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 , 0 ONE who 'ls‘not blinded by
' fear, prejudice 'or mere party
'  myopia can be in the smallest

doubt that the farmers of the whole

North American continent have on-
tered politics with an entirely new
and virile force. Conditions in Can-
ada are very like 'our own in respect
-to .the possibilities of the organized
' farmers in politics; and up there the
farmer is the man of the moment.
The government of Ontario, the lead-

‘ ing province, is frankly 8. Farmers'
government. The Farmers’ party is
the one party that the coalition gov-

’ e‘rnment of the Dominion fears. The
western provinces from Lake Super-
ior to the Rockies are entirely
“farm;" and the United Farmers'
movement carries by—elections at
practically every
through the East.
The American farmers, through
the National Board of Farm Organ—
izations, have just drafted a ques-
tionnaire for presidential aspirants
about whose unalloyed authenticity

 
  

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. BE QUESTIONNAIRE submitted by the National Board of Farm
Organizations to presidential aspirants has met with a generally
. favorable response. although some farm leaders and editors dis-
agree as to the wisdom or value of putting the candidates on record.
The questionnaire will have at least one important effect.
the man who is to be the next president that the farmers up on the '
- job, with both eyes open, and will insist that agriculture be given the
recognition that is its due as the nation’s basic industry—Editor.

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there cannot be the smallest doubt.
It was clearly drawn up by farmers
It is no
academic or theoretical platform put
together by phrase-makers who try
to write what they think the farmer
ought to think. It is “racy of the
soil ” '
Theze isn't a word in-it about the
League of Nations or the balance of
pow-sr or “imperialism” or tariff-
making or any of the many lofty
themes on which the farmers have as
many opinions as anybody, with
quite as much real information and

‘sound judgment behind them, but

with which they do not bother when
they sit down to the serious business
of making our already democratic
institutions safe for and fair to our
greatest single industry. The ques-
tions to be presented to the Presi-
dential candidates go straight to the
point. They want to know how
these men stand on things whose
right treatment will be felt daily and
definitely in the life of. the farm.
The first thing they want to do is
to cut down the cost of marketing
farm produce. This is, seen right-

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Theidster, Too, Has All:

the Noted Essex (Qualities

omy—Utility.

[I Speed—Power—Endurance—Econ-
It is an Ideal Car

for Business as Well as Pleasure

The wide uses for 'Which the Essex
Readster is adapted in farming activi-
ties are instantly apparent.

Besides fast, comfortable communi- _

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SEX.

Economy, durability and train-like
regularity are the standards set by Es-
These things have been shown in
the hands of more than 30,000 owners.

It was more dramatically proved on

   

   
   
   
 
  

cation with the city, it has many valu-
able utilities. The carrying arrange-
ments in the rear deck provide space
for large crates, cases, boxes, etc. But
no evidence of them is revealed when
the Roadster is used as a pleasure car.
Every line is smart, trim and graceful.
It takes but a moment to make the
change. ‘

' A World Endurance Record
Proves ' Essex Dependability,

A large class of Essex buyers are

farmers. They choose it for utility and
dependable transportation. It becomes,
in fact, a part of their business system.
It must be on the job,‘ keep all engage-
. ments on time, and be as responsible as
an engineer’s Watch. .
These same qualities, with its rare
good looks, make the roadster unsur-
passed as a smart car for pleasure.

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Essex Motors, D
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' territory,

emit, Michng 1': ,-

the Cincinnati speedway when an Es-
sex stock chassis set the world’s long
distance endurance record of 3,037
miles in ‘50 hours. The same car, in
three separate tests traveled 5,870 miles
at an average speed above a mile a min-
ute. Another stock Essex set the
world ’s 24-hour road mark. of 1,061
miles over snow-covered Iowa roads.
Its endurance and riding ease make
it ideal‘for those who must cover wide
quickly and. frequently.
Though not 1arge,-the Essex is commo,
dious.’ There is plenty of ream for
passengers, and its special arrange

ments for carrying even“ bulky, heavy :
loads make it an unusual convenience

in farm service: , , '
Come see the  Roadster. Ride
in it. Try its pacemwmether you want

it for business or pleasure, you will ap-,

preciate why Essex in its first year set
a new world’s sales record. '

 

 

 

 

ly, the déminant, paramount and '
most immediately pressing question
of the day, for both the farmer and
the consumer. Every city man who
goes far enough into the country. to
meet the real farmer knows that
there is a. great 3qu that! between
the price which, the producer of the
fruits of agriculture. gets for his
finished product, after he has labor..-
ed the summer through in bringing
it to perfection, and the price which
the aforesaid city man must pay for
muca less attractive specimens of
the aforesaid “fruits” as they are de-
livered at his kitchen door. A ben-
evolent despot who should try sin-
cerely’and ruthlessly to reduce "the
high cost of living" would ,. fling
away so ineffective an implement as
a pruning knife, and, seizing a doub~',
le headed axe, would slash right and
left into the entanglement of middle-
mren’s charges and profits precisely at
this point.

That is exactly wnere the farmers’
questionnaire strikes first. It de-
mands “such direct dealing between
producer and consumer as will so-
cure to the farmers a fair share of
the wealth they create, reduce the
cost of living to the consumer" and
wipe out the profiteer. The farmers
see clearly that the entire elimina-
tion of the intermediary is impossi-
ble in our ramifled modern civilisa-
tion. There is a legitimate seryice to
be performed in carrying the fruits
of the farm to the city and there sell-
ing them. ‘But, after all, that ser-
vice is only supplementary and a 00119
venience. It should not get an '
thing like the lion’s share of o
profits, as it so often does. It should
be rigidly debarred by law from
taking from these “fruits” which
only pass through its hands the win-
nings of speculation, the levies of
monopoly, the plain stealings of un-
productive and often destructive
manipulation. The two big men
/the transaction are the producer (the
farmer) and the consumer. The “dc-
liveryxcart" activities between them
should be more than a penny accom-

modation. ’

They want full right to ’ buy
and sell co—operatlvely. ‘They are
dead against that Old World incu-
bus. “the great and growing evils of
farm tenancy.” They do not pro:
pose to permit the gradual creation
of a tenant peasantry in America;
and they are splendidly right. Noth-
ing'could more quickly or completely ‘
cripple our magnlflclent rural free-
dom, prosperity and upstanding
manhood.

They want a Secretary of Agricul-
ture "who knows actual farm con»-
dltlons." This does not seem an un-
reasonable request—not to anybody
but a party placeman who thinks that
all government offices are kept up for
the sole benefit of the politicians,
They want this properly educated
Secretary of Agriculture to use his
departmental funds and staff to study
farm production costs at home and
abroad and to "p iblish ‘the uncen-
sored facts" for the benefit of the
American farmers whom he is sup-
posed to serve. ‘*

They want the next President to
realize that private ownership of
railways is still and always will be on
triai.--~ If it fails to make good, then

. they want the question raised again
in two years. Some people may not
quite relish this; but this is exactly
what the “embattled mariners" are
going to demand. They do nu
make the mistake . of committing
themselves to the 'proven folly of
"public ownership." They only say
that the railways must be well run,
no matter who does it. The farmers
want the war debt paid by those
,“bost able to pay it.” Undoubtedly
they want the farm to be put into
that class if they are not there sl-
rudr. ' They want forest consent-r
tion. So do we. This article would
in longer. if we had it in themes.

‘ and so now had more print papOi‘..

They want government control a! _
all great interstate combinations.- If,
capital. They want free speech and
afzrefipriss. ‘_"  .5
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' and are in sympathy with it, and will

I ’manager- of the St. Louis Sugar Com-
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HE MOST significant development of the

I sugar beet controversy was the adoption of

a resolution by the Saginaw beet growers

not to grow any beets for 1920. 'Ibzventy-seven Io-

cals‘ participated in this action at a meeting at

Saginaw last Saturday afternoon. The decision

was unanimous, and virtually‘means that no beets

will be grown in Saginaw county this year. The

Saginaw groiversalso expressed themselves as

ready to organize a farmer-controlled sugar beet
company.

Last Chance for Manufacturers

C. E. Ackerman, manager of the Sugar Beet
Growers’ Ass’n, had a conference with W. H. Wal-
lace, manager of the Michigan Sugar Company,
last saturday and explained to. him in detail the
scope of the beet growers’ organization and the
estimated number of acres that had been can-
celled. It is the general belief among the grow-
ers that the manufacturers are not fully aware
of the strength of their organization else they
would have long ago recognized the futility of
ignoring it. The manufacturers have been ac-
customed to dealing with the farmers in a certain
way, and they stubbornly refuse to admit that
there is any other way. When once convinced,
however, that they must treat with the growers’
accredited representatives or close their factories
they will be glad to discard the old methods and
adopt the new. But just as long as they 'think
there is a remote chance of securing [their acre-
age from individual farmers they will'pay no at-
tention to the organized farmers. It is the pur-
pose of Manager Ackerman to impress upon the
manufacturers at once the strength of the organ-
isation. and if they refuse to recognize the cold
facts, the farmers will abandon their fight this
year and grow some other crop. It is self—evident
that the farmers ‘can better afford to grow beans
or corn than the manufacturers to close their
factories. _ "

It was upon the suggestion of Mr. Wallace,

Twenty-Seven Locals Una

who denies being spokesman for the manufactur- I

ers, that Mr. Ackerman addressed a letter this
week to all sugar manufacturers in the state set—
ting forth a summary of the situation and a plain
statement of facts. This will positively be the
manufacturers‘ last chance to meet with the grow—
ers in conference over the 1920 crop.

Growers Stand Firm

It is quite apparent that the manufacturers have
been deceived as to the temper of the growers
and the strength of their organization. We may
conclude from the attitude of the manufacturers
that they have believed all along that as soon as
spring came the farmers» would weaken and ask
for their contracts back. According to the al-
manac spring has been with us for several weeks,
but there has been no sign of weakening on the
part of the farmers. This naturally puzzles the
manufacturers and puts them in a position where
they will have to make a quick decision. It ought
to be plain to anyone that the testing time has
only just arrived. It was natural that the manu—
facturers should refuse a conference so long as
there was no particular advantage to them in call—
ing one, and it has only been the past week that
the manufacturers have realized the
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“Plant Beans,” Says Prof. Cox

N‘ SPITE of, the competition of Japanese
white beans and a large hold-over in the
American crop, beans are still a good

crop for the better Michigan growers, de-

clares Prof. J. F. 061:, head of the farm

crops department at M. A. 0. It is reported

ll on good authority that the Japanese acre-
age has not been expanded during the past
year, owing to the fear that an effective
tariff might be placed on beans by the Unit-
ed States Government.

“The Japanese have not competed heav-
ily with Red Kidney beans," says Professor
Cox. “These are in great demand, and it
would appear that a considerably large acre-

V age of Red Kidneys could be planted on the
better soils of Michigan. As for White beans,

Michigan's product is so well known for

quality that it can stand very strong com-

petition.

“All indications are that Michigan bean
gorwcrs will find a better market next win-
ter, (particularly late in the winter,) for
Michigan grown beans than the pessimistic
forecast of the past fall and Winter indi-
cated.” ' '

 

 

 

 

 

 

wishes of the State Association. He. moveover,
impressed upon the mind of the sugar represent-
ative that the farmers’ would not grow beets un—
der the old contract and were ready to plant oth-
er crops if they did not get a conference and a
fair price for their beets.

 

 

I $1 OO‘Reward

HE MCHIGAN Business Farmer will pay

$100 reward for the arrest and conviction of

any‘ person or persons found guilty of wilfully
destroying or injuring the property of any Mich-
igan beet sugar company- providing such person
or persons are members of or inspired by members
of the Michigan Sugar Beet Growers’ Ass’n.-—-
Forrest Lord, Editor.

(Note: The above announcement was prompted
by the burning of some beet helpers' shanties in the
Thumb, the deed being laid to the door of the boot
growers. by the sugar manufacturers. Manager Ack-
erman says: “We want it distinctly understood that
our association does not countenance any such tactics
and we do not believe that a member of our associa-
tion would do such a thing.” The Business Farmer

'hus explicit faith in the beat growers’ respect for the

property of Others and announces this reward as an
evidence of that faith.)

 

 

A Reminder for 'Those Who Have Signed

It is, of course, to be expected that some farm-
ers will grow beets under the old contract. Why
they will do so when the contract is so one-sided
and when nine~tenths of their brother farmers
are sta; dirng unitedly for the sake of a principle
and a fair price, it is not for us to determine. But

a” ,inaw Farmers “Vote to Abandon Sugar Beets 7
' nimously Decide-to Plant Some Other Crop for 14920 ' '

there are some things, Manager Ackerman re-
minds us, which these farmers should bear in
mind. Farmers today have a community interest. .
Each is more or less dependent upon the other.
For instance, Farmer Smith must rely upon the 
good right arm of Farmer Jones to help with the , If}
threshing, and Farmer Doe must call in Farmer 
Brown when the silo is to be filled. Now if Farm-
er Smith and Farmer Doe sign beet contracts to
the injury Of Farmer Jones and Brown who are
members of the Beet Growers’
standing out for a. fair price, what are Jones and
Brown “going to say when Smith and Doc come
around at threshing and silo-filling time?
leave the answer to the reader.

But a more important point to be borne in
mind by those who have signed contracts is wheth-
er the manufacturers will accept the beets grown
under the contract if it is not to their advantage
If the manufacturers do not secure the
acreage usually planted by the farmers who are'
members of the Beet Growers Ass’n, their acreage
will run far short of what is necessary for an av- I 
erage season’s run.
one, the amount of beets would scarcely be enough
to warrant the factories operating and every farm-
er should consider what the manufacturers would
do in this case.
compunction in cancelling contracts,
shown by the recent action of the Owosso Sugar
Company in returning contracts to 100 beet grow-
ers of Shiawassee county as late.as April 20th,
after the company had discovered that it was not
to its advantage to enforce the contracts. ((8%
story of this action on page 6.)

to do so.

The sugar manufacturers have . .
claimed that they do not profit from the high cost , . ‘7.
They allege that the bulk of their sugar‘ ‘ T
is sold during the months for’ which the price to .
the farmer is determined,
December and January.)
Mr. R. R. Cook, of Chesaning,
some light upon this subject and we'are glad to
publish his letter herewith:

“Editor Business Farmer: I
sugar company does not own a. pound of sugar, and g’
Mr. Symons, at Saginaw merchant, says he heard that ‘ ;.
the speculators had got all the Sugar. 

"Now it may be that the sugar company has put
over a trick like.the Union Pacific R. R. did,
that road was built the government gave the R. R.
Co. each alternate section of land in
miles wide on both sides of the R. R. But Congress
in order to prevent holding the
high prices, that if it was not sold before a. certain
date the land should revert to the government, so be-
fore that date arrived the R. R. Co. organized among
themselves what they called a. national land company
and transferred the land to that company and so con-
tinued to hold the land for higher prices.

Now it may be the sugar company transferred
sugar to speculators the speculators being a part, of ~.
the companies, so if government agents should come v.
to investigate they could say nothing doing, sugar is 
all gone, we don’t own a pound. .'

I once heard of an old lady who thought the hired
man was eating too much butter so she transferred
the butter dish from the table to her lap and exclaim-
ed ‘the butter is all gone.’

“I don’t think the sugar company is so green as to
let speculators take out of their hands the chance for
such immense profits." .

of sugar.

reader,

stipulated

 

With possibly one exception no
sugar company concedes that it has
all the acreage that it needs. As a
matter of fact some very strenuous
efforts are being madekat this mo- .
ment to get sufficient contracts to in- A .
sure a season’s run. It is reported " .9 -’
that certain conipanies are offering '
farmers anywhere from $10 to $100
to accept a contract and get a num-_
ber of their neighbors to do so. Coun-
ties’in which the companies have
never before solicited acreage are be—
ing canzassed, although fortunately

"*with littlesuccess as the farmers of
those counties have watched the pro—
gress of the sugar beet growers’ fight

notgrow beets to the detriment of
the cprinclple involvedgor the inter—
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the farmer received 6c. The Michi- _
gan Beet Growers’ Ass’n contends
that this is not a fair division of the
consumer’s dollar, and claims that
a less price than that which the grow-
ers now ask will mean a loss to many .’
producers while the manufacturers 1
are reaping the largest profits in the  r ,
history of the industry. The sugar
situation and the probabiliy of high-
er prices is graphically described in
a recent issue of “Facts About Sud
gar," as follows: /
"Never within the memory of the
present generation of sugar traders]
has there been such .a scramble for
refined sugar as was the case during ,
the past week. Demand has become
desperate appeal, with price as '
ondary consideration among buy
“Reports of the shortage in 7
Cuban crop, and of the rapid rise
prices~lntlhe raw markethaves ' ‘

      
         
         
     
   
   
    
 
    
    
   
   
   
 
 
  
  
  
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 

 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 
 
 
  
  
  

 
    

  


 

 

  
  
 
  
 
  
  
   
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
 
   
 
  
  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  

   
  

_ 1‘ HE SCENE of our story is laid in
 -the Montfort school, Warren
-township, Macomb county, Mich-
' igan.
 The characters are Ray Turner,
2' state leader of Boys’ and Girls’ Club
‘ Work; W. J. Murphy, county agri-
cultural agent; a few visitors; and
a roomful of bright-eyed boys and
xgirls and their teachers.

The occasion is the presentation
of the State Bankers’ Association
corn cup to the winner of the 1919
championship in the corn growing
contest conducted annually by the
Boys’ and Girls’ Club department at
the M. A. C. '

This explains why among the fifty
or more boys and girls there was one
whose eyes shown a little brighter
and whose face wore a look of anx-
ious anticipation. It is not to be
wondered at that he became a little
restless while the Club Leader told
of what the boys’ and girls’ club
work was accomplishing, how the
work had been the means of giving
the boys and girls of the country a
new interest in school; and of the
records that the girls in other schools
had made in their canning clubs and
the boys in their corn clubs and of
all the other activities that come
within the scope of this most practi-
cal department of the college.

 

 

A not very good photograpn of a very good
corn grower. Raymond Buckman, winner of
state championship contest.

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ceives
But finally the ~ '
talk was over,
and Club Leader
Turner lifted to.

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cup {of bra s 5.
copper and 'ebo-
ny,’ wit h t h e
names of t h e
champion co r n
growers beauti—
fully engrave d
upon its side.
The last name

was that of Ray-
mond Buckman,
winner of the - »
1919 championship, student at the
Montfort school. And as Mr. Turn-
er made his little speech of presen-
tation and congratulated Raymond
on his achievement, a smile of satis-
faction swept over the entire school.

out) given by. State

It was an honor of which every boy .

and girl of the Montfort school was
proud.

Raymond Buckman is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Buckman, who
own a thirty acre farm, within a
stone’s throw of the Montfort school.
Raymond is 12 years old, and was
one of five boys of the Monfort
school who persisted throughout the
summer of 1919, harvested their
crop, and exhibited it in the local
contest. Raymond’s corn took first
honors in the school, first honors in
the country corn show and first hon-
ors at the state corn show.

The soil upon which the corn was
grown is a clay loam. In telling of
his work, Raymond says: “The work
was easy and I enjoyed it. It made
my pocket-book fat. I followed my
father’s advice on nearly everything.
The variety I used was Pickett’s Yel-
low Dent. It shelled out better than
any of the varieties grown around
here. I tested my corn before plant-
ing and my crop showed that it paid
to do so.” .

Raymond raised one hundred and
sixteen bushels of corn on his acre
of ground and the entire cost was
only sixteen dollars and thirty-five
cents. The cost included his own
time, fitting of ground, planting, cul—
tivating, gathering, rent of land,
commercial fertilizer, barnyard ma-
nure, seed corn and also the market—
ing of his seed corn. ‘

After taking out all expenses Ray-
mond had one hundred and seventy-
five dollars and twenty-five cents
clear profit. .

After sorting and testing his corn

caper: Mia. for Bar A

         
      
        
      
        
        
    
      
   
     
 
  
 
   
 
  
  
   
 
  
   
  
    
  
  
   
  
   
 
 
   
 
    
 
  
 
 
 
 
    
 

    

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winner of State Corn Growing Contact.

  

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r - r . ._ he has kept} ten
bushels for. seed
and, the boys. in

corn to plant this
year of Raymond

corn on the cob
is from ten to
twelve “inc hes
long.

“This year,”
he said, "I am
going to be more
I ca -r e f u l and
make many improvements.”

In addition to the cup, Raymond
wins. other honors, the mast prized
perhaps being a scholarship at the
M. A. 0.; his expenses to attend the
Boys’ and Girls’ club week at the M.
A. C‘., on June 3rd; and enough corn
to plant an acre and a half—bushel
of pedigreed oats from the Michigan
Crop Improvement Ass’n.

Corn Club for 1920

Raymond's success has encourag—
ed other boys of the Montfort school
to take up the work this year. and
following the presentation of the
cup, the boys organized their club
for 1919, in a real business-like
fashion. Nominations were
and seconded, motion were present-

Bankers' Association to

ed and voted upon exactly in the-

same manner as their fathers used
to vote at town m'eeting.~ There.
were two candidates for'each office,
but after the balloting was over it

was found that the following receiv—7

ed the majority’of votes and were
declared elected: , ‘
President, Quentin 'Friedhoff; ;' vice
president, Raymond Buckman; sec-
retary, Paul Schoenherr.
Resolutions were adopted to hold
meetings of the club regularly each
Friday night at the school house.
The Montfort school club will
have ten to fifteen active members
this year, and even the smallest con-
testant eagerly. proclaimed that he
could plow the land and care for the
crop. ‘
Girls' Canning Club , V
The girls of Montfort school are
not going to let the boys have all
the honor so they have decided to
organize a canning club. Members
of a canning club are required ‘to
can at least thirty cans of fruits,
vegetables and greens, but many of

cre of ~Comcc'rbibnzis  '

and most of this.

made '

  

them can a.gi“eat?dee; ,
Turner told thegirls iii-the achieve-

ments ‘ of’ an Osceoia .countyfi  girl'}

ithat corn "club ,.,Who canned more than a thousand '
this: year are quarts andsold them to local hotels.
think-ing of pur- - This young miss held the State Can-
schasing’ their ‘hing champion for the“ state. She

hunted greens, canned them and sold

.them to these local hotels for four

years to pay her way through High
School. This girl taught school
in her home county last year and

She organized a canning club in her -

school. One of her girls canned
0 or twelve hundred quarts. ' Mr.

rner says “I 'beiieve this girl is
going to bring the National Canning
championship to Michigan.” He
told of other girls 17th hadexceed-
ed the required number of cans sev-
eral times over ,and urged the girls
not to be satisfied with canning only'
the smallest number required. The
girls of the Montfort schoolact as
if they were going to take up the
work in earnest and you need not
be surprised if the canning champion-
ship for 1920 comes to Montfort
school, Macomb County.

 

 

Practical Education

HEN THE editor of the Bus-
iniess Farmer attended the
country school the only thing
that he remembers in the nature
pi a "club" was the hickory stick
that rested in the corner when it
wasn’t busy. “There's a reason”
why he remembers it so vividly.
Reading and 'riting and ’rithmetio
were dry subjects, and perhaps it
isn’t to be wondered at that the
boys and girls amused themselves
by making “faces” at the teacher
or throwing paper-wads or playing
“hooky” in the woods when the
nuts were falling. Honestly, there
wasn’t very much about the old
disitriet echo!!! to make anyone
really ENJOY school life. But
times have changed immeasure-
ably. I was present at the Mont-
fort school when Club Leader Tur-
ner presented the corn cup to Ray-
mond Buckman, and I could just
feel the pride that must have wel-
led up in that boy’s heart on g?
ceiving so splendid a tribute to h a
skill and perseverance. I couldn’t
help enyying him and wishing that
the boys and girls of my time had
2 had corn clubs and such things for
giving them a. real heart-interest
in their school work I am thank-
ful that our educatilrs are supply-
ing this need at the present time
through the boys and girls club
departments of the agrldulturul
college, and I cannot urge too
strongly upon the fathers and
mothers to encourage their child-
ren to take up this work and assist
them in every way possible to se-
cure the best runner-(Editor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Million Dollars in Exéess Profits Yet Due Growers of 1918 Wool Clip

' Department of Agriculture Announces Progress is Being Made in Auditing Accounts and Settlement Will be Made

HE DEPARTMENT of Agricul-

ture announced the results of a

hearing in Washington, called by
the Secretary of Agriculture, on mat-
ters pertaining to the valuation and
handling of the 1918 wool clip. The
hearing was granted in response,
primarily, to numerous requests by
Texas wool growers but it develop—
ed into a consideration both of ter-
ritory wool and fleece wool. Terri-
tory wool is‘produced west of the
Missouri River and the eastern boun-
ary of Texas and practically all of it
in 1918 was shipped on a consign-

ment basis to government distribut— ‘

Fleece wool, produced

ing centers.
largely pur—'

east of that line, was

chased in small lots through a large;
The

number of country dealers.
points at issue in the heafingkgiere-
fore, were different
classes of wool.

The facts developed showed. that“

“nearly all the-questions at issue'so

d can be handled only “byfithejWar
£06partm’ent and “ arrangements are
eing made for adjudication by the
proper authorities in that’depar-tj
ment. The,,‘complaint of the Texas
growers, primarily. is that too large
deductions. for dirt and other impuri-

f'ties were Inadein valuing Texas wool
"and that, therefore, 'the’ growers re; -

ved ‘too little for their. wool. ,r

for _ the “two.

far, as the Texas growers are concern-,

country dealers to

. ...who op 1 “,Th
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Fnounced that “progress is being
the 1918 wool clip."

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OR THE “steenth” time the Department of Agriculture has an-

The amount to be collected and distributed
back to the growers is estimated at one» million dollars.
two years the Department has been engaged in the task of securing and
We can appreciate the enormous amount
of work connected with this job: but it does seem as if ample time
has elapsed in which to make a settlement.
takén hold of the reins of the department, we rather expect a speedy
completion of this work, so Mr. Wool Grower, be prepared for the
“ shock if some day you receive a check on the II. S. treasury for the
amount still due you on your.wool.—Editor.

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made in collecting excess profits on

For nearly

Since E. T. Meredith has

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diction of the Department of Agri-
culture, the, wool division of the War
Industries Board having been‘trans—
ferred to the Bureau‘of Markets of
the Department of AgriCulture by ex-'

‘ecutive order, December 31, 1918.

Reports Collecting of' Excess Profits

The Bureau of Markets made a re-
port, covering“ the period since the
transfer. showing the” work of secur-
ing sworn reports, auditing them and ,
collecting excess profits which will be
returned to , the growers._‘ It " was
shown that, in addition to the w3,6.00
whom.’ permits
Were issued by *the War Industries
Board, the .Bureau of Markets has.
discovered shoutisoo country "dealers

   

 

  

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parts will be secured from practically
all of these unlicensed dealers.

The bureau has secured reports

from all of the large central dealers
and has" nearly completed its, audits.
’Mang of these large dealers, however,
have been holding excess profits
amounting to about $533.000 pend-
,ing decision of the Treasury Depart-
ment as to whether or not income

“tax will be collected on these sums.

The Commissioner‘of Internal Rev-
enue ruled, on April? 9, that payment
"of income tax onexcess profits on

1918'_woo1. will not'be~ insisted on?

Where «payment‘is made to the Eu-

   

,Industries Board; Lewis

jrfeau jot Market's” according to  the, ;
regrulations governing the 1911-: clip "  '-

ports submitted by the dealers them-
selves, so the Bureau of Markets has
not audited the books of the dealers.

