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Lam.
HELL.

.1]? your home
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1 burned to-ni
AVE you

What would
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It “St consider What It

YOU

to replace

them?
paint at unheard of prices?

Even country carpenters are now asking a dollar
an hour and are hard to find at that figure.

’ YOu Are Under-lusured i

if you are not carrying twice as much insurance on your farm buildings
today as you did last year I .

 

  

 

   
 
 

logs on your farm to
day? With lumber, hard—

 

  

Fire comes without warning and without pity to all. It is the com-
mon enemy of all and this big safe company, with a Million Dollar
capital, hacked and officered by men known to every business farmer
in Michigan, standsready to carry your fire, hail or Windstorm risk,
at the lowest possible rates. ‘

It does make a difference in the insurance company you pick!

But if you are to-day insured in a good company or mutual, don’t
give up that insurance, simply take out a like amount in the Peninsular

prices demand.

- ' Remember we do not insure all farm property at the same rate.
for his protective improvements.
sent free.

COLON C. LILLIE
President

J. FLOYD IRISH,
. Sec’y and Managing Underwritu

PENINSUL R
FIRE INSURANCE Co. ,
‘ OF AMERICA ,. ‘

Capital, $1,000,000.00
GRAND names, ‘MICHIGAN

 

  
 

 

would cost to
duplicate the build-'

ware, nails, roofing and.

and then you will not be carrying any more insurance than present high .

The best risks have the lowest rates. We give the business farmer credit ‘

. railroads could accept the extension
‘ of. government guarantee for six

Drop us a postal card today for rates and other information, ‘
. , government operation has

' Southern Railway,
f 1919 it showed a deficit of nearly
' $9,000,000.
» promo Court has recently given a

 

after day from railroad omcials
and financial writers as to what
the return of the roads really means
to the American people. The Farm-
ers’ National Council was regarded
as radical in opposing the return of
the roads and urging the two year ex-
tension of ' government operation.
Events to date thoroughly justify the
fight they made.
Mr. F. J. Lisman, financial writer
in Commerce and Finance, discussing
the railroad situation comments that

. if the Interstate Commerce Commis-

sion should say hereafter that .it
would allow the railroads, say 6 1-2
per cent on the capitalization, ‘ln or-
der to restore their credits, “then it
would be necessary to permit
companies to earn $190,000,000 ad-
ditional annually which is only an
increase of about 3 per cent on the
gross earnings which now are well
toward $6,000,000,000 a year.”

MustAllow Companies Seven to Eight
Per Cent ’

Mr. Lisman also says “In order to
really give /a broad basis of credit
to the railroad companies it would
be necessary to grant a rate level of

earn from 7 per cent to 8 per cent.
Every 1 per cent extra on fair valu-
ation would amount to about $200,-
000.000. While it would be in the
interest of the shippers to have the
railroad companies get this money,
it is hardly to be expected that the
Interstate Commerce Commission
will take such a broad view as to
permit this—there would be too
many objectors.” ‘

No New Companies to be Organized

Mr. Lisman says, “it is absolutely
certain that under the new law no
independent railroad companies will
be organized, either for the purpose
of building branch lines or main lines
because capital need not take any
risk for the purpose of betting a re-
turn of 6 1-2 per cent at best, if
successful, and less than that if not
successful. Any new branch lines
will have to be built by the muni-
cipalities or shippers themselves, or
the cdmmunities will have to build
good motor.roads in order to get an
outlet for their products.”

The Market Letter 01' Goodbody &
Co. for March 5th, last, says, “when
the railroads have been valued as of
the present, which none have as yet
been—we would not be surprised to
see roads like the New Haven, Rock
Island, Southern Railway and Ches-
apeake & Ohio, earning from 5 to 20
per cent on their common stocks. We
agree with Mr._John Moody’s con—
clusion that, under the new law, ‘the
best railroad stocks should be worth
as much in the future as they were
before the war."

,Guaranteed Compensation Close to
Highest Earnings

Mr. Moody says: “It now looks as

though this 5 .1—2 per cent on the

railroad stocks an average earning
power of about 6.32 per cent. as com-
pared with 6.36 in 1910, 6.39 in
1907, and 6.72 in 1906, when the
highest previous record of surplus

3 earnings was made.”

Underthe terms of the bill, March
15th, was the last day on which the

months.“ The Prize Marquette which
earned the largest surplus under
decided
not to accept a guarantee, as did the
though during

"'I'he United, States Su-
declsion on the valuation of the

‘ Kansas City southern Railway that

when valuing the railroad the actual
coats; of acquiring condemned lands
an of July, 1314, will have to be tak-
en into consideration.

- 111'. Human comments on this do-

rallroads of the United \States as a
whole, the increase in valuation will
amount to abput 10 per cent." .
Mr. Sherley, director 01 Finance
filmed

   
 

 

‘the .

which would permit the companies to ..

property investment would give the.

claim, “it probably would be a row?
sonable assumption that, taking the!

nation has .
0 001)”

is? " ‘7 a

tors arising out of Federal control,
than was cla‘imed in the railroad bill.

These figures are-estimates and are
doubtless low, because the majority
of the railroads- have. accepted the
government goal-name of compensa-

tion and they can inflate “texpondi— ‘

tures to‘ as high a point as'possible
and then secure a given dividend.
Railway Owners Admit 50 Per Cent
Freight Increase Needed
.. As tne‘ Interstate. Commerce Com-

‘misslon .15 Opening hearings to 'de-

termine what changes in freight

rates will be necessary, to meet “the '

one billion dollar advances for ex-
penses and for wages to nearly 2,-
000,000 employee during the two

years of government operation, the ‘

owners of the railroads are trying to
make it appear that this advance has
reduced the railroad net income to
about 2 and 3-4 per cent, or half the
minimum under the ‘new transpor—
tation law. Railroad experts esti-
mate that an increase in freight rates
of approximately '25 per cent will be
needed to take care of advances al-
ready granted and that if the Broth-
erhodds requests for fair wages are

. granted, rates ‘will have to be in-

creased 25 per cent more, making a
total of 50 per cent over the present
rates, that is ,an increase of one-halt.
Government Operation Would Pre-
vent Large Increase

Continued government operation
would have prevented large increas-
es. It should be remembered that al-
though costs of operation,_,including

Imaterial and maintenance increased

rapidly under government operation,
the prices at the service rendered by

. these rates increasedonly an average

of about 1-3 exclusive of increase
necessary to meet payment of ‘wage
increases prior to the period of gov-
ernment operation. With the be
mendous economies which were be-
ing effected under government oper-
ation no large increase would have
been necessary to make the roads
self sustaining. Every outlay by the

railroads of $50,000.000 involves an

increase of 1 1-2 per centw-l'n rates
under private operation. Within. the
next two years the railroads will have
to borrow approximately two billion
dollars under private operation. For
this they will have to pay about 7
per cent interest. Under government
operation money could be secured at
about 4 1—2 per cent, which would
make a saving in interest on $2,000,-
000 of $50,000,000; “and prevent
thereby an increase in freight rates
of 1 1—2 per cent on this single item
of interest. . The total interest
charge would be reduced several hun-
dred million under public~~ownership.
Under private operation this burden
falls on those least able to bear it.
Return of Roads to Blame
The increase in wages is not due
entirely to private operation, though
to some extent, but increases in in-
terest charges, an increases in prices
paid for material, supplies, equip~
ment, etc., due to the provisions of
the hill returning the railroads, which
guarantees the roads a net return af—
ter they have paid maximum prices
for material, suppliers- and equipment
are'directly attributable to private
operation. Under government opera.-
tion railroads are conducted to de-
velop agriculture, manutacturing and
commerce; under private operation.
purely for profit making. An increase
or 50 per cent in freight rates would
mean a total increase in revenue of
close to $2,500,000,000; such an
increase will require the tarmars to
pay the roads close to $400,000,000
more a year [or «carrying farm, pro-
ducts than at present rates. Fur-
thermore it the loam t; the cost
of living, due to an increase in the
freightgrntos In five dim " the rate
increase, as stated by the Director-
Gsnml of Railroads, and other as
thou-Mes. medallion to the comma.
era canto! Kyushu-don will be
may 519.099.999.900 a year. of
which the farmers as large users of

. commodities transported will have to
pay at least one—third. so the return,

of the railroads will cest‘farmers in

increased priossia‘t least {‘3 i.

90.0 and; in luster

  

.aere‘mrqeeue Decidemet‘ie Acceptg-Geeemm t Gm -‘ We f»;

~ . (Bytho rumors National council)”
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g liMISSIONS are leaking out day

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. Manufacturers Refuse to Attend Conference. ‘

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Tell Governor Sleeper/That They Have Sufficient Acreage for 1920 Operations

NCE MORE the sugar manufacturers of
- Michigan have shown that they are the
most colossal bluffers that ever came down the
pike. In response to an invitation which Gov.
Sleeper directed to the sugar beet. growers and
manufacturers to attend a conference at Lans-
, ing this week and endeavor to adjust the dif-
ferences which now threaten to cut the pro:
' duction of sugar in this state by fifty to sev-
enty-five per cent, they replied, to the effect
that “nothing could be gained by such a con-
ference; that they had all the acreage they
could handle for their 1920 operations; and
,that the Governor was ‘unduly alarmed." ”
Gov. Sleeper’s invitation, was sent Out the
latter part of last weék at the behest of parties,
it was announe “who were interested in
having Michigan produce a normal supply of
sugar.” As soon as it was announced that the
Governor desired a conference, Mr. C. E. Ack-
erman, manager of the Beet Growers’ Ass’n,
wrote a letter to Mr. Sleeper commending him
for his action and offering to participate in
such a conference. Mr. Ackerman also wired
the Governor, Attorney General Palmer and
the Saginaw Board of Commerce, that “thou-
sands of acres of land which was plowed for

beets is already being planted to other crops, ’

and unless differences are adjusted very soon
the sugar beet acreage will be, short.”

Mr. Ackerman received a letter last week
from the Saginaw Board of Commerce offering

the services’of that ASsociation as a mediator. ,

Mr. Ackerman replied that the growers appre-
ciated the interests of the Board but held that
the only way the differences Could be settled
was by a‘ conference between representatives
of the sugar companies and of the farmers.
Vile adhere to this-statement, and for that

 

 

The Future of Beans

IT IS extremely fortunate at this par-
ticular time when the beet growers are
looking about for the best crop for their
beet land that the bean market should
recover from its long slump and prices
increase. Beans“ are Mcihi‘gan’s old
' . standby, and during average years they
are a safer and more profitable crop
than sugar beets. Reports from -Cali-
‘ fornia, New York and Michigan are to
the effect that the acreage will be cut
forty to sixty per cent. We believe this
is a correct estimate. This means that
beans are going to be scarce,—-it always
happens after a season of p1enty,-——and
prices will be high. Beans ought to
make the best crop thait the sugar beet
fa'mer could plant. There is plenty of
good seed available; the crop works well
in rotation; and it doesn’t require as
much labor as beets. Why not, beet
growers, just tell the sugar manufactur-
ers to go to Halifax this year, and instead
of sugar beets, plant beans,-—or grain?

 

 

 

 

 

 

reason we are glad _ that the manufacturers
have refused to attend a. conference at the

' Governor’s request, although we commend the
Governor for; his efforts to bring the producer p

and the manufacturer together. A confel‘ence
such as suggested would merely be the means
of patching up the difficulties as heretofore,
‘and would be a virtual admission on the part
of the growers that their organization had fail-
ed to produce results. The Beet Growers’

Ass’n is certainly big enough to handle this.

situation without outside interference, and it
WILL handle it, if every member stands'loyal
to the organization. ‘

The manufacturers claim their
"sufficient. While we cannot but admire their
nerve for making such a statement at this
stage of the game, their disregard for the truth
is rather contemptible. There are only between
10,000 and 12,000 beet growers in Michigan,
and today over 10,000 of them are members of
the State Association. By their affiliation
with the Association or by a definite promise
these men‘” have agreed not to plant be ,ts in
1920 unless they get their price. So wjen the
manufacturers claim their acreage is sufficient,
they are telling downright falsehoods, . and
every beet grower knows it. ,

Beet Growers, you have the fight of your
lives upon your hands. And yet victory. is
yours if you only know it. Why not have faith
in your brother beet grower? If every one of
you make up your mind to sign no contract
and STICK to that decision, the manufactun
ers MUST meet with you or else their factqr-
ies will not run. This is so plain and self-evi-
dent that it needs no emphasis. The manu-
facturers know this as well as you, and they
are relying solely upon their ability to outwit
you and outb-luff you.

The western beet growers stood like a wall
behind their demands, and they won! You
bectAgrowers of ll’lichigau cannot do less. If
the western sugar companies can :meet With
representatives of the growers, the Michigan
sugar companies can do the same, and it will
be a blot- upon organized agriculture, if the
growers do not STICK, man for man, until
the fight is won.

Federal Judge Restores Sixteen Cent Milk

 

 

balance of April.

 

HE FIRST battle in the struggle of the

milk produceris and distributors to main-
tain their right to charge aprice for milk com-
mensurate with the cost of producing and dis-
tributing it_v'zas' precipitated last week when
the distributors. filed a petition with Judge
Tuttle, federal judge, asking that an order be

_' issued restraining the Fair "Pricey Board from

enforcing its ruling reducing the price of milk
from 16 to 14 cents. Judge Tuttle refused to
Issue the injunction until he could examine the
Lever law and pass upon its constitutionality.
Farmer Foots~ the Loss

The reduction in the price of milk amounts

2 cents per quart or about 93 cents per
companies
claim that they cannot distribute at a less mar-
lin than they have been getting, and the farm-

'13,; ‘ ers claim they cannot produce milk at less than

The only diflerence between
cry campanies retain.
_ the gredmtion outof ~ '

 

,the’cream

   

MILK is back to ‘16 cents per ‘quart in Detroit and farmers will
receive $4.05 per cwt., less surplus deduction, for at least the

The restoration of the former price Comes as a result of a ruling
by Judge Arthur J. Tuttle that the provisions of Section 4 of the
Lever Act are too vague as to what constitutes a fair price, and that
it is unconstitutional. Judge Tuttle issued an order restraining

heretofore.

coming accustomed to it, and submits to the
indignity without much complaint.
Imlay City Farmer's Strike

As a result of the Fair Price. Board’s de-
cision the distributing companies have reduced
their price to the farmer to $2.75 per cwt., for

- 3.5 milk. . Of course, no dairyman, no matter

how good and efficient abusiness man, can
produce milk at this figure under present costs,

and the continuation of this price for any ,

length .of time means ruination to thousands of
milk producers. Most of the producers are
submitting temporarily to the arbitrary dic-
tates of the Board and have made no appreci-
able cut in the amount of milk they have been
furnishing the companies, but a ’ good many
others have started reducing their herds and
otherwise cutting down on their whole milk
sales. . , ‘

' The most drastic action that has been taken
was instituted this week when several hundred
farmcm in the vicinityof Imlay City went on
a strike and refused to, sell, milk at e new
Thales to their

     

 

U. S. District Attorney John E. Kinnane from prosecuting the milk
dealers for selling milk at 16c per quart.

Thus ends temporarily the dictation of the Federal “Fair Price”
Board, and leaves the Milk Commission free to adjust the price as
How long this freedom may be enjoyed is a matter of
conjecture, as Mr. Kinnane has intimated that he will appeal the case
and Judge Tuttle has recommended that a legal board be appointed
by the federal government.

. their medicine, bitter as it may be.

m to around. ,
'0 m’fnn? taking

 

man this Pain

 

 

There is
much current talk of a strike in other sections
of the Detroit area. Were it not for the Lever
act which prevents the milk producers from
striking as a body, it is practically certain that
the city of Detroit would be clamoring for
milk at any old price within a fortnight.

At the special meeting of the Producers’ As-
sociation last week, arrangements were made
to create a fund for advertising purposes and
to establish a “nest-egg” for emergency pur-
poses. The question was asked as to whether
or not this “nest-egg” was to be used to estab-
lish a distributing plant. Pres. Hull-replied

that he did not think the time was ripe to dis- _ A ‘

cuss the distributing proposition? While we
have the utmost respect for Pres. Hull’s fore-
sight and ability, we ran scarcely agree with

him on this point. We believe that if the time v

was ever ripe or if the time will ever be ripe
for the milk producers of the Detroit area to .

seriously discuss the establishing of their own . 1

milk plant in Detroit,“ that time is the present.

We should like to hear from the “milk

 

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mtew years.
1”me

:PROBABLY few «gisople in

is only partly developed even where
it is considered fairly well settled,
and that nearly the entire northern
half of that great territory is as yet
not half developed nor Cultivated in
any way.

There are many reasons why this
great territory is as yet a partial
:wilderness. One is that lumbering
interests held much of the territdry
(and for years prevented the settler
:from gaining a foothold. Another is
'that vast areas of virgin prairie,

 

1ready for the plow were infinitely

more inviting that the cut- -over lands
which require a large outlay of labor
be'fOre they are ready for the crop.
{Anether has been, that the one im-
{portant money crop, potatoes, has
{been uncertain because of the sea-
sons and fluctuating prices, which
some years have been good and oth-
fer years as lowas 10 cents a bushel.

1 Then there has been a general im-

‘pression abroad in the older parts of
Michigan that the northern part of
‘Michigan was practically worthless.
We want to forecast the great chang-
es which are imminent for this large
area, an. empire in itself, and will
show why this is true.

First. its location as to markets is
excellent. Everybody realizes that
a home market is the best market.
Both by rail and water, marketing
facilities to great cities from north-
ern Michigan are excellent and with-
in Michigan herself and at her doors
are millions of people who must be
fed. Then again we realize that the
cheap prairie lands of the west are
.occupied. The land locker must
turn back now in his quest for a
cheap home. Nowhere can he find

our
great country realize that lower
Michigan, north of Grand Rapids

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Potatoes, Sugar Beets, Live Stock Fruits and Cream are Profitable Crops in, Northern Section

By A. M. SMITH. Missaukea County

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lilo, this is not a scene in California.

his needs supplied better than in the
territory comprising the cut-over
lands of the lower peninsula of Mich-
igan. Recent developments in agri—
culture along the lines of 'money
crop such as potatoes and sugar beets
and stock raising such as sheep, beef
cattle and dairy cattle, makes the
future prosperity of this great ’ter—
ritory assured. As these industries
should go along together, I shall deal
with them in that way.

Stock raising and dairying in this ,

territory is attractive for many rea-
sons. On good soil pasturage is
.abundant and the business farmer
settler has found out that if he will
cut the brush off his land and seed it
to grasses that he very soon has
abundant pasturage which make
dairy cows milk abundantly and beef
cattle and sheep wax fat, and he also
discovers that after three or four
years he has a splendid cleared field

It is

 

a typical View of a Northern Michigan orchard
sloping down toward one of the thousands of lakes of the region.

free from. brush and briars, ready
for the plow with a relatively small
expense for labor in stumping and
chunking up if he has hard wood
land. .

It is the opinion of the writer that
many of the pine lands should not
be cleared until the hard wood lands
shall be exhausted. But it looks now
very much as if the pine stumps Were
soon going to be worth for fuel all
it costs to pull them and work'them
up into wood.

With the aid of dynamite and mod-
ern methods of clearing land the task
of making a farm out of cut-over
land is not as great as one would
think.

The writer has done. considerable
of this kind of work and has made it
a practice to take every stump before
ever attempting to plow. Better 10
acres cleared than 20 half cleared
has been my motto. The truth of

planting I left a few stumps.

 

this was impressed"on me early in
my farming career. I was clearing
in the spring for a. crop of potatoes,
and as I was in a- hurry to get, to
One
of these was a big hemlock which a
pound of dynamite W‘Ould have blown
out’. When I dug fmy potatoes I
measured the ground occupied by.
the-stump and. found that the same
area near the stump had grown one
bushel of market potatoes, worth
when dug fifty cents. I then and
there. determined that “never again"
would I cultivate. a-stump :as I re—
ceive' no increase from such labor.
I find that cattle keep doWn brush
just as well as sheep after the brush
has been out Oh. Present prices for

' butterfat and good dairy cows make

this branch of stobk raising most at-
tractive, although of course many
prefer beef cattle and sheep and a
man usually does best with the line
he likes best. The stock raising in-
dustry fits in well too with the money
crops, so increasingly important in
western - Michigan. Manure fur-
nishing the humus and .nimportant
fertilizing elements so much needed
in the raising of potatoes and sugar
beets is no inconsiderable part of the
profits of stock raising. And the
turning of cheap grass 'and rough
feeds into beef, muttén and butterfat
balance up the expense accounts-in-
curred in the raising of the money
crops. Most important to this great
new area' at present is the splendid
outlook for the potato crop on which
for so long theifarmer of northern
Michigan has depended_ to obtain
money with which to meet his pay-
ments and pay his taxes and grocery
bill.

For this crop so far as marketing

(Continued on page 23)

“Why I Prefer the Farm to the City”———-By One Who Has Tried Both

HORES ar 9.

day to run the

 

the night and
have just read
the article “How
can we Keep the
Boys and Girls
on the Farm,” by
Mr. Fred Cressy.

finished for {

 

 

 

 

3 Want to say
ithat Mr. Cressy
‘knows of what
he is talking.
1Any man (or
{woman for that

 

 

 

:matter) who has
lever lived in the
‘city will certain-
Ily agree with Mr.

*Cressy and I
ithi-nk a few of
us can go him

one better. From
..Mr Cressy’s let-
ter, I surmise
that he was born
and raised on a
iiarm. Myself, I
was not that for-
tunate. Yes, I
said fortunate, I
‘know !

Ever since
coming to the
country and- call-

 

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ting it “home,” I

have never let a chance pass when

?I could arghe with a boy or man and
{relate to him my experiences, es-

pecially if he mentioned the word
city. I am happy to say that I have
succeeded in keeping at least one
boy on the farm.

W6 all know that there is’adven-
ture in all of us, some have more;

some less and I certainly had my
share.
"lacrop out at some time or other.

And "it is equally certain to

We are unfortunate enough not t9

_.' have either boys or girls of our own,
.but have always had a deep interest
in them and hope that our recital
"iwill at leastI make some other man '5

boy think before he bids the “old

”harm" goodbye.

' I Was born in a little town on the

,Ohio—Indiana line in 1888, and it has
am

a town or city ever since until the
Was married in 19073
Mail panic and it was a

 

A partial View of the Highland Park plant of the Ford Motor Com pany showing a
days out of the year this army of men punch their time clocks 1
machine, and at night flow out through the doors, like ants out of an ant-hole.
to board the street cars into which they are Jammed like sardines.
thousands of men work year after year under these conditions.
even the hard manual labor of the form—fort his?

 

 

By R. E. BENNETT, Sanilac County

panic or practically so all the time I
stayed in town. Not that I didn’t
make good money, for I did. I was
an automobile trimmer and uphol-
sterer and handy at other things,
but, oh, that word "but.” It’s as
bad as that word “if.” Well any—
way I (I’m going to take the blame
if there is any) I wantedvto wear good
clothes, in other words, he dressy,
‘wanted my house furnished of the
best and always tried to keep up my
end with the boys, no matter what
the cost or whether the butchen and
grocer got paid or not. Now, you
will say “well that, was his. fault, he
didn’t need to do it. Could have sav-
ed “if he wanted to.'.’ Say, take any
young couple who are socially inclinr

 

ed. set them down among strangers?

'where money talks or anyhow giho‘vr‘
of men ’8 '

 

' short time) and if they can do any.

saving in any city, on any wages paid
an un- -skilled or even most skilled
workers, they deserve all the credit
and honor due any hero._

It can’t be done.

Well, anyway we dressed good, ate
good, took in shows, boat rides, and
dances and other things or no need

to mention, going farther in debt all ;

the time. All this we thought we had:

_ to do, to make an impression on the

neighbors to make them think that
we were “getting along.” Actually
only fooling ourselves.
of us alike on that subject?
Then we; awoke one day. ,-, ,-

 
 
 

I was working at the Packard Moe”
’tor Car 066 not Detroit u did a-
«fire: _. $691: ..

“few"‘of the 30, 000 men employed there. Three hundred
n the morning, sit at machines all day long as though they were a part of the
and stand in long lines often in the pouring rain waiting their turn
some of them to ride for an hour or more before reaching

home. Hundreds of
Would you exchange the pure air, the sunshine, the

birds and

Aren’t most , ,

  

house and believe
:me or not-, I
nearly always
had to borrow
m o ney. between
times for carfare
and lunches. Of
course. we were
.trying to buy or
pay for a little
_‘home, but not
succeeding at any
alarming rate. At
last we decided
to try farming,
(get that—at last
—you know) the
court of last re-
sort, and any dub
could farm! My

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idea—the wife
knew better, she
is a farmer’s dau-
ghter. So we
sold out, paid
our debts and
{had -— nothing
left. Just a lit-

 

, tie measly hun-
dred dollars.
Well, anyhowI
we moved to Tus-
‘ cola county, and
bought an 80-
acre tract of wild
and—and that is another chapter.
We are not there now. ‘
The good wife and myself both
agree that the city isn’ t and the job
“ain ’t” that would bet us back and
kéep us there. We have accumulated
have more in the end, eat more real
years than we did in all the time we

the flowers—yea.

spent in the city.

Let me urge you, Mr. Hired Man. .
you, Mr. Renter and also you, Mr. .
Owner, stay put on the farm. YOu' l]

have more in the end, eat more real

food, wear just as good clothes, have

oceans of less trOubles ,and be far
, more happy and contented' than if
'you make your little sale, and-mover
to town, there

 
 
  
   
 

   

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a-—-(Iourl;esy the c re 0.
Fred‘ Rupprecht and sons of Riohviiie. Mich.
- Mr. Rupprecht'has 90 acres, and milks 12 Hol-
stein cows. ‘ He has taken an old run—down farm
and put it into a profitable state. He has lust
completed a meet beautiful brick dwelling at a
cost of $8,600. The farmle equipped with all
- modern conveniences even to a series of electric
lights In his silo chute so that the boys can get

out silage even If dusk has fallen. Mr. Rup-_,

precht ls’a reader of The Business Farmer.»

HE INCREASING cost of grains,
Ehay and commercial feeds makes
it increasingly necessary for the
dairy farmer to produce more succu-
lent food on his own farm. The
. problem of-preparing and storing suf—
ficient food for the dairy herd dur-
ing the winter months and when the
'pastures are dry is acute on the farm
without a silo. But where-the silo
is available, the problem is largely
solved. .
There are comparatively few mod-
ern farms in Michigan which do not
‘1 have one or more silos as a necessary
adjunct to the business. Agood
many farmers find, however, that a
single silo does not provide enough
capacity for all the silage that is
needed for both winter and summer
feeding, and so we find 'on many
farms the multiple silo which gives
the farmer’ an abundant supply of
silage against all emergencies.
The various types of silos on the
market'have been discussed so many
.times that' the average farmer is
fairly well-acquainted with their con—
struction and the peculiar advant—
ages claimed for each. As time goes
on improvement is made in the silo-
all tending to minimize, loss from
spoilage, to increase quality of silage,
and to add to the general attractive-
ness and usefulness of the structure.
-One of the most recent departures
from the usual type ofsilo that has
come to our attention recently are
the silos on the farm of W. J. Brown,
‘at Redford. Mr. Brown, who is a
iDetroit merchant, is developing one
{of the most modern farms in- Mich—
'igan and the equipment is the finest
procurable. - Because. Mr. Brown is
financially able to purchase the best
for his “play farm” does not lessen
the interest in the type and quality

'. of barns, silos, poultry houses, etc.,

which he “is erecting. ,The barns on
theBrown farm are stuccoed, and
the owner desired a silo which would
‘match the appearance of his other
structures. So he“ purchased a pop-
. ular' make of wooden silo and applied
the stucco, with the result that he
has a silo that offers great resistance
to heat and cold, that is'solid and
rigid and that insures good silage
,next to the walls, and last but not
least, a silo that is attractive in ap-
pearanCe. ' , ‘

4 ' Some Silage Facts.

The experiment stations of four,

,of» our leading stock raising states
have recently published” .bu-lletins

concerning, the “feedingfof ' silage ,

in" large. and; small, rations to,

 
 

, isteers; one; station comparedr- cane

‘wi‘th’corntilageras‘a rattan for calv-
esi-e ans-experiment stations of our

  

I. 'lcountry; heifer-fer thirty or thirty-five
x. gears 'been.using.silos. _
., structures, however. weremcrudetand'

, ,_ .t’ ' ' " f '

These early

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The silage spoiled in the corners and
naturally they'were unsatisfactory.
. These old slice, however. have long
di_sappeared~‘- and 'now modern silos
are i-in use, made. of either tile, ce—
' ment or wood. They are round and
,-narrow in diameter but. lofty- in
height running .from 30 to 40 feet.
Up till about four or‘five years
ago the stations that were studying
silage rations compared this ration
with a shelled corn, oil meal or cot-
ton seed meal and hay ration, but in
the last year or two the experiment
stations almost without exception are
comparing a ration somewhat as fol-
lows: say 16‘pounds or shelled corn
or ground corn, '2 to 3 pounds of
cottonseed or oil meal, 25 pounds of
clover and Say 1 pound of alfalfa or
clover hay. This, as a rule, has
beencompared with, say 50 pounds
of silage, 2 to 3 pounds of cotton
seed or oil meal and a pound of al-
falfa or clover hay. In other words,
instead of comparing a silage with a
non-silage ration, they have conclud—
ed: almost without exception, that si-
lage was the great cheapener of costs
and they are comparing a half silage
ration with a full silage ration rath—
er than a comparison between a full
silage ration and a non-silage ration.
It is interesting to note that the
experiment stations have nearly ceas-
ed working on silage as a dairy ra-
tion for they have long ago-establish—
ed this fact and have shown its econ-
omy as a’milk and butterfat produc-
er. They are therefore turning their
atention mostly to .the amount of si-
lage to use in the beef ration.

Later on in this article we will
give the actual figures from the four
experiment stations above mention-

'ed. It is outstanding though, in
these various experiments that the
gains per day have been approxi-
mately the same for the combined
corn and silage ration and the heavy
silage ration lots. Some of the
stations show better gains per day
in the corn and silage lots. In av—
eragecases, however, the cost of
manufacturing a hundred pounds of‘
meat was. from 20 to 50 per cent
lower when
the heavy si-

Cost of DairyFood ’Mdkes-F armer ‘Mo're Dependent Upon Silo

. Kansas
Two year old steers fed for a per—
iod of 110 days, in lots :‘o‘ffvt'en each.

Lot 1. Lot 4.
(pounds) (pounds)
Average daily ration: '
Ground corn .. n . 15.31
_Alfalfa hay . . . . . 13. 2.95
Linseed oil meal . . 2.72 2.69
Sorghum silage . . . 60.55 ,
Initial wt per steer 944.92 963.10
Final wt per steer 1309.44 1296.67
Average total gain
per steer ...... 364.52 33.57
Average daily gain -
per steer . . . . . .. 3.31 3.03
Feed required to make
100 lbs. of gain:
Giround porn . . . . 4162.04’
Linseed oil meal . . . 81.96 88.66
Alfalfa hay 392.32 97.43
Sorghum silage 1996.81

Feed cost per 100
pounds of gain ..$ 21.48 $ 12.31

Iowa

Standard Corn Belt ration vs. “no
grain” ration. Two year : old steers
fed from December 22nd, 1918, to

May 26th, 1919—120 days. Five
steers to the lot.
Lot 1. Lot 7.

(pounds) (pounds)
Final weight ...1360.1 1335.2
Average daily gain 2.98 2.74
Average daily feed:
Shelled corn ..... 15.
Linseed oil meal . . 3. . 3.

° Corn silage 27.4 52.
Afalfa hay .. . . . . .9 1.5
Block salt ....... .03 .03
Feed required to

make 100 lbs. of gain:
Shelled corn ..... 504.7
Linseed oil meal .. . 100.8 109.6
Corn silage . . . . . .819.8 1899.1
Alfalfa hay ...... 31.6 56.
Block salt .88 .93
Cost of gain ..... $ 22.60 $ 16.08

Profit per steer

.$ 15.83 3 23.11
Cost of 'feed: ‘

Shelled corn, per bu . . . . . . . .'$1.45
Linseed oil meal, per ton . . . 70.00
Corn silage ............... 12.00
Alfalfa hay ............... 30.00
Block salt ............ ' ..20.00

It is inter—
esting to note

 

lage ration
was used. It 4

’is admitted
that ”which
the cat t 1 6
were fed the _7
heavy silage
ration t h e
flesh was not
quite as hard
(as a rule,

. the bu y e r
valued them
at 25 to 50
cen t s p e r
hundred lbs.
less. But in
spite of this
handicap, a
hea v y i n -
crease in the
profit w a s
made wi t h
the heavy si-
lage fed lot.

In the fol-
lowing tables
attention is
being . pai d
to silage ex-

 

 

in the above
experime n t
t h a t t h e
farmer who
can sell his
corn crop in
the form of
silage to his
steers at $12
;p e r t o n
(cou n t i n g
the ,. average
yie l d f o r
Iowa as ten
ton to -the
acre) wi l 1
make a good
big profi t ,
even though
he comes out
even in the
operation of
feeding his
'steers. In the
above exper—
i m e n t i t

shows that
th e I o w a
farmer can

 

sell his crop

 

perim e n t s
,which pe r-
tain directly silo.
to S i l a g 6 corn belt states.

compar in g -'

same with steers fed a small amount
of silage with shelled or ground corn.

_ Missouri .
Eight head per lot Lot 1 Lot 5
" ' .pounds)‘ (pOunds)
Average initial wt. 836.12 820.95

Average wt; at end
.0183 days . ...1114.6ii 1021;00-

   

   

Average daily gain 3.35 2.39
Average dailyration: . -
helled corn . . . . . . 15.29 . ‘
binseed oil cake .. ‘ 29.55 - 3.67‘
'0 25.23 . 40.33 ‘
Cl . 2.88 " 4.84:
550.23 3 21.17;

-—Courtesy'_J. M. Preston Company.

Scene on a modern Michigan farm showing hollow tile
This type is meeting with approval

to his steers
at $120 per
acre and that
, he can still
, make a prof-
it on the steers of from $23.11, not
including the hogs, up to $27.32 if
the hogs are counted.
Wisconsin
Ten two year old steers to each lot.
Average 'weight per steer, 920 lbs.
Length of feeding, 112 days.
' is Lot 1
‘ .(pounds)
Average final 'wt. per, . ’
steer . '. . . . . . . .1188.7» 1179.5 '
Average” daily gain‘ ' '
per steer . . . . . . 2.4.
Average daily ration: ' ‘
Shelled corn ...._ '1 .'
Gotten; ‘Seed‘ Meal '~ ‘- '

In many of the

“Lot 2
(pounds) ,

2.33

   
 
 
  
  

   
 

 

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———-Courtesy the B ci‘lnre Co. .

Scene on the w. J. Brown farm near Redfordw
showing wcoz'en silo after it got lts coat of stucco
to match other farm buildings. The stucco Idea
is declared to be a departure in silo constructionm
The material serves to prolong the life of the
silo and decreases the danger from frost. More-
over, it makes the silo very attractive in appear-1
ance.

Cost of average daily .
ration ......... $ .54 $ .37,

Feed required per
100 lbs. of gain:

Shelled corn ..... 514.7
Cotton Seed meal 113.8 152.2
Corn silage ...... 1364.2 2422.0
Mixed hay ....... 90.3 11.9
Cost of 100 pounds ,
gain ........... $ 22.64 $ 16.03
Profit per steer ,not ‘ .
counting hogs ...$ 8.44 $ 20.35
Profit per steer, '
counting hogs ..$ 19.86 $ 25.33
Cost of feed:
Shelled corn, per bu. . . . . . . . $1.33
Cotton Seed meal, per ton .65.00
Corn silage, per ton . . . . . . . . 8.00

Mixed hay. per ton .......... 25.00

Dr. C. \V. Campbell, head of the
Animal Husbandry Department at
the Kansas Experiment Station;
points out “that a comparison be«
tween the results obtained in lots
one and four show that 1996.81 lbs.
of silage fed in lot four replaces
469.6 pounds of corn fed in lot one.
In other words, a ton of sorghum si-
lage replaces 8 1-2 bushels of corn.”
He also mentions that the yield of
corn on the college farm owing to
the extreme dry weather of last sum-
mer. was only about 3 1-2 tons per?
acre but that the yield of sorghum’
silage was approximately 9 tons t0'
the acre. '

It is well to digest for a moment
and note that at the time the Kan-I
sas station was feedng the above two
year old steers they were feeding
calves also. They show that the
calves made a gain of 321 pounds,
each in 110 days. The steer made a
gain of 354 pounds in the same per-
iod; the daily gain per calf being
2.92 pounds and per steer 3.22 lbs.
In other words, they point out that,
considering weights and costs, bet-
ter gains can be made with the calv-
es than can be made with two year
old steers.

The above‘experiments are carried
through on a straight profit and loss
basis, careful watch being taken at
all times that every part of feed that
went to the steers was properly
charged to them at the prices pre— .
vailing in that state at that time.
These prices, of course, will vary in
different states and in different 10-
calities in the same state. 1

There is another angle to this:,
How many pounds of beef were prosi
duced_ per acre? We have an idea:
that the average farmer is more in-
terested in these figures than. any
other, and none \of the experiment:
stations have taken the pains to re—i
duce their figures to a “per acre”V
basis. It is oather hard for a lay-r
man, to do this, but it seems to me. .
fair to take the broad proposition"~;
that a field of corn that produces 40
bushels of ears will produce ten tone ,
of silage. 0f course these figures”
wil. vary with different localitiesadld
differentyears,’ but, taking one year
with another, the above estimatajfi
probably fair. I know of manyiflétmr"
ers who have .secured 7 twelve \tqflat
teen tone or even more silage, ' ‘
acre. In, fact, »_ some the " '

  
  
  
 

 

   
 
   

 
 
  
 
  
   
  

    
  
 
 
  
  
   
 
 

   
 
  
   
 
    
  
 


  
 
 

   

EMOVAL 0': the headquarters of
the Michigan State Farm Bur-
eau from Birmingham, where it

has been for the last year, to Lans-
ing, will take place April 39th. This
. action was prompted by the purchase
of a large oflice building and ware-
house at 221 No. Cedar Street, Lans-
m'g, recently. In addition on housing

the general emcee 01‘. the Farm Burk,

- can, this Lansing building will also
include the seed and wool depart-
ments of the organisation- The
specious storage facilities of the ware-
house .are expected to be taxed this
caring and summer following ship-
ments oi wool from the various coun-
ties for pooling at Lansing, which
will begin within the next two weeks.
Local assemlfllng golnts are being es-
tablished all over the state for the
convenience of the forty- -three odd
thousand members of the organiza-
tion. This wool will be handled on
a cooperative cost basis. Other ar—
rangements for the removal to Lans-
ing than the desirability of having
all the Farm Bureau departments
under one roof are the excellent rail-
road facilities of that city, the geo-
graphical location and the proximity
to the Michigan Agricultural Col—
lege.

