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of the farmer is "complex; he needs roads, schools,
fairer taxation, longer credit, better living and work-
ing conditions, a chance to deal with the consumer di-
rect, the right to join with his neighbors to buy and
sell more economically—a cure for the farm tenancy
evil. m ‘

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is a friendly co-operating Department of Agriculture
headed by a farmer who really knows farming, whoSe

interests are the farmers’ interests and who Will not-

be afraid to put his shoulder to the wheel and help the
farmer out of the rut.

must be a president who will not turn a deaf ear to
the farmers’ pleas, who will have good judgment in
his choice of an agricultural head, and having chosen
him will give him unbounded latitude so long as the
farmers’ interests are being best Served.

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has pledged himself to choose such if man to inaugurQ
ate constructive legislation for the benefit of the farm-
er to see that he is dealt With fairly, to see that the
nation’s debt to the farmer is paid. '

For your Own sake; for your. children ’3 future; for
the nation ’8. welfare—VOTE FOR HILL—April 5th.

 

 

 

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Detroit Milk Situation is Under U. S. Scrutiny

, Federal Fair Price Board Seeks Testimony on Reasons for Present Cost of Milk' zn State’s Metropolis

HE SCRUTINIZING eye of the United
States Department of Justice has focus-

ed itself upon the Detroit milk situation, and
the Federal Fair Price Board for Michigan

' has called a hearing for March 29th to secure

testimony on the reasons for the present cost
of milk in that city. Although it is contended
that the investigation means no harm to the
producers of milk, it must be frankly admitt-
ed that the present method of establishing the
milk price for the Detroit area stands in grave
danger of utter annihilation, in which case the
producer of milk in that area will be forced
back into the helpless position of former years.
Why Sixteen-Cent Milk?

“What we intend to find out, ” said Hon.
Wm. F. Connolly, chairman of the board to a
representative of the Business Farmer, ‘is

why fresh milk stays up to sixteen cents a .

quart when condensed milk has gone down in
price and there is a large surplus of fresh milk
being produced. It’s time the price to the De-
troit consumer came down. We also want to
.find‘ Out who is making ,the profits out of the
milk business. The grocery store pays 15 cents
per quart for milk which they retail at 16
cents. They surely aren’t profiteering. Who
gets the difference between what the farmer

. receives and what the grocery store or the con-

sumer pays. That’s What we would like to
know.’

We suggested to Mr. Connolly that one rea-
son for the high cost of milk was the excessive
cost of distribution within the city, to which
“We are advised,” he said, “that
under the price agreement of the Milk Com-
missionthe creamery companies are paying ex-
orbitant wages to milk drivers and other em-
ployes. We are told that one driver gets $62 a
week for working from 4 to 7 :30 a. 1n.” ,

Fair Price Board Not Representative

'The Fair Price Board is composed of six
men and one woman. Appointments to the

board were recommended by District Attorney »

John E. Kinnane of Bay City, and approved
by the U. S. Department of Justice. A survey
of the personnel of the board as it now stands
reveals a weakness which has been typical of
the majority of investigating boards of the
past few years,——it includes no one whose bus-
iness interests are related to production or dis-
tribution of milk, and hence in position to have
first-hand information on these related indus-
tries. No one would question the desire of the
board to be impartial, but its ability to be im-
partial unless in complete possession of all
facts which can only be brought out by a series
of questions and answers by all parties con-
cerned as in a suit at law, is very doubtful.
Fortunately the chairman of the board, Hon
Wm. F. Connolly, Democratic leader arid for-
merly judge of the recorder’ s court, has a
well-earned reputation foi- fairness and we
have no reason to believe that he will not exer-
cise his usual impartiality in considering the
judicial ability of certain other members of the
board, principal of whom is W. J. Cusick,

. President of the Retail Grocers’ Ass’ 11., and of

 

  
  

._ .ing agent of the. Ford Motor
S . . .

the Superior Grocery Co., a wholesale concern

1' composed of Detroit grocers, upon whose ad-

vice the board passed the motion ordering the
milk price investigation. The other members

of the board are: C. A. Clark, of the J. L. "
Hudson 06.; Fred H. Diehl, eneral purchas-
ompany; A. E.

 

 

. Attend This Hearing

HE FIRST hearing to be conducted

in the Federal Fair Price Board’s in-
vestigation into the Detroit milk situation
will be held Monday evening, March 29th
at 7: 15 o’clock, on the' third floor of the
postofiice building, Detroit. Milk produc-
ers hving near Detroit should by all
means attend this hearing, listen to the
testimony and be prepared to testify in

 

 

 

their own behalf. This is important.

 

 

 

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Farmer Should be on Board

W. J. Cusick was a member of the \Vayne
County Fair Prise committee before which a
representative of the Business Farmer appear-
ed several months ago to defend the farmers
against the false allegations made by a mem-
ber of the board. Cusick was the only man on
the committee who seemed to have a pre—con-
ceiyed notiOn that the average farmer is a

 

 

The Farmer and the Consumer

HERE IS a prevailing notion in the
cities that the farmers of the coun-
try have no regard for the interests of
' the consumer. As a result, the producer
of milk has often been held up as a hard-
hearted monster when the increasing
price of milk has deprived the chil-
dren of many poor families of this neces-
sary food product. We can say emphati-
cally to our city cousins that there is no
more compassionate class of people in the
world than the people of the farms. Most
of them have at some time of their life
known what poverty and hardship are.
They ARE concerned in the welfare of
the consumer. They DO feel for the poor
of the cities when in their unavoidable
price wars with milk distributing monop-
aolies, the supply of milk has been curtail-
ed or the price become excessive. When
the New York Dairymen’s League went
on “strike” as their only means of pro-
tection from the organized distributing
agencies of that great metropolis, they es-
tablished milk stations in the poofer sec-
tions of the city in order that the people
who could not afford to pay fancy prices
for milk brought in from a great distance
might have ample for their children. And
in all cases that have come to our atten-
tion when dairymen were forced in a po-
sition to curtail their milk production or
increase the price, the welfare of the con-
sumer has always been a subject of grave
discussion. The distributing companies
have frequently taken advantage of this
fact and have resorted to pleas in behalf
of the consumer when they themelves ‘
held the key to the situation, and not the .
farmers. .

Dairymen are being taught to reduce
waste in the production of milk, to weed
out the low producer and to/lower pro-
duction costs. A great deal has been done
along this line, and the farmers rightly
feel that the problem of cheaper milk’ to

 

 

  
  

the consumer lies with the consumer who
should insist that waste and ineficiency

 

 

 

 

be eliminated from the present extravs- ‘
gent method of distributhrg milk.-—Edit-_

  
 

_ sufiers because he cannot afford to

profiteei and a knave and needed no defense
from anyone. What he had to say 011 that oc-
casion showed him densely ignorant of the
farmers’ position, the manner in which farm
products are distributed and the portion of
the consumers’ dollar which the farmers re—
ceive. His ignorance makes him unreasonably
prejudiced against the farmer, and in the hum-
ble opinion of the writer wholly unfit to sit on
a “fair” price board. Of the other members
of this committee-we know but little, except
that for the most part they represent indus-
tries which have profiteered largely in the past
and should be the first to come under public
scrutiny. It is unexplainable why the repre-
sentation on an investigating board should be
open to representatives of the retail grocery
and mercantile trade and automobile manufac-
turing industry and closed to representatives
of other industries.

In the hopes of making the
Board more representative we wired the De-
partment of Justice as follows:

“We protest against appointment of W. J. Cusick,
Detroit wholesaler to Federal Fair Price Board.
Reason: His utterances show complete ignorance
of farmers’ economic problems and pronounced
prejudice against agricultural producers. Inas-
much as this board is to summon farmers to its
hearings We earnestly petition the appointment of
at least one man to board who is affiliated or in
sympathy with agricultural interest." (Signed)
Forrest Lord, editor THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARM‘
ER. -

This same request was referred personally
to Judge Connolly, who stated his belief that
the committee would be fair in its ,decision,
but that he had no power to make appoints
ments. He advised that such matters be taken
up with District Attorney Kinnane, which will
be done at once.

Dairy Farmers to be Summoned

Representatives of both farmers and cream-
ery companies will be summoned to appear be-
fore the board, the board having the power to
subpoena under the Lever Law. The results of
the investigation, if they show excessive prof-
iteering 0n the part of anyone, will be turned
over to the district attorney who has power to
prosecute. The contention has frequently been
made by representatives of the Detroit con-
sumers that the present method of fixing milk
prices for Detroit is illegal and virtually con-
stitutes a monopoly in restraint of trade. It is
held that while ths method amply protects the
producer and the distributor of milk it does
not protect the consumer. It is pointed out
that the Milk Commission is pbliged to accept
the eost and profit figures submitted by the
creamery companies and the farmers, .and has
no legal power to examine the books of the
companies to verify the figures.

No one, of course, can foretell what will
come out of this investigation. It has long

been the conviction of those who have given .

the matter any thought that the distributing
companies of Detroit have been making large

profits at the expense of both the farmer and '

the consumer. The Milk Commission has help-
ed to secure the farmer prices somewhere near
the cost of production plus a reasonable profit. -
The creamery companies have disclaimed prof-

iteering, and in the absence of any proof to the 7
contrary, the farmer and the consumer have "

been obliged to accept their figures. If the

creamery companies are profiteering, it must *

be admitted at both the farmer and consumr
er suffer as a result thereof. The consumer,"

 

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OW Michigan’s tax dollar is
H- spent is the theme of. an inter;

esting story given by Dennis
E. Alward, secretary of the- senate, ,

for years a student of matters of

’ taxation.

Mr. Alward takes for example the
city of St. Johns and the township of
Greenbush, Clinton county, to make
practical illustrations as to the ap—
plication of state taxes in Clinton
county. Mr. Alward shows t-hat out
of every dollar of direct taxes col—
lected by the state, 66.4 cents are
spent for four purposes: Education-
al, care of insane, penal and high-
ways. The remaining 33.4 cents of
the tax dollar, he shows, goes to
charitable institutions, pay of judg-
es and expenses of the legal depart-
ment, public health, military and
war purposes and for all state de-
partments, boards, commissions, the
legislature and miscellaneous ex-
penses.

Mr. Alward’s discussion is not
a defense of condemnation of taxes.
He expressly states that he knows
nothing of the merits or de—
merits of any appropriation. He pre
sents, however, many interesting
facts in regard to taxation showing
how the money collected from the
people is expended and pointing out
the relation to each other of state,
county, city and school taxes. A
chart is used to illustrate his pres-
entation ofkthe subject. Mr. Alward
refers to the increase in all kinds of
taxes this year as one of the effects
of the campaign of old H. C. of L.
The high cost of coal and clothing
and food has hit state institutions as
well as private households.

Three-fourths of the increase in
the state budget this year over last
is due in large measure to the in-
creased cost to the state institutions
of the three items named, and to the
extension- of the services of the pub-
lic health department in the fighting
of infectious and dangerous diseases
among the people.

The new office building, the add-
ed activities of the department of
animal industry and all other items
put together. account for the other
one-fourth of the increase.

Taxation in St. Johns
In St Johns. on a valuation of $1,-
000, each taxpayer this year con—
tributes $4.26 in state taxes, distri-
buted as follows:

 

Educational .............. $1.16
Insane .................. .81
Penal .................... .64
Highways ................ .22
Charitable ............... .18
Office building ............ .15
Legal.........., ........ .12
Public Health ............ .10
War loan ............... .06
Military ................. .05
Agricultural ............. .05
State departments, etc ...... .72
. $4.26
Mr. Alward points out that, con-

trary to the popular thought w-hen

the subject of taxation is under con- ‘

sideration, state taxes are by no
means all the taxes that the people
pay. '
Combining this winter’s state tax
paid in the city of St. Johns with the
city taxes paid last summer the tax—

payer paid for the whole year on each‘

$1 000 of valuation, $40. 48 ,as fol-

lows:
State .............. $4.26 101797.,
County:
General ..... $2.83
Co. road 3.00
Drain at large .21
Hay extension .02
6.06 15 %
School ..... . ...... 13.16 3.293%
City .............. 17.00 ..42 %
Total taxes .$40.48 100 %

Thusit appears that nearly—90 per
cent of all the direct tax is for 10—
cal purposes (county, city, school)
and has nothing whatever to do with
the State tax

Clinton county this year DaYs in
direct state taxes $139.447.17-.- Last

ear Clinton county received from.

Jute tits. share {0‘ the primary
11129 t 1

$45,107.97, which by just tic-much
reduced the amount necessary to be
raised for ,school purposes in the
county. Ten thousand, three hund-
red and fifty dollars( also, was paid
by the state to Clniton county last-
year as reward for roads, and to
that extent the country road tax was
reduced. The primary school fund
and-road reward figures for the en-
suing year are of course not yet
available, but it is thought certain

Dennis E. Alward, Secretary of M1ch1gan Senate Explains Diutsion 3f State Taxes

that the amounts to be paid Clinton
county will be fully as large as last
year. If so, the county will receive
as its share of specific taxes and state
reward for roads about one-half as
much as it pays in direct state taxes.

The sections shown in the chart
embrace appropriations made for the
following pur oses:

Educationa —-Agricultura l C o l—
lege, CentralNormal School, College
of Mines. Library Commission, Nor-

 

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Chart showing how our state taxes are spent.

One of Many Causes for High State Taxes

By JAMES W. HELME

TATE TAXES are high. They
have doubled, or nearly so in
one year, and there is much

grumbling thereat. Now. we must
expect taxes to be higher—foodstuffs
building material and clothing have
nearly doubled. This means an in-
crease in the cost of feeding and
clothing all inmates of state institu-
tions. It means that clerks and oth-
er minor employees of the state must
have increased wages in proportion
to the increased cost of living. The
man who expects taxes to return to
figures that prevailed previous to the
war, is expecting too much. On the
other hand, taxes have become a
serious and heavy burden to the
owners of real estate, and relief must
be found from this burden, which is
bound to increase in the future.

There are just two ways out: first.
we must find other sources of rev-
enue; second, we must cut down in
every possible economical way the
expenses of present institutions as
far as we can.

A state income tax would give us
It is more just than
real property taxation and it would
reach a wealthy class of personal
property owners that now contribute
very little to the public treasury.
This subject I may treat later in a
special article.

But there are other methods of
getting more revenue. , Take our
University. It is our largest and
most. expensive institution.
them was collected in taxes for the
University of Michigan, the follow—

ing _ .- . ,,
Mill tax ,. . . n:k ...... .31,687 500
Special Appropriation . . .750, 000*

Psyoopathic hospital . . . 53, 576

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the University a year.
thousand students
showmt the blue

of the" University .93

In 1919‘

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$.2', 491, 07 6. K
or, 1"n round figures- it takes mo.“
and one half million dollars to run~
There are ten,
in 1 attendance, . -

$250 per student. Of these 10,000
students, nearly one—half come from
other states and countries. The state
collects in tuition fees approximate-
ly $55 annually for students residing
in the state, and $65 for students re-
siding in other states and countries.
These fees are much less than those
charged in Universities of neighbor-
ing states. and as a result the attend-

, ance is rapidly increasing from the

outside, necessitating additional
buildings and instructors, all at the
expense of Michigan taxpayers. We
have placed education on the bar-
gain counter when we allow nonfires-
ident students to get $250 worth of
education for $65.

I do not believe in raising the fees
to resident students but I do believe
that non-resident students should
pay somewhere near cost to the state.
Higher fees would discourage for-
eign attendance and halt the neces-
sity of increased buildings and equip-
ment.

It is a splendid philanthropy to
educate people from Ohio and other
state, China, Japan and Timbuctoo
at the expense of Michigan taxpay-
ers, but how long can we stand it?
Is it just to Michigan taxpayers to
educate the whole world? Is it not
just that non- -resident students ‘whose
parents pay no taxes in Michigan
should pay a greater proportion of
the cost of. their education? *

- There are several thousand stud-

ends from Ohio at Ann Arbor, yet 9

their state has a fine university. They

'are attracted to Michigan by lover

fees. ~
This is not an attack on our Uni-

_versity. We glory in its recOrd and

reputation. but justice to Michigan
taxpayers demands that they be not‘

taxed to funnish cheap tuition to non"- ;

These students 1'

should at least pay as much as their -. .
'ie ersi‘t ' 11‘5111 one

resident students. .

..School

11151211611939, Northern
School,- State Library, ,
dent Public Instruction. University,

Vocational Education, Western Nor— :1

mal SchoOl.

Care of the InsanewFarm Colony ,-

for Epileptics, Home and Training

School, Ionia State Hospital, Kahuna- ~

zoo State Hospital, Newberry State

Hospital, Pontiac State Hospital,- Psy- . .
choptic Hospital, Traverse say State -

Hospital.

_. Penal—Industrial School for Boys,
Industrial School for Girls. Jaclgson
Prison, Marquette Prison, Pardon
Board, Ionia Reformatory, Training
School for Women.

Highways—Highway Department.

Charitable—Board of Corrections
and Charities, Employment Institu-
tion for Blind, School for the Blind,
School for the Deaf, Soldiers' Home,
State Public School at Goldwater.

Legal—Attorney G’eneral's De-
partment, Circuit Judges, Presiding
Judge, Supreme Court.

Public Health———State
Health, State Sanatorium.

Military-_Military Establishment,
Naval Militia, Grand Haven and Mus-
kegon armories.

Agriculture — Agricultural Fair
Commission- Animal Industry De-
partment, Apiary Inspection, Farm
Bureau, Horticultural Society.

State Departments, Boards and
Commissions and all other purposes
—~Boys’ Working Reserve, Communi-
ty Council Commission, Great Lakes

Board of

Tide Water Commission, Industrial

Relations Commission, Military Res-
ervation ‘Fresh Air Camps, Shiloh
Monument, Soldiers’ Bounties, Civil
War, History 32nd Division, World

War, Tax on Soldiers’ Land, Wiscon-

sin-Michigan Boundary Commission.
The Legislature, Auditor General's
Department, Banking Department,
Budget Commission, Board of State
Auditors, Governor’s Office, State
Fire Marshall, State Fish-Commis-
sion, Food and Drug Department,

State Game Warden (forest fires), .

Geological Survey, Historical Com-
mission, Industrial Accident Board.

Insurance Department, Labor Depart- '

ment, Mackinac Island State Park
Commission. State Oil Inspector, Pub-
lic Domain Commission, State Pur-
chasing Agent, Railroad (Public
Utilities) Commission, Secretary of
State’s Department, Securities Com-
mission, State Police, State Treasur-
er’s Department, State Tax Commis-
sion, Uniform Accounting, Veterin-
ary Board, and the following boards
limited to fees: Accounting, Archi-

tects, Barbers, Dental Examiners,
Law Examiners, Medicine. Nurses,
Optometry, Osteopathy and Phar- ,

macy.
Greenbush Township, 1919
This is how the matter would work
out in Greenbush township and
about the same in other townships:
State Tax on Valuation of $1,000

Educational ............. $1.14
Insane .................. .81
Penal .............. . .63
Highways ............... .22
Charitable ............... .18
Office Building ... ........ .15
Legal Dept. ............. .11
Public Health ........... .10
War Loan ............... .06
Military ................. .05
Agricultural ............ . .05
All Other .............. . .72
$4. 22
All Taxes on $1,000 Valuation, 1919
State .............. $4. 22 22% %
County
General . $2.81
Go. Road . . . . 2.97 ._ ,
Drain .71 ._
- ' 6.49 34,116 %
Township '. ' f _
' General . . . . .$4.01 .
Road Repaid 1. 50 . .
. . ., 5. 51 .
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IN attempting
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the writer would
like to ' empha-
«f' size. the point
' 7 that he is' in
/ sympathy with

the hired man’s

point of view,

and knows what

(_ physical labor

   

and farm work
mean from per-
sonal experience
at hard work
and long hours,
never-ending de-
tails of stock
and crop management.

It was through this period of ap-
prenticeship, as you may call it, that
a financial start was secured and
also the lessons learned, that have
proved valuable in later farm ex—
* perience and the broader work of the
state as now performed, the writer
‘having lived fifty years upon the
one farm on which he was born and
now owns. So we would ask the
hired man to be patient and thor—
ough and watchful, and try to avoid
mistakes which spell the failure of
many young farmers, especially
those who try to hurry the perfec-
tion state.

And let us warn the young farm-
er not to ape the owner’s habits and
life of those who have served long
years to earn their autos, their short
hours, and comparative comfort.
These attainments must come grad~
ually as experience and value in-
crease; and, in the end, farmers, as
no other class, can take a real joy
in life and his associations.

We wish to state emphatically
. that no farmer can compete in the
.1. ,présent day high wages and short

hours of factory work and other city
employments. It is absolutely im-
possible for a farmer to keep to that
scale without running a big deficit,
but we hope to prove that life on a
farm and the clean healthful habits

; and surroundings re enough to bal-

' ance the scale against city life.

   
  
   

H. H. ' HALLAD'AY
State Livestock Sani-
tary Commissioner

  

 

Think for a moment of the mon- ,

1 ’ otony, the strain on one particular
' point of body or mind, to do hour
after hour, day after day, through

, months of employment just the one
if particular act or set of acts requir-
1 .. ed in most factories of each man em—
" ployed. This is the day of special—
ties, no less in labor than other pro~
fessions or business. A mechanic us-
ually knows nothing of the construc-
tion of the manufactured article, ex—
cept the part he is working upon. He
has no information or broad view
of the product and the constructive
process; he is an automaton just as
much as any other machine and, like
all machines, will wear out quicker
because the strain or effort is all con—
centrated on one point instead of be-
ing generalized as it may be and is
on the farm. Doctors’ fees, hOSpital
bills, and surgeons’ charges- all stand
as a testimony to the truth of this
point concerning laboring classes as
compared to farm workers. His living

“ conditions are often unsanitary,
‘3 7 crowded and difficult. His pleasures
' for himself and family are disap—
* pointing and sometimes harmful, as
” well as expensive. If he is an Am-
erican, he shrinks at mingling large-

ly with the foreign element. He
becomes one speck Iof humanity amid

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,ft portunity to develop his personality '

or enlarge his powers of mind or
body. His net income at the end of
a. sufficiently long period of trial
shrinks to nothingness, and he is
" usually filled With unrest and disap-
pointment.
- 0n the farm, the satisfaction and
' joy of creating and completing some
process, be it a oron grown to bar-
rest or. stock raised to maturity,- is
. no small reward for labor. To see
' xid efforts expand and
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H. H Halladay, State Livestock Sanitary Commissioner and other Business Farmers

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possible. as farming is a seasonable .

occupation, and work rushes or goes
slower. according to weather condi-
tions. Crops out and a storm coming
means hustle, and hustle long enough
to secure everything possible.

If the hirediman is a grouch and
trying to hold to pre—conceived no-
tions of city laborers, he may as well
drop his work or change his ways;
for farming is in a class by itself,
and no office ‘rules of a big manu—
facturing concern can govern the
work. Neither can the hired man
expect picture shows, auto trips, and
dances every few nights if he makes
This country is
becoming jitneyized to death. Every
man is coming to think he must have
a car and run it every waking hour
when not held in actual labor. He
gets a car in some way, often a
worn-out piece of liability, then buys

on the farm; he will see that they
are un-American at any time or
place. He will be willing to put in
the necessary hours of labor to con-
duct the work properly. He will
make his home and his surroundings
a joy ,and spend his money wisely as
he can see real needs or proper pleas—
ures to be derived. He will not try
to ape his employer in expenditure,
but will remember that these priv-
ileges come only as they are earned
and deserved. He will learn to ac-
cept prosperity as an incentive to fu—
ture endeavor, not as an end to ef—
fort.

We, as employers, must be patient
with the mistakes of the younger
men, and lose no opportunity to en-
courage instead of discourage, to
keep a constructive instead of a de—
structive. attitude toward our young
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Here’s a Young Man Looking for a Job

My father sold out and I wish to get work on some big dairy
farm where they keep Holstein cattle to learn the best ways of tak-
I do not know of any place near here and thought
that you could give me the. names of some.
have lived on a farm all my life, so I think I can do it.

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gas as though it cost nothing, puts BE “HUMAN” TO HIRED MAN

money into repairs, and loses time
which should belong to his employer,
and wears himself out so that he is
really unfit for real labor.

I have seen this experiment tried
many times, and always with the
same result; .a good capable man
turned into a failure through indis-
criminate use of an auto which he
really could not afford.

I am not crying absence of pleas-
ure for the hired man, but when he

,wastes his opportunities upon things

absolutely a detriment to him, he
should not blame his employer or
his work for his downfall.

Another common fault of the
young farmer particularly those who
are renting or operating farms on
shares, is the inability to stand pros—
perity. They think they must jump
too fast. A good gain one year
seems to turn their heads, and they
think they have tapped an inexhaust-
ible flow of wealth and they can sit
back and see the money roll in. Per-

-sonally, I‘ have seen that happen to

several men on my own farm. _ They
get the wrong idea from success, and
they do not learn that no lasting ben-
efit comes other than by faithful con-
sistent effort, as it often. takes one
year’s profits to balance some deficit.

As the hired man, or young farm-
er, has many lessons to learn, just
so do we have faith that he will learn
them, and that the young men of
our time Will realize the pleasures
and benefits of farm occupations and
be drawn to the profession not only
because it is the ideal life, but be-
cause it holdsfinancial possibilities.
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articles on “The Farmer and His
Hired Man,” and as a. few words of
suggestion will state the following: -

In order for a hired man to be a
paying proposition there are several
conditions that enter which must be
met. First, you must be able to have
work the year around that will count.
That is, have lots of live stock in pro-
portion to rest of work. Then on a bad
day all that a hand should do is be
busy with the stock with an hour or
one and one- -half home to himself in
morning and afternoon and he will
appreciate it and will have done more
than if he were working out in the
rain and you sitting by the fire. __

Second, keep a good grade of live
stock, purebred if possible and then
his work will mean the most when
tending good stock. (Personallthave
all registered stock but cattle and
horses and I intend to put in small
start of purebred Shorthorns this
year as I did have them and sold
clear out.) It costs less to feed a good
well-bred animal than it does a scrub
and it makes lots more gains.

Third, one should keep the manure
hauled out in the winter and get all
the good of it then; have it done in—
stead of having it to do when good
work days come. . This does not seem
very important but it is more so than
is generally thought.

Fourth, don’t just put out corn and
beans as one fellow has written but
put out a little of severalcrops fall and
spring then the frost won’t surely get
them all. Or, if. he had silos and live
stock he could utilize that. Don’t do

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like a fellow I know: be in on any.
\thing when' he should be out and out
when he should be in. Be in several
lines and stay with it through thick
and thin and nine out of ten you will
w1n.

Fifth. Hands and their wives are
human. Treat them so. Do not expect
a hand to work more hours than you
do, nor do not always have to go to
town when there is a very hard piece
of work to be done and expect him to
have it done when you come back. He
will appreciate it if you help him do
the dirty work and then you go to
town when everything is running
normal.

Sixth, see that all your machinery'
and harness, etc., are all ready before
you want to use them, thus not having
to waste two or three days waiting for
repairs. If your hand works an hour
or so late to finish sowing cats or
plant corn or harvest a crop don’t for-
get it but give him a little time off to

pay up and he’ll appreciate it and do

you good work in return.

Seventh. if the farm hand and the
farmer could agree for a number of
years it would save quite a lot of ex-
pense of moving and also getting used
to the ways of the new boss. As a
hired man who is used to a farmer’s
ways can do things exactly him he
wants them done without asking him.
The farmer could also get to depend
on the hired man and would work
good for both as he Would be worth
more and the farmer could afford to
pay gmore for a man of that kind.

In conclusion I will say that I have
had a few kinds and have observed
quite a number and if both mean to
get along and do the square thing
there is generally satisfaction. I
know one or two who have worked
for the same man nine or ten years on
that account. One hired man states
that he is just as far ahead as when
he started. I know some farmers that
are in just the same place and some
not quite that far so We can not judge
the question from anyone’s owtn per-
sonal testimony— (7. P. Phillips, Eat~
on County.

ADEQUATE RETI‘RNS, SOLUTION

OF HIRED MAN PROBLEM

0U ASKED in the last Week’s is-
~isue, for the Opinions of your
readers in regard to the farmer’s
hired help problems. My opinion of
the matter is this: The farmer has
110 hired help problem. What is
known as the help problem with
farmers is only one of the results of
his failure to organize for proteec~
tion against the many unions with
whom he must deal. The real prob-
lem that confronts the farmer is that
Of how to unite for the common good
of all. To secure favorable legisla-
tion both state and national. To buy
in large quantities directly from man-
ufacturers or to manufacture for
themselves. To sell directly to the
consumer 'or at least squeeze out
many of the unnecessary middle-
men. Thereby making a larger pro-
fit for himself.

This will solve the hired help prob-
lem and make other problems.

I do not blame the hired man for
going to the city. I only wonder that
more of the farmers do not go too.
I have had some good hired men, loy-
a1 fellows who looked to my interests
as faithfully as they could have done
to their own. I never had any trou-
ble with my men and except for the
matter of wages could have kept them
as long as they wished to work out
anywhere. We worked together
shoulder to shoulder, sharing the
pleasant and unpleasant jobs togeth-
er. They received twenty~five . or

., thirty dollars per month and board
' and- had sense enough to know that

I .was paying all I could afford:
Those fellows are now working in De-
troit at close to one dollar per hour.
I could hire them back today for. less
money than they new ' 1'90")ch :B‘Jt
half that- rate continued, for any-
length -.of time Would spell ruin to‘
me. They are working formed who
know in; advance just how much it is

going to cost to produce an article -
and also. just how much that nuclei,
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that THE Busmnss FARM-EB was

unfair in accusing Congressman
Fordney or “playing politics” and
“passing the buck,” when he was re-
ported to have said that the reason
he did not push the bean tariff bill
was because the President would veto
it.

We do not like to be charged with
unfairness. It has been our constant
aim to be fair and just in all our dis-
cussions, giving credit where credit
was due, but never hesitating to
criticize when criticism was merited.
We have always believed in letting
the “other fellow" tell his side of the
“story," and the columns of this pub-
lication have always been open for
that purpose, as our readers know.
In the present case we shall present
such “evidence” as we have to sup-
port our original statment regarding

THE CHARGE has been made

Mr. Fordney and the bean tariff, and .

let our readers sit in judgment and
render the verdict. ‘

The writer was one of the commit-
tee which went to Washington last
fall to plead for a special tariff bill
on beans. As we have previously and
frequently stated Congressman Ford-
ney took an active part in arranging
the necessary hearing before the
house ways and mans committee of
which he is the chairman, and in oth-
erwise assisting the bean representa-
tives to present their facts. In the ca-
pacity of chairman of this committee,
however, Mr. Fordsney takes a leading
role in all hearings having to do with
tariff legislation, and it could not be
expected that he would do less for his
own constituents.

A couple weeks after the writer’s

‘ return from Kashington he wrote Mr.

Fordney as follows:

“October 31, 1919.
“Congressman Joseph W. Fordney,
‘Washington, D. 0.
“Dear Mr. Fordney:—-

“As you can readily appreciate, Michi-
gan bean growers are anxiously await-
ing the outcome of their petition for an
import duty on Japanese beans and we
would greatly appreciate it if you -would
advise us at this time what the present
status of this matter is.

‘The bean market is slowly on the de-
cline. It appears that Mr_ Kimball and
other speculators in Japanese beans are
taking particular advantage at this time
of the low import duty on the Japanese
beans and are flooding the country with
this product. I do not think it possible
to overestimate the injury which may be
caused to the domestiC» bean industry,
unless this tariff is speedily passed. What
is the best word we can give our readers
on this subject?”

After a lapse of several days we re
ceived a reply to this letter from Mr.
Fordney’s secretary, to the effect that
Mr. Fordney was out of the r“ " but
would give us the desired i‘ a—
tion upon his return. The reply, how-
ever, never came. At least upon two
later occasions We wrote Mr. Fordney
regarding the progress 01: the bill. To
one of our letters we received a very
brief and evasive reply; to the other
none at all.
ters have disappeared from our files,
but if Mr. Fordney will be kind
enough to send us the duplicates we
shall be glad to publish them.

Nearly four months had elapsed
without any definite word as to the
status Of the bean tariff bill, and on
Feb. 8th, an article appeared in the
DVH‘oit Free Press, the Lansing State
Jmurnal, and other daily papers quot~
lug Mr. Fordney as saying that it was
useless to push the bill because of the
presidential veto. This news story
furnished the basis for the
published in the Feb. let issue to
which Mr. Fordney and his friends
have taken exception.

On February 11th we wired Mr.
Forduey asking him if he he‘d been
correctly quoted. Receiving no imme-
diate reply to this telegram, “con-
cluded that»Mr. Fordne‘y lad been
correctly quoted and accordinglypub-
lished his reported statement. On
February 19th, eight days after we
wired Mr. Fordney, we received aiet-
ter from him in which he stated that

he “must have been mts’quoted, as his .

attitude on protection had not clung-
ed." Ho furthermore stated that he
was using “every omtunity" to
push the-bean tariff bill, but he. did
’noa. state what had already been done
along mutilate, or what was likely to,

2.3»- am.”

1.98:, i a ‘ n ,1

I . That He ‘Has Lessened His Efforts to Sew

Unfortunately these let'

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By THE

We replied to Mr. Eordney as fol-
lows:

“Hon. J. W. Fordney,
“Washington. D. C.,

“Dear Mr, Fordne'y:—— -
“I greatly regret that my telegram of:

February 11th was not answered until

February 13th. also that the answer was

mailed to Mt. Pleasant instead of Mt.

“February 21., 1920. ,

EDITOR. . -

enclose. did not quote me correctly. To
claim or say what the article attributes
to me would be altogether too- assuming
and would come far from indicat the
real situation here. I assume you
’mt Earns 1: bill through c

‘ “ co go a. ongreao
moulding for this tax-ii! bu the prank
dent would vote it!” ' .

“What I have said is that 'If I c uld
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' _ . .1
Fordney Claims Farmers in
Michiganfm.Ruinom
CompetitiomV
Detndit Free Press Bureau.
404‘ Metropolitan gld£¢
’Washingtbn,
growers of Michigan, the seconds
bean—producing state in the union,
will be} subject to kccn'and posslo
bly_ ruinous~ competition with the
Orient, duringth‘is session of con:
greet-at idestgaccording to Repre-
sentative Joseph W. Fordncy,
chairmaflipf the ways and means
committee.- Today he said that he
could not secure enough Demo-
cratic votesto pass a. bill provid-

ing for a protective tariff onbcans.

“This is a matter of great lerlo'
oneness to been growers in Michi-
gan and California," Representative
Fordney ,ltated. “and/while beans
are being shipped from the Orient,
including Japan. and flooding the
Americmnmrket, the Democratic
members of congre’ss “will not join
with the Republicans to put a pro-

tective tariff on beans. I could get
4 l . : h a re s o o-

  
 

        

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tatlons leaving the Orient amount-
ed to 4,347,518 bushels at an aver.
age price of $3.46 a bushel.

Exports during the same period
were 3.667.082 bushels at an aver.
age price of $5.30. The govern-
ment bought up the American crop,
according to Mr. Fordney, and sold
,‘lt to Europe instead of putting
American-grown .beane on the
American market. 'The‘ beam: from-
Japau were fed to millions of;
Americans. There was a. green
waste in go! to the trouble to
import beans for American con-,
sumption. while 'mone used to
,transport beans to urorfe could
have been saved and the beans
acid the American consumers. ,Con-
gres'sfnan Fordney stated that this
move of the democratic administra~
tlon' raised the cost of ‘i’iving in-
stead of lowering it.

The 'beanvgxowers are asking a,-
uty on. been: of $2.40 a. bush-e!
n order to shut out forel n com-
petition. In J; an a days labor
can lye-bought or 15 cents. while
it cost around $5 in America The
faim .of Representative Fordney is
to save the consuming public the.
rmoney that in used in transport»:
ins no from Japan ta’Amex-ion.
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being Circuleted aside. «a. to

'inated .with a. 'farmfijournttr

accused Fordniy of- backing!”
on the “bean tariff and Cl "Whi‘
that it was useless to Jam
»measu.re at this session of connect

sional inactivity and that rerun”.

enou 11 De c a. 0 votes to over- .conimittea. ought rtq- “x: "mush
WM is veto EM" llnfluence to pass. sucl -u'.bil1.
0 last. 11 'months up to I
November, 1:119. heavy bean impor— ;

.support in the house: but-‘ in' the

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ting out importation. and mckl

Amer-log brewers sell to Amer-“if. , V 01’s ‘ impraflggfibm’jniw 19m ~
can: 0 so. e: “Let Japan sup ly . find—hwy ‘ ’

Europe. in: end of the- Unlfed ‘ ' ,

States. We on take ca. of our“ ' .
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the ease: that hdfin’hctuf
as he inmate. in.the‘_mfiel"
securing"prbtectionjfor. MR

. 3.9QO to bane/rub
«wit -

for a- higher duty because the)! .
ldent would be sure to veto it-

lt could that be carried oh: the 081
ecutlve disapproval. The contention
was put forward that'ptolident'ifl
opposition did not excuse confleflfi

as chairman of the .wayl and means

throng»
do so. . , ._
“No one 'o'ughtzto "be in doubt a:
to where I stand ‘on protection.
said Mr. Fordney. in discussing 'tho
matter. “I have said that there- it
no hope‘ of getting -a. bill of th
kind through"without Democratic

the house. if he’wgntodpu

face of that knowledge .I have
done all 'I_ 0 id to get ‘tho bill
passed, and. have not,.'been oblate
bring it about.'.' " ' ‘ '

In justice to the Michigan rents-iv
sentative. it can .be- said that since
the committee held “shearing-"on
this bill last winter- thugohalrmafn
has thre‘e times boonght"'lt". before
the attention .of r'the,.«committeo

unable to get‘sufficlentneupport to-
report it favorably. . ‘ '3

He ham met a. ’solld .Deinocrati'o
opposition and enough - Republican
members decline to vote fox-j it to
represent a majority of the bgdy.
Without the. approval of the whys
and means ;committee the fate of.
the- measure 'on the floor would be.
Very doubtful. It mightcan'yfii'
'it had the,backing of the way-'1
and means men. but lacking that:
opposition it would almostcertainfl

ly be doon‘td to defeat. As to -4

:- ing it Over a veto, w c -;

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Clemens, and consequently did not reach
my hands until February 19th.

