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“Gherrywood” home of
Emmet county: vlslted weekly by

"The oats were smutty but we wlll not
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“Sunday on the Farm."

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“Georg?"McNamara, our son-

ln-law. and the. ‘klds' taking thelr ‘noonlng.

We are glad to see you all so happy and contented.

After all

there’s no place llke home. and It's true a: gospel that home Is what
we make It whether It be on the mountain top, In the heart of the

“Just 90an out to slop the hogs."

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great clty. or upon the peaceful farm.
may have arguest to go “troutlng” with you.——Edltor.

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cceslonally we take a day off and go :-
troutln.’ "

 

 

 

 

'. An Opportunity For Business Farmers to Get Acquainted

HE BUSINESS FARMER is a weekly visitor at 60,-

000 Michigan farm homes, stretching from southeast-
ern Monroe to northwestern Keweenaw, and from the tip
of the Thumb to the “hump” of Oceana./ Go into almost
any comfortable farm home 'of southern, eastern and west-
ern Michigan where generation after generation have by
thrift and labor paid off the mortgage and made the farm a
prefi-tsproducer, and~ you will find the Business Farmer. It
tells them how. to keep the profits coming. Go into the set:

tlers’ cabins of northermMichigam and the upper peninsula
‘ " and there you will find the Business Farmer, a guide to-

profitable production and sane marketing.

. The Business Farmer meets with many conditions and :
classes of farmers. . It is welcomedby the happy and pros- V.

f erous, because it adds to'aztheir’ happiness and prosperity, '
i, is welcomed by the "discouraged; the discontented and- g.
those who are upon the verge of. failure; because it has a

‘ K .anile and a word of cheer that drives away the b1“$i,l?i§t$

courage into the flagging heart, and shows how to turn de-
feat and failure into victory and success.

The above scenes were taken on a typical American
farm upon which the farmer and the wife and the
sons and daughters all take a hand in the honest labor
that is necessary to “keep things going.’ ’, They work to-
gether; they play together, and on Sunday, they rest '
together. They represent the type of American farmer who
is the root of agriculture, the basis of all industry.

Inorder to» bringour farmer friends closer to us and
to each other,’ we 'will publish throughout the summer
months a series of scenes on the farms that are, visited by
the Business Farmer. We must ask our readers to help us
do this by sending in their photographicgprintsgi- These
must be clear and distinct.' If you haven’t any “snap
shots” of the farm, the grown folks, the children, the ani-
mals, the crops, etc., you ought to have, so buy or borrow a
camera and get busy. ‘ ‘ , ' ,

 

 

 

 

 

 


  
  

   

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UNCB R-INSUR/ED

TO-DAY' UNLESS You HAVE

DOUBLED YOUR lNSURANCE
DURING THE PAST 2 YEARS

When a
farmer does have a fire Ice 5, it. is disastrous. The farmer

cannot afford to carry his own insurance. One fire may wipe
out the savings of years. If he happens to be in debt. a fire practi-

, oally puts him out of business.

M OST FARMERS are too conservative on insurance.

Take a day off and see a good builder—pay him for helping you
figure—carefully estimate what it would cost to rebuild your build-
ings now, then compare this cost with the insurance you now carry.
Probably you do not carry more than one third or one half what
you ought. Increase your insurance to 80 per cent of actual value.
It pays to play safe.

Take our blank household inventory book (write for it if you
haven’t got it), sit down with your wife-——it will pay you to stop
work to do this—and make a careful inventory of household goods.
Begin at the kitchen and go through every room in the house, put
down everything of value—-kitchen utensils, dining room furniture,
silverware, bedding, linen, pictures, library—everything. Now com-
pare this sum with the amount of insurance you have on household
goods. Isn’t the difference a surprise? Why not have full pro—.
tection? "

Now that you have taken this. inventory, take care‘of it. Put
it with your Liberty Bonds and deeds and other valuable papers in
a safety deposit vault. Then if you have a fire, you will know how
much the loss is. Very few people know what their household goods
are worth but if you burn out you'will find out what you have to'pay'
to replace them.

INSURANCE IS CHEAP. WHY GARRY SUCH A RISK?
Write usfor farm rates for fire, cyclone and hail.

The insured value of property is never destroyed. The property
may be burned but if it is insured, this insured value (the cash) lives
;it never dies—it is immortal.

Insurance is a co-operative proposition. People agree to con-
tribute to a fund so that in case anyone is unfortunate and loses
buildings or livestock, etc., the insured value of this property can
be taken from this fund as compensation for this loss. Insurance
is a business proposition and yet it is more than a business proposi-
tion, it is an appeal from one person to another in time of need. He
who helps another in time of need is doing good that some day will
be rewarded in kind, and, besides, in that which is far more valu-
able than money—satisfaction in doing good which is priceless.

The savings from insurance amount to sums beyond our com:

. prehension. It is said that one of the greatest factors in makingour

own United States one of the greatest, if not the greatest nation on

the globe, is insurance. America carries more insurance than any

other country. We insure our property, save its value, play safe,
and then do things.

If your property is not fully insured, every bit of it, you are not
taking advantage of every opportunity. You are not playing safe.
You are not assisting others when they are unfortunate and you are
not fully contributing to the wealth of the world.

The wealth of this nation, largely made possible by insurance,
won the war for humanity. What other nation could have put
4, 000, 000 well equipped men into the field in less than two years-—
and paid the bill?

COLON C. LILLIE
Presiden‘

J. FLOYD IRISH,
Sec’ y and Managing Underwriter

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GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

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‘ WHEN I first began working out:

I could only find work in the
country. on account of the
long hours and. hoggish principles

of my employers I soon left the farm-

to look for shorter hours and an 'em-
player with brains which I found.
The farmers I worked for seemed to

- think .1 was a machine that if "I got
would.s6o‘n scour ‘off,

wet the rust
when I started up again and, if they

- wanted more labor done all they had
to do was turn‘ on‘ more gas but sud~ '

denly the machine stopped and be-
ing equipped with traction power I
moved off.

Since then I have settled on a
farm and gradually I. have had to
hire help, and right here I wish to
say that when help is to be had I can
always get my share very easily. I
try to do my work as near as can be,-
on the same methods as used in the
city where shorter hours prevail. If
by hustling a little and using eco-
nomical methods you can do as much
in 8 or 9 hours as is usually done in
10 let that ,be the day’s work. Be
cause the sun is away up’ and you
have done a fair days work that is
no sign you have to do another be-
fore sunset.

I find that a man can do about so L

much labor per day and if he tries
to do more he is simply working
slower and longer. Your team can

.harrow or plow about so much in

ten hours by giving them a few

minutes' rest occasionally but if they ,

axle allowed to take a steady pace
and keep them continually at it you
accomplish the same results in 8 to
9 hours.

I find that using short hours and
still getting 10 hours of work done
that the hired help has less desire
to go to the city for he works just

as, long or longer there. Then again
I always try to use hired help as one
of the family. If he is sick take him

in my car to the doctor, take him to,

town in the evening when you go
even if he has nothing of interest to
the evening

you go to town take him along. The
small amount that you would pay
him for that afternoon does not
amount to anything in comparison
with the benefits you will receive
when the weather clears. I believe

the most trouble with hired men on ‘

farms are the tight wad principles of
his employers. It kind of gives the
hired help sorta of a gangrene ambi-
tion, and he gets dissatisfied and
takes less interest in his work and
in a short time he is gone. Whether
my ideas are right or not, they are
what I use on my farm and I find
I get more work done and every-
thing is running along smooth and
nice while“ some of my neighbors

have an awful time—G. M., Arenas

County.

ADVANTAGES OVER CITY

HAVE taken your paper since last

fall and think it is fine. I am

4 glad to hear from you and the way
you stand by the farmer. It is rather
interesting to read letters by hired
help who go to the city. Mr. Grinnell
hits it pretty good in his film all
right. There are too many of them
leaving a good thing on the farm and
going to the city, only to their sor-
row. They find it all different from
what they supposed. Many who leave
the old place at $60 and $75 per month

by the year are surprised as to how .

little $4 or $5 per day really buys for
them. On the farm they are kept busy,
their minds clear from any daily
amusements o: the city. They have
God’s pure fresh air to breathe, and
their wages, less clothing, on almost
free, waiting to be put cut an interest
by them. While in the city it’s money
here and there till a tire weeks’ pay
check soon looks like a used meal
ticket full of holes and worthlss I.
The greatest at all faults of city
people, 1: who get 81, 500 and less
11 they go into a store
they have their eyes on the goodsdan
their minds on that their neighbors
recently purchased. For instance,

hsdsmlike‘thonthe
«diam

 

the; fist got the cute“ set for $30 or
alt may be a coat iikg Julia Cole's at-

‘ the individual.

. assesses 4
this: s as rs. o as

$48, when all the time there's a grade
between the cheapest and the highest
that could be suitable both to their.

. taste and income.

It puts me in mind of a young man
who .once' attended the ‘winter term
at the M. A. C. He came home empty-
handed, rushing along pumng away as
he reached the old home on the farm

where Pa and Ma awaited him. He

grabbed the easy chair and said, "Well
Pa, I’m back again to stay. I’ve had
a fine time but I'm afraid my head is
‘fuller’ than my pocket book." —-.F D.
0., Troy Fruit Fam, Neway’go County.

I sonofuon Is when INDIVIDUAL

HAVEN'T exactly a solution to
the problem that's stirring up
such a funk anont the farmer

and his hired man, but I believe if

.any one wants to take the trouble

to put what little I have to say
through the fanning mill and get the
best of it, it 11 freshen the outlook
a little. I don’t think the solution
will appear in the pages of Tan Bus-
IN'sss Fauna, but it can be worked
out with compensating results for
all concerned and right at the seat
of the trouble—on the farm itself.
Viewing it dispassionateiy you'll
notice that there’s almost invariably

a subtle animosity betweenthe boss/‘

and his gang. This can be engen-v

.dered during the term of employ-

ment or be there at the outset. Peo-
pie are selfish—self—preservation al-
most insists on this—but often to
an extreme; to a total loss. Some
people are just naturally suspicious
-—some are jolted often enough to
acquire a suspicious nature, and
others can’t.be contented in the face
of any amount of good fortune.
Hence the solution lays largely with
The farmer and his
hired help will have to trust one an-
other.

‘ Assuming that a hired man is will-

ing to be efficient during the whole

day's, work; to take, pride in his
wOrk and reasonable care of the im-
plements. and animals in his care,
there's no reason. why a farmer
can't offer a bonus for a year’s work.
In the instance of a man working‘
faithfully -and painstakingly
hours alloted to' the farm work and
his reward is niggardly, I say he
should jump his job and if nothing
better offers, hike to the city. .

I believe that generally speaking
and for the average farmer the hired
man is entitled to a certain per cent.
of the net profits on all the crops or
means ‘of incomewhlch he is instru-
mental in producing. Net profit is
the money left after deducting all
labor (including his own) interest
on the land, team labor, tractor la—
bor, depreciation on machinery and
implements and so on. In event of
downright loss to the farmer's enter-
prise he should be protected by a
minimum monthly wage with the
customary agreements. The farm-
er who can draw his hired man to
the table and show him the net pro—
fit is a good manager nine times out
of. ten. "

Just what per cent is a matter to
be weighed honestly byall concern-
ed, If the “boss” is a working farm-
er and hires one man I think fifty
per cent is too much. If he simply
has his money tied up in farming, he
should be satisfied with 10 per dent

on his investment and the rest di-

vided where it bole-.ngs If the farm
is large and specializes in valuable-
reglstered stock the men should be
entitled to an equitable share of the
profits based on their value to the
enterprise.

The compensation Would be better .

farms, better crops and bigger prof-

so it rsmslhs for the farmer to of-
fer an inducement for efficient law.
This will shatter that suspicion that
f‘the old tightwad wants s ii».- at a
lot for’ nothing. " And- tor the hired
man to give an honestdto-God'd Ian’s
work in return. This WOuId Mi-
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A FURTHER STEP in the development of
the co-operative idea was taken ata meet-
ing at Saginaw last week when the Michigan
Farm Bureau Elevator Exchange was organiz-
ed. The plan of organization was adopted from
that followed so successfully by the Michigan

Potato Growers? Exchange, which in the past,

two years has made many thousands of dollars
for its members. The same dificulties which
were met with by local potato‘associations in

marketing their product to advantage have V
by the

been encountered season after season
various co-operative elevators throughout the
state. These have felt the need of a parent or-
ganization to act as a sales agent, a purchasing
agent, and a medium of exchange, which by'the
very magnitude of its financial resources would
be able to buy and sell to a greater advantage
than the separate elevatorcompanies acting in-
dependently. The Gleaners partially met this
need by the establishment of a clearing house
in Detroit and this organization has extended
its scope materially by its recent purchase of
the Armour elevator interests. But there re-
mained a large number of farmers’ co opera-
tive elevator associations which were not organ-
ized under the Gleaner plan, and which have
recognized the value of combined resources and
efl’orts. It is to protect and advance the inter-
ests of such as these that th Michigan State
Farm Bureau, assisted by the extension depart-
ment of the M. A. 0., has organized the Elevat-
or Exchange.

The meeting was attended by representa-
tives of fifty odd co-operative elevators and
other farm organizations. Dorr D. Buell, pres-
ident of the Michigan Potato Exchange, told

what his organization had done for its members .

in selling their produce and purchasing their
supplies, and argued that there was no reason
why the co-operative elevators should not fed-
erate in much the same manner as the local
potato associations.

Predicts Michigan B'anner State

That the new elevator exchange would soon
have a membership of 70 locals and be in a po-
sition to transact $100,000,000 worth of busi-
ness a year was the prediction of Hale Tennant
of the extension department of the'college. Ten-
nant is the man to whom the major credit is
due for the organization of the Michigan Pota-
to Exchange. He is a crank on co- operation;
thinks the farmers have only begun to see the
possibilities of cooperation and stands ready
to give the services of his department to the
formation of new cooperative enterprises.
He told the gathering at Saginaw that they
ought to think 1n terms of mperation, and not
to be satisfied to rest on their laurels as long as
asingle unnecessary middieman or speculator
stood between them and the consumer.
“When this elevator exchange is completed
‘and gets to doing business, Michigan will be
the banner co- operative state of the union, bar
' none,’ ’said Tennant,. ‘

J as. Nicol, member of the executive commit-
tee of the State Farm Bureau, who was chair-
man of the meeting, spoke briefly of the part

the Bureau hopes to play 1n the work of organ- '

‘ ization. “The Farm Bureau does not intend
to d1ctat'e,” he said, “but to counsel, help and
(so-operate. The Elevator Exchange will be
distinct from the State Farm Bureau in that it

’ h vs its

,1 county membership reported is Gladwin,

unicorn andmake its own
mm the wool grows that their clip
botched at origin

Predicted That New Business Federation Will Do 100 Million Dollar’s Worth of Business First Year

 

 

Farm Bureau Progresses

1m MICHIGAN State Farm Bureau an-
Tnounces that its total membership on

April 2nd was 37,458, with twenty-two
and a half counties canvassed: The smallest
with a total of 685 members which, how-
ever, is a large percentage for the number
of farmers in that county. Lenawee is the
banner county thus far, with a total mem-
bership of 2,300, St. Clair following with
2,250. The average per county is 1,628. Cal-
houn county has been about half solicited,
and reports 1,164 members. The member-
ship campaign was started last week in Cass
and St. Joseph and is meeting with good
success. Solicitors were busy at the polls
MOnday in all the townships where the cam-
paign has been conducted, and gathered in
many more members. The following report
shows the membership by counties on April
2nd:

Kent ........ 1.375 Macomb . . - . 1,450
Tuscola . . 2,028 Shiawassee . . . 1,500
St. Clair ..... 2,250 Eaton ........ 1,449
Allegan ...... 1,900. Wayne . . . . . . . 1.338
Oakland ...... 1,850 Ottawa . . . 1,100
Barry . . . . . . . . 1.450 \Vashtenaw .l,800
Van Buren . . 1,650 Livingston . .. . 1,008
Gladwin ...... 685 Lenawee . . 2,300
Lapcer . . . .. . .2,050 Berrien ...... 2,007
Genesee . . 1,382 Calhoun. half

Montcalm . . . . . 1,475 completed . . 1,164
Monroe . . ... . .2,l47 Clinton . ...... 2,100

 

 

 

 

 

 

Clearing House Ass’n, gave a, strong talk em—
phasizing the increasing need 0% organization
among farmers. He said that he approved of
the efforts of the Farm Bureau to federate the

cooperative elevators, and he spoke success for
the movement. Geo. M. Horton, former master

.of the State Grange, also endorsed the move-

ment.

Objects of Exchange
The organization committee consisting of
Jas. Nicol, of South Haven; Hale Tennant, of

East Lansing; E. P. Hutchinson, of Caledonia;
W. A. Young, of Albion; B. H. Ellis, of Albi-

on;; C. W. Benjamin, of Bellevue; J. B. Leach, ,

of Chesaning, and assisted by Mr. Dorr D. Bu»
e11, prepared and presented the following con-
stitution and by-laws which explain the detail-
ed objects of the exchange. The exchange will

not take official form until at least twenty ele— .

vators have signified their intention to join and
have ratified the constitution and by- laws,
which are as follows:
Article I—Name
Section 1. To. provide the facilities and
the Michigan Farm Bureau Elevator Exchange
and shall be incorporated under the laws of the
State of Michigan. Its principal ofilce shall be
located in the city of Lansing, State of Michigan.
Article II—-0bjects
Section 1. This associationshall be known as
equipment and establish such agencies as are
necessary for the deVelopment and maintenance

 

 

To Michigan Wool Growers: ,

E. Michigan State Farm Bureau an-
nounces that a=1uge warehouse has
been purchased at Lansing for storing
and grading the wool for members of the
Bureau. 75 per cent. of the estimate val-
ue of the wool stared will be admoed to
growers against their warehouse receipts.
Full details of this wool pooling plan will "
be given in the April 17th issue. This
"preliminary announcement is made to re- .

   
 

     
   
   
    
  
  
 

  
  
   
    
   
 

   

store and clean grains,

Tuesday in July in each year,“ at eleven ocloclc
go no ‘

of an efficient and economical system of selling
and distributing the products of its members.

Section 2. To collect and disseminate inform—
ation among its members relative to market quo—
tations and crop conditions, prospective yields,
and final crop estimates in Michigan and other
competitive producing sections and to co-operate
with State and Federal agencies in an effort to
make this information of the most reliablechar—
actor. .

Section 3. To investigate the demand and
buying power of the consuming public and the
conditions under which Michigan products are”
consumed for the purpose of co-ordinating the
efforts of the producers with the wants of the
consumer and'protecting the interests of both
against exploitation and the inroads of specu-
lative and other adverse interests.

Section 4. To work for the best conditions-
and services in transportation, especially as re-
gards the securing of cars, prompt deliveries, and
just and equitable freight rates.

Section 5. To establish a claim department
for the collection and adjustment of all claims of
members against the transportation companies,”
purchasers, etc.

Section 6. To supervise, harmonize and co-
ordinate the efiorts of the local organizations,
whose members are members of this association
and assist these members in the solution of all
problems with which they are confronted.

Section 7. To establish or adopt uniform
grades and standards in connection with the
handling, storing and marketing of grains. beans,
seeds and other farm products.

Section 8. To correct trade evils and abuses
by discouraging all customs and practices not in
accordance with sound business principles.

Section 9.‘ To extend and develop car lot
markets for Michigan grains, beans, seeds, and
other farm, products, and specifically endeavor
to open new markets.

Section 10. To strive to increase by judicious
and scientific advertising the demand and con—
sumption of Michigan grains, beans, seeds and
other farm products.

Section 11. To furnish an agency for buying.
co-opcratively farm supplies'and equipment.

Section 12. To adjust grieyances and dif-
ferences between members of this exchange and
upon request of member associations, between
growers and their respective associations.

Section 13. To co—operate with State and
Federal agencies along such lines as may be ben-
eficial to the agricultural interests of Michigan.

Section 14. To foster ways and means for the
utilization through by— products of waste and sur—
plus farm products.

Section 15. To cultivate a spirit of co-oper»
atlon among members and suggesting means
whereby they may be mutually helpful in every
legitimate and lawful way.

Section 16. To own and operate feed and
flour mills, storage warehouses and terminal el-
evators.

Section 17. To manuffihfiire, sort, mix, grade,

beans, seeds and other
farm products.

Section 18. Generally to do any other law-
‘t'ul work" for the benefit of the members. and the
building up of the agricultural interests oLMich—
igan.

Article III—Membership

Section 1. The actual membership of this
Exchange shall consist of the members of the lo—
cal co—operative farmer-owned and controllzd e1-
evators in any of the counties of the State of
Michigan, which elevators-shall have taken action

- to tederate their interests in this Exchange by
agreeing” to. abide by . these by-l-aws.

.Each» local
thus afllliating shall elect a representative to this
Exchange who shall hold omce until the local
shall certify to this Exchange the election of his
successor.

, Article IVe—Fiscal Year fieetings

Section 1. The fiscal year of the Exchange
shall commence July lst and end on the 30th day
at the following June.

Section 2. The annual meeting of the Ex:
change shall be held at the allies obthe Exchange;
in the city of Lansing, Michigan, on the third

hetibn 3. Special meetings may be "
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. HE DAIRY farmers of Northern

have found themselves thrown,
V‘without warning, into the most serif
one situation which has come upon

them in all the tumultuous years of. _‘

efforts to secure fair prices for the
products of their labor. ‘

On March 15,- the
Company refused to deal further with
' the Milk Producers’ Co-operative Mar-
keting Company and the Chicago Milk
'Produqers’ Association. Four days be-
fore that it notified the dairymen who
delivered milk to their four plants to
this effect. Beg-inning March 15 and
continuing until the hour that this is—
sue went to press, the four Nestle’s
plans, located ”at Pecatonisa, 111.,
Gray's Lake. 111.. Delavan, Wis., and
Burlington, Wis. hardly received milk
enough to wet the machinery. ‘
.Warfare Upon Dairy Organizations

Thisis no ordinary squabble with a
milk distributor. because the Nestle’s
company. with headquarters in Lon-
don, is the most powerful corporation
which deals in dairy products in the
world.
lire export trade in condensed milk
and other products. and is already a
considerable factor in the situation in
this country. Within the last. year it
has absorbed many large American
i’rms, including the powerful Borden
company. Its action in refusing to
purchase milk through the dairymen’s
r‘arketing companies in the Chicago
district. is apparently an. open declar-
ation of warfare upon these organiza-
tiOns—-at least. the dairy-men so in-
terpret it. The Nestle’s price is $1.85
against the associations $2.90 per cwt.

The four plants at Pecatonia, Gray’s
Lake. Delavan and Burlington nor-
mally receive 480.000 pounds of milk
each morning. This is one-eighth of
the entire amount shipped daily from
the dairy farms of the Chicago dis-
trict. The action of the Nestle’s com-
pany cut off this milk from the mar-
1:ct. temporarily.

The milk did not have to be held at
home long. as the officials of the mar-
keting company and milk producers’
association moved promptly and steps
_ucre taken within a few hours to di-
vert it to other markets. By Mar. 22,
all of this milk was being used in
«her channels; in fact, most of it was
handled by the marketing company
within a few hours. A good share of
it wont to Elgin to the creamery own-
ed by the marketing company. some
of it wont to distributors in Chicago,
some to a creamery in Freeport, while
preparations were made by the mar-
keting company to erect stations at

".‘Ddiry Farmers of Illinois." Cr

I ' Illinois and Southern “Vi‘lsconsi‘uw

Nestle’s Food _

It is said to dominate the en-'

  

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what it costs him to produce it.
maintained in any event.

all the time.

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applmg withSameProblems that _

‘ URJNG the year 1919 we had a meet unusual demandjprvcondensé
D ed milk at prices not before realized. ‘ Thedeniand'wilfifllrfictically
unlimited, but the price of milkyto'the producer bore in; relatmn '
.to the price of Condensed'mllk- There _‘Was nopropagandatoshow'the
‘eitra demand. The farmer “Was not-'mupposud té‘bes‘fionc'emfl When..-
the demand, for milk products ,_cxceeded_- the supply.;_.Tlielf~IiMufacthr-
ers and dealers reaped their rich harvest. . ' The price‘.}vas'_not based 0n
the price of condensed milk, buton the price of‘rbu'ttcr arid cheese. f It
‘ is generally admitted that for most of the year the producer's price did
fnot cover the cost of production." Now that the foreign 'demand-Ezhas'
slacked off, we have a general propaganda of publicity to inform the
further that the bonanza to the manufacture and dealer no longer exr
ists, and that. he must,be prepared to accept a lower price, no matter
The profits of the dealers must be

Reduced Foreign ‘Demand

This propaganda of reduced foreign demand is on a par with the
surplus argument. It is inevitable that there should be a‘decrease of
the abnormal foreign demand . for condensed'vmilk.
supply from the farms be flexible enough" 'alWays to furnish the vol-
ume of milk needed and no more.
the blunt of low foreign demand and home sm'plus withounany share
in the benefits when demand is unusual, .lie is subject to an injustice
It is always “heads you lose, tails I win.”
decrease in foreign trade nor the alleged surplus is sufficient excuse for
a starvation price to the producer while the
maintained to consumer, both domestic and foreign—Rural New York-

" 'Condensed‘i.Milkf' H 9‘ i , . f' ,

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Neither can the .

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each of the four points to handle this
milk indefinitely.

Where the rubcomes on the dairy-
men is that the returns for butter
just now are much less than for whole
milk. The result is a considerable loss
in handling the milk from Pecatonica,
Grayslake, Delavan and Burlington.

All Dairymen Lose

This loss is not borne by the farm—
ers at those stations. but is borne by
the marketing company which has
contracted to handle nearly all of the
milk produced in the Chicago d'io"
trict. This is then prorated back to
the dairy farmers and is, therefore.

'paid by all of‘the dairymen who sell
their milk through the marketing
company. -

“This is the most serious situation
we have been up against since we first
organized,” says W. J. Kittie. secre<
tary of the Chicago Milk Producers’
Association. “The strike of 1916 was
only a fieabite in comparison with the
possibilities in this. Then we had a
number of concerns to deal with, and
the public was crowding them for
milk. Now we are dealing with a
powerful corporation with millions
back 0f it, and owing to the bad for-

eign exchange ‘situation there is not

so much demand for the milk. We
feel that this is only another struggle

forour right to sell collectively, and
we are very sure that nearly every
dairymen in th Chicago
back of us to the finish.”

The Nestle's side of the case is con-
tained in the following letter to the
milk producers at Delavan, signed by
F. H. Hysell, general superintendent:

Nestlc’s Statement

“We haVe been purchasing milk at
Delavan for several years and- have
been under the impression that our

relations with/the dairymen were sat-'

isfactory. We have learned-receutly
of meetings of our patrons
by enmity and fostered by. paid agi—
tators at which meetings practically
all our patrons contracted to sell and
deliver their milk to another com-
pany, ignoring the fact‘ that we had
purchased their milk for a number of
years, and furnished them a satis-
factory market at the prices paid by
_our competitors in'nearby territory.

“The present condition of the for-
eign exchange has practically shut off
all shipments Of evaporated milk“ to
foreign countries, leaving an enor-

mous quantity in this country to be .

disposed of at a heaVy loss to the
manufacturers. In fact, evaporated
milk is today retailing in Chicago and
other cities at a dollar or more per
case less than it can be manufactur-

Practical and Modern Methods of Transferring Bees

By GEORGE LI. PRICE.

if the U. S. are kept in bix hives

or hollow logs. This is very unpro—
fitable plan as bees kept in this way
never produCe much honey. Beehives
should be very carefully made and the
standard ten—frame Langstreth is the
one to use. This hive may be obtain-
ed from any dealer in beekeepers’
supplies or if one is handy with tools
he can make them at home. using a
factory made hive as a model.

Transferring, as the word is used by
beekeepers, means moving the bees
from their old box hives or log
“guma” into modern hives.

A good time to transfer is during
fruit-bloom. as the combs then contain
a little honey and robbing is not like-
ly to bother. It should always be done
_during a honey flow, otherwise rob-
bing may start. It may be stated that
robbing is much easier started than
stoppal. . . .

If possible, a colony should be trans-
ferred .onto drawn combs. When, this
is, not possible. .full sheets of founda-
tionmay be used. . ' ‘ ' ‘

Ear the. usual
ringupne willneed a small box about
18;..iuches deep and. the same size as

P‘lOllABLY one-third of ‘the bees

thatop‘ of=the box hive; a hammer, a-

cold chisel, a butcher knife. and a
‘ board- 0r box to laythe combs on when
i'TIfittiug-Ithem into theframe.

 

to he entrgneef to drive hack

the
d ’ be

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method .Of‘xtransfer;

” A little smoke should beblown‘in-j
‘od out; and frames of;

 

 

~ HE LAST session of the legislature passed a law defining proper hives

for bees and compelling bee keepers to conform to these requirements.
The accompanying article will be of value to those who have not yet
transferred their bees to conform to the new laws—Editor.

 

 

taken from its stand and moved back -.

a few feet, and a modern hive put in
its place. The old hiVe is then turned
upside down and the small box turn-
ed over it. The bees are made to go
up into the small box by drumming
on sides of the old hive incessantly.
When most of the bees are in the box,
it is lifted and dumped in front of the
new hive. The sides Of the old hive
are now removed and the largest and
hestrcOmbs fitted into the frames of
th new hive.
is to put a comb on a board or box and
lay a frame over it. Then the outline
of the inside of the frame is marked
on the comb,‘with' butcher knife. The
frame is now removedand the comb

_ cut.‘ It should be cut plenty large so "
that it. Will tit tight‘in the frame. All .
digswrded.‘

drone" comb should .be
Small pieces 30: comb containing work-
er brood may’be_fitted to gather this.
frame and. bound in,” with _, a; "string:
The bees willremovge'tlie string? as
soon as the comb ,is fastened, in". Such

pieces of patched, cemb'should here‘— 5
_ moved as .23onn;.as the brood is hatch:
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The best way to do this ,

Another method of transferring, in
which it is not necessary to fit the
comb, is as follows: Drum the bees
out of the old hive as in the preceding
plan, but instead of breaking open the
hive and cutting out the combs, put a

queen excluder on the new hive and,

set the oldone on top. There should
be no openings” betwen th hivs-and
the entranCe of the-old hive should be
closed. In twenty-one days all the
worker brood in the old will have

emerged. It may then be removedandi
the bees drummed out as before. Any

honey may be extracted and the combs
melted up. - - ' 1
Another plan often used,

twenty-one .days the. bees are again

drummed out ‘01 the old hive andgu‘n'itw
‘ed"‘“with' those of'the new one.” There.

s l" , .(' -.'- . ‘ ' .. .
shou d be an eptrance guard on @119. Old In” my 1’9:er

     
   
 

    

   
  

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that‘mcyjbeilre been remedi’Bu ' i is

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district ,_is _ ‘

inspired ~

_ . __ is to-- set'
‘ .the‘old hivenear the new oneafter
about tmo-thii‘ds‘p‘f the bees. including -
"the queen, haVe'beeudruinmed out. In . _

 

Lu 'ers stifle-Sentiwne“

‘ . “In {view of ”this; oozidition“ 6f". “1‘

guessa‘we jflndiit necessary" to-‘rfeduce'v
cur intake‘or fluid, milk andto ‘d‘o‘ th-i‘sr. " p
.switn theleast- injury to thekdairy in- ' ,
l_dustry,jwe discontinued our purchas-

es '0: fluid/from wholesale and other
milk dealers, thus enabling us to take

‘care of; our regular patrons ‘fro‘m
,whom‘we have been’buyui-ng for, years,
and expected to continue buying tram .

irrespective or market conditions.

“Among other dealers from.whom '
-we discontinued purchasing milk was

the Milk Pr’oducers’ Co-‘operattva Mar-
keting Company of Chicago,“ whose
business is purchasing .milk from the
dairymen and selling it to the'dealers
and manufacturers. ‘ We, "had been
purchasing milk from this company
at Burlington and Grayslake and gave
them 30 days’ notice to find a. market'

elsewhere. which 30 days was up Mar. ,

15." ,
"‘Not the Truth" Dairyman Says

When "this statement was shown to
Frank T. Holt, president of the pro-
ducers' association, he said, “This
statement is hardly in accord with
the facts, particularly its reference to
our' marketing companiya-s a dealer.
We are not dealers, in proof of which
I‘ refer you to our contract with the
producers.”

Section two of the marketin com-
pany’s contract, with the producers

reads invpart, “That eachof said dro-_ '

ducers hereby agrees for and during
the period Of one year from date here~
of ............ to consign to said com-
pany for sale, manufacture and dis—

posal, on said producer’s account as

hereinafter provided, 'all milk and
cream produced by or from said cows
......... .” That section apparently
makes it clear that the marketing
company is not a, dealer, but a com;
mission firm. ~ .

“Nestle’s don’t object to dealers, but I

theydo regard this as a favorable
time to put us outof business," said
Holt, and half a dozenother leaders

in the office agreed with 'him. ' . '

“All we need is backbone and plen-
ty of it,” said C. J. Cooper 0f DeKalb
county. »

“It's just a case of sticking by our -

sales organization." said W. J. Kittie.
“Other dairymen are just as much in-
terested as are those at theSe towns.
The blow will drop elsewhere next
time.” ‘
Nestle’s Plant Nearly Idle . _
According to reports received from

,the four towns affected, the NeStle's.

plants are practically ‘idle. At Bur-l-
ington; where the normal receipts are
(Continued on page 23)

to Modern Hives

swarm is in the air, move the old box ,

hive a few feet and put a new hive in
its place. Hive the swarm in this. Af‘
ter twenty-one .days the bees may be
drummed out of the old hive and
united 'with the swarm. An easier
way is to’set the old hiVe with the
entrance close .to that of the new one.
and put a bee escape in its entrance.
The young bees coming out will join
the swarm. If the weather is hot, it
would be well to have the old hive-
shaded so that the combs would not
melt down on account“ 0f‘the" small
number of‘bees in the hives.‘

tain very few bees and it may be brok-'
en up'and the-combs melted; ' _
When there is’no hurry’about the.
transfer. the box hive'ma-y be set upon
the new hive early in'the season. ‘The’

opening of the oldhive must' be cros~»*‘
ed, and also any "gaps betiveen the
TWhen‘ ,. the - queen becames I 5
crowded for. roomahe willg‘o (twain-.-

hives,

to thenew hive" and start .to lay..,,The_
bees‘will soon, adopt the new "invents 'a._

3n,

   

After "
twenty-one days the box hive will con—M

  

  
      

 

 

  
    
 

 

 

 
 
 
 
  
  
  
 

 
 
 

 

   
   
    

 

 

 

 

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meat in the Mance of Ontario,
, “ Canada, is , longe1 an expert-
gment, It has passed the stages of pub-
lic Wonder, scorn and doubt and has
reached the point where .it is respect-

   

national progress and development.
The United Farmers’ Organization is

fully regarded as an intricate part of

a glowing, growing success in all its ‘

different phrases, palitical, industrial
and cemmercial.
} tential word, .
f, 'up the whole secret 'of that sucCess.