Preliminary to plans for activities
pertinent to Home Economics and
Boys’ and Girls’ Club work in the
state which will be carried on by the
Farm Bureau under direction of Mrs.
J. C. Ketcham, member of the execu-
tive committee of the organization,
names of chairman of Home Econom—
ics departments of the various coun-
ty Farm Bureaus and names oi? the
. leaders of the Boys' and Girls” Club
work in the various counties are de-
sired so that co-operatio-n may ex-
tensively be obtained. The various

Any Local Cooperative Association in Organized Farm Bureau Counties May Act as

Ascembler for That County

counties are asked to send these
names to Ma‘s Ketcham at the secre-
tes-iris ofl‘lco as soon as possible. Home
Economics and club work occupy an
important part in the educational
program of the Farm Bureau, though
up to the present time it has been
possible to do little in this connec-

tion Means of pressure of problems

of a more imperative nature.
Membersnip campaigns’ ot the
'Michigan State Farm Bureau were
this week under way in Hillsdale
and Jackson counties, oominggto an
end in‘the latter. and with more than
2000 members seemingly certain. The
total membership of the state organ—
ization now is close to 43,001).
Rules Governing the Pooliu of Wool
In counties where the Farm Bu-
reau membership campaign has been
completed or is now under way, Kent,
Tuscola, St. Clair, Allegan, Oakland,

. Barry, Van Buren, Gladwin, Lapeer,

G-enese-e, Montcalm. Monroe, Macomb,
Shiawassee, Eaton, Wayne, Ottawa,
Washtenaw, Livingston, Berrien, Cal—
houn, Clinton, St. Joseph, Cass, Len-
awee, and Jackson, the County Farm
Bureau will appoint the .firm, indi-
vidual or co—operative organization
to handle the assembling of wool.

Any co-operative organization.
firm, or individual selected by the
County Farm Bureau organization
may assemble wool upon signing equ-
tract and complying with instruc-
tions and regulations issued by the
Michigan State Farm Bureau.

In counties where the Michigan
State Farm Bureau membership cam-
paign has not been completed and is
not now under way, county agents
are requested to arrange for assem-
bling wool in their respecive coun-

ties by a responsible individual firm,

cooperative organization, Grange,

‘ Gleaner arbor, or other agency.

hung agent must sign a
cull-act with the Michigan smite
Farm Bureau and county with
instructions and neg-alumna issued
by the itchigan State Farm Bureau.

No assembling agent of the Mich-
igan State Farm Bureau will be per-
mitted to purchase wool on his own
account or act as agent for any oth-
er Individual firm or oorporatlon in
buying, handling, storing or market-
ing 01! wool.

All persons marketing wool thru
the Michigan State Farm Bureau will
be required to‘ sign wool growers’
contract and abide ‘by all rules and
regulations issued by the same.

County Agent or other Michigan
State Farm Bureau representatives
must secure signature of assembling
agent upon assemblers contract as
issued by Michigan State Farm Bu-
reau and forward same, with full
name and address PLAI‘NLY WRIT-
TEN thereon to the Michigan State
Farm Bureau Wool Department,
Musing, Michigan.

Agreement and Contract with Wool
Grower

The Michigan State Farm Bureau
agrees:

1. To pay all transportation and
labor charges, including trucking,
handling, grading. sacking, shipping,
salesmanship and all expenses inci-

.TIQaasam

' dent to the proper handling and mar-

keting of wool, including all book-
’keeping and clerical work.

2. ‘To furnish the necessary sacks,
and tags, storage facilities for prop-
er handling el wool.

.,3. To carry such insurance as

may be necessary to protect the con-
signor mat has: or damage by fire-
while wool is in 3111896551011 01 the
Michigan State Farm Bureau..

4. To investigate and handle any

claims for 'loss on domage to wool .
consigned tothe Michigan State Farm‘\'

Bureau.

5. To arrange for advancement
to the consignm- on application, of
credit loans at six (t) per cent in-
terest on wool consigned, in amount
not to exceed ”sooty-live per cent of
the estimated value of the wool so-
eonsigned, and-to be deducted from
dual settlement.

8. Final settlement to be made
within a reasonable time after all
wool has been sold.

In consideration of this agreement
the consignm- agnem: ,

‘1. To accept the warehouse
weights and grades as 11 basis for
payment on all wool consigned, as
may be fixed by the Michigan State
Farm Bureau. ,

8. To accept as a basis for ad-
vance loans the estimated value as
fixed by the Michigan State Farm
Bureau.

9. To allow the Michigan State
Farm Bureau to deduct such sum as
may be charged against the wool for
freight sacks, and other expenses,
and for services as are necessary,
from the final payment due the ship
per.

Date ..............

I hereby agree to ship not later .

than July 15, 1929, approximately. .
...... fleeces of wool to the Mich-
igan State Farm Bureau to be grad—
ed, stored and marketed under the
terms of the above agreement.

Name
Address ..................... . . .
County

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

ssssss QIOOICIIIIOIIIIIOO

The Facts About Tax Exemption Clause of Rural Credits Law

OR MANY years, we labored

with the farmers of this country.

for the purpose of inducing the
government to provide some system
by which long time farm loans, at
reasonable rates of interest, could
be' obtained. After fifty years of
effort, we at last have the Federal
Farm Loan Act, under which farmers
have been able to secure loans on
long time payments and at a com-
paratively low rate of interest.

Under the Federal Farm Loan Act
are also provided the Joint Stock
Land Banks, which have their place,
and have done much good towards
financing our farmers, but the old
enemies of rural credits have been at
work. The Farm .Mortgage Bmkers’
Association of America has brought
suit to test the constitutionality of
the Federal Farm Loan Act and now,
while the suit is pending before the
Supreme Court‘of the United States,
operations of the entire Federal
Farm Loan System have been prac~
tically suspended.

While the Federal and Joint Stock
Land Banks are “marking time,” the
Mortgage Brokers are not; they are
busy with their propaganda to have
Congress destroy the Federal system
as soon as the Supreme Court renders
a decision favorable to the Farm Loan
Act, which is anticipated hy both its
friends and enemies.

During the suspension of the Land
Banks, Mortgage Brokers are reap—
ing a, rich harvest from the‘farmers
in commissions, brokerageand other
distortions and using a part of it to
pay lawyers for legislation and oth-
ers for propaganda to influence con—
gress and. public sentiment. To do
this the old cry oi! “class legislation"

' is raised against 1; Farm Loan Act.
Those who charge this should come
with clean hands, but they do not, for
all— the interests which have been en-
joying government favors and tat-

tening 03 the farmers for years are

now joining the mortgage brokers in
a vicious attack on the most import-

ant act ever passed by Congress for '

the benefit of agriculture.

The great need of. the government
at this time for revenue is promin-
'eatlyvput forward as a reason for the

1

1 the tax exemptions on farm ‘
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time next month—Editor

Personal Rural Credits

’1‘ THE convention of agricultural editors a committee was appoint-
ed to study the McFadden Personal Credits bill now before con-
gress. The committee com of Mr. Carl Williams, editor 0k-

lahoma Stockman and Farmer; Dr. Spillm, editor Farm Journal; C.
W. Pugsley, editor Nebraska Farmer; Jae. lempson,
Homestead; Fon‘est Lord, editor Michigan Business Farmer.
mittee already knows flee need 0! m3 mom; .10; 11103935 upon rem;
who cannot take advantage of line Indore! farm loan system, but it will
endeavor to amtaln‘whedaeror not the McFadden bill will do the
business. A report of its findings will he made at the next meeting of
the Association which will M be held in Washington city some

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tinuance of the farm loan system is
impossible.

Mortgage brokers are spilling a
few crocodile tears and much print-
er’s ink over millionaires escaping
taxes through buying these tax-tree
Farm Loan Bonds. We have in our
possession their advertisements. and
chuck full or misstatements and ap—
peals to passion and prejudice; and
we also have their circulars forward-
ing these advertisements to other
mortgage brokers, urging their use
in their territory with the assurance
that their private interest will there-
by be promoted._

No thinking farmer will be fooled
by these pleas; they know this gen-
try of old. They know it was the
method used by the Mortgage Brok—
ers who charged all the traffic could
bear, and more, which made the
Farm Loan Act a necessity. Mort-
gage bickers wish to farm farmers
not to finance farmers. Their selfish

interest alone is their present motive”

masquerading behind solicitude for
the public treasury, and indignation
over rich tax dodgers.

While farmers know all this, a.

good portion of the public does not,
and it- therefore, becomes necessary
to counteract such- specious propa—
ganda.

Here are some facts: In the Unit-.

ed States there are now outstanding
some sixteen billions of tax-tree se-
curities, three—fourths of which ben-
efits mainly city dwellers; Of this

aggregate, tax-free Farm, Loan Bonds ,

  

Issued by bath Joint Stock and red-
on] Land 13111164;on lafithan

thirds per cent tor Federal Land
Banks and oneJthird of one per cent
for Joint Stock Land Banks.

thy is there no out-cry against
this 98 per cent of tax-free securi-
ties? How much does it help the
United States Treasury and hurt the
rich tax-dodgers to remove the tax
exemption tram two per cent and
leave the 98 per cent tax free? The
answer is made that most of the 98
per cent is'in state and municipal
bonds, which cannot be taxed under
the constitution. That was true un-
‘til the adoption of the Sixteenth
Amendment which.reads: “Congress
shall have power to lay and collect
taxes on incomes
source derived," etc. This'Sixteen-
th Amendment was before the New
York Legislature in 1910, when gov-
ernOr Chas. E. Hughes, who was at-
terwards a member of the Supreme
Court of the‘United States, sent a
message to the legislature against
ratificationhsolely on the grounds
that incomes from state and muni-
pal bonds would in his opinion be-

. ”come taxable by the United States

government. His opinion carries
much weight. Why has there been
no attempt to tax incomes on these.
state and municipal bands?

It there Is any doubt about the
power of congress to do so, why is
not put up to the Supreme Court

decision Is it the old story that the.

chief beneficiaries of these bonds are
organized and can make their influ-

ence felt at Washington, wings term-1‘
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thereto1‘3 be
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from whatever _

The farmer asks no special privi-

leges. It there is a. public necessity

that there should be a reasonable tax ,

levied on the incomes from all so-
curities, the farmer would not ob-
ject to including Farm Loan Bonds,
but he is getting very tired of being
singled out, discriminated against.
made the goat and offered as the solo
sacrifice to the public good. The re-
cent decision of the Supreme Court,
holding that stock dividends when
paid in cash are taxable, but when
paid in ,a stock certificate are not.
will lose millions of revenue to the
treasury, and this decision so favor-
able to the corporate class will be
urged as an additional reason why
Farm Loan Bonds should be taxed to
help replace the loss in revenue.

Some of the bills attesting the
Farm Loan Act now before congress
are aimed against Joint Stock Land
Banks only, others against the Farm
Loan System as a. whole, but the ag-
gressive enemies of the system are
behind all of these bills.

Limiting loans to $10,000 does not
enable the Federal Land Banks to
meet the need for increased agri-
cultural production, and there .are
other valid reasons why the dual sys-
tem provided by congress in the
Farm Loan Act, should be maintain-
ed. All friends of the act, therefore,

should stand together and demand of ,

congress'that there be no tampering
with the Farm Loan Act, but if, on
account—of imperative necessity for
revenue, Farm Loan Bonds are to
be taxed. then an identical tax should
be laid'on all other securities or
whatever nature and kind, new tax-
free.

The Farm Loan Act is now facing
a crisis and farmers should speak in
its defense both individually and
through organizations and speak
loudeoongh to be heard and heeded.
Unless they' do this land do it now
the whole system of Rural Credits
will be lost, or, What is worse,
hampered by malicious’.
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Movement by Detroit Hotels and Housewives to Stop Eating Potatoes Becomes Nation- Wide

HE CONSUMER has rebelled
t against the high cost of potatoes-

and from one end oi the coun—
try to the other the order has gone
forth, “eat no potatoes until the price
comes down. ” This is no ordinary
boycott. _
ing encouraged by the Department
of Justice and by the Bureau of
Markets. Its effects are already be-
ing, felt, and tor the first. time dur-
ing the present year the Bureau of
Markets reports potatoes, "weak and
slightly lower.”

The boycott had its incipiency in
Detroit where potatoes jumped from
$9 to $13 per 150 pounds in three
days' time. For a. week or more Do-
troit consumers were forced to pay
$1. 80 per peck for spuds. Later this
price dropped to 81. 40 per peck, but
that is far above the “fair" price

fixed. by the Federal Fair Price
Board. This board rules as fol-
lows:

“Effective April 20 at 12 o’clock
noon.

“The fair price board determines
that the fair retail price oi the best
potatoes. per bushel 01 60 pounds, in
this district is $3.60 or 90 cents per
peek of 16 pounds. Retailers should
buy to sell on this basis.

”At this time purchasers are warn-
ed to use particular care that they
are not defrauded. by short weight
or short measure.

"This price is subject to revision
at the next or any subsequent meet-
ing of this board.”

The moving spirit back of the boy-
cott in Detroit is Mrs. Frederick G.
Ray, president of the Women's Fed-
erated Clubs, who presided at a
meeting held in that city last week
at which representatives of some of
the largest hotels and eating houses
of Detroit attended.

Farmer Not Blamed

The majority of the speakers at
the conference agreed that the farm
ers were not to blame for the high
This shows progress for our
George Nedtweg, nes—
ident of the Detroit Stewards Club
said that much of the blame for ex-
isting conditions rested on the should-
ers of the commission men. He eit-
ed the fact that “the farmer has not
received more than 34 during the
past your: and in many instances he
has been paid less for a bag of” 150
pounds. At that price we should get
them tor about $7 at the most. In-
stead we pay 313 to $15. "

Nedtweg also charged that ”the
railroad, yards are filled with earloads

, of potatoes, and that more willing-

“My Experience in Growing Fruit on Light Sandy Soil”

ANDY loam is the best soil for

grapes, At any rate such has

' been my experience, and I an
willing to verily this statement with
an experience of several years stand-
ing.

In our country there were two
kinds of soil, the sand “barrens” and
the heavy clay soil tarther back fro-
the fivers.’ Along the streams, some
times extending back for several
miles, the white pine of commerce
grew in carried ranks, beckoning the
axmen to come to the harvest.

This pine was long ago exhausted.
Much otthe land: can .whleh it gum is-

- . warm mmm- tom in wt“ '

~££WIM byfires tmthe old mom

ings of the last century are no long-
er in evidence.

These annual fires did great dam-

age to the light soils of the timber”

country, rendering much of it unfit
for farming purposes. Despite these
drawbacks, however, some more ven-
turesome than others have staked

their belief in the virtue of light

soils by squatting on these cwtover
ranges, and where the squatter has

. it in him to stick, and work out the

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right methods, fine farms have been
the result.
Nevertheless there are numerous

-- deserted ranches all through the one

line lumbbr country, deserted be-
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It .is organized and is be— .

‘ Here’s a Beet Grower Who Talks Business

BEG SPACE in your worthy paper foroa few lines, which may be of
some benefit to the beet growers, and brother farmers, as well. The
title being, “I refused to be soft pedaled. ”

Last evening “a representative of one of the sugar companies
called on me, and wanted the secretary of our Association and my-
self to go to the sugar factory’s calico and see the figures of the com-
pany for the purpose of showing us that beet growers are wrong and
the sugar company is right. N ow‘that would sound nice to a. man who
had lost his‘mind and was in a bughouse and needed a vacation.

Hero is the point. Gould any person get any intelligence from
looking at a company‘s books and taking the balance figures from the
ledger, and discover anything about the cost of production, not know-
ing anything about what the company had invested or anything
about its overhead expenses, depreciations, etc.

Now was not that a bright suggestion? I would say no. I said
to this agent, “what good would there- be in that? They could mislead
in their figures as well a in words, to one who would be foolish enough
to fall for two or three hours- of soft-pedal stun, from. the sugar com-
puny.”

I also asked him why the Company did not meet the Boot Grow-
ers’ Association in Saginaw- which would have been the proper place
to present their figures and correct errors if any were nmde. He said,
‘ithey were not invited to the meeting; that the farmer Just demanded
the price.”

Now when he found I was not‘going to fall for that he said the
company showed him figures showing that the farmer could raise beets
for $60 per acre, outside the “hunky” labor and make 88 per cent and
the Sugar Company was only making. 23 per cent. What do you think
of that, the poor Sugar Companies misused by the rich, heartless farm-
ers, Ea. 3 Ha l

I asked him to produce his figures for proof and his efforts in the
proof for the Sugar Co. was about as near as one could come to buying
as Hudson Six with a. setting hon. When I produced the farmers’ side
of the boot business, I really believe that. agent had a change of heart
and is about to repent and join the big church, with the ten thousand
beet growers, or at least be in sympathy with us.

Another agent told me the reason his company would not attend
our meetings was they did not. want the farmer to run. their business.
Do the farmers want the sugar conspanies to run both, the farmer and
the factory. I for one surely object to being a silent partner in the
deed. I have too much. confidence in our Mr. Editor, Mr. Ketcham,
Mr. Ackerman, Mr. Price and other gentlemen in the state and local
associations as leaders to think they would want to be unjust to any

 

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mt «Inflation—Editor.

I will. close, believing the fight is won. ——-Gco. ll. Histe. President

You. are certainly to be commended for you refusal to be caught in the
The books of a corporation doing a. million dollars worth of
business a your me about as illuminating as the moon on a cloudy night A
brief combustion: of the books would prove nothing.
it not days of sturdy by an expert accountant to discover the profits or 1.505.. 1!
es of such I. cmcern, the cost of manufacturing the sugar, the entries that. '
might be nude here and there (or «totaling the profits, etc.
frankness and honesty of purpose bfy ti: manufacturers l'e sham. and lay-poo.
‘o‘r .
the the SWOIN deterrents of the manufacturers
"(may embers “ their Associates; but anything less than that win revue-hr.

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ly pay demurraae charges. That one
car recently changed hands at: times
a day, each purchaser making a prof-
it of approximately 3'25, without one
of then seeing the ear—the bill or
ladi—ng being sold. People outside
Michigan—one of the best potato

set, and much deplet-
ed of its original fer-
tility by the forest fires which burn:
ed of the vegetable matter, the
dropping of years» leaving only the
bare, bleak sand, which was disap—
pointing and bound! to be till there
oughly renovated and nourished by
the turning under oz! green manure
in the shape of rye and. red clover.
In my experience. on a forty at this
lead I found that wiser: the common
red clover would not grow the man»
mesh cost em“ smoothed, and
than is nothing better to! soil on-
richment than a m crop of this

Ilmclmww. . .
, A Mom! at the writer. missions!
a Mymmtrmaninglttfie.

city. 0: this forty was a mad at
several mes: that had been. so long

neglected it us become a desert of

drifting 53142.“?th the rest at the
tar- wm a valuable loam, this spot
was lee-less. Hy friend wasn’t to be
balked, however, and be mapped out

. a plan of campaign that he believed

would redeem the sand plot.

The first year he sowed rye, which
in itsel! is a very poor substitute for
clover. This he plowed under in
early summer, renewing the rye with
a seeding of clever. The succeeding
season was dry. The rye did well,
but no. report from the clever. .

It required four years to fetch that
said! not Mo (utility The fourth

  

By J. 1W. MERRILL

growing states in the.» conntry~ger
the food cheaper than we do.”

As a result of this meeting the» fell-
lowi‘ng resolution. was adopted and"
later posted in. all the eating places
in the city:

“Resolved, that the present mar-

few acres so long gly-
en over to non-produc-
tion were the most valuable acres on
the farm.

Knowing how, mixed with a little
stick-to-ii‘tiveness does the work, and
such. work is destined in time to
bring up the greater part of our
light soils to productivity second to
none.“ I raised 100 bushels of line
potatoes: to the acre on “pine sand"
with at least thirty stumps dotting
the were. Afterward, with the re-
moval of the stumps and a few sow-
tngs of” mam-10th clover turned In-
der.tlroland wasseeondte-noueim

nail themes” round producing an-
:nmlbnhrneoeoeotmhingas
meals. heavy clay oath: in. the imme-

diate vicinity, and! with one half the
work that hot sun and continuous
rains lulled upon the heavy land
{arm

One of these sand farms propertly
rejuvenated makes a better all
around term than does the heavier
soils- More ditcrent crops can be
produced on and loans, made loamy
by repeated clover fertilizing than
on the clay lands. These soils can
be worked late in the fall and early.
in the spring which is an advantage
that will readily be recognized.

Speaking about grapes. The
heavy—lenders made a few- essays at
yinygrddng with indilerent success,
while on my and be. the lucious
fruit new to Who. lly latch
ct Roth was the m at even

.one of these so um
dell“

ket price of potatoes is extremely in-
flated and unreasonable. Therefore.
omit potatoes and help beat the mar-
ket.”

The publication of this resolution
soon showed its effects in a slacken-
ed demand for .pota-toes. Retailers
claimed that they could not sell for
the prices suggested as they had
paid more than that for their sup-
plies. Commission. merchants put up
the same plea. But the consumer
was obdurate and consumption rap-
idly dropped. The market immedi-
ately began to wobble and prices
slumped off 5.0 cents to a dollar per
150 pounds. The high prices of Mich-
igan stock had also encouraged the
importation. of Canadian spuds, large
quantities of these arriving by boat
from Windsor. As a result of these
conditions the Detroit potato market
is in a somewhat shaky condition this
week.

Detroit Movement Spreads

The boycott idea quickly spread
from Detroit to adjacent towns. In
Mount Clemens it is, estimated that
potato consumption has been reduc-
ed a third, and similar results are-
reported from Lansing, Saginaw and
other Michigan cities.

In New York federal agents raid-
ed the ofl'ices of the big. packers and
commission firms, and representa-
tives of Wilson. & Company, Swift &
00., Armour & 00., and the New
York and New Jersey Produce Com-v
pany were arrested for profiteeriug.
One produce man was charged with
having purchased 45,000 pounds of
Maine potatoes and rte-selling them
at a profit of 62 per cent. Another
was accused of having sold for $13.50
a'hundred. potatoes they had bought
for $0.75 a hundred.

Chicago Dealers Under Scrutiny

It is reported that thirty or more
of the largest potato dealers in Chi-
cago are to be indicted for profiteer-
ing. “Government action was con-
temp-l‘ated: following the exposure of
the fact that dealers were holding
big quantities of loodstuxfl‘s in rail-
read yards to m-aiintatn high prices."

Potato Shortage Acute

Reports trom all sections of Mich-
igan indicate an acute shortage of
potatoes, both for seed and consump-
tion purposes. It is stated that so
many farmers have been lured by
the high prices to sell their last
spud. that a seed shortage is immi-
nent, and that Michigan may have a
short crop this year it the farmers
are obliged to depend upon home-
grown seed.

heavy land farmer for miles around.
and I soon had enough customers
among these to take care of all I had
to sell.

The rolling sand hills are the nat-
ural home oi the peach. While
peaches can be grown on the heavy
soils, and many of them are thus
grown, the sand kaolin, after having
been fitted with the proper food, are
the supreme delight of the peach
grower. Elberta peaches, the great
shipping trait, grows to perfection
forms and edibil‘lty on these hills.

A neighbor raised peaches on buvy
soil. His Elbertas were not two;
thirds the size, nor anywhere near
as nicely colored as were mine grown
on a sand hill the soil of which had
been brought to a state of exceeding
fertility by the proper administration
of mannres and culture.

It may be well to emphasize here ‘
the necessity of constant cultural
methods to produce the most satisfy-
ing results.

While the cities, because of the
high wages brought about by the war.
are growing just now at the expense
of the country, there’s going to be a
reaction before long, and when that.
time arrives the sand lands of the ~
one time lumber region will come”-
lnto its own. Rightly farmed there}.
is no better place tor the consciou-
tious and determined men than on:

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‘ V HAVE prepared for the readers of
this paper three articles 'on the
subject of vegetable matter of
0118.. This is justifiable because of
the tremendous importance a proper
amount of this material in the soil
has upon productivity. In fact ev-
ryon'e who has had experience in
arming and especially in attempts
at raising soil productivity realizes
that the increase of this material in
many and its maintenance in others
is of utmost concern to the Michi—
gan farmers. This is popularly spok-
en of, as vegetable, organic—matter
and humus respectively. Suffice it to
'say that organic matter is derived
‘ from both animal and plant life and
‘that the term humus refers to eith-
er or both of these when partially de-
cayed or rotted.

The organic matter in soils is very
complex. It exists in various stages
of decomposition some being made up
-.of undecomposed' roots, stems and
leaves of plants, some of partially de-
cayed and some is composed of waxy
{materiaL The majority of the mass
iis composed of non-nitrogenous com—
;pounds. There are in addition, al-
though in much smaller amounts, ni-
trogenous compounds from the de-
composition of which nitrates are
furnished to the plant; inorganic or
mineral constituents. The latter ex-
ists as salts in the cells, as crystals,
. as incrustation and as organized
bodies or part of living matter. In-
.jcluded among others are the phos—
lphates, carbonates, and sulphates of
calcium magnesium and potassium.
When the organic matter decays or
is leached in the soil some of these
compounds become available for the
' ‘crops, unless removed in some man-
ner before being taken up.

fine to its influence on the physical
condition of the soil organic matter
is important. Some of these effects
are increased somewhat of the water
holding capacity, the absorption of
gases, and numerous inorganic com-
pounds; alters the tilth or makes
good structure of soils, tending to
bind together the particles of the
coarse sands, thereby decreasing the
porosity, the excessive aeration and
percolation of water through them.
It prevents the crusting of the sur-
face of very fine sandy soils by heavy
rains, and also materially decreases
' the erosion of soil by both rain and

water.
} The chemical effects of

organic
matter are none the less important
than the physical. As indicated

above, organic matter contains all
' the essential elements of plant food.
rUpon decomposition these are liber-
ated and become direct sources of
plant food. During the decomposi-
tion of organic matter there are
formed several substances such as
carbon dioxide and others that as-
sist in breaking down mineral mat-
ter of the soil and thus increase the
available plant food elements.

;b The organic matter content of vir-
gin soils varies with climate and the
' moisture content, texture and depth
1 from the surface and with the na-
tive. vegetation. A large number of
x virgin soils taken from regions
widely different conditions of cli-
mate were found to possess the

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This sandy soil produced about thirty bushels of wheat per acre when first formed. Because

of depletlon of organlc matter It I! useless today.

amount of this valuable constituent
as given in the following table:
Sandy Soils

' - Surface Subsoil

N. E. U. S. ........ 1.66 .60
S. E. U. S. ......... .93 .41
No. Central ....... 1.84 .76
So. Central .......1.16 .55
Semiarid states . . . . .99 .62
Arid states ........ .89 .64
Loam and clay soils

’ Surface Subsoil

N. E. U. S. ........ 3.73 1.35
S. E. U. S. ........ 1.53 .73
No. Central ....... 3.06 1.07
So. Central ....... 1.80 .65
Semi arid states ...2..64 1.11
Arid states ....... 1.05 .62
It is notable that. these results

show somewhat higher amounts of
organic matter in soils of cooler re—
gions, higher rainfall, fine texture,
and larger quantities in the surface
than in the subsoils.

Prairie soils invariably contain
more organic matter than adjacent
timber soils. This is due to the fact
that grasses with their network of
fibrous roots as well as stem and leaf
growth, effective agents in the accu-
mulation of vegetable matter, do not
thrive on timbered areas. The chief
source of the material in the timber
are the leaves and twigs that fall on
the surface of the timbered lands
which decay or are burned by forest
fires. The average amount of veg-

etable matter in a large number of -

timbered soils was 1.93 in prairie
soils 4.5 per cent.

Soils of high water content usual-
ly contain large quantities of vege-
table matter. This is active in two
ways. ‘In the first place it favors
plant growth and in the second place
where the soils are very wet much of
the year the rate of decay is slower
than it is in soils of somewhat lower
water content. This effect is exem-
plified by a comparison of swamp
and upland soils. A fair basis for
judging and comparing different
kinds of soil would be about as given
in the table below:

Class Poor Good
Medium sand. per cent .1 2.85
F‘ine sand, per cent . . .2 4.5
Loam,’per cent . . . . . . . 3.5 6.5
Clay, per cent . . . . . . . .4.5 7.5

Organic matter to be effective in
aiding crop production must decay.
There are several conditions that af-
fect its rate of decomposition in the
soil, namely, mechanical condition,
stage of decay, composition, tempera-
ture; moisture content of the soil.
soil texture, tillage, nature of sur-
face, lime, and depth from the sur-
face. ' . * - '

Stable manure and plant residues

decay morejurapidly when finely di—v

vided than they do when in a-coar‘se
condition. Upon this principle 'in the
main . is'based ;th_e ~practice of "free-
quently working"? recently drained
muck lands‘previou-s :to Crop produc-
tion, as well as the dieintegratidn of.
manure, cornstalks and other
farm products.

The initial decay. of matures, root-s-
stems, and leaves" er: DW'"E.1D' ring?
"soil is more rapid than" ‘the”r'lator.:>
s-tager- alt iehould'slie qundfimodthat

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the more resistant material and yet
be unproductive. In other words
smaller quantities of active material
in the soil may be more effective than
larger,quantities of old and less act-
ive stuff. However, the “rate of de-
composition of the older material may
be speeded up as is shown later on.

The composition of the vegetable
matter added to a soil affects the
rate of decay. As a rule the rate de-
creases with an increase of the
amount of fibre present. Inasmuch
as plants at maturity and when ripe
contain more of this than they do in
earlier stages of development, it is
not advisable to permit green ma-
nuring crops to become mature be-
fore turning them back to the land
unless a. slower rate of decomposition
is desired. Moreover, corn stalks
and cereal straws decay more slowly
in the soil inasmuch as they contain
less nitrogenous matter,

High soil temperatures result in a
more rapid decay than low ones pro—
vided the soil is moist. The rate/is
quite slow when the temperature is
forty degrees or less, but it may be
more than two and one-half times as
rapid at a temperature of about six-
ty degrees.

This factor or condition accounts
for the very rapid depletion of veg-
etable matter in the soil of regions
of long growing seasons, the temper-
atures suitable for decay being of
much longer duration than it is in
the soils to the northward.

Rotting of vegetables in the soil
proceeds most rapidly when the wa-
ter content is about the same as that
for maximum plant growth and ap-
proaches that content at which till-
age is not easily and effectively per-
formed. It is commonly spoken of
as the optimum water content. Eith-
er avery wet or a very dry soil is
undesirable for this action. A de-
ficiency of water in light soils doubt-
less sometimes accounts in a large

(measure for poor returns from spring

applications of stable manure.

Decay takes place more rapidly in
moist sands than it does in finer tex-
tured soils. This is due in part to
the higher temperature in the spring,
in part to better drainage but doubt-
less the excessive aeration is largely
responsible for it. Such being the
case a given amount of manure or
crop residues do not endure so long
in the light soils as in heavy ones.

.02 course provision should be made
, for repeating the operation at short-

er intervals in case of the former.
Tillage operations hasten the rate
of rotting of vegetable matter in the
soil. This is due probably to the
increased aeration of the soil, dis-
semination ofgerms in the soil and
surfaces.
This, of coarsermeans that‘soilslong
under cultivation contain much less
of the valuable material than in the

xvi‘rgln state,;'the changes that itflh‘as

undergone. depending in, a large

measure upon the system ofiarming.

:Rowi'or ' cultivated crops, cause. more

   

ans-f samples

in Renewing, soils Fertility .

samples were collected from incl-n V

. of organic matter.

nth!!! do -.-small grating 59; 3'

9‘ that is uncrop‘ped andsoiidlonguun- _ '
, It is;.;lmpractieeble ‘ *
to present,~the detailed results-"worn:-
these studies in this article», ut; «the ’

der cultivation;

conditions 'withgr'espect to -t- _ chang-
es in the vegetable. matterwcontent"
of the majority of the forms . are -
striking. In many cases the crop-
ped lands contain less than one-half ’
as much as the virgin soil (while in
others less than one-fourt as much
and (“in a few instances the Cropped
soils contained as much'or more than
the virgin. Where the latter condi-
tion maintained' either much , live
stock has been fed or much manure 7
shipped in from the stockyards. '

A broad view of the situation may
beobtained by an examination of the
following figures: ‘ . ,
Soil Organic ’ matter
Virgin, per cent ..............54
Cropped, per cent .28
Loss, per cent ...............26

It is notable that the systems -of
farming appreciably affects the loss
Usually livestock
brings results in a less striking'de-
crease than grain farming. Of
course, if livestock are raised and the
manure voided carelessly handled
and little of it returned to the land
and the second growth of clover is
removed by grazing. the losses en-
tailed may be as large or larger than
if grain farming is followed.

Another point to consider is that
the rate of decay is less where the
land is covered by vegetation than it
is where it is devoid of it. Thus
when we add the effects of tillage and
that of uncoveredsoils we find that
thepractice of summer plowing is a
very destructive one.

Sumcient lime in the soil favors.
rotting of organic matter. It is ef-

_ fective in this respect because it fav-

ors the development of lower organ-
isms or forms of life'that cause the
decay of vegetable matter. It is es-
pecially valuable in speeding up to
some extent the decay of old or rath-
er lnert forms. This should not be
taken as a criticism of the proper use
of lime. This will be discussed in
detail later on.

The rate of decay as affected by
depth from the surface of the soil is
important. It has _ recently been
shown that clover hay decays more
rapidly if left on the surface of heav
soils than it does when incorporated
in the furrow slice. Moreover, the
rate rapidly decreases below the
depth of ordinary plowing.

At the Ohio Agricultural Experi-
ment Station equal amounts of clever
hay were added to two plots of rath—
er heavy soil. In one case it was left
on the surface, in the“other it was
incorporated in the soil mass by the
means of a spade. The application.
was made on October 12 and on May
5 or 206 days later 66 per cent had
decayed .on the surface and 28 per
cefit where‘it was ‘mixed with the
so .

With sands somewhat greater
depths are required to effectively re-
duce the rate then with fine textured
soils. Examination of fence posts-
that have been in soils of different
texture and drainage throws light
upon this subject. The accompany-
ing figure after Tikken, illustrates.
the effect of tekture, water content.-
and depth upon the rotting of organ-
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p FOR L6, these many years,

. every agricultural interest in

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7- congress spectator “piece-

nit-tee.

V bills have to do
« manufactured produc t s »
Jittlae opposition is en-_

7’ States. When the

,has been given the
tries” of the country, not alone while .

tears it to pieces, or re-

  
   

rose has sinned with favor- up0n
certain interests of the" United
, manufacturing,
industrial, commercial, mining, rail-
road and other interests generally
associated with ‘_‘Big Business" want-

' led any special legislation they sent

eent their high-priced lawyer-lobby-

ists to washington, and by a little

“touching of the palm" here and a
little manhandling there, they usual-
ly got what they went after. Times
haven’t- changed greatly either. Ev-
ery legitimate legislative assistance
"infant indus-

they were toddling upon the legs of.
immaturity, but long, long after
they had begun to walk and support
themselves. Congress has been
kind to Big Business. Tariff land
grants, oil and mining leases- etc.,
have been freely given. As a result

industry has thrived and prospered

as never before in the history of any
country.

We have no word of, censure for
what has been done through legisla—-

tion to’assist the. development of
American industry. On the con-
trary we approve of it. The United

States could not have enjoyed an
era of such amazing prosperity had
it not been for the supporting arm of
a solicitous government. It may be
all very true that everycitizen has
not received a proportionate benefit
from this governmental paternalism.
We rather think that it has been re-
sponsible in a measufe for the cre-
ation of the great private fortunes of
the country. Nevertheless, the mass
of people have been benefited indi-
rectly, and probably would not have
had the government done otherwise.

But what Congress has done and-

still stands willing to do for the in—
dustrial interests of the country, it
ought to "be equally ready to do for
others. But it is a matter of record
that agriculture has been repeatedly
snubbed by Congress, and labor has
received but little more considera-
tion.” To be sure. there is the De-
partment of Agriculture, to which
every Congressman points with a
reproving finger when agriculture
accuses Congress of showing favor-
itism to others, but bestowing none
upon husbandry.

“Ah, you forget, my good man "
says Congress, “that we passed the
Federal Farm Loan Act for the
farmers " But if “my good man"
has his wits with him he will retort,
"Yes, you did after you had passed
the Federal Reserve Act for the com-
mercial interests."

We could cite a score of worthy
measure of benefit to agriculture
which have been pigeon—holed in
Congress. We could mention others
that finally became laws only because
the
country sent its representative to
Washington who fought the bills
through tooth and nail. When the
commercial people want any favors
of Congress they are received with
wide open arms and a “what-can-we-
do-for-you” pat on the s oulder. In
every-committee and on t efloor of
each house the commercial bill has
its friends who tenderly nourish it
along. But when an agricultural bill
is introduced, Congress glares and
says. “what do you want here?," and
if that: doesn’t take the

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leagues, and 7773, 44" ‘dustry and the
A latter will stan - - , bean industry.
for, nothing‘ or Special Tariff Bills Passed ‘ For the follow-
Lilittttifl‘iiifiti House of Representatives iii ‘Efiiuntm‘éf
al‘ solons. At PECI’AL bills have been re- money invested

least, that’s the
way it‘ looks. A
tariff bill levying
a duty on the im-
ports of an arti-
cle that comes
into competition
with a domestic—
manufactured ar-
ticle invariably
receives the sup-‘
port of both rur—
al and urban Re-
publican m e m-
bers. But a bill
levying arduty on
agricultural pro-
ducts is often op-
posed by a pro-
tectionist w h o
hails from the
Mty on the
grounds that it
will increase the
cost of living to.
the consumer.

