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year there is always a good
“ ‘ deal of speculation as to what
. course the potato market will follow
for the balance of the season. -The

a T THIS particular season of the

farmer whoMis holding stock at this?

time looks forward with some an-
xiety to the future of the market.
Bermuda potatoes come onto the
market in small quantities which
gradually increase with the coming

of March and by the middle of May-

the first arrivals from the southern
states are in evidence, naturally hav-
ing an effect upon the demand for
old potatoes, which become more
.marked as the spring advances. The
latter part of February also sees a
breaking up of the severe weather
that normally prevails during Janu—
ary hampering shipments and cans—
ing a scarcity at consuming points
which sends the price up temporar—
ily. The warm spell of weather
during the first ten days of Febru-
ary loosened up the market to such
an extent that prices declined from
60-0 to $1.00 per cwt. at some con—
suming points.

For sixty days back we have been
urging our readers to keep their po-
tatoes moving. Those who have had
warehouse storage facilities have
been able to do this, and" they un—
doubtedly appreciate the wisdom of

Opinions Central That Future

 
 

our advice by this time.
who stored their potatoes in pits and
cellars and found it unsafe to open
them during the cold weather have.
of course, been unable to put their
holdings on the market, and will
probably suffer some loss by reason
thereof.

season last fall that farmers should
not chance the'market by holding
their entire crop this spring, and we
apprehend that the steady movement
of potatoes during the early fall and
winter has been at least partly the
result of our suggestions along this
line. We now learn that the major—
ity of the Michigan crop was moved
during the upward trend of the‘
market, which means that the ma-
jority of potato growers have profit-
ed by following our advice. In our
issue of Dec. 27th, we stated plainly.
“It is not wise to place too much de-
pendance upon a continuation of the
present demand and prices. We may
be greatly mistaken but we feel that
potatoes are nearing their highest
point ”

Potato prices reached their crest
about three weeks ago, after which
they declined steadily until about
the 16th, when the market stiffened

Farmers Should Use Cantion 1n «fleeting if

agalE ruled firm for a time and 1101va
appears to be slowly coming back. . ’

Farmers ‘

It has been our judgment ~
from the opening of the marketing

We do not anticipate that this up-

ward tendency ‘Wfll continue to the steady decline at the last few. w l ,,

‘ but to us it seems thit this will not -

end. We do not anticipate prices will
reach former high level. In order to

lend weight to our opinion, however,
we sent out a questionnaire a few.

days ago to some leading potato nu-'

thorities. Of the replies that have
come back thus far the most valu-

able were from the editor of the:_0hi-
cogo Produce News,
Waid of the M. A. C. and, Halo Ten-
nant, field agent in marketing 1!. .A.
0., who assisted in the organization
of the Michigan Potato Exchange.
In reading these two letters,"
reader shonld-bear in mind that the

one represents the opinion of a po- ~
produce journal and'

tato dealers’

the other two those of extension
specialists at the farm college, "and
it is perfectly natural that there

should be some divergencemf views:
between the two. Each of the let-

ters contain worth- while information
and we urge our readers to give them '

their careful attention.

Produce Journal Expects Temporary '

Reaction
“———Answering'yours'of the 10th
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HREE WEEKS AGO I took this same space to tell the live
stock breeders of Michigan that they had, up to now, practic-
ed a, profound modesty which, while commendable in the sweet:
school-girl-bud-of-sixteen, was hardly heard above a whisper in the
braSs band of publicity which far less worthy states_we’re tooting

and blowing out of the west.

Michigan, the birth-place of the Holstein in America- for instance,
was stepping modestly back to let other states pose as the, real Holstein
This week, I want to direct the attention of every loyal cit—
izen of Michigan to a graphic comparison of a fact vital to every state,
e.. the percentage of farms operated by tenants or owners.

centers.

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LLINOIS is a great state agriculturally, famous principally for her
corn and its by—product, hogs. She is spoken of regularly as the “first
farm state of America.” Yet this simple chart, made from the last
oilicial figures, the United States census of 1910, shows how far Mich-
igan outranks Illinois in point of farm owners 2

No one questions but what the 1920 census now in process of tak-
ing, will show even a greater percentage of tenant farmers in Illinois—
. indications say that there will be more tenants in Illinois, than farm

owners on her fertile acres. '

We respect the farm tenant—4110 man who lenses from another ‘
who owns the land, but his interest in the» improvement or his farm,
the drainage. buildings and home comforts surely are'not to be com-
pamdwimthmotmemnwhonctnnlyowuhhmmtcrtmmhk
fields and loch forward every waking hour to the improvement of his
buildings and his tnmlliac‘ living conditions. ‘

Hero- thon, is something more we W
can toot our horns about-4:11am from other states where land values
have already become a speculative menus are looking towards Itch-
igan, theywuttoconohore, bnyurnsandsottloamongthosc, who

  
  

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probably .11 and
"what .bette‘r tor a while. in fact it
inch 31111081: certain that there will
be somewhat of a reaction from the

last. There is entirely. _ too much

stack back in the farmers hands to

ybetoken a bright future tor the table
stock. deal. In your own eta-tad the
farmers have 30 to 40 per cent of
their crop still back and the same is
true. in New York and “Maine. Wis-
cousin and Minnesota. have been
freer sellers but the latest reports we
have indicate there is fully 25 to 30

per cent of the crop still in the farm- ' .
en’s hands... .It lather-clone our opin- ,

ion that the future of the table stock.
deal is. none too bright, especially
for the late spring. All indications
are that the Eastern shore has plant-.
ed rather heavily and from purchas—

"es made on Triumphs in Texas there

should be a good volume 01: this stock
moving as we have_learned from ex-
perience, that in these times the con-

fsumer is much more lavish in buy-

ing than he used to be, that he ’will

not take old potatoes freely when

new potatoes are available and this
should be a factor in the late spring
deal on old potatoes, especially if
Texas stock movesiearly as the pres-

ent indicationsfwould show.

“On seed stock, however, condi-

tions look good. Seed has been held ,

back greatly by the scarcity of cars.
On early Ohios the situation is es-
pecially good as the holdings are ex-

‘ tremely light and there has been no.

buying from Indiana, Ohio» and Mis-'
souri and other ‘central western
states as yet. It looks as if the Ohios
will clean up closely at present pric-
es. Rose are also none too plenti-
ful and there seems to be enough of

atrade to clean these up at present
prices. Triumphs are the only seed
stock that have been more or less
plentiful. Texas bought freely and.
is through. Arkansasand Oklaho-
ma are at present sending in rush

"orders for Triumphs but the bulk of

the buying for Triumphs will soon
be over and there may be a decline "
in the market for this variety as the
northern states do not
frank state;-
ment as to the way We view the sit— ‘
uathn which you may use either fer '
publication or for your personal '-
wants .——.0hicago Produce News.”

Aflomparlson of Holdings by Prof.
O. W. weld

“—Replying to your letter of Feb-

rusty 10, will say that I endeavored

— to get some figures from Mr. Church

yesterday but his oflice was closed
because of the holiday. I was un-
able to get anything very near up-
to—date and suppose you have all of
the figures which I will be able to,
give you. However I will send them
along and you can make use of them
if you care to do so.

‘ “According to the crop estimate
the total production in the group of
twenty-one northern states for 1920
was. in round numbers, 250,000,000
bushels, in 1919, 281,000,000; in
1918, 304,000,000. The holdings in
these same states January 1 were:
1920. 01,000,000 bushels; 1919,
122,000,000 bushels; 1918,. 151,000--
000 -, bushels; 1919, 14,500,000;
ing January first 1020 was 10,000,-
000 bushels. 1010, 146000.000
1018. 21,000,000. We were able to
get figures from only one state since
January 1. According to a report
from Wisconsin there were 7 zoo

unavailable for shipment Decem-
ber ”I. 1010. rein-um L 1020, there
were only 2, 0‘10 cars left for ship-
moot.

“Judd-s from :thece figures it»

would soon that if amusement ct.
portion 0'! the crop is
node in a general way that prices

check! hold at cm low! through-7
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1 be unfortunate it growers anticipate
t. that by holding to the. end of. ‘the

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' HE ATTACKS now being made in the
I courts, and in...,the-,..Congress :of the United

States, on the Farm Loan Act, and the great .

system of agricultural'credit hanks thereby creat-
ed, indicates. purpose on the'part of the major-
ity leaders to yield to‘th’é pressure and influence
of the Farm Mortgage Brokers and to destroy or
so cripple the Federal Land ~-
Banks and the joint stock Land “ . ’

country will again be put at the
mercy of usurers and mortgage
sharks.. ‘ ’ .

A suit was recently brought -
at- Kansas‘Cityr Missouri. at- ,
tacking the constitutionality of
the Farm Loan Act. Judge
at" Kansas
‘City, decided in favor of the
constitutionality of the Farm
Loan L-aw., An appeal was
taken to the Supreme Court of
the United States where the
case was recently argued. If
the Supreme Court should sus-
tain the constitutionality of the
Farm Loan Act, then the only
danger to the Farm Loan Sys-
tem is from Congress.

Prior to 1913, there was a se—
vere money stringency at crop-
moving seasons. * * * Credit
was largely controlled by a.
powerful group in New York——
commonly referred to as "Wall
Street.” Doubtless every farmr
er remembers that‘in the fall
of 1913, the Treasury Depart-
ment, for the first time in its
history, disregarded "‘Wall :
Street” and made direct deposit of government
money in banks in the crop~moving centers thru—
out the country on condition that the same be
lent to farmers for crop-moving purposes at rea-
sonable rates. This broke up the annual crop-
moving squeeze and since 1913, nothing has been
heard about tight money and the difficulty of
moving the crops. ‘

But this. wasnot enough. The administra-
tion realized ‘that,’unless remedial créditlegisla-
tion was promptly "enacted. what the Treasury
had gained in breaking gthe selfish control of
credit would be lost. Therefore; the Federal Re-
serve Act was‘pa‘ssed, and while it created. a great
system of commercial credit, it made provision
only for the essential short—time credit needed
by the farmer. It put the farmer’s six months’
notes: given for agricultural purposes. such as
growing crops or carrying his matured crops when
.in the form of staple products, upon the same
favorable basis as the notes. of merchants and
other business men when given for commercial
purposes. * '

The farmer’s notes of this character were made .

eligible for rediscount in Federal Reserve Banks
just as were the business man’s notes. ,What
does this mean? VIt‘means that every National
Bank can now lend money to the farmer‘for ag-
ricultural purposes or upon the security of staple
agricultural products, with full knowledge that
it can rediscount such notes in Federal'Reserve
Banks upon the same favorable terms that it. can
rediscount the merchant’s paper.‘ ‘ '

Provision for Long Time Loans.

But this was not enough. The farmer also
needed a system of. agricultural credit under which
‘he could borrow on a mortgage on his farm for
a long term of years and at low interest, rates

’ and be relieved of high charges for commissions,

attorney’s fees and other exactions w ch,-ln times
past, have made the cost of money bdrrowed, on
mortgage, where he was able. to get it at all, so
high that he could ill afford to bear it. The farm-
er could rarely borrow on mortgage for is» longer
period'than five years. Frequently he cdnld bor—

row for'ia‘much shorter time only- He’ihad to:

submit to:_a”rbitrary valuations of his aproperty
which ~'were%~not infrequently love; than was just-,4

' l'fied’and'hehad to» take the moneynponany terms,
the lender im‘posed'up,on him. The Small farmer
; . who (wantedyto'vberrowronumortgage, {15,000 or

lees, feundit very difficult to get it on any terms.
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By W. G. McADOO

Formerly Secretary of the US. Treasury

ering a period of as much as forty years and re-
payable on the amortization plan. namely. in an-
nual installments of say one per cent; second, a
low rate of interest, which would be uniform
thruout 'the United States, so
that farmers everywhere would
share equally in the benefits of
the system. This could be ac-
complished only by the crea-
tion of Land Banks. with pow-
er to sell a standard form of

of the farm mortgages they
purchased from the farmer.

It was essential that the
mortgages given by the farm-
er and the bonds issued by the
banks upon the security there-
of should be exempt frOm all
United States, state and local
taxation. Without this exemp-
tion, it would be impossible to
sell the bonds of the banks at
such reasonable rates of inter—
est that the banks in turn could
lend money to the farmers on
mortgages at a reasonable rate
of interest. Consequently, the
Congress of the United States,
upon the recommendation of
the President, passed the Fed—
eral Farm Loan Act in July,
1916. Under this law the
country has been divided into
twelve districts and a Federal
Land Bank has been establishe
ed in each. These Federal
Land Banks are not permitted to lend more than
$10,000 to a single borrower and they cannot
lend except upon the co-operative plan through
a Farm Loan Association which the farmers have
to organize. It was necessary, therefore, to pro-
vide another class of banks, which could make
loans to farmers desiring to borrow in excess of
$10,000. Therefore. the Act provides for the or—
ganization of what is called Joint Stock Land
Banks. These banks are per-

bonds based upon the security‘

Proposed Changes Intended- to Cripple Act and Are. Contrary to the Farmers’ Interests

most populous and settled state. But those pri-
vate money lenders and brokers who for years
have fattened at the expense of the American
farmer, have fought bitterly this tax exemption
feature because they are now forced into compe-
tition with the Land Bank system and compelled
to lend money on reasonable terms. Threats
that the tax exemption on farm mortgages and
Land Bank bonds would be knocked out by the
present Congress have been confidently made by
the Farm Mortgage Brokers of America.

Representative J. \V. Fordney, Chairman of the
Ways and Means Committee of the House and
Representative McFadden. a member of the
Banking and Currency Committee of the House
have made speeches recently in opposition to the
tax exemption clause and these speeches are be-
ing widely circulated by the Farm Mortgage
Brokers of America.

Senator Smott has introduced a bill in the Sen—
ate to force the liquidation of the Joint Stock,
Land Banks and Mr. McFadden has introduced
a similar bill in the House of Representatives. If
the Joint Stock Land Banks are thus destroyed
and the tax exemption on farm mortgages and
Land Bank Bonds is repealed, the Farm Mort-
gage Brokers and private money lenders will
again have a monoply of the field of long time

‘ w e eralF arm LOan System Attacked by Enemies I

agricultural credit and the farmers of the coun~ .

try know what that will mean in high interest
rates, commissions, attorney’s fees, and other
charges on the original loan and large commis—
sions on each renewal if the farmer succeeds in
getting a renewal. The cost of money to the
farmer will be increased and all the old abuses
will be,restored; the Mortgage Bankers will not
grant the long time amortization loans which

the farmer gradually pays off so that the principal ,

of the debt will be liquidated at maturity. Farm-
ers will have to take short time loans on such
terms as the Farm Mortgage brokers and lenders
choose to make.
Fair Play for Farmers

Why should farmers not have the benefit of
exemption from taxation on farm mortgages and
the bonds issued by the Land Banks against these
mortgages? What is a mortgage anyway? It is
merely an ”evidence of indebtedness. Why should
the gOVernment of the United States tax the evi-
dence of the farmers’ indebt-
edness? What is the bond of

 

mitted to lend direct to a single

 

borrower in any amount up to
$50,000. The Joint Stock
Land Banks, like the Federal
Land Banks, issue their bonds
against the security 0f the farm
mortgages they take. The Joint
Stock Land Banks are requir-
ed to land on the long time,
amortization plan at rates of to
interest regulated by the Fed— mortgage
eral Farm Loan \Board at
Washington, just as in the case
of the Federal Land Banks.
Thus a great system of'agri-
cultural credit is created, the
short time loans being sup-
plied by the Federal Reserve
.system and the long time amor-
tization mortgage loans by the
Federal Farm Loan system.

Their Need is ‘Apparent

Although the Federal Land
Banks have been in operation
but little more than two years,
they have made loans to farm-
ers throughout the United
States aggregating $285,000,-
000 .at five and five' and one-
flourth per cent interest, plus
one per cent per annum for
amortization, so that at matur-
ity‘the principal will have been

attacked.

free.

measure. .

tem

amortization charges shall have
“pen. regh‘l‘arly' paid as, they be:
came due. “ ' ‘

 

 

, --Editor.

Farmers, Be On Your

Guard

VER since the farm”
loan system came in-
existence
brokers
sought to destroy it. First,
_its constitutionality _was
Then an effort
was made to secure the re-
peal of the section of the
law making the bonds tax
Neither of these ef-
forts has spent its force,
and lobbyists are busy in
Washington to cripple the
Read the ac-
companying article, and if
.the federal farm loan sys-
means anything to
you, advise your congress-
man, and particularly the
Hon. J. W. Fordney, who
is reported to have made
' speeches in the
against tax
how .you‘ feel about

the Land Bank but an evidence
of indebtedness issued on the
security of the mortgage of. the
. farmer and by means of which
the bank is enabled to get the
necessary money from invest-
ors to lend to the farmer on his
mortgage? If-a tax is imposed
on the Federal and Joint Stock
Land Bank Bonds, who will
. pay it? The borrowing farmers,
of course. They will pay the
higher interest rates which the
bonds will have to carry. if
the tax exemption is removed.
because the banks will have to
charge the farmers a higher
rate of interest on their mort-
gages. If the farmer has paid
taxes on his mortgaged farm
and on his income as well, why
should he be asked to pay tax-
es on his debt?

The National _Banks of the
United States own all the stock
in the twelve Federal Reserve
Banks which have an aggre-
gate capital of more than $86,—
000,000. These National Banks
are permitted to receive six per
cent preferred dividends on

farm
have

the

their Federal Reserve Bank.

Stock and in addition, every

house dollar of that stock and the in-
exemption, come therefrom is exempt from

it. all Federal, State and Munici-
~ pal taxation. All State and

 

 

"issued by the Federal and Joint 4
Stock Land Banks and secured

by farm mortgages, shall be exempt from taxa-

tion-.andthat- the rates of interest shall be regu-
152 fill? Farm Loan Board and be uniform in
,e states-makes it possible for the farmer

. ‘ Wivueven- though he lives in a.
state: to secure credit on put as

  

  

   

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the nation are given full exemp—
tion from federal, state and lo~
cal taxation. There are millions of these securities
in the hands of the wealthy classes. Why should
they have the benefit of exemptions which with

, draw hundreds of thousands of dollars of their
Emma from all federal, state and local taxes? ‘
Certainly, a tax exemption which will permit the *

  

 

 

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(A continuation of Prof. McGool’s Ew-

en.) , _ ~ -

HE PRODUCTIVITY of the soil
I depends much upon temperature.

,It is obvious that all life depends
for its existence2upon soil tempera-
ture and we should know as much
In possible about the things that
may induce changes in it. Doubtless
there are many misconceptions re-
garding the temperature of soils of
widely different texture. topography,
surface conditions and others.

The biological, chemical and phy-
sical processes of the soil are mark—
edly affected by its temperature. Bio-
logically, the germination of seed. the
best growth of plants, the multiplica-
tion of the lower soil organisms, the
removal of plant-food elements from
the soil by the plants and others de—
pend upon it. The winter killing of
new seedings of alfalfa and others
in some cases is due to the low tem—
perature of the soil. The special

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to the temperature relationships.
Many chemical changes that take
place in the soil are accelerated by
an increase in temperature; the sol-
vent action of water is increased, the
rate of formation of nitrates in the
soil is more rapid in warm than in
cool soils and other important
changes ,that could be mentioned.
Several important physical process-
es that are influenced by the soil
temperature should be mentioned,
namely, the movement of soil moist-
ure, salts and air in the soil.
Several conditions influence the
temperature of the soil. In brief
there are two groups, one the in—
trinsic or those contained in the soil
mass, chief of which are radiation,
absorption and water content, the
other the external consisting of the
meterological elements. Certain of
these tend to impart heat to the
loil while others take it away. There—
fore. a temperature record of a field
loll is the resultant summation of
the effects of these opposing forces.

8‘

Changes of Temperature

The fluctuations in the tempera—
ture of the soil are greater at the
lurface than they are lower down.
We have obtained much valuable in—
formation pertaining to this subject
by means of electric resistance ther-
mometers and others. Records have
been kept for about four years. -In
fact, Banyoncas, of the Soil Depart-
ment’has done more work on this
on this subject that any other insti-
tution in the world. It is now known
that the surface of dry mineral soils
during the daytime is higher than the
air above on account of the absorp~
tion heat- the difference amounting
to more than thirty degrees. At
night, however, the surface of the
soil and the air above reach about
the same temperature. Six inches
from the surface of the soil the fluc-
tuations are much. less. On Febru—
ary 13 the maximum temperature of
a soil six inches from the surface was
about twenty—three degrees, and the
minimum about six degrees less
whereas in August the maximum
temperature was eleven degrees
greater than the lowest temperature.
At 12 and 18 inch depths respective-
ly there is usually less than two de-
grees of difference in the highest and'
lowest temperatures attained.

Thetemperature of the soil is us—
ually reversed between day and
night, that is when not frozen. This
,is because the air t‘emperature re—
verses itself during these periods
and the soil receives or ‘loses its heat
at the surface more rapidly at a giv—
en time than it does lower down. At
sunrise, as i-s‘usually the case, the
temperature of the surface soil is
lowest and somewhat warmer below,
th’BWemperature-of theair rises, of
course, the surface soil begins to
rise. 3frThe warmth, passes downward
. ’, as ‘a'wave, butas above stated the
* lewer layers changes less rapidly
pthan those aboveand again the tem-
perature of the soil mass is reversed.
\ ' ‘T'rhs daiiy'greversionior the temper-
Mnrefof: soils ~-aids int eir aeration.

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‘ crop adaption of soils is due in part '

  

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when the temperature of the soil
varies theair contained therein .con-
tracts and» expands forcing air 'out
when warmed and taking it in when
cooled. It is maintained bysome
that soil aeration takes care'of it-
self, that is where the soils. are
drained and that the value of tillage
in assisting in this process has been
overestimated.

Aithough soils may freeze several
inches below the surface their tem-
perature does not go much below the
freezing point. One cold day in
February when the temperature of
the six inch depth of soil decorded
22-degrees twelve inches from the
surface it was about two degrees be—
low freezing and eighteen inches
from the surface it was at freezing
point. Winter injury of crops must
be due to the low temperature of the
upper layers. ’ '

The water content
markedly affects its

of the soil
temperature.

  

in Soils is Largely DetéM-in‘ed ,by'ihe”’*Wafer-Centen as a Res
Peculiar Propertiesv'of Water . ‘ ' ‘ '

- - ' " 'By M. M.‘ McGOOL . -
Professor of ‘Soils,'Mi'ohiyan Agricultural College.

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much as different kinds of soil con-
tain different amOunts ‘of Water and
especially is this true after a rainfall,
different quantities of water -,will
evaporate from the“ surface, and,
therefore, these soils will have a dif-
ferent temperature, especially dur-
ing the warmest part of the day. '
The average temperature of dif-
ferent kinds of soil is about the. same.
Many believe and it is widely ta'ught
that sands are much warmer during

thegrowing season than loams and

clays. Because of this belief sands
are designated as warm soils and
loams and clays cold soils. This he-
lief has some justification yetit is
greatly- exaggerated. Peat and muck
soils in reality are cold soils during
the spring months.

Our studies show that sands are
only slightly warmer soils than the
loams and clays; Daily temperature
records for four years show that in
the spring the sands always thraw

 

 

This is brought about chiefly by completely first, the loams and clays
three proper- ' ‘ thaw only one
ties of water. or ' two days
One of these ,later and the
is it requires Your Soil Problems v e g e t a b 1 e
much heat to . . soils or peats
melt a given ' and mu c ks
quantity of ET M. B. _F. and the_M. A. C. abo ut two
ice. Thus soils sclve your 5011 problems. The weeks la ter.
shatff contain state of Michigan maintains an ag- , glpon t-thawing

i e r e n t - ' ' e empera-
amounts of Iricultural college, and. the U. S. ture of 'the
water in the Department of Agriculture an ex- sands rises
frozen; stat e tension department, employing very. rapidly
require dlffer‘ skilled and experienced men for and It is" quite
ent amounts h 1 . f - I h . appreci a b ly
of heat to eplng arm“? .130 5°.Ve t 91.1. above that of
melt this ice problems. Use this serv1ce. It 1s 10am and clay
and. to warm free, an (1 Michigan Business but it *is wor-
them' It “’1‘ Farming will act as a medium to thy or now
lows that thos . F 11 P that as soon
10 w s t h a t carry if to you. 0 ow rof. Mc- as the finer

those contain-
ing the small-
est quantities
of water thaw

 

 

Cool’s discussions closely. If they
are not clear to you on any point,
or if you have a problem which he
does not cover, feel free to write

soils are also
comp l e t e 1 y
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g“? m the and ask for more specific informa- also. Uses very
prmg. . . rapidly a n d
A n '0 t h e r mom—Editor. approa c h e 3
property 0 f very closel y
water is its that of the

high specific heat. By this is meant
the amount'of heat that is required
to raise the temperature of one
pound of soil one degree as compar-
ed with the amount of heat required
to raise the temperature of one
pound of water one degree. The
specific heat of water is about five
times greater than that of soils.
Therefore, water will warm up and
cool much more slowly than will dry
soils.

The third property of water is its
tendency to evaporate. Much heat
is required to bring this change
about or in other words When water
evaporates it uses up heat.
evaporation of one pound of water
at 62 degrees, that is its conversion
into water vapor at the same tem-

-perature requires as much heat as

would raise the temperature of about
1,050 pounds of water by one degree.
Now when a wet soil receives a large
amount of heat from. the sun the
temperature rises only slightly. be-
cause the heat received is utilized in
the evaporation of the water instead,
of going to warm up the soil. Inas—

The ‘

 

sands. During the spring and sum-
mer months, however, the average
temperature of the sands is only
about 2 degrees higher than that of
loams and clays, and during the fall
and winter months their difference is
very slight.

Muck and peat may be made ear—
lier soils. They warm up slowly af-
ter thawing in the spring, due in a
very large'measure to the evapora-
tion of water at their surface. This

.Was proved by placing a thin layer

of sand over moist sands. loams,
clays and peat soils respectively.
Soils covered in this manner,'that is
after they have thawed. soon reach
practically the same temperature. If
one so desires he can vgreatly in-
crease the' earliness of peat and
muck soils and thus produce vege—
tables etc., at an earlier date.

The earliness of sandy soils is due
to daily temperature changes. This
is extremely important. In the af—‘
ternoon towards sunset the temper—
ature of the sands is appreciably less
than that of loams and clays but in
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p the sands-warm up faster than the
others‘oils and reachfit-heir highest
temperature first; As;‘_ sun begins
[to go down and th’eflair t ‘berat‘ure
likewise falls the sands- cool- “faster
than [the loams and clays'and about
midnight their temperature is. gen-
erally slightly-lower than the. loams
and clays. About 5 a. m. the sands
may have a temperature of about 2
degrees less than the 'l‘oa'ms and
clays. When these variations of .
temperature are'averaged it is found
that sands are slightly warmer than,
loams and clays. This property of
the sands is favorable to'the crops
early in the season, inasmuch as they
are warm when the sun's rays may

’ be utilized and thus grewth may pro-
ceed more rapidly early in the sea-'
s-on in the lighter soils. Reference is .
made tothe time When temperature

is the. chief and «controlling factor in
crop growth. 9

Covering, Soil with Vegetation

Soils covered by vegetation vary
less in temperature than when bare.
This is. because the vegetation forms '
a uniform covering over surface and ‘
controls to a very large extent the
receipt and loss of heat of the soils
and thus gives them a more uniform
temperature. ‘Some of the experi—
ments at thiscollege show that a
light dressing of straw markedly af-
fects the temperature of the soil in
the winter. oOne day bare sand was
almost as cold-as the air tempera-
ture or twenty degrees below zera,
whereas the temperature of the ad-
jacent soil top—dressed with straw
was only slightly below freezing.

This is important in practice. Dur-
ing the summer of 1916 alfalfa was
seeded on limed and fertilizad, deep
sand at the collage farm and attain-
ed a height of about eight inches be-
fore cold weather set in. During the
winter, snow and, other protective
coverings blew away, but in some-
spots. the soil was covered with strarw.
The plants were all winter killed on
the bare places although heaving did
not take place.

Straw stacks rather-than be per-
mitted to rot down in place should
be distributed on the land.. If new
seeding or fall seeded grains are top~
dressed with it they doubtless will
come through cold winters in better
condition and, of course, the fertil-
izing value of it is worthy of consid-
eration. ’

Snow governs the temperature of
the soilr In some of the northern
counties root crops may be left in
the ground all winter without freez-
_ing because the snwaall comes ear-
ly, and remains on the ground until
late spring. Where snow was re-
moved from the soil in one case and
left on on another the temperature‘
of the soil below the snow was found
to be about twenty-five degrees high—
er than the bare soil. Thus, if snow
could be caught and held on expos—
ed places in the field by vegetation or
roughened condition of the soil it
would be advantagedus.

Contrary to the opiniOn of some,
the visit of frosts on muck lands is
not due to the nature of the soil but
to other ‘conditions. It has been
found‘that the air temperature on
a 'slo‘pe'is higher than it is _over the
flat or 'lower areas. Ten degrees
difference in the temperature of the
air over a slope and a draw have
been reported, the greatest differenc-
es being found on those nights when
there was little or no wind. This is .
because the cool air is heavier than ‘2
the warm and tends to settle over
the low or flat- areas.

The effect of tillage on the temper—
ature .of the soil is slight. Loose or
cultivated soils are usually consid-
ered' to be higher in .temperature
than if_ Compactor until-led. Our
records show that the'gultivated-soil .
has only 'a, slightly higher temperas .7»

  

    
     
  
  
  
 
  
   
  
  
  
 
 
  
  
  
   
 
  
 
 
 
   
  
 
 
  
  
 
 
   
     
 
 
 
  
 
 
  
  
 
  
 
 
   
  
 
 
    
  
   
  
  
  
   
  
  
 
  
   
  
   
  
  
  
   
  
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
  
  
  
   
 
 
  
   
 
  
   
  
 
   
   
  
  
 
  
 
  
   
 
 
 
  
 
   
    
 
  
  
 
 
   
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
 
   
   
  

 

 
  
  
   

   
  
  
    
  
  
   
  
 

   
  
  
   

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'3 .Hotu Can the Farmer Keep His Hired Help From Going to the City?
By MRS. DORA STOCKMAN
Lecturer Michigan State Grange and Member State Board of Agriculture

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I .. I 1‘ I, The Hired Man Problem as Seen by the Hired Man

HAVE been a subscriber of your paper for several years. That’s the way I have followed the'markets on buying

and selling; as you have given so much sound advice to your readers in the past, I would like some of it now. ,

There’s an old saying, “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." I know I’m going to start something, but
the hired men of today are farmers _of tomorrow. .

In your next paper I would like to see these questions: How much should a hired man be paid, so he can
feed, dress his family and save a little each week? How much should he be furnished besides his wages?

Can a farmer himself buy clotl‘l’es shoes, fuel and everything to keep a family of six on $12 per week?

Can the farmer himself live on ten cents a meal? For a family of six, if each meal cost 10c per meal, at the
end of the week the farmer would be in debt sixty cents. Figure it out, Mr. Editor: for yourself. Where is the man
to buy the clothes, shoes and fuel?

One large farmer here has made this contract with his men. He gives them fuel, either oil or coal for a

' year, potatoes, one geod cow, one hog weighing 250 pounds when killed, feeds thirty chickens and furnishes a good
house, ten dollars a week, and at end of the year a bonus of five hundred dollars. I

Now this same farmer has kept his help four and five years, and they are perfectly contented to stay an- ,
other year with him. Why can’t other farmers who have had their help one or two years, do the same?

Now if there’s any big farmer who can pay the same as this farmer has I'm looking for the job at once. If
the farmers want good: married men who understand all kinds of farming, dairying, and all kinds of machinery,

 

 

nine. DORA s‘roox MAN

 

 

’ /

ly interested in your letter, to

p “ BUSINESS FARMING which the
editor, Mr. Lord, has ,invltedame to
answer. .

I am interested in the hired man’s ,
problem. becausehe is just one kind
of specialist in farming-and all farm
problems are of vital interest to oth-
er farmers. ,

MR. HIRED MAN, I am intense-

 

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‘52 weeks @ $10 per week

It is of vital interest to me as a
farmer because many of .his prob-

lems and mine are the same, and

based upon the
facts. ,

City vs. Country Living Prices -

Now just like a woman, I am go-
ing to begin at the conclusion first
where the “hired man” says, ”here
is one good hired man who will move
to town before he will‘ stay in the
country and live from hand to
mouth.” That is where the hired
men hays gone and the farmers, too,
and let us see what kind of a trade
they have made.

He cites the case of the big farm-

same fundamental

,er who gives the following items to

his hired‘man which if he were to
live in Lansing would be equivalent
to the following amounts:

Rent, $35 per mo.
1 year fuel, Oil or coal .
Potatoes, average family
30 bushels
1 early, average 3, 000
7c lb.
250 lbs. dressied pork, 18c
pound .
Product of 30 chickens 100.00
520.00
Bonus at end of year- . 500.00
.$1, 900. 00
or an average of $6. 33 per day for
300 days.

Below is the wage figured in terms

-of what of the wages of the hired

man who is “going to move to
town," would buy in the city.

6000 lbs.

. ........ $ 420.00
30.00

'420.00

2 average cows,“
milk @ 70 1b.

Potatoes, 30 bu.

Rent, $35 per month ,,

Wages, 52 weeks at $12
per week

Total ............ $1, 494. 00
or nearly $5 per day for 300 days.

The prices for these items are for
Lansing and could not be duplicated
in Detroit where rent as well as the
other products is much higher.

The average wage in Lansing, un-
less for skilled labo1, is about $5
per day. ,

The Farm Income

Now can the average farmer af—
ford to pay the hired man better
wages?

According to. the 1910 census the
following figures were compiled and
arranged by W. J. Spillman, Office
Farm Management, Department of

, Agriculture:
The average farm consisting of ,

131.8 acres is valued at $6,433.67.
Interest on capital invest-
ed @.5 per cent ...... 322.18
Farm family labor income
on: same 318.22

,_ :Farm income. total ..$' 640.40
The. items, of! income about which

no information is available are the-

value of the milk and cream con-
wounded in the home ;arm and

what the farmer earns for work out-.
«his 1‘. -

In some regions this
ThOusands

, part of! .

done ~*' for

they will have to pay the hired man enough so he can live».
Here's one good hired man who will move to town before he will stay in the country and live from hand to

mouth.

A hired man must needs be jack of all trades. In the last year I have not only done the general farm work:

but have run tractor, overhauled tractor several times, run separator for threshing outfit, played carpenter—all on
the big salary of $12 per week, two cows, notice I didn’t say good cows, which will make about $4 worth of butter

a week, and potatoes furnished.

Enough has been said, there are many other hired men getting the same.

Give your men a fair living

wage, Mr. Farmer, and nine cases out of ten you’ll have a man for several years—A Hired Man, Genesee Co., Mich.

 

own farms. In other sections of the
country this item is unimportant.

The item of expenditure about
which no information is obtained is
the amount paid for theIlive stock
purchased. This is a very import-
ant item in those sections of the
country where the fattening of stock
is practiced. It is also a consider-
able sum ln dairy regions, but in re—
gions where no live stock except
work animals ’and a few head of
miscellaneous stock are kept it is not
very important.

So at least one can say that the
figures for the farm family income
exclusive of interest on investment
was no greater than that given.
$318.22. ‘

But you will argue. farm prices
have doubled in the last ten years.
That is quite true, but it is equally
true that the. prices of farms, farm
machinery, costs of living, and 1a—
bor costs have more than kept pace
with the increase of price‘ of farm
products.

Let us now compare the farm own—
er’s income with that of the hired
man and we find, figured on the
basis of doubled. prices of farm pro-
ducts and also adding rent to the
family income which is not given in
the previous figures.

Labor, income of average

family $318. 22 x 2 .$ 636.44

,Rent for farm home

figured above

$11,056.44

We have shown that the average
hired man’s income according to the
figures given by the writer is equiv~
alent to the buying power in the city
of $1,494.00, but the buying power
of the farm owner’s labor income is
but $1,056.44. The farm owner has
the larger income because he has
capital invested in his farm and
equipment, an amount which in
comparison with the farm labor in-
come ten years ago was more than

his labor income. , '

The average farm today would
represent also a double amount of
capital invested of $12,887.34, this
at 5 per cent interest would entitle
the farmer to $644.36 interest, an
amount more than equivalent to his
labor income.

Further, Mr. Hired Man, the farm
owner’s income is based on the labor
of the farm family which includes
work of women and children, where
your labor income does not include
labor of your family.

Manifestly on the present scale of
prices, part of your wages are now
paid out of the interest the farmer is
entitled to on his investment, out of
the fertility of his soil, (which would
be giving away his farm piecemeal)
or out of his own income which is
smaller than yours.

If anyone Should go to the city it
is the farmer where he can get a
higher rate of interest for his mon-
ey, and whole his family are not un—
paid laborers.

 

 

 

 

abide in the section ofui
5m .5 .

so not»

Succeeds Hartman to G. R. & 1. Agricultural Post ,
MR. D. L. HAGERMAN,

088*? glowing tales of the wonderful agricultural opportunities that ,.
Micliiglm that is penetrated by the G. R. & I:
,rswillbeattheG-R &I.bufld

county agent for Ottawa
county, has been appoint-

ed agricultural and industrial
agent for the G. R. & I. It. R

to/succeed W. H. Hartman, who
resigned to become production
manager for the Falk Company
of Pittsburg, manufacturers of
potato products.‘ Mr. Hager-
man is a native of Litchfleld,
Hillsdale county, and has been
identified. for a number of years
with agricultural instruction.
He graduated from the Michi-
gan Agricultural College in
1913, and became teacher ' of
agriculture in the St. Johns
High School. Four years ago he
was appointed county agent for
Ottawa county, at position which ‘
he has held up to the premnt
time. Mr. Hagerman’ s carpet-i-
enc’e‘ fits him well for the larg-I
er field he has entered- and we
expect to see him spread broad-

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4.1

 

How Have y... Solved the
Hired Man Problem?

UR hired man friend wno

writes above is right in one
conclusion, that some farmers
can afford to pay their hired
men better, but he is wrong in
assuming that. the majority of
farmers can so afford. Some
farmers can’t keep a hired man.
Others seem to have no trouble
at all. Good farm help is get-
ting scarcer every day. It is a
problem that must be solved.
How are we going to do it?
The farmer who has had his hir-
ed man troubles and the farmer
who has solved his hired man
problems can HELP us solve
this question for all the farmers
by telling us their experiences.
We want to publish a series of
letters upon this subject. Who
will be the first to contribute ?—
Editor.