“I enclose herewith a clipping of a
news story that appeared in the Detroit
Free Press, Lansing State Journal and
other daily newspapers in the state of
Michigan. all of the same tenor. The
swastance of the statements contained in
these press report-s I have used in the
current week's inane of our mblication.
If it be true that you have been. misquot-
ed. to say so over your signs.-
tummmslwllbeglad tomake moroc-
c carnation!

‘01: “on ma we received tinfoi—

lowing W in reply to curletmrof

February not:
, . “March 1]., 1920.
”Mr. Format Lord. Editor,
“Michigan Farming.

    

'Wt 3 Michigan.
“Dear Mr. Lordz— .

“Your letter of the 21.31: ultimo was
received March 5th. I regret that my
former letter was misdirected to Mount
Pleasant. There ms to have bein- a:
when. "811’

without Democratic support, the presi-
dent would veto it.’ I have also said
that votes could not be obtained to pass
a bill over the president’s veto. How-
ever, many consider this an lnopportune
time to attempt tariff legislation and my
efforts to haVe a bill reported have been
without success. I enclose copy of let-
ter from Congressman Osborne, the auth-
or of the bill in question, which ex-
plains the matter in a manner in whim I
have not explained it.
"The criticism in the
dishes.

continue my em» to to bring about what
I consider to be nuich needed legisla-
tion.”—-—J. M. Fordneyj ’

um Biz‘ll'Author Prelude Forum,

Ehrelosed with this letter was a. may
of a letter written. to Mr. Fordm’ by

Congressman Osborne, of Califomia.’

who mmm' the tariff bill. . can.

~" "

or FM“%- run. am “My.

re Tariff Promotion 'forMichigan Beans I 'h

-did

posed bean tat-ill bill for

 
  

mane:

. “March 6, 1920.

"Hon. Joseph W. Fordney, ,
‘Chairman. Committee Ways and Means.
“House of Representatives.
“My dear Mr, Chairman:

"Let me express my
for your persistent efforts, in the fact.
what I know to be the smnlmmt (it"th
committee against present- mlsio‘ a
some, features of the mrifl vim con-
sideration of the subject in ME] tohrfltl‘g
11;) and have considered my 11 E.
7737, to inrease the import duty on us.

“I have observed with- Men. in
and admiration your effort: in 1518 bell-3
to attain the much needed protect
American beans, and realm the“
difficulties which beset this legislation;
and the. need of mu ed ' 03189.?
to apprise the people generally of ,
harm done this important industry
want of protective regulation against the
foreign product produced by cheap labor
and permitted to compete practically un-
restricted w‘ltih our better-conditioned
and superior American ,labor.

“I feel that the comprehensive hear-
lugs, in which you have to ably assisted
as presiding officer. have ‘ gone far to
brinf out the merits of the case, and sin-
cere‘y hope that other members of the
committee will soon show as friendly an
attitude as yours, so that a measure may
be enacted which will afford proper p
tection to American been growers. —-
Henry Z. Osborne. M. 0.

Information From Another Source

Because of Mr. Fordmey’s delay in
acknowledging our letter of Feb. 21
we concludedthat he had decided n
to discuss the matter farther. But
because of our extreme desire to se-
cure information on the subject, we

0

wrote to Congressman Gas-nor, a Dem-

ocratic member of the committee who
was the only Democrat on the com-
mittee to make the admission that the
facts seemed to show that the bean
growers were entitled to some pro-
tection. Our letter to Congressman
Garner hollows: .

“Mm h 16, 1930.
“Con essman John 3%. Gamer,
‘ ashington, D. ~
“Dear Mr. Garner:—

“The writer was one of the delegation
that ap eared before the Ways and
Means ommittee last October to plead
for a tariff on beans. He remembers you
well for the interest you took in the ar-
guments presented by the delegation,
and by your very fair admission that
you thought, in case the facts presenth
were correct, that the bean growers
the United States were entitled to some
protection. It is for this reason that I am
writing to you. asking a very great favor,

“It is this: Congressman Fordney, who
promised the bean committee that he
would do everything possible to speed
the passage of a special bean tariff-bill,
has been very reticent as to what he hu
accomplished. or attempted to accompl 11

along this line, and letters that I ha 0

written to him have either received a. be-
lated reply or none at all, and I am un-
certain to this day, as to what action. if
any, our congressman has taken upon
this matter. Several weeks ago the Daily
Press of the state quoted Congressman
Fordney as saying that he would have no
difficulty in getting a special bill through
Congress but that the president woud
veto it, and inasmuch as he could
muster enough Democratic votes to
override, the veto it would be useless to
push the matter to a vote, Knowing r.
Fordney to be exceptionally partisan
his views I took this statement as a de-
liberate attempt on his part to place the
blame for inadequate protection on the
shoulders of the Democratic party and
the president and have taken the atti-
tude that the bean growers «of Michigan
would suffer because of Mr. Fordney's po-
litical playing. Perhaps this is a. little
unjust to the congressman, but inas-
much as ’l have received no statements
from him to the contrary. I. can have no
other opinion. -
“Will you advise me by return mail
the status, of Congressman Osborne's
bean tariff b-i‘l? What efforts if any,
has Mr. Fordney made to secure an affir-

mative vote of the committee on this

measure. and what chance has the hill
of being reported out favorably from your
committee? In behalf of our publication
and the bean growers of Michigan. I
would most cordially thank you for any
information you can give us on this
subject.”

Congressman Garner’s Reply

“March 19, 1920.
“Mr. Forrest Lord.
“Editor Michigan Business Farming,
“Mt. Clemens. Michigan.
“My dear Mr_ Lord:

“Your favors! the 16th received. The
status of the Osborne- bean tariff bill is
Just what it was when you appeared be-
fore the committee. - .

“my judgment is that none of these so-
callod “pop. gun" tariff bills will be sent
to the president for his signature.
ator Penrose. chairman of the finance
committee. is in Florida. and up to (into
mm as. we ’have sent over to
3:1)?! Senate have been passed by that

y.

“I have not heard anything of. the pro-
, weeks. and
don’t know what Mr... Fordney's inten-

some you understand that the Roma—-
cans are in the majority on tho commit-

tee, and whatever policiee'thcydsterm} no

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HE STOVERvsilage idea is not a
new one. In fact, it’is as old as

1 the idea of corn silage itself, for

- the underlying motive of siloing corn

in the ordinary way is the preserva- I

tion of the stover in the most palat-
able and nutritious form.

‘ Many attempts have been made to
silo the stover alone and thus re-
duce the cost of the silage and con-
serve the ears for other purposes.
The earliest attempts were made
with green stover, cut at approxi-
mately the stage of maturity most
suitable for normal silage. The at-
tempts were ‘successful in so far as
the resultant silage was concerned.
‘but necessitated the utilization of the
ears before they were mature enough
to crib, which is impracticable " on
most farms.

The Illinois Experiment Station has
been able to make fairly satisfactory
use of the snapped ears by siloing
them (husk, cob and grain) separate-
ly from the stover and using this
rich silage with a nitrogenous con-
centrate for fattening calves. How-
ever, this method so limits the util-
ization of the grain as to greatly cur-
tail any' probable use of the method
of storing the ears. These results do
have one significant lesson, and that
is the practicability of snapping and
siloing the ears of corn that have
been caught by frost, or are so late
that they can not be reasonably ex-
pected to escape such a fate. There

‘is no doubt in my mind that this is
the most emcient method of utiliz-
ing frosted corn, where the owner is
fortunate enough to have the equip-
ment and can utilize the product.

From the standpoint of the man
who is running a. herd of beef breed-
ing cows or stocker cattle, the silage
problem is largely one of securing a
cheap and "efficient roughage as the
basis for a ration designed merely
to carry his cattle from one grazing
season to another. When icorn was
worth only 50 cents or less per bush-
el, normal silage met these require-
ments, but when the market price of
a bushel of corn climbed to two and
three times this amount, the value
of the grain in the silage made it
an. expensive feed for wintering pur-

es: hence the renewed interest
uring recent years in the stover si-
lageidea.

By-producte of Com Crop

After some preliminary studies
bed been o, it was decided' to
undertake a rather extensive series
of apartments on this subject. These
studies have been under way for the
past three years and there are some
deductions that can be made with a
‘eonsiderabhe degree of assurance.

While some work has been done
each year on the preparation and
utilisation of green stover silage, the
most emphasis has been placed on
the study of silage. m from the
stover of shocked corn. (The pur-
pose of this was twofold.) First, be-
cause it offered the possibility of a
method which would not in any way
curtail the utilisation of the grain;
and second, because studies made by
Dr. Grindley and associates in the
nutrition division showed that the
largest supply of digestible nutri—
ents in the entire corn plant occurred
at the stage of maturity when the
coon plant is Justsight to out for
shocking. It is also interesting and
significant that these studies showed
that even in .a field of corn yielding
over 100 bushels per acre, there was
a slightly larger total quantity of
nutrients in the stalk. leaves, and
bush them in the grain. This does
not mean, :as some enthuglaats 3:3:
have us believe that age .
from the stover of the plant should
be as good as that made in the or-
dinary my. While the stover does
contain as much total nutrients as
the grain- it is not in as concentrat-

ed form and is not as available. As
will be shown later, it requires ap-
proximately 50 per cent more silage
made from the stover of shocked
corn than normal silage to» maintain

. breeding cows. ..

~ Putting Up Stover Silage

. The method adopted at the Unij

W putting up stover silage
to ‘ e fc £9 with a corn bind-

   

(Experiments. Show thaiFeeding Volvo

in ~ + .m- , , .
0f Com StOUér Compares Favorablg with that of Ordinary Silage

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, M. A; C. Conducting Corn Stover Experiments

HAVE received several inquiries from our readers regarding
Wool-n stover silage, which we referred to Mr. H. W. Norton, as-
dsten-t director of the Experiment Station at the Michigan
Agricultural College. Mr. Norton informed us that the college is con-
ducting experiments in which corn stover silage is being compared
with ordinary silage for feeding steers and hoped in the near future to
h Wommdamonmkmhjmfierefen'eduswthemxperlmentstap
tion of file University of name, which had conducted some very suc-
cessful experiments along this line.

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or at the proper stage for shocking
and set it up in carefully constructed
shocks. Probably as much care is
taken in setting up these shocks as
in any other phase of the operation,
and results secured indicate that the
extra precautions necessary to build
a shock that will stand up and shed
water are amply repaid by the better
color and aroma of the silage. When
the corn is sumciently cured to crib,
the shocks are hauled to the silo and
run through a combined husker and
silo filler, thus husking the corn and
putting the stover in the silo at one
operation. The machine used for
this operation is constructed like the
ordinary husking machine, except
that it has a cutter head instead of
a shredder head. ‘

There was considerable import—
ance attached to studies of the
amount of water necessary to secure
the best results. These investigations
indicate that a good grade of silage
may be secured 'with a rather wide
variation in the amounts of water
added. Weather conditions material-
ly affect the moisture content of the
stover so that it is impossible to lay

’down any definite rule. But satis-
factory results have been secured in
this series of experiments with the
addition of amounts ranging frorn80
pounds to 135 pounds of water per
100 pounds of stover." The method
finally adopted was to pipe water up
the outside of the silo and deliver it
to the top of the distributor by the
means of a hose. This gave a fairly
good distribution of water through-
out the stover, but even then some
diculty was experienced in getting
the silage next to the walls as moist
as that in the center. This was eer-

rooted by taking the hose out of the
top of the distributor about once an
hour and directing the stream around
the edge of the silo for a few min-
utes. We do not believe the plan
followed by some of putting in as
much water as they could through
the blower and then running a large
quantity of water on top after the
silo is filled is satisfactory. Water
added after the silo is full does not
become well distributed through the
mass of stover, but forms channels
down through the stover and collects
at the bottom of the silo.
Compacting Silage

Another difficulty experienced was
in getting the mass sufficiently com-
pact to exclude the air and insure
good keeping qualities. Finely cut
dry stover blown into the silo, even
with large amounts of water, does
not pack like normal silage, and con-
siderable care must be taken by the
man handling the distributor to pre-
vent an accumulation of the husks
and lighter particles around the out—
side. The settling in this type of si-
lage is much greater than in normal
silage and the spoilage on top is con-
siderably deeper.

When properly prepared this ma-
terial goes through a slicing process
much like that occurring in normal
silage. Of course, bacterial action is
not so rapid as in green silage, and
may also be retarded by low tem-
peratures which are likely to prevail
when this type of silage is made.
however, the resultant product 'is
surprisingly like normal silage in
general appearance. Under favorable
conditions, the green color seems to
be partially restored.

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one Democrat, are making a vigor-
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One marked difference between
the silage made from the stover of
shocked corn and normal silage is
the smaller amount of acidity in the
stover silage. Some have consider-
ed this an advantage, but it is prob-
ably a disadvantage for the am! y
besides having some probably .en—
ficial action on the coarser perm :n‘
the silage, is known to protect the
silage in some extent against :he
growth of undesirable and, in some
cases, dangerous bacteria. The re—
sults of two season’s work conducted
in co-operation with the nutrition di-
vision indicate that the addition of
one-half pound of blackstrap molas-
ses to 100 pounds of stover increases
the fermentation and yields a product
with an acidity much more nearly
comparable to that of normal silage.
Theoretically, it would pay to add
this small amount of molasses, but
the practicability of such a method
has not been fully established.

Feeding Stove:- Silage

The efficiency of this silage in
maintenance rations has been fairly
wel lestablished by comparisons with
normal silage in actual feeding trials.
A long series of investigations at the
Illinois station has shown that about
the smallest amount of normal silage
that can be depended upon to Winter
an ordinary 1,100 pound grade
breeding cow is 40 pounds per head
per day. It is necessary to supple-
ment this amount with some nitro-
genous concentrate. At the Illinois
station, either one pound of cotton-
seed meal or linseed oil meal has
been used with this ration. This will
not carry the cow through the winter
in high condition, but is sufllcient to

carry her through in fair breeding_

condition. It was found in these
trials that it required from 65 to 60
pounds of the silage from the stover
of shock corn to replace 40 pounds
of normal silage in the wintering ra-
tion.

The relative cost of these two ra-
tions is markedly in favor of the
stover silage ration. A study of
this phrase of the test shOWed that
under the most efficient management
the actual cost of 'the labor and ma-
chinery charge involved in the ,pro—
duction of stover silage amounted to
approximately $1.50 per ton. This
is on the basis of deducting a rea—
sonable h-us’king charge from the
total bill, as‘it was though that this
item should be charged to the corn
in the crib rather than to the stover
in the silo. On the basis of a mar-
ket value of $1.30 per bushel for
corn, the normal silage cost approx-
imately $10.90 per ton. On the basis
of these prices and $60 per ton for
cottonseed meal, the comparative
feed costs for cattle wintered on
these rations during the winter of
1917—18 were 24.8 cents per head per
day for the normal silage ration, and
7.8 cents per head per day for the

stover silage ration. , When corn
yields were not so high, there was
less to be deducted for husking,

while the labor bill was, in some
cases increased, due to operating corn
binder over large areas for the same
tonnage, thus materially increasing
the cost of the silage. (The corn on
which cost figures are based yielded
approximately 100 bushels per acre.) '

A few short trials have been con-
ducted on the value of silage made
from the stover of shocked corn for
winter maintenance of stocker steers.
The results of one lot are fairly rep-
resentative of all of them. During
the Winter of 1917—1918, one lot of
Bio—pound stocker steers Was carried
for 110 days on an average daily ra-

tion of 43.27 pounds of stover silage

and one pound of linseed oil meal.
The average daily feed cost was 6.24
cents and the average daily gain was
.43 pounds.

It should be observed that the only
advantage claimed for stover silage
is its comparative cheapness. Those
connected with these experiments are
not recommending stover silage for
dairy cattle, or, in fact, for anything
except the basis of maintenance ra~
tions for beef cattle. It is quite
probable that the capacity of most
cattle for this silage is limited to ap-
proximately a, maintenance ration.

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Details 0

HE planning

of an ideal
‘ arrangement
in a sheep barn
is no easy task.
There are 3 0
many factors pe-
culiar to the an-
imal to be con-
sidered as de-
gree of warmth,
ventilation, econ-
omy of space, ar-
rangement and
form of feeding
racks and the
handling of the
roughtage so as
to keep the wool
clean.

Each
~ sho u 1d h a v e
about 12 sq. feet of floor space for
movement, for ventilation and to pre-
vent the stable from becoming ever
warm. A shed 30 by 40 would ac-
commodate 100 to 120 head, depend-
ing on the space used by the feeding
racks as one sheep to 12 sq. ft. is net;

 

 

 

 

 

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Professor of Agriculture, Central State Normal

value’of the product.
feet for the width of the rack" Will al-
low a fair space for 'walking and
space for the hay and grain racks
on each side. With plenty of space,
the grain racks may be separated but
this arrangement takes considerable
room. A better plan is to combine
the two as shown in Figure 6. The
grain rack should be broad, flat and
shallow so as to cause sheep to chew
their feed better. The old type of” V
shape rack is poor. The combination
grain and roughage-rack should be

about 3 ft. 6 inches high, .3 ft. wide;

the trough 10 ft. wide and 4 ft. high.

The hay rack should be construct-
ed so as to cause the sheep little ef-
fort to reach the hay. Otherwise
there is apt to be a loss of wool on
the neck and shoulders from rub-
bing. It is also desirable to keep
the sheep from getting under the
hay which will make the wool be—
come chaffy or seedy as it is called.
This is secured in Fig. 5; the center

 

 

 

 

 

 

allowance must be made for the board is lowered while hay is being
feeding racks. Sheep are well pro- placed in the rack. Fig. 7 shows
tected by wool a wall type of
from the cold 4. rack, this meth-
and will not do 0d of feeding
well in a poorly J , is undesirable as
ventilated, warm \ , .- ,’\' the hay must be
and over crowd- / r, , ‘ carried over the
ed room. The N (9 25 backs of the an-
basement of a . J“ K” imals. .

barn is apt to be ‘ If space b e
too warm unless I - limited the main
well ventilated. (6 45 , # feeding alley may

 

 

 

While plenty of
air is necessary,
sheep must be
protected fro m
draft, every sheep barn should have
a system of ventilation. The inlet
for fresh air should be near the ceil-
ing. Windows that drop back from
the top are good as is also the spec-
ial ventilating shafts that direct the
fresh air upward.\ The foul air may
be removed by other ventilating
shafts opening near the floor and
the shafts leading to the roof. The

Fig. 3.——Sheep barn, feeding racks and alley In
the center of the barn accommodates 50 head.

following figures, 1 and 2, make this.

clear. This system of ventilation is
good for any stable.

Sheep should be allowed to run out
in good weather, in fact. the more
they stay out the less they will be
susceptible to disease. In case of
cold winds, snow, or rain storms,
they should be under cover. A sheep
wet to the skin is a poor proposition
regarding health and economy of
feed, or production of young. The
shelter provided need not be elabor-
ate, just protection from 'the ele-
ments. The floors need not be of
boards or cement, a good well—drain-
ed dirt fl-oor is all that is necessary.
Poorly drained floors of barn yards
tend to produce foot rots.

The planning of the arrangement
of the feeding racks needs special
thought. With plenty of space the
simplest arrangement is a long rack
through the center. If this be wide,
the feed can be distributed without
stumbling over the sheep, spilling
the grain and dropping fine chaff
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have to e d i n g
racks running at
right angles to it.
. These smal l e r
feeding racks may be 10 to 15 feet
apart and run to within 3 feet of
the wall. About 15 inches should
be allowed for each sheep for
feeding at the racks. This allows
one to determine the number of ani-
mals that may be fed, when the
length of the racks is known. The
barn in Fig. 3 would accommodate
60 at the racks, while the floor ca—
pacity accommodates 90. In the barn
40 x 60 feet, »

Five or six'floor space for’window space; 8-10

sq. in. for foul air flue fer each an-

imal.

The above rule of 1 Sq. ft. of
window space for each 20 sq._feet
of floor space is a fair allowance for
light necessary for best results. In
a shed 30 x 40 ft. there should be ten
3 x 2 windows. The windows should
be high enough to throw the sunlight
back into the shed. The windows
should be arranged so they may be
tilted back from the top for ventila-

tiOn as explained, and to avoid aw

direct draft. Muslin curtains may
be used for windows and providing
ventilation. However, muslin does
not afford sufficient. protection for
our Michigan winters. ‘
should be

Some arrangement
made for furnishing water fer the
sheep. Halves of vinegar , barrels

placed in the corners of the barn
and kept filled with water or shal—
low tanks connected with the wind—
mill may be used; 'There is a no-
tion that sheep do not need water,
but this is a notion, for best results,
water should be

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-Fig. 1.-—-A wail feeding, rack

. “Why the American 'grain farmer

has not been very successful "with
sheep." We are .not dodging the
issue, because we know that sheep
are a benefit to any farm and that

anyone can learn to handle them.»
At the present time there are then-
sands of native sheep and lambs be-
ing dumped on the market. and it
is a common saying among the trad-
ers, “nothing but trash." ‘ .
of the stuff is uncastrated, and most
of them are thin flesh, showing no
care or breeding. It is pretty safe
to say that two-thirds of the native
~ crop of sheep and
lambs

 

provided. One of

market in the

 

the sheep men
near Lake George
Mich., found that
his sheep drank
water at the rate
of 1-3 barrel per
100 head per day
Supply plenty of
good water, a
snow ball is a
poor substitute.

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WHY HAS THE AMERICAN GRAIN
FARMER TURNED TO SHEEP?
NSWERING the first question,
A there are several very good
reasons why the
grain farmer is being forced to give
sheep a place on his farm; first, be—
cause of his high priced land and
the need of greater yields from it.
England, with land valued much
higher than ours, long ago had to
sheep, and by producing forage and
root crops along

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shown in fig. 4
will accom m o- 37
date 160 to 180
head. The effi- . i.

ciency of the lat-

r—R feeds, they are

able to keep their
land fertilized
and make their
farms pay them

 

 

 

ter plan is easily

a good dividend.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

seen. In the lat- oo' 9%

ter plan gates A few of the
may be placed at 5 .- best ' American
the ends of the ,____,,-__, ’t' grain farmers
racks, betwee n I have been mark-
the rack and side L3: L1 9.‘ eting their grain
of the barn. This 9 60’ through cattle
makes convenl- Figure 4_ and hogs, but a.
cut divisions for ~ large majority
keeping separate young sheep, bucks, are just grain farmers. The latter

lambing eWes, etc. ‘The wide feed-
ing alley, 5 x 8 feet, allows the dis-
tribution of feed easily. Feeding
racks may be arranged on the sides
of this wide alley, thus adding to the
feeding capacity. The racks should
be at least 3 feet wide, feeding from
both sides and the combination type
for greatest capacity. In these days
of high cost of building plans must
be made to house the greatest num-
ber advisable.

If the sheep pen is separate from
the other buildings, a loft should be
constructed for storage of hayland
grain and convenient chutes for dis-
tributing the material.~ The grain
room may be placed on
the ground‘floor if you
have plenty of. room.
A common type of
the"
sheep area of Michigan
has an upright in the
center and wings on

either sides. The efii- V .

 

have been selling their produce from
their farms and these farms are‘now
feeling the strain of it. Another rea-
son is high priced grain, and while
some grain is required to finish and
fatten sheep. they require less grain
than do some other kinds of live
stock. Others are realizing that they
can keep, a flock of sheep on their
farm with scarcely any additional
expense. No one, we are sure, will
doubt or dispute the fact that sheep
are a benefit to any farm.

Sheep are called the dual purpose
animal, but they do much more than
produce wool for .clothing,,and mut-
ton and lamb for food. They will

clean up a dirty farm,

turn a woody pasture
into blue grass and
clover, crop down the
wheat and rye in the
winter and "spring,
causing it» to steel out
~ and produce a larger

‘ crop, fertilize the land,
ciency of this design is “‘ and because of their
easily seertil, gilvin g. . fine mastication, they
8‘ orage an a . arge Fla. 5. Section of panel of do not scatter weed

feedlne rack. The middle seed over the farm

ground floor at "mini-
mum cost, see fig. 8. '

Here are mathemat-
ical factors of value in
figuring on housing
sheep. - -Allow ‘ 1‘2 ' sq:

avoid
wool.

  

     

floor.~ space, per lamb 15 inches for
feeding: at the racks: 1-20 of the

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board may be lowered upon
putting hay in the not and
oettinl shelf in the

ft. of floor ing up a run
space per mature animal; 6 sq. ft. of r a good farm- good.“

V

through their manure.
They do a multitude
of other valuable
things towards build-

    

There has. been statesman in. the
past to side my th "'9".

 

Flo. 6.431 combination hay and grain rack

American'

down farm. or keeping, ' .

cull
his.

form of
l a in b s,
coarse, bu c k y
lambs, and old,
‘ worn out. ' thin
cull ewes. Now,
is it any wonder
that the consum-
er balks at such
- meat and refus-
es to eat it, thereby causing severe
fluctuations in the market? \

There is no reason why the Amer-
ican grain farmer should know how
to handle sheep, since his business

- in the'past has been producing grain,

but there is a reason why he must
first learn how to handle them if he
wants them to produce for him.

Every year farmers come to mar- .

ket and take out these western feed-
ing sheep and lambs. Most of them
do not know that there is a rule to
be followed in selecting feeders that
are adaptable to the feed to be of-
fered them.
. There will be hundreds of thous-
ands of fine quality western feeding
sheep and lambs placed on the mar-
ket this fall. These sheep as a
whole. are excellent feeders, ~are
healthy and will get fat if properly
handled, but it makes us shiver when
we think of the abuses some of these
sheepkand lambs are subjected to,
and all because the farmer who takes
them out does ,not take the trouble
to study and familiarize himself with
the proper methods to be employed.
Thousands of dollars worth of
good sheep feed goes to waste every
year, but in order to utilize this feed,
the farmer must know how to do it.

Someone very often remarks, “Why'

are, such a big per cent of your cus-
tomers good’ feeders, and how do
they make their sheep and lambs so
good?" There is no mystery about
it, most of our subscribers have

learned how to handle sheep and also

that a half fat sheep or lamb is a
failure. ,

We have found that the men who
like sheep or would make a success
with them, become
when they find that there is some-
thing to be required of them and that
sheep will not get fat on fresh air
and scenery. Because there is such
a crying need of practical informa-_

tion we have found it advisable to I

offer a book on sheep, sheep produc-
tion, feeding and finishing for the
market, market conditions and mar-
ket demands.

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. [sandgbeet growers have signed
‘ an agreement to grow no beets
in ‘1.'1.9"20,:unless the sugar companies

grahtt'them-a conference. This means .

that‘the majority, of Michigan sugar
factories may stand idle this year and
that Michigan’s production of sugar
will be cut 75 per cent in consequence
thereof. This also means that thou-
sands of acres heretofore devoted to
sugar beets will be planted to beans
and grain, which likewise means that
the farmers of the ‘sugar beet terri-
tory will work less, worry less about
their help problem, but make more
money this year than during the
years they have grown sugarvbeets.

This “strike” will be different in
many respects from the “strike”
with which the, public is best ac-
quainted. Instead of a “strike” of
labor, it will be a “strike” of capital.
Instead of men refusing to work with
their hands, it will be a case of men
refusing to work with their land and
money. There will be no attempt to
caerce farmers who are not members
of the beet 'growers’ association from
growing beets. if they desire. There
will be no “closed shop,” so picket-
i-ng, no threats. The farmers who
grow the bulk of the beets and be-
long to the beet Igrowers’ association
will simply fail to grow beets this
year, but will use their land for oth-
er vcrops. .

This'action may arouse some crit-
icism on the part of the public but
when the public understands that the
farmer is merely refusing to invest
his money in an unprofitable vent—
ure, just as man of the city might
do, he will be released from blame.
If the consuming public really needs
the sugar contained in the beets
which the farmer grows, they can be
shown that the sugar manufacturers

- -- ’. have -it,within their power to scoure

\ail acreage their plants can handle.
and if they fail to do so, the public
can be made to’ understand the real
reasons for this and subject the man—
ufacturers to the criticism which they
will deserve. But the press of the
state that has taken any interest in
the matter is inclined to be friendly,
and readily understands and sympa-
thizes with the farmers’ claims. Take
this, for instance, from the Grand
Rapids Press: - -.

“Eight thousand Michigan beet
growers about two-thirds of all in
the state, have agreed among them-
selves not to plant beets this year un-
less they get a price affording what
they deem a reasonable profit. This
is virtually a farmers’ strike—the
first one in the history of the state,
at least.

Three years ago farmers of Kent
county began to talk vaguely, but
none the less surely, of limiting their
food production to what they need-
ed themselves. Thus far few, if any,
have dene so. But they have held
that With the increasing shortage of
labor they were actually losing mon-
ey on what they raised for market.
With the beet growers labor is the
chief item of expense. So many men
and boys are needed for the hand
weeding that they have to drawn
from the cities and consequently have.

-to be paid city wages. Sugar is very
high. and the prices of beets to grow-
ers high, but not high enough appar-
ently to pay this city labor and leave
a satisfactory margin. Hence the
strike of the beet growers.

The Press has several times called
attention to the possibility of such an
eventuation, not‘in exactly the way

this has come about, but because the-

farmers are very dissatisfied with
conditions. This first real strike of
farmers is only a warning to the cit-
‘ies of the state and to America that
something will have to be done- to

 

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F dtmersMeet Manufacturers’ Defiance ‘of their Rights by ‘Taking Stand for “No Beets” in 1920

> f HE “STRIKE" is on. Eight thou-.

ciation. They-feel that the matter
of utmost importance not only for
this year but all years to come in
the recognition of their association
by the sugar manufacturers, and a
refusal to recognize this association
will be taken as personal afiront to
every member of the association.
The members feel that they have
justice on their side and they will

not retract a single step from the po— '

sition they have taken. The State
Association has sent out the follow-
ing message to all locals, which
sounds like business:

 

  
 
 
 
 
  
  
  
 
 
 
 
 
 

Scenes on~ the Big Ackerman Farm Near Durand

acres of new land, planted 70 to sugar
beets and five to potatoes, Five acres
failed, but from the balance he har—
vested 748 tons of sugar beets and
1,000 bushels of potatoes. Mr. Acker-
man has two brothers, a Ford and I.
H. C. 25 horse power Mogul. The
tractor is shown here fitting the beet
field. Each wheel is six feet wide
.and six feet high, with cement rollers
between the wheels. The spread of
the machine is 16 feet. The tractor
pulls three double and is just the,
thing for beet ground.

The corn View shows Mr, Acker-
man standing in his corn field on July

 

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THE EFFORTS of those who are
unfriendly to the beet growers to
discredit the leaders of the organized
"“ movement have naturally brought
forth some inquiries concerning the
leaders. The ‘question has been
asked, “Who is Ackerman," the man-
ager of the beet growers’ association.
We asked Mr. Ackerman to tell us
something about his record as a farm-
er and this is What we‘have learned:
‘ C. E. Ackerman was— born on a. farm
four miles east of Pontiac, Dec. 29,
1879. With his parents he moved to
a farm four miles northeast of Du-
rand when he was but six years old
and lived there continually until three
years ago when he moved-to Durand
to secure better school facilities for
his four daughters. He still owns
and operates the farm of 250 acres.
Last year he broke and drained 80

 

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21st last. Beet field picture was tak-
en the same day. From these facts
and photographs, it can be seen that
Mr. Ackerman is a fairly progressive
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equalize ,conditions between city and
country labor or serious consequenc-
es will follow.”

The campaign of the State Associ-
ation for members is nearing its end,
and the membership ‘in all sections
where local organizations have been
formed includes virtually every im-
portant beet grower. Meetings are
still being held regularly in all beet
sections} and farmers who attend and
join are all bunt unanimous in their
decision to growno beets unless un-
der contract approved by the Asso-

“The Michigan Sugar Beet Grow-
ers’ Association has been incorpor-
ated and central oflices will be open-
ed at Durand, Mich., for business.

“I am instructed by the directors
to get every local organization on the
books and an account will be open-
ed with every local organization. Ev-
ery member of every local will be
recorded on the books of the State
association with his postoflice address
with a statement showing his stand—
ing with the Association. You are
requested to get a record book and

 

   
  
   

rec-0rd all of your members that be-
long to your local with their post-
oflice address and also showing
whether or not they are paid up.

“Also have a page allotted to re-

cord all our members that refuse or
neglect to return their contracts; also
have a page to record all growers
that will not join our .Association.

“Do this now. Get all growers in

your section to join your local or
some other local organization. Call
meeting of your members and see
that all cancel their contracts.
'- “Get your money all collected in
from your members and open a bank
account in your town with your local
bank. .

“We will call for 50 cents a mem-
ber from each local now very soon,
and be prepared to have records kept
so you can account for every cent
both with the individual member and
the Association. All business must
be done through the Durand office,
which is the head office of the As-
sociation.

“When we call any money into the
State Association it must be sent in
-the shape of a check or draft made
payable to the order of Robt. P. Rea-
vey, Sec. & Treas. of the Michigan
Sugar Beet Growers Association. Ad-
dress all correspondence to the man-
ager of the Association at Durand,
Mich.

A strike has been voted if the
manufacturers do not grant us a con-
ference; so stand by and see that we
all stick and we will win. Let every,
local help organize one more local
and let every member get one more
member to join even though he may
not grow beets, as we farmers must
now stick together.

“All we ask is for the right, and
right wrongs no man.” C. E. Acker-
man, Mgr., Mich. Sugar Beet Grow-
ers’ Association.

State Farm Bureau Gives Valuable
Help

The funds and the publicity of-
fered by the Michigan State Farm
Bureau have been of material assist-
ance to the beet growers. The state
bureau has advised county bureau
and members as follows:

“The sugar beet growers of Mich-
igan are in a price struggle with the
manufacturers that is bound to have
a vital effect on the industry. Any
assistance that any of the county
farm, bureaus or their individual
members may give in helping cement
the growing organization of beet
growers is urged by the Michigan
State Farm Bureau.”

\Vestern Manufacturers Have Made
Concessions

News comes from the western beet
states that the Great Western Sugar
Company has announced a desire to
meet with representatives of the beet
growers and discuss the terms of the
contract and other matters of mutual
interest. Organization among the
growers was the weapon that forced
the Great Western Sugar Company
to recognize the rights of the grow-
ers, and organization will do the
same for Michigan. But it must be
100 percent organization, backed by
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‘ gket prices for refined sugar.

  

M01 payment, in orderflt‘o insureds high paymentfo‘r beets
” m given set ofconditions, must, tartan-nous, '
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the method of payment for the future MAY BE STABILIZED AND F'UR-
THER CONTROVERSIES AVOIDED. , '
‘ In explaining its proposal the company says that ITS SINCERE DE-
SIRE AND ITS INTEREST IS TO GO AS FAR AS POSSIBLE IN MEET?
ING TIDE} VIEWS OFITS GRO'WEBS. The statement continues: ‘

, , It appears that there is a growingsentiment‘dn Sonic territories in.
j which we operate in favor of a sliding scale'of beet prices based upon mar-

« Western Manufacturers Invite Growers into Confidence

. NNOUNCEMENT has been made by the Great Western Sugar
Company, according to a dispatch in "Facts about Sugar”, that
it has voluntarily offered thewestern beet growers an increasein the
"price of beets. The most significant part, of the report is that relat-
ing togednfe’rences between growers and manufacturers. It says:

Ai-Confel'fince of delegates of the growers and representatives of the
company is also proposed to devise a basis of payment for beets by which

Assured Beet Supply Necessary

In other words, the Qcompany can obviously undertake to pay .the
maximum price for beets only if it has reasonable assurance that the ton-
to be handled will enable factories to be' run to approximate capacity, and
that the volumehandled willbe fairly constant from year to year. '
SHOULD LIKE AT THIS TIME TO PROPOSE A CONFERENCE TO B
HELD BETWEEN THE TIME THIS YEAR’S CROP IS PLANTEDMAlgD
THE FIRST OF NEXT YEAR, PREFERABLY DURING THE GO
SUMMER, TIES ' CONFERENCE TOI BE PARTICIPATED IN BY
DELEGATES REPRESENTING AS NEARLY AS POSSIBLE GROWEBS
IN ALL DISTRICTS IN WHICH WE OPERATE and by representatives of

the company.

We shall undertake, if such conference can be arranged. to co-oper-
ate with growers in devising a. basis of payment for beets embodying the
sliding scale principle, if that is what is desired by a majority of the grow-‘2
ers, and we have every confidence that IF SUCH CONFERENCE IS EN-

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IS MICHIGAN $0 BEGOIEE SEED

IMAMT 0F TEE 'NKTION?

1Is Michigan to become the seed
market of ’the .nation .‘for cereals?
Is this state .to become known for

"its high quality of barley and oats as

well as for its wheat and its rye? if
Michigan farmers continue? grow
the class of product which they have
7in the past, and if they realize the
possibilities of the seed business of-
ficiently to take advantage of it, it
would seem Ethat they are in a ‘fair
way to become 'the cereal seed mer-
chants of the nation.

In fact, the demand has become so
strong that ‘J. ‘W. Nicholson, newly
appointed superintendent of the Farm
Bureau's department for the buying
and selling of seed, has not been able
to keep pace. This is especially true
in barley and oats. While Michigan
producers are probably better off in
general than those of other states,
they are facing a slight shortage
themselves and the number williing
to part with their product is small.

Red Rock wheat and Rosen rye al-
ready have *made names for them-
selves among other states. Carload
after car‘loa'd of these two varieties
have gone across the Michigan boun-

.~dary. That they are recognized as

leaders was shown last November
when they won the lion’s share of
prizes at the International Hay and
Grain exposition at Chicago.

While the new seed department of
"the ‘Farm Bureau without 'doubt
eventually will assume a widescope
"in its activities, up to the present «de-
unands from farmers haVe far out-
stripped the power of Mr. Nicolsou to
accommodate them. He is 0f the
opinion that some system must bear-
ranged whereby individual farmers
will pool-their product or their needs
through a county organization, which
in turn will deal with his department.
Amounts of less than carload lots are
hard to handle and this method would
insure suiiicient quantities.

He is also of the opinion that if his
department is going to function up to
the limit of its efficiency, it will need
large sums of money to carry on the
work, especially if farmers want the
department to buy seed the fall before
and hold it over to supply the spring
demand.