Dyestuffs.

agriculture.)

ported out of the House

. Ways and Means commit-
tee and passed by the House of
Representatives providing for
a term on the following art-
icles: Tungsten: Ores, Magnes-
ite; Zinc Ore, Pigs, Sheets and
‘“ Dust and Zinc compounds;
Pearl and Shell Buttons, Chem-
ical Porcelain and Glassware,
Laboratory Apparatus and Sur-
gical and Dental Instruments;

(Please note that none of
the abeve bills (which are the
only swial tariff bills passed
by the House this
Congress) are of any benefit to

Agricultural Tariff Bills Still
,4 Pending Before Ways and
Means Committee

The Osborne bill providing
for duty of 2 cents per pound

and the number
of people employ-
ed in the pearl
button industry,

6 are indebted
to the American
Economist which
publishes an ex-
tract of the ar-
guments present-
ed in behalf of
the bill by Sena-
tor Curtis of
Kansas, as fol-
lows:

“The question
of protecting the
fresh-water pearl
button industry
in this country is
not a new one.
These producers
have factories in
17 states and em-
ploy over 20,000
people and have

session of .

Sponsor 5 o f on beans; a bill providing dut- invested in the
special tariff bills ies on cattle, sheep, swine, business, exclus-
on agricultural horses, mules; on corn meal, ive of stocks of

products are re-

minded that “it wheat flour;

 

 

oats, rye, wheat and rye and
on citrus fruits;

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is a terribly hard on wheat and potatoes, All of on hand, about
job to get these these bills were introduced' $3,500,000. The
‘plece-meal’ bills early in the session. They are production f o r
thro ugh. ” So still in the Ways and Means 1914 was over
when the Diece— Committee of which Congress. 21,000,000 gross
meal hill 8088 t0 ll man Fordney of Michigan is valued at $4--
the morgue its . chairman. 879,844, which
friends are usual- .. would be an av-
ly Prepared for erage of 22. 5

the obsequies.

'Protecting the Pearl Button Industry

A striking example of the elastic-

ity of “protection” and the difference
in the reception given to bills of ag-
ricultural and industrial import is
found in a comparison of the prea-
ent status of the respective bills pro-
tecting pearl buttons and beans.
’ H. R. 7705, “placing a duty on
pearl ’buttons and shell buttons, fin-
ished or unfinished, of one and one-
half cents per line per gross and 15
per centum ad valorem; etc.," passed
the‘HOuse September 2nd, was pre-
sented to the Senate September 8rd,
and referred to the Finance Commit-
tee. Reported to the Senate by the
Finance Committee March 22. with-
out amendment.

Purpose of this bill is to protect
the pearl button industry against the
competition of cheap Japanese labor.

H. R. 7787, “on beans, not special-
ly provided for, of 2 cents per pound,
etc." This bill was introduced in

lthe early part of last October. Hear-

ings Were held before the House
Ways and Means Committee on 0c-
tober 13 and 18, representatives be-
ing present from every important
bean state of the Union. This bill
still reposes in the committee, and
Mr. Fordney says that it will not be
reported out during thepresent ses-

‘sion of Congress.

The Relative Importance of the Two
Industries

Some amusing things are disclos-

ed in a comparison of the relative im-

 

cents per gross.
”The cost of producing buttons in
Japan is very much less than in this
country, and in recent years the in-
dustry has been greatly developed
in that country. In 1912 Japan ex—
ported 5,000,000 gross, and in 1916

‘her exports amounted to 15, 000, 000

gross. In 1917 and 1918 they ex-
ported to this country a cheap but-
ton sewn on cards, and these cheap
buttons displaced domestic buttons
of a better quality.

' “The average price per gross of
buttons imported in 1917 and 1918
was 20. 4 cents per gross. The Jap-
anese are sending large quantities of
the cheaper grade of buttons to this
country. In February, 1919, the do-
mestic production was about 1,400,-
000 gross, while the imports from
Japan amounted to 690,000 grossin
that month. It is evident that unless
the present duties on pearl buttons
are increased the importation from
Japan will greatly increase. and when
conditions have changed in Germany
and Austria, or upon‘the resumption
of trade with those countries, large
importations will come from their
factories. The evidence p'i‘oduced be-
fore your committee clearly shows
that Japan is flooding the American

market with buttons made by the
cheap labor of that country.
“In Japan the wages paid to

those employed in the button indus-
try is an average of about 15 cents
per day, while in this country factor-
ies are paying from $2. 50 to $3 per
day for similar labor.

 

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‘90f.Congresezonal Discrimination Between Manufactured and Agricultural Products

By THE EDITOR ‘ --

“Under the tariff of 1909 the im-
ports of buttons from Japan were
not very large, but in 1913 the
amount imported from Japan reach-
ed the number of 284,437 gross, val- »
ued at $56,892, but the reduction ‘
in duty, the change from specific to’
ad valorem, to 45 per cent ad valorem
below the twenty-sixth line and 88
per cent above, caused a great in-
crease the first year, and the impor-
tation in 1914 amounted to 739,961
gross. valued at $185,149» and in
1917 the importations amounted to
over 5, 000, 000 gross valued at $918, -
000, and in 1918 the importations of
buttons from Japan was of the value
of $1,145,000. This great increase
in the importation of pearl buttons
from Japan and the great decrease in
the production in this country is
ample evidence that in a short time
the manufacture of fresh-water pearl
buttons in this country will cease,
unless it is given such protection as
will enable the producers to compete
with the buttons produced by the
poorly paid labor of Japan.”

Importance of Bean Industry ,

At the hearing on the bean bill last
fall, Mr. Aaron Sapiro, attorney for
the California Bean Growers' Ass'n,
presented figures showing the im-
portance of the bean industry which
involves several times over the
amount of money invested, the la-
bor employed, and the value of the
product, in the pearl button indus-
try.

Mr. Sapiro testified that the bean ..
lands of the United States represent
a value of over $250,000,000. In
addition to that there are county
warehouses and elevators for the
purpose of handling beans, having
an estimated value of about $30,-
000,000. Then there are cleaners
and hand picking equipment valued
at $15,000,000.

“There are ‘a great many people
employed in the bean industry in
the United States. It is estimated
that there are over 70-000 actual
bean growers in this country— al-
most 30,0‘00 in Michigan alone; and
over‘100,000 working on bean farms,
devoted primarily to the bean in-
dustry. There are over 6,000 em-
ployed in warehouses; in cleaning
and picking, over 10,000; and about
1, 000 employee in clerical work.

“The average value of the bean
crop in the United States has been
around $100, 000, 000 a. year "

Additional Facts

It was argued by the bean dele-
gates to the above mentioned hear-
ing that there were special circum-
stances why the bean growers of the
-United States should be given pro-
tection against foreign competition.
Facts were presented showing that
after the Grain Corporation, through
Mr. Kimball, had encouraged the
pea bean growers to increase their
acreage, Mr. Kimball had, acting in
the name of the government purchas-
ed enormous quantities of pintos and
Japanese Kotenashis, thereby forcing
the pea bean growers to throw their
supplies on the open and over-loaded
market, causing them a great finan-
cial loss.

The Ways and Means Committee
was urged to take these facts into
consideration and help to make par-
tial amends for the injury and in-
justice done growers by government.

 

wind out of its propon-
ents sails, the committee

fuses to report it out "be-.

cause the President might

veto it.”

“Piece-Meal” Tariff Bills
At: every session of

meal” tariff bills are in- ,’
troduced and hearings are ’ ‘
held before the House
Ways and Means Coma
If these tariff
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The conclusion after "a
careful comparison of
these facts is that the
bean growers of the Unit-
ed States are being dis-
criminated against. With
for without the assistance
of congressman Fordney
the bean tariff should .
have received equal con-
sideration with the term
bills that have been re-

. ported out of committee.
With so much in favor of
the proposed bill and a‘
committee chairman rep- .
resenting one of the most

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NATIONAL SHIP BY TRUCK WEEK
. PLANNED

National Ship by Truck—Good

Roads Week, to be observed'May 17-

22, indlusive, is being planned

throughout the country, according to

Washington Headquarters of the
Ship by Truck Bureau.
Tentative plans include motor

truck tours lasting through the week
and covering virtually every section
of the country, according to reports
received from sixty-five cities where
branch offices have been established
Good road-s organizations and asso-
ciations intoxicated in unqtcr truck
transportation will form the nucleus,
it is said, of a temporary organiza-
tion to promote activities during the
Week. Virtually every rural section
of the country from coast to coast
will be traversed by caravans of
motor trucks during Ship by Truck—
Good Roads Week, giving practical
demonstrations of the utility of
truck transportation and preaching
the doctrine of better highways.

.Other plans include essays by
school children, sermons and the dis-
tribution of literature, all designed
to arouse interest in a national pro-
gram of highway construction along
lines advocated! by such organizations
as the American Automobile Chamber
of Commerce, the National Grange,
the United States Chamber of Com-
merce, the National Automobile
Chamber of Commerce, the National
Association of Motor Truck Sales
Managers, and the Ship by Truck Bu-
reau. '

Endorsements from government of-
ficials, Senators, Congressmen and
educators haVe been receiVed.

Governors of various states are ex-
pected to issue Ship by Truck—Good
Roads Week proclamations:

“We need a broadened policy which
will concentrate Government funds on
national highways releasing State
and County funds for use on State
and County roads,” says
Charles E. Townsend, author of the
Townsend Good Reads Bill, discus-
sing the possibilities of the _week.
“Nothing could be more valuable,”
he continues, “than a national dis-
cussion of this question such as that
proposed during the National Ship by
Truck—Good Roads Week.”

Professor R. C. Atkeson, Washing-
ton representatives ot the NatiOnal
Grange, says: ”I. heartily approve

the general idea inVOIVed in Ship by .

Truck Week and the study and atten-
tion that will thereby be directed to

the problems of highways, transports;

tion and distribution."

 

MANY CARS OF LME FOR FARMS

During the month of February Cass
county farmers bought 365 tons of
ground lime from the Solvay Process
company of near Detroit for use in
fertilizing their farms. At the same
time 470 tons were bought by Van
Buren county farmers, 337 by Ber-
rien farmers and 315 tons went into
Barry county.

Figures for March are not yet out,
but it is known that seven carloads
of this time were bought by five
Wayne county farmers, who bought
direct and estimate that the seven
cars made a total of over 300 tons.

Much of this purchase will go to
starting a field of alfalfa, while some
will be used, in sweetening the soil
and en 'ching it for other crops.
The eff ts of this outlay will be
noticeable for several years, with the
expense paying ,for itself the first
year in most cases. -

 

COURT PROTECTS PURE PAINT
MAKERS , -

The Federal Trade Commission has

‘ ruled that the Penn Lubric Oil 00.,

,trading as Midwest Linseed Oil and
Paint 00., Kansas City, Kan, respon-

L,‘."fdent in a formal complaint issued by

the Commission, refrain from certain

' " unfair methods of competition inthe

. manufacture'an‘d sale ,0: oils, greases
and kindred products. . ‘ ,

The Cmiss’icg's ruling is on‘ the

011019711189?” .: (1) Falsely rep-

motel:

Senator "

~ on the corresponding date.

   
  

hr Wheels. advertise.
Mitch-on - or

equipment or plus of business; (2)

gelling linseed oil which has been.

mixed with low grade mineral oil and
other ingredients as “Commercial
Raw Linseed Oil Not Sold or Intend-
ed for Medicinal Purposes", without
indicating to the purchaser that the
same is adulterated; (3) selling or
arvertising for sale linseed oil when
the product sold or advertised has
been adulterated with baser mineral
oil, chemicals or other ingredients,
unless it is clearly and distinctly
shown to the purchaser the true char-
acter of the product offered; (4) sell-
ing or offering to sell in any manner
paints, oils, greases, etc., which have
been adulterated or which cantali-n
adulterated ingredients, as and for
pure products.

BANKERS SUPPORTING DAIRY
CATTLE MEN .

Financial backing for dairy men
who wish to build up their industry
through the introduction of purebred
foundation stock has been guaran-
teed in at least one Michigan coun-
ty. At a recent meeting of Guernsey
breeders in Berrien county, the First
National Bank of Watervliet‘ went on
record as ready to loan up to $50,000
to men who want to purchase pure-
bred Guernsey stock.

Berrien is already one or the lead-
ing Guernsey counties of the whole
middle west, and the plans now call
for the importation of at least 100
additional head of purebred females.
This foundation stock is expected to
give a tremendous boost to the in-
dustry in this section of the state.

“There is no better way to devel-
op the livestock interests of the state
than on the co-operative community
basis,” says J. A. W-aldron, Dairy
Extension Specialist at the Michigan
Agricultural College. "Co-operative
purchase of foundation stock (as the

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dairy products; and advertising and .

 

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Berrien county iii-cedars are plan-
ning at present) purchasing .and- in- .

terchnnging of high class, tried
co-operative marketing of

marketing of surplus cattle, are
among the possibilities of Community
.work. ' ‘

“The outlook for purebred cattle
breeders of the state is unusually
bright at the present time. Present
conditions in the dairy industry de-
mand that producers use the most
efficient 'machines' possible. and the
demand for high class stock is cer-
tain to increase.”

 

GLEANERS NEGOTIATING AT
SCOTTVILLE, FIFE LAKE

A farmers’ mass meeting was held

in Community hall at Scottville and

Nathan F. Simpson of the Gleaner

Clearing House Ass’n of Grand Rap-

. ids presented a proposition of joining

with the Gleaners in the ownership
of the Scottville Produce Co.

L. A. Siple of Greenville addressed -.

a large gathering of Gleaners at Fife
Lake in the interests of the Glean-
er Clearing House Association.
It is probable the Fife Lake
Gleaner Warehouse association will
become an integral or a co-operative
part of the proposed $1,000,000 state
Gleaner Clearing House organization
with headquarters in Grand Rapids.

VERMONTVILLE FARMERS To
BUY ELEVATOR. _

The newly organized farmers' co-
operative Citizens Elevator company
0f Vermontville, has completed nego-
tiations for the C. A. Anderson & Son
elevator there. the first payment ‘01
the price agreed upon, $15,555, hav-
ing been paid last week. The eleva-
tor will] be turned over to the new
company July 1. .

 

Late Michigan Crop Report

HE outlook for winter wheat and

rye is somewhat better than the

average of past 10 years as shown
by recent reports furnished to the
Michigan Co~0perative Crop Report-
ing Service. The joint report issued
by Coleman 0. Vaughan, Secretary
of State and Verne H. Church, Field
Agent, U. 8. Bureau of Crop Esti-
mates, for April 1, also shows that
these grains have wintered well un-
der the prevailing favorable weather
conditions, although the production
indicated is not as large as that of
last year. The supply of farm labor
is far short of farm needs and much
less than the normal supply. How—
ever, the demand has not increased
over last year, and it is only slightly
greater than normal. for the reason
that wages. are higher than most
farmers can afford to pay. The ma-
jority of farmers will do what work
is possible without hiring, so that
many farms will not be worked to
their full capacity and many will not
be wdrked at all this year.
condition will undoubtedly cause a
reduced crop production in Michigan
this year.

Winter Wheat.

The condition of winter wheat is
86 per cent, or 6 per cent less than
on December 1, and 9gper cent be-
low the condition of last year’s croip
It a
still three percent better than the
ten-year average for April 1. There

was a relatively heavy snow cover:

ing throughout the winter, but on
rolling and hilly lands high winds
caused the snow to drift badly, leav-
ing the tops of hills bare. There was
considerable damage done last fall
by the Hessian fly in many southern
counties. On the whole, the crop
is in a satisfactory condition except
in occasional localities. March was
unusually favorable for the‘ crop.

The estimated amount of wheat
marketed at mills andmeievatorn in
the state during March is 514,000
bushels, .or a total .\of 10,803,000
bushels since August 1, 1919} x .
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is less flattering, as the condition is
only 75.5 per cent as compared with
99.8 one year ago, and 84.1. the ten-
year average. This low condition
combined with the marked decrease
in acreage indicates a total winter
wheat crop of only 483,617,000
bushels last year. ‘ ;
Rye '

As is usual, rye shows a better
condition than ‘wheat in the state,
beingp92 per cent as compared with
95 per cent on December 1, 96 per
cent one year ago, and a ten-year av-
erage of 88 per cent. Practically no
complaint regarding the outlook for
the crop was received from any sec-
tion.

Rye promises a total crop in the
United States of 75,841,000 bushels
as against 88,478,000 bushels last
year, the condition being 86.8 per
cent. The average one year ago
was 90.8 per cent and the ten, year
average. 89.0 per cent.

Breeding Sows \

The usual inquiry relative to the
number of breeding sows on farms
shows that there are three per cent
less than last year and five per cent
less than the usual number. There
was an increase immediately follow-

- ing the war, but the relatively high

price of feeds in comparison with the
price of pork has discouraged the in-
creasing of herds and caused there-

duction for the United States as an

whole is ten per cent. ‘

Labor Supply and Demand

The‘supply oi! labor on Michigan
farms is-only 80 per cent of that of
one year ago and 60‘per cent of nor-
mal. Notwithstanding this marked
shortage, the demand is only about
equal to that of last you. The
wages are too high to warrant the

hiring of the amount of labor need-

ed to fully operate the farms. ,
. The supply for the, United Static!
as a whole 1187.3 percent 913131:

  

year and 73.4'1301‘00R‘9Q‘; "Wm
‘wh’iie‘thc demandilihe‘ihf tn _ "
in about ,_

     

’ GM‘NNILL:

STATE
vom

rotary 01: state showing how much
grain, the different kinds, and the
acreage they tin-celled, has been de-
clared unconstitutional by Judge Col—
lins of Owcso. He directed a. verdict
of\ not guilty in thine case of 'W. A.
McAvoy, who operated his. machines

magma Law. Rum!) '

after his state license had been revolt:

ed for failure to make the report.
'The defense attacked the law as
confiscmtbry in that it did not pay

threshers for making out reports.’

Federation of Labor, and J. C. Scan-
nell, secretary, swore that the aw was
of no benefit to the laboring classes.

The prosecution claimed the law
was adopted in 1917 as a war meas-
ure, at the request of the federal gov»

ernmen-t, which desired statistics on

the nationr’s‘ food resources. The at-
torney generall’s department was rep-
resented at the tridl.

FARMERS SHOW THE WAY.

According to the bureau of mar-
kets, department of agriculture, the
farmers of the United States have or-
ganized nearly 200 mutual fire in-

\ Carl Young. president of the Michigan ‘

surance associations which have in'

force policies totaling $6,000,000.
Practically all of this business is done
on a co-operative, non-profit basis
and the companies have been uni-
formly successful. They pay their
losses promptly and they give their
members a chance to obtain insur-
ance protection practically at cost,
says the February Sunset.

The farmers were forced to go
into the co-operative fire insurance
business because the commercial fire
insurance companies either declined
to write policies covering country
property or else charged prohibitive
rates. They were doing well and

‘ making good money on their city

business. This attitude of the com-
mercial companies was a good thing
for the firmers—it compelled them
to save’money on their insurance
through co-operation.

Propertyowners in the cities are
continuing to pay the
companies a fat profit. Some day
they’ll take, organizeco—operate and
put that profit into their own pock-
ets. The farmers have shown them
how to do it.

STATE OWNED FLOUR MILLS IN
NORTH DAKOTA

Five state owned flour
plants will be'erected by North Da-
kota, according to plans announced
by J. H. McGovern. manager of the
State Mill and Elevator association.

They will have a total capacity of .

about 5,500 barrels of flour produc-
tion and storage capacity of about
2,500,000 bushels.

Four of the plants will include
mills with capacities offrom 500 to
700 barrels and elevators of approx-
imately 250,000 bushels capacity.

The fifth will include two milling ,
units of 1,000 barrels each for spring ,

wheat and athird unit of 1,000 bar-
rels for'macaroni wheat. The term-
inal. elevator will have a capacity cf
1,500,000 bushels. -

The terminal elevator will be
equipped to. unload six cars simul-
taneously. It will include 82 con-
crete bins, each with a capacity of
43,600 bushels and 81 inter-space

bins, each with a capacity of 18,000 ,

bushels. (The cleaning house will
have ground dimensions of 60 by 130
feet and will be 140 feet high.

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commercial -

milling ,

Mr. Vernon E. ’Clough of Perms,"

Michigan held a combination _»IC10
April 7th. Eleven pure bred Hol-
cteins and his entire herd of grade,

cows were sold. The listof put-shreds ,

consisted of 5 cows, 4 heifer calves

and 2 bull calv'es'and sold at an a'v— ,
erase of-over saccmnm while

 
   

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EVERAL million dollars
have been expended to pro-
vide mOre elegance, “more

refinement, more Comfort to the
current Maxwells.‘

It is in- ever so many ways a
superior appearing car; sup'erior,
too, in action.

. But not a single pound of

~ weight has been added to burden

the work of its great enginel

. Therefore, despite the many
processes of improvement, it
doesn’tcost a penny more to run

a Maxwell than it did a year ago.

The underlying principle of
every Maxwell is to give eco-
nomic transportation. '

This means light weight. But
it means strong steels, as well.

It is no easy trick to provide
both lightness and strength in
metal. ‘

MAXWELL MOTOR COMPANY, INC.
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Such a rare combination means
high cost steels. .

And, you would find, if~ you
compared a Maxwell with any
car, that it equaled that car pound
for pound in fine metals.

[1 How such steels afl'ect your

pocketbook is obvious.
1. They are light in weight

and hence give more mileage on

a gallon of gasoline.

2. As they are fine steels they

give long and uninterrupted wear.

. Which are but two of many
reasons for that definite tendency
of world—wide friendship towards
Maxwell.

In six years nearly 400, 000 have
found their answer to the motor
car question in a Maxwell.

This year 100,000 Maxwells
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main. Ten feet in depth and thirty

' in diameter, with level floor and per--

~ pendicular wall, its natural forma—

Jtion had reduired little work at the
hands of man to complete its sym-
metry. The sackcloth men, the ha-
ciendados, the gendarmes—aall were
present, save for the Cruel Just One
and t'he mest-‘iza, and all were lined
about the rim of the pit, as an audi-
ence, to gaze down upon some bull-
flight or gladiatorial combat within
the pit.

At command of »the stern-faced
leader of the sackcloth men who had
captured them, Henry and the Jefe

descended down a short ladder into ,

the pit. The leader and several of
the bri-gan'ds accompanied them. -

_ “Heaven alone knows what’s go-
ing to happen,” Henry laughed up-in
En-glish to Leoncia and Francis. “But
if its rough and tumble, bite and
gouge, or Marquis of Queensbury or
London Prize Ring, Mister Fat Jefe
is my' meat. But that old blind one
"is clever, and the chances are he’s
going to put us at each other on some
basis of evenness. In which case, do
you, my audience, if he gets me down
stick your thumbs up and make all
the noise you can. Depend upon it,
if it’s he that’s down, all his crowd
will be thumbs up."

The Jefe, overcome by the trap
, into which he had descended, in
Spanish addressed the leader.

“I shall not fight with-this man. He
is younger than I, and has better
wind. Also, the affair is illegal. It
is not according to the law of the
Republic of Panama. It is extra-
territorial and entirely unjudici-al."

“It is the Snake and the Bird,"
the leader shut him off. “You shall
be the Snake. This rifle shall be in
your hands. The other man shall be
the Bird. In his hand shall be the
bell. Behold! Thus may you un-
derstand the ordeal.”

At his command ,one of the bri-
gands was given the rifle and was
blindfolded. To another brigand, not
blindfolded was given a silver bell.

“The man with the rifle is the
Snake,” said the leader. “He has one
shot at the Bird who carries the
bell."

At signal to begin, the bandit with
the bell, tinkled it at extended arms
length and sprang swiftly aside. The
man with the rifle lowered it as if
to fire at the space just vacated and
pretended to fire.

“You understand?" the leader de-
manded of Henry and the Jefe.

The former nodded, but the latter
cried exultingly:

“And I am the Snake?"

“You are the Snake,” affirmed the
leader.

And the Jefe was eager for the
rifle, making no further protests
against the extra-territoriality of the
proceedings.

“Are you going to try to get me?"
Henry warned the Jefe.

“No, Senor Morgan. I am merely
going to get you. I am one of the

two best shots in Panama. I have
two score and more medals. I can
shoot with my eyes shut. I can

shoot in the dark. I have often shot
and with precision, in the dark Al-
ready may you count yourself a dead
man.’
Only one cartridge was put into
_, the rifle, ere it was handed to the
Jefe after he was blindfolded. Next,
while Henry, equipped with the tell-
tale bell, was stationed directly
across t‘he pit, the Jefe was faced to
the wall and kept there while the
brigands climbed out of the pit and
drew the ladder up after them. The
leader, from above, spoke down:
“Listen carefully, Senor Snake,
and make no move until you have
heard. The Snake has but one shot
The Snake cannot tamper with his
blindfold. If‘he so tampers-it is
our duty to see that he immediately
dies. The Snake has no time limit.
He may take the rest of the day, and
all of the night, and the remainder
-of"eternity ere he fires his one shot.
As for the Bird, the one rule is that
never must the bell leave his hand,
and never may he stop the clapper of
it from making the full noise intend-
ed or the clapper against the sides of
the; bell. Should he do so, then will
he " immediately die. We are here
above you, both of you, Senors, rifles
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Synopsis of Preceding Chapters

By JACK LONDON

Author of the “Valley of the Moon," and other stories.

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FRANOIO MORGAN, e New York millionaire, becoInee~ bored with eocle‘ty end decide: to take an

extensive fishing trip.
holdings. Regan

treasure burled by a‘ pirate ancestor of Francle.’ to lure young Francis away.
He lands on an inland whither he has been beckoned by a

Frencle start: out alone.
there.
another island where

tobe e relative of Frencle.’

The girl mistakes Francis for a lover with whom ehe hoe quarreled
he meote a young men who
(‘He Is also huntln
'Franole learns that Henry la the lover of the glr

Regen. Frendls’ broker plane to ruin Frenele threugh his We’ll ‘Otreet
pays Torres. e dark-skinned visitor from the Oer'rlbeen Islands who knows of e'

The lure new and
or" on the
Fran I explore:
gives“. his nemee as Henry Morgan and prone

treesure. They form a partnership.

fher .met and that her name ie Leoncia Selene.

Francli returns to the first Island where he is captured by Torres and the Jefe Politico of Sen An-

3'9"“- They proclaim

hey are about to hang him when Henry ”been. They release Francis and threw

prleon.
chartered. They are pursued by Terror

The Science and Francis release Henry and they escape to
and the Jefe with hie coldlere.

him to be Henry, whom they wish to hang for .a murder he did not commit.

Henry Into
the boat that Francis has
They land en on Island

where they procure horses and start through the hills with the Jefe and hle gang In purequ Torree

with the Jefe and his gendarmee succeed In capturing the
are about to torture Henry and Francls they are surrounded by bih
followers of a blindhman, called “The Cruel duet One." who lives in the hille.

their captive: before their leader.
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Morgans and thblr friende. but on they
of men. he: eee men are
The men take

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, “Your conduct shall
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end you infract any of the rules.
And now, God be with the right, pro-
ceed !” ,

The Jefe turned slowly about and
listened, while Henry, essayin'g
gingerly to move with the bell, caus-
ed it to tinkfile The rifle Was quick
to bear upon the sound, and to pur—
sue it as Henry ran. “rim 9. quick
shift he transferred the bell to the
other extended hand and ran back
in the opposite direction, the rifle
sweeping after him in inexorable pur-
suit. But the Jefe was too cunning
to risk all on a chance shot, and
slowly advanced across the arena.
Henry stood still, and the bell made
no sound.

So unerringly had the Jefe’s ear
located the last silvery tinkle, and
so straightly did he walk despite his
blindfold ,that he advanced just to
the right of Henry and directly at the
bell. With infinite caution, provok-
ing no tinkle, Henry slightly raised
his arm and permitted the Jefe’s
head to go under the hell with a
bare inch of margin.

His rifle pointed, and within a
foot of the pit-wall, the Jefe halted
in indecision, listened vainly for a‘
moment, then made a further stride
that collided the rifle muzzle with the
wall. He whirled about, and, with
the“ rifle extended, like any blind
man felt out the air space for his
enemy. The muzzle would have
touched Henry had he not sprung
away on a noisy and zig-zag course.

In the center of the pit he came
to a frozen pause. The Jefe stalked
past a yard to the side and collided
with the opposite wall. .He circled
the wall, walking cat-footed, his
rifle forever feeling out’ into the
empty air. Next he ventured across
the pit. After several such crossings

. tension.

he exploded ‘into two

during which the stationary bell gave‘

him no clue, he adopted a clever
method. Tossing his hat on the
ground for the mark of his starting
point, he crossed the edge of the
pit- on a shallow chord, extended .the
chord by «a pace farther along the
wa‘ll,an'd felt his way back along the
new and longer chord. Again against
the wall, he verified the correctness
of the parallelness' of the two chords
by packing back to his hat. This

time, with three paces along the wall

frOm the hat, he initiated his third
chard.

Thus he combed the area of the pit
and Henry saw that he could not es-
cape such combing. Nor did he wait
to be discovered. Tinkling the bell
as he ran and zigzagged and exchang-
ing it from one hand to the other, he
froze into immobility in a new place.

The Jefe repeated the laborious

7 combing out process; but Henry was

not minded longer to . prolong the
He waited till the Jefe’s
latest chord brought him directly
upon him. He waited till the rifle
muzzle, breast high, was within half
a dozen inches of his heart. Then
simultaneous
actions. He ducked lower than the
rifle and yelled “Fire 1" in stentorian
command.

So startled, the Jefe pulled the '

trigger, and the bullet sped above
Henry’s head. From above, the sack-
cloth men applauded wildly. The
Jefe tore off his blindfold and saw
the smiling face of his fee.

“It is well—God has spoken," an-
nounced the sackcloth leader, as“'he
descended into the pit. "The man
uninjured is innocent. Remains now
to test the other man."

“Me?" the Jefe almost shouted in
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ing away the rifle and recharging it.
be reperted.

it appear that youare not; acting like

' God’s chosen man. '-'
Like a beaten bull in the ring,

seeking a way to escape and gazing
up at the ampithe'atre of pitil'es's
faces, so the Jefe looked up and saw
only the rifles of the sackcloth men.
the triumphing faces of Leoncia and
Francis, the curious looks of his own
gendarmes, and the blood—eager faces
of the haciendados that were like the
faces of any bull-fight audience.

. ,The shadowy smile' drifted the
stern lips of the leader as he hand-

ed the rifle to Henry and started to .

blindfold him.

“Why don't you make his face the
well until I'm ready?” the Jefe de-
manded, as the silver bell tinkled in
his passiOn-convulsed hand.

“Because he is proven God' 5 man,"
was the reply. “He has stood the
test. Therefore he cannot “do a
treacherous deed. You now must
stand the; test of God. If you are
true and honest, no harm can befall
you from the Shake. For such is
God’ s way. "

Far more successful as the hunt-
er than as- the hunted one, did the
Jefe prove. Across the pit from

_ Henry, he strove tostand motionless;

but out of nervousness, as Henry's
rifle sweptaround on him, his hand
trembled and the bell tinkled. The
rifle came almost to rest and wav-
ered 0min ously about the sound. In
vain the Jefe tried to control his
flesh and em the bell. '

But the bell tinkled on, and, in
despair, he flung ii; away and
threw himself on the ground. But
Henry, ifollowing the sound of his

‘enemy’s fall, lowered the rifle and _ ,

pulled the trigger. The Jefe yelled
out in sharp pain as the bullet per-
forated his shoulder, rose to his feet,
cursed, sprawled back on the ground,
and lay there cursing.

Again, in the cave, with the mes-
tiza beside him at his knee, the Blind
Brigan gave judgment.

"This man who is wounded and
Who talks much of the law of the
tierra caliente, shall now learn Cor-
dilleras law. By the test of the
Snake and the Bird has he been prov-
en guilty. For his life a ransom of
ten thousand dollars gold shall be
paid, or else shall he remain here,
a hewer of wood and a carrier of
water, for the remainder of the time
God shall grant him to draw breath
on earth. I have spoken, and I know
that my voice is God’s voice, and I
know that God will not grant him
long to draw breath if, the ransom
be not forthcoming."

A long silence obtained, during
which even Henry, who. could slay a
foe in the heat of combat, advertis-
ed that such cold-blooded promise of

. murder was repugnant to him.

“The law is pitiless,”
Cruel Just One;
fell.

“Let him die for want of a ran-
som," spoke one of the haciendado' 8.
“He has proved a treacherous dog.
Let him die a dog’s death. " . ,

“What say you?" the Bind Bri-
gand asked solemnly. “What say you
peon of the many beatings, man new
born this day, half-Maya that you are
and lover of the Woman wonderful?
Shall this man die the dog’s death
for want of a ransom?”

“This man is a hard man,” spoke
the peon. “Yet is my heart strange-

said the
and again silence

ly soft this day. Had I ten thousand ,
gold I would pay his ransom myself. .

Yea, 0 Holy one and Just, and had
I two hundred and fifty pesos, even

would I pay or: my debt to the has

cienda‘do of which I am absolved ” *

The old man s blind face lighted up '

to transflguratien.
“You, too, speak with God’:
this day, regenerate one,’ " 'h

  

     
 
  

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U . of New York, and through my agents
_ hare had dealings with it afo'retime.

The sum is for ten thousand dollars
gold This man who writes it has
told the truth already this day: The
cheek is good. Further I know he
will not stop payment. This man
who thus pays the ransom of a foe
is one of three things: a very good
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. Tellvme, 0 Man, is there a woman
’ wonderful?” '

And Francis, not daring to glance
to right or left, at Leoncia 'or Henry,
but gazing-straight before him on
the Blind Brigand's face, answered
because he'felt he must answer:

“Yes, 0 Cruel Just One, there is
a woman wonderful. ”

, CHAPTER XII.

T THE precise spot where they
had been first blindfolded by
the sackcloth men, the caval-

cade halted. It was composed of a
number of the sackcloth "men; .of
Leoncia, Henry, and Francis, blind-
folded and on foot. Similarly es-
corted, the haciendados, and the J efe
and Torres with their gendarmes, had
preceded by half an hour.

At permission given by the stern-

faced leader, the captives, about to

be released, removed their blind-
.folds.
“Seems I’ve been here before,”

_Henry laughed, looking about and
identifying the place.

“Seems the oil- wells are still burn-
ing,” Francis said pointing out half

the field of day that was eaten up'

by the black smoke-pal]. “Peon,
look upon yourwhandiwork.‘ For a
man who possesses nothing, you are
the biggest spender I ever met. I
of drunken oil- kings
lighting cigars with thousand dollar

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likes mixed br‘eeds.‘

ing, up _a million dollars a minute.’

“I am not a poor man,” the peon
boasted in proud mysteriousness.

”A millionaire in disguise l” Hen-
ry twit-ted. .

“Where do you deposit?” was
Leoncia’s contribution “In the Chem-
ical National Bank?”

The peon did not understand the
allusions, but knew he was being
made fun of, and drew himself up
in profound silence.

The .stern leader spoke: , ‘

“From this point you may go yOur
'The Just One has so
commanded. You, senors, will dis-
mount and turn over to me your
mules. As for the senorita, she may
retain her mule as a present from the
Just One, who would not care to be
responsible for compelling any sen-
orita to walk. The two se’nors, with-

out hardship, may walk. Especially ‘

has the Just One recommended walk-
ing for the rich senor. 'I‘he posses-
sion of riches, he advised, leads to
too little walking. Too little walk-
in‘g leads to stoutness; and stoutness
does not lead to the woman wonder-
ful. Such is the wisdom of the Just
One. '

“Further, he has repeated his ad-
vice t-o the’peon- to remain in the
mountains. In the mountains he
will find his woman wonderful, since
Woman he must have; and it is wisest
that such woman he of his own
breed. The Woman of the tierra ca-
liente are for the men Of the tierra
caliente. The Cordilleras women are
for the COrdilleras men. God dis-
A mule is ab-
herrent under the sun. The world
was not intended for mixed breeds,

. but man has made for himself many

inventions. Pure races interbred
leads to impurity. Neither will oil
per water .congenially intermingle.
Since kind begets kind only kind
s'sho‘uld mate. Such are the words,
of the Just One which I have repeat-

ed as commandEd And he has as- -

ecially" impressed upon me to add
he knows whereof he speaks,

*a‘ sense 0f .the correctness of the

Blind Bri-gand' s thought. And heav-
ily, on the heart of each, rested the
burden of the conscious oppression'
of sin.

. A crashing and scrambling in the
brush diverted their train of thought
as descending the canyon slope on
desperately slipping and sliding
horses, appeared on the scene the
haciendado with several followers.
His greeting of the daughter of'the
Solanos was hld'algo-like and pro-
found, and only less was the hearti-
ness of his greeting to the two men
for whom Enrico Solano had stood
sponsor.

”Where is your noble father?” he
asked Leoncia. “I have good news
for him. In the week since I last
saw you, I have been sick with fever
and encamped. But by swift mes-
sen'gers, and favoring winds across
Chiriqui Lagoon to Bocas del Tom,
I have used the government wireless
—-°—the Jefe of Bocas del Toro is my
friend—and have communichted with
the President of Panama—who is my.
ancient comrade whose nose I rub-
bed as often in the dirt as did he
mine in the boyhood days when we
were schoolmates and cubicle-mates
together at Colon. And the word has

none the less worthy zeal of the Jets
" ‘ Politico; and that all is forgiven, par-

.who has fled his debt of me.

 

doned, and forever legally and po-
litically forgotten against all of the
noble Solano family and their two'
noble Gringo friends "

Here, the haciendad'o bowed low
to Henry and Francis. And here,

 

_skulking behind Leoncia’s uncle, his

eyes chanced to light on the peon;
and, so lighting, his eyes blazed with
triumph.

"Mother of God, thou hast not for-
gotten me !” he breathed fervently,
thenturned to the several friends
who accompanied him. “There he is
the creature without reason or shame
Seize
him! I shall put him on his back
for a month from the beating he
shall receive !"