 

 

A

 

But Mr. Hired Man Iand Mr.
Farmer, before you go to the city to
li‘ve, just take a visit to the city and
try renting a house, inquire the
prices of milk and eggs, pork and
potatoes, the price of fuel, water and
light bills and taxes. And the fact
that the average man in a town like
Lansing does not get over $5 per
day.

Then figure it out and see if you
want to trade places with the AV-
ERAGE MAN. If you have unusual
skill and ability. the city offers a,
premium for such men and womeh.’
The average people in the city live
from pay day to pay day.

Rather than leave the business of
farming, Mr. Hired Man, will you,
not help the farmex make the farm
business more efficient so that he
can pay you better wages? -

And more than that help the farm-:
er market his crops so that he will
get a larger share of the consumer's
dollar. If the farmer got his just
share for the crops he produces he
could'. pay his hired help a better in-l
come, and Mr. Hired Man you would,

' want to get to buying you a farm of;
your own.

Or if you preferred to
live in the city you could live there‘
for less money. .

Mr. Hired Man this problem it
our problem. We want to help you.

solve your problem, and we want you '

to help in .

the am a desirable place to 1m.-
, Md . »

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“ S NEARLY as'I can esti-

mate from my own records

and the reports of the 10-
cals,” says C. E. Ackerman, man-
ager of the Michigan Beet Growers’
Ass’n, "over four thousand out of- the
ten thousand farmers who grew
beets last year have joined the State
Association- and agreed not to grow
, any beets thisyear except under a
aontract approved by the Associa-
on."

With the campaign scarcely six
weeks old over forty local associa-
tions have been organized, with duly
elected officers and paid-in dues.
Each association has opened a bank-
ing account in which all dues have
been deposited and form the nucleus
‘ of a fund which will amply finance
the work of extending the local 'as-
sociations and carrying on the fight
for a fair contract. In every com-
munity where a meeting of beet
growers has been called, associations
have been effected, with a practically
one hundred per cent membership of
those attending. Locals were or-
ganized last week at Mason, Ing-ham
county; Alma. Gratiot county; Cole—
man, Clare county; Chesaning, Sag—
inaw county. A complete list of all
locals organized will be published in
an early issue of MICHIGAN BUSINESS
FARMING.

Are the Farmers Backing the Or-
ganization?

The manufacturers have laid great
stress upon their self—manufactured
assertion that the present campaign
is the work of a few agitators ' and
small beet growers. They have tried
to make themselves and the public
believe that the really representative
beet growers were not behind the
movment. Through the influence
that the manufacturers have with
some of the newspapers in the sugar
beet sections, they have tried to seat-
ter this impression through the press,
and many and amusing have been the
“news” stories which the papers have
printed showing how the farmers
were falling all over themselves to
sign up the old contract.
ago, one of these newspapers carried
a story under the caption, “Farmers
Buck Organization.” It was evident
that the printed who set up the head—
. ing made a mistake in ‘the wording
‘ and substituted a “u” for “a” in the
word “buck." At least the heading
‘ would have been more nearly correct
had it read, “Farmers ‘Back' Organ-
ization,” for that is what they are
doing almost to a man. Hundreds
of farmers signed up the old contract
withOut being told by the manufact-
urers of the additional $6 per acre
charge for labor. and they are now
showing their resentment of the de-
ception, and declare they will grow
no beets under the old contract.

Manufacturers Stand Pat

As yet the manufacturers show no
sign of conceding to the growers, al-
though they have made some admis-
sions which indicate a slight weaken-
ing. Writing upon this subject, Mr.
Ackerman says:

“The manufacturers seem to ad-
mit that the costs to farmers will be
25 to 36 per cent higher in.1920 than
they were last year, and 50 percent
more than they were two years ago.
They also acknowledge that they
cannot get the labor for $6 extra and
are oil’ering the farmers $4 an acre.
more as an inducement to stand on
the 1917-18 contract. They still
have all their field men and many
scale men on full salaries (which the
farmer pays in field expense) and
they are at all our meetings. at all
sales, at all places where they meet
the farmers, and they tell with such

Not long .

Work of Organizing Sweeps Over Territory Like PrainefF'tre, Enlistmg Support of Over Harem

 

 

 

 

Farmer vs. Manufacturer

T IS STATED that the sugar manufacturers made seven times as ..
mud1 profit during the Season Just closed as the farmers.
following figures were presented by J. C. Ketcham at the annual

ll meeflngoftheFarmBmeanatIans‘ing:

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Sugarbeettonnage, 1910 ... 1,001,000
Estimated averagepricetofauner ................ {1&00
[Totalreturntofarmer ...... . ..... ..... {$19,013,000
(lost of producing, (allowing nothing for ma ' .
ability of depreciation ($100 per acre) ............. 11-707,488.
.F'armers‘fin'oflts" ......... 0 1,005,512
Amount of sugar (in pounds) produced from 100,001,000 '
tens of beets . . . . . ............................. ass-223,000
Averagewholesaleprice-....'................ ....... 3 0.12
Gross receipts from. sugar ......'...................$ 20,786,700
Estimated value of by-products ............ 2,038,025
Gross receipts (sugar and by-products) .............. 8 28,824,785
Estimated beet and factory cost (based on government ‘
reports) ....................................... 18,590,000
Manufacturers‘ balance, from which to pay selling costs
and profits .................................... 3. 10,234,785
Estimated selling cost, based on government reports .. . . 1.016415
Balance, representing net profits ..................... $ 9,118,670
(or) SEVEN times the farmers’ profits.

(Note: Many farmers will testify that Mr. Ketcham's estimate of $106
as the cost of producing an acre of hosts is too low, but it serves as a basis
of comparison between the farmer’s and the manufacturer's respective returns
from the industry.)

 

 

 

 

solemn faces what an awful thing
the farmers are doing when they
throw up the contracts which the
companies are carryingin their pock-
ets unsigned and un-returned and
which never would be returned if
sugar should drop to 7 cents ,per
pound, and yet they so sadly say,
‘what all awful thing it would be it
the farmer should cancel a contract.’
No consideration seems to enter their
minds that the farmer has the same
right to cancel when it appears that
the shortage of labor, the higher
prices therefor, the higher cost of
machinery, fertilizer, etc. may cause
great financial loss if not cancelled.

“Is a contract legal when one
party gets another party to sign and
thencarries same in his pocket un-
til conditions might make it profit-
able for him to take his own time
and at his own pleasure signing and
returning same to the second party
regardless of the fact that during
that time conditions might have
changed so that the first party would
profit largely and the second party

lose heavily? ‘Let them start to en-

force their contracts on one of our

members against his W111 and we
will proceed to enjoin the companies
from putting out any of their con-
tracts on the groundythat facts will
show them to be profiteering and at
the same time hampering produc-
tion of domestic sugar by offering a
price that is less than the cost of
production which will certainly re-
sult in the abandonment of at least
one-half of the contracted acreage.
The best evidence in the world that
the manufacturers are familiar with
this fact is their effort to secure
twice the acreage needed in order to
run their plants to capacity.
“Please make this point plain to
our“ brother farmers through your
valuable paper. They have called us
a bunch of Bolshevists and agitators.
They have paid for having such state-
ments printed in the press. ,They
have paid for articles intimating that
the United States government has
been unfair with them because under
the Lever Law which prohibits prof-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

      
   

 

 

 

 

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0 price of beet sugar at 12 cents
. although foreign sugar might go. to‘
20 or 0 cents per pound Can d0-
mestic sugar productiOn- be promot-
ed by allowing the manufacturers all
the profits of the industry and not
paying a cost of production price to
the farmer for 11111110918?

“We are out to defend our inter-
ests having due consideration for the
consuming public, believing that
their interests are also our interests
because when cost of production and
a reasonable profit all along the line
of service is paid, consumers will be
amplympplied and at the lowest pos-

‘ sible price. "

More About Sugar Profits

John Ketcham of the Michigan
State Grange has " compiled figures
based on reports to the Federal
Trade Commission showing that
~.Michigan manufacturers are" making
.a profit-of 50 per cent on every
pound they produce. This is. on the
assumption that the manufacturers
have sold their sugar at the prices
fixed by the Government. The grow-
ers claim to have evidence that they
are not selling at the fair prices.
There are many “wash sales,” they
say, through which manufacturers

‘ make exorbitant profits.

Ooh Michigan sugar manufacturer
is claimed by the beet men to have
made $1-000,000 during the last few
Weeks by holding sugar. Others are
said to have netted more from spec-
ulation than from manufacture.

“Mr. Ketcham said he could not
obtain’information that would prove
these charges. The evidence gather-
ed by his association is convincing
enough, however, so that representa-
tives of 'the attorney-general of the
United States and agents of the de-
partment of justice have started an
investigation with a view to ascer-
taining if there has been violation of
the Lever Act, he reported."

Figures on Profts

The extent of the
manufacturers can make without
coming in conflict with the law is
shown by the fact that the cost of
prod'ucing beet sugar during the
1918-19'season was $167 a ten,
7 4-5 cents a pound, which includes
money paid to farmers for beets.
wages of labor, upkeep and depreci-
ation of plant, interest on invest-
ment, salaries of officials. The fig-
ures are takenfrom reports submit-

ted to Congress by the manufactur— ‘

ers when seeking a protective tariff
on sugar.

.. “The manufacturers are producing
sugar this year about as cheaply as
they did last," Mr. Ketcham sai
“They did not pay any more for the
beets they are using now than they
paid in 1918. Their common
may cost them a little more, but
that would be the main increases.
Cost of beets is 72 per ceut‘of the
cost of sugar, according to the Fed—
eral Trade Commission reports. That
big item has stood still.

“With sugar costing less than 8
cents a pound to manufacture, ,and
selling in carload. lots at from 11 1-2
cents up. there is a good profit for
the manufacturers Beets, on the
other hand, last year, cost the grow-
ers $1. 06 an acre. They got an av-
erage of $118. 30 an acre for them.
The average profit to each farmer
was $118. This is on the assumption
that the average acreage was» 10.
Unless a man gives all his time to
beets 10 acres is about his limit.

Holds Estimate Low

“When the beet growers at the
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BEET GROWERS:

at the following places and on the dates named:
OWOSSO, TUESDAY, FEB. 24TH—CARO, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 25th—SAGINAW, MONDAY, MARCH 8TH.

. The Saginaw meeting will be a “state round-up” and will come at the conclusion of the membership campaign. It IS expectedtha
this will be the largest mass meeting of farmers ever held in Michigan, and every angle of the sugar beet situatioh will be discussed.
ers who will attend these meetings will include John C. Ketcham, president of the U. S. Beet Grotvers’ Ass’n
Michigan State Grange, C. E. Ackerman, manager Micbigan Sugar. Best“ Browers’ Am’a,,zt, B.
fight, Forrest Lord, editor Michigan Business Farming, ii there. “L

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_ consistently blamed the president for

. " HAT 10.01!!! like a plain case
of politics and “naming the

W passed through Con-
providing a higher bean tariff,

Whig could not rally enough Democrat-

2 ‘10 votes to over-ride his vote.” The

congressman's conclusions are, there—
tore, that it M11 .be useless to intro-

: dupe the measure, and that the bean

owers must consequently cori'tinue
. compete with the cheaply grown
ental product.

....ell Mr. Fordnem we are from
Missouri, and We like to be shown.
We fo'lks back home are getting just
a little bit tired of this game or “pass-

', in the buck” which the' Republicans

and Democratc have been playing for
Congress has

everything that has gone wrong and

taken all the credit unto itself for
_‘ everything that has gone right, and
r, the president has had a habit of cov-
; suing himself with glory over the suc-
j cessful outcome of his plans and of
"throwing the blame back onto Con-

gress when his plans went awry.

' There simply isn’t any such thing as
pinning 'down responsibility any ‘

more; as‘ the average 'type of office

holder is so weakskneed that he can-V
- not bear the burden himself, but must

needs shift it off on to others.

The Bean Tariff

When the delegates from the been
growing states presented themselves
before the House Ways and Means

1‘ Committee, they submitted indisput-

able evidencethat the tariff on beans
should be increased. The Democrat-
ic members of the committee, conspic-

‘ nous among whom was Claude Kitch-

en, former minority leader. examined

" the proof. very carefully, and were 11-

nally forced to admit the‘ justice of
the growers' claims. If there was any

* out and out opposition on the Ways

LV,~-buck."'_ Ia Congressman Ford- ,
we . statement that be.

this president wOuld veto it, " apd ~

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1 ~ . _ Price of Food Shows. Big Drop

1 HE HIGH COST of living' is actually on the downward trend.
1 Prices of eggs, butter and potatoes are going lower weekly.
Flour also is coming down—so markedly that the return of the 10-~
cent-loo: of bread in the not too distant future was predicted today.
. A 50-cent drop on a barrel of flour was recorded today in the
wholesale market; carload lots selling for $12.50, instead of $13.
Eggs that retailcd today at from 59 to 62 cents a dozen, were
selling a few weeks ago at $1, or over.
sold at 76 cents a pound, is today quoted at 66 to 70 cents, while the
wholesale price of spuds, per 100 pounds IS now from $4. 65 to $4. 85,
as against $5.25 to $5. 75 two weeks ago.
The bottom has not been reached on these commodities, dealers
declared today. .Fifty-cent butter' 13 predicted within two weeks.
-Decided drops in the prices of meats and provisions seem cer-
tain according to packers—Chicago News Dispatch.

or news dispatches carry the positive statements that there is 1
no immediate prospect of lower prices on machinery, clothing, shoes
and- other manufactured products. Once more, Mr. Farmer, you are ad-
mitted to the Odorous Order of Goats. Advance and give the counter-

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and Means committee to the proposed

tariff, it did not make itself manifest,

during the hearing. The committee
left’ Washington with Congressman
Fordney’g positive
"everything possible would be done”
to speed the introduction and passage
cf'a special tariff bill. The only pro-
viso' to this promise was that in case
no general tariff bill were introduced
at the present session. The committee
took the congressman’g word in good
faith, and virtually leaving the entire
matter in his hands, returned home.
Since that time numerous letters have
gone forward to Mr. Fordney in-
quiring the progress of the legisla-
tion, but such infrequent replies as
have bleen received by MICHIGAN Bus-
INEss FARMING have. been evasive and
unsatisfactory.

Now the congressman says that it

assurance that ‘

is useless to introduce the bill. Why?
Because he THINKS the president
would veto it, and his efforts would be
entirely futile. This statement will
appeal to the average beam grower as
the weakest kind of excuse for Mr.
Fordney's defection in failing to carry
out his promise to the growers and. do
the thing which his own judgment
should tell him is in the interest of
the majority concerned. We are nat—
urally inclined to wonder just how
great Congressman Fordney’s influ-
ence is among his colleagues. We
wonder if he really can muster
enough votes to pass the measure? He
says so, but there is no evidence to
bear out his statement. The congress-
mam reminds us of the man who made
out a list of all the men in his town
whom he thought he could lick. Casey
heard that his name was on the list,

so we went to the boaster and said (I

“I hear yez have my name down wi
those whom yez kin lick. Be - that
thrue?”.“Yis,” said the other. “Well,"
rejoined Casey fiercely, “Yea can’t
lick me,” “Are you shure about
that?” say the other. “Yis, and I’ll
prove it to yez.” “Well. if what yez
say be thrue.” says the bold man,

"‘why, I’ll scratch your name off the

list.”

We expect the bean growers tocall
the congressman’s‘bluff just like that,
and have him make good on his boast
that he can get his: measure through
Congress, or else confess that he was
just ”talking through his hat” for the
opportunity it gave him for adding
censure to an already much-maligned
and afflicted president.

Does the good congressman from
the Eighth district think that his con-
stituents would blame him, if after
having done all in his power to get
the tari bill through Congress, the

'president then vetoed it? We have

never for a moment thought that Mr.
Fordney would be able to change the
policies of Pres. Wilson, and we are
sure that the committee that went
to Washington, of which the writer
was a member, had no such idea in
mind. In fact, the committee was
well informed as to the possibilty of
a presidential veto, and it is no
“news” to them that the president
still exercises the power of veto, and
still adheres to Democratic doctrines.
Let Mr. Fordney perform his obvious
duty which is to get this bill thru
Congress irrespective of what action
he may THINK the president will
take upon it. Having done this his
constituents will release him from ob-
ligations. But until he can convince
them that he has made every reason-
able effort to carry out his promise
they will convict him in their own
minds _,of playing politics and “pass-
ing the buck. ”

Interest 18 Keen In Business Farminé’ s Straw Vote for President

vote for. President .has been

A LTHOUGH M. B. F.’s straw
running less than three weeks

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.‘1 race.

turns, forecasting an intense inter-
est in the presidential contest "next
tall. As is usually the 'case the vote
has brought forth a number of sur-.
prises. Hiram Johnson leads in the
Henry Ford is running a close
race with Gen. Wood. Lowden shows
little strength.. Admirers of Wm.
Jennings Bryan have sent in so
many votes for that donghty political
warrior that we feel underihe neces-
sity of adding his name to our list
of candidates. It isn’t supposed to
be a popular thing to "be for Bryan,"
but the editor of M. B. F. isn’t a bit

;~ ashamed to acknowledge that he has
‘ ' long cherished a secret liking for Mr.

Bryan and a great admiration .for his

' sterling personal. qualities.‘ (Please do

not tell anybody about this. We might
be accused of being a Democrat and
a disciple of free silver ) .

But to return to the straw vote,
there are several ”candidates” who
do not seem to be in the running at
all». Among ’these- are Miles ~Poin-
derter, Gov. Harding. Gen. Persh-
ing, A. Mitchell Palmer, Wm. E. Bore
ah. Champ Clark. In our March
20th issue we shall drop all names
from our ballot who have not receiv-
ed' ten. or more votes. Votes have
been received for the following per-
sons whose names have not been on
the ballot: Wm. J. Bryan, Gov. Cool-
idge of, Massachusetts, Eugene
Debs, Robert LaFollette. Judge Gil-
beiit Nations, John D. Rockefeller,
Co . Goethals, Albert Beverldge.

We are in receipt of printed mat-

' tor from several of the presidential
candidates setting forth their views

a national affairs. As space per-
mite we hope to present these to our

can
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would place Mr. Herbert Hoover in
first place. First, because he is a man.
an organizer; and I believe he is not
a politician. In saying this I do not

”wish to cast any reflections upon the

present incumbent in the White
House, because under the circum-

stances he has done nobly but has lost

his. health in pursuance of his duties.
Second. 1119 is an army man. By that
I mean a man made prominent by the
past war. Hoover is broad enough

to elect a cabinetof men qualified as -

business men to administer their vari-
ous departments with speed endem-
ciency. His platform consists of two
words, “I serve.” Since you have ask-
ed for the vote, Mr. Hoover has stated
he is not a candidate, but I ~believe
that if the people will prevail upon
him he will accept the nomination.
Personally I don’t care what party
places him as party counts but naught
With a man who places country above
the dollar mark .-—Ralph Stewart,
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low: ‘
William E. Borah .D
Wm. Jennings BryanD
Champ Clark . . .
'Henry Ford
Gen. G. W. GoethalsU

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’ “I see in my M. B. F. that you have

started a straw vote for the next pres-
ident. 0n looking dowu the line I
fail to find the name of the men that
ought to have that honor. May I beg
of you to give him that vacant line
that I see at the bottom.

General Geo. W. Gmthals is one
hundred percent American, and there
is no question but what 99 per cent of
the men that ever worked under his
supervision on the big ditch, or else--
where, will not only vote for him but
get out and work for him. They know

he is all wool and a yard wide, and

some to spare. We know he stands for
nothing but a square deal, regardless
of whom it hurts. Very few of the
men that worked on the ditch any
length of time that did not have some
dealing with him in one way or an-
other and they know he is true blue.
Hoping to see his name in the next
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Admires Bryan

“There are, no doubt a' number of
good men listed, and perhaps would
be excellent timber for the highest
office in the United States. .But as I
see it, none of those whose names are
included in the list have stood up for
right and principle in as many good
causes in which the voters had to de-
cide in the last twenty years as Wm.
Jennings Bryan. He has shown him-
self a champion for the people in
bringing about legislature on more
qu stions than any of those listed,

been found on the right side of
the questions that have been settled
by the voters in the last twenty years,
than any one mam that I know of, and
even that much booted-at idea of 16
of silver. to one of gold, of bygone
days seems to have come out to his
credit since Uncle Sam is converting
so many silver dollars into bullion
and given us so many new silver cer-
tificates to do business on instead.
Then his stand on peace between na-
tions I think is admirable, although
men yeljled like mad at the thoughtof
those trying to settle the trouble be-
tween the nations of the world in any
other way, than in the war that has
cost us so much in life and limb, not
to speak of suffering and money that
had to be given by those engaged in
its prosecution and are still suffering
on account of the high cost of living,
brought about, not by peace, but as a
result of war, and will continue un-
til peace is finally established be-
tween the nations again.

“Then prohibition of the liquor
traflic, election of senators by direct
vote of the people, and many other
good things brought about by legis-
lation in state and nation had the
help and support of Mr. Bryan; and
woman suffrage, which is sure to come
soon, is, and has been, staunchly sup-
ported by the Commoner and will be

largely due to his help and leadership.

-—A. F. Brown, Alcona County.

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been occuring in the machine

N WoNDERS after wonders have"

of industry. Agriculture has been
undergoing a change as great as any
other business. The automobile, the
truck, the tractor, improved ”farm
machinery of all sorts and better me—
chanical devices for the house, the
dairy, etc.,

sion that a farmer is not easily sur-

prised any more at some new mar-

vel of machinery.

But now Henry Ford comes along
'with something which is creating a
real stir in all lines of business. It

is the making of a gasoline propel]?

ed interurban car, which can haul
long chains of freight cars and" pas-
senger cars as well. Just as the na-
tion’s highways have been thronged
with “tin Lizzies,” justso the‘ pro-
phecy is that the rail lines may be
crowded with busy gasoline motor
transports. Inasmuch as transporta-
tion is one'of' the greatest problems
of agriculture, (farmers pay more
than half the nation’s freight) this

announcement is of greatest import-

ance. .

Detroit newspapers have been
5 ding the plans for this new de—
v e as a salvation for the car short~

age, not only in the cities but be- ~

:tween cities as 'well. Quantity pro-
duction can be assured by such a
great manufacturing concern as has
taken over the project.

The body for. the first of the in-
ternal combustion engine-driven in-
w-hich are to be built
by Henry Ford & Son, at their Dear-
born plant, arrived recently from the
shops of the G. C. Kuhlman Cor 00.,

Cleveland, according to the Michigan.

Manufacturer &, Financial Record.

The power plant, which has been
on the testing block undergoing the
most vigorous tryouts the last two
months, has more than measured up
to expectations, according to that
publication. The trucks for the first
car have been completed. So that it
is probable that the car’s trial run
from Detroit to Chicago, in front of
the Wolverine Flyer, on the Michi~
gan Central Railroad, will be staged
shertly.

Work is not quite so far along on
Ithe city car model» which also will
be built by the Ford company. This
is because Henry Ford and his chief
engineer, Charles S. Sorenson, have
deemed it wise to build the interur—
-ban first, so that the test run to Chi-
cago could be made, to prove to their
entire satisfaction that the internal
combustion engine, 'when used to
drive a vehicle" of the size of an in—
Iterurban car, would do all they be-
flieve it will. This test having been
completed, and whatever changes, if
rthere are any, which it may have re—
rvealed as being advisable having
[been made, construction work on the
‘city car model will begin. Lest the
(reader get the impression from What
has just been said that the car is
{largely an experimentheven in the
lminds of those who have developed
lit, let it be said that Mr. Ford and

(Mr. Sorenson were never more 0011—.

Ifident of anything in their lives than
Ithat the new interurban and street
car willfairly revolutionize interur-

age of the last few yearsdfair- -‘
'ly revolutioninzing many branches

all these and many more
have arrived in such rapid suCces-v

Ford Interests at Dearbom Receive F 1rst Body Assembly to be

 

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Henry_ Ford and the Development of Agriculture , j A

A R M E R S around Greenfield,
Mich, can tell many interesting
steries of a young farmer who made
a success of his father’s big farm and . i
later on his own forty. That young‘
person happened to be Henry Ford.
‘He was raised on a farm and worked
, one for several years. So h -s firSt in-
terests lay with agriculture and that.
. great business has always remained
close by him. Long before he conceiv?
ed the idea of an automobile, he was
planning on building a tractor ~to re-
duce the drudgery of farm lfe. When
he was only 16 years old, he built an
old “steam buggy” in the shop back
of his father’s farm house at Green-
.field. From the time he was 17 until
21, he learned‘the machinist trade in
Detroit, but returned to help his fath-
er on the farm. He married a farm
.girl and worked a forty for several.
years. _
the machine idea for farming. After
the automobile was perfected, he
threw his energy into the tractor.
interurban car, which will greatly help
solve the transportation problem of the farmer. But read the story.

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city cars—will develop 80 horsepow—
er at 1,200 r. p. m., and the two-unit
type which will drive the interurban
cars, will develop twice thatmuch.
As you see it running on the testing
block, the exhaust makes quite a bit
of noise, but

model, as this car has been built for
the test iun to Chicago, is about 10
tons, as against 35 for the cars in
use today on inter- -city electric rail—
roads. The Ford street car, as it

has been designed, will weight about.

nine tons. The

 

there will be
a muffler and
the engine will
run as smooth-
ly and as
quietly as a
Twin _1Six or
an electric
motor. And it
has p o W e r
enough and to
spare.” ‘

As was told
in this paper
some _mon‘ths
ago, the en—
gine is of the
double oppos-
ed four cylin—
der type. It is
a, new motor.

 

 

D. U. R. city
cars we i g h
about 15' tons.
But the weight
of the interur-
ban car, at
least, probab-
ly will be re-
duced to be-
tween six and
seven tons be-
,fore the ve—
hicle has been
developed fin-
ally for use.
This . is be-
Cause the Ford
engineers have
been obliged
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in the design
of which Mr.
Ford, Mr. Sor-
enson and Lieut.—Col. Hall, the lat-
ter one of the engineers who devel-
oped_the Liberty motor, co-operat—
ed. It is light and compact, runson
ball bearings. and conforms fully
with Mr. Ford’s oft expressed con—
viction that the transportation med—
ium of the future is ”to be of much
lighter weight than that now in use
—a conviction which has found ex—
pression in the Ford automobile.
The total weight of the interurban

Front View of the Car

’ . regulations, to
build addition—
al weight into

the chassis for the trial run to Chi—

cago. For example. the bumper is

800 pounds heavier than it need be

when the car is operating on an in—

terurban ~line. The trucks also are
carrying excess weight; the wheels
probably will be a ton lighter for in-
terurban use.. Weight will also be
reduced elsewhere.

The bodies for the two types of
car are very much lighter than those

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of the cars now in use, but, accord-

} in Trial Run?

ing, to the Ford engineers, are strong

1

- enough to withstand the m'ost try-f

ing usage to which t by might be
put. The first interurban‘ body
weighs only 8, 400 pounds packed

‘ and with the airbrake equipment at-

. by means of shafts.

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tached. Light as they are, they will
not telescope in case of collision.
The bodies are made of high alloy
steel and aluminum.

The power plant will be attach-
ed to the chassis, at the center of the
car. and will clear nine inches from
the roadbed. The power will be ap-'
plied to two of the four wheels on
the front truck and two 011 the rear
The control is
exactly the same as in the Model T
Ford engine, which is so simple that
anyone can operate it with ease and
dispatch. The engine generates its
own electricity to recharge its bat—
teries and light the. car, and com~
presses its own air for the airbrakes.
It also will furnish heat for the car,
by both hot air and hot Water, the
air being drawfi over the motor by
means of a fan at the frOnt of the
radiator, The hot .Water will be cir—
culated from' the engine through
pipes around the sides of the car.

. Two multiple leaf springs tie the
axles together on each truck and
there is a cross spring for balance.
The wheels are of the solid disc
type, with a flange to operate on
the standard street car tracks.

Mr. Sorenson was asked Whether
the lightness of the cars would make
it possible to use a much lighter rail
than that now employed. He replied
that instead of the 91-pound rail now
used by the D. U. R. (91 pounds
weight to the yard of track,) a 40—
pound rail would be ample, and he
pointed to the saving which would
thus be effected in the purchase of
equipment:

Added interest in the development
of the Ford street cars has resulted
the last two or three weeks from the
announcement of
his newly
formulated plan fora municipality
owned street car system for the city
contemplated the, use of the
cars. A statement issued by the
mayor on January 7 said that Mr.
Ford had supplied him with figures
showing that the internal combus-
tion street cars could be operated at
a saving of 1.68 cents per car mile.
According to the
survey of the Detroit street car sys-
tem, the cost of Operation is 33.08
cents per car mile. Mr. Ford esti-

 

James Couzens. .

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Ford ‘

latest municipal .

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mates that his car can be operated .

for 31. 4 cents per car mile.
basis the total annual saving in op-
erating costs alone on the Detroit
system Would be $909, 647 40. These
figures, Mr. Sorenson pointed out are
Conservative. _

But the saving in gasoline is not
the only economy to be effected, ac-
cording :to a detailed statement pre-
pared by the Ford engineers and giv-
en out by-Mayor Couzens. This state-
ment says that the excess valuation
of the D. U.’ R. electrified system in
Detroit, other items remaining the
same, and including power plant,
distribution system, poles, fixtures
and additional capital due to great-
er cost of electric cars,’ is $4,133.012.
(One of the Ford cars, Mayor Couz- .
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street $5,000;
railwa y .aigaui 3 t 3
tran 8- double‘
por t a- t .h a 1;
ultlon. sum for
I “. This :he elec-
. b o W e r r 1 c
‘plant. ” street
Said Mr. 08. r .p )
S o r e n— The an-
pon, “is nual ina
the very teresst
Bmoot h— on 4 -
est thing ~ 133- 012,
youever» . Tat six'_
saw, and ' " at 11531; gisnt, ,
one of ' '3 W“ “‘" '”‘ 8 75
the sim- &” 4/74/13! W . 98 0 ‘7 2. ‘
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awakening has resettled.

 

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the 9 9.947. 40 01— operating "
costs sued by tile more cars,
gi_vin’g a total saying oi 91, .
88438818 annually. _ Using

9 pbrt of the D. U R

on, the saving set forth
above would make possible an

[tidal income were the Ford car

The Couzens municipal own-
ership plan, which provides a
bond issue of $15, 000, 000,

.i_n April, _ but .whether it is
adopted or not. Henry Ford &
Son are going to enjoy a very
great demand for their cars.
Letters have been received from
street railway and interurban
lines from several parts of the
country inquiring when the
Ford cars will be ready and
asking for operating and price
data. The Ford company is
going ahead with plans for
quantiay productiOn.

“we expect,” said Mr. Sorenson,
“to have a plant here two miles long
to build these cars." . .4 .

Mr. Ford’s chief engineer added
that it was his conviction that steam
railroads would be among the first

 
  
  
 
   
   
    
   
 
  
  
   

Interior view 01' the Ford interurban car.

to utilize the internal combustion
street car for their suburban traffic,
and predicted also that it would not
be many years before these cars
would be in use even on transcon—
tinental runs.

For suburban traffic, Mr. Soren-
son pointed out. the cars possess the
signal advantage of mobility—~tliat is
to say, the fact that they operate in
single units would make their use
particularly advantageous where a

' conm'r' 9v ' «a
gives, whichqasonsiiMQ Cw is? ..

 
   

“I can take this car fro
New York to San ' Franci'

kind of result? Figuring on t

continental run.

buns weigh :14 ions. that doesn’t
seem at. all prohibitive.”

Mr. Sorenson went on to dis-
cuss the relative merits of
fuels. pointing to the fact that
only 2 per cent of the energy
of the coal consumed ever
reaches the wheels ’oi’ electric
cars. With gasoline. he said.
10 per cent. of the energy is
finally harnessed. Tests of the
new Ford motor indicated that this
engine would use 18 per cent of the
energy. While 011 the trial trip to
Chicago gasoline will be used. the
new Ford motor is so constructed
that it can burn bonzol or alcohol.

Are We Witnessing the Passing of the Little Country Church and Pastor?

. Investigators Claim, According to Literary Digest, That Rural Religious Life is Rapidly on the Decline

 

“Lot not the spiritual and religious spirit that has been fostered for centuries oral

In the little country church, fade and die away

F IT BE “that the roots of the re-

ligious and moral life of the na-

tion are chiefly in the country
church," rural communities are in a
fair way to degeneracy, and are be-
coming means to its downfall, says
the Literary Digest. At least
this is the conclusion naturally drawn
from a three years’ survey of Ohio by
the Commission oh Church and Coun-
try Life of the Federal Council of the
Churches of Christ in America, which
reveals that the countryside is over-
stocked with churches too sparsely
provided with ministers, and that
many of these too-few pastors have~
been selected withoutmegard to quali-
fication. The result is «demoralization
of churches and people alike. But
where the evil has been recomized
and the remedy of interchurch comity
and co-operation‘ applied, spiritual
Having ei-

, cures in particdlsr instances.
«the commission suggests general ape
phcationi oi the remedy

Thai-es nitsoithesnrveyaresum-

  
 

H

odf‘Qix ”911;,

mem b e r -
(ship of one
hundred or
less; more
than 3,600,
or 55 .per
cent; have
a member-
ship 'of 75
or le s s ;
more than
2,400 or 37
per cent., a

, memb e r -
ship of 50
or less. Be—
cause 0 f
.the system
u n d e r
which past—
0 r s a r e
changed
frequent l y
and the di-
vided effort
of the min—

, istry among
v a ri o u s

_ and widely
separ a t e d
.chur c h e s,

.. the people
who slive in
the lrur a1
districts in
Ohio re-
ceive t 00
little past—
ser-
v.ica The

pay of the

country ministers is small; the sup-
port of the church is meagre. In 1917
the majority of the ministers of the
largest denomination received less
than $1,100 each, while the average
was $857 and free use of parsonage.
“A most striking illustration of the
churches’ inefficiency may be found
in southern and, southeastern Ohio.
Here, in a regiOn covering at least
eighteen counties, the failure 0f the
churches may fairly he called pathetic.
These counties are: Adams, Athens

Brown, Clermont, Gallia, Highland,
Hocking,‘Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs,
Monroe:= Morgan, Noble, Pike, Ross,

Scioto,; Vinton and Washington. In

' this area, after more than a hund ed

years of the work of the churches, be
religious, social, and economic war-

fare of the people are going down. Al—

tho‘ the churches have been here for
more than a century, no normal type
6% organised is really flour-

visiting. While the only kind which, dur-

ing the past tit-teen years. has been
gaining Is("fr-round, the cult of the Holy
. b to

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and the general moral and spiritual
decadence of the people. In no
fewer than tWelve out of the eighteen
counties, the death-rate from tubercu—
losis is excessive. Reports 01’ the Ohio
Bureau of Vital Statistics for the
years 1909, 1910, and 1911 (the latest
We could secure on the subject) give
the average annual rate from this dis—
ease for 100, 000 persons, as 125 for the

— whole state. Of the seventeen coun—
ties in the state whose death-rate from
tuberculosis is 145 or over, all but five
are in this region, and of the five one
is a bordering county. . . . The
number of' illegitimate births in the
eighteen counties :is likewise excess-
ive., 'The rate per 100,000 population
for the state is 43.9. Of the twenty-
eight chunties whose rate is above the
average, nineteen, or 68 per cent, are
either, in the eighteen counties or bor-
dering on them; No fewer than thir-
teen or more than two—thirds of the
eighteen counties, have an excessive
number of illegitimate births.
Illiteracy also in the eighteen counties

' is excessive. The percent. of illiter—
ate males of voting age for the state
in 1910 was 4.2. There are twenty-
nine counties in which that number
was exceeded. Of these, fourteen are
among the eighteen counties, and five
border on them.”

These statistical data “do not over-
state the urgency of the,appea1 from
the unfortunate overchurched and un-
derministered communities of this
section," for “here gross superstition
exercises strong control over the thot
and action of‘a large proportion of the
people.” Immorality, rlntemperance,
and crime are declared to be rife; pol—
itics cornupt, and schools badly man-

‘ aged and poorly attended.

As in the eighteen counties some of
the older and stronger denominations
are well represented—no fewer than
526, or more than one-third 0f the to-
tal number of churches being Metho-
dist Episcopal—“it is evident that the
failure of the churches in this area
can not be laid to the weakness or
poverty of the denominations repre-
sented, for they are for the most part
neither'weak nor poor.” On the oth-

er hand, “in rural Ohio the worst
moral and religious conditions are
found where there are the largest

number of churches in proportion to
the number of inhabitants.”

As to the proportion of pastors to
population:

"There are t enty-four counties in
Ohio in which 1: ere are more than 1, -
000 persons for each resident minis-
ter, of which thirteen are among the

eighteen courities under consideration.

and three among the bordering coun-

  

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96 o‘

 

mono; Gall
,, to,

Nobleco h r ident i-'
Walla so no

ing has only one to 1,693, or nearly 1.-
700 persons."

Here, “as in most rural sections, an
absentee ministry lg necessarily inef-
foctive." As we rend in explanation:

“While the preaching of it good pas-
tor is an. indispensable factor in the

individual development; of his pzu'ish-,

toners and in Hill progress of commun-
ity life. that of tho non-resident is by
comparison 01' little value. it; is shoot-

ing in, the air without. seeing the tar-I

get, like the fire of artillery without
the aid of itll‘ scouts. ’l‘liore is no
greater force for righteousness in a.

country community than in, church
with a resident, minister, well educat-
ed, well equipped, wisely selected,
whose term of survive is not too short.

“The right, kind of resident minister
will have n, six-om,r and intelligent de-

sire to Htittili’li mmoriunltiou for the
best, developnwut of his children and
to create :1. favorable mnvironment for
them. lio will, therefore, lake a. keen
interest; in the schools, in the estab-

lishing of libraries, in play und social
life, in keeping out evil influences and
promoting general decency."

