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It takes onlv a puxtage stamp to get this book Usetlie (‘UUDOH at the left. We Will send the book by return mail and also our Special Low Price Offer. which we are making new for early orders. MARTIN STEEL PRODUCTS CO. nYrsaur Farm 11111 11.11% . . $11,111 1111 11 1 11h 1111 2111.11 tum ‘1\«i‘llimtl 111 1 '11~1 1‘11 wl'et 1 1 ~ ~ 1 1 1 . 1. 1 (l11.l\\»11l1,11.\1(‘ 1 . l .11( 1-1.1111 '11? M1 9 11. 11111111 11l l‘lS 1: ‘ . “1111!; 51 ‘ , w l1 r 0 V . l «‘1 V1'\‘ »~, w .‘ 1 1 ‘4111 .1 11111. 1111.1 1111511..“ .t.1.111.~11111l~«11,1 11 ._V,‘..,..., 1. , ‘ ‘112~ ‘1 11;“ 1'. 1.truth€_"\1'1.‘l'\ \é’eli lfl ‘~1~w l g. 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'l iuly, it I Could not get 21111vtl11-1‘, $11M) VV1)11l(l 11111 purchase my Martin Cril). 111*1-l like kicking niywll tor nut having hought 111111111 1907’, when 1 first began farming. It511t3111yf111'1noftfl a biiiltliiw of beauty as well as service.” UK. T. S. IlliRRlNG. letter» son, Va. Memhcrof Va. Senate, 16th District. Starved Out the Rats “The Martin Steel Corn Crib is a pertut preserver of corn. Formerly the rats ate and wasted abuut one-half my corn. None is lost now. My corn cures and is well preserved. And corn thus ctiied. unquestionably has a higher feeding value for all live stock." W. H. CRECRAFT, Libeity, Ind. Mansfield, Ohio 1'. 6 mic/2 z'g‘a 71 USINFSS FAR 1 ¢ l J: g! g? . i'w], VII. Nu. M. NH“ (‘LICMICNS SA'I‘I'HHA‘SC ;_'_|HHEHH!IHHIiH|iEIHi?Ii|EmlEIIIEIIHEIEHHIHIHHEHIHHIHHIHIHHIHHHHIHIIHIHHIIIHHHIHIHllI!!!Il|llHll||||||HH|||||!H||||HH!HHHHlHHHiIllIiHIUHHHHHHHHHHH! l ‘ f ; E E E E 9, E Business Fan-mox- in “is Utlicc r, E ; 7| Illlllllflllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllflfllllllllllll||||||IlIll]i||I|IIlllllIlll||||||||l|||||||||lllllllllllI|l|||i|||||llllllll“HIMlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll|IHII|IllllllllllHIIHHHIIIIlHHllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllUJlllllllll E11 "53-52 g " "or ’T‘ .m, V V .v I I v AA LAND BANKS FORCED TO HOLD UP LOANS ' A number of readers who have re- cently applied for loans through the Federal farm loan system have writ- ten to inquire when they may expect to receive their loan. The matter has been referred to the Federal Land Bank of St. Paul, whose Secre- tary, Mr. H. K. Jennings advises as follows: “We will not be able to receive new applications for loans until af- ter the decision has been rendered in the suit now pending in the Sn- preme Court of the United States. “As you are aware this case 11/ been ordered for reargument which will not take place until sometim‘e next fall, probably in October. Af- ter the argument the court will take whatever time it deems necessary to- .consider the case before decision‘is rendered and the probabilities . are that we will not, for these reasons, be able to take any applications for closing this season. “A’few days ago a joint resolu- tion was introduced in congress au- thorizing. the Secretary of the Treas- ury to purchase $32,000,000 of farm loan bonds, proceeds of which Were to- be used by the banks in retiring their obligations for borrowed mon- ey and complete whatever pending .loans they had .on hand. This. ar- rangement gives us $4,500,000 which will enable us to clean our records entirely of all notes payable and also will clean up all actual com— \ mitments on applications which were allowed before March 1st,'1920. It is very unfortunate. for the farming interest that the Federal Land Banks were interfered with at this time. It is a well established fact that the suit was instituted by the Farm. Mortgage Bankers’ Asso- ciation of America and all members of the association are contributing liberally for the purpose of putting the system entirely out of busi- ness. “The best information that we can ' get indicates that the reargument of -the case was ordered, not because there was any question about the Federal Land Banks, but on account of the status of the Joint Stock Land Banks.” . AA 4 ‘ Hudson Fineness Equals Its Matchless Performance Aside From the Supremacy of the Exclu- sive Super-Six Motor, Its Beauty Gives Distinction in Any Field of Fine Cars Hudson has unremittineg kept the is- sue of performance to the fore. Not simply because its mastery is indisput- able. Rather because this question is vital above all. It must always be so. It must always be the measure of any car’s title to worth. Hence undue emphasis has been placed on Hudson’s four years’ leadership in fine car sales. Largest sales are not infallibly proof of greatest merit. Hudson has no need to offer them as such. Yet their importance cannot be over- looked. Here is the massed opinion of far the greatest number of owners of any fine car in the world. Some are driving the earliest Super-Sixes built— now more than four years old. Some acquired Hudsons but recently. But how unanimously they hold no car can rival it. 'What 90,000 Owners Know First Hand Those who have had their Hudsons . longest are perhaps its most emphatic champions. They know it best. They - have seen it pitted with triumph against never ' every situation that can confront an au- tomobile. Today their Super-Sixes are giving service, such as is literally be- yond the performance capacity of many new cars that cost more. Certainly no fin'e car is so highly re- garded by such a large following. See What“ Has Done Were its position less deserved could Hudson hold the loyalty of all these? Were its supremacy less decisive, surely five years must have discovered the rightful successor. But time only brings fresh evidence of Hudson leadership. ‘ In speed—in power—in acceleration —in hill-climbing, it has never been matched. ‘ The most abusiVe tests to which a car was ever subjected have failed to find its endurance limit. Could other types adopt it, they might share Hudson’s un- matched ability. But Hudson controls it. By right of inventibn Hudson alone can use it. ' It will not be possible to supply all who want Hudsons. So even though ~ you may not want your car for several months, now is not too early to place your order. ‘ \ fifi r xpé'i’ . ' .. («3" j ‘ Gamue‘uus FARM ‘ BUREAU AFTER MORE WAREHOUSE SPACE \ p The Michigan. State Farm Bureau has already outgrown its Warehouse facilities which were abquired last April and has just completed arrange- ments fer securing, additional space in the city of Lansing. The amount of wool shipped to the Farm‘Bureau by members has far exceeded antici— pations. To date there is more than one quarter of a million pounds in the warehouse ,and as. much again reported in the hands of assemblers. Total graded to date is 208,280. pounds, and it is graded as follows: Delaine, 7,568; tine clothing, 6,- 649; 1-2 blood vombing, 16.019; 1-: bleod clothing, 1,146; 3-8 blood combing, 63,737: 3-8 blood clothing, 649'; 1—2 blood combing, 16,019.; 1—2 1-4 blood .clothing, 60,339; '1-4 blood low, 6,103; braid, 2,216; discounts, 19,961; tag, 1,680; buck, 262. There are 145 wool assembling points now at work in the state. These are scat- tered over 47 different counties. Five carloads‘ not included in the above total, are reported ready for ship- ment south from the upper peninsula. The Farm Bureau is investigating the coal situation with the intention of acting as purchasing agent for 10- cal units which desire such assist- ‘ance. As the Bureau points out the problem is not one of price but of getting the coal at all. Fears are expressed that unless the farmers make arrangements through some organized source they may have dif- ficulty in getting their winter supply. The completion of the arrange— ments for the organization of a State Co-operative Elevator Exchange will be made June 29th and 30th at East Lansing when delegates of twenty co-operative elevator associations will be called together by the State Farm Bureau. UNIFORM WOOL GRADES SOUGHT Tentative types representing vari— ous grades of, wool have been pre- pared by the Bureau of Markets, United States Department of Agri- culture, in connection with its in- vestigationai work looking toWard the ultimate establishment of uni- form wool standards. The types de- cided upon by the government ex- perts have been prepared after care- ful examination of thousands of samples that represent the opinion ,of the trade generally as to what should comprise wool standards, and which now form the basis of com- mercial transactions. It is proposed to demonstrate these types to woo] growers for the purpose of determining the practicability of their application upon a commercial basis. These demonstrations will be conducted by wool eXperts sent out from Washington to assist the Bu- reau of Markets fleld agents. There are now no fixed wool grades in universal application, with the re- sult that the purchase of the produc- er's product is based upon arbitrary standards fixed by individual buyers. It is therefore’obvious that to place the business upon a uniform basis would be decidedly advantageous to all concerned. For several years the Bureau of Markets has been conducting inves- tigations and making ,3, study of wool samples collected from all states and foreign countries with regard to the possibility of establishing uni- form wool standards, and the ‘work has now reached the point where the wool experts in charge of it feel war- ranted in submitting their findings to ~ Wool growers for consideration. - Of course, it must be understood that c . the work is still at an investigations! v stage; Those interested'in the dem- onstrations myv-aecnre'fnlliinform-fi ation by writing the Bureau of Marketa, United states“ Department > of Agriculture, Washing—ton, D. .0; ‘ . "AR , / HE PESSIMIST will find no com- fort. in the most recent reports from the agriCultural states of the condition of 'crops. Almost without exception the condition of grains, fruits and vegetables is reported. as good to excellent. larly true of the northern states where the majority of winter food products are raised. The season has been from two to five weeks late all over the United States. but while this was discouraging during / the early spring, it can now be seen that the late season was a God-send to nearly all crops and fruits. The acreage of all crops is slightly, less this year than last, nearly every state reporting a decrease. All states report also lack of labor which will handicap the cultivating and har- vesting of crops. Wages varying from $70 to $105 per month and board andvrooms are reported, while the western grain growers have agreed upon a minimum wage scale for harvest hands of $6 per day, and they are hard to get at that price. The Hessian fly has done consider- able injury in some states, and army worms are reported at work in Mis- souri and adjoining states. Montana is combatting an early crop of grass- hoppers but does not expect serious losses from them. A few southern states report too much moisture and a few northern ones too little moist- ure. . But theseextremes are always present. So far as the general crop situation is concerned it was never better. .Corn Progress Fair Corn is practically all in the ground. Michigan reports the early planted varieties as growing rapidly and in good healthy condition. Iowa reports growth slow. but Ohio, In- diana and Illinois "claim excellent germination and rapid growth. The total acreage planted to corn is not yet known. g Only one or two states show an increase: the majority a de- crease. It is expected that acreage and consequent yield will show a slight increase over last year. This is to be expected because of the strength and high prices ruling in the corn market since the first of the year. $3 Per Bushel for New Wheat Crop A few states report excellent pro- gress of winter wheat» but the ma- jority are not so optimistic. Indi- ana’s report to the Bureau of Crop Estimates, under date of June 3, says: Reports of Hessian fly coming in. Some fields badly infested. Joint worm is also prevalent. California: Condition very spotted and decline indicated. Missouri: Some damage from excessive rainfall. Condition in general spotted. More encouraging reports are as follows: Kansas: Head- ing in practically all portions of the state. The volunteer acreage in the west still looks promising. Mary- land: Reported grain heading low. Too cool for rapid growth, but grain dealers. offer $3 per bushel for new crop. *Michigan: Condition improves northward and crop is good from Lansing northward in most sections. Some poor fields invsou-thern coun- ties. Nebraska: Condition general- ly splendid. Abandonment probably considerably smaller than reported. Oats ' “Delaware: Outlook bright for a' good crop. 'zl’yilorida: Shevvs good , yields ‘butj rains, interfere with” har- vestin‘gi'-""'Indf'na: Fields look good. Cenditions , averable. Kansas: 'S'jt'rongand healthy but heading short. vMaryla'ndf. Outlook good for a fair ' a i‘ Michigan: ,Germinated quick- and - Rain needed. , Excellent. Mia- 'ut, slightly This is particu- ' Judging From Progress to Date making in this state. is computed next fan—Editor. HE MAGAZINES of the country have been full of alarming reports Tover the alleged abandonment of farms in Michigan and the general decrease in the acreage planted to crops. in these magazines about )he excellent progress which all crops are Nor have we seen any mention-“made of this fact in the crop reports published by the U. S. Bureau of Crop Estimates. The condition of Michigan crops and fruits is such as to warrant 'wide- spread publicity by all interested in the agricultural situation in general and Michigan's reputation as an agricultural state in particular. Mich- igan has the best fruit prospects right now of any state in the union, bar none, and she will make no concession to any other state in the condition of winter Wheat, oats, rye and other grains. what the pessimists have to say about Michigan agriculture we know and everyone else versed in the situation knows that Michigan Will hold ' firmly to her title as one of the nation's richest agricultural states and will take off her hat to no other State when the sum total other crops But we have seen nothing Regardless of than expectations. Nebraska: Im- proving and condition quite favor- able. New Jersey: Seeding com- pleted. Stand and condition good although late. North Dakota: Plant- ing 80 per cent completed. Growth starting favorably. Ohio: Making good growth. Condition fair to good. Oklahoma: Improving now but stands are thin due to heavy rains and freezes shortly after sow- ing. Pennsylvania: Seeding com- pleted. A good stand and excellent condition reported in southern coun- ties. Rye Delaware: Condition steadily im— proving and a good yield is expected. Indiana: Much rye is headed out and generally in good condition. Some poorer fields are being “bogged down." Maryland: Outlook indi- cates fair to good yield. Michigan: Crop heading; straw shorter than usual. Stand fair. Minnesota: Con- dition very good. A little abandon- ment reported. Montana: Condition excellent. Making good growth. New Jersey: Headed out. Condition some— what better than wheat but crop be— low average. North Dakota: Some improvement shown but state condi— tion below average. Ohio: Heading out rapidly. Condition good. Pen- sylvania: Heading in southern coun- ties. Condition poor to good. South Carolina: Condition good to excel- lent. Wisconsin: Now over 20 in- ches high and well headed out in southern and eastern districts. Wy- ‘oming: Condition extra good. Potato Prospects Poor Colorado: Planting progressing rapidly. Acreage limited by high price of seed. Prevailing price being from 8 to 12 cents a pound. Con- necticut and all other New England States: Planting about finished. Last half of May excellent for planting and growth in Aroostook County, Maine. Delaware: Condition fair to good but many fields “spotted” due to seed rotting. It is expected that a fair acreage will be planted to late potatoes. Indiana: High price of seed has materially red-uced acre- age. Kansas: Prespects particular- ly flattering in the Kaw Valley but stand reported thin in the Arkansas River section due to rotting of the seed. Louisiana: Early Irish pota— toes now moving to market. Sweet potatoes doing well. Maryland: Gen- eral condition fair to good. Pros- pects are good for a large crop of late potatoes. Michigan: Dealers re- port old stock exhausted except for an occasional car. Acreage a few per cent below last year due to labor shortage, abandonment of farms, the high cost of seed, etc. Minnesota: Planting progressing nicely. Slight increase in acreage indicated. Mon- tana: High prices and limited sup— ply will reduce the commercial acre- age. Nebraska: Condition generally good. Reduced acreage expected. New Jersey: The crop is practically all in and is up and being cultivated in the central section. North Caro- lina: Irish potatoes promise very good yields. North Dakota: Plant— ing becoming general. Increased acreage unlikely. Ohio: Acreage probably reduced. Early planted crop in. Condition good. Pennsyl— vania: Planting in progress in all sections. Seed scarce and high priced. Early varieties being culti- vated. Wisconsin: Early potatoes showing in fields. Late being plant- ed under favorable conditions. Hay Conditions Improve Colorado: From ten days to two BEET fit/1' ~/. SUGAR Milt/ax .WTY ~~ ' I r A ~’-“\ , ,/ . H D ‘ 1i . g AsuG Q 73;?) MuFACTUPGQ 1:5?“ I / 2 rx§m K ’, . W gnaw 4 .t, V‘ I,» ',. dill/"fl? . 'lehb‘bF-dfifil t L .;::"-Yski;mp,an.d :spokune a: trick Hes. . stance mammalian: as . , ichigan Crop outlook Reported Excellent ' ' Peninsular State Will Have Best Crops of Grain, Vegetables and Fruit in Years weeks late but progressing rapidly. Connecticut and all other New Eng- “ land States: Coming‘on excellently Indiana: General condition excellent. Clover heading in southern counties and cutting will commence in about ten days. Kansas: Hay and pastures improving. First cutting of alfalfa in progress all over south and east; crop only medium. Maryland: Too cool but outlook indicates good crop. 'Michigan: Prospects somewhat im- proved though the growth is back- ward. Minnesota: Making rapid growth. Alfalfa generally in splen- did condition. Considerable sweet clover seeded in northern section. Missouri: Conditions promise fine crop on increased acreage. Alfalfa is being cut for first time. Clover conditions favorable. Montana: Sup— ply very scarce and is not sufficient for work stock. No. 1 timothy is selling from $45 to $60. Outlook for hay crop is good. Considerable acreage of millet, oats and other crops being sown for hay. Consider- able alfalfa has been winter-killed especially in Custer, Richland and Broadwater counties. Some of this acreage has been reseeded to alfalfa and the remainder to millet, corn and other crops. Nebraska: A bumper first crop of alfalfa assured. Fruit in General Arkansas: Present outlook is for 90 per cent of the apple crop of last year. Strawberry movement in White County will end this week. Prices from $2.50 to $3 a crate be- low those prevailing the first week due to freight congestion. Califor- nia: Slight decline in condition of apricots. Car shortage for shipment or deciduous fruits more pronounced. Sugar situation and can shortage also causing apprehension among can- ners. Colorado: All fruit from ten days to two weeks late. Peaches greatly damaged except around Pal- isade and Mesa County. Connecticut and all other New England States: Apples nearly in full blossom in southern New England. Indiana: All fruit crops in fine condition. Iowa Fruit prospects continue to be good. Kansas: Apple crop apparently good in the MissOuri River section and most of the Arkansas River Valley. Kaw River orchards from Kansas City to Manhattan show a very light crop. Cherries show from a light crop to nothing at all. Berry crop is good and strawberry harvest is com- mencing. Louisiana: Peach and pear outlook is very unsatisfactory. Mary- land: Late apple crop promising. Peach trees show leaf curl but fair crop is expected. Keiffer pears in- dicate good crop in some sections. Blackberries and raspberries promise heavy crop. Early strawberries but slightly injured by frost, late crop promising. Michigan: Present pros— ' pects for practically a full crop of all kinds. Montana: Outlook for apples is good in Flathead, Missoula and Ravalli counties. Sweet cher— ries and pears in Ravalli County were damaged by frost. New Jersey: Apples in bloom in northern coun- ties; a good set is reported from the southern and central districts. Brown rot continues in the peach crop. Ohior ' Prospects generally good, although a heavy drop reported rom some io- calities. Pennsylva ia: Apples, , peaches and pears have set well in” southern'count-ies and are blooming: in northern. No damage reported from May frosts. Washington: Sam winter injury to apples reported ’ fl" «swarms zwalla ‘Walla , , .w pints . ARM ,FAMILIES are suffering H‘s/from the acute shortage and high price of sugar. They are wond- ering where they are going to get *sugar for their canning this sum- mer and fall, and how much they ' will have to pay for it if it is avail- "able at all. These questions the BUsINEss FARMER has sought to find an answer to with but little success. Although Michigan will produce a 'good many million pounds of sugar this year it is not likely that the peo- -ple of the state, except for the farm- ‘ ers who grow the beets and those who have stock in the sugar factor- ies, will receive any more benefit from this supply than they ever have. The average individual is likely to get the idea that there is some way in which the individual farmer may extract and refine sugar from beets, sorghum, etc., but we are as- ' sured by the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture that this can- not be done except at a prohibitive cost. One of the recent inquiries received along this lines is as fol- lows: ‘ “I would like to know if there is any way possible that a farmer could raise his own sugar beets and do his own refining. If so will you please inform me. Enclosed you will find $1 for another year’s subscription to the M. B. F. We appreciate your paper very much."—0. Y., Mason 00. How to Extract Sugar . This inquiry being referred to the Department of Agriculture brought forth some interesting information, the principal part of which was that farmers could produce syrups from beets and sorghum which would take the place of refined sugar for certain cooking and table purposes. We were advised that the extracting of the crude sugar was a tedious, im- practical task, and that moreover, the syrups would serve equally as well as the sugar. The letter con- taining this information is reproduc- ed below.~ It is somewhat technical as most contributions from govern- mental departments are apt to be, but its conclusions are perfectly un- derstandable: “It is, of course, out of the ques- tion for the individual to attempt to produce refined or white sugar, the it is possible to produce certain su- gars by direct evaporation and cry- stallization. In the manufacture of such syrups, they ‘ are ordinarily evaporated to a density of seventy, to, say, seventy-three per cent solids. Where the character of the syrup is favorable, sugar (sucrose) will fre— quently crystallize out from such syrups after they have been stored for some length of time. Under the same favorable conditions, a syrup that has been evaporated to a great- er density, say, eighty to eighty—five per cent solids, will crystallize more readily and will afford a larger quan- tity of sugar srystals. However, it does not alwaysfollow that a syrup will crystallize even when it has been evaporated to a density of eighty- five per cent solids: In the case of sorghum syrup, crystallization is more liable to occur in the product made from fully ripe sorghum than in that made from under or over- ripe sorghum, as such cane always contains greater or less amounts of the sugar known as invert sugar which has a tendency to retard the crystallization of sucrose, and, when present in sufficient amount, to pre- vent it altogether. This sugar also occurs in ripe sorghum, though us— ually in comparatively small amountsw Solids other than sugars in syrup also retard crystallization of sucrose. Syrup made from sugar beets (or from sugar cane) will us— ually contain a relatively small pro- portion of invert sugar and for this “canon the average beet (or cane) ,‘iflup is more liable to crystallize fjn’the average sorghum syrup. ""The following methods are sug- _1gjes_tedin caseit is desired to attempt _,?produce sugarfrom these syrups: ' ‘Crystallized VSugar.—The evapor- ‘et. n: of the syrup. is continued until density of say eighty-five per cent “ids has been reached, and .the ad that’s sorghum” ancl ‘Sugdr Beets red... profitably. in a. {cold . , '1'4: gun.