So speaking, the haciendado
sprang around the rump of Leoncia’s
mule; and the peon, ducking under
the mule’s nose, would have won to
the freedom of the‘ jungle, had not
another of the hacienda-dos, with
quick spurs to his horse’s sides, cut
him off and run him down. In a
trice, used to just such work, the
haciendados had the luckless Wight
on his feet, his hands tied behind
him, a lead rope made fast around
his neck.

In one voice Francis and Henry
protested.

“Senors,” t-he haciendad'o replied,

- reapect and consideration and
desire to serye you are as deep as for
the noble Solano family under whose
protection you are. Your safety and
comfort are sacred to me. Iwi‘ll de-
fend you from harm with my life. I
am yours to command. My hacienda
is yours, likewise all I possess. But
this matter of this peon is entirely
another matter. He is none _ of
yours. He is my peon, in my debt,
who has run away from my hacienda.
You will understand and forgive me,
I trust. This is a mere matter of
property. He is my property.”

Henry and Francis glanced at each
other in mutual perplexity and inde-
cision. It was the law of the land
as they thoroughly knew.

“The Cruel Just One did remit my
debt, as all here will witness,” the
peon whispered.

“It is true, the Cruel Justice re-
mitted his debt," Leoncia verified.

The haciend-ado smiled and bow-
ed low.

“But the peon contracted with
me,” he smiled. “And who is the
Blind Brivgand that his foolish law
shall operate on my plantation and
rob me of my rightful two hundred
and fifty pesos?”

“He's right, Leoncia,” Henry ad--
mitted.

“Then will I go back to the high
Cordilleras,” the peon asserted. “Oh,
you men of the Cruel Just One, take
me back to the Cordilleras.”

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Prussianism Out-Prussianizcd

HE ACTION of the Federal Fair Price

Board in fixing the price of milk below
the cost of production is equivalent to the con-
fiscation of property.

What is the difference between this kind of
confiscation and the confiscation practiced by
the Germans in Belgium? \Vc can see none.

The arbitrary ruling of this Board in reduc-
ing the price of milk from 16 to 14 cents regard-
less of the cost of producing the milk is the

. most damnable prostitution of justice that has

right.

ever come to our attention. It is a reversion to
the old Prussian doctrine that might makes
Because it is practiced by a commis:
sion clothed with authority by the government

: of the United States makes the doctrine no less
' obnoxious and no less dangerous to liberty and
justice. .

”initiative and'refcrendum in that state,

The Lover law which makes it possible for
such a Board to be appointed and to exercise
autocratic powers was a war-time emergency
act. Had it not been for the precious squab-
ble over the League of Nations covenant the
treaty of peace with Germany would have
been signed long ago and the Lever act repeal-
ed. Technically we are still at war, and tech-
nically the Attorney General of the United
States who is a candidate for President, has
the power to appoint boards to control the
prices of food products and make the consum-
er, who is also a voter, believed that some great
service is being performed in his behalf.

The autocratic powers of the
Board would arouse the envy of a Czar or
Kaiser. Indeed, the decree “that on and af-
ter April 15th the price of milk SHALL BE,
etc.” sminds like a royal manifesto addressed
to ignorant serfs instead of an order issued
tom-a body of honest, law-abiding, and intelli-
gent American citiz'ens. Once 'more, Prus-
sians, you have been out-Prussianizedl

Legislative Checks

‘TRANGE to say the Illinois Agricultural

Association is opposing the adoption of the
The
claim is made by the spokesmen of the organ-
ization that the people of the cities outnumber
the people of the country and would there-
fore hold the balance of power in a pOpular
election upon an amendment to the constitu-
tion. They assert that they are satisfied to
leave the important work of revising the con-
stitution to their regularly elected representa-
tives.

We find‘ it hard to understand the position
taken by the Illinois Farmers" Association.
The farmers -of Michigan have employed the

. initiative and referendum to good advantage

saying that they would not be willing to part
With this effective check upon legislative abus- "
‘ 11 1121 , to

on a number of occasions and it goes without

Fair Price .

. amendments, enough-of them will dolso to“ in- '

sure the adoption of good and needed {unend-
ments and defeat undesirable Ones.

It must be' that our. Illinois neighbors are
proceeding on the theory that there is nothing

in common between, the people of the towns.

and the people of the farms. Such an attitude
shows a. regrettable lack of faith in human na-
ture and ignorance of the similarity of views
between many urban and rural folks as ex:
pressed in elections of states where the initi-
ative and referendum are in efiect.

There has been considerable progress in re-
cent years in bringing thhe people closer to
the government. Not only has this resulted
in arbusing thhe people to a greater appreci-
ation of their responsibilities as citizens and
a greater interest in government affairs, but
it has likewise been the means of securing
some very important changes in local and
state government. The movement has had
its enemies and they are as busy as ever trying
to make the form of government less popular
and less accessible to change by bodies of V01}-
ers.
not been deceived by the enemies of popular
government and will take no action that will
cast any reflection upon the initiative and
referendum. ,

Settling Strikes

HE STRIKING switchmen are return-

ing to work, and production and trans-
portation are slowly coming back to normal.
The strike has demonstrated our absolute de-
pendence upon the railroads. It has also dem-
onstrated our absolute dependence upon the
men who operate the trains and throw the
switches. ,

Much has been said of the necessity from a
public policy viewpoint of protecting the in-
terests of investors in railroad securities and
insuring the roads of sufficient returns to en-
able them to maintain their eqliipment in a
serviceable condition. But much more might
be said of the advisability from a public pol-
icy viewpoint of protecting the interrests of the
denim-clad «men who work for the railroads.

The average person would, hardly have
thought it possible for switchmen to tie up the
transportation of the country in such a man-
ner. Had the engineers quit, or even the fire-
men, it would have been easy to forecast the
result. But the throwing of a switch seems to
be such a trifling operation Anyone could
throw a switch ! But we now know that any-
one couldn’t throw a switch and that the
movement of trains is as much at the mercy
of the switchman as the engineer, 1&5 much at
the mercy of the engineer as of the dispatch-
er; and as much at the mercy of the dispatch-
er as of those who own the trains and pay the
dispatcher, the engineer and the switchman. '

There has been a pronounced tendency on
the part of the American people to reward
brains and money at the expense of labor. But
the switchmen’ s strike reveals plainly that
this is not only an unfair but a dangerous pol-
icy. The switchmen claim that they cannot
live on the wages they have been receiving and
there is ample evidence that this is true. While
the going out on a strike without giving the
employers any notice or any opportunity to ad-,
just the grievances was wholly inexcusable and
injured the cause of the strikers in the eyes of
the public, it nevertheless had the effect of im-
pressing upon the public the expensive folly
of ignoring the interests of the wage earners.

If it is the public.’s business to guarantee

rail owners a dividend on their investment, it

is equally the public's business to see that\ the,
rail workers receive a wage which Will enable
than to live comfortably and save a little mon-
ey. If there is dispute over 'how large this.
wage should be, the Whole matter should be‘
left to a court of disinterested persons, and
every possible effort made to adjust the differ-
ences by mediation. Until some- such tribunal
is provided by the government and some such
policy- is recognized by all parti

  
   
 

   

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Price Board, called the farmers a “bunch of
clackcrs” at a session of the Board on Tues-

day evening of last week. Faces went White 7‘

at the insult. Hands clenched and men mut-
tered hard words under their breath. But

inflated with the conceit of his authority
.Cusick continued to pour out abuae and insults
which under other circumstances and in other 5
surroundings would have been promptly re- f

seated with blows.

Cusick 18 the same man with whom the writer
had a verbal battle several months ago.
was a member of the Wayne County Fair-
Pricc Cammittee before which the writer spa
peared to take issue with statements made by
the Committtee about farmers and to defend
the prices and practices of farmers.
person on the committee with the exception of
Cusick was polite, courteous, gentlemanly and
receptive. But Cusick had a preconceived
notion that all farmers are profite'ers, and at
every opportunity vented his spite against.
them. It was for this reason that we opposed
and tried to prevent his appointment to the
Federal Fair PriCc Board. His antics as

above described show him to be utterly un- .

Every ,-

 
    

He

worthy to. act as a representative of the gov- ~ '

ernment in a judicial capacity, and incapable
of rendering a fair decision.

“It Isn’t so Bad”
HE N W E get a little pessimistic and
think that things are kind of going to the
dogs, We turn back to some of the cheery letters

we have received from our'rcaders and say to 4

ourselves, “things aren’t so bad after all”. It
takes a heap of courage for the man and the
little family on the farm to be contented dur—

ing these days of high living costs and labor .

shortage, with the city spreading its tempta-
tion of high wages, easy living and the pleas-
ures of life all about them. Many a strong man
has surrendered to the will 0’ the wisp, sold his
every earthly possession at auction and gone to
the city to take an “easy” jOb and revel for a
few brief weeks in the bright lights. Then,—

disillusionment,-—a distaste for the new job
and a. great, heart- rcnding longing for the old

' farm. Country folks drift cityward, ’tis true,

but many there are who drift back, determined
never again to wander from the peaceful farm
hOme. It’ a bit old-fashioned, we must con«
fess. There’s nothing fancy about it. In fact,
both the inside and outside, the furniture, the
carpets and the wall paper are plain, —as plain
as the gingham apron which mother wears. But
in every nook and corner, and about every piece
of furniture from the old four poster in the
spare chamber to the what- not in the parlor,
there lingers a pleasant memory of days that
have gone before. This 15 home, and no matter
how poor and humble the fittings, it will always
be home to those who have lived long years be-
neath its roof. Hope is never dead and cour-
age is never lost where the love for home is
strong in the hearts of men and women.
fi—fg
, Paint Up !

’ I ‘HE MISSOURI College of Agriculture

calls attention to the fact that despite
the increased costof paint no farmer can af-
ford to let his buildings go through a season
without the protection which the paint af-
fords. We are reminded that $16 will buy
enough paint to cover a barn thirty feet long,
sixteen feet Wide and sixteen feet high. ‘This
paint should last feur years, so that the an-
nual cost of keeping such a building protect-
ed from the elements 18 but $4.

—'Pain_t is insurance and it is the cheapest in-
suranco against the wear and tear of the sea-
sons that the farmer can buy. Every business
farmer carries fire insurance, although he may
never expect his barn to burn- How. much
more essential in Insurance 11’ 11111315 the depre-

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_ FARMER encumbrance
I have been readingin M. B. F.

and other papers a great deal on the
labor question both pro and co'n'and

also of the strikes‘ that are occurring "

on every‘~ hand and so am going'to
ask a question and then endeavor to
, answer it as viewed by a farmer.
Question: If the farmers would go
on a strike for six months beginning
\April 15th what would happen? It
seemsto me the farmers are the one
class who should strike if anyone
should for the buyer puts the price
on everything thefarmer has to sell
and the seller puts the price on what-
ever he has to buy so there you are.

, Now if the farmers would Quit

let's see what would happen: In
the first place they would dispose ‘of
their live stock and while there
would be an over production of meat
for a while, when the strike was over
there would be a, meat famine for
years to come and before six months
there would be no stock yard strike
as now but the strikers would be
looking for a job at whatever wages
they could get.

There would be no fertilizer "or
farm machinery bought so these‘fac-
tories would close without a strike
and men ’would be begging for Jobs.

There would be no crops grown so
there would be no need for elevator
men mar freight handlers, either
railroad or steamboat so that there
would be no strike of either as there
is today but thousands of men would
liebawalking the streets hunting for
o .

The farmers wouldn’t be buying
automobiles so I presume that there
would be no shortage of cars as they
tell us now so the factories would
cut down' production throwing thou-
sands of men out of employment.

With the farmers producing noth-
ing and buying nothing the railroads
and best lines would be put out of
business throwing thousands of men
out of work. ~

And now last, but not least, with
production cut oil the result would
be prices so high that none but the
rich could buy and perhaps not them
as there would be nothing to buy.

In conclusion wil say the farmer
is in the best position of any man in
the world to strike and stay put for
as a rule he can grow enough for his
own needs so need .not worry but he
is patriotic enough to stay on the
Job ”twelve hours a day every day in
the year. Strikers, remember ev-
ery time you strike you are not only
hurting yourself but the farmer also.
——T. R., Cass County.

You have admirably expressed what
the results would be if the farmer should
strike. but you could go even farther,
For my part, I can think of no earthly
calamity 'eo terrible in its consequences
as a strike of the farmers. When a gang
of factory workers strike, they may re-
turn to work at any moment. Production
has been merely suspended and the
wheels of industry go on as before. -But
if the farmer should strike for sixty days,
say from the first day of May to the
first day. of July, he would throttle agri-
cultural production for an entire year,
and, oh. what suffering there would be!
I think it is the knowledge of the enor-
mous responsibility which he bears that
goalie the- farmer steady and rational.

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STICKING room
As I am a reader of the M. B. F.

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{ beet fight, ‘I ”would. like to have a lit-
tle inforlnation about a few things.
Last winter in Jan., the Mich. State
Farm Bureau had a drive in Tuscola
county, also in my township, and al-
most every farmer signed up and
joined it, so did I, as I understand
that it is a union something like
miners orlR. R. unions ,that means

"stick-to-itiven'ess brings success,"
but now quite a number of these
men ’ and also members of the

Beet Growers’ Association, sign .up
beet contracts, under the old price,
and now I would like. to know. is it
_right to Join a union and not stand
by it! (WOuldn’t it ,be right to make
them cancel their contract?

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in my township who joined the unibn,

feel the same as' myself, “No beets
under the old contract/Lad. H., Tus-
cola. county.

 

There is a war-time emergency act on
our statute books called the Lever Law

Unt the Treaty of Peace with Ger- ,
man is 3 proved by Congress and sign-
ed' by the resident, any persons who con-

spire or agree with other persons to
interfere with the production and trans-
portation of necessities, “for the purpose
of enhancing the price" will be held guil-
ty of violating this law and be liable to
imprisonment. Had it not been for the
recommendation of Attorney General Pal-
mer that the beet growers of Michigan
sign no contracts pending‘ an investiga-
tion of\ the/s beet situation, it is
probable that those of us in Michigan who
ave encouraged the ngers to stand for
a square deal, might have come within
the arm of this law. \

It is never justice to force a man to do
anything against his will even though
the object desired may be worthy and en-
tirely to Me benefit. One of the reasons
for the great public condemnation of la.-
bor unions, and strikes is that the lead-
ers attempt to coerce employers and non-
union men who would take their places
in the shop. Farm labor must depend
upon absolute Justice to all concerned if
it is to attain its lidghest measure of
usefulness. The ma who does not re-
main loyal, “for the good of the organiz-
ation" which he has Joined, if for no
other reason, is deserving of the contempt
of his fellow members. Those who are
signing up beet contracts on the old ba—
sis are so few in number that it hardly
gays to bother with them. They will be
eartily ashamed of themselves when
the time comes that those who have been
loyal win the flight—Editor.

 

“GIVE US THE GOOD OLD DAYS"-

Will say there are two voters in
this place, an old man and an old
woman. Will never vote for an army
general. We have had too much mil-
itarism already. Johnson, Lowden
or Edwards, whoever seems to be the
best, someone who will make the
times different. Our backs are bend—
ing under the load of unnecessary
taxes. I refer to the one hundred
.and one hired men that prohibition
has created, state constabulary, and
everything that goes with it. Am
tired of such reform.

Give us back the good old times,
twelve or fourteen'years ago. Times
have been getting worse ever since
they started tampering with the
liquor laws. Now a person has to be
as good as dead before the- doctors
will give them an ounce of liquor.

 

the union. The majority of farmers

@fiVeek's Editorldl

When people used to doctor them-
selves with quinine and half a pint
of liquor they would need no doctor,
but where. the doctors made pennies
then he makes dollars now. on, such
graft, and most of them voted for
prohibition to fill their own pockets.
-—J. B. L., Brown City, Mich.

Hoot, mon, take a drink 0' older and
forget it. You’ll never have back the old
days, you know, even if you turn every
grocery store in the land into a saloon.
Prohibition wasn’t actually the reason
for the creation of the State Constabu-
lary. It was just the EXCUSE. Had it
not been for prohibition during these af-
ter-the-war days you would have had to
maintain a standing army of soldiers
that would make the Constabularyglook
like a boy scout troop in comparison.—
Edltor. _

,_._______.
A NEW PARTY

When part of a scaffold breaks down
the proper thing to do depends on
whether that particular scaffold is still
needed. Therq..were rotten Republi-
cans in Lincoln’s day. Some of them
got into office and a few broke down.
As the party was still agreed on the
vital issues of the day it would have
been foolish to demolish it because it
contained defective material. But to-
day no important issue unites either
the Republican or the Democratic par-
ty. Neither now gives firm support to
progressive statesmen. Each contains
good material, but each has served its
purpose and ceased to be useful.
Therefore, tear them down and use
their progressiVe elements to build a
new progressive party.

, A few will reque to join such a par-

ty because it is not progressive
enough. Don’t sneer at them, howev-
er “radical" or "visionary” they seem.
Among such are being hatched ideas
which, when developed, will become
the practical, progressive reforms of
tomorrow—Stacy Brown, Ionia Co.

 

Mind you. we, are as well acquainted as
you with the failings of the twO old par-
ties. and should a leader come forth with
a. new platform and a new party which
could give some promise of bettering con-
ditions, we would be strongly inclined to
follow him, knowng all the time that the
new party would eventually go the way
of all political parties. Hiram Johnson
recently said, “I have had enough of a
third party movements," and there an
no real i ers in America today who
have the courage to inaugurate a new

rty. Some day we shall scrap all po-
litical parties and make it a free-for-all.
—Edltor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WOULD YOU EAT, NEXT WINTER?

ITH TYPICAL American un-
‘N/ concern for trouble until it

thunders at the front door——
typical American unpreparedness—
we aresleeping on the threshold of a
summer crisis which is leaden with
possibilities of food shortage next fall
and winter that will pinch us all dis-
astrously. There is no greater “par-
amount issue” challenging public
opinion today than the shortage in
farm labor. The farmer realizes it,
but vainly pleads for help. In thou-
sands of instances he is planning to
plant only a portion of his fertile
acres because mps require labor—
nor can crops be argued or threatened
or caioled into accommodatingthem-

selves to eleven-hoards.” and five"

armies—nor will nature “join a
Soviet. The Good mum re-
alises it because he is finding it diffi-
cult to make adequate contracts for
native products. The food wholesaler
realizes it because when he tries to
look ahead and anticipate his markets
he discovers that nothing is certain
this year except uncertainty. As for
the fest-of us—‘if we fail in our “re-
alisation" now, we will make up for it
in an intensified “realization" later
when the food supplyshortens, prices
inevitably go still higher as an lnevl

itable result and rations ultimately all .

but disappear. " * ' It is all very

' well for Congress to make larger ap-

propriations .(as last week) “todnves-
tigate and encourage the adoption of
improved methods of farm manage-

    

-~ahnls-beenwgat‘hered in. ‘ ' ‘
' lag the war, it was “patriotic” to help

    
 
 

ciency into agriculture is a valuable
contribution to a better farming net
result. Furthermore, every progres-
sive marketing improvement which
eliminates unnecessary way~stops in
the journey of food from the farm to
the consumer leaves just that much
more money on the farm to permit
the larger farm earnings which are
necessary if the farm is to compete
successfully with urban industry for
help. But today we are face to face
with.a condition, not a theory. We
must have action; not philosophy. The
American farmer—the Michigan ferm-
erwmust’ have farm help or America
—Mlchigan and all the rest—will
wake up in the grip o: a deadly food
shortage when the final 1920 harvest
Dur-

the farmer with his crops. Human
need for food did not end with the
armistice. To help the farmer with
his crops is more vitally essential to-
day than it ever was before. Organ-
ization to that end is a crying, driv-
ing need. This is the really imminent
“labor problem”. If you doubt it, ask
any average Michigan farmer for fee.

timony. So far as me and livllhood‘

are concerned, it is vastly less menac-
ing for factories to.close for want of
help than for fields to go untilled.
There is no blinking this axiom—nor
its present and prospective applica-
tion. A state-wide conference—in
which the farmer, for once, shall have
its any and day-is an immediate ne-
‘cessity as The Herald viewsthe situa-
eion. Answer is not my; but some

' answer must be found—Grand Rap-

 

  
 

 

THE CAUSE OF SOCIAL UNREST

The letter of Mr. Bengal goes
to prove that the seed sown by
the German propagandists be-

fore and during the war found in his
case'the good soil and brought forth
a hundredfold.

He says the main cause 01 social
unrest in this country is that our
people have found out that they have
been the tools of England, pulling her
chestnuts out of the fire. Let me ask
him what is the cause of social unrest
in every country on earth? Was there
ever a great war that did not cause
social unrest?’ Millions of men taken
from manufacture, commerce and ag-
riculture, placed in army and navy;
all the resources of the country con-
centrated 0111 war, material and army
supplies, then suddenly returned to
peaceful pursuits. This will unsettle
conditioris anywhere.

It may be true that Mr. Cameron
does not‘ know of an instance where
German soldiers intentionally poison-
ed wells but he could not have been
everywhere and men who would shell
open lifeboats where poor wretches
had taken refuge after their vessel
had been torpedoed; men who would
drop bombs on defenseless women and
children in unfortified towns and cit-
ies; men who began the horrible use
of poison gas which did poison wells
and water ponds, would scarcely re-
frain from doing anything even inten-
tionally putting poison in a well. Will
Mr. Bengal explain the killing of Ed-
ith Cavell?

He asks why Germany had not at—
tacked Holland, Switzerland or Lux-
emburg. Everything points to a be-
lief that Germany intended the annex-
ation of Holland but did not care to
stir,up things knowing this would
cause trouble with England. Berlin
wisemen said our wisest course is
now to build up our resources. But
the next generation will see a greater
Germany, possessing in all probability
the Netherland, striking south to
Trieste on the Adriaic and including
Palestine and a considerable portion
of Asia Minor as well.

The late Dr. Emil Reich said short-
1y before the late war, “The time is
not remote when Holland will be call-
ed to defend her title to Java against
an Asiaic enemy and must have aid
or lose her eastern colonies." “Alli-
ance," he said, "with Germany would
preserve the integrity of the Dutch
possessions and the price would be
Holland’s acceptance Of rule as an in-
dividual state of the German empire.

"As to Luxumberg, it was practical-
ly dominated by Germany and Ger-
many could await the proper time.
Switzerland, with her mountain de-
fences was not easy to conquer as
history shows. Why did not Germany
strike France through Switzerland?
Those same mountains and not her
love of the Swiss stood in the way.
Why did she not confine her opera-
tions to her own border? Because
she knew she could conquer Belgium
and never intended to restore it, but

intended Belgium to be a German

state.

Let us take a look at German histo-
ry of recent years. In 1862 we find
William I, grandfather of William II
(now an exile in Holland) struggling
to induce the Prussian Diet to grant
him money with which to double his
army. Falling in this he invited into
his ministry the then young reaction-
ary leader, Otto Von-Bismark, and to
him entrusted the task of uniting the
German states into an empire with
Prussia no the dominant power. Bis-
mark in 1863 said in the most famous
speech he ever made, “Not-by speech-
es and by majority votes are the great
questions of the day decided but by
blood and iron."

In 1-863, chiefly by Blsmark's con-
triving, Prussia, and Austria went to
war against Denmark and took the
duchy of Lauenburg and the provinces
of Schleswig and Holstein.
thhe Keil canal and the German naval
base were built. Austria was to ad-
minister Holstein amd Prussia Schlesr
wig. Prussia paid Austria $1,800,00

for the duchyof Lauenburg. Bismark
approved of are whole affair because
he believed it would lead to war with.

Austria and that a great German na .
ties under Prussian domination c
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WEEKLY MARKET AND. TRADE

 

CONDITION S

The strike continues to be the
dominating influence in the indus-
trial and agricultural situations. For
the better part of a week switchmen
have been returning to work, but
many 'are still out and it will be
some time before the freight and
passenger movement becomes nor-
mal. The losses resulting from the
-strike cannot be estimated, and near-
ly every person in the strike terri-
tory had to help pay the bill. For a
time THE BUSINESS FARMER was un-
certain whether or not it could secure
enough power to run its issue last
week . Every other industry in
Mount Clemens was closed, but the
Detroit Edison Company held that
the publication of a farm paper was
an essential industry and we were al-
lowed to run uninterrupted. This
week it was necessary to take some
of our type pages to Lansing and
have them "electrotyped. " Although
we have a complete equipment for
making “stereotyped" curved plates
from which the majority of our pag-
es areprinted, we have no facilities
for “electrotyping,” and pages which
'contain flne half—tone engraving
must be electrotyped to print up
well. The Detroit plant which does
this electrotyping was obliged to
close down- and it was at consider-
able extra expense that these pages
were taken by automobile to Lans—
. ing where a shift of elec-trotypers
' worked until midnight Saturday
' night to “plate" them.

In Detroit over 80,000 men were

. out of work more than a week be-

cause ol the inability of some of the

plants to secure coal and of the Ed-

. ison Company to supply all its pat-

rons with electric current. Scarcely

a city in the entire state escaped
some effects of the strike.

Excepting for the financial loss
and inconvenience due to the strike
everything is running along about

: the same as usual, and business is
1 quick to respond to the renewal of
train operations. A more alarming
7 situation i‘mpends, however. The
- rail chiefs have issued a statement
. that unless certain wage demands
. are granted 100,000 railroad men
, will strike by April 23th. The wag-
es asked look high in comparison
1 with former years, but will stand a
- comparison with wages paid for
g skilled workmen in other lines-oi in-
dustry. One naturally wonders
. where all the wage demands and in-
creases are going to end, whether or
not employers can continue to ad-
vance wages and the prices of their
products Without any limit. Natural-
' ly the farmer is affected by almost
every wage increase. A part of it
comes out of his pocket in the long
1 l'un. There is- no particular danger
in inflated prices and wages provid-
' ing everybody is affected alike. But
. when one class benefits at the ex-
} pense of another, y-ou have a fine con-
' dition for strikes. if not something
infinitely worse.

There have been no important
changes in the markets. Trading has
been from hand to mouth, the sup-

. plies received during the past week

. being scarcely sufficient to stablish
a market price. There havenot been

within fifty per cent a! enowg-h-re- ‘

"oeipts to care *{or the immediate cash
"demands, will these "in need of grain

.and other products have simply been

obliged to do without. The grain
markets all opened strong the first
of last week. Then com slumped a
little, and oats got a bit shaky. But
as soon as it was learned that there
' was to be no immediate improvement
in the strike situation, these grains

: stiffened and prices have ruled high-

er ever since. The bears have found
fit discouraging business to gamble
.-’on lower prices when there are two
buyers for every seller.

The position of all farm products
‘8 encouraging, and while the in-
‘tcrease in receipts which will follow
he settlement of the strike will prob-
abily cause temporary decline, these
will be of no moment and the market

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firm. 369.11an

Hogs higher.

DETROIT—Wheat scarce. Corn, Oats and Eye higher and
demand and'higher.
CHICAGO—~General trend 'of all grains point to higher prices.

Hogs and Cattle lower.

 

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the fact that the country has not the
supplies to meet the demands. and
this being true, prices cannot be low-
er untfl the new crops are harvested.

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WHEAT PRICES PER BU.. APR. 20, 1820
Grade lDetrolt IOhloago N. Y.
Ho. 2 Red 2.82 38.10
No. 2 White .. .' 2.80 8.08
lo. 2 Mixed ... 2.00 8.00

PRICES ONE YEAR AGO

Grade [Detroit lcflcno . Y.
No. 2 Red . . . . 2.80 2.50 2.51
No. 2 White . . . 2.53 2.47 2.48
"In. 2 iIIIed .. .' 2.83 2.41 2.48

 

 

 

Wheat is not to he had on some
markets for love nor money. The
strike has added to the chronic short-
ness of wheat supplies at consuming
points and no advance that has been
recorded the past week has been suf-
ficient to bring ou-t the needed sup-
plies.

While the condition of winter
wheat has been slightly improved be-
cause at the recent rains, it is by no
means satisfactory and will not reg-
ister but little more than the 75. 6
condition reported by the govern-
ment. which was the second lowest
on record. The late spring has de-
layed seeding of spring wheat and
the acreage will be below normal for
both this reason and-the reason that
farmers cannot get help to put in the
crop. Taken altogether the wheat
situation does not look altogether
bright from the consumer’s andldeal-
er‘s viewpoint, but the farmer who
has the crop will make some money
out of it this year- It looks as if
considerable spring wheat will be
planted in Michigan this year, pro-
viding the planting conditions are
favorable.

The further the season advances
the more certain it becomes that
wheat prices have not reached their
high levels. Domestic demand is
good and there is no let-up in ex-
ports. It is reported from Argen-
tina that an embargo is about to be
placed on exports of wheat from that
country which means that Europe
must depend upon the United States
and Canada for a much larger sup-
ply than at first expected.

  

 

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mu PRICE! PER “.1 APR. so. 1m
0126 inst-oh. lei-acme I. Y.
No. 2 Yellow . . . 1.02 V.
No. 8 Yellow .. 1.11 1.14
No. 4 Yellow . . l 1.72
Pnlcss curves-1 [do

, Grade lDetrolt [Chicago] N. Y.
He. 2 Yellow . . . 1.82V
No. a Yellow 1.69 1311/.- 1.81373
No. 4 Yellow . . . 1.66 1.00 1.19

 

 

Either farmers are too busy with
spring crops to market the balance
of their corn, or else the]; are not
satisfied with the price. Perhaps al-
so they haven't any more corn to
market. Anyway, dealers aren’t get-
ting the corn and the price goes up
a notch or two each week. Farmers
who determined to hold out from
selling'their corn for . ss than $1.160,
are able to realize the figure and in
some sections considerably morefbut
even this price does not bring out the

' corn. Various guesses are made as

to what the acreage will be this
year, some predicting that it will be
the i rgest .acreage on record. The
yield for 1919 was a huge one, and
many wiseacres predicted that this
would mean low prices, but the sup-
plies mysteriously disappeared and
the trend of the market has been ex-
actly the opposite to what. was gen-
orally expected. Corn prices would
be higher right now were it not tor"
the threat of the comment to in-
vestigate an alleged “corner” in the
market. I! there is anything that
will frighten traders or anyone else
for that matter it is the thmt of an
investigation, which, though it may
prove nothing at all, casts a shadow
upon all transactions. The dealers
involved in the alleged conspiracy in-

cindesonentthebiggutmin

Chicago.

It is reasonable to suppm that
corn will maintain its presentle levels
and possibly rennet higher ones the
next sixty days. more may 'be a
drop when supplies that have been
heip up in transit on account of the
strike reach the market but this will
be of only short duration.

’ Michigan farmers had such good
luck with corn last year that. many
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WAEHINGTON. D. 0., Apr. 21,
lull—«Warm waves will reach Van-
veeu-ver about April 27,113.12. 7, u
and temperatures will rise on mm the

Pacific slope. They will mess
of Rockies by close at Ami 2d,)157
3, 18:11th seetims Apriiz ,my

4, 8ll, 14:1neridinn 90, Elmer,
lakes, Ohio-Tennessee and lower Mis-
sissippi valleys April 30, May 5,10,
15; great lower lakes and eastern sec-
tions May 1, 6' 11 16, reaching vicin-
lt‘y o! Newfoundland about May 2 1,
gag-7. Storm waves will done!
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cool waves
warm waves.
nose disturbances will mm! m-
M conditions of North America
about April 27 to May 1%. Tempera-
tures will avarage about normal
rainfall of these twenty days in all
sections, will average about same as
for past two months. In sections
wvhere cropweathor has n be

  

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ial change during this period.

last severe storms and most rain
mam during the week center—
in: on my 18 These storms are not .
enacted no to so dangerous as will be
mate 1 the next storm period but

   
   
 
 

   
   
    
   

  

A flan-d the world;s 1311- .
use on! business deems up_ n e >

.a toes-ma othnkers that h..;s -'.-
goont fornedflurflaewpose of fur- ;
mishing raw s to Austria, Ger- _
many, R0 and other European 5
States, in order that they may rebuild '
their broken down and ruined finaa- .
oral nod-lama: and toad facilities. ,
banker finan- "

    
  

  
   
  
   

   
    
  
  
   
  

patenting feature oi."
uchneeflefl afloat 01113 that it will .-
enable those mil-lee to accrue our ’_
grain, some: and «finer raw materials. "
This important announcemem pub-
lished thruout the world, and fact .
that weather extremes in our great ,:
winter- wheat sections, aided by the
hessian fly, are damaging, and prem- ,
lse more damage to this much de-
manded cereal, presses -renewed' inter- :
nest in the on-coming cropweather for '
balance of the 1920 season.

   
  
  

  
  
   
 

  
   
   
      
 
 
 
   
    
   
 
   
    
  
 
  

    
 
 
 
    
  

  

 
   

   
    
  
 
   
 

soon to advance 1:041th he

acreage this year . While we do not ‘

~think that corn would be ‘as good 0.
Cash crop as others we could men-
tion, we do not think any
would be taking a very long chance
on increasing his acreage. The al-
manac shows that the 192-0 season
should be good corn' weather and
does not indicate a killing .frost in
Michigan until the middle or latter
part of October.

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our PRICES PER no: sense, 1m
Grade lDetrolt {Micheal I. ‘7.
No. 2 Whlte 1.13 1.05%!
No. a Whlte 1.12 1.049;:
No. 4 White 1.11 _
PRICES on: rm sac -
Grade IDctrol‘l. l__cialcago_l_l. Y _
um ....... .14 . .10 '3”;
=2 e m ”I .1395 .12 .10
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There’s no longer any guess work
about the future of oats. While the
export demand has dropped all ow-
ing to the high prices, the scant sup-
plies have been so depleted that diffi-
culty is encountered in getting
enough for the normal daily needs
of domestic consumers. Detroit
quotes best grade of oats at $1.13 per
bushel.

There is considerable uncertainty
as to the acreage to be planted to
cats this spring. The unseasonable
April weather has been prevalent all
“over the United States and seeding

has been delayed for several weeks.

It is pointed out that this does not
augnr well for a good crop in the
early seeding sections, as early seed-
ed oats always do better than late
seeded oats. However, the seeding
season in Michigan is lat-e enough
not to be materially afiected by the
backward weather and it normal
weather should prevail until the mid-
die of May M‘ chigan will have a

normal acreage or better of oats. 01! ’

labor all crops oats require the least
labor, and this [act will cemmand
oats to a good many miners this
year.

RYE WES WARD
Rye is strong and higher being
quoted at $2.08 tor No. 2 on the De-
troit market. It is believed that this

'market will decline the least at any

of the grains when the strike is set.
tied and transportation resumed be-
cause of the cop‘irr“ “va export

ems. .
w.

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BEAN PRICES PER 0.... ,. a- a...)
Grade matron lchlcngel I. 'Y
. .:..‘ 1. 50 111251150.
god" Kidneys 3. 00 14150

PRICES ONE YEAR AGO

‘ Grade [Detroit 1:11.1ch N. Y. ‘
c. H. P. ...... l 1.50 I 1.50 8.00
Prime ......... le .15 l 1.00 1.25
Red Kidneys ..l1026 11. 00 10.15

 

 

 

There is no denying the tact that
beans are “picking up.” - The mar-
ket has registered three advances of
a «total of $1 per hundred in the
last two weeks and there is a strong
feeling in the bean states that the
long anticipated “boom" has arrived.
It 1711 not be wise to place too much
credence in this belief. however. The
antics of the bean market the last
two years has taught us all to be

ancients and cautious in our dis-

man- on “subject, and the pres-

‘ ‘entmhmyonlybethe result

of another "emulation.” We do
not-believe this is the case, but We
are satisfied to “go. easy' ’and note
whether or not the advance is sus-
tained.

A Los Angeles dispatch says. “The
demand for beans is improving some-
what, and as beans are about the
cheapest food on the market today,
it is expected that the price will ad-

- vance. ”

Our readers who. have waited pa-
tiently tor many months in hopes of
better bean pr’leescangetaray of-
encouragement out o! the latest dc;-
veiopments, we are anxiously
awaiting firth:- developments in
the hope and tells! “that prices are

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The boycott that startedin Detroit
and is rlpidly. becoming national,

turned up the toes in potatoes. J ust,

when “King Spud”, was getting to be
an expert aviator along come this
boycott and whipped the wind out
of his sails but it took the “fair price
board” to put theafinal touches.to
his downfall. The board ruled that.
he shall not fly above the $3.60 per
bushel limit, so. theisrmers who
have their potatoes yet may be left

. to hold the long.

There is a dull market reported at.

'nesrly all points and in Detroit in

particular,‘ as dealers there report
that'they cannot sell potatoes even
at the “fair" price which would be
at a. loss to them as they claim to
have paid more than $3.60 ‘8 bushel
for their present supply. We believe
this to be true. Shippers are di-
recting their cars to other points
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There has been an improvement in

the rail situation this week, especial— *

ly in the west and although trade is
far from normal at any point, the
end of the trouble is in sight. The
situation has been without precedent
in the history of the hay trade and
coming as it has after months of un-
usual weather conditions. and con-
cequent slow deliveries, it has forc-
ed prices to record levels. When the
strike is settled and weather condi-
tions .are propitious, hay will move
to market in large Quantities and
values will fall rapidly; it' is to the
interest~ of shippers to market their

“available holdings as rapidly as pos-

sible. but to avoid taking on new
stocks at present prices.

DETROIT PRODUCE MARKET

Supplies of farm produce are small
and there is not much improvement
in receipts, although it is said that
the movement of cars is a little more.
active than it was last week and some
vegetables are getting through. A

few cars of potatoes have been re“
,ccived, but far from enough to put

any pressure on the market and there
is not much doing. It is the same in
other vegetables, not enough com—
ing in to make a market and prices
largely nominal. The fruit trade is
almost lifeless. R‘eceipts‘are confin-
ed to a small movementcf box
apples and strawberries that reach
express. Poultry
trading is dull and no change is not-
ed in the price list. Both supply
and demand. are small. There is not
much doing in dressed hogs or calv-
es- Some of the latter are getting
to market, but hogs are very scarce.
Butter is dull and ofiered a little
lower. Sales of eggs on the Detroit
butter and egg board were at 41 3-4
cents for strictly fresh. '
Apples——Western, boxes, 64.50@

5.50; Baldwin. $3© 3.50; Greening,

$3.25@3,50; Steele Edda, $3.150 @
4 per bushel.
Popcorn—Shelled, .Bc‘per lb.