"f 06- -operation, co- ordination of phys~"
i

ical and mental forces, has solved the

problem for the farmers of Canada’s

‘, premier province, a problem that has

’ baffled those sons of the soil for ages.

It a. mptto wele to be selected for the

U. F. 0. banner, no m01e appropriate

1 one could be chosen than,
There Is Strength.”

The Ontario farmer, election after

And one little po-'
“00- OPERATION” sums! _

..

“In Unity ’

election, strove to attain fair repre- '

‘ sentation in the p1ovmc1al and federal
i gove111ments, and failed hopelessly.
1‘ (led on, wondering why his efforts to

‘ achieve recognition we1e all in vain.

’ Then, one day, the Ontario farmer
awakened to the full realization of the
trouble. He learned the true 1eason
for his repeated failu1es.
1 He has been endeavoring to fight his
.' battles singly, as it were. He had gone
his own political way and his neigh-
i bor had gone another. They had trudg-
ed year after year to the polls and
voted against each other and the old
order had prevailed 0n and on.

.. Simultaneously, with the knowledge
of the cause came the application of
the effect. The Ontario farmer worked
quickly, like a clever magician. He
changed his policy so suddenly that

l he startled even himself. He allied

» hims‘elf with his neighbor under a
new political flag. thoroly independent
in its texture. He. and his neighbor
walked glibly to the polls and they
voted together — co-operatively — one
for the other and both with one ob-
ject in view; and the thing that they
had deemed impossible became a
stiange reality.

Today, solely because of that c-o— op-
erative move that is gathe1ing mo-
mentum every minute, the United
Farmer of Ontario holds the balance of
political power In fact he is in pos-
session of the reins of provincial gov-

1

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- 1 , tthe s of OntartotExampl‘e Of What Farmers Can Do Along Co- operative Lines
Hill. \ UNITE ' FARMDR move-f 1 -

By L. B. BIRDSALL
Special Gairespondent MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER.

 

 

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crops are raised from it. Note
the sturdy appearance of- the
corn as it looked last.July and
you will get over the notion if
you ever had It that central
Michigan cannot grow corn.
Other pictures, taken on Mr.
Compson’s and other success-
ful farmers' farms will appear
from time to time in these coi-
umna. Send in your farm
pictures.

 

 

.HOME- and cornfield on the
big farm of E. L. Comp-
son. Manager. Michigan Live
Stock Exchange. Remus. Mich.
Some of the prettiest farm
homes in Michigan may bo’
found in Meoosta county. Near- .
ly' every farm has a cobbio- '
stone “patch" which yields
abundant material for sub-
stantial and attractive houses.
The soil of Mecosta coupty
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ernment and is making careful prepa-
rations to assist in piloting the D0-
minion ship 0f state before many
moons roll by. He owns his seat in
the Toronto stock exchange and has
co-operative buying centers in practi-
cally very section of the country; and,
most wondrful of all, he owns and
controls an elaborate chain of co-op—
erative retail stores, reaching from
one end Of the province to the other.
A decade ago if anyone had suggest-

ed that a body of humble farmers, un—.

skilled in business practices and cus—
toms, would some day own and oper-
ate a. system Of stores throughout the
Province of Ontario, he would have
been examined by the alienists to de-

. termine whether his mind was unbal-

anced or whether he was merely in-
dulging in a bit of chimerical humor.
The idea would have been termed pre—
posterous, impracticable, by the gener-
al public, and, no doubt, by many of
the farmers themselves.

Organized labor had tackled the
project on two or three occasions and
had made a miserable botch of it ev-
ery time. Plecedent was draWn f1 om

Why and How Farmers of Berrien

By EARL HEMINGVVAY

1y formed at Benton Harbor in

February, 1917, through the ef-
forts of County Agent H. J. Lurkins
and the co-operation of H011. James
McBride then of the Michigan State
Markets Department.

It was organized as the Lake Shore
Produriers’ Association _. with about
seventy members, for the purpose of
getting a better price for milk and
otherwise benefiting the milk produc-
ers of the surrounding country. Earl

ollR ASSOCIATION was miginal-

Hemingway, of Sodus, was elected
president; Mr. George Olds, Benton
Harbor, first vice president; Mr. W.

C. Smith, St. Joseph,‘ secretary and
treasurer; Mr. F. C. Gleason, Sodus,
Mr. Volney Olds, Hartford, and Mr.
W. C; Smith, St. Joseph, were the
selling committee.

Things worked out very satisfactor-

. ily until the fall of 1918 when the"

dealers refused to pay the» price ask-
' ed for the milk by the association, so
“the able to market their own pro-
duct the dalrymen decided to pur-
chase the business 0f the'two princi-"
paldealer-s in the two cities, St. Joe-
<eph and Benton-Harbor. With the as-
sistance of. federal markets, Field
~1Asent 111 Marketing Hale Tenn'an‘t,
the association was
reorganized under the name Of The

sectarian.

association with 96 members."

, VEach member paid $100 cash mem-

tee and also gave collateral

$1 three years without
hi i

on Opumty Milk Producers’ As- '

”a. non-profit co-operative

President Berrlcn County Milk Produccrs’ Ass'n. and Scc’y—Trcas..

these failures. But organized labor on
each occasion had lacked the one es-
sential, unanimity of pu1p0se.The1e
had been dissension and jealousy in
the ranks, which all went into the loss
account and soon oveibalanced the
business. Figuratively speaking, each
man had insisted on being boss and
handling the cash and no one would
agree to do the counter-hopping.

With a lesson Well learned from lab-
or, the United Farmers of Ontario de-
cided to give the co—operative store
scheme a try-out. They went at it dif—
ferently. They formed a chartered fi-
nancial institution, known as the
United Farmers' Co-Operative Com-
pany, and they selected an executive
of the very best men obtainable—men
with sound business training. Then
they buried petty grievances and com-
menced shoving together on the same
big wheel with one expressed object in
View, that of bringing the producer
and the consumer closer together by
eliminating the middleman and his
profits. The results have been almost
phenomenal, as evidenced in the finan—
cial statement for the year 1919. re-
cently reported by J. H. S. \Villough-

Co. are Marketing

Michigan

Gucrnscy Brccclcrs' Ass‘n.

gallon milk shipped per day, taking
therefore the association’s note for
tWo years bearing 6 per cent interest.

With the capital thus secured the
association purchased the Idle Brew-
ery or Bottling Works, located be-
tween the two cities, which are thriv—
ing towns with a «normal population
of 22,000, but double that during the
resort season,’being 60 miles from
Chicago by boat. Starting in business
January 1, 1919, with six delivery,
wagons and one truck for wholesale
trade. they soon found that the build-
ing they had purchased was entirely
too small so they at once built an ad-
dition 40x78 ft. for pasteurizing‘ and
bottling, installing wchurn, cheese
press, etc. Following up witha barn
40x80 ft. with room for their 14 hors-
es, wagons, etc., below and hay and
grain above This is connected with

the machine room by boiler, coal and
storage room 40x40 ft. All the build—
ings are white brick and make neat
and pleas-ing appearance and with

.cement floors are clean and sanitary.

When it was decided to increase the
size and number of buildings it be—
came necessary to change the finan-
cia.1.plan of the organization so a
bond issue of $50,000, secured by a
first mortgage on all the property was
arranged. The bonds to be in the de-
nomination of $500 each, drawing 7
per cent interest, maturing in 10
years. TheSe bonds have been sold to
the members taking up the notes issu-
ed the members for loans p1evious1y
seemed. A sinking fund is being es—
tablished by setting aside $500 each
month for paying the interest each
May and November and for retire-
ment of the bonds.

 

 

all going to end.
viewpoint the millions 0!

milk distributing systems.'

 

. and must fight to secure. , ~-
milk are 12111-111 ,
distributing and late

   
  
 

 

 

Cooperative Milk Marketing

HEN one learns of the evils of waste and
V‘/ the present methods of milk distributing,
' It seems almost criminal from an economic
dollars the tare annually and needlessly
spent. in many large cities to maintain
This huge expense seems all the more In-
mentable because of the inadequate returns Which the farther
‘ investigatio :
minds, to the possibill be of nonoperative milk

6! indie

duplication existing in
one wonders where it is

competitive and extravagant

receives
into the high cost of

pondejrt competitive concernsr-x
1190398131 milk marketing
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to steadily increasing,

by, of Cobourg, Ontario, one of the die
rectors of the company.

Fxom a little baby concern of one
sto1e located in Cobourg in 1918, the;
United Farmers’ Co- -Ope1ative Com-
pany has growu to a young giant of a
business machine, comprising eleven
large stores doing a combined busi-
ness of nearly twelve million dollars
last year. And, according to the di-
rectors, the company is still merely in
itslint'ancy, with an immeasurable fu-
ture ahead.

For the months of January and Feb-
ruary of 1920 the stores assumed a
thirty million dollar clip and Mr. Wil-
lcughby predicts that the year will
finish with more than twenty-five mil-
lion dollars to its credit. And so far
the company has stocked the stores
only with groceries and provisions and
a few lines of staple dryg-oods. Ex-
pansion plans are already in operation
and 1921 will undoubtdly see the
United Farmer Clo-Operative stores
selling hardware and boots and shoes
in addition to their present lines.

Cleanliness, the Keynote

The stores are operated on the prof-
it-sharing basis, although the underly—
ing principle is not to make profits.
Only members of the United Farmers’
Organization are permitted to become
stockholders in the company. but oth-
er persons may share in the profits at
the end of each year by purchasing
participation certificates. which are re-
deemable at par. Shares in the com-

pany are sold at, fifty dollars each
while participation certificates bring
ten dollars each.

The entire eleven stores are control—
led from the Toronto head office where
not only the prices of merchandise
sold over the counter are regulated’but
the prices of farm produce as Well, the
idea being to create uniform prices
all over the province.

The outstanding feature of all, how-
ever. is the appearance of the stores.
Cleanliness is the keynote, inside /and
out. The interior arrangements in
each store are similar, the color
scheme being white and blue. The
managers are selected by the Tor-
onto executive and are thoroughly
competent and progressive.

The one thing that the United
Farmers (Do—operative Company e11-
deavors to avoid in conducting their

(Continued on page 19)

Their Own Milk

In August. 1919. when the retail
price of milk was raised from 12 to
14 cents per qt., the prosecuting'at-
torney of the county made an investi-
gation to see if the far1ne1s wele pxof-
iteels but no action was taken against
them and the associatiOn is rapidly
1ecoverring the confidence of the con-
suming public through the superim
quality of their products and judic-
ious advertising.

How well the association is succeed-
ing may be realized by the fact that
the January sales exceeded the De-
cember sales by $2,000. The whole-
sale trade now keeps two trucks busy
and the six wagons a1e loaded to ca—
pacity and usually have to be supplied
with relays by the tiucks. The busi-
ness is under the direction of a boaid
of ten directors, elected by the mem-
bers and being geogiaphically dis-
tiibuted over the ter1it01y each 10-
cality is lepresented on the board by
a man of that Lommunxity who has
the confidence Of his neighbors. This
has had much to do in increasing the
strength and unity of the association.

Mr. Chris Anderson isthe active
manager of the plant with the writer
who has been twice re—elected presi-
dent, to assist in looking aftel the fi-’
nances, advertising, etc.

Milk is being delivered to the pub-
lic without standardizing, the avera‘ 16‘
test being 4.4 per cent and the asso-
ciation had the loyal sapport of the
doctors, health authorities, nurse's"
and others as the quality of the prom" "
uct deldwvered to the public well met-

‘its their commendation. . .

The association. is looking forward -
succeestulrbnss. .

   

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sworn statement that the present
membership of the State Association
has exceeded the nine thousand
mark. Saturday he received reports

. from Secretary Reavey of seven new
locals .with a total membership of
over fourteen hundred, which, Mr.
Ackerman states increases. the total
to over ten thousand.

If the manufacturers thought that
by their attitude of “watchful wait-
ing" and ignoring the representatives
of the growers until the last ap-
proaches possible moment would
cause the individual growers to weak-
en, they have become undeceived by
this time. THERE IS ABSOLUTE-

LY N0 INDICATION IN ANY PART -

OF THE SUGAR BEET TERRITORY
THAT THE FARMERS ARE FOR-
SAKING THEIR ASSOCIATION AND
YIELDING TO THE MANUFACT-
URERS.

0n the contrary many farmers
have publicly stated that they “do
not care what the manufacturers pay
for beets this year, they will not
grow any,” as there is more money
in other crops. At two meets which
the writer attended last week, this
spirit of'emthusiasm and loyalty was
very much in evidence. At a meet-
ing at Pigeon last week over two
hundred farmers chorused in union
that they would “stick."

Durand Farmers Talk Factory

At a joint meeting of farmers of
Shiawassee and Genesee county at
Durand last Saturday the proposition
of a farmer~promoted sugar factory
was taken up and a committee of
eleven, some of them farmers who
grow a hundred or more acres of.
beets, was appointed to formulate
plans for the establishment of a su-
gar company. Several good sites for
a factory are in prospect. The farm-
ers Will not insist that all the stock-
holders be farmers, but the stock
will be first offered to farmers and
then to others who desire to invest
in a paying proposition. There are
several farmer-owned factories in the
west which have made a big success
and which will be investigated by
the growers' committee. The senti—
ment for farmer-owned factories in
Michigan is very strong and the pres-
ent time, and we expect to see sev-
eral co-operative companies organ-
ized within another year.

West Wins Big Victory
A letter from Albert Dakan, chair-
man of the publicity committee of the
United States Beet Growers' Federa-
tion advises us as follows of the
great victory which the. growers have
won in their fight with the Great

. f " emberslr'ip. Rapidly‘, » ~ Am caches Tea
‘“ ’ R. c. 2-.- .ACKERMAN, manager ‘
’ of the Michigan Beet Growers's.

' "A3851, is prepared to issue a?"

  

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Saturday. It tells a story of

igalr will win their fight.

Mr. C. E. Ackerman,
Durand, Mich.
Dear Sir: ~

Wepurchmdamacrefarmofgood
contracted 10 acres to sugar beets. Being very busy moving we no-
glected to keep in touch with the curs-Gut news, and thus were ignor-
ant of the sugar beet strike in progress. I do not wish to do anything
detrimental to the boot growers and therefore wish to join the “Sugar
Beet Growers’ "Association. Kindly advise me in regard to joining the
Association also how to take action in regard to the strike.

Yours very sincerely.
SMON’ 131108.. by B. A. Simon;

 

 

. The Spirit That Counts

HE LETTER Published below was received by Mr. Ackerman last

loyalty to the farming cause that
needs no‘oomment. But it is a story that. can be repeated over and

over again. and it is upon that spirit; shown that the farmers of Mich-

Williamston. Mich., R. F. D. No. 1.

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Western Sugar Company. He writes
as follows: ’

“Enclosed is a press notice of the
southern Colorado ,Boet Growers’
victory. There are three distinct su-
gar beet factories in Colorado. Each
has problems different from the oth-
ers. The Arkansas valley region only

.began to. organize the past winter.
The sugar company down there did
not think ’the farmers meant business
and so tried to hold out. You see the
boys DID mean business and here is
the result. This is the last place to
‘fall.’ Now all the sugar companies
of Colorado have recognized the com-
mittee of growers representing the
growers’ organizations in this state."

Manufacturers‘ Last Stand
In a final hope that the farmers
may repent of having returned their
contracts the Aims. and St. Louis su-
gar factories have sent their field
men out this week to. interview the
farmers and urge them to take their
contracts back. There will probably
be a repetition of thqold'stories. Ef—
forts will be continued to destroy the
farmers' faith in this organization.
Threats will probably be made of
lawsuits, etc., but the farmer, firm in
defense of his just position, will rec-
ognize in these tactics the manufact-
urers' last stand against their or—
ganized power.
Attorney. General Gets' Busy
The following letter has been
written by Mr. Ackerman to the
Attorney General:
March 20th, 1920.
Mr. A. Mitchel Palmer,
United States Att'y General,
Washington. D. C.
Dear Sir:
I wish to call to your attention to

the fight the Beet Sugar manufactur-
ies are putting up with the farmers
of the state of Michigan. The fight
started the first week in Dec. last at
a convention of the Mich. Sugar Beet
Growers‘ Association, where the
farmers asked the factories for a con-
ference to adjust the contract for
1920 so as to re—embuse the farmer
for the higher price of the contract
labor which will have to be paid this
next year. The manufacturers have
refused us a conference five times to
date and the way the situation stands
now it looks as if there would be
sixteen sugar factories that will not
be operated in Michigan this year.
The country is short of sugar and
somethingshould be done about this
matter but it will have to be done
quick as the farmers are already
making arrangements to plant other
crops that do not require such a
vast amount of labor and in the next
20 days theseother crops will begin
to go into the ground. - -

The Michigan Sugar Beet Grow-
ers’ Asso'ciation has a paid in mem-
bership of 9,000 who have‘declared
that unless they get a conference and
a better price for beets they will
grow no beets during 1920. Since
there is only about 1,000 scattered
farmers not ‘in the Association who
grow beets occasionally it looks now
that sixteen. sugar factories will not
run this year. .

.Our president was down to Wash-
ington and reported he had a con-
ference with you and we were led
to believe you would start an inves-.
tigation at once which might bring
about'a settlement.

I will ask you in the interests of
the people of the country who will

    

‘be comhefiedtoigo without sugar .' .
and in the interests ofxthe' needed ml 7
dustry which will lay‘ idle cauSing':
the loss of millions ofdollars to the - ’
nation to place this before’the pres-
ident and get quick action, as this
will have to be settled in the next 20'
days or it will be too late. , .

I am enclosing a copy of a circa-
lar letter that has gone out to 10,000
beet growers.

. Attorney. General’s Reply

March 26,. 1920.
Mr. C. E. Ackerman,
Mich. Beet Growers’ Ass’n,
Durand, Mich.
‘Dear Sir:

I beg to acknowledge your letter
of March 20, 1920, relative to the
Beet Sugar manufacturies. This
matter will have our immediate con-
sideration. ' '

Very truly yours,
HOWARD FIGG,

Special Assistant to the Attorney-
General.

Out To Win

That the farmers are going to
stick and win their fight has been
amply shown at every one of the
meetings that the writer has attend-
ed. There is a feeling among them
that Was well defined by one of the
speakers at Durand last Saturday.
.“We’re out to win and we‘re going
to win," he said, “we couldn't lay
down even if we cared to, because
this is the crisis and if we did give
in it would mean hereafter we
would have to accept whatever the
manufacturers cared to offer us if
we wanted to raise any beets." And
this is very true, for the farmers
would continue to be the “goat" the
rest of their days, if they relented.

The Association grows more rap-
idly every day , in fact, the associa-
tion has grown so tremendously in
the past three or four months that
few of its members realize its full
strength.

Mr. Ackerman is recelvlrg scores
of letters in every mail from farml‘
ers in unexplored territory asking
how they must go about it to estab‘
lish a local in their locality as they
are anxious to join and do not wish
to wait until a man from the Ass'n
gets to their locality to organize
them. He is continually getting long
distance phone calls from locals all
over the state asking for the latest
reports. _

It is this kind of spirit that will
win the beet growers fight and if
they have to grow something elsl
on the ground they had planned to'
put to sugar beets this year, it's go-
ing to pay them all to stay in the
fight to the end.

Consolidated Schools Would Help Keep Young People on the Farm

By MRS. ROSA G. CRANE

HAVE been reading several articles
lately in the magazines and 1n

~ yours of Mar. 13 and 20 by Merrill
on “Back to the Farm," which have
stirred me up to the writing point. I
have lived in the largest cities of the
United States and Canada for thirty
years and then married and went to
live in the country, four and one-half
miles from Adrian. I loved all that I
knew of the country before deciding
to live there and still lOVe it for it-
self but the thin-gs one must put up
with are beyond endurance at times.
Take for instance the schools, one
teacher to teach eight. grades, bad
heating, bad ventilation, bad lighting,
bad sewage, and bad 'water systems.
Children go to school with members
of their families sick at home with
infectious. and contagious. diseases.
The older boys and sometimes the
girls make life unbeanablo for the
smaller children. The roads are im-
passable for children on foot on ac-
count of the now drifts. in winter and
- mad when. it thaws .in spring. On ac-
count of illnesswithheart t bio of
'1:th of the-older members. the
family ‘leayingonly. my. husband to do
everything-indoors oxidant with our
j , ’g assistance. the children
WM tostay homo from school
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_S LENAWEE County farmer’s wife believes that the conditions in the
old-fashioned rural schools cause the farm boy or girl to attend the city
schools where they become educated in matters that turn them away from

the farm. Consolidated schools, she thinks, would help solve the “Back to
the Farm" problem. What do you believe is the solution?

 

 

young girls preferring to work in the
telephone office or 10c store.

My nearest neighbor has tWO chil-
dren; both wanted to go to high school
so she sent them. One has graduated
and the other will this year, covering
a period or eight years. This means
that she must rise before 6 in winter
as well as summer; prepare breakfast;
heat foot warmer; help the children
hitch a home and
buggy or cutter as the season my de-
mad and get them oflrby 7 :36‘ at the
latest. They. arrive home about :6- in
the evening. Of course; [believe ined—
ucation, but does it pay to washers
than 12 of the .24" hours dye rim—"B
week for a boy or+girl=.to-.get the little

. our children get-in high school gt'tlgat.
white of use to them. on the farm

later on! If we could have better
schools, better roads and. last butnot
least, fair. prices for. term products.
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of? us.

     

young people want to stay on the
farm and the older ones want to have
them stay. I wish you could print an
article on “Consolidated Schools," giv-
ing figures as to first cost and how it

. is divided between state and township

the difference in taxes, if any, and
any other'figures that would make it
clear to those not wanting the new
system on account of extra cost; that
it would be the best anyway. There
has been a movement on foot for the

past 12 years that is just beginning

to bear frpit in our section. Five
school districts hare combined and

‘will‘ build a consolidated school but

other districts are holding back on ac-

.' W of; extra» cost: haven't ear oilfi-
drsga, grandchildren in town, etc. Then

the..- church'qnestion. I dealt believe
mammogram first; as: miles
w a soda c or 3‘ was
calm it'l.n!lshtyha..sta.. ‘
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nominational church which has just
recently taken on a new lease of life.
My four children, the oldest past 9
years of age, have never been inside
of a church. Are they to be brought
up'like heathens in a civilized coun—
ery. Circumstances my beyond control
have made this possible. Now, if we
lived in town I could get them ready
and they‘ could at least attend Sun-
day school,‘ if not church, by them-
selves. My husband's family have
lived in this neighborhood for over
80 years and my children are the
third generation on this farm. Must
we give it up or kill ourselves trying
to raise our family so that they can
compete with their city cousins if they
must go out into the world later on?
Certainly things need re~adiusting and
I am glad to see the Gleaner: coming
to the toosnd hop. it won't be long
before they have a branch in Our
townas we need it. I am enclos-
ing a market price list parent and
paid daily by the community we:
here. mesa-‘note the dlfl'erenee in ‘
prices in their list and yours or Satur— ,
day. I am lustbe’ginaingtodt ‘~
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- 9 Gladwin county
witn a substantial. class

9. EVI'rY RECORD

In announcing the death of Dolly
Copeland 42389 at the age of 20

, years lacking a few days, the Ameri-

can Aberdeen-Angus Breeders’ As-

sociation call attention to the records
of the breed in general. for longevity‘

. and prOlificacy. Dolly Copeland, dam

of Glenfoil Thick Set 2nd, four times,

an International champion bull," a

champion cow and at least one cham-‘
9pion steer; died as the result of any
accident on the. farm‘ of Mike Dono-I

lice, in Iowa, in December when she

slipped on the lee and broke her hip. ,

She is the dam of at least eighteen
calves, possibly nineteen, never hav-
ring' misseda year without turning in

a calf and a gOodone at that, to pay-

for her board. The records of the
Association ‘show 10 calves record-
:ed, but many of the bulls were cas-
trated and shown as steers, especial-
ly in the hard times.
Glenfoil Rose, her first calf, was
champion at all the state fairs and
' stood first at the International, and

“and was. one of the great .show.cows

'Of her day. ‘The last calf is now in
.the feed "lots of “Ed” Hall, the vet—
,eran carlot feeder, at Mechanics-
Iburg', 111., and looks like a contender
for grand championships at the com-

' ._ ing International

. Old Grannie, the .first cOw in the
_'.Herd Book, lived to be nearly 36
"and dropped 25 calves in Scotland,
but she had every care and attention
‘1 1n order to see how long she would
Ilive. Over in Michigan, F Perry &

'i'SOn, have a cow that is now past 22

‘and she has been dropping a calf
every year and locks goOd for sev-
,eral more in case she has no aCci~
gdent. Just how many calves she
jams produced no one knost, as she

’ was bOught in Canada some fifteen

' years ago, and her breeders ,have
gone out of business. The late John
S Goodwin reported cow still breed-
ing at 23 years of age in the “His-
tory of Aberdeen-Angus” recently
published by the American Aberdeen-
Angus Breeders' Association, 817
-Exchange Ave., Chicago. This is the
popular and condensed edition pub-
lished‘ for free distribution.

 

TUSCOLA FARRIERS ORGANIZE
BUREAU

Delegates representing the several
townships in Tuscola county. have
:comple‘ted the Organization of the Tus-
cola county farm bureau. Officers
"elected as follows:“' President, James

‘5'Mur'day; vice-president, Claude Cole;

executive committee for one year, M.
D. Lynch, ’Joseph Campbell, C. J.
Striller; for two years, Dorr Perry,
H. J. Marsh and F W. Alexander;
delegates to the State meetings: R.
A. Hains, G. E. Reagh, George Hency,
George Rumble.‘

1

GOOD ROADS AND GOOD FARM-'

- ERS IN GLADWIN COUNTY

Roy B.’ McKibbin, 1.0f Beaverton,

' says that GladWin county will be con-
nected-"with Bay City by a ‘complete

system‘ of hard' surfaced roads, run-
9. ning through Beaverton, Hope, Eden-

f '9‘ ville and~Midland before the close of-
' the present year. ' .
"large sectionbof this read have a1-

Contracts for a

ready been let and more are apt to be
awarded this spring. 7

With the completion Of this road it
is expected that a_ truck line, for both
passengers and freight, will be put in
OperatiOn giving the towns along the
mint; 1:. service which they have long
needed as there is no railroad connec-

tion between Gladwin and» Beaverton. _,

or with Hope. Edenville, and Mid-

of farmer
settlers, ever 20 families from 01110

‘ ether sec-j

ABERDEEN-ANGUS HQL1) LONG-i

' shipping points

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count for the 19.015. that more live
stock is shipped annually from Glad-
win than from all the other stations
combined, on the Mackinaw division
of the Michigan Central.

Q

POTATOES [STILL HIGHER

The steady advance of prices in the
potato market continued throughout
the past week .with moderate sup-
plies and demand fair to good. At
Michigan, Minnesota and ~9Wisconsin
shipping points white varieties were

 

moderately higher at9~$5.60- to $6- as-

compared with last week’s range of
$5.50 to $5.75. 9Démand and move-
ment were moderate. Middle western
consuming markts were about 25 cents
higher at $5.50 to $6 except in St. Lou-
is and Kansas City where the same
stock sold at $6 to $6.50 sacked per
100 pounds. Haulings at ’New York
have been rather
light for some time; "round white
sacked gained 40-500 per 100 pounds

Qwhy Farmers DO

N the spring Of 1918, farmers, urg-
ed by the Food Administration, as
well as by thousands of hot air ma-

chines,'planted a record croprof pota-
toes for “Food Will Win the War”
was the slogan. In November the ann—
and Mr. Farmer
was left with a recoid crop of spuds

produced" A with , high-priced help and
jnobody‘to help him get rid of them..
At this‘time last year he was getting

$1 a hundred, or trim 50 to 60 cents

‘a bushel for' potatoes that had cost

him $1 'a bushel actual cash outlay t3
produce. When the spring Of 191

“came the cry “produCe more food"
fell on deaf ears as far as most pota-
' to growers were concerned. They

planted the normal amount, but not
the extra acreage of the year before.
The dry summer cut the crop about
20 per cent on top of that so when the
harvest came, Wisconsin, and the
whole United States had a shortage,
with the result that at this time of
the year the farmer, instead 0f get-

ting from 50 to 60 cents a. bushel like

a year ago, is now getting frOm $2.50
to $3 a bushel, or $4.50 to $5 a hun-
dred.

. What does that teach him? Why, of

,course, it does not play to produce a

large crop. Let us figure a .minute.
The average cost of producing an
acre of potatoes in 1918 was $80, and
the average production of marketable
potatoes about 100 bushels to the acre
that means that it cost 80'cents a bu.
to produce the spuds. This last year
the production per acre had decreased
let us say, 20 per cent; the- cost per
acre, however, was, if anything, con-
siderably more, but for the sake of
the comparison we will assume it was

  

(12 o._ b. ranging ,$5.2_5 to $5.75. _"‘A sim-
ilar gain for this stock was recorded
in eastern distributiOn markets at a
range of-$5:659-to, $6.15. In New York
City Maine Green'Mountanins were9un-
changed at $5.55 to.$5.85 bulk per 100
pounds. 'There was a heavier move-
ment during”the"past"‘week of 2,912
cars, showing an increase of about
300 cars, Over the previous week, but
a decrease of about 250 cars com—
pared witlrthe corresponding week a
year ago. .

Potatoes: Virginia. continue 650.
Planting will bé completed about Apr.
-20.9 Seed potatoes slow in arriving.
9Many 'seed potatoes planted have rot-
ted 9in the'ground due to heavy rains
and cold weather. South Carolina:
Beaufort section, acreage planted is
about 2, 800. A1:abama Mobile section,
potatoes ale coming up nicely and are
showing a legular stand. Louisiana:
Lafourche district, potatoes doing well.

Net-Produce More

the same. Thus an acre producing 80
bushels at a. cost of $80 per acre, left
the cost per bushel $1 instead of 800,
as the year before, but Mr. Farmer
’get-s‘fm them $$2. 50 to $3,- as against
60c which he got for his 1918 Cl op
‘Which pays best?

1918—100 bushels cost $80 selling
price, .60 cents per bushel, total $60
net. Loss, $20.

1919—80 bushelscost $80, selling
price, $2.50 per bushel total, $200 net.
Profit, $120.

With such an example staring him
in the face every manufacturer would
reduce his production so as to get the
profit andyou cannot blame the farm—
er when he does the same thing.

Here this article should end for we
have proven our case. But we are
sorry to say that from past experience
we fear the farmer will not have
learned his lesson, on the contrary,
all alone by himself, each and every
one will sayz “Now potatoes were
awful high last yea-1‘, so I am going to
plant a couple of acres more and get
the extra money.” John and Bill and
all the rest will do the same, with the
result that there9Will be an over-pro—
duction and the bottom will go out of
the prices. And then nextyear he
will do just the opposite. You don’t
believe it? You don’t have to, for the
writer has lived through this flood

, and famine plan for many years and
all his preaching, as well as that of
thousands of others, have not chang-

9 ed' the situation one iota. But then,
an‘ educator must have infinite pa-
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PRODUCERS’ PRICES FOR STAND-
ARD GRADE MILK

HE following table presents a

comparison'of the net prices re-

‘ceived by producers for fresh

9milk‘ delivered f. o. b. local shipping

points or: milk plants operated by
fluid milk dealers, or concerns whose
chiefrbusiness is the distribution of
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Sections Mar. prices Feb. “111'.

per cwt. price mic:
United States ] $13 07—6.1(i| $3.70] $3.55
-New England I 2.89—4.65] 4.20] 4.91
,Midtlle Atlantic . l 3.19—4.04] 3113] 31.11.“
E. North Central I 2.52—4.07] 3.68] 3.23
\V. North (‘entml 2.52——94.00| 3.41] 3.30
South \tlanth I 3.50—6.16] 4.?0] 21.42:
11}. South U‘cntihl ] 2.80—5.15] 3.119] 3.5;)
\V.Soutl1 (entrul ] 3.35—5.81] 4.72:] 4.4:
Mountain ....... ] 2.71—4.65] 2.91 3.01
Pacific ......... ] 2.07—4 20 3.62 3.48

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“Standard Grade Milk"

The following table presents the
prevailing prices of “Standard grade
milk” in vaiious markets of the
United States.

Markets

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Chicago, 11].
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Notes

According to a report of a local
milk producers’ association, the pro—
ducers supplying New Haven, Hart-
ford and Waterbury, Connecticut, re—
ceive the price given in the first col-
umn of Table III for such quantities
of milk as are called for by their in-
dividual contracts with dealers. A
penalty or deduction Of 2 cents per
quart is made for milk in excess of
110 90199115 per cent of such basic
quantities.

The method of determining prices
for the Evansville, Indiana market,
has been modified to the extent that,
until further notice", prices will be do
termined at the beginning of the
month instead of in the middle and
at the end of each month} If by the
use of. the formula given in the Feb—
ruary report, the price of 4 per cent
milk is 32 cents per hundredweight
less than the estimated average pro—
duction cost, then the prices to be
paid will be the average of the
amounts referred to. The cost of
production is calculated on the basis
of the following items of cost: 20 lbs.
hay plus 20 lbs. of 4-2-1 mixture of
corn, bran, and cOttonseed meal plus
48 lbs. hay plus 150 lbs. silage plus
20 lbs. corn stover plus 20 lbs. straw
plus 3 hours labor plus 10 percent
for management. .

For the first half of the month
dealers have agreed to pay produc-
ers 50 cents per gallon. F. O. B.
farm within a radius of 14 miles.