— ‘ J —-——-r ju—u—l r—_~==r of the lateness of the season sor mediate planting. Prwide’ are? Not Too Late to Plant Sorghum * HE DEPARTMENT of Farm‘Ci‘ops of the M.'_A. O. advises that .both sorghum and sugar beets should for best results be planted between the middle‘of May and the first of June, but states that'on abcount um may do well if planted at once. Sorghum is usually planted after corn. and .corn planting has only just been completed by many Michigan farmers. season continues throughout the year we may reasonably expect that a fair crop of sorghum for syrup purposes can be produced from an im- The M. An 0. does not follow the Department of Ag: riculture in its recommendations of making syrup from beets, claim. in; that the syrup has an unpleasant taste—Editor. If the lateness 6f the obtained; this will require several weeks to several months. Crystalli- zation may be hastened by stirring in about one ounce of granulatedlsu- gar as soon as the syrup has cooled to about atmospheric temperature. The stored syrup should be stirred frequently in same manner in order to avoid the fermation of a solid, concrete-like mass of sugar. The crystals may be freed from syrup by placing the mass in a barrel or oth- er container, the bottom of which’ is provided with many small holes or fine meshed screen and allowing the syrup to drain out. The excess syrup remaining in the mass may then be removed by carefully adding a very small quantity of water on top of the mass and allowing it to drain thru. After thorough draining, the sugar should be dried. “Concrete—The evaporation is continued until test of a small quan— tity shows that it will. form a solid mass upon cooling. It is then pour- ed into containers, preferably com- paratively small ones, and allowed to form solid blocks. A coarsely gran- ular product may be obtained , by stirring continuously while cooling. Great care must be taken to avoid scorching or buring the syrup dur- ing evaporation, and the' same .pre- :caution must be taken in drying the crystalline product. These products may be used for the various purposes for which the ordinary “brown su- gar" is used. However, as they will always contain more or less of the mother syrup and hence will always possess the characteristic flavor, it is believed that they will not be found suitable for use in place of re- fined or white sugar (granulated su- gar.) The residual syrup (molasses) may be used for purposes for which molasses is ordinarily used. “It is’the opinion of the writer that the attempted production of su- gar upon such a small scale will not be found at all satisfactory for gen- eral home usage. The danger of scorching the syrup becomes very great when evaporating in open evap- ‘orators to such high densities, while Meat and Livestock Situation During May ’20 (This Statement Issued 'by Institute of American Meaty Packers) HOLESALE' prices of beef, con- tinuing their decline during ‘ May, decreased from three to five cents a pound and at the end of the month were not far from the level prevailing when the United States entered the war, three years ago. Livestock producers are losing money on theircattle and many packers re- port losses on beef. At the beginning of May the pros- pect indicated that the conditions arising from the railroad strike would be restored to normal, with a fair trade and satisfactory prices. But accumulations occurring during the strike exerted a depressing influ- ence on prices practically througout May. Other depressing factors were importations of New Zealand lamb shipped here by the British govern- ment, the existence in “second hands" of beef bought from the gov- ernment and an oversupply of dress- " ed beef in Eastern markets. These circumstances, coupled with declining values for hides and fats, were reflected in lower prices for cattle. Receipts were fairly large and the cattle were unusually heavy, with the result that the supply of beef has been quite large relative to demand. Wholesale beef prices fur- nish an interesting contrast to the price trend in many other commodi- ties. Popular demand for the choice cuts of beef still results in an unus—_ ually large differential between the price of meat from fore-quarters (less expensive) and meat from the hindquarters. This "spread’v' has narrowed slightly but nevertheless remains abnormal. Pork . An improvement in the foreign ex— change situation at_many continent- al points resulted in more export trade ‘to'thie'cOntinent‘ than has been the case for several months. Inquir- ies ran more to meats than to lard. There were he very large orders. and the improvement is slight; but. the outlook for expert trade to the continent is certainly better. Fer ridicule : : example, prices in francswhich seem \ h‘hursr Wit“ w. the dollar, seem more nearly reason- able when francs are quoted, say, at twelve and one-half. Opinions concerning the prospect of exports to the United Kingdom are not wholly in agreement. It is as- serted in some quarters that the British will be out of the market throughout the summer, except for occasional odd lots. Those holding this view believe that British stocks will be adequate until fall. Others assert that British stocks are sum- cient for only a short period, but that replenishment will be made from stocks already bought and stored’here, and that the British will contract for no important deliveries before September. The British were practically out of the trade during May. with the con- sequence that the premium on light hogs—the kind sought by the Brit— ish—was gradually wiped out. The present high price of corn may result in free marketing of hogs' by the farmers. Present hog prices, some farmers feel, “do not justify the payment of the high prices demand- ed for corn. Furthermore, the high price of labor, corn and other feed also has resulted in a noticeable re— duction in the quality of hogs, many farmers being unable to feed corn as freely as normally. A decline in quality is to be expected at this time of year, but the loss in grade is great— er than is usually the case. The cred- it situation may have played a part in the decline of quality. I Mutton and Lamb Frozen New Zealand lambs shipped here by the British government have _depressed both beef and lamb pric- es. ‘Since the domestic trade is not accustomed to handling frozen lambs the imported lambs have sold atlow- er values. This reacted sharply on the price of California lambs; The first California spring lambs of'this season's crop sold around $19.50 per hundredweight, and speedily increas- ed in price until within a few days they were selling as high as $20.75. Then, on account of importations of I the New Zealand product, they deA cliff-ed until they have been selling—as low as $17 to‘$1_7..60 wholesale. \ (Editor's note; The-"above ’ ‘ ” item-reference Q'cfll . ' N 4 ‘ sist of- large, irregular sized, hard, , 739 t .e final“ as: isj'very name; to “he's” more or léss sticky; mass.“ Thefcry. stallized‘produc't is very liable to con» crystals while the concrete is liable _to be a dense, ‘tough, mass; either of these products will dissolve ordi- narily at a slower rate‘ than will the sugar usually offered for sale. It is also considered doubtful whether such sugars will,be found useful for any purposes than those in which the syrups themselves would be as satis- factory. -- Further, it is "suggested that the time and labor involved will result in the net cost of'the sugar be- ing greater than that at which sugar mayordinarily be obtained. “It is trusted that this information will be of assistance to you. If you desire further information," we will be glad to furnish-you any that we may have available—Sidney F. Sher.- wood, Assistant Chemist. Plants That Yield Syrups The Michigan Agricultural Col- lege has already issued a suggestion that farmers plant sorghum this year as a source of syrup, but the Depart- ment of Agriculture gives us a little more information along that line, as follows: W‘As a simple, practical means of helping relieve the acute sugar and syrup shortage, the United States De- partment of Agriculture recommends the increased production of sorghum syrup which, it is pointed out, requir- es neither unusual skill nor expensive equipment to make. Furthermore, the methods of growing sorghum are similar to those of corn and in that respect involvelittle that is new to many farmers. ‘Syrup manufacture is so simple that it can be carried on with profit by individuals utilizing small sized outfits of a daily capacity of 100 gallons or less. Where opera- tions on a larger scale are feasibly, community plants having a daily ca— pacity of several hundred gallons are suggested by the department. “Sorghum syrup is palatable and pleasant flavored, and is an excel- lent table syrup. It can also be used as a substitute for other syrups‘ or for sugar in making certain breads, cakes, etc., and as a substitute for a part of the sugar used in making pre- serves and the like. The cost of producing it at home is relatively low and usually an indivdual manu- facturing it can readily sell any ex- cess over his home needs to good ad— vantage. Sorghum syrup produced during the 1919 season brought the producers from 90 cents to $1.50 a gallon, depending on 'the quality, marketing conditions, etc. Thus far the supply has fallen far short of the market demand. Sweet Sorghum a Productive Source of Syrup “The sorghum plant is similar in appearance to corn, growing about the same height and possessing about the same color. It may' be grown throughout the United States in prac- tically all regions where corn is grown, though parts of the extreme northern tier of states have a grow- ing season usually too short for sweet sorghum to mature. In grow- ing sorghum for syrup care should be taken to secure seeds of a sweet sorghum variety, and to:- planting in the north, one which matures quickly. Sweet sorghum is grown seed and is planted in rows about 3 1-2 feet apart. The plants should stand from four to six inches apart in .the ram: Approximately from five ’to eight pounds of seed’is needed'to the acre. . Ordinarily planting time falls soon after corn planting,.when the soil has” become ' theroughly - warm. The stalks of the plants are ready for syrupy‘making when the seeds ,whichi form'Theads”at the top of'the stalkers in thy-late dough - stage, that is,=1ust before "they 'be— come dry and hard- The machinery neces inst syrup grammar seating-u: nice am 1.9mm 5. ._.mu_£o.. . from _ unite and form a consolidated rural ' agricultural school,- with v the result that one district rejected the propo- sition, .two others carried by only _fone majority each, while the other .three voted in favor of consolidation almost unanimously. ‘Only July: 14, 1919 the district was formally or- ganized and a district board elected. As it was necessary to provide more room for pupils, a bond issue was asked of the district, which upon first election was defeated, but at a second election the district author- ized an issue of $27,500 in. bonds which were accordinglysold by the district board. Plans for a new building were drawn, but-upon the advice of the architect and the de- partment at Lansing, bids were not asked for until March 6, .1920 and then the bids being over' $55,000 we were unable to let contract a"nd_call- ed and advisory meeting of the dis- trict. ' About this time opposition began to develop and take form toward a vote to disband~ the district and re- turn to the condition as we were be- fore the vote for consolidation. ' _ All concede that a better school can be held under consolidation than by the separate districts but the in- creased cost and the transportation of the pupils seem to be the greatest objections. It is admitted by all that the entire cost of the schoOl hasbeen more than previous years, so has the ‘ cost in all lines, so withbut consoli- Beet Growers’ Ass’n Starts Campaign for 1921 Conference and Contract NY NOTION thatthe beet grow- ers of Michigan have lost heart because of their failure to se— cure a fair deal from the manufact- urers this year, will be dispelled when it is learned that plans have already been laid for a more vigorous cam- paign the coming season. This was disclosed at a meeting of the board of directors of the Association which was held at Owosso on June 3rd. While it is generally felt that the responsibility for losing the fight this year rests upon the shoulders of those farmers who lost their nerve at the last minute and took contracts it is not desired that there should be any bitterness over the matter. which would only cause hard feelings be- tween neighbors and delay victory for many years to come. The Asso- ciation feels that such farmers who are growing beets are making a mis- takeand injuring the cause of organ- ization, but the loyal members are willing to forgive and to forget and accept these into the ranks for the next campaign, believing that with 6143 - 5 L. s Sthtmi ‘ Director. Napoleon consolidated School .V w mm; Azgifate’sl'Cons’olidated‘School system course only the bright side is given by, those who favor it, including “T is new a drive on in this vicinity to consolidate the schools. Of ,. tutu. theschool commissioner of . Kent county and State Superintendent of Instruction. Now, I see by the letter of G. S.,.in the county crop re- port from Jackson County, that the people of Napoleon and other townships of Jackson county are not finding it so nice after once trying it out. As . this question is being’ agitated all over Michigan and we here in southern .Kent county are quite interested on One side or the other, couldn’t you get us a. little data on the question from places like Napoleon Where it has been , tried. W., Byron Center, Mich. I really think it is your duty to do this for your subscribers."—A. A. The above letter moved us to make an investigation of the consolidated sshool at Napoleon, with the following results: We found that only one (1 strict out of the six had voted against the proposition; that the people of this district lived so far away from the school that it was necessary to get their children ready at 6:30 in the morning; and that this was the district which was making the most determined fight for the return of the old sys— tem. We found that the board wasusing an old school building of about one-half themecessary capacity pending the erection of a modern building; that the school was over-crowded, lacked modern equipment, and suffered from other handicaps which would be overcome when the new school build- ing was erected. Our representative talked with Mr. L. G. Palmer, director. of the consolidated school, who is very much in favor of thernew system, but admitted that they were having their troubles. In the accompanying article Mr. Palmer sets forth his reasons why he believes the taxpayers of the consolidated districts should not return to the old system.—-Editor. dation the cost would have been greater. So the question arises, will not the better school be worth the increased cost? In the district which rejected consolidation, their taxes were only three dollars less per thousand than the consolidated dis— trict. ' , In looking up statistics as to the cost of transportation we find that the foundation already laid, and with a better understanding of what their rights are in the matter, that the farmers will be one hundred per cent loyal another year. An inten- sive membership campaign will be put on at once, and no stone will be left unturned to enlist every sugar beet growerin Michigan. investigation will disclose to every grower of beets that it will be to his financial advantage to align himself with the Association and never again to grow beets except under a con— tract approved by the Association. Nine out of the ten directors of the Association were present at the Owosso meeting, in addition to dele- gates invited from the largest local in each county. These directors made the following report Upon the percentage of members remaining loyal to their vows not to grow beets: Shiawassee.............. . . . . ..75 Genesee . . . . . . . . . . ..75 Clinton .. . . . . . . . . . . . ..80 Gratiot .. . . . . . . ..75 A little Napoleon pays the highest price of any district in thestate for this pur- pose being $9, $8, $6.50 and $5 per day respectfully. It being a new venture ,nearly all were afraid to take the job, but"present indications are that this cost next year will be much lower. The routes were long and a mistake was made of com- mencing school at 8.30 a. m. instead Isabella . . . . . . . . . .70 —Ingham . . . . . ..75 Midland .. 85 Saginaw .. . . . . . . . . . .. .95 Bay . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........90 Tuscola . . . . . . . .75 Huron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..75 Sanilac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..80 Directors reported that companies had around 50 per cent of a normal acreage in all counties except Sag- inaw and Bay where practically no beetswill be raised this year. Many beets are being cultivated up and planted to other crops every day. According to reports from direct- ors and men from the different coun— ties the damage done as reported in the Detroit papers is just a frame- up. Only one shack has been burn- ed in Saginaw county and the cap- tain of the state police stated him- self that in his opinion the man that lived there burned it himself. It is claimed some farmers are dragging their own beets up and reporting it done by night raiders so that they Farm Bureau Assumes Charge of Campaign Against CCORDING to J.‘ P. Powers, as- sistant secretary of the Michi- gan State Farm Bureau, the grasshopper pest which has been un- usually active in Northern Michigan for a number of seasons past, are al- ready at work in some counties and have wrought considerable damage with more to follow unless immedi- ate and vigorous steps are taken to combat the menace. “The insects killing seedings and young growths already have ruined crops of hundreds of acres,” says Mr. Powers. “In Leelan‘au, Benzie, Kal- kaska,- Wexford, Mason and‘ Grand Traverse counties, scores of‘ farmers ~ are quitting their farms or contem- plating doing so. 'As it is compara- tively early in the season a strong fight against them will save hund- reds; of acres from , ,ruination, and with this idea‘in mind, the Farm Bu- reau is arranging to take the lead- ershipin the battle. One carloa‘d of poison, 30,000” pounds, was shipped who as to county, and, other sistedas soon as .. ‘ * tr ~" cut-over lands of that section of the state are particularly appropriate for the breeding of them. Last year there were 13 county boards of sup- ervisors who appropriated money to fight these insects. I understand that these appropriations were re— duced this year and combatting ef- forts in 1918 and 1919 curbed the scourge extensively. It was very bad in 1917.. “Efforts will be made at the next session of the legislature to secure enactment of a measure providing Acreage Condition and Estimated Yield of Important U. S. Crops ACRES. 1920 CONDITION CROP Per' Cent June .1 June 1 June I Ma 1 _ of 1919 Acres .1920' 1919 10 yrs. 19y20 Winter wh at 68 5 34 165 000 78 2 new“ e . , , . 94.9 .0 ‘ .1 Sprint wheat . 83.5 19,487,000 91.2 . 91. 79 All wheat. . . . . . . . 73.3 53,652,000 81.7 V 93.8 86.1 Oats, . . . . . . . . . . . -. 96.8 41,032,000 87.8 93.2 89.9 131;?” . . . . . . .§. giggfigo 91.7 90.6 ..._.........’. . . , . . 93.5 89.2 85.1 Hayp‘ I‘ll». . . .’. . . 99.8 71,752,000 88.9 94.1 87.9 89.4 Pastures, . . . . . . . . ' 83.8 97.4 90.1 79.8 Apple: “nun..- ‘ 7 .3 67.8 69.2 Peaches . . . . . . . . . - 64.9 73.1 61.2 ; TOTAL’ PRODUCTION IN YIELD PER ' ACRE PRICE PER BIL. . . MILLIONS or immune ' ’ , JUNE .1 __ CROP 11-)20‘ 1919 ' 1914-’_ 10 1919 ' .Dec. 1918 20 Dec. ' (Est) um) Av. (Eat) A“ 19‘20 , 1919 Bus. Bus. ‘ Bus; Cents Cents I 14.8 ' 1.4.7 ‘ 15.9 I I 14.2 92.0 18.5 I v 14.5 12.8 15.1 258.3 228.4 . . . . . 82.1 29.4 83.8 102.9 71.2 291.9 - 22.3 i 25.3 138.3 ‘109.2 . . . . . . .. ,I 14.0 .5. ‘15 o 1 3.9 143.7 ‘ 1.5 .5 , 1 4 ‘ " 2%85 28130 of 9 a. m.,',so.th-at some pupils had to leave home at 6:30 a. m. which '1 made it very hard for-xthe small pu- pils. Drivers have been changedfiion‘: one route, which has caused some; trouble, but in general parents. have been generally satisfied with the; transportation and it has had the. effect of more steady attendance and}. less tardiness. ' One part of the district, and that part voted almost solidly against cone solidation and bonds is 6 to 7 miles from the school house, their interest lie nearer another town and they wish to get away from this school. Could this be accomplished more, harmony might be secured in, the district. Another adverse argument is the location of the school, it not being in the center of the district. This site was selected because the graded school had a good building to accom- modate one half the pupils so very v few would change the site but think the district should be enlarged by' taking in territory of other town- ships to the south and east where the . districts are nearer than one already j in. As there was not suflicient room ’: for all pupils without crowding this i is used as an objection. Some object ‘ to the teaching of agriculture, man- ual training and domestic science. but in time these will more than prove their value and finally somerob- I ject to the school on account of the ‘ teachers, saying some of them should not be allowed to teach anywhere, but this very often occurs in the dis- trict school and also in our best city schools. ‘ .—__. .~._.. -- ..«gn_ ,. will not have to pay for seed. No houses have been destroyed by dy- namite, a couple of window lights were broken in one shack and it- was reported that it was blown up (false) the sheriff of Saginaw county found a picture of the Kaiser on the , wall and requested that that be re- moved as perhaps that was Why the ' windows were broken. ' The Farm Bureau requested that we turn the fight over to them and , they would build sugar factories (we - wish they would) but our directors ‘ were of the opinion that the farmers would not want to burden themselv— es by investing 30 to 50 million dollars in duplicate plants so decid- ed to stay to the mat and commence at once and put on the campaign for 1921. The western associations as- sociating. A committee of three was appointed to confer with a com- mittee of the Farm Bureau to look up the factory building proposition and report. The manager was in- structed to establish offices at Durand and buy equipment suitable. Grasshopper Pest for grasshopper control with ade- quate appropriations for the efforts. This measure is to be somewhat sim- ilar to the noxious weed law we now have in the state. “Arrangements were made last week to provide for financial assist- ance to the Michigan Live StOck Shippers Exchange, which is engag- ed in the perfecting of community live stock shipping associations over the state. Mr. C. E. Compson, of Lansing, is manager of this exchange, which now has about 70 of the 200 associations in the state co—operat— ing with it. ‘ "Arrangements were made also last week for the leasing of another ' large three-story warehouse in Lans- ,, ing, owned by the Bird estate and - Opposite the Michigan Centraljs _’-. tion, for use in pooling wool. “is- building will accommodate one, mn- * lion pounds and its acquisition we forced by the fact that receipts " wool are so large that thepres‘ big buildings at 221 N. Cedar strj is proving inadequate; This building, is practically filled now.‘ The ‘1' ' ‘ on‘ the Bird gfwarehouse . 