Dressed linger—Bosh, 25@26c;
. .. heavy, 2.60.3226, per lb. , l
. Galveoedressed, fancy, 24@25c;

  
 

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. Hides—[No.1 Cured calf, 553; No.
91‘ green calf; 550; rNo., 1 cured kip;

‘ezc; .No. 1 green kip 280‘; No. 1 our:
ed-hides,‘ 25 to 45 lbs, 30c; 5 lbs.
)and up, 2'9c; No. 1 green hides, 25" to
15 lbs., 270;" 45 lbs. and up, 17c;

‘ No. 1 green bulls, 20c; No. 1 cured

.bulls, 15c; No. 1 horsebides, $9.50;

- No. 2 horsehides, $8.50; Tallow: No.

1, 13¢,- No. 2 11¢. Sheep pelts 509
@3.50; No. 2 hides 1c and'No. 2
kip and calf, 1 1-20 off.

3081017 WOOL MARKET

The Commercial Bulletin says:
The railroad strike has tied up trans-
portation, the effect being to hold
up wool buying again too. greater or
lesser extent. There has been some
business accomplished during the
week, however, mainly on the part
of those who had fine wools, especial-
ly staple lots. to offer at firm prices.

Some buying of’ the new clip is
reported from Nevada at 50 to Me,
shearing at length having got start-
ed in this state. Elsewhere through
the west there has been little or
nothing doing.

Ohio and Pennsylvania fleeces—
Delaine, unwashed, 97c@$1; fine un-
washed, 74@76c; half blood, comb-
ing, 83@85c; 3-8 blood combing, 69
@70c; Michigan and New York
fleeces, fine unwashed, 80@82c; 3‘8
blood, unwashed, 67@68‘c; Wiscon-
sin, Missouri and average New Eng—
1 :1 1-2 blood, 72®75c; 3—8 blood,

6657:; 1-4 blood» 60c.

Virginia, Kentucky and similar—
1—2 blood, unwashed, 85@‘86c; 1-4
blood unwashed, 67@68c.

Seoul-ed basis: Texas: Fine 12

months, $1.9>0@].95;‘flne 8 months ,

$1.65@1.70. California, northern,
$1.90@1.95; middle country, $1.70

@175; southern, $1.50 @1.60; Or—V

egon eastern No 1 staple, $2@2.10;
eastern clothing, $1.70\@ 1.80; val-
ley No. 1, $1.70@1.75. Territory:
Fine staple, $2.05@2.15; 1-2 blood
combing, $1.85@1.35; 3-8 blood,
combing. $1.30; fine clothing, $1.75
@1.85; fine medium clothing, $1.65
@1.75. .

  

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' 1:806136»; ' A’ savers: £1.65 @ 1.75 ;
Mohuirs, best‘combing, 60@65c; best

j cardings, 55 @ 60c.

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LIVE STOCK MARKETS

DETROIT—Cattle: Market for
canners steady; all others 500 low-
or than Friday's close, some .g‘oing
over unsdld; best steers, $13@13.25;
best— handy weight butcher steers,
$10.50@11.50; mixed steers and
heifers, $9.50@10.25; handy light
butchers, $8.75@9.25; light butch-

ers, $8.25@8.50; best cows, $8.50@ ‘

8.75; butcher cows, $7@7.50; cut—
ters, $6@6.2'5; canners, $5@5.50;
best heavy bulls- $8.50@9.50; bol—
ogna bulls,‘ $8: stock bulls... $7.@
7.50; milkers and springers, $65@
135. Veal calves; market dull and
$1.50 lower; best, $17.50@18;_oth-
ers, $10615. Sheep and lambs:
market dull and much lower; quota-
tions are for clipped stock, prices at
the close were: Best lambs, $15.50@
16; fair lambs, $13@14; light to
common lambs, $10@12.50; wool
lambs, $17; fair to good sheep, $11@
12; culls and common, $5@7. Hogs
market fairly active; pigs, $16;
heavy, $16.25; mixed, $16.75.

CHICAGO—Cattle: beef steers, 25
and 50c lower; top, $15; bulk, $12
@14; she—stock 35c lower; bulk
$8.50@10.25; canners and cutters,
mostly $4.50@5; calves, 50@75c
lower; bulk, $15@16. Hogs: high-
er, advance of heavy hogs mostly
lost; top, $16.75; bulk $15.15@
16.50; heavy packing sows, $13@
13.50; pigs- $14.50@15.50. Sheep;
steady; 25c higher; top wooled lambs
$21.75; bulk, $21@21.75; top shorn
lambs, $18.75; bulk, $18.25@18.75;
sheep steady.

EAST BUFFALO—Dunning &
Stevens report: Cattle: steady. Hogs,
strong, heavy. $16.50@ 17.50; york-
ers, $18.25@19; pigs, $18@18.50.
Sheep: strong, clipped lambs, $20@
21.50; yearlings, $16@18; wetbers,
$15@16; ewes, $13@14. Calves,
$7@22.50.

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Automobile thieves who appear in
federal court will be shown no leu~
iency, Judge Arthur J. Tuttle intla-‘f
mated April 5th when Robert lid-V.
wards, first man in; Michigan to plead '_
guilty under the Dyer Act, was sent; .
enced to three years in Leavenworth} .

penitentiary for stealing a car in Dee .'

troit and transporting it to Toledo .
The federal law,
prohibits the transportation of stol- ,
on machines from one state to an-'
other. ‘

Automobile owners have been the
prey of the automobile thief and in
many cases victims of exaggerated
damage claims. People that are
slightly injured pretend that they
are seriously hurt and allege that
they are injured in the back and
spine, have headaches and cannot
sleep.

Automobile owners are orglnizing
to fight those unjust claims and ex-
cessive verdicts are now more often
appealed. Every automobile own-'
er should co-operate in punishing
the automobile thief and to prevent
the unjust and exaggerated damage
claims.

WILL NOT RAISE A BEET

I want to thank you as a farmer
for the good work you are doing for
us, farmers. If there were more men
like you to work for our interests we
would get a square deal. I am a beet
grower but I will not raise a beet un-
der the old contract although I live
within one-half mile of the station.
I favor Frank Lowden for president
and Milo Campbell for governor. With
the best Wishes for you and your
paper, I remain—Jrv'ing M. Vernon,
Genesee'County, Mich.

Geographical Sisters

Miss Rose asked her eighth grade:
“What are the sister states?”

Mabel answered: “I am not sure,
but I should think they were Miss
Ouri, Ida Ho, Mary Land, Callie For-
nia, Louisa Anna, Della Ware, Min-
nie Sota, and Mrs. Sippi.”

Sugar Beet Growers, Attention ~

The time is soon here. to plant beets and over 10,000 organized growers have been asking in vain

for a. conference with the Sugar Trust.

with a couple of our members.
your neighbor.

While this is going on plant beans, plant potatoes, plant corn, plant spring wheat, plant oats,
plant. barley, plant cabbage, plant cucumbers, and if you have any time left go fishing and plan on
what you will say to your neighbor when he culls on you to go in and. lend a portion of your credit
to build your 0WD sugar factory. Your association is gathering the plans and the data for the

organization of farmer-owned sugar factories. These plans will be uniform and will soon be sent. to

all the local organizations to be handed out to all the members

Get your neighbor to read

THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER
so that he also will be informed

Farmers let us arise from our knees and stand to our full height. and dignity as business men.

Let us unite with our brother farmer and loanour credit to our” association and then we can go to
any bank with the best security on earth and get all the money we want at the lowest rate-0f interest

, and secure all the profits of the domestic sugar business, for which we are now begging a mere crumb

thereof at the present time on our bended knees.

Arise, brothers, arise !

for business this year.

Why stand we here idle?

when you come back you will have a brighter View of life.

The farmer who fails to recognize or appreciate the rapid development of this movement is the.
fellow who is again going to be the one to let out an awful howl next spring. Why fuss and com-
plain like an old scold and then appeal and implore a greedy and heartless corporation to be char-
itable, to you! Will you always be an object of charity to them in the future so long as you give them _
you notes at 7 per cent for the seed and labor and wait for. your pay for your beets until they sell the y .
sugar they make from them, and pocket half of the money-is their profit. Think this over. Your ,

‘ note without interest will get you all the profit thru your association. ’ _ -,

    
     
   
 

W111 we b break? No we will stick, and to a man. Sure; we
have our organization incorporated and“ are in Shape to put this fight to the end.

We Will Build Our Own Sugar Factories

First we will get a petition to Congress for a. special tariff on beans. We are having 1,000 copies

printed and will get a few copies out to every one of our locals and to every elevator and to every

' Farm Bureau Local and have the Locals get all the farmers to sign, and when this is done we will

call them in and bind them all together in one monster petition and send it on down to Washington
We want not less than 75,000 signers on this petition. Talk this to

Our brothers in the west are already in the‘
game and will have one plant ready to slice beets this fall and think they» will have two more ready
If you go west this year go to Fort Lupton and see What farmers can do and

  

 

   
  
  
   
 
   
  
  
 
 
 
  
    
  
  
  
   
    
  
  
  
    
   
  
  
  
  
   
   
  
  


  
   
   

 

 

‘ about this statement is that

‘ made by a man who is total—
‘ 1y blind himself.

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..1.p¢we a beggar from my little store a
wealth of gold;
‘He spent the shining ore, and came
5 again and yet again,
Still cold and hungry, as before.
I gave a thought and through that
thought of mine,
He found himself, the man supreme,

j . divine,

Fed, clothed and crowned with bless-
ings ‘ manifold,
And now he begs no more:

HERE is the beggar who farm—
erly asked for a piece of bread
g _ at our back door? The short
hours and big pay have induced them
to go to work and the further fact

, that even though they be crippled

they can find lucrative positions has
made the thread— bare excuse of their
deformities of no account.

Here in the city there is a rain-
bow shop in which are sold the arti-
cles made by ex—soldiers who were
taught this work through the occupa—
tional theraphy classes, and it was
wonderful to see the useful articles
offered for sale and at prices which
competed with the factory made art-
icles. There were wonderful bask-
ets of all shapes and sizes and for all
occasions. Baskets for fire wood
stained a rich brown—baskets for
fruit and baskets for flowers as well
as the regular market baskets and
the newer shopping bags woven of
the same material but which hang
on the arm and are stout enough to
carry almost anything.

Then there were most wonderful
woven rugs of rags—and they are so
popular just now while it has been
shown that men are often more adept
at head work than women and the
beaded bags shown were works of
art.

Some men who find themselves in—
jured for life are not easily adaptable

. to this line of work and prefer to

specialize in a business course which
makes it possible for them to com-
pete with the men Who are physically
sound at desks, while others
prefer to work at piece work
in the factories where they
need not leave their bench
to earn just as much as their
fellow men.

It’s all in the attitude.
The man who wills can do any—
thing and the relatives who en-
courage them in letting others
earn their living are really do—
ing them just as much injury
as the woman who hands out
bread and butter at her back
door to the man who is just as
able to work as the housewife
or her men folks.

Statistics show that in De—
troit alone twenty-nine blind
persons and 45 cripples were
placed in industrial plants in
the last year and are now earn-
ing full wages on equal
terms with normal workers.
And the wonderful thing

the placements were all

and who
was able when it was found
to .prove his ar-
actual demon-

   

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RAISING BERRIES FOR
PROFIT

*E'RRIES ' rank with small
a fruits in the matter of
.. profits and they are more
easily cultivated by the women
With ‘
sent prices for small fruits
_ and more will they tip--
to, the women of the farm.
right now is the time for
planting.’ We are‘ fortunate in
gesturing some expert advice
our readers on time of
ting, manner of preparing

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wv'e are glad to show another comfortable and attractive farm home this week—that of Mr.

and Mrs. Frank Mlnks, of Pierson. Mlch.

Plenty of windows for sunshlns and alr and trees In the

yard not only provide shade but form a dividing Ilns between yard and fields.

 

the farm, more and more will the ag-
riculturists resort to raising those
crops which can be cared for by the
family without outside help.

First let us consider the straw-
berry.

Time t-o p1ant~—March and April.

Age of plants—One year old plants
give the best results.

Preparation of soil—Strawberries
grow in many kinds of soil. Any
good, well drained garden soil, well
prepared, will produce strawberries.
A layer, 1 inch deep, of well—rotted
manure should first be thoroughly
spaded into the soil. Then finely
ground bone meal at the rate of 1
pound to 25 square feet of space,
and tobacco stems at the rate of 3
pounds to the‘same space should be
carefully raked into the soil. .Wood
ashes spread over the soil just thick
enough to be seen can be used in

place of bone meal and tobacco
stems. ,
Setting plants—The rows

   
     
     
     
     
       
  

 
 
        
       
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
      
      
     
     
     
     
     
     
       
     
        
 
       
   
      
     
     
  
  
 
    

should be 2 feet apart and the plant
1 foot apart in the rows. The hole
should be deep enough to place the
plants at the same depth they were
before and large enough to spread
the roots out well. In transplanting

’the soil should be placed a little at

a. time around the..roots and pressed
down firmly. Care should be taken
not to get any soil in the crown.

Care of the bed—Clean culture is ‘

of prime importance. The strawber-
ry bed should be hoed frequently so
as to keep the bed free of weeds and
the upper two and one-half inches of
soil loose and dustlike. ThroughOut
the first summer all lower stems
should be cut off. The out should
be made as close to the plant as
possible. To prevent rain from spat—
tering sand and soil on the fruit, a
thin layer of straw or "pine "needles
should be spread over and between
the rows in December. This layer
should be thin enough for the plan-ts
to grow through it the following
spring. »

Harvesting—A strawberry bed
carefully prepared and cared for
should produce at the rate of a quart
of berries to the plant the following
season.

Raspberries, Blackberries, Dewberries

Time of planting—March and
April.

Location in the garden—The plants
do well in a cool shady section of
the garden. They could be planted
next to the fence, or in corners not
used for the growing of vegetable
crops.

Preparation of the soil—Like the
strawberry, these fruits grow best in
well drained, carefully prepared gar—
den soil. ’
‘ Setting the plants—-
The rows should be 4
'feet apart and the
plants placed 3 feet
apart in the rows. The
plants grow rapidly
and would soon crowd
if placed closer togeth-
er. The holes should
be large enough to
spread the roots out
well-rand should con-
tain rich mellow soil
‘to induCe new growth.
Any bruised section of
the root should be cut

    

  
  
  
  
 
  
  
  
    
  
 

  
 
  
   
 
   
 
  
   
 
 

, horizontal roots.

' off 7 as nearly horizon- ,

Atal as possible with a sharp limbs.

The plants should be set three to
4 inches deeper than they had previ-
ously been. The Soil should be press.
ed firmly about the roots, As the
new sprouts form. the soil‘snohld be
pulled toward the plant until the
hole is completely filled.

Care of the patch—The patch
should be hoed frequently to save
moisture and to kill weeds. Shoots
called suckers, which sprout from
the roots of red raspberries and
blackberries, must be kept under con-
trol, or the patch will .in time ,be—
come a dense thicket and the fruit
wil decrease in quantity and quality
and will be hard to pick. The rows
should be kept 8 to 10 inches wide.

The patch should receive a light
application of stable manure or
commercial fertilizer each year. It
is a mistake to think these berries
require no fertilizer. Immediately
after the fruit is gathered, the canes
that have borne fruitgshould be cut
out and burned. Theseold canes are
of no‘value to the plant andarellke-
iy to harbor insects and fungous di-
seases. In the spring red raspberries
are pruned as follows: The weak
canes are cut but and the strong
ones are cut back to 4 feet; During
the early part of the summer black
raspberries and blackberries are
pruned as follows: The tops of the
new canes are cut back 2 inches when
the canes are 3 feet high. This is

done to make the canes branch. A'

branched cane will produce more
fruit than a straight cane.

the new 'canes will not reach the de~

sired height at the same time, the.

patch must be gone over more than.
once.
out to 5 canes to each plant. Very
little pruning is required for dew-
berries.

Prapagating—Red raspberries and
blackberries send up shoots from the

new plants and can be transplanted
into new rows in the garden in Sep—
tember. In digging up the plants
care should be taken to remove a
part of the horizontal root.

If the tips of the long canes of
black raspberries and dewberries are
covered with mellow soil the last of
August, they will take root and pro-
duce new plants that could betrans—
planted into rows in the garden the
following spring.

Diseases—These fruits have a
number of diseases and insect ene-
mies. These can be partially con-
trolled by cutting out and burning all
the old canes and any new canes that
are diseases.
deaux mixture is also practical. The
first application should be made
when the new canes are 6 inches
high. A second and third'applica-
tion should be made at intervals of
10 to 14 days. “Control of garden in-

sects" will tell how to make Bordeaux”—

mixture.-

Harvesting—Berry patches care-
fully cared for should bear for 10 to
15 years.

FOR .THE BRIDAL SHOWER
UESSING games galore have a]-

ways been used for theamusee' L

ment of the guests at 9. Shower
for the bride-to-be,,but' the other day
we came across a new one. The hap-
py bride-to- be has just finished high

school and was very fond of litera— "
ture and made a specialty of.

this study. The friends and
classmates used the follow-
ing game of ““Questions and
Answers to be Answered "by

, you do not know of a shower
you will wish to‘ attend in the

, . immediate future, cut cutand; ‘ j .

Since all.

The canes should be thinned-

These shoots. make .

Spraying with Bor-‘

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‘ gave the wedding recep—

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hey live?

'. 10. Like what was her disposition?
11. What did they give each other?.
12. What caused their quarrel? _
.13. What Was told them that caus-

ed a chilly feeling?
14. What Roman ruler tried to ef-
,, fect a reconciliation between
them?
ANSWERS
1. Romeo and Juliet.
2. Mid- Summer Nights’ Dream.
3. .As you like it.
4. Twelfth Night.
5. Merchant of Venice.
6. Anthony and Cleopatra.
7. Gentleman of Verona.
8., Merry Wives of Windsor. ‘ .

' 9.’ Hamlet. ,

' 19. Tempest. -
11. Measure for Measure.
12. Comedy of Errors.

, 13. Winter’s Tale.

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SPRING APPETITES
OW IS the time to increase the
fruit ration, that craving for
something different can be more
easily satisfied in .the spring with ‘
fruit than any other food.
Did you every try making a short

‘ cake by using canned peaches. Make

'. and if you want it extra fine,

the regular shorticake, then use the
canned peaches, without much- juice
use
whipped cream also on the top. It
makes a delicious dessert for Spring.

Why not tempt. the appetite with
lamb or Mutton instead of the reg-
ular been and pork ration for a
change. Mutton and lamb, the food
products of sheep, provide a tasteful,
nutritious meat than can be prepar-
ed in a large variety of ways for the
table. Mutton broth is a time hon-
ored diet for. the invalid, and to
many a baby it has brought rosy
cheeks. During convalescence broil-
ed and-stewed mutton and lamb
bring back the lost ambitiOn and
banish the “tired feeling." The man

' with a delicate taste calls frequently
: for his broiled mutton chop, baked
‘ potato and pickled walnuts no does

he forget the savory juices of the leg
0 ’mutton with mint sauce and green
peas.

Mutton is superior to lamb for

’ use inlbroths because for its weight

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Dye Old, Faded

.‘Wlaplond “Dyes”: Make Shabby Apparel

it- contains more nutriments. As' it
is cheaper. it is also more commonly
used for stews. Almost every house-
wife is familiar with the method of
making stew and of roasting, broil-
ordinary
way, but perhaps you will be glad of
the following recipes for broth, sauce
and jelly to serve with the lamb or
mutton and ways of using the left-V
overs:
Mutton Broth.

3 pound of mutton from the neck.

2 quarts cold water.

3 tablespoons rice or barley.

1 teaspoon salt.

Cut the meat into small pieces, place in
a. kettle and cover wlith water. Heat
gradually to the boiling point and season
Cook slowly until the meat is tender.
strain and when cool remove the fat.
Reheat to the boiling point, add the rice
or barley and cook until tender. If bar-
ley is used soak over night in cold water.

Pot Pie.

Any stew may be converted into a pot
pie by spreading over the stew a dough
and baking for about ten minutes.

1 cup flour.

2 teaspoons baking powder. '
2 level tablespoons shortening.

Dress Material

 

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Don’t worry about perfect results. Use.
“D 'mond ,Dyes,” guaranteed to give 11.
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. rolls

Gasser-010 of Lamb.
Line a casserole slightly greased with
steamed rice»;

pepper, celery salt and onion juice. Cov-
er with rice. Cook in the oven with ca’s-
serol? covered It may be browned. at

ast: If served in casserole water
stock or gravy should be added when fill-

~ ing the dish.

Stuffed Biscuit.
Left- -over lamb or mutton.
dough.

2 cups flour.

4 teaspoons baking powder.
1 teaspoon salt.

31easpoons fat

3- 4 cup of watér or milk. ' "

Biscuit

Combine the biscuit dough and roll on .

board half inch thick. Out as for bis-
culit. Spread half of eachibiscuit with.
melted fat. Place a small amount of the
meat, which has been ground and mixed"
with gravy and seasoning, on the bis-
cuit. Fold over as for Parker House
Bake and serve with gravy.

Mini; Sauce and Mint Jelly.

1-4 cup finely chopped mint leaves.

1 tables on powdered sugar. *

1- 2 cu vinegar.

1- 2 teaspoon salt

Combine the ingredients and let the
mixture stand in a warm place until the
flavor of the mint has penetrated the,
liquid. .Either the dry or the fresh mint
or spearment may be used.

Mint jelly can be made by stiffening
mint sauce with gelatin. One- half table-
~spoon of gelatin soaked in cold water
enough to cover it is used with a cup of
mint sauce made as described.

“HEARTS OF THREE”
(Continued from page 13)
‘ But the stern leader shook his
head. '

“Here you were released. Our or-
ders went no further. No further
jurisdiction have we over you. We
shall now bid fareWell and depart.”

“Hold on !” Francis cried, pulling
out his check book and beginning to
write. “Wait a moment. I must
settle for this peon now. Next, before
you departyI have a favor to ask. of
you :1

He passed the check to the ha—
cienda‘do, saying:

“I have allowed ten pesos for the

 

_ exchange."

The haciendado glanced at the

, check, folded it away in his pocket,

and placed the end of the-rcpe around
the wretched creature’s neck in Fran-
cis' hand.
“The peon is now yours,” he said.
Francis looked at the rope and
laughed. '
“Behold !” I now own a human
chattel. Slave, you are mine, my
property now, do you understand?"
"Yes, Senor," the peon muttered
hum‘bly. “It seems when I became

>ma~d for. the woman I gave up my

freedom for, that God destined me
always afterward to be the property
of some man. The Cruel Just One
is right. It is God's punishment for
mating outside my race.’

“You made a slave of yourself for
what the world has always consider-
ed the 'best of all causes, a woman,"
Francis observed, cutting the thongs
that bound the peon’s hands. “And
so, I make apresent of you to your-
self. " So saying, he placed the neck-
rope in the peon's hand “Hence-
forth, lead yourself, and put not that
rope in any man ’s hand. "

While the foregoing had been tak-
ing place, a lean old man, on foot,
had noiselessly joined the circle.
Maya Indian he was, pure-blooded,
with ribs that corrugated plainly
through his parchment-like skin.
Only a breech-clout covered his nak-
edness. His unkempt hair hung in
dirtyagray tangles about his face,
which was high—cheeked and emanci—
ated to cadaverousness. Strings of
muscles showed for Chis calves and
biceps. A few scattered snags of
teeth were visible between his with-
ered lips. The hollows, under his
cheek bones were prodigious. While
his eyes, beads of black—,deep-sunk

in their sockets, burned with the
wild light of a patient in fever.
He slipped eel-like through the

circle and clasped the peon in his
skeleton- like arms.

“He is my. father. ” proclaimed the
peon proudly. “Look at him. He is
pure: Maya, and he‘ knows the secrets
of the 'Mayas. ”

And while the two reunited ones

italked'endless explanations, Francis

preferred his request to the sack-
cloth leader to find Enrico Solano
and his two sons, wandering Some-
where in the mountains, and to tell
them that they were free of all claims

.Fill the center With finely ~
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5; EAR CHILDREN: Received such
‘ a splendid drawing this week

_ but it was in colors, so can’t

. award a. prize or publish it. Be sure
and have the drawing which you sub-

, mit for prizes in black and white
only.

One little reader inquired how
many subscribers it would take to
secure the song “Star of the East."
Onlyone, my little friend, one new
one at one dollar. Send in your sub-
scriber-with the remittance and ad-
vise me that you wish this prize and
label] be very glad indeed to send it

to you. '

One little subscriber ' writes this
week: "Talk about hikes, they’re my
hobby." It's a wonderful hobby for
girls as well as boys to have. The

eye have organized “hikes” through

the work of the Boy Scout movement“

and the girls can organize themselv-
into a club for the study of wild
owers or wild birds, either of which
will give them an excuse for tramp-
ing through wood and field—feeding
mind and body at the same time. Be
lure and take a sandwich and a
cookie or two with you for you will
want them. Personally I like to take
‘oome potatoes and roast them, eat-
ing them with green onions and my
bread and butter sandwiches.

Here is a lovely little story of the
wild flowers this week. Perhaps it
h a bit early, but you can read it and
I am sure it will encourage you to
. et out and get acquainted with the

owers just as soon as they bloom.—
Affectionately yours, LADDIE.

OUR BOYS AND GIRLS

-Dear Laddie—I like “The Children's

our” very much. I think your letters
E the children‘s page are very interest-

g and the children also write fine let—
ters. I will be 14 years old the 16th of
-.April. I go to the Goodrich school and
am taking the eighth grade. My hardest
ltudy is geography. My reading is the
"Rhyme of The Ancient Mariner”. There
are two rooms in our school. The first
ten grades are taught_ I have three sis—
ters. My little sister who was about two
and a half years old passed away last
fall. It is lonesome without a baby in
the house. She had a pretty face and
pretty brown curls. We live on a 140-
acre farm; It is bounded on the south by
Campbell's lake. Our house is on the
south side of the road. On‘ the north-
west side of the house we have a pine
grove. The tallest of our pine trees is
about 8 feet, We girls have an organ.
I have taken ten lessons on it and I in-
tend to take ten more this summer. How
many subscribers would it take to earn
“The Star of the East” in sheet music?
I am sending you a picture of two little

irls on a tester which I drew. My sis—
er Bernice sent you a letter a few days
ago. Your friend, Mary Clark, Walker.
ville, Mich.

 

Dear Laddie—«VVO hope our friends will
enjoy reading this letter. and that we
win a prize. We are two friends living
on. adjoining farms. We read the ‘Chil-
dren's Hour” and think it is very inter-
esting. We are in the 7th and 8th grade
at school and in the same room. We
have the best and most enjoyable friends
in school. We saw the letters of our
friends Henrietta Droste and Mary Gross
in the M. B. F., and think they are good
letter writers. We live 3—4 of a. mile
from the village of Westphalia, which is
going to be a city some time, for they are

olng to have the railroad built through

ere soon. Hoping to see the letters of
our friends and this letter in print, we re-
main, Mary Fedewa and Verena Martin,
Westphalia, Mich.

Dear Laddie—I am a girl 10 years of
age and am in the 4th grade. I live on a
farm of 80 acres. We have 8 cows and 6
calves. For pets I have 2 rabbits, 2 cats
and 1 dog. I go to the Am school and
have a mile and three-quarters to walk_
We take the M. B. F. and like it fine. I
like “The Children’s Hour” page the best.
Well I will close and leave room for some
more.~Florence Rudell, Mungcr, Mich.

 

Dear Laddie—I am a little girl 8 years
old and in the 3rd grade at school. My
teacher is Miss Amos. I live on an 80-
ncre farm. We have 3 horses, 5 cows, 2
calves, 3 pigs and 40 chickens. I like to

ad the stories and letters in the M, B.

.—Lois L. Parks, Weidman, Mich .

\ Dear Laddie——My father takes the M,
' ‘ B. F. and likes it dandy. .I am 14 years
7 'old‘and in the 8th grade. I read the let-
ters from the boys and girls and like to
hear their stories; ‘what they write. We
‘have 8 cows, 5 horses and 6 pigs. For
. pets I have a dog and teats. We live on
1,104 acre farm and keep about 50
lwarms of bees and about an acre and a.
half of berries, stapes, plums, peaches
and other fruits. As this letter is get-
ting. exceedingly long I will close, hop-

to see my letter on “The Children’s
page.-.—Marie Biatt, Brown City

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0111' All-The-Year—Round-Carden Family

(A story of two woods More; by Ellen lady Shaw) “

 

HIS SPRING two new children

were born into our All-The-Year-

Round Garden family. One little
boy belongs in the country, and the
other little boy belongs in he city".
If you look at the names of these
two children you will know right
straight oil? that Patty is the country
boy and Holly, with his fancy name,
must be a. city lad.

If you are a country boy or‘girl.
go out some fine spring day to a
sunny little hillside, or slope in the
woods. and there you will find little
Patty. Patty’s whole name is he-
patica.

When you are poking among‘ the
dead leaves, what you must look for
first is a little plant with large, old
tough leaves, reddish in color. Push
these aside and down underneath are
some tender, new little green leaves
and Patty’s head bent over, protect-
ed by th-ose big, tough, last year’s~
leaves.

Take up one or two hepatica plants
carefully, also some of the wood soil.
and when you get home plant them
in a fish bowl or some othu' glass
vessel, with the wood soil about

 

them. Put the bowl in a sunny
window, with perhaps a piece of
glass over the top, and as the days
go on you will see little Patty’s head
prick up, you will see the new leaves
start, you will see one of the loveliest
blossoms a little plant evenhad, and
lo and behold. there is Patty, your
country boy i ‘

Holly is a fern with bright leaves
that look like Christmasholly leaves
It is the best little fern for indoors,
and will last better than almost any
other fern. ‘

Be sure you keep Holly» very
clean and nice. You must wash his
face, washing both the front and back
of the leaves, just as mother washes
your face and behind your ears.
Keep the soil in which Holly is
planted moist but not wet and soggy.
Give him a nice sunning every once
and a while, and if there is a gentle
spring rain, put little Holly boy out-
doors and let the rain wash his face.

So Patty and Holly are our two
little spring boys belong now in the
same "All-theYear—Round Garden"
family with little Marie Gold, our
French orphan.

 

Dear Laddie—I have been reading the
children’s page in the M. B. F. Papa
takes your paper and likes it very much.
This is the first time I have written to
you. I am a girl 11 years old and in the
6th grade. I live on an fill-acre farm.
We have three pigs and eight little pigs,
three horses, six cows and about 75 chick-
ens. For pets I have two cats and one.
dove, As my letter is getting long I will
write a story, hoping I will win the prize.
Dossia W. Barger, Butternut, Mich.

Dear Laddie——-We take the M. B. F.
and.like it very much. I am a. girl 12
years old and In the 7th grade at school.
I have not been going this week 3
a cyclone tore down our school house. I
have solved the puzzle in the M. B. F. I
think the other animal is ‘antelopo”. We
have one cat and three kittens. _ The
cat's name is Tabby. Well as my letter
is‘getting long I will close, hoping to see
it in print—From Dorothy Trick, As-
syria, Mich.

Dear Laddie———I am a girl 11 years old
and in the 5th grade. There are about
100 pupils in our school. My teacher’s
name is Mrs. Grace Hulet and I like her_
very well. I live on a 150-acre farm.

\We have nine pigs, four cows, four

calves and 50 chlickens. I have two
brothers. We take the M. B. F. and like
it very well. I am interested in "The
Children's Hour" and the boys and title
letters—Yours very truly, Verona Leona.
Terry, Dryden, Mich.

Dear Laddie—I’m 12 years of age and
in the 7th grade. We are having a spring
.vacation now. I live on an 8'0-acre farm.
My father has three horses, four cows
and twooldpigsand tenlittloones. I
have three brothers and two sisters. My
father has taken the M. B. F, for quite a
while. I like to read the letters and
stories that the children write. Hope
some of the girls will write tome and
that I will see my letter in print—Hazel
Holer, Plainwell, Mich. R. 1.

 

Dear Laddie—I am ten years old and
in the 4th grade at school. My teacher's
name is Miss Olga Burg. I live on a
200 acre farm. We have seven head of
horses and one little Shetland pony. We
have eight head of cattle. I have two
sisters and two brothers. We have two
dogs, one is a Shepherd that goes after
.the cattle, and the other is a little water
spaniel and the boys like to play with
him. We hawan Overland can—Doro-
thy Rinehart, Scottsville, Mich.

 

 

 

   

    

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name must haveslx letters._ If you use the right birds, you will also
complete the names of six other birds which will read from left to

Answer to last week’s puzzle: MAN plusDISH plus GONE plus A
minus H minus CANE equals MADISON._ LINE: plus _,COA,T minus i

 

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car it” smiling inquired the» teacher.

   

, .s so .. '
_ .. a as

to you .
or wrote 'to you a long than
letter was minted. so that encouraged me
to d wgtet 1111.131:ngh I am a 1;! years old
an grade, . ~ an: 8.11m. to
go down to my brother’s this summer and
take care of my little nephew. Upon takc'
in: two consecutive letters from each of
the words in this week's puzzle I find
the fifth animal to be ah f‘antelope.” I
would like to get letters from some of the

girls—I remain a friend, Esther Saster-'

line, Marion, Mich. R. .2.

 

"’ Dear Laddie—I have been‘ reading the
, letters in the M. B. F. for some time, but
I have' never made an . in Write
myself. I am a girl 14 years old. five
feet tall and weigh 108 pounds. I live
on a. 120 acre farm and we have (our
horses, 26 head of outdo, 19 pigs, about

50 chickens and three geese. We havetk .

camera and I like to take pictures wi
it. I am taking music lessons. Well I
must close now, hoping to see my letter
in print_——Velmn. Ericka; Yale, Mich.

Dear Laddie——This u the first time I'

have written to you. I am 14 years of
age and passed the 8th grade last year I
do not go to school now. My father on
the M. B. F. and we allllke it very mu

I have one five brothers.
live on a ZOO-acre farm. We havedots 0
stock; over 109 chickens and em dog! 31%
name is Browny. WI hop'ig t
see my letter in lint—Helen Cook.
Weidrnan, Mich, ‘R. , Box 55 ,

 

Dear Laddie—This lo the second time I
have written to you. father takes
the M. B. F. and I like to read the lotto
in “The Children‘s Hour”. I am a. girl
ears old and In the 6th grade. I lira

3-4 miles from the school. My teacher
is Sister Bertha. I have seven sisters
and four brothers. I' will. close, hoping
to see my letter in print—Emilie Spitz-
ley, PewammMioh, 11.1. ' ,

Dear Laddie—Thls is the first time
havewfltlnntothefinl'. 1am
yearsoidandlaminthetth ,
go to Job] school and my teach a name
is Miss Helen Juhl. She is my cousin.
We have 24 cows and are Industrial! It
present. We send our milk to t Bor-
den's condensary. We h'aVe three her
and about 90 chickens, We have a Flo
car. I have four brothers—James An-
ton Juhl, Sandusky, R. 1.

__.____. _ .

Dear Laddie—This is the first tim I
have written to you. We live on a 1 0-
acre farm. 1 am a girl 13 years old and
in the 6th .grade. We haven’t had an
sickness, but there has been a. lot of
around here. I have a. brother 12 Jean
old and a. sister Beulah and she is 11
‘ears old, also two little sisters. Wilma.

four years old and Margie is three. I
fvili close for this time—Beatrice Con-
eY. ‘ '

Dear Laddie~We take the M. B. F. and
like it very much. I am a boy 8 years
old and am in the 2nd grade at school.
I have two brothers and two sisters. Their
names are Leona 15, Bernice 10, Clarence
13, Orville 5. We have three cows and
four calves. We have a dog, his name
is Rover. My letter is getting long so I
fiiilihcloscr-Mayne VanCamp, Rapid City,

C .

Dear Ladd'ie—My father takes the M.
B. F. and he thinks it is a. good paper.
We live on a large farm about one mile
from Trenton, I have two brothers, one
is seven years old and the other is 11. I

 

am 13 years old and in the 7
My teacher is Florence I. Erving. I
thing she is a very good teacher. Hoping
to see my letter in print—Hazel New-
man, Trenton, Mich.

 

Dear Laddie—I am a girl 13 years old
and in the 7th grade at school. I like to
go to school. My father takes the M. B.
F. and likes it fine. I like “The Child-
ren's Hour and the stories too. I have
one brother and no sisters. We have a
pet dog named Collie. I like to send x
puzzles—Myrtle Siver, Millington, Ml

Dear Laddie—«I ‘llve on a farm of 100
acres and have about 100 chickens, aloe
have three horses, four «cows and one
calf. We take the M. B. F. I like to
read the letters in it. I hope to no. my
letter among the rest.——Youre truly, Lu-
cile Fouch, Traverse City, Mich. /

 

pea! Laddie—I read the, letters in your
papa- and throught I would write one. I
am nine years old and in the 5th grade.
My birthday is on the 13th of May.
have four sisters and four brothers, We
have six cows and five horses. I am
%omg to,haVe a garden this summer.'-

thel Toner, Kinde, Mich.

 

According to Webster
A Swedishlad in a Kansas City
school was told by his teacher to
write a sentence containing the word

. poultice’. He handed in this one:

“High school girls often
poultices."

“You are thinking of poetry in-
stead of poultices, aren't" you, 05-

write

,"\!"No, ma'am,’f replied Migggmgs
1y. "I mean :11!!!le ,_ a2.

     

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Dear Laddi‘e—As I have never written
to do so. My hroth- .
ago and his

th grade.

  

 

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would'ya believe

h it? at last there’s been a cab-
‘in’et meeting an’ the president
(himseli) was there—in tact, accord-
in' to reports, he called the meetin,’
an’ had all-his, well I m goin’ to
say advisers but as the president
(himself) takes no advice, I. don't
jest hardly know what to call these

tellers that was called together by

Ithe president (himself.} But you
know that for some little time we've
had no such thing- as cabinet meet-
in’s, the president wa’ant able to go,
he wouldn’t let__the vice president act,
muryhansing tried to do a little
somethin’ an’ lost his job an’ seems
like cverytlrin’ wun kinda muddled
up considerable. But now there’s
been a meetin’ an' while they don’t
seem to’ve been much of. anything
done, we here the gratifying news
that the president felt no bad effects
from the meetin’ and that he feels
good.