. On and after March 15 the price will
be 40 cents per. gallon. ,

Producers’ Association agreement
with dealers in Baltimore provides

' that dealers will not pay to each pat-

ron the price given in the first col-

umn Of table III for all milk not in
“excess of 110 per "cent of the aver»
_age quantity delivered"; during the
9months
'- 1919

of Sept.) Nev... and. Oct,
Milk in excess of such' basic
quantities is to be paid for at a low—
ér price which for' the month

   

  

           
          
   
     
 
   
  
  
   
   
  
     
   
 
     
 
 
  
   
  
 
  
 
  
  
  
 
   
    
 
  
  
  
  
    
  
    
 
   
   
  
   
     
  
  
  
    

 

       
   
 
 
  
    

   
  
     
    
     
     
      
     
     
    
  
 
  
  
 

   
  
  
    
 
 
   
  
  
 
  

 
   
  
  
  
  
   
    
  
  
 


   
 
  
 
 

   

(Editor‘s Note: The following scr-

ocy of the world’s crop conditions and.

estimate» trend of markets was mac
by J. Ralph Pickcu,’ editor and pub-
Mshor d the 34135st Review.
Hr. Pickett is an acknowledged (I‘l-
thority those subjects. He “as
in for In: facts, got: them, and does
sot hesitate to ”blitz; that. He sol-
m goes wrong on an estimate or
prediction. We feel that the follow-
ing information is as complete and re-
liable as 1's possible to secure, and
bears out in nearly every particular
the prediction node by the Busmess
Former.)
O t 0
H3 WORLD’S cereal situation is
not an enigma ! Facts are avail-
_ able for those who are interested.
Government regulation has submer—
ged interest in world figures, es—
pecially pertaining to wheat. This
fact alone proves the value of or-
ganised and controlled speculation.
Board of trade oflcials, devotees and
spokesmen, have always averted
that information was furnished tree
to the public, whose transactions reg-
ister the price of" wheat. The ab-
sence of speculation emphasizes. this,
for without it, interest in the facts
subsided.
But you shall find, before you have
finished this, that accurate, reliable
data is available. You shall find

 

 

DETROIT~Market bullish. Oats higher and firm. Wheat
and rye in demand. Corn firm. Boy strong.

CHICAGO—Corn market bullish.

Hogs in demand.

Oats and wheat higher.

 

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with full co-operation

representatives
eleven at the leading commodity ex-
changes of the United. States, recent-
ly submitted a brief to Congress in
which is was stated that, “For, even
0-: govern-

of

mental. agencies, several months will ‘

be required to accumulate and dis-
seminate authentic information in re-
gard to world's conditions as. might
reasonably tom the basis for open
trading in wheat," that they ignor-
antly misrepresented the fleets.
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able E

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lWOfiA-L HARVESTER COMPANY

You Should Buy Genuine

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EPAI'RS made for International Implements and
other farm operating equipment by the

Harvester

Company are the only repairs made from the
All other; are copied from copioo,
is roundabout "reproduction- they may lose in
correctness of shape, sharpness of detail. closeness in
fitting—and in qualityand suitability of. material used.

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ly dominate cereal prices for the next
six months and more These tact-
ors will assert themselves in spite of
Supply and Demand.

They are transportation and fin-
aneo.

A third factor which is important,
is politics.

Domestic transportation in the
United States will gradually read—
just itself to a more satisfactory
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large volume of business
with the same facilities we had in
1914 satisfactorily. No. But we
are running into a period of business
recession. Speeding up transporta—
tion through the efforts of the rail-
roads with a corresponding dec1ease

in the merchandise business, will
gradually bring about a domestic
transportation adjustment. C ar

equipment concerns like Haskell &
Barker and the American Car F‘Ound-
ry are liter-ally turning out hundreds
of cars per day. In spite of this, it
will be entirely safe to. say that we
Will be short of cars for a year, any—
way.
cars for grain
shipments will move up, so we will
not be so distressed for cars within
the next six months as we are inst
now.

Ocean transportation. will not be
plentiful. within the next six months.
No matter what happens to Europe,
all- available tonnage will be in. de-
mand for onepurpose or another.
However, tonnage will be available
to move cereals in quantity compar-
If Europe
wants our grain it will be moved.

- Europe does want it new. But there
will not be an easy flow of tonnage. ‘ '

Transportation in the interior of
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available the moving needed grail.
Russia is in a class by itself. Great
improvement will be made in that
Gantry, because conditions cannot
get worse. In fact great immo-
Mkbeingmaderixhtmw. Water

. amputation is. an «trendy im-

Whaminnussiomtheriy.
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Politics will intervene, to some ox-

tam, anmmmudm-

peratsly fighting to! £606 from

" - southern Russia, with has uni“. YQu

will hear considmhfie. about doing
business With t '

in 1920

But, as the merchandise bus—’
'iness drops down,

tosay .
Rama will export grain this .

An Experts Opinion of the World Crop Situation and Future Of Markets

member is this: Some morning you
will “woken to 1nd in your newspa;
pore that grain is boon: exported
from the Black Sea district. That
will be the truth. For instance, while
Lloyd George is reversing himself on
politics pertaining to Russia, Winston

Churchill is layingliio plans to. get

the wheat out at those ports, with the

‘ cooperation of English merchants.

Italy will get some wheat and France
too Bowmuch? No one knows. _I
feel entirely sale in saying that the
quantity will be sufficient to mater-
ially afoot the price of American
wheat.

Let us remember that the 1.919
crop of Wheat in southern Russia,
positively was one oi the best crops
ever prddneed, if not the best Let
us also remember’ that the Black Sea
district is the wheat country 0: Rue-
sia. When you get north of a line
running west to east from Moscow
to the Unis you strike the rye and
oats country oI‘Russia.

Europe will boil, politically, for
months. Wars and revolution will be
the order of the day. This will in-
ject uncertainty into the situation
and might at any time precipitate a
panic in this country. But I am Very
much inclined to think that we shall
pass into a period of depression grad-
ually, I cannot see any signs of a
panic in this country, in the sense
which we understand that term. But

the signs of a business depression
are unmistakable. '_ 1
Production is increasing. our

warehouses are filling up. Do not
mistake this as meaning ‘.‘g‘rain.-"
Merchandise stocks are increasing,

while a very noticeable conservation
on the part of buyers for fall goods
is being displayed. Purchasers or
goods for fall delivery are buying less

 

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No. 2 Yellow . I111 l1.70 l1.90%.

'N’o.“3 Yellow ...l1.72 l1.65 l .
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than they think they need. Not more.

Some of these days the campaign
against. profiligate spending, which is
being waged in this country, is going
to bear fruit. People will just nat~
urally get scared and slow up in their
buying, or they will run out of ready
funds. If. enough of us all of a. sud-
den should feel that way, and really
stop buying high—priced goods, man-y
businesses would flutter and fall.
That’s what starts a panic.
look for this to eventuatc.

With the advent of spring, Europe
is going to. stop buying of us, just as
far as possible. Goods are going to
back up upon us. Some foreign er-
ders are now being canceled. Prices
for commodities are going lower.
Prices for grain will be afiected by
the reduction in commodrty prices.
Buy just what you need of any com-
nudity and no more. Be conserva-
tive. Keep some surplus web... on
hand.

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Red Kidneys . . .318.” “.90 47-0.” J

' pounds.

'98” to old and it is extremely dit-

in whoat prices would help rye. Bar-

{ ley scenic “censored.” New to the
' subject.

There is no "mystery" about the

, world’s wheat situation, except such

l as the result of governmental aflorts ~

to street the laws of Supply and de-
mand. The world’s supplies, with
the exception of those in Russia, are
. known almost to a bushel, while the

demand is a matter entirely of dis— .
and nothing

tribution and finance,
more.

Earlier in the season (months ago)
the Review estimated that the theor-
etical requirements of Europe rang-
ed as high as 800, 000, 000 bushels.
but that Europe would be lucky to
secure 600,000,000 bushels, due to
the financial and distribution situa-
tion. This forecast. promises to come
true. Broomhafl, the lish au-
thority, made the 0.1% re-
quirements 750,000,000 b is.

Based on known tests, as gathered
from all sections of the world, part-
ly ofliciai and partly private, the
world importing countries , will
theoretically require arcand 700,-
000,000 bushels for the 1920-21 soap
son. That much is positively known.

 

‘ RYE AND ‘BARLEY

Rye advanced 12c in the past week
and is reported in demand and firm
at $1.92 for No. 2.

Barley is quoted at $303.26 for
No. 3.

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After several weeks of inactivity
the bean market advanced 10¢ per
cwt. this past week, but at present is
dull and firm, as there is small re-
ceipts and little demand

Next week we will go into the bean

situation more in detail and hope to ,

have something more encouraging to
after you. _ \

 

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“retro“ ............... a
Chicago ............... B. 00 3.10
P'ttsburg .............. 6. 50 I18
New York ............ 6.50 8.00

PRICE. 6NE— VEIL Afl:6_
Detroit ............... 2. 00
awe ............... 1.85 ~

mg ............. 2.00 1.9

New York ............. 2.08' .

 

The potato market continues firm
with small receipts at $8.75 per 150
It is believed that most oi
the 1919 crop is out of the growers’
hands.

The following is what the Produce
News has to say in regard to the sit-
nation:

“A local commission man who has
made a careful study of the potato
situation, ewecially in regard to the
old potatoes as they may interfere
with the new stock, suggests that po-
tato growers should get rid of the
stock which some are holding as
ear-U as possible.

“ ‘I do not imow,’ he said, 'what
quantity 0! potatoes are left in the _
country, but it the roads are in con-.
dition for hauling, my advice to the
growers would be to ship just as
soon as they can. It will not be very
long bolero new potatoes will be on
the market. and with the heavy
crops there are in all new potato

., sections, growers who are holding
old potatoes, are bound

to Neuter
When the new crop comes along, if
it is of good quality, consumers al-
wiys take these potatoes in preter-

  

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8' ‘ Rye and barley Present levelsi
;probnbly willnot notch-age much tor
some time to come. Enhancement

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Lighter receipts of prairie hay
have caused markets to advance
somewhat, according to reports of
the Bureau of Markets, and all grades
have been eagerly taken. A less ur-
gent demand however was nbted in
Eastern markets for ' timothy, al-
though stocks are comparatively
light. In the central west prices re-
main firm on timothy, receipts light
at Chicago, fairly large at Kansas
City and an especially good shipping
demand reported from Cincinnati. At
the latter terminal record for that
market was established for No. 1
clover when a price of $40 was
reached. Grain hay is in good doe
mend on the Pacific coast, shipments
of eat and wheat hay being made
from Oregon into California.

DETROIT ‘ PRODUCE MARKET

Produce market rather quiet in all
directions and prices not undergoing
any important changes. The feeling
inth‘e vegetable market was firm in
nearly ,all lines. Potatoes are not
coming in freely and dealers say it
is difficult to pick up car lots of
Michigan product. Butter is in mod—
erate suppirand firm. Eggs are com—
ing in freely and there is active buy-
ing. Demand for poultry is better
than the supply and a firm market is

quoted, but dressed calvesare abund— 7

ant and easy at a small decline.

Dressed hogs are in small-supply and -

firm. The ‘iruit market is quiet and
steady. Demand for ..applos is not
active.

Apples-Western, boxes, $4@4.50
Baldwin, $3@3.50; Greening, $3.25
@350; Steel’s Red, $8.50@4 per bu.

Popcom——Shelled, 9s per ib.

Honey—White comb, 32®35c per

pound. .

Calves, dressed—Fancy, 24@ 25c
per lb.

Dressed hogs—Best, ~ 20 @ 21c;
heavy 18@ 19c per lb.

Live poultry—-Spring chickens, _
best, 38 @ 40c; leghorns, 36@ 37c;

hens, 40@420; small hens, 38@39c;
geese, 30@35c;
ducks, 40@45c; turkeys, “@450
per lb.

Hides—No. 1 cured calf, 550; No.
1 green calf, 55c; No. 1 cured kip,
32c; No. 1 green kip, 28c; No. 1 our-
ed hides, 25 to 45 lbs, 30c; 45 lbs.
and up, 20c; No. 1 green hides, 25
to 45 lbs, 27c; 45 lbs. and up 17c;
No. 1 green bulls, 200; No. 1 cured
bulls, 15c; No. 1 horsehides, 3.9.;50
No. 2 horsehldes, $8. 59; Tallow, No.
1. 13s; No. 2, lie. Sheep pelts, 50c
@3350; No.2 hides 1c and No. 2.

kip and calf,1 1520 on.

BOSTON WOOL m

The Commercial Bulletin says:
“There seems to be .a better feeling in
the wool trad-e this week."

Ruling prices for the various
grades and classes of wool are as
follows:

one and Pennsylvania fleeces—‘

‘Deiaine unwashed, 97@$1. on; nine

unwashed, '74@76c; 1-2 blood camb-
ing, 83@85c; 3—8 blood combing, 69
@70c.

Michigan and New York fleeces—

Flne unwashed, 706731;; deiaine un- _‘

washed, 95c; 1-52 bleed unwashed, 80-
one; 3-8 blood unwashed, 8706“.

Wisconsin, Missouri and average
New England—halt blood, 72@75c;
3-8 blood, “Eric; 1-4 blood, .30
66c.

Virginia, Kentucky and similar—-
8568012; 114

  

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sit. mu ,. mm. s ;
eastern clothing; $1.7801.80;vafley -
' No. 1,:1.75@1.so.

Territory fine staple, 92.056215;
1— 2 blood combing, $1. 85@1. 95; 3-8
blood combing, $1.30; flue combing,
$1.75,@.1.85; fine medium clothing,
313561.75.

.Pulled ,extras, $1.95@2.05; AA,
31.806130; A supers, $1.65@1.75.

Mohairs, best com‘bings, 60@65c;
best cardings, 55@60c.

, LIVESTOCK MARKETS

DETROIT—~Market steady to strong
best heavy steers, $12@12.50; best
handy weight butcher steers, $10.50@
11.50; ,mixed steers and heifers, 88.75
@9 75; handy light butchers, $7.50@
8.50; light butchers, ”@725; best
cows, $8@9; butcher cows, $7@7. 75;
cutters, $5 50@6. 25; cancers, $4.50@
6.25; best heavy bulls, $8.50@9~; bo-
logna bulls, $7.50@8.25; stock hulls,
”@750; feeders, $8.50@10.25; stock-
ere, ”@835; milkers and springs”,
$650135. Veal calves: common grad-
ers almost unsaiable; best, $17618;
others, $10@16.25. Sheep and lambs:
market steady: best lambs, $20; fair
lambs, $18©19; light to common $15
clipped lambs. $1750@17. 00;
fair to good sheep, $12. 50@1..3 0; 011118
and common, $6-@8 Hogs: Market
strong; heavy, $15.50@16; pigs, $16;
mixed hogs, $16.50@16.75.

EAST BUFFALO—Dunning & Stev-
ens report: Cattle. strong; prime
shipping steers, $l4@14. 50; best ship—
ping steers, $12 50@13; medium ship-
ping steers, $12@12.50; Canadian hea-
vy steers, W812@12 50; Canadian steers
and heifers, .811.@1;2 best native year-
lings, 950 to 1,000 lbs., $13. 50@14. 50',
light native yearlings, good quality,
$12@12. 50; best handy steers, $11.EJ@

   

,i’ancy bulls, ”€10: ‘ butchering
bulls, 97.5008. 50; common bulls, 86. -
“@750; best feeders, 900 to 1,000 1118., .
850010.550; medium feeders, $809:
stockers, 97.5068; light to common,
$100@i50; medium, $55®90. Hogs:

steady: heavy. 815. 75@16; mixed and
yorkers, $17. 25@17.;50 pigs, $16.50;
Sheep: 25c lower; top lambs, 821.50;
wethers, $16®16.5i); yearlings, $17@
19; ewes, $14@14 50. Calves: lower;
tops, $19. 50; fair to good, 516. 50(5)
18 50; grassers, $6@8

CHICAGO—Hogs: mostly 50 to 75c
higher; hulk, $15.65@18.50; top, 316.—
75; heavy, 3152561140; mediumfilfi
@1675; light. 3162561675; light,
light, 31550016.“); heavy packing
sows, smooth, $13.50@14.50; packing
sows, rough, 313013.75; pigs, $l4@
15.75. Cattle: mottled; beet steers,
medium and heavy weight, choice and
prime, 814615.50; medium and good,
91175914; common, 81025611315;
light weight, good and choice, $12.75
@14.75; common and medium, $10©
12.75; butcher cattle, heifers. $8614;
cows. $8912.50; cancers and cutters.
$568; veal calves, $16@17.50; feeder
steers, ”@1135; stocker steers, $7.65
@1125. Sheep: nominal; lambs, 85
line down, $17.75@20.50; culls and
common, $14.50@17.50; ewes, medi—
um, good and choice,'$11@15; culls
and common, “@1075.

The M. B. F. is the best paper for
the farmer printed in Michigan. This
subscription is for my son who has be-
gun farming for himselt.—-Frcd D.
Filmer, Isabella County.

 

 

 

    

 

 

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Order Early Your 1920

DE LAVM.

CREAM SEPARATOR

Farmers in need of a new De Laval Cream Separator this
year may wisely place their orders immediately if they have |

For three years past, notwithstanding the
constantly increased production, it has not
been possible to make nearly enough De-
Laval machines to meet the demand. We
shall make 25,000 more machines in 1920

An improved Belovei Separator will surely- save its cost in a
few months, and will go on doing so every few months for many

DeLaval Separators speak for themselves.
and permanence best demonstrate their superiority. Be sure you
see and try one before buying any other or deciding to go on using
an interior or heit~worn~out mater another year.

Your DeLaval local agent will be glad to aflord you the oppor-
tunity .to do this. It you don’t know him simply address the near—

The De Laval Separator Company
so East Madison Street '
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than in any prior year, but
are already behind deliveries
in Some sizes. Hence the im-
portance of getting in your
order early.

 

Superior as De Laval Cream
Separators have always been
to other separators, they are
better still in 1920.

 

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ste you can't afford to waste
quantity or quality of product,
time and convenience, through
the use of any other nmans of

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can buy neither fresh horses, 1101‘ can 7

they repair these two spineless cre-
tures, which must likewise be af-
flicted with the‘murrain‘ that car-
ried off the rest of the haciendado’s
riding animals. ”

“I’ ve never been in a place yet

where money wouldn’ t Work, ” Fran-1

cis replied.

“I suppose it could even buy a
drink of water in hell, ” was Henry’ 5
retort.

Leoncia clapped her hands.-

“I don’t know,” Francis observed.
“I have never been there.”

Again Leoncia clapped- her hands.

“Just the same I have an'idea I
can make dollars work in the jungle
and I am going to try it right now,”
Francis continued, at the same time
untying the coin sack from Leon—
cia’s pommel. “You go ahead and
ride on.” , - '

“But you must tell me," Leoncia
insisted; and, aside, in her ear as
she leaned to him from the saddle,
he whispered what made her laugh

Enrico and his sons.
rated himself for
fool.

Before they were out of sight,
looking back, they saw-Francis, with
pad and pencil out, writing some-
thing. What he wrote was eloquent-
ly brief, merely the figure “50."
Tearing off the sheet, he laid it con—
spicuously in the middle of the trail
and weighted it down with a silver
dollar. Counting out forty- nine oth-
er dollars f1om the bag, he sowed
them very immediately about the
first one and ran up the trail after
his party.

inwardly be-
being a jealous

Augustino, the. gendarme, who
rarely spoke when he was sober, but
who when drunk preached volubly
the wisdom of silence, was in the
lead, with bent head nosing the track
of the quarry, when his keen eyes
lighted on the silve1 dollar holding
down the sheet of paper.
he appropriated; the second he turn~
ed over to the Jefe. Torres looked
over his shoulder, and. together they
read the mystic “50.” The Jefe'toss-
ed the scrap of paper aside as of lit-
tle worth, and was for resuming the
chase, b'ut Augustino picked upand
[pondered the “50” thoughtfully.
Even as he pondered it, a shout from
Rafael advertised the finding of an—
other dollar. Then Augustino knew.
There were fifty of the coins to be
had for the picking up. Flinging the
note to the wind, he was on his hands
and knees overhauling the ground.
The rest of the party joined in the
scramble, while Torres and the Jefe
screamed curses on them in a vain
effort to make them proceed.

When the gendarmes could find

no more they counted up what they
had recovered. The toll came to
forty-seven.
, “There are three more,” cried Ra-
fael, whereupon all flung themselv-
es into the search again. Five min-
utes more were lost, ere the three
other coins were found. Each pock-
eted what he had retrieved and
obediently swung into the pursuit at
the heels of Torres and. theJefe.

A mile farther on, Torres tried to
trample a shining dollar into the dirt
but Augustine’s ferret eyes ,had been
too quick and'his fingers dug it out
of the soft earth. Where was one
dollar, as they .had already learned,
The posse
ne to a halt, and while the two

the
about

leaders fumed and imprecated,
rest of the members cast
right and left from the. trail.
- Vicente, a moon-faced gendarme,
who looked more like a Mexican 1.11"
dian than a Maya or a Panamanian-

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been run.
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again, while Henry, conferrmg With , 'a dozen arms strove to be first

The first

“breed," lighted first on the clue. AIL.
gathered about, like hounds around _
‘ wealthy Gringo,” said Rafael.

In truth, it was a tree, or}

a dozen feet in height and a third”
.Ffve feet '

Synopsis of Preceding Chapters

FRANCIS MORGAN.

becomes bored with society and decides to take
an extemlve fishing trlp. Regan, Francls’ broker,
plans to -ruln Francis through his Wall street
holdings. Regan pays Torres, 11 dark-sklnned
visitor from the Oarrlbesfi 'lslands who knows of
a treasure buried by a plrate ancestor of Fran- t
"cls,' to lure young Francls away. The lure works
and Francis starts out alone. He lands on an

a New York mllllonalre,

island whither he has been beckoned by a girl on
the shore. The girl mistakes Franols for a lover
wlth whom she has quarrsled. Francis explores
another Island where he meets a young man who
glvos his name as Henry Morgan and prove: to be
a relative of Francis.’ He Is also hunting for
the treasure. They form n partnership. Francls
learns that Henry is the lover of the girl he met
and that her name I: Leoncla Solano. Francls
returns to the first Island where he I: captured
hy‘Torros and the Jefe Politico of San Antonio.
They proclaim him to be Henry. whom they wish
to hang for a murder he did not commit. As
they are about to hang hlm, Henry appears and
he is thrown Into prison. The Solenos and
Francls relvse Henry and they escape to the boat
that Franc has chartered. They are pursued
by Torres and the Jefe with his soldiers. They
land on an Island where they procure horses and
start through the hllls wlth the Jefe and his
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size as the first they had found. 011
it was written “100.”

In the scramble that ensued, half

a dozen minutes were lost as half
1n
dipping into the hollow heart of the
stump to the treasure. But the ho]—
low extended deeper than their arms
were long.
‘ “We will chop down the stump,”
Rafael cried, sounding with the back
of his machete against the side of it
to locate the base of-the hollow. “We
will all chop, and we will count what
we find inside and divide equally.”

By this time their leaders were
frantic, and the Jefe had “begun
threatening, the moment they were
back in San Antonio, to send them to‘
San Juan where their carcasses would
be picked by the buzzards.

“But we are not back in San An-
tonio, thank God,” said Augustino
breaking his sober seal of silence in
order to enunciate wisdom.

“We are poor men, and we will
divide in fairness,” spoke of Rafael.
“Augustino is right, and thank God
for it that we are not back in San
Antonio. This rich Gringo scatters
more money along the way in a day
for us to pick up than could we earn
in a year where we come from. I,
for one, am for revolution, where
money is so plentiful. "

rn“With the rich Gringo for a lead—

’Augustino supplemented. “For
as I‘long as he leads this way could I
follow forever.” .

“If,” Rafael nodded. agreement,
with a. pitch ofhis head toward Tor-
res and the Jefe,"‘if they do not give
us opportunity to gather what the
gods have spread for .us,-then to the
last and deepest of the roasting hells
of hell. for them. We are men, not
slaves. The world is wide. The Cor-.
dilleras are just beyond. We Will all
be rich, and free men, and live in the
Cordilleras where-the Indian maid-
ens are wildly beautiful and desir-.
able ”

v“And we will be well rid of our
wives, back in San Antonio,” said
Vicente. “Let us now chop down
this treasure tree.” / ‘

Swinging the'machetes with heavy
hacking blows, the wood, sorotten
that it was spongy, gave way readily
before their blades. 'And when the
stump fell over, they counted and.
divided, in equity, not one hundred
silver dollars, but one hundred and
forty-seven. ,

“He is generous, this Gringo,”.
quoth Vicente. “He leaves more
than.he says. .May there not be still
more?” . 4.

And, from the -; debris of rotten:
wood, much of itcrumbled to pow-,
der under theirflblows; they recover-
edfive more-ceins,"-in the doing of-
which they lost; ten- more minutes.

 

that drove Torres and the J etc to the

verge of madness.

“He does not stop to count, the:
‘dHe‘.
must merely open that sack and pour
it out. And that is the sack which

he rode 'to the beach of‘San Antonio

when he blew up with dynamite the‘ 'V
' .1' wall of our jail. " '1

'ydown corral posts of .
sprouted.and leaved into trees, and
a well showing recent use by virtue, -

of a fresh length of riata attaching

bucket to well- -sweep, showed where

some man had failed to tame the
wild. And, conspicuously on the
well sweep;
sheet of paper on which was written
((3 00 ’7

“Mother of God !—a
cried Rafael.

“May the devil forever
him in the last and deepest hell i"
was Torres’ contribution.

“He pays better. than your Senor
Regan,” the Jefe sneered in his'des-
pair and disgust.

“His bag of silver is only so
large,” Torres retorted. “It seems
we must pick- it all up ‘befOre we
catch him. But when we have pick—
ed it all up, and his bag is empty,
then will we catch him.” ‘

“We will go on now, comrades,"
the Jefe addressed his posse ingrati-
atingiy. “Afterwards, we will 're-
turn at our leisure and recover the
silver.’

Augustino broke his seal of silence
again.

“One never knows the way of
one's return, if‘one ever returns," he
enunciated pessimistically. Elated

fortune '! "

by the pearl of wisdom he had drop—.

ped, he essayed another. “Three
hundred in hand is better than three
million in the bottom of a well we
may never see again.”

“Some one must descend into the
well," spoke Rafael, testing the
braided rope with his weight. “See !
The riata is strong. We will lower
a man by it. Who is the brave one
who will go down?”

“I,” said Vicente.
brave one to go down—w—

“And steal half that you find;"
Rafael uttered his instant suspicion.
“If you, go down, first must you
count over to us the pesos you al-
ready possess. Then, when you
come up, we can search you for all
you have found. After that, when
we have divided equitably, will your
other pesos be returned to you.

“Then will I not go down for com-
rades who have no trust in me,” Vi-
cente said stubbornly. “Here, be—
side the well, I am as wealthy as
any of you. ,Then why should I go
down. I have heard of men dying
in the bottom of wells.”

“In God’s name go down i” storm-
ed the Jefe. “Haste ! Haste l”

“I am too fat, the rope is not
strong, and I shall not go down,"
said Vicente.

All looked to Augustino, the silent
one, who had already spoken more
than he was accustomed to speak in
a week.

“I will be the

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“Guillermo is the thinnest and
lightest,” said Augustino.
“Guillermo will go down i” the‘

rest chorused‘. .

But Guillermo, glaring apprehen-
sively at the mouth of the well,
backed away, shaking his head and
crossing himself.

“Not for the sacred treasure in the ‘

secret city of the Mayas,” he mut-
tered.

The Jefe pulled his revolver and-

glanced to the remainder of the,
posse for confirmation. With eyes
and head nods they gave it.

“In heaven's name go down, ” he
threatened the little gendarme. “And
make haste, or I shall put you in

such a fix that never again will you;
go up or down, but you will remain]

here and rot forever beside this hole
of perditiOn. —-I's it well, comrades.

that I kill him if he does not go
down?”
“It is well, ” they shouted. -.
And Guillermo, with trembling.-

fingers, counted out the coins
had already retrieved, and, in th
throes of fear, crossing ~himself r?

    
   
 

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fillet One less‘with whom tb share."
"-‘Thelwater is not nice,” he replied
this voice rising like a ghost’s out of
lithedark depth; .“Ther‘e are sick liz-
i-ards,v...and a dead bird that stinks.
izAnd there may be snakes. It'is well
i'wdrth ten pesos extra what I must
id'b.” ” - " , _
3” .“We will drown you !” Rafael
.‘shouted. ‘ .

‘.‘I shall shoot down‘upon you and
{kill you !" the Jefe bullied.

' “.Shoot or drownme,” Guillermo’s

voice floated up; “but it will buy you

‘jnothing, for the treasure will still be
5 in the well.” ‘

There was a pause, in Which those
,atthe surface questioned each oth-
“ er with their eyes as to What they
33 should do. ' , -

“‘And the Gringo are running
farther and farther," Torres fumed.
“A fine discipline you have, Senor
; Mariano Vercara e Hijos, over your
’ gendarmes i” .

“This is not San Antonio,”. the}
,Jefe flared back. “This is the bush
; of .Ju'chitan. My dogs are good dogs
'in San Antonio. In the bush they
must be handled gently, else may
they become wild dogs, and ‘what

then will happen to you and me?"

surrendered sadly. “It is almost
“It is the curse of gold," Torres
enough to make one become a so-
cialist, With a Gringo thus tying the
hands ofjustice with ropes of gold”.
“Of silver,” the Jefe corrected.
“You go to hell," said Torres. “As
you have pointed out, this is not San

”and here I may as well tell you to go
to hell. Why should you and I quar-
rel because of your bad temper,

depends. on
standing together?” -

“Besides,” “the voice of Guillermo
drjfted up, “the water is not two
i-feet deep. You cannot drown me in
it. I have just felt the bottom and I
have four reund silver pesos in my
hand right now. The bottom is car-
peted with pesos. Do you want to
let go? Or do I get ten pesos extra
for the filthy job? The water stinks
like a fresh graveyard.”

“Yes ! Yes !" they shouted down.

“Which? Let go? Or the extra
ten?”
‘ “The extra ten !” they chorused.

“In God’s name, haste! haste !”
cried the Jefe. . '

L They heard s'plashings and curses
from the bottom'of the well, and,
from the lightening of the strain on

   

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edge of...thev__ deSer-ted’ plantation.
"'H-enry, whenl die and go to heav-

«en,~ I'shallrhavea. stout bag of‘cash'

along With inc. Even there could it
redeem me-from heaven alone knows
what serapes. Listen! They fought
like cats and dogs about the mouth
of the’well. Nobody would trust any-
body to descend into the well unless

hei‘deposlted what he had previous— -
ly picked up with those that remain— "

ed at the top. They were out---- of
The Jefe'at the point of his
littlest and
leanest of them to go down. And
when he was down he blackmailed
them before'he would come up. And
when he came up they broke their
promises and gave him a beating.
They were still beating him when I
left.”

“But now your sack is
said Henry. - ._

“Which is‘our present and most
pressing trouble,” Francis agreed.
“Had 1 sufficient peso’s I could keep.
the pursuit well behind us forever.
I’m afraid I was too generous. I
did not know how cheap the poor
devils were. But I’ll tell you'some-
thing that will make your hair stand
up. Torres, Senor Torres, Senor Al-
varez Torres, the elegant gentleman
and old-time friend of you Solanos,
is leading the pursuit.along with the
Jefe. He is furious at the delay.

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t7, the Jets toga rebel-1;? ’ ,
Five miles farther on, the horses
of Leoncia and her. father in‘col-
lapse, where the trail plunged 'into
and ascended a. dark ravine, Francis
urged the others on and dropped be-
hind. Giving them a few minutes
start, he followed on behind, a. self-
constituted rear-guard. Part way
along, in an open space where grew
only a thick sod of grass, he was dis-

,mayed to find the hoof prints of the

tWO horses staring at him ’as large as
dinner plates from out of the sod.
Into the hoof prints had welle’d a
dark, slimy fluid, that his eye told
him was crude oil. This was but the
beginning, a sort of seepage from a
side stream above off from the main
flow. A hundred yards beyond he
came upon the flow itself, a river of
oil that on such a slope would have
been a cataract had it been water.
But being crude oil, as thick as mol-
asses, it oozed slowly down the hill ,
like so much molasses. And here,

,preferring to make his stand rather

than to wade through the stick mess,
Francis sat down on a rock, laid his
rifle on one side of him, his auto—
matic pistol on the other side, roll-
ed a cigarette, and kept his ears
pricked for the first sounds of the’
pursuit.

And the beaten peon, threatened
with more beatings and belahorin'g
his over ridden mare, rode across the

top of the ravine above Francis, and,

   
 

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And-
the first day of his adventures, al-
though he ‘did not know it, 'was not
yet over. He, too, squatted on, a
stone, his feet out of the oil, rolled
a cigarette, and, as he smoked it,
contemplated the flowing oil well.
The noise of approaching men start—
led him, and he fled into the imme-
diately adjacent jungle. from which
hepeered forth and saw two strange
men appear. They came directly to

, the well, and, by an iron wheel turn—

ing the valve, choked down the flow
still'further.

“No more,‘ commanded the one
who seemed to he leader. “Another
turn, and the pressure will blow out
the pipes for so the Gringo engin-
eer has warned me most carefully.”

And a slight flow, beyond the lim-
ited safety, continued to run from
the mouth of the gusher down the
mountain side. Scarcely had the
two men accomplished this, when a
body of horsemen rode up, whom the
peon in hiding recognized as the
haciendado who owned him, and the
overseers and haciendados of neigh-
boring plantations who delighted in
running down a fugitive laborer in
much the same way that the English
delight in chasing the fox.

N0, the two 0i] men had seen no-
body But the haciendado who led
saw the footprints of the mare, and

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the riata, knew that Guillermo had
left the bucket and was floundering
for the coin.

“Put it in the bucket good Guil—
lermo,” Rafael called down.

“I am putting it in my pockets,”
up came the reply. “Did—I put it in
the buCket you might haul it up first
and well forget to haul me'up af-
terward.” 7,
' “The double weight might break
the riata,” Rafael cautiOne'd. .

“The riata may not be so strong
as my will, for my will in this mat-
ter is most strong,” said Guillermo.

,“If the riata should break . . .”
Ra'fael began again.

“I have a solution," said Guiller—
mo. “Do you come down.’ Then
shall I go up flrst_.. Second, the
treasure shall go up in the bucket.
Andythird and last, shall you go up.
Thus will justice be triumphant."

Rafael with dropped jaw of dismay,
did not reply.

“Are you coming Rafael?

“No,” he answered. “Put all the
silver in your pockets and come up
together with it.”

“Ifcould curse the race that bore,
me,”. was the impatient observation.

' ,"I' hairealready cursed .3”, said

“Haul away“ shouted Guillermo. ‘
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Entered so When matter, at post—once. Mt. Clem". Mich.
‘ Standing by Their Guns

R EPORTS from the sugar beet territory
say that the growers are “standing loyal-
ly by .their guns,” and not a slacker in the
ranks. Bully, as T. R. would say! '

“When I joined this fight,” said a promi-
nent beet grower the other day, “I didn’t have
any idea that it might mean I wouldn’t grow
any beets this years. But I’ll say this, that if
the manufacturers don’ t recognize our associa-
tiOn and confer with our representatives on
the 1920 contract pretty soon, I’ll not grow a
single acre of beets this year, no matter what
they offer to pay.”