Government Officials at Conference

In addition to the Secretary of Ag-
riculture, officials of the Bureau of
Markets and representatives of the
wool growers, there were in attend—
ance at the hearing Bernard M. Ba—
ruch, former‘chairman of the War

former chief of the wool section;
Judge Edwin B. Parker, a former
member of the board; Charles J.
Nichols, formerly wool administrator
for the War Department; represen-
tatives of the Quartermaster Gener-
al’s office; and a number of members
of Congress. , All of these exhibited
the keenest interestiu ‘the collection
of excess wool-'profitsand, pledged
full support to ‘the Department of

: Agriculture in enforcing the regula-
, tions. g
ed the departmentto advise (them :as '

Members A bfco‘ngress request-

to; any further legislationatbat...may
be necessary to accomplish. this and.
Secretary ,Meredi-th spoke. the-tamer-
mination‘ of the Department ’oqung‘ri-
culture to. press the work- of sense:-

   
 
  
  
 
 

     
  
 
 
   

     
   

  

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' h'?%9ޢ..9tiths;,t1n1ss.,ior _ has the

flare assigns fast a; toss. “ass . at

the curren‘tzot‘modern co-oper'ationr,
fHas'the church. reached anything

 “of-its, full egectlveness? '

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 a :11; js >iseifl-omj-indped 1th?!" .§hui‘0h

' . sues-saline 'fihcse‘nnésiicfis rants,-

It‘ is “still more seldom‘ that "they

 take any action which will Indicate

to the laity that they believe, that

' serious faults have grown up in the

church program. ‘ » .
_ The time has come, however,
when the church faces its greatest
task. The war hastau'ght the na-
tion to do big things in a ‘big way.
And the leaders of the. I
Church-ems Protestant evangelical
churches—hays begun a systematic
study of what has been their great-

, test fault and how they may remedy

it. 'They have come to the Conclu—
sion that the greatest fault is the
lack- of co-operation.

Farmers have, had this "doctrine
preached at them for years. Now
that truth has- reached the‘ church
itself. ‘

This ‘is‘ the, true meaning of the
Interchurch W‘orld‘ Movement, the
largest‘and most daring church pro—
gram which has ever been undertak-
en. It is, if you please, something
of a League of Nations idea as ap:
plying to the evangelical world.

The Interchurch World Movement
does not propose a union of churches.

~ There is no ONE BIG CHURCH idea

in it. -.
It does propose that the thirty
Protestant evangelical ‘churches

which are co-operating in it shall
enter into a program of greater co-
operation, with a full knowledge and
purpose that this degree of co—opera-
tion/and mutual understanding shall
constantly > increase. ‘

I It is like the League of Nations in
another way.in that.ther-e is no co-
ercion at the head of it. It is pro-
posed that the national organization
of the thirty participating churches
shall appoint members of a national
interdenominational board. This
board. meeting annually‘or more of-
ten, will survey the whole field of
Christian effort and endeavor to or-
ganize it on an orderly basis.

Suppose that in a certain county
in Michigan there are far too few
rural churches. Supposeflthat inthe‘
next county, due possibly to a shift-
ing of population, there are a great
number of small.. struggling church-
es, none of which are highly effective.

There are such cases in Michigan
—many such cases. One of the lead-
ing Methodist authorities in Michi-
gan said recently that he knew of a
little neighborhood which had three

,  HAT; ms sees-gins" outstanding ,
 . ‘ characteristics-of the Protestant

modern / ,

a

is the opinion .of the
, ‘men engaged in the
movement the t t h e

    
 

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dertak‘e Great; Coéoperative Movement to Increase

' 1;, ‘VChurch’s Value to Community ,

'  ~ ~' -‘ , .. By DRI‘EARLNR. NORTH
'Fteld Secretary of the Interchurch World Movement.

 

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FOREIGN MEION nuns
OF THE W0

'oug: REA$ON war THE INh‘ERCHuncn woan MOVEMENT"0ALLS FOR 836.771.3372 This YEAR.

Protestant Evangelical churches.
They are of different denominations,
but, as he said, “there is not enough
diflerence in their fundamental faith
to make a good strong cup of tea.”
He added that it would not worry
him at all if the three churches
should burn down.

Where some districts are plainly
over-churched and neighboring dis-
tricts are plainly under-
churched the Inter-
church , World Mov e-~
ment proposes to point
out all the facts to the
denominations affected.
Then these general
church bodies may do
with the facts as they.
please. But inasmuch
as there is much more
church work to be done
than the presentdenom-
inations can handle, it

churches in most cases
certainly will follow the
facts and will choose to
move into new fields
rather than continue in
those which are already
overburdened with com-
petition.

There is a still greater opportunity
in the foreign mission activities.
Church workers and church leaders
have known for years that certain
mission districts of the world are
not cared for at all, and that certain
other districts, generally regarded as
more promising fields, have a consid-
erable number of competitive, if not
conflicting, mission facilities. It is
said that many Orientals are unable
to grasp the idea that some Christi-
ans may be Presbyterian, some Meth-
odist, some Congregation-

 

», BY THE DAY
meant: per day for urine

'  5_ cents per day for ‘phone call
I 3.1 cents per day for the Church
‘BY THE WEEK
$1.59 per week for room tent ' ‘

, “mumweek fetice ore-mandaqu
.10 cents week for moving pictures I
.189 «super week for the Church _
r I 1 BY um Mom ‘

“3° per month for dew ‘ ‘
 bet month-fur cobweb,
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l. alists, and yet all of one
v religious faith.
‘ But it is not alone bus-
I iness efficiency and a gen-
’ i; e‘ral Ico-operative
; r-that animates the Inter-
: church world.
5 Bringing the church to
, an orderly method of
conducting its great cru—
I sade is indeed consider-
I able of- a task, but the
3 Interchurch World Move-
; ment proposes something
I in addition.
I There is for instance
the educational program.
We should find. upon ex-
, amination that 'all of our
7 ministers, and practical-
I 1y all of our teachers and
‘social workers. in fact a
great proportion of men
and women in every sac-
rificial occupation,
A ,, the graduates or products
; of the so-called denom-
‘ '. inational colleges. The
 Christian colleges of Am-
erica are in a sorry finan—
Icial plight. If they are
not given aid they will

 
   
 

  
 

  

   
 

 
    

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DR. S. EARL TAYLOR
General Secretary of the In-
terchurch World Movement
/ ment

Spirit ‘

.are‘

' ~ 3 Pbe unable much longer to , "tian spirit in, allAmerica.
in a; standard , ‘of. . _
" ‘ ' ll: ‘  ‘paign willbea success.

The great state-supported colleges
are able constantly to obtain larger
appropriations. The Interchurch
World Movement realizes that unless.
the most determined steps are taken
the Christian schools may be forced
to suspend and the very fountain
head of the supply of the Christian
workers will dry up.

The Interchurch World Movement
proposes moreover to
conduct an active cam-

paign, which it knows
as its Life Enlistment
Campaign, to‘ induce

young men and women
to enter the ministry
and similar professions.
It seems that the stream
has turned definitely
against these occupa-
tions, and a determined
campaign must be wag-
ed to correct it.

All told, the thirty
denominations which
are co-operating in the
Interchurch World

Movement are asking
from members and the
general public 0 v e r

$336,777,572. It should
be understood that the
Interchur c h W o r 1d
itself asks for
nothing. It neither receives money
nor spends it. The third of a billion
which it will collect is simply the to-
tal sum which the thirty denomina-
tion in it would have asked separ—
ately. After the work of collection,
the Interchurch World Movement
will turn all of this money over to
the denominations.

A third of a million may see large,
but not only is it the total askings
for all of the denominations involved,
but it compares as follows with some
of the luxury spendings

   

Let us quote one example.

In Los Angeles a few yearsago ,

there, was a congregation which calls
ed itself “The Church of God-."l It
it was only a very small church at
best. ,
But, as is often the case in such

churches, a quarrel developed and a‘

 

considerable proportion of the mem- ‘

bership withdrew. They formed the
“True Church of God.” I

In due course of time another dis-
pute arose and a portion of the
members of The True Church of
God withdrew and formed The Only
True Church of God.

This spirit of division must cease.
The Allies won the war when they
began to co-operate under one gen-
eral head. Each army maintained
its nationality, and each marched un-
der its own leaders, and under its
own banner, but the general co-op-
eration was what finally turned the
day.

The church has learned that les-
son from the war. '

* * *

“With but few scattered excep-

tions. says the Literary Digest, thel

International World Movement is
warmly indorsed by the religious
press,and the secular papers regard
its.'program with hopeful eye. The
Central Christian Advocate (Metho-
dist) proclaims the movement as ‘a
normal development, pure and sim-
ple; it is a perfectly hormonious sym-
bol of this age.’ In an address before
a representative body of" business
men participating in the campaign,
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., vice—chair-
man of the General Committee, de-
clared that ‘the time has come for
Christian men and women in the
church to cease fighting among them-
selves and jointly fight against sin
and evil,’ and that there must be es-
tablished a ‘broth-erhood of men and
nations, based upon the Fatherhood
of God.’ Characteristic of the gener-‘
al attitude of the secular press to-»
ward the movement, the New York
Evening World, referring to the fear
on the part of some that the joint
effort of the churches may result in
denominational suicide, remarks: ‘It
is too much to hope that the Inter-
church Movement will abolish denom—
inationalism immediately. There does
seem to be evidence that it is weak—
ening denominational prejudice, pav—
ing the way for a combination“ of
spiritual forces in co-operation rath-
er than in rivalry.’ The Rochester
(N. Y.) Post Express says the move-
ment’ makes the impression that it
is a carefully thought—out, well-plan-

ned ,and business-like effort to unify

and redeploy the force of Protest-
antism for the task of Christianiz-
ing civilization.” ’

 

of the American people:
Confectionery, $365,-
000 annually.
Moving pictures, $400,—
000,000 annually.

J ewelry. $800,000,000 FIFTH CLAss;I::J=L:ss THANSIOOO-AVERAGI3543
annually_  “ E=SIOOO TO '999" u 
~ 4:5:2000 n 2999- u 232
TObaCCO’ $1,000,000? secouo n 3000 u 3999: ~ 3215
000 annually. FIRST « -I::3=4ooo OR ABOVE- - » 5055.
Automobiles, $1,500,, AVERAGE OF cusses 5 a 4 -UNDER 3200045 907
u or

000,000 annually.

The trouble with the
church has been not that
it has asked too much,
but that it has not asked
enough. It has seemed
to many men that an
activity which needed so
little really could not
amount to much.

The financial part of
the Interchurch World
Movement will soon be
ended. But its real work
will, not. That work is
met the obtaining of large
sums of money but rath-
er the development of a
sentiment of unity among

'all Christian workers. 1* "‘2 :1 _. ~ ,, 3_mlufl *  “ '
What is sought is a great- “.2 ,5, .. u » 9a z-surposr - 3.1
er evangelistic and Chris- [in Ice " ‘ “ r“ , “ "m

That attained, the, cam-

   
  

 

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ARE PREACHERS OVERPAID ?
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_, ,  “result I that consumers. and 
fillers, as well ' as manufacturers and
f jobber-s, are clamoring in the primary~
 i‘markets (for sugar in any quantity
linden any terms. » o ' ..
“One large refinery reports receiv-
ing scores of letters from stockhold-
ers in the company urging. it to sell
them one or more barrels of sugar.
The company consistently refused to
sell to individuals, much to the indig-
nation of some of the applicants.
Every large refinery and distributing

company reports similar experiences. '

“Until the public lets up in its de-
mands prices are not going to be any
better.” said an ofiicial of a leading
refining company. “If we were to
let our stockholders have the bar-
rels of sugar they are askingfor they
would not use it, but would store it
aWay and go out and try to buy sugar
elsewhere and the result would mere-
=ly aggravate the situation.”

“The rise in prices does not seem
to have stemmed the tide of demand
in the slightest degree and many
close observers express the opinion
that much higher levels will have to
be attained before consumption can
be abated with the present standard
of wages and the present scale of
general expenditure. .

“Toll granulated sugar was sold in
the middle of the week at 25 cents
and over, ex refinery. Bids so! 28
cents for shipments in cars were not
uncommon, but could not be accept-
edowing to the traflic situation.

, “The demand became so desperate
finally that buyers were offering 25
cents for refined sugar, agreeing to


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teem-,3 their 50an  {trucks 

pennies, tai- distant. transcendent!
refineries in New York.

, gufThe-celll for sugar was not 
finedt-o the east by any-means, but

covered the whole country. "Tele-
grains from Chicago and, other points
in Central states territory offered two

, or three cents premium 'over New

York quoted prices. Brokers in New
York were flooded with inquiries
from firms with whom they had not
previously done business and who
apparently had given up hope at ob-
taining sugar through their accus-‘
tomed channels. During the course

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received ‘by Fundraiser:  .

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vtacturers asking to be put in touch
~~ with ~1’b1‘0k31‘8. who. could..:quote prices

to them. ~ g  _ ‘
' ~ “Refined sugar was not on the mar-k;
ket more than an hour on the , av-
erage before it was  and prio-
on were «constantly rising. So rap-
id was the advance . brokers

, were unable to quote prices’to' their
- customers. but were obliged to calf

for open orders, prices changing so
quickly that. in many instances an
advance was noted or a sale made

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in. Wallace claims that the‘_'be'et
growers are Violating 'their moral

obligations when they cancel their.

contracts as a result of the.’ increas-
ingcost of producing- them“. "The
Michigan Sugar Company has never
returned more. than. a ‘ , dozien con-

» tracts,” says Mr. Wallace. -”

That not all the manufacturers are
so scrupulous of their moral obliga-
tions may be readily seen by an ex-
amination. of ‘the letter and contract
shown herewith. The" er was mug-
ten by the Owens; 8 gar Company
toabout 100 beet growers in"Ne‘w
HaVen township, Shiawass'ee county
as a result of the discontinuance d

rail service on a spur track. our

whichthe Company expected to haul

‘thefi'armers' beets. Although these

farmers signed the contract in good
faith and expected to grow bbets. the
Sugar Company at the last ominm
returnedtheir contracts rather than
to abide by their agreement'to soc

" the acreage and pay the slight

ditional sum necessary to transport
the beets by trucks. Note that the
company has mutilated the contract
by cutting oi! one corner.

This action bears out the statement
made in the April 3rd issue that the
reason why the Michigan Sugar Com-
pany and other companies have never
canceled contracts is because it has
never been to their advantage to do,
so, but that they would not hesita
to do so when their interestsw
best servedby such action.

A Review of Milk Prices. in the United States for the Ye...” 1919 '

0MPAR'ISONS of the yearly av—
erage market milk prices made

- by milk marketing specialists in'

'the U. '8. Bureau of Markets for the

year 1919, show that the weighted av-'

erage price paid to producers by mar-
ket milk dealers supplying more than
one hundred of the larger cities of
the United States, was 35 cents per
hundredwedght more than the weight-
ed average yearly price by the ma—
jority of condensed milk manufact-
urers of this country. The avorage
market milk price paid to producers
was approximately 50 cents more per
hundredweight of whole milk test—
ing 3.5 per cent of butterfat than
the estimated returns of producers
who marketed only butter fat thru
co-operative creameries and fed the
skim milk to livestock on their farm.
Compared with the estimated returns
for 3.5 per cent milk marketed thru
co-operative cheese factories, the av-
erage of market milk prices was
approximately 45 cents per hundred-
weight higher. The average of
prices paid by the condensaries,
on the other hand, was but 15 and

By U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Bureau of

10 cents higher, respectively, than
the. estimated returns for milk of
the . same butterfat test marketed
through creameries and cheese fact-
ories. -

The relationship or prices paid by
cheese factories, creameries. conden-
series and milk dealers varies con-
siderably with the seasonable chang—
es in the market supply. In Febru-
ary there was a diflerence of 99
cents per cwt. between the average
price of market. milk and the esti-
mated returns for 3.5 per cent milk
marketed through coaoperative
creameries; in the month. of April
this diiferential had declined to 15'
cents. In the case of the estimated
monthly returns of co-operative
cheese factories and market milk
prices, the diflerentials varied from
$1.07 in February to $0.02 in July.
In other words, for the country as a
whole, market milk producers re-
ceived but little more during July
than did the patrons of co-operative
cheese tectonics; and for the months
of March, April, May and June, the
estimated returns of both creamery

and cheese factory patrons were
equal to or higher than the average
price paid by condenser-lee.

The allowance of 75 cents per cwt.

'of whole milk for skim is an esti-

mate of the value for 1919 of skim
milk used in feeding live stock on
the farm. It may be that skimmed
milk fed to live stock during the past
year did not actually yield such re-
turns to farmers; but experiments
have demonstrated that cd‘e hundred
pounds of skim milk have a feeding
value equal to 30 pounds of shorts,
corn or grain; and it is believed that
the 1910 market prices of shorts
and grains of all kinds justify an
allowance of 76 cents per owt. of

whole milk for the feeding value of ‘

skim. Moreover, reports of milk
dealers to the Bureau 0! Markets
showed that in a number of places
farmers actually paid as much as $1
per hundredweight of skim milk.
The allowance of 15 cents per band--
redweight of whole milk for whey is
somewhat lower than the prevailing
estimate of its feeding value on the
farm. This estimate is the same.

goonsumed in its natural state.

however. as that arrived at by a min
producers’ marketing association in
adopting a cheese market. quotation
as a basis for its monthly fluid mil-k
price demands. .

Reasons for Higher Prices Received
by Market Milk Producers '

Wherever ther is active. compo-
t-ition between fl id milk dealers and
manufacturers of milk products, It
is usually necessary for fluid milk
dealers to pay prices considean
higher than‘ those paid by manufact-
urers of cheese and condensed milk.
This is so mainly because it is neces-
sary to take extra precautions to is»
sure a clean and wholesome produd
in the case of milk that has to be
V Most
of the larger manufacturers of con-
densed milk also insist upon getting
milk of high quality. 0n the whole,

however, the production and deliv-

ery of milk and cream by producers

supplying condensaries- cheese M

cries and creameries, is not subject-

ed to such rigorous inspection as

that required in case or milk for ocu-

sumptlon in cities. In many Amar»
' (Continued on page 9)

Factors In Wheat Situation Presented by Departlnent of Agriculture

0 GIVE farmers in the spring
‘ wheat states the benefit of in-
L formation on the general wheat
situation, in order that they may be

better able to decide whether to in-‘

crease plantings of spring wheat, be-
cause et a low ' production of the
winter crop indicated by conditions
April 1,, the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture today issued a
statement calculated to throw some
light on the situation.

The department points out that
the estimated production
617,000 bushels of winter wheat this
year, based on April 1 conditions, as
against 731.630.000 bushels last
year may be still further reduced by
p a further abandonment of winter-
r’wkilled fields. Information gathered
hvibe department also indicates that

 .y . fivnegsiap tly infestation will be un-

 Z-ueuauy- serere over large areas and
' that the grasshopper menace is ser-

7 ‘ious in a large part of the Great

/ Plains. The department further or.
plains that apparently. ’a large carryin-

overs! 150,000,000 baseman-amines '

1 year's; crop is  prin

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of 483,- ,

a much lower amount. Stocks on
hand in the three principal spring
wheat states are only about half as
large as a year ago. The carry-over
during the war ranged from 163,000;-
000 in 1916 to, the highest on record,
to 28,000,000 in 1918, the lowest re-
corded. Prior tc the war, the nor-
161633 carry-over was around 75,000,-

Reports from the spring wheat re—
gion indicate that many farmers are
likely to reduce their acreage ‘of
this crop. Weather conditions have

not favored spring work. and the ser-
ious shortage of farm lobor has also
attracted planting. The supply of
hired farm labor-in the country is
only about 72 per cent of the normal
supply, compared with approximate-
ly 84 per cent of the normal supply
a year ago. .

The poor condition of the winter
wheat crop, together with the appar-
ently continuing world demand for
wheat- may justify farmers in the
spring wheat belt in revising their

[plans in order to increase plantings.

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of the spring crop in spite of dim-
culties.

The normal wheat requirements
of the United States for consumption
and export are about 800,009,000
bushels. Of this only 483,617,000
bushels is indicated from the winter
wheat crop. World conditions do
not indicate a falling oil in demand,
although southern Russia is report.-
ed to have 55,000,000 bushels for
export this year. There is some
question, however, as to whether
Russia can export because of the dis-
organized condition of transportation
facilities. Australia has a short crop

and probably will. here no wheat for

export during the next two. years.
Owners of old wheat in storage are
not now permitted  it outed!

Australia. The Argentine  .
bears a: be  -  

While there ero‘many factors ,yet

undetermined which are likely to at»
greet “sprouting: this ,yeerathe  .

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'solid tires on our trucks 'hauling from orchards, because these big pneu-
matics track nicelyvthrough loose soil or plowed ground and do not really
pack it. Solid-tired trucks are assessed $10 a ton here—pneufnatic-tired
trucks are assessed . only=$5 a ton because they save roads.”—A. M. Edwards,
of Edwards & Patillo, Fruit Growers and Truckmen, Fullerton, California

. i  gripping afid agile qualities of Good—

‘ year Cord Tires _on trucks have won for
them many significant rural endorsements like
the one presented above. ‘ ‘ ' '

Whether, an Orchard lies in soft soil, or fencing
isnto bemdone in a grassy field, or a mud—
bottomed hollow separates the back acres, the
big Goodyear Cord-Tires gothrough quickly.

‘So today farmers frequently point torthe tracks

of these tires in miry hog lots, soggy-meadows

and acre‘s strewn with fertilizer, where they .

have made short cuts and saved time many
times. ‘ 

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year Cord Tires, being hauled through sand,

and bogs, across furrowed ~earth and up slippery
hillsides with impressive ease.

This intense serviceability of the pneumatic
truck tire, founded on the supple toughness of
Goodyear Cord construction, has been built
out of that ceaseless endeavor to improve,which
protects our good name.

N ow a large amount of information, supplied
by farmers and describing the advantages of

pneumatic truck tires, can be obtained by

writing to The Goodyear Tire 86 'Rubber
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‘WEEKLY TRADE AND MARKET
‘ofl REVIEW ’

.The trade situation of the past
week was characterized by a. tight-
ening up of credit and a higher rate
for loans. The financial interests of
not only the United States but of
Europe as well are determined to
bring an end to the constantly in-
creasing inflation of values and to
this end are withdrawing the credit
of their institutions. The first class
of people to feel the effects of this
money stringency are the speculat-
ors whose operations are more or
less gauged by the ability with which
they can secure cheap and ready
money. Speculation has had consid-
erable to do with, the present high
cost of living and it will be well for
the world in general when it is dis-
couraged.

Although the switchmen's . strike
has not been fully settled the ma-
jority of the men have returned to
work and production and transpor-
tation are slowly gaining speed once
more. The demands of the switch-
men for $1 per hour wages has had
the effect of a contagion, and from
all over the country now we hear de—
mands from other classes of work-
men f-or $1 per hour. The most re-
cent to ask these wages are the street
railway employee of Detroit, who
threaten to strike by May first pro-
viding their demands are not grant-
ed. The question naturally arises
how this great increase of wages to
unskilled workmen is going to af-
fect the general scale of wages and
salaries, for it may be assumed that
others will follow suit, and sooner
or later eventually all classes and
conditions of people will demand
higher wages and higher prices for
their products. The industrial \sit-
nation is such as to require the clos-
est attention on the part of the farm-
ore, for every wage increase event-
ually is borne in part by them. It is
common knowledge that the price of
nearly all commodities have advanc-
ed in greater proportion the past
three years than the price of farm
products, and it is not safe to let this
condition continue. If agriculture

‘ is to compete in the open market for
labor and supplies it must be assur-
ed of as great a percentage of in-
crease in the prices of its products as
in the price of labor and other com-
modities.

'All the grains showed substantial
strength at the Close of the past week
and the opening of the present week.
Supplies are still inadequate to the
demands and scarcely enough trad-
ing is being done to say so. How-
ever, the feeling is generally one of
confidence and there is yet no indi—
cation that prices of grains are to be
lower for some time to come.

Crop condtions are described as
follows by the Price Current Grain
Reporter:

“Agricultural conditions in the
west cannot be regarded as extreme-
ly promising at the present time. Wet
and cold weather has prevailed and
the seeding of oat-s has been delayed
much beyond the proper time. The
acreage to this grain, in consequence
confidentially expected to be smaller
than looked for earlier in the season,
- although it may exceed last year's.

Any decrease in cats should go into
corn so that the acreage of the latter
may be somewhat larger than the
trade in general have been figuring
on. The seeding of spring wheat in
the American and Canadian north-
west has also been delayed, and from
" both sections come reports of a re-
duction in the area. This serves to
intensify the bullish feeling in regard
to the future of wheat prices in this
ecuntry, although financial conditions
will have almost as much to do with
the price as the size of the crop.
Transportation is also a factor. Noth-
' tag has been heard of late regarding
-' I resumption of trading in wheat fu-
tures, but there is still plenty of time
A liberal carry-over into
the new crop is expected. probably

150,000,000 bushelsybnt the amount V

with depend to a great extent on
wh that foreign countries are able

   

 

 

er. Hay scarce and in demand.

Provisions averaged higher.

 

DETROIT—Market strong. Wheat, corn, rye and oats high-

CHICAGO—All. grains make big advance. Hogs in demand.

Beans and potatoes dull.

 

is set in type.
to prom—Editor.

 

 

“There is no great hortage of
professional farm labor, although the
public press continually make efforts
to have it appear so. There is a
shortage of floating labor, however,
such as many farmers have been in
the habit of securing each spring.
What effect this shortage will have
on the acreage cannot be determined
but judging from the reports it
would seem that the total for the
country under grain will not show a
heavy reduction when everything is
considered. There has been a large
area put back into grass and clover,
croprotation having been interrupt-
ed by the war, when the demand was
for wheat and lots of it."

 

WHEAT Di ACTIVE DEMAND

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WHEAT PRIOEO PER Ill. APR. 21. 1920 ‘
Grade Detroit Chicago 11. Y.
No. 8 Red . . . . 2.01 ‘ 0.0! 8.01
No. 2 Whlto . . . 2.83 8.04
No. I Mixed . 2.88 8.04
PRIOE8 ONE YEAR AGO
Grade Detroit IOhIoaco I. 1
N0. 2 Rod . . . . 2.10 5.50 2.81
No. 2 Whlt. . . . 2.0. .4 2.“
No. 2 Mixed . . . 2.00 2.4 2.40

 

In spite of the strenuous efforts of
the consumer to bring down the high
cost of living and in spite of recent
advances in the retail price'of bread,

the wheat market continues to soar.

The principal reason for the present
strength in the market is the export
demand, buyers for export trade be-

' ing in evidence on nearly all mar-

kets and taking up supplies as rap-
idly as they are received and buying
for future deliveries. Prices being
paid today for export business are the
highest of the season, some “Dort-
ers paying as high at $3 per bushel,
f. o. b. New York. The demand for

wheat naturally strengthens the de- ,_

mand for other grains and we may
assume will be the controlling factor
for many months to come.

 

CORN MAINTAINS POSITION

Last week there was a considerable
flurry in the corn market due to a
panicky feeling which overcame the-
holders of corn, as a result of de-

(Noto: The ’abovo summarized wires are received AFTER the balance of the market page”
They contain last mlnuto information up to within one-half hour of some

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0011" PRICE! PER 30.. APR. 21. 1820

Grade IDotI-clt lemme I. Y.
No. it Yellow  1.10
No. II Yellow  1.18 1...“
No. 4| Yellow . . . 1.18

PRIOES ONE YEAR AGO

Grade Detroit Ichloaqo N. Y.
No. 2 Yellow  1 04
No. a Yellow  1.14 1.10 fies
No. 4 Yellow  1.11 1.08 1.81

 

 

 

 

 

 

velopments in the generallinancial
situation. For 'a time it looked as if
a general stampede in the corn mar-
ket was in order but such supplies
as were thrown on the market were
scarcely a drop in the bucket to what
the market could absorb, and al-
though the prices‘ ranged generally
lower for a day or two they quickly
recovered, and this week the author—
ities say there is nothing bearish
about this'market. There is one in-
fluence, however, which has a. drag-
gy effect on the corn market and that
is the present low price of pork.
hrmers cannot aflord to pay $1.76
per bushel for corn to feed $15 hogs, .
and this fact naturally closes a mar-
ket for corn, which in average years
exerts the largest influence on the
demand and price. However, ’there
are many other uses for corn besides
hog feed and the demand has been
sufficient to keep the price up and is
predicted will continue to be so.

