeds.

Allows Fall Plowing

Gathering beet tops from the field
and siloing them without undue de-
day allows fall plowing to be done
before freezing weather interferes.
Fall plowing is important for the
beet crop. .

Unwise feeding practices will pro-
duce bad results in feeding silage or
molasses. A systematic study indi-
pates that the losses have been due

I

ms Preparation odd Value

of Beet Tops as Silage

to the manner in which silage is fed
or to an excess of dirt rat-her than
to the feed.

Beet top silage will increase the
flow of milk of ewes at lambing
time. It is best to start feeding only
about one pound per head daily and
gradually to increase the quantity
to 3 pounds per day. The udder may
become feverish if this caution is not
observed.

The,best way for the beet grower
to store pulp for. winter feeding is
to spread it over the beet top silo.
It effectually seals the silage mass,
and the heat from the silage warms
the pulp and thus hastens the curing
process; it also reduces the annoy-
ance of handling frozen pulp.

The limiting factor in growing
sugar beets is usually the acreage
that can be suitably fertilized and
fitted for the crop, due regard be-
ing given to crop rotation More
feeding on the farm means more ma-
nure for the fiélds.

  

The economic utilization or boot.
tops and other by— -products not only
yields a direct profit by feeding to"
stock, but greatly assists in main-g
taining soil fertility and also in sis-j
tablishing a better crop rotation. '

The by—products of the sugar beet

crop when properly handled and fed'

have a value equal to the entire cost
of what is commonly termed “hand -
labor” in producing the crop of boots. .

The best practices of feeding the
by products of the sugar beet crop
will yield a net profit equal to half'
the net profits usually had in grow-
ing and marketing the crop of beets.

It is safe to conclude that one .
ton of good beet top silage is equal
to half a ton of alfalfa hay when fed
as a mixed feed. Many feeders think
that the silage has a value equal to
good hay, ton for ton.

Beet top silage comes out of the
sil-o warm in the winter, and it "is
appetizing. It seems to stimulate the
assimilation of food and to aid the
animal to appropriate the maximum
values from all the feeds consumed.

”The silo brings the feed near the
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' Do You Know Hudson
But’ Through Sheer Merit Alone

Essex Made Its Thirty Mil-
lion Dollar Sales Record

Builds the Essex?

Essex success has not been accidental.
'No one doubts its right .to the position
it holds.

But how many know why Essex in its
first year revealed qualities more mature,
more evident of the influence of long
experience, than is commonly found in
cars even in their third and fourth year.

You will recall the Essex was an-
nounccd one year ago Without one word
as to the identity of its builders. N 01: a
claim was made for its performance.

You were asked to go look at it, take
a ride and form your own Opinion. The
Essex, we said, would have to speak
for itself.

Now that it has established itself,

I we reveal why Essex has all the quali-

ties of cars of long development.

Was Designed by ’
Hudson Engineers

They conceived it as they developed
the Super-Six. All theylearned about en-
durance, they incorporated 1n the Essex.

They gave to the Essex the power

. that has made it famous 1n all quarters.

Its speed 18 the result of what had been

learned :11 making the Super-Six winner

Of all worth while Speed recordb.
The Essex can never be all that the

Super-Six 1s for they are totally dif-
..ferent types.

But- the Essex does bring quality and
performance to a class field that was
unknown.

(maria: “2..

o ""M—V «.1

The . former owners of large costly‘
cars that have adopted the Essex have
not been Hudson users. They have
come from other cars, cars that fall
short of the Super-Six in all particulars
save size and cost.

The Essex appeals to such users bel‘l
cause of its nimblencss. They like the
way its performance compares with that
of the Super-Six. You can see this on
every hand. The two cars in any com-
munity that are most prominent because
of their performance ability are the
Hudson Super-Six and the Essex.

Essex Did Not Need

Hudson ’8 Endorsement

Think of the advantages Essex has
had. What ordinarily would have re-
quired years to perfect was made pos-
sible' m the very first model.

That' is why 20,000 are now running,
why more than $30, 000. 000. 00 was paid
for Essex cars in ten months.

You have not needed the Hudson
endorsement. to understand Essex
performance.

Essex has won its own way. Hudson
gave it full benefit of the experience of

' its engineers and the ability of its

manufacturing organization. Its name
was not needed. 1.

New Hudson takes the same pride 1n
acknowledgingjts kinship to Essex that
a father might in speaking of his son '
who on his own account had made good.

  

 

 
 
 


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Do Not Be Misled

HERE IS one chance out of a hundred

that the farmers will not name the next
governor of Michigan. That chance lies in a
possible division among the farmers, and it is
a chance that the politicians who don’t want
the farmers inc the State House are playing to
beat the band.

“A house divided against itself will fall.”
- Divided, farmers won’t have a look-in during
the next campaign. United and working har-
moniously, their success in electing their candi-
date for governor and members of the legisla-
ture is assured. The powerful political lobby
that has been organized in this state the past
two years will divide the farmers if possible.
This is the lobby that defeated Sen. Scully’s
income tax bill; it is the lobby that put thru
the state constabulary measure; that created
the boxing commission, and defeated the farm-
ers’ warehouse amendment. Quite by mere co-
incidence, of course, the lobbyists are among
those indicted in the Newberry scandal.

Do you think for a moment that this power-
ful lobby, backed by rr“"""~ of dollars, will sit
idly by while the farmers are marching to the
Capitol at Lansing? No-t on your life. They
are busy right now; they’ve been busy for six
months. They aren’t fighting the farmers;
they’re too diplomatic for that. To all appear-
ances, they are the best friends the farmers of
Michiganever had. They have access to the
councils of the farmers. They are trying to
insinuate themselves into the farm organiza-
tions. At every opportunity they play the
friendly Reynard. Indeed, we ‘would not be
. surprised to see them suggesting the name of

some “farmer.” for governor who hasn't: a
chance: to win in the hopes that he» will divide-
the. farmers and. canse'the farmers", political
movement to fizzle.

Don’t be misled by these false friends. Scrut-
inize their activities. Weigh their motives. Rem
jcct the? camel and their" help; Youdo not
need it so why accept it? Play the guest
skillfully as they, and you will not be holding
the bag when the votes are counted next fall. ‘

 

 

Peace Treaty Differences

F THE Peace Treaty were not such. a huge-

, 1y important matter to the present and fu-
ture generations, there would be something
‘ amusing about the conflict of opinions upon it.
The country - is divided into a score or more
groups, each, of which thinks it has the only
- .. correct interpretation of the terms of the Tree.-
. vty',{aacdxnot $.‘9ne.€lf which is willing-to eon—
modem the other There are those who want
f: the Treaty adopted in its original form- They
.' say that the objections raised to the Treatyby
certain members of the Senate are without

‘4'. .
w. m .-
‘,

  

L tween these the extrinsic, groups

 
  

ers who quarrel and quibble “over particular

Wedfwelyby politicolbl-

   

  

. . ‘ are v 'oth-
seetiom of the Treaty. , . y — ,

During the writer’s recent visit to Witching- ‘
ton he had the opportunity of talking with sev-
eral members of Congress and asked their

views on the Treaty. One Republican congress: .

man was absolutely sure that the League cove-‘
nant gave Great Britain five votes to theUnit-
ed States one, but as for the objection to .the
Shantung provision, “pshaw, that didn’t
amount to anything.” But a Republican col-
league held differently. He said, “I don’t lay
much stress upon the argument that we do not"

'have as fair representation in the League as

other nations, but I do object most strenuously
to being a party torthe robbery of Shantung.”

Then there are other objections. Catholics
oppose the Treaty because it does not specifi-
cally guarantee Irish independence, Protest-
ants’oppose it because they say that it was dic-
tated by the Pope. Sen. LaFollette is the lead—
er of an active group who assert _,,that it was
drafted in the interests of Big Business. But a
very importantelement in our industrial cir-
cles oppose it because they say it iiisures Eng-
land a predominating position in the world’s
trade. Some are of the opinion that the Treaty
deals too lightly with Germany; others declare
that it places unbearable burdens upon the
German people and“ invites future trouble.
Some of the Republicans are naturally against
the Treaty because they are afraid. the
Democrats will get all the credit, and Anti--
Wilson Democrats don’t want it because they
are afraid it will put the Wilson followers in
too solidly with the country.

It would be a physical imposmbility to write
a. Peace Treaty and League of Nations cove-
nant that would be, acceptable to all these ar-
bitrary factions, so why try? Let’s all admit
that the League of Nations is a. gamble, which
it is, and draw cuts as to whether we shall get
in or stay out. '

Rewarding Industry

SOME PEOPLE propose that all should
share equally in the profits they help to
create. a

Let’s examine that proposition and see if it
will hold water. We will first have to look in~
to human nature. What is the motive that _
makes a. men work? Is it his desire to serve
and be of usefulness to the world? No, that
thought seldom enters the average man’s mind.
As men grow older and realize how empty are
the material fruits that are gathered from the
sewing of thrifty and industrious habits the de—
sire to serve may predominate the desire to
gain. But that. isn’t the way the average man
under forty looks at it. The incentive to work
is the desire to gain. The apprentice covets-the
journeyman ’8' job and works hard to arise to
his level. The journeyman covets his employ-
er’s job andapp—lim himmlf indmtriouely first
he may some day be momployer himmlf. The
thrifty farm. hand works hard and saves-a. pen-
my now and then in the hopes thathe may some
day become a farm owner himself.

Now let ’8 remove this: incentive to- gain. How
shall we do. it? By the simple pr‘oceomof: come,“
polling every land 0m3,~6m factory own.
or, every railroad owner, every mine owner to
pay his men equally with himself and distrib
ute the profits equally among all, himself in-
eluded. Now, what happens? The apprentice,
being averyyoungmn,fimkhimselfmapo-
sition be has not earned, on the level with the
boss. Diligence is replaced with slothfulness,
discipline with laxity, ambition with. self-satis-
faction and thrift gives way to prodigality.
Why labor to become a journeyman or an em-
ployer when thereiis leawnfl‘ and less 'reepon»
sibility\with equal. pay? Similarly, the farm
bud leafs ohm job. Whoa-me aim
owner and take all. file risk when there is‘lcsc
work and less worry at eguagl pay working for
another? .. ' - ’ ‘ ' "
. The scheme "won’t w,

k .. 31% “P9? or man is .

  
   
  

 
  

  

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The aflalrsof the i’wogrldare not run by men.
who enjoyed soft berths when' they: were young.
It is quite true, as a. correspondent points

‘ cut, that the children offlpoor' people are per-
haps helping to earn the; family bread while _

the children of ‘profitstakers are getting an el-
traction. But as experience shows, this is not.
necessarilya handicap in life’s race. Mercer‘s",
if we look into the causes for poverty, we” will
find that the average American .iainlly Ts {190“
because ofjbad luck, frequent sickness, or ms
management. 0f two’ men with the some-5’17
families, one will live comfortably and so?"
while the other will go into debt. What 55 iln
reason? One of them is naturally frag“: :l."‘l
manages wisely; the othbr is a spender; Tr'::>' ~
the wages of both, and what is theresull Tin
careful man saves thrice as much as fornwrly,
and the waster spends thrice as much. -

We are offering no defense of those" con-
scienceless profit‘eersf'who [force their employee
to work at starvation wages, and wax fat from
the proceedsof their labor. Such as these de-
serve to be condemned. "But we believe that
industry should be rewarded, and if an indus-I
trious man earns an excess over his 'expendi--~
tures and invests it, we believe that he ‘is en—
titled to a fair interest on. his investment. We
do not believe in equal wages or equal distri-
bution of profits, for it would put a premium

on laziness and take away the worker ’s. great- , '

est incentive. We do believe in a graduated
wage and profit-sharing scale» which gives to
every man a fair living income and a share of
the benefits accOrding to the amount of useful
work he performs to help create these benefits.
This principle is fundamental. It always has
worked and it always will work. It is fully
in attune with human nature and the great
plan of life. '

 

It Pays to be a Railroad President
N OTHER DAYS when the railroads were
supposed to be rolling in wealth that was
filched from a burdened public, pompoms and
prosperous-looking individuals were likened to-
“railroad presidents.” For fiction and fancy
pictured railroad officials as drawing enormous

salaries, and lolling in case and luxury. Our

information as to the amount of money spent
by- the roadsyiu'salaries, fees and other pera
quisites was largely a matter of speculation
until the government took over the ’1'ailroads
and. began to weed: out. superfluous vice presi-
dents, directors, attorneys, lobbyists and num-
erous other more or less useless figure-heads
that were on the payroll. The saving thus of—
fected by the government ran into many mil-
lionsof dollars. ayear. ~ '

There hasu'recently been publish-eds list of
the leading railroad officials who in the more
palmy days waxed fat fromthcit alarm

alone. It compri’msseveralbimdred rail use: > .~ ‘

ials Whose salaries ranged from $20,000 to over

$100,000. a. year., Nearly every road fmmerly' ~

retained legal counsel when business it. "iron to

fight mm W prepare Meiosis

their a—rgufilent for higher rates, showing the
great, loss that railroads were. Examining. and
perform. othetotfijolu to which their legal ..
talentvwas suited. _. To. these We the 1511—.
roads paid. fixedWr-iea from $10,000 to $5M: .
000‘ a year; plus any special - fees. : that might
arise in case of actual litigation.

We do not fear that the. private owners will '

immediately. restore the annoying-antes that
have been eliminated by government control.
Experience and the governrfient havetaught
the rail herds'many a valuable l-emi that the“
are not apt to soon forget. They are in" about
the same pesitionbsthe fussy old'flady why
kept accumulating odds and ends and relics. “
thinkihgjlat pcshapo “fauna-e day they whom
one in handy,“ but. 1:.qu more: home
cleaned Mathew . I 'sasbe‘fiiirfis that

» it was uselem-jbcgggge and wonders Why she

ever clung-adop- her housewith it.-

  

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fair ‘prices depends ‘ r'

on reduction costs, the chief item of
«min is labor. hat constitutes fair
wages“'depends en the cost of produc-
ing labor——tlie cost of living. I can
produce sugar beets profitably at ten
dollars a ton if— if the relative prices
of other commodities are not too high.»

“Value to societ ” is important, but
secondary. It is not, in itself, a valid
excuse for high prices. Society “could
exist more comfortably without gold
than without bread. But what do we
call the baker who, presuming on the
value of his product, charges “all that
the traffic will bear?” Toothpicks, on
the other hand, are not worth much,
yet if they are to be produced at all
they must be priced high enough to
provide a good -living for the folks
who make them.

This applies also to labor. Human
nature . being what ituis, efficiency
must be' made worth while. Unpleas-
ant j‘obs also must be made attractive

~by extra,pay.or shorter hours. But I

see neither justice nor expediency in
paying a business manager a hundred
times as much as an equally skilled
mechanic. Jesus of Nazareth didrn’t
charge for the full value 013 His ser-
vices. Washington and Lincoln fol-
lowed His example. He who demands
exorbitant wages just because he can
get them is as mean a proflteer as if
he charged" two prices for a loaf of
bread—Stacy Brown, Lake Odessa,

"Mich.

You couldn’t have said more had you
used ten tim‘es the space. There are
men in this world who serve for the love
of serving. They never are paid in full
what their work is worth to somety, and
by “society” I mean tne people who make
up the community, the state and nation.
But not all men are like that. Many men
are “clock-watchers." It is against their
religion to work one minute over the time
for which they are paid, or to expend a
single ounce of energy in doing some ser-
vice to their fellowmen unless they expect
some day to be remunerated. Industrial
justice ,or industrial’ democracy will nev-
er become a universal and permanent
condition until the natures of men are
made oven—Editor. .

 

NATIONALIZATION 0F
.- PUBLIC UTILITIES
n my county anost farmers are
1 ends of what you call organized
radicallabor because the majority of
them have been city workers. In your
comment on~“labor’s opportunity" in
the Dec. issue of the 6th, written by
8. H. 8., you ask for information re-
garding industrial justice and I be-
lieve to get it all people should have

.what they actually produce and the

only way to get it is through nation-
alization of all public utilities. -
The difference between the man
that spent money for an education
and the workman is this: I believe
in 3; cases. the workmen had to
pull saw or peddlle papers or black
boots for a living when a child under
our. present profit system and his or
her more . fortunatasabrothai or sister
was going to school. Many 01 these
politicians are put in their. position

». with..m_oney wrungfromxlabor thru .

excess profits. I wish you would tell _

or does it dignity plunder and de-
struction—E. W., Gladwin, Mich.

