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luteiy dry, never when there is
J moisture in the fleece. .

The Sheep should be shorn only on
a” smooth dry surface, preferably a
pinned board ﬂooring, never on the

Care should be taken to keep the
ﬂeece intact. Avoid second cute,
which reduces the average length of
the staple.

Clip all locks from each fleece and
‘ pack separately. Never permit them
to remain in the fleece.

h‘leeces should be prepared . with
the flesh side out, never the weather

F ‘ side.

. Feld; roll, or use fleece box for

preparing the fleece.

Tie each fleece separately. Never
tie two ﬂeeces together, nor pack
and market untied wool.

' Use only enough twins to tie the
fleece securely-

Paper or hard glazedsurtace twine
should he used. Never use sisal nor

binder twine.
‘ Never permit the fleece to come
into contact with chad, hay, dust, nor
any other Ioreign material. '

Place the tied ﬂeeces in regula—

    
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ACCOMPANYWG article prepared by the U. 8. Depastm‘ent of F

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State Farm Bureau or Other organizations that are pooling ,;
thewoolotﬂmir-nmnhmwwhotormmmynotm

I should pay a. heavy toll to the local dealer for doing something which
how to prepare, grade and W wool cooperatively. —-_—Edltor.

There is no reason why any runner
in ion W. The article tells"

 
tlon wool sacks or cower‘thom with
canvas or new burlap. ‘.

Select a clean dry place for stor-
ing the wool until sold. Never per:
unit the wool to lie upon the ground

nor store it in a basement.

Keep the white and Mack wool
separate. New permit any portion
01? black wool to be mixed through
the white.

Divide the hurry, seedy, cotted,
dead. black and my ﬂeeces tron:
the clean, white, well—grown Wool.
and pack separately. Never pool: all
grades together indiscriminately.
Essential Points in Marketing Wool

(b-operatiyely

Under certain conditions some det-
lnite form of cooperation may seem.
desirable. In its simplest form it
may operate merely in the collection
and disposition of the wool. The

wool (any he collected at some cent»~ F

ral point and sold privately or by
auction sale or by sealed bids; or a.
local representative may handle wool
tron: a certain annuity for

growers, or the wool may he cens‘tgn-
ed toswooi merchantin centenar-

rhetoentor. ’l'helsttornothoduthe

initial step, requires less actual time.
experience, expense, and labor. It
will, no doubt, prove more satisfact-
ory than individual marketing.‘

When Inmersotnoommunityde'

cide to consign their wool some one
grower should be designated to act
as an hum-ml manager; He should
make arrangements with all the
growers » to deliver their wool at a
certain shipping point on a certain
day, to watch the grading, i! that has
been provided tor, to load the wool
and ship it. This provides a nucleus

  
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farmlands?

   
Y ' ’
our Rail-less
1913 alone, 350,000,060 tons of farm
produce were transported to local ship- ‘
ping centers to motor tucks. The same
national ﬁgure: pmvc also that American
farmers are the gmtcst users of motor
trucks—among all industries. No pro-
grossivc farmer can afford to overlook
impressive ﬂoats like these.

Your name and address mailed to our
cities at Chicago will bring you descrip-
.tive folders that will pmvé interesting

' OUR live stock and the produce
_ from your ﬁelds, carried in freight
trains to the cities, thunder past count-
less danger- signs mth the warning,
“Look Out for the Carsl" Each one of
these marks the crossing-place of a
country road—~21 road without rails, lead-
ing to railroad and town. Each one
. marks a farmer’s right-of-way.
g Since your farm is a 1920 enterprise,
F probably it is ﬁtted with most of the
followmg modern equipment—the tele
phone, good lighting andhaﬁng, a silo.
a manure spreader, a cream separator-,m
automobilcmucugiuemmctor. . '
But have your hauling problems found
their proper solution? Are the time
low and difﬁculties of a decade ago .
still impeding your endless carrying of

Government statistics ’show M In

INTERNATIONAL Hmvssranymumsr

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and instruﬂiw.

QF MEMCA
m

 
.Hm Truck at work on your farm and
‘ on the roads which are your right-ofoway.
Handle all your miscellaneous farm haul-
ing with railway efﬁciency. The nine
1W Hem Tuck sizes range
hoax tontogx ton. Keepin mind
that these trucks have been made for
‘ ‘ycars by the makeup! good and ma

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menu with a‘ local banker

tor a reasonable
grower. This method is one or the
ﬁrst steps in a more emcient system
for marketing wool and the experi-
ence gained by” one yearfs operations
is can sumcient— to warrant the es—
washroom of a permanent compar-
otrVe marketing maroon. ~
When mEmber-s desire a loan on

their wool amusements should be '

made with a. local banker to advance
to the association 1 suﬁcient snpunt
to cover such loans Each menthol-

should be assessed a certain amount
per pound to cover the expense of

loading and shipping, this ainount
to be deducted at time of dual set-
tlement. Funds thus provided my
be used for such expenses as labor
for handling the wool, ﬁre insurance,

rental for warehouse, postage, printn

lug, telephone calls and other inci-

dental expenses. In ﬁxing o. date for
delivery of the wool, it should be un-

derstood that in case of rain? the col-

looting will be postponed until the
ﬁrst clear day.

The mporaﬂvo selling and grad- ,

tug of wool allot-dc the producer an
opportunity to lonrn whether his
wool grades choice, average, or poor.
As a rule he will receive payment ao-
eording to the value of the product.
and while some may he disappoint-
ed with. their returns, many will be
surprised and pleased with the ‘prem—
iums they receive in reward for their
efforts.

When forming a more or less per-
meant wool marketing association it
may be advisable to incorporate, as
this gives the organization a distinct
legal status which cannot be had oth-
erwise. (See Department of Agricul-
ture Bulletin No. 541, “Go-operative
Organization By-Ls'ws.") More
speciﬁc advice on tan-operative organ-
ization may he had by writing direct
mmeBumuotHnrkoMU S. De—
purulent oil Agriculture. Washing—
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Where a. Went-quintlty of’wod' -
is pooledor contradict-secure the

services of a wool else-er or grader,
and, it possible, grade ouch lot sep-
arately. In lieu of deﬁnite ﬁxed
standards for grades of wool, per-
mjt the clause!- to grade into :the gen—
erally accepted commercial grades.

Keep accurate record of each farm.
him ~
showing the number of ﬂeeces, and

er‘s clip, issue 'a statement to

net weight or each grade. Make it

known that: moisture shrinkage.

will occur, and that each grower will
be compelled to stand his share of
the loss. Request each grower to be
present when his wool is graded. Ex-
plain to each wool producer that
when a ﬂeece is placed in the rejec-
tion clans it means a less ot'f20 to 33'
per cent. A few actual demonstra-
tions of this kind impress the grower
and will create an incentive to pro-
duce wool which will not grade as re-
iections.

ThecostOtgr-adingwlllvarydes”

pending upon the location or the
warehouse. the qualiﬁcations and ex-
perience ot the wool grader, the
lengﬁ or time his services are re-
quit and the {solution provided by
"the Association for the grading,
handling and packing of the. wool.
Some wool graders may he engaged
upon a piece basis, (I. stipulated
amount per piece.) but the weekly

or monthly basis is preferable, es-,
peciolly where the trader to request»

ed to explain. the grades and spin-
ning properties or various fleeces. It

arrange for the sole of wool
while the grader is present. so that
he may tomcat the growers, and
explain in an intelligent way to the
buyers the mm o! the dinerent
nodes. As a. rule the wool growers
hove no sauna W concern-
In; and m min; prep-
dues. or nine of their wool, while
the m ct least most or them,

new «it on!!! m the points
at!“ ”k. out has. accurate

  
lecturers toward the purchase
and particularly the demand.

oernto Whom the wool is consigned:
advance to each"

informatltan on nothing. market cone \.
dltlons and the attitude or the man: .

     
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nia bean jobbers go through thenavy bean
will be reatored to the place of honor at the
American table. Time was when beans were
the favorite American dish, but. it fell into evil
hands during the war and lost, favor with the
consumer. ‘ '

The result of foreign competition upon the -

American bean has been discussed at length in
these columns. It has been deﬁnitely estab-
lished that wholesale and retail grocery ﬁrms
have sought to popularize the pinto and Japa-
nese beans, and because of the lower prices of
those varieties, their eiforts have borne fruit
among the less discriminating, consumers.
Canning Companies Aid Foreign Bean
One of the most important reasons for the
lessened demand for American grown beans
has just come to light in a suit which the
United States government has instituted
against the Van Camp Company. Everyone is
acquainted with Van Camp ’1; pork and beans.
_ For years the name Van Camp has stood for

quality products and business integrity. But ’

this company is now charged with having cann-
ed huge quantitiesof Japanese cranberry beans
and. advertising and selling them as American
grown kidney beans. The government dis-
covered the deception, seized 200,000 cases of
the beans, and started suit against the Van
Camp company for misrepresenting their pro—
duet. It is believed that hundreds of thou-
sands of cases of these beans have been sold to
the consumer under the guise of an American
name. Moreover, it is alleged that thousands
1 of bushels of Kotenashi beans have been sold
by certain job-hers here in Michigan as well as
other states, as Michigan pea beans. 1 If these
charges are true the American bean industry
has suffered. another grevious wrong.

But the damage has been done and nothing
. is gained by crying over spilt milk. The prac-
tical thing to do is to set to work to repair the
damage. There is a way to do this providing
the government wins its suit and forces the
Van Camp company to label Japanese beans as
such and make it necessary for them to buy
American grown beans for such of their cus:
tomers who demand domestic varieties. There
are many consumers who would not buy Japa-
nese beans if they could procure the American
product, but when the foreign bean is placed
before them under an American label they will
naturally purchase it, until they tire of it as
they surely will, for none of the foreign beans
have the taste nor nourishment to which the
consumer has become accustomed in the navy
or pea bean. '

There is still another important reason why
consumption of beans has decreased. It is
found in the unprecedented prosperity of the
country. Beans have always been considered
the “poor man’s” food. But the poor man no
longer exists in the city. The high wages to
the laboring classes and the prosperity of the
middle classes have caused them
to discard beans and the other

 
l

mat Will the Acreage Be?

HERE is no doubt about itr—the bean
. acreageﬁorlmmbeslashedtpat

least 50 per cent, and many claim to
thirty-ﬁve per cent of normal. We do not
mean the bean acreage for Michigan alone,
but for New York, California and the 01-1-
cnt. Every bean producing section, includ-
lng- those already planted and those yet to
be planted, reports an actual on estimated
reduction varying from 50 to 80 per cent be-
low he: year’s acreage. Prof. Cox of the
M. A. 0., tells us that the Japanese have
reduced their acreage; and we all know
what farmers are planning to do here in
Michigan. But the key bean state now. is
California, which stands second only to
Michigan and sometimes ﬁrst, so we are in-
terested in knowing what the California
farmers have done about their acreage. We
quote from Mr. M. M. Benchley, manager of
the California Bean Growers’ Ass“n, who
was in Michigan a couple ,Week ago, “Cal-
ifornia‘s bean acreage,” he said, “will be
cut 20 per cent of last year’s acreage. This
is no guesa either, ‘for most of our crop is
planted. We know now what to depend upon-
so far as our 1920 crop is concerned.”

ltoughtnottobeneeessarytouseany
moremrdsboconveytoourreadersthc
‘ fact that the 1919 acreage will not produce
enough beans to feed the nation, and that
this ought to be a particularly good crop for
Michigan bean and sugar beet growers.

 
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values that are not to be dwpised. Already

the people of the cities are turning to cheaper
foods. They have boycotted the potato; they
have reduced their consumption of meat; but
they cannot entirely eliminate these foods
from their ration unless they buy something to
take their place. That something, logically, is
beans. The price of beans could double and
they would still remain the cheapest article of
food which the consumer can buy.

Educating the Consumer

But how get the facts to the consumer? “Ad~
vertising” is the answer? And that is the me-
dium which the bean jobbers will use providing
the government wins its suits against. the Van
Camp Company. And why is that necessary?
Because it would be money thrown away to
advertise a product, the name of which can-
ning companies and dealers could use to label
foreign goods, and sell them to a market creat-
ed by such advertising.

It is understood that a few Michigan jobbcrs
have agreed to underwrite the expense of a pre-
liminary advertising campaign in forty of the
leading daily papers of the middle west, with
the expectation that the Bean Jobbers’ Ass’n
will reimburse them from the Association
funds. If this campaign is a success a national
advertising campaign will be undertaken joint-
ly by the bean jobbers of Michigan and Cali-
fornia. This campaign will involve an ex—
penditure of $200,000.

l.

, , 1... to AdvertiSc Michigan Navy Beans A 1
Michigan and California Bean jobbers Will Spend. Huge Sum to

IF THE PLANS of the Michigan and Califor- ’

Increase Consumption of Beans

Growers Will Beneﬁt.

Naturally the ﬁrst beneﬁts of this campaign
will be felt by the jobbers who have beans to
sell. Then the elevators will feel the. effect,

- and ﬁnally the, grower will ﬁnd a demand for
what he has left. It may be thirty days; it
may be sixty days or even longer before the
farmers who are still holding their beans will
get the beneﬁt from this advertising campaign,
but we are certain that long before another
crop is on the market, the grower will be able
to sell his holdings at a fair proﬁt.

Some scoff at the value of advertising. But
experience has proven that nearly all kinds of
advertising pays big dividends. A campaign
to advertise beans seems logical, and we believe
it will bear fruit. Once induce the consumer
to return to the use of beans; educate him to
their food value and small cost; show him the
difference between Japanese and American va-
rieties and we predict that he will demand
beans as a part of his daily menu.

Tariff Bill Still Pending

The House Ways and Means Committee is
silent as More on the fate of the Osborne bean
tariﬂf bill. Whether the bill has been deﬁnite-
ly chloroformed and consigned. to an untimely
grave or whether it still survives we are not in-
formed. It would seem that the Michigan con-
gressman who is chairman of the Committee,
ought to have enough respect for his consti-
tuents to give them an explanation of the fail-
ure of his committee to report out this bill.

The need for such protection is becoming
more apparent every day. Japanese beans are
still flooding our market,‘ and except for the
growing scarcity of domestic beans and the cor-
tainty that the 1920 acreage will be greatly
reduced, the market would undoubtedly be in
a much worse shape. The following statement
gives some idea of the enormous quantity of
beans that were imported during 1919. ,

Imports of Beans and Lentils

“There were 4,972,456 bushels of beans and

lentils, valued at $17,526,911, imported into the
United States during the calendar year 1919, of
which Japan furnished the greater portion. The

countries shipping over 1,000 bushels each were
as follows:

 
Countries‘ Bushels Value
France ............... 60,410 $ 337,330
Italy .......... . . . . . . 1,469 3,400
England ..... . ..... 80,354 476,162
Canada . . . . . . . . . 350,352 1,259,986
Panama ... ........ 5,412 26,026
Mexico ............... 3,047 10,067.
Cuba ...... . .......... 64,644 293,017
Dominican Republic . . . 3,034 14,097
Argentina ............ 30,006 116,724
Brazil ............... 45,629 150,553
Chile ................ 614,260 2,673,920
China ................ 6,095 17,043
Chin-a leased territory—

Japanese ........... 19,871 43,938,
Hong Kong ........... 26,919 78,727
Japan .... ...........3,625,965 11,858,293
British So. Africa . . . . . . 26,919 135,097
Madagascar . . . . . . 5.615 19,454

Total . . ......... 4,972,456 $17,526,911 .
'Flfteen countries not named »

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ready to take the ﬁnal step in
perfection of their industry?

RE THE milk producers who 'sup-
' ply the city of Detroit with its
most food product
the.
We re-

fer to the marketing of their product.

essential

If they are not ready toidothis most

 
1:.

,cure them a higher price.
ling ﬁnally resulted in the organizing
. ,of the Michigan Milk Prod‘ucers’ As-

'r‘obvious. logical and practical thing, ,

when will they be ready? Or, if they
are ready why [do they not seize the
opportunity that has been knocking

'L at their door for months past? These

are questions which ﬁnd lodgment
ill/the minds of many who view the
Detroit milk situation through dis-
passionate eyes.

The dairy industry is the result of
a tedious evolution. We say tedious,
because the evolution has been un-
necessarily slow. The progress of
the industry has been needlessly de-
ferred for a quarter of a century. The

‘ economies in milk production and the

reforms in the marketing of milk
could as well have been effected a
decade ago as three years ago, had
the milk producers the proper lead-
ership and vision.
. Early History of Dairy Industry
The ﬁrst phase of the dairy indus-
try covered many centuries of little
or no progress. Farmers produced
milk principally for their own uses.
What they had left they sold to their
neighbors who owned no cows. There
were few large ﬁne herds of high-
producing cows. There were few

‘ highly-eiﬁcient'farmers who produc-

ed milk primarily as a business to
make money. But as the population
of the country shifted from the rural
districts to the cities, and. the num-
ber of people owning cows became
less in proportion to the increase in
population, it became necessary and
advantageous for the fewer farmers
to own more cows in order to feed
those who had become non-produc-
ers. In this manner, the dairy indus-
try slowly developed from an indi-
vidual and purposeless enterprise to
a large and highly organized bus-
iness.

The second phase of the dairy in-
dustry has to do with its develop-
ment as a business. The producers
of milk organized. At ﬁrst, for pro-
ductive purposes. Cow-testing asso—
ciations came into being. Farmers

' learned how to distinguish between

the good cows and the poor cows,
and to weed out the low producers
from their herds. With the assist-
ance of the agricultural colleges they
began also to weed out their old
careless and inefﬁcient methods of
feeding, breeding, milking, etc., and
to instill modern business methods
into their business. But in spite
of the painstaking efforts of the milk
producers to make their business pay
them returns equivalent to other
branches of farming or industrial en-
terprises, they discovered that they
were not receiving sufﬁcient returns
to pay them a fair wage for their
investment and a fair proﬁt.

So we enter the third phase of the
dairy industry in which we now ﬁnd
ourselves. The dairymen of Michigan
ﬁrst felt the influence of this phase
about ﬁve years ago. They began to
see that they would have to receive
more money for their product in or-

”der to maintain their business suc—

cessfully year after year. The cost
of producing milk was advancing,
but the price received for the product
stood still. For several years there
was a more or less pronounced feel—
ing on the part of the dairymen that
some action should betaken to se-
This feel-

sociation, which at once became a

'j.,‘powerful factor in the price contro-
”agencies between the farmers and the
.iniddlemen who bought

their milk.

Gradually the price of milk has ad-

  
Yanced reaching the highest point in

the history of Michigan' 3 dairy indus-

y- during 1919. But cost of pro-
etion kept pace, and the milk pro-

ﬁlms;- has not yet received a price
which will cover every item Of cos-t

d give. him the clear ten or twenty
cent proﬁt to which he is en-

Appointed ‘
outs in this phase of the
. eluded the appoint-

: I titude on the pressing milk pimtl

Haoe not the Milk Producers the- Courageland ,bilzty to Grasp , _
Problem and Solve it Now and F orever"

By THE EDITOR

a

 
Difference

per cent for distributing.

Difference . . . . .....

per cent for distributing.

pay.

tenaw County.

 
Cold Facts for May and June

EAR EDITOR: You are right, when you boileve, that the time is
ripe, just now for the milk producers of thp Detroit area, to have
their main milk plant in Detroit.

According to the best authorities of the M. A. 0., the cost of pro-
ducing 100 quarts of milk is $8. 40, without a cent profit to producer.
With the price of milk for May and June ﬁxed at $3. 40 per hundred
pounds F. 0. B. Detroit and deducting 30 cents freight charges on a
radius of 30 miles, farmers will receive $3.10 a hundred pounds of milk
or $6. 59 for 100 quarts; net loss to producer, $1.81.

Distributors for 100 qts. of milk will receive
Producers for 100 quarts of milk will receive .............

or consumer pays 228 per cent on price received by farmers .or 128

Distributors for 100 pints of milk will receive . . . . . . . . . .3 9.00
Producers for 100 pints of milk will receive . .. . .. .. .. . n. . . .$.3.30

or consumer pays 272 per cent on price received by farmers or 172

Risks of distributors are none, producers being obliged to wait one
month for their money, with a two weeks supply back for next month’s
With the amount of money derived from these invo weeks back
pay, don’t you believe farmers will not get a nice milk plant in De-
troit? Don't you believe they will not have a. little more than $6.59
for 100 quarts or $3.30 for 100 pints of mllk?-—-John J. Smith, Wash-

coo-oooueoog $15.00
0.59
I

...............$ 8.41

$5.70

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ment of the Detroit Milk Commission
with the work of which the majority
of our readers are acquainted. Per-
haps the appointment of the Com-
mission was a natural step in the ev-
olution of the dairy industry. Cer-
tainly it was the means of securing
for the milk producer the best price
he ever received during a period in
which he might otherwise have suf-
fered through a price war with the
distributors. Although perhaps a
natural step it could~not be accepted
as providing the ﬁnal solution to the
marketing problem. Why? Because
nobody was or is bound by its de-
cisions. The distributing companies
have appeared before the Commission
and stated the minimum price at
which they could afford to distribute
the milk. The Commission has tak-
en their Word for it. What else
could the Commission do? If the
Commission set a price less than
what the distributors wanted, the
distributors would simply have call-
ed off the agreement and the Com-
mission would have been powerless
to enforce its decision. The farm-
ers have appeared before the Com-

mission and presented their cost ﬁg-'

ures. But to pay both the farmers
and the distributors a price that
would net a fair proﬁt the Commis—
sion would ,have to ﬁx a retail price
which was more than the consumer
would pay. Hence. by the very na-
ture of things the consumer and the
distributor got theirs at the expense
of the farmer. It could not be oth—

 
Shall the Milk Producers Market Their Own Product?

 
erwise and under the commission
plan it cannot be otherwise: Farm-
ers testifying before the Detroit Fair
Price Board swore that they had
never received a price through the
Commission which had paid them
cost of production plus a ten per cent
proﬁt. And so while we will con-

cede the value 'of the Commission in'

patching up the differences between
producers and‘ distributors we will
not concede that the
can ever be the means of permanent-
ly settling those differences.

Another Step to be Taken~

There is another step to be taken
in this third phase of the develop-
ment of the dairy industry. That
step is the actual distribution of
milk by the farmers who produce it.
This is a logical and legitimate func—
tion of the farmer to perform. No
matter if the milk dealers of Detroit
were distributing this milk at the
lowest possible cost, it would still be
a matter of protection for the farmer
to take control of'that end of the
business, and settle for all time to
come the question of “How much
will they pay me for my product?"
How much more advisable is it for
the farmers to take this step in view
of the fact that it costs almost ex-
actly as much and during some
months of the years more to get
this milk from the railway station to
the consumer’s door than it does to
put it through all the expensive and
intricate processes of manufacture.

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Please use this coupon to express your views on the question,

“Shall the Milk Producers market their own Product?"

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write your views in greater detail,

I do so, use a separate sheet of paper.

It you wish to
which we would prefer to have you

I Question No. l—Are you satisﬁed with the commission plan of

I ﬁxing milk prices? ....... ‘ ..... I : .

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I . Question No. 2—Do you favor the Milk Producers' Ass' 11 distribut- I

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Question No. 3—Do you think the time is ripe for making plans» I

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Question No. 4—H youdo not favor the actual distribution of milk
by the producers, do vou favor a central sales agency in Detroit where
the milk may be received, weighed, tested and sold either to distribut- ,

I 01'sortothocetaﬂgroceryirade?...........I.‘-..‘. __
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if that there is, suﬁcient sentiment for ‘ ’

 
it ions true. as scope! that the farm-h;

11* is NOT receiving what he should
for his 1nilk.'l-'lie consumer w‘ill- peg

~,_~~0njly so moon without complaint. The
"distributors do not want to charge .

more than that because it. creates
trouble and 111st consumption. The "

’ distributors must have a certain mar-

'gin to conduct their own business,‘

: and so what is left of the censumer’ a

dollar. they pay to the farmer. This .
they have always done and always
will do, not because they are greedy,
or unjust but because it is human
nature for them to do so. We know
that the distributor’s margin is ex-
cessive. Our common sense tells us
so. The distributOrs themselves have
been frank enough to admit it. But
under the present method of ﬁxing
the milk. price, that margin cannot-
be made less. As a result the farm-‘
or must continue to suffer and the
consumer must continue to pay high
prices.

What's the Solution?

If a Saint Louis milk dealer can
eliminate 70 out of 90 milk wagons
'of a competitor by consolidation how
many wagons could the milk produc-
ers of the Detroit area eliminate in
the city of Detroit by selling their
milk through one concern owned or
controlled by themselves? The use-
less expense attendant upon the
maintaining of a score or more milk
plantsnlnd delivery systems in De-
troit is simply enormous. Why let
it continue? Why not simplify the“
system and give some of the saving
to the farmers? Why not follow in

‘ the footsteps of other farm organiza-

tion, and now thattherproblem of
production has been largely .solved,
tackle the bigger problem of mar-
keting.

How Can This be Done?

The time is opportune for taking
this step. The federal authorities
seek legal power to destroy the Milk
Commission and put the producers
right back where they were four
years ago. The consumer is waking
up to the fact that he is paying sev-‘
eral million dollars a year to perpet-
uate a system of milk distribution .
that beneﬁts no one but those who
have their dollars invested in the
enterprise. The time is ripe NOW.
Opportunity is knocking. The door
is wide open. Why sit idle and re—
fuse to enter the marketing ﬁeld and
take control once and for all of the
most important branch of the dairy
business. ‘ \

The Michigan milk producers have
able leaders, men in whom weal!
have conﬁdence. The rank and
ﬁle of the producers are themselves
ready to take the step. ,At the meet-
ing in Detroit several weeks ago there
was an undisputed sentiment for
creating a fund “for emergency’s
.sake.” Would anyone. say that the
emergency is not here? What emer-
gency, what opportunity, could con-
front the milk producers which does
not confront them today?

The thing can be done, friends. All
the money that is necessary to es—
tablish a distributing plant in De-
troit can be raised in sixty days, eith-
er in cash or credit equivalent to
cash. As a reader suggests-an of;
fer should be. presented to the big-
gest creamery company for his bus-
iness. If the price is excessive or he
refuses to sell, the/milk producers
should establish their own plant, hire
the best manager in the United States

7 advertise their product at one or two

cents below the price charged by the

- other distributors and they would

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.su‘biect and we would like to have an
5’? expression of our readers’ views. For ’
,I this purpose We are printing a con-
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"to *pgt._..si;3tb practice?

, " - ’ 'Euttoraé-.eéaoti9:‘v’ii'whe following ur-
-- "fuels is the: first: 701,;‘q series by

Wilford L Garter. await eithe. some“?

dated 86ml, Much, interest _,i‘s,._beiag
‘ shew» by who! parents in this‘system

and we recommend a careful reading ,
,0]. these articles which will answer 77

many questions you have raised about
théﬂcomsolidated wheels. Pictures
and star-ties will appedr in‘ later issues
of ”come

maintaining, advantages, eta—Editor.

 
,_ ICHIGAN has no. consolidated-

schools.” is a remark I chanc-

ed to hear not long since.
Michigan has according to the reports
ﬁled with the Dept. of Public In-
zstrudtion one; hundred ninety-three
conSolidat’ed schools. Perhaps Mich’s
igan should 'be~.b1amed for:‘ the re-
mark that I heard. Perhaps
should have written bulletins as
some of her sister states haVe dOne
~~ extolling the virtues of her ﬁne con-
, solidated schools, for it is doubtful
whether, on‘the whole, any state can
speak of a ﬁner class, of consolidated
schools than those in Michigan. Most
of her consolidated schools are locat—
ed‘in the Upper Peninsula where
they have been organized under a
school organization ,in which the
township is the unit. ~The Lower
Peninsula, however, has made con-
siderable progress during the past
eight months in the consolidation of
schools. They have been formed
where it had seemed that the one—
room school “with its traditional
equipment, instruction, ‘an-d sur-
roundings would continue to be the
school for the future as it had been
in the-past. . , ‘

Five years ago there was little or,
no call for people from the Depart-
ment of Public Instruction to discuss
the merits of country school consol-
idation; today the calls are so num—
erous that the Department ﬁnds it
possible to respond to but a few of
them. Formerly the calls for some
one to discuss consolidation came
from teachers and others concern—
ed with the rural school problem
from the standpoint of an education—
al policy; today the call is from the
rural people who maintain the one-
room schools. Formerly there was
an indifferent attitude expressed by
the few who attended a meeting at
which consolidation was discussed;

, today a speaker is met by an audi-
ence that seeks information. There
has seemed to be a decided change in
the farmers’ attitude towards the ed-
ucational opportunities afforded by
his one—room school. '-

Three main questions are apparent-
ly in the minds of the people when
they-are inquiring into the merits
of the consolidated school:

'13 it what we want?

Is it expensive?