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OAT PRIGES PER 30.. APR. 21. 1920

Grade [Detroit Chicago I. Y.
N . 2' Whlte ... 1.18 1.08 1.81
11:. 8 White ... 112 1.00%
No. 4 Whlte ... 1. 1

PRICES ONE‘YEAR AGO

» Grade " IDotrolt Oblong-o! N. 1.

Standard . . . . . . . .10 .14 / .01
u. 3 mm  .15 .13/1 . .oo
«3. 4 White .1432 .124 .10

 

 

 

 

Oats have taken a blight drop
from their high level ofthe pas-t week
due undoubtedly to the slump in
corn. This grain, however. is recov—
ering its former strength along with
corn and will undoubtedly rule
steady for some time to come. In
view of the shortage of this grain
and the present crop outlook it is

 

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THE WEATHER

Foster’s W

for May 1920

WASHINGTON, D. 0., May 1, 1920
—— , waves w reach Vancou-
ver about May], 1 , 10, 80 and tem-
peratures will rise on all the Pacific
slope, They will cross the crest of Rock-
ies by close of M y 6. 18, 17, 21;
plains sections 7, 1 , 18, 22; meridian
90. great upger lakes, lower Misde-
sisppi and 0 io-Tcnnesseo valleys 8
1, 19, 28; great lower lakes
eastern eeections 9 11. 20 I reach-
ing vicinity of .N'ewfound about
May 10.47, 21, 25. Storm waves win
follow about one day hind warm
. waves and cool wavi- ut one flay
behind storm waves.

These disturbances will control
aopweatber of North America from
near May 6 to near May 25 an in-
clude the. most important penio of
1920. The storms to cross meridian
90 near Mayliwillbommse -

  

  
 

   

 

  
  
 

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var.
than usual and'wih canny . ,oo'n-
siderablo rains in the " 0-.
sippl valleys snd'ab'outvboth . ’ up»,
per andlewer  r ‘ ,
to crannies-idiot: 90 m *

F 0 R T H E W E E K
As Forecast by‘W. T. Foster for The Michigan Business Farmer

 

cause great floods in some parts of
the sections mentioned for heavy
rains following May 15. These will
be dangerous floods. ‘

During the weeks centering on May
15 and 26 I expect very considerable
damage b hall in some of the places
where ha storms sometimes occur
in May. I particularly warn every-
body in the sections mentioned that
there is great danger of tomadoos
during these great storms. Don't go
out on the lakes or ocean waters dur-
ing these great storms: if you do you
may never come back. '

My new and unmoved system of
forecasting makes a. few changes in
the May temperature line. differin
somewhat from the published char
for May. Temperatures are now ex- ‘
gated to to to the top near May 8

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. spring.

’ ceived also in duantities.

impossible to see lower
immediate’ future.

large acreage to cats this. spring be-
cause of the scarcity of the 1010
crop andthe high prices that have
that have prevailed. However. two
factors will prevent any appreciable
increase. One of them over which
the farmer has no control is the late
Farmers all over the cat
sections of the United States are com-
plaining of the lateness of the sea-
son and seeding is already two or
three weeks behind time in a good
many sections. Such cats to have
been planted'are reported-Ito be in
very poor condition. -

 

. RYE HIGHER '«

After" taking a slight drop the ear-
ly part of thepast week, the ‘
market again turned and advan
to $2.20 per cwt. for No. I.

This grain is very active, due to
the foreign demand and it is be-
lieved that it will continue upward
for some time.

 

BEANS FIRM

BEAN PRICES P’IR 0WT.. APR. 21, 1020

(II-ado ‘ lDetI-clt Ichlcaao N. Y,
I 1.50 l 1.50 150‘
18.00 15.00

 

 

0. H. P. . . . . ..
Rod Kidney. 

 

PRIOEB ONE YEAR A00

 

 

 

 

‘ Dude lDetl-olt | Chloe” I. .
o. . P. . . . . . . 1.“ 1.50 
Prime \ . . . . . . . . . . 0.50 1.00 .8.
Rod Kidney. . . 410.26 11.00 10.1!

 

There has been no material obs.

in the bean situation over last 
The market holds firm at $7.50 to
$7.76, but with little trading going
on. The opinion prevails rather m-
orally that prices are to be higher-
Prof. Cox of the Agricultural 00!-
lege has recently made an interest-
ing statement in which he advocates
the planting of a norm 1 acreage of
beans. It is his belie that future
prices are to be good and that the
farmer does not take a very long
chance in going in for beans this
year. He reminds us that beans may
be plan-ted safely as late as June
20th, although the first of that
month is preferable‘and safer.

 

POTATOES~ WEAKER

 

 

 

 

 

 

SNIPS PER CWT" APR. 21, 1020
' Gecko? Bulk
Detroit ....... ........ 8.00
Chicago ............... 1.
Plttoburc . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 1.31 1"
New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.00
PRIOEO ONE YEAR A00 “
Detroit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.80 an“
chicaco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.10 3.0. '
leburc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.00 8.0
New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.50 2.02

 

 

 

 

 

The Bureau of Markets reports
nearly all potato markets in‘a weak-
ened condition and prices generally
are slightly lower. This is due to sev-
eral causes, the principal one being
the boycott of the consumer and the
freight embargoes. It is not due to
an oversupply of potatoes, with the
possible exception of Boston which
is reported to have ample supplies
for some time. In nearly all other
cities the supplies are scarcely large
enough to meet the demandwhioh is
not active owing to the agitation
against the high cost of spuds.

Several new factors are about to
enter the potato situation. One of
them are new potatoes which are,
due in quantities from the south
about May 10th. Despite early dam-
age to the crop, the southern yield is
reported as good and the quantity to
be shipped north will reach close to
the normal movement. ‘ ’ ,

a Danish potatoes are now being re-_
‘ Three ves-
sels having already discharged their
cargoes and more on the way. 111! .
reported. however, that dealers 0' in
Danish spade have been frightened
by the threat oi! the Department of .
Justice .to investigate and punish
“potato” profiteering.” and have di-
verted» shipments *‘due “for  icou‘n-J _

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prices iii-tho

It might be supposed that tho mick.
. «die west. “grain states would plant a

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The potato, situation in “Detroit
has been more or’ less 'demoraliz'ed
for several weeks as. a result ,of the
. action of the Fair-Price Board in
fixing the price to the consumer at
v $3.00 per bushel. While it is prob-
ably true that a good many thouSand
' bushels of potatoes which were pur-
chased as low.as*$1 to $2 per bush-
el have been held in storage in De-
troit for higher prices. it isalso true
that a good many commission hous-
es have paid more than the “fair
price" for some of their s-puds and
are consequently forced to ship them
to-other points. \
Fears are expressed in some quar-
ters that potato production will suf-
fer in 1920 as a result of the scarcity
of seed. We have no fears on this
point. We recall very well the fancy
prices that were paid for seed in the
spring of .1917. Everyone planted
potatoes and the harvest showed the
result. We expect that the farmers
of the country will "follow their us-
ual tradition and will pay $4 per
bushel this year for seed to produce
$1 potatoes. Although the labor sit-
nation may prevent an abnormally
large acreage being planted we rath-
er expect to see at least a normal
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Hay markets everywhere have
been thoroughly disorganized by the
railroad strike, and so long as that
misfortune continues there is very
little to be said. Prices, of course,
are extremely high on everything that
can be delivered, but it is the con-
census of opinion everywhere that
as soon as the strike is broken and
actually comes to an end and the
hay already in transit begins to be
delivered, there will-be a very decid-
ed falling off in prices. The new
crop is coming.on but slowly, but it
is expected that the May 1 showing
of hay still on the farms by the Bu-
reau of Crop Estimates will indicate
a. very generous supply—Price Gur-
rent Grain Reporter.

LIVE STOCK MARKETS

EAST BUFFALO—Cattle, dull;
Calves, 50c hgher; $16@17.50. Hogs
-——25c lower; heavy, $15@15.50;
nixed, ' $15.75@16; ‘ yorkers, $16@
18.10: light do and pigs, $16; roughs
$12.50@13; stags, $8@10. Sheep
and lambs; lambs 50c lower; wool
lambs, $13@21.50; yearlings, $12
015.50; clipped, $12@19.50. ’

CHICAGO—United States Bureau
of Markets report. Cattle: mostly
steady; ‘beef steers ,$11@12.20;
calf trade a big dollar decline; most-
ly $13. 00mpared with a week ago:
Beef steers mostly $1 to $1.50 low-
er; butcher stock 50c to $1 lower;
corners and cutters, 25040 500 low-
on calves, $2.50 lower; feeders un-
evenly lower. ‘Hogs—steady’ .t o.
15 cents higher, top, $15.25;
bulk- light, $15@15.25; bulk 250
pounds up $13.35@14.25: good

‘ many held off the market at owners’
request; pigs, steady. Sheep—no
trading. .‘ Compared with a week ago:
Wooled’ lambs 250 to 500 lower;

eahornr'lsm-bs 252'. to 500 higher;

‘ sheep steady. v - a

DETROIT PBODUGE- MARKET

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was: 91-030mm in; an lines

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{salable lowering in the; '

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, _ Tradetin  and feggs :is
moderate and condition of supply

‘and demand show , little alteration.

Buying poteggs' is active.

K Apples—Western, boxes, $4.50 @
$5.50; ,Baldwin, $3@3.50; Greening,
3.250350; Steele Reds, $3.50@
4 [per bushel. ‘

Popcorn—Shelled, 9c per lb.

, Dressed hogs-rLight, 19 @ 21c,
heavy, 17 @ 190 per 1b.
Dressed calves—abest, 20 @ Me;
No. 2, 16 @ 18cper lb.
Live Poultry—Spring chickens,
best. 38@40c; leghorns, 37@380;

hens, 38@40c; small hens, 37@38c;

masters, 23 @ 25c; geese, 30 @ 35c;
ducks, 40 @ 45‘; turkeys, 44 @ 45c
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REVIEW OF Minx PRICES IN u.‘

S. FOR THE YEAR 1919
(Continued from page 6)

kets ,the costs of production of

' milk satisfactory for city .distribu-

tion are higher than those applying
to milk sold for use in manufactured
milk products.

In comparing returns received -by.

producers marketing only butter fat-
to creameries, and feeding skim milk
to livestock on the farm, it is im-
portant to note that the cost of
transportation from farm to cream-
ei'y or point of shipment is much
less than when market milk is sold.
Producers selling butter fat to the
creameries commonly make two to
four deliveries of cream per week
and where neighbors co—operate by
taking /turns in the delivery the
costs of delivery amount to compar-
atively little.

Another important reason for the
revailing differences in the net re-
wrns obtained by producers from

‘the marketing of milk and cream,

either to market milk dealers or to
concerns that convert it into manu-
factured milk products, is to be
round in the fact that many dairy-
men are not informed regarding the
returns that might be realized by
them if they .were to divert their milk
supplyto a different market. outlet.

Farm bureaus and producers’ mar-‘

keting organizations, however, are
rapidly overcoming this handicap of
producers.

It should not be inferred from the
foregoing that the net returns of pro-
ducers supplying creameries, cheese
factories, condensaries, or city milk
distributors, are ever likely to con-
verge to a common level. The mar-
ket outlet for fresh whole milk is
necessarily confined to either fact-
ories or cities which are comparative-
ly near the sources of their supply.
Whole milk is too bulky and perish-
able of nature to permit of econom—
ical transportation for distances
much farther than 300 or 400 miles.
Except in the case of New York, Bos-
ton- Philadelphia, Detroit and Chi-
cago, comparatively small quanti-
ties of the natural supply of milk of
cities are obtained from points be
yond the 100 mile shipping zone. For
this, reason alone, in many markets
the prices of market milk are likely
to continue higher than the prices
paid for milk that is converted into
manufactured dairy products.

 

SPREADINU LIME WITH A MA-
~ _ NURE SPREADER

With the increased use of lime in
Michigan we have received many in-
quiries from our users asking if their
manure spreader could be used to
spread lime. said J. C. Welty, Mich-
igan manager ‘of the New Idea
Spreader Company, at Jackson, to a
representative of Tm: Busnmss FARM-
E3.

“1 have told these users that the
use of the spreader was entirely feas-

ible and explained how to go about ,

it. No changes on the machine are
necessary. Simply spread a layer of
horse manure under the drawing

'barsand ii 'pulverizedhme is used,
it may be well to mix a little barn-g

yard manure with it, so that the dis-

tribution, may be evenlympread over

the entire field." ,_
Simply spread a layer‘ef horse ma-
nure or straw in-the bottom. of the
machine then add the desired amount
of lime torts used. The manure or
straw underneath the lime will elim-
inate the uses: a: lime pan, by add-
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The progress of the
past, as well ‘as that-of
the future, is measured
by' criticism—for criticism
exists only where there
also exists faith in ability
to improve.

We do not criticise an
ox cart or condemn the
tallow clip, for the simple
reason that they. are
obsolete. During the
reconstruction period
through which our
country is now passing,
it the public does not
criticise any public utility
or other form of service,
it is because there seems

 

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to be but little hope for
improVement. '

The intricate mechan-
ism of telephone service
is, under the most favor:
able conditions, subject
to criticism, for the, rea-
son that it is by far the
most intimate of all per-
sonal services.

The accomplishment
of the telephone in the
past fixed the quality of
service demanded today;
a still greater accom-
plishment in quality
and scope of service will
set new standards for

the future.

AMERICAN Tl-‘ZLEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY
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The Michigan Business Farmer had them-look over one or two recent ‘ '
copies and explained just what this weekly has done and is doing '
for the farmers of Michigan and convinced them that they ought to
be taking M. B. F. if they expected to keep abreast of the times and
derive the same benefit over '_7 0,000 farmers are now enjoying. Then
they explained that they were working for a school. outflit.
settled it, their friends subscribed and now the School outfit is theirs.

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friends who are not now taking M. B. F. and ask them to help you
win the outfit by giving you their subscription to M. B. F. for one
year at $1.00 each. Send us the $2.00 with their names and ad-
dress :‘lainly writtenf‘and the outfit willibe‘ yours. ,. ,4 -

This School Outfit YOURS
for a LITTLE Extra Work

.. During the past
"1/ - ‘ 60 days more than
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boys and girls have
secured this dandy
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sists of 3 pencils, 1
pen holder, 1 com-
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pencil, 12 ' pen
points and holder,
1 pencil cap, 1 ink
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and 1 drinking cup,
all packed in a
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NORTON BECOMES FIELD snc'x
‘ STATE HOLSTEIN ASS’N

'The Michigan Holstein Friesian
Asso'diation has secured the ser-
vices of H. W. Norton. Jr.,
field secretary to begin about May
, lst. The drive for memberships in
Michigan has so far resulted in
about 1,800 memberships being paid
in with two or three meetings yet to
be held.

Michigan breeders generally are
much elated at their good fortune in
being able to enlist the services of a.
man so thoroughly conversant with
their needs and so well and favor-
ably 'known to breeders throughout
the entire country as Mr. Norton.

The son of one of the veteran
breeders of Black and Whites in
Livingston county, he has had a life
long experience in ,matters pertain-
ing to Holstein‘ cattle and knows the
problems of the breeder of purebred
cattle from every angle.

After graduation from Michigan
Agricultural College, Mr. Norton
spent six years in livestock experi;
mental and instruction work at that
institution. Leaving the college in
1909 he returned to the home farm
and in his own community he was
always *‘found in the lead in manag-
ing high class sales. boosting for bet-
ter sires, healthier herds and in fact
any progressive movement in live-
stock circles found him one of the
moving spirits. Since 1917 he has
been assisting Dean Shaw in his
work at the M. A. C. Last summer
«he was elected one of the directors
of the National Holstein . Friesian
Association.

His work as chairman of the sale
committee that handled the Michi-I
gan Holstein breeders first annual
sale last January needs little com-
ment. An inspection of the results
of the sale when 73 head brought
$60,980 or an average of $835 per
head, surely confirms the belief that
Holstein matters are his special prov-
ince.

Now with an opportunity to de-
vote his entire time to the welfare
of Michigan breeders and herds we
think results are bound to come and
congratulations seem entirely in or-
der for Michigan breeders.

Mr. Norton will be located in
Lansing, Michigan, where he may be

,found after May 1st in the old State
Block. Plans have already been
made for promoting high class sales
semi-annually in May and October,
at various points within the state.

Dorr D. Buell Becomes Marketing Director of State Farm Bureau

ORR D. BUELL,
who for the last
’two years has

Michigan Potato Grow-
ers’ Exchange, has ac—
cepted the position of
director of the mar-
keting department of
the, Michigan State
Farm Bureau and will
take up his duties early in May.‘

‘ The commercial operations of the
Farm Bureau will be placed under
Mr. Buell’s direction and his success-
ful development of the Cadillac ex-
change, from a local community" in-
stitution into an establishment link-
ing up 100 community co—operative
associations and doinghundreds of
thousands of dollars of business an-
nually, is expected to guarantee the~
development of an elaborate market-
ing and purchasing program for the
. flinusands of Farm - Bureau = members.

 

Dorr D. Buell

 , in the state. " ‘ ~ ., . , I
Mr. Buell will be located at Lane--

ing, where the headquarters of the
State Farm Bureau will be in May“
Ineving there from Birmingham.

4“" ' We'll Qualified for" Job,

0 715m. I Buell "scarcely needs “an “13,1; . ‘

thoduction to the readers {61' the

. Bitterness . Fumes asnmst , of  are  .
'dfi‘uuainted with his achievements; as;
"the active head of the Potato Grew-N ,

ers' Exchange which in its‘ two
" {e ’ existence has become recogniz-

mi?

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been president of the *~

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The executivecominittee in session;
at Lansing, Mich", elected theigfol-a
lowing officers; president, Dudley E-
' vice; .presi- r
Coloma,‘

Waters, Grand ,Rapids";
dent, Dr. T. .C. Tiedl‘iOhl, ‘
Geo. L. Suillane, Flint. and R. J.

Bird. Ypsilanti; secretary. Albert E.‘

Jenkins, ‘Eagl
Munsell, How

   

; Treasurer, Silas H.
l.

SISAL FIBRE P" ens GOING UP

Prices going down? “No, there

ain't no such thing;” that seems to;

be true with sisal fibre also, from
which the binder ~-twine is
Some time ago when" the Commission
Reguladora of Mexico blew up and
left American and Canadian bank-
ers holding the sack with‘the large
quantity of fibre as security, it seem-
ed as though prices would go down

and remain down, in fact sisal fibre.

dropped to 7 centsrbut the bankers
got a bunch of money together and
went“ to Mexico. They returned last
week and at the same time 'fibre
jumped to 8 and 8 1—4 cents which
is perfectly natural as somebody had
to pay for that trip to Mexico and
Mr. Farmer, being handy, was
once unanimously chosen to be the
goat. Higher fibre, of course, means

higher prices on binder twine and.
it would not be at all surprising to'

see twine go up another cent or two.
The wise farmer will take no chanc-
es, but will see that he gets his sup-

plies now while the prices are low;
and deliveries can be made promptly.

———0rgantzed Farmer. ~

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CO-OP. 0F FRANCE BEATS THE
PROFITEER -

The father of French co-operation

was the great philosopher Fourier,

who dreamed of a “City of God upon

 

earth." Today the backbone of it is
Jean Jacques ,the sturdy peasant
proprietor.

The most characteristic figure of it
it is ‘the blue—bloused co-operative
workman, the member of a self-gov-
erning, profit-sharing workshop.

And the fairy godmother of it all
since its first tiny beginnings in 1836
has been the French government.

.Organized in 15,000 societies, 1,-
000.000 peasant farmers conduct
their cheese-making, butter churning,
wine production, all pressing, thresh-
ing, banking, insurance, sales, pur-
chases and export in confmon pay-
ing toll to none.

Of self-governing profit sharing
workshops, using their own pooled
savings or capital borrowed from the

ed as one of the most successful
vfarmers' co-operative associations in
the United States. -

It is, of cmrse, a matter of pride
that the editor of the Buernss FARM-
long acquaintance and
warm personal friendship with Mr.
Buell, extending back over a dozen
years when Mr. Buell was just a
“plain farmer," and it has been his
pleasure to record the successes that
Mr. Buell has attained in the field 'of
(to-operative marketing. '

Mr. Buell’s farming experience he-
gan as a .boy on the old-Buell farm
in Branch county, As a very young
man, and he is still a young mam—'3-
Mr. Buell became the owner of a sec-'
tion of land in the northwest corner
of Antrim county, and soon showed

 

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“trades. union‘s, * the; “are mar. than:

‘tion of leather goods, jewelry. ifiabs
rice, glassware and chemicals for the
cb-operative_trade. At the outbreak
of the war these workshops were do-
ing abusiness of silo-000,000 a year;

The FrenchaWholesale society‘ with
its chain of 3,000 stores, 2,000 'rural
banks, sixfactories and morethan
a dozen large warehouses, had a
turnover, in 1917, of $42,000,000,
affecting a, direct saving to its con-
sumers of $7 00,000. and steadying ,the
'whble retail market. . , ,

When the War broke’ out the
French co-operative, population of
6,000,000 persons, unreservediyzofu
fered its services to the government.

In large areas, especially in the
war zone, it took over the entire dist
tribution of. ceal, milk, meat and
scarce commodities. In the cities it
organized co-opera-tive restaurants
for munition workers, and municipal
kitchens for the struggling ’of the
“poilus." ,

'rwo GRAND LEDGE ELEVATORS
SOLD ‘

Within a. few weeks the local asso-
ciation of farmers, known as the
Grand Ledge Produce & Supply 00.,
will be doing actual business. '

The association closed the deals,
for the purchase ‘of the elevators of
W. L. Ireland &.Co., and Doty &
Doty, and will take possession of the
last named on May 1st. 1 .

The company will buy practically
everything that is raised on the farm
and will continue the business as in
the past, including the handling of
coal. They will also sell binder twine.

The Grand Ledge Produce & Sup-
ply Co. is organized under a new act
and is, conducted on the membership
The cost of membership is $6
and in addition members will loan
the concern $100 each and take in
exchange a note for the amount at 6
per cent interest. After paying this
interest and laying aside 10 per cent
of the indebtedness as a sinking fund
the profits, if any, will be divided
among the members according to the
amount of business done by each of
them.

The new company "is entirely apart
from the (lo-operative Association,
which is under the management of
Claud H. Barton, and which, by the
way, did $100,000 live stock business
during the first three months of this
year. -

himself to bee progressive and a
successful farmer. For a number of
years he raised the best crops. of al-
falfa, potatoes and beans produced
anywhere in Northern Michigan, and
his pure-bred. Percherons, Holsteins
and Duroc-Jerseys formed the foun—
dation for many another pure-bred.
herd in Northern Michigan.

Mr. Buell’s farming experience
was broadened by a business experi-
ence gain-ed through the banking
business in Elmira. Mr. Buell is still
interested in both bank and farm,
and he confides to us that he hopes
some day to, relinquish  his public
activities and go back to the farm.

His new job is a Whopper. we'll all
have to admit, but with the earnest '
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Trimmers  me than. ..
ed.with__;iut‘eres,t‘the campaign being ,

conducted 'by’ 'theDepartment‘of .Jus-

Hoe to teach consumer-show to save
money on meat by utilizing the inex-
pensive cuts. . , ‘

H Utilization-in a majority of con-
sumers of only loin and rib cuts.
which constitute approximately one-
fourth of the animal carcass; had
brought aboutja situation where {the
return from the one-fourth _of_ the
animal in demand equalled or 9:-
.ceeded the sum realized tram the sale
of the remaining three-fourths. This
wwas ar'harmfnl. condition for both
producer and‘ consumer. The icon-
,sumer lost in buying meat which, pos-
:sibly had-borne. some of the burden
of the ‘meat which he did :‘not "buy
and the producer suffered from lack
of a stable market for all parts of
his meat animal. Lack of demand
for a large part of the carcass. c-
casioned slow distribution, and‘ at
,in turn. caused loss through waste
shrinkage, and increased overhead

expenses. It was a‘ condition that

could be remedied only by effecting '

sufl‘lcient change in the meat eating
habits of thousands of people; to
bring about a. more even consump-
tion of the farmer's meat animal.
I A number of livestock associations
and producers’ organizations saw
.sthe movement in the proper light
and from the first gave their vigorous
support, offering in the case of the
California Cattlemen’s Association
to take complete charge of the cam-
paign in their state. ‘ ‘
Gray Silver, Washington represen-
tative of the American Farm Bureau
Federation. writes regarding the cam.-
paign: “I desire, to say that in my
judgment the work you have be u
in advocating a greater use of 17 at
has been considered the less desiv
able cuts of meat‘is certainly com-
mendable; The consuming public
has unconsciously grown into " the
habit of buying largely from the hind
quarter of beef, losing sight ofthe
fact that many of the forequarter
cuts are fully as nutritious and just
as desirable when properly prepared.
The Cattle Raisers’ Association of
Texas, the Arizona Cattle Growers’
Association the Colorado Stockgrow-

. ers’ Association, the Kentucky Beef

Cattle Association, and J. F. McAr-
dle, President of the Nebraska State
Board of Agriculture, also have on-

' dorsed the campaign.

1‘

members and oflicers, we predict suc-
cess for the Bureau’s marketingt‘de-
partment in thehands of Mr. Buell.
New Headquarters

On this page is a picture 02 the
State Farm Bureau’s new home at
221 North Cedar street, Lansing,
which was occupied by the executive
oiiices on April 30th. It is stated ‘
that wool is already arrivingin gem-
erous quantities at the warehouse,
being hauled in bytruck from Clint-
on, Eaton and other nearby counties.
The railroad, shipments are reported

1 starting from several places.

.J. P. Pewers, assistant secretary of

,the Bureau, says:*~“.We are judging

by this preliminary. receipt of meal
that the pool is proving a mightyzatr
tractiv'e proposition to' the farmers ‘
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Entered as second’class matter. at post-office, Mt. Clemens, Mich.

The Fair Price Board

E MB E RS of the Federal Fair Price

Board are very much put out over the
decision of Judge Arthur J. Tuttle which pre-
vents them from running other people’s busi-
ness along with their own. They are reported
as saying that the decision leaves the profiteers
and gougers free to prey upon the pubhc as
they please. '

We are fair sick of the word “profiteer”.
It came into popular use during the war when
a few conscientiousless wretches made capital
of the war’s demands to make themselves rich.
They have been enjoying their blood money

‘ ever since without molestation by either the
Attorney General or the tax collector.

Darling, the famous New York artist, pub-
lished a cartoon several weeks ago depicting
the nation-wide pursuit of the profiteer.
Every last inhabitant of the United States
was among the pursuers, leaving none to be
pursued. Round and round they weent track-
ing their own footsteps, but not a profiteer
didthey find. The theory is that everyone,
except thou and I, are profiteers and even
thou wouldst profiteer if thou hadst the chance.

It is said that “it takes a scoundrel to catch
a scoundrel”. Perhaps that is one reason Why
the “fair price boards” of the country are
made up of people engaged in lines of. business
which charge the public as much as they please
for their services or product. It is not our
purpose to claim that any member of any fair
price board is using illegal or unmoral
methods to make money, but it is our purpose
to point out the‘absurdity of fair price deci-
sions which are not respected by those who
make them.