'f it aniopti'on. to' buy," which”'wi Np .,\ . .' fany follow." v NE 0F the greatest needs of the operation in distribution and marketing. The accomplishment of ; this purpose will be made possible, only- through the introduction of methods resulting in careful, gener- al farming and crop costaccounting. The last. quarter century has witness- ed an attempt to apply a universal . and powerful stimulus to production ‘1 only” The next quarter century must be to the farmer a business era, in which he himself must be the active participant in an indivdual farm and crop accounting campaign as well as an active participant for methods looking to co-operating in marketing. The financial status of the farmer has been misunderstood. Glowing press accounts of large gross receipts from special crop or enterprise, with— out a complete financial statement of the running expense of the farm as a whole, has misled the public and the farmer hasnot been in a position to defend himself on account of the lack of data on the cost of production. While the price of farm products [has risen to a high level they have not kept pace with the increased cost of production. It takes more bush- els of grain, tons of hay, pounds of wool, cattle, hogs or sheep to buy sary equipment to run a farm than 'it did five, ten or fifteen years ago; and the same will apply to labor. Let us take the average price of the eight leading products of the farm of the northern states during 1919 as given by Illinois Agricultural As- I sociation, U. S._Agricultural Investi- ’ gation and the Trade and Drovers’ Journal of Chicago. Giving the fol- lowing flgures as an average in the United States, a farmer produces this food stuff, clothing and foot—wearing " material. He takes to market: Meat worth to consumer, $100; 1 i farmer receives $44, distributor, $56. Butter and eggs, .worth to consum- er, $100; farmer receives: $63; dis- tributor, $37. Fruit and vegetables worth to the consumer, $100; farmer receives, $45; distributor $55. Cereals. worth to the consumer, $100; farmer receives $60; distribu— I tor $40. T Wheat, worth to the consumer ' - $100; farmer receives $49; distribut- 3 or $51. ‘ Wool, worth to the consumer. $100 ' farmer receives $11; distributor $89. Hides, worth to the consumer, $100; farmer receives 10; distribut- or $90. I I Sugar beets worth to the consum- i or $100: farmer receives $33; distri- I butor $67. The totals represent these figures: Articles worth to the consumer $800; I farmer receives $315; distribution } $485. " I Hence the farmers get $315 out of the $800 that the consumer pays. “Oh. but hold on,” says the Big Five ' Packing Houses, which control most ._ of the farm products of the United States. “the farmer is making mon- ey; just look at the great wealth in the farming industry.” Farming is the largest single industry in our country, Take a peek into our coun— try banks and note who holds a large per cent of the assets of these banks, the farmer. Again it is whispered into the car of the city dweller that I the farmer has no overhead expens— ' es like other lines of industry. ’1‘] on the Big Five goes on to show Mr. Ultimate Consumer through the big city papers and magazines, that they are running their business on a small fraction of one per cent .\ profit. This they claim is largely ‘ [due to their tremendous overhead ex- ".Vp‘ense. - ' We do notrdou'bt their statement, ‘ut.wecannot help but wonder how hey- have accumulated hundreds of iliions in less than a quarter of a I \century and paid salaries. to some of their managers several times largier than’the salary of our president; and the same time are able to spend ‘ major part of the summer months 6 finest resorts in the world. target the other £819 «at V - ' gee farmer at the present time is cop-4 t'they 'who‘wan‘t to inform the any of the standard tools or neces- . . . . - ' t Eaton County Farmer Talks StraightlFrom the Shodlder Needs o‘fflAgriculture I I By BERT TOWE, in Charlotte Republican "L The, Iowa Wool Growers’ Ass’n., a co-oporativeenterpdee. has a mem- bership of 8,600, and lastyear marketed 1,250,000 pounds of wool, on Which [I saved $340,000 for farmers because of the better marinate it was able to find1 This is enough money to pay the salaries of all for a year.—Organized Farmer. of a man rising with the sun during the spring and summer months, sleeves rolled up to his elbows toil- ing from 12 to 16 hours per day ex- cept time enough to eat his meals and all members of his family doing the same thing. This man is an act- ual producer of wealth. The other picture is a man who rises two 01' three hours later, takes a shower bath in an elegant equipped room for that purpose, takes a short walk for exercise, eats breakfast around 8 or 8:30 or 9 a. m., touches a button and drives to his ofiice in as fine a lim- ousine as modern skill can produce, with a private chaufier to open and shut the door. This chap takes lunch at-a fashionable club at noon, at about three or four p. m. he touch- es another buttou, his car drives up and he returns to his family and spends the rest of the day playing golf at his summer home. The lat— ter gent is the fellow who fixes the prices of the products that the first ' fellow works, works to raise. To illustrate during July and Au- gust and September. last year, corn was worth around $2.50 per bushel. The fellow who rode in the limou- «1. county agents in Iowa ‘ V . sine owned the bulk of the corn at.‘ that time. When the chap with the tanned face and arms came to sell in November and December, corn drop- pad 100 per cent and stayed quite steadily until the major part of that crop had gone into the hands of the fellow Who rode in the limousine. Then corn began to rise in price and »will continue to do so until the man who wears patched overalls and a last year straw hat has another crop ready to sell. Oh, but some one says “the law of supply and demand al— ways. controls." If that be true then we are entitled to an explanation of why corn products continued to re- main on a high level and many kinds of products going higher while corn had dropped 100 per cent below the high point. Up jumps another chap who does not raise corn nor speculate in farm products, his name is Mr. Ultimate Consumer and he says “Why don’t you farmers know the fellow who rides in-the limousine owns or con- trols most all of the cereal, glucose and syrup factories in the United States?" Another thing this fellow tells us that he eats more corn pro- Acreage, Condition and Estimated Yield of Winter Wheat, Oats, Rye WINTER WHEAT ' STATE CONDITION FORECAST. 1920 DECEMBER ESTIMATE PRICE PER BU. a a n a - =1 - :1 -.° .° 00 . H 0 H o :9 H53 H3 '3 div-«.3 9-; H O ' NO :8 0 Ba "‘ U ' u o '- 0 93 as. as as: 2% tea as an Psi-494 HM :94 °cn Ina II: am HIDE-4m Par-K3 HHa Ohio 66 82 28.417 28.995 53,480 36,539 272 241 Indiana 61 78 21,009 21.611 45.792 38.183 266 230 Illinois 64 ~ 75 27.752 27,880 57.800 40.845 268 230 Michigan 77 78 14.518 14.80 19.285 15.253 283 248 Iowa . . 83 84 8,765 8,702 16.530 8.594 mm 213 Missouri 70 77 29.585 29.937 57.699 35,161 268 I 31 California 66 80 9.092 10.863 16.335 6.891 240 213 U. s. .. 78.2 82.0I 503,996 484,047 731,636 503,498 OATS sTATE, ACRES. 1920 00%???“ “9333‘? DECEMBER EST. Pligng . a a ad: a u ~ 0 a H 51.4 g h o q '49:! ,3 as“: H 0o: q. '1 3" 5" ° “84-” on: o“ §° :55 53% §§ its? §§§ 53% £3 <1 HE) ~53 3.58m Hm than: nno "-10 New York .. 103 1.195 90 89 39.794 ' 29.580 43 890 135 82 Pennsylvania 97 1,195 90 ‘ 89 37.13 36.859 39.596 123 81 Ohio . . . . . . 98 1.517 82 90 52.245 51.858 64.201 105 70 Indiana . . . . 102 1.862 84 88 60.999 60.225 - 66.576 101 68 Illinois 83 I 8,815 84 88 137,798 I 123.060 186.214 97 66 Michigan 08 I 1,446 87 88 48.434 I 36.875 55.964 111 71 U. s. . . . . ..I -98.8I 41.032 87.8 89.9 1.315.476 I1.248.310 1.414.558 102.9 71.2 av: - Indium . . . .I 90 I 342 85 88 5.000 5,320 3.623 185 142 Michigan . II 90 810 86 88 11.773 13.500 5.629 187 147 V‘Visconsln 91 478 89 90 8,338 .295 7,358 187 143 Mnmesota I 92 I 480 83 99 8,287 7,830 - 6.547 173 135 No. Dakota... I 48 I 944 70 88 9.912 15.560 I 8.451 180 134 So Dakota ..I 85 I 425 83 92 6,632 6.500 5.266 174 134 Nebraska ...I 89 I 363 95 92 5.862 6.650 | 3.377 169 189 U. s. . . . . ..I 77.4 I 5.470 84.4 89.2 80.006 I 88.478 59.968 183.9 143.7 Clare Farmers Put Candidate in Field OLLOWING OUT the plans Fadopted some time ago and and which were described in a re— cent issue crf THE BUSINESS FABMER, the delegates selected by the farmers of Clare, Gladwin and Roscommon counties, met at Gladwin on June 5th and endorsed Mr. Richard Emer- son, awell knowa farmer of Clare county, for state representative. The committee consisted of the following men: John Fitzpatrick, chairman, and George St-aley, representingClare county; Elmer Gedney and Levi Pfenning, representing Gladwin coun- ty; and Edward Coan, representing Roscommon county. ‘ ' It was proposed at thiemeeting to hold another .‘meeting at Gladwin on . thefoll’owiing Saturday and have the candidate present with the commit- tee. names of prominent farmers as on- dorsing the selections! "the. commit- ' tee and will use .this'for advertising purposes. It is believed that by this plan -75 to 70 per cent of the farm. or: of the, district can be induced to support. the $10118.“ and insure ' The committee will also take up the matter of endorsing a candidate for the senatorship, this position hav- ing been held the past two years by Duncan McRae of Harrisvi’lle. It is probable that if Sen. McRae can be induced to run again he will receive the support of the farmers. Of him and his record, Sen. Herbert F. Bak- er writes as follows: I “I am glad to say of Sen. McRae that he is the salt of the earth. He has the courage of his: convictions and no man in the legislature“ of 1919 has a.better record. @91- .,faitha ful service along the line or equal rights for all and special privileges The committee will secure the I for none. _ , , "‘I think he is not disposed to be a candidate and it is my Judgment that he should be encouraged "to get into the race for, in case he does not, i the senator from that district ..18 31% most certain to, be some two spot. of. a1 lawyer anxious to get" into the slug graces of {the special interests. you can 'do’ anything toga; Mende- baek» tel-the. be .2 .. $03305 ‘ lowest. when they eat “I? , ducts in cold weather than in warm, hoWever the law of supply and de- ‘mand appears to be in the hands of the fellow who rides in the limou- sine who never put a callous on his hand or sweat on his brow unless from playing golf or tennis. , Now, if ’it is a settled fact that the farmer is is single largest “wealth producer why should the other fellow be putting a cost mark upon his products. Let us take a look at the overhead ex- .pense of the farm. If the reader will pardon the personal allusion I will take my own farm of 120 acres for 'an example, believing I can make it more clear‘ by doing so. Money is worth from five to six per\ cent in good sized loans. - Investment on land and equipment $30,000 at 5 1—2 per cent, $1,650; ' taxes $541.60; insurance, $100; de- preciation on fence, $150; deprecia- tion on building, $700; incidental up; keep, $200; total, $3,241.60. A farm is no different from a fact- ory. If you allow your equipment to run down the earning capacity is re- duced accordingly. Every farm fac- es the above overhead expense that must be met. Everything he buys from a paper to a tractor or an auto-, mobile, the overhead is the first item on the cost mark. If any of the above statements are incorrect or out of balance with horse sense I would like to have them in- telligently disputed. Then why should the farmer stand in his own light and continue to work twelve to sixteen hours a day and turn over a goodly portion of the proceeds of several of those hours each day, gratis, to the fellow in the limousine or one. private yacht? Let us take one example to illus- trate: A few years ago a few ener- getic beet growers got together and organized what is known as the Michigan Sugar Beet Growers' As- sociation. It’s object was to get a fair portion of the profits derived from that industry and the sugar beet growers of Michigan, whether mem- ' here or not, have received hundreds of thousands of dollars that the su- gar kings of New York City would have had in their coffers had it not been for the activity of this little bunch of men. In spite of this fact several hundred farmers in central Michigan of which there are forty or more in the vicinity of Charlotte, have signed up and “gotten in bed" with the New York sugar kings who recently under the income tax law declared a dividend of ten million, eight hundred and fifty-two thousand dollars. In spite of the increased cost of‘ production this'year’s con- . tract is not as good as last. Apparently this giant (the farm- er) who is the corner stone of all America’s great wealth and industry has gone into a state of lethargy or is stalking around like a giant with- out bones. As the writer sees it, the first move of the farmer is to know what the cost of production is. The next move is for the farmer to put a cost price plus a' fair, profit on his pro— ducts the same as all other produc- ers do. But some fellow says “you will get Uncle Sam after you for-vio- lating the anti-trust law.” If that be true when we are entitled .to an ex- planation why the price‘of our pro- ducts should automatically 'or sys- tematically go up and down; down, when in the hand of the farmers and up when in the hands of the specu— lators. ,And people keep right on eating. threetimes a day the whole year round andfproduce is always the the most ., in “M Feather; , . ,_ ‘ ‘ ...In conclusion Isms-16' duty of every sterner support /. [5,. W meets variedqneeds, large or small. A. new modelf—the Kilowatt is now added to the family of Delco-i ' Light products—making a line of farm light and power plants that And tlze price is $395, f. o. b. Dayton, Ohio The 1/; Kilowatt is a smaller size Delco-Light plant, designed for installation where the use of electric light and power is not too heavy, such as in farm homes, summer camps and motor boats. The 1/; Kilowatt plant with a large battery can be used for pumping Water, ironing clothes and operating Tin-u We Plan: For Snail Tm and Law Fem f“;- _ "His:qu 01:: Kilmafl , 3' i \ Pulley PM I 3 Kilowatt 4 giant ‘ 5! y P,~ g 1 l 2 _s «‘1 “Mr V” {:3 i" “63: A34“ WW " There {5' a trained Delco-Light man near you who can figure your requirement: and advise you a: to the size plant you need. DELCO-LIGHT COMPANY - DAYTON, omo O O ,0 O O «.322? fr‘S‘fi'b 0’ Users churns, separators and other power devices. Like the %, l and 3 Kilowatt Delco Light plants -the 1/; Kilowatt has the famous valve-in-the-head engine. It is air cooled, runs on kerosene, and is furnished with a thick "plate long-lived Delco- Light battery. DE LCO-Ll G H 1' Water System DELco-me‘ ,, 21/2 Horse ~ :- Pawer Engine VDELCO LIGHT COMPANY Dept. Z DAYTON. OHIO Delco-Light for installation in Please send me your catalog and father details about} . Neale Sure whether for farm. camp or other property Town State R. P. D. . or srm t. Adda“- ' TRADE AND MARKET REVIEW From the news which found its . way to Wall Street during the last few days from various parts or the cOuntry it is evident that the liquida- tion in merchandise and commodi- ties which began the first of May causing lower prices has reached a point where it is due for a recovery and higher prices. pected to make a steady decline with occasional small advances. A healthy decline or advance invariably follows along these lines. In fact, what is now going on in ‘ the markets for general merchandise and commodities is exactly what. has been going on in the stock market. On the sensational advance from the low prices of 1915 the stock market did not move upward on a straight line. There was an advance follow~ ed by a drop; then another advance ‘to a new high record followed by an- other decline "and then another ad- vance to new high ground. And likewise the decline from the high war or subsequent peace time records will not be made by one perpendicu- lar drop, but by series of declines followed by temporary recoveries. The pressure on banks for loans continues in spite of the 7 per cent re- discount rate at the Federal Reserve Banks. That borrowers are going to get the money some way is shown by the declines in Liberty bonds, caused by heavy selling. Most of. the grain markets are feel- ing shaky. Dealers are suremarkets will be flooded with grain w1th1n the next few days, while railroad oifimals ' say they haven't cars enough avail- able to send many to the grain sec- tions of the country. Harvesting is expected to start in some sections of the country inside of‘the next week which will enable a closer estimate to be made of .the 1920 crop. W}IEAT LOWER IWHEAT PRICES PER nu, JUNE 15,1959 Grade instroit lGhlceooi N_:”Y_._ “"f" ‘ 05 No. 2 Red ....i 2.91 i 3.05 N. 2 White ..i 2.95 i . N3. 2 Mixed ..i ago “ml 2.95?" Pfiéé'é’éiié‘vasn AGO Grade iDetrolt lchicagoi N721; Nb. 2 Red ....i 2.45 I 2.60 No. 2 White ...i 2.43 I No. 2 Mixed ..i 2.43 I Wheat continues to decline in the face of the facts that Australia is sure of a light crop owing to short— age of rainfall early in the season and Argentina’s export tax on her wheat, which amounts to $50 a ten or about 460 a bushel. _It has been believed that all of the surplus of Argentine wheat had been sold. Re- ports received during the past week direct from that country show that they have 2,500,000 tens or 83,100,- 000 bushels on hand yet but they ad~ mit that considerable of it is already owned by exporters, which leads us to believe that it is only a question of days when North America W111 stand alone as an offerer of wheat. Whether prices will continue down- ward it is hard to predict. Of course the price is above the government guaranty which ran out the first of June but as to whether they go to that level or below, most grain mar- ket experts appear to be unable to solve the problem. We are of the opinion that dealers and speculators are feeling around to find what the farmer is willing to take for his grain. One grain trade paper says, “Higher prices will prevail later in the season.” The export demand re- mains fairly good. Great Britain is out of the market at present. Italy ' has removed the ban against hard ‘ wheat and Italian macaroni manu- "facturers will soon be in the market for. foreign hard. wheat. . Cars are. 5 not coming very fast. One Western railroad was supposed toget 65 cars a day from the East. In 11 days it [got just 25 cars. all told and in the meantime had an order to send 40 cars per day to Minneapolis. An- * th'er railroad has been receiving 75 ch a conditio \_ will con- Prices are r ex: llr, ,Oflwhich about 25‘ are fit - Hay firm. Beans inactive. ’ er. Hogs advance. DETROIT—Oats in good demand. Corn and wheat easy. CHICAGO—Corn and oats make mall gains. ‘Pdtatoes low- Beans firm. (Note: The above summerle wires ere received AFTER the balance of the Ina-ket M00 There has been an advance in corn prices during the past week but many commission houses say the market is in a weak condition. Most all deal- ers are predicting lower prices in the near future due to the larger quan- tities appearing on the market dur- ing the last few days and to the fact that consumers are reluctant about buying, believing prices will be more -to their liking soon. Reports from the country show farm-ers eager to sell and all cars available are being loaded with corn. Cash dealers at Chicago think the markets will soon be swamped with corn. But will it be? We cannot see it that way be- cause how can they swamp the mar- ket if cars cannot be secured to ship it in? Of course farmers want to sell and get their money so to be ready for the coming harvest but until more cars are released for shipping grains we cannot see an overloaded market. Planting is practically all done but it is too early in the sea- son for the condition of the crop to have much eifect on the market. OATS ADVANCE country. Now it has changed and - some of our badly needed oats are going to Canada, as they sold them- New York is receiving This helps to relieve the shortage there but they would be mighty pleased to get more and if the West had any, Eastern dealers would be willing to pay near- ly any price to secure them as the situation has been very acute there for several months. It is said this year's crop is suifering at present from drouth and the cut worm. ' RYE HIGHER Rye has advanced again this last week and is inactive at $2.26 for No, 2 on the Detroit market with offer- ings very small. - “Rye visible is shrinking rapidly,” says the Rosenbaum Review. “Seem- ingly this grain manages to get out of the country much faster than oth- er grains. In fact, as compared with total stocks the exports of rye are much larger than anyone would have reason to suspect. Prices have not been much affected of late by a lack of export demand. The new rye crop will be moving before the old rye is cleaned up. Some of the former may in set In t . They contain last minute Information up to within one-half hour of poles to P ditol'. CORN WEAK CORN PRIGII FIR '11., JUNE 15. 1920 .. .. "W" '°."'.°:'.°. 2.:- selves m: av..." :32! a.” ' ' some from Argentine. No. 4 Yellow 2.00 PRIOEG ONE YEAR AGO Grade Detroit ichloeno N. Y. No. 2 Yellow ... 1.82 1.08% No. a Yellow ... 1.02 1.10% No. 4 Yellow 1.80 .«be shipped on old contracts. Germany has been the best buyer of late, but the big premiums prevailing as com- pared with the July tends to restrict business. Condition of the ryecro-p has improved recently, due to rains. and favorable weather.” BEANS INACTIVE ‘ OAT PRICES PER BIL. JUNE 15. 1920 Grade [Detroit | Chicago I N. Y. No. 2 White . . .l 1.30 1.18% 1.88 No. 8 White . . . 1.29 No. 4 White 1 .28 PRICES ONE YEAR AGO Grade iDetrolt [Chicago N. Y. Standard . . . . . .72V4' ..11 .81 No. 3 White . . . .71 3/4 .70 No. 4 White .. .l .1o%i Receipts of oats are very small at nearly all points and the market is firm. Dealers are 'anxiousgio secure more but, with the exception of Iowa, no state seems to have any material amount of oats to offer. For a time Canadian cats were coming to this BEAN PRICES PER CWT" JUNE 15. 1920 Grade iDetrolt l0hleaool N. V. c. H. P. . . . . 1.85 8.50 I 8.25 Red Kidneys 15.00 18.00 PRIGEs ONE YEAR AGO Grade Detroit IOhlcagoi N. V. c. H. P. ...... ....'.'.:::'. l i Red Kidneys .. .. Beans are holding their own it appears and are easy with little buy- ing or selling going on at present. The planting as now indicated for 1920 will be about 800,000 acres and with a yield equal to the average of the last five years will produce a crop of 8,250,000 bushels. Foster's for 1920 001 WASHINGTON, D. 0.. June 19, 1920—The heavy horizontal line rep- resents the normal of movement down. .,Mtu at the 1: time at meridian 90. of that line these u should reach you one or two days lat- er: if west of it one to earlier, The I makes ante wave’s arrival at. meridian so. Warm waveswiil reach Vancouver 8. ., about June or, 80.711217}; and item will the on all the Pacific slope. .They w «use of Rockies byeoeeof as 81 N“ i‘-"" ...i. .‘W'... O 0 .. _ . . , . lakes. Ohio-Ten cases and owe:- Milo ‘ sissippi valleys 4. 29 and lower great lakes and . one -, 0 and uly 6,.1, reaching vi- - oinlty ..of ewfoimdland' about June Stem 3r - 36 nd until! 1:. ya? rouow’m' as ‘ou are east eatures THE WEATHER FOR THE WEEK As Forecasted by W. T. Foster for The Michigan Business Farmer It! __York. July, , _, weather the Intro, 10‘: , mseoti \ warm waves. cool waves about one day behind storm waves. These disturbances will control the cropweather from near June 21 to near July 12. Temperatures are ex- pected to average as much above nor- mal as they have averaged below dur- ing the earlier parts of the crop sea- son. Rainfall will average less for some time past but it will be more evenly distributed. Sections where too much rain has fallen will get less and where a deficiency has occurred will get more. Most severe storms and most rain is expected duringathe week centering on June 24 and t t is expected to he .a mild storm: not'much rain but well These lead to distributed. indications expectations, that. one general aver- age cropweather and crop pro-poo? will be favorable up to near July I , Indications“ for cropweather of July are that urea will ewes-age min about to who ‘ .Can- ve , . of tea, The cm “$1001! for this continent is once . Recently too much rain fell a line 0:- i'nom New Orleans to New that‘extensivef and g- portant section. V ' . I I. I have been a reader of your paper. for some time and have been quite in- terested in your reports for, some time and in particular the bean market. I have about 275 bushel and thought I would writ to you for your personal advice whether to sell at the present prices or not, or do you think that they will go higher? Thanking you 1 ad-‘ mnge'tor the fawn—G, R. D., Flashing, " c . e. . It is neither wise nor practical for us to tell you what you want us to. Our readers have all noticed that the bean market has shown more life during the past sixty days than it has for many months. They have probably also ‘noticed that the mar- ket is of! Just now, with prices about/ 20 cents. per‘ hundred”. low-en The former strength in the market may have. been caused by manipulation, but it is our opinion that is was caused by a scarcity of supplies. The increase of better than $1 per cwt. in the price naturally encouraged some selling and it looks as if the market had about all the supplies it can conveniently absorb in the near future. We need not be surprised if there is a still further decline, but we anticipate as we have many times before stated that this market will be much better before another crop is harvested. Farmers who need the money tied up in their beans might do well to sell a portion of their holdings now before the price goes any lower. Those who can 'afford to hold the balance, will, we believe, realize higher prices. NEW Pom'rons DECLINE IP00. FIR 0W1'., JUNE 16. 