Having thus diagnosed the ailment
from which the rum! church is But-
fering, the commission then proceeds
to its program for cure. The ministry
must be better (itllllttiiliitl, and more
care should be used in selecting pas-
tors for this particular kind 0: work.
Church and minister must receive
more support, which, in most in-
stances, the farmers are ready to give.
Circuits must. be so arranged that the
pastor may have more time for each
church and congregation. Parishes
must be made more compact, and in,
every township at least; one resident
minister should be coinlilisliGd. Co-
operation should be substituted for
competition, and this (:o-operatlmla
Whore necesum‘ y, should take the form
of a (ommuoiiy or federated church.
The writers say:

“in view of the urgent needs of thi
rural communities, as a rule, thou
methods should be adopted thCh are
most acceptable to the local. people
whose interests are involved. When
the people of a community come to de-
sire united Christian action in pro~
moting community welfare. their zeal
will usually be strong enough to over-
come the difficulties in the way. But
this desirable consummation is great-
1y retarded where opposition is made

by the denomination or its officials. ,. 7

Until the church officials and denomi-
nation. are able to propose some other
practicable plan for the readjustment
of church life to community welfare,

a plan which can be carried out, the

demands 0: the situation certain!
quire them to help rather then b
the movement for the .
W elm relies In on:
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part or the power they «use

ate in pulling theirs , ow;
weight," was another vital .
factor. ‘

with only one filling of gases
line,” said Mr. Sorenson. “Gilli
any other power unit. give til“

basis of five miles to the gallon ‘
of gasoline, it would require ,
600 gallons of fuel for a trans.»
That to
only 4,200 pounds at the start, .
and when you ilgure the weight
saved in a car that weighs only
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been occuring in the 'niachine
age of the last few yearsnfairé-
“fly revolutioninzing many branches
of industry. AgriCulture has been
undergoing a change as great as any
other business.
truck, the tractor, improved ”farm
machinery of all sorts and better me-
chanical devices for the house, the
dairy, etc., all these and many more
have arrived in such rapid succes-
sionyt-hat a farmer is not easily sur-
prised any more at some new mar—
vel of machinery.
But now Henry Ford comes along
with something which is creating a
real stir in all lines of business. It

WoNDERS after wonders have

is the making of a gasoline propell-‘
which can haul‘

ed interurban car,
long chains of freight cars and" pas-
senger cars as well. Just as the na-
tion’s highways have been thronged
with “tin L1zz1es ” just so the' pro-
phecy is that the rail lines may be
crowded with busy gasoline motor
transports. Inasmuch as transporta—
tion is one' of' the greatest problems
of agriculture, (farmers pay more
than half the nation’s freight) this

announcement is of greatest import-

ance.

Detroit newspapers have been
a ding the plans for this new de-
v e as a salvation for the car short~
age, not only
tween cities as 'well. Quantity pro—
duction can be assured by such a
great manufacturing concern as has
taken over the project.

The body for the first of the in—
ternal combustion engine-driven in~
. terurban cars, which are to be built
by Henry Ford & Son, at their Dear-
born plant, arrived recently from the
shops of the G. C. Kuhlman Cor 00.,

Cleveland, according to the Michigan.

Manufactmm &. I inancial Record.

The power plant which has been
on the testing block undergoing the
most vigorous tryouts the last two
months, has more than measured up
to expectations, according to that
publication. The trucks for the first
car have been completed. So that it
is probable that the car’s trial run
from Detroit to Chicago, in front of
the Wolverine Flyer, on the Michi-
gan Central Railroad, will be staged
shortly.

 

 

Ford Interests at Dearbom Receive First Body Assembly to be Used 1n Trial Run

on M. C. R R -—Detroit to Chicago

 

 

The automobile, the '

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HENRY FORD

 

 

[Henry Ford and the Development of Agriculture

A R M E R S. around Greenfield,
Mich., can tell- many interesting ,
steries of a Young farmer who made {
a success ()1? his father’s big farm and . 3
later on his own forty. That young”
person happened to be Henry Ford.
”He was raised on a farm and worked
_ one for several years.
terests lay with agriculture and that
gre’a‘f business has always remained
close by him. Long before he con’ceivi
ed the idea of an automobile, he, was
planning on building a tractor "to re-
duce the drudgery of farm lfe. When
he was only 16 years old, he built an
old “steam buggy" in the, shop back
of his father’s farm house at Green-
field. From the time he was 17 until
21, he learnedjthe machinist trade in
Detroit, but returned to help his fath-
er on the farm.
girl and worked a forty for several
years.
the machine idea for farming. After
the automobile was perfected, he
threw his energy into the tractor.
And now it is the gasoline interurban car, which will greatly help
solve the transportation problem of the farmer. But read the story.

So h's first in:

He married a farm

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city cars——Will develop 80 horsepow—
er at 1,200 r. p. 111., and the two—unit
type which will drive the interurban
cars, will develop twice thatmuch.
As you see it running on the testing
block, the exhaust makes quite a bit
of moise, but

model, as this car has been built for
the test 11m to Chicago, is about 10
tons, as against 35 for the cars in
use today on inter— city electric rail—
roads. The Ford street car, as it
has been designed, will weight about.

‘ nine tons. The

 

there will be
a muffler and
the engine will
run as smooth-

ly a n d a s
quietly as a
Twin \Six or

an elect r i c
motor. And it

 

 

D. U. R. city
cars weigh
about 15 tons.
But the weight
of the interur-
ban car, at
least, probab-
ly will be re-
duced to be-

 

 

, by means of shafts.

ing to the «Ford engineers, are strong :

enough to withstand the mast try-7f-

ing usage to jwhich they might be,
91113.1 The first interurban body
weighs only 8,400

tached. Light as they are, they will.
not telescope in case of collision.
The bodies are made of high alloy.
steel and aluminum

The power plant will be attach-
ed to the chassis, at the center of the
car. and will clear ’nine inches from
the roadbed. The power will be ap-'
plied to two 01' the four wheels on
the front truck and two 011 the rear
The control is
exactly the same as in the Model T
Ford engine, which is so simple that
anyone can operate it with. ease and
dispatch. The engine generates its
own electricity to. recharge its bat-
teries and light the. car, and com-
presses its own air for the airbrakes.
It also will furnish heat for the car,
by both hot air and hot water, the

air being drawn over the motor by

means of a fan at the front of the
radiator. The hot water will be cir—
culated from the engine through

. pipes around the sides of the car. .

- Two‘multiple leaf springs tie the
axles together on each truck and
there is a cross spring for balance.
The wheels are of the solid disc
type, with a flange to Operate on
the standard street car tracks.

Mr. Sorenson was asked whether
the lightness of the cars would make
it possible to use a much lighter rail
than that now employed.
that instead of the Ell—pound rail now
used by the D. U. R. (91 pounds
weight to the yard of track,) a 40-
pound rail would be ample, and he
pfiinted to the saving which would
thus be effected in the purchase of
equipment:

Added interest in the development
of the Ford street cars has resulted
the last two or‘ three weeks from the
announcement of James Couzens.
mayor of ,Detroit, that his newly
formulated plan for a municipality
owned street car system for the city
contemplated the use of the Ford
cars. A statement issued by the
mayor on January 7 said that Mr.
Ford had supplied him with figures
showing that the internal combus-

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
   
  

 

 

 

pounds packed ,
'and with the air-brake equipment at—

He replied/

a.-

Work is not quite so far along on has D 0 W e 1‘ tween Six and tion street cars could be operated at
the city car model» which also will 811011311 “1le seven tons be- a saving of 1.68 cents per car mile.
be built by the Ford company. This spare-” fore the “3' According to the latest municipal
is because Henry Ford and his chief AS was told hide has been survey of the Detroit street car sys-
engineer, Charles S. Sorenson, have in this paper developed fln- tom, the cost of operation is 33.08
deemed it wise to build the interur— some months ally 101'. use. cents per car mile. Mr. Ford esti-
-ban first. so that the test run to Chi— ago, the en— This is be- mates that his car can be operated .
cago could be made, to prove to their gine is "f the Cause the Ford for 31. 4 cents per car mile. On this
entire satisfaction that the internal double 01’1“)?“ engineers have basis the total annual saving in OD—
combustion engine, when used to all four cylin— been obliged erating costs alone on theDetroit
drive :1 vehicle of the size of an in~ ‘1‘” WP“- It ‘3 under the system WOUld be $909 647 40- These
licrurbun (111'. would do all Hwy bow at new Illicit». steanll railroad figures, Mir Sorenson pointed out are
lievc it will. This lest llzlvint: boon i“ ll“ ‘0“ K” ., , , , , 1 T8811 ations, o conservat ve.
completed. and whatever changes, 11’ 01’ which Mr. mm" “L“ of the (“M build addition- But the saving in gasoline is not
where are any, Wllll'll ll may have we F011], M"- SW" ill weight into the only economy to be eflected, ac—
'veulod us 1,14,”; “”ijqu having ("“30“ 11nd l.leul..-Col. Hull, tho lull the chassis for the trial run 10 Chl— cording" to a detailed statement pre-
lbocn mndu. “nmyupnun “my“ on the RM 1.111‘ of the engineers who duvol‘ (7113.1). For example. the bumper is pared by the Ford engineers and giv-
cny rm' 111mm will begin. 1m in... owl llw Liberty molar. “(VUIN‘WH' MW lWlllldh lwuvlm‘ than it need be on out by Mayor Couzens. This state-
reader “1..., H“. “UPI...“W,“ flu“ What ml. It is light and (minimal, runs on when the car is operating on an in— meat guys that the excess valuation
has 1“,.” ”W“ WM that ,1“. my 1,, bull bearings. und conforms fully lururbun line. The trucks also are of the 1) U R electrified system in
llargely an (e\|1m‘llswlil, run 1, 11... with Mr. Ford's of! (expressed «on carrying excess Welght; the wlu-ols Detroit, other items remaining the
minds of thum- \Vllu llHVr .1 t. I, W... \‘lrllnll llml the transportation lllwl probably will be a ton llghter for in» same, and including power plapt,
:11, lot 11 hr snnl 111.11 My my“: mm mm 11 llw future is to lm or much lururbun use. Weight wlll also be distribution system, poles, fixtures
(My, Sul‘vnmm urrv 11mm inn!“ m“ lmlllrr “vial” llmu Ilml now in use I'l‘ducml leHWlwre- and additional capital due to great‘
[Mom (1! “mulling in mm 1111». 111.111 .1 Hmvlrllull wlnrb ham found m The lmdlus for the 1WD types of or cost of electric curs,‘ is $4,133-012.
Ilml lbw mm lutvlurlmu llllll ism-u lnmwlnn 1H llm l‘VH'll nulnnmbllla mr uro- very much lighter than those (”no of the Ford cars, Mayor Couz-
pm- Wm Ian!)- 1.411111“;sz 11111111”- The. total wmghl or Hm interurban of 1b.» q‘ul'u how in use, bul. accord- ens announced, could be built for
huh and a b 0 u t
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iDcrease of 58 7 per cent in an-
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"‘:'\.,'probably will go to the people
.i_n April, , but

'great demand for their 'cars. -,

'. data.
' going

costs saved by‘1 the; Ford cars,
giving a total saving of $1,-
annually. Using

tatibn. the saving set forth
above would make possible an

used.

The Couzens municipal oWn-.
ership plan, which provides a
bond issue of $15, 000, 000,

.Whether it is
adopted or not. Henry Ford &
Son are going to enioy a very

Letters have been received from
street railway and interurban’
lines from several parts of the
country inquiring when the
Ford cars will - be. readyand
asking for operating and price
‘The Ford cempany is
ahead with plans for
quantiay production.

“We expect” said Mr. Sorenson,
“to have a plant here two miles long
to build these cars]? - .1

Mr. Ford’s’chief engineer added
that it was his conviction; that steam
railroads would be among the first

    
 
  
  
 
  
   
  
 
  
  
   
   
  
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
  
   

Interior view of the Ford interurban car.

to utilize the internal combustion
street car for their suburban traffic,
and predicted also that it would not
be many years before these cars
would be in use even on transcon-
tinental runs.

For suburban traffic, Mr. Soren-
son point-ed out. the cars possess the
signal advantage of mobility-that is
to say, the fact that they operate in
single units would make their use
particularly advantageous where a

. be or rains Wet. ”

"ing operated Thei’? W..
economy over steam, loco
fives, Which goonsuine an larg
part of the pOWer they gener

ate in pulling their~ own-
weight,” was another vital
factor.

“I can take this car from _
with only one filling of gaso--.
line,” said Mr. Sorenson. “Can
any other power unit give that
kind of result? Figuring on. the.
basis of five miles to the gallon'
of gasoline,
600 gallons of fuel for a trans- '
continental run. That is
only 4,200 pounds at the start,
and when you figure the Weight
saved in a car that weighs only
eight tons, where some internr-
bans weigh 34 tons, that doesn’t
seem at all prohibitive.”

Mr. Sorenson went on to dis-
cuss the relative merits of
fuels. pointing to the fact that
only 2 per cent of the energy
of the coal consumed ever
reach-es the wheels ’of electric
cars. With gasoline, he said,
10 per cent of the energy is
finally harnessed. Tests of the
new Ford motor indicated that this
engine would use 18 per cent of the
energy. While on the trial trip to
Chicago gasoline will be used, the
new Ford motor is so constructed
that it can burn benzol or alcohol.

Are We Witnessing the Passing of the Little Country Church and Pastor?

. Investigators Claim, According to Literary Digest, That Rural Religious Life is Rapidly on the Decline

“Lot no! the splmual and rellglous splrlt that has been fostered for oenturles

In the little country church, fade and die sway."

F IT BE “that the roots of the re-
ligious and moral life of the na-
tion are chiefly in the country
church " rural communities are in a

'fair way to degeneracy, and are be-

coming means to its downfall, says
the Literary Digest. At least
this is the conclusion naturally drawn
from a three years’ survey of Ohio by
the Commission on Church and Coun-
try Life of the Federal Council of the
Churches of Christ in America, which
reveals that the countryside is over-
stocked with churches, too. sparsely
provided with ministers, and that

many of these too-few pastor-shave-

been selected wit'houtnregard to quali-
fication. The result is demoralization
of churches and people alike. But
where the evil has been recognized
and the remedy o: interchurch comity
and co-operation applied. spiritual
awakening has resulted, Having ‘ei-
isoted euros in partmular instances,
the commission Unmet: general up:
vacation of the remedy

The results of the survey are sum-
apprised in s robin . “(mix Thighs

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mem b e r -
(ship of one
hundred or
less; more
than 3,600,
or 55 ,per
cent; have
a member-
ship of 75
or 'le s s ;
more than
2,400 or 37
per cent., a
‘ memb e r -
ship of 50
or less. Be-
caus e o f
.the system
u n d e r
which past-
0 r s a r e
c h a n g e d
frequent l y
and the di-
vided effort
of the min—
, istry among
v a r i o. u s
and, Widely
separ a t e d
.chur c h e s-
the people
who ‘live in
the ,rur a1
districts in

Ohi o r e -
ceive t 00
little past—
oral s e r -
vice. The
pay of the
country ministers is small; the sup—

port of the church is meagre In 1917
the majority of the ministers of the
largest denomination received less
than $1,100 each, while the average
was $857 and" free use of parsonage.

“A mest striking illustratiou of the
church'es’ inefficiency may be found
in southern and. southeastern Ohio.
Here, in a region covering at least
eighteen counties, the failure of the
churches may fairly he called pathetic.
These counties are: Adams, Athens

Brown, Clermont, Gallia, Highland,
Hocking, Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs,
Monroe Morgan, Noble, Pike, Ross,

Scioto,}Vlnton and. Washington. In
this area.‘ after. more than a hund ed
years of: the work of the churches, he
religious, social, and economic war-
fare of the people are going down. Al-
tho the churches have been here for
more than a cent y, no normal type
of unaided? “9% is really flour—
ishing, Wh}le the only kind which, dur-

   

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‘ is excessive.

and the general moral and spiritual
decadence 0f the people. . In no
fewer than twelve out of the eighteen
counties, the death—rate from tubercu-
losis is excessive. Reports 0f the Ohio
Bureau of Vital Statistics for the
years 1909, 1910, and 1911 (the latest
we could secure on the subject) give
the average annual rate from this dis-
ease for 100,000 persons, as 125 for the
whole state. Of the seventeen coun-
ties in the state whose death-rate from
tuberculosis is 145 or over, all but five
are in this region, and of the five one
is a bordering county. The
number of‘ illegitimate births in the
eighteen counties is likewise excess—
ive. The rate per 100,000 population
for the state is 43.9. Of the twenty-
eight counties whose rate is above the
average, nineteen, or 68 per cent, are
either, in the eighteen counties or bor-
dering on them; No fewer than thir-
teen or more than two—thirds of the
eighteen counties, have an excessive
number of illegitimate fbirths.
Illit-eracy also in the eighteen counties
The percent. of illiter-
ate males of voting age for the state
in 1910 was 4.2. There are twenty-
nine counties in which that number
was exceeded. Of these, fourteen are
among the eighteen counties, and five
border on them.”

These statistical data “do not over-
state the urgency of the_appeal from
the unfortunate overchurched and un-
derministered communities of this
section,” for “there gross superstition
exercises strong control over the that
and action of‘a large proportion of the
people.” Immorality, intemperance,
and crime are declared to be rife; pol—
itics cornupt, and schools badly man-
aged and poorly attended.

As in the eighteen counties some of
the older and stronger denominations
are well represented—no fewer than
526, or more than tone-third Of the to-
tal number of churches being Metho-
dist Episcopal~—~“it is evident that the
failure of the churches in this area
can not be laid to the weakness or
poverty of the denominations repre-
sented, for they are for the most part
neither weak nor poor.” On the oth—

er hand, “in rural Ohio the worst
moral and religious conditions are
found Where there are the largest

number of churches in proportion to
the number of inhabitants.”

As to the proportion of pastors to
population: 8

“There are t enty-four counties in
Ohio in which t era are more than 1,-
000 persons for each resident minis-
ter,1of which thirteen are among the

eighteen counties under consideration.

and three among the bordering coun-

ties Nellie- county has a resident min- '

ister to every 1,2404 mm; Gallit to
every 1,, 396; Lawrence to every 1. 450;

PickaWay no“ Wy'1;458;=while Hook-

ing has only one to 1,693, or nearly 1,-
700 persons.”

Here, “as in most rural sections, an
absentee ministry is necessarily inef-
fective.” As we read in explanation:

“While the preaching of a good pas-
tor ‘is an indispensable factor in the
individual development, of his parish-
ioners and in the progress of commun-
ity life, that of the non-resident is by
comparison of little value. It is shoot-
ing in the air without seeing the tar-f
get, like the fire of artillery Without
the aid of air scouts. There is no
greater force for righteousness in a.

Country community than a church
with a resident minister, well educat-
ed, well equipped, wisely selected,

Whose term of service is not too short.

“The right kind of resident minister
will have a strong and intelligent de-
sire to secure opportunities for the
best development of his children and

' to create a favorable environment for

them. He will, therefore, take a keen
interest in the schools, in the estab-
lishing of libraries, in play and Social
life, in keeping out evil influences and
promoting general decency.”

Having thus diagnosed the ailment
from which the rural church is suf-
fering, the commission- then proceeds
to its program for cure. The ministry
must be better educated, and more
care should be used in selecting pas-
tors for this particular kind 0f work.
Church and minister must receive
more support, which, in most in-
stances, the farmers are ready to give.
Circuits must be so arranged that the
pastor may have more time for each.
church and congregation. Parishes
must be made more" compact, and in
every township at least one resident
minister should be established. 00-
operation should be substituted for
competition, and this loo-operation.
where necessary, should take the form;
of a community or federated church,
The writers say:

“In View of the urgent needs of the
.rural communities, as a rule, those
methods should be adopted which are
miOSt acceptable to the local. people
whose interests are involved. When

the people of a, community come to de-

sire united Christian action in pro~‘
moting community welfare? their zeal
will usually be strong enough to over-
come the difficulties in the way. But
this desirable consummation is great-
ly retarded where opposition is made

by the denomination or its officials.. ,. ' '

Until the church officials and denomzh- 1
nations are able to propose some other
practicable plan for the readjustment '
of church life .to community welfare,
9. plan which can be .carried out, the
demands or the situation certainly re: '
quire them to help rather than hind ' »
the movement for the formation
federated churches. In any ates;
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out in all this financial and

commercial mix up with for-
eign countries, one is likely to ask
. these days when there is so much in
the papers about the foreign ex-
change dropping almost daily. The
fate of numerous kinds of grains and
produce seems to hang upon foreign
conditions, as to prices, and geogra-
phy runs amuck-in the financial and
business world as never before. In
fact. a farmer or any other business
man will do well these days to get
a pretty fair idea of how the wind
blows in regard to such things.

Although there is much to be said
about money, its quantity, compara-
tive values and so on. the world has
been for too long a time thinking of
international trade in terms of dol-
lars and cents, pounds, marks, francs
and lire. The period of reconstruc-
tion has brought with it the keen
realization that it isn’t the money
which counts so much after all. It
is the exchange of goods that rules
business.- Money is merely a sign
or medium of exchange for the im-
mense quantities of goods which are
being bartered off between persons
and countries.

Well then, how about this trading
of goods? It is all in the favor of
the United States and has been for
years. Today the results are being
reaped in full measure, and in sud-
den jumps, because it is hard for the
world to break away from its old
ideas in regard to such things as
money and trade.
now pretty widely known, has been
created under the name of “balance
of trade.” That means, for example,
if the United States exports eight
billion dollars worth of goods last
year and it imports only four bil-
lion dollars’ worth, then our balance
of trade for last year was the re-
mainder, or four billion dollars. This
balance of trade is in a way to be
considered as national profit, because
foreign countries are obligated fin-
ancially to us twice as much as we

, are to them.

The balance of trade in America’s
favor started on a grand scale early
in the war. It has continued and in—
creased during much of the past year
showing little sign of let-up. There-
fore. one can see an outstanding rea—
son for the tremendous strength of
the American dollar on the money
exchanges of the world.

The 1919 custom house figures
showed a total of exports from the
United States of 7,922 millions of
dollars, compared with imports total-
ing 3,904 millions of dollars, leav-
ing us a favorable balance of trade
of 4,018 millions. That sum is truly
enormous, and should at least tem—
porarily bolster the international
credit of any nation to a high pitch.

There is another element which
makes German marks, French francs
and other European money almost
worthless when compared with the
dollar of the United States. This
country loaned to Europe approxi—
mately nine billion dollars during
the war. That means that every
man, woman and child in this whole
great country of ours has loaned just
$90 to Europe and is the creditor,
collectively, for interest upon that
amount.

The interest upon that sum an—
nually is about half a billion dollars
due to the United States, and thus it
can be seen that some countries in
Europe are having tough sledding
merely to pay the interest on their
debts, to say nothing of paying back
the principal.’

Inasmuch as it is the world prob-
lem new confronting us, we will

~glidenverthecoaditlonsinonr own.
country which we know fairly well,
and turn the seerchlight upon the
foreign nations who buy our grain

WHERE are we going to come

Tundgoodootnllme. Wedonot'

find a world all in tatters, nor yet is
it one with much wealth. It is rath-
er mottled picture. Europe had its
war prodteers who are new little
afraid of letting everyone know of

their great riches. Noblemen have

.m lands to be subdivided and are
' M in many cases. People tutor-
I“ i! the cotton cloth industry in
W England,

An expression, .

the westernmost hull: -

have been .

Results of Balance of Trade Worklrg m America‘s Fever and "the F1
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By VERNE E. BURNETT

making 90 per cent profit on their
investment. The 'houfling problem
is far worse in Europe than in Ami
erica and in many communitiespro-
duction is going férward full blast
and prosperity is evident.

But analyze the situation more

closely, country by country and you .

find many factors which cause a
doubt as to Europe’s ability to pay
back to America. the enormous war
debts plus interest, and at the same
time restore the balance of trade
and the foreign exchange. Foreign

exchange is the expression used to .

cover the system of comparative
values of money. To Americans it
meana how much‘ the various kinds
of foreign money are worth in dol-
lars and cents. For many years the
foreign exchange had held firm. be-
fore the Great War, and it greatly
aided international trade. But now
it is the lowest since the Napoleonic
wars about a hundred years ago,
thus greatly upsetting business.
Great Britain. the biggest and
strongest foreign power, is the best
fixed of the powers in the war, out-
side of America. But even Great

Britain is having its dimculties. The‘

British pound, formerly worth near-
ly five dollars, is now worth only a
little over three, and still fluctuat-
ing sharply. England like other
European countries has seen itself
fairly flooded with paper money and
the gold supply seems to shrink.
Even the United States has far more
paper money in circulation than ever
before—four times as much as be-
fore the war, we are told.

England is sorely perplexed with
the/ Irish question, and Ireland in
many parts seems to be seething in

preparations for an upturn. The.
British intend to pay .the United
States all right, no matter how

gloomy her outlook may seem. Her
whole spirit of gameness was voiced
in a statement by a young London
bank clerk who came to the office

~ to an outsider.

one morning with many
“The value of the pound-has gone
up two points in New York, " he said
The British are con-
fident that their old power will come
back some of these days in trade
and they will be able to pay on the
debts.

The British lost millions of tons
of shipping during the war, due’to
the submarines. and America has
gone ahead by leaps and, bounds, un-
til there is not so very much differ-
ence in the relative strength or the
merchant marines of the two powered
The advantage of a strong Ameri-
can marine has been strongly dem-
onstrated during the past year when
shipping bottoms were mighty scarce
and American grain and goods could
be moved and sold while other na-
tions had to wait in line as shipping
was rationed out. But Great Brit-
ain is building many ships 5 today.
Three per cent of her men are re-
ported as unemployed. It might be
far worse, considering the demobili-
zation of her great armies, but it
might be better.

In general. Great Britain, exhaust-
ed though she is by war, has a bright
outlook compared with European
neighbors. None of the British
machinery was ruined by war. She
has all her plants running, most of
them full blast. Nobility, which us-
ed to shun work, has taken to it in
earnest. And a mad riot of spend-
ing indicates that there must be
plenty cf money, although some say
it is due to a don’t-care spirit—”eat,
drink and make merry, for' tomor-
row we get taxed to death.” The
$90 owing to each American is
pretty safe so far as England is
concerned, according to the general
outlook.

France is a nation which has fool-
ed experts many times. It is neces-
sary to go back to history to show
the character of France. After the
great French Revolution, ending in

Lupine, the ~Wonder ., Soil Builder

(The recent articles m M. B. F. on Gert Schmidt’s success"
1/ lands have brought forth my We: from our

crops 0” 8

with

readers as to the mm of seeding, etc” of lamina and modem. At
our request Mr. 801:.th has supplied us with the ram anorect-

ing facts. )

UPINES will grow’under con-

ditions no other legume will, i.

e , in soil that is practical clear
sand, also in soil that has practical-
ly no lime. And although it is only
an annual, it is very quick growing
and also very deep rooting. Because
of these reasons it is valuable in
fitting barren lands for future use,
getting lands ready for a clover
catch and building up worn out land
on which clover will not grow any
longer.

It can be seeded with cats or bar-
ley in spring, in this case I prefer to
give the oats and barley a good start
by sowing the lupines several weeks
later than the grain planting. The
reason for that is, that when the
lupines are planted with the grains,
they grow too rapidly, and when the
grain is mowed, the lupines are also
cut down and they do not recover
well from this check. y

I have also planted lupines im-
mediately" after mowing the grain
crop. I have found it desirable to
set up the sheaves in long rows fol-
lowing the binder with the disc har-
row, then rolling and immediately
drilling the lupine seeds. If pos-

siblelwoulddrifiinthem.

where I mowed in the morning.
Sandland should be kept working
and shaded as much as possible. as

sums:
destructive to the bacterial soil life.
Most soils do not need inoculation
for this plant. the nodules ‘my
forming quickly and growing to con-
siderable size.
method I have found it advisable to
allow the plants to m, we: cults
severe frosts freon than: am and

ploughing the pleats under. between ’__ .

crew- “

In following this '

_I have also found the plant very
valuable in sowing with fall wheat
and rye. It makes a growth of six
to eight inches, freezes down, acts
as a protection against the winter
colds.‘ and holds the snows splendid-
ly. It can be used for pasturing, but
I do not advise this, nor do I ad-
vise cutting the plants for hay ,as
the seed sometimes develops a
dangerous poison, particularly .for
hogs, although some European farm-
ers have used it for years with-
out ill effect. But its main value is
to start growth in barren soils, to
bring the soil bacteria into activitiy
and provide humus. ~

I have used twenty to thirty
pounds, per acre, and prefer a mix-
ture of the blue arid white blossom-
ing plants. It differs very much
from other legumes by producing a
heavier crop each year that it is

' planted in successidn.

equal it in this. ream . I‘m.

give the approximate green no.

weight, «Invemrmm
”all

plants under, and were:

then. Itwillbe m in

smiles. '

' atlyely free from strikes.

the were under Napomon the world 7
decided that France was so austof

ed that she could never again rise as; *5 l

a power. But she immediately rose-
among the rest as a financial and .po-
litical power.
1870 when the Germans swept into, .
Paris and a blobdy‘ revolution occur-'
red in the gay capital, the world deg
aided that it was probably all up;
with France and she could never pay,
the enormous indemnity which the .
Kaiser demanded. But France in
“her thrifty, genial way went to’ work
with a will and in a few years dug
3p enough to clear all the German
ebt.

Though Frenchmen have plenty of
liquor. it is seldom a Frencth can.
'be found staggering. \ They drink
slowly of the cheap red or white-
wines, when they finish a hard day’ I
work. The middle-aged and old men
who lived on their incomes before
the war have gone to work now—-
their incomes are too small and be»
sides jobs have had to go a-bégging.
The young women work, whereas
they used to live at home. France is
thrifty, and although the northern
industrial belt is ruined'by the Ger-
man invasion and retreat, there
seems to be hope for great prosper-
ity in the future.

The tourist trade is bound to boom
up big. The wines, denied an Am-
erican market, have South Am‘erica
and British Empire markets which
are buying more than ever before.
Agricultural France has a ready
market for all it can pmduce and
\her factories are beginning to roar
again. -

Belgium, although deprived of
much machinery because of the Ger-
man invasion, has got many of Vher
factories to (running again. the is
overwhelmingly an industrial nation
and she is sincerely at work, compar-
There is
some labor unrest, but it has not
been so big as painted. And there is
great loyalty to King Albert and the
government.

Germany is going lower and low-

’ er in regard to the foreign exchange.

The mark, formerly worth between
twenty and thirty cents, is now worth
slightly over one cent. Bloodshed in”
the streets of Berlin. riots, isolation
humtherestoftbewofldh nearly
every way, the Bolshevik menace

~' from Russia—all these factors make

forapoorrate of exchangeforfier-
many money. ‘But them are
a moot thrifty people pence-ed with
great vigor, and the likelihood at
future prosperity; though perhaps for
off. is quite probable. She has her
factories almost intact and is handy
ing up the depleted transport and
maritime activities. Italy is about
as hard up financially as any of the
nations right now. Her interest on
debts equals her total national in-
come before the war, and the value
of the lire is very low. Russia is
regarded with suspicion by nearly
all other governments and exchange
is hazardous in that sector at pres-
ent, although enormous potential
prosperity might be Russia's, once
organized permanently.

Only the high spots could be touch-
ed upon, in attempting to cover so
great a subject in so small a space.
It is hard to believe that anything
but general prosperity will return
when the wounds of war are hm
Peace and prosperity are the normal

 
   
   
   
      
    
   
    
    
  
   

 

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. ins-mostneriouaamd
etical‘ «nestles which has been
filled by thousands “of farmers in

’ fig‘dfitfietand for a' good many.

there has been no satisfactory ans-
Many of these have under-tab
r on arming with handicaps too great
to overcome,'-for instance, some have

.. » , settled on poor land such as. jack

pine plains, or light pine stump. land
and Without capital have tried to
make a home out of almost nothing.

Failure sure and heartrending is ,

bound to be the lot of such as a rule.

Thoreau Who can succeed in the face

of such conditions is rare indeed.

Banking conditions have made. it
,voryhard for modification-in Wow
on: Michigan. ' Many of the banks
take: a dio'count of 5 per cent and
charge 7 per centinterest, making
loans cost. 12 per cent. Farming is

a business where profits are too
'smsll to standauch‘adrag on the
“ business. And so the result has been
that the banks have grown rich and
the farmers have remained pooh,

, Then there have been drought
and pestilence such as grasshoppers,
and frosts spring‘ and, fall and alto-
gether the lot of‘the West Michigan
farmer has been "anything but rosy.

But in spite of all these draw-
backs many farmers have been suc-
cessful ind will continue, to be more
successful as, experience shows them
the way to avoid and overcome the
mistakes and difficulties of the past
and originate new methods and plans
for the future. There are certain
fundamental conditions
which I would in the first place set
' forth. Of course it is not necessary
to mention that the personality of
the individualis fundamental and
that such characteristics as industry.
frugality, thrift and honesty, must
be inherent in the man who would
be truly successful. And there is
really no sense in a man attempting
to make a real success farming on
Jack pine plains or cultivating big
pine stumps as they produce no crop.

To the man who wants ‘to farm
successfully in Western Michigan, I
would any first of all get hold of a
go’od'piece of plead: not less than 80
acres and more if possible up to at

. 7 fl . pied-t at
oral instill! in Western .

. till yew-find what you want.
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; _ “My System of Farthing”

I

V til! 18 yoursystcm of farming? -01 course you follow the reg-
‘ uln- methods of fertilizing crop rotation, etc., mat have been
‘ ,. demonstrated to be correct, but isn’t there something you have

discovered yourself about a particular method—some new

0—.

fiat has bier-eased your yield and your profits. If there is, why not tell

Di. 3. 1". readers your experience. lt may help them to overcome some

problems of their own. Here are some suggestions for you to follow:

V “How [drained the Back Forty," “How I drove out the' Quack Grass,”
. “How I inn-eased my Yield of Oats," “My system of Crop Rotation," V

etc. Ten us about thank—Editor.

 

 

 

least 160 acres. And/this is easily

"done as there are many thousands
. of acres of land in this great terri-

tory still unoccupiedand partly im-
proved which may be purchased on
your own terms, if you will look un-
By
good land I mean.
heavy sand loam soil underlaid with
clay subsoil which is near enough to
the surface so that overturned trees
bring up the clay.

‘ There may be other types of soil
in Western Michigan on which a
man may be successful, but in this
article I am giving my own views
ahd experiences of the kinds of soil
most to be desired.

Then I would obtain lands- with
slight natural drainage and avoid low
and swampy districts on account of
dangers from frosts. Having obtain-
ed the kind of land 'most desirable,
the lines of farming to be followed to
make a success are: very simple.

A good crop rotationJconsists of. a
cultivated crop such as corn or pota-
toes, followed. by oats with which
clover and timothy or alsdke or alfal-

‘fa should be seeded. On this sod be-

fore plowing it a coating of stable
manure should be spread in moderate
amount with a spreader if possible
and best results are usually obtained
from fall plowing. Crops of potatoes
should constitute .the money crops
from the farm and irrespective of
all drawbacks and discouragements
should be followed year after year to
the limit of the farm to produce and
the ability of the farmer to handle.

Then a herd of dairy cows should be
kept. By dairy cows "I mean real
dairy cows, and purebreds if possible.
What breed? Why of course the one
you like the best or the one most pop-
ular in your district. For myself I
like the Guernseys, as they are a
cream and butter breed and as but-
terfait is the only dairy product sold
in our county, I want what I consider
a. good machine for its economical
production. Until purebreds can be
obtained, high grades headed by a
purebred bull are next best. The heif-
er calves from the dairy should al-
ways be raised and kept until they
freshen, when any surplus can be dis-
posed of by selling the most undesira-
ble one. For a number of years there
has been a great demand at increas—
ing prices for good dairy cows and
the writer has found that the raising
of dairy cows for market has been
much more profitable than the rais-
ing of beef steers. The male calves
from grade dairy cattle are as a. rule
not profitable to raise and it usually
paysbest to dispose of them when
they first come in the best way local-
ly. The skim milk in excess of What
is used for raising calves should be
fed to pigs as they will prove more
profitable than male calves.

In some localities winter wheat is
being grown and possibly profitably
follows oats in a rotation before seed-
ing to the clovers. A corn crop suf-
ficient to fill the silo and a few acres
besides, according to varying condi-
tions should always be grown in the
rotation and then you have the sys-

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tem of farming which I believe most
profitable in Western Michigan for the
average farmer. ‘

Thus in a nutshell I would say, \if
you want to make money on good land
in Western Michigan, you can do it
by growing potatoes as a money crop,
by selling your butterfat and hogs to
provide revenue for current expenses
and by growing as much of your own
feed for the dairy as you possibly can.

And this you can do as far as rough—- t

age is concerned for you can always
grow the corn for silage, and even
when it does not mature it makes fair
silage, and usually the clovers grow
splendidly and oats also make a very

good crop. The concentrates such as _

cotton seed meal and oil meal one can

attend to purchase and with the splen-

did pasturage usually to be obtained
dairying provides a sure and steady
income while at the‘same time pro-
viding the fertilizer so essential to
the growing of the cash crop and the
up-keep of the soil.

A new money crop fior Western
Michigan is the sugar beet which is
being successfully grown on the heav-
ier lands, and some farmers are grow-
ing as high as 15 tons per acre of
this crop and this crop fits in, in
place of potatoes in the program for
success very nicely in that it pro-
vides many tons of beet tops per acre

of succulent feed for the dairy cow, V
as well as a sure cash return early in

the season.
We believe the system of farming

‘ outlined above is the only method so

far which has provd successful in a
full measure and from personal exper-
ience and observation we can recom-
mend it. Of course the read-er willun-
derstand that the plans and methods
proposed above are general and have
to be taken in consideration with

weather conditions and other circum--

stances. For instance this year many
farm-erg who lost their seeding last
year will have to grow peas and oats
for hay and may have trouble getting

their rotation adjusted this year, but '

these difficulties have to be met, pro-
vided against and planned for as far
as possible by the individual farmer.

How to obtain money at fair rates
will be the subject of a subsequent ar-
ticle.