Well we ’re darned glad that the
president feels good whether the rest
of the country does or not, now it he
would act as good as he feels mobbe.
they might be somethin’ done down
at Washington that would help
straighten things out a little.

When I git sick an’ can’t do my
work, by gosh the company unfeelin’-
1y jest stops my pay—mo work no
pay with me an’ darned if I have any
one that’s s'posed to take my place
when I'm sick, like the president has.
it I did have I’d tell him to go ahead

an' manage things ’till, I got on my»

feet agin. ,

. But the president don’t do business
that way, he tells ’em to let business
go to, well to hold things up 'till his
head gits to workin’ again, an' then
he’ll ’tend to it himself. That’s what
acme evil mmded persons might call
one man gover’ment, anyway I jest
like to ask what’s th' use at payin'
a vice president ‘a quite a bunch of
money when he ain‘t to be allowed
to do anything in times like we've
been passinl through since early last
fall. What‘s the use of a. vice pres-
ident anyway? an’ furthermore,
what’s the use of a congress or a
senate or a cabinet when one man
has got head enough to run the whole

‘dum country an’ is willin' an' anxious

to do it?

An’ there‘s another thing I’m wor-
ryin’ considerable about an' that's
that garden seeds an' sich. Congress-
men ain’t sending out many of ’em
this year, there seems to be a. kind
of a shortage of’ em an’ what's folks
goin’ to do?

You know it’s been the custom of

’the government to buy hundreds of

thousands of dollars worth of seeds
an' turn ’em over to our congress-
men to send to their constituents
(guess that’s what they call ’em but
I could never jest git through my
head what the word-meant) well any-
way they sent ’em with their compli-
ments, which of course made 'em,
the seeds, valuable, cost the govern-

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more snow FEEDING VALUE on
SILAGE
( 0011th from page 5)

the yield as high as 20 to 22 tons
per acre» But, assuming, as above
stated, that the yield of silage be
ten tons to the acre, then the follow-
ing figures can be worked out:

Wisconsin produced per acre of
land. corn lot, 230 pounds:
101:, 499 pounds. Missouri produced
per acre of land, corn lot, 276 lbs.;
silage lot, 654 pounds; Iowa produc-
ed per acre of land corn lot, 256
pounds; silage lot, 746 pounds; Kan-
sas produced per acre of land, corn
lot, 294 pounds, silage lot, C48
pounds. '

~ The above figures. mean, in com—
posits, that the cattle that were fed
corn, in tactwhat is commonly call-

> ed the “corn belt” ration, show that

the production 0: beef per acre of
land is 290 pounds. A composite or
average of the silage fed lots for the
four states ’will shew a production of
(3,? pounds of- best per acre.

  

silage .

In ,
other words viewing the matter horn
. ebs'iis- which we: have £11: .

 
 
  
  

meat thousands or dollars more for
mailin' of ’em an' ninety per cent

of ’em were never planted an’ nine-
ty per cent (if them that win plant- ‘

ed awwld’n't grow- but congressmen
didn’t care for the-,1: it wuz their way
of making the people back home
think they were. bein' favored or re-

membered by the great man they had .

elected to represent (or misrepre-
sent mebbe would hit it closer) them
in congress.

Well mebbe it’s a darn good thing
theres a shortage of seeds, it’ll save
expense, worry, the ciu'tterin' up of
the mails with a lot of useless stun:
an' there won’t be so many people
fooled by the silly nonsense of receiv-
in' a few little packets of worthless
seeds which their congressman never
saw an’ knows nothin’ about.

Ain't ya gettin’ kinda sick an’ tir-
ed of hearin’ about strikes an' such?
Gosh 1 First it’s one bunch of fel-
lers strikin’ an’ then another bunch
of ’em’ll bust loose an’ every time
there’s a strike or'even talk of a
strike, up goes everything we have
to buy an’ down goes everything. the
farmer has to sell, can’t ship the
stuff an’ there’s no market for it
except mebbe a small home demand,
oh strikes sure is a wonderful inven-
tion, men and women by hundreds
of thousands. perfectly satisfied with
their jobs an’ their wages, are thrown
out or employment, hundreds of
thousands of dollars in wages are
lost every week, debts are incurred,
sickness an’ distress, poverty an’
death follow in the wake of every big
strike an’ yet this great government
that is able to send five million of
the flower of our country into war,
even into foreign countries, seems
unable to cope with a thing that can
and does bring disaster to the best
country on the face of God’s green
earth.

Dont’ cha kinda think that strikes
an’ their attendant evils are becomin’
a little too darned common for the

good at every class an’ every trade

an' every kind oi business? Hadn’t
there ought to be some way provid-
ed to settle questions of wages, hours
an' conditions between employers an‘
employees without tyin’ up the whole
country?

Should a few men, comparatively °

speakin’ be allowed to throw hund-
reds oi thousands of men who want
to work, out of employment for even
a day?

There's something wrong some-
where when conditions like the pres-
ent are allowed to exist, men are sel-
fish an’ capital is heartless an' the
nation suffers an' there seems no way
out, but mark my words, the time‘s
a comin’ when there’ll be a way,
when strikes an’ all their attendin’
evils will be unknown, when neither
labor nor capital can tie up the in—
dustries of the country an' believe
me, that time is not far of! the peo-
ple are gittin’ tired of this darn
foolishness. Cordially yours.—
UNCLE RUBE.

the use of a heavy silage ration the
four experiment stations mentioned
above have been able to produce
over twice as many pounds of beef
per acre of land. These figures mean
that on the average farm that will-
grow corn, cane or kafilr corn, that it
is possible to double the production
of beef per acre of land by the in-
tensive use of silage, according to the
figures that prevail at the present
time. . In other words, they are not
taken from experiment station rec-
ords of some cars ago. but they are
taken from experiment! station rec-
ords for 1919.

The experiment stations have done
a wonderful work and deserve the
greatest commendation for the clear
manner in which they have present-

ed the various feeding, problems. Af-'

ter all, they have recognized that
they are the servants of the public
and that they ire doing a work laid
out for them to do. That is, they
are doing a clan of experimental
work‘ that the average tanner would
not be able to undertake, and they

are doing it. fit a careful, . scientific

cod anthoraflve manner.

    

" 'I I. ,a.‘ ' i
(murmured Frost-pens i) '

w'is concerned we believe the‘ day-“of-

uncsrmnty is a thing of the past.
There are several reasons “why this
is true. These are a uniform system
of grading, a larger consumption On
account of the growth of our cities,
due to the fact that city laborers eat
more potatoes because they have
more money 'ivith which to buy. and
a growing use for potatoes in making
potato starch and flour for which
there seems to be an unlimited de—
mand by bakers. And farmers are
learning that it costs money to grow

' potatoes, and they are no longer fool-

ed by the dealer who in the past

has told him ‘there’s money in spuds .

at twenty—five cents per bushel.” He
has learned by sad experience that

'he must have one dollar per bushel

for his spuds ”to make it pay,” to
grow spuds.

'An enormous crop or spuds next
Year might make them cheap but we
are not looking for cheap spuds, be-
cause we are: not planning on work-
ing for nothing and we believe that
a surplus will quickly be absorbed
by starch and flour factories.

And we also know that as yet po-
tato growers as a whole have not
awakened to the fact that there are
not many crops of potatoes in land
and that they must either use fertil-
izer both stable and commercial or
break a piece of new ground.

And so. it appears to the writer

Micmgan both valuable and attract-
ive for the soil, and climate are both
well adapted to the growing of po-
tatoes, and the remarkable fact thtt
this great area has much good clay
loam soil yet untouched, as well. a:
lighter soils, insures a development
which rightly fostered and directed
will make it one of the richest agri- ‘
cultural districts in our Country. And
when we add to the potato industry,
the sugar beet industry it must be:
evident to the dullest mind that here
are two great money crops which
are absolutely essential for human
food and which flourish abundantly
in this territory once considered a
barren, worthless waste. A neigh-
bor of. mine netted $140 per acre
from his crop of beets, 1.6., after
paying for seed, fertilizer and labor
at twenty-four dollars per acre. And.
then he had considerable cow feed
from the tops. Some beet growers
made nothing, 'but in Misaukee coun-
ty the growers who had their lands
ready for beets and who put them in
early did well Of course the potato
growers did better, far better last
year.

In Missaukee county this year,
probably two thousand acres of beet!
will be grown, besides the usual
large acreage of spuds» and we be-
lieve that with these money crops,
along with stock raising and dairy-
ing the cut-over lands of Michigan
will be demonstrated to be increas-
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er of the . woman '
' gives the, woman a cow about a year
_ after. they are married and the cow is
keptand calves kept and used to supply
the wants of eneral use for 26 or 80
years, and at t time there (fro
about 25 head of cattle on han . I won]
like to know who the stock belongs to. If
the man can sell them off and the woman
have nothing to say? Now during all
this time there has been cattle sold and
used to pay taxes. buy horses and also
for other purposes—Subscriber, School-
craft County.

The law does not provide any
speciiic amount to be paid to the
wife if she leaves the husband with
cause. Of course it would be under-
stood that if she leaves him without
cause that he would not be obliged
to pay anything if he stands ready to
take her back and provide properly
for her. In order to'obtain’an or-
der for the payment of any amount
of money from the husband_to‘the
wife the wife would be obliged to ask
the court for any allowance either in
divorce proceedings or proceedings
for separate maintenance and the
judge would then make such order
as he thought right and just in view
of all the circumstances. ’It is a
very great misfortune for one of an
old married couple to so conduct
themselves as to make life a burden
for the other (for which the law has
no adequate remedy) when their old
age should be the crowning sheaf of
well spent, happy life, blessed with
children and sufficient means to be
comfortable. It is the duty of each
to bear with the faults of the others.
If the wife contributed a cow to the
common cause of the family at the
beginning of their married life and
it has been mingled with other stock
it is doubtful if the law could recog-
nize that as source of title to the
whole or any part of the herd, but,
the judge would undoubtedly take
that into consideration in dividing
the property, if he was obliged to
make a division—W. E. Brown, legal
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srnm-roorhmo BEANS

Is it advisable to spike-tooth beans
aftetr they have come up?—M. A. D..
Gratiot County.

Owing to the tender nature or the
young bean pliant and. its shallow
rooted system during early grown,
the practice of spike-toothing after
the beams have come up is not to be
generally advised. Under conditions
where labor is not available to ac-
complish cultivation of a large field,
spike-teething, with teeth slanting
slightly backward, would do more
good to the crop than harm. A saf-
er method would be to spend more
than the usual amount of time and
effort in preparing an excellent seed
bed for beans, working the surface
into condition as near garden tilth
as possible before planting. Work
spent in carefhl preparation of the
seed bed with the disc and spring
tooth will save considerable in time
and labor necessary in later cultiva-
tion with the cultivator.——J. F. 00w,
Professor of Farm Crops, M. A. 0.

 

CONTRACT WOULD SPECIFY THE
TERMS

We bought 120 acres of land 11 a con-
tract May 1 1919, for $1.60 .00. We
both signed e contract, but one of the
parties that we bought from was absent
and on account of his signature we
haven’t received contract yet. We have
not Jiaid anything on land ct. My hus-
ban died February 15, 19 0, and I am
in hard shape. Will I have to pay in-
terest and taxes on said land? We have
not lived on land, but worked about four
acres—Mrs. W. F., Alcona County.

It is probable that the contract
provides that you shall pay the tax-
es but the contract would specify the
terms. The interest would be in the
same way. If you are unable to
raise the money to pay the taxes and
interestit is best that you sell the
estate, but it would be best to talk
to the Judge g0! Probate concerning
it.—W. E. Brown, legal editor.

 

._ UNLAWFUL DRAINAGE .
’ Has ' farmer any right to tileditch‘
’ drake of his arnyard to the road
front 0 my house without any out-
s..." ‘33:.“ “incitement...”
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meaning Of the last question. . The
township highway authorities have a
right to drain the highway for. the
purpose of improving the road and
may do so in- front or a farm. house.
The highway authorities have no
right to dig drains in the highway
purely for the purpose of draining a
farm—W. A. Brown, legal editor.

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GIVING NOTICE '10 VACA'JSE

I leased my farm in Michigan:
an agent for one year.

to
He leased it

to another arty for the same length
of time. that is the law regarding
notices to be given in order to be sure

the place is vacated at end of lease?
Any special form notice? To whom shall
it be given—agent? If this party in
place desired to move before expiration
a: lease could they be made to notify me

order that my insurance would hold
good—J. 0., Auburn, 11]

If the lease is for one year no
notice is necessary to put the ten-
ant off at the end of the year. If

not vacated at the end of the term‘

for which it was leased proceed
against the tenant who holds beyond
his term unless something in the
lease requires otherwise. There is
no requirements for his notifying you
but if he abandons the place with-
out giving you notice any damage
that occurs he would be liable for.
This is a question upon which it is
very advisable to consult a good 10-
cal attorney for details of practice in
such proceedings.—-—W. E. Brown, le-
gal editor.

 

RAISING WINTER VETCH
Is there a good market for winter vetch
d how much does it ield per acre
cos the glee. weevil war in this seed
What is e average paying pricel—H.
A. M., Saginaw County.

There (is an excellent market for
winter vetch seed. The supply dur-
ing the past few seasons has been far
short of the demand. Previous to
the war considerable amount of win-
ter vetch seed was imported from
Russia, but it is not likely that nor-
mal trade conditions will be resumed
for a long time. Winter vetch is not
only in great demand in Michigan
and other northern states. but is be-

$891139. envaonsonse ’3.

He Had Boots on, Too

A gentleman from New York went
out into the Jersey farm districts to
hunt up a farmer by the, name of
Smith, whom he had some business
with, but had never met. After driv-
ing some miles into the country he
located the house as directed. The
only person in sight, however, was
a small boy very busy whittling.

“Young man, is your father in?"

“Yep," replied the boy.

“Well, I would like to see him;
can you tell me where I will find
him?"

“Sure," came the answer, “he's
out back in the pigpen; you’ll know
him—he's got a hat on.”

 

A Careful Giver

Patience—"You're engaged to Fred,
arn't you?”

Patrice—”Yes; but I’m not happy."

‘What’s wrong?”

“I'm afraid he’s selfish."

"Why so?"

“He asked me for my hand, and I
gave it to him."

“Of course."

“Well, it wasn't until I had Elven
my hand to him that‘he put a diamond
ring on my finger."

“Of course not. But how does that
show selfishness?"

"Why, it was his hand. wasn't it?"

Nearly Ruined, In Fact
The shadow of the arch-enemy

 

next door“appeared in the’doorway

—' of the humble kitchen. .
7 “Mrs. Mines 2'? she exclaimed with

folded arms, “let-'me teli‘ y6u that
that childs of yours is: badly spoilt."
“Oh, get away with you i” snap-
ped Mrs. Jones, testily scouting an-
. . to her" young
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southern states for a fall. plantedyfpr-
aso and greenimanmins crop. Farm-

ers received; duringithe pest eases,
from 20_ to 30c a pound lot-the seed..-
the retail price ranging from so .to ..
~ 400 ‘per . pound. The usual yield ,per'

acre is from 120 to 240 pOunds, with
lirom 12 to 16 bushels of rye. Twenty
pounds per acre is generally planted
with .a bushel of rye. No reports
have to my knowledge come to this
station of injury from the pea weevil.
A bulletin giving informatiOn in re-
gard to the culture of this crop can
‘ be secured firom the Michigan Agri-
cultural Colrlege.-—-J. F. Goo, Profes-
sor of Farm Crops, If. A. 0. ‘

 

GETTING CLEAR TITLE .

I bought a 40 e farm, paid cash to;
it. ' The any the. sold me the land sai
t was 1 clear, We had the deeds .re-
corded, but found {there were taxes. due
for two years. I paid these and got a
clear title. I now understand there . is
a party holding a mort age for $600.00
on this farm which w 1 come due in
April. Will I have to pay this mort-
gage? The man and wife I bought the
arm from swore before a notary public
the farm was all clear of debt—A Sub-
scriber, Van Buren County. '

 

If the parties gave you a warran-
ty deed and warranting the farm to
be free and clear of all claims they
would be liable for breach" of war-
ranty. If they gave you a quit claim
it would be necessary totknow all of
the circumstances‘before I could pass
on their liability. Never buy land
without an abstract and have. the
same examined by a competent ex-
aminer.—W. E. Brown, legal editor.

 

TAKING LODGE HALL
Is a hall used for lodge purposes only
taxable'I—Subscriber, Muskegon County.
The fourth subdivision of section
seven, of Act 331, P. A. 1919, p. 584.

provides for the exemption from tax- ‘

ation of certain real estate therein
numerated and then adds this pro-
viso: "Provided, that such exemp-
tion shall no apply to fraternal or se-
cret societies, but all charitable
homes or such societies are exempt.”
P-r-W. E. Brown, legal editor. .

 

just come and see for yourself what
the steam-\rolier's done to him.”

Leave it to the Irishman

Three men, an Irishman, a Swede
and a- Hebrew, were brought to court.
The Hebrew was arrested. for stealing
a cow; the Swede for stealing a horse,
and the Irishman for stealing a wag-
on.

“Well,” said the judge, turning to
the Hebrew, “where did you get the
cow?"

“I’ve had- it since it was a calf,"
was the reply.

“Where did you get the horse?” he
asked the Swede.

“I’ve had it since it was‘a colt," re-
plied the Swede.

“And, Patrick, where did you get
the wagon ?" . _

“0h, your Honor, I’ve had it since
it was a wheelbarrow.”

 

 

, It’s Barely Possible

The brilliant wit of. the bar look-
ed at the moon-faced farm hand and
winked at his friends.

"Have you never been married?"
he began. .

. “Ye-e-es,” .stammend the farm
hand, “onct.” ‘

‘ “Whom did you marry?”

‘A woman, sir-——"

. “Come my dear man," cut in the
witty lawyer, “of course you married
a woman. Did you ever hear of any-
one‘ marrying a man?". . :

“Yeas-s sir. My sisterdid.” .

Deaf, and debOookWanted

' Master 'of the" house: “Why didyo'u
tell the misuess , what time" I. cm? rm

- this morning," after I 'enpresslymaid
you and told you not tot", .
The cook: me. when; :‘lnfldn’t

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name: . . heT "see
and marries and avioman.‘ After] 6.?

,. hav lived“ .Mtasmae. . . . .-
findes that‘the‘ met wife-is still} urine:
then; wt last wife- "Howls he

to ~. ge untang ed as

so to get “other
wifel—JS. ‘G. ,B.,»' Penfield. .

 

It is advisable to .file suit to mm
the second marriage .and a suit for
divorce from the first one. It is ad-
visable to have the suit to ennui the
second marriage to have a legal deter-
mination that it is void by reason of
the former wife living not having
been divorced. That is, the second
marsiage is void if the first wife was
living and undivorced, but if she had
a lawful divorce then the second mar-
riage would be lawful. Under the

 
   
  

     
 
 
  

  
 

  

 
  
  
 
  
  

  

facts related the court- would enter a '

decree of annulment. The. first wife
having deserted for more than two
years the court would enter a decree
.of divorce on the ground of deser-
tion against the {first wife. . The par-
ty would then be free to contract a
lawful marriage—W. E. Brown, legal
editor. - ‘

 

NOT LIAB- LE FOR HUSBAND'S’

DEBTS d

y wife and I gave a joint secon
mongtgage on our Michigan farm to Stark
Bros. of Missouri, for. trees to plant on
our -~ fa Half the stock was worth-
less and haVe refused to pay over half
price. They are suing on the notes.
The farm will not sell for enough to
pay the first mortgage and part of the
second g'agep Can they at any-

an

thing out of property that s owned
by my wife? e has since come into-
possession of property by inheritance.

An earl reply will be appreciated. We
were re’sidents of Washington at time
mortgage was given and are nova—F. N.
C.. Washigton. D. C

..___—4._.

The wife is not liable for a hus-
band’s debt. The fact she signed a
mortgage and also signed the note
would not bind he'r unless it was her
debt. However, if a judgment should
be taken against her her property
would be liable for the judgment
against hen—W. E. Brown, legal ed-
ito". /

HOW TO TEST VINEGAR
I have four hundred gallons of vine-
ar I would like to sell. Will it have to
tested so I can sell it to the-stores? If
so. where will I have to send samples to
have tested ?—-H. P. 8., Shiawassee Co.

Send us one-half pint samples from
each barrel of the vinegar in ques-
tion. Send securely packed so. that
it will not break in transit and mark
samples to indicate the barrels from
which they come, and address to W.C.

 

Geagley, State Analyst, care of this.

department. At the time of sending
write Mr. Geagiey that same'is being
sent at my request—Hon. Fred W.
Woodworth, Commissioner of State
Food and Drug Department.

RENTIN G BY VERBAL CONTRACT

If A lets a farm to B on shares for
one year and there is no wnitten con~
tract, only A states to B in the pres-
ence of C that he can have the place the
same as the person the previous year had
it and B asked for nothing different.-
Then the agreement under which the
tenant operated was that B was to have
2-8 of corn, 2-8 .of cats or other grain
and 1-2 of the hay. We have a witness
to prove this. Now he ciahns 2-3 of the
hay and has forbidden me (A) taking
more than 1-3 of the hay. B has no
witnesses. Can’t I hold half of the hay?
Should I not take it and let him serve
an injunction? I am A and owner of the
farm.——Inquirer, Ingham Couty. »

Under the circumstances related A

I
_ S

is entitled to one half of the hay; It .

w‘ou’ld be doubtful if any injunction
proceedings could be sustained. A
should take his share—W. E. Brown.
legal editor. g -

,. SELLING LIFE LEASE!) LAND

A has a farm of 40 acres and B de-
cided to work the farm and ay the tax;
es and insurance and a life- ease of one

. rson and the land was to be his after
person who holds.the life lease dies. .

and now A wants to,‘seli the farm and
1n‘toBgiive. 3 here any-l

ed A'cannet give a clear title to the
land without 3 joins in the. deed. A
is an rerm- maklag ”/01 the lite

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Huron County, , . ,.

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, pay _ Prussia the

Wannabee, (11,1 to promise to. remain

. neutral in". cast: Prussia attacked Aus-

tria. z-fiegaiso made a treaty with It-

- aly which provided. that Italy should
_ joinezPrussia. in war. againsAustria, it
' Prudsi‘a'fibegan the war within three

‘monthsvior the sake of reforms in the
German confederation. Bismark im-
mediately introduced .j‘nto the Diet of
Frankiort‘fthe governing body of the
German ”confederation, a new plan for
thie'federa'tiuon‘ oi the German states;
To keep -his' Italian treaty good he
picked a‘quarrei with Austria over its

-administration of Holstein; declared

the “old‘coni’éredation dissolved; at—
tacked. Austria, and cal-led upon the
other German states to do likewise.
None of the more importantstates did

‘ '50 and four of. them “sided .With Aus-

tria. Prussia, being prepared, defeat-
ed Austria in seven weeks and all
Germany was atthe mercy of the
Prussians. » - ,

Prussia now annexed the kingdom
of Hanover, tour duchies and the free
city or Frankfort, bringing under the
Prussian king practically all the peo-
plealong the north coast from the
Russian border to Holland. Blood
and iron had won much but not all
Bismark had hoped for, tour southern
states being still outside the confeder-
ation. Bismark believed war. 'with
France would accomplish this. Read:

Hagen's “Europe Simce1815," PP 289' ‘

290. In'his reminiscences Bismark
frankly tells hOW he ' brought this
about and- planned it so that France
should declare war and Prussia
should pose before Europe as defend—
ing herself against a wanton aggress-
or. — , ' .
~Everything worked as Bismark had
planned. France was quickly defeat-
ed: and the four German state joined
with Prussia. France was compelled
to giveup Alsace. and Loraine and to
_ largest indemnity
ever exacted or any nation. .

William II, now plain Bill, said on

his accession to the throne in his
speech, “The Soldier and the Army,
not Parlimentary majorities have
welded together the German Empire.
My confidence is placed in the army."
Later at the centenary 0f the firm'oi
Krupp at Essen the emperor said “The
history of this army is a piece of. Prus-
sian and German history. Krupp
guns have been with the PruSsian
lines and have thundered ”on the bat-
tlefields which made ready the way to
German unity and .won itat last."
. William, not willing to be overshad-
owed by the man who. had made the
empire, broke with Bismark, but his
belief in the policy'oi Blood and Iron
was as great as Bismark’s. He now
began building with‘ feverish haste a
war machine of such magnitude that
it startled the whole world. He blus-
tered and shook his mailed fist until
all nations began to look on Germany
with distrust.

When the Council 8.1: Hague was
tor-med- to try to prevent wars and to
provide a means of settling disputes
among nations without recourse to
arms Germany would have nothing to
do with it. German dreams of world
dominion were'so apparent that at
the outbreak of the world war Ger-
many was practically isolated among
the nations. - She had, however, in-
dividuals like Mr. Bengal who thru
ties of blood or because their minds
had been poisoned by German propa‘

ganda were loyal to her and even now ‘

in the hour of her degradation and de-
feat occasionally indulge. insuch “sob
stuff" as Bengal’s letter. Poor, daisil-
lusioned mortals! Fortunately, many
or the more dangerous types are in
our tederal prisons awaiting deporta-
tion.

I‘ consider it an insult, to the intel-
ligence of the Americanpeople to say
they entered the war because Eng-land
tricked us. - We entered it because we
could no longer endure German in-
sults and German aggression.

. He asks What we ained by enter-
ing the war. 4 We gal ed a conscious-
ness that we did our duty in atrying
hour- We, defended -. our honor; . we

paid 9111‘ debt .t0‘21‘lrance; We saved the

 
 

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:pr'OeGermen. fl‘hat he is ashamed of, it
counts for something. . Let. 'us hope he

becomes 100' per cent‘ AmeriCan.——8.

-W :Morr'lson, Tuscola County.

 

THE ‘FARM BUREAU.
It has been said, and reasserted,
numberless times that the farmers
cannot, ‘or will not, unite for their

._mutual benefit and make the union
of short a success.

The history of efforts, in the past,
gives ground for the above assertion
to be true, but the changed condi-
tions of this present day give rea-
sonable hope that the effort to unite

the producing class, for mutual good
is to result in a. reasonable degree of ,

success.

‘It is a well authenticated belief
that the farmer does not receive his
proportion of what the consumer of
his products pays for the same. this
because of the excess of the number
of the so-called “middleman” each
one of whom takes a big tell as the

commodity passes through his “tote;

house."

We farmers have been regarded,
as to some extent, autocratic, and
there may be grounds for this belief,
but let it be remembered that the
farmers calling is largely responsible
for this as his determination in deal-
ing with his domestic animals and
with the soil which he cultivates, is
near called in question and the very
natural result is that he becomes
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' Just as you cannot
tell whether or not
tested seed corn is
worth while until
you have tried it
and compared re—
sults, so you cannot
realize the actual
economy of Uni-
corn till ou have ~
measure the inc
crease in milk pro— -

 

 

" _ chirasfnalt is some;
1131 all: ‘ior runners to unity

their . efforts. -

There is. one other, and a far more
potent cause, why farmers

their food products and it is that if
this be done the consumer of food.
in many instances being unable to
pay the price, would suffer from
hunger, the price having been set too
high. The farmers have food at
“first hands” while our fellow-men
of other callings must depend upon
us for their food supply and if we,
selflshly, should place the price too
high, some might suffer from hunger,
even to the extent that their “breast

bone would scratch their back bone"

as a public speaker expressed it, re—
cently.

However. the present
unite the farmers for their mutual
benefit is, we believe, a start in the
right direction and is to result in
bringing a benefit to the farming
class of our citizens to which now is
and has been for many years justly

,their due, and every farmer is, in

duty bound to .unite with the “Farm
Bureau” and help this worthy
cause—J. T. D., Clinton County.

Yes, sir, times have changed. It wasn’t
so very long ago that every farmer in-
stead of “going it alone", but now he
won’t stand still until he‘s hitched. All
traditions about the jealousles and the
‘splendlid isolation" of farmers have been
smashed to sm'ithereens. And it is fair
to assume that any legitimate movement,
such as the Farm Bureau, which promis-
es relief to agriculture, with the assis-
tance of farmers working co—operative—
ly, will get all the farmer support it
needs—Editor.

 
   

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cannot“
' unite closely and set “the price of

effort to ‘

 

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Since I-Wrots

ral College on Lupirnes. ‘
about-

I have learned considerable
both.
Milo Campbell spoke at our Grange

“‘The East ‘Casco Grange”, and I can
honestly say it was the best address -- '

I have ever heard, and I have heard
Bryan, and he is some speaker.

I was talking to a German Smithy
and :he went on to tell about farming
in the old! country. He said they sow-
ed Lupine in rye about the time the
rye started to blossom, and it grew so
rank by fall when they plowed it un-
der one had to use a sort of a cart
and chain they rigged up to put on the
plow in order to plow it under.
next year they would get an enor-
mous yield. I also wrote to Nunges-
ser & Dickenson but they had no Lu-
pine, but quoted Serredella at 15c per
pound.

Most every one that has taken your
paper admits it is dandy.

When we farmers~ get John C.
Ketcham in Congress it will take a
page to give us the national news. I
will hustle around and get about
twice as many new subscribers with
no more effort.-—-N. J. R., Kibbie, Mich

If every farmer in Michigan could hear
Milo Campbell there would be no ques-
tion about his success at the polls. There ‘
ought not to be any question, as I be-

lieve the farmers will stick together just. .

as loyally to elect a governor as they:
have on other matters. We hope the
Agricultural College will be able to show .
that lupine and serradella are practical

soil builders, and through them much of
our light land may be reclaimed—Editor.

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Tested seed corn is economical because of
growing results—Unicorn is economicalbecause

of mill: results twice—a—day.

CHAPIN 8:. CO., CHICAGO

Why Use 751% Seed Corn?

It costs more —-but you know that it is really
an economy because it gives better results.

So- it is with a dairy ration.

Unicorn ' is tested. Thousands of dairymen
have proved that it reduces the cost of milk

 

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«super ..Mintimbudyefthead
for each issue, regardless of number of‘times

reach us by Wednesday of preceding week. .Vou will help

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this Insult-ate, use one- confpeiied to eliminate all beekeeping. "rmm. one

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1.20 mass $4,400, HORSE, 15 COWS.

tools: All ready for Business; machine wonked
fields. cut 65 tons hay; spring watered pasture for
30 COWS; big woodl‘ot. nearby market, 100 fruit
trees, 800 sugar maples: 2‘ story 1,0—room house.

excellent condition ; Sill-ft. basement barn, other
buildings ; spring water 1101150 and barn ; stock,
n, machinery, tools and all so for only

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$411,200.. $2,000 cash, Shainncecegf telfiplrsfil Elli:-
' page 1‘5 S'trout’s mm; a 0g 1r . ‘
wins 3‘3 2; copy tree. STROUI' FARM-

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ind" Npcth Dakota; clone» the lines of the Great
Northern. Ry., is the largest body of rich. blw3k
law-priced agriculture] land to. he) found m-
whcre in the United States. Write for free books
describing the opportunities offered homemaker!
and investors in Minnesota: and North. Dakota
along the Great Northern Ry. E. O. LEEDY,
General Agricultural Development Agent, GYM
Northern: Ry” St. Pauli, Mum. Dept. Gs

 

FOR SALE, REASONABLE. 120
One 05 the best ilarms in Michigan. One mile to
station, Dixie Highway, church and school. Build-
ings worth $15,000. Also 2 good cows. Write
or phone; R. W. ANDERSON. mum, Mich.

 

SHAWNEE, OKLAHOMA. CENTER OF A
great. farming country. Write for free agriculL
tura'l booklet. BOARD OF COMMERCE; ShowL
nee, Okliehome.

FOR BALE—120 ACRES, NI‘RETY AGNES
high state cultivation, trucking distance from
Detroit, all new buildings, house has. eight rooms
said both; oak finish. hot and} cold water, furnace,
everything modern ,sli buildings electrically
lighted. For particulars write owner. Box K,
cure Michigan Business Farmer, Mt. Clemens,

1c .

120 ALL IMPROVED, mm buildings. “06k,

tools, main road, near city. Immediate pom
sion. 5Write Glen Pinch, Elston Rapids, Mich”
Route .

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80 ACRE GOOD FARM FOR SALE. 80
some cleared. New basement barn 38 x 58: Good
7 room house, 40 large bearing trees, good wov-
en wire fence, good clay loam, close to 4 towns,
1—2 mile to school. At quick sale price $3.000:
$1.000 down. Balance on easy payments; JACOB
SEEBACK, Twining. Mich., R I.

 

FOR BALE—MICHIGAN OLMN SEED
BELT HANDS. Oldi crass covered, out over clay
soils, from. heavy, light to medium. Easily clean-
ed. Where clover seed reproduces thirty to, fifty
ix lxl. Settlers (English speaking)!» are rapid?
becoming prosperous crowing clout seedbee‘,
mutton nnd‘ mrlriintins dairy products. N0 53E?-
'l‘l'lll nurmmmmc’rm 1302000 “We! in
any size tracts from 80‘ mores up; 31.0” in '15 an-
acre: 1’0l per cent down, interest 8“
Settler has option. ib‘ met I meli‘ stipulum mn-
ly cash payment, or merely apply the mom. of

Christal—I N'II‘L THE En-
tire forty or eighty owes. paid on out of: the
product of one Mol‘ o! Id‘o
vancc to soiltlers M 5‘ m
on live stock, the on: payment made n. ind“
purchased. JOHN O. m mum
i‘resque l‘cie County, Melisa-m

 

LANDMM—A- MAORI!!!
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FOR SALE—JEEAM 1.850 POUND HORw.
0 and 8 years old, sound and true. Also seed: ctr-ts
and clover buy for sale. R. G, PMTS; Washing—
ton. Mich. Phone 7-F-22.

 

STRAWBERRY PLANTS—SEN'ATOR DUK-
lap and 10. other varieties, 70¢, per hundred.
ERNEST PUTMAN. Williamston, Much.

 

A FAIR. OF $VEAR-0Lq COLTS. LIGHT
weight. ~ sound. unbroken. Like giving them
away at $150.00. E. Edsel]. 1 1-2 miles north!
of Warren. Michigan.

 

SENATOR DUNLAP AND STEVENS’ (LATE

champion $5.90 er 1.000: $2150 per 500: $1?
r 100 Mung Cl". B. STANLEX, Pow Pow,
ch.. R. R. No. 2. '

 

FOR. SALE—IMPROVED RED KIDNEY

.. mve been screened) and hand picked.

$13.35 per out. bats extra... RA} HELSEL,
Rockford, Mich.

 

A NEW SEED CORN—EARILY )‘EELOW
Dent for field or sila-ge, produces" per. acre even
other com enough to pay for price of seed. D.
WOODWARD & SON, Clinton, Michigan.

 

1.66 SENATOR DUWLNP, 1-50 WAIFIEILDO;
$2.00 postpeid. Dunlap $5.005 per 1,090“, not
prepaid. HAMPTON &. SON, Bangor, Mich.

 

WRFTE THE CLARE JEWELRY co; no“
barge-in sheet of watches mud silverware; We do
watch repairing Incl: Box. 685, Cline; Mich;

 

BUY FENCE. P0878 DIRECT FROM FDR-
est. All’ kinds. Delivered prices. Address M.
M." care Michigan Business Farming, Mt. Clem-
ens, Mich. e

 

BUILDERS' PRODUCTS 60., 14 PASADENA
Detroit. Wholesale to consumers—Paints,
amisli, Spraying Materials, Sprayers. Manual
mailed free.- llf. B. TEEPLEZ Mgr.

 

. 8013M GRASS SEED $17, MEET GLOV-
- or $40. Sheep and Her Rape» $18 per 100 lbs.
. HAROLD G. FRANK, Hawthorne Bench, Ster-
' lint, Michigan.

 

FOE SALE—MENU? "RING. Kgflfig‘x‘.
.The kind that has Drove! a success in" i ‘lCl ~
for six years. Write for prices to I‘ARWELL
MILLS, Falwell. Mich.

SEED Gonni—ENRLV "WBIN'W. ‘ELECT-
ved Ham’s yellow dent. S'EMSOi for of! lbs.
' shelled. ”snubs-us extra. at 500‘, or send them by
‘ perceli. D0513. E. N». BALL, mmbulik, mail.

ms: MOVED: “ml! ship
. AM how amt who. quen youi can»
in end on price: Address 30. w. are Michigan
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.WR 2.1%.. One. Mich.

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Ina-$1: 840 and two sou-um inch. bottom.

gown. heartily new. Md; Rum sex. have no use
‘ r is. muss P03, New, Mitch

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f'lopwm ts eepelrie willing washes. _ R. G.
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CULOTTA &. JULL

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,GUTR‘BERT RASPBERRY PLANTS

‘- We here a large siiocls at No. 1 plants
which we wilt sell at 9150' per 10$ or 18.00
'9» thousand.
Boxins free. Cub with older.
Address——
' H. I. ELLIOTT
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firs Your Farm for Sale?

_ Write out]: plain description and II;-
C IN be hr each would, initial or group of
figures. Send it in for one. two or. three
, tines. There’s no cheaper or better wsy
get MceMMMzan “you
'desl duvet with the buyer. No em or
commissions. I! you want “Joli or man
your Inns, send in your all today. Don’t
just M about it. Our Mness M.
efs' Exchange nets tenant. Adiron-
Tic Michigan m Farmer, 'Mv.
Dept. Mt. Clemens.

 

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' ter. 600; butterfat,
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“a ‘33,. 4-10: lambs, 14.: hogs, is - beef '
weer-s, {beef ”spline! calves” 3-18.