 

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. _a.~m..,me.a.r*ravw ~ --s.......

has to nets-- with. the crops should have-
what nominally . You would

discard orangether,~.the factors- of invust- ‘

ment and propriétorship. and turn your
farm over to others wing lacking the
is to i :1 of om?

mere poems: soon to an opera e
farms, are obliged under the

t m-
.tem 'to work for others. I cla m that you

are mistaken when you say that the far-
more of ,our county are friends of organ-

’ "r ' ical” labor. ‘The I. W.\ W. is a.
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the farm band who wants higher wages ,_

and cannot get them in any other wayto .
hide stones and tools in wheat sheaves so
that when fed into the separator they
will .rnin the knives. They teach vie» ‘
knee and destruction of" property‘ and ‘
every other means 'to gain an end. They
believe; injthe doctrinetbat might is right.
bayou mt'ue to understand that the -
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loys violence to bring about 'a change '

the existing order. Properly speaking,
-“red radicalism". does signify “plunder
and destruction.”———Editor. ‘ .

 

FARMERS SHOULD CONTROL
\- STATE LEGISLATURE

I most heartily endorse your stand
for the uplift and rights of the farm-
ers of this state, in your articles as
printed in M.,B". F. 'The time has
come when the farmers of this state
must organize and take over the
reins of government, or be forced in-
to bankruptcy. It is high time that
such graft and corruption to gain
seats in our state government he
brought to an end. Money is the root
of all evil, and has done more to cor-
rupt and undermine our form of gov-
ernment than anything else. Until
the farmers of this state organize suf-
ficiently and gain control of our
state government, we will ‘be discrim-
inated against and trodden down.
Where is there a man that can not
say that the farmer hasn’t just as
much right to set a just price on his
produce as the manufacturer or any
other class of business, for farming
is a business, just the same as man-
ufacturing is a business, and‘ let me
tell you, my friends, that it is the
hardest kind of work and the most
poorly paid of them all. The defeat
of the Warehouse Amendment was a
direct slap in the face of the farmers
of this state, and don't you forget it,
the Gum Shoe candidates who helped
to defeat that measure, will be sorry
when their terms of office expire.
We must put up a candidate for
governor who knows the farmer’s
problems and whose body and soul is
of the down-trodden farmers today, a
man of deeds as well as words. The
farmers haVe been humbugged long
enough; they are going to fight for
their just rights and fight hard and
don’t you forget it. My choice to
guide us and flight our battles for
governor is Herb Baker. Two votes
are enclosed for him from my home.
There-isn’t a doubt in my mind but
what we can land our mam—Wm. 8.,
Pigeon. ‘

 

If democracy means equal representa-
tion to all classes of people according to
their numbers, the farmers must have
greater representation in our law-mak-
ing bodies. 0n the basis of equal repre-
sentation‘farmers would easily predomi-
nate in the state legislature. We hope
our readers are awake to the fact that
the are not as fully represented in the
le slatt’ive branches as they ought to be.
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[BEAN AND WOOL TARIFF
nclosed please find a two dollar

bill to extend my subscription. My

choice for govermor would be Mr.
Campbell, on stand he took against
Mr. Pinchot in trying to keep” the
farmers from looking arms with what
I Would call anarchism.

My stand on the duty of beans
would be enough to protect the farm-
er; and on wool, not less than 10
cents per 1b.; on our bestvselling
grades and down to 5 cents for cheap-
er grades and at least 50 cents per
11)., on re-worked or shoddy. I have
a statement showing the price of
woolen rags before the war and now.
Aug. 1, 1914, soft woolen best 4% to
51/3c.; Nov. 1, 1919, soft woolen best
181/2 to 18c. This shows a rise of
about“ 400% in re-worked wool or
shoddy against about 200% in raw
wool and if 80% shoddy or reworked
wool can make good cloth we can be
sure of wearing woolen clot-hes for a
long time to come if there is not am-
o-ther sheep shorn in the United
States for the next three years.—-—T.
0., Constantine.

Your comparison of the increase in
the price of woolen rags and raw wool is
interesting. These are matters which
farmers must follow and use their or-
ganized power to correct—Editor.

 

THE STATE FARM BUREAU

I would like some good informa-
tion regarding the State Farm Bu-
reau. The county agent wishes me
to help canvass our township, but I
don’t want to go ahead with it un-
less I am sure that it is going to be
a good thing for the farmers. Please
tell me all you Call about the princi—
ple of it, what do they plan to do?
Do they pro-pose to use the member-
ship money they cpllect in to pay
high-salaried officers or will the mon-
ey be expended wisely to benefit the
farmer? Do you think the Bureau
will be free from political pull?-~G.
W. R. 0., Kent City, Mich. '

You will find an answer to most of
your question in an article published in
the magazine section of the Dec. 20th is-
sue. I have no fear that the officers of the
Farm Bureau will misuse the funds that
have been placed in their keeping. Sal-
aries for officers who do the work and
wages for field workers are necessary,
and any farm organization to become a
force in the nation's affairs, must have
ample financial backing. As to whether
or not the bureau Will be free from po-
litical pull depends entirely upon the in-
terest the rank and file show in the se-'
lection bf their officers—Editor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

‘The Trouble
“Nope! I can’t work for you no
longer at the old wages." said Farm-
er'F'air's hired man. “The price of
the noCessities of life is too high.

' Silk shirts has riz ag.’in.’.'

 

Wordly Wisdom .
“Frankly, now, it you had to
choose ~ ‘Weemtmar and; a million, ‘
what would you. do?" she purred. -
“I'd take the. million. Then you
would be easy. ,

Letting Well Enough Alone -

A traveller journeying thru the
Straddle Ridge region of Arkansas
came upon two men prone in com-
bat'inthe dusty road, the upper gen-
tlemanpommeling the nether gen-

.tlmnan, like beating a bass” drum.

The traveller, feeling for the, under
dog, resolved to interfere.

“It is schemes-to strike "a man?
when} he is down," he —virtuously
chided. ~ -

, f‘If you kilo-wed the trouble-live
hadto (get this yere cuss“ down,".‘
returned Huck .Buckleby. who was
sing .. the. ,thump_ipa.,.,..fgyou’. walnut 1,

   

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Rough Diamonds

Not long ago a profiteer was tak-
ing a friend through his palatial
abode. Pointing to a mammoth mir-
ror he said: “W'ould you imagine,
Bill, that that mirror cost $500,000 ?”

“Wonderful, simply wonderful!”
gasped the friend, truly impressed.

“‘Bnt What a pity it’s scratched," he
murmured as be scrutinized “it. clos- .

er. ,
“Yes, it is rather," returned the
multi-millionaire carelessly. “Oh,
ah, Matilda," he continued, turning
to his wife, “perhaps you had better

not let the children have any more

diamonds to play "with."

 

The Bard’s Condition ,
All through the war I wore old
clothes

y ‘ For. patriotic reasons,

And now from other causes I_
Shall wear them several. seasons.

What my All‘Say ‘

A, “Aw, yes," grumbled the postmast-

er at Forked Stick, Arkansas, “I’ve
heered all I want to hear of them old
jokes about postmaster: reading the
postal cards. Lemme tell you, there
ain’t ‘nuth’n to it, as for as I'm con-

  

 
  
 
 
 

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Your request I

pan with my chtiicefor;
, governor of Michigan.
I prefer Herbert F. B'aker. I have:
read quite a little in your paper about.

-this man and I agree with his views. ,

The others I know very little about.
Michigan farmers ought to . have, a
man who could not be bought, scared
or coaxed as we have had and now
have. I am an old man «high in'~ the
seventies, have very little good or bad
to expect, but we would like to see
our younger generations have a better
show than we have had. It :15 too
bad that farmers cannot think alike.
They would be stronger if they
would pull on the same tug. They
ought to overlook partisan lines.—-—'
F. W. B., Riverdale, Mich.

All the young old men are not dead
yet. When a man “high in the seventies"
takes such an interest in the kind of men
elected to office, it seems as if the young-
er generations should be eager to get in-
to the fray and see that only such men
as “cannot be bought, scared or coaxed,"
are put into positions of public trust.
We’ve got that kind in Michigan, lots of
’em, but the trouble alwanys has been to
induce Mr. Average Citizen to “overlook
partisan lines”. and support the MAN
instead of the PARTY—Editor.

MR. POWERS EXPLAINS

In the current issue of MICHIGAN
BUSINESS FARMING is an article ’re-
garding the Michigan State Farm
Bureau, I note that you made use of
my name. So that you may possibly
correct What is a misunderstanding
on your part I would like to inform
you that my connection with the De-
troit Free Press terminated some
months ago. Since then my rela-'
tion to the Free Press has been in
the capacity of publicity director of
the Michigan State Farm Bureau, al-
ways ready to lend to the Free Press
and any other publication in Michi-
gan any assistance possible wherein
the interests of the farmers of the
state are involved—J. P. Pomers,
publicity director the Michigan State
Farm Bureau, Birmingham, Mich.

 

Less than two weeks before Mr. Pow-
ers wrote us the above letter he reported
the annual convention of the Michigan
State Grange for the Free Press, and
signed himself as “start correspondent."
A reporter is not dignified by the term
“staff correspondent" unless he has some
actual, connection with the editorial staff
or is temporarily off duty. We have no
quarrel with Mr. Powers, but his past
and present connections with a. metrOs
politan newspaper that has never been
notoriously friendly to the farmers and is
the special spokesman of certain inter-
ests with which the farmers’ interests
most frequently clash, will make the av-
erage farmer feel that the Farm Bureau
could have made a wiser selection for its<
publicity manager. Editor.

 

ENDORSES M. B. F. POLICY

I want to take this opportunity to
very heartily endorse your policies
and your very firm stand on all. ques-
tions of vital interest to the farmers.
I am aware that all who dare stand
for the right and a square deal for
all classes today are termed cranks,
etc., but I am glad we are blessed

with a few,-—far too few—such.
cranks today. Wishing success and
prosperity to your, the only real

farmers’ paper in Michigan, I am,
veiy respectfully yours—Fred. 1).,
Leonard, Mich.

 

The best Christmas presents that we
have ever had are the thousands of kind
letters, of which the above is typical, that
have been received from our readers the
last few months. Material gifts are soon
worn out by use, but the kind word is

'stored away in memory’s chest and a-

bides forever with the possessor. It is
not possible to please all. Some times'
one must pursue a course that-is not al-
together to the liking of one's friends.
They criticize; they say unworthy things
about you; they avoid you. It gives the
heart a twinge to be thus deprived of the ‘
good opinion of one’s friends,~but that is
the price’that every man or woman must
pay who adhere strictly to the course ,
which the conception of one’s y points ..
out. It is as difficult for a newspap to ;
take the right course at all times aegilt is
in has no set policy. As condit one
change, policies must change. Butvt“ is
not swayed by partisan prejudice or»
vorttism to any particular class 01"”1r ..
tion. amine the mango by. we feel m.
our-every reader will come to girders“:
t‘ better. We are indebte to
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gBESOLUTION FOR mammal.

ES, WE made a Resolution for

the New Year, and the‘ one we
. 1 made was that of SERVICE.
'And you readers of M. B. F. can
help me keep my resolution best by
telling me how this paper through
the columns. or by a personal or-
, rand, can best serve you.

Through our Readers Own Col-
‘umn each week we have been able
to help a. few of our readers, but we
vfeel that our mission is so bio.--
that there is so much room for
growth.

Then there's the Personal Service
Shopping Bureau, through which
numerous of our readers have been
able to secure from the city stores
that which they could not find at
home. But what we most desire in
the year that is ahead of us is that
“more use shall be made of these
columns.

Don’t be afraid to write me. for be
assured that if your request is one
the printing of which will help oth-
ers, that it will be so changed in
wording, that no one will know
from whence comes the inquiry.

Are you planning on a party of
some sort of an entertainment for
Washington or Lincoln’s Birthday
and want seine games. or a new way
of decorating your rooms and table?
We have a good supply, but you know
that our paper is so widely distribut—
ed that shouid we print games with
the answers you couldn‘t possibly
use them, for your very friends
would have already seen them thru
these columns.

Or perhaps you are interested in
a. reading course. Write and tell
me how many are interested with
you~~—whether it is through lodge.
club or simply home reading and
what the subject matter is in which
you are most interested and through
the assistance of our Public Library
here, I can furnish you any number
of references.

SEEN IN (‘f-l’l‘Y SHOPS

The most noticeable thing in
skirts are going higl'icr-—both
in price and length—1'11 fact Dame
Fashion cannot rest content until
she has led us from floor to ceiling
it seems and now the number of
inches 11111.dvs skirt shall be from
the floor is ten inches. They are
still close at the bottom but fuller
at the top.

.And the late winter hats are very
much ostrich trimmed, for dress
wear. This will delight many who
have very good looking feathers
laid away in tissue paper, for they
are certainly softening to the face,
and are attractive to most faces.

 

              

 

Women in Politics .1

I
1
L Conducted by JUDSON GRENELL l

V'IJItYlll-‘HERE we turn these
'4 days We hear' and read much
upon the subject of “Making
America American" and great; stress
is laid 01-..,ur attitude toward the
foreign born .110 are within our
shores. \ ccxnn ittee appointed to
study this subject have recently
reached this conclusion: “The at-
titude of the alien toward this coun-
try, in great part, is :1 reflection of
the attitude our 0. 1: citizens hme
towaids him. Ameiicanism would
underte .ke to teach the duty of the
host not less than the duty of the
guest} ‘
Neither can we expect from the
foreign born perfect harmony with
our'luws unless they have a (mu-
"nrenensible knouflledge of them.
33'. they shOuld inquire of us
oncoming our rights and privileges
s citizens. and we
cking in a thorough knowledge,
fro arming ourselves with facts
oar ‘.stuly of this question. This

   

  

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woman of the Balkan countries In Europe puts up with.
She has been getting supplies to town with the an-

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Farm life in America surely has Its ‘ups and downs. but the above shows what the farm

This Serbian lady probably nover saw

cient ox cart and has sat by the roadslde to rest when the Yankee camera man caught her.

able men to head our public-institu—

tions, as outlined by the following

paragraphs:

The State and the \Voman Voter
State political issues seldom ac-

quire the importance, in the mind of

'the average voter, as do local and

national candidates. and issues. Yet
their neglect is almost certain to be
followed by a series of economic
mishaps that. legislators, when try-
ing to remedy them, are more apt
to make matters worse than better.

This is well illustrated in the con— w

duct 01' state institutions—one of the
most important, if not the most im-
portant of all the state’s activities.

Prison Management

There was a time when the com-
monwealth contracted out to ‘ per-
sons and corporations those convict-
ed of crimes. It allowed these fav-
ored with contracts to obtain cheap
convict contract labor, which was
brought into competition with out-
side free labor. This course was fol-
lowed for years. at the state’s ex-
pense and legislative palliatives only
served to increase the stench. Not—
withstanding the evil was'so patent
it was not until citizens in all walks
of life united in denouncing the
wrong that it was abolished. ,

When an economic wrong yielding
gain is once entrenched by law and
custom. even a majority may be im-
potent to apply a remedy. The re—
cipients of the favors contribute to
party treasuries, and even. finance
candidates who agree to oppose any
change.

This particular blot on the state’s
escutcheon was placed there because
of disregard by the state of a funda-
mental economic axiom: Never allow
the use,of public property for pri-
vate gain.

State Institutions

The state’s activities in the mat-
ter of elemosynary institutions is a
continual source of anxiety to all
who have the state’s welfare at
heart. The feeble-minded. the epi-
leptic, the deaf, dumb and blind, the
tubercular, the insane. etc, must be
taken care of, when necessary at
state expense, if humanitarian prin-
They repre-

number they run into the thousands.
and the drain on the state’ 3 treasury
is very great. 1‘

In all these cases.- f without , ex-

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caption. the woman voter can;_.woll_
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able, they should pay the full cost of
maintenance. The state’s duties be—
gin‘Only where family duties end.

The taxpaver should be safeguarded
against being expected or compelled
to carry burdens that individuals
should bear. If paying the expenses,
of these unfortunates 'should de-
prive the family of as complete sub-
sistence as is, necessary in order to

prevent suffering, then the case ac»
quires the importance of a state case
and automatically becomes a com-
mon burden.

Some state institutions are already'
self— supporting, or nearly so'; others
by wise manage1nenvt;—may be made
less burdensome. to the benefit of
the inmates and the state at large.

Responsibility

A grave error in state government
is the creation Of independent
“boards.” The machinery is not
in existence that can quickly change
an independent board into a service—
able one. Independent boards scat-
ter responsibility so that no one ever
knows just whom is to blame for bad
government.