A Macomb county farmer was in the office
of The Business Farmer last week. “D’ye
grow any beets?” we asked him. “Yep,” he
replied, “grew ten acres last year, but not a'
d--n acre this year." “What’s the matter?”
we asked. “More money and less work in oth-
0.1 crop’s,’.’ he replied, “besides I don’ t like the
kind of treatment we fellows are getting from
the manufacturers. And please remember
that the State Association has not set a Single
foot into Macomb county

These are typical examples of the feeling
among the beet growers. They are just plumb

 

disgusted with the arbitrary attitude of the.

111a11ufacturers, and it is our honest conviction

that hundreds of farmers have grown their last 5

sugar beet. Meetings last week in beet locali-
ties were throngcd with growers, every last one
of them swore enthusiastically that he would
stand by the State Association to the last ditch.

“If the sugar men don ‘t come down off their
perch and enter into conference with us and
give. us a fair share of the sugar profits, we’ll
build our own sugar plants,” was their solemn
declaration.

“ A threat. ” say the sugar manufacturers.
Perhaps, gentlemen, perhaps That’s what the
gmin dealers said out in North Dakota. That’ 8
1111211 the sugar 111aiiufacturers said out in Col-
orado. That ’s what the politicians said over in
Ontario. They ’re Wiser 110W.

 

Get a Divorce!

.1 ERIC IS relief in. sight for you farm wo-

men who have to split wood, carry water
and do other rough work on the farm. “Get a
divorce”. That’s What a woman did in De-
troit court the other day. Her petition for a.
divorce was based upon the fact that a year
after she was married her husband, moved onto.
a farm in New“ Hampshire Where she was forced
to “split;wood,-carrywater and do other rough
work”. The judge thought that was sufficient

 

~.- grounds for a divorce, and accordingly a decree, 5
- .was granted.

There is both humor and Howdyr in this in.
"flcrcnsbumormnbeeamflwxudge

women are frequently obliged to not only split

'- 5’ wood and carry waterpbuton occasiona‘to work
tout infthe befits. Ind’tlnnk notbmggd’ it. He

  

‘ woman-Which the average married woman _g
Few wives of pro-
: fessional and. business men of. the towns and

the city would scorn to do.

cities do theis (1W11 washing or scrubbing or 0th;
or heavy werk, let alone taking a hand in the
conduct of the} husband’ 3 business. Their son
ception of the duties of a wife does not include

‘such manual labor as ninety per cent of the'

farm women. have to perform
The mothers, wives and daughters. of the

. form are hard workers. Both custom and ne-

cessity make them so. When a girl marries a
farmer she expects to arise at five o ’clock in
the morning, two hours before her city cousin,
and work until eight or nine in the evening
while her city cousin is powdering her face for
the Opera. That’s all a part of farm life, and
the people on the farms so understand it. But

even though the custom has decreed and neces- ,

sity demands that the women of the farm do
rough an tedious work, it does not follmw by
any mea s that the conditions which have
brought'this about are justifiable, or that there
is any excuse for enduring H11 in if thev can be
1emcdied.

There is more work to do In the farm heme
than in any other home in the coun ry, and
there always will be. The same is true of the
farm. But for years we have had too few peo-
ple performing this work, because the farmers
of the country have not been able
enough hands to equalize the work. life are
told there is a scarcity of labor, but the only
man who suffers from lack of l “or 1Q he who
cannot afford to pay the price that labor com-
mands. Tl fanner is ofth is cla: In the re-
adjustment period we want to see agricultnic
given such di1idends as will enable the fanner
to compete in the lab01 market and scan“? the
help that is necessary to lighten his wmk and
the \101k of his wife. Your only other escape
from hard work Mrs Farm Wife, is to “get a
divorce”.

Hoover and Johnson "

FOR MANY months Mr. Hoover- has coyly
evaded the political mistresses who sought
to woo him, but at last he has surrendered. An
appointee of a Demom atic president, Mr. Hoov
or has naturally had leanings to the Democratic
party, but with Mr. Palmer and Mr. McAdoo
1n the race and both carrying favors from the
President, Mr. Hoover has succumbed to the
Republican party as the best bet for his success.

Hoover will make the League of. Nations the
big issue in his campaign, and upon that issue
has gone to the mat in California with Hiram
Johnson who has already sealed his polit cal
(askct by an unconditional renunciation of any
kind of a peace pact between nations. Millions
of Amer can people who are anti- \Vilson 1nd
anti- the present League e0venant, believe In the
principle of an international court of arbitia-
tion, and they are bitterly disappointed 0101
the irreconcilable attitude of the otherwise
faultless Johnson.- In Johnson’s home state,
California, the people are split upon this 1ssue.
Hoover is a Californian and a peace league
friend and as such makes a bid for 021th no
support.

Both Hoover and Johnson appeal to the pop-
ular imagination and either may well be the
choice of the “common people. ’5’ A vote £01
Hoover will be taken as a vote for a League of
Nations; 11 vote for Johnson as a vote against
any kind of a league covenant with other na-

, tions.

 

Truths or Horses?

A GOOD many farm papers cater to the
5 manufacturers and advertisers of motor
trucks by excluding from their columns honest

discussions of the respective merits of the truck .

and horse: A as manufacturers are caught

by this specious attempt» to gain their favor,

hot- the far-sighted and probably the majority

of truck manufacturers recognize" that. the
tractor . 114355 ‘.5 '

  

  

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horse would’be a better servant. ., ,.
take- the farmer‘long to discover that he has
been 11111119,, and the manufacturer not only los-
es 111 possible futurecustomer, but soul's a man

against his product and starts another story
about the impracticability of the machine. ‘.

11111113111111qu farmers in Michigan ought to 5 5

have trucks and: tractors. Their volume of
work 111 so great that horses cannot handle it to
the best advantage nor profit;
hand, farmers who till. small areas, or whose

farms are exceptionally hilly, cannot employ a

tractor as econOmically as they can 'horses.

Farmers, also’Who- live close to market centers

will probably not find use for a truck. So it is

sheer nonsense to eneOurage them to purchase

these machines.

The future of the truck and tractor depends
.1; much upon educating the farmer to their
disadvantages under certain conditions as to
their advantages under other conditions. A
good slogan to adopt would be, “You cannot
buy a truck or tractor unless you need one."
There are enough farmers in the United States
11 he need trucks to keep the present factories
indefinitely to their capacity, without tempt—
ing those who do not need them to purchase
them.

 

Protection for All but the Bean Growers
T HE AMERICAN'ECONOMIST, a pro-
tection magazine, reports the following
neWs item through its Washington correspond-

,cnt:

“The Senate Finance Committee has finally
taken action on the three remaining House Taril!
hills which have been considered off and on for
several weeks. These are the. hill restoring dut-
ies of the Payne-Aldrich Tarifl Act on pearl but-
tons, the bin providing protection for thezine in-
dustry and the one relating to tungsten. flue
tungsten bill was amended somewhat but the
others were approved exactly as passed by the‘
House. The three bills will be reported to the
Senate this week. "

“Pearl Buttons, Zinc, Tungsten” but NOT
beans Protection for beans? Perish the
thought! :There are only about a half million
farmers who grow beans. Why should they be
protected? But the great pearl button indus-
t11,— —ah, that’ 3 another matter. It must not
be permitted to suffer by foreign competition.
And zinc and tungsten are “infant industries”
which must be nourished else they will pine and
perish.

All these special tariff bills, mind you, or-
iginated in the House Ways and Means Com-
mittoe of which Mr. Fordney is the chairman.
The s21me‘7‘city members” whom Mr. Fordney
tells us voted against the bean bill must have
10te1l for Peailb Buttons, Zinc and Tungsten,
and no doubt Mr. Fordney veted with them, ,
for 111‘. are told, he is an “Ardent Protection- .
ist. ”

It seems strange, mighty strange, that the '
shrewd Mr. Fordney, possessing even more '
than the ordinarily large influence held by the
chairman of a committee, should have so sig-
nallv failed to get through a bill which was
supposed to have his special sponsorship. We’ re
in the dark. Turn on the light.

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“The manufacturers claim that sugar beets
-have built more fine homes than any other
crop,’ ’said W. A. Cook, of Akron, at a meeting
of sugar beet growers at Pigeon last week.
And they’ re right too. You can see them ev-
erywhere, Saginaw, Detroit, Grosse- Pointe and
New York City.

 

The Bolshevtki are forcing every one in Racists
to work twelve hours a day. seven days a week.
Maybe Bolshevism is what this country needs. afler
all. *Kaasao Git, 1:0“.

 

That United 81.1.1. new who went seven
1111195511,. intotheatranethonmdma
should. make an excellent ml}. for one of the
pout parties:— locum Fm‘Pms ‘ .

    
 

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» and living oi! ' other people’s
comings. Them will .have to be a
. change or thercountry will go bonk-

IMa1‘. 3.1843. the war 0
goVernnrbnt 1were $153,954,801, five mil-
“lions mou’e‘thfin all the civil

 

muons AGO

I_ I have a neighbor whom I am going
to moire a present of your paper. I
know that if I can get him started he

will not be without it. I am a. meme. "

be of the Florin Bureau. and so is my
neighbor and we surely need your pa-

‘pertokeepuspo'sted.

I read an article whererihe state

highway eommsioner sold the good

roads had to be. built regardless of
what they cost now. We. have, too

“many such men in slice. If they had

to help pay some of the him! they

~ make they would be more careful how

they wasted the people's money.

Now I on! in favor of good reeds
but I am not in favor 013 such high
salaries to men to rido over the coun‘
try doing nothing but [wearing the
roads and drawing their pay. I call
them public paupers', too lazy to work
hard

rupt and the only way I see is through
the Farm Bureau and your paper. I
have a piece printed in 1845 in a mag-
azine called Galena Farmer in Roch-
ester, N. Y. Will send you a copy if
‘you think it worth a place in your pa-
per.——E. L. G., VamBurcn County.
Th. following communication is
from the pen of Elihu Burritt, , the
Learned Blacksmith of Massachusetts.
His facts are important and presented
in a striking light: /

Facts for Forty Millions

_“The national debts og sixteen of
the European governments at the clos-
est estimate that con be made amount
to 310.305.000.000 our currency, all in-
curred fer the expenses of war. This
sum embraces merely the arearoge not
whathas been paid for carrying on
the war. The average of- this amount
is 363.25 a head to the whole popula-
tion of ‘mme:16‘nations. The interest
on this vast sum nearly equals a. tax
of one dollar on every inhabitant of
the globe.

Since the Reformation Great Brit-
ain has been engaged 65 years in the
prosecution of seven wars for which
she expended in our currency 38,982,-
120,000. It has been estimated by our
missionaries that a. school of 50 heath-
en children on the continent of India
would only cost 3150 penannum. Then
this sum expended by a Christian na-
tion in 65 years in carrying on war

: with other Christian nations if applied
‘to theieducation of the heathen would

have schooled 46,062,154 children per
annum for 65 years. Allowing five
years to teach scholars then 598,808,-
000 children might have been educated
for the money that Great Britain
drained from the sources and chan~

pools of her wealth and industry to

waste in wars everyone of which de-
graded her people in every quality of
their condition.

From 1703 to 1815.11. period of 22

‘ years, Great Britain, Franco and Aus-

tria expended 37, 330 ,,000 000 in war.
The interest of this sum at 6 per cent

.would have supported 30,000 mission-

aries among the heathen during the
whole period of 22 years in which
these Christian nations were engaged
in doing the devil' s work on each oth-
er. The aggregate amount would have
given five years’ schooling to 488, 666, -
666 pagan children on the Lancaster-
ian plan. The interest for one month
at the above rate would build 1,466
miles of railroad at 325, 000 per mile.

Consulting the best authorities I can
command I find that the aggregate
amount of the expenditures of our gov-
ernment from 1789 to Mar. 4, 1843, is
31,111 .375, 734.

Now, patriotic Americans, will you
not read this reflectingly? Of this vast
sum there has been expended only
3148, 620 ,055 for civil purposes embrac—
ing the Civil list. foreign intercourse
and the. miscellaneous Then

me.
it follows that “395215.600 have been
lavished upon preparattohs for war in ‘

time of peace within a little more than

‘ half a century by this model republic.

Another. fact: From Jag... 1.1836 to

oi this

expenses
51th: W m 1789 to 1043.

  

‘0': a; government that plumes itsel-fon'

 

ed to 3'463, 915 756, and 01 this sum
nearly $400,000,000 went in one way or
another for war. and only 364, 000,000
broil-other objects, being 323,000,000
9. year for war and. about three .m-ii-
lions and a half less than one-sixth of
the whole for the peaceful operations

.itspacificpdicy. Ifwetehelnteac—

count all the expenses: and all. the

lose‘esctwartotliscountry it‘willbe

foundtohovewastedforusinsixty
yearssmtwoorthreethomd mil-

lions of doling—Worcester, Aug. 9,

-when itcame to spending
The

1845—3. B.

 

At that our forefathers were pikers
money for
.war. ynheuldbeenearth today and
learn the true artof ofspendlng.— Editor.

rm AOOOUNTS AND PROFITS

How can any farmer vote for Wil-
son, Taft, McAdoo or Hoover, after
what they have denote ruin, the farm-
er enterprise? Another question is:
What justice is there in making any
person pay on hcome tax on property
that they have been five or six years
producing, and have paid their tax on
the assessed valuation of such prop—
erty? The writer sold a. pair of hers-
es for 3500 which had- been assessed
and the tax paid and it cost him 330
income tax for selling them.

I would also like to ask these peo—
ple who are keeping books on their
tar-ms what good there is in it, only to
learn just how much they have done
for nothing. I have my book and
know to a cent what I have received
for produce sold; also I have the same
line on my expenses, andafter taking
my balance I find but very little left
after buying new tools to replace old
ones, and the repair of some buildings
to say nothing about repairing fenc-
es, and other repairs that should be
made.

form does not produce anywhere near

what it would or should I can’t get
labor to do any better. My beet crop
was short 325 of half a crop, but labor
could not be had. I also had to let
out some Of my hay 011 shares because
I could not get help to take care of it
in time and I will have to buy that
some hay back with a lot of truck to
get it at that.

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I know all these things without
keeping any book, and how am I to
change conditions with a. book? From
the present outlook for labor I may be
forced to do even worse than I did
last year for all my book shows is a
great loss by doing as I did.

There are too many people trying
to tell the other fellow how to manage
his form. They have learned all they
know out of books and have left the
farm for broader fields which are not
hard to find. I do not wish to be un-

derstood that a tumor should not

know something about what he is do-
ing ‘or what it costs to do it, but he
has his farm on his hands to do the

And while I know that my '

@Z’Wokb Wflol

best he can with whether his books
show a. profit or loss.

I would like to see. farmers so
“strongly organized they would hold

. county, state and national conventions

and fix their own prices just as man-
ufacturers' d'o..and'..when' Mr. Manufac-
turer, sent out a. report that his prices
mooninguphecould figureon farm.
produce going up just the some per
cent. Thenit would notbethatold
old story, it's gone up but farm prod-1
uce has gone down.

If a farmer could buy a hog. horse
orcowouodayfor3500r3100and
sell it the next day for from three to
five times as much as he paid for it.
then he would be doing business on
the some basis as the manufacturer.
There are farmers who are good bus-
iness men, who can buy and sell and-
me money. and in that way add to
the profit of their form but the tarm-
ers who hove made very much out of
just plain farming are very few and
for between.

Farmers have learned to buy and
operate their own threshing outfit and
ship their own stock and everyone of
them that I have talked with feel
good and well satisfied with both. And-
when farmers get those live stock
commission men out of their way the
coast will be clear for better businesa
——A Former Subscriber.

Themain purpose of a farm accounting
system is to Show the farmer on which
crops he makes or loses money. The av-
erage farmer thinks he knows when he
gains or loses on a crop, but he cannot
be absolutely sure about this unless he
makes a record of every item of income

'and expenditure. A simple farm account—

ing system makes it easy for the farmer
to keep track of these matters, and he
will find that it will tell him an interest-

‘ing story at the end of the season' 5 oper-

aliens—Editor.

 

WHERE DID THE REST G0?

I have always been a former and
have worked for the benefit of the
farmer in the Grange and in the Glea-
ners. I want to take the M. B. F. be—
cause I believe it is trying to help the
tarmer’s cause. We are told that we
are getting too much for our produce.
Well, maybe we are, but I can’t see it
that way. Now I will tell you some-
thing that happened to me the other
day that put me to thinking. I took
a load of wheat to the elevator about
7 miles from here. I received 32.10
per bushel of 60 pounds of clean
wheat. 011 my way home I called at
the store and got a 24 1-2 pound sack
of flour. I gave two dollars for it.
Now when I got home I did some
figuring. I found that I had just 24
1-2 pounds of flour and 10c for 60 lbs.
of wheat. Now will M. B. F. tell us
where the other 35 1-2 pounds went.—
N. E. H., St. Clair County.

That’s what we have been trying to
find out for the past three years. Per~
haps when Mr. Hoover and Mr. Barnes
appear before the Senate investigating
committee they will be able to throw
some light on the subject.——JEditor.

 

 

 

 

 

LET’S HAVE STATEJNOOME TAX

HE REVENUE hopper at the Il-

l l-lnois Constitutional Convention
is full of taxation proposals.
Most of these are so planned and
worded as to saddle the heavy burden
of taxation onto farm land. This is
exactly what will be done unless tarm-

Vers put up a hard fight to prevent it.

There is only one plan that will be

absolutely sure to safeguard the farm-

. Farm em an undue shore of 3‘
taxesnow'._ thermosthstihein-
tamer .

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, ‘_ _..msolhu

or against unfair taxation. That is a
state income tax. The income tax is
the fairest form of» taxation that has
ever been devised. It taxes 3 man,

not on his thrift in saving money and .

accumulating a little property, butac-
cording. to his ability to pay. Enerb
once with the federal income tax has.
proven that such a tax can be easily
collected. and that there are few eva-
sions. A state locum. tax law should
provide that all returns must be
sworn to, with heavy penalties for
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returns is much higher than is the
case in business and industry. An in-
come tax law taxes the returns rath-
er than the investment, '3. much sound-
er principl of taxation.

A large class of citizens never pays
any taxes because they do not own any
taxable property. There‘is no reason
why the highly-paid laborer should
not support state government. There ‘
is no reason why the high—salaried
protssional and business man. who
rents his'home-and spends his income
in extravagant living, should be re-
lieved. from taxation, while the people
who say. and accumulate broom!

the entire burden of state and
local taxation.

It will give these people a keene'r
intorest in the state government to
compel them to help for it, The
income tax will encourage thrift and

extravagance.
This does not mean that the general
‘uproperiy tax shoulebe besboodeoed an:

Thematic should be greatly"-
at least three-

;«wr

haul or ship stuff and in consequen

'age to such an amount that, tw

should that be the case the tamer '
not 113 to blame tor the shortage
.fnnn crops

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I think that article on the.
page of a metropolitan new
ferred to in your March 13th w
M. B. F. which was intended.
farmers are profiteers because
land _values have increased to
gigantic figures, nil.

I am not informed as to ,the uric.
land in Iowa, but am somewha,
qunimted with the pine stamp lull
Michigan, and know what it mecca.
build up a farm here; and if do ‘
up the price that a. piece of .
brings makes a man rich. many ofi
farmers would be in tint clue
in Alcona county.

I have lived here for 18 years
and land at my coming here. could.
had at from 10c to 31.50 per me
was very poor sale at that; but
some class of land today will but
320 to 325 per acre. Now that
cheap for good loam land, of will
there are thousands of acres left .
to be brought into a state of on
tion but it is owned by specu,
who, perhaps, are telling the w
through the press how easy it is a
the farmer to raise 32-wheot no
when he only realized 80¢ per bu. 1
it 18 years ago on the same kind .
land. '

Just let that wiseacre come on
clear up a farm and t1y his luck for
few years and I’ll guarantee that,
less he’s got enough money on hon
to hire the work done at, or :1
city prices, he’ll not stay long whu'
land has increased in value to t
extent that makes a former a profit
eer, for it takes more than windfall!
ming to make profits on a "farm who ‘
one does the work himself :

It sounds big to the city consumers?
when he pays six cent a pound for . ..; ~
tatoes to the retailer, and. of co -
he thinks the farmer must get rich
such high prices tor farm produ‘
but he does not know that thou -
oi bushels of those same potatoes 8?“;
te1 raisin-g them on that h-wlgh-prt ~
land, furnishing the seed, cal
and digging them and hauling th
anywhere from one to 15 miles
market where he, the farmer, got th
enormous price 0f from 90c to 31.1
per bu. in the fall of 1919. as hiss z.
0f the 33 or bettei paid by the con
sumer when he gets them.

Then I might go on with o
far-m crops and the same results - ’
obtained, when compared with ‘
retail price. Facts are. a large «s
jority of farmers must sell their 1)
ducts soon after they are grown in or
der that they can meet obligations
fore the weather and conditions
roads get so that it is impossiblg

   
   

  
     

  

     
 
  

   
  
  

   
      
    
 
  
   
   
   
   
  
   
    
    
  
   
  
  
     
    
   
 
  
    
   
   
  
  
     
  
  
   
   
    
   
   
      
   
     
    
    
      
   
     
    
   
   
    
   
 
   
 
   
  
  
    
  
  
  
    
    
   
  
    
  
   
  
   
  
   
   
 
  
  
 
 
 
  
   
  
    
   
   
  
   
   
   
   
  
    
     
  
    
   
   

is at the mercy of the middleman
buys early and sells when the farm
cannot compete in the markets wi
him; ‘and, Mr. Consumer must he.
the stuff so he must pay the price
ed And no wonder he thinks 4:
hammer is getting rich when he r08$
th metropolitan papers which are};
read by city folks. ,,-

Much is said about a farmers' strikw'
to bring about a shortage of sonnets"
but the facts are that at the prose
high cost of the necessaries torun
farm, and the scarcity of help to
farm products many small : 1
will be compelled to cut down

more can co-operote and help -
to take care of the crop, and that

course will lessen the prod »
which will raise the price, and o":
hops compel in the end some of til
that left the farm for fabulous
prices, to return to the farms. ’

I hope that writer in the mar
ton éo‘ni‘es up to Mom and ~

'a few lessons on how to set r

the” farm, and demonstrates it
by actually making a profit

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Entered as second-clu- mcua, at post-once. Mt. Clemens. Mich.
Standing by Their Guns

EPORTS from the sugar beet territory
say that the growers are “standing loyal-

 

 

ly by their guns,” and not a slacker in the

ranks. Bully, as T”. R. would say!

“When I joined this fight,” said a promi-
nent beet grower the other day, “I didn’t have
any idea that it might mean I wouldn’t grow
any beets this years. But I’ll say this, that if
the manufacturers don’ I: recognize our associa-
tion and confer with our representatives on
the 1920 contract pretty soon, I’ll not grow a
single acre of beets this year, no matter what
they offer to pay.”

A Macomb county farmer was in the office
of The Business Farmer last week. “D’ye
grow any beets l” we asked him. “Yep,” he

re JIied, ,“grew ten acres last year, but not a‘
I

d-—n acre this year." “What’s the matter!”
we asked. “More money and less work in oth-
e1‘crops,’.’ he replied, “besides I don’t like the
kind of treatment we fellows are getting from
the manufacturers] And please remember
that the State Association has not set a Single
foot into Macomb county.

These are typical examples of the feeling

among the beet growers. They are just plumb.

disgusted with the arbitrary attitude of the
manufacturers, and it is our honest conviction

that hundreds of farmers have grown their last '

sugar beet. Meetings last week in beet locali-
ties were thronged with growers, every last one
of them swore enthusiastically that he would
stand by the State Association to the last ditch.

“If the sugar men don’t come down off their
porch and enter into conference with us and
give us a fair share of the sugar profits, we’ll
build our own sugar plants,” was their solemn
declaration.

“A. threat.” say the sugar manufacturers.
Perhaps, gentlemen, perhaps. That’s what the
grain dealers said out in North Dakota. ‘ That ’8
what the sugar 11131’111facturers said out in Col—
orado. That ‘s what the politicians said over in
Ontario. They ’rc wiser now.

 

Get a Divorce!

.llGRE IS relief in sight for you farm wo-

men who have to split wood, carry water
and do other rough work on the farm. “Get a
divorce”. That’s what a woman did in De-
troit court the other day. Her petition for a
divorce was-based upon the fact that a year
after she was married her husband moved onto
a farm in New Hampshire where she was forced
lb “split- wood, carry water and do other rough
work” The judge thought that was sufficient

 

grounds for a divorce, and accordingly a decree,

. .was granted
There is both humor and tragedy in as: no
», trident. Hora? 13 humor 111 it botanic the judge
probably didn’t know that a great many 1am
wowen are frequently obliged to not only split
“ Wood marry mgrboton Malina:

 

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the city Would scorn to _do.. Few wives ofp’ ro-

fessiOnal and business men of the terms "and

cities do theis om. washing or scrubbing or 0th

   

7 or when their common senSe tells them thattbe
horse would be a better servant. It does no
take the farmer long to discover that he has
been stung, and the manufacturer not only los—
or heavy work, let alone taking a hand in the es a possible future-cust0mer, but soars a man ,,
conduct of the husband’ s business. Their (1011- against his pmduct and starts another m.

   

 
   
          
 
   
 
  

 

ception of the duties of a wife does not include about the impracticability of the machine. . -'

such manual labor as ninety per cent of the

farm women. have to perform.

farm are hard workers. Both custom and no-

the morning, two hours before her city cousin,

Thousands of farmers in Micbigan ought-to
have trucks and: tractors. Their volume of
The mothers, wives and daughters. of the ' work is so great that horses cannot handle it to
the best advantage nor profit. 0n the other
ccssity make them so. When a girl: marries a hand, farmers who till. small areas, or whose
farmer she expects to arms at five o ’clock in farms are exceptionally hilly, cannot employ a
tractor as economically as they can' horses.

 

and work until eight or nine in the evening Farmers, th0 live close to market centers

while her city cousin is powdering her face for
the Opera. That’s Call a part of farm life, and
the people on the farms so understand it. But.

even though the custom has decreed and neces- '
sity demands that the women of the farm do

will probably not find use for a truck. So it is
sheer nonsense to encourage them to purchase
these machines -
The future of the truck and tractor depends
.1; much upon educating the farmer to their

rough 311d tedious work, 1’5 (108$ “01 £0110“? by disadvantages under certain conditions as to
any means that the condrnons Which have their advantages under other conditions. A

brought this about are justifiable, or that there

good slogan to adopt would be, “You cannot

is any excuse for enduring tin 111 if thev can be buy a truck or tractor unless you need one "

1‘.emedied

There is more work to do in the farm home
than in any. other home in the coun.ry, and
there always will be The same is true of the

pie performing this work, because the farmers

of the country have not been able to hire

enough hands to equalize the work. We are
told there is. a scarcity of labor, but the only
man who'suffers from lack of ”Mr is he who
cannot afford to pay the price that labor coni—
n1ands. Tl . farmer is of this class. In the re-
adjustment period we want to see agriculture
given such dividends as will enable the farmer
to compete in the labor market and secure the
help that is necessary to lighten his work and
the \101k of his wife. Your 0an other escape
from hard work, Mrs. Farm \Vife, is to “get a
divorce”

Hoover and Johnson ‘

FOR MANY months Mr. Hoover has coyly
evaded the political mistresses who sought
to woo him, but at last he has surrendered.
appointee of a. Democratic president, Mr. Hoov-
er has naturally had leanings to the Democratic
party, but with Mr. Palmer and Mr. McAdoo
1n the race and both carrying favors from the
President, Mr. Hoover has succumbed to the
Republican party as the best bet for his success.

Hoover will make the League of Nations the
big issue in his campaign, and upon that issue
has gone to the mat in California with Hiram
Johnson who has already sealed his political
casket by an unconditional renunciation of any
kind of a peace pact between nations. Millions
of Amer can people who are anti- Wilson and
anti- the present League covenant, believe in the
principle of an international court of arbitra-
tion, and they are bitterly disappointed over
the irreconcilable attitude of ‘ the otherwise
faultless Johnson. In Johnson’ s home state,
California, the people are split upon this 1ssne.
Hoover is a Californian and a peace league
friend and as such makes a bid for Cal1fo111 a
support.

Both Hoover and Johnson appeal to the pop-
ular imagination and eithc1 mav well be the
choice of the ”common pcOpIe.” A vote for

Nations; 8 vote for Johnson as a vote against

any kind of a league covenant with other na-
tions.

. Truth or Horses?

GOOD many farm papers cater to the

manufacturers and advertisers of motor
trucks by excluding from their columns honest
dimensions of the respective merits of the truck
and horse. 1‘“ four manufacturers are caught
by this was attdmpt- to gain their favor.
but the fur-sighted and probably the meant-fly

Protection for All but the Bean Growers
HE AMERICAN‘ECONOMIST, a pro-
tection magazine, reports the following ‘

news item'tbro'ugh its Washington correspond- l’

It seems strange, mighty strange, that the i
shrewd Mr. Fordney‘,fpossessing even more ;
than the ordinarily large influence held by the ’_
chairman of a committee, should have so sig- _
na—lly failed to get through a. bill which was
supposed to have his special sponsorship. We’re
in the dark. Turn on. the light.

———-—~—- 1
“The manufacturers claim that sugar beets )L.
Hoover will be taken as a vote for a League of ~llflV0 17111” more fine homes than any other
crop’ said W. A Cook, of Akron, at a meeting
of sugar beet growers at Pigeon last week.
And they ’re right, too. You can see them ev- .
erywhere, Saginaw, Detroit, Grouse Points and -. .
New York City.

That United flats aviator who went moo
miles ”Mohammedan-momenta;
'k. n mum roman tor a. o: tho

each m unset wholly replace ‘

There are enough farmers 1n the United States i
who need truclm to keep the present factories
indefinitely to their capacity, Without tempt-

ing those who do not need them to purchase - _ 1
farm. But for years. we have had too few peo~ them

“The Senate Finance Committee has finally
taken action on the three remaining House Turin
hills which have been considered off and on for
several weeks. These are the. bill restoring dut-
ies of the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act on pearl but- - 11
tons, the bin providing protection for the zinc in- \ . 1
dustry and the one relating to tungsten. "(he- _ ‘
tungsten bill was amended somewhat but the ‘11,.
others were approved exactly as passed by the ‘v
The three bills will be reported. to the
Senate this week.”

“Pearl Buttons, Zinc, Tungsten” but NOT
Protection for beans? Perish the

There are only about a half million
’ farmers who grow beans. Why should they be
But the great pearl button indus-
, that’s another matter. It must not
be permitted to suffer by foreign competition.
And zinc and tungsten are “infant industries”
which must be nourished else they will pine and

All these special tariff bills, mimliyou, ,or- ' _. “
iginated in the House Ways and Means Com-
mittoe, of which Mr. Fordney is the chairman.
‘i‘city members” whom Mr. Fordney
tells us voted against the bean bill must have
voted for Pearl Buttons, Zinc and Tungsten, i '1
and no doubt Mr. Fordneyyoted with them,
we are told, he is an "‘ Ardent Protection- .

 

 

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to work twelve hours a on. men d”... not.
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m “A38 AGO

I have a pegbbor whom I am going '

to make a present of your paper. I
know that if I can get him started he

will not be Without it. .I am a meme "

her of the Farm Bureau and so is my
neighbor and we surely need your pa-
posted.

”pertokesp'us

I read an article where the state
highway commissioner said the good
roads had to he built regardless o2
what they cost now. We have too

' many such men in once. It! they had

to help pay some of the bills they

~ make they would be more careful how

they wasted the people's money.

Now I am in favor of good roads
but I am not in favor Of such high
salaries to men to ride over the coun-
try doing nothing but-wearing the
roads and drawing their pay. I call
them public paupera. too lazy to work

» and living o! other people's hard
- earning. There will have to be a
. change or the country will go hank-

rnpt and the only way I see is through
the Farm Bureau and your paper. I
luvs a piece printed in 1845 in a mag-
azine called Genescc Farmer in Roch-
ester, N. Y. Will send you a copy it

you think it worth a place in your pa-

per.—E. L. 3., VanBurcn County.

‘ The following communication is
from the pen of Elihu Burritt, . the
Learned Blacksmith of Massachusetts.
His facts are important and presented
in a striking light:

Facts for Forty Millions

A”'I‘he national debts o: sixteen of.
the European governments at the cloa-
est estimate that can be made amount
to $10,305,000,000 our currency, all in-
curred tor the expenses of war. This
sum embraces merely the arearage not
whathas been paid for carrying on
the war. The average oi-this amount
is $63.25 a head to the whole popula-
tion of thosel6‘nations. The interest
on this vast sum nearly equals a tax
of one dollar on every inhabitant of
the globe.

Since the Reformation Great Brit-
ain has been engaged 65 years in the
prosecution oi seven wars tor which
she expended in our currenCy $8,982,-
120,000. It has been estimated by our
missionaries that a school of 50 heath-
en children on the continent of India
would only cost $150 per annum. Then
this sum expended by a Christian na-
tion in 65 years in carrying on war

’

: with other Christian nations if applied
‘ to the education of the heathen would

have schooled 46,062,154 children per
annum for 65 years. Allowing five
years to teach scholars then 598,808,-
000 children might have been educated
for the money that Great Britain
drained item the sources and chan-
nels of hu- wealth stud industry to
waste in wars everyone of which de-
graded her people in every quality of
their condition.

From 1703 to 1815, a period of 22

- years, Great Britain, France and Aus-

tria expended $7, 330 ,,000 000 in war.
The interest of this sum at 6 per cent

.would have supported 30,000 mission-

aries among the heathen during the
whole period of 22 years in which
these Christian nations were engaged
in doing thesdevil's work on each oth-
er. The aggregate amount wouldhave
given five years’ schooling to 488,666,-
666 pagan children on the Lancaster-
ian plan. The interest for one month
at the show rate would build 1,466
miles of railroad at $25,000 per mile.

Consulting the best authorities I can
command I find that the aggregate
amount of the expenditures of our gov-
ernment from 1789 to Mar.4, 1843, is
81,111,375,734.

Now, patriotic Americans, will you
not read this reflectingly? 0! this vast
sum there has been expended only
$148, 620, 055 for civfl purposes embrac-
ing the Civil list, toreign intercourse
and the miscellaneous expanses. Then

"it follows that 395115.689 have been
lavished upon preparations for war in '

time at peace within a little more than

' half a century by this model republic.