1920 decked Bulk Detroit 9.88 chicane ......... . . . . .. 0.86 Pltteburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.18 L New York . . . . . .. 0.88 PRICES ONE YEAR AGO Detroit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .i 2.40 8.08 Chicago 2.00 Pltuburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New York * . . . . . ..' . . . . . . There was a small decline in new potato prices the past week but there is little consolation in the news as quotations are still high enough to hold up consumption.’ The demand is inactive, and there is nothing do~ ing in old potatoes owing to the in? ferior supply on the market. Dealers here in the States have been caught profiteering on potatoes but we don't think dealers in England will have any such charges made against them as England has established a maxi- mum legal price of $2.38 per 100 pounds. This is the price the farmers receive from the wholesaler, who in turn is allowed to add a profit of $3.65 per ton to the purchasing price when he sells to consumers or re- tailers. This looks like the profits were being distributed so that the farmer got his share. , HAY IN DEMAND i No. 1 Tlm.i Stan. Tlm.| No. 2 Tim. Detroit . . [87.50 @ 88l36.50 @ 37135.50 @ 88 Chicago . . 45.00 @ 48l46.00 Q 47l45.00 @ 45 New York 48.00 Q 45! I38.00 @ 42 Plttsburg . 40.50 @ 40i89.50 Q 89l81.00 @ 88 No.1 l No.1 I No.1 [Light Mix. |0lover Mix. l Clover ‘ Detroit . . ISBJO @ 37 36.50 0 80|35.50 @ 80' Chicago ' . . e1.00 0 49145.00 @ 41 New York 38.00 @ 40.85.00 Q 8 Pittsburo 40.50 @ 40.88.80 0 80i81.50 Q 86 HAY PRICES A YEAR A00 1 e em I. New on m . use BOSTON WOOL Mm 4 The Commercial Bulletin” says: "The woolzmarket has passed through ~ another weekof deadly dull with the trade. driftins theories”. Thei . prices, are merely nominal “for all closeout-wool. The «meat ms v . .. harvests . st ~ D r unwflhédrm‘a washed-,“022@ 65%; 1:2 7’0v@‘7~ac;v 3+8. blood combing. "60¢. ‘ ' , Michigan. and New Yorktleece.—— .. . Fine unwashed, A,.60c; delaine, un- v ‘ washed, 70@73c: 1-2 blood, unwash- ed, 68@70c; 59@60c. . Wisconsin, Missouri and average New England, 1-2 blood, 60@65c; 3-8 blood, 53@55c; 1—4 blood, 50@ 52c. ' Virginia, Kentuck and similar.— 1-2 blood unwashed 75c; 1—4 blood, unwashed, 58@60c. - Scoured basis: Texas—Fine, 12 months $1.65@1.70; fine 8 months $1.45@1.50. ‘ . v “ California, Northern, $1.65 '@ 1.70; middle counties, $1.55@1.60; southern, $1.30@1.35. Oregon, Eastern No. 1 staple, $1.75; eastern clothing, $1.50@1.55 valley No. 1, $1.60. Territory—Fine ’ staple, $1.75 @ 1:80; 1-2 blood combing, $1.60@ 1.65; 3—8 blood combing, $1.15@ 1.20; fine combing, $1.20; fine medi- um clothing, $1.45@1.50. Pulled delaine, $1.75@1.80; AA. $1.65; A supers, $1.45@1.50. LONDON WOOL AUCTION The wool auction sales at London Closed June 11 with merinos 25 to 30 per cent lower and medium cross breds 10 per cent down. Other grades showed declines ranging from 10 to 20 per cent. During the series the home trade bought 45,000 bales and the continent 13,000 while 42,000 were withdrawn. DETROIT PRODUCE MARKET The general supply of green stuff is small, but offerings of lettuce and spinach have increased and lower prices are quoted. Receipts of poul- try are ample and lower prices are ‘ quoted for broilers. Demand is slow. Dressed hogs are steady and in fair demand, but there is a great deal of trouble in the dressed calf market owing to damaged supplies. The ship- ments that are packed in ice are ar- riving in good shape, but all other re- , ceipts are more or less injured by the ' hot weather and a great deal of con- demning is being done. The market is weak. .Apples are not moving. Of- ferings of strawberries are small and the market remains too high for act— ivity. Eggs are "in liberal supply and steady, but there is an easier tone in the butter deal. Apples—Western, $5.50 @ 6 box. Butter—Extra creamery, 51c bid, 53c asked; creamery prints; 52c bid, 53c asked per lb. Celery—Florida, $6@6.56 per case, $1.35@1.65 per dozen bunches. Dressed hogs—-Choice conntry dressed under 150 lbs., 19 @20c; over . 150 lbs. 17@18c per 1b. Dressed calves—Best, 18@20c; No. 2, 16@17c per lb. Eggs—No. 1 fresh, 40 1—2c bid, 41 1—2c asked; storage packed, 42@ 42 1—4 0 per doz. Lettuce—Imperial Valley Iceberg, $4.5'0@5 per crate; hot house, 10@ 20c per lb. Live poultry—Broilers, 45@50c; best hens, 33@34c; No. 2 hens, 32@ \ 33c; roosters, 20@220; geese, 25c; , ducks, 38@40c; turkeys, 44@45c per lb. Maple sugar—445 @ 48c per 1b.; syrup $3.50 @ 3.75 per gal. Popcorn—Shelled, 10c' per lb. Strawberries—Kentucky, $8.5 0 @ 9 per 24-quart cas‘e. LIVESTOCK MARKETS EAST BUFFALO—Cattle; strong. Calves—50c lower; $6@17.50. Hogs ———~25@35c higher. ~ Heavy, $15@ 16.25; mixed and yorkers, $16.25@ 16235; light do $14.50@16.25; pigs, 1 $13.50@14; roughs, $‘12.50@12.75; ' stags, $71@9. Sheep 2 and lambs-— slow; lambs, $14@19; yearlings, $8 @17; wethers, $10@_10.50; ewes, $3 .mixed'sheep, $9@9.50. ‘ ‘CHICAGO-i—Cattle; compared with a week ago, common and medium and. warmedup steers and shgstook . _ 500. to $1.25 higher: others $1.25 to Whisker. _Hogss—L10'c to ,35c high- r; bulk light~~and lightweight, $15 ~ 5 b 0‘ 1153.. and over, ‘ ulk;é-'direct . ;‘,flne;un‘-“ ‘ E'blood combing 1 3-8 bloOd, unwashed, ‘ LowerYour Milk Production Cost . I l- ' Right now, more, than ever before, you are forced to hold down the cost of milk production, or'work without profit. A quality feed, Unicorn Dairy Ration, will help you do this. Quality in Unicorn means two things: 1. Using only the best feeds obtainable. 2. Putting them together the right way. Everywhere, the “high men” in cow testing associations, who make the largest net profit, are Unicorn feeders. Our booklets show you how to feed Unicorn the right way—how to cut the cost by feeding less. Dairymen have cut their grain bills ten per cent and more by feeding Unicorn. You cannot say that your production cost has touched bottom until you have fed Unicorn. CHAPIN & COMPANY, Chicago __ (,2 __ * Registered Holsteins lst Macomb Co‘unty Consignment Sale June 30th, 1920' Sale at 1:00 p. m. 11:16 A. M. Limited from Port Huron and 12:10 Limit/ed l'rom Detroit'willstop at the door. F airchild Farms, Chesterfield, Mich. V Also hourly lecal service'bom ways. . . . . r. .v /(25 miles from Detroit on Gratiot Ave.) noun. E. HAEGER, HARRY ROBINSON. B. V~ KELLY, ’ U ‘ .EPQ AUSTIN BACKUS, In the Box ' * Your'helmet.” ' ' . ~. .i‘stsnd ":on‘ year, ‘- haught - , Erancisinstructed'h‘im. “ drink. Show them the inside of _ “I willnot drink !” Torres cried, :half in panic as the priest turned to him. ‘ v . / “You shall drink. If you are Do. 'Vasco, the divine capitan from the sun, we will then know it and we will fall down and worship yoyu." , ,Torres looked appeal at Francis, Which the priest’s narrow eyes did not fail to catch. “Looks as though you'll have to drink it,” Francis said dryly. “Any- way. do it for the lady’s sake and die like a here." With a sudden violent strain at, the cords that bound him, Torres jerked one hand free, pulled off his helmet, and held it so that the priest could gaze inside. “Behold what is graven therein," Torres commanded. Such was the priest’s startlement at sight of the inscription DA VAS- 00, that the pitcher fell from his hand. The molten gold, spilling forth, set the dry debris on the earth aflre, while one of the spearmen, spattered on the foot, danced away with wild yells of pain. But the Sun Priest quickly recovered himself. Seizing the fire pot, he was about to set fire to the. faggots heaped about his three victims, when the little maid intervened. “The Sun God would not let the great captain drink the drink," she said. “The Sun God spilled it from your hand.” And while all the Lost Souls be- ’ gen to. murmur that there was more in the matter than appeared to their j priest, the latter was compelled to hold his hand. Nevertheless was he resolved on the destruction of the .- three intruders. So, craftily. he ad- dressed his people. ‘ “We shall wait for a sign—bring oil. We will give the Sun God time for a sign—bring a candle." Pouring the jar of oil over the , faggots to make them more inflam- mable, he set the lighted stub of a '. candle in the midst of the saturated fuel, and Said: . ‘ “The life'bof the candle will be the duration of-Atlie time for the sign. Is it well, 0 People?” I And all the Lost Souls murmured, “It is well.” Torres looked appeal to Francis, who replied: V “The old brute certainly pinched on the length of the candle. It won’t 1 last five minutes at best, and, may- be, inside three minutes we'll be go- ing up in smoke." “What can we do?” Torres de- manded frantically, while Leoncia looked bravely, with a sad brave smile of love, into Francis’ eyes. “Pray for rain,” Francis answer- ed. “And the sky is as clear as a bell. After that, die game. Don't squeal too loud." And his eyes turned to Leoncia’s and expressed what he had never dared express to her before—his full heart of love. the posts to which they were tied and which separated them. they had never ‘ been so close together, and the bond that drew them and united them was their eyes. First of all. the little maid, gazing into the sky for the sign, saw it. Tor- - res, who had eyes only for the candle stub, nearly burned to its base, heard the maid’s cry and looked up. And at the same time he heard, as all of them heard, the droning flight as of some monstrous insect in the sky. “An aeroplane,” Francis muttered. “Torres, claim it for the sign.” But no need to claim was neces- sary. Above them not more than a hundred feet, it swooped and circled, the first aeroplane the Lost Souls had ever seen, while from it’ like aben- ediction from heaven, descended the. familiar: . 1 “Back to back, against the mainmast- ? v 33-fold at bay the entire crew." Completing the circle and rising to an elevation‘of nearly a thousand feet, they saw an object detach itself directly overhead, fall like a plum— met for three hundred feet, then ex- pa'ndin-to a spreaded parachute, with ‘~-".beneath it, like a spider suspended y m!” " , Decline the. Apart, by virtue of x I . Name,.................. 095‘s wan. testers: 9! ,a is?!» which. By .iACK Author of the “Valley of the) Mops," "ath as". stories. ._W 4-4 last, as it neared the ground, again - began to sing: “Back to back against the mainmast, Held at hey the entire crew.” And then event crowded on event with supremest rapidity. The stub of the candle fell apart, the flaming wick fell into the tiny lake of molten fat, the lake flamed, and the oilvsa-t- urated faggots about it flamed. And Henry, landing in the thick of the Lost Souls, blanketing a goodly por- tion of them under his parachute: in a couple of leaps was beside his friends and kicking the blazing fag- gots right and left. Only for a sec- ond did he desist. This was when the Sun Priest interefered. A right hook to the paw put that aged con- fidant of God down on his back, and, while he slowly recuperated and crawled to his feet, Henry slashed clear the lashing that bound Leoncia, Francis and Torres. His arms were out to embrace Leoncia, when she thrust him away with: “Quick !" There is no time for ex- planation. Down on your knees to Torres and pretend you are his slave -——and don’t talk Spanish, talk Eng- lish.” Henry could not comprehend, and, while Leoncia reassured him with' her eyes, he saw Francis prostrate himself at the feet of their common enemy. “Gee! " muttered Henry, as he join— ed Francis. “Here goes. But it’s worse than rat poison." Leoncia followed him, and all the Lost, Souls went down prone before the Capitan Da Vasco who received in their midst celestial messengers direct from the sun. All went down except the priest, who, mightily shaken, was meditating doing it, when the mocking devil of melo- drama in Torres’ soul prompted him to overdo his part. ' As ‘haug-htily as Francis had coach- ed him- he lifted his right foot and placed it down on Henry’s neck, in- cidentally covering and pinching most of his ear. And Henry literally went up in the air. “You can’t step on my ear Tor- res !" he shouted, at the same time dropping him, as he 'had- dropped the priest with his right hook. “And now the beans are spilled," Francis commented in dry and spirit- less disgust. “The Sun God stuff is finished right here and now." -ed, for the instant Henry left The Sun Priest, exultanftly signal- _. ing his spearmen grasped the situa- tion. But Henry dropped the muzzle of his automatic pistol to, the old priest's midrlf; and the priest, re-T membering the legends of . deadly missles propelled "by the mysterious substance called “gunpowder” smil- ed appeasingly and waved back his spearmen. “This-is beyond my powers of wis- dom and judgment," he addressed his tribespeople, while ever his waver- ing glance returned to the muzzle of Henry's pistol. “I shall appeal to the last resort. Let the messenger be sent to wake the Lady Who Dreams. ‘Tell her that strangers from the sky and mayhap the sun, are here in our valley. And that only the ’wisdom of her far dreams will make clear to us what~we do not understand, and what even I do not understand." CHAPTER XVIII. ONVOYED by the spearmen, the party of Leoncia, the two Mor- gans and Torres, was led through the pleasant flelds,’all under a high state of primitive cultivation, and on across running streams and through woodland stretches and knee-deep pastures where grazed cows of so minature a breed that, full grown,’ they were no larger than young calves. “They're milch cows without mis- take," Henry commented. "And they're perfect beauties. But did you ever see such dwarfs. A strong man could lift up the biggest specimen and walf oil! with it." “Don’t you fool yourself," Francis spoke up. “Take that one over there the black one, I’ll wager it's not an ounce under three hundredweight." “How much will you wager?" 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'4» - - 'w' they found themselves in a room better furnished, crude as the , strangely inhabited the place who scarcely moved. rising sun, raised above the floor on a sort of dais, was a many-pillowed div-an that was half-throne. . the divan, among the pillows, clad in a softly-shimmering robe of some material no one of them had seen before, reclined a sleeping woman. Only her breast softly rose and soft- ly fell “.to her breathing. 'No Lost Soul Was she, (of the inbred and de- generate mixture of Carib and Span- , iard. beaten gold and sparkling gems so large lthatalmost it seemed a crown. like the-.Sphinx, .with ».1 sarcasm" ' " ” ‘ . nice nine cottage £1. , , cia, and you'can become themxait Cheese-maker toime Quagmn» ~ . , ‘ But he did“ not whim‘sically wand. build you er farther, fen-at that moment, they r emerged upon. a lake so beautiful as to bring a long whistle from Francis, ~ 9. hand-clap from» Leoncia, and, 'a muttered ejaculation .of appreciation from Torres. Fully a mile in length it stretched, with more than half the same in width, and was a perfect oval. With one exception, no habi- tation broke the fringe of trees, bam- boo thickets, and rushes that circled 'its shore, even along the foot of the clifl! where the bamboo was excep- tionally luxuriant. 0n the placid surface was so vividly mirrored the , surrounding mountains that the eye could scarcely discern where reality ended and reflection began. , In the midst of her rapture over the perfect reflection, Leoncia broke off to exclaim her disappointment in that the water was not crystal clear: “What a pity it is so muddy !" “That’s because of the wash of the rich soil of the valley floor;" Henry elucidated. "It’s hundreds of feet deep, that soil." “The whole valley must have been a lake at some time." Francis co'fi- curred. ”Run your eye along the cliff and see the old water lines. I wonder what made it shrink." “Earthquake most likely, opened up some substerranean exit and drained it off to its present level—— and keeps on draining it, too. Its rich chocolate color shows the amount of water that flows in all the time, and that it doesn’t have much chance to settle. It's the catch basin for the entire circling of the valley.” “Well, there’s one house at least,” Leoncia was saying five minutes lat- er, as they rounded an angle of the cliff and saw, tucked against the cliff and extending out over the wa- ter, a low-roofed bungalow-like dwelling. ' The piles were massive tree- trunks, but the walls of the house were of bamboo, and the roof was thatched with grass straw. So iso- . lated was it, that the only access, ex- cept by boat, was a twenty-foot bridge so narrow that two could not walk on it abreast. At either end of the bridge, evidently armed guards or sentries, stood two young men of the tribe. They moved aside, at a “ gesture of comm-and from the Sun Priest, and let the party pass, al- though the two Morgans did not fail to notice that the spearmen who had accompanied them from the I Long House rema'inedtbeyond the bridge. Across the bridge and entered into the bungalow-like dwelling on stilts, large furnishings were, than they would have expected_ in the Valley of Lost Souls. The grass mats on the floor were of fine and careful weave, and the shades of split bamboo that cov- ered the window openings were of patient workmanship. At the far end against the wall, was a huge golden emblem of the rising sun similar to the one before the altar by the Long House. But by far most striking, were the two living creatures who and . Beneath the And on On her head was a tiers. of Before her, on the floor, werevtwo tripods. of gold—the one containing smouldering fire, the other, vastly larger,_ 9. golden bowl fully a_,fa‘th- - om in diameter. 'Between the tri- - pods, resting, with outstretchedjpaws , z“ blinkin bout ’ I * shuddered. ; a ..hu§&érei . dfséidi " , .. _ “Th - valley, of Lost Souls.. Thisvmman “Who ‘sleeps is a Spanish lady. She is .of the pure Spanish blood. She is Castilian. ,. I am as certain as :that I stand here, that her eyes areblue. And yet that pallor l” Again, “It is an unearthly sleep.» It is as if she tampered With . drugs, .and had long tampered with drugs—” ‘ ' “V “The very thing 3" Francis broke in with excited whispers “The Lady Who Dreams drug dreams. They must keep herhere' doped up as a sort of super-priestess or super- oracle.‘-——Tha~t’s all right ,old priest," he broke off to say in Spanish. “If we wake her up, what of it? We have been brought here to meet her, and, I hope, awake.” The Lady stirred, as if the whis- pering had penetrated her profound of sleep, and, for the first time, the dog moved, turning his head toward her so that her down-dropping hand rested on his neck caressingly. The priest was imperative. now, in his sc-owis and gestured commands for silence. And in absolute silence they stoodgand watched the awakening of the “oracle. Slowly she drew herself half up- right, paused, and recaressed the happy wolf hound, whose cruel fangs were exposed in a formidable ,long~ Jawed laugh of joy. Awesome the situation was to them, yet more awe- some it became to them when she turned her eyes full upon them for the first time. Never had they seen such eyes, in which smouldered the .WOrld and all the worlds. Half way did Leoncia cross herself, while Tor- res swept away by his own moving lips of silence enunciated his favor- ite prayer to the Virgin. Even Fran- cis and Henry looked, and could not take their gaze away from the twin wells of blue that seemed almost dark in the shade of the long black eye- lashes. “A blue-eyed brunette,” managed to whisper. But such eyes i rather than long. And yet they were not round. Square they might have been, had they not been more round than square. Such shape had they that they were as if blocked off in the artist’s swift and sketchy way of establishing circles out of the sums of angles, The long, dark lashes veiled them and perpetuated the il- lusion of their darkness. Yet was there no surprise or startlement in them at first sight of her visitors. Dreamin incurious were they, yet were they languidly certain of com- prehension of what they beheld. Still further, to awe those who so beheld, her eyes betrayed a complicated to- Francis tality of paradoxical alivenesses. Pain trembled its quivering anguish perpetually impending. Sensitive- ness moist-ily hinted of itself like a spring rain shower on ,the distant sea horizon or a dew fall of a mount- ain morning.' Pain—ever pain—re- sided in the midst of langorous slum- berousness. The fire of immeasur- able courage threatened to glint into the electric spark ofvaction and fort- itude. Deep slumber- like a palpi- ‘ tant tapes-tried backgfound, seemed ever ready to_obliterate all in sleep. And over all,.-through all, permeating all, brooded ageless wisdom. This :was accentuated by cheeks slightly hollowed, hinting of ‘asceticism.’ Upon them wits a flush, either hectic or of the paint box. When she stood up she showed herself’to be slender and fragile ,as a‘» fairy. Tiny‘ were her bones, not too generously flesh covered; yet the lines Of her were not thin. \ Had eith- er Henry» of Francis registered his impression, he would have proclaims 'ed her the roundest thin woman he . hadnever- seen. ~ , » j ’The Sun .Prlest prostrated his aged frame till" he lay stretched flat out, on the floor, his old forehead bur- rowin.g_7_into‘.the grass mat. The rest his 99's: an- carefulloo‘lr g, ,- “Curt ‘ upward lift [mended 1181'}qu approach. Too 1111-, ‘ parative. by , thought, to proceed from-so etherial- , ‘ teeth-less, but} Tori-f d. and crossed himself is .Ifhave never‘heard either he _ ii of lies: ar‘ was it, in" Leonela’s' ly beautiful a creature, and she sens- ed ,with immediacy an antagonism that must exist between them. "So she did not;move, until the Sun Priest muttered harshly that she must obey. She approached; regardless of the huge, long-haired hound, threading between the tripods and past the beast, nor would stop until command- ed by a second nod as curt as the first. For a long minute the two women gazed steadily into each 0th.- er’s eyes, at the end of which, with a flicker of triumph, Leoncia observ- ed the other’s eyes droop. But the flicker was temporary for Leoncia saw that the Lady was studying her dress with haughty curiosity. She even reached out her slender, pallid hand and felt the texture of the cloth and caressed it as only a woman can. “Priest !" she summoned sharply. “This is the third day of the Sun in the House of Manco. Long ago, I told you something concerning this day. Speak.” Writhing in excess of servility, the Sun Priest quavered: “That on this day strange events were to occur. .They have occurred, 0 Queen." . examination; ' ' ;» , “Xou are very fortunate,” the Queen said, at the same time motion- ing her back. to rejoin the others. “You are well loved of men. Allis not—clear, yet does it seem that you are too well loved of men." Her voice, mellow and low, tran- quil as silver, modulated in exquisite , rhythms of sound, was almost as a distant temple bell calling believers to worship or sad souls to quiet judg- ment. But to Leoncia it was not given to appreciate the wonderful voice. Instead, only was she aware of anger flaming up to her cheeks and burning in her pulse. _ “I have seen you before, and of- ten,” the Queen went on. “Never l” Leoncia cried out. h “Hush !" the Sun Priest hissed at er. “There,” the Queen said, pointing at the great golden bowl. “Before, and often have I seen you there. “You also, there,” she address- ed Henry. “And you,” she confirmed to Fran- cis, although her great blue eyes opened wider and she gazed at him long—too long to suit Leoncia, who knew the stab of jealousy that only a woman can thrust into a woman’s heart. The Queen’s eyes glinted when they had moved on to rest on Torres. And" who are'you, strangenh so strangely iappareled, the helmet of a- ‘knight upon your- head, upon your feet the sandals ofga slave?” . “I am‘Da Vasco," he answered stoutly. “The name has an ancient ring,” she smiled. ‘ ' “I am the ancient Da Vasco," he pursued, advancing unsummoned. She smiled at his temerity but did not stay him. “This is the helmet I were four hundred years ago when I led the ancestors of the Lost Souls into this valley.” . The Queen smiled quiet unbelief, 5 as she quietly hsked: “Then you were born four hund- red years -ago ?” “Yes and never. I was never born. I am Da Vasco. I have al- ways been. My home is in the sun." , , Her delicately stenciled brows drew quizzically to interrogation, though she said nothing. From a. gold-wrought box beside her on the divan sh’e pinched what seemed a. powder between a fragile and almost i transparent thumb and forefinger, and her thin beautiful lips curved to gentle mockery as she casually toss- ed the powder into the great tripod. A sheen of smoke arose and in a mo- ent was lost to sight. "Look!" she commanded. And Torres, approaching the great ‘ bowl, gazed into it. What he saw, the rest of his party never learned. 