We cannot see how justice will permit the
establishment of a rule of conduct for one
class of business or profession which others are
not forced to follow. All business is more or
less correlated. The high cost of .conducting
one industry eventually increases the loss of
conducting another. An automomile manu—
facturer, for instance, may sit upon a fair
price board and rule that a farmer or mer-
chant may charge only a certain price for his
product. Shortly thereafter the automobile
manufacturer may increase the cost of his pro-

. duct and the farmer or. merchant forced to buy.

an automobile in order to carry on his busi-

ness. Yet he is bound by the very..decision of x

that manufacturer from advancing the price of
his own commodity to meet the increased cost
of the automobile which he must purchase.
"The same truth would apply in the purchase
' (of any commodity or professional service.

i It is the very essence of injustice and au-
, tecracy to regulate the selling price of one
~ ‘ “commodity unless all commodities are similarly
, regulated. _ The practices employed in making
,5 and selling commodities should properly be
vatched and kept within the confines of recog-
 busineiss ethics ' and good morals. Ef-
forts’T'to throttle competition, or destroy or
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Helping. "Others. ‘ .,
T ‘IS often observed that‘the people of the

cities are indifferent to the welfare of their

neighbors. In a measure this -is true, and
there is a very good reason for it. The reason
lies in the old adage, “familiarity breeds‘éon-
tempt”. '

We can appreciate the truth of. this saying
within our: immediate family circles which are
often, the last refuge of courtesy, kindness and
helpfulness. No member of the average Amer-
ican family would think of treating friends in
.the same thoughtless, and oftentimes, harsh
manner in which, he treats others of his im-
mediate household. Nor is this due to any
lack of love for them or solicitation for their
well-being. The mother who, burdened with
cares, scolds her fretful'child, is the first to
.soften into tenderness and gather the little one
in her arms when it is hurt or ill. The father
who in an angry mood chastise his children
looks down upon them with, moist, repentant
eyes when they are tucked away in bed. And
even the brothers and sisters who one moment

 

 

 ‘ The Breaking Plow'

Iamthe plowthntturns the sod ‘
That has loin for a thousand years:
Where the prob-10's wind—tossed flowers nod
And the wolf her wild cub rem,
I come, and in my woke, like rain,
Is scattered the golden seed;
1 change the leagues of lonely plun
To fruitful gardens and fields of grain
For men ad their hungry breed.

I greet the earth In its rosy morn,

I am the first to stir the soil,

1 bring the glory of whoot and corn

For the crowning Of those who toil;

_ I am oivllization’s sen! one] sign,

Yea. I an the mighty pen 1‘
That writes the sod with o. pledge divine
A promise to pay with broad and wine

For the sweat of honest men.

I am the end of things that were
And the birth of things to be;
My coming makes the earth to stir
With a new and strange decree,
After its slumbors, deep and long,
I woken the drowsy sod,
And sow my furrows with lifts of song
To glad the heart of the mighty throng,
Slow feeling the way to God.

A thousand summers the prairie rose
Has' gladdened the hermit bee-g

A thousand winters the drifting snows
Hove whitened the glnssy sea.

Before me curls the weovoring smoke
0f the Indians' smouldering fire;

Behind me rise—was it God who spoke?

At the toll-enchanted hmmor's stroke,
The town and the glittering splre..

I give the soil to the one who does,
- For the Joy of him and his:
I rouse the slumberlng world that was
To the diligent world that is.
0h,~ seer, with vision that looks away
A thousand years from now” _
The marvelous nation your eyes survey
Was born of the purpose that here today,
Is guiding the breaking plow.

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quarrel over trifles make up the next and show
an affection for each other that is too dear to
bestow upon mere friends. ”
This perhaps explains why the people of the
cities become 'hardened to the troubles of
others. Every way they turn they encounter
other people, all with about the same troubles
and the same problems. They are fed up with
each other, so to speak, and become so accus-
tomed to each other’s presence that they reach
a point Where they pay no more attention to
other human beings than to the buildings
which they pass to and from their work.
There‘are exceptions to the rule, but they are
scarce. We have/ encountered people in the
city who by .sheer character have fought .off
the crust of indifference which encases their
neighbors. They are courteous, kind, and ever
ready tohelp “another, They are the“ people
who keep alive the soul of the cities. - _r
The almost universal'hospitality and friend-

 of the people'of the country are perfect. .‘

~ly natural“ resaltsof the environment. Folks
who live on farms see very littleof strangers,
They hunger- for the sight of ainewtfscegahd

  
 
 

  
 
 

 
 

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commodity is left unhampered will be resented w, n a farmer R
. in nouncertain' manner by the farmers and all 

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road, ordid not courteoust  usont the
direction, or willingly fetch'us some water for

the radiator, or do any or all  “nurserous.
. acts of kindness which the traveler is frequent,

"'ly obliged _to Solicit. ‘ A  i _ ~
Which brings to  Wm. Penn’s motto,
with which most of you are probably 
“I shallpass through thisworld batches; any
good thing, therefore, that I, can do, or 
kindness thnlcanshowtoanyhumenbeing
let me do it now; let me not defer or neglcc
it, for I shall not pass this way again”. .

 

.. Inviting Disaster. *
HE SUGAR manufacturers of Michigan
are inviting disaster to their business, but

they are seemingly unaware of it.‘ Their inn

difference to the sugar beet growers is closely
akin to an insult, and no self-respecting ' man
will let another insult him and get away with
it. . r" " _ r -
Since time began the progress of the world

’ has been hampered ‘by small-visioned men

who tried to believe that conditions «were as
changeless as the hills and the heavens. But
the winds of unrest have blown up the waves of
reform and engulfed them. Napoleon said his
armies were invincible and he knew he spoke
not the truth. The Czar of Russia called his
iron-driven subjects, “my children”, but he
knew that theyohated him and there was mur-
der in their hearts. The Kaiser proclairhed
himself the chosen son of _God, and perhaps he
was a conceited enough ass to believe it, but he
fooled nobody but himself. So we encounter
them alltho way down the paths of history,—
men who declared that because this or that has
for ages presented an impenetrable front to the
proCesses of evolution that they will always re-
main unchanged.

Among the more modern gentlemen of this
type we give the honor of front rank to the
sugar men bf. Michigan. Since" the inception
of the industry in this state they have dictated
the conditibns and the terms of the beet grow-
ers" contract, and have actually made them-
selves behave that there is no other way in
which the beet sugar industry can prosper.
The sugar manufacturers of the west, having
the- broader western view and living in ,an
environment of constant change, have recog-

nized the necessity of granting the beet grow-l

ers a voice in the making of the contract. But

the sugar men of Michigan, cursed with the
stand-pattism' of the east, stubbornly refuse to
surrender to, the inevitable, and are laying
themselves Open to utter annihilation. -

The patience of the sugar beet growers is
nearly gone. They have waited five months
for the manufacturers to give them a confer-
ence. They have exhausted every peaceful
method. to win the, manufacturers over to their
viewpoint and settle the sugar beet controversy
in friendly arbitration. But the manufactur-
ers have refused this. More than that, they
have spurned the beet growers, and now the
farmers must take up different weapons.
.Heretofore they, have fought with arguments
and solicitation. Now they will take up the
two-edged sword of competition.

It is our prediction that a large portion of
the beets ngn in this state in 1922 will be

. sliced in a farmer-owned factory. ’ It will not .

matter what concessions the manufacturers
make on this or next year’s contract.

The. manufacturers have carried their bluff a,

bit‘ too far. They have not only" con“-

vinced some growers that they  make no,

concessions on the ‘1920._fi-contrsci;,. 'butfthey
have succeeded, quite --yriithout‘ intent; perhaps,

in revealingtheir utter , contempt faiths grow?

on! anddho’wing then,   dictate the

7 contract in 1921 and. all the years to’follow as
they "have done in the  Thus convinced K v
of the fruitlessness of aim, _, _' fining Edwa- u» ,1,“   

    
  
 

  
  
    

   
      
  
  

 

 

 

 

 

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_ In the'lotherWise admirable a'r‘ticle
in page "16,. issue of April 3, which
defines the attributes needed. in a,
' president of this republic. occurs a
sentence which-to my, mind shows
either a prejudice aroused by“ the
term military or failure to apply the
usual broademimledness of the writer.
My own experience in military life
- was confined to over four years ser-
vice in the medical department dur-
‘ 1113 the civil ’war. Observation then
no credence to a militaristic taint
among, the thousands who served
during that time. The short period
and since as a city medicaL man gives
V of military exercises, proposed has
in'it elements of education now. not
offered. Fealty to the United States
above all as a duty. The tendency of
the times is to eulogize ones own

class of employment, forgetting all.

others. Military training would em-
phasize the community spirit and
give- opportunity to a large major-
ity of our youth who now have no
lessons in fraternity to recognize all
men as equally entitledwto respect
and ,opportunity to develop as“ an-
other. Our ,college athletic clubs
show the advantage of physical
training— and fraternal—help but it is
special and not universal.
a general plan of education which
embraces all of one youth many must
lack. ~ . ‘

The animus which seems to be
almost universally adopted at pres-
ent is “get muney honestly if you can,
but get money," is one of individual
’ tendency and is forgetful of the max-
im “Do unto others as ye would have
them do unto you,” which an ideal
republic should inculcate.

The claim that the four or five
months of military exercises would
take too much of a young man’s time
seems to me preposterous. The young
men of the civil war, Who spent years
and those of the late war who spent
months away, show no indication of
having lost interest in their former
employments, and many recognize
that they are better equipped to en-
joy a larger view of life than before.

Enlargement 0f ideas which comes
from travel and association necessar-
ily lessen individual selfishness and
recognizes the rights of others as
equally important as ones own, is
what is needed. Many believe that
universal training in company of
others and dubbed military .would
have this effect—A. H. (M.D.) Plain-
wen, Mich.

\

At a convention of agricultural editors
which I attended in Chicago. there up-
a. gentleman representing the
GmVer-sal Military Training League who
nted arguments to the assembled
itors in favor of compulsory training.

. Spiilman. formerly chief of the Bu—
reau of Farm Management, U. S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture. asked the speaker
m the desired physical training and

any disciplinemould not be taught m
public schools. The answer was.
at most boys leave school before ar-
riving at the desired age,” Dr. SDI“-
man then asked why since the military
training advocates prlopose to compel
boys to attend military training camps
they could not force them to attend the
public school, and if the boys and their
nts would not prefer a plan which
ops the. boys in their local surround—
t one who would take them away
25:: home for months 'at a time. The
ker's answer to this was merely,
hat it wasn’t practical".

Volumes could be written in approval
of some of your statements. and in 'dis-
approval of others. Experiences of our
goldiers in the last war are varied. With-
out excaption every soldier to whom I
have talked has either acknowledged an
entire change of thot and halvit for the
Worse rather than for the better. or a.
vague dissatisfaction o‘ver hngrcturn to
civil life.
a merely cite my own observations. 1.;
looms to me that the outcome of the pri-
me election in which an advocate of
mi training m 50,000 votes behind

Wan opponent shows that not all soldiers
,thlnk., ke on the advantages of mili-
tary; camp, life—Editor. -

 

 SITUATION
 1 Wishyou would takehup the milk

’ finestitm for thernilk producers of
I x  credit-Joni; paper. There
  things tar-fave” import»

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Without.

I do not say this is .trueof Vail; ,

nothing being done by our state 013-.
hotels along organisation lines. There

never was a time when the farmers '

, were more ready than nowjto, join
hands and assert their rights. and yet
not one thingo'is being done.
are collecting money ovary .month

for the purpose-of building us up and .

~ why' not have something done? I I
wrote Mr. Reed about these three
things mentioned and he practically
made no reply to the questions.

Now in” regard to the present milk
price' our state oiiicials met with
the State Commission and establishh
ed prices for January, February and
March. _ The price was to be” $4.05

‘delivered Detroit.
out our 5 per cent and March I see
they are going to cut us 15 per cent
on the pretext of a surplus. What
good does it do to establish prices if
they do not live up to them? If there
is a surplus of milk now what will
it be in_the month of Juine'I—A Milk
Producer, Highland Park, Mich. ‘

Thee above letter was received prior
to the recent developments and discus-
‘sions on the milk situation. Unques-
tio'nalb‘ly there is much yet to be done to
strengthen the ProducersI Ass’n and put
it in a position where it can cope with
any emergency. Nor is this said with
any intention to belittle the splendid
work that has alreddy been done. But
the foundation has been completed, and
the time seems to have come for a. per-
manent structure to b. built, a structure
that will protect the milk reducers of
the Detroit area. from any a tuation that
might arise.—Editor.

 

THE CONSUMER SPEAKS

Referring to your letter to the "Ed-
itor of the News’f published in last
night’s paper. beg to say that'I, as a
consumer, fully agree with you. I
think, homsver, that thbprice of 14c
# is all right, perhaps shill too high,
but the reduction should not come
out of the dairymen, but out of the
distributor. The farmers in the~De-
troit district should own and operate
the creamerles, and make all of the
by-producbs from If the
Detroit creameries don’t want to sell
at a reasonable figure, let the. tanner
start his owu milk warehouse here in
Detroit and sell it to the gmcer, who
would be glad to deliver it to his cus-
tomer. or have a given district in
which he delivers it he got one-half
what the distributor claims it costs
him to defliVer mli‘lk. And, we would
have better milk, people would buy
more milk if they got it direct from
the farmer with all the butterfat in
it, which is now taken out by the
oreameriies, and enough left in to
“come within the law". The cream-
eries charge up all of the expense of
the by—ps'oduots to the cost and deliv-
ery of the milk, and all they make out
of the by—products is velvet. Is that
right or fair? The profits made out
of their entire business should be
taken into consideration and not only
the cost of delivery to the customer.
«When you figure the price for butter,
cheese, (cream or cottage) ice cream,
etc, which all have to come out of
milk, and none of the profit is dis-
tributed to delivery of milk, that this
cost of delivery must be out of all pro-
portion. Let the creameries place
their cards on the table, and show the
profit they make out of milk they buy

hands all,“  ‘ume. Third, there is

They '-

Fsbrnary they cut "

from thev-dahymam‘at so. much per
100 lbs. butternut, «and distribute at so
much per pint or quart tothe con-

the average butterfat is in milk de-
livered by. the dairymsn in the De-
troit district, to see how much the
Creamery man takes out before it
goes to the consumer. What are the
facts about powdered milk the dis-
tributor uses. If it is true what I
heard about it, I thinkthe Fair Price
Commission should look. into this as
w well as, the oath-e profits made by the
distribute s,‘ and then turn the facts
over to' prosecuting attorney.—

‘ F: W. Biedermau, 617 Garland Ava,‘

Detroit, Mich.

 

The above letter was received as a re-
sult of a communication ublished in a
recent issue of the Detroit ews in which
I endeavored to present the farmer's
side of the case to the consumer. It is
gratifying to note that there is at least
one consumer in the alt of Detroit who
seems to understand he position the
farmer holds and realizes that the reason
for the high cost of milk is because of
the wasteful method of distributing.it.
It is interesting to note that this con-
sumer believes a farmer-owned distribut—
ing plant to be the solution of the high
price of milk problem in Detroit. How
many farmers agree with hint—Editor.

OUCH !

In regard to your letter, I wish to
say I have wrote you talks a letter
and explained to you about this pa-
per, when my subscription expired
and asked you to stop it at once. The
editor is too gosh (1 dry, and self-
religious. He surely has not won
many friends in this part of the coun-
try, or in fact, anywhere.
found this paper in the home and
inquired about it, they said they will
be glad when its time has run out. I
wish to say once more I want you to
stop at coming in my mail box as I
am ashamed of this paper. Remem-
ber I will not pay for it any more.—

' August Baerwolf, Sandusky, Mich.

 

Thank goodness, the sun was shining
when this letter camel All right, friend
Baerwolf, your name is OFF. We can't
change your views and you can't change
ours, so we’ll so our separate ways.
Some day when you are in Mount Clem-
ens come in and get better acquainted.—
Editor.

PUBLISHING THE LAWS

The M. B. F. is all 0. K. It is
the paper for the farmer. They talk
about the high cost of living, but I
think the cost of law is a great deal
higher. I think our laws ought to
be sorted out and all that have been
repealed leett out, and have the rest
printed in good common sense lan-
guage and sent to the attorneys and
justices as soon as they are printed.
Then the people would have a chance
to know what our laWs are. We, the
taxpayers pay for them. Why should
we not have :tliem?——G. E. J., Osceola
County.

Your idea while not new, is good. There
are too many laws which the average
man knows about to say nothing of the
hundreds which he has never dreamed
are on the statute books. If any reader
wants to spend an interesting hour our
advice would be to secure a copy of the
.Michlgan Compiled laws and look them
through. He'll probably discover before
proceeding for that he has broken more
laws than he thought were in existence.
Yes. there’s room for plenty of reform
in law making—Editor.

 

 

 

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LEST “7E FORGET

. HE RAILROADS have now been
I track in private hands one month
‘ to the satisfaction of the owners
and the.already rising doubt of a great
many of tose who clamored for their
return. . , .
> Complaints of j producers and. ship:-
pers, ,noyv are flooding" the agricul-
ture, interior and ether government
departments. Most complaints are
from mfllers. momffactnrers, farmers
sand . coal mine operators. The year
shuffled} is blamed in part for rising
«livingcosts. I  ' 3 u  ‘ 

  

apartment offi-'

many perishable foods due at market

' beginning about May 1.

Coal mines are now closed 30 per
cent or the time on account of the car
shortageyand other transportation de-
lays, according to reports to the Unit-_
ed States geological suryey of the m-
tevrior department. '

Also on the Milwaukee road switch-
men are striking and there are several"
more strikes likely to he pulled off in

_ ~ the near future.

 
 
 
 

—Mayhe,; the people, big and little;
dupes alike, will awaken to the fact
that -.~they acted but the part of the
cat ‘

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OLEOMARGARINE FOR panama:
In the Michigan Farmer of Am_ " .
10th is an editorial, “Killing 
Goose",pto which a, number of neigh‘ '
bore and myself take an exceptiomfi '
Why is it a dis-grace for us ho’use‘
oleomargarine when we can save ‘30‘._
cents on a pound, yes and more than 
that if we bought creamery butter?
The average family uses 4 pounds
of butter per week. If we do not save
that $1.20 per week no one saves it for
us. We believe that we have as much
' right to buy where and what we m:
to eat as any merchant has to'buy of
a house that sells an article a little
cheaper than ,the house he has been

' dealing with.

We cannot get along without the
M. B. F., just renewed as you re-
quested, and sent along a. new name
as a gift. Here’s to the M. B. F.,
Long may it' live and short may the
lives of its enemies be.——Mrs. B. P.,
Gratiot County, Mich.

Now isn’t it a bit singular that the
day before the above letter arrived we
should have received the following let-
ter upon .exaotly the same subject?

I belieVe you are doing more for.
the farmers of Michigan than all other
papers combined. In my part of the
county at least one third of all the
farmers are using oleo. I think they
are knocking their own market for
butter and milk. Do you think it
would do any good to bring it to their
attention?—-0. A., Kent County, Mich.

I always used to wonder whether Hen-
ry Ford rode in a. Ford or a Packard. I
found out. He doesn’t ride in a. Ford.
Now there may be any number of good
reason why Henry Ford should ride in
some automobile rather than the make
which bears his name, but I must con-
fess to a certain lessening of faith in the
Ford car when I learned that its maker
employed some other car for the use of
himself and family, I cite this little
comparison to draw out the moral of
what I am about to say. I do NOT thin];
that any farmer, particularly the dairy
farmer, should ~ have oleomargarine
served on his table when dairy or cream-
ery butter is available. The highest au-
thorities in the land tell us that a can
tain amount of dairy products in the hu-
man ration is necessary for growth. The
more of these products man consumes the
more healthful, intelligent and strong he
becomes. This fact dairy farmers’ asso~
ciations are now trying to impress upon
the public, for unless the public increases
its consumptidn'of dairy products, the
surplus will increase, farmers will have
to dispose of their dairy cattle for beef.
and those Who now eat oleo from choice
may some day have to eat it from neces-
sity. Think how ludicrous the farmer's
argument for increased consumption of
dairy products would appear to the con-
sumer if he knew that the farmer was
practicing the opposite of what he
preaches. Oleomargarine is the enemy\
of butter. Every new oleo eater is one
less butter eater. We MUST increase
the consumption of dairy products and
the place to begin is right at home. If
every farmer’s family would eat lenty
of butter and drink plenty of mill the
surplus would soon disappear and the
price would advance high enough to
make up the difference between the cost
of butter and the cost of oleo. Let’s
Rear from others on this subject.—~Ed-
or. .

 

IN DEFENSE" OF THE PRESIDENT

Please find enclosed my choice for
next president. I am now past my
82nd birthday, and have voted many
times for president. I believe Wilson
as good as we have ever had. He
has had on his shoulders more than
any other and has stood as much
abuse if not more trouble than any
others, and I am for him. I have
two boys who are against Vlilson and
I am sorry it is so—J. S. PL, Tra'or
m-se City. .P. S.: If you should hap-
pen to come to Traverse City this
summer and have time come and take _" .
dinner with us. We are just at the
city limits, two miles from the state
bank. Have 20 acres of land. We

(have always farmed morevor less and ‘

have much yet to learn, but have.) 
done better than some. I ’ I

Well, 01’ timerpyou're going to have a
guest some time this summer.‘ . U ,
when I travel about’the state to get lief-
ter, acquainted with the agricultural
oonditionsI have to depend upon «the
towns for my meals and lodging, or";
a pinch. stop at a farm house and.
to the lady of the house, "Please, ”
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and sailing for San Antonio. I can

«hold her-until thefnoble~ Enrico and
his sons come, down from the Cor-

dilleras."v . _ /
“And Francis will pay the demur-

 3range, of course,” Henry interpolat-
v ‘ ed. with a sly «sting . that ‘LeonCia-

caught, although it missed. Francis
who cried joyously:

“Of course I will. And it proves
my contention that a checkbook is
pretty good to have anywhere."

To their surprise when they had
parted from the sackcloth men, the

peon and his Indian father attached-

themselves to the Morgans, and
journeyed down through the burning
oil-fields to the plantation which had

‘ been the scene of the peon’s slavery.

Both father and son were unremitting
in their devotion, first of all to Fran-
cis, and, next to Leoncia and Henry.
More than once they noted father
and ‘son in long and earnest conver-

‘sations; and, after Enrico and his

sons had arrived, when the party
went down to the beach to board the
waiting schooner, the peon and his
Maya parent followed along. Francis
essayed to say farewell to them on
the beach, but the peon stated that
the pair of ‘ them were likewise
journeying on the schooner.

“I have told you that I was not a
poor man.” 'the peon explained. af-
ter they had drawn the party aside
from the waiting sailors. “This is
true. The hidden treasure of the

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 immediately,~' fer ‘w‘efiknhwfthe =

; _“And in the meantime you .slledlj.w
[be my guests while you wait,” the
haciendado invited eagerly. "‘There
3:43 a freight schooner at anchor in
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. .=. ’ :
x, “He read i” cried the 'peon tri—

umphantly. “All our old,language is
there in those knots, and he;reads

‘ them as anyman‘may read a book.”

I.

Mayas, which the conquistadores and -

the priests of the Inquisition could
never find, is in my keeping. Or. to
be very true, is in my father’s keep-
ing. He is the descendant, in the
straight line, from the ancient high
priest of the Mayas. He is the last
high priest. He and I have talked
much and long. And we are agreed
that riches do not make life. You
bought me for two hundred and fifty
pesos, yet you made me free, gave
me back to myself. The gift of a
man’s life is greater than all the
treasure in the world. So are we
agreed, my father and I. And so.
since it is the way of Gringos and
Spaniards to desire tre ure. we will
lead you to the Maya treasure. my
father and I, my father knowing the
way. And the way into the moun-
tains begins from San Antonio and
not from Juchitan.” '

“Does your father know the loca-
tion of the treasure?——just where it
is?” Henry demanded, with an aside
to Francis that this was the very
Maya treasure that had led him to
abandon the quest for Morgan’s gold
on the Calf and to take to the main-
land.

The peon shook his head.

“My father has never been to it.
He was not interested in it, caring
not for wealth for himself. Father,
bring forth the tale written in our
ancient language, which you-alone of
living Mayas can read."

From within his loin-cloth the old
man drew forth a dirty and much-
frawed canvas bag. Out of this he
pulled what looked like a snarl of
knotted strings. But ,the strings
weer twisted sennit of some fibrous
forestbark” so ancient that they
threatened to crumble as he handled
them, while from under the touch

.andna‘arnipulation of his fingers a'flne .

powder of decay arose. Muttering
andmnmbling prayers in the ancient
Maya tongue, he held up the snarl
of knots, and bowed reverently be-
fore itere he shook it out.

“The knot writing, the lost writ-

' ten language of the Mayas,” Henry

breathed softly. “This is the real

' thing if only the old geezer hasn’t»

z’forgot‘ten how to read it."

,r , Allheads bent curiously toward it
an it was handed to Francis. It

as in the form of a crude tassel,
‘ mposed of many thin, long strings.

éNntgalone were the knots. and vari-,

up {kinds of knots, tied at irregular
_, vsls in the strings, but the
use .themselyes were of varying

    
  

 

Bendinggcloser to observe, Francis

{and Leoncifs hair touched, Mid» 51-1!- 
.the thniili’of :tli‘e-ri'm'm‘ediatelysbrnken " _ , . _ . . . , _ _
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lcentact,‘ ‘ their ' «eyes. met,“ producing
:the seconddt-hrill as’ they-separated.
But Henry, all eagerness, did not ob-'

serve. He hadeyes'onlyrfor themy-r

stic "tassel. I “g, ,
“What dfyou sa‘y, Francis?" he

murmured.- ."It’s big 1 ‘It's big. i” I
_ “But New York is beginning to-
“Oh, not '

call,” Francis demurred.
its people and its fun, but its'busi-
ness,” he added haStily, as be sensed
Leoncia’s unuttered reproach and
hurt. “Don’t forget, I’m mixed up
in Tampico Petroleum and the stock
market, and I hate to think how
many millions are involved.”

“Hell’s bells i” Henry ejaculated.
“The Maya treasure if a tithe of

Y a z

prevented frOm accompanying the

party because of the bursting open‘

of. an old wound received lathe rev-

olutionary fighting dt’his youth.
' Up’ the main street of San Antenio

cthe‘wwidaflfiwmfiswnmmg 1h? .'
219.11;:crswmcmhrapcis‘rehw'"7;: , , , ,

v"  Jim-urine .uhhrakensward.. ‘

‘ j” But the old man started hismule,
and, with a tattoo of bare heels on -

~then~being~tardilya rebuilt by. the
Jefe's prisoners. Torres, sauntering
down the street, the latest wire from
Regan tucked in hispockettsaw the
Morgan outfit with. surprise.

' ‘ “Whither away, senors?” he call-

ed. > _
Sospontaneous that it might have
been rehearsed, Francis pointed 'to
the sky ,Henry straight down at-the
earth, the peon to the right and his
father to the left. The curse from
Torres at such impoliteness, cauSed
all to burst into laughter. in which
the mule peons Joined as they rode
along. ' '

Within the morning, at the time

 

 

Synopsis  Preceding Chapters

FRANCIS MORGAN, s New York millionaire, becomes bored with society and decides to tolls An
extensive fishing trip. Regen, Franols' broker plans to. ruin Francis through his Wall Street
holdings. Regan pays Torres, e dark-skinned visitor from the Osrrlbssn islands who knows of a
treasure buried by a pirate ancestor of Frencls.’ to lure young Francis away. The lure works and
Francis starts out alone. He lands on an island whither he has been beckonsd by a girl on the
shore. The girl mistakes Francis for a lover with whom she has querreied. Francis explores

another island where he meets a young man who
to be e relative of Frencls.’ He is also huntln
Francis learns that Henry is the lover of the air
Francis returns to the first Island where he is captured by Torres and the Jets Politico of Ben An--
tonic. They proclaim him to be Henry, whom they wish to hang for a murder he did not commit.
They are shout to hang him when Henry appears. They release Francis and throw Henry into
prison. The Science and Francis release Henry and they escape to
chartered. They are pursued by'Torres and the chs with hls’soldlsrs.
where they procure horses and start through thshllls with the Jets and his gang In pursuit. Torres

lvos his names as Henry Morgen and proves
or the treasure. They form a partnership.
he met and that her name Is Leoncia Soleno.,

tho ' boat that Francis — has
They land on an island

 

with the Jets and his gendarmes succeed in capturing the Morgans nd their friends. but as theyi

are about to torture Henry and. Frsncls they are surrounded by s
followers of a blind-man. called “The Cruel Just One," who lives in the hills.
their captives before their leader who passes Judgment on than. ~ rm

freed. A price Is put on the Jen's hold, which Francis pays, than the Jets. Torres and their

soldiers are freed also.

what they say about its immensity be
true, could be out three ways between

nd of'msn., These m n are
The me tells
us and Sol-nos sro

 

of the siesta hour, while all the town‘-

slept, Torres received a second sur-

‘ Enrico, you and me, and make each‘ prise. This“ time it was the sight of

. peon and His ancient parentfl‘andof
saith

of us richer than you are now."