Is transportation
practicable?

Aside from the teacher two basic
things are necessary for an efﬁcient
school—a body of students so that
there may be aldivision of the labor
of instruction and a large as—
sessed valuation so. that the ﬁ-
nancial burden imposed on the’
supporters of the school will
not be excessive. The usual
one-room school has, neith—
er a large body of students
nor a large taxing arear. It is

' not, therefore, the type of
“school ., desired from :2 . the
standpoint of "these, two
factors alone. These'are

,nOt,’ however, the only fact-

.ors to be considered. Otha

ers are an opportunity 10.17.

school education .with-
out .leavingthe farm“ on ;
increase, in ‘the‘number

who: ' shallf little by f 1311.9

elementary school. ring. ‘

“outwith-unto teachﬂo‘r I.

~ national" antimalarial ,

’ some. as Opportunity. ‘ ‘

feasible and

    
the owls ’ e ‘j‘g‘aiped Q
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successful; consolidated '
schools, in this state-,meoing cost of,

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By wr-Lronn L. COEFEY‘

Assistant Superintendent of Public Instruction

 
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. Michigan.

 
Cation is one of the big problems of today.
house” has played an unportant part in the history of Michigan and
of the country as a whole, but with the development in other lines it
is no longer adequate for present needs.
- today are not enjoying the same educationalprivilegos as their more
. fortunate cousins in the city. This is unfair, especially in an agricul-
tural state like-Michigan. ; The remedy is to be found in large part in
rural school consolidation. In the accompanying articles Assistant Su-
perintendent Coffey has set forth, in a convincing ‘manner, advantages
or a larger school, together with the facts concerning consolidation in
I commend these to all friends of the rural school.—-T. E.
1 Johnson, Superintendent of Public Instruction.

‘ To THE FRIENDS-0F THE COUNTY SCHOOL: Rural school edu-

The “little red school-

The country boy and girl of

 
portunity to secure a better trained
and experienced teaching force.

We" do not have available a record
of the number of boys and girls who
complete a high school course after
ﬁnishing the one-room school, but
we know from a comparison of the
number who pass the eighth grade
with the number for whom tuition is
paid that the number in high school
is , comparatively small. The one-
room school isvthe ﬁnishing school
for the greater part of the country
boys and girls. Some of these boys
and girls.live near enough to some
village or city school to enable them
to go back and forth each day. If
we were to take this number from
the total number Of Country boys
and girls who attend high school we
should likely be amazed at the small
number who are receiving high
school education when the expense
of board and room needs to be paid.
The education of these boys and
girls through high school is a charge
upon the community where they live.
It has not performed its full function
for democracy and citizenship if it
has failed to give this education. If
the community is too small its terri-
tory should be extended to give the
ﬁnancial support. A study.of the
one—room schools of localities favor-
ablefor consolidation reveals inter-
esting facts:

Number 1.——-The following dis-
tricts are favorably located for a con—
solidated school. They are in a
southern county of the state which
has a number of good high schools,
good roads, good electric and steam
railway facilities. They are, there—
fore, located so that high school fa-
cilities outside are accessible if par-
ents wish to send their children away
from home. '

Number of districts considered,
10; total enrollment, 261; average
daily attendance. 177; average num-
ber of months of school, 8.8; aver-
age per capita cost, $34.52; number
of grades taught, 8; number of 8th
grade graduates in four years, 71;
number for whom high School tui—
tion was paid last year, 11; total as-
sessed valuation, $1,239,750.

In four years there have been but
seventy—one eighth grade graduates

  
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and of that number but eleven are in
highschool, less than sixteen per
cent.

, Number 2.—-The following dis-
tricts in one Of our southern coun—
ties noted for its agriculture are fav-
orably located for a consolidated
school. High schools outside of the
districts are accessible if the parent
wishes to send his children away
from home to attend them. "*

Number of districts considered,
10; total enrollment, 312; average
daily attendance, 239; average num—
ber of months of school, 8.8; aver-
age per capita cost, $43.04; number
of grades taught, 8; number of 8th
grade graduates in four years, 67;
number for whom tuition was paid
last year, 18; total assessed valua—
tion, $2,498,395.

Out of an enrollment of three
hundred twelve these ten districts
have produced sixty-seven eighth
grade graduates in four years and of
this number but eighteen were in
high school, about twenty—seven per
cent.

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Number 5.—The following districts
are sub-districts of a township unit
school district. Five persons consti—
tute the school board. Under the pri—
mary district system twenty—seven

,persons would be required to man—

age the nine schools which employ
eleven teachers. Twenty-seven school
ofﬁcials to manage the school affairs
of a territory that employs but eleven
teachers! Compare this with any
private corporation. Is it likely that
there would be nearly three times as
many directors of the corporation as
there were persons employed?

This township will soon have com—
pleted seven miles of concrete road
and many 'miles Of gravel road. The
roads will be in splendid condition
for transportation of pupils. It has
been organized as a single school dis-
trict for several years, but as yet has
done nothing except the paying of
tuition to provide more than eight
grades, of education for its boys and
girls. The wealth, the location, the
agricultural prosperity of its people,
and the opportunity for transporta—
tion makes this township ideal for a
consolidated school. The law under

 
out nurses" ‘mmfof’tijp‘remotg‘,' ,1 'ﬁraaed}

   
which it is organized sites the“
ple the right to provide a 11
school. They may also vote team
within the provisions of the j,
Agricultural law and receive the
nancial beneﬁts which are 'd
able.under it. \ h 1
Number of sub-districts conside
ed, 9; total enrollment, 251: avers
daily attendance, 202; average nu
ber of months school, 9; average 1)
capita cost, $34.07; number .
grades taught, 8; number of eight
grade graduates in four years» 90;
number for whom tuition was pa
last year, 29; total assessed valu
tion, $1,450,000. *1
In four years there have been ~.9.
eighth grade graduates and of the.
number but twenty-nine were in"
high school, approximately thirty pe'
cent. There is no assurance

  
through the four grades of the high
school. Thirty per cent of
eighth grade graduates in
school, and at least four good high .
schools but a short distance away !
The statistics given in these or
amples reveal other interesting facts
besides the number of eighth grad
graduates who pursue a higher edit-e.
cation, but space does not permit
their discussion. Attention however,
might be called to the percentage of?“
attendance as compared with that of "
consolidated schools, which is usual—
ly above ninety per cent.

idated schools of Randolph county,
Indiana. '

Mr. George N. Otwell, Assistant
Superintendent of Public Instruction
of Michigan, visited Randolph coun:
ty, Indiana, in July, 1919, for the
purpose of investigating the merits
of the consolidated schools ‘of that
county. He learned that before con-
solidation of schools in that county
only four children had ever been
graduated from high school. Since'
consolidation an average of eighty
one per cent of the eight grade grad-'2
uates have been in high school. :

Seventy per cent of the rural? .
school pupils graduated from the 8th"
grade in the last six years have been
graduated from high school! '

One of the tests of the value of a
thing is what is accomplishes—its
product. The one—room school must.
be measured by what it produces“
Last spring during the second Thurs ~
day and Friday of May more than.
seventeen thousand boys and girl ”
from the rural schools took the 8th
grade examination. These boys and:
girls wrote upon questions prepared;
by the Superintendent of Public In—
struction. The questions were the
same throughout the state. The?
same course of study had been fol
lowed in all the schools where these;
pupils had attended. According to
the records for May, 1919, approxi-
mately sixty-ﬁve per cent of the boys;
and girls received eighth grade (it?!
plomas. Out of every hundred who
came to write sixty-ﬁve went away
entitled to diplomas and thirty-
ﬁve went away failures. Sixty-
ﬁve was the product. Thirty-
ﬁve was the waste due tovar-
ious reasons, the one—room
school with its limitations be-
ing the principal offender.
How do we know this?
investigation of

 
to prevent any teacher from» A
being required to iteac
more 'than twot grade'
showed the percentage 0
those who sought promos
tion after doing the ﬁver
of the eighth grade to

eighty and above. h~Oti

    
of every; one hand),
who asked for ‘ prom
tion'from the e": ,
grade in , 'tli’e “gr

    
school, eighty wer‘
en diplomas, ,. an
were failures; . '
ﬁve from’ Lthe
room school
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"8603! or more of mass meet—
ings are being held this week
throughout the sugar beet dis-
prlnctpaliy in the ﬁumb’ sec-
ﬁe phi-posh of these meetings
, _ mike a ﬁnal survey of the situ-
Mon and discuss what further ac—
lion ﬂail be taken to settle the con-
' stay and what crops it would be
latteslanonthesngarheetinnd
use no compromise can be olfact-
a with the manufacture

The loyalty of the farmers to the
ﬁnes they have espoused is surpris-
1.8.1101: only to the manufacturers,
;but to the local leaders in the cam-
DIIQI. The State Association knows
of only six cases where growers have
glig'ned contracts after they agreed
not to do so. In the majority of the
'boals the growers are standing like
detone wall against the pleas of the
.llnnn‘factuners that they take back
their contracts. In only one section
Ah there any sign of weakening, and
this change of heart is attributed to
a bare handful of farmers. The ten-
or of hundreds of letters received by
the Slate Association, Tm: Busmss
rum and others who are taking
In active part in the campaign is,
“We’ll never give in. "

Mannlaotnrers Employ Questionable
Tactics

    
The best evidence the growers
- have that the manufacturers are
feeling the effect of the campaign is
the nature of the tactics they are us-
ing to discredit the farmers before
the public, and to frighten er coerce
farmers into signing contracts or
repudiating their association. It is
popularly believed that the several
"hunky shanties" which have burn-
ed to the ground were ﬁred by agents
'. of the manufacturers owning them.
'lhe cost of the shantles is trivial and
is mighty cheap publicity for the
. biennial-Jurors who are not slow, of
course. at laying the deed at the
door at the beet growers. We hold
that the farmers have as clear a right
and certainly as much evidence to
connect the manufacturers with the
_ aims as the manufacturers have to
accuse the farmers.

Attitude of

HE FOLLOWING crude from the

Wisconsin Fame-r is reproauced
Mrewith because of the great similar-
‘ toy between the views it expresses and
those Wok have been held by The
Business Farmer. The charge has
been made that The Business Farmer
is “opposed to the Farm Bureau."
Nothing could be more ridiculous or
. distant from the truth. They who
' have made this criticism did not clam-
.‘ 1y understand the position we have
tokensscomeaopectsoftheﬂrm
' Bureau movement. It is hoped that
if the cobweb: have not already been
clear“ from their mimic that the
courageous presentation of the case
by Mr. Joe. Pierce, the fearless peb-
lichcr' of the Iowa Homestead, will
come that purpose. Both Mr. Pierce
and ourselves took almost emctly the
same attitude without either knowing
the position of the other. And it
might be stated here that Mr. Pierce
is publisher or three of the most in-
._ ﬂuent“! ram journals of the west,
and is highby respected for his fear-‘
less defense of the farmers' interests.
*Editor.

HE question of whether or not
Wisconsin shall be organized with
,_ farm bureaus is being agitated
. among the farmers of the state these
days. and I have received many let-
' We from subscribers asking my ad-
vice as to what should be their atti-
;. lode toward this organization. In
the ﬁrst place, speaking generally,I

would say that any movement toward
Mutation of and by the farmers
he encouraged. No one or-

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Another rather despicable trick
was played last Sunday by the Owes-
so Sugar Company against Manager

C. E. Ackerman of the State Assocl- .

ation. This company left some of
their shanties on the Ackerman farm
last fall with the intention of hous-
ing their beet help there in case Mr.
Ackerman produced beets this year.
After Mr. Ackerman had cancelled
his contract, the company desired to
move one of the shanties onto the
farm of a neighbor. the only farmer
in the immediate vicinity who will
grow beets under the old contract.
Mr. Aokerman learned that it was
the intention of the sugar company
to put this shanty in the ﬁeld direct-
ly opposite his house and he accord-
ingly entered a pretest, showing the
company that there were at least two
other places on the neighbor’s farm
where the shanty could be placed to
better advantage. He advised the
company that if they waisted in
putting the shanty square across from
his farm residence. he would get out
an injunction restraining them and
forcing them to pay for the rent of
the land which the shanty had oc—
cupied aim «at year. The company
manager then promised that the
shanty would be placed elsewhere, so
Mr. Ackerman consented to its re-
moval. On Sunday while Mr. Actor-
man was attending church the en-
garcompanysentits men to his
farm and moved the shanty to the
site square across the road in front
of Mr. Ackerman's farm home. This

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constitutes-one «the settled, mean:
eat and under-handed tricks thathas.

come» to our attendee in a has time.
and Mr. Asher-man will not only be
it: only tamer be resent such tact-

Watch For These . Gentlemen

When the sugar manufacturers of
the western states found they could
not shake the farmers from their ille-
mands by ignoring them they hired
farmers—the kind who would sell
their soul for gold—to attend the
meetings or talk with individual
farmers and try to encourage them
to. drop the light. They paid these
farmers well. , They could afford to.
These farmers would tell their neigh-
bors that the manufacturers had all
the acreage they needed; that grow-
ing beets wasn’t such a bad lanai-t
ness after all: some years you made

pretty good money out of it; that
the leaders were agitators, etc. For

a time this game worked and some
farmers dropbed out. But ﬁnally
the mask was torn off of these false
advisers. and all those who had drop-
ped outgotbackimandwagedthe'
light more furiously than ever-.1110
manufacturers finally had to yield.
BUT bear in mam:- Bugar Best
Grower, they did not yield until af-

ter they had played their last card.

And they will not do so in Michigan.

Expect to dud some farmers who
will tell yer about what a great
blessing the sugar beet induct-y has

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been Mtodadsomewhowill
show you what enormous profit: the

some who willsowihe seeded uni-3
certainly in your Maud try to ln-‘ "

done you to desert your Animation
and your mellow bosom ii

these fellows haven’t already shown '-
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‘ your ash. he not mead. They“!

wﬂleemeaiug'soenerorhcer. Just
tell them that m arguments sound
just like the arguments of the manu-
lecturers, and in the mm of
casesyouwﬂldndthattheyarem
arguments of the manufacturers.
prepared by them. passed on to their.
agent and rehearsed many times
over. - I
Will Plant Bonus

While the growers have not
abandoned their light and are still
convinced that the newcomers
need their acreage in order to run
their factories to capacity, they are
getting" prepared for the worst—er
best, is ltt-and are making plans
for the planting of other woos. Word
comes from all sections of the boot
belt that farmers heve‘been m
aged by the recent advances in the
bean market to turn, to that crop on
a larger scale. Many-of them have
their own seed. held over drum a
year age, or if they have not there
is plmiy of good seed available.

It is not Expected that the grow-
ers will make any further attempts

' to gain a conference with the mann-

facturers. They have made all the
advances and possible more than
they should have made to these an-
tocratic gentlemen. They hays the
satisfaction of knowing that right
and justice is upon their side and
with those they will even.-
ualiy win their ﬁght. Perhaps use
all the stubbornness of the manufact-
urers will prove a good thing for the
best sugar industry and pave the way -

for farmer-owned sugar factories

which will turn their proﬁts beet

into the farming communities instead ~
of into the pockets of Griswold and

Wall Street ﬁnanciers.

Wisconsin Farmers Toward the Farm Bureau

By JAB; M. 9m

interest, for the study of the prob-
lems of production: the business in-
terest, for the marketing for farm
products cooperatively; and the po-
ilticai interest. for securing just laws
without Which his two other interests
are handicapped. There are certain
respects in which it is a gain to have
these three interests kept separate,
in distinct organisations, and even
though there might be some overlap-
ping and reduplication in the three
sets of activities. there should be no
conﬂict between them, but co-oper-
ation and support for each other, in
their various phases of farmer activ-
ity. For the most part the three
would dovetail splendidly, and each
complement the others. .
Speaking more deﬁnitely, the Am-
erican Farm Bureau Federation,
which is the national organization,
through which the state and county
farm bureaus function, has a mem-
bership of somewhere between half
a million and a million members, and
is now organised in 28 states. In
Iowa, for example, it has over 109,-
000 members, and is rapidly grow-
ing in other states. It thus, is one
of the strong farmers' movements of
the United States, and with large
funds and ab eilicient organisation.
has wonderful possibilities for good

to the farmers, not only of Wiseon- .

sin, but of the nation.
self and the Wisconsin

{regal-duly-
months

, friend and supporter of every under-

taking to organise the farmers of the
nation along right lines, and should
the attempt be made to organise Wis—

* could for the farm bureau I would

advise every number to go into it.
When I say this I am prefee'ﬂyfrank
to state that there have been some

things about the farm bureau organ-
motion which If. _ ‘

Mma_

 
gs
*vid‘ed the real men

I have not liked its readiness. in some
states. to admit men who were not
farmers to membership. I believe
that the membership of a farmers'
organisation should be conﬁned
strictly to actual armors. I have not
liked the closeness of the farm bu-
reau’s aﬂiiation with commercial or-
ganizations in some localities. and I
predict that it will cause them great
embarrassment, when diﬂerences of
viewpoint arise, as they must neces-
sarily arise. between the farmers and
the commercial interests. I can see
grief ahead for the farm bureau if
their membership is not oonilued to
actual farmers. I do not approve
the position taken on some questions
by the American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration, in its recent meeting at Chi-
cago. I believe that some .of its
leaders are abzheart reactionary, and
would like to use this powerful or-
ganization for defeating any .pro-
greesive movements which too seri-
ously threaten big business interests.
But these objections are incidental
and not fundamental. They are con-
cerned with temporary conditions. If
any of the leaders of this movement
are unworthy of their high calling;
it the American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration tee taken up an unwise stand
on any public questions; if. in certain
localities it has tied- up too closely

sumcient numbers tooo
can am: out any more ,
prove faultless. and 9"” an

ward looking farmers whose hearts
are right. to stay out of the organi-
zation and leave it wholly to the false
leaders at the farmers who could —
then direct it at will. for ulterior
purposes.

ﬂotsay, thereto bigger and
broader ground to bake than to .op-
pose any such great agricultural
movement, simply because we do not
happen to approve some of the men
or things connected with it. That
would be true of any large farmers’
organization. Let us all rather join
in any such undertaking; let us take
an active interest in it, supporting it
when we can. and working from with- ‘
in rather than from without to cor-
rect or avoid mistakes. I have sum-
eient faith in the farmers of Wiscon.
sin to believe that they will in time
set right any organization which they
control, as they could do the farm
bureaus by joining them in suillcient
numbers.

I do not see any reason why the
farm bureaus should come into con-

flict with other Wisconsin farmers'

organizations—why members of the
Society of Equity, the Cheese Produce
ere‘ Federation or any other body
should not Join in and support it,
and I can see many reasons why they
should do so. For my part I shall
not hesitate to criticize the farm bu-
reau and its leaders whenever [I
think they are working along wrong
lines. which are inimical to the best
interest of Wisconsin farmers, as I
shall do with other farmers‘ mani-
mutlshalldosoasafriend.

  
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‘ o_recia“.tim‘1 there is doubtless- ~
be learned concerning the ~

mast efﬁcient methods 01 utilizing:

this valuable lay-product of the farm. : »

It- seems before the most intelligent:

use“ can: be made of manure 1n crop
preductla-n an understanding of the

ways in which it is beneﬁcial, or what‘

it does when applied to the soil is
essential. Barnyard manure is ben-
eﬁcial to both the soil and the crop.

the effects it:- has "upon the soil and

" In this article we shall first discuss '. nearly normal 30 to 35 inches am

then the cr'op- relationships and- 1111-.

ally its use. »
When coarse manure is applied to
a~sandy soil it may make it too loose
and coarse for a time but after it
has decayed somewhat or
come reduced to a ﬁner state of di-
vision, it may result in the opposite

has be- ,

condition, making it somewhat less-

porous and, therefore, in a more de-
sirable structural condition.
case of very ﬁne textured soils, an
open structure is desirable and,
therefore, the coarser material may
be more efﬁcient in bringing about
111 rovement-s.
italges of decay improves the tilth of
such soils and, as will be shown sub-
sequently. the residual effects may be
obvious a number of years after ap—
plication. .

It was shown in an earlier article
that manure increases the water re-
taining capacity of soils. In a dry

In the .

Yet manure in all ' 7

season this may be of some import- ‘

ance in crop production although
there is a tendency by some to dis-
credit this action. This increase is
greatest when it has decayed some-
_,what otherwise it may make the
soil too porous, and hence cause it
to lose water quite rapidly. King,
several years ago, showed that a
soil which had received normal ap-

plications of stable manure contain- _

ed higher water contents throughout
the season than did adjacent untreat-
ed soils, and Russell of England, re-
ports beneﬁts in this direction.
Manure upon decaying furnishes
plant— —food directly to the soil, the
amount, of course, depending upon
its composition. In addition during
the process of decay various sub-
stance are formed, notably carbon
dioxide, and others which assist the
soil moisture in dissolving the miner-
als present. The intestinal bacteria
aid in the decay of the vegetable
matter of the soil thus liberating ad-
ditional plant food elements.

Manure applied to the soil in many

cases increases the stem and leaf

velopment of the crop to a remark-
able degree. Usually the leaves are
broader, longer, and deeper green in
color where it is judiciously applied.

The root development may be enor-:
mously increased by the presence of!

- manure in the soil, thus bf course,

increasing the amount of vegetable

matter therein.
plied in too large amounts, to soils
that are high in vegetable matter

If manure is ap-,

m

and somewhat low in phosphorus, the .

results obtained are often undesirr

able, there being a tendency to lodge
and the grain may not ﬁll out as it
should. If a great deal of leaf and

stem develOpmen't is looked for'this=

conditidn is not so undesirable.
facts, such as the introduction of
troublesome weed seeds, inbct pests,

and plant diseases, in fact, there are

on record numerous reports which

' There may be undesirable indirect ef- .

show that quack grass, smart weed, “

thistle, and others have, been intro-

duced by bringing manure from outs"
side sources, and that several plant:-

'Zdis‘e'as'ss have been iﬁtroduced in like

m».

manner.

;both treatments.
shown by results reported by Russell
of England where manure from ani- .

 
" > I By M. M. McCOOL

Where the rainfall is very high,

46 inches 0r mere annually, the ef- -

feet upon plant growth the: ﬁst
year after appli may be slight
indeed on some soils, and. is less-if
the temperature of the'soil is high
enough for rapid and continual bac-
terial activities. Under such condi-
tions much Maths-material is leach-
ed array in the drainage waters. 0n
the other hand, if the rainfall is more

nually, b’é’neﬁcial effects may be ob-
served a number of seasons after its
_application.

Soil texture has much to do with
the lasting effect, largely on account
of the difference in the absorptive ca.-
pacity, or the power to retain soluble
substances, and the difference in the
amount of water that passes through
them. It is common knowledge that
a'normal application of manure to
a poor sandy soil has less effect upon
the .crop growth the .second or third
seasons, but its- beneﬁcial effects may

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other vegetable matter in the soil
decreases with increase in depth
from the surface. It is well known
that it reacts very quickly when
thoroughly worked into the soil to
the depth of about three to ﬁve inch-
es'due to the rapid decay. Yet ac-
cording to ﬁgures of a fence post un-
der different conditions shown in a
later article, the most rapid rotting
takes place at the surface of the soil.
Manure may be placed more deeply
in sandy soils with satisfactory re-
sults than it can in very ﬁne textur-
ed solls, due to better aeration.

The kind of-crops grown govern
to some extent the length of the dur—
ation of the benefits from an appli-
cation of manure. If ten tons of ma-
nure are applied to beets or pota—
toes or cabbage, there is not much
plant food left for crops that follow
inasmuch as a normal yeld removes
about as much plant food as is con-
tained in that amount of manure,
whereas the same amount applied to

 
Ll me. manure and acid phosphate Increased the yleld of corn In thls ﬁeld from 85 bushels to

84. 5 bushels per acre In 1019.

be seen several years on a ﬁne text-
ured soil. It is exempliﬁed from the
results obtained from“ applying ten
tons of manure per acre .to a sandy
and a clay loam soil respectively.
Soil lst 2nd 3rd 4th 5111

~ Crop Crop Crop Crop Crop
Clay loam manured 140 135 120114 110

Clay lo' 111 unman 'r’d 100 100 100 100 100
Sandy manured . . 180 110 105 100
Sandy unmanured .100 100 100 100 100

The composition of the manure,
especially with respect to the form
and the amount 0f the nitrogen is
really important in this connection.
It is doubtless true that the undiges-
tible portions, of the solids of the
,manure voided by the animal are
most resistant to the action of bac-
teria and therefore, endure longer
in the 1101] than 131116 more easily di-
gested portions. Urine is soon con-
verted into available form for plant

growth when added... to the soil. If
the animal is fed concentrates, as
stated previously, the manure con-

tains more easily decomposed mater-
ial than if it is’ fed upon roots and
hay, and the ﬁrst year of application

to the soil proves superior, but the.
.v second year the majoeiw of the read-

ily available material has been used
up by the crop, escaped into the at-
mesphere, or has been lost. to the

' drainage waters by leaching and the

yields become chanteuse same under
This is strikingly

mals fed roots and hay on the one
hand, and from animals fed on can--
centrates on the other, respectively,
was applied to a la in. soil * and the
Yields recorded for a nu '

  
0n the right untreated. on the left fertlllzed.

soils that are devoted to so-called
“lighter feeders” there may be an
appreciable amount of plant food
course, the ensuing crops may be
greatly beneﬁtted but it seems that
such beneﬁts are mainly due to the
effects upon the soil rather than the
crops direct.

The best time to apply barnyard
manure to the soil is rather difﬁ—
cult to determine. inasmuch as it is
governed by such conditions as the
labor problem, the nature of the cli-
mate, the character of soil, and the
kind of crop grown. A distribution
of the manure on the land as soon
as a load is made is best under aver-
age farm conditions, inasmuch as
there is less loss by leaching and
volatilization in this manner than
if it is carelessly exposed in a heap.
Undoubtedly the ideal condition
would be to incorporate it with the
soil mass soon after it is applied.

Where the manure is to be applied
to very ﬁne textured soils it is desir-
able to apply it when the ground is
fairly dry or frozen inasmuch as
such soils may be injured greatly by
hauling the manure when they are
wet. Moreover, in the northern lat—
itudes it may not be practicable
apply stable manure in the spring af-
ter the soils are in a condition to
drive over them since the teams and

.laborers should be engaged in plow-

ing the land on account of the short
growing season. Again where the

'manure can be well cared for it may

not :be the best method to apply it as
formed since the climate must be
considered. It is generally true that

. where the annual rainfall is about

30 inches, a fall or winter applica-
, tion is desirable, but where the rain-5'

.. fall is about 45 inches spring applica-
, tions, especially on the lighter soils.

often; proves most proﬁtable. In West
Scotland where the rainfall is high,

._ Nacoordtng to Russell, ‘s'p‘i‘ing dgiess-
' 3. 1113’ f“ ..

vs a 50 to so per centé'i

"pen t] "e ~ 37011

4 able By-Product of the F arm to The Various Crops
Should be Carefully Attended to

to,

 
tion, especially during a dry year,,'
may be very va_.luable -On the oth- ‘
or hand, if the rainfall is heavy much '
soluble plant food may be leached?
away if the manure is applied in the
autumn.

The best pace in the crop rota-
tion for manure depends upon sev-
eral conditions, the kind of crops
grown, that it whether intensive or
extensive, or grain systems of farm-
ing are followed, the nature of the
soil, the amount of manure to be dis-
posed of and the facilities for prop-n
erly caring for it if stored.

Cultivated crops respond well to
manuring. Corn demands large
quantities of nitrogen early in the
spring and can make use of the
coarse material to advantage. Inas-
much as it usually follows a hay crop
in the rotation it is possible to dis-
tribute the manure during the fall
and winter. The potato is a spring
crop of high cash value and usually:
follows a hay crop and can also make
good use of manure. The manuring
of land devoted to this crop is sound
practice.

Top dressing of wheat with ma~
nure is widely and successfully prac-
ticed, indeed this procedure often en-
sures a catch of clover. Hay crops
make good use of manure also and
where this is a very important crop
it is looked upon as being good prac-
tice. The results of thirty years ex-
periments with manure applied to '
corn and oats and to clover at the II-
linois Agricultural Experiment Sta-
tion indicate the response of clover
to manure. Where manure was used
the yield of corn and oats was in-
creased eleven per cent and clover
ninety-two per cent, and where ma- .
nure, lime and phosphate were add-
ed the corn and oats increased in 5
yield thirty per cent and the clover
one hundred and forty-one.

The manure spreader is a. valu-
able far'm implement. By its use
manure can be spread more uniform-
ly, more thinly, and more economi-
cally than by other methods. In
fact this implement will soon pay
for itself on a general farm. .