Concentration of responsibilty.
united with the power of the elector-
ate to recall a dishonest or inefficient
responsible official, works for good
government. Concentration of *au—
th-ority calls for what is called “the
short ballot.” That is, the election
of as few officials as possible, so that
the voter shall not be confused by a
multiplicity of candidates. It calls
for the abolition of independent
state boards,- and the appointment by
the governor ofkthe heads of state
departments, and all who exercise
executive authority; The governor
must be” given the power to demand,
at any time, a resignation, without
giving any reason for the request. In
no other way can responsibility for
bad management be placed.

So the woman voter, besides keep-
ing in mind the'gaxlom that it is un-
safe to allow the uncut, public prep-
erty for private gain,'must also re-
member that without concentration
ot authority, inefficiency cannot be
located Power and responsibility
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«f; “Since Miss Péavy Potter 113, her.
7 six cylinder roadster she 'spe‘e s so

that She keeps all the motor cops
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-It is indeed gratifying to note the
interest displayed in this column,
and- also the really worth- while
questions asked. ‘ If you have been

"ed that the information asked for
is such that all of us can profit by
the answers. This is your column—-
and the more use of it .you make, the
better We shall like it as we will
know that Our paper is filling a dot-
inite need.

 

A TRAVELING LIBRARY,

Editor Woman’s Dept" M. B. F.
Dear Friend—Could you tell me
if it would be possible to have a
traveling library in our community.
Once I read that some libraries had
unused or worn out books that one
could have by paying the freight on
them. We have no library in our
vicinity and are simply buried in the
country until spring. A good cir-
culating library would help so much.
I shall be very gratefuL for any in-
formation you can give me on tho

subject—Mrs. B. B., Gratiot 00.

The question you have brought up
is one of the most helpful that could
have been asked as we are sure the
information you seek will be wel-
comed by a large number of our
readers who live in localities where

. no public library is within reach.

If you will address Mrs. Spencer,
Secretary of the Library Commission,
Lansing, Michigan. she will give you

full information as to how to pro— '
ceed to secure such a library in‘

your community. The State Li-
brarian will furnish to any com-
munity, where no public library ex-
ists, a selection of fiction, travel and
biography 1

‘VRITE TO A PRIVATE SCHOOL

Dear Miss La-dd:

I am having trouble” trying to con-
vince my daughter that at her age,
eleven, 'she is more becomingly
dressed in middy blouses and ath-
leticushoes than in the fancy dresses
and high heeled shoes. ‘Girls are
growing « more frivolous every
day, to say nothing of the hole it is
making in poor Dad’s pocketbook.
Perhaps you can say something
which will help me to convince her.
—Mrs. Jas. B.

This is a subject which has re-
ceived a great deal of attention from
educators as well as mothers thru-
out the land and today some .high
schools have adopted the"‘middy
blouse with a navy skirt as the uni-
form to be worn by the girls attend-
ing that particular school, while oth-
ers have adopted the Peter Thomp-
son which as you know is navy,"but
made in one piece with.the sailor
collar, and the bright red tie. -

I would suggest that the easiest

way to convince your daughter of’

the value of thise mode of dress with
the common sense heels which go
with it ,is to send to some of the
private schools, a. list of which I am
sending you, as well as some of the
larger city schools, “where a set rule
regarding dress is established. Ask
for their catalog and also inquire rel-
ative ito the dress questions. Then
when you have your information all
gathered tell your. daughter that
you wanted to be sure that you were
advising her for {be best and con-
vince her that if she persists in wear-
ing clothes which are inappropriate
for one of her age, she
once be singled out as "green.” should,
she appear in a" city Where the school

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Peter Thompsons. ,

Our Readers’ Own Column V

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2 '1-8' yards at the foot.

Nail—Girl‘s Dress out in 4 sizes: 8"

10 12 an 14 years. Size 12 requires
11-8 year s of 40- inch material.
Ladies’ Apron. Cut in 4 sizes: Small.

82-34; medium, 36- 38: large, 40- 42; and.

extra large, 44- 46 inches bust measure.
Size mediuml requires 3 1- 4 yards or 36‘
inch_mat eria

3026.—8-Girl's Gymnasium Suit.
5 sizes: 10,12, 14 and 16 years It re-
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the blouse, and 33—8
bloomers, for a 12-year size.

yards for the

3025-3008.--An Attractive Costume.
Waist 3025 cut in 6 sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40,
42 and 44 inches bust measure. Skirt
3008 cut in 1 sizes: 22, 24. 26, 28, 30. 32
and 84 inches waist measure. To make
this attractive style for a medium size,
will require 53-4 yards of 44—inch ma-
terial. Width of skirt at lower edge is
about 1 3-4 yard. Two separate patterns.

3030.—--Gir1’s Diess. Cut In 4 sizes: 6,
8,10 and 12 years. Size 10 requires 3 3— 4
yards of 40- inch material.

2625. Ladies’ House Dress Cut .in 7
sizes: 34. 36, 38, 40, .42, 44 and 46
inches bust measu1c.”Size 38 requires
611-8 yards of 36—inch matc1iai. Width
at lower edge is about 21-3 yards. _-

3028.--Glri'e Coat. Cut in 3 sizes: 10,
.12 and 14 years. Size 141requir‘es 3 1~2
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gsend me the following pattems at 100
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‘6 ' 8
and above 9.11 thing's youhg‘ girls
to adopt ~the modes used by the
most exclusive schools. You will

at need to refer to the question of
health at 1111,33 I am sure that you
will win your point by simply prov-
ing beyond question that there is no
choice-401' only two kinds of dress-
es are permitted in exclusive and
high class schools.

If the butter troubles you about

gathering, dissolve a tablespoon of-

baking soda in a pint of water and
add. Churn a. moment and the but-
ter will be gathered nicely.

A teaspoon of borax addechto the
starch will help to-keep the starch
from freezing out of clothes in cold
weather.

If you will dampen the bottom of
your kettle, then soap it Well before
putting it on the fire, there will be
no trouble washing the black off.

\Save the excess. liquid from your_

pickled peaches to put in your mince
meat.

If the pans in which milk, custard
and salad dressings are to be boiled
are first wiped with a soft cloth
greased with a little lard, they will
not scorch.

The sputtering of hot fats can be
avoided when eggs. are dropped in
to try bysil’ting .a little flour into the
fat just before the eggs are added.

If lemons are warmed before you
squeeze them, nearly double the
quantity of juice can be extracted.

Cheese may be kept soft and good
for a long time if it is wrapped when
it is fresh in a cloth wrung out of
vinegar and then wrapped in a dry
cloth.

DANGER IN SA (ll-[ARIN
With~.the,shortage and high price
of sugar there comes the excessive use
of Saccharin, until the Board of
Health of the'State is sounding a
warning against this practice.
Saccharin is a coal tar product,
and while 550 times sweeter than
sugar, is not a substitute for sugar
and has no food value. Sugar is a
carbohydrate, possessing a specific
food value, while saccharin has no
food ‘value whatever and is not al—
lowed by the federal food and drug
act.

 

CHICKEN CHAT

A certain concern is advertising
compressed tablets as a substitute for
green food for chickens during the
winter.- When first I saw their ad
I thought that it was a compressed.
tabletof some such material as‘dried
beet pulp or something of that kind,
and I said to myself that would be a
mighty good thing for people who
are unable to get fresh green stuff
during the winter.

Later I saw some of the advertis-
ing matter and find that it is com-
posed of mineral substances, which
are simply dissolved in water that is
given the chickens. One might as
well give a cow or a horse a tablet
made of lime or chalk or some other
mineral matter and call it a substi-
tute for hay..‘

Lots of people do not understand
the reason for the necessity of feed-
ing bulky green food to fowls or an-
imals. The real reason is, that the
digestive apparatus of fowls and an—
imals is constructed to take care of
food in bulky form and not in con-
centrate-d form‘. One could‘feed a
horse all of the necessary food ingre-
dients in a few concentrated tablets
,but the horse would soon sicken and
die. The stomach cotlld not take
care of the fbodin such concentrated
form and neither Wouldthe bowels
exercise their , natural functions.
Neither would the appetite of the
animal be satisfied if the stomach
were not filled. , » -

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is necessary to help fill up the stom-

’ach to satisfy the appetite and pros"

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’ ' ' Ilsa CHILDREN: 0: course
you know the next holidays we

.. have to flunk about are of
Washington's and Lincoln's birthday.

.306: men were not only Presidents,

but r'both men are the idol of all
Wren. Therefore I want to know

1” why you like these Presidents

.--which one you like best, and why.
and a short story of what you know
of their lives. Do not make your
day more than 100 words long or
we can’t print ite—but the three best
”ties will win prizes. And we want
an original drawing of Washington
Chopping down the Cherry Tree and
Uncoin reading by the tire. New
here is a. chance for our little folks

' who have literary talent to write

stories and get prizes and those who
on draw to send us pictures. Five
prises of “A Trip Around the World"
in postal cards will be sent to each
of the winners. Aifectionateiy yours
e—LADDIE.

Dear Laddie:—This is my second let-
ter as I didn‘t see my first letter in

nt. I am a girl 10 years old and I am

the 8th grade. I have two sisters and
one brother. I live about one-fourth of
a mile from our school house and go
home for dinner most every day. My
teacher is Miss Freda. Behler and I like
her very well. She has taught two years
at our school. As my letter is getting
long I will close. I would like to have
some of the boys and girls write to me.
-—-Edith McVeigh, Ithaca. Mich.

Dear Iladdiez—This is the first time I
have writter to you. My father takes
die M. B. E. and We all like to read it.

like to read the “Children's Hour." I

ve on a. farm of 75 acres. We have five
as" three horses. I have three sis-
ters and one brother at home. My broth-

goes to high school. Now I will close
‘0 ing to see my letter in print—Anna
80a“, Falmouth, Mich.

P. S.—Below is my story.

Christmas

Christmas is a birthday. It is the
birthday of Christ. He was born in a.
manger in Bethlehem. There were shep-
herds caring for their flocks. All at
once it became light around them and
many angels came down and one said,
"Don't be afraid, for I have good news.
For there is born this day, a. Savior, who
is Jesus Christ." Then they went to
see him and took him preSents. That is
why we give presents now.

 

 

Dear Laddiez—I am sending a poem
that I wrote myself and I hope to win
the December prize. Will you please
write and tell me how I can get a cam-

era as I would like to get one. I am a
girl 13 years old and am in the 7th
our teacher is Miss

grade at school;
eyforth. I live on a 50—acre farm and
go to the Duncan school. I will be glad
when real winter comesas our teacher
for the first of the year has invited us to
go over and have a skating party. My
letter is getting long so I will close, hop~
ing to win the prize—Myrtle Siver, Mil-
iington, Mich.
——-4,
Dear Laddle:—This is the first time I

have written to you. I live in the coun-
try and like it very much. I am 12 years

old and am in the 5th grade. I like my
Iteacher very well; her name is Char-
lotte Williams. I live on an 108-acre

farm. For pets I have one dog and two
cats. We have four horses. three cows
and four calves. I have two sisters and
one brother. Their names are 0tho.
Gladys and Bernice. My father takes
the M. B. F. and likes it. I like to read
the “Children’s Hour.“ My mother is
living with us. Well, my letter is getting
dong so I will stop, hoping to see it in
print. I have over three miles to 2'0 to
school.—Gardner Durfee. Alger, Mich.

Dear Laddie—This is the first time I
have written to you. I am a girl 11 years
of age and am in the 6th grade. My
[teacher's name is Emma Bellinger. My
xfather takes the M. B. F. and likes it

very much. I have one brother'and two
I My brother’s name is Glenn and
my a . r's names are Ruth and Evah.
I live on an 88-acre farm and we have
to of land north of here. We have
four orses. one young colt, 28 head of
cattle, 10 of which are thoroughbred

8!: ms. and about 80 sheep. I wOuld
like to join the Christmas club. Would
mi please send me a list of prizes and

rules of the club? I am sending you
a story which I hope you will like. I
would like to have some of the girls

4, .Write to me. I will close new.

 

,_\- Dear Laddie—I am 13 years old and
m in the 7th grade at school. My teach-
ir's name is Nellie Naylor and I like
r very much. My father takes the
: ,B. ‘1'. and likes. it. I like the D00
a and love to read the boys' and
girls' letters. I am writing you a Xmas
mud would like to see it in print.—
-, , Barton, Wheeler, Mlch._
" .- Christmas
where Peace. like a dove in

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The Worst Kind sf Nuisance

Hey,‘OsveGsng,comeelesu-,letenohofusname
nuance—awe

“ammo!

'llcellitagame.

“I vote for the fellow who’s never on time!"
“Thechnpwho takespleesu-ein startingaflghtl"
“The geezer. while carhping, who snickers all night!“
Indie-epestsareterriblytrying,lgrent,

But I'll cast any vote for the fellow who “Mt."

He can’t (rig a. fish-pole, he can’t take a bike,

He can’t cook a flap-Jack or tinker his bike!

He can't learn to signal, he canlt do first aid,

Can’t do wiflaout candy or pink lemonade,

Can’t follow a trail and can't lace up his shoe,

Can'tdoablamed

that you want him todoi

filing
Oh. boy, I’d be happy if I could but plant /
A swift on the rear of the fellowwhocan’t !

Hecan'tgethisgrammar,orspelling

or math’

Can't split the kindling,_he can’t take a bath. ‘ ’
. He can’t help his mother, he can't use his head,
Can't rise in the morning and can’t go to bed. -
He can’t find his collar; he can’t tie his tie—
He never knows what he could do if hePd try—
' But repeats all day long his monotonous chant:
“Oh. momma, oh teacher, oh mister, I can't." ‘ ’
There’s great need in the world for the confident man
Who tackles his work with a hearty “I can."
So if you would succeed and find living a Joy,
Just learn how to do things while you are a boy;-
For the boy who refuses to work when he SHOULD
loses the power to work when he WOULD. s
Weakness and softness his talents supplant, \
And he finds at the test'thnt he REALLY CAN’T.. ,
—'——'l‘-he Cave Scout in Boys' Life for November.

 

A Wise Teacher

Q

“ DON’T know what is the” mat-

ter with Polly Drake,” pouted

Sue. “She is the most uninter-

esting girl I ever talket to. _Why we

walked all the way home from school’

together today, and I was never so
bored in all my life."

“What an awful confession,” laugh-
ed Aunt Mary, “But I can’t believe
that Polly Drake was altogether to
blame. You are telling tales on your-
self as well as on your friend."

“I—I don’t think I understand
what you mean,” stammered Sue,
growing very red.

“Sit down. and I will‘tell you a lit-
tle story," answered Aunt Mary, and
Sue, who loved her aunt’s ever-inter-
esting tales, settled herself to listen.

“One of the wisest teachers and
best preachers that this country can
boast of was Henry Ward Beecher,
who lived and preached during the
‘last century. The fame of the good
man had spread far and Wide, and

on every Sabbath day his church
was filled to the doors with an
enthusiastic congregation and _ visit-
ing friends who flocked, to hear the
wise man’s teachings. Now one Sun-
day there came to the church a
preacher from a small town nearby,
who had heard of the wonderful ser-
mons that Beecher always gave and
who had come to seek inspiration.
With astonishment he looked around
the crowded church. Not a. head was
nodding. not a soul was snoring, ev-
erybody was wide, awake and all were
listening attentively to their teacher’s
words. ‘Sdrely,’ thought the visiting
preacher. ‘There must be some secret
in being able to attract and hold a
congregation as Reverend Beecher
does. After services I will ask him
to tell it to me.’ So, when the ser-
vices were over and the church emp-
ty, the visitor approached the preach-
er and said: “Reverend sir, 4 I have
listened with interest to your sermon

DARNYARD CUT-OUT "

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this morning and have taken your
teaching to heart. but there is anoth-
er question about which I med ad-
vice. I, too, am a. rpreadier and al-
though a goodly number of persons
come to my little church each week.
there seems to be something wrong
with my congregation. Throughout
most of my sermon the heads nod
and the eyes drop shut. There are
more persons sleeping in my church
on a Sunday morning than there are
in the little grave yard outside. Tell
me'piease. what can I do to wake up
my congregation? , _ .

7 “Henry Ward 136er listened to
the man in silence, and than placing
his hand upon the younger man’s
shoulder he answered_ “Before you
can stir up your congregation, my
man. you must first wake up the
preacher."

Aunt Mary paused. “Oh, I know
why you are telling me this story,"
cried Sue. "You think that before I
look for things the matter with oth-
er people I should see what is the
matter withlme."