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VVc’ll have to admit that it’s a fair depiction of the average successful farmer as he sits at his desk, going over his ac- ' counts, figuring up his costs and his profits and losses on his several crops. The character of the men who farm and the motive for farming has been changing in re- cent years. It wasn’t many years ago that men farmed solely as a means of livelihood. In these days virtually all the food consumed and all the clothing worn by the farm family, Was produced on the farm. There were few great industrial plants which paid wages high enough to attract the men from the soil and enable him to buy his food outright. Men till- ed the soil through necessity rather than choice. Nolbooks were kept. No cost systems were in vogue. No information on the mar~ hots was sought or desired. Those who.were fortunate enough to raise more than their own requirements bartered it with their neighbors or the people in town for products not of the soil. .1-3Tit today it is diiferent. The majority of farmers till the soil now as a business. The. more making of a living is no longer the great iivcentive. A greater incentive is the produc- ing of surplus of goods which can be sold at'a profit which may be spent for other necessities and luxuries that will make farm life easier, more enjoyable and efficient. Indeed, this changing motive for farming which has put the farmer in a position to buy improved machin- cry and conveniences for the household, has been one of the big factors in the unparalleled industrial stimulation of Our modern times. rlhe world in general has been better oif be- cause farmers are striving to earn profits and invest them in goods produced in the towns and cities. The right name for the farmer of the twen- tieth century is the “business” farmer, and he is referred to as muchain nearly all modern lit- erature. For the farmer who succeeds must apply acknowledged business methods in the conduct of his farm. He must keep records. 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Their bank book'may tell them that they are a few dollars ahead over‘the previous year, andlyet they may actually be many dol; lars poorer, as they may discover when they come to paint their buildings, buy new fenc4 ing or replace their worn-out tools. _ The successful farmer who is the business farmer must have a desk and a simple set of books. He must keep his correspondence on file. He must have one or more good market and farm papers. He must be acquainted with the world’s production and the world’s needs of the crops which he produces. He must watch the busineSS barometer. Good business in industrial centers generally means good business to him. Poor business conditions usually though not always work to his disad- vantage. He must belong to a good farm or- ganization, for all that farmers have gained in recent years has come through organization, and organization will continue to be the leav- en which will work out«the problems of agri- culture. _ The farmers of today have only scratched the surface of the possibilities of farming. Too many are still farming “by guess and by gosh.” Too many are still working trio much with their hands and too little with their brains. For some there is no help for this. But the average farmer who has got the upper hand of his mortgage and a little money in the bank can revise his whole system of farming and profit by it. Government by Bosses LINCOLN once told us that this was a gov-’ ernment, “of, for and by the people,” and because Lincoln said so the great majority of people have come to believe it notwithstanding a good deal of evidence to the contrary. But the beautiful theory of government by the peo- ple has been so often crucified in recent years by the ugly reality of government by bosses that we ought not to cherish any longer the delusion that pure self-government still lives. For it does not. a ' Consider the National Republican Conven- tion. Chairmanships, appointments to im- portant committees, resolutions, nominations, ——the whole show from soup to nuts,——-were bossed by the bosses. The news dispatches told us that Boise Penrosc, the notorious po- litical boss of Pennsylvania and a dominant and sinister figure in many congresses, was ill in bed in his home city but was nevertheless in constant communication with the convention by telephone and telegraph and that his influ- ence upon the convention was great. The delegates to the convention were elect- ed by the people but upon their arrival in the political arena at Chicago they were promptly taken in tow by the Republican bosses and led around by their noses during the entire con- vention. The people ruled up to the time when their delegates got off, the train at Chicago. Then they abdicated in favor of the bosses who ruled the convention, who will rule the elec- tion, and if a Republican president is elected, will rule the government of the United States for the next four years. The/same thing will happen when the Democratic convention takes place, so no matter which party wins the elec- tion, the boss politicians will be in the'saddle. The Republican National Convention has ' shown us again that the presidency of the United States is not within the gift of the peo-. ple but of the politicians. No matter what the people may desire, nor how stronglyvthey may express their desire, the political bosses all will do as they please, while the people sit back and watch, the show. To aspire to the presidency. of the United States with some hope of secur- ing'it one must be parboiled in politics. His fitness may be entirely satisfactory to the in the game of. politics and become favorably known 1to tho political.er also play the game, how to stack the cards fav- ' margarine-wormhert ban] "a “" who purchased thesef bonds-rig,» I pressure or for patriotic reasons‘feel that did government should ’now protect them 'when ', ' necessity forces them to dispose of their bonds. - The suggestion that the. government guaran- tee the fac'e value of’the bonds prior\ to their maturity is natural but hardly practical. This the government could not do. The only reason there is any sale for Liberty bonds is because the holder is willing to sell them for less than par. If the government ordered that no bonds be sold for less than par there would be no demand for them. Therefore, the hold— _, er, of bonds who actually needed the money tied up in them would be in a worse position than before. And the government certainly "could not redeem at face value all the bonds which are or may be for sale prior to. the date of maturity. Any such proposal would bring out several billion dollars worth of bonds, to redeem which would break the U. S. Treasury and then some. The government has, we believe, lived up to its full responsibilities toward the investor in its bonds. The date on which the bonds will be redeemed by the Treasury is clearly print- ed on each bond, and there is no guaranty, ex— pressed or implied, that the bonds can be sold for their face value or any sum whatever for that matter before the date of maturity. But the goyernment guarantees that no mat- ter what the market value of a bond may be today or up to within one day of the date of redemption, upon the day of maturity it will be worth one hundred cents on its face value payable in coin 9f the United States realm. That is enough. The Liberty bond is a good investment. It is absolutely safe. It pays a fair rate of interest. It is saleable today for nearly ninety per cent of its face value, and considering the enormous quantity of the bonds issued its current commercial value is surprisingly high. It will be a wise investor who not only holds on to his present bonds, but purchases as many more as he can at cur- rent quotations. Sugar Prices NY MAN who believes the statement that the sugar companies of Michigan sold all their interest in the 1919 crop of sugar dur- ing the winter months at less than 12 1-2 cents a pound needs to have his head examined. The sugar companies don’t do business that way. The consumer who pays 30 cents a pound for sugar today will probably not be far out of the way to figure that at least two-thirds of it goes to the manufacturers. Seems funny, doesn’t it, that there should be a sugar shortage and 30-cent sugar in a state which last year produced millions of pounds in excess of its own requirements. Looks like there was something wrong, some- where, doesn’t it? But it is kind of hard to put your finger on the trouble. Just the same it seems as if there ought to be a .way provided so that the people of a state which produces such an enormous crop of sugar as Michigan should be able to buy what they need at reason- able prices. Of course, come to think of it, it Would be socialism for the state to protect its people like that, so please excuse us for the thought. 7 Following immediately upon an announce- ment that Michigan crops were doing fine Game another declaration that they ’were suffering gréatly from the drouth which has been prevalent in some sections for over 'a month._ Reportsof crop damage are likely ‘to be exaggerated, especially in cases of early droughts. We do not believe there is any cause for alarm. We have had- no exceptional hot weather Or high Winds up to the last ten ‘ days to dry out the coil. Nofdon‘bt the crops could have {stood a good, dea " ‘ ‘ ' ' -' ' but ' considering. thani ' ~. (response. to .’ r. a ’ “in. \ y’v ' r . v r V‘ v, _ ‘\« OOIINTY'PAPERS mm oo-o’rnn- ATE WITH FARMERS ' ~ I have just read your editorial en-V titled, “The Farmer and the County Newspaper,” appearing in your last issue and regret to say that what you state is in’ some instances true. But » we cannot believe that the majority of country newspapers are so blind to their own and the community’s welfare to take the narrow which we must admit that some take. We' are personally interested in the Independent at Standish, Mich., the Herald-Time: at West Branch and the Lapeer Press at Lapeer and all of these three papers have at every op- portunity done everything they could to co-operate withthe farmers. Well indeed do we realize that 80 per cent of the subscribers to each of these“ papers are farmers and our interests are naturally with them. Not by this do we mean that we would take an unfair stand just to be with them but we always try‘and size the situation up on its merits and act accordingly. In each town we work in hearty co-operation'with' the county farm agent and give the activities of, the various farm organ- izations much free publicity. True, we charge for meeting notices of their lodges such as the Gleaners, Grange, etc., but so do we charge for notices of meetings-of all lodges. ‘We believe this to be fair. Only as our papers, of course, always giving strong enough to wield an influence that will bringstrength to the farm— ers in the manner in which we serve them. We oft times feel that the farmer and the country newspaper are about in the same boat in these times of high cost of living and operation. Neither the farmer or the country newspaper has been able to pass the high cost of manufacture on to the ultimate consumer the same as the merchant or manufacturer. ' '0 Frequently we presume upon your good nature to re-produce articles in THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER in our papers, of _course, always giving your paper due credit. We feel that your statement that the average country newspaper was not being published in the interests of the farmer is too broad. At least most assuredly we do not wish to ,be included in that class. In fairness to us and many other country papers in Michigan we believe you should modify the statement made in your recent editorial.—H. W. Myers, Pub- usher. We are pleased to have this denial from one country publisher that he is fair to the farmers and realizes his de- pendence upon them. We are acquaint- ed with Mr. Myer’spaper and can vouch for what he says in that connection. Un- fortunately no distinguishing line can be drawn between the papers which help the farmer and those which hinder him. But it is not necessary. Most of our readers are also readers of their local Weekly and they know well enough whether their local editor is for them or against them. Every farmer ought to subscribe for a good county paper as well as a good farm paper, for all can be of mutual help to each other.— Editor. COST OF RAISING BEETS Just a few words in regards to sugar beet question. If you remem- ber me I shook hands with Mr. Lord . at Ithaca at the last sugar beet meet- ing and was the man that joined that night and fired his contract in Here is a column that came in the Alrnta Record tqdwayfiso am sending it to you. It ‘would look as though either he or the sugar Co. had a. lot of money to throw away if they charged him according to what they charged the association for that lit- tle notice they put in a while back. I, would like Mr. ‘Ackerman to read this. There are not many beets being planted around here. 'Here- is what \one man said it wOuld cost him if he grew beets this year. He has no team-or tools" so‘ would have ‘ to , hire it all done. He rented 13 acres ,, of land: oust half milehfrom here but a ‘ is stand, ‘ In ‘r or at_'82.50 cwt., $32.50; counting "labor 3% ,«an acres. for 13 acres, 3455. Drawing beets to town, $2 a ton and we counted 6 1-2 tons to an acres, that what this land produced last 'year 85 tons at $2 per tons, $170; total, $943.50. 85 tons of hosts at $10.50, $892.00. In the hole, 35L I have left out seed, 15 pounds and acre, for 13 acres, 195 pounds seed. I would like to have Mr, W. E. Bartley look at these figures and see what he thinks of course if he had good clay sugar beet land he would get more tons but- that‘would not help‘ us on this sandy land. Beets on this farm last year made about 6 1-2 tons to the acre. But we. plant no beets this yearn—F. E. N., Gratiot County. - The opponents of the organized sugar beet growers claim that beets can be raised on heavier soils at a profit under the old contract, and they advance this argument as a reason why the demands of the growers should not be granted. But we challenge the sugar factories of Michigan to advocate the growing of beets only on heavier soils. They dare not do it, for there are not enough heavy soils in the beet growing section to pro- duce but a fraction of the total tonnage required. for beets on lighter ground if they are to run their plants. Consequently, the in- terests of the sand-land grower must be taken into consideration—Editor. ANOTHER SPIKE IN OUR COFFIN My time is up and I wish you to stop the paper. I do not care to take a paper which interferes with the freedom of this country and pulls with the prohibition gang. Other- wise your paper is O. K. You can publish this letter or throw it in the waste basket as that is where I think it will go. I am in the same boat with August Baerwolf.—-Joseph Trojanek, East Jordan, Mich. Joseph, you remind me of the man who was hungry and went into a restau- rant to get something to eat. They gl‘aced before him many choice foods. ome of them he liked; some of them he did not like, but instead of eating the things that appealed to his palate he pushed it all aside and went outside and starved to death. And it didn't put the 11;? grant out of business either.— 1 o . SUGAR FOR THE FARNIERS I have always read your editor- ials. They are interesting but that doesn’t help us much, does it? Farm- ers must get together or' we will starve on the farms. But we 'can only do one thing at a time and now we are working 15 hours a day put- ting the crops in. I have a family of five and we all work that many hours. I wouldn’t grumble about the work, but not having enough to eat makes work twice as hard.’ Farm— ers cannot raise enough pork for their own use and no sugar for the fruit we have canned. We were told two years ago to can a lot of fruit and that they would get sugar for us. Why not help the farmers to get sugar so we can use our fruit. We are worse off than before the war. Why cannot something be done now. Factories must take contracts, Why wait two years longer. We are alive now but may not be then. Our government can help the people across, why cannot it help us. We need sugar now—A. Farmer’s Wife, Kingsley, Mich. My dear Madam. as a consumer, I join in your eloquent appeal. Do you suppose that if we knew how to get sugar for ourselves and the farmers who read our paper that we would need any prompt— ing from you to get it? The entire world is suffering a sugar shortage, There are many places in Europe where people cannot get sugar for love nor money. The people of the United States are on sugar rations. Everywhere you go, its the same old story. “two pounds at a time, and often none at all. I Will be in Washington when you read this and I will not leave there until I learn some- thing more about the sugar situation. But I do not see what the Business Farmer can do to increase the present supply of sugar or help its readers to fill their wants. This can only be done by increased production, which may or may not take place this year.—-Editor.. RE—MR. FORDNEY Please allow me a few lines to ex- press my most hearty approval of your stand in regards to Mr.‘ Ford- ney and the bean tariff. What the people of the eighth congressional district should do is to have a union or independent candidate as long as one power has a big majority. They have little to fear and the people may expect very little from these men. The same would work very well in North Star Township.— Independent Voter, Gratiot County. Your name sounds good to me, Mr_ In- dependent Voter. The tendency of the hour is toward political independence and non—partisanship. If we will but act in- dependently as we think independently, then some good may come' out of our in- dependence. But otherwise not—Editor. WALLACE DENIES STATEMENT The following letter has been re- ceived from Mr. W. H. Wa‘llace, gen- eral manager of the Michigan Sugar 00., by the editor of Tm: BUSINESS FARMERZ “I noticed in this week’s issue that the statement had been made somewhere by me. and you quote the Detroit Journal, that if the suggested growers contract was complied with, sugar would sell at 60 cents per pound. I notice in the Journal of March 26th an article under the heading of “Wallace Refutes Charge by Editor of Farm Journal, etc.” It would appear from this that the Journal had in mind that the article came from you. Be this as it may, I never made any such damn—fool statement to anybody on the face of the earth or I never made any state— ment which could be misconstrued as covering this particular matter. It is just a case of somebody lying." We don't believe we .have seen a. news- paper article of recent months contain- ing alleged statements by men interest- ed in sugar factories which was not a mess of lies. In the majority of cases these misleading statements go uncor- rected. We are therefore glad to have Mr_ Wallace’s letter advising us that he did not make the statement credited to him in the Detroit Journal and copied in the May.29th issue of The Business Farmer—Editor. 3: v I“ ~ I . i @bweek's Editoflel MARKET MANIPULA'I'ION If in business you are in a posi— tion to keep your selling price con- stant and at a point -to guarantee profits over the highest possible buy— ing price- you have eliminated the element of uncertainty. Henceforth you can let the other fellow do your worrying. The farmers have .not been able to achieve that peace of mind. Many of them are seeking it by going out of business. The pro- fessional uplifters of mankind who are perpetually publishing what they are going to, do to improve the cen- dition of the farming population will do well to give attention to this lit- tle detail. " - ' = An incident illustrating this need is found in the recent- live‘ stock market ..in" Chicago. giffioxs suh'ered a lapse. rogues destinies, ' i ‘ ex: . e cents Li , 'e major fitter Jeff 15 O 25, . droves,” said a market report. What depressed this market? The fact that by chance or deliberate manipulation, an unusually large supply of animals was brought to this one market one day. The fact bore no relation to the supply of live stock in the country. It, could possibly have no influence on the amount which will be received by the packers and Wholesalers and re- tailers for the meat which those an— imals will furnish. But it consti- tutes a loss of great magnitude to the men who have reared‘those ani- mals and have incurred the expense ‘ and trouble of placing them upon this V glutted. market. ' It” is this ability to buy or not to buy, to “force values oft snatch” at will and to maintain the selling pricc es ,.ot..nrodu¢ts. is: the - methods of: the pa .. . store mit- ici’sm an gis disc as much money invested as .also notice in your article that you “GET FAIR PROFIT on QUIT."