It has been shown that manure is
a so-called “unbalanced” fertilizer
containing too little phosphorus for
some crops, and too small an amount
of potassium in proportion to nitro-
gen for other crops. The reports by V 7
several Experiment Stations, as well 1'
as the practical experience of many 5
farmer-Svshow that manure is greatly
increased in efﬁciency when proper- 3 ~
1y supplemented by the addition of 5
phosphorus, especially, and in some
cases potassium. Phosphorus in the
form of both acid phosphate and raw
rock phosphate are extensively em-
ployed by farmers to increase the
phosphorus content, while potash
is made use of to increasethis ma-
terial in the manure.

The Ohio Experiment Station has
contributed results of valuable ex-‘,
periments to show the effects of re-
unforcing manure by various sub-'
stances. Eight tons of fresh manure '
were supplemented with the chemi-
cals given in the table at the rate of
40 pounds of each per ton. The ma-
nure was added to the corn in a rota-
tion of corn, wheat and hay.

The twenty- ﬁve year average
shows that the acid phosphate in-
creased the value of one ton of ma-
nure about seventy-three per cent,
the raw rock phosphate increased it,
about forty per cent. potash 3. out
twenty-six per cent, and calcium suls.
phate or gypsum about twenty per
cent. 3
In some sections, notably westerni 1,
Michigan and others near Chicago
and other cities, large quantities of“
stockyard manure have been ship-11.1
ped from'the yards and applied [in
generous amounts to the soil for th
production of. high cash crops 81;
as potatoes, onions, celery,
_loupes ,and others.
the cost per ton has increased app;
ciably, due to higher wages and =._
other causes, and undoubtedly-til
are great possibilitiesoi .
smaller. quantitie ..

   
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‘ ing their loans when due.

. weeks, and the

‘ zero moat unfavorable.

" We are entering what many peo-
ple believe to be the, most critical
.period since the close of the war. The

. ﬁnances of the country which have
, not been in a satisfactory condition

for many months are becoming
worse, and business of all kinds is
beginning to feel the effects of tight-
er credit, higher rates on loans, and
the still badly unbalanced condition
of foreign exchange. This condition
has been made more acute as a re-
sult of the recent strikes which tied

- up millions of dollars worth of raw

material, shutting oil! production and
prevented thousands of merchants
from discounting their paper or pay-
If pro-
duction should pick up all along the
line, and everybody quit'star-gazing
and ease-loving for long enough to
do a few hard days’ work, it is pos-
sible that the present condition
would soon be righted, or at least
bettered.

Business may be ever so good;
demand may be ever so great; wages
ever so high; but inability to secure
credit for loans when needed is a
sign that there is something wrong
in Denmark. All the industry of the
nation is at the mercy of King Mon-
ey. If he is generous, all will be
well. But if he shuts down on those
who'need his aid, he throttles pro-
duction and puts panic in the hearts
of investors. We have never been
able to see how the money stringency
could become so great as to seriously
interfere with the nation's industry.
We believe the Federal Reserve
system, which was designed to meet

'Just such emergencies as we are now
facing, will be equal to the task, and -

while those who. wish to borrow
money 'for needless or speculative
purposes may be turned aside, it is
our belief that there will be plenty
of money for the purchase of raw
materials to keep the factories go-
ing, to pay the men who work there,
to ﬁnance the planting and harvest—
ing‘of crops, and for all other pro—
ductive purposes.

The money situation is raising hob
with the markets just now, as a good
deal of our products have been go-
ing to Europe who ﬁnds it increas-
ingly diﬁicult to pay for them. Fu-
tures in the grain market are made
with great uncertainty, because none
can foretell how soon or to‘what ex-
tent the foreign business may drop.
Were the exchange situation any-
where near normal or stood in no
danger of becoming worse, the prices
of food products would soar for be-
yond anything we have ever seen.
But fortunately for the consumer, if
unfortunately for the farmer, there
is a very deﬁnite limit to the amount
of products which Europe can take.
The prices of grain have been sub-
ject to wide fluctuations the past
week or two. "the prevailing uncer-
tainty regarding the money market
and foreign exchange being largely
to blame. The dealers tell us that
there has not been an oversupply of
grainson the markets for many
opinion has long
since given way that with the drying
up of the roads, the farmers would
rush great quantities'of supplies to
the markets. It the farmers have

the goods, which many doubt, they.

are wise enough to keep them- and
1' them to the public as needed.

toad of loading them off on to
speculators us they have done so of-

ten in the past.

Everything about the grain market

’. is bullish. Supplies are light: de—

mand is strong: and reports of the
’rogrealrof the newly planted crops
It would be
can": to all the laws of supply

'ud demand if anydjhe gniu mar- .
Hate took a alump before the barren- “

ill of the new c . Nothing chart
at an industrial taclysm can pro-

 
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and oats higher. Potatoes dull.

onIcAGO—emin market bullish. Provisions unsteady.

Cattle and hogs lower.

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being such a. scarcity of corn on near-
ly all markets.

 
upward in case the new crop totals .
indicated a less than normal yield. ‘ :G'ml 2:" "“157" ‘E '1'"
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WHEAT HIGHER N!» E Yellow ... 1-31 it”
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Grade matron [Chicago I. Y. Grade Metro". tor-m- - -
m. 2 ma ..2.eu 8.08 Na- 2 Yellow l { .180”
No. 2 wnm ..,2.os . one I... 3 mm 1.1. t.” us
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No. 2 ma 2.10 2.50 233' this month are using "3" means
go. 2 wum .. .i 2.00 2.41 233 possible to weaken corn as they will
°' 2 m‘“ 2-“ 3‘" 2-" lose considerable money if it does

 
Wheat is attracting a great deal 0-!
attention and after 3 7c advance in
the past week is reported strong and
in demand. All observers agree that
the acreage in both spring and
winter wheat is low and the outlook
for even a. normal crop is far from
promising. However recent news
from the winter wheat districts "show
this grain is making tavorable pro—
gress and in better condition than a
month ago but the turn for the bet-—
terhaacometoolateintheseason
to help and a light crop is certain.

The market is very active due to
the milling demand in the west and
northwest, and the continued buying
by exporters at Atlantic ports. Flour -
has advanced $1 and upward per
barrel in the past week. And deal-
ers are predicting prices much above
the present level.

The Modern Miller views the
wheat crop outlook as follows:
“Winter wheat has made progress in
southwest, and stooling improvement
generally noted. Sufﬁcient moisture
for time being. Increasing appre-
hensidn over Hessian fly infestation
throughout soft winter wheat trrri—
tory. Winter killing also heavy in
important districts. com, wet weath-
er delaying. seeding oi spring wheat
in northwest, and with labor short—
age, prospects is for 10 to 15 per cent
decrease in acreage. Considerable.

‘ seeding has been done in Nebraska

and Iowa.

 
, CORN STRONG

There is a slightly bearish tooling
in the corn market which is caused
by the bankers refusing to. extend
loans to carry grain and the advance
in federal loan bank discount but-
this bearish outlook is not enough. to
seriously depress corn values. there

 
not suitor a. decline, but they are not
meeting with much success due to,
the fact that after they get the rum
ket lower the moment they start

buying it advances again to a higher
level than ever.

The high prices do not mean much
to the farmer who does not live near
enoughtoalargecitytotruckhia
produce in. The small town dealers

being unable to pay these prion as.
they cannot ship and get the bane—
ilt himself and he. dare not storeif
and take chances of a big drop later:

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Some. dealers who.

 
‘Wearegratiﬁedtoreportanom'

or advance in the bean market, m—

gingato‘taiotu.2ipercwt..or75e

channel in the past three weeks.
Certain grain trade papers report
greater strength and higher, prices
on all markets and predict turther

I advances.

 
RYE AND W '

Rye and Barley have been show:-
ing more strength than other grains.
Exporters own the bulk of the May
rye in all markets. The situation
closely resembles that in May wheat,
1917, when exporters bought more
than could be delivered and the re-
suit was to force prices up. The
supply of rye in this country ianot
inexhaustible, and we have already
cleared over _
from July I. 1919, to April 1, 1920.
There is around 20,000,000 bushels
or more sold for export now, and
every day further business is report-
ed. ll‘urther sales will take Just that
much more grain away from the do-
;meatic consumption, the one thing
that the trade has overlooked so far.
We have already exported more rye
than ever before, and averaging bet-
ter than 1,000,000 bushels per week.
The visible would disappear over“
‘night, if transportation were avail-
able. Malstera own the May barley
in Chicago. There is talk of bring‘
.ing in. Canadian to deliver on con--
tracts, but it will not grade in. the
Chicago market. Therehas been lit-
tle change in the rye market the past
week as the railroad strike has slow-

 
mesa ed up transportation so the demands
oar Grade pf:&".:ﬁ;“? 2.: cannot be tilled. The present sup-
n.. 2 mm , . 1.1: 1‘7". 1.. ply on the market is small and is
m. 3 WM” - i111 1-" [ quoted at $8.20 for No. 2.
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as in all grain, to the small supply
at hand and poor prospects for any
relief of importance for some time.

Wall Street. owing to the increaa—g

ing demand for lower prices, predicts
a downward trend 'to all markets in
the near future but I do not bblieve
the products of the farms will outer
to any great extent from the tact
that so many farmers are leaving the
farm that there will be a great
shortage of all products. coming from
the country.

 
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The potato market has been ai-
fected by the boycott in Detroit more
than, at any other point according to
reports. At the Detroit market po-
tatoes are in fair supply but consum-
era are not buying. However, the
leeal supply is mostly Canadian
goods as Michigan buyers continue
to ship to more active markets. Chl-
cag'o dealers are experiencing a
good demand, as high prices have
not cut down the consumption as,
much as was expected It has been
easier to get shipments at' Chicago

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than at the majority of the markets. .

- The scare that was precipitated
by the announcement that great

quantities «1 Danish m your

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quantity 'actaally received was so
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cantor. museum. All

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Although there is some improve-
ment in the railroad situation. the
congestion of freight incident to the
strike can. not be cleaned up in
some time, even under, the best con-
ditions. Values continue high but
the feeling is that markets are strain-
ed and heavier receipts will cause a
decline. A ﬁrm feeling exists at
present but it is due to the lack of”
aﬁ'ivals. Buyers are holding otf as
much as possible because of the high
values. Farm work and the short-
age of labor on farms will retard the
spring movement of hay this year,
but until the balance of labor again
favors the farm, hay will be about the
only crop the farmer can raise—4101!
Trade Journal.

 
BOSTON WOOL MARKET

The Commercial Bulletin says:

”The English government sale re-
vealed a stronger demand [or spot
ﬁne wools than it had been‘supposed
existed, although trading in the mar-
ket privately has been limited. Pric-
esarerniingdrmonallnnewoels.‘
In the west, also, even shorn'nne
wools are being taken on a parity

with the seaboard markets. Medium '

to low wools are dull and easy. The
goods market is unsettled, woolen
mill trade ,being very dull so far as
the wool market is concern ”

 
DETROIT PRODUCE MARKET

Prices" high and a general feeling
of dissatisfaction on the part of both
buyer and seller. Vegetables and
fruits were not in sufﬁcient supply to
satisfy buyers and the market is
quoted ﬂrm. Consumers taking all
the poultry, dressed'hogs and calves
in the market. Supplies of poultry
are light; Buyers are taking eggs
treely and the tone is ﬁrm. Butter
is quiet and oﬂerings are suﬂ‘lcient.
The butter market is easy.

Apples—Western, boxes, $4.50@
5.50; Baldwin, $4.50; Steele Reds,
$4@6 per bu.

Popcorn—Shelled, 9c per lb.

Dressed hogs—light, 19 @ 21c;
heavy, 17 @19c per lb.
Dressed calves—Best, - 22 @ 24c;

No. 1, 20 @21c per 1b.

Maple sugars—Maple sugar, 45@
48c.per 1b.; maple syrup, $8.50@
8.76 per gallon.

Potatoes—Michigan. $11; Canadi-
an, $10®10.60 per 150—lb. sack,

Live poultry—Spring chickens,
best, “One; leghorns, 8403512:
hens, sconce; small hens, 3403M;
roostershzseﬁe; geese, senses;
duoksb, 4004“; turkeys. 4404“
.per i . ‘ '
. Hider—No. 1 cured calf, 46c: No.
1 green call, Me; No. 1 cured kip,
86c; No. .1 green kip, 00s; No: 1 our—
ed hides, 36 to 46 ibs..- ”e; 45 lbs.
and. up, 221:; No. lanes hides, ’25
to 45 lbs., 33 c; No. I cared bulls,
18c; No. 1 horsehidee, $10.: No. 2
horsehides, $9; Tallow, No. 1,'18c:
No. 2 10c; Sheep pelts 504308.60:
No. "2 hides and No. 2 hip and calf,
1' 1 etc oil. ' '

LIVESTOCK Measures

. DETROIT—~Cattle: heavy ~ steers, ‘

$11.50@12.75 1-2; best hand weight
butcher steers, 810.500’11; .mixed
steers and heifers, $9010.30; handy.
light. butchers, $801: light butch-
. ers‘, $7.50@’8.60;, best cows. 38.60
659.36; butcher ,eows, 3701.75;
. cutters, $6; cannon, $606.50; best
heavy bulls; SEM 08;“: bologna
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CHICAGO—Cattle: ' beef steers
steady be strong; sales 310.500

18.763 bulls and calves week, all oth-
er classes steady; compared with a
week, ago, beef steers 26 to 900
higher; she stock 75c higher; bulls
and feeders 26 to 60c higher; veal-
ers, $1 to "1.50 lower; heavy calves
80c lower. Hogs; market steady to
strong; top, $16.60; bulk light,
315.501.5150; buik'lso lbs. and
over, $13.86@14.85: pigs" market
steady to 50s lower; bulk of desir-
able, 100 to 12’0-ib. pigs, $13.;5@
14/.25.‘ Sheep and lambs: Few sales
around 25o higher; compared with
week ago, lambs mostly $1~lower:
sheep steady.

 
EUROPE COWGING To FEEL
LACK OF SUPPLIES

Europe is commencing to feel the
pinch of lack of supplies of bread
grains. The cables claiming that
Argentina will embargo shipments
of wheat by July 1st are becoming
Argentine wheat
sold the past week 20®23c per bush-
el above what it would cost to lay
down American wheat in European

. Northwest with a lack of fall

 
ﬁe newlicrop ﬁbre will!!! Australia
either“

is harvested, Europe must
take wheat from North America or
draw. its belt tighter; It dare not al-
iow reserves to get any smaller than
at the present time. There is more
than an outside change of a most
sensational situation developing in
bread grains. To be very frank, we
can see wherein the greater part of
Europe will have to go back to bread
substitutes before long .unless there
is a marked change. A cold wet
spring in_ the American and Canadian
and
spring plowing is very favorable for
the development of black rust. You
have been reading about the poor
prospect for the winter wheat crop
for sometime past. Just add a short
spring wheat crop and where will
the world get oil?

Suppose this country raises around
750,000,000 bushels or wheat this
season. Add 100,000,000 to 150,-
000,000 bushels as the carryover
from the 1919 crop (we favor the
inside ﬁgure) and combine with a
short crop in Europe and you can
easily see where higher prices than
ever before could easily be secured.
Last fall, the Department of Agri-
culture advised that less Wheat be
sown. It happened, by a big per-
centage. Now it has reversed its

view and begs farmers to put in”

every acre possible. The Bureau of
Markets representative at London

that! 1 Kingdom. _
ours would ‘probably. Work out; all

1 right were it net for the ﬁnancial
situation; The biggest business men -

in the country are playing their-cards
close against their vests 'and BUY—
ING LIBERTY BONDS—Rosenbwm
Review.

 
FROM THE em enemas";

STANDPOINT
“I have read with much interest
how the beet growers of Michigan are
puking steps to protect themselves
against the manufacturers of meat
who have proﬁted and will continue

'to proﬁt at the expense of the farmer

ii permitted to do so. And it they
cannot be induced to deal squarely,
why not a co—operaitive sugar factory
owned and operated by the farmers?
They have cooperative elevators and
clearing houses, why not cooperative
sugar factories? May your good ef-
forts be justly rewarded.'~—Frank Mar-
tin, Marquette County.

 
“There are two kinds of farmers
now days. The one that sticks to the
best organization is an American to
work himself up, and the others—
though only a few of ’em—who put
in boats, are working to stay or go
deeper in the hole every year, and are
what you mil-glut call for short ‘scab
farmens’. Those are the kind who
think they can do more alone than all
the rest put together”.—Leon 3.,
Reese, Mich.

 
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Scored pistons, uneven
bearings, worn rings; all

are symbols of faulty
lubrication

 
The greatest fee of the tractor is friction. The toll it
‘ « ' exacts is seen in the little scrap heaps that so peacefully

repose in repair shops, against tool sheds, and in farm

~ yards. Scored pistons, uneven bearings, worn rings; all are
‘ ' symbols of faulty lubrication. Surely, this is a high price

' to pay for the lack of a little care and it is all the more

l deplorable because a little judgment in the choice of oil
tom”. in using it will pay over and over again.
Choose a quality oil lichExaco and use the grade recom-
mended for your type of tractor. Oil as often as your in~
struction book directs.Thcn you will be sure that a sturdy
ﬁlm of oil-isamply protecting every working part.You are
sure then that wear is kept down and power increased.Tax~
in sis-gallon and -3 3-gallon
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. FARMERS IN MARCH
During the monthtof March, 1920,

amggregate of $9,7 03,290 was loan-

ed to‘ 2,436 farmers. of the United

States by'the‘Federal Land Banks on '

long time ﬁrst mortgages according

to the monthly statements made to
the Farm. Loan Board. The Federal
Land Bank of Omaha leads in the
amount of loans closed, the same be—
‘ing $2,194,100, the Federal Land
Bank of St. Louis following with $1,-
938,000. The other banks closed
‘loans in March as follows: Louisville,
3898.400; Houston, $879,215; New
Orleans, $819,675; St. Paul, 8780,-
700; Wichita, $506,100; Spokane,
$470,100; Berkeley, $342,600;
Springﬁeld, $306,600; Columbia,
$301,200; Baltimore, $266,600.

During March 2,269 applications

were received by the twelve banks,.

asking for $8,209,499 and during the
same month 2,676 loans were approv-
ed by them amounting to $7,480,342.

On March 31, 1920, there were
operating in the United States 3,-
995 Farm Loan Associations, and the
total mortgage loans made by the

Federal Land Banks through these.

associations to 125,492 farmer—bor-
rowers as of that date, amounted to
$344,721,366. Deducting from this
amount the loans paid off in full by
grand total of loans in force as of
borrowers to wit: $9,333,550 the
March 31, 1920, is distributed with—
in the Federal Land Bank Districts
as follows.

St. Paul .. ....... $45,085,100
Omaha ............... 44,607,640
Spokane ............. 42,629,320
Houston .............. 38-392,046
Wichita .............. 27,522,600
St. Louis ............. 27,049,130
Louisville .. .......... 25,077,200
New Orleans .......... 23,176,480
Columbia ............ 17,972,905
' Berkeley ............. 16,948,200
Baltimore ............ 13,462,800
Springﬁeld ........... 12.864395

Up to March 31, 1920. matured in-
terest and amortization payments
due by borrowers to the Federal
Land Banks amounted to $21,744,-
620.82. Of this amount all but
$256,866.03 or 1.2 per cent had been
paid, and of this sum $113,789.01
represents delinquent instalments
maturing during the month.

WOOL CONSUMPTION HIGH IN
MARCH

The amount of wool consumed in
March exceeded the monthly average
for 1918 and 1919, but fell below the
high mark reached in January'of this
year, according to ﬁgures just re-
leased by the Bureau of Markets,

United States Department of Agri-
culture.
On a grease basis, 67,900,000

pounds of wool were consumed, com-
pared with 34,000,000 pounds in
March, 1919, and 71,900,000 pounds
in March, 1918. According to con-
ditions as reported, the amounts
consumed, in pounds, were: grease,
47,467,979; scoured, 8,905,370;
pillled, 1,971,253. The percentages
of the various grades used were:
fine, 29.4; 1-2 blood, 18.2; 38 blood
20.1; 1-4 blood, 18.2; low, 3; and
carpet, 10.8 per cent;

There was little change in the- us-
ual ranking-of the states in the
amounts consumed, Massachusetts
being first with 24,540,957 pounds;
'Fennsylvania, 8,136,873 pounds;
‘Rhode Island, 6,750,956 pounds; New
Jersey, 5,584,958 pounds; and New-
v'Y-ork, 4,724,831'2pounds; with Con-
'necticut,.__Neiv‘ Hampshire, Ohio, and
Maine following in'the order named.

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,. FARMERS BUILETINS
iThe United States Department of

"Agriculture has” issued t'wo bulletins,
that: should be of the utmost value ‘

to any man engaged in farming. They
15‘“ “Fire on the Farmff. No. 904.

h ”undo hted . the-

 
gexplains how to prevent losses from
m ,

are,‘ ‘,'.The Hessian Fly " No.1083,‘
The bulletin". on the Ressian Fly ,

 
NINE MILLIONS LOANED TO THE most injurious‘insect enemy of wheat

in the United States. The annual

damage done by this fly throughout

the United States is estimated
$50, 000, 000. , ’

“Fire on the Farm” contains in-,

formatiOn regarding preventation of
ﬁre and ﬁre ﬁghting, and is a very
instructive booklet.

Another bulletin that farmers who
are interested in the raising of sheep
should have is “Equipment for Farm
Sheep Raising,”vNo. 810. It contains
plans for building the sheep barn,
arranging the feeding racks, build‘
ing lambing pens, building dog- proof
fence, and on last page is a list of
free bulletins on the raising and di-
seases of sheep.

One or all of the bulletins can be
obtained free of charge by writing
the United States Department of Ag-
riculture at Washington, D. C., stat-
ing the number or the numbers of

Farmers’ Bulletins you would like.
to receive.
CALLS ON MEN OF CITIES To

HELP FARMERS

With a shortage of hired farm la-
bor, as acute as in 1918, threatening
to curtail food production on Ameri-
can farms, E. T. Meredith, Secreary
of Agriculture, has issued an appeal
to city men, college .students, and
others to spend their vacations 'work-
ing on farms, particularly as helpers
in harvest ﬁelds.

Reports secured by” the Federal
Department from its representatiVes
in practically‘every state in the union
show that the supply of- hired farm
labor in this country is only about
72 per cent of the normal supply,
compared with approximately 84 per
cent of a normal supply a year ago.
This year's shortage is almost ex-
actly the same as that of two years
ago when large numbers of men
were in military service.

The present shortage has arisen in
spite of the fact that farm wages are
15 to 25 per cent higher than last
year. The situation unremedied can
not fail to have an unfavorable effect
on production, according to the Unit-
ed States Department of Agriculture,
and will tend to prevent any reduc-
tion in the prices of farm products.
While the total acreage undoubtedly
will be reducedvas a result of the
present situation, it will not be in as
large proportion as the reduction in
the labor supply, because the farm-
ers with their families are exerting
themselves to the utmost to overcome
their handicap. cultivation this year
will be less intensive than formerly.
More land will beput into grass and
such other crops as- require a mini-
mum of labor, it is said, and the till—

ed ﬁelds will be less intensively cul--

tivated.

Secretary Meredith calls on all bus-
iness men and students to spend their
summer holidays helping relieve the
present situation and so aid in com—
bating high living costs. In making
this appeal/it is recognized that, at
the outsetlat least, such labor is not
as efficient as experienced farm la-
bor, but the excellent results secured

 
in 1918', whereas in’large'ihumé“
_;bers aided the farmers, leave ' no

doubt as to-the success of the pres-

,ent drive if the men will respond.

The United States Department of
Agriculture was represented by Ash-
er Hobson at the meeting of the Na-
tional Farm Labor Conference held
in Kansas City April 16, and the of-
ﬁce of Farm Management, of which
Mr. Hobson is assistant chief, is lay-
ing plans looking toward entering ef-
fective aid in dealing with the farm
labor situation, particularly in ' the
ha'rvest season. It is expected that
deﬁnite announcement regarding
work along this line will be made in
the near future. Until other provi-
sion has been made by the depart-
ment all persons interested in ﬁnding

work on farms should write to the'

directors of agricultural extension at
the agricultural colleges in _the var-
ious states. These directors are pre-
pared to supply the names of county

agents having farmers in their res-'

pective counties who need farm la-
bor. By this method anyone desiring
to help on' a farm can get in~~ direct
communication with the farmer.

HOG CHOLERA IN STATE

Hog cholera has broken out in
Branch county» and local ofﬁcials in
co- -operation with representatives of
the state veterinarian’s oﬁice, have
vaccinated a large number of pork-
ers in the past few days. The disease
made its ﬁrst-appearance among a
drove owned by the Union City Sup-
ply Company. Walter Smith, buyer
for the ﬁrm, found ﬁve hogs dead
when he went to the company's cor-
ral south of town and seven more
died soon after. Forty-eight were
found ill. The hogs thatdied weigh-
ed from 125 to 200 pounds each.

FARRIERS’ ELEVATORS INCREASE
BUSINESS

Reports of the Minnesota railroad
and warehouse commission show
that in the last year farmer-owned
local elevators, which comprised -a
little less than 25 per cent of the
total number of local elevators in
the state, handled 38.9 per cent of
the grain.

During. the crop year ending Aug.
31, 1919, the number of the elevat-
ors increased frpm 356 to 390. The

line elevators averaged receipts of.

76,652 bushels of grain and the
farmer elevators 140,179 bushels, or
nearly double.

ASK AID non FARM

Co-operation of city- merchants and
manufacturers with the farmers to

insure the latter the laborlneeded to_

increase planting was urged by John
1. Gibson, secretary of the Western
Michigan 'Development bureau, in an
address to the Grand Rapids “Rotary
club. He recommended temporary
suspension of industries, if necessary
to provide labor with which to culti-
vate and harvest crops.

Farm Bureau Acts to Pool State. Cherry Crop

To consider plans for pooling Mich—
igan grown cherries and standardiza-
tion of the growing and marketing
conditions in the cherry districts of
Michigan, Wisconsin and New York
states, the Michigan State Farm Bu-

reau has called a meeting of the cher- .
ry growersof these states at-Frank- ,

fort, Mich., May 19. This action was
taken at the request of the growers
of Benzie, Manistee and Grand Tarv-
erse counties.

In the past there has frequently'

been a conflict betWeen the growers-
of these three states in the market-~_
ing of their products and as this con— '
dition has been disastrous to all the '
Michigan growers got in tench” with?

those of the other two states and

Bonnie
_ Manlstee ' .'
Mason

 
found sentiment ripe for co-opera-M
.tion. .. ., , .. . ’

In the formation of better-pyr-
keting» arrangements. of Michigan
cherries, the Michigan State Farm
Bureau has been asked to take an

active part and it is possible that in’
- the near future representatives of the

Cadillac Potato Growers' Exchange
and the Fruit Growers’ Exchange will
be called together to _consider plans
of assisting in this movement,

The cherry- Crop in Michigan this

year has excellent prospects. Esti-
amates or the crop of the leading;
Michigan Gherry counties for this

year are as follows

Grand TraVerse .x. i .175, 0120 cellos

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TRUCK WEEK

Directing the attention of more
than one millibn farmers to the is-

‘ sues involved in highway transporta-

tiOn and good roads. Thomas’ C. At-
keson, Washington
and moving spirit in- the National
Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, has
addressed a letterrto grange ”secre-
taries" throughout '-the country enjoin-
ing- their participation in National
Ship by Truck, Good Roads Week to
be. observed May 17 to 22.

“In this’ connection,” writes Mr.
Atkeson, “I heartily approve of ’ the
general idea involved in - Ship by
.Truck Goad Roads Week and atten-
tion that wili'thereby be directed to

    
cannons are up IN smr BY"

representative ‘

the problems of highways tra‘nsporta- .

tion and distribution. "

As a preface to his letter, Mr. At-
keson says:

“The national grange believes that

fthe time has come when all national
- government highways should be uni-

ﬁed in a single administrative 'de-
partment and that a national high-
way law should be worked out which
will serve the welfare of the whole
country and distribute the expense of
highway construction equitably be-
tween the beneﬁciaries.