GENESEE—«Fmers am ‘ plowing.
shearing sheep, trlmmmg trees,. hauling
manure, building‘ and repairing fences
and doing road work. The. weather has
been cold and we had some snow during
the first part of the week, but it‘ is warm-

er now and farmers are able to get out “

their field work again. No cats: have
been put in yet but quite. a. few will be
sown next week if the '
ues warm. Farmers
livestock and some. Auction
sales are not so plentiful now, although
there are still‘ quite a. few sales billed
for this month yet. Rye and wheat are
not looking very good, and. indications
Eoint to a very’ low yield this year. Farm
elp is very hard to get at any reasonable
prices and most tanner-sure figuring on
working what they can and leaving the
rest by- ladle. There be an extreme

shortage of most all crops this year with -

the possible exception of corn and po-
firstborn—G W. wing prices
were offered. at Flint. on April 15 2. Wheat
$2.65; corn,,$1.75; oats. $1.10; rye, $1.85
buckwheat, 33; beans C; H. 1?. Plan)-
fl.50; beans (red’kfidney) ‘I', My. 332'
@324 rye straw, wheat.atraw,, cad; straw
$9@I«I; potatoes}, $4.25@4§.7’5; onions, $7,.

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t

cabbage, $7 bb cucumbers, $3 doz:

us, 35c: spfingezs. 35c: (tucks, “@343,
geese, 30@34¢e;, turkeys, “@42‘3' butter.
creamery 63@‘660; dairy, 55@6dc; but—
ter-fat, 68@70c; e as, 43@45c; beef
steers, woman. ;. beef cows; $1.50@
850; veal calves, $18@v19-; sheep, 10.50

«inc; lambs 18@20: hogs, :Isoie'.

HILLSiDALE (SJ—Weather cool and
windy. somewhat warmer. Not much
plowing- Many public sales.
thing selling good, but horses 831'9 very
cheap and good ones at $11 each. Outs
will be drilled in. lane. Manure: are her-
i‘ng drawn to the fields, getting ready for
the corn crop. Road's are in fairly good
shape now since. trust is must. Still have
freezing nights. Not much. garden made
or plowed. Many farmers are quitting

11am and going to the cities. for high
wages in factories. Whose going to
rake the farm crops when they all go?
Somebody's going to starve by paying big
prices for farm products, and the midd1e~
men are going to get the farmer’s prices.
~et's cut out the middleman and send him
over toGermany, Prices offered at the
town of Jonesville: Potatoes, $3 bu: but-
ter, 65-: eggs, 354, w 4.5; oats. 96:,
rye, $1.75; corn, $1.80. Hanover, Jack-
son county, always gives better prices for
eggs and grrdln. Cream goes to thch~

£101; and North Adams CreamcrieS.-—V.

 

MONROE (N, E.)—We have our snow
storms regular once a week and some
very bad weather generally. Wheat has
suffered in the last ten days and looks
quite poor right now. Soccng about
locality, will be
some till can get on the ground to fin-
ish. Will be less spring grain sown this
year than usual. Farmers are very un-
easy generally; never saw or heard of so
many dissatisfied with conditions as now.
No building or scarcely any repairsof
any kind being done. Every other farm
for sale, however not many sales have
been made. Market is very uncertain on
account of the R. R. strike—G. L_ .
Prices offered at Newport: Wheat, $2.32;
com, no market: oats, $1:hay, No. 1 tim-
530'; No. 1 light mixed—$24
@128 loose: potatoes, $4.10 bu; onions, 7;
cabbage, 6: hens; 3'0; sanitizers, 80; but-
ter, 60: eggs, 41: hogs; 14 1-2; beef
steersdlgé beef cm 6'6; veal calves,

OAKLAND (N)—-1’t has been a long
time since you had a report from here.
We ind nothing to report but snow and
cold weather. It looks as if we have
spring now. Very lltfb plowing done.
Most farmers have sown cloverseed,
wheat comes out of wlx‘rrter looking good.
R‘ye u. doing well. The same with clov-
er. Stock has dome well and. is looking

line. There is: sprite a can. for hay and
grain. Farm Prel‘r! is very scarce. Men
811’ in factories or building roads. Po-

tatoes about will? gone to market, A good
many farms mold. hem and" ax good many
to be worked—E. F'. The- following
prices were offered at Chritsmn on April
15: Wheat, 32.45: m, 81.60: cats. 31:
rye, $1.60: No. 1’ till-moth. 530',“ Ni. 1 light
mixed. $28: beans €61. H. P. Pea) $6.00
per curt; potatoes, $3.75 to $6.00; but-
m: eggs, 4-0c; hogs,

MANISTE’EL-Thg farmers are plowing.
Shove still wilting wood arm? attending
sales. All in mm! 1', . not very
much warm weather entrain, soil moist
here. Farmers are not self- much of

produce this week. Fourier. presume.

inure-sold most tat-crops’raiselr lest‘year '
Desmond rye Get- '
Good 0011- ‘

ting ready for em mp.
treating for members and pea. beans. .
Fruit setting. fence building. is being
done here. Considerable Devin at muo-
1" m Ymfi Mt fit {at}?
some rem 0 [es . 015 str 9.
Potatoes have advanced toflssso per
cwt. Beans remain at 85.25 .r cwt.
Eye is $1.65 per bushel, wheat 2.10 per
bushel \Butter stays at 500, eggs 36c,
tsutferi’at is 80c. Hogs are 13 1—2 on
that and 18c dressed; beef 5 to so alive;
mm 13c dressed: veal 1&5» dressed: ll've
omens, 25¢ per 1b.: hifles, 18c per D.—
H. A

WALIM' (C)—Fsrriners are» now-
ing spring wiwat. and some are sewing
cause. The following prions wen paid
at Lakeview‘mfs week: ‘ at. .75:
com, $1.65: cats, $1.00: rye. $1.65: buy,
328: rye .straw. $15: wheat-oats straw,
166; beans, $6.75: red kidney beans,

4: pummel, .87: onions, S8; hens, 22:
mum so; ducks, 18: geese, ,20; tur-

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town hall Wednesday night, April. 14th
in behalf of a; co—operative elevator in
Battle Creek. Mr. son addressed .
_ the meeting“ The: Calhoun county Farm
Bureau held the: first meeting, at the
town hall in Ferment—C. E. B. The
following prices were altered at Battle
Creek on April. 1 {Wheat WAKE-@163; .

850:, rye. .50; potatoes, 1.3.75; ‘
er, 66¢: eggs, 40c' lambs, 14c; hogs. . \
15c; bee! st rs, 10o; - cows, To: veal
calves, 10-61“.- , ' '

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(N) r—Flarmers unable to
make much

WE! .

Md weather. A few are firm up»
marketing that grain. There B s. driver
on to secure members for the Farm Bu-
reau. The centralized school system
was voted flown with-not over half u.
dozen votes in. its. flavor. It we tried. in
the adioining township of Napoleon this
year and there is so much dissatisfacv
thuw'lithtlh.eywemtht the" is a. da-
mnnd for avails, meomeotthedis— '
tricts, to go back to the old system. The i ‘
taxes are so high that farmers have be-
gun to fight against anything that will
tend; to raise them. Quite, an acreage
will; be put into popcorn this year, as it
seems to be a paying. cr - ,

about dzi’seomge'd: the good. can--
tractors building county reader—G. S.

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MISSAUKEE’ (By—Farmers are get-
ting ready for spring work, getting wood
and drawing what manure they can set.
is sprinzliks. but a. cold north
wind most of the time, but cannot last
much hangar. ‘ '

‘ $1.25.; rye, ‘
toes, $1.30; hens, 30', butter, 55; butteb
fat, 65:. eggs. 38; veal calves, 10 to 13;,
Apples, $2.-’-—H. E. N.

 

GRAND TRAVERSE (East) =— Ar.
ha ‘- nice weather only the. wind eon-w
ti‘nues.'to stay in the north. Farmers are
grow and hauling mum-'9. Son-re hay

eing sold. Lots of farms will be idle this
year. Thee following. prices Were mid
at Traverse City this: week: Wheat,
5-2135? com, $1.00: cats, 95: rye; $1.69:
hay, $42.; potatoes, $4! bushel”: butter...
50; butterfat, 70;. eggs, 37..——C. L. 3.,

AWE’N’AC' (Bests—Farms are gang:

 

 

for cats; beans, no sale; corn. $1.59; ,
hay, $22 at barn. m baled; butter-fat ;,~.
and ‘ Former-s are complain-

‘ eggs good.
Mg that their cows are not moving as.
well as least spring, Everything seems
at an unrest, and hundreds from oft!
Arm-so m fir miles big towns. A hart!
spring on this sheen—M. B. R.

MONROE-«Apostles week 0! Wet cold
weather. 1‘! makes some of the farmer:
fee! 8.- mm Mm, ,
“may, sohmmrkwiflmalmg

‘ e smoothly. Oat and wheat. prices
are. going up out of sight, and the mm:

is going the other way. Stock is
ingi‘scrtor warm; or the year. and ’
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STATEMENT (IF THE OWNERSHIP. MAN-
‘ '. 01‘1“.ch REQUIR-
5: :&;HI ACT OF mum. ADI“?
of The- M‘loMinm Business hm, published at
Mount Clemens, ML, for A i let, 1920..
son of Michigan, Count of aenmb, sew
sin .ose'd’me, s mm “we in 1,153" ibr a
.te m county rose perms some
Forrest Lord, who, having been truly sworn ee-
mar-museum». sasndusysmet I. is the
editor or The Michigan Business Farmer and: shot
tile f'ollpwi‘ng is to the best of his knowledge and
Belief, a true statement of me ewnerslnp. mena-
mment (mod; it e daily paper, the circulation),
cm, of the aforesaid publication for the date
shown in the above caption, requhed‘ by the Act
of August 24%, 1912, embodied in sectior 443,
Postal La « end nations; printed- oa the re-
verse of this term, {fir-wit:
‘ 1. mt the names end “dresses oi the pub-
. no:
mPhuib-Iishm . 900. M. Mm, Mani 0m
c gun.
mm. Forrest Lord; Haunt m Hels-

n.
2. That the owners are: (Giro names and
messes of omen, or, e comm-

many
hint, or security holds
peers upon the heels of the compo
or in any other fiduciary relation,

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Detroit Inst weak,-

rs ”smut. moan; .
Michigan Mill: Producers Ass’ 11.,
at the Board o: Commerce in
a mutton was
unanimously adopted instructing the
State Association to collect i1 ' per
cent of the amount received by {arm-
era :tor their milk to create a fund
for advertising milk and its‘mdhcts.

Theimeeting was amended hysev-
eral hundred delegates and members
and the vote tor the resolution was
unanimous. D. D. Aitken: who for
the past several you! has been try-
ing to get the milk producers to sea
the Modem of advertising their pro-
duct, was present and gave a stirring
talk upon the subject.

Mr. A. G. Anderson, acting a sec—-
rotary of the Milk Commission, road
a resolution that had been adopted

“ by the Commission that morning, the .

resolution setting forth the met that
inasmuch as the Commission had
adored to turn its amino over to the
Fair Price Board and stand dissolv-
ed and that the Board had made no
acknowledgment of. this offer but
had on the contrary absolutely ig—
nored the Commission‘s advances,
the commission held that it was still
in existence and set forth its judg-
ment that the price or "milk for April
should continue the same as the price
for March, vix, $4. 05 per cw‘t.

It was explained that the fund
which the producers might create for
advertising purposes would he met
with an equal sum by the distribut-
ors, and that probably a total of
$40,000 to “$50,000 would thereby
be raised. Some—questions were ask-
ed as to the money already expended
for this purpose, and Pres. Hull said
that. a statement would be publish-
ed giving the Iull information.

Board of Health (:0 Assist .

The Board «of Health has agreed
to assist the producers and distribut-
ing companies in acquainting the
consumer with the food value of
milk. In a statement ripen the sub-
ject 0*! milk as a food and the need
for a constant supply of pure milk.
Dr. Henry Vaughan, public health
commissioner, said:

“The board oi? health has no in-
terest in the price of milk as such,
but we are vitally interested in the
possible effects of an arbitrary low-
ering of the price to the producer.
And I am fearful that the enforced
reduction to 14 cents a quart will re-

ity.

“In 15 years of constant effort. the
board of health has succeeded by
educating the producer in cleanliness
and care, in making the milk coming
into Detroit as clean as any in the
United States. There will be, of
course, no drop in this respect with
the decrease in the return to the
farmer, because with the average
haul of five hours. the producer is
under the necessity oi keeping his
milk clean and free Iromgerms if
hexwishes to deliver it, fresh and us—
able in Detroit. .

“But there is the question of but-
ter fats. At the present time our
Detroit milk“sup'ply contains some-
thing like 3.7 or 3.6 per cent but-
ter lists. This is considerably high-
er than the state requirement and
it has resulted along with the' clean-
liness of the milk in aiding material-
ly "in the reduction of the Detroit in-
fant mortality figures by more than

' 80 per thousand of births in the past

.10 years. That means, with a. nor-
mal birth rate of 30,000 a year in

Detroit, a saving of more than 2,400 ~

lives per annum.

“‘I feel great apprehension that
this record will be endangered by
anything that makes it necessary to
reduce the quality of our milk sup-

'ply. And if the reduction in the

price to be paid the producer reduc-
es the quantity coming into Detroit
that, too, would be a sedan moon!

”to the chi1dren."

mTh-e advertising campaign will he
go
Board of Health will issue signed
statements as to the value of milk as

a food and studies will be undertak- -

on in an the schools and clubs of the
cities. The campaign also contam-

Wm

   

-' him are .most critical.

act against both quantity and qual-
ing the situation above
through proper advertising, more in-

1y along educational lines. The .

lat/cs the use at sign-boards and

Michigan i‘arm condi-

removal of mic from the farms to
the Mush-ta! centers owing to the

‘ attraction of high wages, has seri-‘

only threatened food production.
limo-t tam houses,

report from all corners of the state;
and
WHEREAS, the residents of our

cities are seemingly asleep to the ;
conditions that prevail in regard to ;
production ”Carmelessness, ne- '

mod
gloat, and even open hastility toward

farmers are all too common in the .
minds o! may city consumers. Many ‘
at our industrial leaders have lost'

sight or the fact that Michigan’s

prestige as a manufacturing center -

cannot be maintained unless those
who produce food are likewise pros-
perous and progressive; and
WHEREAS, the Michigan Milk
Producers’ Association is especially
concerned over the impending crisis
in this important industry. Top

prices "in hoods and almost impossible ,
‘ April 1 were 2, 951,394 boxes, a‘de-

tam labor conditions are driving
my men out of the dairy business
and unless immediate and drastic
moans are used to counteract. we

shall (we in the summer months‘

such a shortage of dairy products
that actual want, i! not tannins, may
stalk through our (city streets and

riot and ruin run their mad course; H.

and

WHEREAS, the Michigan
Producer-15’ Association would be nec-
reamt to its duty, to its members and
to the consuming public did it not
bend every energy to bring this crit-

ical situation oi! the milk industry to .

the people not the city and to invite
their earnest sci-operation in avoid—

ing disastrous consequences to all .

concerned. Assistance must be giv-
en the dairymon to encourage in-
creased production, to improve the
quality of their
guard against its contamination. City
consumers must be enlightened as to

the excellence «of milk as a nutritive .
cheapaess ~

and to its comparative
when its food value is considered.

THEREFORE, be it Resolved, that

we show our good faith in meeting ‘

this critical situation by instructing
the Board oi Directors of the Mich-

igan MiLk Producers’ Association to -‘
arrange for the collection of one per ‘

cent of the proceeds of Our milk for
the purpose of more efiec-tively meet-
described,

tensive and such other means as may
be found necessary and particular.

_PRODUOE MARKETS IN APRIL
(By U. S. Bureau 0! Markets)

E PRICE trend is upward, al-

I though considerable irregularity
appears. 'During the past four
weeks, apples, cabbage, sweet pota—
toes and tomatoes have kept rather
closely to their levels or March 15,

but celery, onions and potatoes have ‘

advanced. the last two mentioned,

rather violently.

cars during the corresponding per-
iod in March.
Potatoes Beach High Levels

The upward trend which started
the middle of February carried pric-
es of No. 1 sacked white potatoes to
a range of $5.35 to $5.70 per 100
pounds in consuming markets by the

middle of March. The advance con- .

tinned during the past four weeks
ranching $7.50 to $8.35.

about $2 higher 1. o. b. at $7 “to
$7.30. ~ New York round whites No.
1 gained .alaontfiiiljb to $3 advanc-
inghthomiweolidpriltoaruge

M3150 to $8. 65 sacked per 1100

WI. nausea-mummmf

New rm City were about $2 .25
higher by April 15, bulk per 100

pounds. The maturity to! these pricey
mm have taken place about the .
.middio at April when supplies in ‘

 

The heavy i

abandoned I“
was and reduced acreage is the .

Milk ’

product, and to-

Shipments in prac— ;
tically all lines have decreased, 6,--
629 'cars moving during the second ‘
week in April compared with 8,416 '

Prices at I
Minnesota shipping points also were .

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on
northern crop, ',,115 -

7'1, 7 cars, compared with 114, 72’: to
~» the middle of April last year.

Appes Steady

Demand has continued fairy active
for barreled and boxed apples with
few price changes. The markets
were strong during the latter part of
March. At New York shipping points
Baldwins A 2 1—2 from cold storage
sold at $8 to $8.25 per barrel .f. o.
h. The same stock in consuming
markets ranged $8 to $9.50. Ben
Davis sold at 7.50 to $8.25 in mid-
dlewestern markets.
boxed "Winesaps extra lunacy, at Yak-
ima and Wenatchee broughtsa to
$3-25 f. o. b. Consuming markets
ranged $3.50 to $4.25,. The mark-

et's remained fairly steady during'the '

first two weeks in April. but price
ranges of both barreled and boxed
stock were about 2.5c lower than
during the last two weeks of March.

Cold storage holdings on April 1 were ,

712,296 barrels, a decrease of 49 per
cent from the 1,381,660 barrels in
storage on March 1, but 46.4 per cent
more than were held April 1 last
year. Holdings of boxed‘apples on

crease of 43.5 per cent from the 5,-

,- "232,»ch Wham
109.3 per cent m-ore‘than were ins,

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storage April‘l last year. ,
Onions Make Shady Advinde

Recent price gains have brought
onions into about the same market ,-
supplies {of ‘

position as potatoes.
both vegetables were too light to
meet normal consumption, and the
situation furnished a similar basis
for higher prices.
gained $2.25 to $2. 50 in eastern
markets reaching $8 to 3:9, ,mkod
per 10:0 pounds. Middlewastern
Yellow varieties were "$2 to 3.2.25
higher at $8 to $9. The new onion
crop has started to move from Te:-
as. Acreage is estimated at 12,240
and the crop is said to be one of the
finest that Texas has produced. 001-
siderable diaflowliy has been experi-
enced in securing crates.
movement has been retarded by ro-
cent railroad troubles. Yellow Ber-
mudas No. 1 and 2 in standard
crates sold at $3. 50 to $4.25 1. o. h.
shipping points. Consuming mark-
ets were at different levels, Philadel-
phia at $6. 50 to $7, Chicago at $4. 25
to $4. 75 and Kansas City at $5.50 to
$6. Shipments of Northern and Ber-
muda onions were 20. 233 cars to
date this season.

 

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' Engines, Thrashers, Hull'ers, Etc.

(Subject to Prior Sale)

3 CORN HUSKERS—‘I 12 Roll Advance
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This is the smallest stock of used and rebuilt machinery we ever had .on 3
hand at" this time of the year, and only thhe first to get in their orders will .

ilities are very bad; cars have to be"
ordered two weeks ahead at times, and such delays as this make it all the
more important for you to buy now and get your machinery on the ground.

Remember that transportation fac

If you don' t see what you want on this list, write us about it
different makes and sizes of machines every week.

The Arbuckle-Ryan Company,

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Gentlemen :

again.

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The Michigan Business Farmer,
Mt. Clemens, Mich.

I Wish to state that the results have been
very satisfactory from the ad in your pa-
per. 1 am very much pleased.
no doubt hear from me in the near future
I have some bulls I wish to adver—
tise as soon as I can get the proper cir-
culars and mailing material ready.

EDW. B. BENSON,
Hill Crest Farms, Manson, Mich.

Mar. 4, 1920.

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- FRANCO
POCKET ELECTRIC I
.....FLASH LIGHT

ForTonEWWbIRF.,_ i

. Every man, woman or. child in the country ought “
to carry an electric ilash— light at Wit and here is' '

m handlest size of 3.11.401“. just-Hand- full yet throws a, powerful
light, brighter than a smiley lantern. We have secured a limited. num-
ber and thus dumps from one of the best makers in America. Tho-vars '
W said at retail for less than $1.50. some dealers change $2. but" un,
fill our supply runs out we will send one complete flash-light. including
nitrogen bulb and Franco battery for only two NEW subscribers, to

WWan Business Far-er at $1 each.
ammokmpwfllmsby prepaid parcel post. Address, Premium Man
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USE IT ON ALL LIVESTOCK

To Kill Lice, Mites, Fleas,
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USE IT IN ALL BUILDINGS

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We will send you a booklet on the
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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 disease.

Write for them to
Animal lndustry Department of

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red-and-yellow wrapper.

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-’ and down of chicks to kill head and body lice;
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Kills insects by In halation.
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Destroys ants, flies, lleas mosquitoes bedbugs,
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3! and lants. Harmless to ople and animals.
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‘ At drug, depart-
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U. S. 600’! (Bulletin 771,
Agri. Dept.) shows glass can-
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Buy Bla kFlag in
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Do the work yourself,
that' s the secret of the

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is
an ordinary . '. d
. eryday working conditions,
cannot make a world’s record with
his cows?

Thrice within a year this theory:
has been contradicted by Jersey cows'

in working farmer’s hands. First
by Viva La France, an Oregon farm-
er’s cow’ which made the four year

old and breed record of 1031 pOunds .

fat; then by Lulu Alphea of Ash-
burn, a yearling which made 800
pounds fat for her owner, who only
two years before had graduated
from grades to pure-brads.

The third and latest case is that
of Plain Mary, a registered Jersey
that found her way into the barn of
two farmers who had, decided to try
their luck with pure breds. Their
cow has made 15.255 pounds milk
and 1,040 pounds of butterfat in one
year and gained the title of World’s
Champion Jersey. She is now own—

ed by F. M. Ayer of Bangor, ~Maine,.

who bought her at a fancy price from
Kely and Cossar of Winn, Maine, the
men who owned the cow until the
sixth month of her present test, at
which time Mr. Ayer bought her. She
was sold on condition that she re-
main at the old home farm to finish
her record and she will now be sent
to her new home in Bangor.

Mary started her test'at eight
years and eleven months of age and
during the first six months she av-
eraged more than 100 pounds of
butterfat per month. From then on
she had a few reverses and did not
make as large a record as was ex-
pected.

The country in which she lived is
subject to severe extremes of weath-
er and the setbacks were due to a
weather variation of eighty-four de-
grees in one day in June and then
in December she was subjected to
forty-five degrees below zero in an
unheated barn. The farm is located
in anunprotected spot on the shores
of the Penobscot River and Mary had
the benefit of all the fresh air that
blew across fields of ice and snow.
In spite of her handicaps she finish-
ed strong and averaged twenty-
eight pounds of milk a day during
the last month of her record.

Plain Mary’s record is more of a
tribute to official test work than it
is to breeding, as she does not be-
long to any particular strain. She
reverts to St. Lambert blood chiefly,
but no plan of breeding is brought
out in her pedigree. _As an individ-
ual she is much better looking than
her picture. Cattle experts who have
seen her say she is an almost perfect
specimen of the prodhcing dairy cow.
She has plenty of barrel, strong con-
stitution, good udder and teats, a
very fine hide and every evidence of
“dairy temperament,” or willingness
to work.

Plain Mary occupied one of the
two box stalls built for Register of
Merit cows in Kelly and Cossar’s
barn. There is a total of fifty-one
animals in the barn, five of which are
on Register of Merit test. All the
work is attended to by Mr. Joe Cos-
sar and his assistant Frank Baker.

Plain Mary was milked three times
a day. Mr. Cossar did the night and
morning milkings, while Frank Bak-
er did the noon milking. Had she
been milked four times a day as some
animals are milked
on large farms- she
undoubtedly would
have done even bet-
ter.

Plain Mary’s rec-
ord was very closely.
supervised. There
were 22 supervis-
ionS‘ by official test-
ers (each of whom
stayed two days.)
They represented
five state agricul-
tural colleges and
every one was rec-
ognized as an ex-
pert in this line of
work.

,A notable feature
Of this- record and
of the other two
mentioned in tire
first part of this ar- '
tide, is that al 1511636 ‘
animals carried

[pd i

~ ration at all seasons. In sum-
mer, pasture generally is do!
pended upon, but. often it must ,
be supplemented by soiling ,
crops or silage, and sometimes '
_ by concentrates as Well. Foi-
. winter feeding, the ration us-

ually is'oomposed of hay, silage '
and a mixture of grains. In
properly balancing the, ration
the grain, mixture is compbund-
ed to fit the roughage with due
consideration for _cost. bulk,
palatability- and physiological
effect upon the cow. For best
results, cows must be fed indi- -
‘vidually, salted regularly, and
furnished with all .the clean
water they will drink.

A few simple guides for feed-

ing may be summarized as fol-
lows:

1. Under most circumstanc-
es the cow should be fed all the
roughage that she will, eat up
\clean, and the grain ration
‘should be- adjusted to the milk
production.

2. A_ grain mixture should
be fed in the proportion of 1
pound to each 3 pints or pounds
of milk produced daily by the
cow, except in- the case of a
cow producing. a flow of 40
pounds or more, when the ra-
tion may be 1 pound to each
3 1-2 or 4 pounds of milk. An
even better rule is 1 pound of
grain each day for every pound
of butterfat that the cow pro-
duces during-the week.

3. Feed all the cow will re-

1.

e I

spend to in ,milk production.
When she begins to put on
flesh, out down the grain.

Farmers’ Bulletin No. 743. Ev-
ery dairyman may secure a copy
of this valuable bulletin by
writing the Division of Publi-
cations, U. S. Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D. C.

 

 

 

 

 

 

and qualify ,for class AA Register of
Merit, which means a calf with each
record. Plain Mary has two other
official records to her credit one of
514 pounds fat and the other 828
pounds fat. She has also had six re-
corded calves and therefore (is a
great reproducer as well as a mak—
er of large milk and butterfat rec-
ords.

The figures given here show how
Mary piled up her total of 1040 lbs.
of fat by months.

Date Milk—lbs. Fat—lbs.
Feb. 28, 1919 .. 42.5 2.75
March .......... 1656.3 107.16
April ......... .174-1.0 109.16
May ........... 1650.6 ,107.95
June ........... 1436.7 89.22
July ...-. ....... 1447.8 100.48
August ...... ,- . .1350.7 98.74
September ...... 1211.6 91.96
October ........ 1087.31 69.70
November . . . 958.6 64.03
December ....... 1025.9 74.28-
January, 1920 . . 928.4 69.17
February 27 718.5 55.47

15,255.9 1040.07

    
 
 
 
  
  
  
  
     
 
 
 
 
 
  
   
 
  
        
     
   
 
   
   

those regions where legumé‘vdo not“

“Division, United States Department?!
of Agriculture.“ - A re’ce‘nt study of '

" points to the conclusion that
, growing of more corn roughage and
less non-leguminous 119.; would in-

-' crease the profitableness of the ra-

’ corn products only that will enable: , -
,the animals to thrive and reproduce}
.. withxapparently no ill effects.

. crops.

  
 
  
  
 
 
  
    

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thrive, says a, specialist or the Dairy

  
 
   
 
 
  
 
  

records not. cow testing associations,’ 9'
the

  

     
 

tion. ’. .. ,
In all- sections where legumes '

thrive it is, or course, advisable to

grow them, as their value is-well . u ‘3.
recognized for feeding dairy cattle. . ’ ‘
In fact,,from a study of cow-testing ,»
association reports it would seem » .
thatflevenigrainI-does not fully take - , ’ .
the place of go-odllegume roughage. .
It isrin those seetions where legumes
do not thrive, 'however, that dairy-
men may well consider the growing
of more corn roughage and less non-
le‘gume hay.
Cattle Thrive on Corn Alone . ..

Few plants apparently contain all
the substances required to nourish
properly the animal body, but in the
light, of present knowledge. the ,corn .
plant seems to .bejone of these. It '—
is possible 'to. balance a ration from

This
is not the case with_ many other
Corn, then, has unusual feed-
ing propeflies.

Experimental work done at the
South Carolina and Pennsylvania sta-

. tions has shown that it‘is practical'

under some conditions to feed dairy
cows on a ration of corn silage and
grain without hay. Such a ration has
been used successfully in feeding
beef steers. Reports from one cowe

- testing association in anon-legum-

inous hay region having an unusually

‘ high income over-costcf feed- and

large production per cow. i_s..in.a. dis-
trict where the dairymen have prac-
tically discontinued the, feeding of ‘ .
hay, but instead feed silageand corn ‘ - . . N
fodder. In this association the grain ,_
ration is also composed largely oI

corn by— preducts.

» More Roughage

No matter what other conclusions
may be drawn from the evidence
available showing the value of corn.
fodder and corn'sila’ge as dairy feeds,
it seems certain that the corn plant
provides an excellent roughage.

Hay is often damaged very much .
by becoming overripe. Storms dam- . ‘
age it seriously. The feeding value'
of corn is not damaged by its becom-
ing mature, and if it is properly
shocked storms do little damage to
it. , .

There are undoubtedly many dairy-
men who can well consider the Wis--
dom of reducing the amount of non-Z
leguminous hay produced, of increas-,
ing their pasture, and of growing?
more leguminous feed, corn fodder,‘
and silage to feed their dary cows. ‘*

CHICAGO HORSE .. MARKET IS
STRONG
Men experienced in market condis
tions ,state that there never‘ before
has been so strong a demand for
good draft horses nor such high
.prices paid in the
history -of the Chis
,cago horse market.
The demand in
strong for all kinds ,»
but the preference
is much in fav0r of
drafters standing
sixteen three bands
and over, weighing
1,700 lbs. or more.
Prices .range from
$275 to- $450; do:
pending on the -
merits of the aniqi; “
mal- This condid'
tion has prevailed. ,
. steadily .tor . the: -
past fOur weeks.
Buyers from 305-;
17.011, New York,
Philadelphia a nd; - . .
Pittsburg, state that ,. " ‘
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CLAIM YOU’RE
‘SA‘LE DATE .1

9",. "-1 1- "muons
list :he' Late of amny iivev stock sale in
ichig’a'n. If you are considering a sale ed-
vlso us at once and we will claim the date
for yoi1. Address, Live Stock Editor. M. B-
5.. Mt;- Clemens.
May 1. Holsteins. Washtenaw
Hoistein- Friesian Breeders' Club.

Mich. ..

May 10, Herefords. Newton County Hero-
t'ord ,Breeders’ Ass' 11. Kentlan (1. nd

Ma 11d. 'RliolsiteinsM Vlil’est Michigan Breed-
“ “3M ran am a, .c

“ May 18, Holteins. C. G. Hine. Rochester.

MI 11.
(Urine 8. Hosteins. McPherson Farms Co. ,
and Cheney Stock Farm, Howell Mich.

    

County
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Purebred Holstein Cattle
in the North West

The North Dakota Farmer recom-

mends Holsteins and reports: ‘,‘The
United States government and the ex—
periment station when selecting cat-

’ tie for the breeding circuit at“‘New

Salem chose this breed as being best
adapted to conditions." Holsteins
are strong and healthy and do well
in any climate. On account oi! their
most eco-
nomical» producers of butterfat.
Send for Free Illustrated Booklets.
They' contain valuable information

> for any Dairyman.

THE HOLSTEIN- FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION

293 Hudson Street
Brsttl chore. Vermont

 

DATE HOLSTEII FARMS

BRIDGMAN
Ben-ion County Michigan

Offer for sale ten young registered Holstein
Frieslan cows. majority of them laroe fram-
ed. good producing cows. bred to KING VAL-
DESSA PONTIAC MASTER, a 32 lb. son of
the premier sire KING VALDESSA PON-
TIAC. Prices are $2 50 and up

MR MILK PRODUOER

Your problem is more MILK. more‘BUTTER.

more PROFIT, per cow

son of Maplrcrest Application Pontiac-—
182652~from our heavy-yearly- milking-good-but-
tor—record dam will solve it.

Map lecrest Application Pontlsac’s dam made
35,103 lbs. uter 844.8 lbs. butter
end 28421. 2 lbs. milk in 8651yda s.

He is one of the greatest longy distance sires.

ills daughters and sons will prove it.

Write us for pedigree and prices on his sons.

Prices right, and not too high for the average
dairy farmer.

Pedigrees and prices on application.

It. Bruce McPherson. Howell. Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OEDAR BRO OK FARM

Ofl era for
TWO VEAR HOLSTEIN BULL

Sir ed by VALE ELZERVERE VASSAR
BELL PAUL. dam LADY GERDA PONTIAC
KOIt NDYKE whose coloring is about 2- 3
white. From the herd of H. C. Crandall &
Son of Elba. .

r 0 $150

P lc
THOS. LEE MUIR. Almont. Mich.

 

 

 

 

son an:

THOROUGHBRED
HOLSTEIII OOWS

combinin blood of Traverse
Maple rest stock. granddaughters .
Friend Hengerveld De Kbl Butter Boy.
Pric cos 83 cc and
. . WILLIAMS 4. WHITA’CR E
R. F. D. No. A Aliecen. Mich. '-

City and
of ‘

 

 

’born Nov. 25,1915

,SIred by our. 32 lb son. of the $50, 000 hull.’

 

ADVERTISING RATES under this heading to honest breeders of live stock and poultry will be sent on request.
1 proof and tell. you what It wlllroest for 13. as or 52 times.
reedsrs' Auction Sales advertised here at special loyv rates} ask for them.

BRIERERS' DIRECTORY. THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER. Mt. Clemens. Michigan.

Writeto

 

HATOII HERD

(State and Federal Tested)
YPSILAN’I‘I, MICH.

OFFERS“ YOUNG SIRES

Yearlings and younger, out
of choice advanced registry
.dams and King K‘orndyke Ar-'
tis Vale. Own dam'34.16 lbs.
butter in 7 days; average 2
nearest dams, 37.61, 6 near-

 

You can change size

of ad. or copy as often as you wish. Copy or
today !)

OLVERINE STOCK FARM REPORTS GOOD

, sales from their herd. We are well pleased with
the calves from our Junior Herd Sire "King Pon-
tiac Lands Korndyke Se ” who a son of
“ of the Pontiacs" rcm a daughter 0! Pon-
in do Do Kcl 2nd. A few bull calves (or

sale. '1'. ..Bprsgue, R. 2. Battle Creek. h.

TWO BULL OALVES
Registered Holstein- Friesian, sired by 39.87 lb.
bull and from heavy producing young co These
calves are very nice and will be pricedc cesp if

sold soon.
HARRY T. TUBES. Eiwell. Mich.

 

NICE STRAIGHT LIGHT COLORED BULL
calf born February lst. Sired by Flint Hen—
gerveld Lad, whose two nearest dams average
32.66 lbs. butter and 735.45 lbs. milk in 7 days.
Dam, a 24 lb. daughter of a son of Pontiac De
Nijlander 35.43 lbs. butter and 750 lbs. milk in

Better still. write out what

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you have to offer, let us put it in
changes must he received one week before date

 

REG. ROAN SHORTHORN BULL

FOR SALE calf, 5 mos. old. Bates breeding.

Also extra good reg. 0. I. C. boar 11 mos. old.
farmers“ prices.

W. B. WHITE. Carson City. Mich.

suonmonu’s . FEW

AT OLD PRICE.
Wm. J. BELL. Rose City, Mich.

TWO SOOTOH TOPPED BULLS

ready for service sired by SULTAN’ D
339292 from heavy milking dams. VVSte ALE
M. B. HALLSTED, Orion, Mich.

FOR SALE AT REA-
sorriu'iblvgi prices. The
ze-
Bull. Master Model 57614‘lJ in math?“ stastgsomh at
head of herd of 50 good type Shorthorns.
E. M. PARKHURST. Reed City. Michigan.

LEFT

 

 

 

Grow your own next herd sire. We have
three beautiful youngsters—straight as a line.
big-boned rugged fellows. They are all by
our 38 lb. senior sire. KING KORNDYKE
ORISKANY PONI‘IAC from splendid indi—
vidual dams of A. R. backing and the best
of blood lines.

Write for our sale‘ list.

JACKSON. MICH.

Holstedn Breeders Since
LABT ADVERTISED SOLD T0
M.r F. W. Alexander. Vassar.
Mich. New offers bu ll two
years old shout 1-2 white and straight as a
line (sElred by MAPLE CREST KORNDYKE
HEN RVELD and from FLINT ULTRA
NUDINEE a 28.22 pound daughter of FLINT
PRINCE. Bull carries 1! per cent sun's

blood as KING FLINT. I! you went s

root descendant of BUTTER BOY ROSINIA
now Is your chance. ,

Price 8200.
ROY F. FIOKIEB. Ohessning. Mich.

1906

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

,PEnHArs

we have the bull you want. Our herd under Fed-
eral supervision headed by a 36 lb. son of King
of the Pontiacs. Bull calves at your own price
and terms. Three dandy fellows of serviceable
age and several good young calves. Will also sell
a few good heifers bred to Peldora DeKoe King of
the Pontiacs son of 9King of the Pontiacs and

Woodcrest Dora 35
Call at Hillcrest Farm. Ortonville, Mich. or
John P. Hehi. 131 Griswold 31.. Detroit. Mich.

write
BULL CAI-F LAST ADVERTISED SOLD,
but have one more for sale. Nice-
ly marked, straight back line, a fine Individual.
large growthy fellow with the making of a large
bull. Would do someone a lot of good. Dam has
a 27 lb. reco , a large cow and a great milk
producer. Sire a son of Friend Hengerveld DeKol
Butter Boy, one of the great bulls.
JAMES |:IZOPSON. JR.

 

Owcsso - Michigan

 

 

MUSOLFF BROS.’ HQLSIEINS

We are now booking orders for
cung bulls from King Pieter Segis
yons 170506. All from A. R. O, dams

with credible records. ' We test annu-
ally for tuberculosis. Write for pric-
es and further information.

Musloi! Bros., South Lyons, Michigan

 

 

 

 

Bulls From an Accredited Herd

HILL CREST FARMS. Munson, Mich.
offers for sale their Senior Herd Sire,
RISINGHURST JOHANNA ORMSBY DIMPLE
He is a perfect individual,
a show bull. gentle and right in every way, 2— 3
white, a proven sire of high breeding qualities
as shown by his get in our herd. Priced right.
Send for bull circular, photos and pedigrees.