Another tact: From Jan. 1.1836 to
Mar. 3. 1,843, the war expenses oi this
government were $163,954, 831, live nul-

“lions mono than all the civil expenses

at the monument from 1789 to 1843.
pm mum to 1334. 18

 

ed to.‘$463',915,756, and Of this sum

‘nearly $400,000,009 went in one way or

another for war and only $64 000,000

flier all otha objects, being $83, 000,000

a year for War and about three mil-
lions and a halt less than oneeixth of
the whole for the peaceml operations

“cg a“ government that plumes itselion‘
itsplciflcpo‘licy. Itwetakeintoac-

countalltheenpenses small the

,lmmwartotllsconntryitwillbe
'ionadtohanwastedioruslasixty

yearssom. twoorthreethoneaad nil-
lions of donate—Worcester, Aug. 9,
HASH—B B.

 

At that our forefathers were pikers
when it came to

war. They should be
learn the true art of spending—Editor.

FARM ACCOUNTS AND PROFITS

How can any farmer vote tor Wil-
son. Taft, McAdoo or Hoover, alter
what they have denote ruin the farm-

er enterprise? Another question is:

What justice is there in making any
person pay an income tax on property
that they have been five or six years
producing, and have paid their tax on-
the assessed valuation of such prop-
erty? The writer sold a pair of hers-
es for $500 which had been assessed

“and the tax paid and it cost him $30

income tax for selling them.

I would also like to ask these peo-
ple who are keeping books on their
farms what good there is in it, only to
learn just how much they have done
for nothing. I have my book and
know to a cent what I have received
for produce sold; also I have the same
line on my expenses, and after taking
my balance I find but very little left
after buying new tools to replace old
ones, and the repair of some buildings
to say nothing about repairing fenc—
es, and other repairs that should he
made. And while I know that my

farm does not produce» anywhere near

what it would or should I can’t get
labor to do any better. My beet crop
was short $25 of half a crop, but labor
could not be had. I also had to let
out some Of my hay on shares because
I could not get help to take care of it

in time and I will have to buy that

same hay back with a lot of. truck to
get it at that.

I know all these things without
keeping any book, and how am I to
change conditions with a book? From
the present outlook for labor I may be
forced to do even worse than I did
last year for all my book shows is a
great loss by doing as I did. __

There are too many people trying

.to tell the other fellow how to manage

his farm. They have learned all they
know out of books and have left the
farm for broader fields which are not
hard to find. I do not wish to be un-

derstood that a tamer should not

know something about what he is do—
ing or what it costs to do it, but he
has his farm on his hands to do the

best he can with whether his books
show a profit or loss.
I would like to see. farmers so

‘strongly organized they would hold
. county, state and national conventions

and fix their own prices just as man-

' utacturers'do..and_when Mr. Manutac-
‘tnrer, sent out nreport that his prices

mmhguphecould figureon tarm-
produce Meg up just the same per
cent. Then it would not. be that old
Old story, it’s gone up but farm prod-1
uce has gm. down. .

If a tamer could buy a hog, horse
orcowonedaytwssoorflMmd
sell it the next day tor from three to
five times as much as he paid for it,
then he would be doing business on
the same basis as the manufacturer.
There are farmers who are good bus-
iness men, who can buy and sell and
make money, and in that way add to
the profit of their farm but the farm-
are who have made very much out of
just plain farming are very few and
far between.

Farmers have learned to buy and.
operate their own threshing outfit and
ship their own stock and everyone of
them that I have talked with feel
good and well satisfied with both. And
when farmers get those live stock
commission men out of their way the
coast will be clear for better busineSs.
—A Former Subscriber.

The-main purpose of a. farm accounting
system is to show the farmer on which
crops he mkes or loses money. The av—
erage farmer thinks he knows when he
gains or loses on a. crop, but he cannot
be absolutely sure about this unless he
makes a record of every item of income

'and expenditure. A simple farm account—

ing system makes it easy for the farmer
to keep track oi! these matters, and he
will find that it will tell him an interest-

ing. story at the end of the season’s oper-

atlons_—-Editor.

 

“’HERE DID THE REST G0?

I have always been a farmer and
have worked for the benefit of the
farmer in the Grange and in the Glea—
ners. I want- to take the M. B. F. be—
cause I believe it is trying to help the
tarmer's cause. W9 are told that we
are getting too much for our produce.
Well, maybe we are, but I can't see it
that way. Now I will tell you some-
thing that happened to, me the other
day that put me to thinking. I took
a load of wheat to the elevator about
7 miles from here. I received $2.10
per bushel of 60 pounds of clean
wheat. On my way home I called at
the store and got a 24 1-2 pound sack
of flour. I gave two dollars for it.
Now when I got home I did some
figuring. I found that\I had just 24
1-2 pounds of flour and 10c for 60 lbs.
of wheat. Now will M. B. F. tell us
where the other 35 1—2 pounds went.—
N. E. H., St. Clair County.

That's what we have been trying to
find out for the past three years. Per~
haps when Mr Hoover and Mr Barnes
appear before the Senate investigating
committee they will be able to throw
some light on the subject.~—JEditor.

 

 

 

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LET’S HAVE STATEINCOME TAX

HE REVENUE hopper at the Il-

l linois Constitutional Convention
is full at taxation proposals.
Most oi these are so planned and
worded as to saddle the heavy burden
of taxation onto farm land. This is
exactly what will be done unless tarm-

ers put up a hard fight to prevent it.

There is only one plan that will be
absolutely sure to safeguard the farm-
er against unfair taxation. That is a
state income tax. The income tax is
the fairest form of taxation that has
ever been devised. It taxes at man,
not on his thrift in saving money and
accumulating a little property, but ac:
cording-to his, ability topay. Expert

once with the federal income tax has.

proventhatsuchataxcanbeeasily
collected, and that there are few eva-
sions. A state incom.» tax ‘law 'should
provide that all returns must- be
sworn to,- with heavy penalties for

:‘false statements.
Farm land bears an undue share of '

taxes now. tor the reason that their

   

.11 ’III‘ math—$73: lucid. tax:—

returns is much higher than is the
case in business and industry. An in-
come tax law taxes the returns rath-
er than the investment, 3. much sound-
er principl of taxation.

A large class of citizens never pays
any taxes because they do not own any
taxable property. T-here'is no reason
why the highly-paid laborer should
not support state government. There '
is no reason why the high—salaried
protssional and business man, who
rents his ‘homeand spends his income
in extravagant living, should be re-
lieved from- taxatlon, while the people
who save. and accumulate property
carry the entire burden of state and
local taxation. .

It will give these people a keener
interest in the state government to
compel them to help Day for it The
intone tax will encourage thrift and
discourage extravagance.

This does not mean that the general

.. property tax should be abandoned en-
gtirely. The. rate should be greatlyre-
‘dn'ced, however, and at least three-

fourths of. the- needed revenue mag;
mm- PM . W

Jr

hard or ship stuff and in consequen

age to such an amount that, two <

farm crops.
‘a low lessons on how to get rich
'iarm; net‘o'n paper curly.

dollar that We managed to earn
the last year’s crop for which

F. It. Alcosc County.

  
 

FA'C’iS" FOR CITY some.

I think that article on the 1
page at a. metropolitan he at
ten-ed to in your March 13th
M. B_ F. which was intended:
farmers are profiteers because
land values have increased to .
gigantic figures, nil. '
I am not informed as to ,the m
land in Iowa, but am somewha
quainted with the pine stump laid
Michigan, and know what it menu
build up a farm here; and if do
up the price that a pme 01
brings makes a man rich, many 0!
farmers would be in that class .
in Alcona county. -
I have lived here for 18 years It"
and land at my coming here could
had at from 10c to $1.50 per acre .
was very poo;- sale at that: but” ,
same class of land today will be ‘ '
$20 to 325 per acre. Now that , y ‘
cheap for good loam land, of wk!
there are thousands of acres left
to be brought into a state of cultlav
tion but it is owned by specul,
who, perhaps, are telling the w
through the press how easy it is;
the tamer to raise $2-wheat u
when he only realized 80c per ha.
it 18 years ago on the same kind
land. ‘ ,
Just let that wiseacre come ’
clear up a farm and try his luck for
iew years and I'll guarantee that, u-
less he’s got enough money on It
to hire the work done at, or H
city prices, he ll not stay long the:
land has increased in value to th
extent that makes a farmer a profl
eer, for it takes more than windjanl
ming to make profits on a. farm who
one does the work himself.
It sounds big to the city consumer
when he pays six cent a pound for . .
tatoes to the retailer. and, of can
he thinks the farmer must get rich
such high prices for farm prod'u‘
but he does not know that than n
oi bushels of those same potatoes 8!"
tor raising them on that, high-prt
land: furnishing the seed, cultiv
and digging them and hauling th
anywhere from one to 15 miles
market where he, the farmer, got th
enormous price 0f from 90c to 31.1
per bu. in the fall of 1919, as hiss
or the $3 or better paid by the con
sumer when he gets them.
Then I might go on with othe
tar-m crops and the same results
obtained, when compared with
retail price. Facts are, a large n-
jority of farmers must sell their p .
ducts soon after they are grown in or
der that they can meet obligations
fore the weather and conditions
roads get so that it is impossible

  

   

  
  
   
   
    
    
   
 
   
   
   
    
 
   
  
    
  
  
  
   
   
     
   
   
 
    
   
    
  
  
   
    
  
    
  
     
   
   
  
    
  
   
  
   
  
   
    
  
    
    
    
  
      
   
    
   
  
  
    
    
 
   
  
  
  
   
 
 
    
    
  
 
    
  
    
  
   
  
    
   
      
   
  
    
  
  
    
   
  
    
    
  
 
   
 
   
   
   
   

   

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him; and, Mr. Consumer must bar
the stud so he must pay the price 1
ed. And no wonder he thinks
faimer is getting rich when he reads.
th metropolitan papers which are
read by city folks. (
Much is said about a farmers’ strlk
to bring about a shortage of cats“ .
but the facts are that at the prose
high cost of the necessaries torun
farm, and the scarcity of help to
farm products many small = n
will be compelled to cut down I;
more can cavoperate and help .
to take care or the crop, and that,;,
course will lessen the prod . H.
which will raise the price, and "
haps compel in the end some of t
that leit the farm for fabulous ‘
prices, to return to the farms.

should that be the case the tarmer

not be to blame for the shortage

I hope that writer in the met:
tan cones up to Alanna and glv

the farm, and. demonstrates it
by actually making a profit -

However, Mr. M. B. F., here

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,' ES, IT’S an art—that of being.
beautiful—for it calls for more
7 than attention to one’s attire, to
hlé clothes you wear, the way you
dress your hair, the conditiOn of
ads and nails. Some one has well
aid, ”If my husband married me be-
cause I had a so-cal—led pretty face,
and our love had had no firmer anch-
r than that, I could not have-held
im long after the gasoline stove ex-
ploded and left my face so horribly
scarred. There is one kind of beauty
but is only skin deep and it is wom-
an’s privilege and one she should take
advantage of——that of making herself

   

  

  

  

  

t” there is another beauty which is
flecbed through the eyes—the mir-
s of the soul, and this is acquired
ou'gh the manner Of our living.

n- the last issue of the Michigan
00d and. Drug Monthly, an article
ppeared on this subject which is so
ood that I have copied it in its en-
, etirety, as I am sure that it contains
)something for every one of us: '

“Keeping young" means, to many 'wo-
men, a constant employment of artificial
things. But to appear young is one con-
dition—often depending on the ease with
which the eye is deceived—and to be
young is another. The former may be
achieved in various ways, but the latter
.is not an achievement—4t is an unmis-
takable state of affairs. Here are a few
ecipes which find their materials in the
ind and disposition. Properly used they
,:will remove wrinkles, eradicate unpleas-
lant expressions—preserve the “ear-
lmarks” of youth in general—far more
fl‘icaciously than cosmetics.

Keep in touch with your people. Put
ourself out of your way to have them
ith you. Keep a place in your heart
,or them. . . . . Read books of the
«day, and think about them. . . . .
Never let people do things for you that
'you know you ought to do for yourself.
.- . . .Keep in touch with the fashion,
though away from extremes

Be careful to store your memory with
pleasant things—experienced, heard of,
r read about. Never be worrying
about more troubles at a time than you
can help. Some people worry about past,
present and future, all together.

Be interested in what ‘is going on
around you, and take part in your fair
share of “movements” as they come
along. . . Be thankful for average
good health. . Take a share of trou—
bles as all in the day‘s work. . . .
Thank God for your sense of humor, if
011 have one.

Be interested in other people’s affairs,
rave and gay. . . . GO in for garden-
if you possibly can. . . . Avoid
_ ' . . Pull yourself up
bar-ply if you find you are getting into a
way of looking at the gloomy side of
hings. . . . Simple food, regular life,

    
    
 
  
  
  
    
    
    
    
  
    
   
  
     
 
    
   
     
   
    
  
  
   
    
   
    
   
   
    
    
   
     
    
   
   
    
 
  
  
 
  
   
   
  
  
    
  
  
     
    
 
  
 

tone of voice.
Sometimes the tone means more to the
listener than the things that is said. . .
eep an active mind. . Don't let the
' rners of your mouth sag. . . . Avoid
excesses of all sorts. . . Do all the
, things you know to be duties willingly
”' , . . . If there's a sor-
did-side to your life, keep yourmint
away from it as much as possible. . . .
Be 'in the country as much as you can, .
_ . Beware of shutting yourself up sim-
ply because you feel disinclined to go out
id to meet people.
Learn the art of forgetting yourself,
d of being really sympathetic in the af~
lrs of other people.
“Whatsoever things are true. whatso-
er things are honest, whatsoever things
«e just, whatsoever things are pure,
' hatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever
tithing/s are of good report. if there be any
Virtue, and if there be any praise, think
these things.” Phil. iv. 8.
Beware of thinking it is too much trou—
lei‘to do things for other people. . .
ware of waiting to do kindly things till
u are asked to do them. . e-
ware of indulgence in what is to you a
dial temptation of the table.
Keep faith with your people so that
hey may feel they can safely confide in
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OUR READERS OWN COLUMN

EAR Miss Ladd: Have been
reading the helpful answers to
nestions in your department
think they are fine. We use a
fair tight heater, burning wood,
eve pipe is unusually long, in-
”g three elbows. From one of
elbows there drips ”a dark
n substance, in liquid form——
obriour neighbors calls it creo~
it the substance spatters on
article of clothing, it is impos-
to remove it with ordinary
‘ *Can you tell me what
. ya the stain from (a) grey
e.:_»dress, (b), white cotton
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Mr. and Mrs. Hen" Bender. of Pgntualor hollow in the gou-ol "-0 huh sir.
built their form home so that they may sleep out of doors. at n-ght, have a place in which to
air the bedding In the morning, and sit out of doors when the day’s work Is done.

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so they have

suggestions. This department ., is
proving very useful toour readers
“because every one is passing. their
own ideas on to others—Lideas which
are not theory, but which have stood
the test of being applied. We wel-
come them always from every reader.

in the order asked: As it is not pol-
icy to give names of firms through
..these columns, I am sending you the
name of the hair store and you can
either write them direct or I will do
your shopping for you.

-As to waist materials. Yes, Geor-
gette has been popular for several
years for both winterand summer
wear, but still.» there does not seem

. to be any signs of its popularity wan-
ing. Probably this is because in the
lighter colors, it is easily laundered,
does not crush like a starched waist
under the suit coat, and really Wears
as well as lawn or linen. This sea-
son they ‘are showing the 'flgured
georgettes, but there will not be long
lived as to style as the plain colors.
A plain dark blue to match your suit

 

ask that has not been laundered,
grass floor rug of greenish color.
Thanking you in advance for this
helpful information ,I am, sincerely
yours, Mrs. S. E.

You have certainly asked a hard
question as anything which is strong
enough to take out the stain is liable
to remove the color from the color—
ed materials. Regular ink eradicat-
or will remove the stain from the
toweling and table linen, but the
material should be washed out im-
mediately after
applying as the

and now wish to ask a personal fav-
A few weeks ago you
mentioned a place where switches
Will .

or of you.

were made from combings.
you please give me the address?

What seems to he the favorite ma-

terial for blouses this spring?

must have something to wear with
I know that
georgette has been popular so long
that it seems as though it must soon
I want something
which will do for several seasons so
must have something which will not
style

a blue broadcloth suit.

go out of style.

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acid which this
eradicator co n—
tains will soon
eat into the fab-
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OUR- \VEEKLY CHEER

1 would like to
give our. readers
a few suggestions
to keep a. show—Chinese Proverb. also WhiCh have

- ‘ proven very use—

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There is a test
which you may
make on your'dress and which will
take it out if anything will and that
is: Soak' the part stained in alcohol,

ether or chloroform. Many times this phor
will remove every trace of stain. It the usual way.

is the only thing known which will
remove iodine stains, and I am of
the opinion that it will do the work.

As a remedy for the pipe 'would
suggest that you procure a piece. of
tape such as is used by electricians
and wind it around the elbow, being
sure that the edges lap and I believe
this will prove effectual in swaling
the place that leaks.

Dear Miss Ladd: I have always
enjoyed your department in M. B. F.

less than $5.

ful to me every

in color exactly would be very stylish
and I am sure would prove very sat-
isfactory. They are making them
this year with a little frill in front
if you are thin, and for those who
cannot wear this style, there is the
tiny little'knife pleating which is
dainty and makes the blouse look
I very dressy.

Dear Miss Ladd: Through the per-
sonal Shopping Service Bureau, can
you buy for me “Anne of Green
Gables,” by L. M. Montgomery, and
what will be the cost.-———Mrs. K. W. C.

Yes, I shall be glad to buy the book
referred to, for you, It used to re-
tail at $1.50, but now theprice has
advanced to $1.75. There is no
charge for this service, but we ask
that you include in your remittance
and with your order, the postage
charge which in this case is but 5c.

summer, as oth-

ers may find them helpful:

To remove fruit stains from wash-
able goods, wet the stains with cam—
before washing, then wash in
This will remove
every trace of stain and. will not in-
jure the most delicate color. .

Another idea which you might like
to present to our readers is that of
making lamp shades at home.
winter my husband and I made
handsome floor lamp at a cost
_ I am sure that it could
not be duplicated in a shop for less
than $25 anywhere.
for us.——Mrs. R. G.

Dear Mrs. G.-——Thank you for your

And it was fun

THE FLOWER LANGUAGE
TEW ideas of parties and games
i are always in demand. After
having been denied quantities of
flowers for some months we are look-
ing forward to again being able to use
, them profusely in our homes and for
party decorations. A good game is to
list the flowers and see how many can

This guess what the particular flower

a stands for. You will note by the list
of of flowers and meanings given that
- each one is very appropriate and even

it but a few are guessed, it will famil-

iarize us with the flowers and their
‘ names:
Apple blossom—Preference.
Arbutusmlnseparable love.
Anemone———Withered hopes.
Aster—After thought.
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By E‘The Poet Scout," Capt. Jac‘k Crawford, Born 1847; Died 1917

with the dumps.

’Cause in the game of life he doesn’t catch the trumps;

nd easy cuss

As he takes his dues and thanks the Lord it isn’t wuss.

There ain’t. no uset o‘ kickin’ and swearin’ at your luck,

Yer can’t correct- the trouble more’n you can drown a duck.
Remember, when beneath the load‘ your smflerin’ head is bowed,
That God’ll sprinkle sunshine in the trail of every cloud.

If you should see a fellowman with ’trouble‘s flag unfurled,
An’ lookin' like he didn't have a friend in all the world,

Go up an’ slap him on the back andholler, “how (1’ you do?"
And grasp his hand so warm he’ll know he hasa friend in you.
Then ax him what's a-hu’rtin' ’m, and laugh his cares away,
And them him that the darkest night; is Just before the day.
Don't'talk in graveyard-palavor, but say it right out. loud,

That God‘ll sprinkle sunshine in the trail of every cloud.

This world~ at boot is but a hash of pleasure under pain,
Some daycare bright and sunny, [and some 5111810811011 with rain.

for When the clouds roll by

We‘ll know Just how 'to ‘preciate the bright and smilin" sky.
So learn to take it as it comes, and do'n’tsweat at the pores

coincide with yours,
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hood.

— Crocus~€heerfulness, pleasures of hope
Clover~—I promise.

Clematis—Artifice, '
Cornflower—Delicacy.
Columbine—Folly.

Dandy tuft—Indifference.
Dahlia—Pomp.

Daffodil—Unrequited love.
Daisy—Innocence.

Dandelion—Oracle.

Fern—~Rcverie.

Forget-memot—Forget me not.
Fuchsia—Taste.

Gardenia—Platonic love,
Grass—Usefulness.
gefiatgcak—Clgnfldence.

o y 0c — ruit ulness, ambition.
Holly-‘Forethought. .
IIoneysuckle—éBonds of love.
Hyacinth—Game, play.
Hydrangea—~You are cold.

IrlB——-A message.

Ivy—Friendship.

Jasmine——Amiability.

.Ionqu il—uDesire.

Larkspur—Swiftness.

Laurel—-Glory.

Lilac—-Love's first emotions. '
Lavender—Distrust.
, {Mignonette—“Your
your charms." ,
»Mist_letoe—--“Give me a. kiss." -

‘ _Marigold—-—Paln;_ chagrin,’ combined
wrth roses, bitter sweets and pleasant-
‘pains of laye. -. . . ‘ ,
I MaidenhaiwDiscretion.
Moss—Maternal love.

. , Narcissus—Self. love.

. Orange blossom—Chastity,
' ' Orchid—,Exotio futility.

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Pink—Lively and pure affection

Primrose—Early youth.

Rose—Beauty.

RosebudT—Young girl.

A rose in a tuft of grass—«“There is
everything to be gained by good com-
pany"

Rose leaf-”I am never importunate."

Rosemary—“Your pxesence revives
me ~

Scarlet ge1anium—Folly. .,

Snap dragon—Presumption.

Snowdrop—Friend in need; hope.

Syringes—Early summer of life.

Sunflower—False riches

Thistle—Sternness.

TubercSe—Dange’rous pleasure.

Tulip—Declaration of love.

Violet—Modesty

Water lily—Eloquence

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“HEARTS OF'THREE"

_ (Continued from page 11/)
spurred his horse to follow, his crowd
at his heels.

The peon waited, smoked his cig-
arette quite to the finish and cogi-
tated. When all'was clear, he vent-
ured forth, turned the mechanism
controlling the well wide open,
watched the Oil fountaining upward
under the subterranean pressure and
flowing down the mountain in a ver-
itable river. Also, he listened to and
noted the sobbing. and gasping, and
bubbling of the escaping gas. This
he did not comprehend, and all that
saved him for his further adventur-
es was the fact that he had used his
last match to lighthis cigarette. In'
vain he searched his rags. his ears.
and his hair. He was out of matches.

So. chuckling at the river of oil
he was wantoply running to waste.
and, remembering the canyon trail
below, he plunged down 'the moun—
tain side and upon Francis, who re-
ceived him with extended\automatic
Down went the peon on his frayed
and frizzled knees in terror and sup—
plication to the man he had twice
betrayed that day. Francis studied
him, at first without recognition, be-
cause of the bruised and lacerated
face and head on which the blood
had dried like a mask.

“Amigo, amigo,” chattered the

,peon.

But at that moment, from below
on the ravine trail, Francis heard
the clatter’ of a stone dislodged by
some man’s foot. The next moment
he identified what was left of the
peon as the pitiable creature to
whom he had given half the con-
tents of his whiskey flask.

“Well, amigo,” Francis said in
the native language,” it looks as if
they are after you.

“They will kill me, they will beat
me to death, they are very angry,”
the wretch quavered. “You are my
only friend, my father and my moth-
er, save me.”

“Can you shoot?” Francis demand- 1

ed. .
“I was a hunter in the Cordilleras
before I was sold into slavery, Sen-
or," was the reply.

Francis passed _him the automatic
and motioned him to take shelter,
and told him not to fire until sure
of a hit. And to himself he mused:
The golfers are out on the links right
now at Tarrytown. And Mrs. Bell-
ingham is on the cubhouse veranda
wondering how she isgoing to pay
the three thousand points'she’s be-
hind and praying for a change of
luck. And—Ahere am I, —-Lord!
Lord—backed up to a/riverof 011.

His musing ceased _as abruptly, as
appeared the Jets Torres, and the
gendarmes down the trail. As abrupt-
ly he fired his rifle, and as abruptly
they fell back out of sight. He

could not tell whether he had hit'

one, or whether the man had mere-
1y. fallen tin preci ate retreat. The
pursuers did not 0 re to make a rush
of it, contenting themselves

With .j
. ; ‘bushw'hacking Francis. and the peon '
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moment he could turn and escape

by wading across the river of 011. So’

all Was We11,:' and would have been
well, had not, from above, come an

eruption of another body of men,

who, from behind trees, fired as they
descended. This was the hacienda-
do and his fellow. haciendados,~_ in
chase of the fugitive peon—although
Francis. did not know it.
clu'sio'n was that it was another posse
that was after h.im The shots they
fired at him were strongly affirma-
tive. .
' The perm craWIed to his side,
showed him that two shots remain-
ed in the automatic he was return-
ing to him, and impressively begged
from him his box of matches. Next,
the peon motioned him to cross the
bottom of. the canyon and climb the
other side. ~ With half a guess of the
creatures intention, Francis com-
plied, from his new position of vant-
age emptying his last rifle cartridge
at the advancing posse and sending
it back into shelter down the raVine.
The next moment the liver of oil
flared into flame from Where the
peon‘hadtou‘ched a match to it. ‘ In
the following moment, clear 11pxtl1e
mountainside, the well itself sent a
fountain of ignited gas a hundred
feet into the air. And, in the mo—
ment after, the ravine itself poured
a torrent of flame down upon the
posse of Torres and the Jefe.
Scorched by the heat of the con-
flagration, Francis and the peon
clawed up the opposite side of the
ravine, circled around and past the
blazing trail, and, at a dog trot, rac-
ed up the recovered trail.

CHAPTER X.
HILE Francis and the peon hur-
W ried up the ravine trail in safe-
ty, the ravine itself, below
where the oil flowed‘in, had become
a river "of flame, which drove the

Jefe, Torres and the gendarmes to'

scale the steep wall of the ravine. At
the same time the party of hacienda-
dos in pursuit of the peon was com-

ten edly aware that at any.

‘more wells.

His con- _

hé indicated a second black smoke
pillar rising in the air beyond the

5 first burning well.

“More,” he chuckled. “There are
They will all burn. And
so shall they and all their race pay
for the many blows they have beaten
on me. And there is a lake of 011
there, like the sea, like Juchitan In-

let, it is so big.”

And Francis recollected the lake

,of 011 about which the _haciendado

had told him—that, containing at

least five million barrels which could
not yet be piped to sea transport, lay

open to :the sky,'merely in a natural

depression injthe ground and con—

tained by an earth dam.

“How much are you worth?” he
demanded of the peon with apparent
iIrelevance.

But the peon could not understand.

‘.‘How much are your clothes
worth—all you’ve got on?”

“Half a peso, nay, half of a half
peso,” the peon admitted ruefully,
surveying what was left of his tat-
tered rags.

“And other property?”

The wretched creature shrugged

his shoulders in token of his utter

destitution, then added bitterly.

“I possess nothing but a debt. I
owe two hundred and fifty pesos. I
am tied to it for life, damned with
it for life like a man with a cancer.
That. is why I am a slave to the ha-
ciendado.”

“Huh !” Francis could not forbear
to grin. “Worth two hundred and
fifty pesos less than nothing, not even
a cipher, a sheer abstraction of a
minus quantity without existence
save in the mathmetical imagination
of man, and, yet here you are burn-
ing up not less than millions of pesos
worth of oil. And if the strata is
loose and erratic and the oil leaks 11p
outside the tubing, the chances are
that the oil body of the entire field
is ignited—say a billion dollars
worth. Say, for an abstraction en-
joying two hundred and fifty dollars
worth of non—existence, you are some
hombre, believe me.”

' slaved and been beaten, and behold;
at the end of five years my debt is L
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“Maya Indian—you?”
scoffed?

“Half Maya,” was the
admission. “My father is pure M
But the Maya women of the Cordil:
le1as did not satisfy him. He. mus,
love a mixed breed woman of grid!
tieria caliente. I was so born;
she afterward betrayed him for
Barbados nigger, and he went back
to the Cordilleras to live. And, like
my father. I was born to love a mix»

ed breed of the tierra caliente. She ‘

wanted money, and my head was fev-
ered with want of her and I sold my-

self to be a peon for two hundred __
And I never saw her nor the ‘-

pesos.
money again.
been a peon.

For five years I have
For five years I have

not two hundred but two
and fifty pesos." p
(Continued next week)

Editor
FRI-_YOIII‘ editorial on “Thrift” in the
last edition expressed completely and
honestly
the country make a fair showing the
handicapped. Yours respectful~ly——-O’.
L. Hulcn‘. Inglmm County.

 

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Skirt, Also a Coat

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children’ 5 coats, (lrapexies ,—everythingl

A Direction Book is in package.

To match any mateiial, have dealt!
show you “Diamond Dye” Color Card.

 

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. And LILY WHITE bread looks just as good as it tastes.
The bread remains moist longer, is tender and of good

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Besides, you can use LILY WHITE FLOUR for every require-
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«price if you do not like LILY WHITE FLOUR better than any

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EAR CHILDREN: Have you 'ever
noticed how many sections of
the state our letters were com-
;ing from. Why, our paper is read
by hundreds of little boys and girls

«cry week I get such loads of letters,
that I can’t possibly get them all in
the paper, and in order to be fair
, to every section of the state, I de-
‘aidod .this week to print only one
from a county, and do you know that
I received letters from children from
twenty-three dilierent counties. Get
out your maps of Michigan and as
you read the letters, just find out
what county the writer lives in. You
will find it very interesting. It may
not be possible for us to print the
whole twenty—three this week, but if
not, they will appear next week.

One little girls asks for my ad-
dresk—lt's just Mt. Clemens, care of
' M. B. F.

And so many are inquiring for the
Doc Dads, that I want to tell you
that these little fellows got rich——
they had such a big idea of their own
importance that they told us they
wouldn’t come to see us .each week
unless we paid them more for their
weekly visits than they were worth.
And we wouldn’t of course, and told
them so. And now they are consid-
ering the matter. They may decide
to return later for the same price,
but it not, we will have just as good
things. We now have a puzzle each
week, a story and then just all the
letters we have room for and one
little boy wrote me that he would
rather have the space on the Child-
ren's Hour page used for the letters
than anything else. Aflectionately
yours—“Laddic.”

THE TRUTH ABOUT ORANGES

contained a story under the Chil-
dren’s Hour about “Oranges." I as-

order to instruct the children con—
cerning. the life and habits of the or-
"\ . ange tree and its fruit. For such
purpose the story is not quite accur-
ate, especially so in that it leads to
wrong conclusions. I think for the
like of accuracy that I should try to
correct and also enlarge certain parts.
I can speak only for Florida. Some
features may show a variation under
the influence Of a different soil and
climate.

Florida grows very few navel or-
anges because the navel fails to pro-
duce in sufficient quantity, but the
, quality is very satisfactory. It is
presumed that the soil conditions are
‘ not suited to it in the same way
that while the Crawford peach is a
very fine fruit in quality wherever
,grown but yields very poorly except
in, some few places in the peach-grow-
ing sections.

Orange trees are budded. The
“root stock” is grown almost entirely
from the seeds of the sour orange and
the rough lemon. The sour orange is
sometimes called the wild or native

are supposed to have been brought
here by the Spaniards. The juice of
the sour orange is so sour it would
make a pig squeal. The fruit of the
rough lemon is larger than the im-
proved varieties and is at a dryer and
punkier nature. Trees budded onto
. sour orange roots are planted on the
heavier.,and "richer land, while. those
on rough lemon roots are plan-ted on
, “Nate poorer and dryer locations. .
i'l‘ho improved varieties oi lemons
are not a commercial success in Flor-
'a. The fruit oithe lime tree takes
their place for local use and some are
flipped north.

The loans of the orange tree are
" n the whole year, but it is not a
not statement to say, “There are
seams, green fruit and ripe fruit
he trees all at the same time,”
not say why this is sometimes
case, but more often not so. The
‘ -‘ tree normally bears all or its
.. r'aton time in the spring, the
, the one“ panel: or other
ast- museum of reasons,

  

in every county in this state, and ev-,

The issue of M. B. F. for March’s-

lume that the story ,was printed in

.the "Rust Mite.”

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URING the early spring'it is de—
lightful to have something
growing in the house or in the

school room to interest little boys and
girls in. what is going to happen very
soon outdoors. .

Ii father or the older boys in the
manual training shop will make a
rectangular box with glass sides, line
the bottom with zinc, and have aglass
cover which may be opened slightly to
let in tbs air, the children will have
a fine little conservatory at their own.

Put about four inches 0: rich soil in.

the bottom of the box and either plant
or transplant into the soil some bits
of growing life. For example, buy a.
small coco palm, some holly tern, a
pteris, any begonia except the Box
begonia, and a small asparagus fer-n,
letting the last named trail along the
soil of. the little greenhouse. The
earth should be kept moist, and‘the
box set in the sunlight, preferably in
a sunny window. The cover should be
raised a little during the day to al-

Indoor Garden for “Children

By Ellen Eddy Shaw, Curator, Brooklyn Botanical Garden

 

 

low the air to enter, but not wide
enough to permit too much of the
water within the little green house to
evaporate.

. If it is impossible to buy suitable
plants, and it might be in some places,
plant in the soil some seeds of com-
mon geraniums, of beans, oats, corn
and some of sweet alyssum.‘ These
seeds will sprout quickly, and while
the grains will not last long, the lit-
tle geranium and sweet alyssum will
last a long time. . .

If you live in the country where
woods are close by, then get some
mass from underneath the leaves and
some hepatica plants and put these in
the small greenhouse. You may use a
large firm bowl for the purpose, but
the, hex with the zinc bottom is really
a better arrangement. Any child will
take a great deal of 30y and pleasure
in having a little conservatory of

this kind', and will also take a greater

interest in working in the outdoor
garden because of this experience.