Although the Farm Bureau prob~
ably will take over most of the com-
mercial phases, the Michigan Crop
Improvement associatiOn still expects
to keep its organization intact for the

Illinois Agricultural Association Advocates State ' Ru

‘ Illinois constitutional conven-
tion, which has been all dressed
up for six weeks or more, has at last
found a suitable job. Representatives
of the farmers of Illinois appeared be-
fore the committee in Springfield on
February 26 and requested the com-
mittee to do two things:

(1) .Make a careful analysis, from a
farm standpoint, of all revenue and
taxation proposals which come before
the convention.

(2 Bring before the convention the
desirability of putting a clause in the
new constitution, which will allow the
legislature to establish a state rural
credit system. -

D. 0. Thompson, speaking for ’the
Illinois Agricultural Association and
its 60,000 members, appeared rhefare
the committee in support of these pro-
posals. With him wares. H. Thomp-
son of Adams county, =J. W. Morgan
ant IE. IS. .Haynes .of Henry county,
Frank I. Mann of Iroquois ‘00., II.
W. Kirkton o: Livingston count-g,

THE agricultural committee or the

Eugene 'A. Eeker-t .0": er. Clair no 113$

Ralph Ellen Jo‘f Tazewell «county, E

' Burroughs 01' Madison county. These

men represented the Illiinois Agricul-
tura‘l Association, the Illinois State
Grange, and the Illinois Farmers? 31n-

' stitute.

“We .pre here mot only as farmers
but also can ultimo inf lilinois," ffiald
' _ _. “Wears asking mo special
levels for '
11 out thiscomsntion should be

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v, JFARM {BUREAU—FARM :

flarmers as a class, but we ,

purpose :eof stimulating production

and maintaining the high standard .

for seed used. At a ,meeting held 9.
Flow day-s again :East shaming, A. L.
sRobbins, assistant professor :in 7term
props at M. A. C., was elected to me-
.place Mr. Nicolson as» secretary and
.Mr. Nicolson was named sales repre-
sentative of the association. The
association . thus will ~co-operate
closely- with Mr. Nicolson’s depart-
ment. R. G. Potts, vice-president of
the Farm Bureau, has been invited to
attend all meetings tor the board of
directors of the association.

With two strong organizations
arriving at same goal, it would seem
that the growth and use or high qual-
ity seed in Michigan is assured—4T.
W. Henshaw, Associate Editor M. B.
F., M. A. 0.

GIZEA'N-ERS SEEK A HUNDRED
THOUSAND MEMBERS

Gleaners have opened a member-'

ship drive in Michigan, Illinois, Ohio,
Indiana and other middle western
states, with the objective of £100,000
new members .for their agricultural
organization. ‘In Michigan, which
already ”has ”70,000 members, the
campaign is in full swing. Import-
ant rallies and meetings are under
way in many districts of the state,
according to an announcement at
the Gleaner Temple, in Detroit, the
national headquarters of the Glean-
ers.

:Illinois is preparing for a state
rally to be held at Kankakee, April
‘15, followed by a house to house
campaign of the" important farm sec-
tions of the state. Ohio and Indiana
will follow with big state meetings,
to act as openers for.membership in-
vasions in those important territor-
ies. Other parts of the middle west
will be canvassed later.

Mr. Charles Midgley, of Reed City,
Michigan, has been put in charge of
the “Flying Squadron." an organiza-
tion of experienced Gleaner organ-
izers who are scouring the counties
of Michigan for new members and
with great success. The squadron is
armed with .a battery of movies,
showing the vast and varied activi—
ties of the Gleaners, who conduct
lodge work, fraternal benefit insur-
ance, legislative activities, and allied
work, including a marketing organ-
ization which is lining up a hundred
or more elevators and stations, in-
cluding the Armour & Co. elevators
in Michigan. A series of rallies is now
in progress in Michigan. Bridgeport

' ' . » BS—FMMJERS’ uNnoms- GLEAME.

will hold an important getétogether
of several hundred :farmers March
:1-8. Other importantflallies for :‘the
month include that at Bud Arse, "Mar.
22; Cass om. Much 23:; 'Crozswell,
March :24. .mpril 38 an o‘espeo'ially
important dormant will occur :at M.-
rian. . /

Tractor demonstrations, Movies
showing :the «re-operative achieve-
.un‘en‘ts :of organized Iarmem, spearh-

zes :b‘y presidential and g-ubernatmda ‘

candidates and other men of the
hour, ipi'cnics and elaborate programs
will be features of coming get-to-
.gethers .of the Cleaners .and their
friends. Thousands of persons are
expected to attend many -of the rail-
lies.

Organization of co«operative ele-
vators by the Gleaners will accom-
pany many of the big meetings :dur-
ing the membership drive. ‘
t-al capitalization of $1,500,000 to
back the centralized business of the
Gleaner chain. one or more groups‘of
farmers petition for admission to the
system nearly every day.

 

mantra

To fed‘eralte :the ”’76 odd coopera-
tive larmers’ elevator associations in
the state, the Michigan State Farm
Bureau has called a meeting of rep-
resentatives of them ‘in Saginaw,
March 30, when ways and means of
co~ordinating their general activities
and avoiding disastrous competition
may be discussed. ‘

The term bureau also has urged
the sugar beet refiners to meet with
the growers in the next week. The
growers have issued up ultimatum to
the effect that they will plant some
crop other than sugar beets this
spring unless refiners consent to fa
conference on a new price for beets.
Eight ‘thousand of the 12,000 grow-
ers in the state are pledged to stand
by the ultimatum. The sugar beet
industry in Michigan is valued at
'$30.000,.000.

The membership or the State
Farm Bureau passed 30,000 in the
last week, when drives were com-
pleted in Wayne and Livingston
counties and half completed in Len-
.awee. Monroe completed the week
before, has announced more than
2,500 members, the record for the
state so far. St. Clair with 2,150
members had been the record coun-
ty. Berrien arid Clinton counties are
next on the campaign schedule.

 

 

or credit.

benefit do the ienttre .mte.

 

 

_yet is to recommend the adoption of a state rural credits law. Near-
ly every problem of farm life is the result of inadequate capital
The farmer who has sufficient cash capital to finance his op-
erations at all seasons of the year has few other problems. But he is
the exceptional and not the average farmer. 0‘ The average farmer of
Michigan, as well as all other states, is handicapped at certain seasons
by lack 0f capital. Some times he can borrow at fair rates of interest.
At other times he has difficulty in getting meney when it is the ‘most .
needed. There are two kinds of credit Which the farmers need and
which no system now in existence provides.
rates of interest, ébaeed both on actual security and personal integrity.
The other is small, short-time loans based largely on personal integri- _
ty. The Federal Land Bank attempts to take care of the first ~men-
tioned need: but there are thousands of honest, worthy farmers whom
it cannot help at all. A state rural credits law, administered by offi-
cers .awell acquainted with the agricultural problems peculim: to the
state, would "finance the operations of these Planners and not Irequiire so
great a security as demanded ’by the federal system.
{Farmer has long advocated 'a rural «incline law 2101' Michigan, and we ,
repeat our Fbélief first file adoption 0‘! such a'law would 'be u! material ‘
We commend uhe action-d! ahthe Illinois Ag-
. Trauma] Ass’n‘to memsmmm‘mmmdmmtum
:4 Isthm- ‘that film is aa wmdephl mpporlmflty‘ilor idiom lto cake athe dead ;
in solving a tremendously mute agucdlsunfl mmi—wdfflm. ‘ L

THE BIGGEST thing that the Illinois Agricultural Ass’n has done

One is long credit at low

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is the greatest industry in the state.
.Every feature of the new constitution
which affects farmers should, there-
fore, be studied.

“With reference to rthe matter of
iamtion we meanest that this agricul-
tural nominee of the convention,

:made up hugely «’01. mm, W ‘5'“ ..

peeial attention to revenue new.
We believe.“ the. as t ,

 

 

  

‘ation clauses. We are not prepared
to say at "this time how these clauses
should The written, but we may hays
something definite to say When all'iihe
rmposais Mic in. -

“This convention will not—ho play-

.in_g_»£air with the young simmers fltn“
Jinois unless it mines possiblo the,

establishme t or, are. to (at

‘Wit-h to-.

”PAYS STOCK‘DIVEEND

During the your sending Slanuar—y
21, 192.0,"- the Adrian Community Mar-
‘kot'earn‘ed 1a not pronto! $235080!
on a total
37.047550. "0n the basis n! this prof—
"it .a dividend of 8 per cent on all
paid up stock was authorized by the

stockholders. The total business on \

which atlas profit vm :gained "was res-
timated in the treasurers report at
$171.7003 . ' ..

.J. G. Coo was named to fill the
vacancy 0311885 by 'the expiration of
the term of office .of .Director 11?. C.
AEhinger. Walter Haley on the snsoxt
ballot was elected to :succeed L. :H.
Imam-us Fwn‘klin J. Russell “was ‘un—
'animousl‘y elected to succeed himself
on the "board of directors.

After the election of the board of
directors, W. G. Braden, the retiring
manager ’of the market, gave :a short
utalk summarizing accomplishments
since the market stunted in business
inbuilt We years ago. He also out-
‘lined the policy which also considered
“the market should renew 2in lure com-
‘ing years. .

T. 'M. J oslin reviewed the benefits
that have :come to .Mrian through
the activities of tthe 200mmuniby :Mar—
ket. .Paul .J. Miller, presidents! Itho
market also spoke commending “the
work done by the retiring manager.
A resolution was unanimously adopt-
ed thanking Mr. Braden ’for his
work. Mr. Braden will go to Pontiac
to :take a position similar to that
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An increase in farmers’ elevators“

in "Ohio is reported by H. "E. Erdman
of the Department of Rural Econom-
ics, Ohio State University, who has
been studying the farmers' elevator
movement in Ohio during the past
few years. At present there are
.prObably more than 200 companies. in
operation in Ohio.

Some of these companies do a
large business annually; 3 number at
the companies have decreased their
capitalization during the last year
and many or the newer companies
are starting out with a capitaliza-
tion of from $40,000 to 380,000.

1 C (lite Law
increasingly difficult for young men
to acquire farms of their own. The
result is that many of them must‘livo
all their lives on rented farms, while
it drives the very .best 01 our young
farmers to regions of cheaper land
where they have an opportunity to
own the farms they work. This state
of affairs has reached the condition
where it challenges the attention of
everyone who has the best “interest of
the state at heart. Our organization
is of the opinion that more liberal.
credits for the purchase Ioi~farms Will
assist materially in solving this prob-

‘ lem.

“The federal farm loan system is
fine as far as it goes, but ‘it “has not
been 013 material assistance in Illinois.
A maximum loanof $10,00'Oor B‘O‘per
nent "of the land'vahxe us than small to
help in Illinois. The Jed-oral system
cannot. marently, "be extended any
“lather just mow, particularly the "'50
per pent maximum, meshes Hand in
tether stamens met as valuable can :as
momma. as MMleand.‘ m magi-
mail rating, More, its her the state
to amount we W1 system by
slam nouns. We believe that £0 per
can on solidly he leaned eon 'l-ZIlinois
'hmd'an mm m do the paid
hack on the martini 1pm.” ‘
Delegate :H. M. {Bum sot tenem-

K’pflan' counter. chm 14:. as iagricui-v.
me seconded :

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5‘ Things

Worth Remembering
about a

'MAXWELL Truck?

’ 1 It has a worm drive, Which is the predominantfl
l ’ feature of most worth while trucks.

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It is very simple in design (more brains than ‘
metal have been used in its construction); it
travels faster than a larger truck. 16,000, have
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TO FARMERS .
During the month,of February,
1920, an aggregate of $16,572,845
was loaned to 4,158 farmers of the

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United States by the Federal Land

Banks on long-time first mortgages
according to the monthly statements

made to the Farm Lo-an Board. The-

Federal Land Bank of Omaha leads
in the amount of loans closed the
same being $3,960,000, the Federal
Land Bank of St. Paul
with $2,114,800. Th other banks
closed loans in February as follows:
Louisville, $1,765,600; Houston, $1,-
613,995; St. Louis, $1,417,200;
Wichita, $1,211,100; New Orleans,
$1,115,850; Spokane, $1,074,900;
Columbia, $835,950; Berkeley, $521,-
600; Baltimore, $507,300; Spring—
field, $434,550.

During February 5,250 applica-
tions were received by the twelve
banks- asking for $19,988, 127, and
during the same month 4,314 loans
were approved by them amounting to
$14,151,536.

On February 28, 1920, there were
operating in the United States 3,-
977 Farm Loan associations, and
the total mortgage loans made by
the Federal Land Banks through
these associations to 122,055 farm—
er borrowers as of that date, amount—
ed to $335,018,076. Deducting from
this amount the loans paid off in
full by borrowers to wit: $8,835,900,
the grand total of loans now in force
is distributed within the Federal
Land Bank Districts as follows:

St. Paul .............. $44,430.300
Omaha ............... 42,674,440
Spokane ............. 42,202,320
Houston ............. 37.574,871
\Vichita .............. 27,216,800
St. Louis ............ 25,196,880
Louisville ............ 24,268,800
New Orleans ...' ....... 22,432,805
Coumbia ............. 17.734,755
Berkeley ............. 16,676,400
Baltimore ............ 13,215,100
Springfield ....... 12,558,795

Up to February 28, 1920, interest
and amortization payments due by
borrowers to the Federal Land Banks
amounted to $20,143,630.13. Of
this amount all but $266,649.83, or
1.3 per cent had been paid, and of
this sum $127,749.24 represents de-
linquent instalments maturing during
the month.

'MICHIGAN STATE FAIR

With the approach of April 1, the
closing date for entries in the an-
nual Body Building Contest of the
Michigan State1Fair, G. W. Dickin—
son, Secretary—Manager of the Fair,
announces the 1920 contest will be
the largest ever staged.

Interest in athletics stimulated by
the physical training the boys receiv-
ed in the concentration camps, en~
thusiasm aroused through the inter-
estin the 1920 Olympic games and
the general tendency of the public to
give more attention to the welfare of
the body, is responsible for the extra-
ordinary number of entries of both
men and women being received, ac-
cording to the fair executive.

The period of training will extend
over five months this year, the con-
test opening April 1 and closingSep—
tember 1. Rules of the contest pro-
vide that each entrant shall file an
entry blank not later than April 1st,
showing their physical condition at
that time. During the following five
months each contestant follows a
scientific course of physical training,
and endeavors to make as much
headway in. physical development as
possible.

On September 11th all entrants
appear at the State Fair before an
examining board of three of the
3 greatest physical culture experts in
America, lheaded hy Bernarr McFad-

a.den of New York.‘ Each contestant

1 is given a thorough physical examinc
ation and prizes are awarded to the
'ones who make the most pronounced

‘. advancement.

“One does notheed to bephfysical-
iy sound to enter this contest," Mr.
., Dickinson; :noints oupW,

: do not go: to the contest in the best

following

The. mixes

physical. condition, but 'to’ the one

making the greatest improvement in '

the five months.”

. WAGON VS. TRUCK

‘The Dixie Bee Line Company of
Mortons Gap, Ky., which operates
' what is generally called a wagon coal
,minenecessitating a haulage of about
a mile, made a net saving of $18.43
per car when they changed from we.-
gon to truck haulage.

“We formerly loaded coal with
wagons,” wrote G. E. Henry, secre-
tary of the company, “and in order
to get a true basis of. costs. it would

       

 
 

 

izations for presentation to all pres—
idential candidates to place them on
record on matters of. interest to
farmers. " _ .

In accepting the questionnaire, Mr.
Bryan said he was “a candidate, but

/’ he would study the inquiries and give

the farm board his opinion on them.

Mr. Bryan declared himself as
heartily in accord with the principle
of requiring candidates to put them-

selves unequivocally on record be-.

fore entering on their campaigns.
He did not accept the questionnaire
as a candidate, he told the delegation

 

appear that the that presented it,
proper method because “I would
would be to make not ‘want to be
a comparison be- placed in the posi-
tween the wagon tion of being a
and truck haul. candidate when I
Considering that am not a candi-
we load on an av- date. . But if I
erase of 50 tons should be a candi-

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total of $30 per ‘ '
car.” MI‘. P.
figures given were wuey says
as follows: Driver, $4; gasoline and
oil, $3; interest on investment, $.83;
depreciation, $2.60; estimated re-
pairs, $1——total $11.43 as against
$30 for the wagon.

These records were made with a'

Federal two ton truck over an ordi-

' nary dirt road crowned in part with

cinders and part with a mixture of
Cinders and dirt. The change was
made While the war was on.

“The truck has been our salvation
in the coal business,” writes Mr.
Henry in part, “for the reason that
the fuel administration had .ordered
the railroads not to furnish cars for
the wagon mines and as a conse—
quence the wagon mines. have been
compelled to close down.
to the fact that we had the motor
truck haul and were' able to load
promptly a car when it is placed for
us, we got our cars along with the
larger mines. .

“We are delighted with the truck.
The truck really ‘costs us nothing, as
we are paying for it at the rate of
$225 per month and the diffs-mime
between the truck haul and wagon
haul easily takes care of this pay-
ment with a good margin to spare.”
BRYAN TO TELL FARMERS

\VHERE HE STANDS

William Jennings Bryan has re-
ceived the first copy of the question-
naire prepared by the committee of

 

1'. Wile , of Adrlan, feedln m b a . .
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. sow and her family of ten little ones.
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but ow as

protection of the

organize, ap-

pointment of ex-
pert acceptable to organized agri-
culturists as secretary of agriculture
and representation for farmers on
all boards and commissions in the
membership of which various inter-
ests are recognized; are the» main
planks in the farmers' platform out-
lined in the questionnaire, according
to C. S. Barrett, president of the na-
tional board and chairman of the
committee that drew up the docu-
ment.

Other issues presented include the
free and unquestioned right of col-
lective buying, reduction of the farm
tenancy evil, improvement of farm
,credit facilities, national conserva-
tion and the maintenance of “free
speech, free press and free assem-
bly.”

METHODS OF AGRICULTURE ARE
. CHANGING
Ideal methods of agriculture are

- changing. The cotton states are giv-

ing more attention to human'food
and well they should. Many good
farms in the cotton states have been
ruined by perpetually planting cot—
ton. Northern tarmers also have a
great problem before them. The au—
tomobiles in war and agriculture
are knocking out the demand for
horses while the lack of grazing
wild lands and the methods of profit-
eers are making beet too high for
use.

Are Farmers to Blame For Losing Boys?

“ LITTLE red school-

IH hofiilise is the pride of the
farmer’ 5 heart.

“Although educators point out

the shortcoming of the rural schools
and "legislatures place laws on the
books permitting them to consoli-
date with neighboring school dis-
tricts and establish high schools and
agricultural schools with an adequate
curriculum and high grade teachers,
the farmers are slow to make any
changes, said Prof. Arbaugh, who is
in charge of the recently organized
union of the rural and city schools
in Wayne country.

“While the city schools have been
bending every energy to prepare pus—
pils for some vocation that will en-
able them to make a living in the
city, the rural schools seldom include

agriculture in their prescribed course

of study- Several, years ago when I
suggested a course in the Ypsilanti
high school the idea was opposed by
a farmer who declared that he did
not want' his son to be a farmer.
{‘The farmers complain that they
cannot keep the boys on the farm
and all thetime the little red school-
house is eduCating the farmer boys
for city- jobs, and it is only lately
that agriculture as a subject has been

taken up to {my extent in the rural,”
schools-v

. them for their ‘work and,

    

“There is a law on the statute
books of Michigan which permits ad-
joining district schools to consoli-
date and establish an agricultural
school, but there has been no move
on the part of the farmers to take
advantage of this progressive bit of
legislation.

“The sure way to make boys con-
tented with farm life is to educate
interest
them in agriculture, and if the rural
schools bend their energies to the
task with the vim exhibited by the
city schools in turning out stenog-
raphers, bookkeepers and mechan-
ics of all trades there will not be
so much complaint about the short-
age of farm labor.

“The old time farmers had their
doubts about the “book learned'
farmer, and the poor returns. from
the farm led them to desire some
other vocation for their sons, but
rural conditions are vastly changed
in these days and it is desirable to
keep the boys on the farm, and to,‘
help bring this about the little 0119-.
main sch001 must go and be ’
placed by consoudated 3011001
dignity and character that W111

  

 

the National Board of Farm Organ-

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" have greatly proilted by this new ,
stock shippin “f9? lotion and now

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SOIL SURVEY [To BE MADE IN
MICHIGAN

Work on a state-wide soil survey

will be carried on in Michigan on a

large scale during the coming sum- ,,
,- mer,

according to announcement
made recently by Dr. M. M. McCool.
of the Soils Department at the Mich-
igan Agricultural College. The sur-
vey will be of gmat'value to the ag—
ricultural interests of the state, cat-
aloging the soils‘and giving a defin-
ite‘check upon the‘ farming possibil—.
ities of every sec-tion of Michigan.

Co-operation between the Soil Sec-
tion of'the Experiment Station at the
agricultural college and the Bureau
of Soils at Washington has made-pos-
sible the work this summer. R. S.
Shaw, director of the Experiment
Station, will furnish two men for the
survey-v while C. F. Marbut, chief of
Soil Survey,'Bureau of Soils, will
send one or more men to Michigan to
work with the college specialists.

The survey plans for the coming
summer will be a continuation of
work started by Dr. McCool, who has
already covered practically all of the
south-eastern part of the state.

“The value of this survey to Hich-
igan can scarcely be estimated," says
Dr. McCool.
ities of hundreds of thousands of
acres at idle land will be ascertain-
ed, and a check will be gotten upon
the soils of the whole state.

“The survey will aim to get at
soil composition, classification, and
present state of productivity. Notes
will be made on. erosion or washing.
requirements for soil improvement,
degree of utilization at present, and
possibilities for development.”

THE FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF
SHIPPERS UNION

The first annual meeting of the
Coopersville Shippers Union has
been held and they elected the fol-
lowing directors: Ben Seekman, War-
ren Jasper, Frank I. Stephens, Hy
Laug, Ellis Pack, William Sietsma
and Ernest Bush.

From May 24 to the present time,
the Union has shipped twenty—two
cars of stock, consisting of 430 calv-
es, 637 hogs, 298 sheep and 146
cattle. The total number of pounds
shipped is 346,547 for which the
farmers received $43,729.02.

The farmers are asked to work
together and strive to make this the
banner year: as this organization has
the honor of being the first farmer‘s
organization started in Coopersville.

WARD ORCHARD PURCHASED AT
$175,000 PRICE

One of the largest real estate deals
to be consummated in Pontiac or vi-
cinity so far this year was the sale
by Mrs. Mary D. Ward of her well
known apple orchard farm at Square
Lake to the Leinbach-Humphrey Co.
of Detroit. The consideration is said
to have been approximately $175,-
000. ‘

The Ward apple orchard is one
01’ the largest in the state with its
12,000 apple trees 19 years old and
from which 30,000 bushels of ap-
ples are said to have been taken last
year. There are 175 acres in the
tract purchased by the Detroit con-
cern,’ including 20 acres under the'
water of Square Lake. Mrs. Ward
reserved her home and the property
immediately surrounding it. .

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111111111 CO-OP HAS FINE RECORD

Just one year ago, the Perry. So»
operative Shipping Association was -
organized- and during,the past 12
months 65 cars of stock have been
shipped and ‘the farmers of this vi—
cinity have been paid the big sum of
$158,000.00. An average of over
$3, 000 a. week. Some fine record
for the local- co—op of which George
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one; of, the
most successful
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es in history- of

Calhoun County,

4. The Communi-
ty ._Club recently
organized by the
city people and
the farmers as-
sisted the Farm
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PAUL JA‘MIEBON
Agrlcultural Agent. Harvesfier , ,
calhoun c o u n t y, pany ll'l making

°“- the meeting a
‘ , success. .

The farmers were honored with
and address by Major General Leon—
ard A. Wood on Thursday afternoon.
“The greatest resource of this county
or any county,” declared the General,
is agriculture. It is the principle

source of our original wealth. What,

you take out of the ground you take
from no one, and the money which
comes to you is money for something
that you produce, which you have
added to the world’s wealth"

“I am not a farmer, but one does
not have to be a shipbuilder to know
that when there is a hole in a ship
it will sink. The wealth of our coun-
try will sink when we cannot produce
enough food for our people and when
We cease to be a good exporting na-
tion. We must repair the leak in our
agriculture or the nation will suffer.
Farm life must be made more at-
tractive.- Farmers must have good
roads, good schools, good telephones
and a better system of borrowing
money on good security. Then the
nation will prosper as never before.

‘Dry/Ho'lden Speaks on “Better Rural

Schools”

Dr. P. G. Holden, noted agricul—
turist——present director of the Ex-
tension Department of the Interna-

tional Harvester Company, delivered

a message to the farmers which will
be certain to bear much fruit thru—'
out the entire community. He en-
couraged the people to look after the
welfare of the 'farm children, to give
them better schools and better home
surroundings. Dr. Holden said,
“ownership of an interest in the
farm would be the best thing in the
world for farm boys and girls. No
one respects ownership until he has
owned something himself. ‘A Home
for Every American’ should be the
slogan of our nation.”

Mr. R. R. Robertson and Mr. R.
W. Blackford‘ and Miss Zella Wigent
from the International Harvester
Company Extension Department,
gaVe a very interesting and instruct-
ive talk on horticulture, farm crops,
livestock and home economics.

One session was given over to the
discussion of. the “Farm Bureau.”
Mr. Robert Montieth, secretary of
the Allegan «County Farm Bureau
told of the work of the National
Farm Bureau Federation and the
Michigan State Farm Bureau. Mr.
J. W. Nicolson, former secretary of
the Michigan Crop Improvement As-
sociation, now manager of the Seed
Department of‘the Michigan State
Farm Bureau, explained how his de—,
partment would make it easy for the
farmers, of Michigan to secure pure
seeds. .Mr. R. V, Tanner, county
agent of Barry‘county, told about
the organizationwork in his county
and explained how the Farm Bureau
would serve every member in every
township in his county.

~The..Battle Creek Community Club

  

951.3 ' $1933 Wileroflve— lines.

   

    

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on Mar. 2, 3, and *

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and, Calhoun County Farm‘Bureauv

We Want News F rom and About the County Agent

HE COUNTY agent has come to Michigan to stay. 7
’ better understood today, and he is giving the farmers invaluable
7 . , Today the county agent fills the dual

role of farm emphasis” and the farmers' business agent. He is help-

) , . _' 2. gag farmers ‘ In order to more fully acquaint the
with the Work of the county agent: 'wes
which will contain new: items. 0911- '

unty Agent

was given a great boost by the prom,-
inent part which its members took in
the management of the Short Course.
”Paul Jamieson, Calhoun County.

 

THE MILK SURPLUS PROBLEM

ARMERS are not entirely pleas-
Fed with the present solution of

the surplus problem. Why? Be-
cause they are getting $3 per hun-
dredfor surplus milk while it is cost-
ing‘ them $4.07 per hundred to pro-
duce that milk. In addition the fact
that'there is a surplus keeps the
price for the ~normal supply below
the cost of production. Yet the
farmers cannot justly complain, nor
blame the distributor for this condi-
tion, providing there is an actutt
surplus on the market [or the farm—
er himself is causing the condition
and he is" the only one who can per-
manently solve this pronlem.

But, how is the farmer individual-
ly to solve the surplus problem? Fol—
low this discussion through and try
the solution offered. *

To begin with, farmers are not
working principally to produce an
over supply. They are trying indi-
vidually to increase their earnings
or at least to make a living which
some dairymen .are finding difficult.
Let us take a man who figures he
should be worth $1,200 per year.
What kind of cows should he keep
to make that amount of. money and
not produce a surplus; We will say
milk is selling at $4 per hundred.
It is true a high producing cow will
eat more and cost more to keep. The
Wisconsin College of Agriculture
from tabulations of her cow testing
association records has found that it
costs $138 to feed a 10,000 lb. cow,
$110 to feed a 7,500 lb. cow, and
$94 to feed a 5,000 lb. cow. But a
high producing cow will also pro-
duce more manure, and a calf which

will sell for more money on the
market. Professor Gamble of the
Maryland State College from his

study of cow testing associations re-
cords throughout the country while
connected with the U. S. Department
of Agriculture, has stated that the
relative difference in upkeep, all
costs considered, between two class-

,es of cows, as follows:

Surplus Problem

Up-kee’p, 7,000 lb. cow ‘. . . . .$200
Up-keep, 5,000 lb. cow ...$175.
Now for illustration how many

cows would we have to keep of each
class to make $1,200?

5,000 lbs. of milk at .04 per lb. would
be $200» income, less $175 upkeep,
leaves $25 profit. $1,200 divided
by $25 equal 40, cows necessary to
earn profit of $1,200 per year;
000 lbs. milk at .04 per lb, equals
$280 income, less $200 upkeep
leaves $80 profit; $1,200 divided by
$80 equal 15 cows necessary to earn
same profit as 48 (5,000 lb.) pro-
ducers. -

To make $1,200 net profit we
keep 48 cows producing 5,000 lbs.
each or a total of 240,000 lbs., or
15 cows producing 7,00 lbs. each,
or a total of 105.000 lbs. Now which
class of cows is producing the sur-
plus and which shall we keep, 5,000
lb. cows or 7,000 lb. cows?

Initial Investment

Many farmers hear what a high
price a pure bred, high producing in—
dividual animal costs and say, “I
certainly would like to have them
and will some time, but I cannot af—
ford them now. I’ll buy a scrub or
low producing cow.” Let us see

which costs the most. What will a
5,000 1b..cow'cost?.» Say, $150 or
$200 for illustration. $200 times

48 (the number of cows necessary
to make $1,200) equals $91600. Sup-
posing the 7,000 lb. cow costs twice
as much though 'you can buy them
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COMPANY

COLON c. LILLIE, President.

Mr. Lillie needs no introduction to the people of Michigan among whom he has lived all his life-
and for whose interests he has unselfishly worked for over 25 years. He has always lived on the farm
in Ottawa County upon which he was born, and has made it one of the best farms in Michigan. He
was a pioneer worker in Farmers’ Institutes; was President of the State Dairynicn's Association and re-
elected three times; was President of the Co-opcrative t‘rcamcry Company of L‘oopersville; was the prime
organizer, the first President and now Manager of the Michigan Mutual Creamery Fire Insurance Com—
pany; was a member of the State Co”nstitutional Convention; was for several years President of the
(Toopersrille State Bank, and is now a Director in several worthy Michigan enterprises. IIis administra-
tion of the Dairy and Food Department under Governor \Varncr. first as Deputy and then Commissioner,
was characterized by his vigorous efforts to advance the welfare of the farmer.

No man in Michigan is more highly thought of by those who know him than Colon C. Lillie.
Honest in all his dealings, a fearless and enthusiastic advocate of what he believes to be right, thorough-
ly sincere in his efforts to better the conditions of his fellow farmer, a success in all his undertakings.
Mr. Lillie has been aptly called the “foremost farmer of Michigan” and his connection with this (‘om<
grimy as President is sufficient guarantee that all its affairs will be conducted in an honest and business--

c manner.

COMFORT A. TYLER. VIce-Presldent.

Born in a log house on an obscure little farm in Michigan, (‘omfort Tyler has by his force of
character placed himself in the front rank of successful men of this State. Few men are better known
in Michigan and his name is a familiar one in live-stock circles of the world. In the prime of life, he
is a man of sterling integrity, tremendous energy, grout originality, progressive in thought and dced.
keenly alive to financial conditions in Michigan and sincerely interested in any endeavor to improve

. those conditions.

. During fhe past three years as Vice~Prcsident of one of Detroit’s successful banks, Mr. 'l‘yler had
sole charge of the real estate loans made by that bank. handling some $2,500.000 in an entirely sat-
isfactory manner. He is fully equipped to manage the Mortgage Loan Department of this Company and
as a member of the Executive Committee his advice will be most. valuable.

J. FLOYD IRISH, Secretary

Any Insurance Company to be successful must have as its Managing Underwriter one who is
thoroughly familiar with all the many phases of the business, made so by years of practical experience.

i: is difficult to sccure such men because their services are in great dcnmnd. 'I‘his (‘ompany
has been most fortunate in securing such a man in the person of Mr. J. li‘loyd Irish. Mr, Irish has
spent all his business life in the Fire Insumnce field, starting as Local Agent and rapidly attaining to
high, responsible positions requiring expert knowledge and great executive ability. He has always been
a close student of the business. hard-Working, consoientious and ambitious. He brings to this Company
his years of practical experience with a determination to introduce safe, up—to-date methods.

The Big Michigan Company

A great deal of farm property never has been insured for what it ought
to be. But now since the great advance in building material and labor, most
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Alvarez Torres beat the saddle
pommel with his hand in sheer im-
potence of rage and disappointment.

“The Queen of my Dreams !” he
almost wept. “She is gone and
away, OH with the two Morgans. I
saw her climb up the side of the
schooner. And there is the New
York Regan. Once out of Chiriqui
Lagoon, the schooner may sail di—
rectly to New York. And the Francis
pig will not have been delayed a
month, and the Senor Regan will re-
mit no money.’

“They will not get out of Chiriqui
Lagoon, " the Jefe said solemnly. “I
am no animal without reason. I am
a man. I know they will not get
Have I not sworn eternal ven~
geance? The sun is setting, and the
promise is for a night of little wind.
The sky tells it to one with half an
eye. Behold those trailing wisp of
clouds. What wind may be, and lit—
tle enough of that, will come from
It will be .a head beat
to the Chorrera Passage. They will
That nigger captain
knows the lagoon like a book. He
will try to make the long tack and
go out past Mocas del Tara, or thru
the Cartago Passage. Even so, we
will outwit him. I have briins, rea-
son. Reason. Listen. It is a long
ride. We will make it—straight
down the coast to Las Palmas. Cap-

' tain Rosaro is there with the Dolores.

“The second—hand old tug boat?-_——
that cannot get out of her own
way?" Torres queried.

“But this night of calm and mor—
row of calm she will capture the An-
geliqus,” the Jets replied. “On
comrades! We will ride! Captain
Rosaro is my friend. ‘ Any favor is
but mine to ask.”

At daylight the worn out men. on
beaten horses. struggled through the
decaying village of Las Palm-as and

, down to the decaying pier, where a
. very decayed looking tugboat, sadly

in need of paint, welcomed their
eyes. Smoke rising from the stack
advertised that steam was up, and
the J efe was wearily elated.

“A happy morning, Senor Capitan
Rosaro, and well met," be greeted
the hard-bitten Spanish skipper, who

. was reclined on a coil of rope and

who sipped black coffee from a. mug
that rattled against his teeth.”

“It would be a happier morning if
the cursed fever had not laid lts chill
upon me,” Captain Rosaro grunted
sourly, the hand that held the mug,
the arm and all his body shivering so
violently as to spill the hot liquid
down his chin and into the black and
gray thatch .of .hair that covered his
half—exposed chest. “Take that, you
animal of hell !” he cried, flinging
mug and contents at a splinter of a
half breed boy, evidently his servant
who had been unable to repress his
glee

“But the sun will rise and the fever
will work its will and shortly de-
part” said the Jefe- politely ignor-
ing the display of spleen. “And you
are finished here, and you are bound
for Bocas del Tom, and we shall go
with you, all of us, on a rare adven—
ture. We will pick up the schooner
Angelique, calm-vbound all last night
1111 the lagoon, and I shall make many
arrests, and all Panama will «so ring
with your courage and.ability, Capi-

§ tan, libel you will forget that the
‘ fever ever whispered in you."

“How much?” Capitan Rosaro de-

‘ ' manded bluntly.

. “Much?” the Jefe countered in
surprise. "This is an affair ofgov-
And it is

. night on your my $130 ’Bocas del Horo.

It will not. cost you an extra shovel-
run as! Mr .

FIANOIS M0:hoGA
million.

so: of 3' New York
130mm Just died, becomes
bored with society and decides to take on
utensil“ fisth Began, Frunols'
broker «End former colleague of young
Manson’s manor, .phns to ruin Francis
through his We'll Street holdings. Began
pm Torres, 1. dork-dun“ visitor them
the Corn-linen Islands who knows of o
tmosure buried hy o pirate ancestor of
Francis, to lure young Francis away.‘1‘he
”Lure works and Ms starts out alone.
He lands on an island whither he I:-
been beckoned by 3 girl on the shore. The
girl mistakes {Francis for a lover wilds
Wilson: she has awarded. He is chased
ifs-on the island by her father and broth-
ers. Francis explores another island
where a young man threatens his life and
when saves it from sovnges who attack
young Morgan. Francis god the young
man discover they are related.
young man, whose name is Henry Mos--
'8“, in tho hunting for the treasure. They
form n partnership. Francis discovers
that Henry is the lover of the girl on the
Island and that her name is Leonel. lo-
lnno. Francis returns to the firnt island
to ask Leoncln to forgive Henry. which
she does. He is captured by Torres and
the Jefe Politico of San Antonio who pro-
claim him to be Henry, whom they wish
to hang for a murder he did not commit,
They are about to hang Francis when
Henry appears and is thrown into prison.
The Salaries and Francis release Henry
after which they are pursued by Torres
and ”the 5'an with his wsoldlers They es-
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“Mluchacho ! More coffee i" the
tug skipper roared at the boy.
A pause fell, where in Torres and
the Jefe and all the draggled «follow-
ing yearned for the piping hot cof-
fee brought by the boy. Captain Ro-
sa'ro played the rim of the mug
against his teeth like the_ rattling of
castanets, but “massaged to sip with-
out spilling and so to burn his mouth.
A vacant- faced Swede in filthy ov—
eralls with a soiled cap on which ap-
peared ”Engineer, " came lip from
below, lighted a pipe, and seemingly
went into a trance as he sat on the
tug’ s low rail.
“How much?” Captain Rosaro re-
peated.
“Let us
friend,”

way, dear
“And then

get under
said the Jefe.

when the fever shock has departed...

we will discuss the matter with rea-
son, being reasonable creatures our-
selves and not animals.”

“‘How much?" Captain Rosaro no-
pea’ted again. "I am never an ani-
mal. I always am a creature of rea-
son, whether the sun is up or .not up,
or whether this thrice-accused fever
is upon me. How much?”

“Well, let us start, and for how
much?" the Jefe conceded wearily.

“Fifty dollars gold,” was the
prompt answer.

“You are starting anyway, are you
not. Capitan?” Torres queried soft-
ly. .

“Fifty gold, as I have said."

The Jefe Politico threw up his
hands with .a hopeless gesture and
turned on his heel to depart.