Still Francis was undecided, and,
while Enrico expanded on the au-
thenticity of the treasure, Leon‘cia
managed to query in an undertone
in Francis’ ear:

“Have you so soon tired of .
of treasure hunting?”

He looked at her keenly, and down
at her engagement ring, as he ans-
wered in the same low tones:

“How can I stay longer in this
country. loving you as I do, while
you love Henry?" '

It was the first time he had open- '

ly avowed his love, and Leoncia knew
the swift surge of joy, followed by
the no less swift surge of mantling
shame that she, a woman who had
always esteemed herself good, could
love two men at: the same time. She
glanced at Henry, as if to verify her
heart, and her heart answered yes.
As truly did she love Henry as she
did Francis, and the emotion seemed
similar where the two were similar,
different where they were different.

“I'm afraid I’ll have to connect up

with the Angelique, most likely at'

Bocas del Toro,‘ and get away,"
Francis told Henry.’ “You and En-
rico can find-the treasure and split it
two ways." '

But the peon, having heard, broke

into quick speech with his father, and.

next, with Henry. ' s ._
“You hear what he says, Francis,"

the latter said, holding up the sacred.
tassel. “Youive'got to go with at; ,

It is youhe feels grateful to for h

son. He isn’t giving the treasure to
us but to you. And if you don’t go,
he won’t read a knot of the writing.”

But it was Leoncia, looking at;

Francis with quiet wistfulness (of
pleading, seeming all but it to say,
“please, for my sake,” who really
sion. , ' . .

CHAPTERXIII

on a single day, three separate
expeditious started for the Cor-

: WEEK later, outlet. Sen‘n'Antonio I

dilleras. The first, mountediongmules '

was composed .of Henry, Frencid, the

   
 

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caused Francis to reverse his deci-“Wflflst.

Leoncia and her youngest brother,
Ricardo, on mules, leading a third
that was evidently loaded with ,a
camping outfit.

The third expedition was Torres’
own, neither more or less meagre
than Leoncia’s, for it was ‘composed
only,of himself and one, Jose Man-
cheno, a notorious murdered of the
place whom Torres, for private rea-‘
sons, had saved from the buzzards of

~ San Juan. But Torres’ plans, in the

matter of an expedition, were more

ambitious than they appeared. Not 1

far up the slopes of'the Cordilllenas
dwelt the strange tribe of the_Caroos.
Originally founded by runaway negro
slaves of Africa and Carib slaves of
the Mosquito Coast, the renegades
had perpetuated themselves with
stolen women of the tierra caliente
and tied with women slaves like

themselves. Between the Mayas be—'

yond, and the government of the
coast, this unique colony had main-
tained itself in semieindependence.
Added to, in later days,’ by run-away
Spanish prisoners, the Caroos" had
become a hotchpotch of bloods and
breeds, possessing a name and a taint
so bad that the then governing power
of Colombia, had it not been too "oc,
cupied with its own particular po-
litical grafts, would have sent arm-
ies to destroy the pest hole. And in
this pest hole of the flames Jose
Mancheno, had been born of a Span-.-
ish-murdered ‘father and a mestiza-

.rmat‘rdecess‘ «sadndtorthisgpest

hole do‘se'vidancheno was “leading 'Toré
res in order that the command of

«Thomas Regen of =Wall' Street might ‘_

be carried out. ' '

“Lucky we‘ found him when we
did," Francis told Henry, ' as they
rode at the rear of the' lastf Maya

‘ “He's pretty senile," Henryrfiod-
ded. “Lookwvat 'him'.“ 7

., The-old. man, «as he led thei‘way,“

was forever pulling out :the sacred

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mountain we wake V"

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thicken

painted at the '-

in ; broken .‘SpaniSh:

m saysz', Idtheifootsteps ot’the .

God gwaitrtill the eyes of  flash."
 He indicated the particular knots
of. a particular string: asthe source
of his information- 3: 

 .‘IWhere, are . ,the, foetsteps,, old

priestrcisflénrr. 'Mfiafldéd.‘ «stains.

the creature’s ribs, hastened it on
across the clearing and into the
jungle beyondn , . '

"“He’s like a hound on‘rthe scent,

‘and it looks as if. the scent. is get-
. ting hot,” Francis remarked.

‘At the end of half a mile, where

"fthe jungle turned to grass land on

swift rising slopes the old man forc-
ed his mule into-a gallop which he

.maintained until he reached a nat-

ural‘ depression in the ground.'Three
feet or mo'rein depth, of area sum-
ciemt to V accommodate a dozen, per-
sons vinvcomfort, its form wass'strik'm
ingly like that which some colossal
human foot could have made.
“The foot steps of the God," the
old priest proclaimed solemnly, ere

' he slid off his mule and prostrated

himself in prayer. "In the foot-stép
of the God “must we wait till the. eyes
of Chia flash—so say the sacred
knots.“ A ~ , '

“Pretty good place for a meal,"
Henry vouchsafed, looking down into
the depression. While waiting for
the mumbo-jumbo foolery to come
off, we‘might as well stay our stum-
achs.” r .-

"If« Chia doesn’t object,” laughed
Francis. - ,

And Chia did not object, at least
the old priest could not find any ob-
jectionwritten in‘the knots. ] _

While: the mules were being teth-
ered on the edge of the firsttbreak
of woods, water was fetched from a
nearby spring and a fire built in’the

foot-step. The old Maya seemed ob»

livious of everything, as he mumbled
endless prayers and ran the knots
over and over.
“If only he
Francis said. ,
“I thought he was wild-eyed the
first day we met him up in Juchitan,"
concurred Henry. “But it's nothing
to the way his eyes are now." "
Here spoke the peon, who, unable
to understand a word of their English
nevertheless sensed the drift of‘it. ,
“This is very religious, very dan-
gerous, to have anything to do with
the old Maya sacred things. It is
the death road. My father knows.
Many men have died. The deaths

are sudden and horrible. Even Maya .

priests have died. My father’s fath-
er so died. He, too, loved a woman
of the tierra caliente. And for the
love of her, for gold, he sold the
Maya secret and by the knot writing
led tierra“ caliente men to the trees-
ure. He died. They all died. My
father does not like the w0men of
the tierra caliente now that he is old.
He liked them too well in his youth,
which‘was his sin. And he knows

"the danger of,leading you to the

treasure. ,Many men have sought
during the centuries. Of those who

found it, not one came back. It is '

said that even conquistadores and
pirates of the English Morgan have
won to the hiding place and-decorat-

ed it with their bones.”

“hand when your ‘~fathér.- luau,"
Francis queried, “then, being his-son",

you will be the Maya highpriest?"
‘\ .Vf‘No senor,” the peon. shookyhis,
head. '” “1am, onlyy‘half-Ma'ya. I

cannot read the knots.; My, father

did not teach, me. because-I winging; .. I f

of the pure Maya blood.” ,

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the discussion on a clOser and more
intimate basis. .. -  » -

er and observed her with wrath. And
in wrath, he burst upon her, inter-
mingling occasional Spanish words
and phrases with the ’flood of deun-
ciation in (Maya.

“He says that women are no
good," the peon interpreted in the
first pause.
‘quarrels among men, the quick steel,
and
God’s wrath are. ever, upon them.
Their ways are not God's Ways, and
He
says women are the eternal enemy of
God and man, forever keeping God
and man apart. He says women have
ever cluttered the footsteps of God
ind have kept men away from travel-
ing the path of God to God. He says
this women must go back.’f ‘

With laughing eyes, Francis
whistled his appreciation of the dia-
tribe, while Henry said: -

“Nowfi will you be good, Leoncia?
You see what a Maya thinks of your
sex. This is no place for you. Call-
Women "vote
there.” r

“The trouble is that the old .man
is remembering the woman who

» brought misfortune upon him in the

heyday of his youth,” Francis said.
He turned to the peon. “Ask your
father to read the knot writing and

, see what it says for or'against wo—‘

   

  
    
   
 

“fumbled the sacred .yvriting.

” the‘ey'e‘s of Chis, whatever“ that «may

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men traveling in the footsteps of
God.” -

In vain the
There
was not to be found the slightest au-
thorative objection to woman.

“He's fixing his own experiences
up with his mythology," Francis
grinned triumphantly. “So I guess
it's pretty near all right, Leoncia
for you to stay for a bite to eat. The
coflee’s made: After that . "

But “after that" came before.
Scarcely had they seated themselves
on the ground and begun to eat,
when Francis, standing up to serve
Leoncia with tortillas, had his hat
knocked off. ’

“My word i" he said, sitting down.
“That was sudden. Henry, take a
squint and see Who tried to pot shot
me." a

The next moment, save for the
peon’s father, all eyes were peeping
ac'ross the rim of th’e‘footstep. What
they saw, creepingupon them from
every side was a nondesc'ript and bi-
zarrely clad horde of men who seem-
ed members of no particular race
but composed of all races. The
breeds of' the entire human family
seemed to have ‘mOulded their line—
aments and vari-colored their skins.

“The mangiest bunch I ever laid
eyes on," was Francis' comment;

“They are the Caroos," the peon
muttered, betraying fear. -

“And who in " Francis began.
Instantly he amended. “And who in
Paradise are the Caroos?" '

“They come from hell," was the
mute answer. “They are more sav-
age than the Spaniard, more terrible
than‘ the Maya. They neither give

r_,take in ,marriage, nor does a

 

. prie‘st reside among them. They are

the devil’s own spawn, and their ways
are the devil's' ways, only worse};

Here the Maya rose, and, with ac-
cusing finger, denounced Leoncia for
being the cause of this latest trouble.
A 'bullet creased his shoulder and
half whirled him about.‘

'f“Drag him down i" Henry shout-,

‘ , ed to' Francis- “He’s thaonly man

who’k'nows the knot ~ language; and

mm hmznotiiéi vessel? .,: ‘1;
£3 Francis: :obefiedg wtthman outereaoh '

«amuse thepidfellpW’s legs, jarka
crumpled, skelv-

ingfhim' down in a

s rfibn‘ry’ museums rule; "andéielicim‘d
" ' no _‘ Next. .Riéar:

' “on 'tlopine‘drsin.

    

ething "to eat, -(

ancient high priest ,

 ; I, p , pressi’on with "pure ~
‘ _ feminine ,cu’nning' in order to place

. Aroused \by their. voices, the” old:
Maya came out of a trance of pray-

:o. tater; with

.; ceasing from: firing-L ; p I
separately, he had to‘ex‘plain that all
ethe’ir "ammunitiOn ‘was with the
mules, and that they must be spar-

 

ing with the little they had in their

magazines and belts. , '

_‘_‘And don’t let them hit ~ you,"
Warned Henry.‘ ,“They’ve got‘ old
muskets and blunderbuses that will
drive holes through you the size of
dinner plates.” ‘

An hour later, the last cartridge,
save several in Francis' automatic
pistol. was gone; and to the irregu-

~ lar firing of the Caroos the pit re-

“He says women bring.

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in.» 3393.1”. smile i

plied with silence. Jose Mancheno
was the first to guess the‘situation.
He cautiously crept up to the edge
of 'the pit to make sure, then sig-
naled to the Caroos that the ammuni-
tion of the besieged was exhausted
and to come on.

“Nicely trapped, senors," he ex—
ulted down at the defenders, while
from all around the rim laughter
arose“ from the Caroos.

But the next moment the change
that came over the situation was as

» astounding as a transformation
scent in a pantomime. With wild

cries of terror the Caroos were flee-s

ing. Such was their disorder and
haste that numbers of them dropped
their muskets and machetes.

“Anyway, I'll get you, Senor Buz-
zard," Francis pleasantly assured
Mancheno, at the same time flour-
ishing his pistol at him.

He leveled his weapon as Man-
cheno fled, but reconsidered and did
not draw the trigger.

“I've only- three shots left,” he
explained to Henry, half iii—apology.
“And in this country one can never
tell when three shots will come in
handiest, as I've found out, beyond
a doubt."

“Look i" the peon cried, pointing

to his father and to the distant
mountainside. “That is why they
ran away. They have learned the

peril of the sacred think of Maya."

The old priest, running over the
knots of the tassel in an ectasy that
was' almost trance-like, was gazing

, fixedly at the distant mountain, from
which, side by side and close togeth-
er, two bright flashes of light were
repeating themselves.

“Twin mirro’rs could do that‘in
the hands of a man,” was Henry’s
comment.

“They are the eyes of Chia.” the
peon repeated. “It is so written in
the knots as you have heard my
father say. Wait in the foot-steps of
the God till the eyes of Chia flash.”

The old man rose to his feet and
wildly prooiaimed: “To find the
treasure we must find the eyes."

“All right, old top," Henry sooth—
ed him, as, with his small traveler’s
compass he took the bearings of the
flashes.

“He’s got a compass inside his
head,” Henry remarked an hour lat-
er of the old priest, who led on the
foremost mule. “I check him by the
compass, and, no matter how the nat-
ural obstacles compel him to deviate,
he comes back to the course as if he
were himself a magnetic needle.”

Not‘since leaving the foot-step, had
the flashings been visible. Only from
that one spot, evidently, did the rug-
ged landscape permit the seeing of
them. Rugged the country was, and
broken into arroyos and cliffs, inter-
spersed with forest patches and
stretches of sand and ofVolc'anic ash.

'At last the way became impassable
for their mounts, and Ricardo was
left behind to keep charge of the.
mulesand mule-peons and to make a
camp. The remainder of the party
continued on, scaling the jungle-clad
steep that blocked their way by
hoisting themselves and one another

; ,u‘pfrom root to root." The old Maya, 9
' -~ Lstill leading, was oblivious " to iLeon‘f

‘u‘iicia’s presence. 

 ,‘fifiddphdfifhalf as mile tanner. on; ..
he halted and shrank back at if stung
by a vipers Francis' laughed and
acrossihe, lan scape came back

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Red Cross will clear land with one-tenth the labor i
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for ditch digging and tree planting and is economical ‘
and safe.

Put this Giant Farm Hand to work for you. If your
broject warrants, we will Send a demonstrator to
how you the easiest and cheapest way of doing
'our work.

See your Dealer. In any case, findouf who! Red C res: can do
foryou—and how. W title fin "Handbook of Explosivu"today.

E. I. du Pont de Nemours 8: Company, Inc.
Sales Dept: Explosives Division
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more before you pay. > You won't feel the cost at all.
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pay the freight charges both we 5. You won’t be out one nny. You
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mousse}: Word Move-
ment of North America has be—
gun to make itself felt throughout
theland. although the organization
was onlystarted a short time ago.
And the reason is that for the first
time we are applying business rules
to religion—are realising ,the tre-
‘ mendous responsibilities at our coun-
try; realizing that if our country is
to stay in the lead, is going. torhe in
truth the "Promised Land” we‘must
“Do unto others as we would that
they should do unto us.”
And It last we have awakened to
this fact that we must pay the price.
If we go to church when we wish to

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—<lf'we contribute toward the upkeep’

when we feel so inclined or have the
extra money—~we can’t expect reli-
gion to give us much in return. For
we 'must realize that everything
worth having in this world has a
price tag on it. No more are we sat-
isfied with the old time minister who
preaches to us that "we must be
good if we would be happy." We
want an up—to—date men who has
studied conditions in Europe and can
‘ advise us relative to our position
with other countries——a man who
knows the needs of the people of his
community in a material way—a
man who can tell our young people
what to read—~who can advise the
men on state and national questions
as well as the women—and if we
hire that kind of a preacher-“we
must pay the price for an educated
rum—BUT it’s worth it. Very few
would care to move to a country
when there was no church, but af—
ter a church is once planted in their
. community- some feel that if they at-
tend on state occasions, they had
done their duty by their families for
the}: have provided a Sunday school
for-the children. But we are coming
to realize. because it is being point-
ed out to us that religion is for every
member of the family.

W23 m .for health—we pay for
wealth. If we are to be healthy we
have to observe the laws of hygiene
——-we abstain from harmful habits
and foods—for wealth we work——
pay with brain and brawn.

Mr. Rockefeller, Jr., is giving his
time to further this movement as he
realizes the benefit to our country
to be derived from getting every one
interested in the churchneveryone
working in the church. Thevfollow-
lug is a statement made by him in a
recent meeting:

“As men and women, weary pil-
grims, wlend up the mountain side,
gradually and inevitably they come
closed and closer together, for on
the mountain top all paths meet. So
may all Christian men and women
meet at the mountain top, standing
side by side on the broad foundation
. of God’s love and Christ’s life in a
great unending warfare against mor-
al wrong.”

The mothers of the land agree that

the children should attend moving.

pictures which have an educational
value and pictures whose story is
clean. Then in order to be sure they
are properly censured it has come to
be the general custom in many
churches to have an entertainment
evening once each week, right in the
church. A good reel is run which
gives the dramatized story in a
few minutes. And the very best
stories in the world are being brought
to the silver screen. Then there is
a. comedy, not the cheap slap stick
variety but some good clean whole-
some fun that every member of the
family can enjoy, there are the time-
' ly topics and either a short nature
picture or a picture showing some

“  industry at work. Membership" in

the church entitles the member of
on family to entrance tickets, 0!
course the members of the church
,must pay the price, but how much
better than to pay for the ordinary
amusement. _ ‘ .
man on. Sunday afternoon; when
the. young people are won’t to go for

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Edited by mom. CLARE LAID!) .

es_of the opportunity to have the
young people’s social hour when the
young folks gather to hm a little
visit and then sing. This is follow-
ed by light refreshments. Of course
some one must give up some, time
and money. Some one must super—
vise these social hours, must pro-
vide some sort of entertainment and
must make the cocoa and sandwich-
es and wash the dishes. The larger
churches are finding it profitable to
hire some one outright for this work
—-e social secretary who knows her
job assisted by a woman to care for
’ the lunch, while the smaller church-

the' church and , what a won-
derful investment for any church'

while every member who is able
financially, contributes toward the
testament fund which is used to pay
for the little testaments. Of course
they who ‘aro able buy their own, and
there are lovely little leather bound
ones which are very thin and which
will stand the wear of constant use
for years. ‘

The beauty of the Testament Leag-
ue is that it is interdenomlnational,
we are all striving for the same and,
some believe in one creed and some
in another, but all believe in ~ the

  

Attractlvo farm home of Mr. and Mrs. W

es elect committees to each

week. ‘
The old time idea of a service has

serve

passed away. the younger generation ,

demand something different, so the
upstmdato church has good music, a
trained choir and those who are in-
terested in singing and have any tal-
ent can join the choir, but they must
pay the price of regular attendance
for the choir leader is hired and they
cannot miss choir practice and stay
in the choir any more than the boys
can miss their school lessons and
stay on the foot ball team.

And then the newest, ,most far-
reaching movement in connection
with the whole scheme is the read-
ing of the bible. Oh yes, we all
have our bibles, but we read them
periodically, or at least most of us
have done so. Perhaps we read a
chapter today and then don’t read
one again for a week if we are very
busy. But in this new scheme of
things we know that we actually get
value received just as we apply our-
selves. But we are such busy peo-
ple, we rush to work and we rush
home to eat and dress for some so-
cial engagement for the evening, and
we forget. So the Alexanders, those
great singing evangelists. have de—
vised the scheme of thePocket Testa-
ment League. The only requirement
in joining the League is that you
promise to carry with you, “Where-‘
ever you go," the little pocket testa-
ment which fits into a man's pocket
or a woman's either for that matter
ifshe has one, but'if not, will even
slip into the purse. For if we have
it, with us, sometimes each day we
will find time to read the one chap-
ter. And in so doing we are resting
our bodies, while relaxed, we are
resting our minds from the cares that
surround us, we are finding things in
the bible that we never knew were
there and incidentally we are 9. little
more inclined to be charitable to
our neighbors, if we have a pocket
testament in our pockets than if we
didn’t. It isn’t quite so easy to gos-
sip—it isn't quite so easy to drive a
bargain quite to closely for personal
gain.

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bible and all can unite in this move-
ment. If you are interested in this
league and would like to learn more
of it, would like a, sample ofthe card
which is signed, or the. prices 0f the
testaments and the place where you
can secure them, just remember our
Shopping Service Bureau will be
glad to give you full information.

Have you ever noticed when you
became interested in a. subject how,
everyone else seemedto be interest-
ed in th same subject and how you
just couldn’t pick up a magazine or
paper without reading something
about that very subject, and didn't
yoyu wonder how they happened to
be thinking of the same thing you
were? Since I decided to write this
little article I have‘found so many
good things on the same subject. The
one which I am copying seems to fit
so into my little thought of value
received for value given that I must
pass it right on. '

It Pays to Read the Bible

The fact that the Standard Oil Co.
has discovered oil and is operating
wells in Egypt is generally known,
but its reason for going to than an-
cient lend to look for oil is probably
not so well known. It is asserted
that the attention of someone con-
nected with the company was attract-
ed by the statement in Exodus 2:3
that the ark of bulrushes that the
mother of Moses made for her child
was "daubed with slime and with
pitch.” Reasoning that where there
was pitch there was 011 and if there
over was oil in Egypt it. was probably
still there, the company sent out
Charles Whitshott, its geologist and
oil expert, to make investigations,
with the result that oil was discov-
ered. Three wells are now in oper-
ation and others are to be opened.—
The Lam/p. .

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OUR READERS OWN COLUMN
EAR Miss Ladd: I wish the lady
who wrote relative to the lamp
shades in the issue of April 10

'would give directions for making the

lamp shades. I

 

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would like very

 

schools are buy-
ing the- cheaper
edition of these
testaments for
'their whole Sun-r
No
one gets one who
doesn’t ~sign the
card promising to
‘read the chapter
each day, but in
this way the child
who can’t aflord ..
to buy one is 1
provided with

'one freo.of

charge f munch“

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Weekly Cheer

Build for yourself 3 strong box,
Fashion each part with we;
Flt it with been and padlock,
Put; all your troubles there
Hide therein all your failures,
And each bitter cup you tau-ff ,
Lock all your heartache. within 11;,
Then—sit on the lid and laugh.

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Tell no one its. contents;

Never its secrets share; » \
Drop in: your euros and worries,
” Keep them for o'er-there, a ‘
Hide tho-a from sight so

The world will never dream
down .Ioouroly.
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idea in detail; I
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shade myself and "
her ideas may
prove helpful to
mere-Mrs. ’W. Y.”

x  Editor
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ed the am issue- and I noticed
your offer to help the readers. Now
I have a good navy blue’ raincoat,
also a medium blue winter coat
which I would like to sell. The
winter coat is out of date but there
is plenty of material in it to make a
girl ‘12 or 14 years old a good coat.
‘Can you give me the address of peo-
ple who handle such clothing—Mrs.

Dear Mrs. E: There are two ways
by which you can dispose of those
garments. The. first is through an
ad in the paper in your own locality
so that those who are prospective
buyers may see the articles and the

other is through the second hand

store. The first is much the better
way as the second hand stores will
not buy until they see and examine
the goods and then they pay such a
small price that it hardly pays one
for the trouble.' Of course there is
the possibility that some one of our
readers who has small Children
would care to correspond with 11
relative to the same. If so and

write me, I shall be glad to 603
them your name and address. -

Dear Miss Ladd: One of my girl
friends just returned from the ct
and told me of a new song she be
entitled "That Old Fashioned Moth;-
er of Mine." Now I teach school and
would like so much to get that long
to be used in my Mother’s Day exer-
Can you purchase it for me
and what is the cost—E. L.

Dear Miss 19.: Certainly I can no-
cure the music you desire and shall
be glad to do so if you will send me
80c—the cost of the music and 8c
postage. It is a real pleasure to m
to know that our readers are deriving
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'GOMBINE MEAT AND VEGETAI‘
BLES INTO CHOWDER

other Way of using vegetabl.

and also skim milk. ' They no-
fer little from milk-vegetable soups
except that less liquid is used an
vegetables are usually cut into small
pieces instead of being chopped fluo-
ly. For this reason chowders s
more substantial. As in the case
the vegetable soups, it is a mistake
to be confined to any definite recipe.
for under those circumstances ma-
terials are often
should be used. The following tyr
ical recipe is therefore only sug-
gestive.

1—4 pound salt pork or bacon.

1 onion. , "

6 medium sized tomatoes or 1 pin
stewed tomatoes.
green pepper.
medium sized potatoes.
carrots. 1
cups skim milk.
tablespocmsful flour.
teaspoons salt. '

Put the bacon or pork, onion, 
pepper through the meat chop r
cook carefully about five m no
Add the water and tomatoes a
cook until the vegetables are tendon
Cut the potatoes and carrots 1::
small pieces and cook in water
til tender, drain, and add with the
third milk to the other ingredients.

"VEGETABLE chowders offer as

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. Thicken with the flour mixed with a

little cold milk.

NATIONAL QUESTIONS

What nation created fear and toe-
ror? Consternatiom -

What nation is given over the dos-
ltruction? Ruination. I

What nation has produced the mod
kings? Coronation. ~ , V

What nation prepared most mos.
for the ministry? Ordination.

What nation is always behindh’anfl
Procrastination. I r . ,. -- ' ,  :

'What .‘ nation is famous for 
lighting system? (Illumination.

‘What nation is, immune bo.‘
eminent, V - .- , xzf, ’ 

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EAR CHILDREN: The ilrst prize
for the best story at e "hike"
was'awarded to Ross Oheadle. of

Lake, and his story is printed. else-
where on this page.

One of our little correspondents
inquires relative to prizes for guess-
ing the puzzle each week. We have
discontinued giving prizes for these
answers as there are always so'many
which are perfect, but the puzzles
will be printed each week and I am
sure you will and much interest in
guessin them. Prizes will be award-
ed however for the best original
drawings and the best original stories
as well as for subscriptions so there
is plenty of opportunity for every am-
bitious boy and girl to win a prize.

Just for a change in contests, we
ongoing to have an expression from
all or my little correspondents as
to their Mme-its author and the
story which ‘you like the best ,writ-
ten by that author; the name of your
favorite poet and the poem he wrote,
which you like best and the name or
your favorite ‘song and the name of
the author of the words of that song.
I will keep all the names that come
in for one month and at the end of
that time, I will publish the name
or the author, the poet and the song
writer who receive the largest num-
ber of votes and also the pictures of
the three who receive the largest
number of votes. And it in writing
you can tell me why you like them
best, and something of their lives,
all in a very tew words, we can make
this afivery interesting contest of
favorites. Aflectlonately yours.—
LADDIE. ,

 

OUR BOYS AND GIRLS

Dear Laddie—d saw iour request in
the M. B. F and thoug it I would tell
about my bike Easter Sunday Three
others and myself went for a hike. We

nt to a creek and round a good place

camp. It was on a little island cover-
ed with pine trees. There was a good
spring near. We could not get away
from our cam without getting our feet
wet. So I bu It a little bridge of poles.
’We boiled our e gs and roasted some
bread. We to Some oowslips and
boiled them wi our eggs. It made the
eggs green. We built a tent of brush
nd poles. and wont home. I am a boy

8 years old. I live on a 40-acre term.
We have cattle ‘and horses and sheep.
We have 49 head of stock all together.
Will close.-Ross Cheadle.