"Just that,” agreed Aunt Mary.
“Perhaps you could wake Polly up
and find her interesting“ you would
wake the best out of Polly. Whenever

I find myself wondering what is-

wrong with other folks I think of
wise Henry Ward Beecha's words
and try to ‘wake up the preschor.’
"He was a wise man,” said Sue.
“I’m going to try to follow his ad-

vice, too.” And She did.

STORY TIME

“Tell us a story," comes the cry
From llittle lips when nights

co
And in the grate the flames leap high.
“Tell us a. tale of rates bold:
Or fairies hiding in t glen,
Or of a. ship that's wrecked at sea."
I fill my pipe, and there and than
Gather the children round my knee.

I"

I give them 'all a role to play.‘
No longer are they youngsters

small,
And I, their daddy. turning gray,
We are adventurers, one and alL
We Journey forth as Robin Hood
In search of treasure, or to do
Some deed of daring or of good.
Our hearts are ever brave and true.
We take a solemn oath to be
Defenders of the starry flag.
We brave the winter’s stormy sea
Or climb the rugged mountain crag
To battle to the death with those
Who would defame our native land.
We pitch our camp among the snows
Or on the tropics' burning sand.

We rescue maidens, young and fair,
Held captive long in prison towers;
We slay the villain in his lair,
For we're possessed of magic pow-

. ers.
And though we desperately flght
en by our foes are we beset.
We always triumph for the right,
We have not lost a battle yet.

It matters not how far we stray,
Nor where our battle lines may be.
We never get so far away
That we must spend a night at sea.
It matters not how high we climb,
How many foes our pathway block.
We always conquer just in time
To 80 to bed at 9 o'clock.

(Copyright. 1919, by Edgar A. Guest)

 

Dear IAddie—This is the first time I
have written to you. I go to school and
am in the 8th grade. My teacher is
Miss Anderson and I like her due. I
have two sisters and one brother.
fatha-takesthell.B.F.andl es
very much. _I. like to read the 8 rise.
letters and Doc Dads. I live on a farm
of 120 acres, which is five miles from
Brown City. There is a '
side of our farm and
the other side. Will close. hoping tosee
my letter in print—Genevieve amsey,
Mariette, Mich. s.

Dear Laddie—I have seen so many let-
ters from girls and boys and have en-
,Joyed reading them so much I thought I
would try writing one myself. » I live on

a farm of 140 acres. I have two broth- ‘

ers and one sister. ‘ My oldest brother

I take music lessons, violin and pi-
ano. We have six horses. 16 head of cat-
tle. 31 hogs and sheep and lambs. I had
one of the lambs for a pet. 1: fed it
with a bott . ,1 am 11 years old and in
9. My teacher is Miss Mab-
. We; have basketball at our
We have lots of fun gathering,
ory nuts and walnuts in ..
the year. My'oldest’ brother is It and

   

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have never heard of one of them
who opposed the farmers’ receiving
the full cost of production of their
zroducts, plus a fair profit. Labor

interested in eliminating the pal“-
asi'tical and unnecessary middleman
who gets 50 to 65 per cent at the

dollar the consumer pm and out '

of which the farmer gets about 35
to a maximum of 40 per cent. «

' _ I am much surprised that Mr. Milo

D. Campbell should have misun-
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gan Federation of Labor that the leg-
islature create a Commission to fix
the retail and wholesale prices of
food and other necessaries. Labor
throughout the country, as all real
fundamental leaders of farmers, de-
mand the extermination of speculat-
ive middlemen, which will help farm-
ers as much as labor. This is a
common point at contact.
readers will doubtless be much sur-
prised to know that a farm organ-
ization of which Mr. Campbell is
president, endorsed of bill avowedly
to protect farmers’ co-operatives
from unjust'persecution by the De-
partment of Jutsice. but limited this
only to such farm organizations as
are “not conducted for profit.” Mr.
Campbell's organization then had
prepared by its counsel, and had in-
troduced a bill which would permit
the packers, millers. and all the big
middlemen to qualify as
co-operatives, and put them at the
mercy of speculative interests.

It is not clear that it is to the
common interests of farmers and la-
bor of America to have the railroads
and merchant marine fairly capital—
ized and operated democratically for
service and not for. profit; to have the
natural resources of A-merica'simil-
arly owned and operated so that we
shall not have coal operators mak-
ing a thousand per cent on their in-
vestment while many of their half
million mine workers a good propor-
tion of the farmers’ home market,
get one to two hundred dollars a
year less than required to enable
them to get the food they need? Is
it not equally the joint interest of
farmers and labor of America to
break the monopoly which the big
packers have created in our food
supplies; to see that the many costs
of the war are paid 011' by heavy tax-
es of incomes, estates. war profits
and natural resources speculatively
held, instead of compelling farmers
and city laborers to pay interest to
the big financiers and to permit the
small percentage of our population
who made twenty billion dollars out
of the war. net, to get away with it?
It is ridiculous to think that anyone

Hurry With Your Vote for the Next ‘Governorh -

HEHE is no change in the rel-

ative positions of the candidates

for governor as announced last
week. Campbell is still in the lead
by a slight margin, but Baker . is
creeping up fast. State politics have
been very tame so far but we expect
to see some fireworks very soon. As
it stands today there are at least
four self-avowed candidates in the
field, with the probability that at
least one more will be added to the
list. It is not to be expected that all
will make the run, however. There
will undoubtedly be some elimina-

   
   

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program dMous to American la-
bor. Everyone knows mm wen’t
do it- The most dangerous enemy of
Americanfim today is not the fool
anarchist, but the big financial in-
terests at this cbuntry drunk with
wealth acquired through capitaliz-
ing American farmers’ and American
Workmen's patriotism, and heavily
loaded with foreign securities.

_ Wall Street would love to see the
farmers and laborers fighting each
other,~while it rifled the pockets of
both. as it always has done in the
past. Will farmers and laborers be
foolish enough to permit th’is,‘even
if it does serve the selfish end or!
some aspiring farm leaders? I have
no fear of it.

I want to thank you for giving me
this space. and to assure you that the
program I have outlined above,
seems. to‘ the three-quarters of a
million farmers in the organizations
united in the Farmers' National
Council to carry out their reconstruc-
tion program, important enough to
justify farmers and labor getting to-
gether as at the Chicago Farmer—La-
bor Conference instead of fighting
each other. United on essentials we
stand. divided we fall still more help-
less into Wall Street’s clutches.
Yours sincerely.——Benjamin O. Marsh,
Secretary and Director of Legislation
Farmers' National Council. "

STATE POTATO EXCHANGE
MAKES RAPID PROGRESS
(Continued from page 3)
and they have now just completed
an addition to this house, made of
tile, which is costing them above nine
thousand dollars which includes au-
tomatic machinery for the handling
of potatoes. When the farmer drives
up to the warehouse with a load of
potatoes his wagon is tipped up at
the front and the tubers slide out at
the rear into a dump which then el-
evates the potatoes into a grader.
The members which number 176
paid a membership fee into the as-
sociation of $50 which went into
the building fund and when the
building was completed they found
that they would need about $3,000
more. At a meeting of the members
one afternoon they called for them
to volunteer to loan the association
this money and in litteen minutes,
enough men had ofl'ered to loan.the
required amount.

At the present time the central is
in a flourishing condition having
done over $509,000 of business in
October of this year and about the
same amount in the month of Nov-
ember.—-—W. 0. Oribbs, Field Man 'for
the Exchange.

tion, but it seems practically certain
that Wayne county will have at-
least two candidates in the race to
the finish. We anticipate one of the
hottest gubernatorial scraps ever
staged in Michigan. and it behooves
the farmers to seize every opportun—
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WHY DO FARWBS QUIT?
)MIN' toward home ’tother day, I
JovertOOk a couple of our business
men talkin' very earnest an' con-
fidential, an’ so I jest kinder saunt-
are along slow like to hear what they
wuz talkin’ about Well as I might
have knowed, they wuz talkin’ about
farmers—business men and all other
men in the cities know more about
farmers and their work than all of the
rest. of the world put together. in;
they do more discussin about farm-
era, by gravy!

Well, one of these tellers sez, sez
he, “I wonder why so many farmers
are quittin'—sellin’ or rentin’ their
farms an’ goin’ out of business. -It
looks as though they wuz sick of the
prices their stuff brings, an’ I can’t
see why they want to quit."

' “Oh, the farmers are "a lot of .-dern-
ed hogs,” sez the other wise guy.
“They’re never satisfied—give 'em all
they’ll ask an’ they’ll want/more, an'
the only way to deal with ’em a-ltall is *
to,fix the price for ’em ’an then let
’em take it or leave it. We can’t han-
dle their stuff for nuthin’,” sez he.
“An’ the sooner the rubes know

the better it’ll be for ’em.’,’

Now one of these men was a butch-
er an’ tother a grocer, an’ by ginger,
their talk kinda raised my dander,
an’ so i ups and busts into 'em, an'
while i wuz about it, I thought I’d
give ’em a nice kind talk an' try an’
tell 'em gently-,like some of the rea-
sons why farmers wuz a gittin' kinda
tired of the game, 'cause it was bein’
played too darn one-sided an' the far-
mer wuz bound to be the loser any-
how. An’ so I sez to ’em, askin' their
parading of course for buttin' in.
”You follers’ ignorance is extremely
ignorant; you talk like a last year's
bird’s nest,” I sez, usein' my most el-
egant languidge—“You ask an’ won-
der why the farmexs are quittin’," I
sez “and then answer the question
yourself,” I sez. "‘1

“Price-fixin' an' price-manipilatin'
by a lot of sharks like yop an’ sim-'
liar. is what's a drivin' the farmers
off the farms an’ you two tellers, in
the business you’re in, ought to know
the trouble without askin," I sez. I
guess I’sometimes git kinda het up
when I’m discussin’ such things with
tellers in bizness. an’ mobbe I wuz a
little hot up on this occasion but I
thought I better talk nice to ’em an'
so I sez to the butcher man, “here
you be, a. b11y1in’ cattle an’ hogs from
the farmers, payin’ your own price——
why, the farmers never has a chance
to set any price on his stuff.” I sez.
“You’ll buy a steer, sometimes. more
often a bull or an old 'cow which you
allus sell fer prime steer beef— well.
you pay your price for what has tak-
en the farmer two or three years to
noise on high- priced feed an' hard
work; you take the carcass into your .
shop, cut it up an’ sell it out in half
a day an’ make more profit than the
farmer gits for rais-in’ the anamile
You’ll pay the farmer 20 cents a
pound for his chickens,”l sez.“ 'an’
you'll yank oil two or three ounces of
feathers an’ hang 'em up an’ they’re
ready for the buyer. Well, I come
along an' ask the price. 35 cents, you
will say. an’ then you’ll slap one on
the scales, weigh ’em up an’ tell me
about two dollars, will be near enough
then you put ’im on the block, out the
head off, out off the legs, remove about

.a. pound an’ a half" from the inside of

'im an’ throw the stuff in the waste
box—a total loss "to me an’ yet .I have
paid 35 cents a pound for a dressed
cihicken, an' all the dresain’ that’s
been done is the two or three ounces
of feathers you’ve yanked off. We do
not buy dressed hogs with jest the
hairs off, do we?"I sez, “then, why is

the chicken dressed before he is dress-

ed?” Then I sez. “If you buy a dress-
ed beef from the farmer you make
him give you the heart, lungs an" liv-
er an’ you sell the same at from 20
to 215 cents a pound an’ it’s that way
all along, everything comes your way,
you couldn’t get along without the
farmer am yet you’ re allus knockin”:
an’ tellin’ what a tight. wad he is, an’
by gosh! you do him every chance
you git. don’ t forgit that, ” I sez an?
then I sez to the grocer teller “What
‘did you” pay “the farmers for ’tsters
this fall? About a dollar an’ a query»
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a customer than the farmer site for
milkin’; .
an’ .deliverin’ the milk—sometimes tens,”
“If ybu tellers thirik?’ ’

raisin’ the cow, foedin’ er,

mils or more.
I sez, “that farmers like this kind of
a deal, you’ re thinkin’ thrdugh your
nose, an’ you’ ve got several more
thinks a. comin.’ Gosh " I sez, "the
farmers are human bein’s an’ they’ve
got a think tank of their own, an’
tihey' re a usein’ of it to buy ginger 311’
unless there's a. change purty durn
soon you’ll find the farmers crowdin’
you tellers out of business; they“ 11 es-
tablish markets an’ sell direct to the
consumer an’ you guys can set on
your counters an’ watch ’em do it.”

Well, I could... told ’em why the far-
mers wuz leavin’ the farms but they
seemed in a hurry to git home. Both
of ’em wuz out or sight around the
corner an’ had started to run—to
make up lost time, I reckon. Cordial-
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THAT FARMER GOVERNOR

Michigan farmers’ organizations
are giving considerable attention to
the question of uniting to have a
farmer candidate nominated for gov-
ernor next year by the dominant po-
litical party. Only with a farmer
candidate, they argue, can they so-
cure the enactment of laws that will
insure to farmers a division of the
profits of their industry proportion-
ate to the profits jobbers and retail-
ers of farm products take.

No one will controvert the gener-
al proposition that the farmer is en-
titled to as much of the profits of his
industry as the middleman or the
st-orekeeper who sells to the consum-
er. But fallacious is the theory that.
with a governor who is himself a
practical agriculturist, the grievanc-
es of which the farmers complain can
be righted. The chief executive of
the state can neither make nor un-
make laws. The legislative power
of the state is vested in the Senate
and the House of Representatives. It
is true that the Governor has the
power to veto acts of the Legislature
but two-thirds of the Legislature can
override his veto.

If the farmers if Michigan feel
that they have just cause to com-
plain that a majority of recent legis-
latures have been out of sympathy
with the farming industry, the only
practical way for them to proceed is
to see that legislators, as well as a
governor. are elected who are in sym-
pathy with their industry. They can
accomplish nothing by simply elect-
ing a farmer governor. Let them. di-
rect their energies to nominating and
electing Senators and Represents-'-
tives who will be in harmony .with
the Governor instead of restricting
their campaign to the' contest for
governor

Such a line of action may well be
followed by other activities than
farming. No Governor, be he a farm-
er, or a professional man, or a cap-
tain of industry, can administer the
government of Michigan as he would
like unless the Legislature is friend-
ly to his views. Legislatures have
wrecked excellent plans of more‘than
one gover.nor.——D.etroit News.

All Good Men
It’s hardly fair to place so many
good men on this ballot. Any one of
them.’ I believe to be‘much better
qualified to fill positions than our
past officers."—W. L. M., Ithaca.

 

Will Support Any One of Five

"Instead of marking the straw ballot
as you requested I scratched out those
I would rather not see in the Govern-
or’s chair. Will support any of the
others heartily "— B. P.,. Ithaca. (Our
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We wish to acknowledge our apt
preciation of your patr= nage and
express our thanks to :11 our ship-
pers. We will always, / same as
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member there are no charges what-
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Always having in mind our cus-I
tomers inteiest

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Cold but Little Snow Reported

BAY, (S . E. )—-The. weather has been
very cold for this time of the Year, but
there is no snow to speak of. The wheat
is good this fall. The beans are all
thrashed and the crop generally good,
some being. sold. Not much hay moving
yet as the farmers have been too busy
to bale it. Large piles of sugar beets at
the weigh stations yet to unload on cars.
Corn husking and shredding being done.
-—-J. . The following prices were
paid in Bay: Wheat, $2. 26; corn, $1.30
oats, 80; rye, $1.30; hay, 18 to 2'0; beans
$6 to $6.25; potatoes, $1.75 to $2; meat
and poultry steady.

 

MONTCALM-r-The farmers are cutting
wood, and hauling produce. Weather is
cold. . Soil is covered with snow. Fall
grain appears good as yet. Farmers are
selling potatoes and beans—G. B W.
The following prices were paid at Lake-
view. —--Wheat, 2.;10 com, 75; cats, 68:
rye, $1.130: hay, No.1 timothy, $20 ton:
No. light mixed, $18; straw-rye, $8:
wheat-oat. $10; Pea, $6.25 cwt.,.
red kidney, $12; potatoes, $2.70; hens,
1611).: springers. 78: butter. 72; butter-
fat, 74;'eggs, 65 doz.; hogs, 15lb.; veal
calves, 15.

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HURON—The. following prices were
paid at C1 eville:—Wheat, $2.70; oats,
72; rye. 1.;87 hay, No. 1 timothy. 23;
No. 1 light mixed, 20: potatoes. $1.35;
onions, 4, ' hen; 14; springers, 16; ducks,
30; geese, 27; turkeys, 35 'butter, 63:
butterfat, 70; eggs, 83; hogs, 13; beef
steers, 7: beef cows, 5: veal calves, 1:1
apples, $2.50; grapes. 25. —C. G.