 

lasting over a. period of several weeks
previous to the blossoming period,
(the trees are in bloom at this time,
March 14) and poor care and fertiliz-
er may and generally do cause' the
crop of bloom to be short. Then, if
the weather is more favorable, fertil—
izer has been applied and grove cul-
tivated the result will be at cm}; of
bloom in June. There was some “June
Bloom” in 1918, none in 1919, and
now the crop of bloom is very short.
The growers are hoping that the con-
ditions will be favorable for a large
crop of “June Bloom," i. e., for or-
anges, not for grape fruit as June
bloom grapefruit are not 01' good
Witty. _

The “russeting” Of oranges can be
cont-rolled by spraying the same as
“apple scab” etc. A "russeted-" or-
ange is usually sweeter than it would
have been had it not been attacked by
This is caused by
the reason that its growth is checked
to some degree which seems to result
in increased flavor.

What I hav mentioned about orang—
es applies to grape fruit, except the
fruit of June bloom which is very de-

sirable in the case of the orange
which is of fine quality while the
June bloom grape fruit is of inferior
quality—H. 0'. AL, Micco, Florida.

OUR BOYS AND GIRLS

. Dear Laddtie—I must write to you a
few words. I received the postcards, “A
Tour Around the World,” and I thank
you very much for they are very inter-
esing. My sister is writing a. letter too.
We have a small calf and I feed him, We
also have two lambs one week old and
another two four days old. Two of them
are white with black noses and the other
two are black, nearly gray. We

eight little pigs. It is getting warm now.
I am glad that the spr rig is coming. and
summer too. Then I’ll go fishing with my
father. What’s the matter with the D00
Dads now? As it is about lo-o'clock I
must go to sleep. I must tell you too
that we have a litle baby, Her name is
Anna.—-Bernicc Konwinski, Posen, Mich.

Dear Laddie~—-I am a girl 15 years old
and in the 6th grade. I go to school
right along and I like my teacher very
much_ Her name is Illa Stevens. There
are 11 pupils in our school. We had a
very hard winter. We have two horses,

Paddy and John and for pets I have a‘

dog named Fanny and ‘a cat named Fuz-
zy. We have about 30 hens in all. We
have one cow and a yearling and a lit-
tle calf. I will close now—Mildred Seei-
ey, Red Oak, Mich.
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Dear Laddle—J' have just been reading
the letters of the boys and the girls in
the M, B. F; and thought I would write
one also. I will describe myself. I am
a -girl five feet tall. I have light hair
and blue eyes. You, may try and guess
my age. I live on an Gil—acre farm on
the b nks of Honghton Lake. We have
two orses. four cows. live calves and
about 50 chickens. For pets I have two
dogs and one kitten. I sure would like to
hear from some of the girls and boys or
the. M. B, F.—Helen 'G. Hansen, Hough-
ton Lake, Mich. ‘ - ,

Dear Laddie—My father takes the M.
B. F. I like to‘read the letters. We live
on an lilo-acre farm. I have two cows to
milk. I am a girl 16 yearsold. We have
five horses and I hays a twoqrsar—old
colt. I call her Molly, She will do lots
of ricks. She has a white spot on her
head. I broke her to drive. I have a
favorite horse to ride. I like to help out-
doors and to milk. I willclose now.—l
Elva Swartz, Glennie. Mich.

A Riddle

Round as an apple; busy as a bee; the
prettiest little thing you ever did see:
Ana—Watch.

 

Dear Laddie—-—I am a girl 11 years
old and in the 5th and 6th grades. My
teacher is Mrs. Lucy Aehmore. I. like
her quite well. My mother died when I
we. a year old so I live with my grand-V
fat or and grandmother. I have two
brothers and a sister living and a. broth-
er and a sister dead. My grandtaflier
takes the M. B. F. and likes it very well.

like to read the children’s page. I
would like to have some of the boys and
girls write to me. For pets I have four
ducks and a cat. I live on a farm.--
Gladys Price, Maple City, Mich. .

 

Dear Laddiez—I am 12 years old and

' in the 7th grade. For pets I have a tig-

or cat, My father bought me three sheep
two years ago for $10 a» iece. I have
used $120 of the money w ieh my sheep
brought me, towards paying for our pl-
ano. Two years ago I got $13 for the
wool from my three sheep. Last year I
got 332 for the wool from my eight sheep.
I have seven 8 p now as I have sold
some of them. I would like to have some
of the girls write to me. I will close
now—Gladys Pickett, Bailey, Mich.

Dear Laddle—I am a girl 12 years old
and in the 7th grade at school. My
teacher is Mrs. 'Whaley. She is fink and
our school is closed. I am taking music
lessons. My music teacher's name is
Hilda Lange. I have two brothers and
one sister. We have a car: we got it
last July. My tamer takes the M. B, E,
and likes it very much. I like to read
the boys' and girls’ letters of the Chil-
dren’s Hour. I wish some of the boys
and girls of the M. B. F. would write to
me.-—Minnie Triban, Hemlock, Mich.

Dear Laddie—This is the first time I
have written to you. I am a lrl 8
years old. My birthday is the 2 th 01'
September. I go to school every day
and am in the 3rd grade. We have 12
scholars. Our teacher is Miss Irene Gar-
ner and I like her very much. My father
takes the ~M. B. F. We have two cows,
two calves, three horses and 65 hens.
For pets I have two cats, Tige and Nig.
We have a new Overland can—Esther
Marie Everts, Holly, Mich_

Dear LadcliohMy father takes the M.
B. F. and we all like to read it. I am
14 years old and in the 8th grade at
school. I have three sisters and five
brothers. I live on a 300-acre farm;
about one-third of it is woods. I have
plenty_ot‘ pets: a cat, a. dog, a rabbit,
four pigs, 30 chickens, 31 head of cattle,
and six horses my favorite pets, My sis-
ters and I love to ride the horses. We
tapped the sugar bush this spring, 450
trees—Pauline King, Goodells, Mich.

Dear Laddle—I am a girl 9 ears old
and m the 3rd grade at school.yWe live
one—half mile from school. My teacher
is Miss Elva. Little. I like her very
much. .I have two sisters. For pets we
have a dog. We have five colts and two
horses—Lila Dickinson, Hooper-la, Mich.

 

Dear Laddie——We take '
and like it reaiawen. 1 liktgetonf‘ealg‘tll;
boys’ and girls’ letters. I am 18 years
old and m the 7th grade. My teacher ll
Miss Mamie Masten and I ilk hen—Mil-
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A Sunshine Dinner

Put 3 cupsful of Cooked rice into
a baking dish.

With a spoon make four holes in
the rice (or more than four is neces-
sary—there should be. one for ' each
member of: the family.)

Break aneg’g’lnto each hole.

Season the egg with a bit otsalt'
and pepper. .

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the top of the rice and eggs.

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GENESISE—There is all kinds of werk
that cah be done on the farm at this tiine
of the year. Farmers are working wood,
trhnm hauling manure, sowing

trees,
clovm'plowing. fixing fences and do-'

The weather has been win-
rniny weather
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dy and warm with some
{nixed in.d gunners aged sell!
atoee an we ock. a are
mixers reeds, fen? poets,

80m beans

ty last unday evening and wreckeda
sand. killed several
head of live stock. e will pro-
bablybe between swam an 3409', 000.
A few people were killed and several
were injured. People who have not seen
the wreckage of the buildings cannot re-
alias the completeness of the destruction

‘ of the buildings that lay in the path of

the storm. The agents for Cycloae In-
surance companies are about the busiest
of anybody, writing up new policies and
increases. The roads are in good shape.
Several farmers are moving; some to oth-
erfermsundsometothecit lee—C. W. S.

.Prices offered at um .32 .50

corn, 31.85; cute, 31. 01 rye, Wu. I n:ydbauclr-
WM: beans ..P ) 36;

nor. 311; hag3 3277 382: straw 1.310%;

; onions. :1!
bill; cucum 3
sprinters, 35; d,ucks 062"; geese, 30@:
34-; turkeys, H37@42; dug butter,

55: creemery butter r, 35 70; butte at@,
72; eggs, 37?“) apples, 32.50@3.50;
beef steers, calzon beef cows, 37 8, '
veal calves, s31’7 sheep, 11 0@
12.38; lambs, :1 500619; hogs, 15. 25@

 

MANISTEE—Farmers ars busy try-
ing to make m'aple‘syrup and hauling po—
tatoes. The—spring is not good for the
syrup deal. When the snow started to go
it did not let up and the frost went out of
the ground in a few days [with strong
south Wind, which dried up the sap. Po-
tatoes are about all sold in these parts
The raise in price sent them flying to
shipping points. In March we had a bad
wind storm, tearing out trees and tumbl-
ing over small buildings. The report is
two barns blew down near Kalena. The
sandy land is in good shape for plowing
and lots are making good use of the time.
Lots of auction sales this spring. Hors—

es are bringing a better price thancheSy ‘

have for a long while back. —-0
Prices offered at shipping points in the

county:_ Wheat 32; corn $1. 50; oats,
31.10; rye, 31.30; buckwheat, 32,
benas (0.1-1 P.) 35. 25 cwt; hay, $32@35

potatoes, $4. 50@5; hens, 25, butter, 50;
butterfat, 64; eggs ' beef steers. on
foot, “@313, dressed, 516521313; beef cows
same; veal calves, dressed, 318@320;
hogs, on foot 313 1- 2, dressed, $13; hides,
18 cents.

JACK30N, (South)—~Weather warm
but windy. Many people in this 'vlcinlty
watched Sunday's tornado as it moved
northwest ready to retreat to the cellar
if it changed its course. It was a sight
that anyone seeing will never forget The
funnel- shaped cloud in the west changed
as it moved into a huge black snake, that
ilnalby swept from the ground as it mov—
ed rapidly away to the nort . A few
miles from here it unroo buildings.
ruined orchards, scattered straw stacks
and fences. The road gang has arrived
and work will now begin on building the
good roads. Farmers are rushin their
grain into market bringing 1.70 a
bushel and wheat ‘32. 50. Potatoes are
scarce. No help. The help that the
farmer has depended on in other years
is either working in the city, driving back
and forth in autos or oing to work on

the good roads. The Jae son county rural ‘

teachers. have organized and demand
3100 per month minimum salary for the
next year and 3100 bonus. Why (lent
the farmers wake up and organize and
demand a bonus too?—G 8.

MONROE N. Eel—«W had a bad
storm of wi , rain and hail last Sunday
night. What is looking better since the
rain there will be none given up and put
to 0 her crops around here. Farmers are

busy plowing, sowing spring wheat, oats
and barley. Weather has been unset-
tled all week. Land is not in best of con-
dition, not much use of tractors, land too
soft. Will be less spring min sown, no
help. Some new seeding heaved out, es-
pecially on low black ground. Every in-
dication of a short hay crop. Farmers

ey from new on. .14. s.
uttered at Newport:‘ Wheat, gall

2 ,;25 com. on car 32 cwt; ea 92;
No.1 timothy, 32! bailed: No. 1 light
mixed 323'; wheat-oat tstr'aw, 33: hens.
'spr ringer 34®

 

. 9,3 ducks. 2 gm
. 25: turkeys. 35610; butter, 30; eggs, 41

';4 pricesoffoneheep: hogs, ”dress-
3]; beef steers. 10; beetcmvml‘; veal
calves. 10013

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is about

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Wheat, 321. 25; com on car, 65; cats, 88;
hay: No.1tlrrwthy, $28; No. 1 light mix-
ed 328; beansé 35. potatoes, 32. 50;
bu’tter, 55- butts rfat, 550; eggs, 40; beef
steers, 11 beef cow, 668; veal
calves, 113 21.

LNINGSSTON—mmers on the light-
re soils have coinmenced plowing for oats
and others are hauling manure and build-
ing fence. Weather is windy and threat-
ens storm. What begins to turn green

Farmer-8’

operative Association
purchased the elevator and
the C. A. Parshall Milling 0., and .will
continue the business in the interest of
their members as well as for outsiders,“
G. A. W. Prices offered at Howell:
Wheat, 32. 40; com, 31. 40; cats, 85; rye,
3172; hay, No. 1 timothy, 325@26; No.
1 light mixed, 320@25; rye straw, H$10;
whcaii-oat straw, $8; beans (CH

35 50 (:;wt potatoes, 32. 50; hens, 17@2 P1;
turkeys, 30; butter, 60; butterfat, 65@
67; eggs, 3'8@40; hogs, live $14 .50
dressed, $18; beef steers 310; beef cows,
38; veal calves, $15@18; wool, 50@60.

 

ARENAC, (Existy—Yes spring is here
ones more and farmers are beginning to
plan their work. Price of beans down
also hay. Oats and barley hold their own.
Live stock dull. Auction sales are hum-
ming about every day and bringing high
prices. Majority holding auctions are go-
ing to the cities to work Looks like a
scarcity -of farm labor again this year.
Politics are gtting warm and here is hog—
ing that the farmers will win out. ———M
R The following prices were paid at
Twining. —Oats, 95; hay: No. 1 timothy
$20@24; No. 1 light mixed, same; beans
35. 75; potatoes, $1. 50; hens, 30; spring-
ers, 25@3 0' butter, 55, butterfat, 68,;

eggs, 40.

WEXFORD—We haVe (had a few nice
days, but this mornin (lApril lst) has
started to rain a li.tte Robins have
been here a week or more and the snow
is all off, except in the hollows but very
little left. “Good ridance to bad rub-
blsh."—-8. H. 3. Prices offered: Wheat,

2.19@32.25; corn, shelled, 31. 50; cats,

5; rye, 3150; buckwheat, $2. 50 cwt;
beans, 35 25; red kidneys 37 cwt; hay,

gotatoes 35 cwt; cabbage, 5; hens,
28@3 springers, 28@3.0; ducks, 25@
30; geese, 22@25; butterfat, 68; eggs,
38; ogsaplples'ZO. $5 cwt; Veal calves, 14@20

 

JACKSON N.E.)—-Two of the worst
wind storms ave hit this section the
past Week. Many windows were broken
by hall in the storm of a week ago, but
this present storm was straight high
winds. Wheat and rye greening up and
so far have had no damage. Some rye
being sold but nothing-else. Many farms
to remain idle the coming year, high
wages and no help the cause. Plowing
for cats in order. None drilled at this
writing.—-A. F.

GRAND TRAVERSE—Are having fine

 

weather only lots of wind Had a hard
wind 1 t tsunday that done lots of dam-
age. armors are beginning to plow

and haul manure. ow is about all
Not much being sold ”at present
as potatoes are about all sold. Auction
sales still in progress—C. L. B. Prices
offered at Williamsburg: Wheat, 32.35;
”WT... m ”53" iii: ‘35?" 3’“

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keys. so; banish-F" 70;, eggs. 37.- .

the mundie gett settled.
ome are beginning to. plow. ——mlll. Pris
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beans

35.;50 redldd'nm. 3‘; “potatoes. 42.5 ,

'\ renames hfly '

“Did you ever con buts to ‘The
Atlantic lilonthly’?" asked the sweet
young girl of the famous author. '

“Not monthly—daily,” replied the
author.

' "Daily?” echoed. the girl in sur-

prise

“Yes " said the author sadly, "lust
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FOR lNDlVlDUAL 0R ASSOCIATION

 

--buy One of these
now on hand at

Lansing and
save 15%

Ellis Champion Gram Thresher:
To make room for machinery coming, we will grant the farmers
and threshers of Michigan 1919 prices on the following new

Threshers on orders received and. shipped before May let.

After that ,'

date the 1920 list showing 15 per cent advance will prevail.

Plus mt. paid.

from factory

0 No. 1--18 1-2 111. Ellis plain threshers @ ........ $225.00
2No.2—-22in.El.llswithwindstacker @ 585.00
2 No. 8-—24 in. Ellis with wind stacker @ ......... 575200
I No. 3—24 in. Ellis plain threshol- @ . . ...... 850.00
1 No. 4—26 in. Ellis with wind stacker Heineke self-

foedcr mounted @ ................ . . . . . . . . . 975.00
Tallingelevatorsforabove............ 28.00
Truckswithout brake 101' No.1,2and3........ 70.00
StmwcarrlersforNo.12and8 81.00
Hart weigher bugger ........ -...........110.00

We Also Have the Following
Bidwell Bean and Pea Thrashers New

0 Bldwell Junior: 21 in. mounted, carrier, hand feed $650.00

2 Bidwell Standard 84. is. mounted, carrier, hand feed 900.00

Windstackers, recleaners and self-feedei-thra.

Wyble Feeder and Stone Picker . . .' ............ 275. 00
The only real feeder and stone picker for bean threshers

J. M. PRESTON CO., Lansing, Mich

State Agents Ellis and Bidwell Thrashers

 

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BLUE BIRD BRAND
FARM s GARDEN

stands for Purity, Happiness and good
Luck. In Seeds. for the Best that Grows. ,
Our 1920 catalog gives the Legend and
I tells why the Blue Bird was adopted as a
trade mark for Good Seeds. It furnishes the
most complete information on Red Clover
Alfalfa, Alsike, Sweet Clover, Vetches, Mil-lets,
Sudan Grass and other Farm and Garden Seeds
of any free book published. It is larger and more
beautifully printed than ever before. It will assist.
in planning your crop campaign for the coming
season. A post card will bring YOUR FREE COPY."

Supplies of many seeds are very light.
Save money and have your seed when wanted.

THE C. E. DePUY 00., Seedsmen, Pontiac, Mich...

SEED

In the Legend, the Blue Bird

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- tatives to take subscriptions, whole or.

spare time. Hundreds of our friends are

“netting ‘a' nice su‘fn each Week by doing a
,little extra. work.
you. For particulars .

A trial will , convince
write.

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today for particulars.

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”$2.506 onen' ssounss .250 ions. 13

, cattle and 2 horses. 5 pigs, poultry, wagons, har-

ness, machinery, tools, hay, potatoes, grain; broad
machine-worked fields. spring watered 'pasture for

‘38 cows, wood enough to pay for farm, big apple

‘»orchard, 2,000 sugar maplesy 10-room house. 3

barns, other buildings; delightful snrroundihgs,
beautiful view of river which farm borders; price
for everything $5,200 with $2,500 cash. balance
easy terms. Details page 9 Strout’s Spring Cat‘
slog Bargains 33 states. copy free. ‘S'I‘BOUT

'YI”ARM.AGENCY, 814 BE, Ford Bldg, Detroit,

egravelly soil.

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40 ACRES (33 CLEARED. 1 PASTURE)
Small cement block house, barn.
0n main road and R. F. D.. 3 miles from Beav-
crton. $1,800—5800 down. M. J. HUBER,
ll 3, Beaverton, Mich. - v .

120 ACRE FARM. $6.500, NEAR SCHOOL.
“2 ACRES IMPROVED. Balance, timber.
Pasture. Good buildings. Good well. Orchard.
'I‘rout stream. Sell stock and tools. Railroad and
town 2 34 miles. JOSEPH CHRISTIE, Fal-

- mouth, Mich.

‘ top Mich.

80 ACRE FARM. 25 ACRES CLEARED, 25
hearing apple trees, 4 1—2 miles from Vanderbilt,
5 1-2 miles from \Voiverine, 1—2 mile off over
Pike. el’rice $1,000. $000 down.
Write to AUGUST SPREEMAN, R. 1, Vander-
bilt. Mich.

FOR SALE—FARM, OF 80 ACRES, 5 MILES
south of Newberry, good roads. Sell cheap if
sold right away. W-rite C. -M. ZENKER; New—
herry, Mich, ll 1, Box 03.

 

136 ACRE FARM. CLAY AND GRAVEL
loam soil. 1 20 acres under cultivation. Good
fences. Good buildings. Nine miles from Bat.
tle Creek, Mich. 2 1-2 miles from interruban.
-, . J. FISHER, Michigan I‘rust Bldg, Grand
[Rapids, Mich. . ~ '

FOR SALE—12 ROOM BRICK . HOUSE,
electric lights, water, 2 lots, garage. \Vould trade
for farm. ~L.’ MACOMBER, Gladwin, Mich.

LANDOLOGY—A MAGAZINE GIVING THE
facts in regards to the land situation. Three
months’ subscription FREE. If for a home or

, as an investment you are thinking of buying good

farm lands, simply write me a letter and say,
"Mail me LANDOLOGY and all particulars
FREE." Address Editor, LandologY. Skidmore
Land Co... 308 Skidmore Bldg, Marinette. Wis.

 

FOR SALE—MICHIGAN CLOVER SEED
BELT LANDS. Old grass covered, cut over clay
soils, from heavy, light to medium. Easily clear-

, ed. \Vhere clover seed reproduces thirty to fifty

. becoming prosperous

‘ ‘Settler has option to meet a

Settlers (English speaking) are rapidly
growing clover seed,beef.
mutton and marketing d iry products. NO BE ~
’I‘ER RECOMMENDATIBN. 10,000 acres In
any size tracts from 80 acres up, $10 to. $15 an
acre. 10 per cent down, interest 6 per cent.
small stipulated ‘year-
1y cash payment, or merely apply the product of
one peek of clover seed yearly for every forty pur-
chased—UNTIL THE LAND IS PAID FOR. En-

tire forty or eighty often paid for out of the'

product of one bushel of clover seed. \Vill ad-
vance to settlers for 5 years, interest 6 per cent
on live stock, ’the first payment made upon land
purchased. Will show land after April let.—
.H)HN G. KRAUTH, Millershurg, l'resque Isle
County, Michigan. .

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a low nu. we are com I , ufmlnm

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rout), of. flour-es, both lathe huge! the «I and In the address.
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own voun own HOME. mnmussort.

and North Dakota along the lines (lithe, Gm
Northern Ry.)
10“”Dfitjed hsl'lcultural land to be found any-
where m the United States.. Write for free books
describing fthe opportunities ofiered homeseekers
and investors in Minnesota and North Dakota
along the ’Great Northérn By. E. C. LEEDY,
General Agricultural Development Agent, Great
Northern. Rye; Stz~;Paul...~Minn., Dept. G.

FOR SALE, REASONABLE, 120 ACRES.
One of the best farms in Michigan. One mile. to
station, Dixie Highway, church and school. Build-
ings worth $15,000. Also 2 good cows. Write
or phone. It. W. ANDERSON,, (‘larkstmn Mich.

EMISCELLANEOQQE '

WANTED—SECOND SIZE LATE seen PO-
tatoes. F. A. SHOWERMAN, Jackson, Mich, R7.

A NEW SEED CORN—EARLY YELLOW
Dent for field or silage, produces per acre over
other corn enough to pay for price of seed. D.
WOODWARD &. SON, Clinton, Michigan.

150 SENATOR DUNLAP. 150 WARFIELDS.
$2.00 postpaid. Dunlap $5.00 per 1,000, not
prepaid. HAMPTON & SON, Bangor. Mich.

 

WRITE THE CLARE JEWELRY cu. rufl
bargain sheet of watches and silverware. -\Ve do
watch repairing. Lock Box 535. Clare. Mich.

BUY FENCE POSTS DIRECT FROM FOR-
est. All kinds. Delivered prices. Address "M.
M.” care Michigan Business Farming, Mt. Clem-
ens, Mich.

BUILDERS’ PRODUCTS CO.. 14 PASADENA
ATE. 'Detroit. Wholesale to consumers—Paints,
Varnish, Spray—ing Materials, Sprayers. Manual
mailed free. M. B. TEEPLE. Mgr.

SENATOR DUNLAP AND STEVENS' LATE
champion $5.00 per 1,000; $2.50 per 500; 31
her 100 delivered. 0. II. STANLEY, Paw Paw,
Mic-11., It. R. No. 2.

 

SUDAN GRASS SEED $11, SWEET CLOV-
er $40.” Sheep‘ and Hog Rape $18 per 100 lbs.
HAROLD (I. FRANK, Heathernac Ranch, Ster-
ling, Michigan.

 

FOR SALE—MARQUIS SPRING WHEAT.
The kind that has proved a success in Michigan
for six years. Write for prices to FARWELL
MILLS, Farweil, Mich.

 

SENATOR DUNLAP STRAWBERRY PLANTS
$1 per hundred postpaid. . Orderearly. MAPLE
LAWN FARM, Sheridan, Mich. ,,

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SEED CORN—EARLY MATURING, SELECT-
ed Pickett’s yellow dent. $3.50 for 56 lbs.
shelled corn, bags extra at 50c, or send them by
parcel-post. E. N. BALL, Hamburg, Mich.

 

EXPERIENCED FARMER WANTED AT
the Elk Lake Inn Farm, Williamsburg, Mich.

 

MAPLE SYRUP WANTED
State how and in what quantity you can ship
it and the, price. Address, Box W, care Michigan
Business Farmer, Mt. Clemens, Mich.

 

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Mt. Clemens, Mich.

 

Here’s a Chance for Someone Who Wants
. a Good Farm
On account of my health, my 160 acrevfanm is for sale. Good for
dairying or general farming. One of the best farms in Emmet coun-

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few hours and
money sawing for others.

then you can make
Many users say they
make upwards of $11.00 a day cutting wood
neighbors. Expensive cumbersome rigs used in the
pasture made unnecessary by the Ottawa Saw Rig. Does
, all practical work any other saw rig can.

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‘ , Insist on getting .
DICK'NSQN.’S;SEEDS
FOR BETTER chops

' ‘ : *Thn'o‘tliyivblovon‘ Alfalfa, 7
* and other Field Seeds.
imm- am» cannot Supply them, write

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v; , . TENANT’S SHARE 7 .
What-share should a. tenant receive, it,
~when "planting. a crop, the landlord tur-
nl'shod the sold, team 1_ and paid thresh
bill ?——.-L.« N., Wayne County.

The amount of share that each
should receive iswholly a. matter of
contract. , If there.yis n04 contract
made then the custom of the commun-
Aity Will be the strongest evidence of
what-part each should receive—W14}.
Brown,:-Zega-l editor. '

COLLECTING - AN N UAL INTEREST

A owes Height notes, given for $100
each, payable one note each year, begin-
ning’ May;_1 after date, with 6 per cent
interests. The'se notes are secured by
m’ortage'on real estate: Has-B, 'the
payee, the right to collect. annual inter-,
est on these notes, .the whole arfiount run-
ning for six and one-half years with only
one payment of $40‘being paid. Neither
the mortgageor notes call for annual in—
terest, the only statement on the notes
beiglwalue received with 6 per cent'in-
terest. If B has no legal right to col-
'lect annual interest. and. has done so,
can A recoverexcess so collected?—A. .
Alcona County. .. . -

He can not’ enforce "annual inter-

est” unless so specified in the notes

However, if'he pays annual interest
he can not recover it back nor any
damage—W. E. Brown, legal editor.

\

THE NEW DOG LA“?

THE NEW DOG LAW ...... .. .. ..
.I caught a dog almost in the center of
my 80-acre farm. This dog is owned by
a man living 1 1-2 miles from here. The
dog had been on my place several’times
before and I had notified the owner. The
owner’s son tracked the dog in the snow
and found that I had him_ Then they
came over and demanded that I give him
up which I refused to do. The next morn-
ing the sheriff called me up and asked
me about the'dog and warned me not to
kill it. I wrote a letter to the prosecut—
ing attorney stating the matter. Today
the 'sheriff called at my house and told
me I had no more right to shut that dog

up or kill him than I would a neighbor’s,

sheep, and that if I killed him it would
be the sorriest job I ever got into.—L_ F.,
Gratiot County. ~

Act 339,

“The Legislature of 1919
passed a new “dog law.” It is quite
different from the old law and, as the
courts have not construed its terms, it
is difficult ‘to interpret. It provides
for licensing of dogs. It is made the
duty of the sheriff or any member of
the State Constabulary to locate and
kill or cause to be killed all such unli—
ceased dogs and failure on his part to
carry out the terms of the act shall be.

_ Nonfeasance in Office.

“Section 18 provides as follows: “It
shall be the duty of every police offic-
er, on complaint, to kill any dog or
dogs which are found outside of any
incorporated city, running at large
and unaccompanied by owner or keep-
er.” .
“Section 19 provides: ‘ "Any person

‘may kill any dog which he sees in the

act of pursuing, worrying or wounding
any live stock or attacking persons
and there shall be no liability on such
person in damages or otherwise, for
such killing. Any dog that enters any
field or enclosure outside an incorpor-
ated city unaccompanied by its owner
or his owner’s agent shall constitutes
private nuisance and the owner or ten-
ant Of such field or other enclosure, or
his agent or servant may kill such dog
while in the field or other enclosure
without liability for such killing. Ex-
cept as provided in this section it shall
be unlawful for any person other than
a police officer to kill, injure or at—‘
tempt to kill any dog which bears a ll-
cense tag for the‘current year.”
“There are Several other sections
concerning civil liability which do
not pertain to the statement of facts
except as to liability of an owner of
any dog for’damage done by it. How-
ever, Section 31 provides that‘if any
part of the law is held unconstitution-
al that section shall be considered out

of the law but the balance shall stand.‘

It indicates some doubt in the mind
of the person who drafted the law as
to the 'validity of the Whole. ‘7 It is
therefore possible that this section
giving the right toklll 'a. dog foumd
trespassing, without evidence that It
was chasing, worrying or killing some
animal (domestic) would be held un-
constitutional as being beyond the
‘power or the legislature to enact. The
caulifljhavg bold that-dogs are sub-
ject to special legislation. It is a very
,dliflicult, matter to determine how; far
such legislation may go. The Court
selddn ‘one oase:_-.‘In consequence of
the acknowledged excellence :of some

of their traits and- thelr“ , remarkable,

attachment to mimhfifd, “and on 60'
count. atrmthe mmmel.lo£‘,thoir 11.9.

v l

8' all,- 'l’tliisutnijna

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Q ‘o‘rlalssslt holiness

.lways to make. dogs, the
special-and peculiar regu-

lations.’ 5111 another’c’ase'th‘e Court
said : frhat r there-1 is . property I in dogs
for» whim! the- OWner mayijrecover in a
proper-case is conceded! “It said in
another case before“ the adoption of
the present. law as follows: ‘iThe-fact
that a dog is a trespasser ddeshbt In
itself justify one in killing him” and,
in another case ‘The fact that a» dog is
committing a trespass at the time it
iskil-le‘d and in the 'opinion of’ the
person who killed it, about to. destroy

“some‘bf his plants, will not justify
the killing because the law affords a.

remedy for the destruction of prop
erty by the beasts Of another. — And,
in another case, they held that one
was not justified in kdlling a neigh-
bor’s valuable dog because he left
tracks on 'a freshly painted porch
and was onevevening found in his hen
coop. Personally I think one would
not be justified in killing a dog mere-
ly because it was trespassing without
evidence that it was doing some 0f the
things specified in the first part of the
section “pursuing worrying or wound-
1ng.”———W. E. Brown, legal editor.

OLD SILAGE FOR FEED

‘1 Is silage good after it has been in the
$110 for two y'ears or more? I have sil—
age one year old and_haye not enough
stock to use it all this year and would
like to know if it "is safe to-‘keep it over
another year.——A. McH.. Alpena County.
. If the silage was well put up and-
in goodcondition at the end of the
first season, it ought to last with com- 4
paratively little deterioration for two
or three years, ‘possibly even longer. I
have had just as good results in feed-
ing silage two years old ‘as in feeding
silage that was fresh. ,

If the silage happened to be in a
wooden silo and if considerable
shrinkage took plaCe. around the out-
snlesit is probable that the material
has spoiled'somewhat on account of 4
the air.——A. 0. Anderson, Professor of
Dairy Husbandry, M. A. 0'. '

ALOES FOR MELON SEEDS

I note E. 0. P. of Tekonsha in-
qulres if the use of, tincture of aloe
would prevent-mice from eating mel-
on seed, after they were planted. He
could gain some light on the sub-
ject, if he saturated some grain with
the tincture of 3.109 and placed it in
some building that was infested
with mice or rats. If the house
mouse did not eat the prepared
gra1n,"‘it is reasonable to assume,
that other rodents would also avoid
it, and his melon seed would most
likely be protected. The remedy is
so cheap that hey-would certainly be
justified in trying it. I cannot see
how it could injure any seeds.- I
used the clear commercial tinctur‘
of aloe on seed, and it showed no
evil effects in germinating tests.~—- '
Carl E. Schmidt, [0800 County.

COMPARING nogrr‘s WITH GFAIN
of the foll'oWing sugar

How‘ do 'each
mangels, carrots, rutabagas and turnips

com are wi 4
mi fed thawEfglef’ifiyf‘scé’féryfofiefé‘f
$58511 grim“ a 'th 0 ' .
per cwt,?.—pH.eA. V‘Olsceoi‘ahegdurlityefl at ‘3
As a general proposition, one pound
of dry matter in roots is worth a
pound of dry matter in grain for feed-
ing purposes. One hundred pounds
Weight of bran contains ninety pounds
0f dry matter, which would make it
.cost three and one-half cents per
pound with bran at three dollars per
hundred weight. The sugar mange]
contains thirteen pounds of,dry mat-
ter in a hundred-weight, which makes
its value about forty-three cents per:
cwt. One hundred pounds of carrots
contain 11.7 pounds of dry matter;~100
pounds of rutabagas, 10.9 pounds of
dry matter; 100 .poundsof turnips, 9.5
pounds of-dry matter; ‘100 pounds of
mongol wurtzels, 9.4 pounds *of' dry
matter; and in sugar boots, from 16 no
20 pounds :ofdry- matter. .- - '
In addition to the abOVeivalues, the
root crop also has considerable-value
as a succulent feed: Consequently.
when fed with corn fodder, slayer hay.
et .cetera, there being no silage in the
ration, the v‘valu‘e of the irootkwo‘uld he
gamma third mgr “than; " a:
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eerily. 'l'h
very best seryic'e being given in
the most np-t'o-date manner. The
stores are designed to attract trans-
ient trade and are located in the bus-
iest sections of a town or city. Before
the executive committee selects
store build-lug, they carefully inspect
the prospective municipality and lo-
cat'e‘the most desirable business spot.
If the building they favor is occu-
pied, they oiler the occupant” so
tempting a figure that he usually
jumps at the opportunity of vacat-
ingr '
No Price Gleam ’—

Contrsry to general expectations,
prices are not being slaughtered in
the United Farmers' stores. The com-
pany has adopted a medium course of
business for three very sensible rea-
sons. First and foremost, they have
no desire to antagonise the other re-
tail merchants of the province and
cause a combine to be formed against
the U. E. 0. stores; secondly, if
prices were cut to the bone, the
wholesale houses would soon raise
indignant protests and shut down on
supplies on account of many of their
customers being forced out of bus-
iness; thirdly, the United Farmers
‘are strongly opposed to doing any-
thing that will make them appear as
extreme radicalists. The stores are
founded on common sense business
principles, the kind that stand for
stability and expansion.

Nevertheless, prices are usually a
shade lower in the U. F. 0. stores
than in other stores and, when the
business year is ended, ,the profits
are all pooled and returned to the
stockholders and owners of partici-
pation certificates in proportion to
the amount at purchases made dur-
ing the year. In 1919 the stores
were operated so economically that
a profit bonus of nearly ten per cent
was returned to the customers en-
titled to share in the melon This
system encourages customers to pur-
chase participation certificates.