County {Agent DemonStratiOns to Add Interest to County Fairs

Perry F. Powers, Head of County Fair Associations, Would Make Expositions More Educational

. THERE isn’t the interest there

used to be in the agricultural
.V exhibits at the county fairs.
‘ Time was when Pe 3r Perkins mam-
moth “punkin” attracted more
crowds than the “hose races,” and
all the farmers from miles around
would gather about with admiring
eyes and vow they’d beat Peter to it
next year.
But now the fair authorities have
a most difficult time to get the farm-
ers to exhibit. In the first place.
. every fair in Michigan is guilty of
the mistake of offering of trivial

premiums for “fifty—eleven" varieties '

of fruits, spuds, corn, etc., some of
which are so rare as to be almost ex-
tinct.
money on.a lot of exhibits that ought
never to be made, the fair authori-
ties are unable to offer attractive
enough premiums on leading varie—
ties to make it an incentive for the
farmer to exhibit. .
,In the second place,
fair has deteriorated from an expo-
sition of agricultural exhibits to a
display of legs and chance games on
the Bowery, third-rate horse races
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hays their, place and serve ,
. enough‘i‘toxattract the city folks—

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has anything to do with» making a
county fair a financial success. But
Mr. Powers has gone others one
step better, and instead of stopping
upon the discovery of these truths
he has made his plans for putting a.
little f‘pep” and interest into the
agricultural end of the show, and
making'the fair what it was origin-
ally intended to be—an educational
exposition.

Mr.. Powers was in Lansing dur—
ing Farmers' Week and met with the
county agents when plans were form-

at.

ulated for carrying out his purpose.
From now on, if all the county fair
associations adopt Mr. Powers’ ideas
the county agent will be a conspicu-
ous figure at the fairs and will be
just about the “whole show” in the
agricultural departments.

Exhibits of prime specimens of
farm products are supposed not only
to" delight the eye, but to arouse the
desire on the part of the beholder to
grow specimens as fine and large as
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stand and admire a prize bull, or
apple? or specimen of grain all day
long and when night came he would
know more how to produce its equal
than when he first set eyes upon it.
But the county agent is going to pro-
vide that connecting link, the “how”
of growing high quality crops.

In the future the man who wins a
prize at a fair will be expected to
give a. statement of how he did it—
what it cost him to produce it, what
fertilizer he used, what methods of
seed selection and cultivation were
followed, etc.

In the future the fairs will grad-
ually cut down the number of prem—
iums offered and increase the amount
on the standard varieties. This is
strictly in keeping with the new idea
of standardization of varieties and

will serve to encourage farmers to ‘

discard some of the varieties they im-
ported from York state, or some oth—
er place, and grow instead the va—
rieties that experience and experi—
ment prove do the best on our soils

’and in ‘our climate.
Exhibits will be made showing the '

comparative costs of different ra-

tions for live stock. There will also

be exhibits of the amounts and value
of rations required to feed live stock
fora certain period of time, as well
as exhibits of the amount and value
of the products or labor which they
produced or performed. ..TheSe will
carry“ to the farmer some practical
suggestions that he has never before
been able to get out of the agricult-

ural exhibits, and will tend. it is be"- . ‘
diameter make him more interested ’

in the county fairs and exhibits the
he has been in the past.

  

  
 
      
       

  
   
  
   
  
   
   
   
  
    
 
   
   
   
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
   
   
    
  
   
  
  
   
   
  
  
  
    
     
   
   
  
    
    
   
     
     
    
   
   
    
     
    

       
 
     
      
    
 
        
      
   
      
   
     
 
      
   
   
 
   
      
 
 
   

   
 

       
 
  
 
 
  
 
  
 
   
 
 
   
 

   
  
  
  
   
  
  
  
  

    

     


 

 

 

 

 

 

FARMERS ARE SEEKING
MICHIGAN LAND

An exceedingly strong demand
upon the part of farmers from other
states and Canada for improved
“farms in Michigan, is shown in a
statement just given out by the E.
, A. Strout Farm Agency, detailing
the movements of the buyers of 3,-
668 farms valued at $17, 996 400 sold
by that agency last year.

Twenty—seven states and the D0-
minion of Canada were re resented
among the buyers of the 32 improv—
ed farms sold by the agency in Mich-
igan during the twelve months‘. The
largest number of farm families to
come into Michigan from an outside
state was contributed by Illinois,
which sent 56, while 30 came from
Ohio and 20 from Minnesota.

Thirteen former Indiana farmers
settled in Michigan during the year,
as did ten from Iowa. six from Wis-
consin, five each from Missouri and
South Dakota, and four each from
Canada, Nebraska and Pennsylvan-
ia. Colorado, Kansas and Montana
each lost three farm families to
Michigan and Idaho, Kentucky,
North Dakota and Oklahoma lost
two each.

The states from 'which came one
farm family each ranged from Ar-
kansas to Connecticut, Vermont to
Florida, New York to Louisiana,
Maryland. Tennessee and Virginia.
Residents of Michigan purchased

138 farms in their own state during "

the year.

Of the 114 residents of Michigan
who purchased farms in other states
through the Strout Agency during
the year, 54 .went to New 'York, 15
to Vermont, eleven each to Mary-

land and New Jersey; seven to Flor-"

ida, six to Ohio, four to New Hamp-
shire, three to Maine, him to Penn‘-
sylvania and one to Delaware.

Detroit Milk Price About Average

Retail and wholesale milk prices
in Detroit and about 60 of the larg-
est cities in the United States are
listed in the current issue of the
Market Report, an official publica-
tion of the Department of Agricul-
ture.

The retail price of 16 cents a quart
paid by Detroit milk consumers is
probably the average price through-
out the country. In many, cities par-
ticularly in the south, the price is
considerably higher. In other cities
it is lower.

,Among the cities with Detroit in
the 16—cent class are Pittsburg, St.
Louis, Richmond, San Francisco. Los
Angeles, Sioux City, Duluth, Albany,
Fargo. Dayton, Baltimore and Wheel-
ing.

Cities paying 17 cents a quart in-
clude, Hartford, Conn., Cumberland,
Md., Boston, St. Joseph. Newark, N.
J., Oklahoma City, Providence, R. I., .
Nashville, Tenn., Roanoke Va., and
Clarksburg, W. Va.

Cities paying 18 cents or more
ranging as high as 25 cents, are Bir-
mingham and Mobile. Ala., Little
Rock, Ark» Bridgeport, Conn., Mi-
ami and Tampa, Fla., Atlanta, Au-
gusta and Savannah, Ga., New Or-
leans. Asheville, N. 0., Memphis and
Chattanooga, Tenn., and Fort Worth,

1 brook.

Galveston, El Paso and San Anton-
im’Texas.

Charleston. S. C., and Miami and

Tampa, Fla., pay 25 cents a quart
for milk while Atlanta and "Savan-
nah, Ga... pay {from 20 to 25 cents a
quart.
’ The average bulk price per quart
paid by Cleveland milk dealers for
their milk during January was 8.7
cents a quart. Their wholesale price
to hotels, restaurants and other
‘quantity patrons was 12'cents a
quart bulk, and 15 cents in bottles.

Among the cities paying 15 cents
a quart, retail. fOr theii' milk were
Phoenix, Ariz., Pueblo, N. M., Des
Moines, Ia., Rochester. N.‘ Y., Cincin-
nati and Columbus, 0., and Newport,
R. I.

Among those paying 14 cents or
less were Denver- Colo. ., Peoria, 111.,
Indianapolis and South Bend, Ind.,
Dubuque, Ia., Grand Rapids, Mich.-
St. Paul, Minneapolis, Co’lumbus,
Sioux Falls, S. D., Salt Lake City,
Seattle Wash, and Milwaukee, Be-
loit and Green Bay, Wis.

Farmers

The United States Civil Service
Commission a‘nn‘ounces that Indian
schools in many states are in need
of farmers to have charge, under the
direction of the superintendents of
agricultural operations on farms
connected with the schools, to give
instruction in practical farming, and
to do extension and instructional

work in agriculture among adult In-
dians occupying their own farms on
reservations. '

Applicants will be rated upon
their'training and experience; and

'their physical" ability, as shown by

their applications and corroborative
evidence.

Further information and applica-
tion blanks may be obtained from

the secretary of the U.’ S. Civil Ser-
vice Board at Boston,

' New York,
Philadelphia, Atlantafi Cincinnati,
Chicago, St. Paul, St. Louis, New Or-
leans. Seattle or San Francisco, or
from the United States Civil Service
Commission, Washington, D. C.

Mecosta‘ Live Stock Co-Qperators

The Remus Live Stock Shipping
Association "was formed April 2,
1918. Last year it shipped thirty-
seven cars of stock as follows: Cat-
tle, 303 head; calves, 625; swine,
1.345; sheep, 817; goats, 1. A total
of 3,091 head. The total weight of
which was 668-267 pounds. The
farmers received for this stock $82,-
910.16 after all expenses were paid.
The cost of selling, including freight,
averaged for the year sixty-eight and
one tenth cents (68.1 cents) per
hundred weight. The average shrink-
age between weights at Remus and
those at the stock yards was 3.8 per
cent.

Whose goat it was we didn't learn
but presume it to have been that of
some stock buyer of the past, for
now the farmers are the only ship-
pers at Remus and during the past
year their membership has increased
to 256 and stock has been Shipped
by them from Altona, Mecosta, Rod:
ney, Blanchard, Weidman and Mill—
Through their efforts the

Needed at Indian Schools

Pare Marquette. railway was induced
to build new stock yards at Roman
and these are today claimed to. be
the finest between Petos-key and De-
troit. -

The coming year looks brighter
than previous ones to the associa-
tion and this venture appears des‘~
tined to prove as profitable if not
more so than the creamery has to
the farmers of the community.

Ofiicers for, the coming year were
elected by acclamation each to suc-
ceed himself and are: president and
manager, E. E. Compson; vice-presi—
dent, Geo. 'Bauman; Sec. -Treas,, M.
J. Rentz; directors: Elme‘r Horn-
back,- Lawrence Simon.
Bott, J. K. Hatfield.

 

Remus Creamery Prospens.

The Remus' Creamery produced
during the past year 220,275 pounds
of butter, nearly all of which sold
on' the New York market as extra.
The amount was an increase of 22
per cent over the 1918 figure. From
this butter, the farmers received
$107,063.93 for their butterfat. The
highest price paid per pound for the
fat was 80 cents, the lowest 48 cents
and the average for the year, 60.9
cents and this money was paid the
farmer at his own door. Carriers
gathering the cream and delivering
the checks.

The creamery has manufactured
60 per cent more butter for the first
two weéks in January this year than
in the corresponding period of 1919.
Not all of this is attributed to wint-
er cows as there are new patrons
also to be considered but tendency is
toward the winter cow.

Little change was made in the di-
rectorate of the company the officers
and directors being elected as fol-
lows: President, Hiram Karcher;
vice-president, Conrad Ulrich; sec.-
treasurer and manager, M. J. Ruetz,
Directors, Geo. A. Mosey, J. E. Horn-
beck, Tyler Gordon. Lucius Calkins.

 

Success for Cass City Fair

Cass City Fair at its annual meet-
ing elected Hugh Cooper, president,
C. R. Townsend, vice president, Har-
ry Cra’ndell, secretary and George C.
Hooper. treasurer. New by-laws
were adopted and the matter of hold-
ing a night carnival was left to the
discretion of the” executive board.
The financial report showed a bal-
ance of $35 in the treasury and that
the association would receive $619.17
from the state next Au'gus. The to-
tal receipts for the year were $4,-
983.23.

Saginaw Beet Growers Organize

Blumfleld township, Saginaw coun—
ty- sugar beet growers held a very
promising meeting, Feb. 6th, 1920,
to organize a local branch of the
Michigan Sugar Beet Growers As—
sociation.

There being a very large crowd
and before they went home they
were all enrolled as members of the
local branch of the Michigan Sugar
Beet Growers Association. Officers
elected were: President, John Kaul;
vice president, Hugo E. Brebs; sec-
retary—treas11rer,_Geo. F. Sahr.

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SEED FRAUDS ENGAGE ‘ATTEN-
TION 0F FARM ORGANIZATION
Economic losses to agriculture so

appalling in- nature that public at?- -

tention if aroused Will immediately

be turned to their remedy, are be- .

ing incurred through the distribu—
tion in, interstate commerce by cer-
tain seed companies of clovers and
grass sEeds containing noxious weed
seeds. This abuse has. become, so

castly that the National Board of

Farm Organizations is now initiat-
ing "a drive for the purpose of call—
ing national attention to the'matter-
with 'the'view of the adoption by
congress cf legislation which will
adequately control the distribution
of seeds. Mail order houses, accord-
ing to complaints made to the Fed-
eral Trade Commission. are among
the worst offenders.

It is contended that the farmers in
Wiséonsin‘ suffered a loss through
weeds, of $67,000,000‘in 1.917. This
estimate is given by the Wisconsin
Department of Agriculture from in-
vestigation by the Wisconsin Exper-
iment Station... ‘

C. P. Smith, the seedinspection of-
ficer of Maryland, tells how .farmers
have been imposed upon by mail or-
der houses which offer as an induce-
ment reduced prices together with

a glowing eulogy of the quality of

the goods they have for sale. Mr.

Smith complains that the houses sell-

ing the seeds have failed to give an
accurate accbunt of the percentage
of weed seed in each shipment. The

consequence is that it may cost more '

to remove the weeds than the rev-
enue produced by the crops would

. finance.

“Bargains have ever appealed to
the average American and bargains
in seeds‘for planting have been ‘no
prominent exception to the rule dur-
ing the recent months of high prices
generally,” Mr. Smith writes. "Cer-
tain mail order houses have taken
advantage of recent conditions and
have organized a h,uge business which
has reaped them enormous profits at
the expense of thousands of Ameri-
can farmers.’

Mr. Smith said the distribution of
noxious weed seeds has been exten-
sively carried on in Maryland, New

York, Minnesota, Michigan and Wis- .

consin. Other states have been more
or less affected by the campaign to
get rich, quick through the sale of
inferior seeds. Mr. Smith has made
public the names of the houses res-
ponsible for the alleged imposition
on the American farmers.

Jackson Premiums Boosted

Twenty-five per cent increase over'
all premiums of 1919 at the county
fair will be offered this year, accord-
ing to information given out by Fair
Manager W. B.‘ Burris. This offer
.is made as a special inducement to
bring more exhibits to the fair,

To Increase Co-Op. Capital

At a meeting of the Farmers Co-
operative association of Fowlerville,
it was decided to increase the capi-
tal stock to a oint that would por-
mit the eleva or business for the
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‘ ‘ Join the Early Birds and Read this Story

short distance that one can still get the swing of the thing by _'

T HIS story, which has just gotten under way, has gone such a

glancing over this synopsis.

Join the early birds who are get-

. ting. in on the opening parts of this wonder-story of JaCk London’s.

FrancisMorgam son of a New York millionaire, who hadjust died,

has grown bored by the city’ s luxury and tameness and has decided

to go on an extensive fishing trip.

Regan, a former colleague of

Francis' father. is plotting to get the young man out of the way so
that Regan may be free to manipulate the great Tampico oilostocks
in which young Morgan is heavily invested and in which he has great,

faith.

Regan gets Torres, 11 dusky-skinned visitor, to lure Francis

to the Carribean islands where a pirate ancestor of Morgan had bur-
ied a great treasure. The lure works and young Morgan starts out

on the trip alone.

Becalmed in a small vessel at sea, he lands on an

island whither he had been beckoned by a girl on the shore. As the
last installment closed, she had excitedly siezed Morgan’s hand and

led him through the tropical atmosphere of mystery.

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N imitation, such having been her
will'of him, and such seeming to
be the cue of the game, he smil-

ingly pressed his own hand to his
heart, although he called neither on
God nor the Virgin.

“Won’t you ever be serious?" she
flashed at him. noting his action.

And Francis was immediately and
profoundly, as well as naturally, ser-
ions.

“My dear lady .” he began.

But an abrupt'gesture checked
him; and, with growing wonder, he
watched her bend and listen, and
heard the movement of bodies pad-
ding down some runway several
yards away.

With a soft warm palm pressed
commandingly to his to be silent,
she left him with the a'bruptness that
he had already come to consider as
customary with her, and slipped
away down the runway. Almost he
whistled with astonishment He
might have whistled, had he not
heard her voice. not distant, in Span-
ish, sharply interrogate men whose
Spanish voices, half-humbly, half—in-
sistently and half-rebelliously, ans-
wered her.

He heard them move on. still talk-
ing, and, after five minutes of dead
silence, heard her call for him per-
emptorily to come out.

“Gee! I wonder .what Regan
.would do under such circumstanc-
es!” he smiled to himself as be
obeyed. '

He followed her, no longer hand
in hand, through the jungle to the
beach. When she paused, he came
beside her and faced her, still under
the impress of the fantasy
which possessed him that
it was a game.

“Tag!” he laughed,
touching her on the
shoulder. “Tag!” he re—
iterated. ‘You’re it !”

The anger of her blaz-
ing eyes scorched him.

“You feel !” she cried,
lifting her finger with
what he considered un—
due intimacy to his
toothbrush moustache.
“As if that could disguise
you !"

“But my dear lady

.” he began to pro-
test his uncertain unac-
quaintance with her.

Her retort which' broke
off his speech, was as un-
real and bizarre as ev- .
erything else which had.'
gone before. So quick
was it, that he failed to
see whence the tiny silv—
er revolver had been
drawn, the muzzle of
which was not presented
merely toward his abdo-
men, but pressed closely
against it. .

“My dear lady .
he tried again. i

.“I won’t talk with
you,” she shut him off.
(lo-back to your schoon-
e: and go away . . . ”
l—Ie guessed the inaudi-
blc sob of the pause, ere
she ' concluded, “F or-

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This time his mouth opened to
speech that was aborted on his lips
by the stiff thrust of the muzzle of
the weapon into his abdomen.

“If you ever come back—~the Ma-
doligna forgive me———I shall shoot my—
se .”

“Guess I’d better go, then,” he
uttered airily, as he turned to the
skiff, toward which he walked in
stately embarrassment, half-filled
with laughter for himself and for the
ridiculous and incomprehensible fig-
ure he was cutting.

Endeavoring to retain a last shred
of dignity, he took no notice that she
had followed him. As he lifted the
skiff’s nose from the sand/he was
aware that a faint wind was rustling
the palm fronds. A long breeze was
darkening the water close at hand,
while, far out across the mirrored
water the outlying keys 0: Chiriqui
Lagoon shimmered like a mirage
above the dark-crisping water.

A sob compelled him to desist from
stepping into the skiff and to turn
his head. The strange young wo-
ma n, 1‘ 8-.
volver
dropped to.
her side
was crying-

18 step
back to her
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turn to the boat, when she stopped‘
him, . .
"At least you .-
then faltered and swallowed,
might kiss me good-bye)? .

She advanced impulsively with
outstretched arms. the revolver dang"-
ling incongruously from. her right
hand. fFrancis hesitated a puzzled
moment, then gathered her in, to re-
ceive an astounding passionate kiss
on his lips ere she dropped her head
on his shoulder in a. breakdown of
tears. Despite his amazement he
was aware of the revolver pressing
flat-wise against his back between
his shoulders. She lifted her tour--
wet face and kissed him again and
again, and he wondered to himself
if he were a cad for meeting her kiss-
es with almost equal and fully as
mysterious impulsiveness.

With a feeling that he did not in
the least care how long the tender
episode might last,'he was startled
by her quick drawing away from him
as anger and contempt blazed in her
face, and as she menacingly-directed
him’ with the revolver to get into the
boat

He shrugged his shoulders as if to
say that he could not say no to a
lovely lady, and obeyed, sitting to
the oars and facing her as he began
rowing away.

“The Virgin save me from my way-
ward heart,” she cried, with her free
hand tearing a locket from her bos-
om, and, in a shower of golden beads

«yon-

flinging the ornament into the water— .

way midway between them.

'From the edge of the jungle he
saw three men, armed with rifles,
run toward her where she had sunk
down in the sand. Inthe midst of
lifting her up, they caught sight‘ of
Francis, who had begun ,rowing a.
strong stroke. Over his shoulder he
glimpsed the Angelique. close hauled
and slightly healing, cutting through
the water toward him.. The next
moment, one of the trio on the beach,
a beared elderly man, was directing
the girl’s binoculars on him. And

. the moment after dropping
the glasses, he was takiiig aim
with his rifle.

The bullet spat on \the wa-
ter ~within a yard of the

  
  
 

 

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aboard, while already,

was paying off and filling.
boyish zest, Francis waited a kiss of

farewell to the girl, who was staring ~ I ~

toward him, and saw her collapse on
the shoulders of the bearded elder-
’Iy man. ‘

“Cayenne pepper, eh—those damn-
ed, horrible, crazy- -proud Solanosr”
the breed skipper-"flashed at Francis
with white teeth of laughter.

"Just bugs—clean crazy, nobody
at home," Francis laughed back, as

he sprang to the rail to waft. further ~

kisses to the strange damsel.

Before the land wind the Ange-
lique made the outer rim of Chiri-
qui Lagoon and the Bull and Calf.

- some fifty miles farther along on the
rim, by midnight, 'when the skinner

hove to to wait for daylight. After
breakfast, rowed by a Jamaica negro
sailor in the skiff, Francis landed to
which was
the larger island and which the skip—
per had told him he might find oc-
cupied at that season of the year by
turtle-catching Indians from the
mainland. .

And Francis very « immediately
found that he had traversed not
merely thirty degrees of latitude from
New York but three hundred years.
or centuries for that matter, from

‘ the last word of civilization to almost

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the first word of the primeval. Nak-
ed, except for beech-clouts of gunny-
sacking- armed with cruelly, heavy
hacking blades of machetes, the
turtle-catchers were swift in proving
themselves arrant beggars and dan-
gerous man-killers. The Bull be-
longed to them, they told him thru
the medium of his Jamaican sailor's
interpreting, but the Calf. which us-

season now was possessed by a madly
impossible Gringo, whose reckless.
dominating ways had won from them
the respect of fear for a two-legged

human creature who was more fear- U

\

ful than themselves.
While Francis, for a silver dollar,
dispatched one of them with a mes-

_ sage to the mysterious Gringo that

he desired to call on him, the rest.
of them clustered about Francisi skiff
whining for money, glowering upon
him, and even impudently stealing
his pipe, yet warm from his lips,
which he had' laid beside him in the
stemsheets.
a blow on the ear of the thief, and
the next theif who seized it. and re-
covered the pipe. Machetes out and
sun—glistening their clean-slicing
menace, Francis covered and 'con-
trolled the gang with an automatic
and, while they drew apart-
in a group and whispered omin-
ously, he made the discovery that
his lone sailor-interpreter was a
1-week brother and received his re—

. turned messenger.

g, », .The negro went over to

”i - the turtle catcher: and
talked with a friendli—

ness and subservience, the

tones of which Francis

did not like.' The men-

‘senger handed him his

_note across which was
T scrawled in pencil: '

“Venice."

“Guess I’ll have to go
across myself,” Francis
told the negro whom he
had beckoned back to
him.

“Better" be very care-

ful and utmostly cau—
tious sir,” the negro
warned. him. "Theise. ani-

mals without reason are
very problematically like-
ly to act most unreason-
ably, sir. " '

“Get into the boat and
row me over,”
commanded shortly.

sir,” was the ”black

- The Angelique, throwii up into the»
wind to stop Way, foamed alongside.
and with an agile leap Francis was;
the skipper ‘ ,,
"putting the wheel up, the “beeper“.
With ‘

Promptly he had laid-

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great
en- up‘thrust by some ancient
nose ‘

Calf across the narrow channel,

11 uP upon his own side was ‘a
blocking and manifestly— leaky
out canoe.
out of it, he noticed that the
. ie-catchq‘rs had followed and
peering at him from the edge
the cocoanuts, though his weak-
rted sailo‘r was not in sight.‘ ,

To paddle acress the channel was
a matter of moments, but scarcely

(.

'— "‘ was so on the beach of the Calf when

her inhospital'ity greeted him on
apart of a tall, barefooted young
man, who stepped from behind a
palm, automatic pistol in hand and
shouted: .
“vamosE Get out! Scut E"
. "rs godss and little fishes l”
Francis grinned, hitl-f- humorously,
half seriously. "A fellow can’t move
, in'these parts without having a gun
‘ believed in his face. And everybody
says get out pronto.”
LNobody invited you ” the stranger

‘ retorted. “You 1e intruding. Get
. 011 my island. I’ll give you half a
minute.”

"I’m getting sore, friend” Fran—
cis assured him truthfully, at the
same time, out of the corner of his
eye. measuring the distance to the
nearest palm- -trunk. ' “Everybody I
meet around here is crazy and dis—
courteous, and peevishly anxious to
be rid of my presence, and they' ve
just got me feeling that way myself.
Besides, just because you tell me it’s
your island is no proof” -

The swift rush he made to the
shelter of the palm left his sentence
unfinished. His arrival behind the
trunk was simultaneous with the ar—

 

rival of a bullet that thudded into‘

the other side of it.
“Now, just for that. "' he called

out, as he centered a bullet into the.

.trunk of the other man 's palm.»
The next few minutes they blazed

away, or waited for calculated shots, _,

and when Francis’ eighth and last
had been fired he was unpleasant-
iy certain that he had counted only
seven shots for the stranger. He
cautiously exposed'part of his sun—

' helmet, held in his. hand, and had. 11
perforated.

“What gun are you using?” he
asked with cool politeness.

_’“Colts, ” came the answer.

_ Francis stepped out boldly. into the

open, saying: “Then you' re all out
I counted ’em Eight. Now we can
talk. ”
_ The» stranger, stepped out and
Francis could not help admiring the
fine figure of him. despite the fact
that a dirty pair of canvas pants, a
cotton undershirt and a floppy som—
bero constituted his garmenting.
Further, it seemed he had previously
known him, though it did not enter
his mind that he was looking at a
replica of himself.

“Talk 2" the stranger, sneered,
throwning down his pistol and draw-
in: a knife. “Now we'll just cut 01!
your ears and maybe scalp you.

. “Gee i You’ re sweet-natured and
gentle animals in this neck of the
woods," Francis retorted, his anger
and disgust increasing. He drew his

own hunting knife, brand new- from.

the shop and shining. “Say. let’s
wrestle, and cut out this ten- twenty-
and-thirty knife stug."

“I want your ears," the stranger

answered pleasantly, as he slowly
advanced. .
“Sure. First down, and the man

who wins the fall gets the other fel-
iow' s ears. "
p * “Agreed. ” The young man in the
‘ c vas trousers sheathed his kpife.
‘Too bad there isn’t a moving pict—
camera to film this’ Francis
ed sheathinghis'own knife. "I’m
‘sere nae a boil. i feel like a heap bad
i Watch out/1m coming in
wh Anyway and everyway for
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1 to the beach. On the shore of _

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the flying bad i“ foe, impacting
on him, managed toido for what lit-
tle breath was left him. As he lay

speechless on his back, he observed
the man on top of him gazing down,

at him with sudden curiosity.

“What d’you want to wear a

,mouStaehe for?” the stranger mut-

tered r
“Go on an out ’em off,” Francis
gasped, with the first of his return-
ing breath. “The cars are yours, but
It is not in
the bond. Besides, that fall was
straight jiu jiutsu.”. .
"You said ’anyway and everyway

for the first fall,’ ” the other quoted

laughingly “As for your ears, keep
them. I never intended to cut them
off, and now that I look at them
closely the less I want them. Get up
and get out of here. I’ve licked you.
Vamos !- And don’t come sneaking
around here again! Git! Scut. "’

In greater disgust than ever to
which was added the humiliation of
defeat, Francis turned down to the
beach toward his canoe.

“Say, Little Stranger, do you mind
leaving your card?” the victor called
after him.’

“Visiting cards and cut-throating
don’t go together.” Francis shot back

. .1 rang‘ po ope
. «g ‘ s, mouth to speak then changed his
, of 111m. and

,Nobody acts with reason.
to see old Regan try to do business

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' mind and murmured to himself,
“Same stock—no wonder we look
alike.” ,

Still in the throes of disgust,

Francis regained theshore of the
Bull, sat down on the edge of the
dugout, .filled and lighted his pipe,
and gloomily meditated. Crazy, ev-
erybody, was the run of his thought.
I’d like
with these people. They’d get his
ears.

Could he have seen at that mo-

\ment the young man of the canvas

pants and of familiar appearance, he
would have been certain that naught
but lunacy resided in Latin America;
for the young man in question, in-
side a grass—thatched hut in the
heart of his island, grinning to him-
self as he uttered aloud, “I guess I
put the fear of God into that partic-
ular member of the Morgan family,”
had just begun to stare at a photo-
graphic reproduction of an oil paint-
ing on the wall of the original Sir
Henry Morgan.

“Well, Old Pirate," he continued,
grinning, “two of your latest des-
cendants came pretty close to get—
ting each other with automatics that
would make your antediluvian horse
pistols look like thirty cents

ancestor all you’ve left me is the old
duds and a face that looks like yours.
And I guess if I was really fired up,
I could play your P—ort a—u- ~Pri11ce
stunt about as well as you played it
yourself. ”

A moment later, beginning to
dress himself in the age-worn and
math eaten garments of the chest,
he added: “Well, here’s the old do is
on my back. Come. Mister Ancestor,
down out of your frame and dare to
tell me a point of looks in which we
differ.”

Clad in Sir Henry Morgan’s an-
cient habiliments, a cutlass strapped
on around the middle and two flint
lock pistols of huge and ponderous
design thrust into his waist—scarf, the
resemblance between the living man
and the pictured semblance of the
old buccaneer who had been long
since resolved to. dust, was striking.

”Back to back again the mainmast,
Held at bay the entire crew . . ”

As the young man, picking the
strings of a guitar, began to sing the
old buccaneer rouse, it seemed to
him that the picture of his forbear
faded into another picture and that
he saw:

The old forbear himself, back to'

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Price-Fixing

HERE IS an old theory that competi-

tion is the guardian angel of the Ulti-
mate Consumer. It is supposed to protect him
from the greed of the profiteer, to encouiage
low production cost, high quality, courtesy,
prompt service, and all those other nice things
with which we used to be familiar. This theory
Was working more or less satisfactorily when
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guardian angel and messed things up in gen-
eral. The angel has escaped the clutches of the
Martian tyrant, but is still singularly annoyed
and restrained by the well-meaning attentions
of an over-solicitous government, to say noth-
ing of that old flirt, Monty Monopoly, who
Would pay her board bill if she would let him.
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theoretically, “the life of trade,” would actu-
ally serve to stimulate production, trade and
consumption if allowed unhampered freedom
Price fixing is competition’ s greatest enemy.
1t abrogates‘ the laws of supply and demand.
It sets an artificial value. It protects the inef-
ficient and robs the efficient. It makes fish of

. one commodity and fowl of another.

. Price-fixing may logically and wisely follow

1, monopoly, but has ho place in the field of com-
‘ petition.
1 monopoly, hence we have the Inter-state Com-
» merce Commission to set the price of their ser-

The railroad- systems are a virtual

vice to the public. The steel, oil, telephone,

, telegraph, water power, clothing, ‘shoe and cer-
' tain machinery-making corporations are rap-

idly assumingth‘e proportions of monopolies,

‘ if indeed, some of them may not already be
. classed under that term.

Which certainly
means that the time is approaching when

their products and service will be subjected to
‘ more rigid government control.

Price-fixing during the war and even up to
the present moment has been mainly directed
at a commodity in the sale of which there is
the utmost freedom of competition,—food.
There are six million food producers in the
United States, all competing with each other
to cut down production costs, increase the
quality of their product, and all selling freely
to the highest bidder. The perishable nature
of their product, and the fluctuating values
from year to year make it impossible for farm-
ers to connive to monopolize the prices of their
goods beyond 'a certain‘price or season. And

,et, in”their frenzied ,efiorts to cut the cost of
'ving, government authorities would throttle
this competition and fix arbitrary prices upon
the farmer’s products.

'Michigan Farm Land in Demand
OTWITHSTANDING the discourage-
ments attendant upon present-day farm-

ing there is an unmistakable demand for Mich-
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or states as well. This is disclosed in a recent

r report issued by the E. A..Strout Farm Agen-
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'11. Independent rum Weekly Owned and saw ’16 mom";

who argue that farming. is not properly re-
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you claim, how do you account for the increase ‘

in land values and the demand for farms,”
the editor of one of the greatest dailies in the
middle west propounded to me several menths
ago. The answeri. Prices of almost every im-

portant commodity have advanced more than

one hundred per cent; since 1914, with one
outstanding exception,—land. Land values
have increased from 25 to 50 per cents—not
any more—during the same period that other
values have doubled. As for the demand for
farms, it is only exceeded by the number of
farms that are offered for sale. A .
The most encouraging feature of the Strout
report is the fact that more than twice as
many non-residents came to Michigan to buy
farms as those \who left to locate elsewhere. We
would suggest to such of our readers, who may.
be planning on selling their farms to locate in
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T’S A great thing to be able to have confi-

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Scores are the letters received from the read-
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their faith and confidence in our principles

and approval of our course. “We will. abide
by your decision,” “we depend upon you to
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watchman of our rights,’ ’—so run the stream
of letters that pour in upon us day after day
from all parts of Michigan.

Friends, it is a fearful responsibility that
you put upon us. we are but humans. The
temptation to take the politic course,———-the
course that means more business and, more
friends who know how to get more business,—
rather than the more difficult course to which
duty points, .comes to us as it does to all oth-
crs engaged in business. We are liable to err.
Our judgment cannot be expected to be one
hundred per cent. correct. We have made ,mis-
takes and we will make them again, but never
we hope will the mistake be made because we
have deliberately taken the wrong course.

We are here to serve you. We want your
opinions and your criticisms, whether they be
for us or against us. If you trust us we will
try to measure up to your trust. If you'put
your cause in our hands we will guard it care-
fully, knowing that te sleep at our post may
destroy both your confidence and your Cause.

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The Farm Bureau and the Railroads

T IS NOT entirely clear what attitude the

State Farm Bureau intended to take upon
the question of returning the railroads to the
private owners. Nor does the resolution which
it adopted make its position any the clearer.

The American Federation of Farm Bureaus
adopted a resolution at Chicago last fall favor-
ing the “immediate return of the railroads?
but according to a Michigan delegate the reso-
lution was “railroaded” through and there was
a question as to whether it represented the
honest opinions of the majority of the dele-
gates. In view of the action of the national
organization, however, it was anticipated that
the Michigan State Farm Bureau would also
take a decided stand against a continuance of
government control, but the resolution it,
adopted upon that subject cannot be sd con-
strued. This resolution reads in part as fol~

lows:
“That this organization is not interested primar-
ily in federal or private ownership of the railroads,
but in efficiency of them, ‘ “ " "‘ " with the belief
that such service, “ * 'l' " can be arrived at the
sooner under private Ownershép.”
' ‘= 11% does thin, mean? hat the Farm Bur
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its parent organization and
diets return- of the roads, as; question
would have instantly arisen- as to haw \repre-

 

sentative of the farmers’ Wishes Such a declar— ' ,
ation would have been. Iii Qiir future discus- '

sions of the railroad problem we should keep
in mind that. every farm and labor organi-
zation in Michigan up to the meeting of the

Farm Bureau had expressed, a deeided disap- ,,

prove] of the return of the roads at the present
time. The State Ass’ 11 of Farmers’ ,Cl,ubs with
one hundred delegates present was the first to
take this action. The Michigan State Grange,

through its four hundred delegates, followed ' -

suit, and the Gleaners’ one thousand delegates
were unanimous in their similar opinion.

' If the Farm Bureau is destined, as many
claim. to become the mouthpiece through which
agricultural thought is to be disseminated
throughout the nation, its leaders and those
who are elected to sit as delegaths in its busi-
ness sessions, . should be extremely, careful
about expressing their/ personal views upon
debatable questions, lest Ithey be erroneously
taken as the views of the majority membership.

Piffle and Poppycock
F THERE was ever “much ado about noth-
ing” since the beginning of time, it is this
weeping and wailing over the passing of booze.
The lengths that men will go to secure a few,
drops of the outlawed stuff, the fury into which

its disciples work themselves over the deprivam

tion of their‘ ‘personal liberty” the zeal with
which politicians proclaim their championship
of the citizen’ s “inalienable right” to make,
buy, sell and drink the poison, calling upon ev-
ery “loyal” citizen to spring to the defense of-
his constitutional privileges, all might well con-
vince a stranger from another world that the
destiny of th universe were in the balance.
Booze 1s gathering its degenerm forces from
the four corners of the nation to stick their
trembling fingers into the political pot, and
elect men to office pledged to the repeal of the
constitutional prohibition amendment. These
men need have no special qualifications. They

may be horse—thieves, escaped convicts, profes- . ‘

sional gun-men, or scums of ‘the slums,'—if they
have enough intelligence remaining in their
dwarfed brains to register an effective vote for
the restoration of booze, they

  
 

The King “keynoter” of t '8 bunch of hy-
phenated libertines is Edw rd W. Edwards,
who was elected governor of New Jersey be-
cause he promised to resist the enforcement of
the federal prohibition law. After being satis-
fied that he had bit off a bigger chunk than he
could chew, he has since contented himself to
.a cheap defense of~the right of New Jersey to
decide this question for herself without feder-
al interference. If the state of New Jersey
wants to secede from the union so that she may
exercise her precious “right” to get drunk
whenever she feels like it, let’ er go.

Thank God that the east no longer rules the
United States! Intelligence, science, educa-
tion, invention, agriculture, industry, religion,
moved west-
ward. For seventy-five years the west has con-
tributed four-fifths of the nation’s greatest
men, and performed two-thirds of, the nation’s
greatest accomplishments. ’Twas thewest that
instituted the primary reform. ’Twas the west
that secured the diregt election of United
States senators. ’Twas the West that first
raised woman out of the class of half- brads
and jail-birds and gave her the ballot. ’Twas
the west that had the strong virile man- -hood

to throw ed the curse of boOze and put upon ’

our statute books an amenMent abolishing it

forever. It will be the west in the cruCia’l mo.

ment when the depraved exponents of personal

license meet the stalwart sons of justice who

wilI decide the con on the side of tem er-
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w it a tothe .. ited States to
t ‘ve ';.the..’rhiiroads’i under... Federal

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How‘. much > ' .'

mm during the war? Was it worth .
.wisoofliio; Claimed to be a- dead loss

by the Railroad Administration? ‘ If

‘so, then there was no loss.‘ Again, if

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the railroad magnates were right in

atheir declarationat their recent Chi-
page convention [that

a. twenty-five
per cent. advance in freight rates will,
'be newesary when the roads are re-
thrnedr to ,their bwners, . then we

' shouidyfigure twenty-five per cent.

truths totaltdreight earnings during
the war "and enter this sum as clear
profits under Federal cOntrol. This
is -‘no guess work.‘ It is well known
the freight and passenger rates did
not rise in proportion to other prices.
'Ij‘he‘general public had the benefit of
it.‘ Now, will some of you experts
gin us the figures on this basis? It
is a fact that large monopolies can
conduct a ‘business much cheaper
than small capitalists can, and, any-
figures given the public to the con-
tr'ary should be questioned very
closely. Our public roads, public
schools and public postal service are
examples of efficiency at low cost,
'for comparison with toll ~roads, pri-
vate schools and express companies.