. “Yet you swore eternal vengeance
for the crime committed on your
jail," Torres reminded him.

» “But not if it costs fifty dollars,”
the Jets snapped back, out fifths
corner of his eye watching the shiv-
ering captain for some sign of re-
lenting.

“Fifty gold,” said the Captain, as
he finished draining the mug and
with shaking fingers strove to roll a
cigarette. He nodded his head in
the direction of the Swede, and add—
ed, “and “five gold extra for my en-
gineer. It is our custom.”

Torres stepped closer to the Jets
and whispered:

“I will pay for the tug myself and
charge the Gringo Regan a hundred,
and you and ’I will divide the dimer-
ence. We less nothing. We shall
make. For this Regan pig instruct-
ed me well not to mind expenses.”

 

As the sun slipped brazenly above

the eastern horizon, ane‘gendamo
went back to Las Palmas with tho
saded horses, the rest of the party
descended to the deck of the tag ”the
Swede diived down late the engine-
sroom and Captain Roscoe, shaking
off his chill in the sun‘s. beneflcent
rays, ordered 1111s desk bonds to ‘eost

niche lines mnmfifiemsfi‘

the wheel in the pilot

. new
And the Isms, , . is? .

between SamAn-
tome and the
passages oi! Bocas del Toro and Car—
tego. These passages to the open sea
lay twenty-five miles away and the
schooner slept on bhe‘mirror surface
of the lagoon. Too stuffy below
for sleep in the steaming tropics, the
deck was littered with the sleepers.
9n top the small house for the cabin,
in solitary state, lay Leoncia. On
the narrow runways of deck on eith—
erslde lay her brothers and her
father. Aft, hot—ween the «cabin com-
panionway and the wheel, side by
side, Francis’ nzrm across Henry’s
shoulder, as it still protecting him.
were the two Morgans. On one side
the wheel, sitting with arms on
knees and head on arms, the negro-
Indian skipper slept- and just as pre-
cisely postured, on the other side of
the wheel, slept the h-elmsman, who
was none other than Percival, the
black Kingston negro. The waist of
the schooner was strewn with the
bodies of the mixed—breed seamen,
while for’ard, on the tiny forecastin-
head, prone, his face buried upon his
folded arms, slept the lookout.
Leoncin, in 'her high place on the
cabin top awoke first. Propping her
head [on .her hand, the elbow rostint
on .a bit of the poncho on which she
lay, she looked down past one lithe
of" the hood of the oompanionw
upon the two young men. also mm-
ed over them, who were so alike.
and knew love for both of then, re-
m'sm-bered the kisses of Henry on
her mouth, thrilled till the Nash of
her own thoughts man-fled her chest!
at memory of the kisses of Ill-anon,
and was puzzled and cruised that
she should have it in her to love two
men at the one time- As she had ol-

rsady learned of herself, she would ,

follow Henry to the end of the world
and Francis even farther, And she
could not understand the wentonnoss
of her inclination.

Fleeing from :her .own thoughts,
which frightened her, she stretched
out her arm and dangled the and at
her silken scarf to a. tickling of
Francis’ nose, who, after restless
movements» still in the heaviness of
sleep, struck with his hand as whet
he must have thought to he s. mos-
quito or a fly, and hit Henry on the
chest. So it was Henry who was first
awakened. He set up with such
abruptness as to awaken Francis.

“Good morning, merry ktnsman,"
Francis greeted. “Why such vio-
lence?”

“Morning, morning, and the morn-
ing' 3 morning, comrade,” Henry mut~
tsred. “Such was the violence of
your sleep that it was you who

' malnourishedI me with a buffet on my

breast. Ithought it was the hang-
man, for this is the morning they
planned to kink my neck. ” He yawn-
ed, stretched his arms, gazed ,

over the rail at the sleeping sea, and
nudged Francis to observance of the
sleeping skipper and helmsman. \

They looked so bonny, the pair of
Morgans, Leon’cia thought; and at
the same time wondered why the
English word has arisen unsummon-
ed in ”her mind rather than a Spanish
equivalent. Was it because her heart
went out so generously to the two
Gringos that she must needs think
of them in their language imstead of
her own? ,

To escape the 'pel'p’lexity of her
thoughts she dangled the scarf again
was discovered, and laug‘h-ingly con—
fessed that it was she who had caus-
ed their violence of waking

Three hours later breakfast of
coffee and fruit over, she found her-
self at the wheel taking her first ’ies-
son of steering and or the Austin-pens
under Francis’ tuition. The Ange—

smdsr n crisp little breeze

which had hauled around well to

north' ard, was for the moment limel—
Il‘ng it “mouth the water at a six-lenot
clip. liens-y, swaying es: the weather
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Bat Captain 'llrefathe... with the
keen cruelty of Indian curiosity and
the fmpudence of a negro subject of
King. Geecge, knew of m such diali-
. away He stared openly and missed
nothing of the chemib drawing. to-
gether of his charterer and the pret-
ty Spanish girl. When they leaned
over the-wheel to look into the bin-
nacle, they leaned toward each other
and Leoncia’s hair touched Francis'
cheek. And the three of them them-
selves and the breed skipper, knew
the thrill induced by such contrast.
But the man and woman know im-
mediately what the breed skipper. did
not know, and what they knew was
embarrassment. Their. eyes. lifted to
each other in'a flash of mutual
startiement, and drooped away and
down guiltily. Francis talked very
fast and loud enough for half the
schooner to hear, as; he explained the
lubber’s point of the: compass. But.
Captain Trefethen grinned.

A rising putt" of breeze made Fran-
cis put the wheel up. His hand to
the spoke rested: on: her hand already
upon, it. Again- they thrill, and
again the skipper grinned.

Leoncfa’s eyes lifted to Francis’
then dropped in confusion. She slip-
pedi her hand out from under and
terminated the lesson by walking
slowly away with a- fine assumption
of casualness. as if the. wheel and the
binnacie no longer interested her.
But she had left Francis aflire with
what he knew was; lawlessness and
treason as he glanced at Henry’s

-.siieel’fng a corner-oflthe-eye glance

shoulder and profile and hoped he»

had not seen what had occurred.
Leoncia, apparently gazing off across
the lagoon to the jungle—clad shore,
was seeing nothing as she thought—
fully turned her engagement ring
around and around on her finger.
But Henry, turning 1.11 tell them of;
the smudge of smoke. he had discov-
‘ered on the horizon, had inadvertent—
1y seen. And the negro-Indian cap—
tain h-ad'seen- him see. So- the \(‘ap—
tam lunched close to him, the cruelty

1 at the Indian dictating theimpudence.

of the negro, as he said in. a low
voice:

“Ah, be uotdo-wueast, sir.

is room for both. yougazllant gentle»
men in‘ her heart.”

And the next fraction of a second“ .
he learned: the inevitable and invarii- 1

able lesson. that white mom mum;
have their privacy of intimate- things»;
rm- he lay on his back,. the back

deck, the front of“ his head, between
the eyes, sore from contact with the
knuckles of Henry Morgan’s right
hand.

But the Indian in the skipper. was,
up and raging as he sprang to his

fiest,.1mite in hand: Jinan, the. mk— ‘1

yellow mixed. breed, leaped. to, the

sideof his skipper flourishing. an- 1‘
the
nearer sailors joinedi hr harming a 3'

other knife, while several of

ami~circle of attack on Henry, who,

with a quick step. back and upward:

slap of his hand, under the pin-rail,
caused! an iron belaying pin to leap
out and up into the air. catching it
.in mid flight he was prepared to. de-
fend himself.
the wheel and drawing his automatic
as he sprang, was through the circle
and. by, the side. of. Henry.

“What did he say?" Francis. de- 2

mended of” his Xinsman.

' f‘fi’l‘lf say what F semi," the breed’l 1,

skipper thremtmed, the negro: side (111‘
him. dominant. who. built. for a. 00W
promise of blackmail. “I saith—we”

“Hold“ on; skipper !” Henry inter-
rupted. “ll'm-l sorry I struck yew.

Hold your hush. Put: a. shopper on 3

your 13w. Saw wood. Bergen. Pm»

sorryrl struck you. I .. . " Henry
Morgan could not help. the pause in
speech during which be swallowed‘

1113 gorge rising at; what: heswaeiabeuh
to; say: And. it. was because at Been:- ;

etc. ,and because she was looking on
'and listening, that he said it. “I
I: apologise; sitimfl’

'1 “31-1 is an injury, " Captain Trefethr '

en stated aggrilevedly. “It is a phy-
sil'caxi damage. No man can perpe—
trate 0 11191951131 m onembject
on King cameo“ bless him

of, ,
his head sore from contact with the,

without finishing a money rumin— .

The .
senorita. is generously hearted. There. '

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noise ke hearty laughter, dipped.
into 111:: pocket for No ten-dollar.
geld pieces, and, as if they stung
him, thrust them into Captain Tre—-
fet‘hen’s .pailm.

“Cheap attire price," he could not
help muttering. aloud. "

”It is a good price,” the skipper
ayerred. “Twenty gold is always a
good: price for a sore head. I am:
yours to command, sir. You. are a.
sure-enough gentleman. You may
hit me any time for the price."

“Me, sir, me !"’ theK’ings-ton black.
named Percival volunteered with
broad and prideless chucklings. of
“Take a swat at me,
sir, for the same price, any time,
now. And you; may swat me as of-
ten. as you please to pay . . "

But the episode was destined to
terminate at that instant for at that
instant a sailor called from amid-
ships:

“Smoke !
aft T”

The. passage, of‘ an hour determin-
ed the nature and import of the
smoke, for the An-geliQue, falling
into: a. calm, was overhauled with
such rapidity that the tugboat Do-
lores, at half a mile distance through
the binoculars, was seen fairly to
bristle with armed. men crowded on
her tiny for’ard deck, Both Henry
and Francis could recognize the
faces of the J’efe Politico and several
of the gendarmes.

Old Enrico Solano’s nostrils began
to dilate, as, with his four sons who
were aboard, he stationed them aft

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Maneis, was: secereteiy distmct‘é"

ed, though outwardly she joined in
laughter at the unkemptness of the

little tug, and in glee at‘a' flawef'

wind that. tilt-ed the Angelique’s port
rail flush. to the water and: foamed
her along at a. nine-knot clip.

But weather and wind’ were er-
ratic. The face of the lagoon was
vexed with squalls and alternate
streaks. of calm.

“We cannot escape, sir. I regret
to inform you,” Captain Trefethen in-
formed-Francis. “If the wind would
hold, sir, yes. But the wind baffles
and breakes. We are crowded! down
upon the mainland. We are corner-
ed si'r, and as good as captured.”

Henry who had been studying the
near shore through the glasses, low-
ered them and looked at Francis.

“Shout !” cried the latter. “You
have a scheme. It’s sticking out. all
over you. Name it.”

“Right there are the two Tigres
islands,” Henry elucidated. “They
guard the narrow entrance to J‘uchi-
tan Inlet, which is called El Tigre.
Oh, it has the teeth of a tiger, believe
me. On either side of them, between
them and the shore, it is too shoal to
float a. whaleboat unless you know
the winding channels, which I do
know. But between them is deep
water, though the El Tigre Passage
is so pinched that there is: no room
to come, about. A schooner can, only
run it with the wind abaft or abeam.
Now. the wind favors. We will run
in. Which is only half my scheme.”

”And if the wind baffles or fails,
sir—and the tide of the inlet runs

out and: in like a race, an wel
M

beautiful schooner will .'

so on the necks,” Captain Trefethen

‘ protested.

“For. which, if it happens, ‘I ~will

pay you full. value,” Francis assured I I

him shortly and brushed him aside.
“—And new, Henry-,- what’s the oth-
er half‘ of your scheme?”

“I’m ashamed to tell you,” Henry
laughed. “But it will be provocative
of more Spanish swearing than has
been heard in Chiriqui Lagoon since
old Sir Henry sacked San Antonio
and Bocas del Toro. You just
watch.”

Leoncia clapped her hands,
with sparkling eyes she cried:

“It must be good, Henry.
see it by your face. You must tell
me.”

And, aside, his arm around her to
steady her on the reeling deck, Henry
whispered closely in her car while
Francis, to hide his perturbation at
the sight of them, made shift through
the binoculars to study the faces on
the pursuing tug. Captain Trefethen
grinned maliciously and exchanged
significant glances with the pale yel-
low sailor.”

as

“Now, skipper,” said Henry, re--
turning. “We’re just opposite El
Tigre. Put up your helm and run

for the passage. Also, and pronto, I
want a coil of half inch, old, soft,
manila rope, plenty of roye-yarns
and sail twine, that case of beer from
the lazarette, that five gallon kero—-
sene can that was emptied last night,
and. the coffee pot from the galley."
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Mr. Spillane, of Flint, writes ——

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Chicago, Ill.
Dear Sir:-

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plainds per day,
n1corn again.

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work, and in recommending feeds for
nicorn if they can get it.
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F's use he» oat-bah or low-grade Web. .

You understand that we use Unicorn, not because we
do not feel capable of compounding a ration thatwill suit our cows
as well, but for the reason that we realize that we cannot hope
to secure materials of the same choice quality that you can obtain

We have not the facilities for mixing the feeds prop-
erly after we get them together and consequently would have to
- weigh out and mix for each cow; also experience has taught: us
to open each sack of Unicorn with just as much confidenceas to
what we will find therein, and What it will do, as we would feel

It 13 honest, it 1s dependable and it is absolutely uni-
form. You doubtless are aware of: these things, but it may give.
you some satisfaction to know that others are aware of them too.

On some occasions when our local dealer has: run: out
of stock, we have had to use some other feed. This 18 almost
invariably followed by a drop in milk production of three or four
which we get back as soon as we give them

em to use, much more so

We have six cows on Iyearly test and two morem scour
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We. trust. you will feel at liberty to call“ on us at any
be able! to render your company.
toyou andyoux medi
times, audit weare abletoassietany otherumns of. younfeed.
claim that they are not getting the resultsyen that they -
should we will be glad to show them how, ifyou will referthem r

Yours very truly. . .
St L. SEILLANE& SON.

Flint, Mich, Jan. 24?, 1920.

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An independent -. " '
_Farmer's Wee! Owned and, .,
Edited 1n Ichlga n ’

 

SATURDAY, MARCH 27,1920

Published every Saturday by the
RURAL PUBLISHING COMPANY. Inc.
Mt. Clemens. Michigan
Members Agricultural Publishers Association
Represented in New York Chicago. St Louis and Minneapolis by
the Associated Farm Papers, Incorporated

GEO. M. SLOCUM .......... PUBLISHER
roanms'r LORL- .............................. EDITOR

 

ASSOCIATES
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Frank M. Weber . .................... Plant Superintendent
Mabel Clare Ladd ............ Women's and Children's Dept.
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lee Stock and Auctlon Sale Advertising. We offer special low
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OUR GUARANTEED ADVERTISERS

We respectfully ask our readers to favor our ad-
vertisers when possible. Their catalogs and prices
are cheerfully sent free, and we guarantee you
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dering from them. “I saw your ad. in my Michigan

Business Farmer.’
Entered as second- class matter, at post-otflce. Mt. Clemens, Mich.

That Soldier Land Grant Again.

NONGRESS, being pushed on one side by

J the economists howling for lower taxes and
011 the other side by the American Legion clam-
oring for a bonus, is in an extremely uncom-
fortable position, and knows not which way to
turn. Obviously taxes must be reduced and
inflation deflated. Just as Obviously the sol-
dier boys must be taken care of by a substan—
tial bonus or something akin to a bonus. And
there you are.

But leave it to Congress to find a way out
the predicament. Congress will never face the
music, so long as there’s a fire escape near.
SO Congress re-proposes that the soldier boys,
——God bless ’em,—-yea, God bless them,—shall
have not money but land, all the land their
hearts desire, and a life out in the Open under
the canopy of heaven. “How’s that, boys”,
says Congress, rubbing her hands in relief
while‘a smile chases the little wrinkles of worry
from her usually placid countenance. The
boys are doubtful. They can’t figure out
whether congress is handing them a lemon, 8.
gold brick, or a joke. You see, a good many of
the returned soldiers never lived on the farm.
They don’t know whether you plant potatoes
with a hoe or a pick-axe.
friends and relatives live in Detroit or Chicago
or New York, and not in Northern Michigan or
Western Montana or Southern Utah. Land
may be a fine thing to speculate on, but as
something to live on and farm,—well, it
doesn’t exactly appeal to some of the boys.
And who can blame them?

But there’s another aspect to this proposed
grant of public lands to the three million odd
soldiers and sailors which must not be over-
looked by land-owning farmers. What will
happen if the government parcels out 120 Or
150 million acres of land and sets them to work
producing food. Oh, well, you know without
our telling you. The soldier boys who don’t
want land will have a right to complain of be-

 

 

 

ing Offered land as a settlement for services, /

and certainly every farmer in the United States
will have a right to complain anyway.

If a money bonus or a government credit
cannot be given to the soldiers to start them in
a trade or profession for which they are fitted
by taste and training, then give land to those

who want land; a professional education to.

those who would become doctors, lawyers, den-
tists, teachers or preachers; grocery stores and
garages to those who have serVed'as clerks or
mechanics. Play no favorites, gentlemen;
treat ’em all alike. ’

The State is Upheld

HERE ARE few among us who will
" take delight in the thought that Truman"

H. Newberry and his political lieutenants who
were convicted of conspiracy to violate the,
election laws will probably have to spend a
year or more in prison. In fact, the natural
inclination is to have compassion upon those
who have thus come under the heavy arm of

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consensus of Opinion ameng those who have
given the culprit any thought at all will be
that “he got his just desserts.” ' But when
those who stand at the top Of the social ladder,
seemingly far above the sordid temptations
which assail. those farther down, step outside
the pale of the law there is constant incredul-

ity and sympathy. It is easy for the mind to.

follow the transition from a lowly hut to the
bare confines of the prison, but a change from
the‘ velvet and silver and softness Of the man;
sion to the cotton and pewter and harshness of
the penitentiary, seems cruel, indeed.
Yet, where is there a man of so tender 8.
- heart whose conscience does not canfess that
the conviction of Mr. Newberry was just and
being just was also right and proper and in
the best interests of the commonwealth? There
could be no middle ground. An acquittal was
unthinkable. It would have been taken the
world over as an excuse if not an approval of
Newberry methods. It would have closed the
doors of oflices to the poor man forever, and
placed our elections upon the auction block
For if a man could spend $176,000 with im‘
punity to secure an election there “would be
nothing to prevent him spending ten times
that amount. The only verdict that was pos-
sible before the proof of the prosecution and
the admissions of the defense was “guilty.”
The only sentence that was possible for the
leading conspirators was imprisonment, for
what would a paltry fine of a few thousand
dollars mean to men backed by millions?
Probably the majority of American people
would be willing to extend immunity to these
men if they were not the only ones concerned.
But they are but a handful in a mighty nation
of a hundred and twenty-five million souls, the
keystone of whose government is equality of
right and opportunity. The welfare of the
state is paramount to the welfare of the indi-
~vidual. What is best for the state should be
the constant and. highest aim of every citizen.
The N ewberry conviction upholds the state and
strengthens the foundations of government. It
ought, therefore, to have the approval of every
right-thinking citizen.

,Labor and Prohibition.

ONE OF the most interesting and signifi-.
cant polls of sentiment ever taken was that
recently completed by the Literary Digest to
determine the Opinion Of union labor officials
on prohibition. Out of 526 labor leaders, 345
voted unequivocally for prohibition, 145 voted
unequivocally against it, 31 were” doubtful of
its benefits, and 7 replied that it had not been
given a fair trial.

This poll tells a somewhat different story
than the average citizen has been led to be-
concerning the attitude of labor toward prohi-
bition. The result also affords a marked con-
trast to Mr. Gompers’ oft-repeated statements
that prohibition is a curse to the country and is
accountable for the present unrest among the
laboring people. If the poll is representative
of labor sentiment, as we believe it is, we may
lay our misinformation upon the subject to the
wet propagandists who played first upon the
sympathies of the farmers and then upon the
laboring men to secure ammunition against
prohibition. We may also excuse Mr. Gompers’
heated opposition as a specious attempt to re-
gain the good will of union labor which he
largely lost during the war. ,t the Literary
Digest poll should show to f.Gompers that
he is barking up the wrong tree.

It will bé a great relief to farmers and other
classes of peOple who have been the most res-

lponsible for the abolishnient of the saloon to

learn that an apparent majority of the union-

, ized working classes are with them, heart and

soul. It is not pleasing to Contemplate a vast
army of people chafing under conditions which.

- 01 here have brought about, .but when we read.

the statement of a .New Jersey union official,

that “outside the Declaration Of Independent), a .l'

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,, 6 than who ranks low in the
sOcial scale be convicted Of awcrime and the

‘ the bubbles will

‘ cries, “GOd ass 0 , .
”Trdmbitmn is a blessing e workingmen of
America”, and this Sentiment 1s echOed and re-
echoed by labor officials from Maine to Cali- » '

   

fornia. Put ’er there, brether workers in the,

vineyard of life!

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Trade With Russia.

BIG BUBBLE is about to ,hurst. It is

the Great Propaganda against Bolshevik
Russia It is abOut to burst because the very .
interests who have been furnishing the soap to
make the bubbles are about to take the Bolshe-
vists unto their bosoms, or virtually 80. And a -
vast army ,of backsliding preachersand profes—‘
sional propagan 'sts who have begn blowing
hE/tl’i‘rown out of employment.

The despised cap' alists are soon to. ‘open
trade negotiations with the despised Bolshe-.
viks. The COmmunist government is supreme
in Russia after three years of bitter struggle
against both internal and foreign enemies.
Commercial Europe and commercial America
have done their best to discredit and destroy
Bolshevism in Russia. _Having failed to do so,
and perceiving that Russia affords a tempting
opportunity for commercial cultivation, they
have sheathed the sword and are__ ready to
smoke the pipe of peace. The only question
now is which country will be the first to get its
mouth on the pipestem.

After all, it isn’t any of America’ s business
what kind Of gOvernment they have 1n Russia.
For many years we sat in council and made
treaties with a Czar who ruled Russia With

’blood and iron and exiled political dissenters

to the bleak wastes of‘Siberia. Ife-there has
been massacre and persecution under‘the B01-
shevik regime, let us-remember that the wea-
pons were borrOWed from the Czars of Russia.
The people rule in Russia today under a form
of government which we in the United States
would not have because the conditiOns of our
classes, of our social and political institutiOns
are altogether different than what they are in
Russia. The Bolshevik government seems to
suit the great majority of Russian people. And
it would be nothing short of economic foolish-
ness to refuse to trade with the people of Rus-
sia merely because we do not approve of their
form of government. Reason has been gone a
long time hence, but she 18 homeward bound.

That Wet Plank.

F WE hated the Democrats as bad as some

of our Republican friends, the worst fate
that we could wish for them would be the adop-
tion of Gov. Edwards’ wet plank. Of course
it might not make any difference in the result
of the election anyway because everybody ex-
cept the Democrats are agreed that the next
president will be a. Republican, but with a wet
plank' 1n the Democratic platform, we’d put a
mortgage on the house to place a bet on Repub-
lican success. '

The American Farm Bureau Federation has
said some‘nasty things about the Farmers’ Na-
tional Council. Well, we don’t approve of all Of
Mr. Hampton’ s theories ourselves, but believe
that he and his colleagues are absolutely sin~
cere in their efforts to bring two. great classes
of people into co operative harmony, and there-
by add to human prosperity .and happiness.
The Farmers’ National Council comprises sev-
eral great farmers’ organization‘s, so it’s hard ,
to see how you can fight the Council with-
out hurting some of our fellow farmers who
comprise its cerporeal Live and let live.

 

’Tis an age of change (but not the kind you
jingle in your pocket). Governments are
changing, methods are changing, views are
changing. WOuld you believe it l—The Agri-
cultural College issued a statement the other 1 .
day that the only way. to overcom ”‘th “
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U; S. AUTHORITY, SAYS LIQUOR
NOT FLU PREVENTIVE
Referring ‘to your editorial _on
“Liquor," in your edition of Febru-

ary 21st, would like to have you pub-q

lish answers to the following ques-
tions: ~,

If the proper use of pure whiskey,
for medicinal purposes, is not a life-

. - saving remedy. why, apparently, is
‘ it that our government officials, in
charge of large stores of confiscated
liquors are passing out these liquors
‘by the thousands of'quarts, to be
used as an aid in combating the tore
rible and death—dealing scourge; the
epidemic of “flu” and pneumonia,
that is creating such great havoc,
and causing such great loss of life
in our country at the present time.

Why, apparently, do some of our
most eminent medical authorities
andhealth officials not only condone
but advise-such course of action on
the part of the above-mentioned gov-
ernment officials; unless good pure
whiskey is actually a life-saving
remedy, used in the treatment of
above named diseases? ,

And why, if good pure whiskey, is
the means of saving lives in the cit-
les, should it not equally be the
means of saving lives in the country?
Is a life in the city worth more than
a life in the country? Because a
person, seriously ill with the “flu,"
or pneumonia, has the advantage of

‘ receiving treatment in a large city
hospital, where good pure whiskey
may be obtainable for use in his
treatment, should he be given unfair
advantage and a better chance in the
fight for his life. than a farmer re-
siding in the country, who under
present existing-conditions finds it
utterly impossible to obtain good pure
whiskey for medicinal purposes?

Is the giving out of liquor by gov-
ernment officials sanctioned by our
government? Does their action
'come under the law? If there is a
law that provides for this action is
it not a discriminatory law? And
who would is discriminate against if
notthe farmer and the resident of
small cities 1throughout the country
districts, Where there does not hap-
pen to be a government storehouse
for confiscated liquors?

My interest in this matter is not
of a selfish-nature. I am satisfied
that there are thousands of people
throughout the state, among your
subscribers, who would be interested
sto have you send some light on this
subject—A. E. Achard, Health 0)"
flcer, Lake, Mich.

 

Your inquiries were referred to the U.
8. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, and
the following reply has been received:

In reply to your letter of March
2nd, we know of no evidence indi-
cating that whiskey or other alco-
holic liquors have any value as pre-
ventives of influenza. and’pneumonia.

Alcohol is unnecessary in the
treatmentof those diseases and may
indeed do harm. Other remedies
more satisfactory in their action are
available to meet any indications
which may arise except possibly in a.
case of pneumonia where the patient
is on the verge of delirium tremens
from previous use of alcohol.—W.
0. Braisted, Surgeon General, U. S.
Navy. .

THE FUTURE FOOD SUPPLY
We hear much said these days re-
garding “the high cost of living,"
and "there is, indeed,’g00d reasons
for the same, and the future supply
of food is the very important prob-
lem to be solved. As a nation, we
. have become extravagant in many of
our ways and some changes can be
,«made and to our advantage.
' As to the food supply, we know
" when the demand exceeds the sup-
ply, prices of’ same increaseIand a
reverse of these conditions result in
lowering prices for food products.
The'laboring man is demanding an
. increase of wages, thatvhe may there—
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ducts must come *
t ’ matter .

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of cheaper, food resolves itself into
the question—How may the soil be
caused to produce food and at the
lowest cost of production? The ans-
wer to this inquiry would seem to be
found in the causing the soil to .be
cultivated with such care, and intel-
ligence and to the limit, that an
abundance of food products may
thereby result.

But such result cannot be reach-
ed ‘with the present limited supply
of farm help and “stay on the farm"
and “back to the farm” must be
heeded or many of the people in our
.cities, will be compelled to be sat-
isfied with a limited supply of food.

The farmer, and his family, work
long hours and with faithfulness, yet
the soil is not-cultivated as it should
be, and will \be cultivated, provided
adequate help with adequate pay is
attainable by the farmers.

One of the following conditions is
sure to result in the near futureJ~a
reasonable supply of farm help, or
,an under supply of food products,
and you people living in our cities
are the ones to determine this mat-
ter. The farmer and his family will
be well supplied with food, because
having it at “first hands,” the sur-
plus, only, being passed on to others.

There need be no need of an un—
der supply of food, or for an unre-
asonable cost of same, as above stat-
ed, provided the proper course is
pursued in “tickling the soil with
the hoe and causing it todaugh with
an abundant harvest.” Will some
of you men in our cities, come and
help us farmers “tickle the soil.”
Come on! You’re needed—J. T. Dan-
iels, Shiawassee County.

When the factories begin to lay off
men and the pay check drops, the peo-
ple of the cities may look farmward.

Until then the farmer must “tickle"‘his
own soil_—Editor.

THE PRESIDENT AND ANTI-H. 0.
OF L. CAMPAIGN

I would like to say just a word

about President Wilson’s administra—

tion. I would think he would be

ashamed to look a farmer’s wife or"

daughter in the face after they work-
ed so hard in producing crops to Win
the war and many broke their health
down working in the fields. Now he
is hammering down the prices on
what the farmer raises below the
cost of ‘production- and everything
the farmer has to buy is going high-
er. I would like to ask the presi-
dent w-hy he does not hammer at the
shoe manufacturers and clothing
manufacturers and also the farm ma-
chinery. companies and the farmer
will be willing to take less for his
crops. I have two head of 3 year
old steers that I have been feeding
this Winter, that I will sell for the
price of the feed for the last year
with all my work thrown in.

Can the farmer go on producing
at a loss without something happen-
ing. I predict someone is going
hungry in the United States in less
than three years if there is not a
change. The farmers are not “going
to hire any help this summer, They
say they cannot compete,with the
manufacturers on help at present
prices of farm produce, so they are
going to farm what they can and
let the rest go wild until there comes
a change—A. F. Judd, Shdawassee
County.

Your criticism is just, I believe. Pos-
sibly if the farmers raised as mighty a
cry about the high cost of the things
they buy as the consumer does about the
high cost of food, we would get actlion
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NOT THE AVERAGE FARMER

A large eastern publishing house
has completed what it assumed to be
an accurate survey. of agricultural
conditions in the United States, and
reports that the farmers are more
prosperous than they ever were be-
fore, and that tractors and other
modern farm machinery designed to
enable one man to accomplish heavy
production are responsible for this
condition.

This publishing house is so large
that it thinks in millions of dollars
and multiples thereof. Its chief and
employees associate with men who
think in similar channels. Naturally
it cannot even see so insignificant a
sum as $10,000. That is the amount
that the average farm east of the
Mississippi is worth. Not one in ten
of them has a tractor—probably not
one in a hundred. The average farm-
er has not the ready money to buy
one. If he did have it he would be
more than likely to choose to put it
into a purchase of pure bred cows
and let the tractor come later.

The tractor is only one item of the
costly machinery the eastern pub-
lishing house visions on every farm.

1 There are machines for digging po-

tatoes for planting them and for
spraying them; to load hay and to

bale hay; elaborate litter carrying
devices for barns; milking ma‘chines
and engines to operate them; light-
ing plants and engines to operate
them; irrigation systems and com-
pression tanks to supply them; cul-
tivators that can be operated with
tractors; gang plow ditto; machines
that are guaranteed to thresh wheat
and oats as they are out without
wasting any; automobile trucks for
drawing produce to market; tractor
trailers to haul‘produce from the
field! and so on to the exhaustion of
the catalogue facilities of a reason-
ably large printshop."

A few farmers have milking ma-
chines, more have hay loaders, a few
tractors and only the actually weal-
thy ones with large holdings the oth-
er machinery mentioned. Therefore
if there really is much profit at pres-
ent food prices to producers in the
maintenance of such a heavy invest-
ment as all this machinery would
call for, with use but a small part of
the time. the ordinary farmer is not
getting it. And it is the ordinary
farmer who is feeding the nation.

All of which is of interest in it-
self, but the pointris that even an in-
vestigation does not disclose the
truth-unless the investigators seek
where the truth may be found.—
Grand Rapids Press.

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HOW MANY CHILDREN?

I am so out of sympathy with Mr. 1
P. S.’s article on .“Flu and Prohibi-
tion" that I can’t resist writing the,
following: . »

I am a busy woman with two chil-
dren, but I must stop in the midst and
tell P. S. of_ Tuscola county, what I_
think of him.

What manner of man is he anyway?
He seems to think that people with
small families must necessarily be
breakers of the sixth commandment.
I never heard a more erroneous state-
ment in my life. A great many peo-
ple happen to be blessed with a com-
bination of common sense and strong
will power; others, not having and
desiring it, cultivate it but Mr. P. S.
evidently doesn’t belong in either
class.

It is my belief that people, if they
so desire, can overcome the large
family problem to a certain extent by
having just such a combination and
why shouldn’t they? Can you tell me
Mr. P. 8., what anyone in poor or mod“
erate circumstances, coupled with the ,;
present H. C. of L., wants with a
large family? 'What is the sense .in
bringing more children into the world
than you can properly feed, clothe and
educate? Why not give the children a
chance? Quality rather than quanti-
ty is what we are after.

So, Mr. P. S., if you will spend your
time learning the ten commandments
and abide by them, rather than use.
the Bible as a means of pointing out
other people’s faults, you won’t have
time to be imagining what the other
fellow is doing. You will be very busy
attending to P. S.—Mrs. S. 0'. A., Van
Buren County, Mich.

 

You are touching upon a. subject, mad- .1
am, which would have scandalized our
good grandmothers, but which, I pre—
dict here and now, will soon become our "“ ‘
most social problem, and will command
the attention of educators and parents
alike—Editor .

THE FARMER AND THE HIGH}
COST OF LIVING

Idleness and loafing on the job" ‘
will never reduce the high fist of '
living. To start the prices of all
commodities on the down grade the
beginning must be made in manu-
factured pro-ducts. Speed up the
factories and get an excess of goods, wig
then the raw material will come
down with the manufactured pro-
duct. Then there will be an overu
supply of labor and the (back to the f}
farm) movement will start and in a
few years there will be an overpro- 1;;-
ductlon of farm products and down 5‘3
will go the prices.

But what are we doing today to
reduce the H. C. of L.? Only making
matters worse from day to day. The
chuntry is far behind on orders inéi
all lines of manufacture and are
working on an 8 hour basis where?
it should be 12 hours and every face.
tory striving to get help, offering all
kinds of inducements to get men and
what is the consequence? They have
taken all the men from the farms
and the public is yelling at the top
of their voice to the farmer to speed
up and raise more and come dow
with his high prices. Some p’é’pple
seem to think that a farmer is a ma-.
chine and can operate 24 hours ‘3‘-
day and seven days a._week. No.
the farmer is only ahuman of the~
same flesh as all mankind and has“:
but one life to live' ' and he must"
make this life last as long as he. can
He can and does work 15 hours,
day and this should entitle himlt’
an honest living and a’sQuaré else

The story has been' going t
rounds that the farmers were gel
to ioin the labor unions and'va-rio
other unions and start to shrink it
cause an underproduction in o -
to hold up the price of their prod,
NOTHING DOING, the farmers
plant all they can with what
they have and strain every 11
their bodies to make'money ,
to make both ends meet. This. 4"
er feels this high at Just '
on ne 9:
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The commercial and industrial sit-
;" nations were practically featureless
last week. It is plain that the
frenzy of speculation which spread
over the country a few }nonths ago
' has died down, and investments are
.now being made in a more conser-
vative manner. Everyone is talk-
ing economic “readjustment." Some
believe that the country is due for a
“panic”. but on this point the Na-
tional City Bank of New York makes
' the following sensible statement:

"It is highly important that the
necessity for conserving credit shall
be clearly understood not only a-
mong bankers but throughout the
business community, but the idle
talk of uninformed persons about
"‘panic" is to be deprecated. The
old-fashioned “panic,” with “runs"
on the banks to withdraw deposits,
and suspension of cash payments, is
an ont—of—date performance. The
Federal reserve system, with its
practically unlimited power to issue
currency, put an end to that. but it is
a mistake to confuse unlimited pow-
srto pay deposits with unimited pow-
er to make loans. The banks can do
the former but they cannot do the
latter."

The editor of the Roscnbaum Re-
view believes that we have already
started on the downward course. He
says: “Commercial conditions are

surely, inevitably, irrevocably, tend-

ing toward a period of depression.

We have begun to slip, back a little

here, down a little there, but back,

back, back, and we shall gain mo-
- mentum as we slip while the weeks
go by."

The editor of THE BUSINESS Fum-
sn was invited to talk to the Adcraft
Club of Detroit on the subject “How
will the farmer meet the economic
readjustment that is on the way.”
The account of his remarks as pub-
lished in "The Detroiter” is as fol-
lows:

"According to Forrest Lorg, editor
of “THE MrcmeAN BUSINESS ARMEB,"
who addressed the Adoraft Club last
Thursday, farmers are not making
an organized effort to boost prices
by reducing production. Contrary
to the general impression, the farm-
er. instead of profiting by the exist-
ing high prices of food products, is
confronted with a serious economic
situation, and is not enjoying the
wave of prosperity so generally at-
tributed to him.

The city man and the farmer are
as far apart as the poles because they
.do not understand the conditions un-
der which the other works. ‘ The
average city man thinks of the farm-
er as a veritableCroesus and blames
him for the inflated prices of food
products. As a matter of fact that
farmer receives, only a small percent—
age of the money which the consum—
er pa s for staple articles. True, the
far or has a greater purchasing pow-
‘ or today than he has had in the past,
but he has earned it. He has his
money because he practices thrift.
,. The money that the city man spends
for social activities and clothes ~dur-
ing the course of the year would pay
the farmer’s car, and the money that
is spent for theatre tickets would buy
the farmer’s phonograph. The whole
family assists in the farm work and
the daily toil begins in the early
hours of the morning. If the farmer
had to pay average wages for the
work done by members of his family
food prices would show a still larger
Increase, or the farmer would be
obliged to give up his farm through
inability to pay the wages demanded
11y farm hands.

"rho-farm pays the least dividend
on file money invested of any other
Mm and in comparison to other
industries the farmer is the nest
rlynaidmanintheworld. Ia.-
optimistic about farm production
year—not because the farmer in-
, to strike, but because he finds
out impossible to secure the 13.—
st! his farm. The large fac-
in. the" cities have claimed many
of the farmers helpers.

  
  
   

  

  
 
 
  

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slumped 20 per bu. upon report

 

DETROIT—Oats, wheat and rye firm and higher.

gate alleged manipulation in Chicago grain pit.
. CHICAGO—Lack of grain supplies makes for strong market
1 this week. Car shortage holding up shipments.
cattle unsettled; sheep and lambs strong.