- SAYS DAIRYMAN “I am a reader of your paper. and. notice an article in regard to the" milk question. _, v Now I would like to ask~ you this. If the fellows in the Detroit area are not receiving enough mon- ey for their milk what do you think. of us poor devils over here in Al- legan County. Do not think for one, minute that we have not got just' they have. Don’t our feed cost just as much and isn’t the hired help ques- tion just as bad here as there. If it costs the M. A. C. $8.40 to pr duce 100 quarts of milk do you think I can do it for less? I am selling ' my milk today for the huge sum of $2.65 per 100 lbs., 3.5 per cent test. less 290 10 gallon can express charges. ‘ “What I am trying to get at is this. I am a member of the Mich- igan Milk Producers’ Association and have been for one year and I would be very much pleased to have you " or some one show me where I or anyone in this county has derived’ any benefit from same. It may be that I am narrow minded and selfish. Will leave that for you to decide. I think the commission ought to go to some of the biggest creamery com- panies and make them an offer. Now tell me why they should. Can’t the Milk Producers furnish as much mon- ey as would be necessary to build their Own plant and it is a cinch they could furnish the produce to keep it running. I am not so much interested in the Detroit affairs as I am in my own. What I would like to have some one figure out for me and the rest of the producers in this locality is someway that we can get a fair price, fair test, and fair weight for our milk. It is a positive fact that it is the farmer that produces this milk, not the distributor, and . why shouldn’t the farmer have some 1» voice in regard to the mica he shall ' ’x’ receive. ‘ “Take for instance the grocery man. If he had said to you one year ago that you must pay 220 per lb. for sugar you would have died of a broken heart. But he was cute, he merely informed you that you could only buy 2 pounds. Then when you had got used to paying 9c you could get a hundred pounds. Then he started in again on the 2 pound stuff at 150 and so on until now you are paying 22c. Now do you think that any of our merchants are so gener- ous that they are selling below cost. If it is fair for them to sell on a 50 to 75 per cent basis why shouldn’t we, the farmers and producers of all foodstuff have the right to get cos of production at least. r “Two or three years ago alien the ' average laboring man recei Qd from $2.50 to $3.00 per day he did not complain about paying 12c per quart, but now if the same man cannot get $5 or $6 for same work he strikes, and he sobs like he was going to his , own funeral if he is asked to pay, 65 cents for butter and 15 or 16 cents for milk. And the same fellow will swell up like a warty toad and tell us farmers that we have got a soft snap; we must be getting rich; that never in the history of the world did the farmer get such awful prices for everything they raise for in- stance just look at the price of po-. tatoes and look at the price of Wheat and in fact everything. They don't stop to think that 95 per cent of all' products except milk are in the hands , of jobbers, poor fellows, and they must have a profit or quit business. “I think it:would be just and fair to thefarmer to let a Commission fix the price of milk and this commise sion be composed of such able- minded men as come out in the cons; try at chore time and stand around: in the. way with their mouths Wm Open and ask such fool questions how do you stop it when you got t a; pail full. , ’ - staging the ferm- ' ‘ ‘ mu “‘1”. it ~ ’ ."e’ .7; ’p 1 - . , ‘ \ I f‘ ' ‘ t." \/ . , a. ‘1‘“ ‘ ‘g‘MORE DOMESTIC SCIENCE . > F THE total number who enter school, only a very small per- centage are able or have the desire to go to college, which means that only a few need the courses in foreign languages, and the higher \.. ; , sciences, while every girl who enters ‘ school does need to know something - of sewing—enough at least so that she may do her own plain sewing if necessary. She also should know how to choose and cook meats and vegetables and prepare an appetiz- ing meal. . This is a vital question which should receive attention with the coming of the consolidated schools—- for they surely are coming, and it is the tax payers who should take the stand that these very useful and ‘ necessary sciences should be taught in the schools. One of the biggest factors in solv— ing the question of Americanization of the foreign born, which is a ques- tion receiving so much attention right now is that of teaching the children how to live as Americans live. We cannot reach their homes to any extent except through the children. But if the children are taught how to cook and sew they ‘ will in turn insist upon these up-to- " date methods being installed in their ' homes as far as possible and certain- ly they will bring them to their own homes. Never again will a child be ' satisfied to live in unsanitary quart- ers after he. or she has learned in school the value of sanitation. V And right along this line is the subject of home nursing. If every child as soon as he was big enough to understand could .be taught more physiology—~the care of the human I. body—the law of compensation which ; nature meets out for us when we . treat this human house as it should ‘ be treated, it could not help but have an effect upon the health of the hu- man race. And then every girl ' should be taught at least as much of home nursing as is incorporated in the Red Cross First Aid Course. Which simply means that .unaided, '-she could treat all the minor acci- dents. The boys are taught this in their Boy Scout course—but every boy is not a Scout, and if this course were installed in the curriculum of every school, the number of acci- dents would be reduced to a consid- : erable extent, and the results from those accidents which do occur would be less fatal. Right now there is an agitation on foot to interest more young men in taking a course in medicine, for it has been brought to light that every year less numbers take this course in college. The course is necessarily longer than that needed to qualify for other professions, and when they have finished, the hours of work are longer for the general practitioner and the number of physicians who have attained any degree of wealth is very small indeed. so that the in- ducements to an ambitious young man are not what they once were. However perhaps this is not alto- gether to be regretted as there will be less numbers of people who will “enjoy poor health” in the future, ' and more will learn how to care for all except the more serious illnesses and accidents right at home without ' the aid of a physician. A good education is what is most to be desired for every child,gbut*it hardly seems fair to call an education ,a good one unless it is a well-round- ,d. education embracing the ‘home- making” .arts- and... sciences. There ’5 o: rt- :wrhat. of our duty to our fellow citi- en-—the foreigner. HOW TO' TREAT CASES OF IVY ‘ AND SUMAC POISONING HE EEST ways to avoid ivy and sumac poisoning, the most prac- n andth ea ‘ "A D slime“ ‘ ' , fl... ‘4 by mannerisms -V :3,” these children.th will receige, ‘_ auction «in these-arts at 1th but ‘- l.;means of eradicating? mesa HARVEST TIME On the farm of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Stark, of Fountain, Mich. poisoning have been the subjects of an investigation conducted jointly by the United States Department of Ag- riculture and the Public Health ser- vice of the United States Treasury Department. Despite general 'belief there is good reason for believing that absolute immunity from ivy and su- mac poisoning does not exist, investi- gators state. They also found that many common methods of treatment are not to be commended. Poison ivy is sometimes called poison oak. Pois- on sumac is also known in various lo- calities as poison dogwood, poison elder,,poison ash, thunderwood, and poisonwood. These poisonous plants are widely dis- tributed. While en soap and hot water. The poison after being deposited on the skin, re- quires some time to, penetrate, and if this penetration can be prevented. by thorough washing, eruption and irri- tation will not result. While exposed parts should be cleansed in this man- ner as soon after exposure as possi— ble, it is worth while to make the at- tempt even 12 or 20 hours after- wards in the hope that at least a por- tion of the poison may be removed. A heavy lather should be produced and the washing should be continued several minutes. Sever'e- scrubbing with a brush is not advisable, but sev- eral swabs or small compresses _of gauze may be used, discarding no accurate esti— mates can be made as to the There’s a better Weekly Cheer each in turn, so that the poison day u-coming; may not be dis- economic losses help it on! tributed by the resulting fr 0 m And you’ll never do it with a sigh cloth . . or frown‘ ‘ . . DOISOBID g: . t h 3 Strip your heart of gloomy things, n Bathlng Wlth total is ve ry gnaw yourselffla 1mm- of wilxgzs 1 alcohol dilute d n rise up leaven’s s w n - great, and there gaming down With an equal is urgent need - amount of water fort” widespre a d is also an effect- campai g n s t o eradicate the very noxious plants. If one must handle these poison- ous plants ,gloves, preferably of rub— ber, should be born. After the glov- es have been removed they should be thoroughly washed with soap and water and rinsed several times. In- asmuch as the clbthing which comes in contact with the leaves may be a source of infection for a considerable period, care should be taken in changing the garments, and also the shoes. Many cases of poisoning have resulted merely from contact with exposed clothing. One of the surest and best methods of minimizing or preventing infec- tion after the hands. face or other parts of the body have been exposed, is to wash and rinse them repeated- ly with an abundance of good kitch- ive preventive. Where exposure has been general, a bath for the entire body, followed by change of clothing is a preventive measure. The hair should not be ne- glected. Bathing, if not accompan- ied by sufficient changing of water or rinsing, may result in spreading the rash to skin that had not been in- fected. In cases that are at all ser- ious a physician should be consulted. Sugar of Lead Not Recommended The investigators call attention to the fact that scores of remedies and prescriptions are more or less in popular faVOr, but in spite of' the claims they assert that no specific treatmentfor poisoning from ivy and sumac is yet available. Ointments should not be used in the acute stage of the disease. In the later stages. however, soothing and astringent :., ,, {'37: s',‘;‘_-».—‘,.x“:'. For I. know no eight thht'e finer re: Agdrhefi 1 “' , His Real Picture By Edgar A. Guest ‘ We’ve had his picture taken 'a dozen times or more‘ We’ve'go't him as a :baby intthe dresses that he wore; ' We’vcgot him with his mother, and we’ve pictured him with no, But the camera’s only seen him in the way he ought to be, And-I’d like to havehienphoto as he really is today. , » With tho'glorloug dirt: uponihim that he’- gathered in his play. ' We’ve had his pictures 'tohcn:,when hio'garmento all were trim, ’ And'hle.1ace was fixedg'andieolemn, but they don't resemble him, ‘ -‘ For~they do not -'ehow the twinkle in those roguieh eyes of hie . And they don't portny~..thc rascal no he mostly alwaév: is. He is click and calcium isomethncs in his white and I But his natural condition is to grin through grime and dirt. l' with“! 'werc I venison“! would canvas him today ' ‘ I ,In those soiled and tattered garments which he wears when he’s at ,p . 1 would point him in the knickers which have eagged’unto his shins. i And the shirt waist clinging to”‘them by. the graoe'ot safety pins - ,And I'd try to catch the glory of thot smile from cor to cor ~ When the dirt, is thick upon him and Maine is‘fuet o smear. ms mother says we muen’t but, I still, insist and any ' . That we ought‘te have him. pictured as he is today. , . : main to 19°F! um ' Than 7‘ haw "1 t '2. _*"N':W‘° ' rchy - shirt- \ horsehair-b , f9. ‘ it x d . e 0...». ' Ointments may be of value in allay-‘1 ~ ing irritation and hastening cure; The extent to which it .is desirable to use solutions ‘of permangante of potash, hyposulphite of soda, sulphate of magnesium (epsom salts) and other remedies, is also discussed.- Sugar of lead, formerly much used, often proves disappointing if applied after inflammation has developed, and the user runs the risk of lead poisoning if this substance is applied extensive- Y- ' The names “poison oak" and “poi- son ivy” are used interchangeably in many localities. The plantgen— erally known as poison oak through- out the Pacific Coast occurs as a bush and is sometimes four or five feet high, and has leaflets resembling the leaves of the western oak, but it is also found as a vine, and is some- times called poison ivy. How to Recogmzc Poison Sumac Poison sumac grows in moist ground, usually in swamps or along low, miry banks of streams and ponds. It occurs from New England to Florida, and westward to Min- nesota, Arkansas and Louisana. The poison sumac leaves are readily dis- tinguished from‘ the harmless sumac and'species of ash. elder, and other“ shrubs and trees having a somewhat similar foliage, and the character, appearance, and color of the fruits furnishes other simple means of identifications. Furthermore, the poison sumac occurs on moist or swampy land, and in drier locations is found only along the‘borders of swamps or bogs. The number 'of leaflets into which the leaves of the harmless sumac are divided range from 9 to 21 and 31, while the poison sumac leaves divide into 7 to 13 leaf- ets.‘ ' While many persons are of the opinion that contact with these plants is not necessary to produce poisoning, it is probable that many cases supposed to have originated in this way have actually been due to direct or indirect contact. There are cases on record showing that the smoke from burning plants will give rise to irritation, and in some cases severe poisoning has resulted from this form of exposure. Regarding the popular belief that some persons are wholly immune, the investigators state that there is good reason to be- lieve absolute immunity does not ex- ist, although it is recognized that some personsare much less suscept- ible than others. How to Eradicate Poisonous Plant: Eradication of these plants should be widely undertaken and followed up systematically. Every landowner should feel a measure of responsibil- ity in, this matter. The simplest method is by grubbing, in which care should be taken to cover the hands properly, and also to prevent infection by means of the clothing. The plants in fields may be destroy- ed by plowing them up and putting in cultivated crops. , Often repeated mowing is also effective. The use of kerosene is recommended where in- jury to other plants or trees is not to be feared. It may be applied with ‘ a sprinkler or a spraying pump, and in many cases one application is suf- ficient. Arsenate of soda has been used very successfully to kill poison. ivy'on trees six to ten inches indi- ameter without injury to the trees, as well as on- sto'ne walls- buildings, and along fences. . . - . snnN m snors v on'r AGAIN sax-"There’s new “ ing new under‘the sun)? ~ for, , .5- just about as-soon as you have said it. some one. evolves something distinctly; new.~ First came hats 'of‘ straW.. then hats of felt. Silk lace and similar materials followed .to of- fer variety; midi abut? ,e Then came, thatnovelty, ' '5‘.‘ «if a ‘ 7 i‘ “v- -,._.._ r“... M, v fir ... a...” -~ -..L... ‘.-~.‘ ' alien to their faith and race. It b11338“; . , . the; shop‘s this. seasonywas in 'the ‘ “Hausa Dresi?’ eection' and-,lt emit: t" ‘t‘e ' ,zmaew N . . rm e do t d mull dress ,d . undressed herself to mum h u “I, too, know the language you a round neck but not very low and with three quarter sleeves, and flu- ished at the ‘Waist line with the ever popular ties. And what is nicer for the house than white. Any light color will show the soil almost as soon as the “pure white and certain- ly won't look nice as long. It was .a ,- dress one could-slip into afternoons and be cool, look fresh and would not be unsuited for picnics or almost any occasion. while the price was only $10. \ ‘The favorite purse for summer is the silk bag, and the shops are show- ing a full line of moire with handles of silk or metal and with or without the tassel as a finish. They can be . bought at almost any price depend- ing of course on the quality and werkmanship. Many of the shops have been having sales on the medi- um priced bags and a very good one can be secured for $5. A new name for an umbrella sis “rain-shine.f’ It’s simply a silk umbrella which is good enough look- ing to use for a sun shade and still will withstand the rain should a shower catch you. with short handles so that they can be packed in a suit case and are es- pecially desirable for a vacation trip as they will serve the double purpose And they are priced from $5 up and come in the different colors. “HEARTS OF THREE" (Continued from. page 11) But the Queen herself leanedJor- ward and gazing down from above, saw with him, her face a beautiful advertisement of gentle and pitying mockery. And what Torres himself saw was a bedroom and a birth in .the second story of the Bocas del Toro house he had inherited. Pitiful it was, with its last secrecy exposed, as was the gently smiling pity in the Queen’s face. And, in that flashing glimpse of magic vision. Torres saw confirmed about himself what he had always guessed and suspected.‘ “Would you see more,” the Queen softly mocked. “I have shown you the beginning of you. Look now, and behold your ending." But Torres, too deeply impressed by what he had already seen, shud- dered away in recoil. “Forgive me, Beautiful Woman,” he pleaded. “And let me pass. For; get, as I shall hope ever to forget." “It is gone,” she said, with a care- less wave of her hand over the bowl. “But I cannot forget. The record will persist always in my mind. But you, 0 Man, so young of life, so ancient of helmet, have I beheld before this day, there in my Mirror of the World. You have vex- ed me much of late with your por- tending. Yet not with the helmet." She smiled with quiet wisdom. “Al- ways it seems to me, I saw a chamb- er of the dead, of the long dead, up- right on their uvnmoving legs and guarding through eternity mysteries And in that dolorous company did it seem that I saw one who were your an- cient helmet Shall I speak further?" I p - “No, .no," Torres implored. She bowed and nodded him back. ‘Next, her scrutiny centered on Fran.- cis. whom she nodded forward. She stood up upon the dais ,as if to greet him, and if troubled by the fact that she must gaze down on him,- stepped frdm the dais to the floor so that she might gaze ‘up into his face as she extended her hand. Hes- itatingly he took her hand in his, then knew not what to do next. A1- ' most did it appear that she read his 1: and-x: Ana, though-t, forshe said: 7 "‘Do it. I have pnev‘erhafidit done tome before. ‘ I‘have‘,never,seen it ‘ (dune, save in- my‘drea‘ms and in the visions shown’me in my Mirror of the World.” v‘ ' - ,And Francisbentand' kissed her I . because she did. not sig- hit, he. continued to sweetener ether t >i - ing" with sbme They are made —- . again. his» ..pai1n ' he ~ ‘ tents.’ as mend Kat‘shfm. 2 Bd‘tflxthe . Quten, ' half ‘ redrawing her hand with a startle like a, maiden’s returned it as deep- ly as befbre‘i‘nto Francis' clasp, and speak," she admonished. “Yet am I asham’ed,~I , who have never known' a man, do admit that I like it. It is theazflrstskiss that I have ever had. Fra_ncis.'—4for such your friend calls youeobey your friend. Ilike it. I doll-ke-it. ~Once ‘ again kiss my hand." ‘ v ,- . ‘ * ..,,Francis obeyed,vwa~ited while her hand 'stilllingered inhis, and while sherbblivious" to all else, as-if-toy- beautiful thought, .gazed lingerineg up, into his eyes. By a visible effort she pulled herself together, released his hand abruptly, gestured him back to the others, and addressed the Sun Priest. ' .“Well,.priest,f’ she said, with a re- turn of‘the sharpness in her voice. "‘You havebrought these captives \here for a reason which I already know. .Yet would I hear you state it yourself." _ a ‘ r “0 Lady WhoDreams, shall‘we not kill 'these intruders as has ever been our custom? The people are mysti- fled and in doubt of my judgment, and demand decision from you.” “And you would kill?” “Such is my judgment. I seek now your judgment that yours and mine may be one." She glanced over the faces of the four captives . For Torres, her brood- ing expression portrayed only pity. To Leonciashe extended a frown; to Henry, doubt. And upon Francis she gazed a full minute, her face growing tender, at least to Leoncia’s angry observation. “Are any of you unmarried?” the Queen asked suddenly. “Nay,” she anticipated them. “It is given me to know that you are all unmarried." She turned quickly to Leoncia. “Is 'it well," she demanded, “that a wo- man should have tvvo husbands?" Both Henry and Francis could not refrain from smiling their amuse- ment at so absurdly irrelevant a question. But to Leoncia it was neither absurd nor irrelevant, and in her cheeks arose the flush of anger This was a woman, she knew with whom she had to deal, and who was dealing with her like a woman. “’It is not well,” Leoncia answered with clear, ringing voice. “It is very strange,” the Queen pondered aloud. “It is very strange. Yet is it not fair. Since there are equal numbers of men and women in the world, it cannot be fair for one woman to have two husbands, for, if so, it means that another woman shall have no husband." Another pinch of dust she tossed into the great bowl of gold. The sheen of smoke arde and vanished as before. “The Mirror of the World will tell me, priest, what disposition shall be made of our captives.” Just ere she leaned over to gaze into the bowl, 8. fresh thought de- flected her. With an embracing wave of arm she invited them all up to the bowl. “We may all look,” she said. “I do not promise you we will see the same vision of our dreams. Nor shall I know what you will have seen. Each for himself will see and know. —You, too,» priest." They found the bowl, 'six feet in diameter that it was, half-full of some unknOWn metal liquid. “It might be quicksilver, but it isn’t," Henry whispered to Francis. “ Ihave never seen the like of any similar metal. It strikes me as hat- ly molten”, I “It is very cold," the Queen cor- rected him in English: “Yet it is fire —You,f Francisy- feel» the bowl' out- side.” , ‘ , ,1 He obeyed,.laying his full palm un-' hesitatingly y’to they'ellow outside surface. . I . “Colder than the atmosphere of the room," he adjudged- . ‘ * ' “But look i” "the Queen cried, tossing more powder. upon ‘ the con-s" I . 'Tlije‘SlfihTQfled‘hfiie‘dfstlencing cem- - CREAM SEPARATQR‘ And That's The " it: For Forty Years The World’s Standard There may be a half-dozen plows, wagons, tractors, autos or" other 'farm equipment to choose between, but no would-be imitator or utilizer of expired De Laval patents has yet pro- duced a cream separator com- parable with the De Laval. First in the beginning, De Laval machines have led in every step of cream separat- or improvement and develop- ment. Every year has pre- sented some new feature or betterment, and the 1920 ma- . chines are still better than they have ever been before. If you haven’t ‘seen or tried a new 1920 De Laval machine, any local agent, will be glad to afford you the op- portunity to do so. If you don’t know the nearest De Laval local agent simply address the nearest main oflice, as below. The De Laval Separator Co. 165 Broadway 29 East Madison Street 61 Beale Street NEW’ YORK CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO 50,000 Bragches and Local Agencies the World Over ‘ Aer... Just ,. One 100% ' " ‘ E LAVAL You can raise twice as ' much feed on .the same acreage if you put it into silage. Double up on production with- out additional labor. Which one of the Saginaw silos do you want? There are four different types to choose from. Send today for lilo information. See how the silo cuts down your labor costs. Address Dept. No. 12 Saginaw,Mich. Cali-0.1115110“ See the New PVln‘rlwl'nd Silo Filler with Automatic Feed. Ask us about it. >_ Saginaw Saginaw Hollow Wall 511le Lula Saginaw Steal-Bull: Wood 8km Wood m Vitrified Wood Stew with Cross-Trust Silo C10 8110 / M. B. .F. " ‘ . DO the: Trick! .- .. * ' Live Stock Aids in y g , v I EAR CHILDREN: I want to tell you about a. boy I met last night ‘ who is working his way through 5 " the University of Michigan. A great big chap he is, strong and clean-cut. . His‘mother and I are great friends, 7 so of course I was very anxious to ,Iearn how he expected to earn his money this summer, and last night he ~ do you good, I am going to repeat it for your benefit. Said he, “Last summer I came into Detroit and worked in an automobile ’ factory, but all the people with whom I had gone to school with were there L—there were boat rides to be taken at night—the drug store and its soda dauntain were so temptingly near on a hot summer night—car fare ate up a few dollars every week, and when college opened last fall I found I hadn't nearly enough to pay my ex- penses so I resolved that this coming summer I would get right out into the country, where I didn’t need to wear good clothes, and where the moving picture shows and ice cream parlors weren’t quite so handy. And the opportunity came when I learn; ed through my roommate of an op- portunity to go way up beyond Du- luth and clear some jack pines from some land which they are going to convert into a sheep ranch. There are six of us boys going and we are to have a cook—live in tents and as it isn’t far from a river we will be able to find our pleasure there most- ly and it will be just a regular camp -—-of course there are to be others, but do you know I think I can work my way on a boat, and if so, the sum- mer's money will be just clear gain and this fall I won’t be so much in debt as I was last year. Here’s the idea—the girls and boys from the country yearn to come tq the city, while the children who are in the cities long for the country air during the stifling hot days of sum- mer. But if you will just get a few facts and figures, if you wish to make your way in the world later in life you will find that you will build a better physique and will also save more money right in the country than you can possibly do if you en- ter the pity—for it isn’t what you earn that counts, you know, it's what you save. And I do hope that all of my little friends are planning even as early as this for something defin— ite in their lives when school days shall" be over. Affectionately yours. -—-AUNT CLARE. OUR BOYS AND GIRLS Dear‘ Aunt Clare—~This is the first time I have written to you. I am a girl 11 years old. My father takes the M. B. F. and likes it fine. I live on a farm of 40 acres, We have 3 horses, 5 cows, 8 calves and 44 head of sheep. My school was out the 12th of May. My teacher's name was Miss. Gertrude Neuman. I am in the sixth grade next year. For pets I have a cat and a lamb and a Colt.' I have a mile and a half to go to school. There were 40 pupils in our school. I am going to write a story about going flowering. One nice day I and my friend went flowering down by a large creek. W'hen we got there it was noon and We. took out a tablecloth and spread it for a table. Then we took our lunch out of the basket and laid it on the table cloth. Then we got some water and put it in a glass. On the way to our table we got some large violets and put them in a glass. After we ate we packed the rest of our lunch in a basket. Then we started hunting flowers. We got a bunch of lady slippers and hearts and violets. After we got all the flowers we could carry we started for home. When we got home it was pitch dark. I will close. Norma Palmater, Alger, Mich. .Dear Aunt Clare—I read the letters in the Michigan Business Farmer and I ,think they are all very interesting. I ~ 1 live an a 80 acre farm and we have a 60 ‘ acre farm of our own. We rent the 80 acres because there is no house on the '60 "acre f . ‘?--':'We have 13 milk cows and 25 heady-inalian amilk two cows and my sister milks,ithree.