Federal ownership and operation will-

do the same for the railroads. Why
do some of our farm organizations,
while contending for cooperative
buying and selling, refuse to see the
goal when this co-operative principle
is applied to Federal ownership of

' railroads?—-A Farmer.

 

Our congressmen tell us -that the
roads are going back March 1st. Simul-
taneously or shortly thereafter, rates
are going up. and farmers are going
down in their pockets to help pay the 7
per cent. guaranty on watered stock. fat
salaries and padded jobs which the
railroads have always provided at the
expense of the indulgent pubic. Ah,
happy day! 'No more late trains; cars

burn; twenty-four hour freight ser-
vice from Detroit to New York.—-—Editor.

 

A COMPLETE EARMER SLATE

I was talking with one of my
neighbor friends yesterday bout the
farmers organizing in the s ate and
how your paper was standing by the
farmers and (giving’ them the good
advice needed in nominating a state
legislative and congressional ticket
to be voted on at the fall election. I

“had him if he was taking the M. ,

B. F. He said that he was not and
took a dollar from his pocket and
gave it to me to send you in pay-
ment of one _ year's subscription.
Now what we want to do. is to get
down to business and select good
men from governor down to coron-
er. Get them nominated in time for
the great battle this fall. I would
like to ask the readers of the M. B.

‘F. how many farmers we have in the

United States congress. I would
like to see a farmer congressman
nominated in every district in the
state. We can do it if we will get
right to work. That will mean for
you to drop the two old parties. pull
together and victory will crown your

.efforts.—J. S. B., St. Louis.

 

If you really want to elect some
farmers to Congress, better drop the
idea. of a new party. Farmers as a

class will get behind -“farmer candi-
dates," but they’ll shy like a two-year—
old from the 'suggestion that they break
their old party ties. In a good many of
the states of the union. farmers stand
y to‘ scrap the old parties, but not
so in Michigan. Don’t you think, my M.
B. F. friend.’ that you’ll stand a much
better chance of electing your men if
you nominate them upon the dominant
party for the state?~—iEditor. ‘

 

WILL STAND BY CAMPBELL

Ilsee by the letters in the M. B. F.
that some farmers are worrying ‘be-
cause Milo D. Campbell said he was a

Republican and didn't promise to do

all the impossible things that some

- would like to have him;

“Use he

,Now, we elected two members on
the agricultural board last year and

. they {ran on the Republican ticket, so

'why'caon’t we‘elect a, governor on the
same-ticket? I don’t see as it makes
any difference what ticket he runs on
‘ ’ elected.~ And I, would rather
:1} 536me who made no prorlxli-
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trifles?» ITheimain thing is for all
m 80 to the primary and put Milo
D. Campbell on the ticket; then put
our shoulders to the wheel and elect
him. I for one am‘ willing to abide by
the Judgment of the "men that picked
him from a' list or very good men to
be the farmers' candidate. He has
made good before and I am sure will
.not fall down as governor. Farmers,
talk Campbell for governor. Don't let
‘the politicians split your vote and
slip in some one that they have lined
up for the purpose—G. M. Weaver,
.Ifalkaska County.

 

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Good! ~ We honestly feel that the
great majority of farmers and their
wives think the same as you do, and will
.translate their thought into action at
the primaries—Editor.

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SITE-VALUE TAXATION

I heartily agree with Mr. Smithin
your issue of Jan. 31st. Who will
pay the war debts if we “untax
wealth?" The income tax rate is be-
ing reduced already. ’Are the war-
made millionaires going to be al-
lowed to escape with the plunder?
I don’t see how Mr. Grenell can be
in sympathy with [the farmer and at
the same time advocate single tax or
the “untaxing of wealth.” If Mr.
Grenell can explain logically how we
can untax wealth without over-tax-
ing the ”poor and middle class I
would very much like to have him do
tea—Stanley Warner, Barry County.

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Our head is in a whirl over this sin-
gle tax controversy. The exponent says
the single tax is aimed at the rich; the
opponent says it is aimed at the poor.
One farm organization endorses it; an-
,other condemns it. Said a prominent
man to the writer recently: “The sin-
gle tax is a beautiful theory, but it has
never yet worked out successfully in
graafitice." And there you are. Next.—

or.

 

SHALL THE STATE FIX THE
PRICE OF FARDIER'S MILK

. After reading an article in MchI-
GAN BUSINESS FARMING, under the
above heading, I am led to, wonder
what kind _ of fool legislation our
great lawmakers wilil.undertake next.
~Now if we have elected men to of-
fice, who would even try to pass such
a law, we should set ourselves to
work immediately to put them where
they can not do the public such a
wrong, and so great an injury.

Why don’t they appoint a' commis—
sion to prevent grasshoppers and 'po-
tato bugs from traveling right in
broad daylight, from one farm to an-
other, or to‘ stop the frogs making
such a noise when the ice thaws out
of the pond? That would be of more
benefit to the public, and would also
afford these law makers something to
do, but of course it would take men
with a little gray matter under their
hair, to solve such problems. A few
more laws to control the price of
farm products, will result in a lot of
people going hungry, and it will not
be the' farmers either. Just why the

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law makers want to make the farm-
ers take the rotten end of the'deal' ev-
ery time, I don’t pretend to know;
but that they do is as plain as . 4a

, mule’s ear, or the squeal of a pig.

You say in your editorial‘concern-
ing this law, that “several Of the of-
ficers of the Michigan Milk Produc-
ers' Ass'n sponsored it." Now if that
is true, there are a lot of us that
would like to knOW‘ the names of
those officers—Jesse H. Shales,Wash-
ington, Mich.

 

The offiCers of the Milk Producers'
Ass’n, who favor legalizing the Detroit
Milk Commission, unquestionably be-
lieve .their attitude to be in the best in-
terests of the dairy industry of the state.
Attorney General Groesbeck is of the
opinion that the milk commission as it
now stands, without legal status. is op-
erating in violation of law, and assuming
that the producer. distribu or and con-
sumer are all satisfied with the commis-

sion’s work, he proposes to amend the

state constitution and make the findings
of the commission legally binding on all
parties. It is a subject of such vast im-
portance that we feel the matter should
be referred to a vote of the members of
the Producers‘ Association, rather than
be left to the discretion of a few. no
matter how sincere and able their judg-
ment may be.——Editor.

 

BACKS THE BEET
GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION

Enclosed find check to renew my
subscription to M. B. F. I like the
fearless way in which you attack the
problems of Michigan farmers and
your market reports are valuable to
all farmers. Enjoy reading every
number. -

Have raised sugar beets for 15 years
in the last 16. Am done, however, un-
less the' (Empa‘nies concede the de-
mands of the Sugar Beet Growers’
Organization. The time has gone by
for any corporation to advance the
costs $6 per acre without, at least,
consulting the growers on the mat-
ter. They fail to consider that farm-
ers’ costs had already advanced for
labor and taxes and machinery, and in
fact for everything they have to buy
just the same as for anyone else. But
it’s the way they have always done.
Handed the farmers anything they

.wished and the farmers have accept-

‘ The Week’s Editorial

ed it. A new day is dawning, how-
ever. The farmer is thinking more
along the line of fair returns and a.
square deal and the sugar companies
would do wellto meet the growers and
give them a square deal now.

Do the women of Michigan have a
right to vote in the presidential elec-
tion?—W. E. Hill, Genesee County.

 

The most important question involved
in the issue between beet growers and
manufacturers is the future status of the
farmer as a party to the contract. The
farmer who seeks to employ his right to
arbitratethe terms of the contract with
the manufacturer should have the ap-
proval and support of his fellow farmers.
Your attitude is right. Answering your
question, the women of Michi an may
vote in the presidential prima which is
held the first Monday in April, when you
vote for township officers—«Editor.

 

 

WORKING FOR THE STATE

If you were hiring a man to tend
furnace you wouldn’t ask him how
he felt about Mr. Wilson’s Fourteen
Points. You'd want him to be
posted on shoveling coal and clean-
ing out ashes. '

But when the people of the State
of Michigan get a man to see that
the pure food laws are enfOrced and
milk is sold under proper conditions,
the fellow who is picked out for
them stands a different test. ' .

James ‘W.-Helme used to be state
dairy and food commissioner. He
had, the very important duty of ap—'
pointing the deputies who carried
out the immediate duties of the of-
‘efioe. In Grand Rapids the other day
he testified before a jury and inci-
dentally told, how he chose William
J. Mickel a deputy in Grand Rapids.

  

rgHe.,said,. “I appointed him ,. because.

assets in. Grand.

 
  

inent Democrat.” It did not appear
that anybody knew or asked before
naming Mr. Mickel deputy dairy and
food commissioner, whether Mr.
Mickel could tell a tubercle bacillus
from a hunk of cheese. They just
ascertained carefully that he was a
prominent Democrat. .
Some farmers got together in con-
vention a few days ago. They were
not politicians, in the ordinary sense,
but because they represented one of
the state’s most important indus-
tries, they were naturally interested
in the way the business of the state
is handled. _ They passed a resolu-
tion to the eifect that something
ought to be done toward “checking
the expensive and extravagant man-

agement of state affairs by placing

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the business of the statepn a sound
basis. This, we feel, can only be ac—
complished by, a, thorough house-
cleenings at Lansing.” “ >

.1géaybe an, maybe .sQ—IE

 

 

 

 

M ich.

trait - News.

 

______ ”Just now we read
_ in the big daily pap:
‘about 'the drives made "
Reds, radicals, Bolsheviks;
to exCite and divide the America
people and detract their atten'
while the British controlled press
the Tory element select the. next
id-ent .of the United States, so
American men and money may
tinue at England’s disposal. Be:
it is a settled purposeto unload ‘
debt of Europe on Am-erica.’ D11. '.
the war England seized all sources?
information, and then fed us on if
Awful tales of Hun atrocities m,‘
up in English newspaper offices a 5.“
were spread broadcast in this countt‘r
to develop hatred and divide the poo
pie, while England carried away'bi
lions of our money, grabbed up ever
thing worth taking, the seas", the, is
‘lands, the trade routes and added to
her empire territory larger than all
continental Europe, until the map of.
the world has become the map of
Great Britain. * * * * Yesterday it was.
the Hans and it kept the people scrap-
ping while England got a new grip on
the throats of the Republic. Now it
is the Socialists and Bolsheviki that
keeps us worried and quarreling,‘
while England selects the men for us.
to vote for. It also furnishes a coin;
venient argument for a sedition lav'v:
to deprive citizens of their constitu¥
tionall rights; meanwhile we are de-’
porting Russians to Russia amd Mr.,
Wilson in absolute defiance of the'
Constitution and at a cost of hundreds
of millions to American taxpayers is
using American soldiers to help Eng-
land and Japan in their war on the’
Russian people, making enemies of a:
people who were always our friends.
Rid our country of British propagan--
da and intrigue, which during the last
five years have all but made the Unitw
red States a British subject colony .-
We m-ust elect men who will respect
and restore the Constitution and who.
will be for America and fer America
alone. Pro-British candidates ‘ma
declaim against Bolshevrism. This is
not the issue and is, therefore, no evi
dence of their fitness. ‘ f " F

The danger does not come from the:
small group of noiSy Reds. The real
danger comes from those who are'
willing to suppress our rights of repr
resentative government and thereby.
f‘urnish ammunition to the Reds.‘
CongreSS and that New York assem-
bly have made more Socialists than,
could be made by Socialistic speeches
in many a day. It is only when t'h '
people feel that their nights to go
what they want through the ballot at
being denied, that there is any dan- w
ger of resort to violence in this coun “
try.

It is an odd situation that those who
profess most loudly their love for Am
erican institutions are the ones who
are doing the most to make many peo-
ple belieVe the only *hope of the people
is through direct action. When the
people begin to feel that Congress and;
legislatures are becoming nothing bu,
the tools of big business and carryi
out the wishes of the capitalistic else
then we are getting on dangerou
ground—D. E. Crosby, R. 1, Fremon

 
 
  

     
  
 

  

   
  
   
  
    
     
  
    
    
  
   
     
   
   
  
     
   
  
  
     
    
  
  
   
   
   
  
   
   
    
   
  
   
        
     
    
   
     
     
 
    
   
  
    
   
    
  
    
    
     
   
   
  
      
     
     
  
    
     
   
     
      
   
  
   
  
  
 

Philip Frances has written a book ca

and charges the United Kingdom‘ with
almost every conceivable conspir'
against the peace. the policies and th,
trade of every nation in the world. H
the book been circulated during the wax
Mr. Frances would undoubtedly ,ha’
been put behind the bars for se‘d‘it’kw
Mr. Crosby expresses some of. thew‘vie:
presented in that book, but in the na. r
of fairness and for the sake of the futur‘
peace of the American mind and Offth-
American nation, we caution our reads -
against a too immediate acceptance
these views. Great Britain may be '
arch and dangerous conspirator she fl
been pictured. and it may be well for t--
American people to keep their eyes one}:
but we ought not to convict our Amt

Saxon relations without more substan
tial proof than has yet been present
No matter by whom inspired the' o
slaught upon the people’s rights to ’
semble and express their views in
is violation of the Constitution nd
who value liberty bought by fire,
of their forefathers will resent it as _
Sixty days ago there was a strong J-
ability~that Congress would enact
kind of peace—time sedition bill '
restriction of free speech. The ' ,
criticism that has poured into-W

ton from 9.11 parts of the count,
the measure makes it highly i‘
that any such law will; be e
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MARKET
{yr Pnlcaswrsn BU, FEB.#19,.__179>29 ,
Grade Detroit Ohlcago’ II. V.
~ Red ..... 2.41 2.30
a White 2.45 2.53 l,
2 Mixed .. .l I
' 'Palcae' on: YEAR AGO.
Grads: joufim i @112”!ng
2 Red 2.30 [2.30% 2.90
wmu 2.20 2.28 2.34%
. 2 ime ..r 2.26 .l 2.27 .l 2.33

 

After a most unusual slump in the
rice of wheat, the market shows re-
turning strength. The principal top—

, , is the effort of Sen. Gronna, of
4 -North Dakota to bring an end to the
government’s guaranty and let the
market take its natural course. It-
has long been the conviction of this
western senator that the government
guaranty has artificially depressed
the price of wheat. and that prices
_would go much higher if the restraint
ofxthe government were removed.
This opinion has been shared to some
extent by other western folks. Julius
Barnes, former head of the Grain
Corporation, takes issue with Sen-
ator Gronna’s conclusions, and de-
nim that the government’s guaranty
acts as a deterrent to higher prices.
It is Barnes’ opinion that the gov-
ernment guaranty is a supporting
factor in the wheat market, and that
., swithout it. farmers would be oblig-
ed to sell at a price much lower than
the.guaranty. We are inclined to an
acceptance of this view, not because
we are in sympathy with government
4 price fixing, but because we believe
the time has gone past when the
farmers might receive any material
benefit from the removal of the guar—
anty. Six months ago it might have
" een wise to bring an end to govern-
ent control, but the present times
- are too uncertain, the ability of for.
sign countries to pay for our wheat
‘ is too questionable to chance the
‘ open market. In view of the unset-
tled conditions we feel that the gov-
! ernmentguaranty on wheat has be-
“come, for the first time since-it was
Westablished. a real protection to the
wheat grower. Moreover, as Mr.
Barnes points out the government
guaranty‘is not a maximum'but a
'minimum price, and all sales of
‘wheat for the past several months
’v-have been made at a considerable
,advance over the minimum. How
, Tmuch effect the government's con—
' .tml of export licenses, wheat sup-
plies. etc., has had upon the natural
movement, and consequently the
,wmaximum price, is a debatable ques-
tion. Speaking of the controversy
between Sen. Gronna and Mr. Barnes
the Price Current Grain Reporter
says:
I “ ena-tor' Gronna of North Dakota
The taken his political life in his
lands and turned sp-eculator on a
{thread scale, announcing himself a.
ampant bull on wheat. He is so
"'cocksure that wheat would advance
5" .11 the minimum‘ guaranteed price
1were at this moment repealed he de—
mands that this be done bY‘Congress

mittee has reported favorablyL As Mr.
Barneshas said: ‘Only the most
colossal egotism would presume to
« recast the course of prices in the
has of world wide unsettlement,
'whic‘h within the past few days has
wrecked the United States export
trade by the total collapse of over-
”'8 finance.” ‘

CORN SEEKS HIGHER LEVEL

' com! Pnicgs PER sol, FEB: 7115, 1929
. Gratin—Lemon! mam. Fe 1--
1 o 2 Yellow ...I I1.“

.u. a Yellow ...l1.53 1.43 I1.so
i a, 4 Yellow ...I 1.50 Last/fl 1.54

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. , Glide lDotrolt l chl"9°l:?.‘r._Y_-_

2. Veilow .I ‘ l 1.41 -,
.VONOW . . . 1.83 1.80
yellow . . .I 1.31 1.28

 

  

    

; t old bugaboo, the Argentine ,
can, acted, as‘bearish ifii‘luence
can market the fore part of

. 7. but the weather turned
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DETROIT—«Grains firmer;
and rye. Beans take another dro
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CHICAGO—Corn receipts 'small, prices Inga.
mand. Hog market very unsettled Cattle dull.

French buyers in market for cats

p. Potatoes firm up. Hay scarce, ‘

Oats in de; ~ .

 

ports, declining imports, advancin

, goods, and other phenomena of the day portend. ’5 Agoodly share of the

fl.‘

Weekly Trade and Market Review _

T HE COUNTRY'is well divided in opinionas‘ to What the strange ‘
counter currents of soaring prices, fallingpexchange, increasing ex-O

g wages, declining prices on farm

people are having a deliciously good timc,——toogood to last;- The frenzy
of spending, speculation, pleasure-grabbing must come to an end. The
outpouring of our national wealth into Europe’s maw for nothing in ex-
change but credit must stop. And it will stop to a: certain extent. Every-
one is agreed on that. The only question is as to what effect the stoppage

will have upon domestic conditions. _

ican—made goods, for which there will be no domestic market.

Will it create a surplusage of Amer;
Will it

force factories to close, throw men out of work, and drive people farm-

ward? Will it halt industry, hurt
unrest? What’s the answer?

The Price Current Grain-Rep
the subject as follows:

agriculture, and increase industrial

ortcr pessimistically meditates upon

To not a few the ’Change phenomena of last week raised the; ques-
tion, Has the end come—wis the break so long dreaded, with the inevita-

ble reduction of prices, overshadowi
108 so called (business depressions is

ng the country? Who can tell? Pan-
a better expression) are not made to

order, nor are they prevented by talk of “psychology.” They come in

the natural order of thirgs when commercial credit is exhausted. Credit,

is always sound when there is negotiable value in goods behind it; it is

never sound without. Just now, t

hanks again to the industrial idler

who has been and still insists upon consuming far more than he has pro-

duced or produces, and to the flood

of exports with little-except luxuries

coming back, it looks as though the limit of sound credit resting on goods
is tending toward exhaustion. The “signs of the times” give pertinence
to former Senator Burton’s analysis of the “Indications that Precede a

’,

Crisis 5

(.1) High prices; (2) increased activity and formation of new

enterprises; (3) active demand for loans; (4) increasing wages; .(5) in-,
creasing extravagance in expenditures; (6) mania for speculation; (7)
expansion of discounts and loans, rising interest rates, still higher wages,
strikes and labor shortage. In a word, when consumption outruns pro-
duction and the world spends its savings, the cris‘s comes first to an in-
dividual or an institution; then to; many; finally to all. , Whether the
start has really been made is still a mootedquestion. 3?. :8. Memphis-

ident bf Chemical National Bank, is

quoted as having said last week:

“The demoralization of foreign exchange may deal. a blow to high costs
of living in America. It will cut down our exports, thus throwing large
quantitiespf American goods on local markets, and will, in all probabili-
ty, result in a decreasepf prices.” That would be wholesome and perhaps

may be all. r

. As for farm products, the evil result of high cost of living agita-
tion, and the sudden withdrawal of export orders, is being seen in lower
prices. if the rodent declines in food values is a barometer of what may
be expected to happen to all commodities, then the predilections of the
journal above quoted are not amiss. Anyway, we may as well-admit that
we are facing a critical and uncertain period, but we folks who are inter-
ested in farming may receive great comfort in the thought that whatever

wtanter. and his complacent com— ‘ may happen to the nation’s industry we shall in the least affected of all

 

sum is once more in a favorable. ad-
vancing position, on virtually all
markets. A recent report of the
latest developments in the corn deal
is as follows: “The strength is cred-
ited chiefly to the reluctance of the
farmers to accept present prices and
the inability of the roads to carry,
on ugh corn to bring pressure on the
ma(l‘ket. Corn has a way of dropping
enough to encourage a belief among
the bears that the slump is on. They
sell freely only to have the market
turn against them and force cover-
ing at. a’loss. This has happened
several times and has resulted in .
shaking the confidence of the belly-
ers in lower prices. Bears are in the
majority in both Detroit and .0111-
cage and the _market flutters their
judgment just enough to keep them
guessing, but they have not been
able to escape with any of their '
plunder. They have been helped by

Edemoralimd $06k, flattening]: core ‘ ‘
I; mam ’7 dam " mm w. ”.31”; .3

always one element against them——
the supply of grain is small and
shows no symptom of increasing.
Cash demand takes the corn as ,soon
as it appears on the market and
stocks get no chance to increase. As
long as. this condition remains it
appears like. a difficult task to get
prices materially lower and keep
them down.

All of which is exactly in keeping
with what M. B.-F. has preached, for
the better. part of six months.

OATS ADVANCE WITH CORN

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' time would st
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and last weeksaw advances ransinc .
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We hardly know what to say to
our readers this .Week on beans. Ail-i
‘ter several weeks of declining prim
reports have it that there is a firmer
feeling, but films this has not yet
affected the price. There is an in-
clination on the part of thebean
growers all over the country to cut
down their acreage next year. ‘ A
port from Lompoc, California, whiz:
s in the heart of the bean growing

istrict of that state, reads as fol-
lows: “The acreage planted to small
white beans this Season in the Lom-
poc district will be greatly reducfi
and mustard, sweet peas, contr
beans. onions, potatoes 1 and barley.
will be planted in their stead. Hun-
dreds of acres have been seeded to
sweet peas and mustard and in many
places, they are now above the
ground.” ' ’

We do not know how Congressman
Fordney’s renunciation or (his promise
to the bean growers to try to no!
cure a speciaf tarii! bill is going to
affect th market. One thing is cer-
tain, he ever, it is not going to re-
store people’s confidence in .the mar-
ket. 0n the other hand, were a tar-
iff bill enacted during the next nine-
ty days, or any prospect of an enact-
ment, thereby preventing speculat-
ors from using the oriental been as a
club to manipulate the domestic more
hot. the supply *of domestic. been;
would; readily be taken. up by * the
demand at profitable prices to the
growers. This is what bean growers
all over the country have expected
to happen, but thanks to Mr. Ford-
ney, the props have all been remove
ed, and We hard to tell how far the
bottom may .- drop—out of ..tho mm
There are win .more months yet~---- in
which to move the crop. So perk up,-
and be hopeful. ‘ '

7 RYE AND BARLEY

Rye is ingood demand and is quot-f:
ed at ,3158 No. 2. ,F-rance is buying
considerable rye at this time. Barley

,quotations are $2.90 and $3 per cwt.

 

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The potato market, ' after several?
weeks of uneasiness and. lowering
prices hasftaken .on a steadier tone‘
and some consuming points note a
slight increase in price. The mild’
weather of late January andear‘ly-
February was favorable for ship-
ment and ivas the natural cause for

the decline."l‘he very severe wea’her

of the present week has probably
caught hundreds or cars in transit
and we will not be surprised to hear
some reports of frost damage, which
always has a' bad effect upon the
Thepotato
situation i1 thoroughly discussed on
page ’tWo: Holder-sot spuds‘“ should '

- 7‘,- be. very careful in their marketing

untll‘a stronger tendency-is seen in
the market. Toqunload any great
quantity of potatoes attire present ,»

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sPuos PER cwr., FEB. 719.4620
' ~ l Sacked IT Bulk
Detroit .............:.‘4.50 4.05_
,chloago ............ ,. . . 4.25 4.25
Pittsburg . .‘ ......... ‘. .l 4.85 I $.25
New York ............. l‘ 4.50 l ,
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Detroit ................ 1.75 1.86 ' .
Chicago ............... 1.00 1.55 _
emu-um .............. 1.30 1.35
New York ............. 2.10 2.00 -. ;

      
            

 

       
           
   
      
    
  
   
    
 
   
 


  
 
  
 
 
  
   
 
 

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Eastern markets which were at-
iected by the heavy snow last week,
are now strong and higher, says the
Hay Trade Journal. Supplies are
light and the demand created by the

lack of value of motors during the

blizzard, caused a good demand for
tiny. Central Western marketsare

steady _ to easy according to the

amount of offerings, which have in-

creased considerably during the past
Oten days.

DETROIT PRODUCE — MARKET

The decline that was expected in
the poultry deal never came. The
week closed with nothing on hand
and a firm market. More poultry
could have been sold without bring—
ing any weakness. Dressed calves
,were steady and hogs easy. Butter is
dandy and quiet _Fresh eggs are in

‘ fair supply, but there is enough de-
mand to hold the market firm. Very
few Michigan eggs . are coming to

' market, the supply being from the
'2 V south and southwest. There is a. good
' deal of difference in the quality,
whic'li accounts for a range of 1c ,in
rices. A slightly firmer tone is shown
11 the apple market, but trade contin-

’- nos quiet.

BOSTON WOOL MARKET ‘

Michigan .and New York fleeces:
Fine unwashed 68@720; delaine un~
washed, 92@9Ec; 1% blood unwashed,
”68%; 3-8 blood unwashed, 68@69c.
M. the London wool auction sales
prices were unchanged. Americans
bought the best breasy merinos and
crossbreds.

LIVE STOCK PRICES AT CHICAGO

Weekly average prices at Chicago
for good native beer! cattle, hogs and
sheep, per 100 pounds, and weekly av-
erage weight of huge (highest ever—
use on record), have been compiled

”follows by the Price Current Grain

0 Reporter:
' Average prices flhmr
1919— On. e Hoax Sheep 1913 1917
1 . 5 8'5 1 51.0 0 36 232

 

        

Feb]
Feb.
1m.
1'.
Mar.
Apr;
Apr. 2 ._ *
Alt. 19 . . i . 15.85 14.50 229 242
A . 2 . 15.8 20.80 15.10 232 243
Y 8 . 15.70 .20.45 13. 283 541
10 315.40 20.90 13.50 238 241
y 13 .15.10 20.65 11.85 212 237
24 . .1¢.60 20.85 11.30 231 240
: 81 . . '. 14.15 20.25 11.05 232. 281
. , 7. . 18 20.20 10.70 232 232
14 . 13.5 20.85 8.40 1 280
21 . 18.50 20.40 9.50 232 285
28 13 65\ 20.80 8.75 233 237
8. .. 18. g 8.80 238 238
12 . -1540 21 9.05 289 243
' 19 . 1' 6100 21.85 9.80 242 , 244
38. . 18.50 23. 11.00 246 245
‘. 2 . 18.25 21.95 10.00 245 240
. 9. 1 .85 21.05 3.85 2.44 242
In. ' 10 17.30 21.25 10.00 240 7
, .. 28 . . 15.95. 10. 10.2.5. 250 248
g. 80.; . .15.90 18.70 . 8.50 242. 245
6 . 151776 18.45 ““8375 ‘ :55 252
' 18. . 115.50 17.35 7.90 255 51
1 ’20. . 515.26., 15.05 8.25 249 243
. 27. . . 15.602 17:00 8.20 250 24"
, . (a. . 16.00 15.75 8.10 249 230
' - ' 2' 11... ‘.16.10 15.00 8.15‘_‘241 236
18. . . 16.65 14.50 7.20 242 232
Oct. 25. . 16.20 13.10 9.20 2 5 230
on 1 . . 15.80 13.56 7.65 229 229
. 8. . . 15.50 14.75 7.60 230 231
, . 15 . . . 15.50 14.60 8.00 220 225
av. 22 . 14.50 14.10 8.75 2‘14 220
23 . 14.00 13.30 8.80 222 226
6 . 15.10 14.00 9.40 221 223
' 13 . 14.65 12.80 9.00 224 222
‘20 . 13.50 13.90 9.25 227' 224
. 27 18.90 13.52 10.10 224 225
~ 620—
Ian. 8 14.25 14.25 10.00 224 226
In. 1 14.65 10.65 225 229
- l;- 17 14.00 14.85 11.25 225 225
an. / 24 18.65 415.25 -_12.20 230 80
~ ’ 31 “18.7 1,5140. 13.85 «282 81
' 1- . .7 .13.30 4.75 18.00 228' 237

  
 
  

. mOAGO LIVE STOCK

“Good to choice, $14. 75@16. 50;
um to. _ d $13@14. 76; fair to
" _$, ; "common to fair

81
:00035-9'

~ logna‘s-

nee TRADE UNEVEN

Good to choice heavy,
,14. 76; tgir to geod heavy, $14@~
_ 14. 40; good to choice medium, 14. 76
’ @15. 26; good to choice light. 15.20
@15.40'; fair to good‘mlx'ed, $13.50
@1450 heavy and mixed packing,
$13.50@13.76;
packing, $12.75@13.25; piss- $13.50
@14.75.

MUTTONS LOSE EARLY GAIN
‘ Fed wethers, all
'15. 50; cull wethers, $10@11; native
ewes, $12. 50@13. 50; western ewes,
all grades, $12@13. 50; cull ewes, all
grades, $7@8; breeding ewes, year—
lings $12@14. 25; bucks and stage,
$6.50@7.50; b-reeding'
»$9@12.50;
$20. 50@21. 25; western range lambs
fair to good, $19. 5:0@21. 50; feeding
lambs, $16@18.

  

3
1 Its-GI. 25;
$7.25@2; choice veals, $16. 50@17;
heavy veals, $10@14.

  

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'314. 40@
per cent.

common and heavy abound

grades, $14 @

ewes. aged,
gwestern lambs, choice.

Saginaw,

ply lessened demand.
There is less,bee1 going abroad and
our local demand has not been suf-
ficiently strong to oflset it.

Now with every evidence of goodly
cattle supplies in the country what
does the immediate future otter? A
thighs: market? We doubt it greatly.
When we look back to 1913 w find our
food values hays increased 50 to 200
But isn't it reasonable to
conjecture that there is a limit and
that possibly in
least that limit has been reached? We
30 govern our
therefiora that we shall be able to
meet changing conditions without re-
’ gaming them as revolutionary or as
anything more than the natural re-
sult of readjustment in the general
order of winger—N. H. 8., Clay. Rob-
inson & 00., Chicago.

through

some

SAGINAW MILLING CO. LOSES
Li'CENSE '

Julius H. Earner. Wheat director,
announces that the licenses granted
to the Saginaw Milling Company, of
Mich., with a branch at

products are CODCGI‘DEd.

ua e
q rt rs at to the revocation of the

operations

SEEDS

is firm and active.
They all like M. B.

many times its cost.
decided to renew up to

 
 
 

tirety and the Food Admin ..
license insofar as the dealing at
above company in wheat and w
The
Administratiou licenses of this 0
pany were revoked for failure to 1166
accounts and render report: as m ,
quired, and taking unjust and “MOM, '
sonable profits in excess at p
ted margins above proves centre
production during the ten montlu“
period ending June 30.1918. .11
Food
ministration license and because _
misconduct leading‘up to summit
vocation the company’s Wheat. IX-
rector license was revoked.

Timothy seed has advanced 20c and
Lin alsike declined 25c. Red clover m

F. l
I Would not be without M. B. F. for
Therefore, have.
1924, five '
years—A. G., Qm’xmby, Mich.

 

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Endurance Makes Hudson
Ithe Largest Selling Fine Car

More Than 80, 000 Wners Value That
Quality Most Because It Means Long
Dependable Service, Free of Car Troubles

Hudson outsells all the world’s fine cars,
only because of qualities that count in
every day service.

Chief of these is durability.
motorists 86 regard it.

And endurance is written cverythrc

All

. in Hudson history. -

Since Hudson made its unrivalled en-
durance recOrds, it has led all other fine
cars in sales every month and every year.

That proves how experienced motorists
judge car worth.

~

How Hudson Gained
Leadership

It was not speed that gave it sales
leadership; though Hudson holds more
stock car speed records than any car, and
with cars embodying the Super-Six
principle won more points in speedway
racing than the fastest special racers
ever-built. r

" It was not powerLthough Hudson holds

' the fastest timeovcr made up Pike’s Peak,

E! the classic of all hill climbs.

M Qualities Inspire
Pride In Hudson:

, They are valued of course by more than
80,000 Hudson owners. They contribute
to the rounded supremacy of performance
which distinguic’.-.s the Hudson every-
where. And it is natural to feel pride of
ownership, and affection for a car that
none can rival in fleetness, or in hill-
climbing.

But few will ever care to use the full
limit of Hudson speed. Few will meet
hills to teat its limits of power.

What does count every day of use in

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sure, dependable transportation. What ,
does count after many months of service is _

the way Hudson retains its smooth, silent

powers of superior performance, um
diminished. .J

It means the assurance and reliance in

your car that you feel in a watch that has,
. served you for years, and never gave you

cause for doubt. You are not disturbed by
speculation regarding probable car troubles.
Because with Hudson, car troubles are not
thought of because of their remoteness.
And remember that the Super-Six
principle which accounts for all Hudson’c
speed, endurance and performance
records, is exclusive in the Hudson. No
other maker can use it. For the Super,
Six motor, which adds 72% to Hudson
power, without added weight or size, we.
invented and patented by the Hudson.

Mark How Hudson Now
. Fulfill: Ito Prophecy

Every year has seen, some unprovcmcnt ‘

lathe Hudson. The new modelaapproach
nearer the builders’ ideal than they ever
believed practicable. It is today a finer
machine than those early models,'which
made performance records, no other car
has equalled.

Hudson also leads in style. Its influence
shapes motor design each year.

Demand for such advantages as Hud-
son’s inevitably means that immediate
delivery is not possible for all who want
them. Many have waited months for the
model of their choice.

Even should you not Want your Hudson
until next year, new is not too early to
place your order. '

Hudson Motor Car Company, Detroit, Mich.

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‘0’ BRIGHTEN ”COUNTRY. LIFE

  

air; a. longing for something
different. Dissatisfaction with
resent surroundings is rampant. It’s
the will-o -th'e-wisp call of spring.
Every year it comes with the .first
balmy breezes and many there are
who are led to believe that they should
make a, changeof some kind, and un-
der the spell’bf the elusive spring days
take a drastic step, only perhaps to
x.afterwards regret it. .

It’s the mothers of the land who

must direct the steps of the children,
keeping them busy, and yet keeping
, them interested in their work.
Thr is prhaps, no better, more in-
_ structive occupation for the youth of
V the land than the Boy Scout move-
ment, and while it is not so easy for
the children of the country to organ-
in, still they can at least be taught
rby the parents the rudiments of the
, Scout law. Books for Boy Scouts can
be secured for a very little and these
the boys will-enjOy reading, and in the
' .. hazy spring days, they will find much
, joy in learning to build fires the Scout
way, while the Scout Oath is one
which every boy in the land would do
Well to take. When the boys realize
that the biggest men of the nation to-
day are looking to them to fulfill the
oath to keep themselves “physically
strong, mentally awake and morally
straight” and to serve God and Coun-
ty, they will be glad to qualify for this
'work and in so doing, their energies
will find a healthy outlook.

So much forthe boys—and so little

for the girls. Continually we hear
this cry: And yet the girls can be or-
ganized into community welfare clubs
With meetings directly after school
And their organization can be known
as the Chorus Club, where they meet
to have a “sing fest."
_ It was demonstrated during the war
'that everyone likes to sing—~at least
to try to sing—that it is a natural out-
let for human emotions—and it was
because of this known tendency that
music leaders were provided for every
camp, whose duty it was to lead in the
singing.

At college, the favorite twilight
pasttime of the girls is to gather
around the fire at twilight and—just
sing. Everything they know they sing,
some perhaps out of tune, but nobody
cares, for it is an expression 0f happi-
ness, an outlet for their feelings, and
something to do.

Have you thought of organizing a
Community “Sing?” It not, why not
sound out your neighborhood and you
will be surprised to find how many
will be glad of the opportunity to
meet at the homes of their neighbors
once each week and just sing. It’s an
opportunity to get together, to ex-
change ideas and to broaden our vis-
ions as well as to give express ion to
ourselves through song equally good
tor young and old.

 
 

HELPFUL HOUSEHOLD HINTS
SMALL PIECE of gum camphor
Aplaced in a vase of water will
keep cut flowers a long time.
Orange fritters are a delicious ac-
companiment to fried ham.
~ The addition of a tablespoonful of
cream to'brown gravy makes it de-
liciously brown.
Scraps..of;cream cheese may be made
seful by mixing them with butter
find milk, or a little cream. This
hould be spread on thin, wafer— like
racket-Ts, made into sandwiches and
served With salad.
‘Cheese may be kept soft and good
” a long time if wrapped first in a
wrung in vinegar, and then in a
“cloth
a. large tablespoonful of butter,
‘ d will thicken a half pint of
" or for sauces.
w We cut in half and rubbed
fingers stained with vegetable par—
ill “mow the discolorations. ’
cleaning delicate fabrics, lace,
mes,- etc use a mixture of
, flour. Mix this as you

  
 

  

  

 
  
   
 

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The Vozceof the Women

A-rocking of the cradle we have wondered, ' ,; ' ;{
A-stitching with the needle we have thought ~ ”i 7 '
Of nationhood and of its seething pr’oblems- , § 3
And fair solutions wrought and to‘ be wrought. ’ ’

“’e pondered and we Wondered in the silence, ' ' i -
We taught our little children as we might; _ ~

And sometimes in the quiet we were dreaming _
Of the time our lives might rise into their right. '

The time when We might think and speak unhampered
And voice our aspirations for the race,

And join in world-emancipating campaigns,
And walk beside our men with even pace.