 

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that government would investL

Hogs steady ,

 

 

(Note: The shove summarised
rage ls set In type. They contain is“
ng m wessP—Edlter.

 

wlres are received
minute IMemstlsn up to with: one-half hour If so

AFTER the balance of m mull-11'»

 

 

 

He is unable to compete with the
wages paid in the cities and many far-
mers will be obliged to abandon their
farms for more profitable endeavors,
elsewhere. Still others will circum-
vent their -labor trdubles by purchas-
ing more modern farm machinery and
this demand, through necessity, will
be greater during the next five years
than it has ever been.

Mr. Lord quoted prices which the
farmer receives for his products as
compared to the ultimate price charg-
ed the consumer, pointing out the fact
that the farmer receinves less than
half the final purchasing price. He
advocated the formation of co-operat—
ive farm associations to assist farmers
with their distribution and marketing
problems and urged the elimination
of three of the average five groups
through which farm produce passes
on its way from the farmer to the
consumer.”

WHEAT IS STRONGER

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WHEAT emcee PER BU. ,_MAR 23.1020
Grads IDetrolLLChlcagcfl
No.2 Red ..... '2.49 2.52I/a 2.13
2 m 241 2.50%}
No.1 mm 241 lase'A
PRIOEI on: YEAR Aoo
Grads 1W1. 7011]“! N. _Y_.
i3. 2 Red ....2‘ .43 2.50‘ 2.51
No. 2 wen. 2.41 ‘2.“ I2.“
N0. 2 Mixed 2.41 2.41 2.40
The wheat market is showing
signs of returning strength. Flour
continues dull, but the approach-

ing date for the removal of the gov-
ernment's guarantee is a factor for
strength in the wheat market. News
from the winter wheat sections show
2. rapid decline in conditions of the
plant. Kansas and Oklahoma have
needed rain for weeks and the dam—
age to the crop in those states can-
not be reckoned. On top of this
damage should be added the loss
caused by the Hessian fly which
seems unusually active and preva-
lent this year. It would appear
from present conditions. that the
abandoned wheat acreage will run

between 4,000,000 and 5.000,000
acres.
The Roscsbaum Review, one of

the most authentic grain trade pa-
pers in the country, which has been
out of sympathy with the fixing of
the price by the government, claim-
ing that it has cost the farmers mil-
lions of dollars, has this to say in a
it'ecent issue concerning the guaran-
so:

“'On June let the Government
price wheat guarantee to producers
will have expired. Some farmers
will not be able to deliver their
wheat by that time for various rea-
sons. Let not your temper be

 

troubled. It’s worth more money
than the guarantee if it's good
Wheat."

CORN FEELS EFFECT OF WHEAT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

STRENGTH
corm Pmc 59 PER eu.. MAR. 23, 1920
Grade |D_str_olt— thlcagol N. V; _
No.2vmlow...| I'1.63|184
Ne. 8 Yellow ...I1.68
No. 4 Yellow ...l 1.33 I
File” on: YEAR ‘Aoo _
7 Grade ____I_Detrolt IWL
No. 2 Yellow—‘— I I1 .79'
No. 3 Vonow ...I 1.65 1.59 l1.78
No. 4 Yellow 1.82 1.54 I1.1e
Our readers will testify that the
predictions made in these columns

concerning the trend of the corn mar—
ket have been fulfilled in every re—
spect.
highest of the season and there is no
sign of any weakening factors. The
only thing, in our judgment, that can
cause material declines in corn will
be a general financial depression,
which we do not expect to see. Sup-
plies of corn at trading and consum-
ing markets are wholly inadequate
and have been for, weeks to fill all de-
mands. As a trade journal points out,
the months of April and May usually
see very little grain hauled to market
because of the poor condition of the
roads and the fact that the farmer is
busy with spring work. Nor is this
the only factor to be reckoned with
this year. The farmers. as has been
pointed out before, have some settled
notions about what they ought to have
for their corn this year .and they are
not marketing freely.

OATS MAINTAIN STRENGTH

 

 

OAT PRIOES PER BU. .. MAR. 28. 1.20
___Orsds I Detrolt— I onlusiLth—

No. 2 White . . . .99 I .98

No. 8 White . . . .99 l .95

No. 4 Whlte . . . .97

 

 

PRIDE: ONE YEAR AGO

 

 

 

and. lDetI-olt lmTlTT
Stands“ ....... | | .68 .70
No. 3 mm ...I new .e1 .13
No. 4 wnm ...I .6: .cs .13
Oats are in‘ the same relatively

strong position they have occupied
for months, the cash No. 2 being
quoted on the Detroit market at 99
cents. From all indications the acre-
age planted to oats this year will be
large, probably a considerable part of
the abandoned wheat acreage will be
planted to oats. Michigan is a neat
oat state, the failure of her crop last
year notwithstanding. We expect a
slight increase in oat acreage this
year, but we caution our readers
against a too heavy acreage.
gards to yield, oats are safer than
spring wheat, but as regards sede-

 

 

THE WEATHER

. C., Mar. 27,10
reechV

of

close A311
11: phinsseetions 1.
' "he!

. 11‘; 81, an .0,
es. ewes- Iflssissippi mg.
, Tennessee valleys, 1., 9 14, l' eut-
s, 10, 15, is, vi-
“Mam “‘3...
arm waves
any name

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hind storm waves

 

 

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As‘For'ecasted by W. T. Foster-Tor The Elohim Business Farmer

war-s
waves, cool waves about one day Is-

FOR THE WEEK

These disturbances will dominate ‘-
the weather of North America from
near March I. to April 21. Masthe- ‘
veto sten- snd. most precipitation
unexpectedluringthemouter-i
MonAps-fliendn. losnsindiea-g
fleas Mm shalt April to hummus
m cm. Locations and ‘
unseen elm ltstlon will be about ..‘
as for then-t ,j

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Today’s corn prices are the’

A: re-.

" white stock, ._ o.-

msnd and price. spring wheat ought
to be a good crop chm year.

BYE UP BABIEY FIRM

, Rye still continues in good de-
mand and quoted at $1.78, an ad-
vance of 3c above last weeks price.
Everything points to higher prices
in this market.

There appears to be very little so-
tivity in the barley market and it re-
mains firm at “@3326 per cwt.

BEANS msem.

 

BIAN emcee pan out. sun. 23. 1220

 

 

 

Grids 1091M! ICMosgoi I. V.
0. H. P. ...... I 6.50 ' 7.25 I 7. 75
Red Kidneys . . .l 14. 00 I14.5 5.‘

 

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c. s. P. ...... 1. 25 1. oo 1.50
Prllie ......... e. 15 3.50 1.00
Red Kidneys . . . 10. 25 “1.50 ”1.50

 

 

 

Well, well, four days have passed
without any further drop in been
prices. Doesn’t seem possible, does it?
Reports from various sections of the
country declare that there is astrong
“undertone” to the market, at this
time, and higher prime are expected.
Well, we’re through predicting higher
prices. As we have stated for months
past we expect them to come before
' the remnants of the 1919 crop are mar-
keted, but we can only wait patiently
for the upward turn.

POTATOES MAKE BIG ADVANCE

 

 

 

 

 

spuos PER curt. MAR. 23. 1320
l Sacked | BulL

Detroit ................ I 6.00 5.83

Chicago ............... 0.00 5.86

Pfitsburg .............. 5.80 5.48

New York ...... ._ ..... 5.50 6.00
_ FR'I’OESEN Ellis? “6

Dotrol! ................ 1.10 1.08

............... 1.75 1.60

Pltuburo .............. 1.05 1.75

New York .............. 2.00 2.00

 

 

 

 

 

After suffering a amp of 20c per 100
lbs., the early part of the past week.
and in the face of the fact that spring
is upon us, the potato market ad-
vanced 906 and $1 per 150 lbs" moir-
ing them $3. 50 and $3. 60 a bushel on
the Detroit market.

There has been very small receipts
and large demands for potatoes all
week but the main cause of this ad-
vance in price, it is reported, is s
shortage of" care. There is a feeling
abroad that the market will not re-
main at this price long as farmers are
commencing to 11th their potato.
which they will place on the market
immediately because of spring work
coming on and may result in lowd-
prices. '

Two weeks ago we said if we had a
thousand bushels of potatoes we would
sell half or them at the then prevail-
ing price. We might add that we
would market the rest of our hold-
ings at the present because it is our
belief that the market is due to turn
soon. We ask you to follow the mm
ket closely and use your own judg-
ment.

The trend of the market for
next week or ten days will (is

”largely upon the condition of roads

and wreaths. There no nude:
sane marine h summon

come out upon the advent of m
weather. The drying up of the coun-
try roads will also be a motor in do-
terminhg the immediate mtur-e of
this market.

The high piece of potatoes beveled
tossing tsikofsboyoott against them
until prices drop. ”be the consu-
er will eat beans instead.

SPUD MARKET NOT SO SNAP?!
IN WESTERN N. Y.

There is not quite so much snap
to the potato market, due to the
prospect of more liberal offerings
now and that the our situation is
casing and Country roads will soon
open up so that growers can haul
freely. There is considerable
s read to prices with good round

at has gone out to 10,000 beet grew-
ers that you may a. how the sites-
tion stands. .

“If there is nothing (has in them

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Dea'isrs are paying growers up to
$2. 50 a bushel, delivered a the car.
although it is doubtful if dealers
would centract‘ ahead and at that
price. In fact, the feeling is that
$2. 50 is too high and the belief is
that prices will work lower. Deal-
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in a limited way within the last
week.
HAY MARKET
I No 1 Tim. Isun. This. I No. 2 Tlm.
Detroit .I38. 50 @ 84I82. 50 @ 83I32. 50
Chicago m00@ 84181.00083i28.” 29
New York I47. 00 EDI I45 .00 047
Museum I38. 60 @ 88137. 60 @ 37l85. 00 @ 86
, I "5.1 No. 1 I IOT- 1
11.1.1.1. ills. lover If: I Glover
Detroit .I82.50@3831.50@82 81.50082
Chicago .I81.00 @ 83 29.00 @30 26.00 0 82
New York {48.00 48 I07. 00 G 51
Plttsburg . 7 50 Q 87 30.00; 00 100.50 a 39

 

 

HAY PRICES A YEAR AGO

_fle.1Tlm.I:&ten.Tkn.l_l_Ie.2T|m.

 

 

Detroit . .28.50@29I27. 50028|2850®27
Chicago .. 81 ..00@88I80 00@31I23 .00@81
In York L35.” e I 300 sales .ooasz
Plttsburg . '8150@31I80.0_0@31II28. 50620
No.1No.1
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Wt. [.26. 50@21I25. 50920 25.50020
h o .20..oo@3112500@2120.00024
0w You-IE 81.00 @ 33121. 00 @ 20 24.000 25
hum .201 no 29120.50 9.20.50 0 20

 

 

 

 

In the eastern markets them con-
tinued light receipts of timothy, with
0 strengthening of prices on that vari—
ety. In the South and Southeast re-
ceipts were rather heavy, generally of
hay of good quality and said to be
mostly from Indiana. Prices.are
slightly advanced. Of clover and
clover mixed receipts in most markets
are light, but the demand is nowhere
reported as urgent for this quality.
May prices, however, continue to be
high. Prairie hay, on the other hand,
is showing decided weakness every-
where, with a very limited demand.—
Price Current Groin Reporter.

BOSTON \VOOL MARKET

The Commercial Bulletin says:
“Weather conditions have improved
slightly, allowing a further moder—
ate release of freights suflicient'to
justify a slightly better feeling in the
market, although actual trading has
been limited in volume and prices
are Without any material change, fine
wools holding fairly firm, While me—
dium to low grades are easy.

Michigan and New York fleeces—
Fine unwashed, 70@73c; delaine un-
washed, 95c; 1—2 blood, 83@850.

Scoured basis: Texas—Fine, 1-2
months, $1.90Q1.95; fine 8 months
$1.60 @ 1.70. California—northern,
$1.90@1.95; middle county, $1;70@
1.75; southern $1.50@1.60; Oregon
eastern, No. 1 staple, $2@2.10; east-
ern clothing, $1.70@1.80; valley No.
1, $1.75@1.80; Territory—dine stap-
le, $2.05@2.15; 1-2 blood combing,
3-8 blood combin ,
$1.30; fine clothing- $1.75@?1.B
fine medium clothing, $1.65@1.75.,

DETROIT PRODUCE MARKET

Scarcity of cars is affecting the
produce market in nearly all lines
and the general tons of firmness is
credited to transportation. This ef-

gfects potatoes and vegetables and in

some lines much higher' prices are
potatoes which
are in demand and very scarce. Buy—
ers of poultry do not have their
wants supplies. Receipts were email
all past week and demand increased.
Receipts of dressed calves light
and demand active. The market

firm for hogs and all offerings are,

' Demand for eggs is increas-I
The east is a heavy purchaser
and all receipts find buyers. In the
butter deal there is an increaSe in
firmness owing to light receipts and
a small improvement in buying. Ap-
ples are steady and the movement is
not large.

Apples-Western, ' $4@

taken
ing.

boxes,

‘4.50; Baldwin, $3‘@3.50; Greening,

.33. 25@350; Steel‘s Bed, $3. 50@5

‘ per ha. \

Popcorn—Shelled, Sc per lb.
Honey—White comb, 32@35c per

.. lb.

Cabbage—Home grown, $6 @ 6.50
per cwt.

Onions—~Indiana, $7 6 7. 50
13-041;. sack.

Cslves- (dressed) fancy, 27 0280

hogs—"Best. 20110210;

' per

  

_' mixed steers and heifers,
handy light butchers, $7.75 @2; light '

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. p ‘2: ‘ 0.2234113"
, . _ " geese, ”@350;
ducks, 40@35c; turkeys, 44@45c

per lb. "
. Dressed poultry—Chickens, 37@
38c; geese 28@30c; ducks, 40@42c
"per-lb.

Eggs—flesh, 44 1-2@45 1—2c per
dozen. - ‘

Hides——No. 1 cured calf, 55c; No.
1 green calf, 550; No. 1 cured kid,
32c; No. 1 green kid, 28c; No. 1 cur-
ed hides, 25 to 45 lbs., 80c; 5 lbs.
and up, 20c; No. 1 green 111 es, 35
to 45 lbs. 276; 45 lbs. and up; 170;
No.1 green bulls, 20c; No.
bulls, 150; No. 1 horsehides, $9.50;
No. 2 horsehides, $8.50. Tallow:
No. 1 130; No. 2. lie; sheep pelts
50c@3.50; No. 2 hides lo and No.
2 kid and calf, 1 1-20 off.

LIVESTOGKMARKETS

DETROIT—"Cattle; Connors and
bulls steady- all others 50 cents
lower than last week; best heavy
iteers, $11.50@$12; best” handy
weight butcher steers, $10.50@11;
$009.50:

butchers, $767.50; best cows, $8.50;
butcher cows, $6. 75@7.25; cutters,
$5. 5006; cannsrs, $4. 5065; best
heavy bulls, $8. 50@9; bologna bulls,
$7. 5008; stock bulls; $7@7. 50;

feeders, $8. 50@9. 50: stockers, $7. 50
@8. 25; milkers and sprinkers. $65@

150. Veal Calves; market steady;
best $21@22; others 7 $10@18.
Sheep and lambs; lambs are dulL;

sheep steady; best lambs, $19; fair
lambs, $17. 50@18. 25, light to com-
mon lambs, $12. 50@15; fair to good

sheep, $12@13. 50; culls and com-
mon, $5@7. Hogs; market fairly
active; pigs, $15.75; mixed, $16@

16.10; heavy, $15@15.76.

WESTERN NEW YORK BEAN
MARKET.

The bean business here has mink
to a nominal basis, with hardly
enough business to warrant quota-
tions. HoWever, there is a firm
undertone to the market probably
due to the general belief that Amer-
ica is going to take a very active
part in feeding Continental Europe
until the next harvest and that in
such an advent beans will be one of
the substantial items for export.
The holdings back are relatively
small. It is estimated that there
are not to exceed 70 cars in grow-
ers’ and dealers’ hands all told. . This
total is divided as follows: Red
Kidneys, ten cars; Yellow Eye, nine
Pea- 35

 

cars; Marrow, ten cars;
cars; Medium, six cars; no White
Kidneys.
GONG. FORDNEY SAYS HE WAS
MISQUOTED. '
(Continued from page 6)
kind. We have not helped frame other

bills passed by the committee and pre-
sume we will not be called on to consid-
er this bilL”——Jno. N Garner

The correspondence and the news
stories published above are the only
information we have received as to
Congressman Fordney's efforts in be-
half of a bean tariff. We would not
ordinarily devote so much of our
space to the telling of this story, but
we desire to see all the facts present-
ed for the benefit of bean growers
Of Michigan. Th9 writer and several
other gentlemen of the state spent
their time and part of their money,
the growers contributing the balance,
to go to Washington on this matter,
and have waited for months for some
results of their efforts, confident that
special tariff law would be enacted in
time to be of some benefit to growers
in marketing the balance of their
1919 crop. The news that we now re-
ceive after four months of waiting is
unexpected and disheartening to say
the least.

Those of our readers who consider
that Mr. Fordney has done everything
possible to bring about this legislation
will feel grateful for his efforts even
though they have come to nought. But

those who believe that the congress-t

man has taken the opportunity thus
presented to censure the present ad-
ministration and at the some time
play into the hands of the Michigan
sugar manufacturers who will need
acreage mighty bad-1y this year, will
want further explanations n-om Mr.
Ferdney.

 

BEET onownns' APPEAL one?
I 'ro‘memn-urs"
In the absence of any inclination on

 

 

 

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*""‘If-_‘nothing is done in the
20 days it will be too late this year
many farmers are already making
rangements to plant other cram
do not require so much labor. 9
will result perhaps in ’the chain

‘ sixteen‘ Michigan sugar factOries
result in the loss of millions of (101
of business for the cities or the s;
of Michigan. Please let us hearj
once if" there is anything you can
to save the sugar beet industry‘fori
state of Michigan. (Signed) 0.
Ackerman, Manager Michigan flu
Beet GrowerS’ Ass’n.

Plant Beans Instead of Boots (3
There’s one crop that ought to be
safe one this year for the farmers I'll
do not plant sugar beets. It is BIA
——both the white pea and the red 2 ,
ney varieties: From all over the ..
sections of the west and the Oriel
some news of a large DECREASE
bean ac1eage, and it is asserted
New York will not plant more - -
one- -half her usual acreage. This 0113!
ways happens following a season .
two of low prices. Don’t make
same mistake as these farmers in 0th
or states. Plant beans.
less investment, less risk.
neys are selling today around $15
cwt. They’ll be a good crop for.
year.

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ed a “strike," and has placed the case
of the giowers before Congressman
Fordney, Governor Sleeper and At-
torney General Palmer. Below is 0
copy of his letter to Mr. Fordney, the
others being along the same line:

“I wish to again call your attention
to the fight the sugar been manufac-
turers erg putting up with the grow-
ers in Michigan. This fight has been
going on since the first week in De-
cember last and since that time the
companies have five times refused a
conference, and we now have 9,000
paid-in members who declare ,that
they will grow no beets during 1920
if they cannot get a. better contract
then that offered by the companies.

“At a convention held in Saginaw
March 8th, 2,000 delegates from the
hundreds of local organizations of
the different beet sections of the state
voted to a man that they would give
the manufacturers until Mar. 20th to
give them a conferenCe and if they did
not they would go out and demand
what they asked, $12 per ton on 90
sugar with a sliding scale, or they
would grow no beets during 1920. I
am enclosing copy 01 circular letter
that has gone out to 10, 000 best
growers that you may see how the
situation stands.

   

  

   
   
 
  
  
  
  
  
  
   
  
   
     
      
   
   
    
    
  
   
    
   
     
   
   
   
   
     
  
  
  
  
  
   
  
 
 
 
  
  
 
 
 
 
  
  
 
 
 
 
  
  
  
 
 
  
  
  
  
  
 
    
  
    
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
   
  
  
 
  
  
  
 
   
 
  
   
 
 
 
  
       
     

 

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never sold at retail for less than $1. 50- some dealers charze $211,113
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.3" CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS
Z E HAVE heard something of
' this plan before, but here
. comes a plan from a communi-
organizer which sounds feasible—
fing government trucks to transport
,‘ildren to and from schools in the
arsely settled communities so that
36 one school may be efficiently
;_VOvided for. The article as it ap-
fared in a recent daily newspaper
_‘so interesting and sounds so alto-
ther workable, that I have copied
. . in its entire-.ty When the question
”brought up in your neighborhood
' 36.11 will be able to know what other
'mmunities in other states are do-
_g and planning in connection with
is vital question:
33A proposal to utilize United States
ail trucks for transporting children
‘ and from school in the ruarl dis.
icts of the country and to put the
bstoflices and schools in these dis—
icts in the same building in order
_o‘ affect a much needed consolida-
ion of the education facilities of the
ural districts will be introduced in
his congress.
'35" The plan, drawn up by Edward
.,Ward special community organiz—
r of the bureau of education, is the
utcome of several years of study
nd experiment, chiefly at the Mount
‘ oy school, in Adams county, Penn-
ylvania There, the community is
lready organized and by the reason
iii the co— operation of the farmers, in
{the district, the products of the farm
are shipped directly to the Parkview

school in Washington, where the
pommunity is organized in a like
Tanner.

By elimiating the agencies be-

een the producer and the consum-
"3' , the plan has effected a great re-
'11ction in the cost of living for the
'; embers of the two communities.

The proposal now advanced is the
ext step toward consolidating the
-_ mmunity and would solve a wide
Vange of problems now vital in
ural districts of the country. It is
Estimated that there are about 400, —
00 communities th1oughout the
ountry which would be affected, and
' at by the proper organization it
' ould be possible to centralize the
"' ucational facilities of these into
5 000.

If it is possible to meet the problem
I transportation the little red school
‘ouse on the hill, replete with sen—
mental virtues, but sadly lacking
' the educational facilities which it
designed to afford the children of
He country, will go.

One Central School Instead

In its place will be a central school
use with immeasurably bette1 ad—
antages—the dream of educators
1‘ many years. Instead of sending
e children to a little school of
3, out ten members taught by a teach—
3', often still in her teens who draws
S: salary of about $300 a year, they
,1 11 go to the central school house
3‘ the mail truck every day.
if There ~are many communities
‘roughout the country where the
.i'tomobile truck is being utilized
'1' transporting children to and from
11001 but it is at considerable cost.
«Congressman M. Clyde Kelly, of
nnsylvania, has been for a long
" e one of the leaders of the house
3asking that government trucks be
lized in meeting the transportation
blems of the rural communities.
fitas urged that by organizing the
munities and utilizing the trucks
'mja‘transportation great reductions
‘3be effected in the cost of living
:11 the case in the co- -operation of
Mount Joy and Parkview com—
Ities. .
'_ w it is proposed that when the
trucks go out in the morning to
gar the mail, that they pick up
children at the homes along the
and bring them into school on
3-1 return trip. And, in the same
that they take them home in
mean when they go out to
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The Farm Home
A D epartment fer the Women

 

Edited by MABEL CLARE DADD — -

   

 

 

 

We have laid great stress on the subject of beautifying the home and grounds about the
house but It remained for H. A. Hebblewhlte of Armada. Mlch.. to lead us a step further and
show us how even the barnyard might be made beautiful while the same trees which screen the

yard also afford ample shade for the animals.
qublewhlte is Indeed a Business Farmer.

school to come together in a larger
school.

And the heads of school systems in
our own Michigan are talking Seri-
ously of this project. A meeting was
recently held in Wayne county to
discuss this subject and the main
feature which they brought to light
which was not considered by the
Pennsylvania people in the report of
their meeting quoted above, is that
of equalizing the taxation and pro—
viding efficient teachers for all the
schools. We believe you will be in-
terested in learning the points which
favor the adoption of such a system
in this state, so we are again this
week devoting quite a little space to
the subject. We quote from the dis-
cussion of the ed-

The

large and modern barns testify that Mr.

The only way to keep our farms pop-
ulated is to consolidate school.”
Fixing salaries of teachers accord—
ing to living costs in the various com-
munities, was urged by Fred F. Fish—
er, assistant county school commis-
sioner, who predicted that owing to
the great increase during the
sixsmonths in the cost of living, sal-
aries next year would have to be
greatly increased in most districts.
“The situation in the rural dis-
tricts in Wayne county bids fair to
be in a worse state than it has ever
been before, due to the fact that
Detroit has raised is minimum salary
for teachers to $1,500, while last

year the average wage for teachers in’ 4

one-room buildings of the rural dis~
tricts was $850.
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county: . . paid in any dis-
The plan was “EEKLY CHEER trict was ~ $150
favored from the “'hen a bit of sunshine hits ye, per month, and
standpoints o f “after phassigslof aficioud. the lowest, $60.
' - - ' 8n a it; 0 aug ter gits ye,

equal1z1at1on .of An’ yer spine is “on“, proud, Teachers cannot
5011001 taxfd‘tfon Don't forget to up and fling it be h1red for
and of obtammg F Atla soul that's feelin' lame-7- these sums next
unifom sch 0 0 1 er t 1e minute that you 8 mg 1t, year and W e

. . . It’s a. boomeran to on, ’
fa0111t1os. Ac- 3 y shall, have hard
sled-ding compet—

cording to Geo.

 

N .Otwell. assist-
ant state superintendent of public in-
struction, $57 annually is spent per
year per pupil for instruction in vil-
lage and city schools
while only $31 is spent in rural
schools. W. B. Arbaugh, director of
the Wayne county association of sup—
erintendents, followed this up with
a statement that in Wayne county
the cost of education per capita last
year ran from $22.82 in some dis—
tricts to $85 in others.
Consolidation of schools in rural
districts was urged by Mr. Otwell,
who pointed out that it cost less per

pupil per year to transport pupils to_

a centralized school than to maintain

seven or eight one-room schools in

as many, districts.

“In Michigan there are more peo-
ple going to the cities from farms
than in any western state,” said Mr.
Otwell. “One reasonzis because of
the high pay that industry-offers. An-
other reasonvis that better schooling
is obtainable in the largest cities.

in Michigan, ,

ing with Detroit

.salaries,” said Mr. Fisher.
I

TEACH CHILDREN TO LOVE

PLANTS AND ANIMALS

By Dr. J. H. Francis

VERY child should have some-
E thing upon which to lavish his

affections; otherwise they will
weaken for affections, like other
traits, must live and grow by exer—
eise. Notice the little girl with her
doll or the boy with his hobby horse.
While inanimate objects represent
life and hence hold the attention of
children, living things are far more
interesting to them and offer greater
possibilities for teaching sane and
wholesome lessons. A certain small
boy who had seVeral pet hens, gladly
brought their little chickens into the
house and cared for them by the open
fire during an untimely spring snow-
storm. Another small ‘boy habitual-
ly spent— his Saturday mornings car-
ing fonhis guinea pigs, while . his

. he already knows and is;

past .

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Friends of Spring

When the world wakes up from slumber and the daffodills appear

~ And the sky gets blue above me, and I. know the spring is here;

« When the birds begin to chatter and there 11 something in the air
Which sets a man to thinking of the garden waiting there
It is then the plants and roses and each budding vine and tree
Seem Just like good old neighbors that. I’ve waited king to see;
011 it's like the break of m'ornimg and there‘ 9 someone that you know
Passes down the street and hails you, find you shout to glad "hello!"
“Or it's like the friendly greeting that you give to people when
They' ve been away for weeks and weeks and Just got home again,
Or at 10391; that’s how I flow it, for it really seems to me
That I’ve got to give a welcome unto every bud I see
I go into the garden and I watch eoch plant and vine
For the signs of their awakening, for they’re all good friends of mine,
And I bend above the roses, and I greet the with a about
or delight there's no mistaking when I find '3“
Oh I’m so mighty glad to see then, end-
And I think they understand it when they hear. me eall‘h

“Copyright, 1920,111y Edgar A. Guest.) ..

 

m budding out, I
I want to let them know
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, brothers and friends were playing.

With the toy the child expresses what
but with
the living thing he discovers himself
and the life about him.

The ignorance of children, and

adults, too, of the simplest, most' or- 1i
dinary facts of nature about themi’

is unnecessary and deplorable. We
have been taught to memorize facts
from books rather than to discover

‘ and appreciate them. ,
. Give to the child some living thing-
that is his own to know. to love and

to care for. SOme ’will find greatest
delight in animals, such as ponies,
pigs, dogs, cats, chickens, rabbits,
fish, etc. Plant life, however, will
interest many children more than we
suspect, if they are allowed to plant
and cultivate their own gardens. The
lessons to be learned from either
plant or animal life as so Varied and
important that every parent should
take advantage of the opportunity
and give to each child some living
thing to care for. study and love.

 

OUR READERS OWN COLUMN

Dear Miss Ladd: We read M.,B.
F. and likeit so well I thought I

would answer the subscriber who in- ,

quires how to‘keep hams through
hot weather. We have tried many
ways and find this the best, so I
gladly pass it on to otherreaders;

Have your hams, shoulders and
bacon. all salted and smoked. We
usually sugar cure our meat in pickle
or dry sugar cure. Have ready a
box large enough so that you can
have a good layer of salt on the bot—
tom. Now pack your meat in salt
in this box, being sure that each piece
is entirely covered. and none expos-
ed to flies, bugs or insects. Do not
be afraid to use plenty of salt as
they will never absorb any more salt.
Now set the box in a dry place and
the meat will keepperfectly. I
should be glad to hear from the
reader who made this inquiry after
she has tried this method—M. A.
B., Clare, Mich.

Woman‘s Page, M. B. F., I pre-
sume that the lady who inquired as
to the best'method of keepingham
wanted to keep them uncooked, but
if she has a ham which she Will cook
I have found that the best way is
to cook it just the same as for serv-
ing and when it is well done, can‘it
in its own juices. The fat and wa-

‘ter in which it is cooked will form

a jelly over the meat, which can be
cut into chunks to fit into a large
mason fruit jar or even larger and
fit into a crock. I like this method
as I always have some cold meat on
hand if some one drops in for sup
per when we haven’t anything pre-
pared.—C. N., Hartford, Mich.

Jl‘o the Editor of the

Page, M. B. F.:

I have received so many helpful
hints from this page that I would
like to tell others juSt two or’ three
little things which I do to save in
these days when we must count the
pennies and also to save time.

I improvised some coat hangers
from some barrel staves. I wound
them with strips of an old silk dress

Woman’s

The heavy wire for the hanger Was, .3,

easily bent into shape.

And I fohnd that an old bed quilt
which had served its day made an
excellent mop for washing painted
floors.

Now is the time when the winter '
potatoes are beginning to sprout and _,

 

are not quite so good just plain boil-L "

1 ed, so I have them baked quite :fre«

quently and in order that they do
not steam and getsoggy, I wrap them
in a towel as soon as I lift them hen;

the oven and press each only slightly. -3 .1

until it breaks. They are then nice
and mealy. —0.' B., St. Johns, Mich.

Mr..D’Annunzio has 'f-nnouneod ‘
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Size 6 requires
2 1-2 yards of 36 inch material.

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2. 4, 6, 8 and 10 years.

2992. A Popular S'tyle. “Cut in 3
sizes: 16, 18 and 20 years, Size 18 re-
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idth at lower edge, is 1 7-8 yard, With
plaits drawn out.

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in 5 sizes: 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 years. Size
8 requires 2 1—2 yards of 27 inch material
fdor the guiinpe, and 2 3-4 yards for the
ress. , .

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_, _"th.at that rope .
worth good money. sir,” Captain'Tre-
fethen complained, as Henry set to

“You will be paid," Francis hush-
-ed him. ' ,
“And the coffeepot—it is almost
new.” ' ,

“You will be paid."

The skipper sighed and surrend-
ered, although he sighed again at
Henry’s next act, which was to un-
cork the bottles and begin emptying
the beer out into the scuppers.»

“Please, sir,” begged Percival,
,f‘It you must empty‘the beer please
empty it into me.”

No further beer was wasted, and
the crew swiftly laid the empty bot-
tles beside Henry. At intervals of
six feet he fastened the. recorked
bottles to the half—inch line. Also.

-he cut off two-fathom lengths of the

line and attached them like stream—
ers between the beer bottles. The
codes—pot and two empty coffee tins
were likewise added among the
bottles. _To one end of the main-line
he made fast the kerosene can, to the
other end the empty beer case, and
looked up to Francis, who replied:

“Oh, I got you five minutes ago. El
Tigre must be narrow or else the
tug will go around that stuff.”

“El Tigre is just that narrow,”
was the response. “There's one
place where the channel isn’t forty
feet between the shoals. If the
skipper» misses our trap he’ll go
around aground. Say, they’ll be
able to wade ashore from the tug
it that happens—Come on, now, we
will get the stuff aft and ready to
toss out. You take starboard and
I’ll take port, and when I give the
word you shoot that beer case out to
the side as far as you can.” '

Though the Wind eased down, the
Angelique square before it, managed
to make five knots, while the Dolo—
des, doing six, slowly overhauled her.
As the rifles began to speak from the
Dolores. the skipper, under the di—
rection of Henry and Francis, built
up on the schooner’s stern a low bar-
ricade of sacks of potatoes and on-
ions, of old sails, and of hawser coil.
Crouching low in the shelter of this
the helmsman managed to steer. Le-
oncia refused to go below as the
firing became more continuous, but
compromised by lying down behind
the cabin house. The rest of the
sailors sought similar shelter in
nooks and corners, while the Solano
men, lying after, returned the fire of
the tug.

(To be continued)

 

SOLVE MILK SURPLUS PROBLEM
(Continue‘d‘from'pagc 13) ”
cheaper, $400 times 15 (the num-
ber of cows necessary to make $1,—
200 equals $6,000. Now which are
the high priced cows?
How to Make the Change

But there are only a limited num-
ber of high producing cows. The
average farmer has 5,000 lb. cows or
less. Here is a suggestion as how
to make the change. After eight
years of keeping records the Iowa Ex-
periment Station has found that the
first cows of a pure bred Holstein
sire on a scrub will prance over 2.—
000 lbs. of milk more than her scrub
mother.

Data From Agricultural Colleges

It is true that the basis of these
calculations are figures presented by
Agribultural Colleges. Many farm:
ers by their practice question such
data. It you perchance are in that
class, keep records ,of your own, or
join a cow testing association which
conducts operations under your own

observation, and4ry the thing out,

If we as a. class question the results
of our colleges, it would be cheaper
.to convert them into kindling and
recognize others that we can claim
as our own that' will tell us the
truth and in which we will have con-
fidence than to continue to ignore
valuable facts abOut our business.
The new awakening of farmers cre-
ated by the Farm .Bureau organiza-
tion shall soon‘put 'to the test the
efficiency of ouragricultural colleges
the farmers will claim the college tor
.his own and he will see to it that the
college is a. well paid, efli‘cient and
'wiliing-servant.-—A.. 0'. Anderson, for-

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Let the Women Buy the Separator—x

They Have to Clean

it and in

Many Cases Turn it Twice a Day

omen on many farms, operate and clean the

cream . separator, and the f 111

. apprec1ate the many advantages in the Sharples
Suction-feed that are most important to her.

arm women w'

The simple ‘one-piece bowl is much easier to clean
than 20 to 40 discs,” found in fixed-feed separators.

(All other separators are fixed-feed

.)

A woman can operate the Sharples Suction-feed

slowly and still get all the butterfat. Sharples shims

clean at any speed. No other sepa

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Sharples has an automatic oiling system. The

Sharples knee-low supply tank elim
milk cans.
able butterfat that fixed-feed se

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Proof .- There are more Sharples Separators in use:

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The Sharples Suction-feed saves t e valu-
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With Sharples, therefore, are arger than

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today than any other make, American or foreign.

Write for illustrated booklet describing

the advantages of the Sharples Suction-

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items before spring. The next few months is the time you will do your buying
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" EAR CHILDREN: Wonder what i

.- is the matter—~didn’t receive a
single original drawing this
week. I guess you thought it was
only a contest for the one week, but
such is not the case.
given every week for every original
drawing which is good enough to re-
produce. So get busy again.

A prize of a trip' around the world
on postal cards has been awarded
this week for the best original story
to Mildred Fouell, of Blanchard;
Mich.

Already we can feel the balmy air
of spring and I expect the boys are
making kites and playing marbles,
but I wonder what the girls are do-
ing: Write and tell me all your
plans for spring and summer and
what you most enjoy doing.

Affectionately yours. LADDIE.

 

OUR BOYS AND GIRLS

Dear Laddie—I have read the letters
in M. B, F. for some time so I will write
a few lines. I have read the stories on
the children’s page. I like to have the
stories that are complete. I got a thrift
stamp for one story and would like to wm
a prize for whriting another. What
may I write about. Will some. of the
boys and girls please write. I would love

hear from Walter Bremes and Viola

ambery and Dorris Bulten. Here is a
etc of “The Little Girl and Her Dog.”
Mil red Fovell, Blanchard, Mich.

The Little Girl and Her Dog.
. There once liveed a very little girl with
is her mother and dog in the hills. The lit-
~ tl girl had blue eyes and golden hair, and
on she smiled she smiled so sweet.
They called her Sunshine. One day Sun-
I ine went out on the hill to play. When
p ying with her dog, her foot slipped
and she began to fall, but the dOg ran
and caught her dress and held her until
, help came. So this is the way Sunshine

was saved by her little dog “Buster"

 

 

Dear Laddie:-—~I received the postal

havewritten tw0 times. but I never saw
my letters in print. I don’t like continu-
ed stories. I’d rather have one that is
complete each week_ I have seen two
letters from my friend, Mary Gross, in
the paper. She is visiting me today. I
have two little pet lambs; their name];
are Shake and Lee. I am going to raise
some chickens this summer and will do
all I can for the birds. Hope my letter
will be in print. I will close—Henrietta
Droster.

 

Dear Laddiez—I have written to you

We have four cows and five
. I have one brother and one sis-
ter. I go to school and am in the 5th
gym“. My teacher is Miss Erceldeane
. edge. I like her very much. We live
'31: on a. farm of 20 acres. My father works
i 120 acres besides. He has 26 acres of
wheat_ We take the M. B. F. We have
a. mother pig: and seven little ones. We
have two calves, Spot and Rosy. I will
close, hoping to see my letter in print——
Johnie Edward Ohls, Bancroft. Mich.