Deaxr Laddie—-Do give a. prize to;
e puzzle given in paper each week
so please send one to me as I will give

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the bottom or my letter. ‘1' in
New York ‘ year it using 0%
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take music lessons as my  on
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t is tunnmet  will i is
cause we 0 bad man school
(another funny thing . -
there at. not enou pa: lg” e d
trial: to schoo tax I mus
teacher is in Bennett. in"?
nice. my teachers name was , 3.0g
Masters. She is nice also. a sch
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H. Solon

last teacher,  Jhnfiflfinfix
gs.“ m. was. .. an £3...
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andunoorrytheygot uldon
think their will fame for wages.
:3 quite a lot 0 work tn; farm

80 acres. For th wor do have

wagon tiihplsfy w other wor is
gone. On e arm are two rses,
calves on three cows. We have e
is and 6 chickens. Foe I ha

cat: named sassy. R an
B cos. I am ada— feet  hhgve

dark brown Miran blueees pe
to see letter in print mike, it is
long. '1‘): letter is from n vh

erse ocunty. as on may not be able
find Summit ’0 ty, Mich—«Miss Jenn
Yule.

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Dear Ladd'ieé—I am a girl \ 2 are old
and in the 6th grade at schoo. is}; teach-
er's name is Miss M O'Brien and to
be sure she isago one. bhehas
taught 10 years in Math My moth-
er went to her three ears. have three
little sisters MK fat' or taboo the M. B.
I one! rea ing the girls and boys
lotto ive on a 120 acre farm. We
have horses 7 cows. 4 calves, 2 sheep,
a he s and 1:! little ones. w! also have
70 sickens. In the summer enjoy go-
ing tishhhg and I also love going boat
rldlln on g my dinner and eat»
ing n the. 00 with so of my girl
friendA—Veda Dick, Muir, 1811., R. .

 

Dear Diddle—My pa
ewal for M. B. F. and will write you a
etter and send it with t. We cant get

alo without it. > I am e 14 ears
woul pass
girl 8 years old, and I thought
right to write in the children's our. I
have two sisters. We all school
but Frank, and he is going. is tall. Our
teacher is Clara Manink. We live on an
80-acre term. We have 2 horses. 1 col
8 cows 8 calves,‘ 2 yeaer heifers, 1
hogs. 5 chickens, 28 little chicks and
we also have the incubator running. Will
be glad to have some of the girls write
to me, and I will answer all letters.—
Chloe Davis, Lakeview, Mich.

—-———-d

Dear Laddie—JI am a girl 9 years old
and in the 6th grade at school. I have
one brother, William. but is always call—
ed’ Peat. and one sister, Lucille. For pets
I have two dogs, Collie and Trixie, one
cat, Mousie, and two rabbits, Jack and
Beauty. Well as my letter is getting
long I will close hoping to see it in
print,-—Margorie Vandercook, 'Howell,
Mich.

 

 

 

    
 
 

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tinue our slow rate by making your remittance
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WHEAT AND ALFALFA, Ila IMPROVED
girl west farm. 250 acres level black loam bot-
m land in neighborhood where one year's cro

alfalfa has paid for fem,’ greet wheat lend:
wire-fenced pasture: near RR town. ell conven-
iencse; 18 room house, bathroom, running vu-
tsr, big barn, silo, cattle shod, other buildlnu:
owner retiring. bargain price $56 an emu"
terms. _ Details page 91 Strout‘s Spring telog
Bargains 88 states. copy free. STROUT AGE. -
CY, 814 B E. Ford Bldg" Detroit.

FOR. SALE—120 ACRES. NINETV AORI.
high state cultivation. trucking tenee

Detroit, all new buildin s, house hu eight rooms
and bath. oak finish. he and id utsrhfu ,

newsman.” ..... .1 us
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WANTED—TO IUY A 000D IMPROVED
farm near a good market town on d road. Ad-
dress, ANDREW PAID. Glsdwin, ch.

239 ACRE. .O D LAND. IUILDINOS, hWA‘;

 

 

ter, 8 rods to col, ss town, 20 ee
cattle. 4 horses, 8001s complete most ew. Price
324.000: 314.0 0 down, baiancs 2 terms.
Owner. Address, Box care B ees
Farmer, Mt. Clemens. Mich.

FOR SALE—120 A. FRUIT AND TOOK
farm. 20 e. apple orchard bearing fruit miles
from Charlevoix thremmiles from Bit sinflon.

r. w. woonni, Charlevoix, n 2, Mich

E‘MISCELLANEOUfl

PnsrunE—zso ACRES, econ PASTURE.
can care for three cars cattle. R. R. siding con-
M. M. snanom‘, Eaton Rapids. Mich.

WANTED— A SECOND HAND CLOVER
huller. What have on? State cash price and
full description. J. . REEVES, Curran, Mich.

STRAWBERRY PLANTS—JENATOR DUN-
hp and 10 other varieties; 70c per hundred.
ERNEST PUTMAN. Williamston, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

sens-ran cunt.» AND ersvsne- LATE
champion 85.00 r 1,000; $2.50 per 500' 81
{gr 100R dle‘livfi o. H. STANLEY, Paw Paw.

ch 0.

 

150 SENATOR DUNLAP, 150 WARFIELDS-
82.00 postpaid. Dunlap $5.00 per 1,000, not
prepaid. HAMPTON & SON, Bangor, Mich.

 

WRITE THE CLARE JEWELRY cu. run
bargain sheet of watches and silverware. We do
watch repairing. Lock Box 535, Clare. Mich.

BUY FENCE POSTS DIRECT FROM FOR-
est. All kinds. Delivered prices. Address "M.
M." care Michigan Business Farming, Mt. Clem-
ens, Mich.

 

BUILDERB' PRODUCTS 00.. 14 PAsAbENA
AVG» Detroit. Wholesale to consumers—Paints.
Varnish, Spra g Materials. Sprayers. Manual
mailed free. . B. TEEPLE. Mgr.

 

SUDAN GRASS SEED $17. SWEET GLOV-

er 840. Sheep and Hog Rape $18 per 100 lbs.
HAROLD G. FRANK, Heathernac Ranch, Ster-
ling, Michigan.

 

SEED CORN—EARLY MATURINO. SELECT-
ed Pickett’b yellow dent. $3.50 for 56 lbs.
shelled corn. bags extra at 50c, or send them by
parcel post. E. N. BALL, Hamburg, Mich.

 

WANTED~ABOUT AUGUST 1ST. A COM-
petent and experienced engineer for a Port Huron
steam threshing engine and also a competent and
experiencd separator man, self feeding grain and
bean threshers and hand feed cloved huller. If
interested state experience give references and
salary wanted Write THE ANGELL THRESH-
Treas., Williamsburg, Mich.

FOR SALE—ENGINE: BURNS GASOLINE
or kerosene; 12 h. p.; Fairbanks-Morse; Good as
new; cash price, 8250. MAGEE SHEET METAL
MACHINERY 00., 728 Vermont Ave., Detroit,
Mich. Tel. Glendale 1047.

srnlwstnhlrs

AND SMALL FRUITS

“a Quality plants that satisfy.
Send for catalog.
GEO. H. SOHENOK
Elsie. Mich.

 

 

 

Rider A cute
Everywhere to ride g and ex-
:llbif the new  or "Minter;

0 co 0 e u pa
with electricnpiighty odd one.
carrier. stand tool tank, const-
or-braks. mu guards and anti-
ski tires. Choice offlorher
stylesycolors and s _ n the
“Rare H'Ainsofbicyclss. r as
b as P WENT! if desired
at a smell advance -
Sfiscial wholesale cash prices.
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'um document.

STANDARDIZATION OF SLEIGHS

—-I wish to Express my views thru M. B. ‘

.inregard to the act 7 b3 our-last-
slature that is regu- to ta '
mdsfiising of all I want
sskwtisgolngto ' wi the
thousands of dollars we 3 ve-
hiol that are now own armors?
Are hey to be thrown on the junk pile.
many of them new this winter? ' They '
are of such construction trthay. cant
be made over and I con d at to throw
them away would a or w, e. I
believe the men w e ed’ that law
are those who own s, or have

any use (or them. n mind

should an amendment
mitt g ‘eluse of those useatprss-
fight until worn out— . 0., Grassy. ,

 

This act expressly exempts such
sleight; as are already in use
Michigan. That portion of the act

is as follower “The people of the State '

of Michigan enact: Section 1. 0n
and after the first day of'Janucry,
nineteen hunflred twenty-one, the
standard guage for all vehicles to be
used on the public highways of this
State shall be fifty-six inches from
center to center of tread and it shall
thereafter be unlawful to use on any
of the public highways of this States
or to manufacture, sell or offer for
sale, for use on any of the public
highways of this State any vehicle
of other than standard gauge except
such vehicles as are used for extra-
ordinary purposes . For the purpose

of construing this act, motor trucks, -

moving vans, logging sleighs, with

a wider draft than above standard '

gauge, enters and light delivery
sleighs shall be conclusively presum-
ed‘ to be vehicles used for extraordin-
ary purposes: Provided however, that

'(A‘ 'Ciearin fete-wit for farmer-sieve" 3m 
hers tc'eerrc you. subscribers, desiring s

in'

nothing in this not contained shall.

be construed to prohibit the use or "

sale or any vehicle owned in this
State at the time this law goes into
eflect."—-—Editor.

 

SENATOR J OHNSON’S RELIGION

Could ou inform me to what church
Senator iram Johnson, candidate for
president, belongs? I would be very

glad if you could publish his denomina-
tion in your next issue.—A. E. E,, Ai-
mont, Mich.

I am. informed by Mr. E. P. Mit-
chell, member of the California State
Board of Agriculture, that the Son-
ator is a Protestant and a patron if
not a member of the Congregational
Church—Editor.

 

- POWER DAM MACHINEle

We are planning on organizing a. stock
company of farmers to build a power
dam to produce power for to run an
electric light plant. We have an A-l
location for such- a. dam which would
furnish cheap power, only we don't know
to proceed with such a. plant. Could you

give us the name of any firm or company

   
   
    

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V I Ireland Wins

“Talking
American visitor,
an old hen my dad once’ had. She
would hatch out anything from An
tennis ball to a lemon-
day she sat on a piece of ice and
hatched out two quarts of list wa-
ter.”

“That.doesn’t come up to a' club-
footed hen my mother once had,”
remarked the Irishman. “They had
been feeding her by mistake on saw-
dustinstead of oatmeal. Well, car:
she laid twelve eggs and sat on them,
and when they hatched eleven of
the chickens had wooden legs and
the twelfth was a. woodpecker l”.

A Husky Sorrow ¥
Merry One—L—“Cheer up old man,
why don't you drown your sorrow?"

 

, Sad One—“She’s bigger than I ,1
be murvv

am. and besides it would
der."

Professional Appreciation
First Actress (behind the scenes)
r—“Didhyo'u hear the way the public

' ‘wept'uuring my death sooner? A 3
 second ’ Aegean—"Yes; ..it

we:

it screens. 

of hens," remarked the I
“reminds me of,

Why, one _

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$15.79 b.0011 hec‘en   i _ 1
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must. also... am...

that has the necessary machinery 'to sell,
' an

, who cou‘i‘d send a representative
look the"
nation.

undo over and give us infor-
loctrio lights for the farm is

. one great ‘ste to better farm condition.
——W. H. Uniform .7 ‘

egon County.

"I would suggest that you get in
touch with Holland, Ackerman & H01.
land, Ann. Arbor, ‘who are Consulting
Hydraulic Engineers. They do not
sell equipment, but if this proposition

 

I is of sufficient size, would make the
eh .
gythct law per- 7

nocessanysurvierys and designs for
the dam, as well as write specifica-
tions for the machinery. It’would be
far sailor for you to employ a repute
able Consulting Engineer than to at-
tempt to do the engineeriing your-
solves.

As far as water wheels and gen-
erators are concerned, if you just wish

. to get the price of' equipment, take

the matter up with ‘the" Allis-Chal-
mers 00., Ford Bldg, Detroit.’,'——Ooon-

‘ DeVisse Cumming, Detroit, Mich.

 

REFUSING COAL 'ro‘ FARMERS
If a coal dealerhas s. carload of set

and won't let 0. farmer have an 'o n

It when his family is sick in bed an no
el, but will is others in town hay
and three tons, what can be done
have left my order but he says every
ime it is all ordered. What can I do
about it, and. to whom should I go or
'Write to'I—R. A. J., Monroe County.

 

I think you are without any rem-
edy. A coal dealer has the right to
select his customersand to sell to
them only. I do not know of any one"
who can help you unless yOu can get
some friend to buy the coal for you.
—W. E. Brown, legal editor. '

 

SEEDING FOR cow PASTURE

I would like to know what I should
sow_for. cow pasture for July and August.
Something that when it is eaten offwill

, still continue to grow good pasture, on

sandy soil. Would millet be a good pas-
ture and produce rich mtilk7—O. A. 0.,

' Ogemaw County.

We would suggest'sowing, at three
different dates, preferably a week or

' ten days apart, the following mix-

ture: Oats, 1 bus-hell; peas, 1 bush-
el; sweat clover, 6 pounds; rape, .4
pounds. This mixture should be
sown asearly this spring as the seed
heed can'be prepared—0. R. Megee,
assistant professor of farm crops, M.
A. . ' -

 

BLOODY MILK

We have one cow that gives bloody
milk. What causes .rit? ‘Can anything
he done for it?—J. V., Boyne, Mich.

Kindly write me the history of~

this case. stating how long standing,
When she freshened, etc.——W. A.
Ewan, Veterinary Editor.

Sense and NOnScnsc

\ r erther’s Violence

Jack—“Was her father violent
when you asked for her hand?”
 Tom—“Was he? Great Scott 1- I
thought he would shake my arm
off.” ’ ‘

A Martyr
Wife—~Do you, expect to get to
heaven by hanging on to my skirts?
‘ Hub,——No; but I might by show-
ing St. Peter the bills for them.—
Boston Transcript.

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LUCKY

Knife—l hear
you narrowly
escaped I had
‘ accident.

- Razors—Yes, i
had a very close
shave. -

  
           
  

  
 
 
  

 

Wendel" comoieintel, i 
"Moll driver by msi to e question or e lags nature should enclose $1 for.

1 _next_, my her some:  flu"!
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 BIDDING CALVES OF, 
What can I do tor-id my
blue “0071-11). 8.. Johannesburg, Mich.

 

 

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Corrosive sublimate “one to  ' 

thousand solution will destrOy lice,
wash around eyes and ears; first ‘to
prevent the lies from. hiding; it will
be necessary to thoroughly wash tho
stable in which these calvesare kept.
with a stronger solution, say, one in
one thousand solution.
should be burned,‘\all cracks, crev-
ices, ceiling, sidewalls and' floors
must be washed for. here is where the
nits are laid, as the nits hatch every
three days, it will be necessary to
repeat theabove every three days
for about three applications. Corros-
ive sublimate is very poison and
great care should be used in handling
it- Kreso Dip (P. D. & Go.) will;also
kill lice, when used according to di-
rectldns, as will also Creolin, how-
ever, it is absolutely necessary to
wash the stables as stated above, also
apply three applications, three days
apart—W. A. Ewalt, Veterinary Eda-
{torn

 

JOINT DEED

I would like to know what share. it
the wife has, in a. joint deed wi
Is she entitled to a. share
the crops?—A Subscriber, News.ng ,Co.

The husband has control of the
land held by husband and wife in
their joint names during his life. She
has an interest in the crops so‘t‘h‘sy
could not be levied upon upon a‘ judg5

ment against the husband alone, but I

the husband has a_right to sell and
dispose, of the crops as in. his judg-
ment he thinks best for the joint in-
terest of the husband and wife. Up-
on death or either: the survivor takes
absolute title to the real estate and
one-half of the personal held‘in joint
name—W. E- Brown, legal editor.

 

BUYING AT STATE TAX s'sm ,

Would like to know just what title to
real , estate a party worfld acquire w
bids in property at a State Tax Sale
acquires a Staite Tax Deed. Does
give him after period of redemption cl
absolute title against all previous

ranty deeds and mortgages held bym '

ers?—Subscriber, Montcalm county,

 

If all the steps in levying the tax
and other steps up the and including
the dead are in accordance with the
law and the notice has been properly
served upon the owned and no redem-
tion has occurred, the tax deed gives
a good title. If there are fatal de-
fects in the proceedings so that the
court holds “the title not good then
the State returns the money.—.—W. H.
Brown, legal editor.

 
  
 

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Where Was the U. 8. Senate?

“This ought to make life-easy from
now on," remarkchoah as the ark
landed. ' I

“To what do you refer?" inquir-
ed. J aphet.

“our monopoly of eggs, butter,
milk, beef, etc., with not a soul on
earth to start an investigation."

 

\ compliments All Around
‘ "I desire 'no remuneration for this
poem,“ remarked the long-haired post,

I Tao he drifted into the editorial sauce, _

tum. “I merely submit it as arcan-
pliment.” ,

- Then, my dear fellow, permit me
to return the compliment,” replied the
editor. with true journalistic courts-i
SY- . r w " .-

Oblim Indeed .

Little Sara Brown, on her "my to
school » fell into ,a . pool * of  with
the result that shelled to;  hens--
wardsjag ,~ all armament. 

 

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GENESEE (Scum—We are having
rainy weather all this week and farm-
ers on the heavier soils are unable to do
any field work, while
soils are able to do a little work be-
tween showers. Farmers are shoal-in
sheep, building fences and doin 'ro
work while waiting until. the fiel of
,dry enough for working again. A ow
oats were put in before this wet ~weather
and several were about ready to put
them in. If the rain had only held off
. until the later part of the week a large
r cent, of the cats woul have been i
t now it is hard to tel when we wil
e't them in. Not much spring wheat
ing put in this spring and indications
int to a shortage of wheat this ear.
armors are selling some hay, -
tatoes and seed corn, and are buy g
alfalfa seed, fencing and fence posts,
binder twine and also fertilizers, if they
can get it. There will be. an extreme
shortage of most all crops this year if
this weather continues and if the farm
labor situation does not improve.——-C. W.
Prices iffered at Flint: Wheat,
$2.70; corn, $1.76: oats, $1.10; rye, 90:
buckwheat. $8 cwt; beans (C, H. P.)
$6.50; reed kidney, 311 cwt; hay, $25,
30; straw, $10@15; potatoees, $2.75
3.50; onions, $8; cabbage, 60 lb; cucum-’
hers, $3.26 doz; hens, 35; springers, 35;
ducks, 32' geese, 32; turkeys, 40; but-
ts; d‘airy, 58@63; butternut,
, eggs, 48; beefesteers, $10.50@11.50;
beef cows, $7 0@8.50; veal calves, $17
@183 shee , {10?1150; lambs, $18@
19; hogs, $1 @ 5.5 .‘

 

MAN’IS'I‘EE—Tlhe farmers are plowing,
dragging and doing other farm work,
Some have begun fence repairing. Wea-
ther is getting warmer now. Rained the
other night. Farmers are selling some
rye and beans. Not much building or
buying being done. Most crops have
been sold for the y‘ear. Trees are begin-
ning to leaf or bud, the prospect for a
good fruit crop being good. Been a cold
long spning, ice yet on the lakes—H. A.
Market at Bear Lake: The strike on
the railroads has stopped the movement
of potatoes. Retail prices in the cities
have reached unprecedented figures be-
cause of the shortage. Local buyers are
still paying $5.50 per cwt. for the spuds
and storing them and are showing good
courage in doing so, Now potatoes from
the south have already. began to make
their appearance on the city marketes
but the southern crop is reported to be
short. on account of frosts and it is hard
to pr'edict what effect they will have on
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s beg
gone up to $6.76 per cwt. and rye to $1.76
per bushel: butter, 50; eggs 35; cream,
64; beef, 7pm: on foot, 1 @13 dressed;
pork; 18-@20 dressed" veal 16@18 dress-
ed; chickens, alive, at; hides, 15¢». -
‘ST. CLAIM—Eamon
their seeding. Some 0a
sown, but the weather has con wet on
cold the past ten ' d which has re-
tarded work in that no. The weather
is lodging fine now and if. it holds good
for a few. days seed will go ahead
with a rush. Most of hay is out of
farmer’s hands. Butter-fat and eggs are
eabout all the farmers have to sell at
resent. Not much building this spring,
he roads are in fair condition. Some
auction sales yet, but are narrow-
ing off . as the- season a vancesw—I. .
Prices offered at Smith’s Creek: Whhat,
$2.60; corn, $1.50; oats, $1.05;
$1.65; hay, No. 1 timothy. $33; .
light mixed, $32.50; rye straw, $13@14;
beans (Cl-LP.) {6.50; potatoes, $5- hens,
25; springers, 30; butter, 56 %65: butter-
fat, 63; eggs, 33; sheep, $10 12; lamb
$12@16; hogs, $15 16; beef steam, 81
@14; beef cows, $8 12; v ~

MONROE (W.)-—The farmers are not
doing much for a day or two on account
of the heavy rain the first of the week.
Not very many oats sown at. Wheat is
looking better after the ra New seed-
ings and pasture has started the last few
days. Help is very scarce in this part
of. the county. Several of the large far-
mers have installed milking machines
to help and sav time in doing the chores.
Machinery will - ve to take the place of
giant? help on some of the farms.— .

 

MASON (Central)-—Spring work has
begun in earnest. The cat fields are be-
ing rapidly prepared. Weather moder-
ate. Showery. Soil a trifle wet. Crops
about 'all so d.

i bSegeldts fglrlspring planta
in are bong ou . ep scarce an
high priced. a At a meeting April 17th
the members of 'the Mason County Co-
operative Association voted to buy the
warehouse, elevator and other property
now owned by the Gleaners. There was
but one opposing vote—~13. M.

MECOSTA—Not much doing in the
line of farming, weather has been very
cold. Frost is not all out of the ground
yet. Heavy ground is too wet to work.
Fall grain is looking good. The Gleen-
er Clearing House Ass'n is selling stock
for elevators in Evart and Herea—L. M.

 

» The Autobiography of a slump,

ORE than one hundred and
M eighty years ago, Ipushed up
through the surface of the
earth into a. very strange world. The
sun smiled upon me and-therein
quenched my thirst. As the years
passed and I grew into a stately
young‘pine.

Few men came in-to our forest
home. Occasionally an Indian sneak-
ed by in search of game; sometimes
he terried long enough to fell a
birch n'om which he made a canoe.

One day word came that lumber-
jacks had arrived with axes‘and saws
and were ‘already making great in-
roads in our forest. In the distance
we could hear them chopping. Our
consternation heightened" when .we
actually beheld them.

The maple whispered to the shud-
dering hemlock ,“Look They’re cut-
ting down Father oak. We are liable
to be next." ‘

' All too Soon I saw my friends out

down—some in the prime of life,
“ others in their old age, and ruth-
lessly hauled away like captives.
*While all of us were loath to sur-
render our beautiful foliage and
graceful limbs, I believe I dreaded
the operation less than my comrades.
The sacrifice seemed to justify itself.
Had I not heard the wood cutters
say that outr‘ef' my trunk would come
the boards withwhich houses would
be sealed, thus protecting man from
the biting cold. ..

p;ina11y my day came. I over-
hh‘ rd one lumber jack remark as he
pushed his way toward me, “We’ll
get the big white pine today.”

. Hastily I bade farewell to my
friends. Already the axes were hurl-
ed into my sides. To my disgust no

' effort ‘was made to how mejnear the

ground. Wood wasplentiful them—
-cheaper than labor. ‘ .‘
To the world I had given the best
of], myself.. All that remained was
shout three and a half feet of my
tag

and the children-hover m
 outstretched halide;1 mutantine‘n t ,

there appeared in our midst a farm-
er and his team. Studiously he went
about clearing the land, employing
in the .work a- simply constructed
stump puller. The extracted stumps
he piled together and burned. Was
this to be my fate? One night of
dazzling beauty and then—nothing-
ness.

But the stump puller utterly fail-
ed to tear me from the earth. There-
after I was to learn that instead of
being simply useless I was postively
obnoxious. That fall the farmer
planted my old forest home to wheat.
Not only did I occupy considerable
space (the diameter of my trunk
measured some three or four feet)
but I caused not a little inconven-
ience in tilling the soil.

That I was of some significance
was attested by the presence months
later of several hundred men who
had gathered. to see me extracted.
The seemingly impossible was per-
formed by a. number of experts in
land clearing, who accomplished the
result by the use of a powerful stump
puller and a team of horses. As I
was gradually raised from the ground
uprooting the earth for yards around
me, I noticed the men rushing near-
er and one of them photographed my
roots.

Lying thus on my side I was more
unwieldly than formerly. Something
,must be done to remove me. After
a consultation holes were bored in
my body and dynamite placed there-
in. Suddenly the men began run-
ning in every direction. The next
moment I attempted to follow them.
When my scattered parts were gath-
ered together I learned that I meas-
ured- about eight cords of fire-'wcod.

Eight cords!‘ When I discoveer
my ultimate fated Wished it' were,
eight times eight. I,. the once ob-
noxious pine stump’, had beentrans-
ferred to Mrs. John Riley’s back yard
and.while Mif. John Riley fought for
his country, ’I warmed his wife and
babies. When the" blue and yellow
flames play. around ’my old ; roots
near with

uteri. my soul. I am both

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one.

We ‘guarantee the legitimate top market price at

all tunes.

Write for shipping instructions and full informa-

tion.

We are absolutely responsible. Ask your banker.

 
  
   
   
  
 

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We want-  Shippers of for-em.
We. guarantee correct weights and Tests.
We insure the return of your empty can or a new

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and ticks.

A $7.50 Drum makes
stock conditioner—saves you bi money.

   
  

Send $3.00 for a box of

medicate a barrel of salt. For hogs, sheep, cattle, horses, on poultry.
PARSONS CHEMICAL ,WORKS. Grand Lcdfll. Michltan L

\Write for Club Ofl'er

ore" Sui—fees: Farther
Than   Known

 

 Stockmen Everywhere
are 'l'lX-TOH User-

 ANTISBPTICS

the year around keep stock healthy
and free from disease germs worms,
$60.00 worth of medics salt, or

TON—MK” by parcel t. It will

 

Leona Pal-k I'll-ms Madman Station

 

For best results on your Poul’
try, Veal, Hogs, eta, ship to

CULOTTA & JULL
' DETROIT

I Not connected with any other
house on this market.

 

 

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and help your friends by selling them
Michigan's own farm weekly. Liber-
al commission and all supplies free.
Write today. MICHIGAN BUSINESS
FARMER, Mt. Clemens, Mich.

 

 

 

 

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.....FLASH LIGHT

For Two NEW Subscribers to M. B. F.