 

WEXFORD.——As we we did not have
any earthquakes or anything out of the
ordinary on Dec. 17th, the day predicted
to end the World, we will proceed to tell
the prices that metre paid 2at Cadillac
forz produce: -—Wheat,.~No 1,
$2.2 $2.14, $2.14: corn, $1.40;
rye, 0$1. 40, hay. $30: beans, Pea. $6.20.
red kidney, $8.50: potatoes, $2.56: cab-
bage, 2; hens. 16 to 19: ducks, 20 t023:
geese, 17 to 20: turkeys. 28 to 30: but-

terfiat, 70: eggs 65: hogs, 16 to 18: vgal

calves, 16 to 22; apples, $3. ----8

 

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GRAND TRAVERSE-We have been
having real winter weather. Dec. 17th
registered 14 below zero but it is some
warmer now. Farmers are putting up
wood and threshing some when the
weather is moderate. A number of auc-
tion sales. Not much marketing at pres—
ent on account of cold weather. 13.
The following prices were paid at Trav-
erse City: —-Wheat $2.10; corn $1.35:
oats 80; rye. $1. 30: beans. $3. 60; pota-

 

toes. 5.2 50; butter, 68: butterfat, 7 8
eggs, 65.
ALLEGAN, (S. E. )—Farmers are

doing chores and other work about the
farm. Most of the corn has been har-
vested and a considerable amount of
Weather mutinues
1. potatoes have been sold at
$1.50 per bu. while most of the farmers
are holdin for higher prices. The av-
erage yiel for potatoes in this section
per acre, and. 65 or
90 per cent saleable potatoes, the aver-
age being cut down about. 1-3 or per-
haps 1-2 from: n r—Wr F.- The fol—
lowing prices Were $1paid at Allegan: -—
Wheat. $2.18; rye, hay, $24; rye,
$8; beans, Pea. 56: red :.kidney $10; po-
tatbes, 51:10: anions, $2. 25: hens. 1"! to
26:butte1'. 76: eg ‘ 70' sheep. 5.8 to
$9: lamba $10 to 10.50:!10gs, $12 to

beef cows, $10 to $12; veal calves,
$18 to $26.

 

JACKSON, (N. E.)—Cold with light
snow. Farmers have their work weilln -
hand, chorus being the We --.
patio‘n. Some marsh hay being baled
Prices on the whole are not what they.
should be for the farmer to- make a profit,
this being the time of year when he is

supposed to cash in.—- F. W.

 

GENESSEE—F’armers are unable to
do much. besides chores on account of the
cold weather. The ground is frosen to a
de th of about six inches and is covered
snow. Farthers are selling
some hay. potatoes and livsst st.ock The
threbhi is about finished and the corn
nearly husked. The thaw and freeze
Were' hard on wheat and rye. Auction
sales still plentiful but prices received
are some lower. The Farm Bureau drive

in this cOunty started last weekm—CWS.

The following prices were paid at Flint.
prtng wheat. $2.41: red, $2.31;rwhite,
$2.29; corn, $1.05 oats, 88: rye, $143:
hay No. 1 ttimo by, $23 to $25; Pea,
$6. 50: red keidn 76. :14: $1.85
to $2: onions. $6.50 ézcebbage. $3; cu-V

cumber ,'hens, 2'spr1ng9rs, 22:

24:82 turkeys eye, 34- buttery cream-

. all)". diary, 76 toms; 72;.
. is; no- to $1.

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, " : hogs,
515:. beef“ a era, $7. 0 $8.5 beef
525* calves. 517 to $18;

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GRAND TRAVERSE-Are having nice
weather at present. Farmers are mostly
threshing and getting up wood. An old
resident, Mrs. Weston Worden died this
neighborhood last Tuesday evening. Some
potatoes are being sold. Auction sales
quite frequent—C. L. B.

 

MONTCALM—The farmers are cutting
wood and moving stumps. The weather
is warming up considerable from last
week. The farmers are selling potatoes,
beans and wood. There are some farms
for sale in this part of the county. The
men are going to the city for employ-
ment for the winter —G. W. ‘

 

CALHOUN—Farmers are cutting wood
and doing chores. Some are drawing
wood, others are drawing hay. There
are some potatoes going to town. They
are bringing better prices. The weather
is warm, snow is all gone. Not very
good Weather for wheat and rye. The
ome of Ernest Rogers of Peni‘ield bum-
ed to the ground with nearly all of the
contentsH—C E. B.

 

MAN'IgI‘EE—Farmers are busy doing
chores and getting‘ wood. There is not
much selling in ese parts except feed
for cattle that brings a good price. No
demand for horses and all have some to
sell Hogs are about all sold that are
fat, going at 17 1- 2 cents 9. 1b., at Man-

istee City.——. S. The following prices
were aid atH Bear Lake. ——2VVheat, $2, '
corn.

1. 40: oats 90: rye, $1.2 5:hay No.
1 timothy, $35; No. 1 light mixed, $32.50
straw-rye, $10; wheat-oat, $12: beans,
Pea, $6; red kidney. $10 50; potatoes,
$2. 50; hens 14; springers 16 alive; but-
ter, 66, butterfat, 69: eggs, 53; hogs, 12;
beef steers, 7 ; beef cows, 4, veal calves
beef hides, 200 lb. ,

 

MASON—Doing chores, getting fuel,
also feed for stock. Weather mild. Hay
and other feeds changing hands. At the

. Brown sale Dec. 18th, wheat- straw
soldo for $15 per ton. Potatoes now are
$1. bu. The Farm Bureau held a
meeting at Scottville, Dec. 12th. C. A.
Bingham. of the State Farm Bureau.
was present and gave a helpful talk. The
farm bureau membership drive will be
put on some time early in January. —-B.

M'. The following price s'wam paid at
Scottvili‘e: —-‘W-heat $2. 23 to $2. 25, ' car
com, 72, $1. 30 to $1. 40; oats, 80: rye,
$25; wheat— oat, $10; beans,
Pea, $6.25; red kidney, 512' potatoes,
52:56 hens live, 18: sprin 175°.” dressed.

22:1mtter, 65: human eras
hogs dressed 16 to 18; beef, 1 to 14'
veal calves. 18 to 20.

 

MECOS’l‘A—Fanners are busy cutting
wood and doing chores: some corn yet to
husk. Weather somewhat warmer than
last week. same are: selling. beans and

tatoes Prices on beans and potatoes

wadvancedi since last week. --L.M H.
The following ricee were paid at Miller-
soy .-—Wheat, 2.20; corn. $1. 25;
66: rye. $1.50.: hey, No. 1 timothy, '25,:
No. Ianlightrmixed, 20: beans, Pea, $6.25;
red kidn 9?, potatoes. $2.60; hens, €18
turkeys. 0; butterfat, 68', ' eggs. 65.

 

MANIS‘TEE—Farmers are not do-
ing mocha! in: but reading news-
papers and celebrating the holiday sea-
son . The soil is frozen. Farmers are»
not selling much as the markets are
dull. They are holding potatoes and
beans for higher prices. ——H. R. A.

 

ARENAC, (East)——Weather fine with
snow on the ground. It was rather a
quiet Christmas season about here. Con-
siderable stock has been sold and prices
low. Hogs are also dowm and about the
only thing in stock thatha has been held--
main islansbs. Beans went up to $6. 50.-
M B. R. The followi prices were paid

' at Twining ‘ hay, No.

gum-1mg, late”. 1076.le
$18-105 0: éospringsrs. 14

to 19; ducks 32:
butter‘. buttérlut, 681: 81105s., 1 1 2.

LIVINGSTON (N. w. )--Farmers in
this vicinity are not doing veryk much at

progena 1111.1; their tlcihor“ ot
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12 H. P. on TH E Draws three
Draw-Ber u ‘..; ‘- bottom:

25 H. P. on ' I.” Turns an acre
Belt Pulley i ht ur an hour

Plows more deeply. Discs and barrows more thoroughly.
And it gets the work done quickly when the soil is just right.
The increased yield pays back the cost of the tractor in a little
while.

Because of its simple power-saving design, and the nice bal-
ance between power and weight, the Huber Light Four gives
you more work to the gallon of fuel used.

All spur-gear-drive to the draw—bar converts the highest pos-
sible portion of the power developed by the motor into useful
Work. High test alloy steel makes the tractor light—it will
not pack plowed ground; center draft conserves power; high
wheels roll easier and provide greater traction grip.

Huber simplicity 13 the mark of esperience in tractor build-
ing. It explains the Huber reputation: “ It always keeps run-
ning’ ’— and farmers above everything else must
have reliability. Write now for “The Foundation
of Tractor Reliability.”

sha. four-cylinder The Huber Manufacturing Co. '
motor; Perle: m;- 666 Center St. MARION, 01110 _ . /
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Weight5,000pounds;"
pulls three 14” bot»-
tom plows: Wauke-

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line, km“ 0,. dis- Maken also of the famous Huber Junior Thresher 2 ‘r‘

tillate: center draft; Some good territory still open for live dealers W21," ‘ / ' . 1
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Fill Your Silo
From Fewer Acres

The one practical remedy for the high cost of labor
is to make every acre produce more—a bigger yield of
corn per acre means lower cost per ton of silage. Whether
you apply manure or not, your corn needs available plant
food —- for a quick start -—- for producing more and better
ears to give the silage greater feeding value—11nd for mak-
ing big heavy corn, that requires fewer acres to fill the silo.

A-A- C Fertilizers
Make This Possible

They supply the necessary available plantfood—ammonia for
a quick start, potash to make stout, heavy stalks and big grain, and
phosphoric acid to fill out the grain, reduce the number of barren
stalks and bring the crop to maturity ahead of frost.

Our Agncultural Service Bureau has been making
farm tests with fertilizer for many years, to determine
the best fertilizers for various crops under different con-

, ditxons of soil and climate. The Bureau issues bulletins
dealing with the culture of important crops, the use of
lime and fertilizer. The Bureau also tests soils as to
their need of lime, and gives advice on agricultural
matters. This Service is free. v Dr. H. J. Wheeler,
formerly Director of the Rhoda Island Agricultural
Experiment Station, is in personalchzrg'e of the 13mm.

Ask for our valuable 56 e book, “How To Make Money With
Fertiliser. ” Our nearest cc will be glad to send it free.

ThcAmerican Agricultural Chemical Company

Arum'e Gunmen Dl'rx orr an You:
Bosron ' Cinema-r: Jemomxth humus“
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’Make Your. Milkers Pay

Good Health -- Good Appetite —- and Good

Digestion are the [essentials ofa good milker.

Dr. Hess Stock Tonic promotes health—makes cows hungry. Remember, it takes
a healthy, hungry cow to convert a big mess into pails of milk day after day.

Dr. Hess. Stock Tonic produces appetite, aids digestion, conditions a cow to stand
the stuffing, cramming process necessary for heavy milking. \ Dr. Hess Stock
Tonic contains the salts of Iron that supply rich red blood so necessary to cows
in milk. It contains Laxatives and Diuretics that assist the kidneys and bowels
to throw off and carry off the poisonous waste materials that so often clog up the _

system during heavy feeding.

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Ever notice a cow slack up on her milk—not uite so keen'for her mess—ap-

arently not sick? Her system is clogged. T is never occurs where'Dr: Hess
gtock Tonic is fed. Start right—by conditioning your cows for calvmg With a
course of Dr. Hess Stock Tonic before freshlng.

There is not a day during lactation that Dr. Hess Stock Tonic cannot be fed to
cows at a profit. This is es ecially true where heavy feedlng IS the practice.

ti)alike for cattle, horses: hogs and sheep. It makes
the ailing animals healthy, the whole herd thrifty. It expels worms.

IMFORTANT: Always buy Dr. Hess Stock Tonic according to the. size of your
herd—five pounds for each cow to start with. Getut from the responstble dealer 1n
your town. Feed as directed and note the results in the milk pail. . —
25-“). Pail, $2.25; 100-“). Drum, $7.50
Except in the far West, South and Canada

Smaller packages in proportion.

DR. HESS & CLARK,Ashland,O. '

Dr. Hess Stock Tonic is goo

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100-ACRE FARM $4.000, \NITH PR.
Horses and 6 cows, poultry, manure spreader,
corn, potato planters, threshing mach‘ne, mow-
Ing machine, tedder, wood saw outfl, gasoline
engine, harness, wagons, cultivators, disc and
leveling barrows, walking and sulky plows, horse
hoe, long list complete implements. On main
road, only 4 miles to big itlt town, productive
loam tillage, brookvwot‘ered pasture, estimated
500 cords wood, 75,000 timber; fruit. G-room
house, two barns, silo, carriage, poultry houses.
etc. Owner to retire now sacrifices everything
84,000 ,casy terms. Details page 8 Strout's
Farm Bargains 223 States; copy free. ‘. A.
STROUT FARM AGENCY, 814 BE, Ford Bldg,
Detroit.

 

 

FARMSHFOR SALE—BIG LIST OF FARMS
for sale by the owners, giving his name, location
of farm, description, [)I‘l('(‘ and terms. Strictly
mutual and cooperative between the buyer and
Boiler and conducted for our members. ULEAIL
ING HOUSE ASS'N, Land Dept... Palmer and
Woodward Ave.

 

  

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As good as winter
m clothing

. '. Because. like winter
', clothing, Piso’s protects
young and old
from the effects of
Winter weather. It
relieves coughsand
soothes inflamed
throats and hoarse‘
ness.

_ Always keep it
Hi the house—sits
use often revents
little .ills {Ii-om de-
v_elopmg into real
Sickness. .
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FARM FOR SALE—50 ACRES GOOD CI,AY
loam. Price is right, easy terms. 3 miles to
town. On improved road. Fred Lauterwasser,
Scottvillo, Mich.. R 3.

EEQQSCELLANEOU _

WE PAY $100 MONTHLY SALARY AND
furnish rig and expenses to introduce guaranteed
poultry and stock powders. Bigler Company,
X682, Springfield, Illinois.

 

 

 

BUTTER FACTORY FOR SALE—INCLUD-
‘ es steel roofed fully equipped cement factory, ice
house, large barn and acre land. Located at Rose-
burg, Mich. (lood railroad facilities. Price for
entire plant $2,500. For particulars. write or
phone WM. WILSON. RS, Yale. Mich.

 

WANTED—WORK ON FARM BY YEAR:
Married. Gan furnish references. State wages.
Benj. 'l‘urlund. Route 3, Oxford, Mich.

 

LANDOLOGY—A MAGAZINE GIVING THE
facts in regards to the land situation. Three
months’ subscription FREE. If for a home or
as an investment you are thinking of buying good
farm lands, simply write me a letter and say,
“Mail me LANDOLOGY and all particulars
FREE." Address l'léitor, Landology. Skileore
Land (‘0.., 398 Skidmore Bldg., Marinette, \Vis.

 

\‘IIRITE THE CLARE JEWELRY CU. rprfi
bargain sheet of watches and. silverware. “79 do
watch repairing. Lock Box 535, Clare, Mich.

 

VIOLIN WITH COMPLETE OUTFIT FOR
sale. Free trial. Easy payments. Handmade

 

"M‘CHEAUUSIEESS mum;

and sweet toned Write Miss Bertha Mardiss.
Shawnee, Kansas. '

 

AGENTS
WANTED ‘

. We want-severallee Wire Represen-
tativ s to take subscriptions, whole or
spar time. Hundreds of our friends are
netting ‘a nice sum each week by doing a
little extra. work. A trial will“‘convince,
you. For particulars ' write. a»

 

 

 

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me, Leither by‘il’etter. through .13 11?:
your opinion, of the “con-many . offering
3307c}: onr sale, as per agree
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My good friend attaches to his let-
ter an agreementto, buy shares “of

 

Chicago, 111., but "no other circulars
oradv‘ertlslng matter. . The fAr-t'hur
Barry“ 00. "propoSest'o. establish, the
Inter City Motor Express Lines, Inc..
to operate in the city of Chicago. The
shares are offered at one dollar, and
a‘little note at the-bottom of the
agreement sets forth the fact that
“we reserve the right to reject sub-

Never fear, subscriptions will never
be rejected. No company of stand-
ing would sell stock at one dollar per
share; better let Chicago citizens who
have plenty of'money, finance their
inter city express companies.

 

Mr. Slocum—Will you kindly give me
your opinion on physical culture promo«
tion corporation stock? Is this concern
reliable? I am sending circulars as re—
ceived by me.-—Arthur M., Oakley, Mich.