Expressing his belief that there is
a place for the motor truck in agri-
cultural pursuits, Mr. Atkeson con-
tinues:

“It is conceded that there is a place
for the motor truck on the farm and
most particularly does this apply to
the economic use of the motor truck
by farm associations. To secure the
most satisfactory and beneﬁcial use
of the motor truck the nation, the
state, the county must have suitable
permanently constructed road beds
to insure motor truck operations

from the producer to the consumer. '

Not only is the necessity for perma-
nent highways apparent in this in-
stance, but an improved highway is
a step toward the improvement and

consolidation of rural schools and ‘

their use as rural social centers."
Mr. Atkeson requests the grange

secretaries to bring the preparations ,

for the week to the attention of farm-
er members. He says:

“In view, therefore, of the simultan-
eous discussion, study and attention
on the part of the citizens of this na-
tion, which will be directed to these
problems by National Ship by Truck
Good Roads Week, it is recommended
that you bring this matter
your grange and take part so far as
it is possible in the activities attend-
ant on the success of the national
week. ”

‘ ‘.‘It is evident, therefore, that the
grange should be represented on com-
mittees and it is thought that be-
cause of this the grange will be able
‘more intelligently to deﬁne the farm-
er’s, angle and arrange for farm par-
ticipation than anyone else.”

before _

CHEESE FAOTORI FOB REPUBLIC ,

The Cloverland Cheese Manufact-

. uring association has been .organized

by farmers residing in the western
part ongarquette county, and it is
expected that it will not belong be-
fore. the organization will have a
factory in operation in Republic.
Equipment for the new plant has
already been ordered and will be in-
stalled» in a suitable building as soon
as it reaches Republic. It is expect-
ed that the plant will be capable of

turning out 600 pounds of cheese

daily, which will mean that 6, 000
pounds of ’milk will be required each
day. The farmers will be paid the
regular market price for butter fat
and all milk will be thoroughly test-
ed before accepted. Any proﬁts ac-

cruin‘g will :be returned to the mem- -
here of the association in direct pro- 7 , '
portion to the amount of milk fills.
"dished. .1- "1“ . ‘
The oﬁoers cf the Clarerla‘nd: '
Manufacturing association
presume,-
vlcmnrosident, ment 3“" 7'
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Cheese
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'->strode, arose s”, clamor of noises:
' j . -When they stood still, all was still.

., A single step, and all the sand about
them become vocal.

“When the Gods laugh, beware!"

the old Maya warned.

Drawing a circlein the sand with

his ﬁnger, which shouted at him as
. he drew it, he sank down within it
on his knees. and as his knees con-
tacted on the sand arose a very
screaming and trumpeting of sound.
. The peon joined his father inside the
noisy circle, where, with his fore-
ﬁnger, the old man was tracing
screeching cabalistic ﬁgures and de-
_ signs.

Leoncia was overcome, and clung
both to Henry and Francis. _. Even
Francis was perturbed. ‘ ’ .

“The echo. was an count”. he said.
“But here is no echo. I don’ t under-
stand it. Frankly, it gets my goat. "

“Piffle l” Henry retorted, stirring

the sand with his foot till it shouted
again. “It-"s the barking sand. On
the island of Kauaiydown in the Ha-
waiian Islands, I have been across
similar barking sands—quite a place
for tourists,._I assure you. Only this
is a better speciment, and much nos-
ier. The scientists have a score of
high brow theories to account for the
phenomenon. It occurs in several
other' places in the world, as I have
heard. There is only one thing to do
and that is to follow the compass
bearing which leads straight across.
Such sands do bark, but they have
never been known to bite.”
. But the last of the priests could
. not be persuaded out of his circle, al-
‘though they’succeeded in disturbing
him from his prayers long encugh to
spout a flood of impassioned Maya
speech.

“He says,” the son interpreted,
"that we are bent on such sacrilege

that the very, sands cry out against,

us. He will go no nearer to the
dread abode of Chia. Nor will I. His
father died there, as is well known
amongst the Mayas. He says he will
not die there. He says he is not old
enough to die.” .

“The miserabe octogenarian !"
,Francis laughted, and was startled
by the ghostly, mocking laugh of the
echo while all about them the sand
dunes bayed in chorus.- “Too youth—
ful to die! How about you, Leon—
cia? Are you too young to die yet
a while?”

“Say ” she smiled back, moving

herfoot slightly so as to bring a‘

moan of reproach from the sand be—
neath it. “011 the contrary, I am too
old to die just because the cliffs echo

our laughter back at us and because-

the sand hills bark at us. Come, let
us go on. We are very close to those
flashings. Let the old man wait
within’his circle until we come back.”

She cast off their hands and step-
ped forward, and as they followed,

all the dunes became inarticulate, ’

while one. near to them, down the
sides of which ran a slide of sand,
rumbled and thundered. Fortunately
‘ for them, as they were soon to learn.
Francis, a‘t abandoning the mules,
had equipped himself with a coil
of-thin, strong rope.

Once across the sands they en-
countered more echoes. 0n trials,
they found their halloes distinctly

repeated as often as six or eight
times. . .
“Hell’s bells ” said Henry. “No

Wonder the native ﬁght shy of such
a locality. '”

“Wasn’t it Mark Twain who wrote '

about a man whose hobby was mak-
ing a collection of echoes?" Francis,
queried.

“Never heard of him. But this is
‘certainly some ﬁne collection of Ma;
ya cohoes. They chose the region
wisely for a hiding place. Undoubt-‘i.
'edly. it was always sacred even be-’
{fore the Spaniards came. The old
priééts knew the natural causes 01..
mysteries, and» passed them over,
herd...“ myster with a cam-f

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" By JACK LoNDoN ’

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

 
Synopsis of Preceding Chapters

Fﬂllcla MORGAN. o New York' millionaire. beoomeo bored with society and decides to tote on

extensive ﬁshing trip.
holdings.

Francls stem out. alone.

another Island where
be e relative of Francle.’

Regen. Froliclc' mm plum to ruin Francis through his Wall Street
' Reg‘un pays Torres. o dork-skinned visitor from the Oorrlbeon Islands who knows of a
treasure buried by e pirate ancestor of Frondlc.’ to iurey young Francis away.
He lands on on Island whither he has been beckoned b
shore. The girl mlitekcc Francis for a lover with whom
he meets o young man who gives his names as
He Is also huntln
Francis learns that Henry is thb lover of the gir

The lure works and

aglrl on the
rnncc explores
Henry Morgan and proves
for the treesure. They form a partnership.
he met and that her name Is Leoncia Solano.

the hu quurroled.

Francis returns to the ﬁrst Island where he is captured by Tom: and the Jere Politico of San An-

tonio. They proclaim him to

Henry. whom they with to hang for a murder he did not commit.

They on about to hang him when Henry appears. They release Francis and throw Henry Into
prison. The Science and Francis release Henry and they eccep no to the bout that Francis has
chartered. They are pursued by Torres had the Jere withy his soldiers. They land on on Island

where they procure heroes and start through the hills with the Jets and his gang In pursuit. Torres
. with the Jets and his genderme: succeed In capturing the Morgan: and their friends. but as they

are about to torture Henry and Francis they are surrounded by c
"The cruel Just One." who lives In the hllll.
their captives before their leader who poise: Judgment on them.
A price I: put on the Jefc's head. which Francis pays. then the date. Torres and their
Francis protects o peon who to show his gratitude tells hlin

followers of n bllnd-mun, celled

Ir'ced.
coldlers are freed also.

or Will lead them to a hidden treasure.

be 111! of These men are
The men take

The Morgan: and Science are

men.

that his Isth-

The noon and his father with the Morgan: start on a

«cam tor. the treasure. Leoncia follows and ot the end of the ﬁrst l'day catches up with them.
They are VottncIVicd by a band of strange men. but they drive them II.

4.‘

 
three abreast. The ground was a
hard, brittle crust of surface, so cry—
stalline and dry all the way down. In
an ebullition of spirits, desiring to
keep both men on the equality of
favor, Leoncia seized their hands and
started them, into a run. At the end

' of half a dozen strides the disaster

happened. Simultaneously Henry and
Francis broke through the crust,

sinking to their thighs, and Leoncia

was only a second behind them in
breaking through and sinking almost
as deep.

“Hells bells !" Henry muttered.
“It’s the very devil’s own landscape.”

And his low spoken words were
Whispered back to him from the
near by cliﬁs on all sides and endless—
ly and sibilantly repeated.

Not at ﬁrst did they fully realize
their danger. It was when, ,by their
struggles, they fourfd themselves
waist deep and steadily sinking, that'

the two men grasped the gravity of
the situation. Leoncia still laughed
at the predicament, for it seemed no
more than that to her.

“Quicksand,” Francis gasped.

“Quicksand !” all the lanscape
gasped back at him, and continued
to gasp it in fading ghostly whispers,
repeating it and gossiping about it
with gleeful unction.

“It’s a pot hole ﬁlled with quick—
sand,” Henry corroborated.

”Maybe the old boy was right in
sticking back there on the barking
sands," observed Francis.

The ghostly whispering redoubled
upon itself and was a long time in
dying away. _

By this time they were midway be-
tween waist and arm-pits and sinking
as methodically as ever.

“Well, somebody’s got to get out
of the scrape alive,” Henry remark-
eu.

- weight thrust them more" quickly
When she stoo',d‘ free and
clear, a foot on the hearest sliOu‘l'der ,

down.

of each of the two men she loved,

Francis said, though the landscape”

mocked him.

“Now Leoncia, we ’re going to toss
you out of this. At the word ‘Go. "
let yourself go.

And you must strike

 
full length and softly on the crust.

You’ll slide a little.
yourself stop. Keep on going. Crawl
out to the solid" land on your hands
and knees. And, whatever you do,

don't stand up until you reach the

solid land—Ready, Henry?" -
Between them, though it hastened
their sinking, they swung her back
and forth, free in the air, and the
third swing, at Francis’ “Go l” heav-
‘ed her shoreward.
Her obedience to their instructions

But ,don’t let. .

was implicit, and on hands and knees ,

she gained the solid rocks of
shore.

“Now for the rope !” she called
to them.

But by this time Francis was too
deep to be able to remove the coil
from around his neck and under one
arm. Henry did it for him, and,
though the exertion sank him to an
equal deepness, managed to fling one
end of the rope to Leoncia.

At ﬁrst she pulled on it. Next, she
fastened a turn around a boulder the
size of a motor car, and let Henry
pull. But it was in vain. The strain

the

or purchase was so lateral that it

I

seemed only to pull him deeper. The ,

quicksand was sucking and rising
over his shoulders when Leoncia.
cried out, precipitating a very bed-
lam of echoes:

“Wait I Stop pulling ! I have an
idea! Give me all the slack. Just
save enough of the end to tie under
your shoulders.

The next moment dragging the
rope after her by the other end, she
was scaling the cliff. Forty feet up,
where a gnarled and dwarfed tree

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Everybody’s Doing It.

“ HERE’S my egg this morning”, de-
mands the hungry business man. “Oh,
my dear”, explains wifey,“ we can’t aﬁord to

eat eggs any more. They’ve gone up to sixty
cents a dozen”. Hubby grunts, eats his grape
fruit, and departs for his work. A little later
wifey goes down-town and buys a new $50 hat.
Hubby reaches the oﬂice, opens up a’ new
~ box of 25-cent cigars and works furiously for
‘ a couple of hours. Then having an appoint-
ment with his tailor he goes to be measured
for a new suit of clothes. He is not sure about
the pattern he prefers. Here is one marked
$150; another $200. He ﬁnally chooses the
$150 suit because as he explains to the tailor,
he “must economize on account of the higli
cost of living". Around the corner at a triﬂe
less fashionable shop he could have purchased
a good suit for $100.

By the time the measuring ordeal is over, it
is time for lunch. He goes to a well-known
cafe, and pays $2 for food and tips. As he
pockets his change he grumbles something to a
neighbor about what highway robbers the
farmers are for charging so much for food. A
block or so away he could have purchased all
the food he needed without the tips for 500.

He returns to work about 2 o ’cloek and
whiles away the afternoon closing up a busi-
ness deal, meeting with a committee from one
of his several clubs, and placing his order for
a new set of golf sticks and balls. He also
phones the theater to reserve him two of the
best seats in the housé for the evening’s enter-
tainment. Advised that the price of these
seats has just advanced $1, he says, “Oh, that’s
all right. \Ve wouldn’t miss that show for
anything”.

‘The afternoon’s work over he starts for
home. The gasoline is low in his machine so
he must stop and have it replenished. Noting
that the price has advanced one cent over the
~previous day’s price, he makes some jocular
remark about Mr. Rockefeller, and cheerfully
pays for the gas. He drives home at a cost
of 50 cents when he might have taken the street

' car at 5 cents and saved 90 cents on his morn-
ing and night trip.

Over the evening meal there is the custom-
ary discussion on the high cost of liviing. The

decided to ﬁx maximum prices on food pro—
ducts. “It’s about time”, says Hubby “that
the government was getting after the farmers
and the food proﬁteers. The cost of food is
__ .~ getting something ﬁerce”. And wifey chimes
‘7 her approval.
' " . After dinner they go to the theater to see a
show which they “wouldn’t miss for any-
..thiﬁg" The comedian gets all a lot of witty
remarks about a business man’s wife breaking
her bank account by pdrchasing a bushel of
made. And a thousand hobbies and wiﬁes 1n

   
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paper says that the Fair Price Board has

scant momentum mgmy
HE COUNTRY is short of seal.
ice are runuing at half my and

0 homes are heated at half temperature,

because there is" no coal in the. 11m.” But there
is plenty of- coal beneath thesui'faee of the
earth—enough cool the scientists tell us, to

heal; our hcsrths dud ﬁre our furnaces for

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thousands of years to come. But this cool——
thmgreatnaturalweelthwhiehmtbooryst

'lcastbelongstoallnthepcopleeieunderlease

to private corporations. theywill to mine
thocoslthecoal‘ismined. they willnotto
minethecoalthecoalisnetmiued audthere
is suffering as a consequence. It is a case of
the giant being slave ,to a pigmy.

The coal operators are willing to mine coal
just now. The demand is great; the prices
are high; the proﬁts large But they cannot
get cars to move the coal, and some mines are
running only one day out of seven. Of course,
there are not enough cars in the country to
move all the freight when it needs to be moved.
The war has raised havoc with the railroads
as it did every other industry. But there are
enough cars to move necessaries, and neces-
ari'es should come ﬁrst. Coal is a necessary,
but the cars that ought to be moving coal are
being used to transport automobilesand road
building supplies.
than on coal, we are told, which explains why
the railroad companies divert cars to automo-
bile factories and road supply stations which
ought in the present emergency to go to the
coal mines. The government, having relin-
quished control of the railroads, is powerless
to act._ It is another case of the giant being
slave to a pigmy.

Faith in the Government.

HIS IS, an age When every citizen feels it
his privilege to criticize the government.
We all concede that honest criticism on the
part of those who are qualiﬁed to criticize is
a good thing. It often comes a danger signal
to warn the shipof state ed the rocks. But
there is a good deal of criticism ou~the part of
newspaper writers and platform speakers, to
say nothing of the parlor car parasites, which
is loose and destructive and is destroying peo-
ple’s faith in dem .
It is undeniably true that there is graft and
corruption; that scores of men are elected to

state and national emcee who have no business

to be there; that there is waste and inefficiency
in many departments of government ; that
great national issues are made the footballs of
politics; and that many other evils exist which
ought to be investigated and corrected. No
government can be entirely free from these
weaknesses. ,

The evils which are a part of every adminis-
tration seem magniﬁed and more numerous in
the present administration. Perhaps this is
the fault of the President; perhaps it is the
fault of the bitter partisan enmity between the
leaders of the two great political parties; per-
haps it is merely a natural result of the ex—
travagances and. differences born.of the war.
No matter what the cause, the“ evils exist and
there is widespread dissatisfaction over the
way in which the affairs of the government
are now being administered.

This condition lessgns people’ s faith in a
republican form of government. It puts am-

munition into the hands of the government’s

enemies who hold up the shortcomings of. the
government as a terrible example of the insuf-
ﬁciency of the, form of government. The in-
ference is not justiﬁed Laws and courts can
neither be created nor set to functioning with-

— out men. The best laws that could be adopted

would be useless Or even harmful if the men

selected to administer them were false to their
duty.
jects of the government must rely upon human
beings to perfect their government and make
it render good service.

 
, r i i ’ n :y .— ,
, charge “the hﬁrsd mark. 2115' your
Factor- » ,

, tional election.

The rate on these is higher.

In every form of goVerument‘ the su’b-' ’
‘ who throttled the wereho '

  
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0011 cm do not run your government to your
action, yen would not logically destroy ,

the goVernment. 0n the contrary you would

choosenew and better men to manage. the pub

Let us. have faith in our government. It .
may not be perfect. It may not always be .
just and impartial, but for allof that we would .r .
not exchange it for aucther government either
of the past or present If it has seemed to
fail us the last few years let us be fair and,
concede that no government was ever con-
fronted with greater problems than have piled
'up before our government during and since
the war.

We are soon to hold another state and no-
We shall elect a President to
guide. our nation through four years of what
may be the most trying period of our history.
We shall elect congressmen to make our laws.
In the state we shall elect 11 Governor and a
legislature. Let us be wise in our-choice. Let
no cost no ballot that does not express a judg- ‘
ment based upon an intelligent and impartial ,
conception of our needs. Let us lay entirely
aside our partisan prejudices, our personal
animosities and preferences and cast a ballot
that Our good, common Yankee sense tells us
is for the men best'qualiﬁed to serve not only
our individual interests but the interests of the

_ wple-of;WMM and of the United States.

The Late Spring

HE LATE spring will add to the diffi-

culties of the farmer who is obliged to
“go it alone” this’summer. It means the
bunching of work. It puts the plowing into
the ﬁtting time; the fitting into the seeding
time; and the seeding almostintooultivating“
time. It puts a handicap on farming opera-
tions forithe entire season. ,

The late spring is not peculiar to Michigan
by all means; Indeed from the reports that
are given of the present condition of winter
wheat and the delay in seeding of oats in the
south central states, the situation is much
worse in other states than in Michigan. -

It is unfortunate not. only for the farmer
but for the nation that planting should be so
delayed this year of all years. A good many
farmers finding it impossible to get help have
made up their minds to attempt, their usual
acreage and do the work alone, trusting to
luck and good Weather to get the crops through
to harvest. Possibly with an early spring
these farmers might have been able to carry
out their program without help, but it is cer-
tain now that if they are to plant their usual
acreage they must have help. Where the help
is not available, they must cut their acreage.

How Collier’s Would Help the Farmer.

N A DOUBLE-page editorial Collier ’s Week— '

ly makes the best diagnosis of the farmer’s
case and presents the best remedy that has
yet come to our attention. Among the force-
ful and pungent paragraphs are the following:

“We want the distribution leech removed .
from the farmer by.

“I. Wise regulation of height rates: on
farm products. ' ~

“2. Close supervision of commission houses
and middlemen.

“3. State aid; or actual state distribution -
through public agencies, if neecssary.

“’4 Encouragement rather than adverse
legislation for cooperative distribution by _‘ ’-
farmers and for cooperative buying by eon- ., . , ‘

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Thelma nary article appearing in ‘-

the M.—- .—- April _3rd‘ issue, un-.

cu- the-heading ”Protecting Michiv- .

gun’s Live Stock." would give a per-
son with ,‘bralns and a heart, a pain.

He tries, to mm it appear the' dog,

(is a;curse'and a menace to the
state." when as a matter of tactile is
man’s best friend, and the. writer. will
try to prove it.

God created'the dog. the most in-
telligent and affectionate animal of
allidumb creatures, and when you
know of. some of his deeds of intelli-
gence and love you wonder if he is
not almost human. Nearly every
day you read of some noble deed he
has done and saved some human be-
fngsdife and quite often at the ex-

e of his. own. In my own neigh-
rhood, last winter, a farmer’s
house caught fire in the night and
they were awakened by the Collie
dog upon their bed barking and haul-
lng.at them. They just had time to
Jump for their lives and get outdoors
mu the chimney fell in over their

Another instance: A Mr. Railings
same home late at night, went to
bed and asleep, and when he was
awakened, his good dog Nero had
him by his shirt’collar trying to
drag him out. He jumped for his
life, rushed out the door, the‘dog
following him. After Nero saw him
safe he went back into the burning
house to see if there was any more

the family and was overcome and
- unit up. ’

The writer visited a watering place
or. a summer resort, a couple of years
ago. Almost immediately my atten-
tion was taken up by a little tot of
:‘girl playing along the waters edge,

th“no other protection than a big
noble Newfoundland dog, who seem-
ed never to take his eyes off of her
and always stood between her and
the water, and when she got too
close, he would lean against her and
crowd her away. Was that human?
He was doing one of the things that
God put him here for, but some men
re not big enough to know it.

early all know of the noble dogs
services on the battleﬁelds of Eur-
ope. How' many of our dear
boys would never have been found
alive and would-have died for the

want of care, had it not been for the ‘

dogs, who trailed them out and lead
the stretcher bearers to their/aid.

He says the dog drove out the
sheep industry of the state; that is
not true. It was ﬁfteen cent wool
and seventy-ﬁve cents to a dollar and
a half sheep that drove the industry
from the state. The writer raised
sheep for many years, until wool and
lambs got so cheap it was at a loss
to keep them, and he never had one
molested by dogs, and in the town-
ship the dog fund piled up so large
we had to give it to the schools, and
the dog'tax was one dollar, enough
and all it should be.

True, some dogs are like some
men, narrow-minded‘and of a sel-
fish disposition, not up to their call—
Ing. Some of the latter found their

way into .the legislature, there they-

have been a failure and a detriment
to the state. And after creating un-
necessary commissions and appropri-
ating thousands of dollars of the tax-
payers money to pay the salaries of
the same. and in their selﬁsh dispo-
sition dodged the warehouse amend-
ment and refused to submit it to the
people.
dog law. And‘ﬂx the tax at an out-
rageous fee, that will cause many a
little boys’ chum, .and manls best
friend to be destroyed, and bring
. back the sheep industry of the state.
' Then there will be .no excuse if wool
should so back to where it was once,
at fifteen and eighteen cents a pound

and larﬁbs"at.‘seventy-ﬂve- cents . to '

' one dollar and a half a piece.
1 ’ The Writer has owned a dog many
Spears, sometimes two. Has onencw
i values higher than any dumb an-
,n the tem.! ind some of them
‘ * stbeh‘i d, "in. ‘I‘do not
' ‘ - wane

 
Then they tinker with the,

 
”masts! dfs'nythlh“: I might ask of
him midi-if he thinks he has displeas-
ed- nie and I. am cross at him. he will
come to me and wag his tail and kiss
my hands and do everything he can
to have me forgive him. And when
I say "Daile it is all right," he is sat-
isfied. What a grand thing it would
be and what a better world it would
be to live in if the human race had
that makeup. If they would be able
to go to one another and ask forgive-

'ness for each others wrongs, and to

show more brotherly love for one

another.—J. M. 8., Blaine, Mich.

There is considerable complaint on the
art of dog owners that the new dog
icense fee is unnecessarily high. It has
never been satisfactorily explained why
the stringent provisions of the dog law
against letting dogs roam at night, etc..
could not be as strictly enforced under
a low license fee as under a high one.
The aim of all laws should be preven-
tion, rather than punishment. If dog
owners would co-operate with the state
to prevent sheep losses and if the state
would deal severely with those who do
not oo-operate and whose dogs as a re-
sult kill sheep there [would be far fewer
sheep destroyed and far less need of a
large. sheep fund and a high license fee.
—4Edltor.

IJ'BERATING THE FARRERS

To the Editor: I note in a recent
issue of your paper that the sugar
manufacturers of Michigan have re-
fused the growers a conference, at
the same time announcing that they
have sufficient acres to‘ conduct their
plants successfully for the season of
1920. In other words if we may
take their statements as true they
have succeeded in breaking down the
Farmers’ organisation and have forg-
ed the shackles which have bound
the American Farmer so tightly in
the past, just a little bit stronger.

It is becoming more evident every
day that the new liberty for the es-
tablishment of which 2,000,000 Am-
erican Farmer boys offered their
lives and their fathers and brothers
_back home by incomparable energy
and great sacriﬁce fed the Allied
armies and made victory possible, is
in imminent danger of becoming a
myth and an idle dream. We beet
growers of Michigan have stultiﬁed
ourselves by beseeching the arrogant
carers of the Sugarlnterests in Mich-
igan for a conference wherein we
might lay our humble claims before
their august majesties. Instead of
giving us' the consideration due free
men and equals they replied indirect-
ly by flooding the state with propa-
ganda calculated to smash the Sugar
Beet Growers’ Association and at the
same ti’me chloroform any other or-
ganized effort on the part ofthe
farmers.

Under the laws of our country all
men are equal and entitled to equal
protection and opportunities. The
Best Sugar Manufacturers have al-
ways acted in unison as one organ-
ization. Yet when the farmers at-
tempt to act collectively the cry
“agitators” is immediately raised.
It may be that the truth of this mat—

ter will be kept for s time from the
American people but truth crushed
to earth will rise again and the men
who are the real agitators and the
enemies of. justice and a square deal
will be shown in\ their true colors.

I have no quarrel with the Sugar
Beet Manufacturers persdnally. I
know some of them and. they have
many fine qualities but by their
stand in this sugar beet controversy
they have given a clear demonstra-
tion that they are .out of step with
the times. They'are living in that
old age when a few men gained con-
trol of all the great resources of our
ﬁpunitry and ruled them with an iron

an .

. Mr. Editor, you have proven your-
self loyal to the farmers’ interests
to the laSt ditch. When the farm-
ers go over the top for a square deal.
wonderful credit will be your due
for you have ‘struck the keynote for
the liberation of the American Farm-
er.

Candidates for the presidency are
going up and down- the country la—
menting the deplorable condition in
which American agriculture finds
itself. They say the farmers must
have. more comforts, more conveni-
ences, more machinery, good roads,
etc. That kind of talk sounds nice,
but unless the farmer is paid a living
price for his produce it is an abso-
lute travesty and utterly meaningless.
The farmer is obliged to pay his
share of the taxes for good roads and
as for the comforts etc., the farmer
doesn't have to have any one tell
him what comforts he needs, he will
see to that himself if he only has a
few pennies left after he pays his
taxes, his farm expenses and the in-
terest on his mortgage. It matters
not who, is elected president the farm-
er will get the same old deal unless
he organizes and acting as one man
with the insuperable power of 40,-

000,000 united farmers in this coun-‘

try sees to it that from henceforth
he will have a seat at the table where
the prices on the products of his
sweat and toil are fixed.

The harvest days will soon be here.
The threshing machine whistle which
has been immemorially the signal for
all prices ’on farm produce to drop
will soon be heard sending it's shrill
sound over hill and down dale. Mr.
Editor and fellow farmers, let us see
for once if we can get the cost of
production plus a wee bit of proﬁt on
our produce this fall.-——P. B. Lennon,
Genesae Countil.

This editorial is worth reading twice.
I think our good .friend Lennon has
caught the true vision. and I am sure he
is not alone. If I read the si aright
tbs American farmers almost 0 a man
have awakened from their sleep of cen-
turies and armed with the weapons of
right and justice stand ready to battle
for their legitimate place in the nation's
business and political affairs. The day
is not far distant when agriculture will
strike of! its shackles and rise to its full
stature—a giant overrtovpplng all other
giants of industry—a force to be reckon-
ed with and respected,——~Edltor.

 
' INTENSIVE FARMING

Farm areas to be worked this
spring will not be so extensive as
usual, if reports are accurate. The
farmers cannot obtain help, and they
are not sure enough of their proﬁts"
in many cases. to want to make any
extra effort» alone.

“I have afarm of 847 acres," says
'arather iesl farmer. “I cannot
get who to help me—city wages
too high.‘ 'I'oan’t work the way I
usedto, so this year will put only
half the farm into cultivation." This
seems to offer a gloomy outlook
when the nation’s food. needs are
considered, but after all it may work
out better. than the farmers them-
selves antlcipa‘te. ‘ ‘

Most farmers, for generations.
have worn themselves outJtrying: to

- dcqtoc much. They-have shortemd
gig; years. of enmity in; strenuous

  
so their final percentage of gain and
the gain to the public is probably no

greater than if they had spread a

smaller amount of work over a long-
er period. Also, in the attempt to
farm too much they have handled
each acre less efﬁciently than if they
had filled a smaller space. If the
farmer who cannot work his entire
farm successfully alone turns his
strength, skill and experience upon
a small portion of it, that portion
should produce as it never did before.