The “cash and carry" plan is op-
erative in all the stores and in Pe-
terborough and Meaford, where the
largest stores are now located, the
groceteria or serve-self type has been
introduced and is very popular.

The United Farmers of Ontario
‘ are certainly proving themselves to
be very capable storekeepers. Also,
they are demonstrating their ability,
every day, to form a safe and sane
government and legislate equally for
all classes.

The great awakening that took
place two short years ago, and which
so many scoffers claimed would be
ephemeral and instructive, has be-
come an irrestible movement that
promises to work untold good for
Ontario as a whole. '

MILK PRODUCERS ENGAGED IN
HARD STRUGGLE
(Contnncd from page 4)
180,000 pounds daily. the average for
the past week has been 2,000 pounds
daily. Beginning Friday, shipments
were made from outside points to
Burlington. These amoun to

about 35,000 pounds.»

The 110,000-pound daily average at
Grayslake shrunk to less than 1,000.
Only one farmer delivered. and he was
a foreman Of a Chicago man's farm.
Four men continued to haul to Dela-
van, and the average receipts were
about 700 pounds. At Pecatonia the
130,000-pound receipts dropped to less
than 2,000.

“Stick? I should say so," said D. E.
La—Bar, president of milk producers'
local at Delavan. "We've been slap-
ped in the face, and we're here to see
the thing through. We are shipping
cream now and will. soon have our
own plant. The Deiavan farmersnre
standing by their contract with the
marketing company.’

by Wm. J. Badman. accident at Bar-
lington. “All of our . dais-1m will
stick. Iam sure." heeaidWheyknow
that it is a tight tor the ”student."

Theseus slogan appears to be
hoisted at Pecatonla. R. W. Essen.
secretary. (said, _“0ur use here will
stay with the. marketing company. I

new ethane who are even thinking.

' "w m the some. users

a .

sliced in drainage projects:

'10 D. Campbtll for

over the? ' “Never have I scan
a" finer spirit of compo-cues and loy—
alty among the dairynten of this dis-
trict." -—Praivic Fame".

INCREASING m .MATION‘S
Swamp lands of which there are
still millions of acres unreclaimed in
the U. 8. are generally rich in most
of the essential plant-food elements.
When drained they can usually be
depended upon to yield more‘bounte-
ous crops than are grown on .the arid
western lands after irrigation.

All speculators andjnvestors do
not operate in Wall St. All profits
from speculation do not come from
playing the margin game. Many
real estate promoters operating in
the lower Mississippi Valley have dis-
covered that there are quick, sure
and easy profits to be realized by
purchasing for the proverbial song
large swamp areas in that section,
draining them and then selling them
to settlers.

In southern Illinois profits of
350 per cent. have recently been re-
in Mis-
souri, gains of 1200 per cent. are re-
corded; in Arkansas, of 500 per cent.
The difference between this game
and stock speculation is that the pro-
fits are sure. In Wall St.,-—well
those who have bucked the tiger
know. Besides the land reclamation
game gives to the nation something
permanent; something valuable; a
source of future wealth; of future
foods; of future employment for
many men.

The labor shortage is being solved
by a new labor saving discovery. It
is that drainage canals and laterals
can be quickly and easily blasted out
with dynamite. A man with dyna-
mite as a helper can dig more ditches
in a day than ten men can dig in ten
days with shovels. Better still the
dynamite is obtainable at any time;
whereas, the large gangs of laborers
are not. Laborers can earn a good
living in easier and pleasanter ways
in these days of industrial prosper-
ity than by wading around in,
swamps breaking their backs lifting
out water soaked earth. Dyna—
mite is a willing worker and doesn’t
mind theburdens nor the mud.

Dynamite has made a good many
manufacturers wealthy. Now it is
conferring the favors on a great
many subscribers as possible—Mar-
And ultimately the nation as a whole
will be the chief gainer.

LABOR
Enclosed find coupon with my
choice for president in the M. B. F.
straw vote. I also will stand by His
governor. In
these days we read a great deal about
Labor and the working man. Enclos-
ed you will find a paper on "Labor”
which I would like to see in M. B.
F., if space will permit. I enjoy
reading your paper and will get as
many subscribers as possible.———Mar-
to A. Schade, Osceola County.
I‘ve builded your ships and your
railroads, ,
I've worked in your factories and
mines,
I‘ve bullded the roads you ride on.
I’ve crushed the ripe grape for
your wines.
I've worked late at night
garments,
I’ve gathered the grain for your
bread,
I’ve built the fine house that you live
in.
I've printed the books you have
read. ‘ >
I've linked two great oceans together i
-I've spanned your river with steel,
I've built your towering skyscrapers
And also your automobiles.
Wherever there' s progress you'll find _
‘ me.
fitment me the world could not
live,
And yet you would seek to destroy
me
With the meager

give
I am master of field and of factory.
I ammichtyamlyou are but few.
No longer l‘ll bow is calamities.

on your

pittance you

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Iservice guarantee. '4
it on your-neg! pains}.

In every city flame is a
Hirth-Kranec who has
been selling quality than” for "
years and therefore is an ex-
pert in the art of shoe fitting. »
Get acquainted with him "
hewiiisavc yournoncya-ll
comfort by fitting you wu'
shoes that will give youm
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A wonderful shoe with a great promise

This shoe is the result of many years of experience
in making the nation’s best service shoe. Only a "
plant operating as the Hirth-Krause, could give
this wonderful value.

The man who works will find that this shoe will
outwear any ordinary pair of shoes. Supremely
comfortable.

Ask your dealer to give you Hirth—Krause shoes
with the mileage guarantee.

Tanners and Shoe ~Manufacinnrs

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This School Outfit YOURS
for a LITTLE Extra Work

During the past
60 days more than
100 “LIVE WIRE"
boys and girls have
secured this dandy
outfit which con-
sists of 3 pencils,‘1
pen holder, 1.00m-
bination pen and
pencil, 12 pen
points and holder,
1 pencil cap, 1 ink
and pencil eraser
and 1 drinking cup,
all packed in a
beautiful box, with-
out it costing a
penny.

Boys! Girls!

HOW THEY DID IT

They simply called 011 two of their friends who were not taking
The Michigan Business Farmer had them look over one or two recent
copies and explained just what this weekly has done and is doing
for the farmers of Michigan and convinced them that they ought to
be taking M. B. F. if they expected to keep abreast of the times and
derive the same benefit over ? 0,000 farmers are now enjoying. Then
they explained that they were working for a school outflit. That
settled it, their friends subscribed and now the School Outfit is theirs.

HERE'S YOUR CHANCE

All you have to do to win this outfit is to call on two of your
friends who are not now taking M. B. F. and ask them to ’help you
win the outilt by giving you their subscription to M. B. F. for one
year at $1.00 each. Send us the $2.00 with their names and ad-
dress plainly written and the outfit will be yours.

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

Address TIE MICHIGAN .BUSINESS EARLIER .

Premium Manager Mt. Clemens, 'Mieh.

 

 

 

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If you want to dispose of seeds, machinery or implements—«or if ‘
you want to buy or sell a farm,

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Kteso' Dip No.1

. Parasiticide. Disinfectant.

USE IT ON ALL LIVESTOCK

To Kill Lice, Mites, Fleas,
and Sheep Ticks.
To Help Heal Cuts, Scratches and
Common Skin Troubles.

USE IT IN ALL BUILDINGS

To Kill Disease Germs and Thin

Prevent Contagious Animal Diseases. .
EASY TO USE. EFFICIENT. ECONOMICAL

FREE BOOKLETS.

We will send you a booklet on the
treatment of mange. eczema or pitch
1 mange, arthritis, sore mouth, etc.

We will send you a booklet on how
to build a hog wallow. which will keep
hogs clean and healthy.

We will send you a booklet on how
to keep your hogs free from insect para-
sites and 6

Write for them to
Animal Industry Department of

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.' creasing this egg pr
flocks will pay mark-e , attention», 6
the methods of feeding, housing, cull-
ing and breeding. Probably the least
progress on most far-ms has been
made in the art of breeding poultry,
says T. S. Tow'nsley, of the University-
of Missouri college of Agriculture, in
Extension Circular 72.

To produce high layers only the best
individual producers should be used

. as breeders. This suggests the neces-

sity for having a special breeding
flock. On farms where eggs for set-
ting are saved from the entire flock,
selection is usually based only on the
size and Shape of the eggs. With this
system the breeder stands a. good
chance of setting many eggs fromthe
very lowest p1 odu'cers Even the poor-
est hens lay fairly well during the
hatching season and their eggs a1e
usually la1 go and smooth. This meth-
0d of maSS selection 0f setting eggs is
in the same class as the crib selection
of seed corn and will bring justtas
poor results. The first step in im-
proving the egg production is the es-
tablishment of a special breeding
flock.

No special fencing is necessary to
handle the flock. Free range gives
ideal conditions for breeding fowls. A
pen is a great detriment to the effic-
incy Of the breeding flock and is not
at all needed on the farm. Closer con-
finement reduces the vitality of the‘
stock and results in poor hatches and
weak chicks. .

Where separate houses are availa-
ble for the breeding flock and com-
mercial flock, free range can be given
birds in each group. If feed is kept
constantly available in the mash hop—
pers in each house the birds will re-
turn to the proper house to layso that
the eggs can be kept separate without
any attention to yards. Of course,
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setting liens and over poulBts once weekly after hatch
ing and turkeys will be. free of lice. Black Flag kills
insectsbyinhalation. Bugulon’ teatit—ilie breathe
it, and die. Destroys flies, ants, fleas, 1011c. es,
bugs, some moths, and lice on animal’s, birds and
p.Iants Harmless to people and animals. Look for . _,
BLACK FLAG trademark and red -and :~.;:
‘ wrapper. At grocery, drug department ant-lylisrd- 5:;
ware stores, or direct by mail on receipt of price. 1-.
U. S. Gov’ 1 (Bulletin 771, Agrr'. Dept.) .
shows that glass conlainers keep insect :53;
powder freshest. Buy Black Flagr in ,1:
SEALED CLASS BOTTLES instead of

" insect powder" in paper bags or boxes. -.
Three sizes—15c, 40c, 75c. F
Except West of Rockies

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GLWER SEED

MEDIUM, MAMMOTH AND
ALSI KE
“'0 buy direct. from farmers.
(lot 0111- prices.
“"111. M. MONROE '& SON
- Bronson, Mich.

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On Trial. Easy running. easily
cleaned. Skims war-111 or cold
milk. Whether dairy' :- large or
small, get. handsome catalogue

and easy monthly payment offer. Address
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b1eed1ng stock, and by keeping these
birds in the house until 8 or 9 o’clock
in the morning, satisfactmy mating
will be insured. Some mating may
occur on the range between the hens
in the commercial flock and the males
from the breeding flock, but this does
no. Special harm. On farms where
there is only one poultry house, a par-
tition can be put in to keep the two

flocks separate. If it seems undesira-’

ble to allow both flocks to lange at
the same time, alte1nate the range by
letting the bieders run at large one
day and the commercial layers the
next. During the cool weather of the
b1 ceding season this system works sat-
is factorily.

The number of bi1ds to include in
the breeding flock should be determ-
ined by the number of high class in-
dividuals available and by, number
of eggs needed for hatching. If in-
cubators are used, enough breeders
should be kept to fill the' machines
without holding any eggs longe1 than
ten 01 twelve days Usually a p10~
duction of at least fifty per cent can
be expected duiing the hatching sea—
son. Forty breeders should furnish
enough eggs to fill a two-hundred egg
machine within ten days. However,
only hens 0f high producing ability
should be used as breeders even if it
is necessary to buy some eggs for
hatching.

BOLSHEVISM ON THE FARM

On a morning in early win-ter
when the sun rose bright and shiny,
and the day was full of promise,
without sign of wind or snow; with
the stock all grained and watered,
then-turned out and given fodder,
stables cleaned and deeply bedded;
said the Boss, “To town I’ll go.”

Ran he out the automobile, pack-
ed his family. within it, honked the
horn, and down the turnpike in, a
jiffy disappeared; while the stock
in sleek contentment munched away
upon the -Cornstalks till at length of
all but butt-ends they the fodder-lot
had cleared. , ,

Now, collected in the barn-yard
where the sun shown on them f'warm-
ly, one would think that they’d be
happy and offault would find no,
word} but 11 t so. I came upon'
them unexpec edly and listened to
their talk. I understood it and was
shocked at what I heard. .

Said one horse unto his team-
mate, “I am sick of serving Master, 9
for this working for anothers bane-1
fit is no square 111111;: here- we; cut ‘.

  

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with the proceeds from our milk;
we alone should share the income,
for are not we the producers; why

should we be forced to furnish him' '

or any of that ilk?” -

.“What of us?" a sheep said cross-
iy, “takes our wool and sells out ba-
bies; and he sets his dog upon us in
a way we do not like. Let’s assert
ourselves and, tell him that from now
on We are masters, and if he at-
tempts resistance why—we’ 11 go up-
on a strike. "

So they talked, and, being angry,
told what awful things would hap-
pen to the farmer if he offered to re-
sist their just demands; and their
arguments were equal, almost, to the
ones propounded by their genus ho—
mo brethren of the bolshevistic
bands. «

But abreeze that'came from no-
where sent a gentle shiver o’er them,
and the sky grew grey, and dimly
pale the'erstwhile shining sun; and
some snowflakes, drifting lightly
downward from the dark’ning heav-
ens, told that one of winter’s bliz-
zards had that moment just begun.

Very soon the wind was bowling
and the snow stung like a whip-lash,
while the stock, so independent, now
were very, very meek. Wishing,
longing for the farmer who would
open wide the barn doors and admit
them to the shelter they so eagerly
would seek. \

But the farmer, hurrying home-
ward when the storm came 011, had
driven faster than ’ti‘s well to motor,
without chains, on slippery road.
Skidded; broke some part esseneial;
had to phone back for assistance;
and, ere he could journey onward,
lights in every farmhouse showed.

With what joy and acclamation
did the stock receive his coming;
how they bawled and neighed and
bleated when they saw the head-
lights turned toward, the barn-yard;
and the farmer came upon the run to
grant them quick admittance to the
shelter and the food for which they
yearned.

Bolshevism may, in labor or in
governments, be lawful but 'with
this I would impress you: If you
wish to keep from harm, do not try
to tell that farmer’s stock their ser-
vitude is awful, or in anylmann‘er
mention Bolshevism on that farm.—
Ernest R. Martin.

THE MARION STOCK FARM

 

 

 

 

The above photograph is a view of
the barn on the “Marion~Stock Farm ”
This name may be new to breeders
but let.us mention the name of the
owner and there are few, especially
Hereford breeders, who will no‘t rec-
ognize this man. It is the new farm
of Tony B. Fox, former proprietor of.
“Stony Creek Stock Farm," and one
of Michigan’s foremost Hereford
breeders and first vice president of the
Michigan Hereford Breeders’ Associa-
tion.

This farm, Mr. Fox tells us, consists
of 40_0’acres; has a new house andtwo
tenant houses as well as this. barn
which will shelter 150 head of cattle
and is located three ’and one-half
miles from Marion, Mich. -

Mr. Fox also raises pure-bred Po-
land China. hogs,-Shropshlre sheep and
Rhode Island Chickens but his hobby
is his cattle and in order to retain the
high quality he has established inhis
herd he has kept his herd bull “Re-
peater” and now has him ready for
servicg at his new farm.

Mr. Fox says, “I wish to extend my
appreciation to such brother _,farmers
that have helped to’build up the Here—
ford cattle- breeding in Michigan and I

hope to meet them all at the leading
tarts or the state this coming felt.”

Does pure-bred stock pay? Ask Tony

i . ’ to not alone " 11' cowiysaid.
“in your holding of a. grievance.~
look at us who feed and clpthe hinr

  

been undo taken 11

of Justice to increase consumption of

fore-quarter beef cuts.
A news dispatch upon the subjeCt
says:

“The general campaign is already.

under way and intensive educational
efforts began March 22, which com-
mended ‘ "Save-Monéy-on-Meat-Week’
in,I-llinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan
Ohio,‘ Indiana, Pennsylvania, 4' New
York and New Jersey.

“Every farmer who raises beef ani-
mals has to produce fore- quarters as
well as hind-quarters, and he has to
put the same costly feed into both.

“Even city housewrves, more than
ever before, have been largely confin-
ing their purchases to porterhouse,
club and sirloin steaks. If they do
buy fore-quarter meat, it. is sure to

be prime ribs. The, uneven demand,

makes these cuts higher in price, but,
no matter how high they, may go,
there is no' corresponding benefit to
the producer, for he cannot confine
his production to porterhouse and sir-
loins. He must make chucks, plate
and clod, to which a majority of the
housewives are indifferent.

“The Department of Justice is try-
ing to interest consumers in these pal-
atable, 'wholesome outset the fore-
quarter, and thus bring about a more
even consumption demand. The re-
sult will be a more even scale of pric-
es, and better prices on the whole to
the consumer all along the lineywh'ile
live stock prices will not be affected.

If the department succeeds the.
producer will have a market among
housewives for all his beef. Of course
the department is not directly con-
cerned with any plan to increase beef
consumption, for it will have achieved
its aim if the distribution of meat is
made economical and if consumers are
made to see how they can help them-

selves by studying the different cuts‘

of a beef carcass.

“However, the fact that makes the
campaign possible is that beef should
actually be an inexpensive food; and
as an inexpensive food its use Would
be greatly increased if an economic
demand is developed. Consumers will
learn how to get more good beef for
less money than before, and the vol-
ume of beef consumption will be in-
creased as "a. direct result.

“This is an advantage to the con—
sumer, but hardly less ‘of'an advant-
age to the producer. For a great
many years there have been efforts to
increase economy of production but
economy of consumption has been ne-
glected. The quality of chucks, clods,
and other fore-quarter cuts is so high,
and their nutritive value so great, that
the economy preached by the Depa1t-
mnt of Justice is entirely sound and
bids fair to be a permanent and grow-
ing thing.

“Between foxe- -quarte1 and bind-
quarter cuts there has never, perhaps, .
been so large a spread as now. A do:
crease in this spread will be of bigg'
benefit to the whole meat indust1yfl

 

FRESH vs. ROTTED MANURE

Manure loses much of its plant.
food in the process of rotting. Its
mechanical condition, however, is
much improved, because there is a
great deal of the coarse Organic mat—
ter broken down. Much of this will
be lost through decay, and the per-
centage of mineral plant food re-
maining may be greater per ton of
manure in the rotted, than in the
fresh condition. These facts make
rotted manure preferable for truck
crops where quick results are desir—
ed and where a. large amount of
manure is used, says F. L. Duley of
the University of Missouri College of
Agriculture. Too heavy applica—
tions of fresh manure- may often
burn plants, especially during dry
seasons The coarse organic ma-
terlal keeps the soil open and re—

duces its capacity to retain moisture.

0n the general farm, however, there
is too much loss of plant food in the“
rotting process and it is always ad—
visable to apply the manure to the
land as soon as possible.‘ ~ ,
The proper methods of handling,
farm manure re d nosed .1 B '1

     
    
 

 

 

 

 

 
 
  

 

 
 
  

       
  
    
 
 
    


  

 

 

 

 

 

 

     
  
   
  
     

 

  
  

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.1 CLAIM YOUR}??? ;
SALE DATEC Mr

 

To avoid conflicting (is .03 we will without
cmost. list the date of any live stock sale in
Mlhc loan. If you are considering a sale ad-
vice us at once and we will claim the date
for you. Address. Live Stock Editor. M e.
F.. M... Clemens.

April 12 Holsteins.
Michigan.0

Ma llercfords.
(0an yreleglcrs' Ass'n. Kentland..1nd.

, l-lolsteins. West M1chigan Breed-

era, Grulnd Rapids, 111 ch. ,

J11nc;8. Hosteins. McPherson Forms 00.,
and Cheney Stock Farm, Howell, Mich. .

3:311" CATTLE

VHOLST'EIN-FRIESIAN .

J. P.. Olcctt, Perry.

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Long-lived Purebred
Holstein Cows

Leave out of consideration the
greater direct cash return and H01-
steins are still the best investment
you can make. Great strength and
constitutional vigor make the typi—
cal Holstein long-lived, free from di-
sease and sure to produce many
healthy 'calves.
Holstein owned by the Kansas Agri—
cultural College finished a year’s rec—
0rd of 15, 773 pounds of milk and 513
pounds of butterfat. This record in-
dicates the dollars and cents value
of Holstein vitality.

Send for free Illustrated Booklets.
They contain valuable information
for every Dairyman.

THE HOLSTZEIN- FRIESIAN ASSOCIATIQN

95 Hudson Street
BZrattieboro, Vermont

MR MllK PRODUOER

Your problem is more MILK. more BUTTER,
per cow.

A son of llnpiecrest Application Pontiac—
13211'3‘1. —~—frnm our heavy yeurly~milking-good-but—
ter—ru'cord dam will solve it

MAplef'rest Application Pontiac’s dam made
85.103 lbs. butter in 7 days; 1344. 3 lbs. butter'
end 23421. 2 lbs. milk in 365 days.

He is one of the greatest long distance sires.

llm daughters and sons will prove it.

\\' rite 11s for pedigree and prices on his sons

l'rices right and not to high for the average
dniry farmer.

Pedigrees and prices on application.

R. Bruce McPherson. Howell. Mich.

 

 

FOR SALE

THOROUGHBRED
HOLSTElR OOYIS

combining blood of Traverse City and
Maple Crest stock, granddaughters of
Friend llcngerveld De Kol Butter Boy.
Prices $300 and up
WILLIAMS 0. WHITACRE
R. F. D. No. 4 Allegan, Mich.

 

 

 

 

OLVERINE STOCK FARM REPORTS GOOD

sales from their herd. We are well pleased with

the calves from our Junior Herd 81m “KIng Pon-
tiac Lunde Kai-11d deh 8 who II a can

"K1116h of tthe Pen Incl' tom e

lothi dope Kol 2nd. A low

file. 'I‘. W. Spregue. R. . Be

 

or Sale: Registered Holltelm, 1 young cows, A.
R. O. bred to 81 lb. bull. Herd on State Fed-
eral accredited list Wm. Griffin, Howell, Mich.

REGISTERED HOLSTEINS FOR SALE. FOUR
bull calves sired by a son of King Segis Cham-
pion Mabel He is a double grandson of King
Segis lie-K01 Korndyke. Dams are heaVy producing
young cows Prices reasonable._ breeding consid-

cred.
C.- Q P. DeHOOP. Zeelend. Mlch.. R 4

"same" A 3111.1. coon enouen ‘ro HEAD
_ ("STE-RED HERD
A érandson of Ethe $50. 000 bull. His dam a,
20 lb. jr 4 year old. Next tdam s A. It. (1. cow.
come and. 59 e- his dam- and his eibtere and his fine
heifer calves. This bull caning. " yrs. old. 00
per cenr'white. You will not he disappoin‘ed’ ll"
shim. Pedigree on request. l'rice
936:0 Herd free fro abortion.

 

 

Breedullle. Mich.

 

 

MUSDLFI' BROS HOLSTEIN

A thirteen-year—old '

(SPECIAL. ADVERTISING RATES under this headln to honest breeders of II to it 11
you what it will can for “3,23 or 52 vs 3 c a d poultry will be sent on request.
Auction Sales advertised be e- at

times.

special low rates: ask for them.

You cen change size of ad. or copy as often as you wish.
Write today !)

_BREEDER8' DIRECTORY. THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER Mt. Clemens, Michigan.‘

I WILL HOLD A COMBINATION SALE
of registered and grade Holsteins, registered and
grade Angus, horses and Poland China Hoes. 01l
April 7th, at my farm 11 miles N. \I'. of Jack-
5011. on .lnckson- Springport state road.

ERNON CLOU U.GH R2. Parma. Mich.

TWO BULL OALVES

Registered llolstein-briesisu. sired by 39. 87 lb.
bull and from heavy producing young cows. These
calves are very nice and will be priced cheap it

sold soon.
TUBBs. Elwell. Mich.

HARRY T.

BULL ORLF LAST ADVERTISED SOLD,
but have one more for sale. Nice-

marked stnig. ht buck 111113.11 fine individual
l'irze STOV'thy ‘01 low with the making of a large
1111]" Would do someone a lot of good. Dam has
11 L1 lb record. a large cow an] a great nulk
producer Sire a son of Friend liengencld Dch'cl
Butter Boy, one of the great bulls
JAMES HOPSON. JR.
Owcsso . . 32 . .

Four Choice Bull Calves

Michigan

Dams have records from 20 lbs to 26 lbs
atria? by our 32 ll). sun of the $50. 000 bull.
r e

Mich.

 

LAKE SIDE DAIRY. Lake Odessa.
REGI S T E R E D

3110011311111 11111113

(‘alves for sale, sired b\' MARY LAND BELLE
CLOTHILDE V0.154358 born Dec. 14, 1914
A grandson of Colantha Johanna Lad, one of the
greatest _llv1ng sires and of a 31.44 lb. daughter
of Sir lxorndyke Manor De Kcl. His two near-
est dams average 25.89 lbs. butter in seven days-

BROOKSTON FARMS

H. WIDOICOMB, Prop. Big Rapids.

MY HERDSMAN SAYS

if

1You must get rid of these young bulls we have
0 more calves coming this month and no room
for them.

Mich.

 

SO HERE GOES
Nice straight bull ('nll‘ bmn .\i;~1r1l1 6tl1,1020
from 51111111,r lieilor sired b1. Str'onghmst King 01111.
I. paid $.51: for this service l'ce.l'1'i(c $7 1

Young rnlf 1111111 .1111. ‘Jllth mt 01 my sire
and a promising young lwit'm $71
1 (slf born Feb. 27 out of my she and 24 lb.
(1:21. $1 50 And so on 111) to bulls of serviceable

Remember this herd now has
cows and we '11'c testing rr'ons 11L:
giving our young stock a real chance

Herd 1111de1 lederal snper1ision.

HILLCREST FARMA Ortonvllle. Mich.

or write
JOHN P. HEHL. 181 Griswold St..

several 30 lb.
they freshen

Detroit

HATCH HERD

(State and Federal Tested)
YPSILANTI, MICIIIGA!

Ol'l’ers young sires out of chance 1. lvanc-
ed registry dams and King Korndyke Art-
is 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 "

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Production
That's our motto. We mak it
through our two herd bulls—onEa 38 83381311161

of the $30, 000 sire. King Kornd ke Ponti

Lass, the other 11 lb. son of 5Bins; Kore:
dyke Sadie Vale, ”the greatest sire of his gon-
eraticn.’ Our matrons are stong in King of
the Pontiacs, King Sea-ls, llengerveld DeKol
and Ormsby blood. We' ve been at it since
19.06 Usually something to sell. Write

BOARDMAN FARMS
' Jackson. 'Mlch.

 

 

 

 

HERD SIRE

11101151 °k11111 315...; {1.1311

His sire is 30 lb 5 1. "
Albnn De Kol. on of i..1.'.-.'.1'.1le lung Segis

Ilis (111111, (rhsta Fonella. 32. 37 lb Q

ller 1iam,(‘lista Ernestine, 35. 96 lb

His three nearest dams average over 33 lbs
and his forty slx nearest tested relatives average
over 30 lbs. butter in seven days. We offer one
of his sons ready for service.

AND RIVER STOCK FARMS

C. 0. Twin. Mgr. Eaton Rapids. Mich.

A NIOELY BRED DALF

The Dam of this Calf has inst made 1277
lbs. of butter from 304 6 lbs of milk as a. semi: r
yearling. She is from a 16.05 2 year old LIILL
freshens in April as a 6 year year old and wirl be
tested. 1 b

am a 0th a granddau liter of mg
Pontiucs and Woodcrest Delgol Lad 21B A. 01ft. 11(1)::
Daughters Sire of Calf is a 21 lb. grandson of
the 350, 000 dollar bull. Price only $100. 00
BAILEY STOCK FARM. YPSIL LANTI MICH.
Herd under state and federal inspection.
Address all correspondence to
H BAILEY.
S19 Atkinson Ave., Detroit, Mich.

A NICE STRAIGHT LIGHT COLORED RULL
calf born February let. Sired by Flint Hen-
gerveld Lad, 'whose two nearest dams average
32. 66 lbs. butter and 735. 45 lbs. milk in 7 days. '
Dam. s. 24 lb. daughter of a son of Pontiac De
¥ijlander 35. 43 lbs butter and 750 lbs. milk in

days. Write for prices and extended pedigree

 

- LAST ADVERTISED GOLD 1'0
Mr. F. W. Alexander, Vassar.

Mich. New oifer a bull two
years old about 1-2 white and stralcln M a
line (SEII‘CC bv MAPLE CREST K
HENG RVELD and from FLINT
NUDINEE .1 23. 22 pound daughter of FLINT
PRINCE. Bull carries 75 per cent same
.blood as KIND FLINT. I! you want e di-
rect descendant of BUTTER BOY ROSINA
now Is your chance.

Price $200.
ROY F. FICKIES. Cheeenlng. Mich.

 

 

Better still. write out what you have to 01711.. let (is pm. It in
Copy or changes must be received one week before date '

   
 
 

  
 

   

   

 

 

~77 OANGLS
I The Most Profitable Kind
of farming, a car of grade dairy heifers

from LllN1\\VI-‘.I‘ CIOUNTY’SE heaviest milk DP')‘
ducers to include a pure bred ANGUS hull of the
most extreme beef type for combination beef and
dairy fanning.

0111' lot shipments assembled at GLENVVOOD
FARM for prompt shipment

Thicthods cxpl1i11ed in SMITH'S PROF‘II‘ABLE
STOCK l'E'I') DING 400 pages illustrated.

G 0. B. SMITH. Addison. Mich.

 

 

SHORTHORN

— SHORTHORNS

 

5 bulls, 4 to 8 mos. old. all mans, pail fed.
Dams good milkers, the farmers’ kind, nt inrm~
crs' prices. .

F. M. PIGGOTT & SON Fowler, Mich.

 

HAT DO YOU WANT? I represent 41

SIIORTIIORN breeders. Can put you in
touch with best milk or beef strains. Bulls
all ages. S'ome females. C. W. Crum,
President Central Michigan Shorthorn
Association, McBrides, Michigan.

 

I offer bulls 4 me. to 16 mos.

 

SHOREHDHN cow, 1 heifer culf.
0. M. YORK. Millington. Mich.
RTHORN BULL
F0“ SAL figggcfieadgflgr service.
JOHN LESSITER’S SONS', Clarkston, Mich.

Phone. Pontiac 7115-F-3 or Orion Exchange

 

THE VA\ BUREN CO Shorthorn
Breeders’ Association have young stock
for sale, mostly Clay breeding Write
your warms to the secrétary. Frank Bai-

ley. Hartford Mich

FOR SALE

3 ung Registered Shorthorn Bulls
CLARENCOE WYANT Berrlen Center. Mich. ., R1

lTHE BARRY COUNTY SHORTHORN BREED-
ers Association announce their fall catalog ready
for distribution. Scotch. Scotch Pop and Milking
Shorthorns listed. Addres 55

W. L. Thorpe. 8110.. Mlle. Mich.

$.iORTHORRS

Wm. J. BELL. Rose City,

TWO SOOTOH TOPPED BULLS

ready for service sired by Si I 'l‘ \\ S DALE
339292 from heavy milking (1111115. Write
M. 8. HALLSTED. Orion, Mich.

ONLY A FEW LEFT
AT OLD PRICE.

Mich.

 

OR SALE—SHORTHORN BULL CALVES
ready for service. Also young Oxford Down

Ewes. Prices to sell.
JOE MURRAY 3. SON. R2, Brown City. Mich.

FOR SALE” AT REA-
SH 8 scnable prices. The
prize-winning Scotch
Pull. Moster Model 57614 47 in many stated :1

bend of herd of 60 good type Shorthorns.
E. M. PARKHURST, Reed City, Michigan.

h I) ll
FOR SALE 13:? aslfgvysgfgclugl‘d‘g dalh.
S. USER. Gladwln. Mich.

MILKIRG SHORTHORN BULL OALVES

l"11-" :1 pure hrml milking Slmrtllm'n bull in
- 1- lu-nl and improve their milking and flesh-
. qualities. lime disposed of all females that
11.1 for s.1l..ll'.1ve a fcw nice bull calves left at
l‘enhullnhln 111'11' es.

ROY

calf

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

S. FINCH. Fife Lake, Mich.
HEREFORDS
120 HEREFORD STEERS. ALSO
know of 10 or 15 leads fancy quality

Shorthom and Angus: steers 5 to 1000 [be
Owners anxious to sell. Will hel buy We
commission. C.F . Ball. Fairlie 1!, Iowa.

Hardy Northern Bred Hereford:
BERNARD FAIRFAX 626818 HEAD OF HERD
90 this year’s calves for sale. 10 bulls and 10

it re.
be 9 JOHN MacCREOOR. Herrlsvllle. Mich.

REGISTERED HEREFORD CATTLE

KING REPEATER HEADS OUR HERD.-
We still have eight good bulls and Some heif-
("omc and see them.
MARION STOCK FARM
Ton] B. Fox, Prop.
Marlon. Mich.

MEADOW BROOK HEREFOROS

.Bob Fairfax 495027 at head (if herd. Regis-
tered stock. either sex, polled or horned, mostly

 

 

era for sale.

 

 

 

' ‘ ‘- . °..t"il.:..‘“ "fun 3...." sis“ 1‘15. mm- -
LIVE STOCK FIELD MEN

E. N. BALL. ...... Cattle end Sheen

FELIX WITT ., ........ Horses and Swine

One
gonortanee ine Michiga

 

  
  

as F armor.

 

will represent any reeds
I » a, at this paper.
etc. l‘lrey work exeiusivelyin

01‘ the other of the above well known experts will visit all live-stock sale of
n. northern Ohio and Indiana. as the exclusive Field Men of The IMich can

They are (both honest and competent men of standing in} their lines in Michigan
r of this Weekly at any sale, 11)
Their' service is free to ybu. ‘l‘hey

ing bids and purchases.
will also help'y
the Interests of wcbkep’a OWN Jive-stock

 

 

Iboar out of 1.... 1111. 01 ANGE.
u'rs.

 

 

BARTLETT ’PURE eneo nuances-1T.

ANGUS CATTLE AND O.I.C.

Swine are right and are priced right. Corre-

Ilhondsnce solicited and inspection invited.
CARL BARTLI‘TT Lawton. Mich.