The “process of the suns” has brought the dawning 1‘
0f the day, the dreamed-of day, and yet we pause; .

Afraid, yet not afraid, we tread the portal l
Of this new world With its problems and its laws.

Yet shall we venture forth on its arena
And offer of our best as woman’s meed, ‘ i
Bracing our strength of soul into its service ‘
And stinting naught'that we may meet its need. i

4
Yea, sisters, shall we venture» woman-hearted, ‘V
That from the sphere of home our lives may bear ‘
The best, the truest, tenderest of its spirits"
That every sphere of humankind may share.

Year, brothers, we come forth to walk beside you,
To bear with you all chances of the way; 1 r
Adventuring our all in the endeavor,
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egg add a little vinegar to the water;
this will prevent the. white from boil-
ing out.

Horseradish is much improved for
table use by mixing it with sweet tur-
nips or rutabaga, one part of the lat-
ter to two of the former.

Whip cream in a. pitcher instead of
a bowl. You can do it in half the time
and without spattering.

By wetting a spoon with which you
are to serve jelly, you will find that
the serving is more easily accomplish-
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HOME NEEDLEWORK

LREADY Milady is

wondering what

she shall have for
spring, and thinking
about her wardrobe. If
the dress is to be made
at home, .and any fancy
work' done on it, it is in-
deed high time that it
were begun for time slips
away and when those first
lazy days of spring catch
us, there is no‘desire to
sew.

The- daint y m-o d e1
shown this week will 'at—
tract the girl and young-
er married woman who is
slender. It has the new
neck line and short sleev-
es, and is dressy enough
to wear anywhere. For
the young Miss who em-
broiders and wishes to
cut expenses, this dress is
“just the thing.” When
the material is silk. rope
floss is used or beads fol-
low the outlineland the
edge is not pad-
ded. If the 11111-
terial is batiste.
‘_l the satin stitch

is used. 1

Spri n g a n d,
summer s t y l e‘
book is ready
for distribution.

The book is
but 10c but we
have to ask you
to include 5c for
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LAND, LABOR, 1513.11.13.1111211'1115 .-

HE VOTING woman 'will at-
ways he mislead as to what to;
vote 'for, unless she has an un'-- -

derstanding as to the source of-
wealth. It may sound to her unrea-
sonable to be told, for example- that
the paper money she regards with so
much favor, is not Wealth, but that
gold and silver coins, Which are

much less desirable for trading pur— '

poses, are actual wealth. So far as
she can see they perform the same
function—she eXchanges them for
those things that satisfy her desires. '
If paper money was real wealth, all!
that it w0uld be necessary to do to
make everybody wealthy would be for‘
the government to set the printing

., presses going, and to give everybody -

all the “money”desired. But exper-
ience has shown that the larger the
supply of paper money, the less will
the dollar buy. It is said that when
the South. during the civil war or the
’60s, was “on its last legs ” a. Rich-‘

mond crtizen was compelled to take to;

market a wheelbarrow of paper mon-

. ey in order to buy a peek of petatoes.

A few words on what wealth con-

. sists of is not out of place in this

brochure.

I

Land

The first factor in creating wealth
is land Nothing can be produced ex-
cept from land or upon land. And in
this connection the word “land” is
used as embracing all the natural
forces of the world—even the uni-
verse—air, water, electricity, etc. It
means more than the mere soil.

Labor

The second factdr in the production
of wealth is labor. Labor, applied to
land, produces wealth. It is a short-
sighted person who says. “I am not a
farmer; I do not use land." EveryOnc

‘ uses la d; it in some form sustains

life; it 's walked on; slept on. Be-
tween the miner taking ore out of the
ground and the farmer guiding his
plow through the crop- yielding soil
there are a thousand and one activi-
ties; and in pioportion as each ac-
t1vity is a necessary part in making a
plow, those thus engaged are land us-
ers.

In fact farming is the only employ-
ment in which all mankind may en-
gage and be sure of a living. “Moth-
er Earth” is no flight of imagination.

Wealth

In proportion as labor is intelli—
gently applied to land will Wealth be
produced. Here the instructor, the
investigator, the recorder, the scien-
tist, even the banker, helps to make
labor pnoductive.J Each is entitled to,

' such re’ward as will adequately repay

him for his exertion. /And when finals
ly the harvest—Say wheat—sis ready
to be transported to the mill to be.
ground into flour, its distribution will
n'qt be fair unless each” factor in its
production 'is equitably remembered. ‘~

. Capital h

When the excess of wealth above.
the immediate needs of the producer

' is used to produce more wealth, it is

called capital. A barrel of flour in
the kitchen bin is wealth; a barrel of
flour in the store to beexchanged for
money is Capital. The iron ore (land):

‘manipulated' (labor) into a‘ baker":

iron stove is capital. The greater the
accumulation of capital used preduct-

; ively, the ridher society becomes, and
g the more productive is labOr.

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for the use of land, rent: is paid;

VLfor labor, Wages are MM; and

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create confusion. . "

A personcadn at one time be a land
owner, a laborer, a capitalist. Into
which class he falls dependsgupon the
extent of his stake in the land, wheth-
er his labor is his principalmeans of
livelihood, or the quantity of capital
he possesses. From what source does
he obtain the greater portion of his
income? That is the determining fac-
tor. One with brains and experience
can do society a. greater service as a
director of production than as a man-
ual worker. The rewards for all are
greater—greater in every direction.
Increased production insures a de-
creased first cost that inevitably re-
sults in lower prices. In this eneflt
the entire community eventually
shares. That is one of the reasons
why the arts and invention have
made the luxuries of one generation
the necessities of the next; the prices
have fallen so that the things produc-
ed are within the financial means of
the mass.

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Landlords

The land owning class is in a pc-
culiarly happy position. As popula-

~tion increases, without any effort on

the part of the land owning class the
value of land constantly tends to in—
crease. This is caused by competition
for its use; there is a restricted sup-
ply. Things produced by labor will
bring in a free market only the cost
of production, because production is
unlimited, and prices constantly tend
to this minimum. But as a land is a
fixed quantity, and an absolute neces-
sity if there is to be any production
at all,'its ownership gives a monopoly
as positive as anything that can be
imagined. Wages and interest may de-
crease, but rent, for land, is sure to
increase with increase of population.

Exploitation

NoMichigan woman voter should
look with complacency on the flow of
wealth into the possession Of those
who do not earn it. For such flow
must of necessity be at the expense of
those who produce the wealth. It is
exploitation. By keeping in mind the
supreme fact that wealth is produced
by labor, and by labor only, it is not
hard to distinguish between the right-
f'ul ownership ,of wealth, and to so
vote as to favor the producer as
against the exploiter.

Most people. are wealth producers.

The scientist who extracts plant food
from the air, and so helps the farm—
er to make two blades 0f grass grow
where only one grew before, shoul
mot his reward be large?
‘ To frown upon the possession of un-
earned wealth is to help protect the
home against some more or less insid-
uous kind of robbery; Let the frown-
ing be followed by that right action
which reflects itself in the results
coming from placing a ballot in the
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The Little Things of Every Day

Through little things she shows her love:
The Little Things of Every Day.

I think this earth must live and move
Thru women dear who ease our way.

The world applauds our outward life:
(It does the same for many more!)

But she and I—we know no strife;
There are no ashes on our floor!)

My socks are whole; my coffee good;
I find the water warm to shave;
(And I have never understood .
The way my collars dodge their grave)

“She always knows where I have hid

The letter that I want so much;
Oh!‘ Things do just as they are bid!
My tie comes right at her first touch.

The Little Things of Every Day!
In these she' shows her love for me.
I dread each hour when she's away;
My life gets so complex, you see.
I lose my shirts and never can
Remember where I put my hat,
(I'm just a simple, selfish man,
But, All! she likes me, ’spite of that.)

All I can do is take her hand

When sunrise slips past sentries red,
And tell her that qunderstand

The homely halo 'round her head.
(Some men would say she’d have more

~ s yle ,
Without her cap thatdooks so old, ’
But I don’t mind, I havehher smile,
Besides—the bacon mtg t get (cold!)

or super-women fine and brave,
I’ve reada lo ; I say no more:

‘ Except that they would never save

The 6 thing you dropped outside the

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m CHILDREN: This is the

time of the year when old
_ Biddy is clucking around for
getting that eggs are high and moth-
, or would like to have her lay instead
Of insisting on sitting on that nest
all day. But there is a reason for
it. The old hen wants some little

chickens of her own, and if you can .

”persuade mother to give you a set-
ting of eggs with the promise that

- if you will take entire charge of the
old hon while she is setting; give her
food and water, and that when the
chickens hatch you will, under the
direction of mother, feed the little
chickens, water them, see that they
are under cover the cool spring
nights, you will find that you will
have started a nice little account of
your own. And you can gain there—
by a vast knowledge of business
methods. You don’t see how? You
have seen chickens hatched out all
your life and never thought much
about their being any business con-
nected with it? Just listen. If you
will but put all your attention to
this game, you can learn how to con-
duct a poultry farm of your own
when you are older, how much it
costs. etc.

In the first place, mother should
charge you with the regular cost of
a setting of eggs. Then you will be
charged with the price of. the mother
hen. Now secure a book and put
down this cost on the debit side of
your little book which you will call
your Poultry Ledger. Charge up the
amount of feed you give the mother,
and when the chickens are hatched
the amount of feed it takes to feed
them. - Be sure they have plenty of
water and a nice green place to run
in and in the early spring you can
sell all the roost—

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anger
of R
Eiffhol/ Allen {Murphy/If

. PART V.

a treat big, his
- stream. The stream was so
big that we thought we had met the

T LENGTH our stream
C“ A 3‘

' sea, But we had many, many milesto
go yet, and many were the sights we

saw. At length we rolled in a great,
wide, slow-going, yet powerful stream,
out to meet a moving mass of waters.

“ “When the first shock came we
had to drop a ilot of our soil that we
carried. and then we parted around a
fan-sham island that people called a
delta. I wonder how many soldiers in
the United States School Garden Ar-
my have'gardens in the rich, rich soil
like that of the delta! ~ Where is New
Orleans, Garden Lady? Somehow I
fancy that the last great city we pass-
ed was New Orleans, and as we join-

ed in that vast stream that bore us

toward the sea I think I heard the
waters whisper and say, “It is the
Mississippi—{he Father of Waters.
And there are thousands upon thou—
sands of gardens tended by the chil-
dren of the United States School Gar-
den Army in the states through
which the Father of Waters passes.”

“ ‘But now we felt a"shock go thru
us and a new salty tingle ran into us.
The moon’s power, too,d rew us with
great force. When the first shock
came we had to drop a lot more of our
soil that we had carried. But finally

I was out into the wavy course of the

'great ocean current that bore me to

megreatopensea

f‘Now we knew the sky as we had
never known it. It seemed to mingle {

with us, yet to be always calling us!

“Tar. m- off,’ we said, ‘the ocean '

and skymeet and mingle as the rivers
did in theses. And always we had
dreams of same great 16y that was
coming to us out of that sky. Voices
came to us out of times great spaces
—-the breezes, the great sweeping
winds, and the thunder called to us.
We could not understand it all, but
we were sure that some day we should
rise into that other sea above us. _
“‘One day great happiness filled us.
It seemed that out of that sky some-
body was smiling a warm, loving,
golden smile on me. Somebody was
calling to me without any sound,
drawing me, trying to lift me. I felt
that it was a lovely Sun Spirit who

loved me. Then I fielt myself ng'

full of warmth and joy. I beeame‘all
light and floaty. I felt myself rising
up! Up! Up! I left my heavy salt
grains in the ocean. Oh, it was Woné
derful! Such warmth was all about
me that I melted into the air, where
I seemed to be rocked asleep at the
heart of. a golden mist in a. warm, hap-
py dream. Such a wonderful dream,
Garden Lady."’ (To be continued)

 

Dear Laddie —--,Thi_s is the first time
can writ you. Thistth
year my athceris takingm theM.
and we all Zilike it yerymn
gears d and am in the 6th Maude.
who enamels SisterBertha ”Show

chickens. As my
I will close hoping
will “1:141:11? story baht—Mary

Eagle,
Bird’s Host

A. little bird was 100mm for 131”
to build her nest. file ’ '11

went to tell his wire. When the' 5)

flow away he took the nest and has it V

yet. -, g . I
Dear mudie: —-Thts is my first letter

 

I have Written to you. I like the Chil- ’

dren's Hour fine. I am 12 years old and
in the 7th grade at school. I have a very
nice teacher. I have three brothers and
two sisters. My brothers’ names are Ce-
cil, George and Francis. My sisters'
names are Bonnie and Doris. We have
two miles to go to school, but we go with
our brother as he goes to high school.
three miles. I live on an lZO-acre farm.
We have quite a number of Chester
White Hogs. My father gave one to me
but I had bad luck with it, as it died to;

day. My mother has given me half

share of the chickens if I take care of
them. I am going to try my luck raising
them next year. I hope to see this let-
ter in print. I would like to have the
girls write to me. -—T-helma Westles,
Breckenridge, Mich.

 

Dear Laddie: ——I am a girl 11 year!
old. There are three of us children, my
two brothers, Blaine and ion, and
self We live on an 80-acre, farm. %
fat er keeps “ignite aihfew}; cows and we
sen 110 e errington con-

3“ densery. -For our
pets we have four
cats, Pinkey. Bus-

 

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chicks n s, p a 3'
mother for the

 

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the mother hen
and the feed
used, and then
you can continue
to feed the pull—
ots until they be-
gin to lay and
and then from
the sale of your
eggs you will
have a nice little
bit of spending
money if you
have been suc-
cessful and you
'will have learn—
ed a good bit of
bookkeeping, as
from all 'the
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and get the m
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, 1 081127. Our
‘ ’ _ ~~ is about 208 red-
. from here and w.
have a good‘teach-‘
or. Miss Donahue,
I am in the eighth
grade. My father
hasFtaken the M.

ry

much. I like t o

- wotrkI t h he pussies
on o p e t

see this, my first

Letter in print—n
Your little frien

Eloise Barrett, .

Shade, Gratiot Co.

Dear Laddio —-
Ichave written to
you before and I
saw my letter and
story in print. We
used to live on a
farm in Clare but
moved to Saginaw
I like it here. i
have five blocksto
go to school. I go
to the Emerson
school. My teacher
is Mrs. Rademck-
er. We have tak-
en the M, B. F.
or over a year
and like it. I re-
ceived a thrift
stamp last year
for my story. Well

 

more minutes, will
tell You what I
‘ get for Christmas.
~ . I got a new dress,

 

 

to pay for them-

be glad to have
as many child-
ren as try this

--ao~ _ -....4_ .

”“95- I WOUId EARS ago, when fires were not
i as easily started as they are now,

because there were no matches,

the Indian was compelled

to find .

experiment write something to take the place of match- - you aré going to

(me, as it will be es,
interesti n g t 0

little busin e s s
.farmers we have

 

dominoes and?

He had several schemes. ' He

. wood and causing it to burn. By. and filing off th

We, to , Last driving a brad in the end of the old shape.‘

‘ fire lighter we will make a drill.

. While some people were using the
”SW drill for starting fires the Shine-e

,1!” Tend 'woreusing-it formant“: an

 

The drill shaft may be a piece of’
round stick that you may be able to
pick up or it may be shaped from'
a. piece of straight grained wood. If

plane a piece of the proper length
made sparks by striking pieces of one—half inch square and then plane
know how many 111m together- or started the .fire by
whirling an arrow with the and em-
bedded in soft dry wood, by means
31110118 0hr read- of his bow cord. A contrivance sim—
Q?! Affectionate— iliar to the drill shown was also used
.irryours. LAD.- for starting fires, the whirling mo-
xDIE. ’ tion of the drill shaft‘heating the ing nail after riving it into shaft
head 0r filing it to

off the corners: finishing tili‘perfect-
ly round with sandpaper. Bore'a hole
through the top end for the string.
Point the other end of the shaft for
the drill and make drill point by
either flattening the end of a finish- ‘

Make the flywheel of heavy wood,

as the heavier the wheel the hotter ‘

' the drill will work. ‘
mm or other M

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make the shaft
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movable arm to the shaft. The string
must not be stiff but very pliable so
it will wrap about the shaft easily.
Tie a knot in the str
the shaft, this will keep the string
from slipping through the hole in
Thread the ends of the
string through the holes bored "in the old figflgonmgg; 11 year!
ends of the movable arm and knot
two or three times, .

To operate the drill wind the ..
string around the shaft by turning ‘
the movable arm on it. Then press
down on the arm. releasing the pres-
sure as the arm reaches the end of \
Kthé downward sticks,“
"cause the string to wind
posits Won

jewelry. 9. box of
stationery and 4
erchiefs. A

a nice skating place

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letter setting has
tumulnprmt1m-
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as I have s. tow‘
a nail file some‘

is here, at Hoyt
each side of Park. Men I win-
Glow—Hulda Rey- _

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* beach to his rescue.

.11?th he had thrummed toe

of silence, it seemed that a fresh
vidon of Sir Henry came to him,

was out of the frame and beside»-

mu. real in all seeming,- plucking at
his sleeve to lead him out of the. hut'
uitid whispering a ghostly repetition
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“Back to back against the mainmast»

- Held at bay the entire crew. ”
on young -man obeyed his shad-

' owy guide. or some prompting of his
own profound of intuition, and went

out the door and downto the beach,
where. gazing across the narrow
channel, on the beach of the Bull, he
saw his late antagonist, back up
against a great boulder of coral rock,
standing of! an attack of sack-clout-
ed; machete-wielding Indians with

' wide sweeping strokes of a. driftwood

timber.

And Francis, in extremity. sway-
ing dilzily from the blow of a rock
on his head, saw the apparition, that
almost convinced him he was al-
ready dead and in the realm of the
dhudes, of Sir Henry Morgan him-
self. cutlass in hand, rushing up the
Further, ,the
apparition, brandishing the cutlass
and laying out Indians right and left

was bellowing:

“Black to back against the mainmast,
Held at bay the entire crew."

As Francis’ knees gave under him
and- he slowly crumpled and sank
down, he saw the Indians scatter and
flee before the onslaught of the

wierd pirate figure and heard their

cries of:
"Heaven help us i" "The Vir-
gin protect us. "’ "It’s’the ghost of

old Morgan. "’

Francisspext opened his eyes in- «

side the grass hut in the midmost
center of the Calf. First, in the
glimmering of sight of returning con-
sciousness, he beheld the pictured
lineaments of Sir Henry Morgan,
utaring down at him from the wall.
Nest, it was a younger edition of
the same in three dimensions of liv-
ing, moving flesh, who thrust a mug
of brandy to his lips and bade him
drink. _ Francis was on his feet ere
he touched his lips to the mug; and
both he and the stranger man, mov-
ed by a common impulse, looked
squarely into each other’s eyes,
glanced at the picture on the wall
and touched mugs in a salute to the
picture and to each other- are they
drank.

“You told me you were a Mor-
gun" the stranger said. “I am a.
Morgan. That man on the wall fath-
ered my breed. Your breed?”

"The old buccaneer’s,” Francis re-
turned. “My first name is Francis.
And yours?”

“Henry—straight from the origin-
al. We must be remote cousins or
something or other. I’m after the
foxy old niggardly old Welshman’s
loot.”

“So’ In I," said Francis, extending
his hand. “But to hell with shar—

“The old blood talks in you,"
Henry smiled approbation. “For
him to have who ilnds. I’ve turned
most of this island upside down in
the last six months, and all I've
found are these old duds. I'm with
you to beatyon film but to put
my back against the mainmast with
you any time the needed call goes
out)! -

' “That song’s a nutter," Francis
urged. “I want to learn it. Lift the
stave magain. ”

Andtogether, clanking their mugs,
Muses - -

"Back to back against the mainmast,
field at bay tiresome crew' .‘. "

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”fitting headache put a

Iceman ,
Wt!

it breaking on: guitar .
passionately And in the sharp pause--

clean, «it . _. get
announce that his head was clear
again.

“I know what it is—got bucked
off a horse once, ” his strange relative
sympathiced, as he poured him a
huge cup of fragrant Hack coffee.
“Drink that down. It will make a
new man of you. Can't odor you
much for breakfast, accept bacon,
sea biscuit, and some scrambled
turtle eggs. They're fresh. I guar-
antee that; for I dug them out this
morning while you slept.”

“That coifee is a meal in itself,"
praised Francis: meanwhile studying

 

 

his. kinsman and even and anon

glancing at the portrait at their rel-
atite.

~ “You’ re just like him, and in
more than mere looks," Henry
laughed, catching him in his scrut-
iny. “When you refused to share

fiyesterday, it was old Sir Henry to

the life“ He had a deep-seated an-
tipathy against sharing, even with
his own crews. It’s what caused
most of his troubles. And he’s cer-
tainly never shared a penny of his

‘treasure with any of his descend-

ants. New I’mvdiiferent. Not only
will I share the Calf with you; but
I’ll present you with half as well,
lock, stock and barrel. this grass but
all these nice furnishings, tenements
hereditaments, and everything, and
what's left of the turtle eggs. When
do you want to move in?"

“You mean . .?"‘ Francis asked.

“Just, that. There’s nothing here.
I’ve just about dug the island up-
side down and all I found was the
chest there full of old clothes.”

“It must have encouraged yon.’

“Mightily. I thought I had a
hammerlock on it. At any rate, it

showed I’m on the right track.”

“What’s the matter with trying
the Bull?” Francis queried.

“That’s my idea right now,” was
the answer, “though I've got anoth-
er clue for over on the mainland.
Those old timers had a way of not—
ing down their latitude and longi-
tude whole degrees out of the way.

"Ten North and Ninety East on
the chart might mean Twelve North
and Ninety- two East, " Francis con-
curred. “Then again it might mean
Eight North and Eighty-eight East.
They Carried the correction in their
heads, and if they died unexpected-
ly, which was their custom, it seems,
the secret died with them.”

“I've half a notion to go over to
the Bull and chase thou turtle-catch-
ers back to the mainland, " Henry
went on. “And then again I’d a1-
moet like to tackle the mainland
clue first. I suppose you’ve got a
stock of dues» too?"

“Sure thing." Francis noded. “But,
say, I’d like to take back what I said
about not sharing."

“Say the word ” the other on-
couraged.

' “Then I do say it.”

Their hands extended and m
in ratification.

(Continued newt M)

FEDERAL FARM LOAN SYSTEM
ATTACKED BY ENELHES
(Oontinued from page 3)

reasonable terms is no more heinous

than a tax exemption. in fa or of the
stock holdings of the National Banks
in the Federal Rescrvc Banks and
in favor of wealthy people who in-
vest the‘ir money in state and muni-
cipal and county bonds, the income
of which cannot be taxed one cent by
federal, state or local governments.

In order to establish successfully
the great . commercial credit system
repruentod» by the Federal Reserve

Act und’the great agricultural credit

system represented by the Federal

Farm Loan Act. I think that the

Congress was justified in granting

from taxation of the

exemptions
stock held by the National Banks in

the Federal Rm Banks and of
the farm mortgages and. bonds of the
Federal and Joint Stock Land Banks;
but if the exemptions from taxation
in favor of the Agricultural Credit
System are to be repealed. then with
equal isstiflcation the exemptions
from taxation in favor of the com-
mercial credit system should be re-
pooled. 2 .

Appurcntiy- in the eyes of these
term. the farmer is en-
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people of the United' States depends,
will not now consent to see this
great Land Bank System destroyed
for the benefit of these who for years
have taken advantage of the farm-
er's necessities by selling him credit
at extortionate rates of interests and
on hard and unsatisfactory terms.

I do not say that there should be
no amendments to or changes of the
Farm Loan Act. The system Ts new
and the test of experience will un-
doubtedly show that beneficial
amendments of the law may from
time to time be .made.

The Federal Farm Loan System
must be preserved. The tax exemp-
tion on the mortgages given by the
farmers to the Federal Land Banks
and the Joint Stock Land Banks and
upon the bonds issued by these banks

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‘T‘not be burdened unnecessarily.
' business of food production is fnndw- ..
No one must be peril ted . .

 

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7’ . prosperity and welfare the life of the

amental.
to collect one cent of unjust tribute
from it. -

 

The highest producer in the St. Jos-
eph Cow Testing Association for the
month of January was a full- -blooded
Jersey owned by E E Sheap, of Stnr- -
gis. She produced 1086 lbs. oi mi: k
with a test 6.6 per cent and a butter
fat of 71. 6. ~

There were 6 cows that produced
over 50 per cent. of butterfat; there
were 17 COWS that produced over 40
per cent of butterfat; there were 34
cows that produced over 35 per cent
of butter fat Of these 13 were Hol-
stains, 12 were Jerseys, 7 were Guern-
seys and the rest were scrubs. «Rich-
ard Strabbing, Testea St. Joseph 00.
Association.

 

 

Your father probably bought
APEX Seeds from this house

For 35 years APEX field seeds have been
bought by the farm owners in Michigan whose
desire has been to obtain the highest, purest

quality seeds produced.

APEX seals are strictly Northern grown—
vigorous, rugged, sound—especially suited to
Michigan soils and climate.

All APEX seeds must be perfectly clean and
tested by analysts to comply with Michigan
Seed Laws before they can carry the name
APEX. A solid, 35 year record of honest
satisfaction stands behind them.

Ask your dealer for them—or write

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Every man, woman or child in the country ought
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ber of'these lamps from one of the best makers in America. They are '
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til our supply runs out we will send one complete flash—light, including
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'eversince theBui‘ch,
‘ j'factory"l'was opened in ,. ~
1375., ‘Itrhas been. the. '1
reason Burch announce.
' ments have. been accepted
at 100 per cent by people
3 who knew. '

So when we tell you
that in the Burch Pulvo-
Packer and Pulverizer we
have a wonderfully effec-
tiveimplement for every
good farmer, you know it
is true.

HERE ARE THE ‘
REASONS 7 _,
Because it packs. the

loose soil just enough to

,enable the plant rants to

take hold, pressing out all
air spaces.

Because it cuts and
crushes every dad that
impedes the young plants.

Because“ it creates a
mulch that holds back the
evaporation of moisture.

Because its heavy sprint
construction gives maximum
eficiency to’the rear section.
insuring Derfect work at light
draft. "

Because it is built to stand
up. with the best materials
put together right.

' See it at the Burch dealer's
or write to us for our special
CatalogueNPawhichdaacribee
it fully. '

The Burch Plow Works Ce.

,Creatline, Ohio

   
         
        
    
       
     
        
    
 
      
       
       
        
 
   
     
   
      
 
      
       
        
  
      
         
     
       
       
       
    
      
       
             
     
      
 
   
 
 
 
   
  
  
  
   
 
 
   
  
 
   
  

 

   

     
    
      
   
       
 
     
   
  
   
 

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Think of it—SO packets of Olds’

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highest germinating quality, worth $2.00. for 81.00.
Here's the List—One Packet Each

Stringin- Gr. Pod Beans, . 0 Ex. Lge. Red Weth. Onion .10

Pencil Pod We! Deana . . Southport Wb. Globe Onion .10
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Oxhlart Carrot ..... 05 English Wonder Peas . . .10
Golden Bantam Sweet Corn .10 Ruby King Pepper . . . .06
E). Evergreen Sweet Corp .10 Quaker Pie Pumpkin . ., .05
Early Fortune Cucumber . .06 lm . Fr. Breakfast Radish. .06
Bel. \Vhlte 8 he Cucumber .06 Cr mson Giant Radish . . .05
Iarlieet For n: lettuce . .05 .White Icicle Radish . . , . .06
Ierly Prise Bead be so . .05 Bloomsdale S lunch . . . .05

last Osage Ila-infirm . .05 Tr
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el. Globe Denver-a Onion .10 Put. Top Wh. Globe Turnip .05

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on . German marks. f These circulars
make the fo‘lloWing" alluring state-

‘ meat"; "Bight nowfi We‘f’flrmly' believe

options “on foreign; cuifrency offer an
unusually attractive“ investment op-
portunity. True, "there is a specula-
tiveinvesrtment involved which makes
them all- the more attractive, but just
the same the chance for substantial
profit making seems so nearly assur-
ed as to render the speculative ri-sk
small in comparison. For ‘example,
every increase of 1 cent on an option
Of 10,000 marks, francs or'lire mean a
profit of $100; or 100,000 marksfrancs
or me a 1-ct. increase equals a profit
of"$1,000."‘This concern‘oflers “op-
tions” on 10,000 marks for $40, on 25,-
000 for $85, on, 50,000 for $160, etc.
As‘a‘ final 'bait, ‘thisftempting bit is
offered: “In 6 months $40 invested
should return a profit of $1,800; $300
to $350 invesited should return a prof-‘
it of $10,000.” _

When a man offers you an invest-
ment proposition that may pay a div-
idend of tom 7 to 10 per cent, look in—
to 'it; ‘ It may be worth something.
But when a. man mentions dividends
of 100 per cent and 4,000 per cent put
another lock . your money vault.
It's a terrible temptation and strong-
er men than you have succumbed to
it. Anyone Who buys options or titles
to the coin of foreign countries is
taking a hundred to one shot. If Ger-
many can pay her war debts and bol-
ster up her credit, in a long, long
time, the German mark may creep
back to par value. If Germany breaks
under the strain and the Bolshevists
get control of the government we may
expect a repudiation of the coin 0f the
realm, in which case holders of op-
tions and German marks will be able
to turn their holdings over to the chil-
dren as playthings. ,If there were
any present confidence in the early
restoration of German, French and
Italian credit, their coin wouldn’t go
begging for a market. You couldn’t
buy it at two to ten cents on the dol-
lar. And if the government and busi-
ness men of other countries have no
faith in the early strengthening of
that credit, why should you?———Editor.

(Since the above was written German
marks and other foreign coins have de-
clined still further in value, and the end
is not yet.)

MICHIGAN SENATORS
‘ AND 'REPRESENTATIVES

Will you kindly tell me the names and
addresses of my senators and represent
atives at Washington. D. C.?——F. E.
Hemans. Mich.

Senators—Chas. E. Townsend, Jack-
son, Mich., and Truman H. Newberry,
Detroit, now on trial at Grand Rapids

. ‘b‘j’ ‘ at for tai-mdw every a... has;
complaints or requests ' di‘infhrrnetloriaddflebgfl. to this depart

     

Prompt,
, ment.

to:- violation of the election laws.
Your representative is Louis 0. Cram-
ton, of Lapeer.’ Mr. 'Cramton has
3110“ himself a consistentdri'end of
agriculture, and M. .‘B. F. feels‘ that
the satenth congressional district is
. fortunate in. having Mr. Cramton for
their representative—Editor.

 

WIRE WORMS -
Please send me some simple and as
way to get rid of the wire worms. They
Work on our otatoee and spoil them for
selling or eat ng. They work mostly in
the clay.—‘—J. R., LeRoy, Mich.

The control of wire worms is very
difficult—in fact, we know of no way
{of getting rid or them eflectively.
They are most inclined to work on

soils that are poorly drained although~

in some cases they do much damage
on soil that is well drained. Plowing
the land in the late fall and letting it
remain in the rough during the win-
ter months will reduce the number of
wire worms but will not kill all of
them. Wire worms and white grubs
are most likely to occur where a, sod
land has been plbwed for potatoes. In
case either of these insects are known
to be present in large numbers in the
soil it is a good plan to plant some
other Crop than potatoes and one on
which they can do little harm, for a
year or so after the sod has been
plowed. Regretting that we cannot
give you a more satisfactory means of
controlling this insect but hoping
that this information will be of some
service to you—0. W. Wald, Exten-
sion Specialist, M. A. O'.

 

OLD NEWSPAPER DEBT

I would like to ask what is the law in
regard to collecting for ne'Wspapers. One
was sent to my boy seven years old. We
rejected the paper and also ’phoned to
have it stopped, but they kept sending it.
Now they have sent me a letter threaten-
ing to sue me if I do not pay within ten
days. Will I be holden for the pay as we
never signed for the paper.—W. H. W
Lenawee County.

Pay no attention so the threats. If
you can show that you ordered the
paper stopped, we do not think they
can force you to pay. The sure way
of preventing trouble of this kind is
to notify the mail carrier not to leave
the paper in your bor. He is instruct-
ed to notify the postmaster, who in
turn sends the publisher 3. notice, who
under the “law is required to stop the
paper and to pay the return postage,
on all he sends you after notification
has been given him.—Edit01‘.

CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION‘

I would like to ask you to pliblish in
the M. B. F. when the covessional pri-
maries are to be held in ichigan, and
what form is used in getting candldates'
names on the ballot—J. S. B., St. Louis.

careful” attsnt rs: ,
Wagare‘here to. a your).

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electipn.;....,h e” l d

the last. Tuesday in august“ offievery .-
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‘even year. Thenominse "on‘ _
ty ticket becomes the. candidate for

that party at the .eIecion; in. Novem- *

her, and the person receivingfihe high-
est number of votes, declared elected.
To become a candidate tenfoongress-
man and have his. name printed on the
ballot, a man or his friends. must file
with the secretary of state thirty; day.
before-the primaries a number of po-
titions equivalent to not less than two
per c'ent., and not more than four per
cent. of the total vote cast for the sec-
rotary of state in his district at the
preceding general election.——-Edi'tor.

 

nEnmp’Nm BEANS
I am a. farther living in the north oeu-
tral part‘ of Midland county. The farm-

ers in‘ this section or the county are too ,

far from the railroad, it being from five
to ten miles, to raise sugar estate: a
' crop, and so the majority 0’! K
have been depending . on ' beans, that
navy or peabeans. -,
Now the price of white beans has not
been high enough so that any great num-
ber of the farmers in this communit
have been able to raise them at a prod
The price of red kidney beans looks
very attractive to m'self and riiany oth-
ers in this communty and what I am
Can we raise red kid-
ney‘ beans’ in this climate?
thrashed with the common beaner? ]?o
they require any different planting cont iP
tions, care or harvesting than the wt; to
beans and can the local elevators handle
them without special machinery? ‘
I would also like to hear from some
farmer who has red kidney beans for
sale and the price of same, also ’how
many to sow per acre. . I would respeot-
fully suggest that you answer these
questions through the columns of youi
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valuable farm weekly as L think
would be of interest ‘to a number
farmers in all parts of the state. I,
support Milo D. Campbell for the nomi-
nation and election for govemor.—E. S.
M., Hope, Mich.“

Red Kidney Beans can be success-
fully grown in all parts of Michigan
where White Beans are raised. The
same machine is used in threshing
Reds as the other dries. The plant-
ing conditions are practically the
same. It is advisable not to plant as
many beans in hill. If the soil is
heavy, We would recommend planting

, less than where it is light, as the Red

Kidney has a, heavy foliage. The con-
ditions 0f harvesting are the same as
White Beans. No special machinery
is used. W - ecommend forty to for-
ty-five poun s o the acre.

We are payin farmers six and One-
quarter today on a-ndpicked basis for
White Beans, and twelve and one-half
on handpicked basis for Red Kidneys.
We believe that the 'Reds will be
worth1 about twice as much as the
Whites for another year, and will
continue to-be much *higherr—Lewei-
lyn Bean 00., ernd Rapids.

 

 

 

 

A KICK

Rooster—Why
do you stand
those eggs on
end. Do you
want to raise a
family of aero-
bats.

 

 

 

Help “’nnted .

Nancy was saying her prayers. “And
please, God,” she petitioned, “make
Boston the capital 01 Vermont.”

“Why Nancy!" exclaimed her shock-
ed mother. “What made you say
that?" -
"’CauSe I made it that way on my
examination-papers today and I want
it to be right.”

 

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Lemme. says, a message, declares
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SENSE AND NONSENSE . ‘ 'j

Necessities and Luxuries

“Just bought a fine motor-car for
immediate delivery."

“What style car did you get?”

“A 'Dashing Demon Six.’ Now, if I
could only get 'a half a pound of sug-
ar somewhere the Whole familywould
be happy."

 

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doctor‘ said I
should take a
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Common New York Incident ‘

- A man from the backwoods of West-
ern America visited New York for the
first time one Christmas and went in-
to a restaurant to have his Christmas
dinner. ‘ .

.All went well until the, waiter
brought him a napkin. The eyes of the
backwoodsman flamed, and, pulling
a six-shooter from his hip-pocket, he
told that waiter his mind.

“You take that blamed thing away
at once," he said, “evenly. “I reckon I
know when to use a handdkerchief,
without having them.' darned hints
thrown out!” ‘ _ . .~

 

      
    
 

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OHEEB UP--YOU'RE A’ LIVIN’

OMES the ioyflul new; that the
‘ :cost of livin’ is a-goin' up, way

, up, twenty-five per cent or more, ‘
~ the amount,- no doubt, dependin' on

how many more investigatin’ clubs

are formed an’ how much money will

he at their disposal. Prob’ly you ’ve
noticed: that as soon as a thing has
stood a real thorough investigation
the price has been boosted up a few

notches“, Sugar you know, an’ bread;

shoes an' sauerkraut; limberger
cheese an’ shavin’ soap; oh yes, the
investigators are the boys that can

' whoop the prices up; long may they
Mebbe I hadn’t ort to a said

wave!
that, some folks might think I meant
to hang ’em, but I can’t rub it out so
I’ll let ’er go jest as she is. ‘

’ Well, anyway, we ’re told that shoes
will probably be higher ’n’count of
the awful prices farmers are a-gittin’
I’ve been told

y shoemakers that from 90 cents to
a dollar an’ a quarter will cover the
leather cost in any pair of shoes, so I
guess shoemakers must be gittin’ inw-
ful high wages or somethin ’,—-that’s
why shoes cost.so much, don’t you
see?

Men’s clothes must be higher on
'count of the turrible price farmers
are a gittin’ for their wool. A man
well-versed in the makin' of men’s
clothing, said jest a few days ago that
in men’s suits, that sold‘ for from 50
to 70 dollars, there could only be
about five dollars’ worth of scoured
wool, an’ in suits costin’ at retail to-
day, from $75 to $100, seven dollars
would cover all the cost of the finest
scoured wool that could possibly he
put in.