The American farmer is used to,
thinking ,of America‘s? broad spaces,
and ‘natunaily thinks in big terms.
For that very reason his tendency is
to overlook the possibilities resulting
from concentration of effort upon
small areas. But there is good eco-
nomic authority back of the “inten-
sive” farmer. "Take heed," says the
Bible, “that ye despise not the day

M
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a: small lama—state J

  
, ; athen Chinese. Their

SOME NEW NOTIONS

I agree with you that before we
can build a party we must formu-
late a policy. ,To begin with we
should rid ourselves of some super-
stitious notions. let, that the au-

tomatic action of the law of supply"

and demand isonly safe regulation
of prices. The. fact is it always ﬁxes
prices either too high or too low, and
is directly responsible for the present
plight of the farming industry. By
restricting production to ﬁt the de-
mand any industry can fix prices as
high as it chooses, but we farmers
not only lack organization—the na-

ture of our business makes it dim"-
cult to restrict production without.

producing famine in unfavorablesea-
sons. But. other industries, better
organized are begging the labor sup-
ply and we can't help ourselves.
This means exorbitant food prices in
the near future, much higher than

would suffice to make farming prof- '

itable under a sensible industrial sys-
tem. And if we become efficiently
organized some other industry ’will
get pinched in "the same way.
2nd.——That there exists a “gener-
al public" whose only interest in in-
dustrial problems is that of "ulti-
mate consumers." Such people if
they exist. are mere cooties on the
body politic.
3rd.—That industrial disputes
should be arbitrated by “disinterest-
ed parties.” No such animal exists
in the United States. Directly or in-
directly every one of us is interested
in every such dispute. Most of us
are willing to play fair if we can be
sure the other fellow is doing the
same, but our present industrial sys-
tem gives us no such assurance. Not
knowing the facts we naturally sus-
pect the other fellow of lying for ef-
fect, especially if he is rich.
4th—That the possession of capi-
tal carries with it the right to boss
any business in which it may be in-
vested. Our chief quarrel with Bol-
shevism is the alleged fact that it
lets ignorant brawn rule over intel-
ligent brain. The rule of ignorant
wealth is just as bad. Many a busi-
ness has been crippled if not wreck-
ed, because narrow minded directors
intent only on immediate profits,
muddled the plans of an intelligent
manager. The possessor of capital
has as good a right as any worker
to a voice in the management of the
industry that employs him. He also
has a right to fair wages for what-
ever job he is best ﬁtted whether
carrying bricks, tending a machine or
directing an industry. But the
rights of capital, merely as capital,
do not extend beyond security of in-
-vestment and a fair interest rate.—
3. 3., Lake Odlessa, Mich.

 
You've said a great deal in a few
words. Let us have more of our opin-
ions on these ithortant sub sets—Ed-
itor. /

APPROVES STAND ON MILK

' SITUATION

Send us your paper. Enclosed

ﬁnd check. Sample copies have been
coming to us of late. We have not
intended to subscribe for another
farm paper but must say that any
paper that will handle our farm
problems and especially pertaining to
the present milk situation in the
manner you have, is worth having
once a week. We have also noted
that write-up of Forrest Lord's on
the milk problem in one of Detroit’s
leading dailies and must confess you
are doing fine work for the misun-
derstood milk producer. Your posi-
tion is strong because you are right.

Sincerely,G. W. Wright & 8m, Lic- .

ingston County.

W. appreciate your words of approval.
You are everlastingly right when on
say that the milk producer is misun er-

- vac-is every man: who produces

ood fun the Boll. Talk about the
ignorance - of

Clu-istinity is not to be compared ._ ith-
the ignorance of somte of our broth-r

renoftheecurceo 'snpply
and the difﬁculties undrtwhiohit is

produced. I .believe the.“
W. the

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“CLEANLINESS IS NEXT, TO GOD-
, LINESS” .

HROUGHOUT the length and

breadth of this land we hear the

1cry of the “Cleanup Campaign.”

It is scheduled to begin bright and
early on the morning of May 17th
and continue through the week and
everyone is being urged to clean-up
and paint-up during that week. There
is no doubt but that in the congest-
ed city districts, in order that the
right influence may be brought to
bear on the foreign districts, this
propaganda is needed and it is well
to set a date for the task in order
to get those interested who would
not see its need were it not made a
regular campaign.

There is no doubt that if we make
a concentrated drive of it and inter-
est young and old, mother will not
have quite such‘l'a hard task, how-
ever personally e would sort of like
to take a vacation and run away dur-
ing that period of unsettled clean-

ing up. Tearing up everything at
'once has no attraction for us. Rath-
er we prefer as the little House

Cleaning song advises to begin early,
take it easy and clean one room at a
time.

Unless the’ weather man is kinder
to us than he has been, it will be
pretty early to take down the stoves
and store them away for the sum-
mer at that time, and who wants to
attempt to clean the rugs with the
stoves down. However we can be-
gin at the store rooms or bedrooms
and make very good progress, 'start-
ing on the upper floors ﬁrst, and if
need be and the weather happens to
be bad can descend from the , top
floor to the basement and do the
cleaning necessary there before com-
ing to the main part of the house,
reserving that work fOl the brightest
days.

Brought to a realization at last of
the amount we are wasting through
such campaigns, the government is
taking a hand in the advice which is

being handed out to use and comes

forward with the slogan, “Don’t
Waste Waste,” and it is well to stop
and consider what there may be
which‘has served its days of useful-
ness with us but may be of some val-
ue. The following is the propaganda
sent out by the government on the
subject: “Don’t waste waste,” Sec-
retary Alexander today urged the
American housewife, calling atten-
tion to the possibility of utilizing
much of the refuse which will be dis-
closed by the spring housecleaning.

At'least $450,000,000 worth of waste'

paper, rubber, metals and other art—
icles sent to the rubbish heap each
year can be reclaimed, the secretary

 
The Early Fly

(By Walt Mason)
The early ﬂy's the one to swst,
It comes before the weather’s hot,
And sits around and ﬂies its legs,
And lays at least a million eggs,
And every egg will bring a ﬂy
To drive us crazy by and by.
0h, every ﬂy that 'scapes our
swatters
Will have a million sons and
daughters, _
And countless ﬁrst and
cousins,
And aunts and uncles, scores of
dozens,
And fifty-seven billion nieces;
So knock the blamed thing all to
pieces.
And every niece and every aunt—
Unless we swat them so they
' can 't—
Will lay enough dodgnsted eggs
..To fill up ten ﬁve-gallon kegs
And allll these eggs", ere summer

hie
Will bring forth twenty trillion
ﬂies.

second

And thus it goes, an endless ehnln,
‘ 181211“! Our swstt‘ting is arm-in

ess we 0 list swe soon,
In May time and in early June,

"Girdnr‘lp our loins end swat the

es
, And sisters leave your eosy bowel-s
Where you have wasted golden

hon
With :rdor in your souls and

 
.- eye ‘ .
Bound]! your sleeves snd swat the

 
Sway of the grain.

1 8o, men and brothers, let us rise. ll

; nuns I

- ‘ Edited by MABEL CLARE LADD

said-N -' “The lessons learned
during the war should not be
forgotten? Mr; Alexander
said, “Turn the waste
basket into the channels "
of commerce by selling
Odds and ends to ‘Junk
dealers. "

  
HOUSEOLEANING
HELPS ‘
ASH the Joints
and bearings
‘~ of the worn
out sewing ma-
chine in gasoline
to remove the
dirt and oil
wipe off
'thoro l y
and oil
a - fresh.
R u n a
few sec-
'0 n d s
wipi n g
off su-
per f l u-

il'y removed by rubbing with a clean
white cloth dipped in kerosene. The
whod should after’Ward be wiped

with a dry cloth.

,Before
should be rubbed over

surface.

Poished tables

week; they are

 
lair. ﬂoss Crane, of the Cncago Institute of mm .ays that for every $10 worth of shrubbery

artistically planted about your home grounds, you can add $100
We are sure that the beautlful home of Mr. and Mrs..-Vulll, of Yale. has been increased In
And what a wonderful slry, sunny bedroom that corner bed-
Thls is one of the winners In our picture contest.

erty.
valuation many hundreds of dollars.
room must be.

to the valuation of your prop-

 
ous oil with an old flannel or cham—
ois.

Sponging the rugs with a strong
solution of ammonia will brighten
the colors and prevent moths.

Always sweep rugs and carpets the
Brushing against
the grain roughens the surface and
it tends to brush the dust in instead

' of out.

An authority on Oriental rugs
state that he never shakes his rugs
as it tends to break the warp at the
ends. Rather he beats them, and to
do this he uses a piece of an old rub?
her hose as that does not cut. the rugs
anywhere. What is good :for Ori-
ental rugs which, are .so carefully
made by hand should apply with

equal if not more consideration to

domestic rugs.

Should you discover moths in your.
g rugs, spread a cloth which has been

dampened error the part and press
with. a hot iron. Moths and eggs both
will be killed .hy the hot steam.

 
_' Before polishing the stove wash. it
off with vinegar. It rei‘hoves ' all
grease leaving; the surface smooth,
sud keeps the blanking from burning

off so quickly, saving much time and ,

labor.

  
Instead of hangers for the kitchen
towels did you ever try making a.
button hole? This can't be torn off
and will last as long as the towel.

 
QUE READERS' OWN COLUMN
EAR Miss Ladd: In the last issue
of THE BUSINESS FARMEB I read
the question from Mrs. S. E.
about the, creosote problem M which

confronts so many of us who burn '

air tight, heaters.

I can not answer the question
about removing the stains from her
linen but do know a remedy that will
positively stop creosote from form-
ing. We were bothered with it to
such an extent that it run down the
chimney so fluently that it dropped
to the floor between the studding
and run out into the rooms in the

crevices between the boards of the
floor.

We came to the conclusion that?

there was used or s draught of air
thru the pipe and chimney. My hus-

band took the length of pipe off that \
er and placing a .
.round..piece of mod inside it. cut . .
a hole about “an inch square 13ft}
.‘above the damper...

 
contains the d

    
atell times and your cred

painting , wood 'it
with
sandpaper to insure a smooth

may be
kept in good condition if
regularly, say tWice a

rubbed
With- -a. mixture of equal
parts of turpentine
and olive oil. Ap-
ply with flannel.

Leave, it open ,
eitrb’ub:

;- ‘ , 1»

FEESH HOME GROWN EASPm
REES ALL SW12

RESH home-grown raspberries sll
Fsuln'mer long ’end until frost

comes in the fall ! That is the
delightful prospect which the United
States Department of Agriculture
holds out, to the gardener who will
plan-t one or more of the autumn-‘
fruiting varieties of raspberry plants .
which it recommends. The depart-
ment points out that European gar-
deners have groWn autumn-fruiting
varieties for many years, and some
of them are of highest quality. It
is particularly important that the ~
American gardener secure varieties-
that will Survive in this country,
since in many sections our climate is
tfo severe for the European varie-
t es.

American Autumn Fruiting Rasp-
berries \

Two good autumn fruiting varie-
ties, the Ranere (St. Regis) and Ers-
kine,(Erskine Park) have originate
ed in the United States and are new
in the nursery trade. The Ranere
was found near Hammonton, N. J.,
and was grown by the hundreds of
acres on the sandy soils of southern
New‘Jersey before being introduced
into the trade. It is the principal
commercial raspberry of New Jersey,
and seems destined to become" the
leading sort along the Atlantic Coast
states as far south as southern Geor-
gia. ' The variety may be found fruit-
ing freely throughout the fall months
in Atlanta, Ga., and even farther
south where other varieties do not
sudceed.

In the cooler parts of the north-
ern states, the Rs selllere produces fruit
of too small siz and of too poor
dessert quality to be of great value
However, the berries borne on the
young shoots in the autumn are
larger in/size and better in quality
than those of early summer, and if
pruned after the English system,
where all the old canes are cut out
in late 'autumn or early spring, it
should be desirable in many northern
gardens.

The Erskine raspberry, which was
found a resident of Lee, Massachus-

\etts, in a patch of the Marlboro,
bears larger fruit than the Ranere.
The, fruit is also of better quality,
and if it proves as hardy and bears
as well throughout the northern
states as it has under the care of
the one who descovered it, it should
be especially desirable. The Ers-
kine seems to be a hybrid between
the American and European raspber-
ries, and should be tried wherever
the Cuthbert and Marlboro succeed.

Varieties from European Countriee

Among the varieties of autumn-
fruiting raspberries grownin Eng-

 
A House-Cleaning Song

Con you sing? Then sing
A house-cleaning song,
To make the house ring
When tempers .go wrong;
Sing something bright,
0r say something funny,
For all will "go right
When tempers are sunny.

Don’t wear your worst gown,
0r tie up your head
Don't carry a frown——
A picture to dread;
House-clothing is fun.
If taken that way;
So let in the sun
And be merry and gsy.

‘One room st s time—-
Be not in a hurry;
* Do not replne,
Nor get in a worry,
Scrub Just es y please. ..
An nut your yllvn Wnytg—
It’e no slum
- tht‘the neighbors mer soy.

m5; 3 dinner that’s ﬂee,
And ndtske tinsel to est-,—
‘re starve the whole. household
Will not make them nest:
its '2‘ng a this

 
A the home garden.

 
straiting

 
England, are in the nursery trade
this country, the La France and

.wi-thoutra name, but has now been
introduced under this name,» Some.
‘ewintersr- it. may survive without in-
1m,but in other winters the canes
kill back to the ground. The Son-
renir do Desire Brueau is of recent
introduction.

a l

Jhe experience of American fruit.

were of the Eastern United States
. or the last hundred years has been
that no variety of raspberry introduc-
ed from Europe succeeds in Eastern
United States as a commercial sort.
Introductions of European varieties
have been made repeatedly. 'butpnone
of them have yet succeeded under the
rigorous eastern climate. Those who
try thse autumn-fruiting European
‘varieties ,therefore, should not ex-
pect them to be of value, evcept in

some of the hardier of these varie-
ties may prove desirable. By" remov-
ing most of theold canes and cut-
ting those that remain to within one
or two feet of the ground in late
autumn or early spring a consider.
able quantity of fine—quality raspber-
ries may be secured. The berries
borne on the canes which are cut
back will come after the season of
the common sorts, and. should last
until the new shoots begin to .bear.

European varieties are more like-
ly to succeed in the mild humid sec-
tions of Oregon and Washington
where the climate more nearly re-
sembles that of parts of Europe than
does that of the eastern states. Those
interested in this group of raspber-
ries probably will want to try the
European sorts.

 
“HEARTS OF THREE"
(Continued from page 11)
rooted in the crevices, she paused.
Passing the rope across the tree-
trunk ,as over a hook, she drew in
the slack and made fast to a boulder

of several hundred-weight.
“Good for the girl 1” Francis 3. -
plauded to Henry. D
Both men had grasped her plan,
and success depended merely on her
ability to dislodge the boulder and
topple it off the ledge. Five precious

minutes were lost, until she could .

ﬁnd a dead branch of sufﬁcient
strength to serve as a crowbar. At-
tacking the boulder from behind and
working with tense coolness while
her two lovers continued to sink, she
managed at the last to topple it over
the brink.

As it fell, the rope tautened with
a jerk that fetched an involuntary
grunt from Henry’s suddenly con-
stricted chest. Slowly, he arose out
of the nuicksand, his progress being
accompanied by loud sucking reports
as the sand reluctantly released him.
But, when he cleared the surface,
the boulder so outweighed him that
he shot shoreward across the crust
until directly under the- purchase
. above, when the boulder came to rest
. on the ground beside him.

Only Francis’ head, arms and tops
of shoulders were visible above the

IE 1 ,.
to) which]: may perhap' be found. ~

' "Ii-the dev‘én‘lr de Desire Brue‘nau. The .
_. :» ,La France has been grown iit gar-
' dens” in; Connecticut for many years ‘

There, however, ,
and burned like the sun.

 
,;.Dye That Skirt,
: ’ Coat 'or"B~I0-u$e

'FDtemond Dyes" Make Old. shabby,
V Faded Apparel Just Like New.

 
. . ‘ ogre by whispering shut-
tles into; “civil texture of mockery.
, _ CHAPTER XIV 5‘.
E CAN'T be a million miles
away from it,” Henry said, as
the trio came to a pause at the
foot of a high steep cliff. “If it's any

-farther on, then the course lies right

straight over the cliff, and, since we

can 't climb it and from the extent of! .
, it it must be miles around, the source. ‘
of those flashes ought to be right.

here. "

“Now could it have been a man. ~

with looking glasses?” Leoncla ven-
tured.

"Most likely, some natural :phen-i‘

omenon, ” Francis answered' “I'm

strong on natural phenomena since,

those barking sands "
Leoncla, who chanced to be glanc-
ing along the, face of the cliff farth-

er on, suddenly stiffened with at-‘
tention and cried,

“Look !" .

Their eyes followed hers, and
rested on the same point.
saw was no flash, but a steady per-
sistence of white light that blazed
Following
the base of the cliff at a scramble,
both men remarked, from the den-
sity of vegetation that there had
been no travel of humans that way
in many years. Breathless from
their exertions they broke out thru
the brush upon an open space where
a not ancie'nt's'lide of rock from the
cliff precluded the growth of vege-
table life.

Leoncla clapped her hands. There
was no need for her to point. Thirty
feet above, "on the face-of the cliff,
were two huge eyes. Fully a fathom
across was each of the eyes, their
surfaces brazen with some white re-
flecting substance.

“The eyes of Chia. "' she cried.

Henry scratched his head with sud-
den recollection.

“I’ve a shrewd suspicion I can tell '

you what they're composed of ” he
said. “I've never seen it before, but
I’ ve heard old timers mention it. It' s
an old Maya trick. My share of the
treasure Francis, against a perfor-
ated dime, that I can tell you what
the reflecting stuff is.”

“Done i” cried Francis. “A man
is a fool not to take odds like that
even of it's a question of the multi-
plication table. Possibly millions of
dollars against a positive dime ! I’d
bet two times two made ﬁve on the
chance that a miracle could prove it.
Name it? What is it? The bet is
on.’

“Oysters," Henry smiled. “Oyster
shells, or rather, pearl oyster shells.
It's mother of pearl, cunningiy mo-
saicked and cemented in so as to
give a continuous reflecting surface.
Now you have to prove me wrong, so
climb up .and see."

Beneath the eyes, extending a
score of feet up and down the cliﬂ!
was a curious, triangular out- jut of

,rock. Almost was it like an excre-

scence on the face of the cliff. The
apex of it reached within a yard of
the space that intervened between
the eyes. Rough inequalities of sur-
face ,and cat-like clinging on Fran-
cis' part, enabled him to ascend the
ten feet to the base of the excres-
cence. Thence, up to the ridge of it,
the way was easier. But a twenty-
ﬁve foot fall and a broken arm or
leg in the midst of such isolation was

no pleasant thing to consider, and

Leoncla, causing an involuntary jeal-

ous gleam to light Henry’ s eyes, call-

ed up: . .

‘ “Oh, do be careful, Francis !”

Standing on the tip of the triangle

he was gazing, now into one, and

them into the other, of the eyes. He

drew his hunting knife and began to

dig and ~pry at the right hand eye.

“If the old gentleman were here
he’d have a ﬁt at such sacrilege,”

. .Henry commented

”The" perforated dime is yours, "
Francis called down, t the same
time dropping into enry’s out-

stretched palm the fragment he had,

dug loose.

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., EAR CHILDREN: Here we are
again this week with what. a
number of you have been wait-
i'ng'for, another group of prise pict—
ures. "Every week now more and
moremictures are being received and

while of course all are not prise pict- ,

ures, we haVe to creep before we
can walk and it is the same way
withdrawing. If you have talent,-it
will be developed through patient
practicising.. The winners are Ar-
lone Wilkinson and Ruth Genge.
Somehow we have mislaid the ad-
dress 'of Ruth, but‘if she will send
it to me I will see that her prize is
forwarded to her. '

So many of you are new and have
not learned our rules in this contest
that I have asked our artist to ad-
vise you just how they should be
prepared so that more of them will
be acceptable for our page, and this
is what he tells me you'must do in
order to stand a chance of winning
one of the prizes and having your
picture published:

First get a piece of smooth paper,
without lines on it and carefully
draw your picture with a pencil. Af-
ter you have done this, take a pen
with black ink and trace ali‘ot your
pencil lines very carefully. Be sure
you get black ink as no other color
will print. You know much of our
ink nawadays is blue-black. If you
will follow these simple directions
you will stand a m-ucwbetter chance
of winning a prizeg‘asmﬂectionately
yours—LADDIE.

OUR BOYS AND GIRLS
Dear Laddie—I have never written to

you before, but I have enjoyed reading,

the letters others have written, also the
stories in The Michigan Business Farm-
er. I am a girl 15 old and about
5 feet 3 inches tal. I enjoy reading,
but also like to play ball and ride horse
back, although some people think of
these games as boys’ games, I live on
a farm of 200 acres, and have one mile
and a half to go to school. We milk 10
cows now, and have 3 Wild ducks, the
little ducks are very cunning I think. We
have 3. Woods on our farm where We go
to gather wild flowers, and often times
have lunch out there. I want to start
ukelele lessons this summer. I haven't
noticed any letters from Mason county
lately, so I hope there is some chance of
seeing this letter in print. I am presi—
dent of one of our clubs, we have lots
of fun. The boys are going to raise
pickles this summer and I want to get a
‘job” of picking for them. I be this
escapes the waste paper basket. would
'be very glad to hear from some of the
boys and girls of the club.—Bessie Go-
ings, Custer, Mich.

 
Dear Laddie-—I am 12 years of age
and in the 6th grade. 'My teacher’s name
is Mr. Sawell. I go to the Breckenridge
school. I live three-quarters of a mile
from the school, There are two teachers
in one room, so there are four grades. I
have four teachers altogether. _ Miss
Knorpp, my music teacher, Miss
my drawing teacher, Mr. Sawell, m oom-
m-on teacher and Mrs. Sawell. have
two pet lambs. I feed them ground feed,
oats and silage every morning and night.
I have four cats, one dog, 150 chickens,

' 6 horses—two of our horses died. One
got kicked and the other was very old.
I am taking music lessons; My teacher is
Ruth, my sister. I have two sisters and
one brother. I have eight dolls, I
haven't names for all of them, but some
of their names are sum Canneth. Violet.
Blossom and Johnnie. 1 school we are
making money to buy a piano to put in
our room. I will be very ad when sum-
mer comes. We take the usiness Farm-
er and like it very much. I wish some of
the boys and girls of the M. B. F. would
write to me.——~Edna Baughn. Breckeng
ridge, Mich.

Dear Laddie—This is the first time I
have written to you. My father takes
the M. B. F. and likes it very well. I
am a little boy 11 years old and in the
0th grade at‘ school which .is one and
one-half miles - from home. My Daddy
gave me a little Holstein calf and I
named it Pansy. I have a little sister
10 years old and she helps me .take can
of my calf. We liveon a 40-acre farm
and keep 2 horses, 5 cows and 8 calves.
and I milk two of the cows. My brother
Waiter lives on a farm in Livingston
munty, near Fowlerville, and he also
takes the M. B. F. and I hope “he will
see my letter in print—Erwin Horndorf‘
or, New Bosto ' ~ ,. ‘ '

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.Dear Laddie—Th’is is the first time I
have written to u. I am e. girl 1)
. are old and in - e Bth ads at school.
y teacher's name is F. . Neusus. We
live on £0160 acre farm and have 18
cows, 0 recs, 8 e and about 15!
awakens. I sisters and <6 br tn"-
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beets this year unless they raise the 'wrle on the 8th grade examination and
price. Tomorrow they will have a big am working real hard so I can 1: thru.
sugar beet meeting at Bad Axe. I al— summer _I expect to go visting for
ways read the letters from the b???” and about two weeks, Then after I cgt
iris in The Michigan Business armer, home I an ing to raise some du

at I think the girls writ. more letters Well I will because I have got to
than the boys. I once saw a letter from gather m we get about. 80 from
Elli-lads Storm in the M. B. F. I used 50 hens. Barrett, (hr-on City.
to go to school with her. She is about Mich.

I also have one brother

as old as I am. ———-

in college. m graduate next year. Dear Laddle—I am a girl 14 yea. rs old
Ha name is ore. My big brother and am in the 8th grade. Iain ing to
Walter helps my father run the farm. write the eighth e examination
We have a Moline tractor, and a Buick this year.. I live 1 3- milee from school
car. My father and my brother run the I live on a iii-sore fa . We have 2
car. My sisters are also trying. have horses. 4 cows, 8 calves‘ 4 bk chickens,
about four miles to walk to school. As 18 little chick, 8 rabbis, I oats and 1

dog. Our little chickens began hatch-
ing the day after Easter.—-Pauiine Dunn,
Alma, Mich.

Dear Laddie—This is my ﬁrst letter
to you. I am a girl 13 years of age and
in the 7th grade. My teacher's name is
Kathryn and I like her. We
have a. ZOO-acre farm. My father takes
the M. . and like it very much. .I
have 8 brothers, Russell an 11, and
James e 7. For a pet I v. a
named .
sheep a piece. My father has 75

my letter_is getting long I will close and
hope that it will escape the waste bask-
et.-——Hedwig Buckholz, Elkton, Mich.

Dear Laddlie—«Just received the M. B.
F. and the first thing I did was to try
and solve the puzzle, and I believe that
I have it right. The answer is Madison
and Lincoln. I live on ‘9. farm and have
been quite bus today. This morning I
burned some of the dead grass that is in
our orchard. Then after dinner I went
with my father up in the woods to buzz
wood. While I was there I hunted for
ﬂowers but‘did not find any. We have I will close in hopes to see my letter in
a new horse and her name is To sy. print. I wish some of the girls and boys
Also we have two little calves“, t air of the M. B., F. would write to me,—Mar~
names are Reddy and Star. I expect to jorie Joslin, Holly, Mich, R. 3.

 
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“and- eo forth”; an‘ animal said to laugh; satisﬁed. What are the di-

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.Dear Laddie—I am a girl 11
old and in the 6th
family went to Florida and we stayed a
St. Petersburg. We went to Pass-a—gri
and there we saw the Gulf of Mexico.
We walked on the shore and picked u
shells, they are certainly prett . I toog
off my shoes and stockings an a.ladies'
hat cameoff and Iiwent and got it. I
also went to Washington. D. C., and
went to the zoo and saw a mother mon-
key nursing her baby 'monkey. We went
to the capitol building—the capitol of
he United States. ‘ We also‘ went to
Mount Vernon and to George Washing-
ton's home. George Washington’s heme
is on the Potomac river. I'saw one rug
that was there when George was, I saw
the buggy he rode in. I hope my letter
is in print—Helen Wilson, Balding, Rich.
——-9.

Dear Laddle— I have never writtea

you so I thought I would ‘write

to
be with the rest of the children. I am ‘9.

‘boy 13 years of age and in the'lth
{as

"We live on a 40-acre farm, have 1

of cattle and 2 horsos. I have 3 broth.

ers and 8 sisters. Two of my sis

and one brother are in the Salve.
We used to live 'up north 01

Army. ole
to the lumber camps. but my father’s

health was so bad and it was so f
we could not raise anything so we mow
ed 100 omiles down south. I have
missed a day or been late this year.
am the janitor of the school and get 8
a month. sweep, build ﬁres, clean
erasers, dust the room and carry in the
wood. I certainly have a ﬁne teas“
her name is Florence Pontl, Wei
guess I will close, hoping to see my I-
£3 11111 print—Walter Lee Morris, Lem
c . . -

Dear Leddie—I wish to join your
33'. circle. I have beef: reading the

rens’ letters and thin they are nice.
Iamgolngtoaskyoufelkstomoa
overandletafumerfirlin. Iain
gears old and weigh 13 pounds. I he."
rown hair, brown eyes sand live On I.
Izo-acre- farm. We have horses, a!
three cows and some sheep and 1
pigs. I have no sisters or brothers.
pet. I have a d a y
low eat named r. We live abm
1-2 miles from Homer, it being the neon.-
est town. Some of my friends are gm

Three '

 
to write Bernice White. 0
lfig 1the M. B. F.—Linnie Powers, Hm
c .

 
Dear Laddie—I am a girl 13 years
and am in the 7th grade. I am going
take physiology and geography e
at Springport this year, W have 8 r
horses including the 2 small colts
and Flora. We have another colt th
has been driven a few times, it's name
George. I don't know how many
of cattle we have I live on a 270-
farm. I am sending you a poem whi
I hope to see in print. I have nev
written to you before because I could
ﬁnd your address. If some of the o '
511:1; vtvo'uld writouto meTIhwould be r93

0 answer em.-— ehna Hu
Albion, Mich. ' bbeli.

 
have written to you. My father tn.
the M. B. F. and likes it very well.
am a little girl 10 years old and in
6th grade at school. I like our teacher
Very well. I have 8 sisters and 3 breth-
ers. One of my brothers enlisted in
U. S. navy when the war started
will be home in July, The name of
he i? on is U. S. 8. Columbia.
3 no kittens one of them ango
We have a sheperd dog that is as 01 r:
I am, and he is my best friend. We;"
”21:19 tChildren's Houtrt" venry well. I?
0 see my e ea- int—Aim.
Horndorfer. New Boston. Mio’h.