Bernarr MacFadden, the noted ex-
ponent of physical culture has sent
out an invitation for the readers of
his P'hysical.Cuture Magazine to
‘become partners in the enterprise.
The stock if offered at five dolars
per share and no person is to be al-
lowed to buy more than 200 shares.
The magazine is a going publication,
splendidly printed and with a. strong
editorial force. Mr. Macfadden is a
pioneer in the promotion of physical
culture, and recognized as a leader.
He has been quite successful, and I
would say that the publication is on
a paying basis. Bernarr is perhaps
overenthusiastic in his new venture
but will not lose a dollar of invest-
or’s money if he can help it,»I could
not advise you to buy this stock,
however, as the element of specula-
tion enters into the deal. I say the
proposition from the standpoint of
the man and the cause he represents
is all right; as a money making prop—
osition, you take your chances. *

Grant, Slosum—Am enclosing some cir—
culars just received from New York. This
does not come under the. head of stocks
for sale but I would like to know what
you think of the proposition. Would
you consider it worth one’s time and
money to invest in this business?—F. 0.
B. Reading. Mich.

 

“We want to put you in the five
thousand dollar a year class, and we
believe 'we can do it. We want to_
show you how you can strat a good
money—making business for your—~
self.” Thus a. letter from the Mimo
Manufacturing Company, Buffalo, N.
Y., starts off. And, from the circu-
lar-s which accompanied this filled-in
circular letter. the recipient would be
led to believe that he can get rich
within a very short time. Quite an
alluring proposition. indeed, for one
to be taken out of the ordinary class
and jumped right into the five th‘OU‘\‘
sand at year class _I knoyv nothing

I would like to know the best way to
store bees for the winter. Some say to
bury them. If that is all right please
tell me how to do it. I have a good sand
bank Would it be all right to dig out
a n‘nr‘e and set a box in big enough to
hold the four hives and bury it over
with marsh hay or straw and dirt? And
how late ought I leave them out before
storing—S. A._ 0:, Marion.

This office does not advise packing
bees by means of burying them in the
ground. We are aware that there are
a few men in the state who practice
this method of wintering and ,with
fairly successful results. However,
thereare many other cases 'of bee-
keepers who have tried thismetthod
and because, of either poor drainage
or poor ventilation have either . lost
their colonies altogether or, have
found them so weakened in'bhe‘spring
that they were of little, value. , , g

’ For outdoor wintefi‘fi‘g "probably the

‘ cheapest; method of packing ‘bées in to .,

use ‘jtairfroeflng paper to wrap-the col-j
times in. leaving, a space offifrom six
to; eight inches between the {tar paper
an the hives which 81334438 is filled
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11';ng ground cork, pl _.

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inept inclos-

stack in the Arthur Barry Cour of

scriptions and refund the money.”.

packing cases made» of was cast. scy-
.erai dollars each~.~~~- In all cases the ‘

row inchés, immune. ground gagging
emoisture to run? out . of, the; entrance

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hbtfiid’th , méi' , . . .
. mover, andf‘have not "looked, gap ~t
financial _ res‘ii‘Ons‘ibrileity'r'of j the com
pany‘- ‘ This much Igdo..know:= The
advertising matterflis _ of the game
type that has been need. from time?

      

immemorial by the 'geat_rich_qu1ck
suckers with an unbaited hock. MY

friend, when a firm “tells” “you that"
you can get into a positiontwhere

you can’make five thousand a year, ,_ ':

by a first investment of $6.50, just
remember that they, are sure of their
. $6.50, while you are sure to wait a.
long time before you get where you.
can ride in a limousine. Better keep
your money and plod along, Frank;

 

.4. I
Friend Slocum—Will you kindly ad-
vise me in regard to the stock within as -
an investment?—H. A. A., Goodells, Mich .

Here we hav‘e,a chance to buy.
stock in the Simplex Spreader Man-
ufacturing Company, of Kansas City,
Mo. I can get no "information With
reference to this company in‘ the
time you have suggested for a reply.
However, let me call you attention
to a few facts in connection' with the
advertising matter you have sent
me. The letter you received was a
circular letter. - The first words: “Do
you know H. L. Wikoft?” and the
next: “Probably not, but he is pres—
ident of the State Bank'of Oneida,
Kansas; he purchased forty shares
of Simplex stock.” A mighty weak
line for -the first, to‘s‘ay the least.
The fact that one barnker'purchased
forty shares of stock has not-hing
whatever to do with the propo-S'ition.
And again in the application, you
are requested to pay your money, ’
and if you are not satisfied it will be
returned. An again the shares which
are now selling at.-$12 will be. raised
to $16 in December. Why did not
these people give you a. financial
statement of the Simplex Company,
they claim they have been doing bus-
iness for years. And as to raising
the price of the stock, that is accom-
plished by 'a simple twist of the
wrist. The intrinsic value of the
stock would be no greater after they
had given it a boost of four dollars
per share. Guess you had better pass
this proposition up just because it
lacks the earmark-s of sincerity.
Either the Company is holding some—*-
thing back or the stock sales are in
the hands of old time professionals.

Do you remember the inquiry I‘
had from an Indiana reader regard-
ing the reliability of the Production
Meter Company, of Chicago? And~
the advice I gave as to the proposi-
tion from my viewpoint? Well,
here’s just how near I hit the mark:

Grant Slocum—~—Somehow it does not
seem possible for us to get a line on the
Production Meter Company. We have
called up their offices numerous times
and do not find anyone there who can
give us any information. We have left
our telephone number so that the princi-
pals could call us up. but have heard
nothing from them. Neither can we find

, anyone who does know anything about

the company—«Manager Chicago Office.

Storing Bees for Winter With Slight Expense '

from running but of the bottom. . The

- packing is poured into the paper case

and firmly pr/essed down about the
hives, sufficient packing. being given
to insure six to eight inches on. all
hives and -.12 to 18 inches over the
tops. The tar paper is pressed 'down
from the sides over the packing and a
strip of tar paper long enough t5 com~
pletely cover the top of the two col:
onies is placed over the papencase to
prevent rain from wilting ‘t'he‘p‘a‘cking

\from above. The covers of the hives

or other heavy objects may be used to‘
good advantage to hold the paper.
This method is known as the ‘tar‘
paper method of packing‘colonies and
is the cheapest. method I know of. In

this way two colonies of bees can be " .,

packed for less than._,5Qc, whereas”

hive‘g. tow‘be packed should be, raised a,

tad-”slightly toward the front nursing

or the, hive, if necessa ‘
"1119‘th ._ , . , ,

  

 
 
 
 
 

 

  
  
  
  

     
  
    
 
  
 

   

 

 

    
     
   
  
    

 

  
  
  
 
   
   
 
  
  
  
  
   

 


    

 

 

- :- j “ Insets-been used, as misused
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igan' fora number of years. Some
very marked beneficial results have
“bee‘n‘obta-ined in some cases and
‘eoiile decided -failures have been
made. ‘Inquiry from. the farmers
_who have. used lime will reveal a
decided variation in opinions as to
the value of the different forms and
as to methods and quantity.
Some very heated arguments have
‘ taken place when a “hydrated lime”
enthusiast has met the ground lime
stone advocate, but on account of the

   

   
   
 
   
   
   
   
   
   
  
  
    
    
 

ed lime” enthusiasts have been com-
pelled to give up the fight. Ground
limestone and marl are the forms
which are used and which are giving
results at a minimum cost. ‘
However, we find many farmers
who have used either limestone or
marl who claim they have received
no benefit from it.
2 or 3 tons per\a-cre of marl have
~ . given apparently no beneficial re-
sults while in other cases the re-
sults with the same application have
been very noticeable.

One farmer who is making a suc-
cess with- ground limestone states
that no less than 4 or 5 tons to the
acre should be used and yet his
neighbor has obtained excellent re-
sults with 1 1-2 tons per acre. Why
are we finding so much variation in
results obtained 'fromlime?

Investigations prove this: that the
farmers who are making heavy ap-

~ plications are all getting results, the

failures are found where light ap-
plications are‘used.
mean however, that in order to ac-
quire success in liming, heavy ap-
plications must be made for we find
farmers who are very consistently
. obtaining marked success with light
applications.

If a fire starts in your house you
know that water will put it out. If
you hadfifty gallons of water to

_ pour on it you would be absolutely

' sure that you could stop it before it

- got beyond your control but suppose

you only had five gallons. You

_wouldn't be sure. that pouring on
. that amount would control it.

'Thereforeyou take into consider-

ation other factors, and instead of

pouring the five gallons on the blaze

you wet a blanket with the water

you have and throw over the blaze.

You accomplish with five gallons

    
   
 
 
  

 

of water and the use of other factors ~

pertaining to the~~control of fires,

what might have taken fifty gallons

of water alone to control.

Over half of the water poured on
would have been absolutely wasted
while the water which was used to
wet the' blanket was 100 per cent
efficient. '

This is quite comparable with ap-
plications of lime. Heavy applica-

. tions are sure to bring results, but

  

  

' sandy soils of "Northern ‘Micha' _

increased variation in price “hydrat—“

Applications of

This does not'

'1 ~~~

these heavy ”applicatiOns and there-
foreother factorsmust be taken into
consideration. "

A farmer came intoythe office of a
county agentthis summer and said,
“What’s the matter with my land—-
it‘ won’t grow clover. I limedit‘last
year- and I’m sure it doesn't need
lime because you can see lots of it
in the soil now.”

The county agent made a personal

investigation and. found just as the
farmer had' stated that the soil Was
apparently full of limestone and yet
the vegetation on it proved con-
clusively that the soil was acid.
1 Perhaps this one example brings
to light the reason for so many fail—
ares in liming sandy soils. The lime
Is in the soil but is not in finely di-
vided condition and therefore is slow
to go into Solution.

The use of very finely ground stone
is, advocated to overcome this diffi-
culty. But, even where this precau-
tion has been taken we find failures.
There is still'one more «precaution
and one which\ very few farmers
have observed. The soil should be
quite dry when lime is applied. Even
though the stone is ground very fine,
too much moisture in the soil will
cause the particles of lime to stick
together and form flakes or balls
and it takes months to break these
up enough so the lime will go into
solution. '
‘ The man who makes a very heavy
application seldom encounters a fail-
ure from this cause, because probab-
ly fifty per cent of the lime he ap-
plies is dissolved immediately and
the fifty per cent is enough to correct
the acidity. These men usually con-
tend that the other fifty per cent is
there for future use. This is true to
a certain extent. but these particles
of lime remain near the surface dur-
ing the first year and are plowed un-
der the following year and as leach-
ing is continually carrying the lime
down some of this is unquestionably
lost.

If applications can ' be made so
that all the lime applied goes into
solution within a few weeks there is
little questiOn about theresults ob-

tained, and as there are plenty of op-_,

portunities on sandy soils to make
the application when the ground is
dry, this precaution should be taken.

This point is very hard to put into
effect with marl because it is quite
impossible to get marl dry enough
to spread through lime distributors.
Heavy applications of marl are there—
fore as a rule more economical than
attempting to dry it before spread-
ing.

The farmer with a marl bed close '

to—his farm is comparable with“ the
man who has fifty gallons of water
at his disposal to put out the fire and
thinks it easier and more economical
to use the water than to spoil a
blanket.

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second crop of Irish Cobblers to be used-for sisa-

n m “i. undergo‘vlnspootlon puma state! agriculturfl department for ccntlfiohtlon..fl'lio
sunset-echo! efficiency necessary to assure coroner prom. Ijfllolonoy

    
 

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d tches.
dirt either side.
or wide cut.
to get out offlx.

abandoned washed land; throws up dikes and levees: grades
roads: works in any soil, wet or dry; 2. 4 and 6 horse sizes:
large size fine for tractor.

  
 
 

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V and Sort
Washing Problems Solved

I ET me show you how to Solve the drainage, irri- ‘

RXENtchiug

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gation and soi washing problems at low cost.
1’“ showryou how two men can now do more
ditch work than 100 m .n by old methods. This is
theyear to save labor and do this work swiftly and
efliciently. I’ll show you the way. Write for the
new book that tells the story. '
Farm

Ditches,
Terracer
& Grader

 
  
   
 
 
   
  
 
 
  
   
  
  
   
 

   
 

Cuts V-shaped ditch for open drain-
age, irrigation or tile any depth down to
v 4 feet, leaves smooth, hard sides. Also use

it for back-filling tile ditches and holes. Per-
fect machine for cleaning old weed-clogged
All steel—reversible to throw
Adjustable for narrow
Nopwheels, cogs or levers
Lasts a lifetime. '

Farm' Terracing

farm terraces. which stop washing of soil on rolling an- A .
land and hold the water where it should remain: reclaims

Needed on every farm.

,_ I
Get Your Farm In Shape
Chance of a. lifetime to make big money the next five
years. Here 18 crop insurance at a low cost. Write
and find out' how to makebrg crops sure. New free
k on drainage. Irrigation and turning. Write
forthis andour proposition. Address W. A. Steele, Pres.

OWENSBORO BITCHER & GRADER 00., Inc.
- Box 962 . owrnssono, xv.

 

 

 

 

Mr. RAW FUR SHIPPER— , '
We want your raw furs. But your own assortment on them and

mail us a copy. If we cannot net you more than you expect. we will
return them to you, express paid. Our price list is yours for the asking.

Milton Schreiber & Co.-Raw Furs

Dept. U
138-140 NEW
YORK

West
29th Street CITY

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Write for shipping instructions and full information.

DETROIT CREAMERY CO.

Cass and Grand River Aves.

FIEJSEED

We save you money on your Seed Bill. Write for our 8 eci-al Money-Saving Price (CLOVER a?
List and .get our .reduced prices on Best Quality GuaranteedJ Seed. You should know AT mwpmc‘s a
about our low prices. \Vrite at I‘nce and be confirmed. Everything guaranteed equal “ENEMY '9
to 3am lee or money refunded. Don’t my double profits on Grass Seed. ur seeds NW ¢
are sol ubJect to your approval. Have low prices on Seed Corn, Oats. \Vheat, Speltz ‘ SAMPLES é
Barley, one. Millet, Cowpcas, Rape. Vetch. Sudan; Grass, Potatoes and all Farm and 2
Garden Seeds. Do ’1; order until you write for big 116-page catalo . Free samples M BCstalcé;
and s ecial low prices on seeds you require. Will send free 60—page frock on Growing REE e‘
Alf a. to those who ask for It. Write at once, as we can cave you money. - . , 5%,
’ A. A. 3583' 8‘50 00- Box 221 Olaflnda, Iowa, _ - r. ”w .
.__—....~

CREAM WANTED

want more Direct Shippers of Cream.

guarantee correct weights and Tests.

insure the return of your empty can, or a new one.
guarantee the legitimate top market price at all times.

DETROIT, MICH.

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CONSIGN YOUR LIVE STOCK TO

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Sat full age.
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mull? WIT. m 1311811738. Fum.!t.01emens, Michigan.

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seam stm. write out whom

ask tos- than. Write 13114;” 1

 

 

 

 

To avoid conflicting dates we wu-

without cost, list the “to of on!
live stock sale in Michigan. If you
are considering a sale advise us at
once and we will claim the date for
you. Address, Live Stock Editor.
II. B. It, Mt. Clemens. J

Jan. 13. Holsteins. Michigan Holstein
Breeders, East Lansing. liic b.

Jan. 15, Holsteins. Maplccrest Hol—
stein Farms, lake Odessa, Mich.

Jan. 16 Shoshana. Mich. Short-
horn Breeders' Ass'n. lest Lansing. inch.

 

 

 

 

 

 

HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN

 

Value of a Purebred
Holstein Bull

Do you realize in what a short
time you can transform the charact-
er of your herd by the use of a pure-
bred Holstein bull?

Each well chosen sire should give
at least 50 per cent of his character
to the next generation so that the
direct descendants of the fourth gen-
eration retain only a little over six
per cent of the original blood and
nearly 94 per cent is of your own
choosing. No man has any excuse
for milking unprofitable cows when
he can easily get into the all-year
milking class of Holsteins.

Send for Free Illustrated Booklets.

THE HOLSTElN-FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION
295 Hudson Street
Brailleboro. Vermont

 

 

1111 MILK ransom

Your problem is more MlLK, more BUTTER,
more PROFIT. per cow.

A son of Maplecrest Application Pontiac——
182(i52—f1-on1 our heavy—yea1'Iy-n1ilking—googl-but-
tar—record dam will solve it.

Maplecrest Application l’ontino‘s dam
35,103 lbs. butter in 7 days; 1344.3 lbs.
and 23421.2 lbs. milk in 365 days.
sl He is one of the greatest bred long distance

re

His daughters and sons will prove it.