 

 

 

 

é‘ . Dear Laddiez—This is the first time I
i: have written and I hope to see my letter
in print. I have one sister; her name is
- Laura May; she is 9 years old and in
the 3rd and 4th grades. I am a little girl
of 7 years and am in the 1st grade at
school. My teacher is Mrs. Lena Hoop-
fer. I like her fine. My ohums' name are
Evelyn and Norma Overholt, Arlene
Marshall and Ruby Mallony. We have lots
of fun together. I am interested in the
boys' and girls’ letters and stories. I will
close and let some othe boy or girl have
a. little room.-—JEve-lyn ranees Eyer, Lev-
ering, Mich,

Dear Laddiez—This the first time that

I have written to you this year. My fa—
ther takes the M. B. F, and I like to read
the letters from the boys and girls. I
also like the puzzles. I have two sisters
and two brothers. We live on a 40-acre
farm and have two horses, two cows.
three calves and about 50 chickens. Ma-
ma. is going to give me a hen to set. We
have an incubator; it holds 160 eggs.
They closed the school because the flu
was so had around here and the measles
too. I received six valentines. I am 12
years old and in the 6th grade, I hope to
» see my letter in print. The answers to
the puzzles are: Harriet. Bernice, Dren-
cil and Katie.—*—Fern Cook, Wheeler Mich.

    
    
 

   
 

 

Dear Laddie:~——-'1‘his is the first time I
have tried to write. I am a little girl. 9
_ ears old and in the 4th grade at school.

, y..teacher is Mr. J. A. King. There are
.about 40 in our school. We live on a.
farm of 52 acres and have two horses,
four cows. three calves and, 30 chickens.
.. Our dog’s name is Sport; he sure is some
. 'playi'ellow. I have five goldfish for pets
and my brother, Emil has two doves Ho
is'l-l ears old. dy takes the M. B.
— .. an we all. like it very much. I idle
the children's letters best of all. Vio et

'ver, I saw your letter in the M. .

. answere it but it came back to

They say on is no such place as
,net. Was that a mistake If you
this . Violet, write to

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The Man Whose Invention Made
Light of Distance

NE WINDY March day a boy was
borninEdinburgh,Scotland. This

b0y was destined to 'bring into
close contact people who were far
apart, and to make distances seem as
nothing. The boy was
Graham Bell- the inventor of the tel-
ephone. When he Was twenty—three
years old he came to Canada with his
father and two years later moved to
Boston where he taught in the Bos-
ton University. Mr. Bell, senior, de-
voted his life to teaching the deaf
and dumb to talk, and young Bell
soon decided to devote himself to
helping his father in his good work.
While he worked with his father,
he was studying out the means of
long distance communication, and on
February 14, 1876, he applied for a
patent of the instrument which was

 

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to become known all over the world
as the Bell Telephone. By a most
curious co—in-ciden-ce, on the morn-
ing of the same day a man by the
name of Elisha Gray appeared at the
same patent office and applied for a
patent on a similar telephone. Neith-
er man knew of the other and neith-
er knew that a similar machine was
being worked upon, yet each com-
pleted work upon the instrument_ at
the same time and on the same day
applied at the Washington patent of-
fice for a patent.

Bell’s machine proved to be the
better instrument, and it was he who
made it possible for us to talk to our
friends regardless of the distance
that stretched between us. Thus
while he taught\ the power of speech
to the deaf and dumb, Bell was
planning to show the world how to
send their voices out into space by
means of the telephone.

 

 

Dear Laddie:————Tlris is the first time I
have written to the M. B. F. I like the
Children’s Hour fine. I am a boy 12
years old and in the 6th grade at school.
My teacher is Mr. M. Florain. We live
two and one-half miles from town. My
father takes the M. B. F. and has sub-
scribed for another year. He likes it
very well. I have two brothers and one
sister. My brothers’ names are Edward,
and Stephen and my sister’s is Anna.
For pets I have three cats, Ted, Nig and
Snupe, and a dog, Bessie_ My father
owns an 80-acre farm and we live in a.
brick house. My father has four horses,
nine head of cattle, 15 pigs and 100
hens. The horse we drive to school is
named Goldie. I would like to have some
of the boys write to me. As my letter is
getting long I will close. hoping to see it
in print.—Firmin B. F. Burns, Carson
City, R2.

--——Q
Dear Laddie—This is the first time I
have written to you. I am a g1rl 12

years old and am in the 7th grade. My
teacher’s name is Miss Ruth Gray. Our
school went to the Black Creek school
last Wednesday and we had an arithme-
tic contest, and we won 2290 points a-
head, I have a sister and a brother.
We have 5 cows, 4 calves, 3 horses and
about 80 hens. We live on an 80 acre
farm. Have an Oakland car. Have an
Am-berola too. Am well interested in
reading The Children’s Hour. My mother
has been dead six years. My father has
a. housekeeper. My father takes the
Michigan Business Farmer and enjoys
reading it. I am sending you a. story
about a brave dog. As my letter is get—
ting long will have to quit. hoping to see
my letter in print.——S‘tella E. Adolph.
Yale, Mich.
' A Brave Dog.

Once upon a time there was three lit-
tle girls wanted a dog.
Dick was going to Florida. He had a
dog there and he did not want to take it
along with him, so he gave him to the 3

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children. One day baby May was out
playing tag with them and they went a.
long way in the field, and baby May
couldn't follow them, so she ran in the
road and stood still, She saw her father
with a team of run away horses. but
never moved. Just about as the horses
were to strike her their dog caught her
by the dress and pulled her aside the
road. The child was crying, and the dog
seemed to say, “Don’t cry, I'm here, no
one shall harm you.” In a little while
her father came running after her and
took her home. After that they called
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Dear Laddfle—JI am a. girl 9 years old
and in the 5th grade at school. I go to
the Grub school. My teacher’s name is
Mrs. Marion Harford. I live on a 50 acre
farm. There is 40 that we work and 10
of woods. We have two cows and three
horses. We like the M, B. F. fine. I
have four sisters and two brothers.
Their names and ages are: Helen, 22,
Ruth, 19. Grace, 7, Naomi, 5 months, John
20 and Earl 6. I will close, hoping to
see my letter in print. Ethel Glancy,
Milford, Mich.

 

Dear Laddle—I have never written to
you before, so I thought I would try it
for the first time.I am a girl 11 years old
and am in the" 7th grade at school. my
teacher's name is Miss Aokerman, and I
like her very much. My father takes the
Michigan Business Farmer and likes it
fine. I like to read the stories and the
letters that the boys and girls are writ-
ing. I think that the page of The Chil-
dren’s Hour is very interesting. I have
two sisters, Laura and Dorothy, and two
brothers, Melvin and Carlton. I live in
the country and have about three-fourths
of a mile to go to school. I do not want
to write a very long letter because I want
to leave space for the other boys and
girls. Will close for this time, hoping to
see my letter in print—Vera Curry, Se-
bawing, Mich., R. F. D. No. 2.

 

 

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Dear Laddiez—This is the first time I
have, written to you. My grandfather
takes the M, B. F. I am a girl 11 years
old and am in the 6th grade. My teacher
is Miss Ruth Hood. I have one brother.
Wayland. We live on an 140—acre 'farm.
and have six horses, four cows, 51 sheep
and one little lamb as well as 12 head of
hogs. For my pets I have two cats,
Barney and Kitty Cat. One is brown,
the other, black and white. I will close.
hoping to see my letter in print—Donna
Irene KahlepAdrian, Mich.

Dear Laddiez—aI have written to you
before but did not see my letter in print.
I. am a girl 10 years old and am in the
5th grade, I go five and one-half miles
to school every day. We live on a farm
of 160 acres and keep five cows, seven
steers and feur horses. I have two broth-
ers, John and Thomas and tw0 sisters,
Florence and Lucile. For pets I have a
dog, Jack. I guess my letter is getting
long so will close. I hope to remain your
little friend—Frances O'Connell, Carson
City. Mich.

Dear Laddie—As I have never written
to your department before, but have been
interested in the letters others have writ-
ten, I thought I would add one to the col-
lection. I am a girl fourteen years old
and a freshman in high school. I am not
a very little girl. being five feet seve
inches tall and weigh about one hundre
and thirty‘five pounds. I live on a farm
of 60 acres, one-half mlile from the vil-
lage of Buckley. Papa also owns 40
acres two miles from our home. Our
school is closed now on account of the
flu. We have had a bad stormy winter
The snow is from 16 inches‘to two feet
deep in the woods, though-the weather
has grown 'lder. Some of the crows
have returne and we are waiting with
what patience we can command for the
return of the robbins. We have a piano
and I am learning a new waltz entitled
‘Mosquito Waltz,” I would be very glad
to hear from girls about my own age. I
will answer all letters received. Hopinl
to see my letter in print I will close.
Pearl Srackangast, Buckley, Mich.

Dear Laddie——Thi.s is the first time}
have written to you, but as I have seen a
good many letters in the M, B. F. written
by other boys, I though‘I too would try.

.I am a boy 10 years old. Am in the 4th

grade. My teacher’s name is Miss Sax-
ton and we all like her fine. I live in
little town called Old Brookway. All“;
all one can see in our town just at pres-
ent is snow. I have a little dog.
name is Stub, and he and I are grehalz
friends. I also haVe three cats. The dog
does not like the cats as well as I do, bu
we get alongwery well at that. I w
close nowhopmg to see my letter in print
My Pa reads all the kiddies letters an
he will be glad when he sees mine along
with the rest. Yours very truly, Chee-
ter Allen Payfer. Yale, Mich., R. 3..

—Dear Laddie—Jl‘his is my first time I
have written to you. I am a girl 9 years
old and in the 4th grade. I go 'to the
Warren school. My teacher's name h

, Miss Evelyn Kinyon. I have a sister Gol-

die. We live with our grandpa. Ever-
son on a 80 acre farm. He takes the M.
B. F. and likes it very much. For my
pets I have two cats. Their names are
Grey Face and Gilbert. My grandpa has
three horses, eight cows. fifty chickens
and‘a Ford to take us all over the coun-
try. Will conclude as my letter is get-
ting long Hoping to see this letter
printed M the M. B. F. Your friend, Mil-
dred Mae Patterson, Auburn, Mich., R2.

Dear Laddie—This is the second time I

have written to you. The other letter '

you ‘did not print. We have two cats.
One is a tiger and one is a white Persian.

, We have one cow and about 72 chickens.

I have a little sister, her name is Phyllis.
she 1s two years old. I am eight years
old. I am in the 2nd grade. My teach-
er's name is Miss Severance. She is real
nice. My father has got. 122 pigs and
has 19 little ones, My father reads the
M. F. and likes it very much. We
have got 105 acres. I will close hoping
to See my letter in print. I am yours
truly, Virginia Dean Jewett, Mason,Mich.

Dear paddle—This is the first time I
have written to you. I am a little girl
nine years of age. I go to school every
day, am in the fourth grade. My teach-
er's name is Miss Walton, For pets I
have a .dog Rover about two years old,
and a kitty named Fluffy, about one year
old. I base a little sister seven years
old. her name is Vivian. My father takes
the M. B. F» He likes it very much. I
live on an eightv acre farm. .I enjoy
reading the children's letters. As my

. letter is getting long I will close, hoping

to see my letter in print.—‘—Esther Baugh-
man, Shepherd, Mich

Dear Laddie—This is the first time I
have written to you. My father takes thO
M. B. F. and likes it very much. I like
to read the “Children’s Hour." I- am a

girl 13 years old, and am in the 6th grade.

My teacher’s name is Mrs. Sabin, I have
80 rods to go to school. I live on an 80
acre farm. There is a creek running
through our farm., Well I Will close for
this time as my letter is getting quite
long. R. Dot Sharp, Custer. Mich.

Dear Laddie—This is the first time I
have written to you, My (either take:
the H. B. 5‘. and likes it very much.

I
I am 11 years old and inf
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tic ‘ and

(Wed from page 10) t
has the highest percentage of farm
land handled by tenants of any state
in the north. In\1890, about 29 per
cent of the land was 1.11111141er1,
and this increased to 41 per dent in
1910. A recent Survey in (3th
county indicates that the percentage
01 tenanCy there is 80 per cent, and I
believe that the 1920 census will show
60 per cent for the whole state.

Tenancy Increasing Too Fast

“Tenant farming has been increas-
ing, and I believe our purpose should
be to start the figures down again-—
not violently, but gradually. . In my
judgment, a state rural credits sys-
tem would do this. South Dakota,
leahoma and California have these
state rural credit systems, all work—
ing successfully, I am informed. All
that is necessary is for the state to
lend its credit, so it would not cost
the state anything except the cost of
administration.”

Frank Mann warmly supported the
idea of encouraging the ownership of
farms by the men who work them, but
took issue with Dunlap and Thompson
on the method of" accomplishing it.
”The state has three vested rights in
farm land—the production of food, the
maintenance of fertility to insure the
food supply of the future, and the
production Of the best class of citi-
zens,” said Mann. “None of these is
accomplished through tenant farming,
nor can it ever be except isolated
cases. Crop production almost invar-
iably declines on rented farms, and
soil fertility goes down likewise. The
third factor—good citizens~go along
with good crops and fertile soil. T1116
man who farms his own place pro-
duces more food for society than the
renter, conserves and improves the
SM] instead Of impoverishing it, and
his very stability and progress insure
the highest type of. citizenship.

“My idea is that while more credit
too much
credit will only aggravate the situa-
tion by increasing the number of bid-
ders for land, the price will go up, and
we will be worse off than before. That
is the way the federal loan system has
worked out—at least officers of the St.
Louis Federal Law Bank claim that
the federal system has helped the
price 01‘ land to go up.
A Grhduated Tax

"The way to tackle the question is
to institute a graduated tax upon farm
land, dividing it into three classes for
taxation. The first and normal rate of
taxation should be levied upon land
farmed by its owner. There should be
no limit placed upon the amount of
land one man may farm; the large
farms of 320 to 640 acres and even
larger are more efficiently and eco-

nomica‘lly handled than the smaller“
ones, in anneal. From this tax should .
be deducted a proper allowance for all.

phosphate and limestone applied. and
clover plowed under; it would be no

more difllcult for the assessor to deter- -

mine these items than to locate the
dogs for taxation.

“The second class of land should in-
clude farms operated by sons of retir-
ed farmers, or by other near relatives,
and farm’s owned by men who have
moved to towns to educate their chil-
dren, and for similar reasons. It
should pay considerably higher taxes
than land farmed by its owners. This
would encourage retired farmers to
sell their land to their sons, and let
them 'put their money into govern-
ment bonds or other safe securities.

Heavy Tax on N on-Residents

“The third class should include all
land held by non-residents, no matter
how much they hold. By non-resi-
dents I mean all those not included in
the second class. Their land should
pay the highest rate of tax—at least
twice as much per acre as land farm-
ed by its owner, perhaps more. This
would soon break up speculation in
land, which is the cauSe of a large
nomically wrong, and investment in
land, which is the cause of a large
part of our tenancy. Let the man who
wants to show off his pride in land
ownership pay for the privilege. Let
the banker. or doctor who wants to
own a farm either pay an excessive
tax or put their money into something
else.”

These talks provoked a prolonged
discussion which lasted over three
hours, and the committee was so ins
terested that it forgot to adjourn un-
til everybody’s supper was cold. In
general, the sentiment was favorable
to the idea of the state rural credits
system, and not altogether hostile to
the idea of classifying lands for taxa-
tion. No action was taken, however,
but was deferred until later.

chert, Allen and Haynes also ad-
dressed the committee, and endorsed
in general the I. A. A. proposals.

Chairman Dove of the initiative and
referendum committee, has invited
Secretary Thompson and other repre-
sentatives Of the Illinois Agricultural
Association to appear before the con-
vention to tell why the farmers ap-
prove the I. & R. The offer was ac-
cepted, and the hearing will be held
as soon as convenient to all parties.

There are over 200 proposals before
the convention now, many of which
will never get out of committee. No
more proposals can be brought in ex-
cept through committees. The con-
vention will soon be getting doWn to
real business, though it will be many
months before the last word is writ-
ten in the new constitution.

Detroit Milk Situation Under U. S. Scrutiny

(Continued from page ‘3)
suffers because of the resulting de-
crease in consumption.

The Fair Price Board will discov-
er, however, that milk prices in De-
troit have advanced less than most
other commodities and are no high
er than in the average industrial
city of a half million population and
over. They will discover, if they go
deep enough into the matter, that
the dairy farmer is facing a most
perplexing problem in producing
milk at a fair prOflt during all
months of the year, and that an ap-
parently excessive price during one
period of the year is necessary to
protect the farmer from losses sus-
tained at other periods of the year.
we have no fear that the Fair Price
Board will discover any profiteering
among the farmers but we are much
concerned as to what substitute the
board may offer. or will have t6 be
provided, in case the present ar-
ran-gement for stabilizing the milk
price and insuring a steady supply
of fresh milk is done away with.

One thing is clear to us, however,

and that is that the farmers will dis-
cover before this investigation is

farmer can distribute his own milk
at more profit to himself and less
cost to the consumer than under the
old system. Again, we urge the
Michigan Milk 'Producers' Ass’n to
make an immediate study of the pos—
sibilities of co—operative milk dis—
tribution and take such action as
will protect the farmers of the De-
troit area, and indirectly the farm-
ers of the entire state, from the loss-
es that must come if the Detroit milk
supply is put back upon the uncer-
tain basis of former years.

THE FARMER. FEEDS THEM ALL

Tbn politician talks and talks,
The .actor plays his part,

The soldier glitters on parade,
The goldsmith plies his art;

The scientist pursues his germs
O'er his terrestial ball,

The sailor navigates his ship,‘

. But the farmer feeds them all.

The preacher pounds the pulpit desk,
The broker reads ,the tape;

The tailor cuts and sews his cloth
To fit the human shape.

The dome of fashion, dressed in silk.

Goes forth to dine or call,
Or drive, or dance. or promenade,
But the farmer feeds them all.

over that the one and only way of“ The workman wields his shining tool!

marketing their milk is to own or
control the machinery of distribu-
k/E themselves independ-
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11» mud

The merchant shows his wares;
The aeronaut above the clouds

A dizzy journey dares.‘
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1915. and/$200 on the 20th of September
of each -. year thereafter with privilege
of making all payments on or before date
of payment. At present the interest and
taxes are‘paid and about $250 on princi-
pal of cOntract. I have built a house and
barn, also wood bones; have built 500
rods of fenceyhave had about 22 acres
in crops. Expect to put 25 acres in this
season; we have 13 acres fall plowed. In
June, last year, the party of whom I pur-
chased this l’and borrowed $1,250 and
gave as security this 80 and another 80
which he owns, in another township. This
money was to pay for the land of which
I hold contract. I signed this mortgage.
Would like to know underwhat conditions
he could foreclose my contract, and if he
should foreclose how much time would I
have to redeem it. Do you think it was
really necessary for me to sign this mort-
gage, and could the party of whom I
purchased this land in any way hinder
me from selling it, provided I paid up on
contract, etc—W, L. E, Missaukee coun-
t

y It was not necessary for you to sign

the mortgage. However, if the man
who sold to you on contract demanded
the back payments that, from your
statement, appear to be long past due,
he might declare your contract for-
feited and then you would have to pay
all that was past due. This may be
done now unless you haVe secured an
extension of time for payments.
Should the mortgagee foreclose the
mortgage you will have to redeem
from the whole mortgage and have
one year from the sale of the prem-
ises if the foreclosure was by adver-
tisement only. If the foreclosure was
in Chancery a different time Of re-
demption would result, but it usually
takes about the same time. The man
who sold to you could not prevent
your making a, sale of your interest
in the premises. Your payment of
the contract might leave you still 11-
able on the mortgage. It would be
best for you to consult a good attorney
to examine your contract and mort-
gage liability to tell you what you
better do to avoid loss and annoy-
ance—W. E'. Brown, legal editor.

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SUDAN GRASS

I would like some advice in regard to
growing sudan grass for hay. Would it
be a good plan to raise sudan grass on
fairly gooi sand and gra/zl sole. n'ell
drained, or can you suggest any other

(rop 'H-it Would be good to raise ir p'ace.

Of hay this 5;» r {.—L. B.. Ottawa. (co )-
ty.

Sudan grass is a very promising
forage plant for parts of Michigan but
like other plants of this nature it re-
quires a considerable amount of nitro-
gen for maximum growth. If the soil
is poor and no manure at hand it is
advisable, if this crop is to be grown,
to apply about 75 lbs. of sodium ni-
trate or ammonium sulphate per acre.
It is advisable also that the soil re-
ceives 200 lbs. of a 16 per cent. acid
phosphate. The phosphate should be

applied just previous to the preparag

tion of the seed bed for the crop and
sodium nitrate applied as a top dress-
ing following the seeding.

I would suggest that you grow a
small acreage, at least, of soy beans
inasmuch as this is a soil building
crop and is far more valuable feed
when all conditions are considered
than sudan grass.

1f the soil is somewhat thin it
should receive a light dressing of ma-
nure and if practicable, in addition

about 150 lbs. of 16 per cent. acid.

phosphate. If soy beans are to be
grow-n it should be inoculated before
seeding. This material, I understand,
may be obtained from the Bacterio-
.ogical Department of the Michigan
Agricultural College—M. M. McCool,
Professor of Soils, M. A. 0.

 

SECOND HUSBAND’S SHARE OF
EIRST HUSBAND’S PROPERTY

A died leaving an estate, 36 years ago,
leaving widow and children. Property

consisting of 40 acres of land has never .
‘ been-probated. Widow rte-married. Up-

on death of widow can her husbandhave
any legal claim upon the above 40 acres
as an heir at law?——A Subscriber, Gratiot
C0,, Mich.

In 1883 the law provided that a
man’s real estate in case there was no
will descended to his children. The
widow had a dower. However, if any
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ed extraordinary. It provides that :11:

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and some of her children survived her
then the second husband would. have
no claim as an “heir at law”.-—W. E.
Brown, legal editor.

DAMAGE TO FENCE BY RENTER

My farm, at the time renter moved on
in November, was fenced with good woven
wire fence with barb at top. He is the
corner of a. horse which has practically
ruined the fence in a 32-wre field. I
have repeatedly asked him in a. quiet way

‘ not to turn her out, but he says nothing

and continues to do so. I would like to
know if there is any thing that can be
done about it and how should I go about
it?———L. M. B.. Gaines, Mich.

A tenant is liable for any damage
done by unruly beasts upon rented
premises. Upon the expiration 0f the
lease the tenant should be.required to
restore the property or pay what it

will cost to restore the fences, and, ii."

he refuses to repair or pay, then'sue
him and collect the judgment, if he is
collectable. If he is not collectable
nothing else can be done—W. E.
Brown, lega} editor.

 

UNITED DOCTORS
We caution our readers against

patronizing the United Doctors, who

advertise in local country weeklies,
and ofier to give consultation “free
of charge." A number of our sub-
scribers have been stung by these
medical quacks; and we understand
they are now under investigation by
the United States postoflice depart-
ment. We have had some very in-
teresting correspondence with this
firm which will be made public some

-day. In the meantime, if you feel

the need of medical advice, for the
sake of your health and pocket book
consult your local resident physician.
He may not be able to perform
“bloodless" operations, cure cancer
or leprosy, or bring the dead to life,
but you will find him a pretty safe
counselor in the majority of cases.—
Editor.

BUYER PAYS TAXES

I bought a. farm on November 15th,
1919, paying cash, and taking a warranty
deed. Nothing was said about. 1919 taxes.
Would I have to pay this 1919 tax?—D.
W., Evart, Mich.

The purchase of and payment for a
farm before the first of December, con-
veyed .by warranty deed, does not re-
quire the seller to pay taxes for the

then current year as the tax ,lien does-

not become fixed until December lst.
His warranty does not cover a. lien
that _does not exist until after thedeed
is executed. It covers all taxes that
have become a lien at the date of the
delivery of the deed—W. E. Brown,
legal editor.

NOT EXEMPT FROM TAXATION

“I have a forty acre farm near the vil-
lage of-F , and would like to know
how many cows and horses I may keep
without taxes. I have three Jersey cows
and a. span of horses—Reader, Oakland
County.

Section 4003, of C. L. 1915, subdivis-
ions 11 and 12, provide that the prop-
erty enumerated therein is exempt
from taxation as follows: "Eleventh,
All mules, horses and cattle not over
one yearold, all sheep and swine not
over six months old, and all domesti-
cated birds; Twelfth, Personal proper-
ty owned and used by any householder
in connection with his business of the
value of $200”. It would thus appear
that cows and a team would not be ex-
empt.-——»W. ,E. Brown. legal editor.

 

WIDENING UUT'I‘EBS AND SLEDS

Will you please advise us through your
colums - what you know concerning the

_ widening out of cutters and sleds?—-C. F.

L., ‘Van Buren County, .
Act 73 of the Public 'Acts of 1919
provide that the standard guage- for
all vehicles used upon the highways
of this state shall be 56 inches from
center to center of the tread on and
after Januaryl, 1921, and makes it
unlawful to use any . other except

requests hunter-motion addressed to this department. We are here _ g ,
p _ answer by null to a question of a legal nature should choices 31'

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those used for extraordinary purposes-

and names the vehicles, the use of

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“Witty“. , -.paid taxesforeight

years, and have re-
‘ ceipts for sixteen
‘ years back. How
- .am late get a clear
deed, an easy way. I would like to sell.
as I am not able to do the work. but no-
one seems to want it.—S. G“ a'I‘awas City,
Mich. - ‘ -‘

A quit claim deed may be just as
good as a title as a warranty, and if
there is a defect in the title to your
farm it must .be from some other
cause. It wouldvbe impossible forms
to tell you how to get clear title until
I knew what was the matter with the
title. This is usually determined by
an examination of the abstract. It

can tell me what is the matter
w?

' your title I may be able to tell \

yo‘ what to do.—W. E. Brown, lega
editor.

 

HOGGING 'DOWN’ SOYBEANS ‘

The practice of sowing soybeans
with corn for hogging off is one that '
is'increasing in favor' among the
farmers of southern Michigan. Best-
results are secured when the soy-
beans are sown by a special soybean
attachment on the corn planter.
This consists Of a. special hopper and
drill and insures an even stand of
beans and corn. When a small acre-
age is to be sown the corn and beans
may be' mixed together in the planter
box, but since the beans are smooth
and round, they tend to work to the
bottom Of the hopper and unless very
frequently remixed an uneven stand
is secured. Only a variety that forms
seed should be used. Suggest the
Ito San, Early Brown. Black Eyebrow
or Manchu. These varieties gave
high yields of both forage and seed
the past season here at the Experi—
ment Station. Seed may be obtain-
ed from reliable seed houses—0. R.
Megee, Ass’t Prof. of Farm Crops.

 

DEALINGS WITH FUR COMPANY

What can be done with a. mail orde
fur dealer in Chicago to whom I_sh-ippe
a bunch of furs worth near 850, asking at
the same time to hold these furs seven
days and puote me prices? They sent
me a check which I did not want to ac-
cepvt. I sent it back and demanded more
money or to send the furs back.‘ They
returned the same check and said they
could not send the furs back, that they
paid all the furs were worth. Have We
trappers got to stand for this kind of
business? What can I do? I did not
sell these furs to them yet. We were
doing business through the mails, Can-
not the government take this -matter up
with them —A. H., Penfield, Mich.

Give us the name of the dealer
and we will take the matter up with
him. _ If you are sure there was no
expressed or implied permission in
your letters for the dealer to accept
and dispose of the furs, we think we

will have no trouble in getting a sat-

isfactory settlement—Editor.

 

1918 PERSONAL TAXES

If the treasurer fails to collect 191
taxes on personal property can he compo
a. man to pay 1918 and 1919 taxes on that
personal property in 1920 ?——E. H., Mo-
Millan, Mich .

One is liable for the 1918 taxes on
pe nal, property even though not col-
lected in 1918 but'may be collected at
any time later.—W. E. Brown, legal
editor. "

 

RENEWING UNPAm- NOTE

A borrowed $200 from c. ,In we...
make a joint note B signs the note -wi
A. Note runs for one year. 'Atend o

- year A can’t pay the note. and makes, a

new note to run another year. _13 refuse-
to sign the new note. C takes the'new
note .of A but also keeps the Old note. 1;“:
the" end of car A is still unable, tops
the note. makes another note‘ ané
gives a. chattle mortgage on a crop o
rye. Interest was added to the new
note. In years can 0 still hold B for the
first note —_-B. W. ,

From your statement .Of facts ,._I
would be of the opinion that the payee
had extended , the time to the...princ1-A
pal debtor withOut ~ comment of ~the\sur_-"
ety and thereby released the -_sure'tyy
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.reas’n-able guys, seems to me the

farmer's the limit. Gosh, its just

awtul the “way they do act!

they be now findin' fault ’cause us

. » tellers-in the city wants 8 hour days!
‘ _ They don't seem to realize what a‘lot
of things us tellers has to do. We

can't work every mi-nit; geewhitticer!

-When would you get a chance'to play

- in ten or twelve hours every day
workin’? We've got to have some
as .‘ ' recreation, ain't we? An’ when we
goin’ to git it if we have to work all
,the time? Course the factories are
hirein' farm boys—all they can git of
’em—they make good hands, are stea-
dyan’ on the job reg’lar, an' they like
the shorter days, too, an' in a little
while 'mebbe "only have to work 8
hours. That seems to be the cry—less
hours and more pay, audio the mean-
time the farmers can’t git hel-p enough
.to put in his crops—can’t git any
help .at all, cause they claim they
can’t work on the 8 hour plan, can’t
. pay the high wages the factories——
,which sets their own price on the pro-
ducts'they put out—pay, an’ so the
factories are gittin’ the help an’ the
farmers are goin’ without.
., An’ now these unreasonable farmers
l are gittin’ their dander up, an' they
say “if the factories want all our
~— young men an' all the rest of the men
l in the country, jest let the factories
provide some way for feedi-n' of ’em.”
j“We’ll try”, they say, “to raise enough
for ourselves an’ the other fel-ler'll
“have to git along best way he can,"
an' then the farmer men sez, “if they
ain’t enough eatables to go 'round
. and the city fellers wants more, jest
let 'em come out an’ help raise the
‘ stuff". “We’ve got the land", sez
these unreasonable guys, “an’ the
teams an' the tools, but we don’t pro-
pose to work 12 to 16 hours a day an’
sell our suff at half what we ort to
git to- feed a lot of tellers that will
only work 8 hours an' are all the time
howlin’ about the high cost of livin,’
an’ they are the very ones to blame
for this same 01’ high cost 'gosh!”
Well, there may be a good lot of
t sense in what the farmers say at that.
I know, an’ everybody else knows,
that the farm help is a minus quantity
l -——there ain’t no such birds runin’
around now. Why. in one township,
one of the best in this county, only
two men have been hired for this
season’s work, an' there don’t seem
‘ to be no more in sight. Without help
the farmers are sure up agin’ 11 hard

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SCRAPS OF FACTS

There are more than fifty-six
thousand postoflices in the United
States.

Brazil has about 1,300,000,000

coffee trees, covering some 4,500,-
00 acres of ground.

The first woman-to be honored
with the freedom of the city of Lon-
don was the celebrated philanthropist
Baroness Burdette‘Coutts.

Among the natives of Great Brit-
ain the Scotch are rated the tallest,
the Irish are next, the English take
third place, while the Welsh rank
fourth.

It is now one hundred years since
the first steamship crossed the At-
lantic. This vessel was the “Savan-
na,” built in New York with funds
provided by the merchants and other
business men of Savanna, Ga.

- At a festival held in Los Angeles.”

Calif, a woman seventy-six years old
‘ appeared in a dress and hat which
‘ she bought of Abraham > Lincoln
when he managed a country store.

W
Truistic a
One touch of rumor makes the
- whole world chin. the

About this time of the year
coal manyshou‘ld be brought to see
the errors of his weighs.

' ~ ,,A professor 'has_'all ‘those things

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They are only human
an’ can do only so much at best. They
are workin'. long hours at a thankless
job—the'job of tryin' to feed a bun-
gry wori’d‘. They are receivin’ less for
their labor than any other class of
workers in the country. Their pro-
ducts go.through the handset half a
dozen profiteers before they get to the
consumer, an’ yet the farmer is cred-
ited with chargin' or receivin' the
whole price that‘ the consumer has to
DaY- .

Well, mebbe I wuz hasty in callin’
the farmer tellers unreasonable guys.
Mebbe he has got reasons for bei-n'
peeved.Go into any factory an' see the
number of farm boys workin’~——see the
men who are only .willin’ to work 8
hours an' would rather work 6. See
these same men any afternoon after
3:30 in the pool rooms playin' cards
or pool an' ‘havin’ a good time, or out
automobilin’ or fishin’, havin’ a darn
good time anyway, an’ then ask our-
selves if the farmers are so urnreason-
able as we would like to think, for not
takin’ kindly to the ideas 0f doin’
their work alone, an’ of bein' under-
paid, an' blamed for everything from
the “flu" to article 10 in the league
of nations. As a general thing we
must all admit that farmers are hon-
est, that they are human and are en-
titled to just as good treatment, an’
jest as many privileges as any class of
people on earth, and‘ when it is recog-
nized that we must all depend on the
farmers for our foo-d an' clothin’,
mebbe some of us will be willin’ to
put in longer day-s an' so help increase
production an’ release some of the
boys that ought to be back on the
farm. Mebbe we will be willin’ to do
this even if it does interfere with our
card business an’ pool an' such. The
fact is there must be a change of some
kind purty dum soon or a hull lot of
us will wake" up some mornin' an' find
we ain’t got nothin’ for breakfast, an’
that there ain’t any chance of gettizn’
anyhin’ either, cause it won’t be there.
to git.

If the young men could only see that
they can ave more money on the farm
than in the city. Why I have talks
daily with farm boys. now workin’ in
the factories an’ the general cry is “I
am in debt all the time,_can’t seem to
make things come out.even, an’ I
might better of staid on the farm with
Dad.” I hear this very often an’ I am
convinced that the city is no place for
the country boy—not if he wants to
save and get ahead. It can’t be did,
not once in a hundred times. Cordial-
ly yours—Uncle Rubc.

If Things Continue

Will a storm be allowed to brew?

Will the moone be allowed to get
full?

Will a ship be allowed to anchor
over a bar?

Will ‘a captain be allowed to put
in some port? ~

Will cock-tails be allowed on the
farmers roosters?

Will itbe allowed to name child-
ren Tom and Jerry?

Will a man be punished for get-
ting half shot in battle?

Will “hops” be allowed in dance
halls?

Will mourners be allowed to pass
the bier at a funeral?

Will a person be allowed
come intoxicated with joy?

Will doctors be allowed to pres-
cribe for sham pain? “

(Fortunately “pop concerts" will
be allowed to _conti-nue.)—0artoons.

to be-

George’s Handicap
A certain senator, deploring the
dishonest methods of one type of
business man. once ‘said,.with a

dial gue I once heard in a southern
school. ‘Children,’ said the teacher,
‘be diligent and steadfast, and you
will succees. Take the case of“
George Washington, whose birthday
we, are soon. to celebrate. Do you
remember my’telling you of the great
difficulty George, Washington had to
contend with?” :-~~‘Yes, ma’am’," said a

 

 

 

   

 

     
  

   
 
 
  
  
    
 
  
    

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V and eggs, coaland auto’ jj-x
mobiles— prices of these things and other
things have climbed and climbed since
Armistice Day. Has the price of anything i
on earth stayed down?

    
  
  
  
  
   
   
   
  
   
    
  
     
 
 
  
 
    
     
   
  
    
   
   
   
  

  

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than the good old price of rout—before; i a?
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Auction Sale

43 High Grade Holstein Cows

Flint, Michigan
April 8th 1920. Sale Starts 1.00 P. M.

Playing sold our farm, and being forced to vacate the premises-
we Will sell 43 very high brade Holstein cows to the highest bidder.

 

, Thisis the oldest and most prominent herd in this section of the
state, having been built up, by using pure bred sires for a great many
years. These cows are in various stages of lactation, nearly one-half
having freshened recently. They have been selected with great care
and dairymen wishing to buy heavy producing fine individuals, with
very large, well-balanced udders, will make a mistake if they do not
attend this sale. . .

The sale includes the present herd sire, Johan Pauline Lad, No. ‘
127548, who has a 30 lb. own sister. This bull is sired by Johan Hen-
gerveld Lad, one of the most popular bulls of the breed. Dam, Edge-
lake Pauline De K01, 26.90 lbs. butter in 7 days at 8.years. Some of
these cows are sired by the above bull and nearly all are bred to him. ‘

Also several young sons of the above sire and out of registered I
cows. will be sold.

      
 

Our farm is situated 8 miles west of Flint on River Road. Free
transportation from end of Glenwood car line or phone 1005 W 1. Terms
of sale, 10 'months' time on approved bankable notes. ‘

'Mortimore Carter & Sons

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:2: a stock term, soil in h state
tlvstionx she drive over state reed to county
t. 100 acres rich loam tillage olsy subsoilé
nee Lawton, wood, timbe, fruit.

brick shaded lawns, b basement
. silo. granary corn houses. Widow unset
and will include to quick buyer 2
hey, grain binder, plows, barrows
long list to'ois 612 2,000 gets
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FOR SALE OR TRADE—100 ACRE FARM

ti ted, good buildings silo, lsr e or-

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ENJAMIN. Rose City, ch.

FARMS FOR SALE—COT A LARGE LIST

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your farm produce and s Youdo not
an agents fee ois kind. Just
price it you buy. Write me
u want me. Address

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R ALE—£94 ACRES IN IONIA 00., NEAR
F131 Lsod Mum-ken. fiodb Wuildin Os
VHBALD , ”Grand Lodge, 11.

 

 

RES SS CLEAREtD PASTURE)
‘vgllynosoil. mall cemfint Pool house,
mainer and}! Jfrom Bill“-

51, 800—8800]. dam.
fig.“ Beaverton, Mich.

GOOD SOIL. WELL FINCED.
1282 “29115:: good barn, good house, good well
and chess housle. leery 410 egg: cleared, one
-2 m e
m3]; “I’ll-nemldoczflon on trunk line road. Pricg
sell. For particulars write to owner,
EFF, 00mins. Osooda 00., Mich.