Dear Laddie—Thia is the first timed '

 
Dear'Laddie—I am a farmer’s irl
an: old and I’m in the 7th grad:
, Iborseaicowaicalvegandl
and l

. Seven other fut
andlhaveaelub. Thonameof t
“The Blue Bird Poultry Club”. I
Raider“. We meet every two weeks

umday. ~Iamtrylngtoneta
around the world on unis. I
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"——1 . ,
Dear Laddie—This is the ﬁrst time
have written to You. My in NJ
father take the M. B. F. and like it ﬁne.
I like to read the children's page. I an
a girl 12 years old and in the 4th grade
at school. I have just a half mile to go
to school. We live on a 40-acre farm
and have 4 cows, 1 pig. 3 horses, 2 mules
and many chicken? We have an anger:
cat and 3 hens so ting. I have 5 sisters
and 1 Hoping to see my letgg

in print—Ella: Johnston, Standish, Mi

——q——_—

. Dear Laddie—I have written to you be.»
fore, but not seeing my letter in print
thought I would. try again. I‘m 14 ears
old and not gin: to school now. I
taking music ssons now for pastime.
tat, crochet and go to the woods quits ‘
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for this ms. The Auction four

‘ about subs; dad.” there is- on oo-
. Mortal outbreak. .cl' estate changes
are nomawhat on a. :19ch but still bro
quite croqueut. Form hands are scarce
cud aredemandlng enormous wuss b
the year with homo ran :1. rue
cow furnished “£4. tent or end a. hog
tottcned. all oi. t expense ottbe farm
owner, sail from sixty to eighty dollars

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not men . cocoa un
' shipflng facilities, live stock is not much
411‘ mandand tho _ma.rket is dull. The
Gag-operative made a small shipment the
past week but no certain price: could he

g.lalal)[0£'d by the manager to the
per. The following prices were Wered
at Owosso: Wheat. $2.88@2.70;- com.
: rye. 81.96; boans,~(C.

es, $51; onions, $5.40; liens. 32c; 8 ring-
ers, 24¢: butter. 380; huiterf'nt 65-, 670:
,e gs, 380.; apples. $7.40; veal calves, Sto
1 c; lambs. subject to Detroit market.
live, $14.50; dressed. SIS—D. H. M.

  
SAN ELAC (Cam mi )——Well it has
been rather a. cold April so far end not
much rain. We are having a g 15min

at pregnant. April 22 to 26; it- w as a
lot of good. The grass does not.. em to
grow much. It has been a longtime of
ceding and has taken a lot of feed. It
looks as though we would not bet much
grass for pasture for a. week or twu un-
less the weather turns warm. There has
been some seeding done, the ground
seeming to work up pretty good. Some
have been holding off for a rain, for

sometimes where grain is sown and it '

comes a hard rain the grain does not
come up very well. There was a. farm
changed hands last week. One good
man died in Wheatland. north and west
0! Deckervllle. He died the 11th of the
month: a good christian man and a good
neighbor. Most of the hay that was to
snare has been hailed up and sold for
about $25 a ton clear at the balling.
There does not seem to be much sickness
around at present. Still some auction
sales. Some are getting some wood buz~

zed up.—¢A. .

dusky: Wheat, $2.35; oats, 97;
31.81; barley. $2.60; timothy hay, 26;
lightmixed hay, 826; clover seed, 23:
alsike, $24; beans, $6.60; buttertat, 63:
eggs, 36.

 
GENESEE—aWe are having typical
spring weather now, suitable for all sorts
of farm work. The soils have dried,
making ideal plowing conditions on all
but the heaviest ground. The farmers
are ﬁnishing shearing sheep and road
work is nearly over. There will be a.
minimum acreage of oats on the clay
lands as many farmers have become dis—
couraged at the prosp ct of a good crop
on account of the ackward spring.
There is little marketing done by the
farmers at the present time. A few of
the farmers have purchased tractors this
spring. The following prices were odered
at Flint on April 30: Wheat, $2.70; corn,
$1.80; oats. $1.15; rye, $2; buckwheat,
$3: beans ()C. H. P.) $7: beans ()red kid-
ney) $11; hay, $25; rye straw, wheat
straw, oat straw, $16@10; potatoes.
$3.60; onions, $8; hens, 30c: springers,
26c; ducks, 82c; geese, 83c; turkeys, 42c:
butter. 60c; butterfat, 680; eggs, 36c:
beef steers, 10.50; beef cows, $7.50;
veal calves, 17; sheep $10@11; hogs,

 
MONTCALM—The farmers are sowing
oats and spring wheat. The overseer has
began his work on the roads. Lakeview
halve their new water plant most ﬁnish-
8 .
farmers back with their oats and wheat
and some of the early sowed oats are
gone. Seeds of all kinds are scarce and
high. Large farmers in this neighbor-
hood are selling their cows and doing
their own work on account of wages The
following prices were offered at Lake-‘
view. on April 30‘: Wheat, $2.75; com,
' $1.80; oats. $1; rye, $1.83; No. 1 timothy.
€35; No. 1 light mixed, $30; rye straw.
$18; .wheat oat straw, $17: beans, (0,
H. P. Pea) $6.50; red kidney, $13; no -
noes, $7; onlos. 8c lb; hens, 240: ducks,
[8c; 'goese. 19c; turkeys, 24c: butter,
650; butterfat, 58c; eggs; 340: sheep. 40:
‘ambs, 90; hogs, $15; bee! steers 7'

“90% cows, 34:- veal calves, $‘8@1§__‘G:-
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MANIS’FEFr—The farmers are doing

farm work, sowing oats, spring grains,

and getting ground ready for corn crop.
notatoes. early beans and cucumber-ﬂ
’Weather has been somewhat d but

is snowing today, April 28th. 80 moist.

Farmers have, sold most of the rye they.

had left. Not much building. some 3:.
buying bushes and setting thomput. W.
had a. terrible rain storm_not long. W
*r/i-egular, cloud. burst. Some 13m: m
,. making maple sugar. Sum has zone to
. 2930mm with..,nlr Wot [cm to
33 cents coon. Prices on every-

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v7 cents.

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points to underproduotion. Clover lhmsburg' on April 5
seed has dro to $32 a. bushels—G. 3, com, $1.50i1 oats, .
Prices oﬂere at Hanover: Hay, $30; NO- 1 timot {v ‘urfego
no potatoes to sell; but'termt, 68; eggs, Eng”. 500? utte

be a. little backward with

roads also are in bad shape—A.

Prices at Hillsdale :

$30@40; potatoes. $3.75;

ALE—Farm work is at u
at the present time.
much plowing has been done on account
of the soil being too Wet to Work. A
few cats have been sown. some manure
is .being drawn and everything

. Wheat, $2.50; oats,
(cant get any); rye, $1.90;

GRAND TEA

Are 11118.33".

. mam..-
weather again after I cold bad

Th. Farmers are plowing hurling mu-
m. nun. , *- are being sold.
tstoull Sommer. motionulootoboheldln

seems to
spring. '
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hens. 22 ;

 
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The cold and wet weather has kept‘

 
the near future. Two new funnies hm

MY.

tattoos, $4 per bu.:
700; eggs, {lac—O.

RUBEN—This is a hustling timoﬁ,
Not mfg“ r'owers, the cold wet weather
has held them back with their work. A
few vineyards not yet trimmed
of them 81": marina!) “angel: mgagfel:
ea c rms
rootlns’to p E. During;l a. very prom-
d h hly res man pa.
inent m is h. E has seed

but most

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3800,3000 _ :
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Bums Fumes is _ prompted . lo

m. an designs. against Mr. Fenian!

  
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B. t this charge will "not hold um

before those who have followed that
discussions consistently. Nobody has
ct satisfactorily explained why Hr.
rdnoy has enough inﬂuence to dot
bills through his committee mm.
in; special terms on certain nonu-
tactured products, but does not he."
the necessary inﬂuence to secure ur-
oroblc consideration of the bean tor-
iﬂ. Until tint question is answered

We Shell hold Mr. F‘ordney my“ ’

his duty to his constituents.

 
PITY m POOR HORSE

Wonder if horses are so glad to
see-tbs advent of spring as many peo-
ple profess to be?

With warm weather comes the fly
and the ﬂy is no friend of the horse.

Humane drivers » try to protect
horses from insects. Here is a. recipe
for an inexpensive wash tint is very
effective:

Oil of Bay Berries, 5 parts. Nop-
thalene, 10 parts, Ether, 16 parts.
Methylated Spirit, 60 parts.

These are common chemical!
found in all well stocked drug stem
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The"

 
ACRES 88150-0 WITH 2 HORB 8. 40
talisman worth :5 000.1111)!“-
station; machine—worked :ilelds,
O-cow o-broolr watei-éd pasture. 1, 000 rds wood.
100.1; timber. lots .;fruit 12 room; house.-

watcr, 80-ft. basement barn, running wa-
ter. other “buildings; iinmedlats‘ sale includes live-
stock. wagons, machinery, tools, only 88. 5.00 easy
terms. Details page 22 St trout's yOctal 03 Farm
Bargains 2:33 states. (logy freon BOUT AGEN~
CY, 814B E. Ford ldg., Detroit.

FARM FOR SALE—50 AOREBV 80 ACRE.
improved, good soil small lake. small orchard.
goodl barnm and good 8 room house, .:on main road
0m m.Fenton
JULIAN fBRISTOL. R3, Fenton. Mich.

FOR SALE—MICHIGAN CLOVER SEED
BELT LANDS. Old grass covered. cut over clay
soils, from heavy, light to medium. Easily clear-
ed. Where clover seed reproduces thirty to ﬁfty
fold. Settlers (English speaking) V are rapidly
becoming prosperous growing clover seed beef.
mutton and marketing dairy products. 0 BET-
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any size tracts from 80 acres up $10 to $15 an
acre. 10 per cent down. interest 6 per cent.
Settler has option to meet a small stipulated year-
ly cash payment, or merely apply the product of
one peck of clover seed yearly for every forty pur-
chased—UNTIL THE LAND IS PAID FOR. En-
tire forty or~ eighty often paid for out of the
product of one bushel of clover seed. Will ad-
vance to settlers for 5 years, interest 6 per cent
on live stock Jthe first pa ent made upon land
purchased. G. RAUTH,
Presquc Isle County, Michigan.

220
cattle.
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Milersburg,

FOR SALE—80 ACRES. SEVENTY-BIX
acres good cultivation, six room house, barn. oth-
er outbuildings. orchard. 3 1—2 miles county seat.
Good roads. For further information write own-
er, HARLEY MORGAN. Bad Axe, Mich. R 8.

 
FOR SALE—164 ACRE FARM. FOR PER-
ticulars write to MRS. E. PEETZ, Hawks. Mich.

 
FOR SALE—86 2-3 ACRES. BEST SOIL.
Good buildings and fences Tiled. Fine roads.
1- 2 mile to electric station. 3- 4 mile to Michigan
Central station of small town. 4 miles to Mason.
16 miles to Lansing. Address, J. L. KIRBY, Bl.
Mason, Mich.

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exchange for farms. Please give desciption, sec-

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to me and I will get you a buyer. E. C. O‘NEILL
1013-14 Chamber of Commerce Bldg. Detroit.

Michigan.

FOR SALE—120 ACRES OF WILD LAND
Holland Township, Missaukee Co. Price $1,200.
JAMES C. CUItTISS. Mt. Pleasant, Mich, R3.

_FOR SALE—120 ACRES. NINETY ACRES
high state cultivation, trucking distance from
Detroit. all hex buildings, house has eight rooms
and bath, oak nish. hot and cold water. furnace,

 
-everything modern ,all buildings electrically

lighted For particulars write owner. Box K,

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LOCAL LIVE STOCK INSURANCE
. ooMPANY
About three cars ago we formed an
association. --for ythe beneﬁt“ of“ limiting
live stock. ﬁrstly cows. The thing start-
ed out 0.‘ K. and We had a prettye
membership and evcrybod “seem
be enthusiastic a-bout t. e bade- our
byelaws adopted by all and we had them
sealcdbyanotary.soit secured tobea
legal venture. Now one of the lay-laws
reads. that the association is living with
ten members. There is eleven pa
Members and two members that are no
3 members. but are only In re
name andso not responsible to: any
cc to be paid out. The insurance
payment has been 345 per cow drawn b
agreements so much per cow in
o farmer have been dropping one by'
one until thirteen remain. Now
they have divided in opinion as to the
usefulness of the association and the
otion that wants to kill it is stronger

ones that

pointtha w is s,
this association be broken up with the
eleven of these thirteen members, when
by-lawa read that it is living with 10
members? here is some funds. about
3125 in the Thanks and the faction that
wants to break it up want to divide the
money according to so much per dollar

ins—RH . '1‘.. Houghton County.

 
I am unable to determine trom
your statement whether you have a
partnership arrangement or a cor-
poration. I would be of the opinion
that a. majority would control the
continuance or discontinuance of the

“of.

 
MUST SUPPORT WIFE

If a man has a public auction and
sells his personal property, what share
can the wife 'hold in this property? If
a man separates from his wife. the wife
having a complication of diseases, can

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association—W. E. Brown, legal ed-‘

the wife by law make the husband supr

Kort her? What would the law give
'f—M. L. 8., Homer. Mich.

 
The wife would be entitled to no
part. of the proceeds 01 the sale of the
husband's personal property. There

is certain personxall property that they

wife might claim from a sale. but it
sold she is not entitled to any part
of the proceeds as her own individual
property. A man is obliged to sup-
port his Wife‘ and may be compelled
to do so. If he abandons her and
neglects to provide for her he may be
arrested and, conviilcted and either
compelled to support her or he look-
ed up in .jail.—W. E. Brown, legal
editor. ' ‘

 
NON -MIEMBER

Is a. neighbor. who—has taken policy
in ﬁre insurance, a full Gleaner mem—
ber with all its privileges and can he
ship eggs to the Clearing house? Does
his taking out ﬁre insurance entitle him

to Gleaner privileges? - I. told him that I .

didn’t think he was a Gleaner. and he
gisgsts he 15—40. W. W., North Vassar
r or.

 
. 'He is not a. Gleaner by joining the
ilre insurance company, as any one
may becom'e'amember of the ﬁre in-

Cl'caring Hones Would not be averse
to handling his shipments upon the
teams given to non—members of the

itor.

 
JOINT DEED

If a man and wife have a joint deed
of their farm at the wife’s death can
the children hold her share? And at

the man’ s death what share do the chil-
dren ho'ld’! These being the parents of
go children—J. A. N., Montcalm Coun-

 
Upon the death or the wife the en—

' Rep

uphold C by law
Calhoun one... row;

 
seams.

rho verbal. census is
and c is immoagr are second has or'

   
its value .'—-W. E. Bruce’s, leaul editor. '

 
carcinoma rm Moss's - on
. Guam '

I have ress claim
chickens won‘t; suffocation
19-17. There was

“June 27.

diﬂcrent law
Whagﬂiing‘vorl
e vs
aim age. that the
omn.pany ymte to me twins
318 me to settIle for: half. but"! would
not accexﬁt, ﬂu? thought‘I should have it
all. Midland County.

pu utt‘lngus andw
hadt a cent out or it ye
our paper showings

 
It seems to be the almost universal
custom of R. R. and express compan-
ies to stand out for a settlement at
50 per cent of the damage. I have
repeatedly perused.- to settle upon
such terms. Have notiﬁed them that
they could pay the damage or
would bring suit 'iiorthwith and they
have repeatedly paid the amount or

claim. I would advise you to

suit. Say to them once more

that mﬁ’m clvaxlm is not paid by a cer-

dalteyou will bring suit, and it

they do not pay then bring suit—W.
E. Brown, legal editor. '

 
TROUT STREAM THEOUGH FARM

What is the law in regards to ﬁshing a
trout stream where it crosses a mun'l
farm which is enclosed with a fence—0.
H. N., Grand Traverse County.

 
The law provides that the public
may ﬁsh in a. navigable or meander-
ing stream it it is one in which ﬁsh
have been propogated by the state.
This does not mean that they may
trespass on the shore but in all such
cases they would be liable for actual
damages. If the stream is not new-
igable or meandering I am of the
opinion no one would have the right
there without the permission of the
owner of the premises—W. E. Brown,
legal editor.

LAW REGARDING smAY damn
What Is the law regarding cattle tint
come into my enclosurc?—A Reader.

Your letter does not say which
part of the law is desirednor wheth‘é
or it is for animals taken from the
highway or that have come into your
enclosure from adjoining ,. premises.
The whole law upon, such subjects
is too long for publication but you
can ﬁnd the steps concerning animals
at large in» the highway commencing
at sedtion 7285 and the following:

. and for .lnjuring‘ones land see sec-
. tion 14782 at the Compiled Laws and

:I. think that the '

fol-loWing.—.W. E. Brown, legal editor.

HARVESTING CROP AFTER Tim
LEASE EXPIRES

A rents farm for one year of B.

Hal ‘
at any right to put out rye or wheat with-

out B's obnsent? Can A harvest

, crop and take his share of the crop?
association. —W. E. Brown, legal ed- j

Subscriber, Gratiot County.

A lease for one year expires ease
tirely at the ehd ct one year and the
tenant would have no right to the

farm or anything thereon unless per?

. mission was given him to do so. A

would have no right to harvest any
crop after his time expires without

? consent of the owner.——_W. E. Brown,

tire estate belongs to the husband 1

and the children have no claim upon
it. The husband and neither there-
after may, handle [and dispose 01'. as
he sees ﬁt and deed ‘or will the same
as he desires. If. he does not deed or

will the same in his life time it d.e-'

sounds in equal shares to his chill-
dren; and the child or children of
deceased child would take the share
or his or her parent would have re-

1

. there any law against (loin

legal editor.

SELLING SHELIAED POPCORN

I have several bushels or shelled—
corn. Am thinking or putting it up
the trade in small past 9 boardbo

Would itn

 
rules governing the camel

. necessary to mark the number of ounces

csive'd 11! living. -—W. E. Brown, loyal .

Mttof.

on the boxT—A. R. 0., Oakland County.

'.._—-——._.———-o
I do not know of any such regular ‘

tion and ”can see no objection to such
a package providing 110 false state-'
ment. was paced on the box, com»

 
sixteen _ ’

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was} 2 candidates ~. runnls’

_ . large on“ with "each one ~‘havin'
some special hobby to howl about,
, we must expect’to hear acme strange
enfvunushal noisu, noises that sound
”with 'an"-noises' that sound dazﬁn
(polish. But when any man with a
thimhle full:- of—brains starts outta
make a noise like a saloon an' ex-
pects. an enlightened American .peo-
pie to votefor him in suﬁclent mm.
bars ‘to Ilsénd him in the "presidential
chain. why that man’s acids“ Jest

. plumb foolish- 5 '

The madorityof theirpeople at those

here, United States has soon .1681;
about:.al-l of the saloon business that
they ever“ Want to see, they have had
more than aplenty of that sort of
thing an’ ain’t a goin' to be hood-
winked into votin'_ saloons nor any
other device for the dispensin’ of
liquor, back into this country, not by
a darned sight they ain't.

But there comes a teller out of the
“cast an' he sets up a mighty howl
about deprivin’ the people of their
nat’ral born rights, deprivin' ’cm of
the right to git drunk an' raise 11—1,
of misusin' their families sn" rob-
bln' ’em of their right to happiness;
deprivin' the American people of

‘ their rights to make bruies’of them-
seif an’ disgrace the greatest na-
tiomon the face of the earth. This
‘howl that the wise man from the

‘ east, is a settin" up is new noise-—
not by a good deal it ain’t—gosh.
we‘ve been hearin' this same noise
for years, but in the past it ain't been
comin’ from no presidential candi-
date, there has never been one be-
fore—not to my knowledge at least,
that has had the nerve even if he
wanted to do it, to even make a faint
sound like a saloon.-

Heretofere this tremen’jus noise
has come from the whiskey makers
an’ the whiskey sellers, 'an' slowly

”but-jest as surely, the people have

'1' answered the noise an’ have quiet-

 
ed the makers of it, by their votes
——they have voted the whiskey as
well as the places that sold it, out of'
existence an' its goin‘ to remain out
regardless of any howl that can be
let loose by any man or set of men,
whether they come out of the east
or out of the west.

There is no question but what
there‘s liquor bein’ sold in many
places an’ in many ways. There’s
also automobiles bein’ stole an' mur-
ders bein' committed, there's crimes
of all kinds takln' place in spite of
the laws that have been or can be
passed. But the men who commit’
these crimes are outlaws an'gthe
men who make or sell booze in this
country are right in the same, class
—-they’re criminals an’ sooner or lat-

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. The Fall

A widely known philanthropist in
East London gave a slum child's ver-
sion of the story of Eden. She was

”sitting with other children on the
curb outside a public house in Shore-
ditch, and her version of the story
proceeded:

“Eve ses: ‘Adam, ’ave a bite? ‘No,’
ses Adams, ‘I don’t want a bit!’
‘Garn !‘ ses Eve, ‘go on ”have a bite!’
‘I don't want a bite l’ ses Adam. The
child repeated this dialogue, her
voice risingto a shrill shriek "An
then Adam took a bit," she ﬁnish-

» ed up. “An’ the ﬂaming angel came
along wiv ’is sword an’ ’e ses to
’em bot: ‘Nah, then—ahtslde l”

.' ~ W vol-don
nth-is Susie had. been attending
, :33” school for some time so Uncle

ﬁe J H asked that she had learned.
, :“I learned 313' lots.” she replied

   
ﬁnely. .
" f‘FBn-t tell is something." and
flue Just. “Where the ”sent

. on » soc ‘- ~

. eta madame country In

at '

' to the highest emoe in the land?

Sense and‘Nonsense

,“H—h-lww Mensch its til-this one?”

rim W tie-say f-de'f-ﬂve

east, “elect me her president an' I’ll
see thwcyou thavewyeur rights re-
stored." Ain‘tjthnt a grand thing to
yelp about on" then ask intelli-
gent people to not!» elect such a man

How'd you like to have the saloon
Mg I8 new durin‘ these 11an
times? Have you noticed the ab-
sence of lawlessness in all the strikes
M have taken place durin' the
months that have lost passed! '

What do you suppose would have
happened durin’ the steel strike on
the coal strike, it saloons had been
runnin’ or liquor had been easy to
get? With thousands of foreigners
in those strikes, men to whom liquor
gives the vi-llianous an’ criminal
ideas, the desire to kill an’ destroy.
do you think the results would have
been the same, that there would have
been so little loss of life or destruc-
tion of property if those men could
have got the liquor to fire their
brain an' excite their passion?

You don"t think so an' neither do
"I, but this great wise man from the
east, Mr. Edwards, ask-s all lovers of
liberty to help nominate him on a
platform that would do every thing
possible to put the oil" saloon, with
all its attendant evils back in our
midst, to give us our liberty, which
means for every man an’ every wo—

man to do as they please, to give.

free rein to their unbridled appetites,
to put him in the president’s chair
an' all will be well.

Well, as I sad in the «beginnin' of
this letter, we must expect to hear
all kinds of noises, but by gosh we
don't have to git foolish about it an'
we ain't it goin' to git sc-airt about
it ’cause we know where (this noise
has its origin, and'what it amounts
to an’ jest what to do with it an'
about it.

You know it ain't every day that
the whiskey ring can git a man to
do their hellerin’ any more, -—time
was when men didn’t care so much
for their own reputation as they do
now an' they would. some of 'em,
holler for most any thing if there
wuz a little money an’ plenty of
drinks in it, "but to think that any
man who aspires to the high an’
honorable oﬂice of president of “the
United States, would take to ‘tootin'
a horn for an outlawed business like
the saloon an’ booze thing, seems al—
most unbelieveabie. But then, its
hard tellin” what a man will do 131- ;
ter he’s once bitten by the turrible 5
political bug an’ the ones that bites :
presidential candidates seems about .
the hardiest bitter of “em all, what do
you thunkT—Cordial‘ly yours, Uncle
Rube.

. ”ﬁver; n

   
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f-J'

1.21-

 
Ineﬂcacious

“Did you ever try electricity for
your rheumatism, Uncle Buck?"

asked the schoolmaster. i .

' “Yape !" replied old Buckley Bag-
gett, of Straddle Ridge, Arkansas.
“I’ve been struck by ordinary lightn-
ing twice, and drunk right smart of
this yur bone-dry lickker they call
white lightning, but all any of it
done was to make me prance for
the time being. Never really helped
my rheumatlz none ‘in’ the long run."

A Costly Interruption ,

A man with an impediment in his
speech went into 9. store where sec—
ond hand automobiles were sold and
stopping in but of a car he said:

 
. “Fillet you make me an odes,”
the deals- “ him. "
”Tl! .g-g-dn you f-f—t—y” '
rm hundred? I'll take it.” in-
W the dealer.
"lﬂ-‘xdxnod !” said the stuttener.

hundred.

   
Inserting in holes in the granule number of

cartridges primed with electric blasting caps,
connecting the cap wires with a blasting
machine, thrusting down its handlebar and
releasing the sudden strangth of twice ten
thousand men --that’s ditching the modern

waywith

 
Red Cross Dynamite
Seventy-ave million acres of swamp land in the

United States lie waiting to bedraincd, and on
nearly every farm there are stumps and haul-
ders toberemovcdtrew to'be planted. Put
thisGiantFarmi—lamdtoworkfm' you. lfyour
project warrants, we will send a demonstra-
tor to vshowyou the safe, easy, inexpensive
way of doing your work —-the Red Cross way.
See your Dealer. 111 any case, ﬁnd out What Ros

ﬁlms. can do Rn-

you—and how. Write for

Handbook ofEprou'us” today.

E. I. du Pont do Nemours 86 Company, Inc.
Sales Dept: Explosives Division

W‘lenmg' ' ton, Deliver:

 
“ In the Legend, the Blue Bird

stands for Purity, Happiness and good
luck. In Seeds, tor the Best that Grows.
Our 1924) catalog gives the Legend and

tells why the Blue Bird was adopted as 41
ads mark for Good Seeds. It furnishes the

most complete information on Red Clover
Alfalfa, Alsike, Sweet Clover, Vetches, Millets,
Sudan Grass and other Farm and Garden Seeds
of any free book published. It is larger and more
beautifully printed than ever before. It will assist
in planning your crop campaign for the coming

season. A post card will bring YOUR FREE COPY.
Supplles of many node are very Hum.
Save maney and have your seed when wanted.

THE 0. E. DePUY 00., Seedsmen, Pontiac, Mich.

Order Now,

 
BUG 'PROOFED BINDER TWINE -_14 3-4c
GUAEASTEED EQ’UAL ,TO 'Tl-lE 2:3: gAkES

. —80ttlement by note without inten-
thlmhor ﬁst or

- at 1"“.
October 1n.

BASH DISCOUNTS 5.33: am:

be 18.50 ' ,
"'3'; nor too the. May 513.“, June

 
consumes CORDAGE 00.,

. ‘ ,ﬁnneapolis, Minot

3

 
I .il'Littleﬁ Live StockAds in
* 9° $91319“ '

     
produce the ' some results wi 1‘ .
-'-'—‘-you can do it without increasing your labor

Here are four Saginaw Stbs, each one makes good
silage. Choose the one best adapted tonour needs.

Write for Saginaw Bi. 4 Bowen. 4ddreee Dept 12

4

”new, Mich. THE MCCLURE COMPANY Cairo, Illinois
to. the New Whirlwind Silo Filler m Automatic Feed. Ail: in about it.

 
Saginaw Saginaw Hollow Wall Selim
5hr] - Bull! Wood &m Wood 0m Vitriﬁed

, IVud Stew with Crw-Tnm Silo 010 $10
wim‘lmlily‘llllllllll’illl'l'llllllllllllllllllll”ll"llllllllllmllllllmlmmmmllmlllilllilllllllllllllllllllllllililimlllllllllllllllllllllllmmllllillllilliilllllillllllilllll"illllllllllllmllllllllllllmllllllllllllllIlllllllllllill

 
Ii Does More and Goes Fat-liter
Than Any Product Known

Wise Stockmen Everywhere
are TIX-TON Users

Ty® ANTISEPTICS

. . . the year around keep stock healthy

' ’ ' . and free from disease germs, worms,

and ticks. A $7. 50 Drum makes $60. 00 worth of medicated salt, or
stock conditioner—saves you big money.

Send $3. 00 for a box of “TIX TON—MIX” by parcel post. It will

medicate a barrel of salt. For hogs, sheep, cattle, horses, and poultry.

PARSONS CHEMICAL WORKS. Grand Ledge. Michigan

Write for Club Offer Leona Dark Farms Experiment Siailon

 
For best results on your Poul-
try. Veal, Hogs, etc., ship to

I CULOTTA & JULL
- DETROIT

Not connected with any other
house on this market. \

PURE PARIS GREEN, 39c

Per pound Arscnate of Calcium, 260. Al'-
senate of lead. 32c. Bordeaux Mixture, 22c.
Bordo-arsennte, 26c. Dry Lime Sulphur,
160. unlity only. But it the 00- -operativo
way. pecial prices on large quantities
Write for complete price list. Reference
any bank.

AMERICAN 00- OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION

Dept. 21 Milwaukee. Wis.

 
..._... new“...