Every man, woman or child in the country ought
to carry an electric flash—light at night and here is
F1at,-just-a-hand-full yet throws a powerful
light, brighter than a clumsy lantern. We have secured a limited num-
ber of these lamps from one of the best makers in America.
never sold at retail for less than $1.60. some dealers charge $2. but un-'
til our supply runs out we will send one complete flash—light, including
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‘ .. . “Mllst ‘ . ;
ST every mornin' when the
‘ weather’s fine I take a trip
. around town to see what I can
see an’ hear, what I can hear, and I
have fast got back from mymornin’
trip, an’ to say I‘m disgusted with it
all is. putting it purty durn mild——
yes I’d say pretty mild. '
~Eirst.t~hing I run up ag’in was a
farmer with a load of potatoes; the

‘mcrchants would offer him only four 3

dollars a bushel for ’em, and he want-
ed four on a' quarter,’but finally said
he’d take $4.10. "Nope," said the
merchant, “four dollars is the top
price this mornin’, am' that’s all I c'n
paly". This was at the back door of
the store, an’ beim’ anxious to Learn
I slipped round to the front door,
walked in an’ so; to the clerk, "how
you sellin' tatch this mornin’?” “one
thirty-five a peck" he sez. “Ispthat
the lowest price,” I sez to him. “‘Oh
my, yes! an’-they’11 be higher ’fore
the Week’s out, too," he sez. "Ho-w
comes”, sez I.
strike has tied things up so we can’t
get ’em don’t you. know!" “Well,
mebbe so on some things. but the far-
mers round here must have taters an’
slch, ain’t they," I sez. “Yes, they’ve
got ’em", he sez, “am’ they got a. lot
of otherrthlings to sell, too, but the
d———- farmers wants
everything we can’t deal with ’em a
tall”, he sez. .“Oh I d’on'no”, I sez, “at
$1.35 you’d on to be willin' to pay
four am’ a half or $4.75 a bushel for
'em, hadn't you?” ,

Well he didn’t answer me a tall,
but the look he give me give me a
good guess of what he thought or my
judgment. Well I went from there
over to my brother’s meat market an’
was talkin' with him when a, teller
that buys stock for another market
dropped in an’ be an’ my brother got
to talkin’ about sonic cattle this guy
bought last week an’ slaughtered for
their own tirade. "How much do you
think that bunch of stuff cost me?"
the feller sez to my brother. "I don'no
how much?" my brother sez. “Well
that wuz a mighty fine bunch of cat-
tle", the teller sez. “Fifteen head, all
from one man, and they cost me less
thah eight cents a pound”, he sez. An’
then he said he had some hogs in» to-
day an' tomorrow he’d have another
bunch of cattle on “they’re all bought
right, too”, he sez. _

I had heard an’ seen about all I
wanted for one day, for I knew these

guys wuz sellin’ that meat at prices.

rangin' from 18 to 42 cents a pound
an' preachin’ strike an' the high price
of hogs an’ cattle an’ everything, to
any customer who had the grit to
stand up am" tell ’em the different
kind of pirates an' profiteel‘s the hull
darned cabood‘le of ’em had come to
be.

An' this brings to my mind the
question of N. E. H. of St. Clair coun-
ty, in regard to his 35 1-2 lbs. of
wheat. He sez he sold his wheat for
$2.10 a bushel an' paid $2 for 24 1-2
lbs. Of flour, an’ wonders who got the
other 35 1-2 lbs. out of his 60 lbs. of
wheat. Well now, realy its hard to
say who got that 35 1-2 lbs. of wheat,
but N. E. H. got 24 1—2 lbs. of flour_an’
had 10 cents left an' seems to me he
got out purty lucky—everything con-
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of a» farmer who took (beef hide to
town  sold it for eleven dollars aa’
‘ ninety cents- His son wanted a pair
of'shoes, had to have 'em; dress shoes
you know, so the ol” man put ten cents
vwith the money he got for the beef
hide my took home a pair of shoes for
the boy.’ Nowwhere did the beefhide

' go? 'Does it take m’ore’n one.b"eét‘hide

to make a. pair of shoes, do you think?

While, 01' Captain Kidd 5 is: dead,“ has
3 been for several years, for'tliiat: maté
: tor, by'gosh ‘he must a left'a'lot of

dessenda-nts or else there’s a lot of'

fellleirs takin' up his callin' an’ doim’
a gib businws at it, too, am they
don’t folder the sea, either—they’re
dry land pirates, an’ they come out
an’ work in- the open, on are so darn
smooth about it that they’ll make
you think they’re a doin’ you a favor
while they’re just a skinnin’» an’ a
gougeinl' you right on left. .

An’ these same darn scalawags
will set up an awful howl about the
far-mers—e'flust ,See how much money
they’re a makin’," they yell. "Why
lots of ’em’s g’ot automobiles aan’
money in the bank, an’ everything-

they’re gettinv’ rich hand over fist.“

This can be heard from almost any
merchant or business man in almost
any city an’ the laborin’ people have
heard it so often they're comin’ to
believe it themselves. Theyflcan't be
made to see that the men who are
robbin’ them an' also robbin' the far-
mer wants to shift the blame onto
somebody—~wan-ts to appear .pious
an’ honest themselves on so they set
up this awful how] about the farm-
fili‘, an’ they try to shift the ‘blame on

In. .

It’s true that (lots of farmers own
cans—Ford cars—which by thrift an’
prudence they have been able to buy,
because they have learned that quick
transportation has become a neces-
sity with them, am’ they buy Fords
an' are jest as happy an’ enjoy them
just as much as the profiteers who
ride in their thirty-five hundred d011-
1a.r cars enjOy theirs. For ’the farmer
knows that he has got his car by
honest toil, that he has robbed no
poor widow, nor fiatherless child, to
get the wher—with to buy his car—a
business and pleasure our combined,
an’ he recognizes the rights 01 oth—
ers to the streets an’ highways, an’
conducts himself as an honest man
should. But the big bugs, the profit-
eers, the dry land pirates who would
not condescend to look at~a Ford car,
who will‘ buy none that costs less
than eighteen hundred to thirty-five
hundred dollars, who howl about the
“stingy an’ unscrupulous farmer,
thlimk they own the whole earth, 311’
that common folks ort not to clutter
up the streets an' the highways when
they’re takin’ their spi.n"——0h gosh it
disgustsme to think about it, ‘an’ a
darn sight more to write about it,
but facts are facts, 5111' I’ll stick to
’em as long as I'm able, an’ there's
one thought out of it all that always
gives me pleasure. In
world the farmers an“ the profiteers
won’t have to mix, an’ where the pi-
rates an' the profiteers’ll be, its goin’
to be so durn hot they won‘t do no
automobilin' nor robbin’ either, by
gmgeri—Oordially yours Uncle Rubs

Denies Horse is a “Back Number”

HEN a concern can express an
opinion as to the economic mer-
‘ its of the horse for city hauling

based on 1,350 years of accumulat-r

ed experience, that opinion ought to
count for something, oughtn’t it?
The Uni-ted States Trucking Corpor—
ation of Thompson and Canal street,
New York City was formed only last
December, but it represents the.
merging of tWenty-seven formerly
independent concerns which have
been in business for periods ranging
from twenty to eighty years; that
makes an average of fifty years per

firm, or a total age for the twenty- <
. seven of 1,350 years ! '

.‘Jokingeside, however, this cor-

' poration represents not only the re-

sult of-oire of. the most significant
events'of recent years in the. distri-‘

 

 

trucking business in Greater New

York. .For the combined companies .

are conceded to handle‘about eighty
per cent of all the‘hea‘vy trucking
done in that metropolis exclusive of
hou'Séhold furniture, office furniture
and fixtures, and retail coal. '

To do this they operate something
less than 300 auto trucks and'v3,200
horses, which fact in itself is a pret-
ty, good indication of what g:the.cor-

*\p’oratlon thinks of the relative use.
fulness of horse driven and motor
driven vehicles “for its line of work.
But it has some further, definite
opinion to back up its action. ,.
“‘All this talk about the I‘passinz
of the horss’ is wholly without foun-

  

dation,” says President J.'J.‘Riordan.. ,

Whose jacceptancemot, h“. “mum; .u

of Amer! ‘ 

  
       
 

  affewidsys also i

the next ‘

the horse, Will not only continue’toibe ! v t, 

dread here, and in every city when

more or less similar canditions 

vail, but will ’alsobe used to In In-

_creasing extent wherever short hails.

'andflfrequent. delays on routelre‘
bound Jto1be features . of, the day's
work. ’  r ‘- 

“We are-now at rework: on: 

- systéfmii 10':ideis‘rfistfiinS-ithél‘iiw .‘ .;. z c
" cost ' Of T opsrdti‘on "for: horse,  2'

teams and auto trucks ~under' all
kinds of. conditions, and as soon, as
these are perfected we shall put them
into operation. "Our. experience-
since any of the 27 firms that now
are one began using trucks, have
ever, justifies us in figuring 'the
maintenance and Operating cost of
a truck as one third more than, the
correspondingcos-t for a horse“drawn
vehicle of equal capacity. ‘ f

I “That refers to normal conditi .
Since this corporation'was form , in
December, conditions have been

anything but normal for, the 'greater’

part of the time; and during the en-
tire winter with all its blizzards and
demoraleed traffic the horse has
come through with flying colors.
While the February storm was at its
height, and for days afterwards
while the city was struggling: to
free itself of its blanket of ice and
snow, all our work was. done by

horses; our trucks were simply d 

up until conditions were such as
permit them to operate.

A NEW 40-190mm BUTTER 00W

Admirers of the great 1 "blank
and"white"' breed and those who
are interested in pure p
cattle will read with much satisfso-
tion. the announcement that '_ Sadie
Gerben Henlgerveld . De Kol, a pure-
bred, registered Holstin-Fr'lesisai. now
owned by R. M. Harriman'of Apple-
ton, Wisconsin, has added her name

to the roll of milk and butterfat- pm-

ducers of remarkable achievement.

This superbcow, according to the
preliminary report sent out from the
office of the Superintendent of Ad-
vanced Registery for The Holstein-
Friesian Association of America, has
been reported to have given uniden- of-
ficial A. R. 0. test, in 7 days 782
pounds of milk of an average butter‘
fast test of 4.09 per cent. This ex-
pressed: in terms of butter would
equal 40.04 pounds. She was contin-
ued_o-n test, and reports show her to
have produced 3,247.5 pounds of milk,
which if converted into butter would
make 157.54 pounds.

At the'time offreshening, January
23, Sadie Gerben Hengerveld Do Kol
was 8 years, 2 months -and- 22 days
old. This official test began Febru-
ary 5 and was supervised by five dif-
ferent supervisors in addition to Mr.
Harris, the Superintendent of official
testing for the Holstein Association
in Wisconsin. who was present part
of the time. .

Sadie Gorben Hengerveld De Kol is,
accurding to Mr. Harriman, her breed-

er amd owner, a, large, strong animal. ”

weighing 1,750 pounds, and the only
four-generation cow in the world, each
0f whdch four generations have milked
103 pounds or more of milk in one
day, and avenged 106.8 pounds ' of
milk in one day, and 744.3 pounds of
milk and 32.43 pounds of butter in: 7
days. p, ' v ‘ v I
This new 40-pound cow, now in the
limelight of public interest, was fed a’
grain mixture. of bran, oats, oil meal,
unicorn, cottonseed, meal viandp ;' x” , -
lers' grain. Besides this she m, p
3 pounds »: of - molasses, 5 pounds of
dried best pulp (previouslysoaked in
water), and about 30 to 40 pourids of
mangels. Her roughage. consisted of
timothy; there being no ensllnage, al-

talfa or i clover hay available... Salt -

and drinking water were within .‘her
reachatalltimes. ‘ _. .—  .p

- She was  on ‘14 pounds pot the
grain mixture deny. fed. in 
tons-quarter obthe’ amount ‘ at: ' can):

feed, and this was gradually inem'

V of 28 pounds. Thieves  

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I0 avcnu COIIIIIOOIRD new: we and without
cost. list the date of any live stock sale In
Michigan. If you are considering a raised-
vlse us“ at once and we will claim the data
M-  Address. Live Stock Editor. M. B.
F.. Clemens. :

May 1 Holsteins. Washtensw
gflgmin-B‘riesian Breeders' Club.
c .

May 10. Herefords. Newton County Haro-
Iord Breeders" Ass'n. Kentland. Ind.‘

Ma 11. Holsteins, West Michinn Breed-
ers, rand Rapids. Mich. '

May 13. Holteins. C. G. Hine. Rochester.
Mich. »

June 5. Hosteins. McPherson Farms 00..
snd~Choney Stock Farm, Howell. Mich. ‘
Aug. 8. Duroc-Jerseys . O F. heater.
Pavillion. Mich.

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BRIDGMAN L

Bordon County

.Ofler for sale a bull calf by KING SEGIS
DcKOL FAYNE. of NOTBE DAME LOY
OOLANTHA HEN EBVELD e 16.48 81' 2-
year old.

Pedigree and price on request.

an MILK Pronucsn

'Ioulrnlgg‘llrllem is more MILK. more BUTTER,
more per oow.
A son of Maplech Application Pontiac—
182552—from our hea -yearly-milking-good-but-
tsshrecord dam will solve t. .
Ispleorest Application Pontiac's dam made
I5 108 lbs. butter in 7 days: 1344.3 lbs. butter
and 23421.2 lbs. milk in ass days.

He is one of the greatest long distance sires.

His daughters and sons will prove it.

Write us for pedigree and prices on his sons.

Prices right and not too high for the avenge
dairy farmer. ,

Pedigrees and prices on application.

It. Bruce McPherson. Howell, Mich.

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OEDAR BROOK ' FARM

Offers for sale
TWO YEAR HOLSTEIN DULL

Sired by VALE ELZERVERE VASSAR
BELL PAUL. dam LADY GERDA PONTIAC
KORNDYKE, whose coloring is about 2-3
white. From the herd of II. 0. Crandall &
Son of Elba.

Price 150

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THOS. LEE MUIR. Almont. Mich.

 

 

 

 

FOR SALE

THOROUGHBRED
HOLSTEII OOWS

combining blood of Traverse City and

Maple Crest stock, granddaughters 0

Friend Hengerveld De Kol Butter Boy.

. Prices $800 and up
WILLIAMS 0. WHITACRE

R. F. D. No. 4 Allegan, Mich.

 

 

 

 

“EGISTERED HOLST’EINS FOR SALE. FOUR
bull calves sired by a son of King Segis Champ-
ion Mabel. He is a double grandson of King Se-
gis De K01 Korndyke and from good A. R. 0.
record dams. Prices reasonable. bre'ding con-
aidered.

- G. a P. DeHOOP. R 4. Iceland. Mich.

 

0R SALE—TWO REG. HOLSTEIN BULL
calves. four months old. best of breeding.
For further information write
LOUIS LIETAERT, Tower. Mich.

REGISTERED HOLSTEIIIS 3.51.5331:

WM. GRIFFIN. R. 5.. Howell. Michigan

REGISTERED HOLSTEIIS

TWO BEAUTIFUL HEIFER CALVES. Four-
iilths white. perfect individuals. Strong Pontiac
Korndyke De K01 breeding. One born March 15.
th. other March 25. $110 for the two.
’ EIGHT MONTHS OLD BULL. Exceptionally
am pe‘dlgree. A splendid buy at $100.

MORLEY E. oseonna
Sun Haven Farm. Standish. Mich.

faunas sov rosin rumor

g One. His sire
h,from .s-gSO lb. cow that made 1.845 lbs. in
m and,_.dam; Butter Boy Rosina 2nd 200,‘

' andalmcat 800 lb. in ten:

 

 

 

 
 

I bulls and heifers and some heif-

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BREEDERB’ DIRECTORY. THE MICHIGAN IUSINESS FARMER. Mt. Clemens, Michican.

 

.RATGH Hrsn

(State and Federal Tested)
.- YPSILANTI, MICE.

orrrns YOUIIG SIIIES

Yearlings and younger, out
of choice advanced registry
dams and King Korndyke Ar—
tis Vale. Own-dam 34.16 lbs.
butter in 7 days; average 2
nearest dams,” 37.61. 6 near-
est 33.93, 20 nearest, 27.83.

 

 

 

BABY BULLS

Grow your own next herd sire. We have
three beautiful youngsterr—straight as a line.
big-boned rugged fellows. They are all h
our 38 lb. senior sire. KING. KOItNDYK
ORISKANY PONTIAC from splendid indi-
.vidual dams of R. backing and the best
of blood lines.

Write for our sale list.

BOARDMAII FARMS

JACKSON. MICH.
Holotedn Broaden Since 1906

 

 

 

LAST ADVERTISED SOLD TO
B Mr. F. W. Alexander. Vassar.
bull two

vee old t

A
NUDINE a 28.22 pound daughter of FLINT
PRINCE. Dull carries 75 per cent same
blood as KING FLINT. If you want a di-
rect descendant of BUTTER DOV ROSINA
now Is your chance.

Price .200. ,
ROY F. FICKIES. Chesaning. Mich.

 

 

 

 

LILLIE BURKE SEGIS KING

MY FORMER HERD SIRE NOW A 88.05 BULL
his dam just made this record. Former record
26 lbs. 0! course this will add greatly to his
young sons. I have out of A. R. 0. dams, but
the price will be only slightly raised. Buy one
of these young fellows and let him grow into
money for you.

HILLCREST FARM, Ortcnvifle, MI“-
or write——— ..
John P. Hehl. 181 Griswold, 8t., Detroit, Mich.

Musom BROS.’ HOLSTEINS‘

We are now booking orders for
young bulls from King Pieter Segis
Lyons 170506. All from A. R. 0, dams
with credible! records. We test annu-
ally for tuberculosis. Write for pric-
es and further information.

Muslofl Bros., South Lyons, Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bulls Froni an Accredited Herd

HILL CREST FARMS Munson, Mich.
oflers for sale their Senior herd Sire,
RISINGHURST J NA ORMSBY DIMPLE
born Nov. 25, 1915. He is a perfect individual.
a show bull. gentle and right in every ’way. 2-3
white, a roven sire of high breeding qualities
as shown y his get in our herd. Priced right.

Send for bull circular, photos and pedigrees.

EDWARD S. BENSON A SONS
Munson. Mich.

 

UR HERD SI

MODELéKIIIG SEGISIGLISTA

His sire a 80 lb. ‘son of Lakeside King Segil
Alban De K01.

His dam. Glis_ta Fenelis. 82.87 lb.

Her dam, Ghats Ernestine, 35.96 lb.

His three nearest dams average over 83 lbs.
and "his forty six nearest tested relatives average
over 30 lbs. butter in seven days. We ofler one
of his sons ready for service.

RIVER. TOCK FARMS
C. G. Twies. Mgr. Eaton Rapids. Mich.

"OLVERINE STOCK FARM REPORTS GOOD
sales from their herd. We are wall pleased with
the Calves from our Junior rd Sire "King Pon-
tiac Lunde Korndyke 8e ” who Is s can of
“ oi the Pcntiacs" roll: a daughter of Pen-
tiac lothiide De K01 2nd. A few bull ulna for
ale. '1'. W. Sprague. It. 2. Battle Creek. Mich.

REGISTERED ilOLSTEIiiS 

‘ . FOR SALE
\Ten head of yearling and two year old boil-
ers. ‘A. R. 0. dams, 29 to 32 lbs. sires. Some
bred to 82 lb. sire with 745 lbs. milk.
‘ Prices right. Come and see them.
.. Herd under federal supervision.

 

TWO BULL OALVES

Registered Holstein-Edema. sired by 39.87 lb.
bull and from heavy producing young cows. Th
calves are very nice and will be priced cheep
sold soon.

HARRY T. TUIBS. Elweli. Mich.

NICE STRAIGHT LIGHT COLORED BULL

calf born February 1st. aired by Flint Hen-
gerveld 14d, whose two nearest dams average
32.60 lbs. butter and 785.45 lbs. milk In 7 dag
Dem, a 4 lb. daughter of a. son of Pon ov
Nij‘laader 85.48 lbs. butter and 750 lbs. mlk in
:0 days. Write for prices and extended pedigree

L. O. KETZLER
Flint. Mich.

“‘ A IIOELY BRED OALF

The Dam of this Calf “2115i: mgde 12.77
lbs. of butter from 804.8 lbs. 0 milk as a senio:
earling. She is from a 16.05 2 year old the
‘ “reshape in April as a 0 year year old and will be

e e

Dam is both a granddaughter of King of the
Pontiacs end Woodcreet DeKol Lad 26 A. R. O.
'Daughters Sire of Calf is a. 21 lb. grandson o!
the $50,000 dollar bull. Price only $100.00.
BAILEY STOCK FARM. YPSILANTI. MCH.

Herd under state and federal inspection.

Address all correspondence to

JOHN B

 

 

 

 

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summons mm.“ '
na 0 SCI.-
. - rize- nUn "some
Bull. Master Model 57614;, in many .ststel at
head of herd of 50 good type Bhortborns.
I. M. PARKHURST. Reed City. Michigan.

WHAT DO YOU WANT? I represent 41
SHORTHORN breeders. Can put you In
touch with best milk or beef strains. Bulll
all ages. Some females. 0. W. Crum.
President Central Michigan Shorthorl
Association. McBrides. Michigan.

 

 

IIER-EFORDS

REGISTERED HEREFORD CATTLE

KING REPEATER HEADS OUR HERD
We still have eight good bulls slid some heif-
era for sale. Come and see them.
MARION STOCK FARM
Tony B. Fox, Prop.
Marlon. Mich.

MEADOW “BROOK HEREFORBS

Bob Fairfax 495027 at head f h d. R
tered stock. either sex. gelled oro bored-ed, mge‘iilly-
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 8 One registered shorthorn
cow. 4 years old.
One registered heifer.
S ears old.
registered bull. six months old.
Will sell cheap if taken soon.
G. M. WEAVER, Fife Lake. Mich.
R. F.‘ D. No. 1

 

 

 

SHORTHORIIS

U bulls, 4 to 8 mos. old. all roans. pail fed.
Dams good milkers, the farmers' kind, at farm-
ers' prices.

F. M. PIGOOTT A SON. Fowler, Mich.
'I'HE BARRY COUNTY SHORTHORN DRIED.
on Association announce their {all catalog ready
for distribution. Scotch. Scotch Pop and Milking
Shorthorns listed. Address
W. L. Thorpe. Sec.. Milo. Mich.

MILKIIIG SHORTHORI BULL OALVE

Place 'a pure bred milking Shorthorn bull in
our herd and improve their milking and flesh-
Lng qualities. Have disposed of all females that
are for sale. Have a few nice bull calves 'left a
reasonable prices. ‘

ROY S. FINOH. Fife Lake. Mich. ’
ILKING SHORTHORNS. BOTH SEX FOR
sale. Priced low.

0 M. YORK. Millington. Mich.

 

 Herd of Registered Shorthorns for sale.
Priced for quick sale.
SHEAR BR08., R. F. D. 5, Flint. Mich.

FOR SALE

3 Young Registered Polied Shorthorn Bulls
CLARENCE WYANT. Berrien Center. Mich.. R1

HE VAN BUREN CO. SHORTHORN BREED-
ers' Association have stock for sale. both milk
and beef breeding.
Write the secretary,
FRANK BAILEY. Hartford. Mich.

 

FOR SALE—POLLED DURHAM BULLS AND

Oxford Down Rams. ~
J. A. DeGARMO, Muir. Mich.

Shorthorns at Farmers’ Prices

FOUR SCOTCH TOPPED BULL CALVES
under one year old. These are all roans and
choice individuals.

FAIRVIEW FARM
F. E. Boyd .
FOR‘SALE AT REASON.

Alma, Michigan
 able prices. 1 bull, 10’

months old also a few cows and holler calves
good producing cows.
OSCAR STIMSON, Drown City. Mich.

  REG. ROAN SHORTHORN BULL
calf, 5 mos. old. Bates breedilit
Also extra good reg. 0. I. O. boar 11 mos. 0
Farmers’ pnces.
W. 3. WHITE. Carson City. Mich.

SRORTIIORIIS .‘i‘b‘io Tani?"

» Wm. J. BELL, Rose City. Mich.

 

LEFT

 

FOR SALE
TWO REG. SHORTHORN BULLS
ready for service. Also one Reg. .Shorthonl
heifer. Herd tuberculin tested. Write
‘ M. B. HALLSTED. Orion. Mich.

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  ffd: ashoeavy 2:53.133 dan. a
W.’ S. HUBER. Gladwln. Mich.

FOR SALE

TWO REGISTERED SHORTHORN BULLS
12 and 15 mos. old; color. red with little white.
Bates blood. Will crate and

 

ca RL HIToHcocK
Charlotte. Mich.

L

d ti. ship: satisfaction
nte d or money refnn e
 D.e McMuilen. R. No. 1. Adrian. Michigan.

 

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I.N.BALL,  ’

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Importance ’in Michigan,
. Business firmer. .' /

 

 

   

   

FELIX WITT  . . . . . . 

' One or the other of the ab ve well-known experts will, visit all live-stock sales.“
‘ northern_0hio :nd Indians. as the exclusive Field Men of The

competent men, of

' r . u“  honest and
t. l "_ .r, l. $.yg.

~..c.o.u. ms omen.
 card'- ' ,m’og 11%.:- 93»? five-cox, . _

FIELD ME) N
 . . . . . . Cattle and Sheep
Horses and Swine

at my maths

   

   

 

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AZLEV, any age. 0 m d l
819 Atkinson Ave.. Detroit. Mich. - . .EARL 0.0 TMC‘CHARTOY. RES”! onvofir‘ Mlomum .
SHORTHORN 1" HEREFORD "Elms. ALI.

know of 10 or 15 loads tan Traits,
Shorthorn and Angus steers 6 tgylo 0 lbs.
Owners anxious t sell. Will hel bu 50.
commission. C. _Ball. Fairlie d. ewe.

Hardy Northern Bred Hereford:

IERNARD FAIRFAX 024819 HEAD OF MIN.
2 is year's calves for sale. 10 bulls and 10

en.
JOHN MacOREaOR. Herrisvilie. Mich.

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ANGUS

 

 

of far-min , a. car load of grade dairy heifers
from LE. AWE!!! COUNTY'S heaviest milk Dro-
duczrs to include a pure bred ANGUS hull of th
mos riggime beef type for combination best an

s n
or lot shipments sssembl d t GLENW OD

FA;th fgr proin t :hipment. o . o -
e o s expsne n SMITH‘S PROF'IrABLl
STOCK FEEDING. 400 pages illustrated.
GEO. B. SMITH. Addison. Mich.

A.

  wuss snso announ-
ANGUS CATTLE AND O.I.O.
Swine are right and are priced right.
spondeuce so cited and inspection invited.
CARL BARTLETT. L'awton. Mich.

 

REG ABERDEEN ANGUS BULLS.

12 to 14 months old of extra quality and richly
bred. Inspection invited. I
RUSSELL BROTHERS
Merrill. Mich.. R 3

 

 

GUERNSEYS

GUERNSEY BULL FOR SALE

:grandson of Gov. of the Chene. 1 yr. old. from
R. Dam. Other bulls from 1 to 9 Mo. old.
Good individuals; 0. A. Ilennesey. Watervliet, M.

EGISTERED GUERNSEY BULL CALVES. A.
R. O. ancestry. Choice breeding. Farmers' prices
A. M. SMITH. Lake City, Mich.

GUERNSEY WE ass orrsnmc son

sale some splendid bull calves.

out of A. Ii. dams with records up to 500 lbs

fat. Our herd sire, a grandson of Dolly Dimple!
y King of Inngwster, and whose dam has al

A. It. record of 548 lbs. fat at 2 1-2 years

also for sale or exchange. Write for particular!

and prices to ,
MORGAN BROS., R No 1. Aliecan. Mich.

. . REGISTERED GUERNSEYS
Away with the Scrub Bull.
Breeding better Guernseys. -
Dull calves that will improve your herd.
ILLIAM8

 

 

 

 

Ndrth Adams. Mich.

 

JERSEYS

Highland F arm-Jerseys

Oflers: Bulls of serviceable age of R. 0. M.
Sire and Dam's, with high production recorda
Also bull calfs. Write for printed list of prices
end description.

HIGHLAND FARM. Shelby, Mich.. R 2.

or Sale—Jersey bull calves. Oxford and Me-
jesty breeding. Dams are heavy producers.
J. L. CARTER, Rd. Lake Odessa. Mich.

BROWN SWISS

.VAL VERDE FARM BROWN SWISS
Registered calves for saie——both sex.
EDWIN GRISWOLD. R1. Beiiaire. Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

       
 

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--AYSHIRES
ALEéREGISTERED AYROHIRE
b1111nger sbull calves. heifers and heifer calves
Also ‘ ,

oice cows"
' 'lnlgbthAY BROS.. R E, Vassar, Mich.