SALE—MICHIGAN CLOVER SEED

FOR
NDS. Old rass covered, out over clay
:11:- T LA heavy. light‘. to medium. Easily cleati;

re clover seed reproduces thirty to, ii
Soettlers (English speakinl‘g) er: ardagiglfy
m resperous growmg o over e .
‘11::torln‘sm? marketing dairy products. NO BIB-'11;
TE ER RECOMMENDATION. 0000 acres
any also tracts tan-om 80 acres up, 0$10 to $15 an
acre. 10 per cent down, interest 0 per cent.
Settler has option to meet a small stipulated year;
lg cash payment, or :riierely1 “in“? 3;, piroductur. o
e
one peak of clover see yeary D F01! $3;

sod—UNTIL LAND! P
El {arty or

ht) often d or out
ushl of var seed; ill ed-
paoduoiaol on; ios5 e "“1.

interest 6 per cent
ysnen

Will show x,l'midt alter mgr?“ 1st.—
KRAUTH. Minersburg, rescue Isle

unty, chigsn. .
180 AORE FARM. $6.500. NEAR SCHOOL.
IMP Be lan ncc. timber.
OBES ROV VED well. 0min?"

rfin wife.” Cunard .1.
month.

—80 ACRES SQTTOM LAND

F9" “ALE fruit {or home use, good water. 6

to Its. 011. 82, 500, terms. Address JESSE
068 Ben-fin. Mich.

 

no son: FARM. west LOCATED, an
arch. cobwe- trait. 15 . torture.1L
right. Write 'erL' JACKSO Leroy, Mic

 

FOR RENT—420 ACRES OF EIXCELLENT
part1 cared. For
atom pastureh land. wellw mteredm hnmvns Bold-

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FOR SfLoI—‘ISO ACRE. FA

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nd p laugh. .
“Niches? Rook well,105cit. 2

mail-33" house, 10 rofims. Baru,123

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Niel I.lnum size as accepted.
coiled to eliminate all beekeeping.
bed i th "d .ndl the
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You will help us continue our low1 rate mm
The Michigan [Incine-

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Farmer, Ids. Dan’s. Mt.

win mess. orchard, 15 acres timber.

 

FOR CALIF—FIRM OF SO ACRES S OMB-OE?!

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south of 16m and cream ZENKEB.

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sheetcf' tab and silverware. We do
:rgeinsheet “Lookallox 565,01cre, Mich.

Y szee 'NIOI‘I'HLY SALARY AND
WE PA’ sspensee to introduce guaranteed

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All kinds; Delivered prices. Address M.
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BUILDIRI' PRODUCTS 00., 14 PASADENA

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CUMBERLAND RASPBERRY PLANTS FOR
' nla Plants by the twenflty- ve, fifty, hundred
and thousand. The extensively 1171.31?“ of

ca black?“ Send famine“ list. ER 11.
' 3. SW

' sensron cone» sun ersvsns LAT.
chem n 65. 00 or (11.000 82 50 {or 500: S
.00 Rearing-ego. 61'an Paw Paw.

FOR SALE—FORDSON TRACTOR AND TWO
J‘ fourteen inch Oliver ll“glow. in first class
. condition Address BLP Y East Lanai!!!-

FOR SALE: APPLETON FRICTION FEED
drag new. with two 5 1- 2 foot saw blades. Outfit
has only been used one week and is in first class
mdiflonin Price complete 575 f o. b. Turner,

DIETZEL 131103.. Twining. Mich.
CHOICE svenonssn s'rocx AT “aegis;

 

able prices. Nursery rown Norway and
Pines 4 to 0 feet. gust right for windbealrs,
lterbelts, cemeteries, and roadside 8 lantinc
ROSS MARTIN, rayling,

end for price list.
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FOR BALE—100 TONS OF LOOSE MIXED
”also farm of 250 acres 200 acres im-
proved. CH STER WELCH.EIWe11.Mich.

REGISTERED SPRING SEEDS

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e success as. reg No. 961—350 bu;
Wiscoue n Pedigree rley reg. No. 081—200
Robust class 1 Reg No. 931—
‘ bu. Regular association prices. Can fill or-
onee. EARL O. MARTY. Bed An,
neon 00., mob.
i SAID A" GRASS SEN $11. SWEET CLOV-
er O40 LI)Bhee and Hog Rape 618 r 100 lbs.
fiOLD li‘RANK, Heathernac nch, Ster-
, Mic higsn.

dSALI—MARQUIO- SPRING WHEAT.
75am roved a success in Michigan

MlLLS six dyears. 11"W for prices to FARWE

. Fhrwell, Mich.

 

SENATOR DUNLAP STRAWBERRY PLANTS
1 per hundred posr‘paid. Order earlyL MAPLE
WN FARM, She dxn. Mich.

t CANDEE COLONY SROCDER, UP TO 1.000

 

h. 810. Successful incubator 00 egg near-
new. 68. Globe 60 en. 6 O. H. SPOON-
R. Roaobueh, Mich.

FOR SALE—1.200 EGG CANDEE INCUBAT-

 

gr.- 6120, one McKa broader stove, 15. Reg-
red his honor] Po nd China red, also
WILLIAMSI‘ON P0 LTRY FARM.

mean. Mich

 

“DeLAVAL CREAM SEPARATOR"

800 lb. capacity. new. Going out
at dairy business. 650 prepaid.u Order direct from
Id. Satisfaction mused. CORNALFA DU-
i 300 FARM Manuel,

 

— MAGAZINE GIVING THE
LANDOLOGY if) the land situation. Three

 

(acts in regards
ori tion FREE. If for a home. or
flogglmv'e2btssnenm3 {on are thinking at buying sped!
farm lands, write me a m,
”ME“ use Add Editor .Ilfndoldlxy ”Staggglzg
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£112er Go... 898 Ski dmore dgu Marllotte, Wis.
OR SALE—FARM SO ACRES. 1 1-2
milsis north west of Allegan. Good s room

ecrne henhonee.
Wombl'oemm “006d well. windidm ud It‘ll‘k:
:30» “V?“ KNOWLTON? Dunningvme Inch,
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RM FOR SALE BY OWNER.
00:: igfi'house. I. twclcg logberne, we iono-
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“DORIS? GOOD LAND. 10 “EU NORTH»
room fair house, barn,

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I'll-ls. to sooner Lpnnnm 1. Vander-
bil . Mic 11- ~,
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so 65 acres under cul-
3331:,“ mtéwd stgrzmm frame house, l«filler,
c m m,

b.“ ' deep well piped to harmfh'eyhg‘ed,
siele!o16cows.21-2ileelseunee~
‘ roe apples. he tries. 11“strawberries.

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WANTED—SINGLE MAN

a 1 DAN Ronnggs MlAlfillRIiEllD:
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MARRIED MAN
WANTED

Wish to hire married man to work on this terns

as no Weum Millet. be competent
‘as e. without Ilistlhalms ; d. sod,” ”$33.;
O? I man Who Wlmlfi n
molest service. may“ ‘ ' '

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Breakwater Film, Ann Arbor, ' ION.

 

 

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C T0 ms muncsum '

on great political issues. Bond 250 lor
.“What Michigan Women Should Know Abwt
Voting." by Judson Grenell.» to Waterford
Publishing Company, cos Thompson, at,
Ann. ArborkMich.

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hauling manure.
and 401118 some teaming
weather and rain dur
week and the snow
mm hm

in which will pro bebly turn into snow

are long as i is ting colder right

«mg. The so were in pret good
D0 before is last rain.

are sellin hay, potatoes. wood and live-

3. We. lag
the first 0%
want all gone and
we are. having

I. eyare arebuying clover seed for--
inner, and are, c

[binder twine. nation sales are stil

gm plentiful. A many tenant

re are moving week. Quite a

number of , be only partly

worked. unless situation im-

proves. Farmers Ego .to take an

interest in e com elections.

rel mm are“? section to the

this year hop that conditions

gill ‘rove. ff they“ do not ve

urine the year they our the ' sell

, and mt entirely—C. W. . The. fol-

wing pr a were paid at Flint—Wheat

£2.40: corn, 81.60; etc, 97' rye. $1.553
uo west, 8 .yobzans: C. P. S6
11; say 25@30; rye wheel

and o t-straw, 10615; potatoo
.25; onions 8 ; cabbage, $7 hb .. ou-
zumbere, $3 z.' hens, 3 sprin era, 35
. uoks 32mm; ”91382635; rk’eys,
so 42; butter: 17, 5a@63~ creamery,
es 70 butterfat, 7 ; eggs, {some :{2-
010:3 50@ 3'8 beef steers ;
cows, sé 29"“ calves, 0:
cap, {11.60@12.%13.mbs, $17. 60 19;
028. 5 4.2..5@147

ANTRIM—Snow is fast leaving us and
we are glad to see the ground again. Hay
in selling at $38.00* r ton. Ground teed,
8'8 _;40 bran for $2. '5; butter sells for 500
r. pound cream. about '10 to 71¢; pota-
oes, $2. 40 or bu., although potatoes
are nearly al in the buyer-3' hands. The
farmers association has been doing a

ood business this car. I understand
t ey own two of the hree warehouses at
Alden, purchased from local parties.
There has been some auction sales near
here this spring. Cattle sells well. Cows
fire selling for from $60. 00 to 186.00 per
cad. Good mllch cows sell r $100.00
Roads poor, but the heaw rains nredm-
Kroving them. Many port that the
ard winter has killed their peach trees.
' Every indication of a. bountiful fruit crop
this year. ‘Somo wheat fields look hard.
armers much encouraged by the. jump
rye Farmers who invested in west-
em cattle to feed their surplus grain
and fodder claim they will lose heavily
in the deal this your. The centralized
‘Icohoo question of incentralized schools
:ie before the peoplein this township and
will be decided A til: 16th by a. vote of
the district. e voters seem about
evenly divided in opinionH—G R, Han-
over.

MONROE, (N. E. —All‘ signs of
m . Farmers are eginning to rake
rm to oil auction sales; meet every-

things in line of farm tools selling better
’ than some time ago fodder and hay sell-
ing very high. ones. are moving at
much better prioeei About halt a! the

farmers around here have joined the
Farm Bureau. Some farmers are draw-
ing manure, others getting fencing

ready and some finishing up the wood-
wark tor the season. There is not raucls

left to market: mostly scald: out: not
.much or no building going to be done,
just“ necessary repairs There will

some land left idle around here the com-
ing season—G. L. S. The following

ces were paid at Newport: —Wheat,
2@2.26; corn, :1. 95' cats, 90; ha
30@35; wheat-oat do. 50; potatbes {8'
per 150 lbs.; hens, 30@34; springers, 33
@35 live prices: ducks 27; geese, 24'
turkeys, 35 i1butteréi‘iii 'sheep, 7@16
lambs, 12¢! 54:0l105sil2 16' beef steers,
7@9; beef cows, vea. calves, 16@18;
. apples, 9@12 retail

WEXFORD—Yesterday was a. fine
day, the snow melted and went down 4
or 6 inches. Last night was mild and a
little mist and continued until morning,
'and so far it is foggyc with the prob~
ability of the snow going Trains on the
Ann Arbor have been hung up for a
we e.ek Some took the train last week
for Cadillac and had to walk back. It
looks as t that corporation control
isn't as good no government control.
Quite a number of farmers are buying
hay x the winter being so long their sup-
1yy of feed didn‘t seem- to last. A how
days like this will fix the roads so i'tH will

impossible to traverse them—S.

s attend at Cadillac: Wheat,

'2522@$2 ; com, shelled $1. 40: oats,

0; rye. $1.45: $2.50 cwt:
beans, :6. 60 owtn, red kidneys, $8 ..:cwt
hay, $32: potatoes, $4 cwt, cabbage, 6:
hams, 23 @26; sprin s, 236025: ducks,
22@25; geese, 20 23: butterfat, 64:

gs 40' apples $3é 50 Icwt; veal calves,
_°§@'22;ii 11in)

MANISTEE—Thero is not much do—
ing except chores and wood-cutting, as
the roads are so bad we cannot do any-
thing just at present.
rain March 11th, but the snow is d‘oép

the woods yet, although the fields are

re. Snow will scan go if it stays
.warm. Potatoes are in good demand,
but we can‘t move them Beef and
park are scarce and on the raise. The

eather in line overhead, but bad under
labor gone. "found
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2 : butter, 60' buttorfht 66; eggs, 40;
steers, $50313; beef cows, 3592

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JACKSON (NE .)—Since the last re-
port or a. week ago, this locality has. had
every variety of weather. The last two
days saw a heavy fog with slush and
mud, winding- up with rain last night and
today the wind changed to northwest. The
temperature dropped from 52 at 7A M,
to 24 degrees at 6 P. M. tonight Can’t
say what damage has. been done the win-
ter grain, but it had greened up slightly
yesterday and as the ground was too
soft was unable to determine its condi-
tion. Fur-mars are not. very busy except
for chores and odd jobs. A few auctions
are billed. Some rye oi'ng to market on
the “Bethe in price. Roads are very heavy,
exceptthe ‘Good Roads", and the plowing
off of the snow helped them Better
weather is needed. —W.

‘______ .
MONTCALM, N. W.)——'l.‘he farmer
are cutting woo making syrup an
hauling lose to the straw mill. A number
of farmers. have bought tractors to farm
with. Most of the farmers in this vicin-
ity are goingt 0 drive wide sleighs here-
aft tes'. Series are still going on Cows,
chickens and food are the most import-
ant. Hens go for $2.15 a piece. Common
cows “‘9’ worth $186 and bay :4 a ton.»—

. The followingz wicesswer alpai

at Lakeviow—Wheat, $2 .;60 co 0 65
cats, SI; rye SI 60: hay: No.1mothy
25; light nl-i’xedy :25; straw- e.
15; beam ran

wheat-oat, 312;
red kidney, $10; potatoes, :4. 50: culture.

66‘, hens. 25': due 5, 22;, geese, 16: tur-
keys. 24: butter. 06, butter-flex.“ egg
3e, sheep, e, m 10, hogs, i4 sf

bgef steers, 7: beef cows, 4; veal calves,

 

COOK COUNTY, 111—me 1,000 to
1,200 members joined the Cook Co. Farm
Bureau and the Illinois Agricultural Ae-
sociati‘un for three years as the result
of a recent two days’ campaign. We are
having much loose weather which is se-
vere on winter wheat. Rye holes good.
Cabbage and tomato plants which were
planted in hot bath in, early Fe ry
are 1 inch to two inches high already.
There mo in quite a little wood- to saw.
Milk scarce—D, F. T. The following
prices were. paid at Arlington Hei lite;—
Wheat, $2.35; corn, 81.45; oats, 9 ; rye.
$1.50; Hay: No. 1 timothy, ’38: No. 1
light mixed. $27: straw-rye, $12; wheat-
oat, $12; potatoes, $2.26 bu.; hens, 35:
springers, 60: ducks, h42; geese, 40; but-
ter, 75: eggs, 46; hozge)7 814 hundred:
veal calves, 20; wool 5 apples, $2.50.

MASON—Roads and weather do not
permit much to done. Weather is
variable, A (aw potatoes are movin to
market. Price has been going up. ggs
have dropped but butternut has raised.
Auction sales are, numerous. Quite a
number of farms ‘are changing hands.
Most of the new comers are from the
states west of us; some have been tenant

and some are from the larger
cities. K. B Bennie has been appointed
county agent—B. ML 1'

rices were paid at ”Scottvilie end Cus-
en——Wheat, $2.15: e,.$160; be}: $25:
potatoes, $4.16 2-3 cwt.: butter,5 but-
terfat, 68: GEES; 40‘.

ARENAC (ED—Spring is surely near.
Show all' gone and creeks risen, etc.
Roads begin to get bad! and everything
points to an early swing. Famous lock
for a scarcity of farm help as youn
menare goingtotheoitiee so
farms changing hands and at good i-
ces. Prices of farm produce droppn

 

‘ Sugar beets i‘nstgrad of beans by the looks

a? things—M Prices offered at

m: 0min 60:” N0 M1,
32062624; No. 1 light mixed. $20M :

beans (C. H.P.). 55.50;! potatoes. $1.80;
hens, heavy, 26: springer-s, 206025; but-
teri, 45; buttemt, 06; eggs, 85' w'ool, no
pr co.

GRAND TRAVERSE (N E.)-We are
having nice weather again The snow
will soon be gone. Farmers are getting
wood and attending auction sales. Not
much Is being said new as the are
in bad. condition. Lots otter-mere are
leaving this spring—4. L. B.‘ The. fol-

weee net! at
32.55; com, $1.60;

.50 . beans

var-ac

oats. 96 :
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tatoes, 1'1
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(Continued from page 17)
anyone handing a farmer anything
unless they ‘get two prices for it.
You never hear of farmers buying

$10 shirts and $15 shoes or a suit of ,

clothes for $100. This outfit 'costs
the farmer’ about $10. Neither has
he a million dollar appetite on a
hundred dollar salary. He doesn’t
buy luxuries but simply the necessi-
ties of life. If all the people Would
live as simple and saving as the

farmers there would be no cry about '

the H. G. of' L.
Regarding the price of sugar the

,. farmer receives less than 4 1-2c per
‘ lb, the manufacturer 9 .1—2c and the

retailer 4c, thereby costing the pub-

. 'lic 18c per lb. Who is the profiteer?

And it is fast so in everything the
farmensells. Someone else is getting
the lion’s share.

There is no doubt but what the
gap between the producer and the
consumer is too great and in many
instances the consumer could buydi-
root from the producer thereby sav-
ing at least 1-3.

You can rest assured that just as
long as this foreign demand for food-
stuff keeps up just so long the price
will stay high and if the output is
smaller than the demand, that the
price will go still higher.

There has been investigations of
all kinds and .the more they investi-
gated the higher the price goes. Give
the farmers the right kind of weath-
er and send back to them the million
more men that you have taken into
the cities then the food problem will
solve itself.

The public is anxiously waiting
for the guaranteed price of wheat to
expire expecting to get cheaper flour.
This price was placed at‘ $2.26 but
at that wheat sol-d on the market as
high as $3. The bulls and the bears
will take hold of the wheat market
after June lst, then look out for
even higher prices on wheat. The
acreage sown last fall will not ex-
ceed 75 per cent of what was sown
in 1918. and may not produce 450
million bushels so there will be a
shortage of wheat right here at
home.

And unless the beet situation
clears up between now and the mid-

-dle of May there will be a great

shortage of sugar beet sugar. This
sugar question is a peculiar situa-
tion. The greatest farming country
on earth that cannot supply her own
sugar, millions of acres that could be
planted to beets and millions of dol-
lars to build factories, we have both
the land and the money and need
the sugar. The great drawback is
between the farmer and manufact-
urer. The farmer has raised beets
all these years for 35 per cent of
what the consumer has paid for the
sugar, he has been going it blind
but a new day has dawned and he
has come into the light and sees with
his own eyes Just what he has been
doing for years, namely, making
other people rich at his expense. The
farmer has never had a square deal
in this sugar business. He has al-
ways taken what the factory hand-
ed him. He has never had a voice
in the matter or even consulted re-
garding.what he should pay for la-
bor or seed or what remuneration he
should have for his beets. The fact—
ory has always been dictator. Now
come along and make it 50-50, meet
the farmers half way, encourage
them and they can raise enough su-
gar to supply the U. S. again if the
‘factories think that the farmers are
making such a great amount of
money from sugar beets. let the
factories rent the land and than pay
the farmer for his work. Then the

‘ factory will have the beets at actual
. m and the farmer will have the

Mt from the land and‘be paid for
his labor. We can no longer depend
an Cuba for war for the eyes of the

‘ whole world are looking to Cuba for

sugar and the price of that sugar
has jumped 490 per cent while the
price of best sugar has advanced
about 850 per sour-J. I. 3., Bay 09.

 

 

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LEGISLATOR IS ALL
RIGHT, BUT—

Arn reading your farm paper and
hope you will keep right on and not
get “cold feet." 'We farmers need a
paper that will stay by us. ,

The idea of getting a farmer into
the legislature is-all very well, pro
vided he is the right kind Of a man.
Over in Berrien county ‘they have a.
"farmer” who said before he was elect-
ed, “If you put me in I will get a law
protecting sheep." Now what Was the
first bill he introduced? A bill to
raise the salary of‘,the probate clerk.
So much and no more for the sheep in-
dustry. Will you look into the matter
Of North Dakota's tax? The Country
Gentleman of Feb. 7, in an editorial,
says that the League raised the tax
169 per cent. Now there must be an
explanation tothat, I think, the buy-
ing by the state of elevators, so. In
there anything wrong with the Non-
Partisan League? It surely breaks up
the old party rings. Now I admire
your stand on free speech. Keep up

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the good work, not let this country be :

run by “one man.”

The farmers in this part of VanBur- :
en county are cutting down their work

as much as they can as to hire is al-

most an impossibility and the price of .

hogs do not warrant a profit. The

fruit men are in it and will pay al- ‘

most any price when fruit is ripe.
There have been more auctions than
for many years. Feed is selling high.
Cattle are selling fairly well; hogs not
as Well and horses low.

The people around here are for Gov-
ernment control of railroads and are
against compulsory military training.
—Wa1ter N. Sommer, N. W. VanBu’ren

County, M tch.

Yes, I have observed that some of our
“farmer" legislators are as good promise-
makers and promise-breakers as some of
the representatives from the cities, The
Non-Partisan League has, I believe, made
some statement in reply to the Country
Gentleman article. I will secure a copy
and publish it.—-Editor.

M. B. F. GETS MONEY FOR SUB-
SCRIBER
I received a check fro
yesterday for $26.10. You certainly
stirred them up in great shape. I
wrote them four times and they
wouldn't answer me. I thank you
very much for giving it your atten-
tion. Let me know what your charge
is for collecting and I wlll pay you.—
James R. Rice.

 

 

 

There is no charge for our services.
We are glad to be of help to our readers.
We have omitted the name of the firm in
this case for the reason tfat our investi-
gation did not show that they were at-
tempting to defraud our subscriber.
Their plea was ‘hard times," and we all
know what that means—Editor.

ADEQUATE RETURNS, SOLUTION
OF HIRED MAN PROBLEM

(Continued from page 6)
meat, butterfat, eggs and hay and I
know absolutely nothing about what
the cost or any of these articles will
be next seasori and less about what
they will sell ion. ’

I have a 120 acre farm of good im-
proved land, and am doing what I can
at it alone. I haven’t the nerve to of-
fer a man the rate q: wages that I
can afford to pay, and I hope I have
too much sense to offer him a higher
rate. __
I believe that the day is near when
a committee of farmers will set the
prices of farm products. 14; is only
because I believe this that I stay on
the farm instead of going to the city
for some or these big wages and
short hours. When that time comes
the farmer’s hired help problem will
be solVed, for he will be able to bid
against others for labor.

\This will also settle many other
problems such as “keeping the boys
on the farm". Better rural schools,
better rural churches. the citie’s hous-
ing conditions, etc.

I should like to ask “Hired Man"
from Geneseee or whatever county it
was, one question. It is this: Did
the farther who paid his men the
$509 bonus have no other business?
Or was farming, with him, simply a
hobby on which he lost money that
was made in some other way—Albert
Yuan modes. 04m, Hatch.

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Penny Wise—Pound Foolish
Separator Buying

4 Many buyers of cream separators are
tempted to save $10 or $15 in first cost
by buying some ‘ ‘cheaper” machine than
a De Laval.

   
  
    
  
  
  
   
   
   
 
    
  
  
   
  
   
    
   
 
  
    
   
  
   
     
   
  
   
   
  

  
   

In practically everycase
such buyers lose from 10
to 50 cents a day through
the use of an inferior
Separator.

That means from $36.50
to $182.50 a year—and
not only for the first year
but for every year the sep-
arator continues in use.

TWice a Day—Every Day in the Year

7" should always be remembered that the cream separator-
saves or wastes in quantity and quality of product, and in
time and labor, twice-a-day every day in the year.

 

 

 

Moreover, a De Laval Separator lasts twice as long on the
average as other separators. There are De Laval farm sep-
arators now 28 years in use.

The best may not be cheapest in everything but it surely
. is in cream separators.

 

 

  
   
  
   
  
 
  
  
   
   
  
  
  
  
   
 
  
   
    
   
   
  
  
  
   
     
    
  
  
     
   
  
   

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165‘ Broadway 29 East Madison Street 61 Beale Street
NEW YORK CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO

More than 50,000 Branches and Local Agencies the World Over

 

 

 

 

 

Few Manufacturers know
as Hirth-Krause does
the wearing quality
of their shoes
Hirth-Krause, tan and prepare
their own leather, buying the raw
hides from Nfichigan farmers.
They know the leather is good.
They have scientifically treated it
so that it is acid and water proof
and will give long wear. This shoe
is made by them complete “from
hide to shoe.”

  
 
  
  
 
 
  
 
 
  
     

Because Hirth-Krause shoes are
made to fit perfectly the ‘36 bones
of the foot, they not only give
greater comfort than ordi-
nary shoes, but also out last
them and keep their shape.

“For the man who
works” this is the shoe, ~ .
looks like an aristocrat, and wears
like iron.

ROUGE REX
(Red Kins), '

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LOWDEN

4401'—

PRESIDENT

BOrn and reared on a farm. Edu-
cated himself through his own
efforts. Sent to Congress for
three terms. Elected Governor
of Illinois. Reduced taxes in Illi-
nois from 90c to 60c in two years
on each $100.00 valuation, and
saved the state $8,000,000.00.
Passed the finest legislation for
Agriculture of any state in the -.
Nation.

Lowden is the Farmer’s Great Opportunity
Primary April 5, 1920.

 

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Does not winter-kill. Succeeds on all kinds of soil. Better than red
clover as a. soil builder. Prepares the land for alfalfa and other clovers.
Equal to alfalfa in feed value. We do not handle Southern seed, but
offer choicest. selections of Michigan grown; 99. 75% pure; high germin-
ation, scariiied, best in the world. Selling at about half the price of
red clover seed, every fa1 mer should investigate it. A Special Bulletin
€\Dlainim: cultivation and uses of this most valuable legume, sample
of seed and our 1329 Seed Book free. on request. We are headquarters
for Michigan Clovei, Alsike, Vetch, Peas, Northwestern Alfalfa, etc.

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such articles appear in print for the

inspectibn of the farmer, so we may.

go acquainted with the exact situa—
on. 4

I quite agree that the prices of:
ho s will .be at a figure, that will
As evi-

dence for this statement, I might

say, being a breeder of the Big Type ,

Poland China hogs, I am very much
interested in the welfare 0f produc-
tion of pork, When it arrives at the
market. In my rounds among the
Poland China sales in Iowa, South
Dakota and Minnesota, this Winter, I
came in contact with many breeders
and farmers, and to my surprise- I
found that we western states were
very much mme Shy of hog; than
had been I'JfiOited. This is the rea-
son for the small shipmem-i into the
markets, and not that the farmers
are generally holding, as We have
seen in‘ print. I also learned that
feeders were eagerly sought, as early
as last January, even as far north
as North Dakota, by parties from
Missouri and other states, where
feeding is carried on extensively in
the corn belt. They could not be had
near home. Also in Iowa, farmers
who were in the habit of having up
to 75 brood sows toufarrow litters
for market feeders, it was difficult to
find a few who had more than 10
sows this winter that would farrow.
Many and many a farm is without
a hog.

Another condition that“ exists
among farmers 'and breeders alike.
It has been difficult for some rea-
son or other to get the sow settled
so she is safe with pig and a great
many have lost their litters. This
is a condition that not only exists in
Michigan, but in the west as well.
The public would be surprised to
know how many sows that were list-
ed in the. catalogs to sell, that had to
be substituted, because they were
not settled and came in a heat the
second and third time. This, Mr.
Farmer has a great deal to do with .
the amouflof pigs that will be
weaned and go into the feed lots.

In Michigan, farmers are complain-
ing that so many sows are dying. A'
veterinary told me the other day,
that he’ had lost 12 cases in one day.
This doctor covers only a small ter—
ritory, if the condition_is the same
all over the state, 'it means a great
amount of pigs that will be missing
on the market this fall. These are
conditions as I actually know them
to exist.

We also know that on Sept. 1,
1919, there were about 2,500,000
less hogs in the states than the
previous year. Together with the
above existing ’conditions, I abso—
lutely see no reason why the short-
ge of hogs will not be very noticeable
If supply and demand has anything
to do with the price the situation
looks favorable for the farmer who
has a few in the feed lot, and a good
Poland China sow or two to farrow
in April or May, or some other breed
for that matter, but be sure they are
pure bloods. At the present time it

   
        
 
 
        
     
     
        
    

 

   

exception to the article by G. I.’ Christ-'

111,111 11-
It: Would be an
ation.

sample copy. When yen have stud-

ied these papers as well as Others,.
notice that Mr.
Christie is a student of the exact:
‘ situation as it really exists
we most need is, co- -operation between ‘1

you will at once

producer and consumer. This. will
hit “High Cost of Living.” The farm--
or will get what he is entitled to and
the consumer will pay less. ———0. A.

B., Isabella County

 

A GREAT JERSEY RECORD

The world's Jersey champion-
ship for butterfat, production has
just been won by Plain Mary
268,206, owned by Mr. F. W. Ayer
of Bangor, Maine. Plain Mary fin-
ished her year’s authenticated record
Feb. 27 with 15,255.9 lbs. of milk,
and 1,040.07 lbs. of butterfat, equiv-
alent to 1,223.53 lbs. of 85 per cent
butter to her credit. Her average
butterfat test for‘the year was 682
per cent. At the beginning of, the
test she was owned on a plain dairy
farm some sixty miles north of Ban—
gor‘where she remained until test
was finished. She made her record
in a plain every day barn, was milked
but three times a day. While in case
of many of the large records they
are milked four times a day. She 3.13
had the adverse influence of a very
severe winter to contend with the
thermometer registering as low as
45 degrees below zero. Another ev-
idence that the Jersey is hardy and
has the ability to adapt herself to
unfavorable conditions. To avoid
any possible error or fraud in the
test ofLPlain Mary there were twenty-
two supervisors of the tests, each for
two days by testers from the agri-
cultural colleges of Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts
and Connecticut.

 

SOME THINGS I LEARNED
ABOUT SHEEP BABNS
(Continued from page 8)
phase of the sheep businessvis cov-
ered as it concerns the overage Am-
erican grain farmer. The name of
this book is “Practical Sheep Hus-
bandry, ” and as its name implies it
deals with all the various sheep prob-
lems in a practical way. ,Wedo, not
guarantee that everyone who reads
this book will make a
handling sheep, but we claim that if
he follows the rules and suggestions.
in it, that he can not help but suc-
ceed. The price of this book is $1,
but anyone interested needs only to
drop us a line and the book will be
sent to him on approval.

Our object in offering this book to\
our subscribers is to help them to
solve their problems, also to produce
better wool and mutton. If you are‘
interested in sheep, would like to
feed them, or are now handling them
you will get information outvof this
book that will be of great value to '

you. Remember, that if you do not ‘

wish to keep the book, your money
will be cheerfully returned.

 

 

investment for
eVery farmer werth while to out»;
scribe to several swine papers, ;.in-
order to keep abreast ‘with- the Situ- -
The American Swineherd, the .
Swine World, beth Chicago. Ill. or '
"the Poland China Journal,
City, Mo., are all good. Write for a ;

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type, show gou‘n proof and tell you what It yvill cost for 13, 28 or 62 times.
r Auction Sales advertised here at special low rates: ask for them.
DIRECTORY, THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER. Mt. Clemens, ‘Michican.

issue. eeders’

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SALE DATE“?

10 avoid conflicting dates we will without
cost. list the date of any live stock sale In

 

N‘chigan If you are considering a sale ad-
vise us at once and we will claim the date
f‘." you. Address. Live Stock Editor. M. 3-
rj, Mt. Clemens.

April 1. Holstein. Dwight G. .Bapp.
(using, Mic h.

.April 7. Holstein. Angus and Poland Chines-
lemon Ciough. Parma, Mich. .
Mortimore Carter &

April 8. Iloisteins.
$.11... Flint, Mich.
April 12 Holsteius. J. P. Olcott. Perry,

Michigan
May 10. Iierefords. Newton County Here-
ford Breeders’ Ass‘n. Kentiand, Ind.

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Stock the Farm with
Purebred Holstein Cattle

In spite of the increasing cost of

feed, dairying offers you a better
opening today than it ever has in the
past.

The scales and the Babcock test
have systematized the industry until
it is no more uncertain than any oth-
er' business. Even city business men
are awakening to its opportunities.
Every year it becomes clearer that
with large yield cows, the cost of
milk and butter production can be
brought down to a point that makes
dairying profitable. Have you ever
figured out what your farm would
be worth to'you, if stocked with
purebred Holsteins?

Send for Free Illustrated Booklets.

THE HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION

295 Hudson Street
Brattieboro. Vermont

FOR SALE

20 Head Pure-Bred Holsteins

Good) breeding. Some

four months to 0 years.
A. R. 0. . dams up to 32

Some have A.

L. L. ROCHE & SON

'PINCKNEY, Livingston Co., MICH.

MR MILK PRUDUIIER

pounds.

 

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

A son of Maplecrest Application Pontiac——
182662—from our heavytv‘yearly-milking- -good-but-
ter~record dam will solve

Maplecrest Application Pcntiac's dam mead
86.103 lbe.butter1n' 7 days; 1344.3 lbs. butter
end 28421. 2 lbs. milk in 365da ye.

1 He is one of the greatest longy distance sires.

Ills daughters and sons will prove it.

Write us for pedigree and prices on his sons.

Prices right and not too high for the average
dairy farmer.

Pedigrees and prices on application.

1 R. Bruce McPherson. Howell. Mich.

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FOR SALE

? ‘ . THOROUGHBRED
; HDLS'I'EIII DDWS

i combinin blood of Traverse City and
Maple rest stock, granddaughters of
I. Friend Hengerveld De Koi Butter Boy.

' Prices $300 and

. WILLIAMS '& WHITACRE

i ‘R. F. D. No. 4 Aliecan. Mich.

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I the.“ “OI“ their hS‘rddi Wiles Kiel) plexaised P .
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Kornd ke Se w o a son of

Pd or daughter .oLPon-

. Do 301 2nd. A few bull calves for~
I19... .Bprague. ‘R. 2. Battle Creek. Mich.

F050! Sell: Registered Holstelm. 1 young cows. A.

to 81 l.b bull. Herd on State Fed~
list. Wyn. Grl

din. Howell. Mich.
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inn“ bull 91115.3 sir edp
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1). son 1of King Begin Cham-
lKH ks B uble grshnds'on of(l lgng
I: orndy 5. aims are eavy pro 11 ng
. Prices reasonable. breeding consid-

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BREEDERB'

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You can change size of ad. or copy as often as you wish.
Write today i)

 

 

DIRECTOR

Better stlll.

write out what you have to alter, let us
Copy or changes must be received one week he ore date

 

musour BROS.’ 1101mm;

We are now booking orders for
young bulls from King Pieter Segis
Lyons 170506. 1411 from A R. dams
with credible records. We test annu-
ally for tuberculosis. Write for pric-
es and further information.

Min-loll Bros., South Lyons. Michigan

 

 

 

BULL UALF LAST ADVERTISED soap,

but have one more for sale. Nice-
1y marked, straight back line, a fine individual,
larze growthy 'ellow with the making of a large
bull Would 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 Hengerveld DeKol
Butter Boy. one of the great bulls.

JAMES HOPSON. JR.

Owosso .- - Ra - - Michigan

 

I WILL HOLD A COMBINATION SALE
of registered and grade Holsteins, registered and
grade Angus, horses and Poland China Hogs. on
April 7th, at my farm. 11 miles N. W. of Jack-
son. on Jackson- Springport state road.

VERNON CLOUGH. R2, Farms. Mich.

BROOKSTOH FAHM REGI s 'r z a E p

AI'IOLSTEIN BULL

Calves for sale, sired byM RYLAND BELLE
CLOTHILDE No. 154358, born Dec. 14.

A grandson of Colantha Johanna Lad. one of the

greatest living sires and of a 31.44 lb. daughter

of Sir Korndyke Manor De K01. His two near-

est dams storage 25. 89 lbs. butter in seven days.

BROOKSTOII FARMS

H. WIDDICOMB, Prop. Big Rapids, Mich.

TWD BULL DALVES

Registered Holstein-Frieslan. sired by 39. 87 lb.
bull and from heavy producing young cows. These
calves are very nice and will be priced cheap If

sold soon.
HARRY T. TUBBS. Elwell. Mich.

Four Choice Bull» Calves

Dams have records from 20 lbs. to 26 lbs.
Wilde by our 32 lb. son of the $50,000 bull.
LAKE SIDE DAIRY. Lake Odessa. Mich.

MY HERDSMAII SAYS.)

“You must get rid of these young bulls, We have
10 more calves coming this month and no room

for them.

Y 80 HERE GOES

Nice straight bull calf born March 6th.1920
from young heifer sired by Stronghurst King One.
I paid $26 for this service fee. Price 876.

Young calf born Jan. 28th out of my sire
and a promising young heifer. $75.

Calf born Feb. 27 out. of my sire and 24 lb.
$311. $150. And so on up to bulls of serviceable

Remember this herd now has several 30 lb.
cattle and we are testing cows as they freshen
giving our young stock a real chance.

Herd under Federal supervision.

HILLCREST FARM. Ortonvlile,

 

 

 

Mich.
. or write
JOHN P. HEHL. 181 Griswold st.. Detroit

HATCH HERD

(State and Federal Tested)
YI’SILANTI. MICHIGA’

Otters young sires out of choice a.lvanc-
ed registry dams and King Korndyke Art-
ie Vale. Own dam 34.16 lbs. butter in 7
days:; average 2 nearest dams 37.61. 6
nearest. 33.93. 20 nearest 27.83.

 

 

 

“Breeding-- Individuality-- 1
Production”

That's our motto. We make it mible
through our two herd bulls—one a 88 Ill)» son
of the $30, 000 sire, King Korndyke Pontiac

as, the other a 86 lb. son of King Korn-
dyke Sadie Vale. "the greatest sire of his gen-
eration. " Our matrons are etcng in King of
the Pontiacs. King Segls. Hengerveld DeKol
and Ormsby blood. We’ve been at It since
1906. Usually something to sell. Write

BOARDMAN FARMS
Jackson. Mich.

 

 

 

 

NICE STRAIGHT LIGHT COLORED BULL

call born February lat. Sired by Flint Hen-
gerveld Lad. who ose two nearest dam average
32.06 lbs. butter and 786. 45 lbs. milk in 7 days.
Dam, a 24 lb. daughter of a son of Pontiac De
Nijlander 36. 48 lbs. butter and 760 lbs. milk in
Io days. Write for prices and extended pedigree

L. 0. K ETZLER

runs. Mich. ,

 

Herd under state and Federal Inspection

A Splendid Bred Bull

born Dec .12th. 1919.111“, e 26 1b.
old son of King of the Pontiace. Dame 9 231a;
daughter of Woydcrset De Kol Lad 26A. 0.