YOU \VANT THIS \_\'EEKLY IN_ YOUR MAIL BOX EVERY

SATURDAY BECAUSE—

——-it brings you all the neWs of Michi '
hiding the plain facts. gan farming, never

-—.——it is a practical paper written b
y Michigan men clos
the sod, who work with their sleeves rolled up! 6 to

-——it has always and will continue to ﬂ
ght every battle f .
the interest of the business farmers of our home staff:
no matter whom else it helps or hurts! ’

One Subscrip-
tion price
to all!

ONE YEAR ....... $1
THREE -YEARS. . .32
FIVE YEARS. .$3

No Premiums,
No free-list, but worth
more than we ask.

MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER, Mthlemens, Mich.
. Dear Friends—Keep M. B. F. coming to the address below for

......'...,inmon-

.years for which I enclose herewith $..
ey order, check or currency.

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If this is a renewal mark an XI here ( )II and enclose the yellow
address label from the front «War or this issue to avid ‘d " ll '

pﬁmm-inq-du—qp-p-qe-nman—mmum’uﬁu—u—m—

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whatever may have been your.

' thoughts up to the present concern-v

ing the beneﬁts of Club Work for
your boys' and girls,’ you must ad-.
mit this, and especially if‘ your boy’

or girl has been a member of a real,
All club act- .

live organized club.
ivities indulged in by club members
which leads to better social contact,
broadens the vision for opportunity,
instiljs the spirit of contentment,
thrift'and industry, and adds to their
productive capacity during yOuth, is
bound to make a better citizen. body.
Club Work can claim all of these mer-
its, which more than justiﬁes its ex-
istence as an institution well worth
supporting. Club Work has paved
the way for more than one girl or
boylin this state in securing a better
education, and has placed them in
the proper niche of life. with the
least loss of time.

The Veryfactor too often lacking

in the lives and~education of the
farm young people is a proper social
contact with their neighbors and
friends. Club Work takes the young
people early in life and aids in es-
tablishing a healthy relationship. At
the club meetings, school and county
fairs, district shows. international
show-s, the boys and girls-meet in
the
mon to their group. Here they give
and gain new ideas, broadening their
appreciation for agricultural oppor-
tunities and service in the world. It
keeps the boys and girls interested
in the farm ‘because the possession
of a purebred Holstein, Jersey or
Shorthorn, calf, a pig, poultry, .an
acre of corn 'or other crops, central-
izes their interest in .the business af-
fairs of ‘the farm. This is but an
outgrowth" of a perfectly normal con-
dition in the development of any boy
or girl. Most every boy or girl will
work untiringly to be responsible for
something they can call their own.
Give the boy an interest in farm life
and he will not be liable to turn him
attention to the factory quite so
quick.

There comes a time in the life of
every boy and girl when a demand
is made upon the family pocket book
for spending money. This is only
natural and cannot be very well
avoided. The boy who has had no
part or interest whatever in earning
one cent of his spending money, has
not learned to appreciate the value
of money, consequently he is liable
to spend it foolishly, and then only
call for more. Is it not far betterx
and in keeping with the spirit of dem-
ocracy to allow him to exercise his
earning capacity" to the extent that
he may at least partially provide for
his own needs? He soon learns the
responsibility in spending it. He ac.-
quires the habit of thrift, industry,
and service early in life. He be-
comes a productive saver and a help
rather than a. drain upon the family.
At the same time the business side
03. his education is not being neglect-
e

It has been hinted that Club Work

e» s 1;; '
. in em feature oF ohr.
educational system-

interests of those things comr

good business farmers.

6591' 'i '
experiences non: many line

teachers should find it an ass
' their agricultural teaching, for ~ ,,
subject like many others cannot libs

learned from books alone. The.

without practice is but half pf we t
the boy or girl should get in their. I
‘ school years. ' {i-L.‘

, If there is not 3. Boys' and Girls' .
Club in your community 11on is the
time to begin making plans fbr the

organization of a. Club this spring.
Teachers and parents, both in the

city and rural communities should 1}}.

take the initiative and attempt to

give every boy and girl the advant-

age of this wOrk. —-—Ernest F Lyons,

Washtenaw County Club Leader.

CALHOUN COUNTY FARM BU-'

REAU CONVENTIONI
» The Calhoun
real. held its first annual dele-
gates’ convention in Marshall this
week. Each township in the couns
ty was represented by one delegate
for each twenty- -ﬁve members. The
full delegation of ninety-nine men

/ was present

The constitution recommended by
the Michigan State Farm Bureau was
adopted section by section with only
a few changes. The by laws were
changed to suit Our local conditions.

The followmg ofﬁcers were elected
by ballot, nominations being made
on the open floor:

President, A. J. Flint, Clarendon
Twp. , vice president, F. B. Garrett,
Pennﬁeld Tw‘p. , Two year directors,
Elmer E. Ball. Albion Twp. , Gard-
ner Smith, Marengo Twp; Joe Carn-
es, Newton. One year directors, M.
[-1. King. Homer; E. D Bushness,
Leroy; Guy Lininger, Clarence.

The officers chosen represent every
section of the county and they are all
The ofﬁcial
nucleus which is started is expected

‘ to make a wonderful success of the

Calhoun county unit of the great
Farm Bureau organization.

The convention worked up a great
deal of enthusiasm and these reso-

lutions were passed:

This convention declares it to be
its earnest desire and purpose to co-
operate with the Michigan State
Farm Bureau and with the National
Federation of Farm Bureaus. in of-

forts toward the improvement of

agricultural conditions.

This convention urges that early
action in the establishment of Farm
Bureau local eve-operative, “organiza-
tions in every market center in Cal-
houn county, where the need is sut-
ﬂcient to make such an organization
an economical institution, and that
each one of the so established co-op-
erative associations be a. part of the

Farm Bureau, its managers and di-

rectors becomlng part of the working
staff of the Farm Bureau. It furth-
er urges that each of the tic-operative
organizations, now doing business in
the county, work with the Farm B11-
reau in promoting the interests of

_ the farmers.

(Continued on page 23)

 
' Lansinf‘ three

Macontb’Is New Hustling .
County Agent

This aggressive looking young man
-—and he’s as aggressive as he looks
-——is Wm. Murphy, Macomb County’s
new agricultural agent. His record
runs as follows: 1 * -

Graduated from Michigan Agricultu-
ml College, 1910. Night Chemist at‘
the Owosso Sugar Beet Factory in
months- during that

year. January, February and March,

County Farm 311— L

\

1917, spent as Extension Specialist“; in . ’

Soils for the M A. IC.; next six. months,
charge of the back yard and vacant

 
lot garden work in Grand vnopﬁ ,.I
[Michigan

111 the toll of 191},

:11on by the Farm Crops Deport-

‘I'mem of it. A. 0. until dungj'lii'l

ti. 9., mustered 611:1: I

’Went book on this 10'? ﬁrst?
’ I Extension I ' _
_ ‘ where he rem

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‘1» list the date of any live stock, sale In

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Vie us at once“ com will olam the date

for .lb .~ Address. Live Stock E‘dl tor. NI- '-
t. Clemens. . .

; 13% 10. Herefords. Newton- County HOW
ford rceders Ass'n, Kentland. Ind.
“G 11‘.- 15.139.11.31 Vgest Michigan Breed-
rs. r 11 or we
' May a13.Holtein's. o. o. Hine, Rochester.
All i
{lime 8. Hosteins. McPherson Farms 00.,
and .l'iiency Stock Farm. Howell. Mich.
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Purebred Holstein Cattle
Save Labor

Whatever the amount'of milk or
butterfat you wish to produce, is it

'not better policy'to use

ment and risk. They are

converting coarse feed into milk.
That is the function’ of a dairy cow,
and that is where the big Holstein
excels.

Send for Free Illustrated Booklets.
They contain valuable' information
for any Dairyman.

 
' large-yield
cows than to feed and shelter the
necessarily greater number of small-
yield cows? ‘Use Holsteins and you
save, labor, feed, stable-room, equip-
always
healthy and ready for work. , Choose
cows according to their capacity for

K

NAL ADVERTISINO RATES under this heading to honest breeders of live stock and poultry will be sent on request.
proof and tell you what 'ltw costfbr1 13
Auction Sales advertised ‘"here at special low rates:

28 or 52 times.
ask for

BREEDERO' DIRECTORY, THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS _FA_RMER' Mt. Clemens. Mlohlllan.

 
HATOH kins
.. ' (State and Federal Tested)
' . YPSILANTI. MICE.

orrrss 16mm sm’rs

«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 youngsters—straight as a line.
big-boned rugged fellows. They are all by
our 38 lb. senior sire KING KORNDYKE
ORISKANY PONTIAC from splendid ind1-
vidual dams of A. It. backing and the best
of blood lines.

for our sale list.

BOABDMAII FARMS
JACKSON. MICH.
1906

 
Holstetn Breeders Since

 
Michigan

OF BOTH
Sex for Sale

WOULD LIKE

A moriimiiinkrn BULL our

whose sire is a son of King of the Pontiacs 283
A. R. 0. Daughters and whose Dam has a record
of over 20 .lbs. ‘of butter in 7days and who is I
granddaughter of Homestead Girl De Kol Sar-
castic Lad 107A R. O. Daughters and Dauilhtﬂl'
g5“ Woodcrest De Kol Lad 26 A. R. 0 Daugh-

Price $125 00 I
writ?“ st Hillcrest Farm. Ortouville, Mich. °"

John P. Hehi. 181 Griswold 81., Detroit, Mich.

TWO BULL OALVES

egistered Holstein-Friesian. sired by 39. 87 lb.
bull and from heavy producing young cows.
calves are very nice and will be priced cheap if

sold soon.
TUBBS. Elweli. Mich.

 
HARRY T.
A NICE STRAIGHT LIGHT COLORED BULL

 
gerveld Ind whose two nearest dams average
32. 66 lbs. butter and 785. 45 lbs. milk in7
Dam, is 24 lb. daughter of a son of Pontiac De
Nijlander 35. 43 lbs. butter and 750 lbs. milk in
7 days. Write for prices and extended pedigree

L. C. KETZLER
Flint. Mich.

A IIIOELI BBED OALF

The Dam of this Calf has just made 12. 77
lbs. of butter from 304. 6 lbs. of milk as a senior
yearling She is from a 5 2 year old that
freshens in April as a 6 year year old and will be
tested.

Dam is both a granddaughter of King of the
Pontiacs and Woodcrest DeKol Lad 26 A. O.
Daughters Sire of Calf is a 21 lb grandson of
the $50. 000 dollar bull. Price only $100. 00.
BAZLEY STOCK FARM. YPSILANTI, MICH.

Herd under state and federal inspection.

Address all cororespondence to

OHN BAILEY.
319 Atkinson Ave.. Detroit. Mich.

 
WM. GRIFFIN, R. 5., Howell,

' LAST ADVERTISE!) SOLD TO

B" . Mr. F. w. Alexander. Vassar.
Mich. New oﬂer a bull two

years old about 1-2 white and straight “K Ea
line (sired by MAPLE CREST KYORND
HENOERVELD and from FLINT ULTRA-
NUDINE .1 28.22 pound daughter of FLINT
PRINCE. Bull carries 15 per cent some
blood as KING FLINT. If you want a di-
rect descendant of BUTTER BOY ROSINA
now Is your chance.

Price $200.
ROY F. FIOKIEB. Ohmnlnll. Mloh.

 
BULL GAE-F LAST ADVERTISED SOLD,

but have one more for sale. Nice-
ly marked. straight back line, a ﬁne individual.
large gr'owthy ‘ellow with the making of a large

FOR SALE

CORNUCOPIA ECHO DE ' KOL PRINCE
' 28902

5
born October, 1918, large, ﬂne individual.
mostly white, whose dam gave over 14, 0
lbs. milk last year, milked but twice a day.
$120 at farm. '
E. K I E 8

Hillsdaie, a 5' Michigan

 
REGISTERED HOLSTEIN-FRIES-

FOR SALE tan bull calf from a 16.35 lb.

dam. Also a few registered cows and heifers.
L. F. 8TAUTZ. Manchester. Mlch., R 2

SHORTHORN

 
1111-: “01513111111151.4111 Assocmnon bull. Would do someone a 101 of good Darn has SHUBTHUIIIIS

295 ““1“" 31'9“ a 27 1b record a large cow “£11“ a "ﬁatpngni 5 bulls, 4 to 8 mos. old, all roans pail fed.
Brattleboro, Vermont pir‘oéltglceﬁmSisle]esotsoighgfgiifngumengerve e o Dams good milkers, the farmers' kind. at farm—

JAMES HOPSON. JR. - ers prices. MI h

Owcsso . - R2 - - Mlcmgan F. M. PIGGOTT a SON. Fowler. 0 .
HE BARRY COUNTY SHORTHORN BREED-

, .
on Association announce their fal catalog ready
MUSOLFF BROS. HOLSTEIN‘) for distribution.d ScAoticihm Scotch I‘op and Milking
We are now booking orders for Shmuiona,‘ nm’ "3'

”Ali "01311111 FARMS.

BRIDGMAN .
Ben-ion County Michigan

Offer for sale four good cows bred to KING
VALDESSA PONTIAC MASTER the best all
around son of BEL LL FARMS. premier sire,
gINOGOO. VALDESSA PONTIA IAC. Price is

 
We are oﬂ'ering $200 for every heifer calf
Elfin“ to us out of these cows by “MAST-

 
Mil Milli rnonucrn

Your problem is more MILK. more BUTTER,
more PROFIT, per cow.

on of Mapirerest Application Pon tine——

13265'2—fron1 our heavy-yearly-milking-good-but-

“'11:“ at" I‘“u‘°‘.i° p .1 a .

lecree pp on on ac's am ma 0

35,103 lbs. ﬁbur :7 ldear:5 3144.3 lbs. butter
be.» in in

”-
Ie 18 one of the greatest long distance sires.
Ills daughters and sons will prove it.
Writeus usfor pedigree and ices on his sons.
lpryrkii.e right and not too - for the average
Pedigrees, and prices on application.

Brnce McPherson, Howell. Mich.

 
FOR“

vsa’ tuonoucnsnsn
HOLSTEII cows

combining blood of Traverse City and .
Maple Crest stock, gin nddaughters of.
lg‘riend Iiatgzﬁrveld De old Butter Boy.

3800
WILLIAMS A WHITACRE '
R. F. D. No. . Ailegan. Mich. *

 
REGISTERED HOLSTEINS FOR SALE. FOUR

Ic’alvea sired by a son of King Begin Changi-
blibél. He’ is a double yrs randson of Kin
Kol Korndyke and rom' goodA. 0*
cord dams.-._ Prices reasonable,

l'IG. II F; DOHOOP. R 4‘. Iceland, Mloh. _ 7.

 
IsfromeBO

  
‘L the calves from our Junior go erd sire

Se-j ~
breeding con-i ‘

   
aunts” sci 11051111 Falling! ."

‘ 151712.

{oung bulls from King Pieter Segis
yons 170506. All fromA A. R. 0, dams
with credible records We test annu-
ally for tuberculosis. Write for prio-
es and further information

Musloﬂ Bros" South Lyons. Michigan

 
Bulls From an Accredited Herd

HILL CREST FARMS. Munson. Mich.
offers for sale their Senior Herd Sire,
RISINGHURST JOHANNA ORMSBY DIMPLE
born Nov 25,1915. He is a perfect individual,
a show bull gentle and right in every way, 2- 3
white. a proven sire of high breeding qualities
as shown by his get in our herd. Priced right.
Send for bull circular, photos and pedigrees.

EDWARD B. BENSON e. SONS

Munson, Mich.

HERD

ORU
His sire a 30 1b. son of lakeside King Segis
Alban De Kol.
His dam, Glista Fenella. 32.37 lb.

Her dam, Glista Ernestine, 35. 96 lb.

His three nearest dams average over 33 lbs.
and his forty six nearest tested relatives average
over 80 lbs. butter in seven days. We odor one
of his sons ready for service.

RAND RIVER STOCK FARMS
c. (I. Twist. Mgr. Eaton Rapids. Mich.

"OLVIRINE STOCK FARM REPORTS oooo
sales from their herd. We are well plea with

Pon-
tiselmnde e wh Isa

of 1:13: Kgodésfe'z’o anmA.I «1311311111231 PenS
the lath! o bull
sale. 71'. .W. Sprsgue. B. 2. Battle Creek. mall."

IIJSISTEIIEO HOLSIEIIIS

g FOR SALE.;‘
Ten head of yearling and two year old heif-
er's. WA’ R 0. dams, 29 to 32 lbs. sires.801ne
bad to 321111.31" wdth 745 lbs milk.
-P.ribes ribbt. Genie and. see 1513111;
'3; mod :- under Airedale] supervision ..
~. CARL HITCHU’OC'K’
"2““ WOO“. :MIOI’Ign. _'-,

 
are for sale.

 
L. Thorpe. 8ec.. Milo. Mich.

MILKIIIG S'HOBTHOBII BULL OALVES

Pia a ure bred milking Shorthorn bull in
your bird :ud improve the}; )i‘mklilmi and Ilsa};
liti Have dispose o a ems. es
ing qua es. Have a few nice bull calves left at

bl rices
reasonancewp Fife Lake. Mich.

s. rmcn.
ILKING snonrnonus. 80TH sex FOR
M. YORK, Mllllngton. Mich.

sale. Pricedlow
O.
SMALL Hard of Registered Shorthorns for sale.
Priced for quick sale
SHEAR BROS.. R. F. D. 5. Flint. Mich.

 
CLaARENCE WYANT. Berrien Center. Mich. ., R1
THE VAN BUREN CO. SHORTHORN BREED-

and beef breeding.
Wri

FOB SALE

Young Registered Pulled Shorthorn Bulls

ers' Association have stock for sale, both milk

to the secrets

FRANK BAILEY, Hartford. Mich.

 
FOR SALE—ROLLED DURHAM BULLS AND

under one year old.
choice individuals.

F. E. Boyd

SHOBTHOIIII

months old also a few cov'vs and heifer calves of
good producing cows

Oxford JDolwn Ram

DeGAsRMO. Muir. Mich.

Shorthorn: at Farmers’ Prices

TOPPED BULL CALVES
FOUR SCOTCH These are all roans and

FAIRVIEW FARM
Alma.

ron‘ssLa AT REASON-
able prices. 1 bull, 16

Michigan

OSCAR STIMSON. Brown Clty. Mich.

 
‘FOII SAL

Also extra good reg. 0. 1.
Farmers’ prices.

REG. ROAN SHORTHORN BULL
calf, 5 mos. old. Bates breeding.
C. boar 11 mos. old.

W. 8. WHITE. Carson City, Mich.

 
SHOIITI‘IOBIIS

ONLY A FEW LEFT.
AT OLD PRICE.

 
Wm. J. BELL. Rose City. Mich.

 
dove..-

 
- rte will visit all live-stock sales of
“$ng {Ifdiakngfﬁ égeexolusive Field Men of The Michigan

com tent on of standing in their lines in Michigan

oi“ thine weeki‘y at any sale, making bids and purcha’sea

IT: service is free to you. They will also help you
sly in the

cum and “snoop
Horses and Swine

interests of Michigans OWN 'live-stock

Better still. write out what
You can change size of ad. or copy as often as you wish.

Copy or chances must be received one week. before date
them. Write today I)

FOR SALE {2:11 am Shorthorn

calf born February 1st. Sired by Flint Hen-'
day-w

ers for sale

tered stock
any age. Come and look them over.

of farming, a car
from LENAWEF
ducers to include a
most extreme beef
dairy farming.

FATIaBTI lot shipments assembled at GLENWOOD
STOCK

BAR'I‘LE'I'TS’PURE "ED

Swine are right and are
spondené‘e solicited

bred.

ﬁﬁrandson of Gov. of the (‘,hene
Good individuals. C. A.

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you have to offer. let us out It In

4“

 
OR SA LE
TWO REG.F SHORTHORN BULLS
ieady for service. Also one Reg. Shorthorn
eifer. Herd tuberculin tested. Write '
M. a. HALLs‘rEo. Orion. Mich.

 
bull ell!

heavy producing dam.
W 8. HUBER. Gladwln. MICh. '

FOB SALE

TWO REGISTERED SHORTHORN BULLS
:32 and 15 mos. old: color. red with little white.
ates blood. Will crate and ship; satisfaction
guaranteed or .money refunded. '

m. D. McMullen, R. No. 1. Adrian. Michigan.

FOR SALE AT BEA-
sornable nprices. The
S catch

Bull. Master Model 57614; r1iz
head (of herd of 50 good type 5h 011113111)th at
E. M. PARKHURST, Reed City. Michigan.

HAT DO YOU WANT? I represent 41
wSHORTHORN breeders. Can put you in
touch with best milk or beef strains. Bulls
all ages. Some females 0. W. Crum.
President Central Michigan Shorthorn
AssoCiation, McBrides. Michigan.

 
HEREFORDS

REGISTERED HEREFORD CATTLE

KING REPEATER HEADS OUR HERD
\Ve still have eight good bulls and some heif-
Come and see them.
MARION STOCK FARM
Tony B. Fox, Prop.
Marion. Mich.

MEADOW BROOK HEBEFOBDS

Bob Fairfax 495027 at head of herd.
either sex, polled or horned
.EARL C. McCARTV. Bad Axe. Michigan

HEREFORD 31151935

know of 10 or 15 loads £31111.qu

cy Inuit!
Shorthorn and Angus st
Owners anxious to sell. cars 6 to 1000 1b..
commission.

Will hel b
C. 1"~ Ball. FairﬂeI’d, '31::

Hardy Northern Bred Hereford:

BERNARD FAIRFAX 624819 HEAD
helgeors. this years calves for sale, 10 bul‘l’s'aitidlqo

JOHN MacGREGOR. Harrisvllle. Mich.

ANGUS

 
The Most Proﬁtable Kind

load of grade dairy heifers
COUNTY‘S heaviest milk pro-
pure bred ANGUS hull of the
tips for combination beef and

for prompt shipment.
Methods enplained in SMITH’S PROFII‘ABLE
GEE .1)I.\G 400 pages illustrated.
E.O B. SMITH. Addison. Mich.

ABERDEEN-
ANGUS CATTLE AND 0.I.0.
priced rightd‘ Corn.
and inspection invite

ARL BARTLETT. Lawton. Mich.

2BEG ABEBDEEH ANGUS BULLS

to 14 months old of extra quality and richly
Inspection invited.
RUSSELL BROTHERS
Merrill, Mich" R 3

GUER NSEYS

GUERNSEY BULL FOR SALE

1 yr. old. from
er bulb from 1 to 9 Mo. old.
I-Ienuesey, Watervliet, M.

Dam 0t he

 
REGISTERED GUIERNSEYS
Away with the Scrub Bull
Breeding better Guernseys.
Bull calves that will improve your hard.
M. WILLIA AMS
North Adams. Mich.

 
GUERNSEYB FOR SALE.

heifers of the above bull.
investigate. Prices and pedigree on

1 BULL, 8T. AUS-

tell sire Longwater Prince Charmant

Sultan

(18714)4 R. daughters. 416 lb. fat at 2 1 2
years old. DAam. Dagna of Hillhurst (35969) A.
R 548 lb. fat at 2 1- 2 yrs. ol.d 1 bull call 6
mos. old of similar breeding. Also a few line

It will pay you to
application

MORGAN BR08.. R 1, Allegan, Mich.

 
——eveny

breeder——

Can use M. B. IF.’s .
Breeder-5’ Directory
to good advantage

What have YOU.

to offer?

 
~ ”M'm tor ‘ eh. m.
s-owm omswoco, R1. Rsllairo. Mich.

FOR SALE .

'1 HAVE amass rum-z ease

news sites 3111.1 cm .
that was born Feh. 4.. 1920.. Will give punch-e-
. or registration 2mg tra ester.
FRPANK OET. Glare. Mich» R e
Breeds: of Brown. Swiss castle.

AY’SBEIRES
roe snca—neossrensn AYRSHIRE

bulls and bull calves. before and heifer calves

ome choice cows”
All“ aFINDLAY BROS... R 5. Vassar. Mich.

SWINE so

BIG BOB MASTGDON

W CHINA
Sine was champion of the world, his Dawn‘s
site was grand champion. at Iowa State libir. Get
s. grand champion while the getting is good. Book-
klf orders now. Bred gilts are all sold. but have
M dxolco fall pigs sired baa Grandson of Dish-
m 3 hum

 
«’3 land'- 7 sows. Will sell open
or bred for Sept. furrow. to. BIG mm
C. E GARNANT. Eaton Rapids. Mich-

0111111113 pm a...

Herd Boar—«Reference only—ENE, 1292,19
1919 Chicago International

. 411. no. 1.. searing

iAfawvspmsgpinalegzylﬂﬁ’

Pummo. Mill“. -

i'e 1111131111

A FEW CHOICE DUROG-JERSEY

February pigs, to stored and transﬂrred.
$20.00 each. 35.121151111113111 omen. or money Dec 3
Had ordhss In: over- 30}, m than I had

last spring.
, a. I. «re:
; anm.1rs

111911161111 PM
breeds and sells good- Du-mcs ~.
, 0.»_ L. METER. Inn. Pssiiom. lion”

1|!th :

 
emu. HiLL SARI. Dunes sows amt gilt: sllsd
by Proud Pdnelpsl" Romeo: Cherry Kills. hock-
watee Gold. Stamp 7th. and Ehljrhoru out es dams;
by Limited Rajahn and thed lPrinc pal IV Bred t01
Peach Hill Orion;- King, sud -Rs1iah Cherry Col.
INWOOD ms" Romeo. Mloh.

  
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. or refund purshaoe mic: i111 Ml.
when

 
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mm

 
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JOHN W. SNYDER. 8!. Johns. Mich" R 4

Am 1111 sold out on sows and glits bred the
spring furs sfewv cows old this bredl
for June sad. I farﬁwinc that on good and!
priced right. Sp ng boar pigsat 11.11315 ea. at 81
wee]: oldl. Won mm (Bolt-or wait.
we Tums. New Lotto-es. Mich.

TI. FELL

atS

 
BOA-R mos LEFT. 30010.0:
orders for spring pigs. 815.001

wash: chi.
W; As. seamen. Mnlsq. Mich.

 
O. I. C.

‘ “I ,._. ‘ a... -_. ' I'l I". a - .7
ﬁfe! _%es Glut” I“? ﬁltered no: “Either;

33:1:me “Kw MLI

 
HAMPSHIRE SHEEP

Eerpthi sold them: ndruns.
“Howells” ghgwm Itson"...

omnibus 11316: boned up! 1mm
Wedl lbs. Min 1. ”Milan borders

for 1920mm
l 01.111111 11. Rims. w“; ‘Rrsnoh. Rich.

 
«cmmersmmwsusu.

ﬂesh. lied for
May furrow GI

Hush.
Med 12
place any proving We“!

Am} sndl
m. I will moo
vs a few 00-

speing service that m
Herd. cholera lmmuned

beer piss. rsedytor
right priced.- to msoil.
menu.

 
POLAND cm »TWO FALL GILTS BY

Michigan Buster. wellh-

ing' 200 lbs: Single comb brown leghorn eggs,

100. 5600;115 $1. 50.15 Buﬂ‘ rock eggs. :2
L. 6.!!! Jenmms, lllloh.

 
.PGLARD 0H1NAS. Orders Booked for
spring pigs from Linc Lucens Strain.
ELDRED A. CLARK. 8t. hauls. Mom. I 8

HEHES SOMETHIIG GOOD
THE LARGEST I“ "PE P. 0.
Get s bigger. and. better bred boar
herd... st. a. reasonable prism Come and see;- them.
Ems. will; it not no repmentsd. Those boars
In service: L's. Big Orsum. Lord: Oiaman.
aunts Price and Us Long Prospect.
if. INST”. Perms. Mich.

WONDERLAND HERD

Af-Iclsohrbudgilts- tin-sale. “Also new
snl been sent very mod prospects of excellent
budh MEN’S
la 11 IO ORPHANJS EQUAL
on BM 39
BEAUTY? CHOICE by ORANGE BUD; b!
MGR A.

Free livery to visitors

Wm. .1. cue“.
Eaton Rapids. Mich.

 
L S P FOUR CHOICE SPRING AND FALL
boars left. A few extra 111113.th

b“ bud for April furrow.
H. 0. SWARTZ. Sehoolcrefs. Mich.

T. P‘. C. SOWS ALL SOLD. ORDERS
booked £nr boar pigs at worming time from

Mich. champion herd. Visitors always welcome.
E. R. LEONARD, R 3, St. Louis. Mloh.

HA VE
boars

 
I’B TYPE P. C. GILTS ALL SOLD.
one yearling boar and also some full
that we will close out wt 11 bargain.
W. BARNES & SON.
Byron. Mich.

 
m6 TYPE POLAND CHN‘l'AS
WITH QUALITY
Have for sale M‘s ORANGE, 11. line yearling
boar out of L’s BIG ORANGE.
J E. MYGRAN‘FS.
land Chinas.

WALNUT AL! El .1.