' SWINE

POLAND CHINA

 

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BIG BOB MASTODON '

Sire was champion of the ' world, his Dsm's
sire'was grand champion at Iowa State Fair. Get
a grand pion while the getting is good. Book-
ing orders now. Bred gilts are all sold, but have
10 choice fall pigs sired by a Grandson of Diane
er‘s Giant, 8 beers and 7 sows. Will sell open
or bred for Sept. farrow, to BIG BOB.

O. E. GARNANT, Eaton I'I‘aplds, Mich.

 

POLAND GNINAS "ffim'ii‘t'iau‘ilt'ml

ins 200 lbs. Single comb brown leghorn eggs.
100, 8000: 16, 1.50. 5 Bufl rock eggs, 82.
O. L. WRIGHT, Jonesville,. Mich.

 

L. T.POLAND CHINAS. Orders looked for
spring pigs from Linc Lucans Strain.
ELDRED A. CLARK. St. Louis. Mich., R O

IIENE'S SOMETHING GOOD

THE LARGEST BIO TYPE P. O. IN MIOH.
Get a bigger and better bred boar pig from my
herd, at-a reasonable price. Come and see them.
Expenses paid if not as represented. These been
In service: L’s Big Orange Lord Olsnsman,
Orange Price and Us Long E’rospect.
W. E. LIVINGSTON, Perms. Mich.

WONDLERLAND HERD

ARGE TYPE F. C. .
A few choice bred gilte for sale. ’ Also fall grits
and boars, some very good prospects of excellent
breedinfi.3 Gilts bred to ORPHAN’S SUPERIOR
he b IG ORPHAN’S EQUAL by BIG BONE
ORP by the BIG ORPHA . Dam,
BEAUTY‘S CHOICE by ORANGE BUD. by BIG
ORANGE A.

Free livery to visitors.
Wm. J. CLARKE,
EatomReplds, Mich-

 

 

 

l- s P c FOUR CHOICE SPRING AND FALL
boars left. A few extra nice gilts
left bred for April furrow.
H. O. SWARTZ, Schooloraft, Mich.

 

B T. P. C. sows ALL SOLD. ORDERS
booked for boar pigs at weaning time from
Mich. champion herd. Visitors always welcome.
. E. R. LEONARD, R 8. St. Louis, Mich.

II TYPE P. C. GILTS ALL SOLD.
one yearling boar and also some fall
that we will close out at a bargain.
L. W. BARNES & SON,
. Byron, Mich.
  POLAND CHI'NAS
WITH QUALITY

Have for sale M’s ORANGE, a fine yearling
boar out, of Us BIG ORANGE.
J. St. Johns. Mich.

E. MYGRANTS:
RIG TYPE PO-
. land Chinas.
Gilts all sold.
My 1920 crops will be sired b Giant Olansman
No. 824781, sired by Giant O naman and Art's
Progress No. 877041.

A. D. GREGORY, Ionia, Mich.

HAVE
boars

 

  

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bred “3'1.er ten-ow ~

“AKLARIIS PREMIER BRIEF
Herd Bosh—Referénce only—No. 129219

1919 Chicago International .
4th Prize .Ir. Yearling

A low sprins pies left at 825
BLANK a POTTER
Pcttervllie, Mich. ‘

Ch 00]. 2 a n t ged‘illggr H ngt'lfi’fi
1‘ 011.5,“)- er: .grovlisthy‘ and the richt typo
Priced to sell. -

W. O. TAYLOR. Milan. Mich.

BREEDING - BOAR .FSII SALE

Richard 10th No. 142259, a fine specimen of
tho latte type Duroc. Sired by Buskirks Wond-
>Or. by Plainwell Wonder. Dam by Paw Paw
Spechl. Weight 500 lbs. Not fat but in load
service condition. “in

A. L. REED. Hartford. Mich.

' n o
“macs or sasscma size a
c. “stolen-12m Jerome, Mich.

nurse sows and elite bred to wm'. King 82940
who has sired more prize winning pigs at the
state fairs in the last 2 years than any other Du-
roc board. Newton Barnhart. St. Johns, Mich.

 Spring bred saw: all sold. Have

good Sept. pigs, both sex, sired by

Liberty Defender 8rd. from Col. bred dams. Gilts

wi be red to an Orion boar for Sept. farrow.
H. G. KEESLER, Cassopolls, Mich.

  anaucsons or BROOK.

water Cherry King or
Panama Sléecial.

 

 

 

 

$20 at Weaning.
. . E. OALKINS. Ann Arbor
X
 BOARB, GILTS AND BROOD SOWS
of all ages. Sows bred or- open. New-
ton a Blank, Hill Crest Farms, Perrlngton, Mich.
Farm 4 miles straight south of Middleton.

 

Phillips Bros-Riga", 

o.  0.. 333‘ EXTRA CHOICE BOAR 8 M08.

      

, flash, bred for ‘March. April and
Kay (arrow. Guaranteedsafe in dam. I will re-
place proving otherwise to your satisfaction
, Purchase pricein full. ve,a few 00--
  "lily for she] in

- era muned b
double trea' uncut-‘3'. argon 113. Mason. Mich?
smug glans! t1ll'l'ERgOdOFhO.’pli. or. con-

e co ’eno cam ns.Sch l-
fister shirergieéfloathoth- BookinéZorgere :13»

. an r. . er sex. 11 ‘ . -‘

ed free. John ibson, Fosters, 12min, R?  r

Fen SALE—REGISTERED c. l. c.
sows and sucking pigs.
JOHN ODOERFER, Mariette, Mich.

. l. O.’e——c Oheloe young boars, March and
April D at weaan time.
CLOVER ‘EAF BTOO FARM. Monroe, Mich.

right every way, 850 buys him if
glitch.“ once. Will ship 0. 0. D. for your ap-

OLARE V. DORMAN. Snover, Mich.

O. I. O. SWINE—MY HERD CONTAINS THE
of the meet noted herd. Can furnish

you stock at “live and let live" prices.
A. J. GORDEI‘. DOI'I‘, Mich., R 8.

MUD-WAY-AUSH-KA FARM
Hers a few more 0. I.  bred gilts also hatch-
eggs from "Re 1 cross." White Wynn-
dottee and "Par " erred Books at S2 per 15.
Owen: Rutter‘gucks 1182 per 11 and ngte Chin-
ese a o esc . eggs Prepsi .
DIKE O. MILLER. Dryden, Mich.

SHEEP 7 

 I CANNOT: BELL YOU ANY MORE
ewes until next fall. To some grown up,

I can offer 10 very good young Shropshire ewes
that will lamb in April for $400. Their lambs
contracted to me should not more than purchase
price next fall. I
Also 10 mighty nice ewe,1ambs for $350.

 

 

ago. clue wsiom‘se zoo ":o‘ are use?

HAMPSHIRE sitter

 

Everything sold on both ewes andJrslns.
I an]:1  :0 aweg'tgg "Stronian 2%9"u;1:
exce on n e ram lam
weighed 176'. lb: .October 1. Booking orders
for 1920 rams. I
OLARK U. HAIRI, West Branch, Mich.-

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I AM ’bFFERINO FOR FALL DELIVERY HIGH
class registered Shropshire yearling ewes and
rams. Flock established 1890.
c. LEMEN. Dexter, Mich.

 

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WANT A SHEEP? Let American Hampshire
Sheep Association send on s dandy booklet
with list of breeders. OMFOR

rite C .
TYLER, 8e0'y..1o Woodland Avenjetrolt, Mich.

     

 

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the

  ONE IRON GRAY I YEAR OLD

Percheron stallion, Prince No.

148423. Sired by Brilliant IV No. 47581. a black

horse and soldgonce for $8,000. The dam of

Prince a large gray mare No. 148423. Price $200.
D. E. DEAN, Milford. Mich.

    
     

 

GHOICE REGISTERED PERCHERONS For Sale
1 gray mare 12 yrs. .
1 black mare 3 yrs.
1 sorrel mare 3 yrs.
«Spring Colt. , -.
BARNEY GIESKEN, as. St. Louis, Mich. .

 

FOR SALE—FINE REGISTERED PERCHER-

on mare, six

years old. black,
teen hundred.

weight seven-

 

Come and see them.
KOPE-KON FARMS. Goldwater. Mich.

. E- r 
ESL GUS I19, 0 .
~+

 

DUROC BQARS FROM P R x z n

WINNING STOCK
ready for service. Geo. B. Smith, Addi-
son, Mich.

 

MEADOWVIEW FARM REG. DUROC JERSEY
hogs. Spring pigs for sale.
J. E. MORRIS. Farmlngtcn, Mich.

DUIIOG BIIED GILTS ZIS'filij'é-ii‘fll‘fit’fiié'i
for April (arrow. Would like to have you see them.
CHERRY LAWN FARM. Shepherd. Mich“

grunt": JERSEY infill) sows mo GILTS

and May furrow.
ed or bred to my 1,000 lb. herd boar.
J08. SCHUELLER. Weldman. Mich.

MAPLE LAWN FARM IREG. DUROC JERSEY
Swine. Order your spring pigs now. Pairs
and trios not akin.

VERN N. TOWNS, R6. Eaton Rapids, Mich.

{Fan  REG. ounoc GILTSAgrRlED 'ro

 

furrow March and mod-
ern type, weighing 250 lbs. Sired by Brookwa-
r I‘axpaycr and Professor Top Col. Bred to
rookwater Panama Special. Price $65 to $100.
All fall pigs, both sex.

F. HEIMS & SON, Davlson. Mich.

E OFFER A FEW WELL-BRED SELECT-
ed spring Durnc Boats, alsc' bred sows and
Gilts in season. Call or- write
McNAUGHTON a FORDYCE, 89.. Louis, Mich.

 

 

6 TH ANNUAL P. O. BRED 80W SALE,
March 18. 1920. For particulars write
W. J. HAGELSHAW. Augusta. Mich.

Big Type Poland Chlnas. Am offering three boar
pigs at Weaning time at reasonable price. Reg-
istered in buyers name. Sired by Big Long Bob.
Write for pedigrees and prices. -
MOSE BROS.. St. Charles, Mich.

L T P AM OFFERING “SPRING
boars, summer and fall pigs.
F. T. HART. St. Louis, Mich.

 

I Am Offering Large Type Poland China Sows.
bred to F’s Orange at reasonable pirces. Also
fall pigs. Write or call.
‘ CLYDE FISHER. R3, St. Louis, Mich.

B T. P. 0. ALL SOLD OUT. EXCEPT SOME
fall gilts. Thanking my customers. ,
JOHN D. WILEY. Schoolcraft. Mich.

OARS ALSO SOWS AND PIGS. ANYTHING
you want. Poland Chinss of the biggest type.
We have bred them big for more than 25 '
over 100 head on hand. lso registered erch-
erons, Holstems and Oxfords. Everything sold at
a reasonable price. and a square deal.
JOHN C. BUTLER. Portland. Mich.

 

 

. pURoo
nUROO JERSEYS, FALL BOARS. 'WEIGHT
200 lbs. each. Sired by a 800 lb. boar.

Priced reasonable.
C. E. DAVIS A SON, Ashley, Mich.

NIGHIEANA FARM

breeds and sells good Durocs
O. L. FOSTER, Mgr. Pavilion, Mich.

 

BERKSHIRES

REGISTERED BERKSHIRES FOR SALE. AUG.

10 pigs for $40 a piece, while they last. 8st-

isfactlou guaranteed. Taking orders for spring pigs.
0 N YOUNG. Breckenridge, Mich. I

LARGE ENGLISH RECORDED BERKSHIRES.
Bred gilts and spring pigs for sale.
PRIMEVAL FARM, Osseo. Mich.

 

 

 

GREGORY FARM BERKSHIBES FOB
.profit. Choice stock for sale. Write your
wants. W. S. Corsa. White Hall. 111.

 

 SALEREGISTERED BERKSHIRES OF

the most fashionable breeding.
Gilts and young boars. Also a
No aged stock. Prices, $50 to

RIIgRORY GROVE FARM, Pontiac, Mlch.. R8
CHESTER WEITES

I
cussrrn WHITES 2mm $32.31;:

it t reasonable prices. Also a few bred Gilts
is? MSy farrow. F. W. Alexander. Vassar, Mich.

Bred or open.
few fall pigs.

 

 

 

 

EGISTERED CHESTER WHITE PIGS FOR
II sale at prices that will interest you. Either
sex. ri e today. '

RALPH OOSENS, Levering, Mich.

YORKSHIRE
a snap vonxsmns cILTe, cu: APR. 1.

. . C. bred stock. $50 each.
FHA") R. BALAOK a. SON. R1. Lansing. Mich.

HAMIPSHJBES

 

 

 

 

 

 

PEACH HILL FARM Duroc sows and gilts sired
by Proud Principal, Romeo Cherry King Brook-
water Gold Stamp 7th and Rajah out of dams
by Limited Rajah and the Principal IV. Bred to
Peach Hill Orion King and Rajah Cherry Col.
INWOOD BROS, Romeo, Mich.
;EBER80LE'S BIG TYPE DUROOS. ROARS
all‘sold. A few bred gilta for April and May

(arrow. Also open
\Ve solicit inspection. ‘

 

D GI Ts LEFT
 alr‘ides‘ll’ :3: pigs IIfrom new
blood lines.

JOHN W. SNYDER. St. Johns. Mlch.,,R 4

HAMPSHIRES

Am .2111 sold out on sows and gilts bred for
ring tar-rowing. Have a few sows and pits bred _
or June and July farrowmg that are good and
priced right. Spring boar pigs at $15 ea.. at 8

 

 

gilts. Booking order for J

spring pigs.
» ALBERT'EBERSOLE
Plymouth, Mlch.. R. F. D. No. 8

 

I , ter in:
every .way. . to new

  

  
    

0.1. C.‘ SOWS F OR, SALE

. . ,. on: or arse ass-r asses nameless - ‘
rln  to ad fall earlings bred for March. April,
‘  :e yAmyor's name. It you wan! 4"

. S tisfaction guaranteed. Call or write
“on (Educ .THOMA‘BLNew Lothrop. Mich.

nd ylitters. 1mm, 02!). y’
. promotes sow.  right in _

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BELGIAN

AND

PERCHERON

DRAFT STALLIONS
‘ . With Size and Quality

MR. FARMER: Now is the time to
raise draft horses. I put out stallions
on a breeding plan. If your locality
needs a good draft stallion, let me hear
from you.

FRED Ii STEVENS

Breckenridge, Mich.

 

 

 

 

This ,service is free to the liv

BREEDERS ATTENTION!

If you are planning on a sale this spring, write us now and
CLAIM THE DATE! '

to avoid conflicting sale dates _
LET “THE BUSINESS FARMEB.” CLAIM YOUR DATE 1

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It is 8 1-2 inches long and weighs ten ounces.
Teeth and dies are case-hardened in bone black, making them hard and

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 for repairs. -

The ideal ‘tool to carry on a binder, reaper or mower.
‘Will-work in: closer quarters than any other wrench.
Light, strong, compact and easily carried in the hip pocket.
Dies will fit all bolts used on standard farm machinery.

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Every wrench is guaranteed

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 D. L. PERRY, Auctioneer.

 

‘ONSIGNMENT SALE

‘ at Ypsilanti,  i

5 '  y Saturday, May lst. 1920

90 HEAD

Registered Helstein-Friesian Cattle
/ The kind you are looking for

1—32-1b. Cow. ,

1—30-1b. ' Cow.

4—Daughtcrs of 30-1b. Cows.
2—29-1b. Cows. ’
3—Dau'ghters of 29-lb. Cows.

l—Daughter of 1123-1b. yearly record Cow.

'1—26-1b. Cow.

1—25-1b. Cow.

1—24-lb. Cow.

2—23-1b. . Cows.

1—20~lb. 2-year-old Daughter
30-lb. Sire.

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of 30.96-lb. Cow from

1—19-lb. Daughter of 19-1b. 2-year-old by 30-1b. Sire.
2—Sisters of 32-1b. 4-year old.

12—Cows bred to 38-lb. Bull.
1—30-lb. Bull.
1—29-1b. Bull.

WONDERFUL INDIVIDU‘ALS

WITH REAL BREEDING

ABOUT ONE-HALF OF THESE CATTLE

UNDER STATE AND

FEDERAL TEST.

R. AUSTIN BACKUS in the Box. I

' Get a Catalog and you will be at the Sale. '

Free Transportation
Address Glen Bird, (Secretary),

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to Sale Pavilion
Ypsilanti, Mich.

 

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The Michigan Business

Gentlemen:

per. I am very much
- . no doubt hear from me
again.

Check enclosed.

 

Mt. Clemens, Mich.

I wish to state that the results have been
very satisfactory from the ad in your pa-

I have some bulls I wish to adver-
tise as soon as I can get the proper cir-
culars and mailing material ready.

Yours truly,

, EDW. B. BENSON,

Hill Crest Farms, Munson, Mich.

Mar. 4, 1920.
Farmer,

pleased. You will
in the near future

 

 

that M. B. F. Livestock ads bring results

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,  Great Combined
. DISPERSAL SALE

of Seventy Head of High Class Registered Holsteins

_ _ One mile south of Rochester, Mich., on the Flint Div.. D. U. R.
commencing at 10:30, May 12- 1920.

~able A. R. 0. records.

qugerveld. a son at a 41 lb. bull. _

Oows bred to a grandson to May Eoohy Sylvia and to King K‘orndyke Sadie Hengerveid
a son of‘the celebrated K. K. Sadie Vale. out of a daughtel' ct Sir Veeman
This young sirb's six nearest dams average ‘80 lbs. and he Is to bedsold.
I Not a born new or heifer In the sale.
ervlsion and tree "em 1‘. l. and will be sold under a so .day retest.

a clean sale.

c. c. HINE and E. A.

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Daughters from such bulis’ as Maplecrest
Application Pontiac, 35 lbs.; King or the Pontiacs Segis, 32 lb. bull;
Sir .Ormshy Johanna Gilt Edge, 38 1b.; and King Korndyke Sadie

Many cows with good credit-

Hengorveld.
‘ This Is positive
Herds‘ are under state and federal sull-

IHARDWY, Owners '

 

 
   

“Warm”

rates for 13 times or longer-

 

   

POULTRY. «rBREEDERS
Advertisements -Inserted under this heading at so cents per line. per issue. special
Write out what yolf‘have to alter and send It In. we will put

it in type, send proof and quote rates by return mai
Advertising Department. Mt. Oiemons. Michigan.

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Address The Michigan Business Farmer.

 

POULTRY

Ti‘iOMESTEAD FARMS
A soc-operative work
in Pure Breed Practical

Poultry. Chicks and .eggs
delivered at your door prepaid

Standard Heavy and Laying
Breeds

 

   
  
 
   
 

You will be interested in
the‘ Extra Quality White Leg-
.horns inspected and certified
as Heavy Producers h the
Poultry Extension Specialst of
the Agricultural College.

Live and healthy Chicks and satisfactory hatch
from one guaranteed.

Send for new Catalog with illustrations 1 it
will help on raise our Chicks. 0 it ex-
plains the omestead me plan of co~operation.

STATE FARM8 ASSOCIATION
Desk 2. Kalamazoo, Michigan

ORPINGTONS AND LEGHORNS

Two great breeds for profit. Write today for
free catalogue of hatching eggs, baby chicks and
breeding stock.

, CYCLE HATCHER COMPANY. 149 Phiio Bldg.
imira. N. Y.

 

 

For Bale—Imported Gray African geese In tries.
R. 1. Red cockerels bred to standard. li‘ew set-
tins- esss. Mrs. Mabel French. Ludington. RS.

 

  MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYI.
ducks, either sex, $4 each at once. Old ducks
weigh 10 pounds.

CHASE BTOOK FARM. Mariette, Mich.

 

 

PLYMOUTH ROCKS
BABHED floc Enos non Harcnmo

. from strong husky breeders.
W. O. COFFMAN, Benton Harbor. R 8. Mich.

 

 

OHN'B Big Beautiful Barred Rocks are Hen
hatched. good layers, grow quick. 80 e
$3.50; 50, $5 postpaid; cockerels, 84 to $6. I'-

culsrs, photos. John Northon. Clare, Mich.

  

LANGSHAN

BLACK LANGGHANS OF QUALITY
Bred for type and color~since 1912. Started
from pen headed by Black Bob. First prize cook
at International show at Bull'uio, Jan. 1912. Eggs
$3.50 per setting of 15. Winter laying strain.
DR._CHAS. W. SIMPSON. Webberville, Mich.

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BABY omens ‘—
lflchS AND E363 'K‘°.‘.‘"“R§i‘;f'"gi$$i

Plymouth Rmks. Superior color. Prolific layers.
Prepaid by parcel post and safe delivery guar-
anteed. illustrated catalog free.

VINTERLAKES FARM. Box 4. Lawrence. Mich.

CHICKS—CHICKS

SHIPPED SAFELY EVERYWHERE BY MAIL
B. 0. White Leghorns and s. C. Mattie

cones; the great egg machines.

chicks, guaranteed to satisfy

May {and June delivery. Eleventh season. Cat-

alog roe. »

HOLLAND HATOHERY. R7. Holland. Mloh.

 

 

 

chicks..Leghorns. Mlncrcas, Spanish. Houdans.

Campines. Rods, Rocks, Orpingtons, Brahmas.

Wyandottes. Tyrone Poultry Farm. Fonton. Mich
50.000 for

BABY GHIGK 1......

Booking orders now at 20c each.
Beschmont Poultry Farm, Grandali, ind.. Box 1.

HATCHIN G . EGGS

n. I. RED MATCHING EGGS. $9 PER 100.
Special eggs from 300 egg hen. 750 each.
W. H. FROHM, R 2, Mt. Clemens, Mich.

0R SALE—LIGHT BRAHMA FOR
hatching, $1.50 per setting.
MRS J. A. HAMMAR. Tustin, Mlch.. R 2

 

1 920. Barred

 

 

 

EGGS

 

08E COMB BROWN LEGHORN E608 FOR
sale. One fifty per fifteen eggs.
Flemish Giant rabbits that are giants. Quality
guaranteed.
E. HIMEBAUGH. Goldwater. Mich.

068 FROM PURE BRED SILVER LA’OEI
Wyandottes, $1.75 for 15.
A. H. DURKEE. Pinconnlng. Mloh.

 

ROM COOK'S BEST: 8. O. RUFF. WHIT-
and black Orplngton eggs. 34 per 15; $7 for 80

 

URE BRED BARRED ROCKS. GOOD LAY-

ers. That narrow, straight snappy barring.
Score cards on hens and pullets to 94 points.
Am an old timer in the business. Eggs for hatch-
ing. 82.50 per 15. Satisfaction guaranteed.

A. D. STEOKLE. Freeport. Mich.. Box 110

 

 

LEGHORN '

"ENS—8. 0. White Leghorns. Ferris zed-egg
strain. $4.00. $5.00 and $7.50 each. Hatch-
ing eggs $2.00 per 15 prepaid. A. Btegenga.
Portland. Michigan.

 

0. White Leghorn Hatching. Eggs. $2 tor setp
ting, $5 for 50: $9 for 100. Day old “chicks.
$10 per 50, 818 per 100, E. Altenhern. Allegan.

for hatching. Hens, Cookerels. Farm rail
od laying strain. .
J. W. WEBSTER. Bath. Mich.

RABOWSKE'S 8. 0. WHITE LEGHORNS
Stock and eggs for sale. Circular free.
LEO GRABOWSKE. Merrill. Mich., R 4

W I ANDOTTE

Silver Laced Golden and White Wyandottes.
Eggs from best quality, only $8 per 15, $5 per
30 by parcel post prepaid. Buy from old re-
liable, Clarence Browning. R2, Portland, Mich.

hlte Wyandottes. Dustin's strain. culled by ex-
ports for utility, size and color. ggs 15 (or
$2.00. 50 or more 100 each, by' mat prepaid.
VANO FARM. Hartford, Mich.

s 0. BUFF LEGHORNS. BABY OHIOKB, E0?
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GRABOWSKE BR08.. R 4, Merrill, Mich.
I
BABBED ROCK sillicfimésgeliii"Mfg;

headed by pedigreed males. Purebred partridge
rocks. Eggs $2.50 per 15, postpaid, $6 per 45.
N. AYERS s. SON, Sliverwood, Mich.

 

HITE WYANDOTTES; EGGS FOR HATOH-

ing from selected layers, 82 per 15. prepaid.
Pens, 816 to $25.

FRANK DeLONG, R8, Three Rivers. Mich.

 

0. BR. Leghorn eggs, $1.50 per setting. Pelin
duck, $1.50 (or 8. Chinese goose 40¢ each.-
mus. CLAUDIA BETTs. I-liiisdale. Mloh.

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BABIIED BOOKS miifihnimf‘ml“i.'§l’ {.153
laying strain. _$2 per 15. 5 or 45 by prepaid
parcel post. B. G. Kirby. R1. set Lansing, Mich.

FROM BIG BARRED ROCKS, BRED
 to lay. $1.50 setting.
MRS. THOS. FOSTER. Cassopoiis. Mich.. R1

ATCHING EGGS FROM 8. O. R. I. REDS.
Prices 15, $1.50: 50, 84: 100, 87.
MRS. J. A. KELLIE. Maybee, Mich.

 

 

HATGHING EGGS—PLYMOUTH ROCKS (ALI.
varieties) White Wyandotte, Ancona and Ron-

en Bucks. Catalog 2c.
SHERIDAN POULTRY YARDS, Sheridan, Mich.

 

. 0. AND R. 0. BROWN LEOHORN £06.
for hatching winter layers, $1.00 for 18.
EVA TRYON. Jerome. Mich.

 

FROM MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEY.

 

 ——$4 for

10.
MRS. WALTER DILLMAN. R 5 . Dowagiao, Mich

---poultry breeders! _. .

Start you’i- advertising NOW, whether
you have anything to sell right now
or not, get your advertising in these

pages
WHERE YOU KNOW IT WILL PAY

Write THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER, Breeders’ Directory"
Mt. Clemens,
for special rates or better still send.

copy, we will put it in type and quote '
you for 18. 26 or 52 times. ~

 

    
      
 
 

 
 
 

 

 

4 . ScOtch Collie Puppies

stock that have plenty of grit.
this week's delivery. I also
Collie Puppies for training, either duties or fe-
males. ,Breed your female ocllies to “SIR HECT- ’
OB." and I will buy the puppies. -  "

Dr. mauve comm sinners..-

- Sir-ed by
EWALT’S SIR moron

Natural heel-drivers. bred from farm trained
ave a few for

buy thoroughbred

 

 

Mt. Clemens, Michigan

  

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TAND on a street corner
S some day and watch the

motor cars go by. 1; Every
now and then you will see a
motorist with two or three tires
strapped on the back of his car,
each tire of a different make. .

A man afraid of his tires.

‘ 3|! II

No 'matter how many pre-
cautions a man may take he will
never get out of a tire more than
the rmaker put into it. '

Ifa tire is built to go a limited
number of miles there is no
reason why it ' should be ex-
pected to go any farther. ‘

When it breaks down before
it has gone the limit, there is no
reaSon Whyan allowance should

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The car in the foreground has a wheel
out of line.

Few motorists realise that a displace-
ment of only one delree has the same-
efl'ect on a tire a: (fit was dragged 92%
feet in every mile. ,’ ' A

New tires have been known to h eon!-
pletely stripped of. their tread: in 100
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What intelligent buyers are '
v looking for is""l)etter tires—not

limited-mileage‘tires or concili—
atory allowances. . L »

Andtheyarebeginningto look
behind tires to the principles on

which they are built and? sold. 

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goyerns the production and sale
of U. S. Tires: Build a tire as good
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1 Seek out'the‘ new kind of tire
dealer—+ the man Who believes '
in quality and square dealing, ‘
Who'jis putting the tire business
on as sgund.  ba’éis  any other»
retail business in his‘town.

" Back 'ofl-him7s‘tands every re-
sourceand facilityof the United

_- States Rubber» ‘ Company—the ,
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‘. ization rinbth‘e world. ' ' -

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basis as faSt as quality Cénditiom V'

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