Women’s clothes are also goin’
higher—well we might say let ’em go
—we don’t care if the women don’t——
gosh! They’ve been a-goin’ higher an’
tighter for three or four years now
an’- we’re kinda gittin’ used to it—but
if they’re goinr‘ to cost more, why, we
want to kick right now. Why the dic-
kens, should women’s dresses cost so
darn much money when there is so
little to e’m? Well the great cry goes

‘over the land that lack of production

an’ «high wages are the cause of the
raise in prices, this from the manufac-
turers an’ the jobbers an’ .the profit-
Lack of
production an’ high wages?

The labor unions say: “Give us less
hours an’ more money; out down
1mm 10 or 12"h0urs to six or eight an’
production is,on~e of the causes of the
lower the cost of livin’. Now, it looks
to a man on the fence that if lack of
production is one of the causes 0f the
high cost of everything, then shorter
days, seems like, would make a great-
er s-hortage—an' create a higher price.
Shorter hours. in the factories means
increased expense to the farmer; he
must compete with the hours an’
wages paid in the city, if he has any
help at all, consequently he must have
a higher price for his products, an'

‘ for every extra nickle paid the farm—

er, the middle men, the real money-

'makers, get a quarter or more. An"

so the cry goes out agin’——livin’ has
gone up; give us more wages an’
shorter days, an’ when the end Will
come no livinr’ man can tell, it's a con-
tinuous circle an’ unless somethin’ is

  

    

done to remedy things there will be
much stiflenin’ on death among those
who, With a fiXed inocme, too often
pitifully small, can not keep up with
the maxim prices an’ sooner or later
must glye up the unequal struggle.
Jest natcherally now. you ask,
“What’s the remedyflfor all this sort
of thing?” Well, by gosh! There don’t
seem to be any remedy; thergovern-
ment through the attorney general an’
others, 'has spent millions of dollars
jest investigatin’ — ’course there' s been
afew little fellows—profiteers on a
one-horse scale, so to speak, arrested,
men who'have taken in profits of a
hundred dollars, have been prosecut-
ed vigorously we are told, an' me-bbe
they should ort to be prosecuted. The
idea of takein’ jest a few hundred dol-
lars when the opportunity was wide
open’ to take millions, shows that such
'men are not safe to be, at large; they
might git in the way of the big prof-
iteers an’ cause’em more or less trou-
ble, don’t ya know? Anyway the rem-
edy don’t seem to lay in investigatin’
committees, that’s a cinch; an' some-
how it don’t appear to me as anyways
likely that shortenin’ the hours or
-ra'isin’ wages will solve the problem.
Cuttin’ a quarter time off’n a day’s
-work wouldn’t increase production
more’s I c’n see; kinda looks like
tween the producer Of raw .mater-
ial an’ the consumer of the finished
product. Surely five dollars’ worth
of wool in a 70‘-dollar suit of clothes,
don’t look as though the grower of
wool was makein’ a heluvalot out'of
the'clothin’ business. Seems like
somebody in between must be gittin a
rake-off somewheres don’t you think?
The National Clothing Men’s Asso-

' ciation has adopted resolutions pledg-

in' themselves to “cooperate in the
prosecution of profiteers in the cloth-
in’ business,” but wisely adds, “there
ain’t any such animals,” an’ so there
you are, nobody to:blame an’ so of
course, no remedy.

Here’s what John H. Copper, presi-
dent Copper & Coppe,r says: “We may
keep high Wages; we may keep our
prosent scale, and still reduce the
cost of living by a simple remedy“
WORK—good, hard, honest, faithful
service, not eight hours, rather 10
and then some. Let us for one year,
at least, resolve to work, and work
like El!!!” Can. anybody offer a bet-
ter solution? Cordvially—Uncle Rube.

WORDS OF APPROVAL
FROM“ M. B. F. FOLKS
It’s a pleasure for me to renew my
subscription to your paper—money
well spent I think—hope the Farm
Bureau is a go. Our county has not
been canvassed yet. Would say that 1
am anxiously waiting for the time to
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CHIPPEWA-eln the Michigan Busi-
ness Farming issue 01! Jun. 17, 1920, W.
P.-H. asks if grain. can, be kept in con-
crete ’flood granary ‘He is answered by
a manager, farm & cement products. I-
wish to advise W. H. P. that such grams
ary will mold grain on a. cement, floor. I‘
have built more 'than one'granary and "
took all precautions but the result is; the

any length of time. I‘ am not a county
agent nor have I cement or lumber for
sale. but advise anyone wishing'to build
a cement granary ~to lay in dove tail
strips when building » cement floor Hot
granary on which to nail] is board floor,
leaving strips slightly more than flush.
Avlso‘to Stand dove- tail strips when-mak-
ing forms for side walls on which to
nail bin supports. The side walls do
very well without lumber lining, but
floor heaven—J. L. R. The following
prices Were gold at Brimneyz—Wheat,
$2.30' oats, 8 ; hay: o. 1 timothy, $25,
No. 1 light mixed, 3 4; potatoes, :2;
hens, 20: springers, 22; butter, 60; but-
terfat, 70; eggs. 60. _

 

GENESEE—J‘amers are working up
wood, doing teaming, and attending auc-
tion sales, besides doing their regular
chores. The Weather has been warmer
and we have had quite a. bit of snow
lately. Crops are not harmed at pres-

i cut for they are protected by snow. The

farmers are selling some potatoes, hay
and liv stock. Auction sales are plen-
tiful a (1 prices received are working
lower. Several farms are for sale and
the mere intend to go to the cities.

farm help, this year.—-C. W. S. The fol-
lowing prices were palid at Flint—Wheat
zed; 39%.45, wgllitaes $13.43:Noorn, $1.50;
a, ;rye, .. ; a: 0. ti ’th,
$27@$30. No. y 1 mo y

tatoes, $2.75@$3; onions, $6.50; cab-
bage, $7; cucumbers, $2.50; hens, 24;
ducks, 32; geese, 28; turkeys, 40; butter:
creamery, 60, dairy. 55@60; eggs, 50@
55; sheep. $9®$10; lambs, $12@513;
goons, b $1f5.50@ 313577550:@l§c89e51 steers, $9@
; ee cows, . . 0; veal calves
$17@$18: apples, $2@$3. "

 

MANISTEE—The farmers are making
good use of the nice weather this last
week. cutting wood, hauling manure and
other odd jobs than: will help out when
spring comes. A few have flu again this
winter in these parts. Farmer—5' Insti-
tute and Mid—winter Fairat Bear Lake
this week. Those that are logging have
been doing good work these last few
days, also the grayel haulers on county
roads. ,The buyers are quoting prices on
potatoes again, but claim they can not
get cars to ship and do not care to stock
up very much—C. H. S. The following"
prices were paid at Bear Lake and other
points in the country—Wheat, 82.10:
corn, $1.40: oaks. 90; rye, $1.80; buck-
wheat, $1.45' beans: C. H. P., 86, red
kidney, $11.56; hay,'$32@$35; rye-' raw.
$810: wheat-straw, $312.: out-straw, $18
potatoes, :3; hens, 25; springers, 28;
butter, 66: butterfat, ~68; eggs, 50: beef
“or... .. “Steal? or .m w

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, MANISTEE—The farmers are cutting
wood and doing cores. A few are try-
ing to log a. little but it takes most of
their time breaking roads. The weather,
has been very cold, and. blowy ~most of
the time, but the. last few days have
2:23. “m
can get over them without much
trouble. Not mob selling in this cor-
ner .ot the county. Buyers have stopped
buying potatoes and there is not much
else to sell here. Not much being bought
except feed. Hay is high and hard to
get. At that stmw is in good demand.—'
C. H. S. The following prices were paid
at Bear Lake and local markets——Whea.t,
$2.10; com, $1.40: oats,‘ 90: rye, $1.40;
buckwheat, $1.30; beans: 'C. H. P., $6.25,
red kidney, 310; hay. 335; rye-straw,
$15: hens, 25; springers, 25; butter, 55:
butterfat, 60; eggs, 50; beef steers, 8;
beef cows, 7; veal calves, 20 dressed;
hogs,. 13.

 

INGHAM—Week of very good weath-
er, thawing a little most every day. The
roads are now passable. Lots of sick-
ness and. several deaths from flu. Three
auction sales for next week. Farms are
changing hands. Prospect of our stock-
buyer. who has bought stock and shipped
for years, going in with the Shippers'
Ass'n. Good prospects of farmers either

on. Let the good work gon OIL—C. I.
M. The following prices were paid at
Mason Feb. 6:———.Wlseat, $2.30@$2.40;
cats, 80: rye, 81.55; beans, 86.60: pota-
toes, $2.25; hens, ”@251 ducks, .18@23:
butter, 55; butter-tat, 01; eggs. 60: lambs
16: hogs, 14; beef steers. 8@12; veal
calves, 18. ~

 

MONROE (W)——We have had_ a
week of warmer weather and the sleighé
ing is all gone. In some places the roads
are very icy. Fa era are not doing
very much besides'c ores. Auction bills
are being backed up and it looks as “if
there would be quite ‘a good many
changes this spring. Labor is just‘i as
source as last year, and the farmer lsup
against it. Some say work what land
you can and let the rest go.‘ That does

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Wheat: re ,
ear, $1.80; cats,

  

 

same: moldy grain on bottom it left for"~

There Will be‘ an extreme shortage of‘

The roads are getting so a ‘

buying or building an elevator at Mas-fl

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were id:—:—Whea.t, 32.50" corn“ $1.60,
oats, 1.10; rye, $1.68,; hay: No: 1 tim-'
othy, 30; No: -1 light nilxed, $28.;zstraw—_

rye..$13;‘wheat-o’at, 316; beans: pea. $8,
red "kidney,n$14.75; potatoes. $3.50; ‘on-
ions,, $2.60; hens, 21%;- springers, 922;
ducks, 18; geese, 18,; turkeys, 30; “but
ter. 65; butterfat,’ 68; eggs, 4,8; hogs, 15,; 1,
veal calVes, 861) 6. . '. , '"

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JACKSON, (N. E.)—-:The ,pastI-rweekl
week has been changeable weather but,

there is little doing among the.‘fa.rlners.,
.-Chores and cutting wood are the;;niam;
jobs on foot at present. Winter! grains
are. again covered with snow but the

ground remained frozen during a. recent ~

thaw thus saving the craps. “Prices took’
a. tumble the fore rt of the week but
have recovered. sl ghtly, except b ns
and they are going lower... Reports n-
dicate the farmer stands to lose in Con-
gross on the bean tariff. 370 price, no.
beans will be the slogan- for 1920. Un—
able to give prices on live stock as all is
now shipped co-operaltivelyp-FA. F. W.

 

LAPEER——Farmers are, busy cutting
wood and, attending sales, and there are
a. good many to attend. Everything sell-
ing good. Some to
very good prices. ome hogs and cattle
going to market—C. A. B- The follow-
ing prices were paid at Imlay Cit :—
Wheat, $2.25' corn, $1.40? oats, 80 85:
rye, 1.30@si.4o; beans, $6.50; buy,
$22@ 25; rye-straw, $6@$8; potatoe
$2.25; onions, $2; hens, 22; springers, 2
@24; butter, 67; butterfnt, 59; eggs, 59:
wool, 60; beef steers, $9@$10; beef cows
$6@$8; veal calves, $12@$18; sheep, $6;
lambs. $15@17; hogs, $13.

 

1 light Mixed, $25@;27;J CALHOUN—Farmers are doing their ‘-
beans:' Pea. $6 25. red kidney, 311; pc— chores.

The well ones are taking care
of the sick. The saw mill has shut down
on account of e gulp. Not much mov-
ing on account of sickness. The follow-
ing prices were paid at Battle Creek:—
Wheat, $2.40@$2.38: oats, 85c: rye
$1.40; hay: No. 1 timothy, $30; No._i
light mixed, $30; straw-rye, $12; wheat-
oat, $13; potatoes, $3; hens, 25c; but~
ter, 55; lambs, 10@15; hogs, 59; bee
steers, 8@10; beef cows. 5@7; vea.
calves, 10@16.—C. E. B.

 

SANILAC, (N.. E.)—Jamua.ry passed
without customary thazw. Februa. has
come in milder. Fields fairly wel cov-
ered with snow at this writing, which
will help wheat and meadows. Some hay
and grain moving. Clover seed being
sold quite freely. Stock wintering good.
Farmers seem to have plenty of feed.
The order cg. the day seems to be haul!
cool, (when car arrives) fertilizer 3:3
manure, and doing the necessary chores.
Politics warming j up some—G. T. A.
e;Jo6.;5 $re!:::F .ETET ET ET H TH

MIDLAND—The followin rices ‘we
(paid at Midland, Mich, b g p re

 

y Orr Bean and
Co., on Feb. 13:—Whe'u‘.t, 8., 2.40,
F., 32.35; corn, shelled. $1.40; cats, 83
rye, 81.40: buckwheat, 82.85: beans, sol
barley. $2.75; peas, $3.90.

POTATO PRICES HAVE

PASSED HIGH MARK

(Continued from page 2),

mean disappointment toall of them. ,
It is my opinion that one mason for
.the unusually high prices for the
last few weeks has been the inabil-V
lty to move potatoes as freely as
would “have been possible it more
cars had been available. Growers
who are in a position to sell at pres-
ent prices/and hold in the hope of se-
curing hi-gher prices are taking
chances. On the. other hand, for a
large number-of them to endeavor to
get into the market at once for fear
the prices will be lower'later would
force prices down unduly. As has
been preViously stated what is need-r
ed is a uniform movement of the has.
ance of the..cro-p for the remaining:
portion of the season-+0. W. Wald“,

Extension Speciali-Sl. M. A. 0." .
Hale Tennant 'niinks High Point
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“Your letter of February 10, rob,fl
ative to prospective potato prices, is
received. ' \

“There seems to be a pretty gen-
eral conviction around operators in
potatoes that the recent high mark
in prices would not be equaled again
during the season. ,My judgment
would be that the market will do-
cline for some little time until. a
point is reached where ‘the shipment
is inclined to be checked, with a
final raise at the close oi: the move-
ment, but thisis ' simply a. rough
guess.’ - A , , '

‘ "In a'rec’ent visit with Mr. Church
be indicated that the crop '_movenieut. .
seemed “to be pretty, much in. line
with the "final estimates of their de-
partment. and it this true, I hardly '
“expect to see potatoes much «every.
low Jets! at -' an! clogs-m M

   
       

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yum point it being the object

and; ydsnlre of the association to sell

mhmers in all parts of the state,

~believing this would wake up the com- '

munity they went to and create senti-

meat for better hogs, and demonStrate.

the worth of the Dnroc. The male
was well attended, the work oi the

auctioneer, Col. Andy Adams of bitch?

field, Mich; and assistants, 1711.11111-
ton, otMIA. 0., andJ. E. Reapport, of
Perry. was “‘near professional’ and
very satisfactory. This being Our

first sale it was decided by the mem-

bers not to consign any “show stuff",
but put in a good high crises lot or
pork producing individuals, that will

make good with the farmers, and be

a credit to the consignor and the
breed." One of the most gratifying
features of the sale was the fact that
there was but one purchase made by
a consignor. which is conclusive evi-
dence that it was a clean-out trans-
action from start to finish.

We Wish to thank. those in author-
ity at M. A. C. for their kindly indul-
gence in granting permission to use
the building and grounds for our sale.

The average price paid for ‘bred
sows was $101.00, the highest priced
sow sold at $150.00 and was consign-
ed by W. C. Taylor, of Milan, Mich.

. The top gilt sold for $140.00 and was

consigned by J. B. Miller, Ithaca, Mich

Sales follow, consigned by‘ Michagana
Farm, Pavilion, Mich;
Chaselin Farm, Northville, Mich. $ 80. 00

glarold Coffman, Casnovia, Mich. 102. 50’

L. and J. E. Norris. Casnovia,
...................... , , 90.00

.................. rt.. 110.00

Four Thousand F armhrs Join Beet Ass’ 11

(Continued from page 6) ,

Saginaw convention, Dec. 8, submit-
ted figures showing their cost an
acre to average 3106. they did not
figure- anything for management or
depreciation. They figured labor
only, and they put their own labor
in at rates from‘35 to 50 cents per
hour.”
Opposition Dwindling

Gradually the little opposition that
has shown itself to the beet growers’
demands is being levelled, and all
forces who ought to support the beet
growers’ rights are uniting harmon-
iously. Even the Michigan farm pa-
per which in its issue of February
7th, opined that the beet'growers' ef-
forts were belated and accused: the
leaders of the movement of encour-
aging the' curtailment of a necessary
fond product, has, true to our pre—

    
  

 

$100.0
G. A. Brown, East Lansing, Mich 130. 0%
"(noun Chaselin Farm ......... - 7o. 00

— (Pig)h C U. Edmonds, Hastings,
Mic

_media_te action upon the recommen-

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Burton Bros, Niles, Mich .......

  
  

Certified by W. C. Taylor, Milan,

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U. J. Brindley, Coleman, Mich. 8 80. 00
Harris, Coleman. Mich .......... 80. 00
(Boar J..H. Burger, Saginaw, 80 00

Mic
Alfred Monk, Dundee, Mich. ...... 150.00
Consigned by Henry Phillips, Milan,

Mi
(Pig) ichOscar Kochale, Middleville,

...................... $ 40.00
E. Ml- BBrindley ................. 107.50
C. B. Burk, Homer, Mich ....... ' 87.50

Consi ed by Burt Portland Cement
00.. Be levue, Mich.

Chas Bray, Lansing, Mich ...... $100. 00
(Bear) L. Chapman, East Lans—
» ing, Mi ch ..................... 57.50
W. H. Knickerbocker, East Lans-

ing, Mich .................... 90.00

Consigned by F. J. Drodt, Monroe,
ich
ern Towns, Eaton Rapids, Mich $ 80 00

(Pig) J osegh Stark, East Lans-
ing. Mic .................... 4 1.00
Orin.“ Eager Howell, Mich. ..... 9 2.50
J. Brindley ................. 62. 5 0

E'Consigned by Inwood Bros, Romeo,
ic h.:

....................... $ 36.00

R L0 hCraig, Grand Ledge Mich. 75 00

Consigned by J B. Miller, Ithaca. Mich.

J. L. and J. E. Norris .......... $14 000

Consigned by Alex. Brown, ,Homer
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G. A. Brown .................. $130.00t'
Chaselrin Farms ................ 100.00

Consigned by Newton Barnhart, St.
Johns Mich;

(Pig) Robins .................. $ 32.00
(Pic) E T. Leipprandt, Pigeon .
Mich. ....................... 60.00
Chaselin Farm ................. 140.00
H. S. Herriott, St. Johns M1ch.140.00
éPig) ........................ 13.33

P
(‘ohsigned by Alfred Monk Dundee,

Mich. l

Chaselin Farm ................. $ 77.50 I

H. D. Boardman, Jackson. Mich. 80. 00
-—J. B. Miller. Sec'.y

diction, come down off the fence, but
the straWs which showed which way
the wind blows enticed it to the
ranks of the growers, instead of the
manufacturers. of which fact we‘are
glad to bear testimony.

The Farm Bureau has taken im-

dation adopted at the Lansing meet-
ing, and Mr. Ashley M. Berridge, a
member of the executive committee,
has been delegated to attend the
meetings of. the growers and acquaint
the public of the true facts through
the Bureau’s” publicity department.

Thus, with the united efforts of all
interested in Michigan agriculture, ,
there can be but one outcome of the
contest—success for the sugar beet l
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MARCH 3RD, AT HOME FARM, SALEM, MICH.
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Double Nursing
OUBLE nursing is a modifica-
D tion of the systems described
and is very economical when

very extensively. In this system
about half of the cows of the herd
nurse 2 calves each and the other
half, from which the calves are tak-
en, are milked. This .plan works ex-
ceptionally well when all the cows
in‘a herd are heavy milkers.

The breeding herd may be so
handled that either spring or fall
calves are raised. The best time to
have calves dropped is a question
frequently debated among cattlemen.
Some prefer having calves dropped
in the spring (late in February, in
March, or early in April,) while oth-
__ers prefer having them dropped in
the 'fall- (September and October.)
As a rule the question should be de-
cided by individual farm conditions,
taking into consideration the feed
supply, pasture,‘ equipment, and la—
bor.

When calves are dropped in the
spring one wintering is saved; they
do not require so close attention
during their first winter, when car-
ried over as stockers; cows may be

greater amount of coarse roughage;
less labor is required to handle the
calves during the winter and less
pasturage is
summer, since cows and calves run
together.

\Vhen calves are dropped in the

at calving time; they give more milk
for a longer period; the calves make
better 11523 of the grass during their
first summer; they escape flies and
heat while small, and are weaned at
the beginning of calving'time.

Other advantages of each method
over the other might be mentioned
but those given are the most import-
ant. In either case the calves should
be dropped within a period of not
more than 60 days, to give as much
uniformity as possible to the calf
drop. ‘

Spring calves should be weaned
before the end of the pasture season
in the fall to allow them some time
time on grass if winter pasture can
not be provided. If they are to be
finished as baby beef they ‘should go
into dry lot at the end of the pasture
season and be ready for market the
following June or July.

’Fall born calves should be wean-
ed after they have been placed on
pasture in ,, the spring and grad-
ually increased allowance of grain
should be given them, with hay and
silage added later in the summer.
For baby beef they should go into
dry lot for finishing at the end of
the pasture season, and be ready to
market in December or January.

Calves which are not intended for
baby beef need not receive grain so
earlyor in so large quantities, be-
cause they are making their growth
without fattening. They can utilize
much larger amounts Of roughage",
such .as stalk fields, meadows, silage,
and straw, with a,p0und of cotton-
seed meal as a supplement. A reg-
ular fattening ration need not be
supplied until the calves are mature.

The Kind of Herd Bull to Use

Buying a good herd bull is the

(The second instalment ' this»
tn, No. 1075) _ ,, ,
, {first step in growing better Calves at

' ed by purebred bulls weight on an av-‘
properly applied, but is not practiced

head: more than steers sired by scrub

wintered more cheaply by using a.
required during the.

fall the cows are in better condition.

» Nor is this all.

aides,-

‘ a

much less coat per pound. 111 com?
man or native- cow herds, calves sir-f-

orage about 125 pounds a. head more
when 1 year old than calves of the
same age sired by the average run of-
scrub _bulls, andd they will sell for,
about 2 cents a pound more as stock-
ers and feeders. , Two-year- —old steers
sired "by good, purebred bulls weigh
on am average about 200 pounds‘ a

bulls, and sell for about 4 cents a
pound more as stoékers and feeders.
This difference in price of the two
classes of calves and steers applies
not simply to the difference in weight
but to the total weight; For instance;
iln‘the case of yearlings, scrubs weigh

“about 300 pounds, and when they sell

for about 9 cents a pound as stockers
and feeders, they bring $27 a head,

_ while grades at the same age Weigh

about 425 pounds, and will sell for
about 2 cents more, or 11 cents' a
pound, bringing $46.15Two-year-
old scrubs weigh about 525 pounds a
head, and assuming that they sell for
about 8 cents a pound, will bring $42
a. head, while grades of equal age
weigh about 725 pounds, and at 4
cents more a pound (about ’12 cents)
as stockers and feeders, bring $87.

A still more interesting stbry-may
be told in favor of steers sired by
good pure—bred bulls when the two
classes are flattened and sold for beef.
For instance, throughout the year 1918
scrub steers sold at about 10 to 12
cents a pound, while the better class,
or grades, went from 16 to 18 cents.
Two-year-old scrub
steers weigh about 525 pounds, and
when fed a. fattening ration for 120
days they will scale possibly 700
pounds. Tw.-o -year- old gfado steers
weigh about 725 pounds. and after a
fattening ration for 120 days they
will then weigh about 965 pounds. At
1918 prices the fat scrubs would sell
fer about 12 cents a pound and the
fat grades for about 16 cents, the
scrubs bringing $84 a head and the

1

' grades $154.40.

These figures show a difference be-
tween the values of the two classes of
yearlings and two—year—olds as Stock-
ers and feeders, and of fat steers, re-
spectively, of $19.75. $45 and $70.40
in favor of those sired by a'good
pure—bred bull.

There is.practically no difference in
the cost of feed for the two claSSes of
calves up to the yearling age, but

'from that time on grades develop

more capacity and‘reqiuire more feed
than scrubs. The difference in cost of
feed, however, is a very small item
when the values are taken into con—
sideration.

The big difference lies in the kind
of bull used.

Care and Feedd’or the Bull

The bull should be the best-cared-
for individual in the herd. Not only
should he have special feed at times
but he should be kept in a. separate
paddock or lot and should not have

3 the freedom of the herd except during
' limited seasons of the year. Unless a.

special lot can be provided, some
means of giving the bull exercise
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"Gare of the New .Born' Oalt .

It the breeding cows are m "a vigor-
ous, healthy condition at time of calv-
lng "they will probably need little, if

any, assistance. Whileit is true, that-

most calves' born need no assistance
whatevert yet: it is true: also
many that die would have lived had
may had assistance at the proper
time. As soon. as the calf is born it
should have the fetal membrane re-
moved from" its nose and mouth at
once. 'Unless the calf is stnong and
‘vigor'ous, insert a finger into the
mouth andgi've the tongue -a slight
pull. Pressure on‘theribs may be-nec-
essary sometimes to stimulate breath-
iing. Allow the cow to dry and care
for the, calf alone. "Afterwards the

calf ulay need some assistance to find ,

the udder. The calf should get the

first. milk—the colostrum—which acts

as a mild purgative unless the cow’s
'udder is feverish. .

The calf should make fast continu-

, ous growth from time of birth. A

common expression among beef-cattle

growers is, “Keep the stomach cf the"

calf full .of milk, and, grain at all
times.” Give it alljthe milk from its
dam, for as short period at least. un-
less too much milk is produced.
Feeding" Calves

The success'of’groWing cattle for
market depends to 'a' large extent up-
on the start‘Which is given the calves.
This, aside from" the calf’s breeding,
ls probably the most important con-
sideration. Without the proper breed-
Ilng a choice steer is rarely if ever pro-
duced, but the same is equally true of
the feed and early care of the calves.
No matter what system at breeding
is practiced, the calves should have
the best possible start. In straight
beef production only a. small quantity
of feed in addition to milk is needed
for the calves up to weaning time, but
nevertheleSS they should be taught to
eat grain and hay so that the transi-
tion during weaning will not result in
_ loss of flesh. '

.

. 0 _ a.
" on" "wheat but. ‘
. com and ("gateway be

 

requirements. ,As ' a-

.shouldabe- increased gradually up to

"that .

, , ,
satisfactory. The
, , ted ground un-
til: the calves become 'accustomed to
eating; then theymay be fed whole.
When fed “them they are less likely to
cause scours. - “The grain allowance

weaning time so that the lack of" milk
will nothinde‘r growth and fattening.
In other words, calves intended 1;»
baby beef should bekept on full feed
from the time they are started on a.
supplemental ration until they are
sold. " _

Calves from cows that are milked '

should be "taught also to eat supple—
mental feeds within a few weeks af-
"ter birth. The quantity of grain and
hay consumed at first necessarily will
be limited, but should be increased
gradually until the calf can do with-
out milk When from 6 to 8 months old.
Fall calves that are fed skim milk and
’supplemental feeds during the winter
months put on very good gains on
pasture the following summer.
, The protein requirements of the
growing calf should be amply sup-
plied. After weainin‘g, legume hays
and silage may form the greater part
of thevroughage and one-half to three-
fourths of a pound of cottonseed meal
or linseed meal given in addition to
grain. The grain ration may be in-
creased gradually until the calves are
receiving a‘ fattening ration.

 

COX SALE, FEB. 26th

On February 26th, Mr. Wm. Cox, of
Will-iamston, Mich., sells 20 head of breed
sows and gilts, and four service boars.
Anyone in the market for the Prolific
Big Type Poland China hogs will do well
to write Mr. Cox for his catalog and plan
to attend the sale, but if unable to. do so
please-send your bids early to me in care
of Mr. Cox and I assure you that you
will be pleased with the business that I
.will conduct for you. I will guarantee to
please you and I charge no fee. .
, Mr. Cox’s herd will be in excellent
shape by sale day and unless something
unforseen happens they should be agreat
boon for Poland China history for Michi-
gan as I believe" it will be the last sale
for this winter season. Mr. Cox is sell—
ing some of. the best of his herd as he
Wished to make this, sale a success as he
plans for another sale next year.

Mr. Cox is a splendid man to meet and 2
a. gentleman and v1 am sure that he will
use you right and be glad to meet you
personally. ,

All aboard for Mr. Cox's sale. and do
not forget the place and the date. Send
"your bids to Felix Witt. in,care of Mr.
‘Wm. Cox. of Williamston, and he assures
"you, you will be pleased—’F. Witt, Field-
;man. M. B. F

 

 

- A ' . Veterinary Department

 

 

~cow DRIED UP, IN LEFT QUAIi'rEn

I have a cow which after last year’s"

calling dried up on the left hind quarter.
She calved again a few months ago and
dried up on the left front quarter, So she
is dry on both leftside quarters. There
seems to be a. lump above the teats in-
side the udder. I have used milking
devices with more harm than success.
- The cow eats and seems to be 0. K. with
no fever at the udder. Can'you advise

what I can do to get the milk going‘

a in? The other two tents are milking
fright—H. G. D, South Branch.

These cases usually start with .a.

slight inflammation of the mammary
gland; and almost without exceptiOn,
’ even approved
careful handling. these attacks ulti-
mately impair the function of. the
gland involved. In the early stages
the local signs of inflammation are
usually confined to one quar.er of the
udder; later both quarters on one side
or both front or rear quarters may be
involved. In rare cases the entire ud-
der is involved. .

" In the early stages a good cathartic
'ehould be given. hot applications ap—'
plied to the udder for
hours; keep the affected quarter milk-
ed out as much as possible. The more
experience one has regarding the val-
ue of a. milk tube fix these cases. the
more’he is inclined to discard them;
it being almost an impossibility to use
a milking tube in a. stable without in-
fecting the quarter.

It the cats -.is of long standing and
,the inflammation haunubsided. ‘with
the (imitation: any. attempt to, .
,8tore.the same» willbea disappoint-

mentdn-i‘nine‘ cesea out Ot‘tfi'fls‘Vfl‘f‘

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impouonn
:‘us

treatment and most.

twenty-four ‘

N“ L.

icretion is. sterile.

laterlle‘
“fitter

'Also as soon as a bridle is put on he will
slobber worse than usual when fed on
Glover in the spring. Is this the cause of
his hard keeping, and what is the cause
and remedy?——W. J. T., Bentley, Mich.

The evolution of the permanent mo-
lar teeth has. considerable to do with
a colt’s condition at this age; the third
molar reaches the. alveolar margin at
3 years, expels the temporary shell at
_3 and 3 1-2 years and gains the table
level at about 4 years; it is also at this
age the intermediate or center front
teeth erupts, therefore the gums are
swollen and- very sensitive. It is also
at about this age a colt is very suscep-
tible to stomach worms. Give this
colt the following at one dose:

Sa-ntoninn, 20 grains; oial terebinth,
3 ounces; aloes barb., 6 drams; 01.
Line, 1 pint; followed by alterative
tonic consisting of—-— I

Terri Sulph. ex. 1 ounce; Quinrine
sulph. 1-2 ounce; Powd. Nux Vomica,
1 1-2 ounce; Powd. Gentiam, 3 ounces;
Potassium Nit, 1 12 ounces. Mix and
divide. into 12 powders. One three
times a day. ‘

 

MEAT ALL RIGHT

I butchered a male pig that I supposed
had been properly. castrated, but found
one of its testes near' its bladder. Is
there anything that can be applied or any
{way of curing this meat to make it free
from smell and fit for us to eat?—«Sub-
:sdriber. .- . _

In this case your pig was‘a Cryptor- -.
:chid. . The testicles of a. cryptorchid’
imay be found- floatinganywhere’ with-
the abdominal cavity. _-,'l‘he.testicle is '
usually smell,.undeveloped and its se-‘ .
~ It may develop to,
the normal size, or even larger, after
the opposing testicle ”is removed by
actuation. but its secretion remains.

   
  

   
 

 
 
 
 

 

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‘ff‘ his nation de-
pends more on“
dairy foods for It.
physical welfare
than any other
foods, and the
dairy farmer truly
performs a tre-
mendous service
in the production
of such foods."

—P. M. SHARPLES

 

 
   
  
   
   
 

 
   
   
   
   
          
  
  
    
  

        
    
   
   

   

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IS advice on modern dairy equipment can mean
" . a lot to you. . He stands ready to help the farmer,
and his sound judgment on farm and dairy equipment
can be relied upon — roved by the fact that he sells
the Sharples Suction- eed Cream Separator.

He has elected to sell the Sharples only after a care-
ful study of all cream separators. He has proved to
his own satisfaction that the Sharples “does” skim
clean at any speed.” ’ He will gladly demonstrate that
fact to you.

The Sh les Suction-feed has other exclusive fea-

tures; sim e, one-piece bowl (no disc‘s), knee-low
supply t , automatic once-a-month 011mg system,

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simple construction that means longer wear. Let the
Sharples dealer in your neighborhood show you how
these features (found on no other separator) will in-‘
crease your dairy profits.

    
  
   
   
   

SUCTION - FEED ~
.CREAM SEPARATOR

Write to nearest office for illus-
trated booklet describing the
Sharples Suction-feed Separa}or.

Dept. 155
THE SHARPLES SEPARATOR CO.
West Chester, Pa.
Branches

San Francisco
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We guarantee correct weights and Tests:

We insure the return of your empty can or a new , .
one. . .

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of issue. Breeders’

Ill-utilises. Yeuea

at. special low rates: sell for than». Write

(SPECIAL ADVERTISING RATES under this heading to honest breeders of live stock and MI?! will bean: on requ
type. show you a proof and tell you what it Milo star to or 18. 28 new site
Auction Sales advertised here

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BREEDERS' DIRECTORY. MICHIGAN, BUIINE” FARMING. Mt. Clemens, "Million.

   

 

 

  

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211:1: 1 SALE DATE c.5311

To avoid conflicting dates we will without
cost, list the date of any live stock sale in
Michigan. If you are considering a sale ad-
vise us at once and we will claim the date
for you. Address, Live Stock Editor, M. B

. Mt. Clemens.

    

Linehsn, Piaf! and Baht.

. Willem Cox.
illlamston, Mich
wM:rc h 3, Duroc- Jerseys. Thos Underhill
8t Son and Albert Ebersole, Salem, Mich.

Feb. 2 1, Duroc
Reynolds, Swanton, Ohi
Poland Chinas.

March 8, Jerseys. Henry .1. and Carleton
R. Lewis, Ypsilanti, Mich.

Mar. 20, gAngus. Mifihigan Aberdeen-Angus
Breeders, 8a naw, Mic .

A 12, Holsteins. J. P. Olcott, Perry,

 

 

 

 

 

 

_ CATTLE 1
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIANW—

MR ilillK PROOUOER

Your problem is more MILK, more BUTTER

more PROFIT per cow.
son of Maplecrest Application Pontiac——

132652—from our heavy- -year1y milking— —good- but-
tor record dam will solve it

Maplecrest Application Pontiac’s dam made
85,103 lbs. butter in 7 days; 1344.3 lbs. butter
and 23421.2 lbs. milk in 365 days. .

He is one of the greatest bred long distance
sires.

His daughters and sons will prove it.

Write us for pedirrce and prices on his sons.

Prices right and not too high for the average
dairy farmer.

l’e-‘igrees and prices on application.

It. Bruce McPherson, Howell Mich.

 

BAZLEV STOOK FARM

POILANTI, MIDI!
Oflers ho2 grandsons of KING OF THE PONTI—
A,CS 2 sons of A. R. 0. granddaughters oi
KING at011‘ THE PONTIACBa
Price 3100100116

Herd under state and federal inspection. . .r.
Al] bulls ofle in? sale are from A. R. 0.
Address all correspondence to

JOH AZ BY
319 Atkinson Ave.. Detroit, Mich. A

EGISTERED HOLSTEINS FOR SALE. FOUR
bull calves sired by a. son of King Segle Cham-
Dion Mabel ’ He is aqioublo grandson of King
Segis De Kol Korndyke. Dams are heavy producing
young cows. Prices reasonable. breeding consid-

ered.
O. A P. DeHOOP. lesiand. Miohgi R 4

WOLVEINNE STOCK FARM REPORTS GOOD

COWS.

 

 

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lle
the
ale. '1‘. W.

Bpragne, B. 2. Battle Creek.

 

 

MUSOLFI' BROS.’ HOLSTEIN

We are now booking orders for
young bulls from King Pieter See's
Lyons 170506. All from A. R. O, dams
with credible records. We test annu-
allv for tuberculosis Write for pric-
es and further information.

 

L

SHORTIIORIII AND POLAND OHM“ FOR
“belie bull Q1188. bred

Registeredc
sows and (all pigs, e1ther est. e'farmers kind

at lamen' p .»
.li. PIOOOTT A SON '
Union PhoneF' Fe wier, Mich.

 

ms 351-1011111031! I . 11 111on To a

‘ counselors
GUERNSEYS WE ARE one“... son

sale some splendid hull bill .111.
out of A. R. dams with records whom 5011111
fat. herd sire, a grandson of lI’y pep
ater. and whose darn has an
AB. recordoifislhafetat2I-Iiyearcis

 

 

 

 

   

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Wlite for particular;

0113mm Tom keys 20 lbs. up out of :33 “loathe” exchange.
“mm" Ayn“ 1:, 4155"?“ L1£’mg.,:,i,z (hi? oneau once. a lo 1. Alleged. mos.
arms van ‘nonms co. snortsorn‘ JERSEYS
Breeders’ Association have 011115 stock ' 1
for sale, mostly Clay b ins W11“ For Bale—Jersey bull calves. Oxford and Ilsa; ’
your wants to “163°01'th Frank 33" jesty breeding, Dams. are heavy producers.

ley. Hartford. Mich.

L. MRTER. R4. Lake Odessa. Mich. .

 

 

eanv oouurv SHORTHDORN ensco-
read:

it!
ere Mutton announce theiria
for distribution Scotch. Scotch 1'01) and
1811011110111: listed. Addie:
“1.1.711"... 800.. Mill, Mich.

armour. curios SIIOBTHOBNB-oa
Cows, $260.00 to $300.00. Bulls, $200.00
to $250.00. Wm.:J. Bounces City, Mich

 

1 win. SELL MY wnou am or"

REGISTERED JERSEY CATTLE

Also 25 pure bred white ilrpington hens and
75 pure’white Leuhorns. all liming Price $2 each.
CLARENOE BRISTOL R 3. Fulton. Mich.