\Vrite us for pedigme and prices on his sons.

made
butter

Prices right and not too high for the average
dairy i11r1ne1
l’edigreas 1111<l mices on application

R. Bruce McPherson, Howell, Mich.

 

 

MUSOLFF BROS.’ HOLSTEINS

We are now bookimr orders for
young bulls from Kin Pieter Segis
Lyons 170506. All from A. R. O, dams
with credible records. We test annu-
ally for tuberculosis. Write for pric-
es and further information.

Muslofl Bros., South Lyons, Michigan

 

, ”customs

 

£1100“ fill m m.
m 0 ISO '0" M“
theesixeem from our interned/lire "m P ‘
*5 kg sofa” who-is a son of
K1115 of thePontiacs” some la 1' of Pen-
tlac lothildo De K01 1114.24.11!
sslaT.W.Spragus.IL 2.1Bstth0hsk.v 1:.

TWO BULL GILES

Registered Holstein- Frieslsu, sired by $9.87 lb.
bull and from heavy producing young cows. These
calves are very nice and will be priced cheap I!

sold soon.
HARRY T. TURBO. Elyse". Itch.

 

 

Bull Last Advertised is Sold

now alter a yearling bull, sired by IP-
SILAND KING KORNDYKE CAN-
ARY. a 28. 20 lb. grandson of KING
Casi. "°“‘

NIN 7
SHIELD 3RD. a. 24 97 lb daughter (3
BUTTER BOY TRYNTJE DE K01...
and one of the most beautiful cows
you ever saw.

Price 320.0

BOY F. FICKIES, Chesanlng, Mich.

 

 

 

 

Elmwood Stock Farm Offers

bull calves from good producing dams with A. R.
. records and sired by a grandson of Pontiac
orndyke and Pontiac Pet. Prices very reasonable.

AOU OCT WITH“. Foulerrllie. Mich.

 

 

R SALE—A fine individual

bull whose dam has 25 lbs. and
6 nearest dams average 24 lbs.
Ready for service. Price right if
taken at once.

D. H. Body-ER Howell, Mich.

 

 

 

 

A Beautiful. Light Colored._. Very

Straight Bull Calf, Born October 24.
From 17 Jr. 2 yr. old daughter of a
son of PONTIAC DE NIJLANDER 35. 43 lbs.
butter and 750 lbs. milk in 7
Sired by FLINT ilEl'GLRVELDa LAD whose
tw0 nearest dams average 32. 66 lbs butter and
735.45 lbs. milk in 7 days. '
Price $100 I’.(). ll.
L.c

Flint.
. KETZLER. Flint. Mlch..

 

 

“Breeding - - Individuality "
Production”

That‘s our motto “'9 make it possible
through our t1111 herd bulls—one '11 38 lb. son
of the $30 000 sire. King Korndyke Pontiac
Lass. the other :1 36 lb. son of King Korn—
dykc Sadie Vale. “the greatest sire of his gen-
eration.” Our matrons are stoug in King of

 

 

 

 

tho l’ontincs, King chis. l-lcugerreld Ileliol

1111! ()1‘111shy blood. We’ve been at it since

11106. Usually something to sell. Write

us.

BOARDMAN FARMS
Jackson. Mlch.

HOLST E l N
CALVES OF
EITHER SEX

(‘1111 sparr- a nit-1111' marked heifer backed by seven

dams that oversee above 1200 lbs. butter and

24,000 lbs. milk in one year. Choice Duroc Sows.
A FLEMING. Lake, Mich.

 

Calves Last Advertised are Sold

now have 11 hull calf born September 8th, also

the heifer to freshen in January. 35 lb. backing.
Write for prices and pedigrees.

VERNON CLOUGH. Parma. Mlch.

BULL

tested dams.
TRACY F.

 

NICELY MARKED, GOOD BONED
bull calves out of A. R. O. and un-
at reasonable prices.

CRANDALL. Howell. Mich.

 

 

 

Choice Registered Stock

 

HATCH HERD

(State and Federal Tested)
YI’SILANTI, MICHIGAN
Offers young sires out of choice advanc—
ed registry dams and King Korndyke Art-
is Vale. Own dam 34.1fi ..lbs butter in 7
days;; ayerage 2 nearest dams 37. 61, 6
nearest, 33. 93, 20 nearest 27. 83..

 

PERCHERONS
HOLSTEINS
S'HROPSHIRES
ANGUS

Dorr D. Buell, Elmira, Mich.

 

 

 

 

HEIFEB

HUI-STEIN. BORN APRIL 18 1819. WELL

marked. Sired by s. 27 lb. bull, its dam an
untested daughter of Madison Jetske Sir
()rgmby- 2 A. it. 0 daughters. Price 3125
do ver

ARD EVANS. Eau Claire, Mich.

 

 

 

a 11 c 1 .. ‘1:
en rve
u a vesn‘ée Kol ggutter

fBoy and by a son of King Segis De Kol

‘Korndyke. from A. R. O dams with rec-
ords of 18. 25 as Jr. two year old to 28. 25
Prices reasonable breeding
:considered. '
WALNUT
W. Wyckoff,

GROVE STOCK FARM
Napoleon Mich.

 

RIOTOTERED HOLSTEIN HIIFERS

two Will be fresh in about

 

 

R. F. D. No. 1
MOSTLY wm-r:

FOR SALE BULL GAL , .1... mm..-

111. Straight as a line. Sired by Flint Maple
Crest Ona Led No. 23790 He is a grandson
of Pontiac Aaggie Korndyke’.
est bulls of the breed. Dam is a daughter of
Maple Crest Pontiac De Kol Hartig No.125396,

his dam having a record of 22 lbs. in “(days and
81. 27 lbs. in 30 days at 2 yrs. old.
JAMES HOPSON.” .. Owoseo. Mlch., R 2.

 

wan: IN asap 1" - m“ m"
registered .Eolstsin Bun
old enough for service com and see or
Herd free from abortion.
H. I. BROWN. Bmdsvllle. Mich.
Breeder of Registered Stock Only

T00“ THOSE WHO WANT THE“ BEST

sflne, beautifully marked’ sou

PONTIAC HENGEBVELD FAYNE the olmmlred
thousand dollar son of KING Oli‘ THE PON-
TIAOB from s. 23 1b.Jr.3 year old daughters!

a near 32 1b. Jr.': 4 year old whose else
was from a 80. 59 1b. cow and this wiisiferin him
one of the choicest heifers of the reed. Good
for 30 lbs. at next fresheuiog. Ii intebrested write
for extended pedigree and price. Guaranteed
ri ght. [also have Amndlbn m GROW-
DYKE SADIE VALE from a crest 23 lb. dam

ready for service.
MES B. OARMTT, Em "All. Mm.

 

 

 

“tortuous

 

FOB SALW—ONE BOAN DOUBLE
Standard Polled Shorthorn Bull Calf born
Apr. 12. One red Shorthom Bull Calf. born
March 23rd, a beauty. and Two Short-
hern Heifer Calves. born Jan. 6th and
April 3rd, got by York’s Pulled Duke X
16884—545109. Paul Quack. Sault
Ste Marie. Mich... R 2, Box 70.

$3,300

WILL TAKE ENTIRE HERD 0F 2O REG.

BBTHOBIS

if sold by Jan. 9—7 cows, 412-year old heifers.
llyeerll‘ng0 heifers. 3 heifer cal ves, 3 bull calves,
1 .to 8111 Laid All ins 00d condition. .
ALLAN OONLAN. R 3. Oarsoovllle, Mich.

 

 

THE VAN BUREN 00. Shorthorn
Breeders' Association have oung stock
for sale, mostly Clay bree lng. Write
your wants tothe secretary, Frank Bal-
ley, Hartford Mich.

 

HE BARRY COUNTY IHOHTHORN BREED-
ers Association announce their fall catalog ready

for distribution. Scotch, Scotch Pop and Milking

Shorthorns listed. ddress
W. L. Thorpe, 8011.. Mlle. Mich.

 

WHAT DO YOU WANT? I represent 41
SIIORTHORN breeders. Can put~ you in
touch with best milk or beef strains. Bulls
all ages. Some females. C. W. Crum,
President Central Michigan Shorthorn
Association, McBrides, Michigan.

HUBOllA 51ch mm

Over fifty head of Scotch and Scotch Topped
Shorthorns. A111 offering seveial good bulls, cows
and heifers, lioans, Reds and Whites. Write or

see them.
S. H. PANGBORN. Bad Axe, Mich.

FOR SALE—SHORTHORN BULL CALVES
ready for ae11'ice. Also young Oxford Down

Ewes. Prices to sell.
JOE MURRAY & SON. R2, Mlch.

 

Brown Olty,

 

3 SHORTHORN BULLS. 11 MONTHS TO 2
,1rs.5() Young Tom l‘urkeys 20 lbs. up, out of
Autrim s King a 45 lb. Tom. at $10 each.

JAY W. THUMM. Elmira. Mlch.

 

SPECIAL OFFER SIIORTHORNS—
COWS, $250 00 to $300 00. Bulls, $200. 00
to $250. 00. Wm J. Bell, Rose City, Mich

. FOR SALE AT REA-
sonsble prices. The
prize- -winning Scotch

Bull. Master Model 576147 in many states at
head of hard of 50 good type Shorthorns.
E. M. PARKHURST, Reed City, Mlchlgan.

 

 

 

HEREFORDB

Hardy Northern Bred Herefords

BERNARD FAIRFAX 624819 HEAD OF HERD
20 this year’s calves for sale, 10 bulls and 10

heifers.
/ JOHN MscOREaOR, Mich.

Registered Hereford Cattle

10 good bulls new for sale. From six
months to 2 years old. Come and see theméf they
can’t help but please you. We took man
blue ribbons home with us this fall from the Oflead-
ing {at rs state
STONV GREEK "m FARM, Pewamo. Mich.

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 prepotent sire. that will
beget grazers, rustlers, early maturers
and market toppers, buy a registered

 

Herrisvl lle,

 

 

Hereford and realize a big profit on your,

lifetime devoted to the
TAY!

investment. ”A
breed. Come and see me.——E. J.
LOB, Fremont, Michigan.

 

 

HARWOOD HEREFORDS

It you want a start from the Grand

Champion Hereford Bull of. Michigan see 1'
Young bulls from 9 to 13 months."

us.
Don't write. , e and see. In? Ear-
wood a Son, Ionia.’ Mich '. .

HEREFUIIDS

 

JUST PURCHASED 3
NEW HERBS. -- NOW

have 150 head. We oner'you anything day

either sex. horned or polled,
Priced reasonable. The McCarty’s.
Axe, Mich. ’

any age.
Bad

 

m HEREFORD 813E138. ALSO
know of 19 or 15 loads fancy quality
Sher-(Horn and Angus steers 5 to 1000 lbs.
Owners anxious to sell. Will not buy 503
common. H. ,Bell Fairfle (1,101".

 

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AN GUS

. . e '
The Most Profitable Kmd ]
a car grade dairv heifers
from LENAWE E (BOUNTYf‘Sg heaniest milk pro-
ducers to include a pure bred AN US hull of the
most extreme beef type for combination beef and
dairy far-mine:

Gar let shipments sisembled at GLENWOOD
FARM for prompt shipmen
thods Whine in SMITH’B PBDF’II‘ABLE

STOCK FEEDING. 400 pages illustrated.

GE 0. I. SMITH. Addison, Mloh.

’ YOUR WANTS OAS
no): 1 man ammuw...
"liable An us Home Stock Farm. For 30 years we
have bre Angus cattle. We know the goods ones
and breed the best. They are bred right, fed
right and priced ri ht. Tell us what you want.
suou SHOW 81' OK FARM. R2. Dnvkon. Mich

 

 

 

of farming.

 

BARTLETT’SPUBI IRED AEERDEEII.

sueus our}: A111) 0.1. c.

swine are right and are once right. Corre-
spondence sohcited a impaction invited.
CARL BARTLETT. Lawton. Mich.

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GUERNSEYS

 

GUERNSEYSW ARE OFFERING FOR
sale some splendid bull calves
out of A. R.da1ns with records up to 500 lbs.
fat.
May King of Lsngwater
A. It. record of 548 lbs.
also for sale or exchange.
and prices to

MORGAN BROS” R No 1, Allegan, Mich.

and 11h( se dam has an
fat at 2 12 years is
Write for particulars

 

0R BALE—GUERNSEY BULL CALF ELIGI.
F ble to register, I«dropped June 11th 1911)
D. AHLER, Jones. Mich.

SWIN E

POLAND CHINA

 

 

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IG TYPE P. c. GILTS, BRED T0 BIO
Orange Model and L‘. ll.'s Defender. None
better in state. Priced to sell.
W. J. HAGELSHAW, Augusta, 'Mlch.

WALNUT ALLEYbii‘iaii‘Eifi
Have a few good gilts that l w ill sell open or

bred to one of the best hiars in \iichigau. Write
for prices

A. D. GREGORY, lonia, Mich.

L 'l' P AM OFFERING SPRING
boars, summer and fall pigs.
F. T. HART, St. Louis; Mich.

BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS

A few Sow Pigs of Spring furrow. Also Barred
Rock Cockerels.
MOSE BR08.. St. Charles. Mich.

 

 

 

 

o.-—-cLosmo OUT OUR
(‘hoice sows

Pr

BIG TY? boars at a bargain.

for March and April furrow.

L. w. BARNES a SON
Byron, Mich.

A barn 61190111011111

We are odering March and April boars by
Hillcrest Bob by Big Bob, one of the greatest
progenitors of the Big TYDe Poland Chinos 27
known to history. Their dams are by the 191
Grand Champion Hillcrest Wonder and byf’I
Master the beflrstboa soundly weigh over i 200
lbs. on the scales. rPrice $50..00 A few young
er ones at $45. 00.

HILLOREST FARM. Kalamazoo, Mich.

 

BIG TYPE P. O. CHOICE SPRING
boars from Iowa's greatest herds. Big
boned hus fellows. Priced right
EKMER M THEWSON. Burr Oak, Mich.

SALE

Blfi TH’E
' “sgsm 111.1. eon:

MYGRANTB. St.

 

POLAND OH MAS
WITH OARLiTY "

Johns. Mich.

 

E. N. Ball ...................
Felix Witt

bids and purchases.

 

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sales of importance in Michigan, northern Ohio and Indiana. as the exclusive
Field Men of Michigan Business Farming.

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......... Cows and Sheep;
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the interests of Michigans OWN live-st ock weekly. '
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J. E.

I. T P NOV. PIGS AT A BARGAIN PRIOI.
Come and see or write

ELDRED A. OLARK. R 3581.. Louis. Allah.

B.‘ 'I'. P C'
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Spring Bears all sold. Have one Oct.

yearling boar. weightfl .425 lbs. as near perfect as
any 11 in 1431th rice to“ 25. .Act Quick. 6i
Pics noises . - 31-!

 

   
  

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and gilts now ready to ship.
Clyde

Fall Yearling Bear and Fall Pigs.
Fisher. St. Louis. Mich” R.

WONDERLAND HERD-

LARGE .TYPI‘ F. O.

A few choice bred gills for sale. Also tell mm“
and boars. some very good prospectlo oferx .
breeding. Gilts bred to‘O RPHAN; S SUP PEBIOR
he by BIG bORP PHAN' S EQUéLb BIG BONnE

ORAN -B RP
BEAUTY'S CHOICE. by ORANG EBUD, byPBId
ORANGE A.
Free liyery to visitors.
Wm m. J. CLARKE.
Eaton Repldi. Mich.

a... name)Big Bob Mastodon
NR P G BREEDEII "invgile’ £333.33}:

Gilt bred to BIG BOB MAST OD ON
He has more Grand 0 hamfiicnm Blood in his
veins than any other boar in
I have 15 choice Gilts bred to him for March

and April furrow
O. E. GARNANT, . Eaton Rapids, Mich.

AROE TYPE P. C.’ LARGEST IN MICH. VISIT
my herd it“ looking for a boar pig that is a lit-
tle bigger end better bred than you have been
able to,flnd and satisfy your wants. Come and
see the real big type both 11 herd boars and
brood sows. Bears in serv e L's Big Orange
Lord Clansrnan Orange Price and L’s Lon ng Pros-
pect. Expenses paid of not as represented. Prices

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reasonable.
W. E.’ LIVINGSTON. Puma. Mich.

Meme. i band "Bed
came; and 6White Leghorn cookerels. 410 s.

RNES,” Wheel'er, Mich.