 

 

 

G UE B N SE YS
1-212" A a i; — 'o r 15: Eli 6""an

GUERNSEY
out of A. ll.
fut. 0111' hard sire.

solo some splendid bull calves
(11111114 with records up to 509 lbs
:1 grmxisln of Dolly Dunples

May King of Lanwuru 1, and whose dam has an
A. ll. 1‘1'1'111‘11 (1f .'1i‘\ li1s.i11tnt 2 1-2 )‘CI‘IB is
also lnr wit (1 c.\:'. 1;...;.1.-. W111». for particulars
ul‘U Illll‘.‘3

MORGAN BROS. R No 1. Alleqan. Mich.

 

REGISTERED GUERNSEYS
Away with the Scrub Bull.
Breeding better Gucrnscys.

 

Bull calves that 1.1.” improve your herd.
J. M. \NlLLIAMS
North Adams. Mich.
OR SALE: GUERNSEY BULL. GRANDSON
of (1111'. of ill" (‘hemx from A. R. 0. (lam, 10
mos. (1M. .'\l»’11 “tilt-2' [111115 from 2 to 7 11:05. Ulll.
Write for p..1'l'.1-11|;.1.«.
C. iiENllL‘SEY, Watervllet, Mich.

 

 

JERSEYS

 

Hie bland Farm-Jerseys,

 

 

()flugn': llnlls (1f sorvhenblc age, of l'. (I.
Site .1111! J1.1111;,\'.';th high production luv-1 I.
Also bull ('11lfs.\\1'1tc for minted list (1i 111..--.'
and description.

GHLAND FARM. Shelby. Mich.. R 2.
or Sale—Jux-cy bull calves. Oxford and Ma~

pl‘oulit'ol's.
Mich.

lil'l‘l"lill:. [11111-5 :m- heavy

jestr
J. L CARTER, R4. Lake Odessa.

A Few Registered Jersey

 

 

rows for solo. llvrd of twenty-three to ('lllmss
from. Also hulls l'i‘ilil)’ 1'111' survim'.
H . a. A. H. DONALDSON. Fcnton. Mich.
BRO“ \ S“ ISS

VAL VERDE FARM BROWN SWISS
Registered calves for sale—both sex.
EDWIN GRISWOLD, R1, Bellalre. Mich.

FOR SALE

HAVE ANOTHER PURE BRED

BROWN SWISS BULL OALF

that 1115 horn l"1l1.-'l,19'.30.\\11l give purchas-
c1 l(:"l>lll.lll11ll :11“! tumour.

FRANK POET. Clare. Mlch.. R 6

Breeder of Brown Swiss Cattle

 

 

{ED POLLED

OR SALEA—AREGISTERED RED POLLED
bulls'u'ezuly for service.
HERBISON BROS.. R 3. Birmingham,

AYSHIRES

Mich.

 

SALE—REGISTERED AYRSHIRE—

CAN" 1.

FOR
bulls and

Also some
5 FINDLAY BROS

SWINE

POLAND CHINA

BIG BOB MASTODON

Sire was clmn ,11111 of the world, his Dam'e
sire was gland champion at Iowa State I1

bull 1'111'u11.111111'11'.~1 111111 helm:
('l111l1'1- 1'..1'.’.‘..

.. R 5. Vassar. Mich.

 

   

 

 

 

‘air. (let
a grand champion while the getting is good. Book—
ing orders now. Bred gilts are all sold, but have
10 choice full pigs sired by a Grandson of Dish-
er’s Giant, 3 hours and fl sows. Will sell open
or bred for Sept. furrow, to BIG BOB.

c. E. G'ARNANT. Eaton Rapids, Mich.

Bra Type POLAND CHINA enzo oIL'rs ALL

 

sold out. A fmv fall pigs either sex at reason.;_
able price. Registered in buyer's name.‘ sired
by Big llone 4th 1111.1 Big Long Bob.
MOSE BROS., St. Charles, Mich. ~ ..

 

BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS. CLOSING OUT.
, our boars and bred gilte at “a bar-
gain. Gilts with Quality and size bred to large
growthy herd hour for March and April Yarrow.
.‘UA A-‘RNEtS a SON, Byron. Mich.

BIB TYPE POLAND callus

WITH QUALITY '- -
Have for sale M's ORANGE, a line yearling

St. Johns. "11111111. I :

 

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It Pays Big

to advertise livestock
orp‘oultryin‘ , ""
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6' Much 13 20-

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w. J. MOELSHA

W. Almost... Mich.

o "I: r. c. snso ‘oier sun nu.
‘yquiugs including prize winners. Out of
1 ‘ sire and mammoth sows ,irom lows's

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’ «toot herds. . - .
kw THMOI, Blon- Ooh. Mich.

      

‘- J. IA

     

 

LT P ‘c All! onnnoimf srmxo
boars. sum’r‘ner and,» tall pigs.
r. 'r. run-r. St. Louis, .mch.

 

I.Am Gaol-log Largo Typo Pplsnd Ohm Sows.
bred to F's Orange at reasonable pirccs. Also
foil pits. Write or call.

CLYDE FISHER, no. St. Louis, Rich.

~T. P. 0. ALL SOLD (L T. EXOEPT SOME
fall gilts. Thanking: ni,\""r:1',slmm‘rsl
JOHN D. WILEY. Schoolcroft. Mich.

 

BOAIQ’ALSO SOWS MD PIGS. ANYTHING
you wont. Poland Chin-s o! the t t .
We have bred them big fur mom than -a'i yours:
over 100 bend on hand. Also registered Porch-
orons. Holstein: sml ()xiorris. Everything sold or
a rsuonshle price. and A square out.
JOHN C. BUTLER. Portland. Mich.
”TAG MENTION Of MY MICHIGAN
Buster in Williams & Sons’ Giant
luster catalog Oi their Mar. 10th sale, page 9.
Four fall gilts by him priced right. 8; C.
Brown Leghorns and lint! Rock ens.
L. WRIGHT. Jomvllh. ”loll.
L. TJ’OLAND CHINAS. Orders Booked for
' - spring pics from Linn Luz-ans Strain.
ELDR‘ED A. CLARK. St. Louis. Mich-r R 3

HERE'S SGMETHINB GOOD

I“ LARGIST IIG TYPE P. C. [II MIOH.
Got a bigger and better bred boar pic from my
herd. at a reasonable price. (Tome snd see thorn.
Expenses paid if not as represented.
in» service: L's Big Orsnze, Lord Clo

Orange Price and Us Lung Prospect.
W. E. LIVINGSTON, Farms. Mich.

WONDERLAND HERD

' LARGE TYPE P. 0. _
A few choice bred stilts fur sale. Also {all gills
rs. some very good yxrospects of excellent
Gilts bred to ORPHAN'S SUPERIOR
h BIG ORPHAN'S EQUAL by BIG BONE
ORPHAN by' the BIG ORPIIAN. Dam,
BEAUTY‘S CHOICE by ORANGE Bill), by m0
ORAXGE A.
Fm livery to risitors.
Wm. J. OLAIK‘E.
Eoton Rapids. Mich.

 

 

 

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DUROC ‘BOARS

ready for service.
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Geo. B- 8mm. Addi-
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son. Ml h.
Esoowvraw FARM use. ou'noc «small
hugs. Spring pigs for sole. " *

.1. E. monms. Farmlngtqn, Mlch.‘ V
fMilli": BREE GILTS gl'fiii'ffim'figé
or April furrow. W0

uld like to bore you see them
CHERRY LAWN FARM. Shepherd. Mich.

Dunne JERSEY anso sows Alto mus

‘ Anvil nnd May (arrow.
Sired or bred to my 1,000 lb. herd boar.
Joe. ;$CHI!ELLEP. Woldmon. lion.

Willie JERSEY "LL. WARS
(’herry KinzThCol. 2nd.. first szedfllll-ggr :3 Dglrigiltl

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W'INMNG STOQK

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M lime wghslma: noted hm Gulf"? _ she not more than purchase

and

no stock st “live and let lire" prices.
A. J'. OQRDEN, Dorr. Mich.. R 8.

SHEEP

first: To BUY PURE BED SHEEP 0P

‘. ,m ‘bty niceiewe lambs for $350.
., 1 see om.
_K -K_0IA"FARH8. WM, Mich.

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WANT A SHEEP? Let American Hampshll‘o {pt-N?" _

Sheep Association send you a. dandy booklet "g HOBBS .
With U o breeders.~ Write COMFORT A. ”LE . n
TYLER, Soc”. 16 Woodland Ave" Detrolt. Mich. “ ‘ ’

 

OLD

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black
of

Fan SALE ONE IRON GRAY 5 YEAH

_ Percheron stallion, Prince
148423. Sired by Brilliant IV No. 47531, s
horse and sold once for $3,000. The dun

HAMPSHIRE SHEEP

 

‘ Prince a lame any more No. 148423. Price 8200.
Whirl: sold out. both ewes Ind nml. D. E. DEAN. Milford. Mich.
gurgling: b?“ 52$“s‘; “smnbfimm: —"' ‘
. . 9 M l HOIOE REGI‘TERED PERGHIHOIB For Solo
1"! lbs. October 1. Boom order! . ‘-
m‘} . 8 c 1 gray more 12 yrs.

1 black more 8 yrs.

1 sorrel more 3 yrs.

Spring Colt. ’
BARNEY GIESKEN. no. at.

CLARK ll. HAMIVWOR om. Ildl.

 

 

 

Louis, lion.

 

 

 

'in 1919.
priced to sell.
W.” 9. TAVLOI. ~Milan. lick.
MAPLE LAWN FARM REG. DUROO JERSEY
Swine. Order your spring pigs now. Pairs
and tries not akin.
VERI N. TOWNS. R6. Eaton Molds. Mich.
nuaoc‘ JERSEYS. ONE TRIED 80W SIRE!)
by Orion ("berry King (ltli. Bred for Mu {arrow
0. E. DAVIS A SON. Ashley, chh.
WE OFFER A rm WILL-BRIO 01L!"-
. 9" Sllrimt llnmc Boar's. slso rod so. old
Gills in ”norm. Coll or write
Monsuowrou a tortures. st. Look. Ila-
FMSALE nso. ounoc mus ENE!) 70
furrow March and April, mods
9"! type,_ weighing 250 lbs. Sired by Brooluvn-
ter taxpayer and Professor Top (‘01. llru-d to
Breakwater Panama Special. Price $65 to $100.
All fall pigs. both sex. »

F. name l 80”. Davlson. Mich.
BERKSHIRES
REGISTERED BERKSHIRES FOR SALE. AUG.
. it) plus for $40 a. More. while they last. Sat-
isfaction guarantee'l'.‘ Taking orders for spring pigs.
JOHN YOUIn. Breakout-Iago. Mich.

O . I
Registered Berkshn‘os
Place orders for bred zilts for June furrow. Also
hours and spring pigs. 1 2-year old sow due to
furrow Apr 26111. .
RUSSELL BRO... F 8. Mocl‘ill, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BELGIAN

m .
PERCHERON

DRAFT STALLIONS
was. Size and Quality

MR. PABMER: Now is the time to
also droi‘t horses. I put. out. stsllions
on a. breeding plan. If your locality
needs a good draft stallion. let me hear
from you. '

FRED G STEVENS

Breckenridge, lien.

 

 

 

 

 

“n BRINGS US THE £111) or BUSINESS WE WANT!”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Limos "on“ roumo out!“ “10:03.. or“: nggfflfgfitgzfilgfignif SEERHMRES- BOARDMAN FARMS .
pigs spring rm". Snge “om t s ' ’ ' . .‘ . _ .
Red. Cookers-lot ‘wnu for pedigrees ad co... PRIMEV-AL nan. emu. Mich. Registered Holstein Fries“!!! Cattle
Inspection nriu. _ .
snap c. voss. Aunt. stun. finmcggg rungs cInortrmrluulm no: Jackson, MlCh., Feb. 17. 1920.
. . pro it. e stoc or sale. Write. your Th i hi ' ~
I. s P c roan camel: 'IPIINO Alla I'll-L wants. W. 8. Como. White Hall, :12. e 113:0 Cglan Baring-ssh Farmer,
left b! d m be???) I?“ A few extra nice nlts G t] . emens- IC . a ‘59 /_r
9 F ' ”m“ .. Internal: annual“: or en omen: '2“ ,
. . MAR". “Moles-st lick- ' . . _
t' Egymsgplgs "‘aud‘fid. yfi'f‘mnngggi bfififg‘fi; We are much pleased With the results our little space gets for
7- '- 0- 9m .5“ 80L?- ORDI” {err mu tics. No aged stock. Prices. :59 m » us in your columns. It bri s us the kind of business we want.—
booked for boar at mum; time from ”no “If 12 mg ad t f th
such. champion herd. Visitors nuns welcome. mg m o v r ' ' .. w m our own state w ere every 3 e means more cos omers or e
E. a. woman. a a. St. Louis. lion. m o no E "w ”w" "M no future.
FOR SALE ___‘7.4_.__,C._l_n_i‘s?§g__n“£1.35_S Yours "1113’,
Lu. 0T e P C Ho 8 - HESTER WHITEH saw our souls. H. D. BOARDMAN.
K yp ' ’ 2 fall Dias {tn pain nan-13% trom firms: mm
Hus s fur spring boars and spring slits. also bloodlinu s moons. cos. c tend tun.
sows. Bred to such boars so Claimsn‘s F. U. Aluondor. Vince. MM.
{me 2nd. King's Giant, and Smooth Wonder.
They are three-r ro‘al boars. Flee livery to visitors. EGIBTERED CHESTER WNIIE nos FOR
W. I. RAMDELL. Honour. Mich. sale V“! prtiggs that will interest you. Either
_, sex. \' ti 9 fly.
W0 mum cosmos. Levul_ng.__m;._ BREEDERS AI IENTION!
. M “Ks I‘l‘
”anon JERSEY Y0 Bl ‘ If you are» planning on a sale this spring. write us now and _
F a alga: $0!!!)K8'lflnnzk Bili'gg. D?! APR. 1. CLAIM THE DATE i
- ‘rom . . . "I. m- . eoci. .
“in SOWS'SERVIGE BOABS n. R. BLACK A son. R1. Lansing. mob. This service is free to the live stock industry in Michigan
Booking orders (or weanling spring pins HAMMH'IRFS . to avoid conflicting sale dates
. L .1
$25 EITHER SEX v-~--~— - ~ ~ “W LE'r “BUSINESS FARMER" CLAIM yous DATE! .
\Ve deliver the hogs before you pay “A'BSHIBES . \
IPA BLANK Potter-vino. Mich. Am all sold out. on snws and grits bred for fl
spring inrrnwing. Have a. flow sows and [nits bred
PEACH HILL FARM Duroc sows and gills slred for Jung» and .luly iarmwmg that on; good and
' :w Igoud l’rinr‘iml. llomeo Cherry Kingfllrlrmk— prir‘fiul trim-q tiltgllainboalgiggegf a?) 9:; cvtritg
“7”" I0” Shh? "ti . l l' ‘l t (1 :nns wee s nn. .1' .. ' . . .
by Limited Iinfi‘nliparidltl’i‘rhl‘ri‘xallfl‘lzlil “l". llro‘d to GUS THOMAS. New Lothl‘op, Mich. I" ‘ /”
Pooch Hill Orion Kim; and Rajah (‘ilerry Col.
INWOOD BROS” Romeo. Mich. HAMPSHIRE A FEW BRED GiLTS LEFT ' I ’ '
and {all boar pigs from new ‘
EIERSOLE'S BIG TYPE DUROCS. BOARS him-(l lines. . * “ w u m
It" SOB]. A few bred gilt. for April and May JOHN W. SNYDER. St. Johns. Mlehu R 4
furrow. Also upon cilts. Booking orders for

spring pigs. “'r . .
ALBERT EBEROOLE
Plymouth. Mich. R. F D. 8

‘ m IRED‘ DUROG GILTU. IRED To A
‘son of I‘rlnciml 6th. These slits or: lou-

bodied with good hams and shoulders zrml will

wolzh 250 lbs. Bred to farms: in April. Pedi-

zmmn rrmlest. Price outed. $100 each.

~ H. RM Bmdsrlllc. Mich.

ms'OF BREEBJIO SIZE All!
QUALITY.
c. L. POWER. Jonmo. Iloh.
”It!” not: and 0m: bud to Wall's King .2949
who has sired more prise winninr pigs at. the
state hir- in the last 2 yarn than any other Dn-
roe rd. Newton Burnhart. 81. Johns. “ll‘h.

- r

on our, Honour-sis um.

75““. One gilt. 310 lira. $100:
Moll to Orion hear tar first .4 -.\l-.y turret.
are extra and nilts, also Sept. Pigs. 44

pin “from from {our sows.

N. G. IEISLEI. Omani“. Won.

“ANDSOMS 0F IRWI-

”Emmy valor Cherry King or

Rooms Special. 820 at morning.
E; E. GRLKENS. Ann Arbor

“ABS. BILTS AND BHOOD 8W8

 

BRIO BILTB ALL BOLD
.IINO BOAR LEFT
ONE 8? ll ”‘5

FALL PIGS FD
W. A. ammo oloo. Iloll.

 

 

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“"“i.’é’.‘s""¢lnloo om mm. a} no»: on. sol-vies
‘ In .. Choice Sept pin. eitrer on or pom.
organist runs R1. Monroe. such.

AGINAW VALLEY HERD 0F 0. I. c3: con-
stains the blood of the noted champions, School-
msstrr owl Perfection 5th. ‘
F~b. and Mar. pigs, either sex. no skin.
«1.1m. John Gihson. Fosters, Hick. ll.

'8 choice broil slits for spring larrow. good
a A c [all hours. Am hgolrng onltersul‘or spring

ins. Can furnish pain on nos no a VI.

VA; J. BARKER 5 80M. lament. Mich, R l

 

Booking orders for
Register-
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l. 0.1;an WWO 200 to 275 LIS.
in brooding flesh bred for lilsrrh. Anrilmand
May furrow. Gmntoed safe in slam. l “I”! _re~
piste any moving otherwise to your satisfaction
or refund Database price in full. Have a few
trber boar m ready for spring servu-e that are
right priwd' to soil. Herd cholera announced .by
douhlu tmment. F. 0. Bureau R3. Marvin. Mich.

. .. . OI! EXTRA SHORE BOAR I M08.
8 l a old. right every vuy. 850 buys him if

 

 

. of all ages. Sam: .brmt or- open. Now-
B‘lool. Hill Crest Bums. Perrlngton. Allen. 1
4 Miles straight south of \lisldleton.

taken st once. ll ship C. '0. D. for your ap—
pronl _ . , .
CLARE V. DOHMAN..8novor. Mich.

 

 

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"AN' ABUNDANLE

”'OSH! Guess th’ ain’t 80m to

be no shortage. of cand’dates‘

for president this year—not on
the Repubican side anywaY. 911’ now
its Herbie Hoover. Herb. he’s been
kindo fishin’ ’round, c’astin his eyes
first one way then ’tother—kinda
'traid to bust right out an’ say which
he wuz. or what he was, don'no's he
ever came right out an' sod that he
was even an’ American, can 't remem-
ber as he ever did, but at any rate,
he seems to’ ve got a hunch at last
an’ new sex he'll tie up to the Re-
publican party an' it necessary he'll
accept the nomination tor president,
although he absolutely, almost, re~
fuses to nominate himself, sort 11
seems a little mite timid an‘.’ back-
ward like when it comes right down
to real genuine business. Herbie
would a little rather semebody else
did the nominatin’. wen it's real
nice an’ kind of him to offer himself.
Gosh ! It takes quite a lot of nerve
to ofier to be a willing sacrifice like
that but Herbie ain't the only one
that's willin’ to be sacrificed, oh, bless
you, no! 'l‘here's acres of 'em, all
endowed or overwhelmed with such
a spirit of patriotism that they jest
can’t contain themselves, they must
sacrifice themselves an' they're will-
in’ ,darn willin’ to spend money an’
time an‘ everything jest to let the
people know they want to be ofiered
for the slaughter or barbecue, or
whatever it is they are offered for,
each an’ every one of' em ’11 tell you,
if you ask ’em that the salvation of
the country rests on their respective
shoulders unless elected, good- bye
Democracy’ our fightln' wuz all in
vain.

An’ on the other hand you will
find plenty of Democrats who are
breathin’ like a furnace with the
awful load of patriotism they’re a—
carryin’ an' they’re a yelpin’ to be
taken, any number of ’em, you can
put down your nickle an’ take your
choice but we must have a Democrat
president to carry 'us through the
awful crisis, this rebuildin, remak—
ing of a world, a Democrat you un—
derstand is the only known anamile
that can be depended on to furnish
the brain powerto leadfus out of
darkness, the mud an’ the mire in
which we find oursedves wanderin’
today, 011, yes, it’s got to be a real,
genuine, dyed-in-theFWOOI -"name-
bl'ow'n-on-the-‘bottle administration
Democrat or sim’lar as we’re gone to
' the dogs an’ everlastin-gly darn’d an’
everything, an’ we know its true
’cause we’re told so by men who've
been Democrats all their natural

Sense and

 

UNSOCIABLE

Bird —— That
snow man Is the
most unsoclable
chap I ever met.
I’vq‘ been talk-
Ing to hlm an

hour and he
hasn’t spoken
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But Be 001: Elm

An old saliior approached a farmer
to re. meal one day, saying he was
willing to work.

, “I will giveyou a meal,” said the
farmer, “it you will round up those
sheep on the common there and drive
them into this fold. ”

In three hours time the sailor
came back looking hot, but happy.

‘ Glancing over the gate in the field
the farmer saw the sheep safely in
the fold
“There’ s a rabbit sitting up among

cold 1.. was... here of m momm‘ oneness Pal-men).

born lives an’ could’ nt lie, hardly, if
they wanted to An’ so you see how
it is good folks, somebody has got, to
,be nominated an' likewise somebody
has got to be elected, ’couse, thinkin'
of the past history of some ohthese
tellers. that arevsorwiilin’ to be sac-
rificed, makes me feel like thankin’
an all wise Providence that there
can't be but one of ’em elected—the
law pertects us in that respect which
makes me in favor or the law, that
far at least, but to come down to
hard facts, it, don’t make .a darn bit
of diflerence whether we elect a Re-
publican or a Democrat,.._the main
thing is to get one as honest as pos—
sible an' as tree from the political
taint as may be, they’ll get it quick
enough afterward, but so far as sav-
in’ the world is concerned, one party
is jest as bit as good as ’tother, an'
mebbe a little mite better if the
truth was known.

Time wuz, ya remember, when the
thrill? was the issue ,one side for it,
’tother side again' an' for years an’
years ’the' great spell binders would
yell tariff 'tlii, by gosh, we could al-
most taste the duin thing an' the
thoughts or it haunted as day an
night.

Well, that finally died a nat'ral
death an' then you know we wuz kept
out of the war durin' a recent cam-
paign you remember the slogan: “He
kept us out of web. "’ an’ then after
election he- went in to war an' we
went through With it, but now he’s
keepin' us from peace, lestways, be-
tween the president and the senate,
we are kept from peace an’ technical-
ly speakin’ we’re stil in war with
Germany. An’. for why?‘ ' ’cause
there must be an issue in the next
campaign an' both parties wuz hard
put for the all important issue an’ so
it’s left for the poor old league of
nations with article 10 an’ every-

.thing to furnishthe blood an’ thund—

er, and’ so I, say.it don’t make any
difference whether Herbie, Hoover 0r
VVilie Bryan gets into the game nor
how many more gets into it nor on
what party ticket the next president
is elected, this old country will -j0g
along jest the same an’ we’ll con-
tinue to grow an’ thrive an’ prosper
in spite of the politicians an’ all
their political pow—wows an' wire-
pullin’, mud slingin’ or any other cor-
rupt acts. And when the election is
over we’ll settle down to about three
years of blissful peace, the .world sav-
ers will crawl into their holes until
another campaign calls them forth
an’ all will be well with the country
’cause politicians don’t make it an’
by gosh, they don’t have to save it.
Cordially y0urs, UNCLE RUBE.

Nonsense '

Always One Janp Ahead
. A negro was tryng to saddle a mule
when a bystander asked, “Does that
mule ever kick you?"
“No, suh, but he kicks sometimes
Wham I'se jes’ been."

 

 

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"What have you got in the shape
of cucumbers?”
“Er—r—er—bananas, madam," ot-
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Out Again, In Again _
Fiiver—“What’s the most you ever
got out of your car?”
Second Ditto—“I think seven times
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in Pure Breed Practical
Poultry Chic ml! one
delivered at your door prepaid

sum Heavy and Laying
Breeds

and certified

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STATE IANIO .AOIOOIATION
Desk 2. Kalamazoo. Ilehlenn

ORPIIIG'I'ONS AND LEGHORNS

M greet breeds for miit. Write Iodsy (01
free mix- of hatching eta-1, baby chicks and

OVOLI HATOHER ODIPANY. 14D PhIIo Dido.
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BABY 0|.ch Whelsn Bones 8. 0. W. Le!-
horns—NO‘I.‘ show stack BUD
laying stock. Their records in the world‘s kilns
contest show they are the 180 to 300 sure-gear:
layers. You can call them the 200‘6384‘! -year
birds. Baby Chicks only $16 per 100 from this
great laying strain Enclose 15 per cent of
amount and state' the date shipment is desired.
LEGLAIR WHELAN, Tlpton. Mlch.

CHICKS—CHICKS

SHIPPED SAFELY EVERYWHERE

C. White Leghorns and S. An-
eons; the great egg machines. Strong. sturdy
chicks. guaranteed setisf Order now for
May snd June delivery. E venth season.

ROI-LAID HATONERV. R7. Nomad. .IOII.

IIIIIIIKS AID EGGS... '°" ‘“‘ "mm °'""'

P oath Roch. Superior color. Prolific layeui
1,. b to“post. and: rests delivery guar-
snteed. llus tedcstslogf

IN'I’EIII.AK10t “IA“. Des r4. Lawrence. Mich.

ertln's Strain White Wyendeues. Heavy laying

exhibition and utility stock. Baby chicks. S25

and 820 per hundred. Hatch!!! I can 88nd - 111»

per hundred. Booking orders fut. Order only.
0. W. HEIMDAOH. Big Rapids.” lick.

BABY GHIGK 50.000 for 1920, mm,

Rocks. Exhibition quality.
Booking orders now at 20c each.
Beechmont Poultry Farm. Grands", Ind. . Dex 18

 

egolrldllésl. bDnRAKsTlI. ANOONAS. DUFF
sr e own 11. ver Penciied and White
Plymouth Roe rakes. price. 88 each.

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SHERIDAN PDIILTRY YD8.. R5. Willi“. Mich

 

F0" SALE MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS.
ducks, either sex.T08Ehl°m each at cheaWhOfi 3:713

weigh 10 you find
“ABE 8700K FARM. Mariette. .bh.
PLYMOUTH ROCKS
.
GHOIOE BARRED ROCK COOKERELS AND
Puliets bred from Detroit and Boston winners.

Good laying strain. Prices reasonable, satisfsc
tion mun
Johns, Mich.

TOLLES BROS" R 10. 8t.
ROCK OOOKEREL8

PURE IRED BARRED
from fine layers. Satisfaction guaranteed.

ROBERT BOWMAN. JR., Pigeon, Mlch., R1
. EGGS
BABBED nocx from strEIIZRhusI-ii::ll;g:l(::§

W. e. OOFFMAN. Benton Harbo R , c

 

 

Barred Rocks‘ are Hen
grow quick. 30 saga.
corkercls, $4 to $6. Cir—
Jolm N111tl1011, Clare, Mich.

JOHN’ 8 Big Beautiful
hatched, good 1.11913.
$3. 50; 50, $5 postpnid;
cular,s photos.

 

PURE BRED BARRED ROCKS. GOOD LAY-
erS.Tl1at narrow straight snappy barring.
Score cards on 1111115 and pulllis In 114
A111 .111 old tuner in the l111si11<ss 14‘. ms for hatch-
ing $2 . 50 1101- l:1.Satisf.1<liu11 unamlitred.
A. D. STECKLE. Frcenort. Mlch.. Box 110

LEGHOR N "

S C. White Leghorn Hatching Eggs, $2 for- set-
ting, $5 for .10; $0 for lilO. Day old rllirks
$10 per -,50 $18 per 100 I4..Altcul1orn, Allegau.

111 lIIIIS.

 

 

 

S c. BUEF LEGHORNS, BABY CHICKS, EGGS

for hatching liens (‘ockculs Farm raised.
Good laying strain.
J. W. WEBSTER. Bath, Mlch.

RABOWSKE’S S. 0. WHITE LEGHORNS
Stock and eggs for ssle.(‘irc11lar free.
LEO GRABOWSKE. Merrill. Mlch., R 4

WYANDO'I‘TE

3 Years 11 Breeder of Silver Laced and White
Wyandcttes.1‘ine lot of young stock at $3 $4
and $5 ea. Clarence Browning R2, Portland Mich

BABY CHICKS

0. K. CHICKEN HATCHERYM

THOROUGHBRED DAV OLD CHICKS
Single comb White Bull? and Brown Leghorn;
White End and Barred Rocks.

S. C. R. 1. Beds. Anconas, White Wyandottes
25 chicks. $0. 25; 60 chicks, $11; 100 chicks,

$20.00.
. c. MflRNINGSTAR, Prop.
Box 263. Phone 1.5 Fenian.’ Mlch.

 

 

 

 

 

 

LANGSHAN

BLACK LANGSHANS OF QUALITY

Bred [or type and color since 1912. Started
from pen headed by Black Bob. First prim cock
at International show at Buflaio.1sn. 1912. Eggs
$3. 50 per setting of 15 Winter laying strain. .
cm W. SIMPSON, Wehbervllle. lien.

HATCHIN G EGGS

FOR SAI- HATCHINI E008 FROM A

heavy laying strain of S. O. R. I.
Reds. Pen No.1 headed by 5. Owen Farms yearl-
ing cock and mated to a superb bunch of puiiets.
Pens Nos. 2 and 3 headed by two wonderful cook-
erels and mated to equally good pullets, also a
utility flock that is high class. Get our prices
on your wanted for the coming season. Satisfac-
tion guano

F. HEIMS 0: SON. Devlson, Mich.

 

 

 

s. 0. Ancona Eggs tor Hatching from heavy lay-

mg strain at $1.71 per 15. Fertility guaran-

teed. (‘ockercls $2 50 eath
EMIL JOHNSON, Reed City,

Mlch., R 1

 

. Wyandotte Eggs. Flshel Straln,
l1; c$7. 00 per 100 postpaid.

A. BE A'I’TY. Milford, Mich.

BARHED HOOKS State contest winning strain
direct. Special pens only

llemlml by pedigiuul males. Purebred partridge
rui‘ks. Eggs $2.50 111T l5, postpnid, $6 per 45.
N. AYERS & SON, Silverwood, Mlch. '

$1 .50 . per

 

 

WHITE WYANDOTTES; EGGS FOR HATCH-7,
111;.r 110111 5111;111:111 layers 52 per 15 prepaid.’
l’CIis‘ $16 to \2

FRANK DeLONG, R3, Three Rivers, Mich.

 

0. BR. Leghorn eggs. $1.50 per setting. Pekln
Brim-k, $1 50 for 8. Chinese goose 400 each.
MRS. CLAUDIA BETTS. Hlllsdale, Mlch.

ABBED HocKs Eggs from vigor-011s early
B 111_.1t111i_ug stock from heavy
[Ming sl1uin.$2 1101 1.1. .1 Del 45 by prepaid

East Lansing, Mic.l1

$.-
parcel post. It. (i. Kirby, It],
6 FROM BIG BARRED ROCKS, BRED
EG s to lay $1. 50 settln
MRS. THOS. FOSTER. Oassooolls, Mlch., R1

 

 

 

Barred Rock Eggs for Early Hatching. My Breed-
ers are $1 Il“(t(’lI for 300111 markings, vigor and
\efy heavy laying $2 per 5 $10 per 100

CHAS. H. WRIGHT, Ypsillsntl, Mlch. Box 103

 

on SALE. ROSE 00MB RHODE ISLAND
Red eggs for l1.1tching.Stock guaranteed. $2

 

tor. 15. W.111 .I. Rusche, R 1, Alpine, Mlch.
HA'TCHING EGGS FROM 8. c. R. I. REDS.
I'lilsllss 1.1, Si. 50; 50, $4; 100, S7.
J A. KELLIE, Maybee, Mlch.

 

 

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hicks, Leghorns, Mlnorcas, Spanish, Houdans,
Campinas, Reds, Rocks, Orpiugtons, Brahmas,
Wynudottes. Tyrone Poultry Farm, F,enton Mlch.

 

 

FOII SALE WHITE HoLLANiS TOM. $11.

 

B. EVENS. Chief. Mlch.

 

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Startvyour advertising NOW, whether
you have anything to sell right now

or not, get your advertising in these

pages
WHERE YOU KNOW IT WILL PAY

Write THIS MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER, Breeders’ Directory,

Mt. Clemens,

for special rates 701' better still send

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ERY motorist remem.
bers h0w it was with his
first car. If he heard
the slightest unfamiliar noise-—
apiston slap or a buzzing gear
7 or a creak in the bodyi-it was
'a serious matter. His: friends
were always ready With some

helpful advice.

But the only time his tires
ever made a noise was when
he had a blowout.

Then everybody laughed.

The owner generally put on
a new tire, paid his losses
cheerfully and tried again.

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For years the irresponsible _
tire dealer. traded on the good
nature of American motorists.

His idea of business was to
sell a man two tires to replace

 

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Every time a tire is left standing 1'11 a
puddle of water; the tiniest hole is
likely to let enough water through to
loosen the fabric, separating it from
the tread and_ allowing sand and
gravel to work 1'11.

, Go over your tires carefully every
not: and then and seal every cut or
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an old one and to console him
with the thought that after all
motoring is a “great game.”
Even today'not one motorist
in five is getting what he is
entitled to in tires. '

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More and mOre the motor—
ists of this country are learning
that the remedy for high tire
costs lies in better tires—not
more tires.

And that getting better tires

means first of all going to [the
legitimate dealer —- the man

’who sells the known article

ited States Tires

Rubber Company

  

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p and who does not attempt to
substitute the unnamed or the

V unknown for the sake of more

profits.

Since the begmnmg the
United Scam Rubber Com—
pany has been looking forward
to the time when motorists
everyWhere would come to
quality 1n tires.

Building more tires every L
year, but never more than it
could build in conformity with
the highest standard of quality.

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The responsible tire dealer
never refers to his business as a
game. It 1s a businessproposition
With him—and he knows the
only way to make good 1n bus.
i’ness is to make sure of the con».
fidence of the motoring public.

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thirty-five Branches ~