My 1920 crops will be sired by Giant Cinnamon
No. 324731, sired by Giant Cinnamon and Art’s
Progress No. 37704

A. 1). GREGORY, 1.1.1., 111.1.

TH ANNUAL P. G
March 13. 1920.
VJ.
lg Type Poland Chines. Am offerlng three boar
pigs at meaning: time at reasonable price. Beg-
kitted in buyers name. sired by Big Long Bob.
Write for pedigrees and' prices.
MOSE BROS.. St. Charles“ link.
L T P AM OFFERING IPBING
boars. summer and ten pigs.
‘ R I; HART. St. Louis, MM.

9:. Johns. Mich.

 
RIGTYP‘EPO-

 
RRED 80W SALE.
For particulars write
J. HAGELSHAW. Auouua. Mich.

 
[N Am Oﬂerlng Large Type Poland Ohlns Saws,
F‘s 0mm at: reasonable prices Also

who piss-w Wﬂko call-
CLYDE 51:11:11,113, St. Louis. Hem.

 
T- P. 0. ALL SOLD OUT, EXCEPT some
ML slits. Thanking my customers:
JOHN D. WlLle. “hm Mich.

 
no Atsapwws AND Hoe- memo
you wan oland Chinas of tb bl est two
have bred then hit 81.1511

m ore Iyes-rs"
over 100 head on hand. Also registered orch-
erons, Holsteins and Oxfords. Everything sold st
s reasonnbe price, and a square deal.

JOHN c. BUTLER. Portland. Mich.

FAREWELL LIKE mm

no type P. 0. Have a ﬁne lot of spring pip.
xy Glansman’e' Image 2nd The utpost e
ing's Giant. I will selI King’s Giant No. 827.-
. He is a real 11mm. was ﬁrst prize yest-
boar at Jackson -.Co fair, 1919.
.RAMSDELL. Hanover. Mloh.

 
. prl'ced' to sell:

BERSGEE'I RIG TYPE wanes. BOARS
all sold: A few bred glitz for April and May
Narrow. Also open gills. Booking- ordow for
spring pigs. “re solicit inspection. I
ALRERFI' EIE'RSOL
Plymouth. mm, R; F. R. ‘Nm 3

AIRIM‘EW FARM Dunes—R fovr choloo‘ G
“colts pigs either sex at 312 each. Guaranteed:
H. WELDER. Fennvllls. Mich.

 
um JERSEYS. FALL ROAM. WEIGHT
200 lbs. each. Sired by a 8100- lb.. boar.
Priced reasonable..

I. DAM-l8 & SIN. W, Mbh.

were men PM W

Che Ki Col. 211111-111: deiﬁed be, Dotti“;
fry ns t age oer e e rot
in. 1.91.9. Those on growthy. and. the thrill; W

W. e. TAYLOR. lllisn. Mich-
”.03 OF IREERIIIZG SIZE AND
QUALITY.
L. OWRR. Jerome. Mich.

Du roe sows and qllu bred to Wolt’s King szess
who has sired more prize winning pigs at the

 
, state 5.1132 years than any other Du-
.mc hoard. Newton Barnhnrt'. 8t. Mus. limit.
”Macs Spring bred sows all. sold- Rave
sired by

good" Sept. pigs. bot‘ll sex

Liberty Defender 3rd. from C oi. bred! demo.

will be bred to an) Orion Bear ﬁor Sept. furrow.
H. 6. KEESLER emails, Mich.

nunoc 1:333:12“ my" Elﬁﬁ

Panama Special. 320 nt weaning.
E.
BURKS.

E. CALKINS Ann Arbon
Danae GETS RN17 snow m
' of all n'ges.
ton a. Blank. Hill Crest F‘nrms. Harrington, ﬂich.

Smw broil or opon. ”-

l‘.1rv:1 ‘1 miles straight south of M‘i-hlleton.
- - r110.“ PRIZE
DUROC BGARS ‘l LVNING STOCK

ready for service. Geo B Smith. Addi-
son Mich.

 
.0. Burgess B3. Essen. Mich.

’HM OFFERING A FEW CHOICE:

' September end one eighteen months

old been. Mao s few spring mu.
Mme: R.1, arms. Mich.

 
Both Jean:

 
FOR SALE—REGISIEBED 0. L O.
sows and sucking pics.
"I ODOERFER. Mel-lotto. man.

 
&L¢.'s-——80holosyoungbmlmhsnd
“ML pigs at weonhug time:
ERLEAE 81m EARN. Monroe; MM.

 
mt&WMtovmm 85011 m1
take: I onu. Will ship 0.01 D. {amour a:

postal.
“lull It mm. Raoul". Mich.

\ .
C. I. C. m “SKI CONTAIN 1N2
some lines. at) the moss m has: 0 {insulin
mMﬁ'Wsnilithe" man

A. J. comm. Docs. .1011» R 8.

r satisfacti'om ‘

sun's-acumen: smncm‘

I AM ORDERING FOR FALL DELIVERY HIGH
class registered Shropshire yearling ewes sod
Flock established 1890.

0.. LEMEN, Dexter, Mloh.

rams.

 
Am" A sneer? Lot Amer-loan Hampcnm
Sheep Association ,eend we“ 1 dandy booklet
111.1; of out out

I with breeders. A.
wsn. Sec". 10 Woodland Av... chem-

 
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Inches-om Mon.

FOB SA

Pri
148423.81md' by Mn? W No. 47531?‘ “ﬂog:
33.0001. The M

fbore. and sold. once for
Prince s lease my man Nb. 4m. Mfr-toe 8200.

I. DEAN. mold.”

"DICE REGII'I’ERRD PEROIIEROII For Oslo
1 mm mm m
lilsck m 3. yrs.

1' sorrel more 8’ yrs.

Snails,
ashlar mulls. no. er. noun. list.

1'. “LIKE—Fl” “Rim. renam-
on mare. d! "ﬂinch. weights-sen-

 
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AND
PERCHERON

DRAFT ST ALLIONS‘
111:1. Size and Quality

MR. F ' Howls time-
raise draft horses. I p131: out stallions
on. a. your Iocalit
needs a good draft stallion. let me heel-
from you.

FREE 6 STEVENS

hoes-mm men.“ |

tho to

 
“EADOWVIEW FARM REG. DURW JERSEY
lmgsJ ESDllllil pins for seal
. M.ORRLS Farmlngton. Mich.
Choice breeding. solen-

BUB” WEI} all.“ did individuals Bred

for April fnrrow. Would like to how you. see them
CHERRY LAWN FARM. Shepherd, Mlch.

DUBDG JERSE . "'5” “W3 “"9 "us

. April and May furnw.
Sll‘ed or bred to my 1,000 lb. herd boar. ‘
J08. SCHUE'LLER. Werdman. MTG”.

 
8 LE LACY}!!! FARM. REG. nueoc JERSEY
.wlne tile! your spring as now.

and tnios not. 1111mm

UEBN N- TOWNS. R6. Eaton. Rapids. Mich.

REG nunoc 15113 W "“8

EITHER. SEX
Can furnish. stool not akin. one year]-
ing sows. W111 breed for early fell litters. Sat-
isfaction. guaranteed
F”. mam a SON”. Mon, men.

FEE “LIL-BRIO SELECT-
-(l sprlngm Duroc Boers, also bred sows snd
Gills hr sass

Mclsuaurron a. manna. I. LQLIIoh.

 
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---p0ultry breeders!

Start your advertising N 0W whether
you have anything to sell 1'1ng now
or not get your advertisi'ngi'n ﬂies.
9889i '

WHERE IOU KNOW FIWILL PA!

Write r111: moms amass 1111111511. Bream? Directory.

ll. (lo-ens, .
ftl-_lpec.iul nees'or better It“: send
mswwmpntitintypoanrl‘mm

whirls.”

or 521211110;

 
BERKSHIRES.

EGISTERED serum FOR SALE. AUG.
Mic pigs. for:- 840 a piece. while the! lost. Sot-
isfection. Taking, onion for spring villa.

summed-
JOHN YOUNG. Moorish... Blah.
LARGE Mil-I RECORDED BERKSHIRE.

Bred gills and spring pigs for sale.
"my“. mm Once. lien.

 
GREGORY FARM nmsnms E03

‘ proﬁt. Choice stock: for sale.“ Write m

wants. W. 8. 111.111.

Fen SMEGISTERED BERKSHIRES OF
the most fashionable bloodlin-

Bred or open. Gilts and. your: bonus.

£811) 0full 3133.110 aged stock. Prices. $6060

Corsa. White]!

 
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Spring .1111. and fell yearling! bred for March.
express and r 1: ln buyer's name.
every way.

J.‘CARL JEWETT,

10.1 c. sows FOR’SALE .

I! you “$111.

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$131.11.? right ”1:

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CUBATOBS WEB
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TUMPB PULLER

   
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. days

" little to teach them to eat.

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._ ‘ m L116 em ‘I‘ew
" This tie them critical time.

   
for the digestive m are

throw than out of coalition. Nature
has provided her ﬁthe M two «has
of the little chiefs life with very lit-
tle food loom outside. It you will

'- watch a mother hen you will' see

that 'she moves about uery little for

‘ a couple at day-s,— but spends much

time hovering her brood. She scratch-

- es some and givﬁ the liotie tallowa

~ enrol-s. m nets seat at one new

herself, though she does give them 11
She en-
courages them to pick at the sand
andinitsiol slurp mu or My.
Bythe timeohoteedsthen much
she has their crops tilled with sand
and they are,ready to feed on any-
thing she ﬁnds for them.

Sand and grit ot the sharpest kind
but small should ‘be the ﬁrst thing
planed More then. I never lead at
all until they have been out of the
incubator twenty-four hours. which
makes the youngest a day old at
least, and the oldest usually two days
old or a little more. The ﬁrst food
they get is the yolk o! the infertile
eggs and the eggs with dead germs
in them, tested out the twelfth any,
which I have boiled for ten minutes
to get there well done and crumbly.
Amer a couple at meals at this I give
a-ll’ttle of the coarse oatmeal or
rolled oats'if I do not have the oat-
meal. The ch-icks seem to like the
oatmeal best. After feeding the oats
a week I mix oats and chick feed and
gradually decrease the Miss and in-
crease the chick feed until they have
all chick feed. About this time; I
mix so'me kai'fir corn "with the chick
feed until they, eat ‘the kaiﬁr also,
when I feed kuﬂlr freely and feed
the chick teed separately. It will

- not be long until they will prefer- the

ksﬂir.

On the farm we . have
plenty of milk, and I have always
uwd milkTor my chicks when I had
it. I would set the sour milk on the
back of the stove until it had heated
just enough so the curd would sep-
arate but not enough to hard-en it.
Then I would dip out the curd and
give the chicks all they would eat of
this all the time. I have always had
a regular feeding place for the chicks
where the larger fow‘ls could not get
at the food. Here I would place the
curd, the feeder oi bran which they
were always enticed to eat as much
as they wished, and a vessel of pure
water. Usually I would have a sup-

ply of bone either ﬁnely granulated-

or ground, for unless chicks get many
bugs they need this for building
frsmes.‘ With this feeding pen of
good size and with‘ a water tight
roof at big ﬂock will balance their
ration and make the most rapid
-growth possible.

I do not feed wet masher much but.
I do feed a mash moistened with
warm water until it is just crumbly
so they will learn to eat it if I ever
need to feed them thus. I have boll-
ed oats and wheat for them but
think there is no real value in this
except that they will eat all. with a
relish and thus it will be a beneﬁt
as- a change. The. more we can get
the chicks be eat at .a well balanced
ration the heater they will develop.

This we must over keep in mind. It

, will never pay to stint the ‘food own!
to make them hunt o. larger part of
their food. It is the nature 0'! the
chicken to ”hunt and they will not

need auyntnrvlng to induce than to.

keep busy. No etha- (colds so nel-
ished utielnnects theyeengether
fresh from their scratching, and you

My greatesttroublehubeenteget
thommen-euptnrtheiroﬂm‘toed

Indonesians—selves Mines-d
About'b'ug'sdtgwhiehtheyeonldn not
"'xetsnunglsnpﬂiytheirhnnger

their-ax
anything you can he in-
duce them tb eat and your cockerels

 
not
’ street“ edit mum to

soar- milk or curd, giving all they
will eat. It is best to also con areal
for this I believe. do they will eat
more and it is quicker digested. They
she‘ll be torced just as M as pos-
sible until marketed, but it will not

_pay\ioteed moret'hantweweeks‘

thus, and name food only ten day's.
, They should be given close quarters
so they cannot run off any of the
fat. Kaﬂir is one of the very best
grains for feeding poultry and I use
it mostly except for fattening and

bosiiergs. Gain make excellent chick- 4

on feed but the oatmeal or rolled oats
cost too m-ueh‘to useex-cept atlrs‘t,
and the whole oats cannot be red
without steaming or boiling as they
will not eat it well enough and it is
Mlyeale her-men toad» so .ittbn’y
would, oschlckshaveheenkilledhy
oats puncturing the crop or packing
it from some cause not fully deter-
mined. I have never had any trouble

with boiled oats and it is easy to put 1
a. new heed on the back of the stove .
whentheoldmhsbeenredrm,

Agnes H 1100.

 
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CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS AN AID
TO RURAL EDUCATION
(continued from page 5)

comparison. The consolidated school

has the some advantages as
graded school 'in so far as instruc-
tion is concerned. is is worth while
to adopt a school organ’lmuou that

will change ﬁfteen failures out of'

every one hundred, the difference be-

tween the product of the graded and

one-room school, to successes?

it is, consolidation offers a solutiOn.
Seven one-room rura schools of one

a! the counties at the northern part

of the lower peninsula, with o. total .
twelve '

enrollment of one hundred
MWtbouvMochoelwirth

an woollen-suit o! no hundred twelve ‘
were invited to Mate with the .
village school. An aluminum or ;

the records showed that these seven

rural districts had had in the past;/.
{our years thirty-three applicants :for '

promotion to the ninth grade. 0!
this number only eight had been pro-
moted. The village school during
the same period had had forty-two
applicants for promotion to the ninth
grade. 0! this number thirty-four
Were promoted, eighty per cent of
the pupils from the graded school

as compared with twenty-six per cent . so
from the seven rural districts with a -
total enrollment exactly the same as .

that or the village school. It would

be a good investment, whatever ”the. *2

cost might be, for these seven dis~
tricts to unite with the village school.
The boys and girls of Michigan are

our best product. They deserve bet- .

‘ter (consideration than is shown by th
inequality stated above.
(Conﬁrmed next week)

 
CALHOUN COUNTY FARM BU-i

BEAU CONVENTION
' (Continued from page 20)

‘ This convention urges all farmers?
in Calhoun county who raise sheep -

to take advantage oz! the offer made

the Farm-Bureau andpoel their wool. j
. . This convention favors the adop— 1
tion oil the school district plan of or- '

l , Great Combined * l
3 DISPERSAL SALE

of Seventy Head of High Class Registered Holsteins

a 3 also and south of Rochester,
a. commending at 10:30, May 1‘3. 1920. Many cows with gendered-it- r-

gamizimg our township farm bureaus

and urges the roman-tip oﬁoers to;

take immediate action in appointing
when in ea'ch district.

{This convention favors the adop-
tion at central standard time w Cal—
houn county and throughout the
state and urges that local option on
the dayltht saving law be done
own! with -

ﬁ’lcmvention lovers the plan of
plying all the use-bun o! the Gal-
noun county farm menu whose
Jot ﬁnancial interests are in
Mg business the privilege to act
no ulcers oi the orgamlnation. —'.Paul
0. Jemieson,

Agent.
PM.

Enoch as many chickens as you
possibly can thfs your. The egg slur-
age interests are determined to store
this year at a low ﬁgure“, and the

 
prose“ downward trend of eggs is.

the evidence. Hatch morexehlohm
fewer. eggs to the regular delinea-
meat: gill More

the .

0mm?” Agricultural

.eﬁ' thus no and feed heavily of core-and 5» 3

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p..-

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weigh 10 pounds.
: MOE

Portland, Michigan.

. mun.
DR. UNIS. W.

 
a

«tweaks-Imam an own: no:- line, no; ‘luue.

 
.. ’4‘? Dahomey

onion!
in, a «will put

“In elu- sud
Inc ”In- Warmer.

Ive-mm

 
5%;

Poultry. mus-due.
sauna“ motto-rm

will be interested In
Quality White Leg-
nnd certiﬁed
.by the
m of ,

You
the Extrs
horns I

the Aarteulturnl callous.

Live and healthy ‘Uhfldks uni! xterm hatch -
from our mums

Send dot .new
‘ bob .
plain the

We} lions; it _
. m. Also tit u- i
also a! cooperation. .

m 'F'A‘RIIS smashes F
but 2. Kalamazoo. liohlsnn

numerous AND LEGHORNS

Two great breeds for ‘proﬂt. Wi'l'te tod I
New I rubbing chick? u‘l’:

Catalog
your
d Fem

l

 
free m can,

tree lite baby

OYOLE HATOHER COMPANY, 149 Phllo Bldg.
Elmira. N. Y.

 
4
Fell SALE MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS.
due” Old ducks
emu FARM. Mariette, Mm

either sex, 34 each at once.

 
PLYMOUTH ROCKS
mm R FOR Harcmse

.frr‘om strong husky breeders.
ll. 0. com-nu. Mon Harbor, R 8. Mich.

 
JOHN'S Bio Beautlful Isl-red Rooks are Hen
hatched good layers, grow quick. 80 eggs,
83. 50; 50, S5 postpaidx cockereh, $4 to $8.011“-
culors, photos. John Northou. Glare, Mich

 
UR! BRED IARREO ROCKS. GOOD“ LAY-i
ere. That narrow, straight snsppg4 F
ﬂoors cards on hens snd ulleh to
Am on old timer in the bus ness. Es. for NM:

 
Standard loss! and W ‘
nuns. F

~ E” m. m
Wyangot't'esb $1. 75 lo

R I
cum m sacs. .. gram

M m Superior cellar. Preemie layers.
PM posed sole

muted catalog hoe. mu" m:-
Lilli PAW. In: S. Lawrence. Mich.

“Mu.“ not. Roch. 'bwmnu' Sound.“
Minn. bonus- oultry Farm. Imitmnhgi‘x:

Flatiron Ode. 81:4? Ugly”, Singlehcomb White
on custom tobing. Wil-
mm... tum. 1741mm Mich.

 
Punsem nor muons. «tow-Lawns

English White Em Anoonnas. Circulars tree
'IDE'AL WK RAMS". .lsilnnd, M h

Harm noes

kl . RED HATCH“. £0”. ’80 PER 100.
Special eggs from 300 egg hen, 75o esc (3.11

H. FROHM. R 2, Mt. Clemens, Mich.
r.-

 
“Em "All“ 5‘08 FOR
ntcliinz. $1 50 ”matting
m J. m. HIM!" I 2

13‘ eons uneven WORN eons 60R
sale. One ’ﬂfty per fifteen eggs.
Flemish Giant rabbits that are giants. Quality
guaranteed.
E. NIIIEIAUOOI. Wee. Rich.

In? SILVER LAOED
DURKEE, Plnconning. mulch

 
ROM OOOK'S BEST: 8. 0. RUFF, WHITI
and black Orpington ea“. 84 per 15: S7 for 30
GRABOWSKE BR08.. R 4. Merrill. Mich.

 
B‘m ms State W winning strain

direct. Special pens only

headed by pedigreed males. Purebred partridge

rocks. Ens $2. 50 per 15, aBerti) tp,sid 86 per 45.
I. AYERS A SON. Sherwood, Mich.

 
"Hm WYANDOTTES: noes FOR HADOH-
ing from selected layers, 82 per 15, prepaid.

$18 to $25.
RANK DeLONO, Three Rlvers, Mloll.

Pens
R8.

 
Wk, $1.50 for 8. Chinese goose “c ench.
H... CLAUDIA IETTS. HM, Mloh.

m mass-n W m"
muting stock from heavy

mot-uh. arm 13. 35 per 45 by pr std
'12.

 
strain. 34. 00. S5. 00 and $7 50 h. -
in: one 32. 00 per 15 prepaid. {ms “$30.11*

 
3 IO. BngmLEGIIIiORNS, BABY CHICKS. ECG.

or so n

Good laying stzr'ain ens Cookerels. Farm raised.
.w. waes'rsn, Bath. Mich.

GRABOWSKE'S 8. 0. WHITE LEGHORN8

Stock and eggs for sale. Circular free.
LEO ORABOWSKE, Merrill. Mich" R 4

WYANDOTTE

 
Silver Laced Golden and Whlte W',” ““ '
Eggs from best quality. only $3 per 15, $5 per,

by . reel post prepaid. Buy from old re-‘
liable, larcnce Browning, ‘32, Portland, web.

to mm: Dustin's Strnln culled b x-
verts for utility: size and colon, Eu s I; an
M). OD m- anure 3104: by mail prepaid. »

VANO FARM, Hartford, Milne

LANGSIfAN

a

 
ILAO KLANQSHANS OF QUALITY
Bred for type and cl '
m ... .. acres" 19” m...

ded . First 11 .
at Ignernﬂiona‘i show alts Bu‘ﬂslo, Jan. 131? E2:
$3. '0! inter laying strain.

SIMPSON, Mbbervllle, M. ‘

BABY CHICKS ﬂ

CHICKS—CHICKS

SHIPPED SAFELY EVERYWHERE BY MAIL
White arm; and S. C. t
Eggs;- (3th offend “If; mig’llflnel.
qua 11 11a sy now in!

May and June he
slog free. ery. Eleventh season. Ost-

IOLLAM HATCHE‘RY, R7. Holllnd. m.

. sturdy

 
111‘. 82. 50 not 15. Satisfaction guaranteed. . "Rl East Innsinx, kh‘
A. .STEcKLE. Freeport. llleh.. In no I
EGGS tmum Gaga snnnso ROCKS, seen
0 lay. 1 50 setting.
, LEGHORN MRS. THOS. Fosrsn. eassooom, Mlch., I1
, gas—.3 e. wum ”worm, Fm... 2a4_.“ arouma sees—PLYMOUTH nocKo (sLL’

varieties) White "Wynndottn, hoops and Ron-
un lush. Cable: 20.
men PMTR’ YARDS. abandon, Mich.

 
s. '0. AND R. 0. BROWN LEGHORN ERGO
for hatching winter layers, 81.00 for 13.
EUR IRYON. Johnnie, Mlch.

 
EGG FROM MAMMOTH IRONZE TURKEY:
——$4 for 10.

MRS. WALTER DILLMAN. R I , Dowaglao, Hloh

 
erred Rock eggs for Hatching, 16 for s1..60 30
eggs 32.50.1'00 up 38. P. P. prepaid
MR8. ego. WEAVER, Fife Lake, Mich.

I 6' VI' LEGION! EGGS

MRS. E. PELKY. H 1, Honor.

{:03 SALE enema Eons

IFROM A HEAVY LAY-
nig slain d! B. C. R. 1. Beds at S2110 per set-
ting of 15 eggs, $10. 00 per 100.

Stock of excellent type and quality st sll

times
Satisfaction guarante eed.
"Ellis 1! SON, Dawson. ”lob

$2.00
PER 13
Mich.

 
TOO LATE T0 CLASSIFYﬁ
ROWE YOUR JERSEY MRI) WITH ONE
of our Majesty bulls.

FRANK KNOWN. Innis. Mich.

 
P. NOR

 
FOR SALE—50 GOOD FINE WOOL SHEEP
bred to a Shropshire um. Due in May. These
sheep have been show not wrlu luky.l

F‘RAN K L. BRADLEY. R 1, Chamth, Mlch.

Read the Classiﬁed Ads
--—>IN--

M. B. 1F.'s BUSINESS FARMER'S EXCHANGE
Big Bargains are constantly offered

 
‘ able A. R. o. room-1m. Daughters

5 ! Application Ponthc,‘“35 lbs. , King
’ l ﬁr Ormsby Johanna Gilt Edge, 38 lb. , and King Korndyke Sadie

Heugerveid- a son 0! a 41 lb. bull.

s son of the celebrated K. K. ladle Vale. out

 
cows bred to s grandson to In! Eochy Sylvia and to King Korndyke Sadie Hengerveld

Mmuimw'mmmﬂmsﬂbhhhuu. mumlmﬁ
cherish. Menace-armorlsMn-h. “hadnsubnduernlsm’
Monoumﬁenf.lusdﬂllhuuoohnudsvm

C. G. HINE and E. A. HARDY, Owners

mm, on the mini Div., D. U. R.

m such bulls as Implement
of the Pontiacs Segis, 38 lb. hell;

of n daughter of SIP ‘Veemnn Hengervsld.

 
0. IR. Leghorn eggs, $1.50 per setting. Poklni

 
individual machine, that can be run by any pointer from 3 h.p. up, or a larger outfit for your thresmng assocla. - i
. _' 9 tion that can be run by tractor power. - . . I . I II I II II I I ,
ma), i ”lili“) Hill-1» “Mil. l“)*lml lllll)

, Altho the mac n we r co meat:e 1rement here in Michigan :today, they are neither new not untned We have
handled both ’ljiieshfloresi years? I A @315, Fjjliﬁgégltjtilb howl-East manufacturers who build on honorhnd we are’ prOud to put our

name and reputation back of their PI,‘9<1_11ct ._7- ._ _.-_ I

  
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1‘,“ ‘ \.

,\ “ I n -\:"‘;.r.'[ ) ’l‘rJl , I-ISlIl )Ll'> A} ‘3' i it“. .
I have twelve men cohstantly traveling for mia,)mei1 who know how to help you if W011 £1113) lanii y 9b yiziig ”) [small in or (if get.
ting up an association of your neighbors. Write me and See how quickly I can help you solve this‘ threshiii pioblbin’lim yohi‘self and your - /

neighbors. 9 .. , . -' , 1 , ., u mww mmwwmww,
V é . f ' i ‘g 7 , ' ' ’(Slgned) II. )M. PRESTON,.Pres1dent

Bidwe

     
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' 1 Ellis Champion
From $200 Up

 
Here is a line of small machines ‘ ., . I _ I I
that: will meet every need of the: i ' . f _ . g‘ , I» . I

 
farmer of 160 acres or more. Many ' ESPECIALLY BUILT FOR BEANS AND PEAS, HANDLES GRAIN'IAS WELL.
Of them have 139911 5?“ m M10111" _ i No line of machines could be better adapted for Michigan business farmers, thresh-
gan duringthe past ﬁve years and ing associations, or cOmpanies than the BidWell line Which has for so many years been
every one has proven a money -mak« . favorably known. A variety of sizes‘are offered which Will meet the needs” of any associ~

or for its owner, alloWing him not ‘ation and the power equipment, which' We do not sell, is optional with the buyer.

only to thresh when he wanted to, ~ Any medium sized tractor will handle the BidWell and thus Where a group of farm-
in the field .if necessary, but to do ‘ 1 ' ,ers OWn- one for ploWing, a threshing machine cempletes the triangle and makes an outfit '
’ I - that Will pay for itself practically in a Isingie year. ’ * ‘

work, for his nearest neighbors ’ , -

       
when his own threshing was over. I '_ IF‘YOU ARE T:ALKING AN- ASSOCIATION IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD
i w , i I, I i i ' ’ Write me, perhaps We can help you and you need nOt feel under any obligation to
Few realize that SO small and ' buy from us, unless We prove that we can Sell you a better machine for your needs at an
still so practical a machine has equal 6r lower price than any other houSe in Michigan ’ T f- .. 3 9; .
been on the market for years and it ; ' We have entered into the threshing prob— ﬂ , , ., . _. , .

 
lem in earnest: this year. We want to be of
genuine help $6 the business farmers of our'

 
is only now that the big deinand
from individual farmers hanbeen

     
. . - ' state and you E‘an feel free to write us or call

-. ' (“ledted- NoIfarmer Who owns pow-NI“, . on us for anyfhelp because we Will make it. Q Praduce ‘ g;
91‘ from three horse up ShOUId be hour business toﬁsee that you get prompt atténi '7 More Food 1
without a small threshing rig that II ., Ition. " g I. ' NC E SE 6 i
will give him not only good service . If ylou live 11331‘ Lansmg telephone us When ,. I tioii oAf- beéogii ”ﬂair?!

   
you alief .eomirg to see us and We will meet 9‘ “ac“ Wm”
. in autOmelle at any station at the .1: Preston
timey'ﬁarmv‘a '2“ - I .. 1

but service right when he wants it.
If you are interested in an in-

   
dividual machine Write me for the L. I Of Wise Eu know us best as the 5016'
Ellis‘ Champion catalog and let me f I ' ' manu ‘ rers . «the famous PRESTQNQI
help you SOlVB one Iof. yourII Ibig V LAN ‘ Vi ﬁed T118 Silos, WhIGh have

» - : , s , been ected lnzeVery state in theIUmon. ‘

 
rite us today,