EDWARD B. BENSON a 80N8

Munson. Mich.

R HERD 8lR

mainline SEiilS sum

His sDire a 80 lb. son of lakeside King Segis
Alban De Kol.

His dam, Glista Fenella. 32. 37l

Her dam. Gh lists Ernestine, 35. 96 lb.

His three nearest dams average over 33 lbs.
and his forty“ six nearest tested relatives average
over 80 lbs. butter in seven days. _We offer one
of his sons ready for service

GRAND RIVER STOCK FARMS ‘
C. G. Twlss. Mgr. ' Eaton Rapids. Mich.

Fou'r‘Choice Bull cave.

Dams have records from 20 lbs. to 26 lbs.

 

 

Ten head of yearling and two year old heif-
ers. A. R. O. dams, 29 to 32 lbs. sires. Some
bred to 32 lb. sire with 745 lbs. milk.

Prices right. Come and see them.

Herd under federal supervision.

CARL HITCHCOCK
Charlotte. Mich.

Brooxsrou rm . . . . . ..
CL

HOLSTEIN BULL
Calves for sale, sired by MARYLAND BELLE
THILDE No. 15 4358 born Dec. 14, 191
randscn of Colantha Johanna Lad, one of the
greatest living sires and of a 31.44 lb. daughter
of Sir Korndyke Manor De Kol. His two near-
est dams average 25.89 lbs. butter in seven days.

BROOKSTOI FARMS

H. WIDDICOMB. Prop. Big Rapids.

A IIOELY BRED OALF

The Dam of this Calf has just made 12.77
lbs. of butter from 304.6 lbs. of milk as a senior
yearling. he is from a 16.05 2 year old that
freshgns in April as a 6 year year old and will he
taste .

Dam is both a granddaughter of King of the
Pontiacs and Woodcrest DeKol Lad 26 A. R. O.
Daughters Sire of Calf is a 21 lb grandson of
the-$50, 000 dollar bull. Price only $100. 00.
BAILEY STOCK FARM. YPSILANTI MICH.

Herd under state and federal inspection.

Address all correspondence to

JOHN BAILEY.
319 Atkinson Ave.. Detroit, Mich.

SHORTHORN

SHORTHORUS

5 bulls. 4 to 8 mos. old. all roans, pail fed.
Dams _good milkers. the farmers' kind, at farm:
ers prices.

F. M. PIGfOTT & SON. Fowler. Mich.

HE BARRY COUNTY SHORTHORN BREED-
ers Association announce their fall catalog ready
for distribution. Scotch. Scotch Pop and
Shorthorns listed. Addres
w. L. Thorpe. Sec.. Milo. Mich.

MILKINO SHORTHORR BULL OALVES

Place a pure bred milking Shorthorn bull in
your herd and improve their milking and flesh-
ing qualities. Have disposed of all females that
are for sale. Have a few nice bull calves left at
reasonable prices.
ROY S. FINCH. Fife Lake. Mich..
WHAT DO YOU WANT? I, represent 41
SHORTHORN breeders. Can put you in
touch with best milk or beef strains. Bulls
all ages. Sbme females. C. W. Crum,
President Central Michigan Shorthorn
Association, McBrides, Michigan.

Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ILKING SHORTHORNS. BOTH SEX FOR
sale. Priced low

0. M. YORK. Millington. Mich.

 

 

est 33.93, 20 nearest, 27,83, 7 days. Write for prices and extended pedigree Cl ‘
‘° L. 0, “mm FOR SALE 1.03.? .5333... $333.35. 12$}
- ,Fllnt. Mich. W. 3. HUBER. Gladwln, MICh.
- REGISTERED HOLSTEIIIS HEREFORDS
BABY BULLS

REGISTERED HEREFORD CATTLE

KING REPEATER HEADS OUR HERD
We still have eight good bulls and some heif-
ers for sale. Come and see them.
MARION STOCK FARM
Tony 1!. Fox Prop.
Marlon, Mich.

MEADOW BROOK HEREFORDS

Bob Fairfax 405027 at head of h rd. -
tered stock, either sex, polled or hofned 133$?!

 

know of 10 or 15 loads ranc

Shorthorn and Angus steers 5 toylotlilili‘ll):
Owners anxious to sell Will hel buy We
commission. C. F Ball. Fairfled, Iowa.

Hardy Northern Bred Herefords

BERNARD FAIRFAX 624819 HEAD
20 this year's calves for sale, 10 bulls'alx'dzll:

heifers
JOHN MacGREGOR. Harrlsville. Mich.
ANGUS

The Most Profitable Kind

of farming. a car load of grade dairy heifers
grom LENAWEE COUNTY’S heaviest milk pro-
ucers to include a pure bred ANGUS hull of the
most extreme beef type for combination beef and
(inlay falrming.
ar ct shipments ass mbl (1
[6.1113121} for prornpt shipmfent. e at GLENWOOD
e 101s exp ained in SMITH’S PROF'II‘ABLE
STOCK GFEPDIN N,G 400 pages illustrated.
GEO. B. SMITH. Addison. Mich.
BARTLETT IPURE BRED ABERDEEN-
ANGUS CATTLE AND 0.I.G.
Swine are right and are priced right. Corre—

spondence solicited and inspection invited.
CARL BARTLETT. Lawton. Mich.

 

 

 

 

GUERNSEYS

GUERNSEY BULL FOR SALE

A grandson of Gov. of the Chene 1 yr. old from
A.R. Dam. Other bulls from 1 to 9 Mo old.
Good individuals. C. A. llennesey, \Vatervllet, M.

GUERNSEY WE ARE OFFERING FOR
sale some splendid bull calves
out of A. R. dams with records up to 500 lbs.
fat. Our herd sire. a grandson of Dolly Dimples
May King of Langwater, and whose dam has an
A. It. record of 548 lbs. fat at 2 1- 2 years is
also for sale or exchange. Write for particulars
and prices to
MORGAN BROS.. R No 1. Ailegan, Mich.

 

 

FOR SALE SCOTCH suonruonu auu.

calves ready for service.
JOHN LESSITER'S SONS'. Clarkston, Mich.
Phone. Pontiac 1115-F-3 or Orion Exchange

FOR SALE

301mg Registered Pclled Shorthorn Bulls
CLARENCE WYANT. Berrlen Center. Mich... R1

HE VAN BUREN CO. SHORTHORN BREED-
ers' Association have stock for sale. both milk
and beef breeding.

Write the score eryta

FRANK BAILEY, Hartford. Mich.

FOR SALE—POLLED DURHAM BULLS AND
Oxi‘ord‘l Down Ram
J. A. DeGAsRMO. Muir. Mich.

 

 

 

Shortliorns at Farmers' Prices

FOUR SCOTCH TOPPED BULL CALVEs
under one year old. These are all roans and

 

choice indivl

mFAIRVIEW FARM
F. E. Boyd Alma. Michigan
8110111110“ .52." .3255 1" 1.255%;

months old also a few cows' and heifer calves of

 

LtAKE SIDE DAIRY. Lake Odessa. Mich.

good producing cows.
Mich. ‘

OSOAR STIMSON, Brown lty,

 

‘ “EGIBTERED hots-rams roe sans. roan

bull calves sired by a son of King- gls -
Mahe Sr

_pion is a double grandson of the

~ Segis DeKol Korndyk e. Dams are heavy producing
'youdng cows. rum reasonable. breeding. .consid-.
ere

G. i P.‘ DONOOP, Iceland. MINI-u R 4

 

     
  

 

. 1 LIVE STOCK

E. N. BALL.
FELIX WITT

  

tees-'ssseesssselsseeoel

‘ Business Farmer.
nd fithge They“ are both honest and competent

incs of'this paper.
in“ sale, lbin. They werk ‘ex‘clustveiyln

 

.Ie'seesInsolence-eleeo-eIe-ueesquseoe-eseseses

or the other of the above well- known experts will visit all live- stock sales of
importance Olne Michigan. northern Ohio and Indiana. as the exclusive Field Men of The Michigan

repmm any reader of this weekly at any.
Their :servica is- free to you. They llalso

 

FIELD MEN

Cattle and Sheep

‘ Horses and Bwlne

s...-s......o-o-o--..

zmen of standing in their lines in Michigan
sale, making bids and pfill‘lfglaflel.’
c you
the interests of Michigan’s llOWN live—stock

REGISTERED GUERNSEYS
Away with the Scrub Bull.
Breeding better Guernseys.
Buil calves that will improve your herd.
J. M. WILLIAMS
North Adams. Mich.

 

JERSEYS ‘

O
ngliland F arm-Jerseys
Offers: Bulls of serviceable age of R. 0. M.
Sire and Dani’s, with high production records.
Also bull calfs. \Vrite for printed list of price!
and description.

HIGHLAND FARM, Shelby, Mlch.. R 2.
or Sale—Jersey hull calves. Oxford and Mac
jesty breeding. Dams are heavy producers.
J CARTER, R4. Lake Odessa. Mich.

 

 

 

 

It Pays Big

to advertise livestock. ' -‘
or poultry in

M. B. E’s p

Breeders Directory.

 

 

 

calf .

any age Come and look them over.
. .EARL C. McCARTY Bad Axe, Michigan. .
120 HEREFORD s'r nuns. saso :

      
       
   
 

     
  
  
    
      
    
     
    
    
  
   
   
      
     
   
  
  
  
   
   
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     
    
  
      
    
    
    
    
   
       
           
  
         


 
 
 
 
 
 

  

  

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sire wasgrsudchamnlon at Iowa State Fair. Get ’ A. L.’ REED. Hartford. Mich. Feb. and Mar. pigs, either sex, no skin. Register— "" ~
A grand champion while the getting is good. Book- ed tree. John Gibson, F05 , Mich, R. 2. .
ing orders now. Bred :ilts are All said, but have ’ ARS ten KIDS I CANNOT SELL YOU ANY MORE
10 choice fsll pigs sired by a Grandson of Dish< EBERSOLES BIG TYPE DUROOS. BO 'ewes until next fall. To 6 ,, up,
' er’s lent, boars and 7 sows. Will sell over: . all sold. A few bred zilts for April and May 0 I. O. GILT8‘_WEIGHIMG 200 to 215 L88. 1 can 0 er 10 my mood young Shropshire was
or bred for Sept Mm"- “ BIG 303- ' “WW- .5180 oven grits. noon" on 10! In breed ‘neah bred for March. Arm And that will h in April for $400. heir unh-
c. E. GARII‘AIT. Eaton Imus. Ilium spun: Digs. We solicit lnspeetiong Must furrow. consumed ch in chin I will to- contracted to me should not more than purchase
' AL HT EBERSOLE piece any proving otherwise to your satisfaction price next. fall. . -‘
TWO FALL GILT! .y ' Plymouth“ Ilium, R. l. D. '05. 8 or refund purchase price re A few Oo- Also 10 mfzhty nice ewe lambs for 83-50.
POM” GIIIIAS Kicbiesn B‘uster nigh- ’ ZE A I! D :33: mittedplfg :IIdnyord willie servict that an Come and see them.
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uroc sows and gym brud‘ to Walt's King 82943 G [ c- ONFFXTM CHOICE BOAR 3 M08. 'Ali‘fi H! “6 ES 3” 41"
to D - . old. right every way. 850 buys him if ' 7M”-
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HERE'S SOMETHING 6000

THE LARGEST BIG TYPE P. 9. IN HIGH.

Get a bigger and better bred boar pig from my
herd, at a~reasonuble price. Come and see them.
Expenses paid if not as represented. These bosrs‘

WINGS

Liberty Defender

H. 8.

3rd. from
will be bred to val Orio

n boar tor Sept furrow.
KEESLER, Cassopolls. Mich.

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Spring bred sows all sold. Have horse and sold once for “3.00“ ’I‘ e 0‘ .
6 Se t. lgs, both sex. sired by 0. I. c. smut—AW HERD cou'rkms T'l-ll Pnnce a larse my mare No. 148423. Price $200. _
zoo p p Col. bred dams. Gll‘ta blood lines a

o: a moat noted herd. C , furnish
you stock at "live and let li ' an
A. J. 60

E. DEA-l. Milford, Mich.
ve’ prices. -
DID-Ell. Dal-r. Mich" R 8.

cacao: REGISTERED PEROHEMNI For Sale

 

 

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‘ Orange Price and Us Lon: Pmmect.
E. LIVINGSTON, Parma, Mich.

 

DUBOG JERSEY

water Cherry King

GRANDCONO 0F BROOK-

my mare 12 yrs.
1 black mate 3 yrs.
1 sorrel mere 3 yrs.

MUD-WAY-AUS H-KA F ARM

0" offers

 

 

 

 

 

, a law more 0. I. o. bred gills also hatch- Spring Co . ‘
Panama Special. 320 at weaning. mg ens tron. an I Do! ,, . _ . 0
‘ E. E. CALKINS. Ann Arbor dwogtigg afild "P. van red fins .XVlsuZtepgery;g. , usmr GIEIKEI. 38‘. St. Louis, m ‘
_ . _ _ unner duch $2 per: 11 and White Chin- On LE— mao ' -
, WONDERLAND HERD a»... "r":- “‘Ed'li‘h'imm‘mms .. .... ,. F A use wrimfi'mafirtlsfl
. o 9. Ages. - , . . - ,1 ' .
LARGE TYPE P- c. can a Blank, rm: Crest mums, Peninsula. Well. " "v "'0“ sold at once. John Tomend, Armada, Mich.
A few choice bred ziltn for sale. Also m1 gm. “1"“ 4 mile“ “WM“ 30““ 0‘ “mam“ ‘ W ’
z and boars. some very good prospects of excellent '7 V‘
; breeding. Gllts bred to ORPHAN'S SUPERIOR DUROC BOARS FROM PRIZE.
‘ £35.. All“ PRPiiAN'SmEQUi)‘h§ih§"‘ ”8” m... G"'“”‘" "0"“ BELGIAN ‘
r e ‘ - 8m. read for c . . , ddi-
gfifiggg Acumen by ORANGE BUD. by use son, Ell/lien. e‘ ‘9 3 3mm A

Free livery to visitors.

 

Wm. J. CLARKE.

Eaton Rapids. Mich. hogs.

 

L s P c FOUR CHOICE SPRING AND FALL
boars Mt. A flew extra nice willie

left bred. for April. furrow.
H. O. SWARTZ, Schoolcraft. Mich.

 

EADOWVIEW FARM REA DUROO JERSEV
Spring m for Illa.
J. E. MORRIS. Fsrmlngton, Mich.

MIME SHED GILTS

for April furrow. Would ll'k
CHEBRV»LAWN FARM.

choice heading, saun-

did individuals. Bred

e to have you Wham.
Sheabord. .

 

, PEROINIIERON .
DRAFT STALUONS
With Size and Quality

 

 

  
  

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

31.31?“ "I“ r: '3: “hr
7. P. c. sows ALL SOLD. ORDERS . anzn sows'Aun OILTS "‘ “0* W 0 “a S
booked for boar pigs All weaning time from DHBWJERSEY April and my #31110"- gzah’ fibrmhmtaflb? ya my
Mich. champion herd. Visitors always welcome. Siren} or bred to my 1.000 lib. herd boat. from one i s n, me 1' / K
E- R. LEONARD. R- 3, St. Louis, Mich. J03. OCHUELLEP. Welshman. Mlch. y ' 1 ~ .
FOR SALE ‘
- nurse JERSEY m was ~ "E” ‘ “m"
Large Type P C. Hogs .. ’ sired by Orion Breckenridge. Mich.
. ’3 . . . Cherry hing Unit 21111., first. need boar at Detrmt
“an: H low spring boars and spring grits, also in 1919. These are growthy and the right “we
yearling sows. Bred to such boars us Clausmun's priced to sell ‘
Image 2nd, King’s Giant, and Smooth Wonder. ch TAYLOR Milan. Mlch.
11le are three real boars. Free livery to visitors. ' ' f
3' RAMDELL' "awn"- M'ch' MAPLE LAWN FARM REG. nunoc JERSEY BREED NTI ,
POLAND CHINAS CLOSIN Swine. Ordnr your spring pigs now. Pairs ERS ATTE ON-
BIG TYPE ' 7 , 6 OUT and trims not akin. ‘ _ , _ , .
1 . V _ our hours and pred grits at 21 bur- vsrm u, Towns, R6. Eaton Rapids. Mich. If you are planmng on a sale this spring. write us now and
gum. (alts With quullty and Size bred to a large . ’ "
growtlly herd hour for March and April .farruw. REG DUROC GILTS BRED TO CLAIM TIIE DATE .
, -- W' BARNES 3‘ 3°“! 3"°"- M'Ch- FOR SALE mm“; March and April. mod. Tins senate is free to the live stock industry in Michigan
ern type. weighing 250 lbs. Si‘red by Brookwa- ,
BIG TYPE POLAND CHIMAS tcr Taxpayer and. Professor Top CoL Bred to ‘ t0 avaid conflthing 8a}? dates ‘
,. , wrrnv QyALITY . llmokwater Panama, Special. Price $65 to $100. LET ‘THE BUSINESS FABMER CLAIM YOUR DA'IE ! 1
llnwrrotr Failepfiso%li:\\3(~(fh, A fine yearling All f8,” pigs .botll set '
lrwl' on. o «’s , 2 , .‘ll. . ' H . ‘
J. E. MYGRANTS. St. Johns, Mich. F' ”Ems " 80"” ”mm" mm” . W .
. E OFFER A FEW WELL-BRED SELECT-
ullsur ALI EV "1W “W .... ..
_ fi an _/ runs. 1 s 11 season. a or w e
‘ ‘7‘ Gilts all sold. McNAUGI-ITON G FORDYOE, st. Louis. Mich. mE OLD FAVORITE
My 19le crops Will be sired by Giant Clansman ” . . .
3170. 324731. sired by Giant Ulalmmun and Art’s BERKSHIRES The CTOCOCZIZC wrench you sent mg for getting my- neighbor to sub-
PWW‘“ NO' 3770‘“- scm‘lie for M. B. Iv‘. is a whofe tool box in your hand!”
A D GREGORY Ionia Mich “Emsrensn aanxsumzs FOR CALI, Aua.
' ‘ ’ r ‘ f 10 pics for 34% sTpikelcm while tfhey lest. 1381::
is action guarantee . a. 'n2 0:: rs or spring . ‘ '
6 TM AuNUAL P. c. sign sow SALE, JOHN voune. Breckenridge, men. FOR GRIPPmG NUTS 8. Fm'mea
March 13A 1220“?! A rticularsuwrite '
VJ. J. H. 6 LS . ugusta. lull. ‘ “'
Registered Berkshires
BIG TYPE POLAND GONNA BRED GILTS ELL Place orders; for hrcd tilts for June furrow. Also
sold out. i]; few fall pigs either sex as. reason- imam “Ad snuggle] plgs. 1 2-year old now due to
able price. egistered in buyer's name. Sired ”TOW 19' '-
by Big Hume-4th and Big Long Bob. “93le am" F a, m m
M035 anon" St. Charles, Mich.
ARGE ENGLISH RECORDED BERKSHIRES. .
AM OFFERING SPRING Bred gilt! and spring Dies for sale. ‘ ‘
L T P 0 m smmr and full pigs. P'Im'fll FARM. 05m. Mich.

 

F. 'l‘. HEART. Sit. Lotti, Mich.

I Am Offering Lam Tyne Poland
bred to F’s Orange at reasonable
full plugs. Write or call-

chlna Sows,

proll
pirces. Also

GREGORY 1mm BERKSHIRES FOB
it. Choice Stock for sale. Write your
wants. W. St Cars-i. White. Hail. Ill.

 

Lme nsuen. 3'3. 8?... Louis. Irish.

0 T. P. 0. ALL SOLD OUT. EXCEPT SOME
fall gifts. Thanking my customers.
JOHN D. WILEY. Schoolcraft. Mich.

Bred or open.
few fall pigs.

BOARS ALSQ SOWS AND 916$ ANYTHING

FOR 3mm

Gilts and
No aged

$100.
”EMORY GROVE Fm Poul-In. “Ids... BB

tun IEIIS mass or
Me

In breeding.
young buss. Also A
stock. Prices, $58 to

 

 

you want. Polllnd Chimes of‘ the biz est type.

CHESTER WHITES‘

 

“"e have bred them big {or more. than .5 can:
heud on hand. Also registered etch:-
i‘l‘l'ns, [lvvs-llrlleiusJ and Oxford’s. Everything sch! at
u reusmv'l'I-‘e- Mire, sand 1 square den-l.
JOHN» G. BUTLER. Portland. Mich.

F.
DUROO

for May fiarrow.

Spring Pm ln-Pal‘rs or

   
 

 
 
   

% WIRE can
“(BOOODILE" WRENCH is drop I'm-god from the finest tool
steel and scientifically tempered. Every wrench is guaranteed

against. Wage. It is 8 1-3 inches long and weighs ten ounces.
Teeth and dies are case-hardened in bone black, making them hard and
keen. Requires no adjustment, never slips and is Always ready for use. .

GHESTEB WHITES

stock at reasonable pricesmé’olso: s. In bred Gilts

tries from A-l mature

W. mnder. Vassar, Mich.

 

’ iifioowdsaszvsf omiv‘rfillzi' sow "Si/Alia
by (ix-hm Cherry King (Sikh. Bred: for May furrow .

EGISTERED CHESTER WHITE PIGS FOR
sale at priccu that will interest you.

Either

DIES ALONE. WOULD COST $1.50-

and would be worth more than that to- every farmer; as they would
often save valuable time besides -

a.‘ trip to town tor repairs.)

 

 

 

 

E. DAVIS & sow. Ashley, Mich. sex. mfidgdsm. Laval“. mom
EACH HILL FARM Duroc sova and guts sired ~ . I
le lirollxal aginrimlihltoméo Iglahesgy KgnafBgook- ‘ YORKSHIRE
WA .rr low: 1 mill 7 an 511 on O ems .
i1" ‘f‘l‘ffia‘ 5‘9““ 1%?“ “if. Pfi‘q‘zl’w“ 33“}. ‘° 3-: “32‘1 'c?“n'§.%”‘.l‘o'§r°‘t§% .23.” "’"' "
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ONE OF THE BEST HER” IN IIGHIOAI

Spring zilts And (All yurhnzs bred for March, April end my litters.

Emress and r 7 in mm sumo.
every way. wri s me.

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0.1. C. sows [FOR SALE

It you want & RIG TYPE sowkmrs

1 o. o. 1).. ,.
'm’nmd mum

 

Six HANDY'FARM TOOLS IN one ‘

A pipe wrench. a nut wrench, a ,screw driver and three dies for
cleaning up and re—tlireading rusted and battered threads, also for cut-
ting threads on blank bolts. ' . . x“
The ideal tool to c'arry on a binder, reaper or mower.
- Will work in closer querters than any other Wrench.
Light, strong, compiler. and. easily carried in the hip packet.
’Dies ,will fit all bolts used on si‘undard term muchinery.‘

' —HOW TO GET YOUR CROCODILE! ' ,
Glip out. this ad and" mail it to us with thensmes o: twoerww sub-
scribers, with $2.1m pay for‘theln. The “Crocodile” wrench will. he
sent to you prepaid. in the nextmadl. Remember, thesubscribers must g

be NEW omen—'not renewals. g. .
tussnd your Own more “1.21de L.

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HERE is somewhat at a delusion
among many poultry rais-
era as .to what- constitutes

strong healthy flock, and“ one that will

give eggs strongly fertile and produce

chick; that will hare ivltlllty enough

to make a sturdy night against dis-
ease. I have had several incidents

come under my observation that has

shown me this. Some farmers think
their. hens are extremely vigorous.
when the eggs from them will prove
far from good—la. large percentage
being infertile and when the chicks.
hatch they show weakness right from
the start.

Take them all in all I believe halt
the ordinary farm flocks where no
special attention is given to breed-
ing will not have the vigor that they
should have. A friend of mine set
eggs in a large incubator from three
different farm flocks. One was good,
and the chicks hatched we vigoro s
and grew off evenly and made broilers
in as short a time as could be expect-
ed. One other was not so good, and
the chicks from this flock had but few
ready broilers to sell with the other

1 lot, while the last flock was so poor

that what chicks were induced to live
grew very unevenly and none were
marketable with the first flock, and
few with the second. Two of these
flocks were orpingtons, one white and 1
one buff, the first and second, while
the last was barred rock. They should
have come allong together had they
been of equally sturdy stock.

I can call to mind several flocks
that I have known which were not
vigorous enough to produce strong
chicks, and invariably the chicks had
been subject to disease at every
chance to get it, and they never seem-
ed to thrive as they should. Now
there is no valid reason why 'anyone
should have a flock of this kind. It
is easy to get strong stock, and the
most common causes of failure is
this, respect is from‘inbreeding and
keeping cockerels with serious faults.
A big rooster is not always a strong

on». and quite often we will keep a’

.were on free farm range
tion showed that the infertile eggs :

cocks-rel that is a brother to may of

the bullets, and we continue to keep.‘
our own stock for a few years until

our flock is degenerating. I do not
believe there is anything that will
sap the vigor quicker, even while it
leaves the hens looking like good
strong stock. I bought eegs one
year toromy incubator from a line
looking flock of barred rocks and
nearly half of them were infertile
and the germs in many others were
so weak that they died in the shell
before filling it. If I had these alone
I might have blamed the incubator,
but I could not get enough of her. so
I bought some of her neighbor, and
these showed good fertility and
stronger chicks, though I had con«
sidered the other flock as finer. Both
Investiga-

came from a badly inbred flock, and
though they were large line looking
fowls they were losing their vitality.

It is not always the case that a
flock is lacking in vigor when the
eggs are infertile, for it may be one
or more 0! the males that are kept
with them. Then many times the
ration has somewhat to do with the
fertility of the eggs and the vigor
of the chicks. One thing I have
found is almost always the case, and
that is that eggs running heavily in-
fertile will produce chicks that are
hard to keep healthy. Statistics,
too,- show that the number fertile and
the number that live after being
hatched are very much in the same
ratio. Fertile eggs produce chicks
that are heardy, while infertile eggs
produce chicks that are weak in con-
stitution. I am speaking of the lots
now, of course, for infertile eggs do
not hatch at 2.11, but a lot that has
a big percentage infertile may hatch
a percentage of those left, but the

percentage is sure to be less than of '

those more strongly fertile, and
those which do hatch are weaker.,It
pays to be sure the stock is vigorous.

 

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WASHTENAW COUNTY

CONSIGNMENT SALE
at Ypsilanti, Mich.

Saturday, May lst, 1920

90 HEAD

Registered Holste1n-Fr1e31an Cattle
The kind you are looking for

1—32-lb. Cow.
1—30-lb. Cow. '

4—Daughters of 30-1b. Cows.

2—29-lb. Cows.

3—Daughters of 29- lb. Cows.
1—Daughter of 1123-lb. yearly record Cow.

1—26- lb. Cow.
1—25-lb. Cow. '
1—24-1b. Cow.
2——23-lb. Cows.

1—20- lb. 2-year-old Daughter of 3036-111. Cow from

30- 1b. Sire.

1-19-111. Daughter .1 19-11:. 2-year-old by 30 lb. Sire.
2—Sisters of 32-lb. 4-year old.

.2-—Cows bred to 38-1b.Bu11.
- 1—30-11». Bull. ' ‘
A 1—29- lb. Bull.

' ‘ S9

WONDERFUL INDIVIDUALS WITH REAL BREEDING

13.1.. PERRY, Auctioneer. 11. AUSTIN menus in the Box.
Get a Catalog and you will be at the Sale. '
' Free 'l‘ijansportation to Sale PaviliOn /

. , ABOUT ONE-HALF OF THESE CATTLE
' ‘ UNDER STATE AND FEDERADTEST.

Ypsilanti, Mich.

  

   
  
  

 

  
     

Ammo W under this honing a u not:
s for 13 m or been. Write out whum
11 type. can! not and m m by return null. Address The W Buslneu Farmer.
Advmlslna mam. . Ia. Clemens. Michigan.

 

DIRECTORY

per flan. per Issue. Special
have to offer and ma It In. we wlll put

 

 

   
    

 
 
   
     
     

 

 

 

A «so-operative work
Pure Breed Practical
-cult1'y. Chicks and eggs
dellvered n your door prepaid.

"a," swoon“ Heavy _and Laylng
. Breeds

  
 

You wi' be interested in
the Extra unlity White Leg-
\ horns Inspected and certified
as Heavy Producers
Poultry Extension Specialist of

‘1... Agricultural College.

Live and healthy Chicks and satisfactory hatch
from eggs guaranteed

Send for new Catalog with illustmtione; it
will help raise your Chicks. Also it ex-
plain: the Iomeotead Farms plan of co-operation.

STATE FARMS ASSOCIATION
Desk 2. Kalamazoo, Michigan

ORPINGTONS AND LEGHORNS

Two great breeds for profit. Write today for
free catalogue of hatching eggs, baby chicks and
am: stock.
0 CLE HATCHER COMPANY, 140 Phllo BIdI.
Elmira. N. Y.

For Sale—Amplified Gray African geese In tries.
R. I. Red cockerels bred to standard. Few set-
tings eggs. Mrs. Mabel French. Ludinzton, 11.3.

 

FOR SALE MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS.
ducks, either sex, $4 each at‘ once. 01d duck:
weigh 10 9011!!
CHASE STOCK FARM. Mar-lam, Mich.
PLYMOUTH ROCKS
PURE BRED BARRED Rock—commune
from fine layers. Satisfaction guaranteed.
ROBERT BOWMAN. JR., Plgeon, Mich“ R‘I
BARHED Roc EGG. FOR aHATCHING
from wrong husky breeders.

W. O. COFFMAN, Benton Harbor, R a, Mlch.

 

 

 

JOHN’S In “Mu! Barrel Rocks am Hal
hatched, find - lave,” grow quick. 30 aux.

$3 50; tin“; cockelnh, $4to $6. (an-

culars, photos. John Northon. Clare, Mich.

PURE BRED BARRED ROCKS. GOOD LAY-
ers. That narrow, straight snappy barring.
Scorn ends on and pulleta to 94 points.
A. 1111 ch! timer In the business. Eu: for Intdi-
lm, $2. 50 per 15. Satisfiction guaranteed.
A. D. STECKLE. Freeport. Mich” 301: 110

LEGHORN

C. chMt Lom- Hatching Eggs. $2 for ut-
$5 for 50: $9 for 100. Day old chicks,
$1011 per 50. $18 per 100, E. Altenbcrn, Allegan.

S Go? BriiiLEGlhDRNS. BABY CHEI'CKS. £308
or a 0 ng ens Cock 1' is
laying strain. 8 e arm raised.
J. W. WEBSTER. Bath. Mich.
RABOWSKE’S S. C. WHITE LEGHORNO
Stock and eggs for sale. Circular free.
LEO GRABOWSKE. Merrill, Mlch., R 4

. comm; t
, chicks, guaranteed to satisfy

3' C' W' LECHCRN EGGS

CHICKS—CHICKS

SHIPPED CAFELY EVERYWHERE BY MAIL
8. C. White Leghorn: and 8. 0. mm An-
great we machines. Strong. sturdy

Order now for

May and June delivery. Eleventh season. Cat-

: free.
HOLLAND HATCHERY. R7. Holland. Mlch.

 

hicks, Leghorns, Mlnorcas. spanlsh, Houdans.
Campinas, Reds, 'Rocks. Orpingtons, Brahmas.
Wyandottes. Tyrone Poultry Farm. Fenton, Mich.

 

BABY cuicx 50,000 for 1920, Barred
Rocks. Exhibition quality.

looking orders now at 20c each.

Beechmont Poultry Farm, Crandall, lnd.. Box 16

 

BABY CHICK Whelan Barron s. c. w. Leg-

l1orns——NOT show stock BUI‘
laying stock. Their records in the world‘s laying
contest show they) are the 180 to 300 eggs-Yea!"

 

layers. You can call them the 200-egg~a‘Ycar
birds. Baby Chicks only $16 per 100 from this
great laying strain. Enclose 15 per cent of the
amount and state the date shipment is desired.
LEGLAIR WHELAN. Tlptdn, Mich.

HATCHING EGGS
FOB SAL HATCHING EGGS FROM A

heavy laying strain of S. C. R. I.
Reds. Pen No. I headed by 11 Owen Farms yearl-
ing cock and mated to a superb bunch of pullets.
Pens Nos. 2 11ml 3 headed by two wonderful cock-
erels and mated to equally good pullets, also a
utility flock that is high class Get our prices
on your wants for the coming season. Satisfac-
tion guaranteed.
F. HEIMS a. SON. Davlson, Mich.

 

 

 

 

ROSE COMB BROWN LEGHORN EGGS FOR
sale. One fifty per fifteen eggs.
Flemish Giant rabbits that are giants. Quality
guaranteed.
E. HIMEBAUGH. Goldwater, Mich.

 

E665 FROMs MtAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS
-— 4 or 10
MRS. WALTER DILLMAN, R 6, Dowaglac, Mich

 

GGS FROM PURE BRED SILVER LACED
Wynndoites, $1 75 for 15
.DURKEE Plnconnlng. Mloh.

 

$2.00
PER 16
IRS. E. PELK'Y. R 1. Honor. Mloh.

 

4300“ BEST: S. C. BUFF, WHITE
and black Orpington eggs, $4 per 15; $7 for 3G
GRABOWSKE BROS., R 4. MeI‘I‘lll, Mlch.

BMBED BOEKS 8h“ contest winning straln

direct. Special pens only

headed by pedigreed males. Purebred partridge

rocks Eggs $2. 50 per 15, poetpald. $8 per 45.
N. AYERS & SON, Silver-wood, lllch.

 

RITE MANDOTTES'. EGGS FOR HATCH-

in; from selected layers 52 per 15, prepaid.
Pens, 816 to 32 5

FRANK DeLOIIG. R3, Three Rivers. Mlch

 

0. BR. Leghorn egos. $1.50 per setting. Pekln
dock, S1 50 for 8. Chine“ nose 40c each.
MRS. CLAUDIA BETTS. Hlllsdalo, Mloh.

“RED Hocxs Eggs from vigorous early
BA maturing stock from heavy
laying strain. $2 per 15. $5 per 45 by prepaid
parcel post. II. C. Kirby. Ill, East Lansmg, Mlch.

 

 

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WYANDOTTE

Your: a Breeder of Silva- Lacod an
30 Wyandottes. Fine lot of young stock at. sgllhl‘t:
and 85 ea. Chroma Becoming. 12.2 Portland. Mich

hlte Wyandottes Dustln' s Straln culled b
, y ex-
wperts for utility, size and color. ' Eggs 15 for

 

 

 

 

EGGS FROM BIG BARRED

ROCKS, BRED
to lay :10 sttfing.
MRS. THOS FOSTER. Cassooolls, Mich” R1

. Barred Rock Eggs for Early Hatching. My Breed-

ers are selected for good markings, vigor and
very heavy lsymg, $2 per 1.5 $10 per 100.
CHAS. H. WRIGHT. Ypsllantl. Mich, Box 108

HATCHISNG EGGS FROM 48. 1%.0 RS7" REDS.
15 $1. 50; 50, S .
PfiMPes J. A. KELLIE. Maybee. Mloh.

 

$2. 00. 50 or more 1019 each, by mail pr id.
I=ARI.I|‘Ia1-I:f01'd,Mlch.epa
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LANGSHAN
BLACK LANGSHAIS‘OF QUALITY
Bred fiot type and color since 1912. Started

from pen heatbd by Black Bob. First i

at International show at Buffalo, Jan. 1333.0 1332‘:
$3. 50 per setting of 15. Winter laying strain.
DR CHAS. W. SIMPSON. Webbervlllo, Mich.

' BABY CHICKS

R d SI l C
CHICKS AND EGGS °s°-‘T"n "“3523

Reds
glymogthb Rocks. lSuperior color Prolific layers.
repel y pares 1:13 and safe do very -
anteed. Illustrated catalog free. 11 gun:

INTERLAKES FARM Box 4. LAWNMD, Mloh.

 

ATCHING EGGS—PLYMOUTH ROCKS (ALL
H varieties) \Vhite \Vynndotte, Anemia and R011—

R ks. Catalog 2c.
gnHERlIDAN POULTRY YARDS. Sheridan. Mich.

C. AND R. C. BROWN LEGHORN E068
s for hatclE1lvng winter layers, $1. 00 for 13.
VA TRYON Jerome. Mlch.

 

TURI:ELYS

FOR
MAMMOTH BRONZEE TOMS. $10
MR8. WALTER DILLMAN. R6. Dowaalac. Mich

 

TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

 

 

 

One oreglstered MM
W, ye"! Old.

One0 re:lstered heifer.
' 3 year-so 01.11
1 registered bull, six month: old.
Will sell cheap if taken soon.
G. M. WEAVER, Fife Lake, Mich.
R. ,F. D. No. 1

 

 

 

 

“EDIS'I'EBED RUERNSEY BULL CALVES. A.
O. aneeatsfi. Choice breedinc.Fe1-mers'pricea
A. M. SMITH. Lake City, Mich

 

OR SALE—FINE REGISTERED PERCHER-
on mare, six years old. black, weight seven-

teen hundred.
E. P. KINIEY
East Lanslng, Mich.

MICHIGAN FARM

breeds and sells good Durocs
O. L. FOSTER, Mgr. Pavlllon, Mlch.

 

 

INCREASE YOUR INCOME
and help your friends by selling them Michigan's
Own Farm Weekly. Liberal commission and all
supplies fr r.oe Wr its The MICHIGAN
BUSINFSS FARMER, Mhy Clemens, Mich.

 

---poultry breeders!

 

 

 

 

 

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Start your advertising NOW, whether
you have anything to soil right now
or not, get your advertising in these

WHERE YOU KNOW IT WILL PAY

Write THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER, Breeders’ Directory,

, _ Mt. Clemens,
for special ram or better still send
copy. We will put it in type and quote

Ryan M 1858. or

 
  
   
   
 
 
   
   
   
  
   
   
    
   
  
   
    
    
  
   
  
  
  
   
   
  
  
  
   
     
   
  
  
   
    
  
  
   
  
  
   
     
   
    
      
  
   
  
 
  
   
  
   

 

 

 

 

  
     
 
     
  
  
     
      


  

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