 

  

SALEM Ugo. Donoc Janet's—000D.
tuned spring and fall pigs,

d 011' quality. W to

prices. Better still,
Satisfaction guaran-

.5 F. Helms &. Son, Davison, Mich.

F0“ 3“. one we: mince cassava...

one yearling boar sired by Brook-
w ts Ti Orion .No. 55421. 3 spring boars,
fine 1Ii mgiyn pigs of eRhe

ll 8 9.31: 'tmlflbery
Ch Premier 2111] No.102 1 er -
misfit. F. ..No ,PlymOTItb. Mich.

ILLIP’S PRIZE WINNING DUROCS FOR

sale-*A few good boars of breeding age, also

a few good gilts, prices right, let me convince you.
Henry D. Phillips, Milan. Mich.

VDE’S BIG TYPE DUROCS.15 SPRING

1. Good ones,
boars for ea c taken soon Call

nets. Pri I t ifta
'NARRY Lfefl‘fflgg. Ithaca Mloh.. R 1, Bell Phone

 

HAMPSIIIRES

HARPSIIIBES

of superior breeding and good quality. Will find
'w‘me at tthc home of Moses’ Boy.
Spring boars all sold.
Fall pigs either sex now ready.

1 iits fter Dec. 1.5
Bra egus 'NHOMAS. Nlew Lothrop, Mich.

 

 

AMPSHIRES, SPRING BOARS AND GILTS,
535 while they last. Fall pigs $15 at is weeks

we i1 scnson.
Oldw.nr?dEfiA)s TW‘OOD, R 2, Chxesening, Mich.

HAMPSHIRE 1.3“55.,S°Xi’£ I3.” 333'?

h Best of breeding. Call or write
HOAVNIOXND SKINNERJ: &SON, Henderson, Mich.

 

for you.

Bred gilts ready for shipment.
new blood lines.

‘\ JOHN W.

Route No. 4

 

WHY NOT RAISE
HAMPSHIRES.

They have been winning at the International.
They make good mothers, raise
the best pork which sells at the highest price.

They will win
large litters and produce

Also a few choice fall pigs from

SNYDER, .

St. Johns, Michigan.

 

 

 

FOR BALE—LARGE TYPE POLAND
China boars April and May farrow. The
farmer’s kind at farmers prices. F. M.
Piggott & Son, Fowler, Mich.

L 'l' P e A FEW "RING IOARS LEFT AT
FARMERS‘ PRICES.
H. O. SWARTZ, Schooloreit. Mich.

. . A 0 AND
BIG TYPE Km? 18133.3 5.33.?“ “1.5.3 pm.

none better call or write
”It LEONARD 3:. Louis. Mich.

W300

PEACH HILL FARM

We are oflerhlg a few choice spring boars. at
March and Aprfl arrow. They are of Protection
and Col. breeding, out of prize winning stock.
Prices reasonable. Write or come and see

IIWOOD _ 08 on.

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BERKSHIBES

0R SALE--REGISTERED BERKSHIRE GILTS
and boars. March and April furrow. Also
Aberdeen-Angus bull calves.
RUSSELL BR08., R 8. Merrill. Mich.

 

Rams all SOLD—-
A few choice bred Ewes
$25—to—$50 each
J. M. WILLIAMS, No. Adams, Mich.

REG. CHROPSHIRE BRIO EWES T
Kiev: 0:}, that??? hgalthy, wetlil'tfleeced. Rgpresgnta-
gave so act 11 in 15
last season. Rams all sold. .Lemgi, Dexter, 5&2]:

OXFORD DOWNS

1 can spare a few registered was of any age.
0‘. M. YORK. Miiflngten, Mich.
KIDS I am one of the

OfF MICH.

armors of the state.

has}: sheep breeders in this state. Lets set to-
get 1er, that you may start your own flock of
registered Shropshires now. A lot 1’ kids have al-
ready done so, but I want more. buy your
{almmlambs and co- operate with you in ever way.

r1 me for my proposition and prices. go”

Kept-Ken Far-s. S. I.. W1ng,I’rop CoIdweter, Michign

HAMPSHIRE SHEEP

Everything sold out, both ewes and
I am breeding 50 ewes to "Stroman 209131131
eétiigiggt 11%ng “51011131 to type ram lamb that
s .
for 1920 rams. c her 1. Booking orders

CLARK U. HAIRE, West Branch, Mich.

PET STOCK ,5

BELGIUAN ll'gARIES,qCHOIOE STOCK, 3 AND 6
011501 8.80 1 C AncR
fur prices, Sheridan Rabbitry.R ona flogggifligh‘, ANSI:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LEMISH GIANT RABBITS—Hes
F vy weight reg-
istered breeders and edl reed
sale in blacks, steels and) grgys youngsters for
R. R. FOX, 412 N. Huron 3L, Albion. Mich.

 

 

 

DAY OLD IIIIIIIKS

NEW SPRING CATALOG

Those who want Day Old Chicks should
ord r
early. There will be a big demand again this
year. With eggs 75 cents in your home town,
people will buy heavily of the laying breeds. For
E‘serzveeks we have booked orders for spring de-
Let us know now the breed you will w nt.
Mellie: Catalog ready January 15. All satandard
You will be especially interested in t
ggtvlyrylaéflgnsbreedss: Le’glhorns endorsedhobyextii:
on so
ricléitural College. 1: a at of the Michigan Ag-
ggs for Hatching—Sittin s and f
allAbrgaeds.bl Eggs ffi: Broiiegs. or incubators,
ew g qua y utility Cooker is -
aigdsbretiii19Owan; 111.13 de§cribe and equdile “31,113;
g cm
small pen White Rocks. earhng Pullets 011°
Send your name now for new Ca talo
TA TE FORMS ASSOCIATION
Desk B. Kalamazoo, Mich.

 

EOISTERED BERKSHIRE BOARS for sale.
farrowed Aug. 10. for $30 each. Also 1 far-
rowed Mar.

23.
JOHN YOUNG. Breckenridge. Mich.

G GOBY FARM BEBKSHIBES FOB
profit. Choice stock for sale. Write your
wants. W S Corsa, White Hall, 111.

CHESTER WHITES

GNESTERh WHITESo—Ai FEW MIV IOARC'p

fall pigsln pairs or tries from most prominent

bloodlines at reasonable prices. Registered free.
F. W. Alexander, Vassar, Mich.

 

 

DUROC BOAES 0]? SIZE. QUALITY
and breeding, including several State
Fair winners. Newton Barnhart. St.
Johns, Mich.

”UROC JERSEY SWINE FOR SALE. YEAR-
ling boars ready for service, spring boars. also
d bred for spring litters, to
Panama Special 11111.11 good son of Panama
Special out of Orion Chief Bell 5th. Also {all
boarpigs. Write for description and prices. Vie-

itors always we
'I'H HSO UNDECRHILL 2: SON. Salem. Illeh.

Dunno BOARS, GILTS AND BROOD SOWS

of all ages. Saws bred or open. New-
ton a. Blank, Hill Crest Farms, Perrington, Mich.
Farm 4 miles straight south of Middleton.

yearling gilts open an

MEADOWVIEW FARM. REG. DUROO JERSEY

hogs. Fall pigs for
E. MORRIS. Mich.

READY FOR SERVICE

FOUR REGISTERED DUROC IOARS
These boars will weigh 170 lbs and are long
bodied with good hams and shoulders. hey are

sale.
Farmi ngton,

well grown and from a popular strain. tee from
disease. Price crated. $45 es. ch
. . R,OWN lreedsville, Mich.
Breeder of Reg. Holsteins and Dnrocs

 

ounces BOTH SEX FOR SALE, LAST OF
Mar. and first of April farmw, 1.919.
fishing around 175 2010 lbs.. prised Ire m
toO0$60. Owith budigr

H. O. KIESLER. Gestapo“; Mich" R I

Fun at; A FEW EXTRA GOOD

Fellflhoul with Delta!
O.l.

.breetflfng.
SON, mm. Itch.
DUROC BOARSm

P I I Z l»
WINNING STOCK
3:11:12?” service. Geo. B. Smith, Addi-

0. I. C.

GILTS WEIGHINO 150 TO 250 LBS.
o I 0 IN BREEDING FLESH. BRED FOR
MARCH AND APRIL FARROW.
Guaranteed safe in dam. I will replace any proving
otherwise or refund the purchase price. A few
good fall pigs either sex. Herd cholera immuned
by double treatment. Only a few service hours left.
F. C. BURGESS. R3, Mason. Mich

I. C. 's—FALL PIGS NOT AKIN. SERVICE
boars. Buff Rock Cockereis $3 each.
CLOVER LEAF STOCK FARM, Monroe, Mich.

SPRING BOARS READY TO SHIP,
also bred Gilts and a few fall pigs. Some
of the best 0 I. C. pigs, sired by Jumbo
Master No. 64687. All stock shipped C.
O. D. Joseph Van Etten, Clifford Mich.

. . SWINE—MY HERD CONTAINS THE
blood lines of the most noted herd. Can furnish
you stock at "live and let live” prices.

A d. OORDEN, Dorr, llllch., R 3.

Mud-rWay-Aueh-Ka Farm
otters O. I. 0. pigs of May furrow. Also young
stock and mature breeders in White W'yandottes,
Barred Rocks. Embden Geese and White
Runner ducks.

DIKE C. MILLER. Dryden. Mich.

 

Cocksrels and yearling hens,
. Wyandottes,
Campinas. Tyrone Poultry

Orpington, R k
Leghorn: Spanish Mixing-(dag:
farm, Fenton, Mich.

.f . “h
breedings

Registered I‘IempshireviSIIeepj"

you ARE THE FUTURE,

 

    

breeds 1 profit. I
we... 1.....- . a... hr #3
OY'CLE HATE"!!! COMPANY. MO Fhllo ’

Ellm re, II.Y ‘ '

 

 

LEGHORN

n a SEWINMLdEiOHOSRR COOKERELS. 8min
y a a son a winne I vigo -
ous birds. 82 and lIlity “fifteen-«i.
Flemish Giant Rabbitsu that are gin. n.ts
E. E.’ HIMEBAUGH. Coidveter. Mich.

 

 

RHODE ISLAND BEDS

HITTAKER'S R. l. REDS. BOTH COMBO.
Bred for color and eggs. Choice, farm raised
cockerels at reasonable prices. Day old chicks.
Order now for early spring delivery. Write fox

INTERLAKES FARM. Box 4. Mich.

S. O. RHODE ISLAND RED O ‘
from good laying hens. Priec $3. 50. OOKERELS v
W. S. HUBER, Gladwin, Mich.

C. R. I.
to 7 lbs.
ones.

 

Lawrence,

 

 

Sigrid Colckgrels, June hatched, wt. 5
eac uring Dec. Nice dark red
HARRY McCABE, Blanchard, Mich.

s 6': £538, LAngE VIGOROUS COOKERELG
a goo ying strain, $3 and " h.
F. WHITMYER. Williamston, "figment:

 

PLYMOUTH ROCKS

ARRED ROCK COCKERELS. BRED FROM
great layers
w. C. COFFMAN, Benton, Harbor, Mich" R 3

 

 

OHN’S 31a BEAUTIFUL BARRED‘Rock‘s
are hen hatched, good layers, grow quick. sold
(111 approval. Males $4 to each. Photos.
Circulars—John Northon, Clare, Mich.
FOR SAI- —BARRED ROCKS FROM $2 TO
$5. each. .

P. DONELSON. Swartz Creek, Mich.

WHITE “06 CO?KEI§E{)IBS, CHOICE ONES
a . to 00 h.
Also Duroc boar ready for servmo alt-)5 40.8 c
MER H. GREEN, ,
Ashley, Mich. ‘

 

 

 

’DITE ROtCle; BtEST EXHIBITION LAYING
oo 1n 1c coun ry Hens and (‘ k l ,
to $5 RICHARD B. GRETTON, M3303? 31:31?

 

 

’WYAIN DOTTES

 

Years 11 Breeder of Silver Laced and Whl
30 Wyandottes. Fine lot of young stock at $3, st;
and $5 ea. Clarence Browning, R2, Portland, Mich

 

 

 

ANCONAS
ANACONA COCKEREL E2“ 25.4%.?
JOHN YOUNG, Breckenridge, Mich.

 

 

DUCKS AND GEESE
WHITE PEKIN DUCKS AND WHITE

 

 

 

CIIINESE GEESE—NIRS. CLAUDIA

BETTS, HILLSDALE,1\IICH.
TURKEYS

URKEYS MAMMOTH BRONZE. EARLY

hatched. big boned, fine color and marking:
Write for prices. Mrs. Jay Harwood, lonia, Mic

IANT BRONZE TURKEYS. VIGOROIIO
young thoroughbreds. Order now at fall prices.
MRS. PERRY STEBBINS, Sarenao, Mich.

FOB SAL

$10. Fall price
MRS. WALTER eDILLMAN. R 6, Dowaqiac. Mich.

Pure bred Mammoth Bronze Turk-
eys, Hugo strain, hens $5, Toms.

 

Many have 30 day records.

better than 30 1b. bulls.

sold with 60-day guarantee.
best herds.

raise some more.

. Michigan Holstein Breeders First Annual Sale
‘ Tuesday, Jan. 13, 1920

Michigan Agricultural College, East Lansing, Mich.

SEVENTY-SIX HEAD

Seventy females in all stages of Lactation

All full age records average 7 days, 27. 93 lbs. butter; 586. 1 lbs. milk
Four yr. old records average 7 days, 25. 85 lbs. butter; 540. 9 lbs. milk
Three year old records average, 7 days, 24.28 lbs. butter; 497.9 lbs. milk
Two year old records average, 7 days, 18.94 lbs. butter; 396.4 lbs. milk
A few have semi—official yearly
ords up to 1,100 lbs. butter, 25,000 lbs. milk. Six bulls with dams rec—-
ords up to 33.5 lbs. butter. 675 lbs. milk in seven days.
Two ready for heavy service.
herds under state or federal supervision for tuberculosis eradication and
All selected by one man from Michigan’s
Individually fully equal to their records.

Send for catalog and come. Buy some of these profit makers and

CHAS. A. DANIELS, Secretary, Okemos, Mich.
H.W. Norton, Jr., Albert E. Jenkins, Chas. A. Daniels, Committee.

1‘80-

All sired by
All cattle from

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

REG 0 | c SPECIALS FOR JAN. ONLY.

Choice spring gilts bred for April fa’nrow $70.
Tried sows bred for March (arrow, 8110. Spring
boars $40“ Thrifty pigs, either sex. 320.811.11-
isfsetion rantsed.

one ISON O CHIVILY. Constantine“ Mich.

shuns 1111.111 11: -°F °- '- °-

swine won ex-

twflegim . Our herd 0110111‘
0. chigsn logo was the largest Chorszfwin
breed! shown. this type,

ning stock, registered free and s .‘O. D.

 

JOHN GI IBSON. Fosters. Mloh" R. 0N0r2 2.

 

  
 

0.1. c sews FOR SALE -'

he or run our sense is MICHIGAN
mm” mm n'fidflflh sow.

KIND G O. 11.1):
guaranteed rtflbt 1”in

31% ,. .

 

  
   
   

 

    

 

    
  
 

having good records
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MAPLECREST HOLSTEIN FARMS
COMPLETE DISPERSAL SALE or

Thursday, Jan. 15, 1920—1 o’clock sharp
AT REUBEN COOK‘S FED BARN. LAKE ODESSA. MICH.
Our herd is on the accredited herd list and has recently been
tuberculin tested by a Federal Inspector.
Our cattle are mostly of 32 lb. breeding, out oi! A. R. 0-. dams

and cows will be bred to 32 lb. bulls.
head. will be. milking at sale time.

ANDREW T. DIRK & SO
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come tax rep“ covers n e ai e y g e ‘e For the Two Dollars ($2) enclosed, you are to: (1) renew

to ask his local attorney. It is a synopsis of the income tax applying in 1920, my own subscription for 12 months one year from the
with the “Simplicity” Farm Book Record book described above. any larmer can I ' ' date of expiration- (2) ADD THE FOLLOWING NEW

fill out his income tax report. as required by the government without recourse
iii allaytvyer 'il‘he book is not for sale, but is offered only with the complete SUBSCRIBER}? NAME FOR 121111611111? one yg‘ar, and--
mp 1c1y serv ce ' ' ' 3 mi 111 t e com 11; “ 1m icit nco
THE FARM RECORD This blank is provided in the outfit to make it easy for é, ) Be 8 ,I,’ e e S P y me ax and
ESUME the farmer to compile his Income Tax report or to find , arm Record System as descrlbed above, free and pre-.
out it it is necessary to send one to the government v” ’ paid

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