Dan ghtere. dam a daughter of Beryl
Wayne’s Paul "D's Kol 2nd. Nice marke
teed. Price $125.00. 1, d "Id
AZLEY STOCK FARM. YPSILANTI. MICH.
Address all correspondence ‘ .,
JOHN BAILEY

" 819 Atkinson Ave.. Detroit. Mich.

 

LAST ADVERTISE!) SOLD TO

Mr. F. W. Alexander. Vassar.

Mich. New offer a hull two
years old about 1 -2 white and straight as a
line (sElred by MAPLE CREST KORNDYKE
HENG VELD and from FLINT ULTRA
NUDINER a 28. 22 pound daughter of FLINT
PRINCE. Bull carrier 15 per cent
blood as KING FLINT. If you went a di-
rect descendant of BUTTER BOY ROBINA
now is your chance. -

Price $200.
ROY F. FICKIES. Ohesanlng. Mich.

 

 

 

 

MODEL oIIIIID SEGIS GLISTA

His sire a 30 lb. son of Lakeside King Segll
Alban De Kol.

Hie dam, Glista Fenella. 82. 37 lb.

Her dam, Glista Ernestine. 36. 96 lb.

His three nearest dams average over 88 lbs.
and his forty six nearest tested relatives average
over 30 lbs. butter in seven days. We offer one
of his sons ready for service

GRAND RIVER STOCK FARMS
O. G. Twist, Mgr. Eaton Rapids. Mich.

BULL NICELV MARKED, GOOD BONED

bull calves out of A. R. 0. and un-
tested dams, at reasonable price Mi h
c .

TRACY F. GRANDALL. Howell.

 

SHORTHORN

WHAT DO YOU WANT? I represent 41
SHORTHORN breeders. Can put you in
touchwith best milk or beef strains. Bulls
all ages. Some females. C. . Crum.
Pres1dent Central Michigan Shorthorn
Association, McBrides. Michigan.

 

SHORTHORNS AND POLAND CHINAS FOR
sale. Registered cows, heifers, bull calves, bred
sows and fall pigs, either sex. The farmers’ kind
at farmers' prices.

.M. PIGGOTT & SON

Union Phone Fowler. Mich.

SHURTHDRK

0. M. YORlK.

I1 offer bulls 4 me. to 18 mos.
cow, 1 heifer calf.
Millington. Mich.

 

Fon SALE SCOTCH SHORTHORN BULL
calves ready for service.

JOHN LESSITER’S SONS’, Clarkston. Mich.

Phone. Pontiac 7115-F-3 or Orion Exchange

 

THE VAN BUREN CO Shorthorn
Breeders‘ Association have young stock
for sale, mostly Clay breeding. Write
your wants to the secretary. Frank Bai-
ley. Hartford. Mich

 

HE BARRY COUNTY SHORTHORN BREED-
ers Association announce their fall catalog ready
for distribution. Scotch, Scotch l‘op and
Shorthorne listed. Address
W. L. Thorpe. Seo.. Milo. Mich.

SPECIAL OFFER SHORTHORNS—
Cows $250. 00 to $300. 00. Bulls, $200. 00
to szto. oo. Wm J. Bell. Rose City. Mich.

HURDIIA STDGK FARM

Over fifty head of Scotch and Scotch Topped
Shorthoms. Am oflering several good bulls, cows
and heifers, Roans, Reds and Whites. Write or

see them.
8. H. PANGBORN. Bad Axe. Mich.

OR SALE—SHORTHORN BULL CALVES

Ewready for service. Also young Oxford Down
Wes. Prices to sell.

JOE MURRAY 3. SON R2, Brown City, Mich.

SI'IDRTIIDRII

Bull. blaster Model 57614
head of herd of 50 good type Sho
E. M. PARKHURST. Reed City. Michigan.

FOR SALE fgdr‘ny asheechvysgrgirdnglri‘g (12:3 calf
. 8. HUBER. Gladwln. Mich.

"liking Shorthorns. Registered females $200
and up. Bull calves at $100 Go own all hand
milked. ROY s. FINCH. Fife Lake. Mich.

8 SHORTHORN BULLS. 11 MONTHS TO 2
yrs. 50 Young Tom Turkeys 20 lbs. up. out of
yAntrlm’s King a 45 1b. Tom, at $10 each

JA W. THUMM. Elmira, Mich.

FOR SALE AT REA-

eonable prices. The

'Prize- -winnlng Scotch
m ny states

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

at it in M

ANGUS

 

Aberdeen-Angus on the Range!

The X. I. '1‘. Ranch used
6.000 bulls of the three
breeds in Texas to demon-
strate to the world that
Aberdeen-Angus are superior
on the range, and that
there is nothing to the old
canard that Aberdeen-Angus-
. do not get as many or more
calves than the bulls of other
breeds whemused under range conditions. The
grand champion carlot of the 1919 International
was range bred, and the grand champion feed-
ers of 1917 and 1918 were range bred. The
grand champion carlot Portland 1918, Salt Lake
City 1919, Oklahoma Cit 1918, Jacksonville.
Fla, 1919 9, and Fort Wort 1909 1910,1911
1913 and 1914 were the same kinds. Top 'markot
cattle at Seattle annually come from the Aber-
deen—Angus. Write for "Aberdeen-Angus as
Range Finders."

AMERICAN ABERDEEN-ANGUS BREEDERS'
ASS’N. 817 M B EXCHANGE AVE.. CHICAGO

The Most Profitable Kind

of farming, a car load of grade dairy heifers
from LENA‘VEE COUNTY'S heaviest milk pro-
ducers to include a pure bred ANGUS hull of the
most extreme beef type for combination beef and
dairy farming.
Car lot shipments assembled at GLENWOOD
FARM for prompt shipment.
Methods explained in SMITHS PROFII‘ABLE
STOCK FEEDING. 400 pages illustrated.
GEO B. SMITH. Addison. Mloh.
BARTLETT! PURE BRED ABERDEEN-
ANOUS CATTLE AND 0.|.0.
Swine are right and are priced right. 0°“°‘

spondence solicited and inspection invited.
CARL BARTLETT. Lawton. Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

GUERNSEYS
GUERNSEYS WE ARE OFFERING FOR

sale some splendid bull calves
out of A. It. dams with records up to 600 lbs.

 

’fat. Our herd sire, a grandson of Dolly Dimples

May King of Langwater. and whose dam has an
A. R. record of 648 lbs. fat at 2 1- 2 years is
also for sale or excha‘ge. Write for particulars
and prices to

MORGAN BROS. R No 1. Allenan. Mich.

REGISTERED GUERNSEYS
Away with the Scrub Bull.
Breeding better Guernseys.
Bull calves that will improve your herd.
J. M. WILLIAMS

North Adams. Mich.

 

0R SALE: GUERNSEY BULL. GRANDSON
F of Gov. of the Cherie from A R. O. dam. 10
mos. old. Also other bulls from 2 to 7 mos. old.

Write for articulars.
0. IL!) HENNESEY. Watervllet, Mich.

 

 

 

JERSEYS

For Sale—Jersey bull calves. Oxford and Ma-
jesty breeding. Dams are heavy producers.
L. c,ARTER R4. Lake Odessa. Mich.

A Few Registered Jersey

cows for sale. Herd of tWenty- three to choose

from. Also bulls ready for servic
H . a A. H. DONALDSON. Fentcn. Mich.

 

 

BROWN SWISS

B ROWN SWISS
sale—both sex.
Bellalre. Mich.

 

VAL VERDE FARM
Registered calves for
EDWIN GRISWOLD. R1.

FOR SALE

I HAVE ANOTHER PURE BRED

BRDWII SWISS BULL UALF

that was born Feb.4, 1920. Will give purchae-
or registration and transfer

FRA ANK POET. Clare, Mlch.. R 8

Breeder of Brown Swiss Cattle

 

 

 

RED POLLED
0R SALE REGISTERED RED ROLLED
bulls ready for service.
HERBISON BROS.. R 3. Birmingham. Mich.

 

HEREFORDS
120 HEREFORD 81EEBS.ALIO
know of 10 or 15 load: fancy unity
Shorthorn and Angus steerss to 10 o lbe.‘

Owners anxious to sell. Will hel bu I
commission. C. 1“. Ball. Fairflel’d. 16172..

Hardy Northern Bred Hereford:

BERNARD FAIRFAX 624819 HEAD OF HERD
anion“ year's calves for sale. 10 bulls and 10
e

JOHN MaeGREGOR. Herrlaviile. Mich.

 

 

' REGISTERED HEREFORD CATTLE

KING REPEATER HEADS OUR HERD
We still have eight good bulls and some he“-
era tor sale.
Come ands
STONY CRQEnEK STOCK FARM
Pewamo. Mich.

 

 

 

O {THORN SALE!

: at the Ioma Fair Grounds.

[IRCH 31 at 1:99 P M.

g... / SWINE .

 

  

AYSIIIRES

FOR SALE—REGISTERED AYRSHIRE
bulls and bull calves. heifers and heifer oalvee.

Al some choice cows.
80 FNIDLAY BROS.. R B. Vassar, Mich.

 

 

 

 

POLAND CHINA

a... namrw>_Big Bob Mastodon

“a P c “EEgDE IF YOU WANT TO GET

inht e King row buy a
Gilt bred to BIG BOB MAST 0N.DO
He has. more Grand Champion Blood In his
veins h‘than any other bear in
have 15 choice Gilts bredf to him for March
and April (arrow. ' pigs of bi or
O. E. GARNANT . Eaten Rapids. Mich.

 

 

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DONG BOB for leg. urging.
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TI! me. P. mugs,
ma um.

I}. 1.920.“. For "mum
W. J; WA“! Mich.

man AND FALL
Out of
1. {00 1b. sire and mammoth sows from Iowa’s
greatest herds.

E. J. MATHEMSON. Burs Ooh. Mich.

L T P 0 AM OFFERING SPRING
boars. summer and fall pigs.
F. T. HART. St. Louis, Mich.

 

m P. C'. DRE.

 

 

Am Offering Large Type Poland China Sows.

bred to F’s Orange at reasonable pirces. Also
fall pigs. Write or call MI h
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cups FISHER. R3, 51. Louis.

 

must Sell L. T. P. c. Gilts, bred for Mar. and
Apr.H furrow. Bargain if taken at once.
H. M. JEFFRIES. St. Louis, Mich.

 

T. P. 0'. ALL SOLD OUT, EXCEPT SOME
fall gilts. Thanking my customers.
JOHN D. WILEY, Schooicmft. Mich.

 

ARS ALSO SOWS AND PIGS. ANYTHING

 

you want. Poland Chinas of the biggest type.

We have bred them big for more than . 5. ears:

over 100 head on band. 130 tere’d rch—

erons. Holsteins, and Oxfords. Every hing sold at

a reasonable price, and a square deal.

JOHN c. BUTLER. Portland. Mich.

uni-”cf MENTION OF MY“ .MICHIGAN
Buster in Williams & Sons'

Giant
Buster catalog of their 'Mar. 10th sale, page 9.
Four fall gilts by him priced right. 8. C
Brown Lezhorns and Butt Rock eggs.

0. L. WRIGHT. Jonesvllle. Mich.

HERE'S SOMETHING 6000

THE LARGEST BIG TYPE P. c. IN MICH.
Get 11 bigger and better bred boar pie from my
herd at a reason: 1ble price. Come and see them.
Expenses paid if not as represented. These bears
in service: L’s Big Orange, Lord Clansman,
Orange Price and L’s Long Prospect.
W. E. LIVINGSTON Parma. Mich.

WONDERLAND HERD

LARGE TYPE P. C.
A few choice bred gilts for sale. Also fall cilts
and boars, some very good prospects of excellent
rbreeding. Gilts bred to OIiJPHANS SUPERIOR
. BIG ORPHAN'S EQUAL by BIG BONmE
ORPHAN by the BIG PRHAN.
guavrrs CHOICE by ORAVOGE BUD by BIG’

Free livery to visitors
Wm. J. CLARKE.
Eaton Rapids. Mich.

ARGE. TYPE POLAND CHINA HOGS. BOAR
:pigm spring farrovv. Single Comb Rhode Island
Red Coclmrels. Write for pedigrees and prices.
Inspection invited.
FRED (2. V1088. Avon. Mich.

FOUR CHOICE 8PRING AND FALL
left breI-Sl for April fnrrow.

boars left. A few extra nice gilt:
O. SWARTZ. Schoolcrott, Mich.

 

 

 

 

  

 

m of all ages. flows bred or open.

New-
ton a Blank. Hi1] Crest Farms Perrln n h.
Minnie-t Mbraichteeu 01111111111133”

MEADOWIIIEM! FARM REG. DUROC JERSEY
hose.“ Sprint piss for sale. .
more . Mich.

sum seen nus mm”... "m"

did individuals. Bred

f'er April farrow. Would like to have you. see them.
CHERRY LAWN FARM. shonhel'd. MIIII.

In!“ JERSEY BRED COWS AND Gl'LTS
April and May farrow.
Sired or bred to my 1.008 lb. herd boar.
JOS. SCHUELLER. Weldman. Mich.

 

 

 

 

BUROC BRED SOWS AND GILTS SIRED BY
Orion Cherry King Col. 2nd, first aged boar at
Detroit in 1910. and bred to All Co]. of Sanso-
mo. He is an intensely Col. bred boar and the
Col. 3 were never more popular than now Priced
from $65 to $100 each.

W. TA Y'LOR, Milan. Mich.

 

APLE LAWN FARM REG. DUROC JERSEY
va'ne. Order your spring pigs now. Pairs

and tries not akin.
FER I. R6. Eaton Rapids, Mich.

 

DUROC JERSEYS. ONE TRIED 80W SIRED
by Orion Cherry King 6th. Bred for May farrow
C. E. DAVIS & SON. Ashley. Mich.

E OFFER A FEW WELLPBRED SELECT-
ed spring Duroc Boers. talso bred sows and
Gilte tein son. Call or
McNAUGHTON a FORDYCE. St. Louis. Mich.

F0" SAL REG. ounoc GI 1's onto 10

 

furrow March am April. mod-
' ern type, weighing 250 lbs. Sired by Brookwa-
ter l‘axlmyer and Professor Top Col. Bred to

Breakwater Panama Special. Price $65 to $100
All fall pigs. both sex.

F. HEIMS & SON. Dawson, Mich.

HILLD‘S PRle WINNING DUROCS FOR

Isle—n5 few good boars of breeding one. also

a few good zilts, prices right let me convince you.
Henry D. Phillips. Milan. Mich.

GORIALH BURN} FARM

is now offering a few more choice gilts bred to
that great boar “FANNIE’S JOE ORION”- for
April and May farrow. At reasonable prices.
Write for price and description.

L. HOUCK. Mgr.. Morencl. Mlch.

 

 

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grails-1min dung‘gmnfg‘?‘

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A M house! heel-In.
flat: I: Wig-limo”;
time. Write your wantsto

CLARE V. DORMAN. enover. Mloh.

1r » mt D~WA§-AUS.:aO KA FARM
oersaewmoxe I..bred1ts|lsohatch-
Ina one from “Re flm W
do“ and "Pork" mm st 32pm- 1:6.
White Runner ducks 82 per 11 and White Chin.

“40¢ each. Alleles prepaid
DIKE 0. MfLLER. Dryden. Mich.

 

 

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I. C. SWINE—MY HERD CONTAINS THE
of the most noted herd. Cantu furnish

you stock at ”live and let live" prices.
A. J. QORDEN. D

om mom. a a.

  
  
 

rows - . .: surnames
masons “mam
lmfltndshli‘:

. wig-W Sbn Ergugfiorondgncelist
' -‘ IPABSDNRGWLGEE Mich. Rm. .

ANT A SHEEP? Let American " L'

Sheep Association send you a dandy booklet

With list of b.1'eeders Write COMFORT A.
TYLER. See y. 10 Woodland Ave.. Detroit, Mich.

 

 

 

 

’FOR GALE—60 GOOD BREEDING EWES.

and 3 rams. No pasture. Must sell.
Wm. C. DICKEN. Smyrna. Mich.

FOR SALE

100 TWO YEAR OLD WESTERN EWES
due to commence lambinz April 10th
Price $18. 00 each if sold at once.
H. M. REYNOLDS
Marlon. Mich. R. F. D. No. I

HAMPSHIRE SHEEP

Everythinu sold out, both ewes and rams.
I am breeding 50 owes to "Stroman 209" an
excellent biz boned type ram lamb that
weizhed 176 lbs. October 1. Booking orders
.for 1920 rams.

CLARK U. HAIRE, West Branch. Mich.

 

 

no: Dent neon-n1 Mom;
twenty. unimmulflbh.‘

   

 

 

  
  

Moe ewe lambs for 8350.
FARMS. Com Mloh.

    
       
   
   
    

 

      
    
 
  
      
  
     
 
   
   
 
    
   
   
 
   
     
    
     
     
    
  
   
    
    
   

   

 

Fan SALE 3111mm Pony. born May 25, 1919.
Also brad mare, 2 years old.
MARK B. CUHDY. R O. Howell, Mlch.

FDR SAL Fum'sh Glam Rabbits that are

giants. old and young, in blacks.
steel stays and natural grays. Quality mtanteed.‘
E. E. H'MEBIHIUIPH
c

 

Goldwater.

HORSES

Fen SAL 0": IRON GRAY 5 YEAR OLD
Percheron stallion, Prince No.

148423. Sired by Brilliant IV No. 47531d am black

horse and sold once for $3. 000. The of

Prince 11. large gray mare No. 14 48423. Price 3300.
D. E. DEAN. Milford. Mich.

Percheron for Sole—21 Head

Sevier 130757 at head of herd. A horse car-
ryinn the blood of Imposant. his sire and Herb
ley’s Samson, tw0 2,400 horses. He is 42
months old eweighs 2,150 lbs. carries 14 inch

b six we
°m ( sons, Mlch.

 

 

8.)
CHAS. OSeGOOD a. Mendon.

res SALE OR TRADE

TWO IMPORTED STALLIONS
s. Percheron and a Belgian, both 8 years old.

Reason for selling, colts in the way. For parv
ticulars address -
w. J. McCARTHY J SONS. Ada. Mich.

 

NCICE REGISTERED PERCHERONS For Sale
1 gray more 12 yrs.
1 black more 3. yrs
1 sorrel mare 3 yrs
Spring Col
BARNEY GI’ESKEN. R3. at.

FOR SALE
Registered Percheron Horses

Mares and stallions. impored and American
breed. Priced reasonable. .
BEN BICKEL. R 2. Frankenmuth, Mich.

Louis. Mich.

 

 

 

BERKSHIRES

EGIBTEBED BERKSHIRES FOR SALE. AUG.

10 pigs for $40 a. piece, while they last. 8st-

infection guaranteed. Taking orders for spring pigs.
H'N YOUNG. Breckenridge,

Registered Berkshires

Place orders for bred ziits for June farrow. Also
boars and spring, pigs. 1 2- -y.ear old sow due to

{arrow Apr 20th.
RUSSELL BR09.. F‘ 3'. MPH“. Mich.

 

 

 

T. P. C. SOWS ALL

booked for boar pigs at weaning time from

High. champion herd. ‘is-itors always welcome.
LEONARD. R 3. St. Louis. Mich.

SOLD. ORDERS

 

FOR SALE

Large Type P C. Hogs
'ane a few spring: beers and spring gilt: also
earling sows. Bred to such boars as Clansman’s
mage 2nd, King's Giant, and Smooth Wonder.
They are three real. boars. Free livery to visitors.
W. B. RAMSDELL. Hanover. Mich.

~h_fi DUROC

PEACH HILL FARM Duroc sows and gins sired
bv Proud Principal Romeo Cherry King Brook-
water hold Stamp 7th and Rajah out of dams
by Limited llaiah and the Principal IV. Bred to
Pemh Hill Orion King and Rajah Cherry Col.
INWOOD BROS. Romeo, Mlch.

 

 

BERSOLE'S BIG TYPE D-UROCS. BOARS

all sold. A few bred gills for April and May
farrmv. _Also open gilts. Booking orders for
lDl'lllg pags. “1 solirit inspection.
ALBERT EBERSOLE
Plymouth. Mich" R. F. No. 3

GREGORY FARR! BERKSHIR'ES WI.
profit. Choice stock for sale. Write your
wants. S. Com. White Hall Ill.

Fan. 8‘: REGISTERED “Ms-HIRES OR

the most fashionable breedint.
Gilts and young boars. Also I1
No and stock. Prices, $50 to

MRI!" R8

 

Bred or open.
few fall pics
3100.

HICKORY GROVE FARM. Pontiac,

“11 BRINGS. us 1111: KIND or BUSINESS WE WANT 1”

 

1 The Michigan Business Farmer,
Mt. Clemens. Mich.

a Gentlemen:

us in your ’columns.

future.

BOARDMAN_ FARMS
* Registered Holstein-Friesian Cattle

’ we are much pleased with the results our little space gets for
It brings us the kind of business we want,—
within our own state where every sale means more customers for the

1 Yours truly,

Jackson, Mich, Feb. 17, 1920.

D. BOARDMAN.

 

 

 

CHESTER WHITES

cHEOTER WHiTE8-—-A FEW MAN BOARO.

fall plus in parts or tries from most prominent

hummus at reasonable prices. Roxie tree.
F.._W.. Abandon Vassar. Mich.

REGISTERED CHESTER WHITE PIG FOB

 

 

sale at pr1cee that will interest you. Either
sex. Write today
RALPH COSENS, Levering. Mich:

 

YORKSHIRE

e BRED TORKSHIRE aILTs. DUE APR. 1.
From M. A. C. bred stock. $5011 ac.h
A. R. BLACK & SON. R1. Lansing. Ml‘oh.

 

 

DUMB JERSEY

BRED SONS-SERVICE. BOARS

I‘Iookiru.r orders for weanling sprinl pill

325 EITHER SEXW

We "deliver the hogs before you

IRA BLA Pottervlne. Mich.

 

HAMPSHIRES .

IMHPSIIIRES

This add will save you from 81.0 to
the purchase cecfem‘y

 

out i bred mm or [1'18de
111 PM.“ “blood e.
for Mar. sud Apr. m3 A few ”1111mm hit
of. either sex. 'lines are all good and well mm.
Call or write

NO- THOMAC. New .Losbaon. Mich.

 

BRED TO A
_ ms gilts m lonlr
bathed with good hams and shoulders and. will
wmsch 2:10 lbs. Brad to farm-1r in April. Podiu-
xree on request. Price outed. $100 each.

E. BROWN Breedsvlll‘e. Mich.

OF BREEDING SIZE AND
“WALEFY.
C. L. POWER. Jerome.

A FEW BRED DUROC GILTS-
sol-11 of Princiml 61th.

 

Mich.

uroc am an em: bred to Wit“: Kim .2949
ulm has sired more2 prize winning pigs at the
some fairs in the 111312 years than any other
I’ul.’ hmml. Newton Bombers. St. Johns, Mich.

BRED QILTS FOR APRIL FAR-
rm: sired by Liberty Defender.

Dan's Col heading, good quality, weighing 25
lbs., not fat price 565 while they last, bred
to Orion hour.

If. G. REE'SLEI. Cannons. Mich. fl 5

 

SALE—REGISTERED Dfl‘m JERSEY

swim-1e Both sex. All ages. Rhode Ishnd Red

Barred Rock. and White Lee-horna eoolterels. 40 a.
turre- liarrns. Pas) term

W. U. BASHIES. Wheeler. Mich.

EFT
‘HAMPSIRRESA‘EI.’ Exits...

loud. lines.
JOHN W. SNYDER. 8L, Johns. Mich" R 0

[RED 011.78 ALI. COLD
ONE mum mu LIFT
"I. I‘. FIDO OR“ 8“!

If. A. EASTWOODV Inward-n. “All.

0 I'. G's Choice Hod Glut. 2 an. flue ans-tee
boars. Choice Sept. pics. either sex or pairs.

 

 

 

 

 

‘ CLOVEILERF FARM‘ M. Meme. m.
iSAGIIIAW VMLEY III! 2.51.3'm'; .31
mutton prile st Saginaw» Fair. 0n herd boat

(1. c. Michicsn Boy. was mom or aIEE

breeds shown. Pigs of this bk type. to win-

ninzstock. rowistsredheo ndshimodo 01!).
JOHN GIBSON. Pom. m" I. Do. 2.

o I 0'8 Choice Med. outs on IDI‘III'. “slow. good
fall Doug. Am booing: orders for spring
pigs. Can fur-111s pairs and tries not akin.

 

 

A. J. BARKER‘ 8'0". lbnnont. men" R 1'

 

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0.1. c. 501115 FOR SALE

ONE .5 THE. BEST HIRDB IN MICHIGAN

bred fps March. April en mi
n'you'vnm a mom

~ Spring dirt and fall yearhn
r ‘Ixmess and register. in buys 11 name.
or” was who. no

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YPE sow. aunt-ed risk: In

 

 

 

Send for catalog.

. ALBERT E. JENKINS, Sec’y.
L? . Esgle, Mich "

 

 

Complete Dispersion
Maplecrest Farm

Hoistem Herd

owner (1 RAW, ow...
Lansing, Mich,
Thursday, April 1, 192.0

Twenty-eight females, including a 24.8 lb. cow and. two daughters
by a 31 1b. bull, 8.22 lb. cow and a 19 1b. cow, 9. 21 lb.._jr. 3‘ year
, 01d and two daughters. Most of the heifiers are by a 31 lb. son of
Maplecrest Komdyke Hengerveld. Most of the cows are bred to
a 2918 1b.grands1m of Eng of the Pontiacs. '

A good workingxherd 111 fine condition, under federal supervim
5 ion, having passed the first test with. no reactors. Asaf'e herdto
buy from; Sold under 60 day guarantee with retest
Guaranteed breeders. Investigate the herd sire by a 30111. son of
King of the Pontiacs from a 29. 8 lb. cow Free conveyance leaves.
. Kern’ s Hotel, Lansing, Mich, for farm hourly from 9:00 A. M. to
, , 1:00 P. M.

MICHIGAN HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION,

prrvilege.

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“- Perry, Mich.,

Monday, April 12, 1920
SIXTY HEAD

The entire herds of John P. Olcott
and Frank A. Hart, twelve head from

TV. C. Wilkinson and three from S. T.

and A. B. Service.

RECORDS ———-N early every cow either has
a record or is from a record darn. One 13 a 3011).
Jr. 4 yr. old, with two daughters from the 351b.
bull.

lNDIVIDUALS:—An extra good lot of
individuals, much better average than 18 usually
found 1n dispersals.

HEALTH:—Tuberculine-tested ‘and sold
on 60-day guarantee with rc—test priv1lcge.‘

Sale easy of access and under cover. Seven months’
tlme on approved notes. Bring your bank reference.

Send for catalog to

John P. Olcott,
Perry, Mich.

 

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it In type, send proot and quote rates by

POULTRY BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY

vertis’ements inserted under this heading at 30 cents per line, per issue. special
I'll r. Write out what you have to error and send it in, we wlli pus
tee ford18 times or longe return mail. Address The Michigan Business Farmer,

Advertising Department, Mt. Clemens, Michigan.

 

 

 

 

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DAY OLD CHICKS

The Day Old Chick business is on.

Thirteen Heavy Breeds.

Three Especial Egg Breeds.

You will be particularly interested in the ex-
“! heavy Wing breeds: White Lechorns Inspected
and certified as heavy producers by the Poultry
Extension Specialist of the Agricultural always.

Cookerels—We stBillo have Barrel Books, to
Wyandottes, R. O. wn.Leghorns

TUPKOYs—One White Holland I‘om.

We solicit your interest in the Homestead
Farms plan of Pure Bred Poultry raising.

STATE FARMS ASSOCIATION"
,Desk 8, Kalamazoo, Michigan

ORPINGTONS AND LEGHORNS

Two great breeds for profit. Write today to;
free catalogue of hatching eggs, baby chicks an
breeding stock.

CYCLE HATCHER COMPANY. 149 Phllo Bldfl.
Elmira. N. Y.

 

 

GOCKERELS, BRAKES, ANGONAS, BUFF
barred, Columbian, Silver Penciled end Whi
Plymouth Rocks; Rouen drakes, price, $3 eac
SHERIDAN POULTRY YDS.. R5. Sheridan. Mich

 

F0“ SAL MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS.
Toulouse geese, White I’ekin
ducks, either sex, $4 each at once. Old ducks
weigh 10 pounds.
CHASE STOCK FARM, Mgrlette, Mich.

 

 

PLYMOUTH ROCKS

 

CHOICE BARRED ROCK COOKERELS AND
Pullets bred from Detroit and Boston winners.
Good laying strain. Prices reasonable, satisfac-
tion guaranteed.

TOLLES BROS” R 10. St. Johns, Mich.

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BARE” “08 EGGS FOR MATCHING
W. C. COFFMAN, 835231 st ai‘lb‘odiusfliy guiding:

OHN'S BIG BEAUTIFUL BARRED ROCKS
are hen hatched good layers. grow quick, sold

on apprOVal. Males $4 to $8 each. Photos.

Circulars. —-John Northon, Clare, Mich.

erred Rock Cockereis from Trapnested State

Contest winning strain, direct. Sired by pedi‘

greed male 260 egg record. Also a few choice

Partridge Rock Cockerels, prices $3 $4 and 36.
N. AYERS J: SON. Sllverwood, Mich.

 

PURE BRED BARRED ROCKS. GOOD LAY-
ers That narrow, straight snappy barring.
Score cards on hens and pullets to 94 poinil.
Am an old timer in the business Eggs for hatch—
ing, $2 50 per 15. Satisfaction guaranteed

A. D. STECKLE. Freeport. Mich., Box 110

 

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LEGHORN

 

C. White~ Leghorn Hatching Eggs, $2 for set--
ting, $5 for '50; $9 for 100. Day old chicks,
$10 per 50 $18 per 100, E. Altenbern, Allegan.

 

mew-'1: LEGHORNS, BABY CHICKS, EGGS
for hatching. Hens, Cockerels. lurm raised.
Good layiJng strain.
W. WEBSTER, Bath, Mich.

 

RABOWSKE’S S. 0. WHITE LEGHORN8
Stock and eggs for sale. Circular free.
LEO GRABOWSKE, Merrill, Mich., R 4

 

 

Combination Sale
Wednesday, April 7, 1920‘

at 1:00 O’clock

Located 11 miles N. W. of Jackson. Mich., 9 miles S. E. of Springport,
1 mile N. W. of Mlllard Mill on Jackson-Sisr‘ing'port State Road.

Closing out my entire herd of grade cows.
One Registered Angus bull, 2 yrs. old, Lord Elbert No. 261720.
Will also include 12 head
REGISTERED HOLSTEINS

1. Netherland Helen Sherlock No. 4013912 yrs old, due to mall in March.

Violet Lilith De Kol No. 401394 fresh. Has just mad 7 yda
of 325'. 0 lbs. milk 13 098 lbs. butter, at th. age of 2 yrs. 811103. 35‘s.. y A R 0' record

8. Daisy Barteenah No. 469817, 2 yr. old, due to freshen ‘in April. She ha 11
sister. as senior 2 yr. oldw1 A. B. 0 record 407. 5 lbs. milk. 17. 63 lbs. butter hi % 113::

4 Lady Barteenah Dinola No 341100. A yrs. old due to freshen Oct. 1. Own sister
to heifer above.

Five heifers and three bulls. sired by Col-nthe Ooronls Pauline King No. 181361
lb. grandson of Doientha Johanna Led. ' ‘ 24

No. 1. Herd Book 8No. 469618. his Mtt heifer freshe em has just [11 (1
record at the m of mos. (no days) of 240.8 ltgs. milk. 9.048 lbs. 31.31:: A R 0

No. 2., Bean ”111819. 1919.100 per cent some blood as above heifer.
No. 8. Born Am. 28. daughter of on A. It. 0. now.
No. A. Born. Sept. 1, two half sisters with A. B. 0. records.

No. 5., Born Sept. 29, on sister to heifer No. 1.

1. THREE BULLS

No. Born Gents his dam has an own sister with an A. R. 0. Senior 2 yr. old reo-
ord oi 1017.5 lbs. milk.17.68 lbs. buter.

No. 2. Born Nov. 2. His dam has an A. R. 0. record 0! 449. 9 lbs. milk. 20. 58 lbs.
butter in 7 She h” one daughter And one trunddaughi’or with A. R. 0. records and
she is now. on semi-oiflcialtes .

No. 8M. Born Jan. 6 1920, close related to hull No.1.

‘ mammal: tested under State and Fe—deral supervision.
‘ 111mm include 92 mhfi
11191:, n and farms. 9 to 12s.

  

 

 

 

WYANDOTTE

Years a Breeder of Silver Laced and Whi
30 Wyandottes.1‘ine lot of young stock at $8, 8‘:
and $5 ea. Clarence Browning. R2, Portland. Mich

 

BABY CHICKS

0. K. CHICKEN HATCHERY

THOROUGHBRED DAY OLD CHICKS
Single comb, bite, Bull and Brown Leghorn
White, End and Barred Rocks.

8.11.1. Reds. Anconas, White Wyandottn
26 chicks, 88. 25: 50 chicks, $11.; 100 chicks.

$20.00.
A. c. MioRNINGSTAR, Pro op.
Box 203, Phone 15. Fenton, Mich.

BABY CHICK Wheisn Barron s. c. W. Lee-

horns——NOT show stock BUI’
laying stock. Their records in the world's layin.
contest show they are the 180 to 800 egg—s-year—
layers. You can call them the 200—egg—a—yeer
birds. Baby Chicks only $16 per 100 from thil
great laying strain. Enclose 15 per cent of the
amount and state the date shipment is desired.

LEOLAIR WHELAN. Tlpton. Mich.

 

 

 

hicks, Leghorns, Mlnorcas, Spanish, Houdans.
Campinee, l,eds Rocks Orpingtons, Brahmas.
Wyandottes. Tyrone Poultry Farm, Fenton, Mich. '

CHICKS—CHICKS

SHIPPED SAFELY EVERYWHERE BY MAIL
B. C. White Leghorns and S. C. Mottled An-

conas; the great egg machines Strong. sturdy

chicks, guaranteed to satisfy. Order now for

March and April delivery. Eleventh season. Cain

alog free.

HOLLAND HATCHERY, R1. Holland. Mich.

GHIGKS AND EGGS ”5° i"dn§.'12“'°ni?."§§

Plymouth liotks Supelior color. Prolific layer;
Prepaid by parcel post and safe delivery guar-
anteed. Illustrated catalog free.

lNTERLAKES FARM. Box 4, Lawrence, Mich.

 

 

 

Martin’s Strain White Wyandottes. Heavy iayi

exhibition and utility stock. Baby chicks,

and $20 per hundred. Hatching eggs $8 a

per hundred. Booking orders fast. Order early.
0. W. HEIMBAOH, Big Rapids. Mich.

 

BAIT BRICKS: Pure bred White Leghorn.
Brown Leghorns, $17 per 100, Anconas, 315

live arrival guaranteed. Order now. Eggs of

breeds. Free catalog. TRIANGLE. Clinton~ o.

BABY cchK 50,000 for 1920, Barred
Rocks. Exhibition quality.

Booking orders now at 20c esc c.h

Beechmont Poultry Farm, Crendail, Ind. .. Box 1.

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HATCHING EGGS

Fan SAL HATCHING EGGS FROM A

heavy laying strain of S. O. R. I.
Reds. Pen No.1 headed by a Owen Farms yearl-
ing cock and mated to a superb bunch of pullets.
Pens Nos 2 and 3 headed by two wonderful cock-
erols and mated to equally good pullets, also a
utility flock that is high (11183. Get our prices
on your wants for the coming season Satisfac-
tion guaranteed.

. HEIMS l: SON. Davison, Mich.

 

 

HITE WYANDOTTES; EGGS FOR HATCH-

ing from selected lll)ClS, $2 per 15, prepaid.
Pens, $16 to $2?

FRANK DeLONG, R3, Three Rivers, Mich.

 

0. BR. Leghorn eggs. $1.50 per setting. Pekin
“duck $1. :10 for 8. (Moses goose 40¢ each.
MRS. CLAUDIA BETTS. Hillsdalc. Mlch.

“BED ROCKS Eggs fmm Vigorous early

BA nmtusri5ng 5mg}; from hes.
in strain. 56’ per 1,, per by premix

iiinrceil poet. R G. Kirby R1, East Lansing, Mich.

 

 

 

EGGS FROM BIO BARRED ROCKS. BRED
to lay $1. :10 Sitting.
MRS. THOS. FOSTER. Cassopolis, Mich., R1

 

Barred Rock Eggs for Early Hatching. My Breed-
ers are selected for good markings, vigor and
very heavy laying. $2 per 15. $10 per 100.

CHAS. H. WRIGHT, Ypsilanti. Mich. Box 108

OR SALE, ROSE COMB RHODE ISLAND
Red eggs for hatching. Stock guaranteed $2
for 15. Wm. J. Rusche, R 1, Alpine, Mich.

 

 

BREEDERS ATTENTION !

If you are planning on a. sale this spring, write us now and
CLAIiVI THE DATE 1

This service is free to the live stock industry in Michigan
to avoid conflicting sale dates

LET “BUSINESS FARIVIER” CLAIM Y0,

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tatives to take subscriptions, Whole or
spare time. Hundreds of our friends are
netting a nice‘ sum each week by doing a.
little extra ‘work. As trial will convince
you. For particu write.

The Michigan rusincvss Farmer

Mt. Clemens, Michigan

PUBLIC SALE

The largest Registered Shorthorn sale in North
Michigan, at my farm, 3 miles east of East Jor—
den, 9 a. m., Wednesday, April’l

til head registered Glenside Dairy Shorthorn
ca e.

13 head of unguided cattle.

ghree lilrgrsles.

arm pements and some hous hl ..
ture Will also sell my fam- befoere0 (tin 1:31;:
sale. Good farm and buildings.

JACOB ROBERTO. East Jordan, Mich.

 

 

   
   
     
 
 
      
   
        
 
 
    
 
   
 

  
 

  
 
 

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