BROWN S‘VISS

 

 

 

 

RUROIIA STOOK FARM

Over fifty head of Scotch and Scotch Topped
Shorthorns.A1n o fl’ering semi-a] good bulls. cows
and heifers, Roam. Reds and Whites. Write or
see them.

8. H. PANGBORN. Bed Axe. Mich.

 

BULL
Also young Oxford Down

on BALE—SHORTHORN
ready for service.

GALVEI

‘m SALE

4 HEAD OF REGISTERED

Brown Swiss Cattle.~

LAll in good condition, Write for particulars.
HENRY- BOOHER

 

 

 

Muslofl' Brut-1.. South Lyons, Michlgln Ewes. lricésto R 4 Evart, Mich.
JOE MURRAYto A SON. R2. Brown City, Mich.
1. FOR SALE TREA- VAL VERDE FARM BROWN 8WI88\
Laue B!SIAE}GE 32:52: '0': aflonTHOH" gamble [mega 1‘ _ ' Registered calves for sale—410th sex.
. EITHER SEX prize—winning Scotch EDWIN GRISWOLD, R1. Bellalrc, Mich.

Can spore 11 nicely marked heifer backed by seven

dams that average above 1200 lbs. butter and

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

 

 

For Sale: Registered Holstein bull calf from 24
lb. dam an i 31 lb. sire, price $100. Born,
Oct. 18, 11.)“) \Vlll.(lrilli11, RS. Howell, Mich.

HOLSTEINS

FOR SALE

~h‘11urteeli head of high grade . registered
stock to be closed out. For particulars and
pedigrees ac‘drcsx

E. P. KINNEY
East Lansing. Mich.

TVlO GREAT BREO BULLS

fine,bea11t.ifnllv marked son of KING
PONTIAC HENGEll‘i ELI) FAYNE the hundred
thousand dollar son of KING OF THE PON-
I‘IACS from a 23 lb. Ir. 8 year old daughter of
a near .32 lb. Jr. 4 year old cow, whose sire
was from a 30. 59 lb. cow and this heifer is just
one of the choicest heifers of the breed. Good
ior 31. lbs. at next (reckoning. If interested write
for extended pedigree and price. Guaranteed
right. Tiler other a son of the above sire out of
1.11 2 year old granddaughter of KING
KORNDYKE SADIE VALE. Where can you
get better breeding?
JAMES B. OARGETT. Elm Hall. Mich.

ORSALE

PURE BREI HOLSTEIII

 

 

 

 

 

 

. R. 0. full sister to SPOTTED
LIZZIEA 3rd.
One thousand pounds of butter in one
year.

Details upon applilniion to

WILLIAMS Aim WHITEOE ED

ALLEGAN, MICH. 4

 

 

 

HERE’S A BULL GOOD ENOUGH TO HEAD
A REGISTERED HERD

A grandson oi the $710000 bull. llis 1.11111 11

20 lb. jr. 4 year old. Next (111111 :1 A. it. ('1. cow.

Come and see his (111111 and his sisters 111111 his line

heifer calves. ’l‘hls bull is coming :3 yrs. old. 00

per cent white. You will not he disuppoin'el if

you come to see him. Pedigree on request. l‘rice
$350. Herd free from abortion.
H. E. BROWN
Breedsvilie, Mich.

Breeder of Reg. Stock Only.

 

 

LAST ADVERTISE!) SOLD TO
BUL F. w. Alexander, Vassar.
Mich. New offer a bull two
years old about 1 -2 white and etra lam as a

"HENGERVELD and
NUDINE a 23.22 pound daughter of FLINT

PRINCE. Bull carries 15 per cent alame
blood as KING FLINT. i! you want
not descendant of BUTTER BOY ROSINA

new is your chance.
Price $200.
ROY F. FIOKIES. Oheeanlng. Mich.

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BULL NIGELY MARKED, GOOD BONED
bull calves out of A. R. O. and un-

tested dams, at reasonable price

,_ TRACY F. CRANDALL. Howell. Mich.

 

  
  
  

 

“Breeding- - Individuality--
Production”

That’s our motto. We make ' lat
through our two herd bulls-onea
of the $3 0.000 sire, King Korndyke Politico
‘ Lass, the other a. 36 lb. son of King Korn-
dike Sadie .Vele, "the greatest sire of his gen-
e”ration. Our lustrous are stong in Kinsot
the Pontiaca, King Segie, Hengerveld DeKol

blood. bee it... ~
was. “fiscally W. fits» sell. .Wiriia

nonhuman raisins
Jackson. Web; .
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BULL GALF LAST ADVERTISED SOLD,
but have one more for sale. Nice-
ly marmkel stmight back line. 11 fine individual,
large growthy ‘ellou with the making of a large
bull. \Voulli do someone a lot of good. Dam has
a 27 lb record, a large cow and a great milk
producer. Sire a son of Friend Hengervcld DeKol
Butter lioy, one of the great bulls.
MES HOPSON, JR.
Owosso - — R2 - -

TWO BULL OALVES

Registered llolstein»!“riesian. sired by 39.87 lb.
bull and from heavy producing young cows. These
calves are very nice and will be priced cheap it

will soon. ,
HARRY T. TUBES. Eiweil. Mich.
REGI 8 T E R E D

BROOKSTOII FARMS ”on“... gum.

Calves for sale. sired bv MARYLAND BELLE
“WIDE No.154358. born Dec. 14,1914.
A grandson of t‘olantha Johanna Lad, one of the
greatest filing sires and of a 81. 44 lb. daughter
of Sir Korildyke Manor De Kol. His two near-
est dams average 25.89 lbs. butter in seven days.

BROOK-STOII FARMS

H. WIDDIOOMB. Prop. Big Rapids.

Elmwood Stock Farm Offers

bull calves from good producing dame wlth A. R.
1-. records and sired by a grandson of Pontiac
1» III-lyke 11ml Pontiac Pet. Prices very flammable.

AUGU 3T RUTTMAN. Fowlervilie. Mich. ~

Twa BULL GALVES one BORN seer.

8. One born Nov. 2
whose dam at age-.11 ’1' years and 30 days after
calving has a relord of 20.. "13 butter 469. 9 milk
111 7 days rt 3 milkings a day

VERNON CLOUGH. Perma, Mich.

Four Choice Bull Calves

11.11111 records from 20 lbs. to 26. lbs.

Michigan

 

 

Mich.

 

 

11:11'1-

 

' by our 32 lb. son of the $50,000 bull.
, Write
' ...:(E SIDE DAIRY. Lake Odessa. Mich.
A Beautiful. Light Colored. Very

Straight Bull Calf, Born October 24.

From a 17 lb. Jr. 2 yr. old «laughter of a
son of i‘iiN'l‘IAi‘ LIE XIJLANl’ll‘lli 35.43 lbs.
butter and 750 lbs. milk in ‘1' liars.

Sired bv FLINT ill‘INGERVEHl LAD whose
twn nearest dams average 32.66 lbs. butter and
733.:4’1 lbs milk in ,7 days

Price 3100 F. 0 Flint.

.0. KETZLER. Flint. Mich.

HATCH HERD

(State and Federal Tested)
YI'SILANTI. MICHIGAN
lifters young sires out n! ChOiL‘t" 1 Want:-
ed registry dams and King Korndyke Art-
is Vale. Ow dam 3416 lbs. butter in 7
days;; average 2 nearest dame 37111. 6
nearest. 33 911.20 nearest 27 83.

SHORTHORN

WHAT DO YOU WANT? I represent 41

SHORTHORN breeders. Can put you in
touch with best milk 0r beef strains. Bulls
all ages Some females C. W Crum
President Central Michigan Shorthorn
Association, McBrides. Michigan. .

 

 

 

 

, DON’T FORGET

 

Bull. Master \lodel 576117 in many states 111
head of herd of 50 good type Shorthorns.
E. M. PARKHURST. Reed city. Michigan.

FOR SALE Clay Bred Bhorthorn bull
from a heavy producing dam
W 8. HUBER. Giadwln. Mich.

 

calf

 

“liking Shorthorn's. Registered females $200
and up. Billy], calves at $100. Cows all hand
milked. R0 FINOH. Fife Laker Mich.

 

 

11121113110111)...

120 HEREFORD STEERS. ALSO
know of 10 or 15 loads fancy uailty
Shorthorn and Angus sienrc . 10 iii 0 lbs
Owners anxious to sell. Will help buy 50c
cemmission.‘ C. F Ball. Falrfleld. [on

 

FOR SALE

BRED BROWN SWISS BULL
1919. His dam, Gertrude
No. 6191. her sire. King Edgal'd No. 2219.
dam College Bruvura 211d, World's Champion
Brown Swiss (,‘ow. Will give purchaser registra-
tion and t1.1nsfel.

FRANK POET, Clare. Mich" R 8
'Breeder of Brown Swiss Oilttie

PU‘RE
1 Calved April 28th.

 

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7—1

RED POLLED
’ REG. RED POLLS ‘
Bulls serviceable agc.1No.30665 Elmwood
Rival, ton bull heads her
J'. A. BATTENFIELD A SONG. Fife Lake, Mich.

AYRSHIHES

 

 

 

 

1111115110011 Humans

E. .I. TAYLOR. Owner
realm Mich.
Individually good and breeding unsurpassed.
0 females for sale at present, but am offering
two exceptionally good bull calves by COLLEGE
BEAU 42153 only son of that grand old matron
DELIL ” illustrated in January 24th issue of
"Business Farming" and founder of 11.. C.
Hereford herd.
Come and see them.

MEADOW - BROOKdIEBEFOROS

 

Having Bob Fairfax '494027 (son of
Richard Fairfax) for 3 years. I now offer him
for sale. A! so stock of either sex. any age Come

and- look them over
Earl c. Mocany, Bad Axe, Huron (10.. Mich.

Hardy Northern Bred Herefords

BERNARD FAIRFAX 624819 HEAD OF HERD
20 this year's calves for sale. .10 bulls and in
heifers.
Mich.

JOHN MacGREGOR. Harrlevllle.
REGISTERED HEREFORD CAI 1 LE
KING REPEATER H ADS OUR HERD
We still have eight goo bulls and some hell
era for so e. .
(‘ome and see them.

STONY CREEK STOCK FARM
Pewamo. Mich.

 

 

 

 

ANGUS

 

 

l The Most Profitable Kind

of farming. and if gr 11116 dairv heifers
from IENAVVEEr COUNTY‘S rheaviest milk pro-
ducers to include a pure bred ANGUS bull of the
most extreme beef type for combination beef and
dairy farming

Car lot shipments assembled at GLENWOOD
FARM for prompt shipment.

Methods explu 11e;l in SMITII'S PROFII'ABLF.
STOCK FEEDING 400 pages illustrated.

GEO. B. SMITH. Addison. Mich.

 

YOUR WANTS CAN
be supplied at the old re-
liable Angus Home Stock Farm. For 30 years we
have bred Angus cattle. We know the goods! ones
and breed the best. They are bred right, fed
right and priced right. Tell us what you want.

.ANGLS HOME STOCK FARM. R2. DavisOn. Mich

 

PURE BRED ABERDEEN-

BARTLETT

Swine are t and are priced right.
apondence so ited and the tion Invited.
OARL BARTLETT.

 

 

awton. Mich. _

 

LIVE STOCK FIELD MEN
eel...o.0...COCOA-DQOOIIIIIOOIOIOto.II.- ea.-
fell: wm ,. ”undone, and swam

one or the other of the above well-{Glows experts will visit all live-stock v-
sales of importance in Michigan. northern Ohio and
Field Men of Michigan Business Farming.

They are hnih honest and comwtent men as standing (in their lines in’
AW“ and they will represent any reader 11 111111112».

than in care of thisvptpu-Wr
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bids and purchases 'W'r'lte
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sale. are.
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is offered right here for some Mich-
igan Ayrshire breeder to get his ot-
fering before 70, 000 Michigan busi-
ness farmers.

Some one is going to grab this op—

yportunityfind semi along a. little ad

that will pay'him handsomely.

, Alli-1001‘s: 011111” .
HOPSES
, Filli SALE

Having sold my farm. I will sell at Public
Auction, a Black Imported Percheron Stallion,
Thursday, February 26, 1920, that is sound,
sure and a good one. Weighs 1,900 lbs.

Will also include my entire herd of Reg-
istered Poland China Hogs, large type. Have
5 mature sows, 6 spring gilts due in April,
3 young boars 6 months.

Have both phones. Will meet the electric
car at County Farm crossing on call

JOHII L JAOOB

St. Joh ns. Mich.

 

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1,.

Fun SALE ONE IRON GRAY 5 YEAR OLD
Percheron stallion. Prince No.

148423. sired by Brilliant TV No. 47531, a black

horse and sold once for W000 The dam of

Prince 9. large gray more No. 148423. Price 3300
D. E. DEAN. Milford. Mich.

Pcrchercns for Sale-21 Head

Serier 130757 at head of herd." A horse car-
rying the blood of lmgosalllt his sire sued Hart~

 

 

ley’s Samson, two 2 . horses. 42
months old, weighs 2150 lbs. carries HlQ,in inch
bone (six weeks.)

r-‘0liI$ Mention,

,Mlch.

 

CHAS. 036000 6:

SWINE

POLAND CHINA

IG TYPE P. O. GILTS. BRED T0 BIG
Orange Model and 066111.]? Defender
hotter in state. Pricedto
.HAGELBHAW. elAucusta, Mich.

 

 

 

 

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None

WALIIUT .ALLEVmfiiS .1113”.

Have a few good gllts that I will sell open or t
_Wflt'e" -

Fudprk to one of the best bears in Michigan.
or

A. D. GREGORY Ionic, Mich.

P LAND iii
3'3 TYPEMPBIG 381%} :thall-ged 3333
LONG BOB for lav furrow. _ , ' .

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AM. OFFERING SPRING

LT,“ boarssummerandteli'plfl.
mulch.

 

3.3T. P. .e. “ED Gil-TC m '7 ”Um.
Jones “31% r31? Grand Daughters of Dish-

“mined. .. when e... E3“.

sons!

priced: neb‘le.
‘3’." D- WILEY. ”OWN“; "l0“.

 

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sent. PisndOhin'sso thew?“
ehvsbredthets CormorerBthan 5321132

over'100 heed on

muslin}; “hominid

assessable email.

JOHN C. BUTLER. M m-

m reams can: so..." ‘ .
as reasonable “‘3...

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host ma .

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MW 40 s.
3 G. BARNES“ Wheeler. Mich.

   
 
 

Choice breeding. splen-

Individuals. Bred
101.4er flhl‘flmw onuiiketcheseyeuseethem.
' CHERRY LAWN FARM. shepherd.

DIIRDG JERSEY ' ‘” mindmsnif" 31%;:
(IN

Sired or'bred to my 1.000!“ I) herd
. JOB. SCHUELLER. Welflnal, Mich.

 

 

DUROC BRED sows AND GILT! SIRED BY
Orion CherYEKing Col. 2nd, first aged boar at
and heed to All Col. 01 lense—
mo. Hols Col. bred bear and
Col.’ s were never more popular than now. Priced
from $85 to 3100

ads.
\ W. C. TAYLOR, Milan. Mich.

 

amid TYPE POLAND CHINA
3&3?“ flights,“ how filo?!
L. mm. mule. was.

THE LARGEST BIG TYPE P. C. IN MIDI-I.
Get e bigger and betterbre bredbo boar pig from my
herd, at a reasonable price.» Come and see them.
paid if not as represented. These boars
1n Indra: Lg! If}! gauche Lord Oknsmsn.
Creme ce 9.
W. E. LIVINGSTON. Perms. Mich.

THE OLD FAOHI ON
SPOTTED POLAND CHINA NOGS
, CHOICE GILTHR

Mel-ch. April—moo .100

J. l. WILLIAMS,

Ne. Adams. Mich.

WONDERLAND HERD

ROE TYPE P. C.
A few choice bred gilts for p.ssle Also tell gills
end boars. some vs?! 800 respects oie llent
breeding Gill: bredto ORPHABL'S SUPERIOR
iCI’eR 1% BIG ORPHAN'S EQUALb BIG BONE

BIG 0R P N. Dam
BEAUTY’S OICE by ORANGE BUD. by Bid
ORANGE A. '
Free livery to visitors.

Wm. J. CLARKE.
Eaton Rapids. Mich.

a... neme)Big Bob Mastodon

"n P a BREED! IF YOU WANT TO GET
nthe King row buy a
Gilt bred to BIG BOB MASTOD DNO
He has more hampioe Blood in his
veins lien any otherheer in Mic his-n.
I have 15 ychoice Gilt bred to him for March
end April ow. Fall pigs of either-sex
C. E. GARNANT. Eaton Rapids. Mich.

 

 

AROE gPliaPOLAND CHICNA "1230:. lief]?
pigs sp g now we omb e s d
In“ Cooke“ Write tor-pedigrees and prices.

FRED c. V088. Avcee, Mich.

 

:- T Pas. O; FARMERB' we???” tin-7“
«swam Schocicrsfl, Mich.

 

P. O. sows
3'6 Tm April Thirty mung: it": '

none eewifle
-, .LIONARD.&-Lcuis.llch.

M BALE
Large Type F. C. Hogs
lie I w spring boas-s and g,
din"; ‘sawiB Bred to such mgdaz'c a ’1‘“:
figs 2nd. King's Giant, and Smooth Wonder.

e three real boars. livery to vmtors.
i2. 3. RAMSDELL. Hanover. Mich.

 

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DUROO

PEAGII HILL FARM

Choice Duroc fan boats for sale.
Write, or better still. come and see them.
Visitors welcome.

\ isfaction guaranteed.

Romeo. Mich. ,

FEW BRIO DUROO GILTS. DEED TO A

slice on request. . Price cretod. (i
H. -E. BROWN. Breedsvilie. Mich.

FOR SALE snap sows. on: T0 FAR-l

row influx-0%I and April. Bred to
MASTERPIECES ORIONKI N.G
C. E. DAVIS A SON. Ashley, Mich.

E OFFER A FEW WELL-BRED SELECT-
ed spring nDun-cc Boers. also bred sows end
Gilts in Oelio rtewri
McNAUGHTON A FORDYOE. Ct. Louis. Mich.

Y8
FOR SALE REGISTERED DUROO'OOd JERSE
Iarrowed in Mar 03112111)”, 1311ng Weighing 300

to 350 lbs. each. Modern type with big bone. '
etion

Write for pedigrees and prices. Satisie

renteed.
(us F. HEIMB A SON. Devlsou. Mich.

HILLIP'B PRIlE WINNING DUROOO FOR
I‘m‘fi '°' “.231“ ”dish WHEAT; :33
sewgoogzs, ces g eme
Henry D. Phillips. Milan. Rich.

BERKSHIRES

REGISTERED BERKSHIREB FOR SALE. AUG.
10 pigs for $40 a piece. while they last. Sat-
aking orders for sprihg pigs.
JOHN YOUNG, Breckenridge. Mich.

GREGORY FARM BEBKSHIREB FOB.
profit. Choice stock for sale. Write your
wants. W. S. Cores. White Hall Ill.

CHESTER WHITES

NESTER WHITEB—A FEW MAY BOARO.
fell pigs in pairs or (desire n1:
bloodlines, at reasonable pricesm Registered tree.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

. W. Mounds“. Hester. Mich.
YORKSHIRE
8 BRED YORKSHIRE GILTs. DUE APR. 1.
From M. BA. . bredstoek. $50 ea .
A. 8.3 LACK A ”H.131. Lucien. Mich.
W

 

Thiseddwiiieareycufromtlotouoml

mmdmrylnedsoworgfltotfie
“eminent blood line. bred to good been
lu.aIIdApr.liI:tess. Air-mien leis
aunt's-ea numenmdend M
“Olin TNOIAB. Nu Latin-op. fish.

IRED GILTS ALL BOLD
ONE RIN BOAR LEFT
FALL PIGS FOR BALE *
‘W. A. EASIWOOD. Chewing, Mich.

HINPSHIBES .OBRES. 8933 id.” 3.29?

sex Best of breeding. Call or write
ROAYMOND SKINNER & SON. Henderson. Mich.

' READY
HMPSHIRES ”1'35” 311'.th 'R‘l't was
from new blood lines.

JOHN W. SNYDER. St. Johns, Mich R4

gargr

 

O. I. C.

 

to our Demo—Jersey Sale
March 3, 1920
(Bee sole ad in this issue.)
THOB. UNDERHILI. A SON.
Salem. Mich.

BURNI- JERSEY
ma sass seams sass:

mummmmu
“$25 EITHERSEX

"We define: the boss before you pey

 

at... sues m was.

 

3330!! BOARD 01' SIZE. QUALITY
and lucid“ Merci first:

Fair 3 Newton ’Bcs'nisert.

 

“A!“ BATS. LACIE

caramel" ~‘- - ww-

“Emu”...

sievAhclmd

 

C. SWINE—MY HERD CONTAINS THE
blood Ilines of the most noted herd. Can fur
you stack at "live and let live" prices.

A. J. GOR DEN. Dorr. Mich.. R 8.

about; I. C.'e--FILI. PIG. IO‘T AKIN. SERVICE
Buff Rock Decker-9.18 $3 each.
CLOVER use STOOKF Fm. Monroe. Midi.

0.. " screws“? 5.23..“ $1 “‘25

red or an
Hey lama. Guarantor edinnfs dami will re—
since a? proving'otherwise to your
«setup purchase, Euler-II. IievpeIech-
ride: prised cs sell. m immersed by

SPRING Dom READY TO am.
also bred (Rho and a. saw tel! ”.891!”
ofthebosto IUCp slredbyJumbo
Master No. “881. stock shipped C.
o. 1). Joseph Ven’EttssI. Mich.

Med-way—amh-ka farm

“0.1.QWdflgefldtwomw

a.gm‘m'iIIhIe-emlhoh.

 

 

 

O. I.C.SOWS FOR SALE

 
 

 

.chh.. R. No. 2.

L O 'c'e Choice w slits m lea-rho fsrrow. coed

{all hours. Am booking orders for spring
Digs Gan furnish pairs and tries not aide. v
A. BARKER a. CON. Belmont. Mlch.. R1

SHEEP if:

'ANT A CHIEF? Let American Hampshire
Sheep Association send you a dandy booklet
with list of breeders Write CO OMFOR A.
TYLER, Body. 10 Woodland Ave.. Detroit. Mich.

 

 

REG. SHROPSHIRE BRED EWES 1 T0 8
yeem old, large, healthy. well fleeced. Represent-
etives of this i: gave setktsctionin 15 states
lest season. Rams all sold. 0. Lemon, Dexter. Mich

use g... s16. some» use.

”inseam noes consents. e’I’I'eo men
greet

W. O. OOFFMAN, season, list-bur. Mich” R 3

 

|'OHN’B BIG BEAUTIFUL EARNED ROCK.
are hen hatched good layers, grow quick, sold
on approval. Males $4 to $8 each. Pilot“-
Circula rs.—John Northon, Clare, Mich.

 

Barred Rock Cookereis from Trapnested Dist.

Contest winning strain, direct. Sired by di-

greed male, 260 egg record. Also a. few I: oice

Partridge Rock Cockerels, prices $3. $4 and 35.
N. AYERS & SON. Slivorwood. Mich.

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS, BRED TO LAY
s4b ch.“ great vigor and good marking. Price
ea

Barred Rocks only.
CHAS. H. WRIGHT. Box 103, Ypsilanti. Mich.

 

 

KID OF HIGH. you ARE THE FUTURE

farmers of the state. I am one of the
best sheep breeders in the state. Lets get to-
tether, that you may start your own flock of
registered Shropshires now. A lot of kids have sl-
reedy done so, but I want more. I will buy you:
rem lambs and co-operate with you in every way.
Write me for my proposition and prices. Box I.

lope-x». Farm. s.I.. III-mm... Coidwster. Michigan ‘

HAMPSHIRE SHEEP

excellent big ode type rem
weighed 176 lbs. October 1. Booking orders
(or 1920 rams.

CLARK U. HAIRE, West Branch. Mich.

E13?! PET STOCK

Fan SAL Shetland Pony. born May 25, 1919.
Also bred mare 2 years old.
MARK B. CURDY. R 6. Howell, Mich.

BELGIAN HAREB. CHOICE STOCK. 8 AND 8
months old. also 8. C. Ancona Cockarels. Write
for prices. Sheridan Rabbitry, R 5. Sheridan. Mich.

LEMISH GIANT RABBITS—HEAVY WEIGHT
registered breeders and pedigreed youngsters in
blacks, steels and grays at $1.00 per pound.

R. R. FOX. 412 N. Huron St... Albion. Mich.

FOR SALE Flemish Giant Rabbits that are
giants, old and young, in blacks.
steel grays and natural grays. Quality guaranteed.

E. E. HIMEBAUOH
Goldwater. Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OUNG FOX HOUNDS. WALKER STRAIN.
Every one registered and guaranteed.
E. w. GIL-L. Clarion. Mich.

 

Flv PEDIGREED RUFUS RED BELGIAN
bucks, 9 months old. from registered

stock, winning at Lansing show 2nd, 3rd, 4th,

and 5th prizes. Pedigrees furnished.

E. W. BANKS. Lansing. Mlch.. R3, Box 178

POULTRY m

DAY OLD CHICKS
usw spams cATALoa

The Day Old Chick business Is on. We ed—

you to write for Catalog now, and then to
order as early as you can.

The most complete descriptive Catalog we have

 

 

 

yet published itsinstnicho nwiil help yon.
Three Espec
You will uJu-iy interested in the eg-

and
Extension Specialist d the Agriculture! College.
Doolittle—A Minsk. 0. ends. 0. Beds:
Barred Becks. White Wyendobtes; It. 0. Brown

PULLETH. 0. Brown Leghorn year-lingo.
We solicit your interest in the Homestead
Farms plan at Pure Bred Poultry raising.
STATE FARMS ACSOCIATION
Desk 8, Kalamazoo, Michigan

GOGKERELS —— PULLETS

PURE BRED UTILITY STOCK

COCKERELS
WHITE WYANDOTTES. S. L. WYANDOTTES
WHITE ORPINGTONS
BARRED ROCKS. BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS
ROSE AND SINGLE COMB R. l. REDS
SS. 0. BLACK MINORCAS
C. WHITE LEGHORNS
ROSE COMB BROWN LEGHORNS. ANCONAS

PU LLETS
WHITE WYANDOTTES. BARRED ROCKS AND
8. C. WHITE LEGHOR N8
We ship on approval, write us your wants.
VALLEY RIDGE POULTRY FARM
Frazer Miller, Prop. Bloomingdale. Mich.

ORPINGTONS AND LEGHORNS

Two great breeds for profit. Write today for
tree catalogue of hatching eggs, baby chicks and
breeding stock.

CYCLE HATCHER COMPANY, 149 Phiio Bldg.
Elmira. N. .

OCKERELS. BRAKES. ANCONAS. DUFF
barred. Colombian. Silver Penciled and White
Plymoufli Rocks; Renee drakes. price. 88 each.
DREW FOUL!RY VON» 35. W. Mich

 

 

f" “LE MAMMOTH :mlfiwgyEYI.

mum’serumstonoe. Oldducks.

CHASE STOCK FARM. We. Mich.

PLYMOUTH ROCKS

 

 

 

ensues-wees“-

”teacher-sis.
84. m strain 84 to 85. Prize winners.
IA. "ABEL. Chelsea. Mich.

 

 

 

t Pays Big

to undead-enlivescoek

ELF}.
Breeder-Directory

users by the Poultry ,

 

RHODE ISLAND RED
colnggEksT-SINGLE COMB RHODE l8-
n e s mm '1‘
trapnested b 3 gaspkins' Sire and 200 cu
M188 AVERY Oxford. Mich.
s c n i “Ens :EroEO DARhK algofs. ZEICE
eac or or 00
ALFRED DEICHMANN, R3. Pigeon, Mich.
GOGKEBEL ROSE AND SINGLE COMB
R. I. Reds. Bred for color and

e828 $3. 50 and 86 each Satisfaction guera‘nteed.

GHIGKS ROSE AND SINGLE COMB R. I.
Reds Barred Plymouth Rocks. Pre-
paid by parcel post and safe delivery guaranteed.
Vl’rlte for free illustrated catalog.

 

‘ INTERLAKES FARM. Box 4. Lawrence. Mich.

 

LEGHORN

sC . WHITE LEGHORN MATCHING EGGS.
Have 10 more Cockerels for sale. Tom Barron
274 egg strain. E. Altenbern, its, Allegan Mich.

 

s C DUFF LEGHORNS. DAY OLD CHICKS.
25, $4. 50. [00, $17 Eggs, 15, $1.10:
100, $7. )0 lions. $1.75 each.

J. W. INEBSTER. Bath. Mich.

0 Big White Leghorns 280-
GHIGKO-EGGS 285 TRAPNESTED ' Strain
of winter layers. llcai profitmakers. Satisfaction
guaranteed. Sauder's Leghorn Parks, Grabill, Ind.

W Y ANDOTTE

30 Years I! Breeder of Silver Laced and White
Wyandottes. Fine lot of young stock at $3. $4
and $5 ea. Clarence Browning, R2 Portland, Mich

 

 

 

 

Wyandcttes, Fine Stock, 30 Eggs. Postpaid,
:53. .IO by express. 30, $2. 75 100, $7.50.
Cockerels, 83. Nick Fleck, R6, Plymouth, Ind.

FINE LOT OF FISHELL STRAIN WHITE
Vi’yanriotte Uockercls. $3 to $5 each.
CECIL HURLEY. Crosweli. Mich.

BABX_OHICKS

chicks. Leghorns, Minorcas. Spanish. Houdens.
Campinas, Reds Rocks Orplngtons, Brahmas,
Wyandottes Tyrone Poultry Farm, Fenton, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTIN'S STRAIN. WHITE WYANDOTTEB.
Beby chicks. Hatching eggs. Write for pric-
es. Order early. Also progressive and superb
overbearing strawberry plants, 82 per hundred
C. W. HEIMBACH. Bin Rapids. Mich.

 

ABY CHICKS: Pure bred White Leghorns.
Brown Leghoms, $17 per 100, Anconas, 318
live arrival guaranteed. Order now. Eggs of all
breeds. Free catalog. TRIANGLE. Clinton Mo.

’ 0. K. CHICKEN HATCHERY

THOROUGHBRED DAY OLD CHICKS
Biggie comb. White. Bu! and Brown Leghorne
to RBuiI and Barred Rocks.
R. I. Reds. Ancones. White Wyandottes.
25 (ism, 66.25: so chicks. $11; 100 chicks.

820.00.
A. O. M1ORNINGITAR. Prop.
Box 288. Phone115. Fenton, Mich.

CHICKS—CHICKS

SHIPPED SAFELY EVERYWHERE BY MAIL
S. C. White Leghorns and B. C. Mottled An—

conas: the great egg machines. Strong, sturdy

chicks, guaranteed to satisfy. Order now for

Hurdle and April delivery. Eleventh season. Cat—

aog re

HOLLAND HATCHERY. R7, Holland, Mich.

BABY GHIGK 50,000 for 1920. Barred
- Rocks. Exhibition quality.
hooking (mlom now at 1300 curil.

Beechmont Poultry Farm. Crandail, lnd., Box 16

 

 

 

 

HATCHING EGGS
“Hire WYANDOTTES, EGGS FOR HARE
ing from seietted layers, 32 per 15, prepaid.
l'ons, $16 to $2.").
FRANK DeLONG, R3, Three Rivers. Mich.

 

C. BR. Leghorn eggs. $1.60 per setting. Pekln
duck, $1.50 for 8. Chinese goose 40¢ each.
MR8. CLAUDIA BETTS. Hlflsdeie, Mich.

 

FOB ”L HATCHMG EGGS FROM A
baa-1y laying strain of 8.0.11.1.

Reds. Pen No.1 headed by 8. Owen Farms yearl-
ing cock and mated to 1 superb bunch of pellets.
Pens Nos. 2 end 3 head ed by two wonderful cock-
mls and mated to equally good pellets! also a
w flock tisetic high class. Got other

“Balsam

myour wants for the coming season.
ticn
21:?“ NE!” A SON. Devlson. Mich.
TURKEYS

'Nfl’l WARD TURKEYB.1C LI. TOM.
3140. Two late hatched toms and hens. each 38.
II. m M.

 

 

 

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TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

 

Having sold my fem!
Must my MW 1401;: N. dedsil Mich.
end .15 miles N. hmem on March 3rd,
commencing at noon. Brenda's end 3 yoens
“2 ready for service. Tho foundation cow
has a record of 22 lbs. and most all trace to this

 

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AT NEW YORK CITY, N. Y.
With the complete purchase of this big Army Camp. we have re-
ceived millions of feet or fine lumber and enormous quantities of ma-
terial of every kind for every building purpose—doors, windows and
millworknplnmbing material, heating equipment, pipe, valves, elect-
rical supplies and in fact everything used in one of the largest and
finest Government Training Camps in the country. This material is
now ready for distribution. Our representatives are on the grounds
and are prepared to show prospective buyers everything we have for

sale. Address all mail to our main headquarters here in Chicago.

Camp Donlphan . Camp Shelby
At Fort Sill, Oklahoma ‘ Near Hettleshurg, Miss.

terial Irhm gui-

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' - Per Reel

   

$ 1270 i .

cost of manufacture. Finest barbed
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hearth steel wire with four point barbs,
% in. long spaced 3in. apart. Covered
with special weather resisting paint.
Put up in reels containing 750 feet;
Weight per reel 58 lbs.

GALVANIZED BARBED WIRE
KP-‘loo 625 reels or more, per reel $1.50

Bought by us at less than the actual.

wire, made under rigid Government _

 

With the award of this completely
equipped Army Camp, we secured millions
of feet of high grade thoroughly seasoned
lumber, enormousquantities of doors, Government Army
roofing, pi e, valves, pipe fittings, plumb-
ing anal . eatirlig triaiterialé h‘ '
p e comp etc ists o everyt mg
“5%? for sale at this Camp and have
stationed our re resentatives on the
ground. All mai should be addressed
to as here at our main headquarters in

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In securing this camp, we are n w able
to place before you practically a l equip-
ment of one of the largeSt and finest;
Camps. ,
it! .Nearly 20,000,000 .feet of lumber!
and wallboard; thousands of closet out-;
fits, heating stoves, refrigerators and-
heaters; largelquantities of electrical
apparatus, pipe and practically every-
thing used in a town of 30,000 people.
Address all mail to our main head-

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Never again will you have such a splendid chalice to buy high grade and thoroughly

seasoned lumber. Like all of the material need in the
under rigid government inspection and is of splendid quality.
you can use buildings of any kind, Send us your requirements an
made in these great purchases.
saving. Our complete list includes buildings of every size.

.000 Complete Buildings!

225 Mess Halls, all sizes
65 Store Houses, size 20ft. x 98ft.
. 95 Heater Houses, size 9ft. x35 ft.

G0vernment Camps, this lumber-was purchased‘
Sit right down and figure your requirements new! If
d let us give you the benefit of theisavings we have
mps can be taken down and shipped to you with a big

ll Sizes for Every Ilse!
, 200 Power Houses, size 9ft. x 35 ft.
230 Stables, size 24 ft. x 100 ft.

45 Blacksmith’s Houses in numerous
Sizes

Quadruple galvanized
bought from the government made
gauge open-hearth steel wire with four point
. barbs, 5-6 in. long, spaced 3 in. sport. U_n-
like ordinary standard galvanized barbed me
this stock is galvanized after weaving and is
coated on all surfaces with galvanizing four
times as heavy as regular stock, which means
that much additional life to the wire.
reels containing 750 ft. Prices f. o. b. cars
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KP-101 100 reels or more, per reel 1.58
KP-102 50 reels or more, per reel 1.60
KP-‘IOS 25 reels or more, per reel. 1.65
KP-104.Less than 25 reels, per reel 1.10
coated barbed f T?
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60 lb.

C’""“‘°‘ "W" 5'" *- Chem m. it?) 1:21.: 2: 32:2; $232221. z; 253;:

Mail the Coupon for All Particulars New! tsisgg :33: 3: $32; 3:: :22} ;;; 3::

‘ . less than 25 reels, per.reel 3.85
0,000,000 Feet of High-Grade Lumbar” 1'" p 1'0““

  
   

  
    

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Chemical Indoor Tong, fitted
With re uiar she ed clout
seat an cover, finished in
birch, mahogany. Csstmetal
frame and base; steel easing
fixeledhin azhure blu‘e. Coma
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Thus “1“” The MIC'I'II. With V ' buy theworld’sbest corn
5: I a 100% “.00” .-, h“ ‘ is: Sheller at! big redulcgd: ,
. _ - . ~ . ‘u prices on or mos 1 -‘ ' ’
Ply . The Harris “cm Getter” . , u? are _ era! terms with also day free
Cream Separator has made a remark- iv" < grand}? Tfiidiiiiis c133:-
able record— ot a single return, not Y, a s 0- men who shelle com

enables us to ofler nl

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em umber
undo use. so
10200

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x indicates table sizes. Ready or shipment from Kinnesota. Pennsyl-
mChicego Warehouses. a . Bloc." all me la sent with order.

a complaint. be big increase in sales

sizes at big price
reductions. Your old separator taken
in exchange as part payment on your
. new “Cream Getter." Buy on your

 

 

 

 

 

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bathroom Outfitting: (ere $7151?

 

WATTS

Your best chance to

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now see 50. Orderuo. lP-Ooo.

Watts No. 4 firm“:

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u‘enliow you gun’s)? 3.. intense. fii‘ffflubt 9"" h Md in this mrantezokd I “Wfiéfinnhdarifl “#5“

The same high uslity “Cream Get- '
tor" with all exc uslve E

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nude bathroom combination. 0RD
NOWendeet the benefit of this unusual easing.

KP-306. Consists of white porcelain en-_
ameled bath tub 5 ft." long end»30 in. wide.‘fittedWith->'
~ v nickel - lated connected waste and overflow,
Price:- nickel- ated doublebsth'ootlcs. ’I‘hewhiteporcelsin;

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a highly finished golden oak
oset seat finished to match the.
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tank lined with heavy copper.
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