-every night and ".morning,.v...Wevhaye~three little calves. I Have one ..a.nd.my sister Hazel has one. he other is my fathers, I raised four chickens last year. .My sister raised 13 ‘ducks she sold them and received 326 pets I' have a dog and 5 _ V 3 little ones. We hava 13 .We' get four ‘cans of milk every Iamin is Miss Irv- ;vsry much. There a 1:) 10 years of age and. 1 in '- -- the” fifth , told me, and because I think it may I F HUNTING a bear or a deer is I exciting, how about hunting a ' man? FellOws, with good wind, lots of grit and a love of sport will find the Man-Hunt a great improve- ment on the old pa- per chas‘e, or hare and hounds, as it is sometimes called. As in the regular paper chase, let the two fellows .who are to be hunted start out a quarter of an hour before the hunters. Each can carry a bag of con- fett-i, or if that is hard to get, pieces of paper out small. A five cent pad (not roll) of toilet paper is enough. Maybe a local printer will let you use his cut- ting machine for five minutes, and the job’s done. ' Now, instead of strewing paper all along, to show a trail, drop the paper once every hundred yards or hundred paces. That gives a chance to drop some “sign” and shoot off through the woods or fields to right and left. The hunters‘will have to run scat- tered, like bounds, to pick up the trail. If the hunters are bunched, the hunted could drop a bunch of A Man Hunt—By Francis Rolf-Wheeler paper and hide for the hunters to go by, then-take the back track. ,It is forbidden to drop a second lot of paper at the same spot as the first, for the hunters must have a chance to quest back. Let the hunted carry a watch. At the end of two hours if not caught, they are "safe." One‘of the big advantages of this is that the hunted need not be the fastest runners. The fun lies in the dodging rather than the running. Often a small boy can out- wit a gang of big fellows. In thick woods, the dropping paper space should be re- duced to 20 paces. There is nothing to stop the hunters from posting sentinels to prevent the back-track movement. Every chap who acts hunted will have a different idea; some will take the straight away, like a deer; others will dodge like a fox. Therefore, every hunt is different. If the hunt- ed is quickly caught, another boy takes the paper-bags, is given a start, and the hunt is on again. are 50 pupils in my school. I have four sisters and one brother, their names are Hazel, Dorothy, Belle, Gertrude and Fred. Fred is 4 years old. My oldest sister's name is Hazel. she is 12 years 0d and in the seventh grade. Laura agar, Trenton, Mich., R 1. Dear Aunt Clare—May another farm- er girl join your merry circle? I have read the lett and enjoyed them very much, so I t ought I would write. My father takes the M. B. F. and likes it fine. I live on a. 120 acre farm 1 have 2 miles to go to school. I go to the Lee school. My teacher's name is Mrs. Mylo Flynn. I am in the eighth grade and will write on final exam, on the 13th and 14th of May. I have 7 sisters and brothers. We have a car. I also have an organ, I love to tat and crochet and I also like to read very much. I like the farm best to live on but I like to visit in the city for a while but I would not like to live there. I would like to hear from boys and girls of my age and would answer all the letters I could. Hoping to see this in’print I will close, wishing everybody goodby. Pauline Se- venski. Blanchard, Mich. R '2. Dear Aunt Clare—~This is the first I have written to you. My father takes the B. F. and likes it very well. I like to read the letters from the other boys and girls. 01 I am a girl 13 years d and in the seventh grade. Our school was out the fifth of May. The teacher’s name is Lillian Gotham. very well. We have 6 cows an 70 chickens. brothers. ily. 6 feet and 3 inches high. I liked her a farm of 84 acres, 4 horses, 4 pigs and I have 4 sisters and 2 I am the oungest in the fam- I have light ha r, blue eyes and am Two of my I live 03 sisters are visiting in Cumberland, Mary- la nd and won't come back until the end of this month and my other two sisters are married. One of my brothers is at ,home helping my father‘and the other one is married. Well my letter is getting 10 se 6. M ng I will close for this time, hoping to e my letter in print. Alice Draves, R Midland, Mich. ‘ Dear Aunt Clare—My father takes the B. F, and likes it very much. We live on an 80 acre farm. We have 16 head of cattle, 3 horses, 4 large hogs and 10 litle ones. About 35 chickens. We have no little chicks yet; but are expecting 80 me in a few days. I have 3 pets. I am 10 years of age my birthday is the 26th of this month. I grade at school. am in the 5th I think that I will pass as I have never failed a term and hope I will not this term. I am sending a pict- ure of a litte fawn and I hope I will see it in the M. B. F. the next time.——Max- ine Thomas, Evan, Mich. pnovmzn JUMBLE _ BY WALTER WELLMAN “711155145 A PROViER I‘M Pi PELICSN. ‘5. l a v D TUBE-EARL: nw AN°SAM°Y°AND°THY° AL- AN°DEAR°DAN oroo L°|S°Y°AbE°lS°R°VE° ' MAKEéTHYé E. ; w y‘ dwell known proverb verse. ‘ Each letter or group of letters itsepsrated, as you will see. Rearrange ' the wordsland letters by writing them down in proper sic/acne: to form ., ' and chickens. Dear Aunt Clare—My father takes the MpB. F. and We like i very much, es- pecially we children because we like the Children's Hour. I am fourteen years old. You wanted us to write about what flower we found to the wood. Our school went one day and we took our dinner and ate it at the Woods and stay— ed the noon hour. The flowers we found were the lily, spring beauty, violets, ad- dertongues, hepatica. and the dutchman’s breeches. times to the woods this-spring. We children are not going to school now be- cause we have the measles, Had them first and was in bed four days and a half. Myletter is getting long.- I will close, hoping to see my letter in print. This is a riddle: Why does a eat sleep longer in summer than in winter? Answer: Be- cause the summer brings the cat-a- lliilllafikm Isabel Stevens, Kalamazoo, R . --+--, , . Dear Aunt Clare—As this is the first time I have written to you. I am a girl 14 years old and in the 7th grade at school. Our school is out the 21st of May and I’ll be glad then. My father takes the M. B. F. and likes it very much. \I enjoy reading the Children's Hour and stories. I live on a farm of 40 acres. We have 6 cows, 6 calves and 7 sheep a d one of them is mine, her name is nnie and she is a great pet, Well I will close, hope my letter escapes the waste basket and I will send you a riddle: A frog and a duck and a. skunk all went to a show and they let the frog and duck in and why didn’t they let the skunk in? Answer, Well the duck had a bill and he got in all ,right and the frog had a green back and he was all right, but the skunk only had a cent and it was a bad one and they wouldn't let him in. Mary Middleton, Yale, Mich., R 8. Dear Aunt Clare—a1 am a farmer girl 11 years old. I have light hair, brown eyes, am 4 feet 10 1-2 inches tall and weigh 80 lbs. Our school closed today. My teacher was Miss Sherburn. I will be in the 7th grade next year. I have one brother, Harold, and one sister, Lois. Vi'e live on a farm of 160 acres. Papa and my uncle run the place, Together we have 5 horses, 4 cows, 2 calves, pigs For pets we have one cat. Both papa and my uncle take the M. B. F. I saw a letter from a girl I lmow, so thought I would write. I will close now,, hoping to see my letter in print. Leona. Hill, Scottville, Mich. Dear Aunt Clare—I will write you a. letter as I have never written before. I am a girl 12 years old and in the 8th grade. My teacher’s name is Miss Mary M. Campbell. I like her very much. We live ‘on a 120 acre farm. We have 4. working horses and 1 colt, 6 cows, 8 calves and over 100 chickens and 4 ducks. We also have 40 chickens. My father takes the M, B. F. and we all en- joy it very much. I love to read the Children's Hour. Hoping to see my let- ter in print, I wi close as ever, Ada Boesch, Sebewaing, Mich. ,. Dear Aunt .Clare—This the first time I have ever written to you so I thought I would Join your merry hour. I like to read the letters from the boys and girls. Papa takes the M, B. F. and likes to read the stories too. I have two broth- ers, Floyd and Arthur. I am nine years old and will be ten the 25th of October. For pets I have two cats. School is out at last and the 22nt we had a picnic. Oh, dear me. we had so much I could not begin to tell all we bad. My letter is getting so long. So will close, hoping to see my letter in print. Alice Hawks, Watervliet, Mich. .. Dear Aunt Clare—I am writing you to find out how many subscribers it takes to get a camera as I would like one. My father takes the M. B. F. and likes it very well. I go to the Duncan school. I have not noticed any letters from Mill- ington yet. There is a woods on our place where we go flowering. We have twenty—seven little chicks and four hens setting. I will close, hoping to see this in print. Myrtle Slver, Millington, Mich. We will be glad to send you a camera for ten new subscribers at $1.00 each. I Dear Aunt Clare—I have not, written you in a long time. I like to go to school very well. I like to be out doors now that the grass is so green and ev- erything is so pretty. Our schools lets out the 4th of June. I like the M. B. F. very much in fact I like most everything that belongs to nature. My age is be- tween 11 and 14 and my middle name begins with G and ends with E if any of you can guess then I will send them a stick of candy. Ila Dezree, Greenville, .yhigan. Dear,Aunt Clare—This is the first I have written to you. I ‘am a. girl seven {fare old and in the 3rd grade at school. y father takes the M. B. F. and' ‘likes it very much. I live on a 230 acre farm.' My teacher's name is Miss Min- nie Healy. We have seven horses. I. have four. sisters, Vera, Illa. Ruth and Mary, 'I have a brother William. We have a. Ford car. I- like the complete." 5 cry best. I hope to see my letter in. p int—Ida. Carter, Harrisville, Mich. Dear Aunt Clarez—I am a girl. ten- r years old. I live on a farm of 11.0 acres. We have about 50. chickens and tennlittlo" chickens. For pen: I have a hi. name is Tommmr; We" hays 1 ur' auditwokcox‘t .1 have t , _ a” . a; «f ' 1’. We have gone three or four A 9mm SANILAC (Ch—Have had some dry and cool Weather, The cats and grass has not made much growth up to this week as there should of been: for this time 0! Year. There was a local rain on‘ Tuesdayhand quite a lot of water fell for the time it rained. It made — the crops look better in the locality that it rained in. There is a generalrrain need- ed all over the country. We are having it rather cool at this time. The farmers: have t their corn all in and are set- ting eir beana ground ready at the present time. Some have their beans sowed. There are some sugar beets be- ing sowed and quite a lot chicory put in. The price of chicory is good. There looks as if there might be quite a lot of fruit. Everything seems to be mov- ing along as usual. The following rices were offered at Sandusky: eat, .75: cats, $1.04; rye, $2; barley, 83: beans 0. H. P. Pea, $7.25; potatoes, $4; but- rfat. 54c; eggs, ass—A. B. ST. CLAIR—Farmers cultivating corn and planting potatoes. The weather is very dry, have had no rain since May 15th, that would wet the ground one inch deep. There has been some local show- ers but no general rain. The soil is dry and in some places it is cracked to a great depth. Hay will be short and a ight crop. Oats are in need of moisture and will soon be in the same condition as the hay crop. Wheat is heading but the traw will be short. Rye is thin and not cry promising. As a. whole the hay and grain crops do not look very good for St. Clair county, The following ices were offered at Smiths Creek: eat. $2.68@2.70: corn, $1.85; oats $1.15; rye, $2.10; No. 1 timothy. $28@ 30: No. 1 light mixed. $276929; beans. H P. $7; potatoes, $4 bu,; butter. 50 @ sod; butterfat. 50c; eggs. 40c; sheep. 8@9 ; lambs, 10©l4 ; beef steers 8@ 12 : veal calves, 20 ; Seef cows, 6@9; JACKSON (S)——A good heavy rain is needed to boom hay and wheat. Some localities were blessed with a downpour Saturday aftennoon, but a light shower in this vicinity-«and south was the ex- tent oi’ the much needed rain. Farmers have finished corn planting. Rye is leoking good, wheat fair, hay in _need of rain and» a small crop predicted, Early: plains and cherries damaged by the frost. Strawberries looking good. Apples haVe a good crop of fruit set But- ter is on the downward grade also eggs, butterfat 64c. eggs 38c. It looks as if the farmer would payss a day and board for extra help in haying and har- vest if he got any—G. S. CALHOUN—Farmers are very busy with their corn and there is some to plant yet. The weather has been very dry here of late \and the crops are begin- nin to feel the drouth, ‘The ground is so ry it is hard work to plow unless we get a rain soon there will not be many late potatoes put in. The following prices were offered at Battle Creek: Wheat, 82.88@2.90; oats, $1.20: rye. $2; No. 1 timothy, $30; hens. 35c: butter, 55c; eggs, .40c; lambs, $10.17: hogs, 313.50; beefi steers. $8.10; veal calves $10.13.— C. B. - —— CHEBOIGAN (W)-——Weather very dry, Not much rain all spring. Pros- pect of poor hay crop this year. Corn nearl lanted with larger acreage than usual?' ‘31 good crop of oats planted. but not many potatoes or beans. Winter wheat and rye looking good but needs rain. Looks like we would have an av- erage fruit cro this year. _ very scarce. heat. $2.50; oats, $1.23; potatoes, $5 to 3 Spar bushel; butter, 50c; butterfat, 530; eggs, 33c.—-D. P. MONTCALM (IN. W.)-——-Most oi' the farmers are finishing up planting for the season. Corn is up. It has been rather hot and dry. Ground is very dry for the need of rain_ Several tractors..are being used around this community. The following prices were offered at Lakeview on June 10: Potatoes. none sold. Beans, $7 per cwt.; onions, 8c 3. 1b.: cabbage, 100 1b.; cucumbers, $3 per cwt.; butter, 55c.: butterfat, 540: eggs 32c.—G. B. W. MIDLAND—~The following prices were offered at Midland: Wheat. $2.80: corn, $1.80; oats, $1.05; rye, $1.80: buckwheat: $3: beans (C. H. P.) $6.75; barley, $3.151 peas. $3,25.-—0. B. G. C. Gov’t Securities for Youthful Investors An interesting story of 100 per cent efforts on the part of a large number of Virginia boys and girls for financial betterment is told in the May issue of the Journal of the Am- erican Bankers’ Association. The story concerns the Registered Hol- stein Calf Club inaugurated by the Richmond Chamber of Commerce and financed by the American Na- tional Bank of Richmond. Through this club, boys and girls were enabled not only to finance the purchase of a valuable pure bred calf destined to the ultimate improvement of the state’s livestock, but were also in line for cash prizes offered from various sources. Says the Journal: “Every member was loaned ,enough money to purchase his calf, at a very low rate of interest; the notes ran for a year with the privilege of re- newing this obligation provided the boy or girl did not make enough mon- ey to meet this obligation. What makes the story more interesting is that every member of the club paid his note in full when it was due. “Forest Hedrick, the winner of the blue ribbon, grew an acre of corn and paid for his calf from the pro- ceeds. Claude Beck had been a Pig Club member and sold enough pigs to pay his debt. Earl Axsell worked for_' his father in the dairy and paid his.” - ’Prizes including an aggregate of $189 cash and two bull calves were won by the contestants. While the several score members of the Call! Club, however, have been giving this remarkable exhibition of thrift. hundreds of thousand of oth- er boys and girls have been equally active and successful in money sav- ing and capital accumulation on- deavors. These are the members of the War Savings Societies of school _rooms throughout the country, many of them located in cities and not able to save to take advantage of agricul- tural pronto, while still others, in rural districts, have combined the two methods, saving money through the purchase of War Saving-s Stamps to be used later in the financing of the purchase eta, pig or a calf or .9! .mn or other pro-v ,x . soil. acre Soybean seed weighs quaints the rising generation with the certainty and safety which ac- companies investment in government savings securities, and encourages savings by the ease with which pur- chases are made. Holdings of War Savings Stamps by school children amount to many millions of dollars, and not » few boys and girls in every sta e have converted a $100 worth or more into the more conven- ient form of Treasury Savings Cer— tificates. " The government savings securi- ties, always worth more than was paid for them, have no market fluc- tuations to concern the holders, and may be converted into cash to take advantage of opportunity. The cus- tom of investment in so sound and conservative securities as those of the government will train the young men and women of tomorrow to be wary of the offerings of the fake stock salesman, and thus accomplish another great national good. HINTS ON SOYBEAN CULTURE The depth of planting-soybeans is an important point, says W. C. Eth- eridge of the University of Missouri College of Agriculture. The seed must be planted shallow or poor stands will result, for the soybean seedling has not the power to push itself through a deep covering of Experiments have proved that two inches is the most favorable depth. Planting much deeper than this will greatly reduce the stand. It a hard crust forms on the surface be- tore the seed has come through, it should be broken with a smoothing harrow or a weeder, otherwise the crust will tend to reduce the stand. A crop planted in rows three feet a part will require-fifteen to twenty pounds of seed to the“ sore, while a broadcaster! or drilled crop will re- quire sixty to ninety pounds to the V sixty pounds to the bushel, but they vary greatly in size. Thus, 2,100 seed of the -Mammoth variety and 8,400 of the Peking variety are contained in expound. llor economy in thense of seed an 5th t of” the rate at planting war. A: tetheva of the candle thereforenema, 96381)- You can’t beat the price and quality of the knock-about shoe. It's a genuine bargain. Just the thing for hard and long wear—has leather inner sole; oily water resisting upper; stitched and re-inforced with row Tim Only. same slice. You get them for the low price of $3.25. When buying through RAMBLER you pay the present day reduced prices plus exceptionally small costs. prices—We take advantage of market opportunities o—these are your opportunities and save you DOL- \LARS. Send No Money: mail coupon and than pay the postman $3.25. If the shoes are not satisfactory return them at our expense. We an “lie all the risk. This is a special oil’s: 30 mail the coupon today. Out Catalogue G ~3 6 sent free on request. will show many ways BEND NO MONEY Dept. 0-38. New Vol-u city. Send my pair of Rambler worth—while work shoot. I will my postman 82.95 on arrival. 1! shoes factory I can return than and you will Size lnca Wonderful eclectic n s I o : men, women and boys. latest styles. are not entirely util- rei'und money, including return poataca.~ Name Address Established 22 years. Balc- iast your over 31.000.000 o u n c n a o o o a o . a - n e - o u n a u . s u . - no of clinch min; Others are charging $5.00 and more for this” Benin: v Not continued high prices but continued low. _ I, guarantee prompt shipment, perfect fit and " to big shoe uv- A snot I Spring pigs ‘ fCREAM ,ANTE \Ve want more Direct Shippers of Cream. We guarantee correct weights and Tests. \Ve insure the return of your empty can or a new one. We guarantee the legitimate top market price at all times. Write for shipping instructions and full informa- tion. We are absolutely responsible. Ask your banker. FRANCO ELECTRIC . FLASH LIGHTS FREE! You need one of these hand lights to see your way around in dark places. The batteries will last for several months and can then be renewed at small expense with new ones that can be bought anywhere. FREE FOR NEW SUBSCRIBERS! For a limited time we Will give away either of these two popular models for new sub- scriptions to this weekly. MODEL A: Is the popular tubular style, just fits the hand and throws a powerful light. MODEL B: is the nickel plated hand or pocket size made flat to be convenient to carry in the pocket. WE OFFER EITHER STYLE, free and post-paid to any person anywhere in the United States for laid A Two New One Year Subscribers at $1 Each ....or_.. Four New “From Now to 1921” Subscribers at 50c Each ._or_. Eight New “3 Month Trial” Subscribers at 25c Each Send the Two Dollars in check, money or- der or registered letter, write your oWn name and the names and addresses of your sub- scribers plainly and address your letter to Premium Manager ‘ a v THE Busnuass rams In. locum A... x. .H _—_.__ I i . s l .. ss‘srAku R, i' A "EXCHANGE. gwwmti.'..tm .r:,lg;v,3.§§5 ‘.;--II9m{x.3finIT Tmmafzeng‘u? {mm 3.. ola’n- IM- Idvm one are cub in run with order. Count on one word each Initial and each group _ address. The rate I: 5 cents a word for each In- we. NIII'dIOIho' number of tlmo: ed runs. There ',‘ In no 11 um. Copy must reach us by Wednes- . ill! of preceding week. You will help In con- .a'flnuo our low rate by making your remittance «"90"! Hahn—Address, Mlchlgnn Business Farm- ". Adv.,Dep‘t. Mt. Clemens, Mlohillln- mrws & LANE-3% RIVERSIDE DAIRY FARM. .160 .AGR‘ES ‘ $4,600 with 3 horses, 2 cows, 3 calves, 4 pm. poultry, wagons, machinery, tools, buy. corn, fod: der: biggest midwest bargain; near RR town, machine-worked fields. 30—cow spring-yatered posture, 1,500 cords wood. 120 apple trees, 300 sugar maples; 2 good houses. spring water, over- looking river; barn. garage, other buildings: city owner throws in everything, very easy terms. De- tails page 69 Strout’s Biz Illustrated Catalog- Farm Bargains 33 States. Copy free. STROUT FARM AGENCY. 814 BE, Ford Bldg” Detroit. STRIPPED HARDWOOD LAND. RICH clay loam—easy terms, $12.50 to $15.00 an acre. Neighbors, roads, schools. Four to five miles from Millersburg. Never failing clover need will make your payments. JOHN G. KRAUTH, Mlllersburg, Mich. 150 ACRE FARM FOR SALE—90 ACRES ,undcr cultivation, 90 acres pasture and small timber. Equipped with all farming tools and good stock. For full information Write ALBERT DIETZ, Hawks, Mich, R. F. D. No. 1 FOR SALE—80 ACRE FARM, EXCELLENT soil, all under cultivation, good house“ fair barn, plenty water. \Vill soil entire equipment in- cluding 8 high grade llolstein females. 4wmiles from town. Inquire LYLE SHARP. Clifford, Mich. FOR SALE—EAST HALF OF SEC. '5, Center Twp. (30. of Emmet. Correspond with owner. ,1 ESSE E. WEBSTER. Pellston, Mich. FARM FOR SALE—76 ACRES. CLAY LOAM well drained. llest of Still. No county ditch. Good buildings, ncwly painted. Acetylene lights, will sell with or without stock, tools and crops. 60 rods to school, 2 miles to good market .on main road. A. ll. ZIMMEIDIAN, Newuygo, Mich. FOR SALE—120 ACRES. GOOD BUILD- ings. 80 acres improved; flowing well, water in home will burn. Also stream through pasture. Will sell part or all. Price $60 per acre. Ilor further information write \Vni. VAL'DEPOL, Marion, Mich, R No. 4. EMISCELLANEOU : BUY FENCE POSTS DIRECT FROM FOR- est. All kinds. Delivered prices. Address "M. M." care Michigan Business Farming, Mt. Clem- ens, Mich. BUILDERS' PRODUCTS CO., 14 PASADENA Ave. Detroit. Wholesale to consumers Paints, Varnish, Spraying Materials, Sprayers. Manual mailed free. M. ii. Tux-1mm. Mgr. FACTORY CLOSING OUT STOCK: -—-HEAD- er Forks. llay Forks, Manure Forks, Bundle Forks. Your solention $9 per dozen. Rush your order. Free literature showing pictures of forks assorted shovels and spznles. PROCESS 8110\- El. & FORK (30., Snlinu. Kansas. FOR SALE—STEAM THRESHING OUTFIT. Pitts banner. Always had best of cure. \Vill sell or trade for good land. GEORGE HATCH, Sand Lake, Mich. I FOR SALE—AVERY TRACTOR 12-25 AND P. & 0. four bottom plow. Good second hand condition. If taken soon, $600. HARVEY PO\VERS, Fremont, Mich. MICHIGAN USiIiESS FARM Eli YOUR FAVGBITE DAILY —at 8-— GREATLY REDUCED PRICE (Good on R. F. D. Only) Names of Newspaper Special Price Detroit Journal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4.50 Grand Rapids Press . . . . . 5.50 Ypsilantlan Press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.10 Detroit Free Press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.50 Jackson Citizen-Patriot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.50 Ma’nlsteo News-Advocate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.50 (In County) Manlstoe News-Advomte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.50 (Elsewhere) Pt. Huron Times-Herald . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.50 Detroit News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.50 Day City Times-Tribune . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [4.50 ' Grand Rapids Herald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.50 MAIL YOUR ORDERS T0 MIGHIGAH USINESS FARMEB Mt. Clemens, Michigan. — ‘Is Your Farm for Sale? -Write out a plain description and fig- ‘ ure dc for‘oach ward, initial ‘or group of figures. Send ltln for one, two or three times. There's no cheaper or better way of. Ironing a farm in Michigan and you dual direct with the buyer. No agent. or ‘poommlssione. If you want to sell or trndg form, send In your ad today. Don't talk about it. Our Business Farm- ‘ Firehouse. 39!! :xunlto. T‘ Jflohlgnn -,.Buolnee Ht. QM ‘- Efimurfi 0' “lures. both in the body of the ad and In the, Adds-oer - ‘ (A chin ’ portme‘ w- more» I" this department. MW. ’ FURNISHING THIRD drones: 1-2 livestock, seed and feed and each to get‘l-Z of proceeds. B is to furnish horses tools and do all labor. A leaves 2 old horses which he hates to sell or kill on the place, one working as a. third horse the other being only a buggy horse. B is to have use of theee for care and feed. The second season both horses are unable to work. B takes care, of them for 8 months without be- ing able to get any use out of them, A at last consents to have them killed, nothing being said in the agreement about the number of horses B is to keep. He buys one making him 3. Does he have to pay A for 1-2 feed 'for third horse? After fall work was done B worked team on road for about 14 days. How much of the earnings can A claim? Has A any right to shut windmill or for house and stock? Has A any right to fix toolshed into a garage and use it for self without B’s consent?—-W. Van Buren County. The third horse is to be treated the same as the team, each furnish- ing one half of the feed. Unless there is something in the contract I am of the opinion that working on the road is not farm work and A would not be entitled to any portion of it. If B. neglects his work on the farm to do the work he might be li- able for any damage such neglect causes. If the farm was supplied with windmill and engine as part of the farm property A would have no control of them unless reserved in the lease and would be liable for any damage caused by his unauthorized conduct. A wouldn’t have a right to any buildings or parts of build- ings on the farm that he did not re- serve in the lease—W. E. Brown, le- gal editor. KE LLASTONE STUCCO We wish to remodel our ' houSe this summer and would like to know if Kel- lastono Stucco put on with wood lath is durable and will not crack—A Subscrib- er, Albion, Mich. Kellastone Stucco has not been on the market very many years and I believe has proved very satisfactory when properly applied. You must first have a foundation that will not settle or else you are bound to have cracks. You must next have materi- al that is dry enough to not shrink seriously. It has proven up about as good on wood lath as on steel lath because it is water proof thus preventing the dampness from getting to the lath. The lath need not necessarily be kiln-dried but if you wish good suc— cess you should at least have the lath properly season dried, otherwise little fine checks is bound to appear. This finish makes a very beautiful job, fire proof, durable and exception- ally warm. Have it properly mixed and these reasonable precautions tak- en, and it will not crack—G. A. Bug- bce, Architect. —__ INHERITANCE TAX Will you please ub’llsh in M, B. F. a synopsis of the In enltanco Tax. What is the least one can inherit without pay- ing a tax and what per cent does one have to pay—Mrs. C. F.. Lapeer, Mich. The last inheritance tax law for the state is Act 148 of the Public Acts of 1919, page 272. On page 273 provides that property should not be taxable under this act unless it was personal property of clear market value of $2,000 or more; and when the transfer was to the wife such transfer of property would not be taxable unless it is personal prop- orty of clear market value of $5000 or more and in that case the entire transfer would be taxable at 1 per cent of the clear market value. There are a. number of other provi- sions and a different rate to all other classes than named in the statute so that a pcrsonehould read the whole statute to ascertain its appli- cation to their. own case—W. E. Brown, legal :editor. a z ‘ REMOVING QUACK GRASS borkllled or run curb—L. W. H.. Tosca County. ~- ‘ Thorough cultivation nd a A " t?‘ x We I m are; here, to serve you.,erbon onlrln 'A rents B a hundred-acre farm for“ three years. A and B each to furnish engine off thus depriving B of water, I:_ there any way that quack grass ‘ 199a ro-‘v‘ ‘ day troubles. Prompt. careful “tendon. inn with I a a personal answer by me to 'o ovation o a hell nature-should enclose-.01.!" - as being most effective where quack grass has taken a firm hold: Plow grOund to a shallow depth, of 4 inches in spring or summer prev- ious to August lst. . Disc and cross disc to cut sod in pieces. Harrow with Spring toothor disc whenever green growth appears and soon after each rain. When route and runners are dry, rake into heaps and burn. Continue thorough cultivation until winter. During the following spring plow deep, 8 inches or more, and fol- low with cultivated crop such as corn or beans, giving crop usual careful cultivation. . . . I have seen land bound in quack grass sod almost thoroughly freed from the post by this method. Dur- ing the following period all possible growth of quack grass leaves is pre- vented, thus starving the’ portion of the plant below ground. The roots are further weakened by winter ac- tion and when plowed deep the next spring, fail to send shoots to- the sur- face with few exceptions. Small patches of quack grass can be killed by frequent hoelng, or if noticed when it first appears in the field, can be smothered out by weighting down tar paper with stoma—J. F. Corr, Professor of Farm Crops, M. A. 0. ‘ WHAT STATES HAVE CONSOLI- DATED SCHOOLS Will you please tell me if Illinois and Indiana have consolidated schools. Also as many other states that you know of. -—-—Rea.der, Copemlsh, Mich.‘ The following states [have made the greatest progress in establishing con- solidated schools: Massachusetts (one of the first to consolidate.) In- diana, Ohio, North, Dakota, Louisi- ana, Mississippi, Minnesota, Iowa, New Jersey, Washington, Oklahoma and Arkansas. Nebraska, Texas, Kansas, Tennessee and Kentucky have also made great progress. Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona have made a good begin- ning. P. O. Claxton, commissioner of education,>stated in February, 1917, that there were 7,500 consoli- dated schools ln the country one-half of which had been established during the last. three years. He predicted that by the end of the year 1920 Would be 10,000.——T. E. Johnson, Cup- crmtendent of Public Instruction, Lansing, Mich. THE COLLECTION BOX REFUND FROM CHICAGO FIRM “Last June we lived at Sanford, Michigan, and we ordered two rugs from the Company, Chicago. The latter part of June we returned the two rugs as they were not what we wanted. We waited a month and did not hear from them, so we wrote and waited some time again and did not hear, so I wrote again and had my letter registered, so in several days I got a letter and asked me to send the express re- ceipts which I did. In September we got a check for the cheapest rug which was around eleven dollars, leaving a balance of sixteen dollars. We wrote back at once and they asked for another express receipt which we got from the agent and sent it in to them. We have never hear from them since. Can you help us out on it?——-R. G., White Cloud, Mich. Our subscribers complaint woe. taken up with this firm on June lot, ,with the result that our" subscriber received the balance» due him on June 5th, according to the following letter: ' _ “We are enclosing in this letter our‘check No. 16716 ' for $16.25. Through a clerical error you were not credited for both rugs land we apologize ,to. you for :havdhg delayed—'7 you so long. ‘_ We are sending you pile of“ our, nevi-ontology: and ' not : '33:. an... m int: or rooueeu‘f’or‘lnfiorlnniiofl sum LAWS 1.3m verynnxious to know if there In a law in Michigan to prevent anyone from dumping fish entrails on the ground uncovered for days at a. time a breed- ing place for files and y a. menace to health.—-—Mrs. L. C.. Charlevolx, Mich. “I am enclosing herewith copy of the Nuisance Law under which the local board of health can improve sanitary conditions by the abatement of nuisances. You should. apply to your local health oflicer who is on- powered toorder nuisances remov-t od.”—-Edward D. Rich, State Sanitary Engineer. The law pertaining- to the burial of dead animals or any part thereof under which undoubtedly would come the nuisance «of which you complain, reads as follows: “Sec. 11432. If any person or persons shall putgmy dead animal or part of the carcass of any dead an— imal, into any lake, river, creek, pond, road, stre'et, alley, lane, lot field, meadow or common, or in any place within one mile of the resi- dence of any person or, persons, ex- cept the same and every part thereof be buried at least two feet under the ground, and if the owner or owners thereof shall knowingly permit the same to remain in any of the afore- said places, to the ,injury of the health , or to the annoyance of the citizens of this State, or any of them, every person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a. misdeameanor, and upon conviction thereof shall for- feit and pay a sum of not less than five dollars nor more than ten dol- lars, together with the costs of pros- ecution, and in default in the pay- ment thereof, shall be imprisoned'in the county jail of the county in which such conviction may be had,’ not. exceeding ten days, to be imposed by any court of competent jurisdiction; and every twenty-four hours said owner may permit the same to re- main after such conviction, shall be deemed an additional offense and pay a further sum of not less than ten dollars and not more than thirty dollars, together with the costs of prosecution, to be recovered as afore- said, and in default in the payment. thereof, be imprisoned as aforesaid not more, than thirty days, or be pun- lshed by both such fine and imprison- ment, in the discretion of the court." BIDDING FOR STATE PROPERTY Last yeagthrough a mistake we paid taxes on another man’s lots and in looking it up in hopes of getting our money back we find out that this man has not paid any taxes for six yea-rs and that it is state property and that if we bid those lots in at the tax sole,~ how long will it be before we will have to pay the state the taxes that are back for other years and whether we could get a. good title to it or not and how long it would be before we could take possession of it. I would like to know how to go at it to get this property or get our money back. I don't think any- one else has any claim on it. The prop- erty lays next to us. I like your paper very much. Please answer through your columns.—-—Mrs. E., Gladwln Coun- ty, Mich. —-———-—-—-¢ You do not give a full description of the tax situation but from what is said I am of the opinion that you would have to bid the whole of the‘ back taxes held by the state. After the bid you would have to serve the notice required by law and six ,months after return of the sheriff of service of the notice title would be- come complete as atax title. The law provides that after 5 years poe— session, by the purchaser the deed shall not be set aside. Possession immediately after the expiration of the six months—W. E.’ Brown, legal editor.- - , ' FORMULA I non WASH I would like to get a. formula. for a. white wash, to use in a sprayer. Would you give me one?-’-—-A Subscriber. .Ono. bushel of quickll-me nicked with 12 gallons of hot water and mix. ed thoroughl . .In a. aspirate con-s v talner' diesel e '8 lbs. of common salt ‘ “to; apex: “gin- r , H mun-unurnAHAAAHMH beam-Onan Hun»: h l . . new , ~ talks- are passed-51:6, press out I sham: s gasolinei‘engiue or by a sweep drawn. by horses. ‘ a I The usual typeof evaporator con? sists of 'a rectangular, flat bottomed pan of galvanized iron or copper. Evaporation maybe produced by di- rectcontact with fire orwith steam. In the formef’case the pan is mount- ed on a specially constructed fire box. If steam evaporation is employed the pan is provided with steam' coils which lie in the bottom of the pan. In some cases a double-bottomed pan is used, the space so provided being - employed to carry the steam. “Other articles needed are barrels or tubs for catching the juice, pipes for conducting it to the pan, skim- mers for removing the scum, appar- atusior testing the syrup’s consis- tency and barrels or cans for holding the finished product. “In making a syrup the blades of the plants are stripped off, the sor- ghum cut at about six inches from the ground, the seed heads removed. .The sorghum is passed through the . mill with as little delay as possible. When the weather is 'cool or there is danger of frost, the sorghum may be cut considerably in advance of press- ing for when properly piled, it will keep for several days. The juice ‘ex- tracted by the mill is strained and then run into the evaporating pan. As it passes through the pan. it quick- . ly comes to a boiling point and a Scum rises to the surface. This should be constantly and carefully removed. \“Syrup should be evaporated to a point where it contains not less than 70 per cent solids; that is, has a weight of not less than 11 1-4 lbs. to the gallon. If placed in contain- ers while boiling hot and properly sealed, it will keep indefinitely. “The average yield of syrup an acre is from 75 to 200 gallons, al- though in some cases it has been as high as 400 gallons. The estimates on the yield of seed an acre vary from 600 to 1,600 pounds." Those desiring additional informa— tion on that subject should write the Department of Agriculture for a copy of Farmers’ Bulletin No. 477. Syrup, From Sugar Beets The Department of Agriculture has also issued a very complete circular on the growing of sugar beets for syrup and the extracting of the syrup from the ripe beet. We are advised that tone bushel of beets will yield betWeen three and five quarts of syrup, depending upon the sugar con- tent of the beets, so that a very small patch of beets should yield sufficient syrup to last the average family thru the season. Sugar beet seed may be obtained from any seed house and can be planted as late as July 1st. Farmers who are not familiar with the method of planting, cultivating and harvesting beets should write at once to the Department of Agricul— ture for a copy of Farmers’ Bulletin No. 823 which gives such information in detail. Extracting the Syrup Beet syrup may be used for all purposes for which other syrups or .molasses would be employed, es- ' pecially for table use; for example, on buckwheat cakes, in making a dark colored cake, or in preparing certain kinds of home made candy. If thenevaporation is carried far enough and the syrup is allowed to stand, a dark sugar will settle out. This sugar will be found very satis- factory for home uses in cases where refined sugar is not necessary such as in making pies and other pastry. Improved Process for Use in the Prep- aration of Sugar Beet Syrup The directions given in Farmers' Bulletin 823 for the production of table syrup from sugar beets on a small’scale, as in the home; are brief- ly-as follows: ' “The tops are removed, cutting . them at the line of demarcation be- tween the green and the white skin; the beetsare thoroughly scrubbed and washed and cut in very thin slic- es. The sugar is extracted from these slices by placing them in a recept- acie, covering with hot water. and allowing" to stand for about s _ elwehfijextmct, is ‘ commencemen‘t'of caning. and - the..’1}1,iee. ’ It May be operated "by a'. » _many read the chaptr *one . e MEWS remov- al of the u Had syrup.,,cqvetms sev- eral neuralgia that the considerable amount of scum tannins JIDOD .the. surface be constantly and Carefully removed. _‘ , ' ' ,'_ '2 , “Recent ' investigations relative to this subject have shown thattheex- posure of the cut slices to the air results in oxidation and consequent darkening of the surfaces, and that this, together with the presence of the skin of the beet, has a marked effect upon the color and flavor of the syrup. The long-continued boil- ing also has a tendency to darken the color of the syrup, but results in‘an improvement offlavor through the elimination of much of the character- istic and more or less objectionable beetlike flavor. “The following modification process is recommended: “The beets after having been top- ped, thoroughly scrubbed, and wash- ed are peeled and immediately (with- out allowingtime for them to be- come darkened through exposure to the air) sliced allowing the slices to fall into a receptacle containing suf- ficient water to cover them. Sufl‘i- cient water should be added from time to time so that when the re- ceptacle is full the slices will be cov- ered by about one inch of water. The mass is then heated to 70 degree to 80 degree 0. (158 degree to 176 de- grees F.) the receptacle covered and allowed to stand for about one hour. A wash boiler will be found satis- factory, and it is recommended that a thin wooden rack be placed in the bottom in order to avoid scorching the bottom layer of slices. The wa— ter extract is then drawn off, strain— ed through cheesecloth, and evapor— ated directly to syrup. While the amount of scum formed will not be as great as in the original method, nevertheless it should be constantly and carefully removed. In the case of a considerable number of syrups made by this process, a very marked improvement in color, flavor and pal- atability has been apparent. The water extracts are clear and practic- ally 'colorless, while the finished syr— ups are of a light amber color and possess little or none of the more or less objectionable flavor and un- pleasant taste is sometimes noted in syrups made according to the oth- er method. Iron vessels should not be used either in preparing the water ’ only, atheist of v extract or in evaporating the extract to a syrup. It is essential that the beets used in the preparation of the syrup should be thoroughly ripe." “GET FAIR PROFITS OR QUIT," SAYS DAIRYMAN (Continued from page 13) or quit. When the world war was rag- ing we farmers were asked to eat what our hogs would not and now we will have to, if things are allow- ed to go much further. I think it is high time we struck, not for less hours and more pay but the right to just exist and pay taxes. Wake up and do something if it is no more - than just to agitate the question.— R. G. H., Allegan County. Our sympathies are with you fellows outside of the Detroit area beeauae we cannot see how you are receiving much benefit from the State Association. _ Of course, it helps all the dairy business in Michigan in a slight degree" to haVe a high milk price in Detroit and encourage the marketing of as much milk as possi- ble in that city, but it certainly seems as if there ought to be other ways in which the producers outside the Detroit area can receive more direct benefits from organization We advocate the establish; ment of a producers' milk plant in De- troit because that seems to provide an immediate solution to the marketing problems of the members of the Detroit area. The solution to the problems of those outside the area has not yet ap- peared, but having solved the Detroit conundrum the State Association would be left entirely free to devote its ener- gies to its less fortunate members in other parts of the state—Editor. Liars An evangelist who was conducting nightly services announced that on .the following evening he would speak on the subject of liars. e ads vised his hearers to read in advance the seventeenth chapter of Mark. The. next night he arose and said: ‘pr am going to preach on 'liars’ to- night, and I would lik’ ‘0 know how A hundred hands ‘fNow-fi’ he -- .-e upraised. said, “you are the very to was” isn’t .x‘ ’.._ i: a ‘ - ' tilt/(y, Maddy/{mics “ 4‘ WW: I, p In; is {vi/4’ The sturdy trapper can stand the ips of the frozen North ——he is hardened to them. Gillette Non-Skid Tires stand the 'nd of travel—because they are firdened to the hardships of road and climate and possess th / proper non-skid principle. Bite deep into dirt roads— hold fast to smooth, slippery pave- ments. Wear down slowly—evenly. Due to . the improved Gillette Chilled Rub- ‘ber Process. It reduces sand blisters —eliminates all tread separation with its fisultant blow—outs. 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"the‘Norther‘n ‘ FREE BOOKLETS ON - FARM SANITATION The following booklets tell how to pre- vent disease among livestock and poultry and give directions for using Kreso Dip No.1 (STANDARD IZED) PARASITICIDE AND DISINFECTANT which is specially adapted for use on all Livestock and Poultry BOOKLETS No. I5I~FARM SANITATION. Describes and tells how to prevent diseases common to livestock. ‘ No. I57-DOC BOOKLET. Tells how to rid the dog of fleas and to help prevent disease. No. I60—HOG BOOKLET. Coven the com- mon hog diseases. No. IBS—HOG WALLOWS. Gives complete directions for the construction of a con- crete hog wallow. No. I63—POULTRY. How to get rid of lice and mites. also to prevent disease. Kreso Dip No. 1 is sold in original packages at all drug stores. '. T". » ANIMAL INDUSTRY DEPARTMENT OF “ .' PARKE-DAVIS &, co. ’ v Damon. Mica. 32' , State's ahd‘l>”high I .; altitudes-where early “frosts; make . -'- corn uncertain, oats;audg-wpeas can. be grown profitably for _silage. Along the northern; border .of your country, especiallyin those sections where frost often pr'eVents the ma- turing of corn, Canadian fieidf‘peas with a good variety of-oats ‘make a most excellent. crop for silage. ~Oats and peas withstand light frosts and make an excellent crop for silage. and make an excellent growth, even with low temperatures. Many of the clay soils in northern Wisconsin and Minnesota are especially adapted to the growth of this crop; and it can be planted very early in the spring, which will enable the grower to ma- ture a crop ready for the silo at about the time of the first cutting of clover. When upfavorable weath- er for harvesting clover sets in such as a long rainy spell, the clover can the oats and peas can be harvested. In sectionsvwhere corn will not do well on account of a lack of heat, oats and peas, as a rule, will pro- duce more tonnage and 'the silage will be much better, being nearer a balanced ration. A dressing of barn yard manure will increase the yield, especially on new lands which have not been inoculated by clovers. We have found here in northern Wiscon- sin the growing of cats and peas the most satisfactory way of getting rid of quack grass; especially when the crop is SOWed thickly it will smoth- er out the quack grass. Oats and peas contain more than twice as much protein as corn and therefore make a ration which is practically balanced in itself. As a food for dairy cows it is most excellent, and will substitute the best of pasture. In the fall of 1918 I had an oc'- casion to test the worth of oat and pea silage compared with corn silage. I had been feeding corn silage to a ‘number of dairy cows, and on the let of January came to the place in the silo where oats and peas had been put in. We noticed aton'ce an increase in the production of milk from our herd. One cow which was (Submitted by the Millers’ National ' Fed erotion ) N May 29, 1920, wheat millfeeds were quoted, basis Chicago, car- load lots, packed in 100 lb. sacks, as follows: . Spring bran, $55@56 per ton; hard winter bran, $55.25@55.75 per ton; soft ‘winter bran, $55@56 per ton; standard middlings (brown shorts) $61@62 per ton; flour mid- diings (gray s'horts) $62@63 per ton; red dog, $69@70 per ton.~ The price of wheat millfeeds is regulated by supply and demand; if the supply were more nearly equal to the demand the prices would be lower. The supply of wheat mill- feeds can be materially increased by the adoption of a national policy fav- oring the exportation of flour in- stead of wheat, retaining in theUnit- ed States the miilfeed resulting from such increased operation of the flour mills. Few farmers appreciate what, a loss is entailed to the farming com- munity by allowing wheat to be ex- ported. Based on the report of the the crop year ending June 30, 1919, (the latest authentic figures avail- able) the wheat millfeed, production of the mills of the United States for that crop year was 4.38.3290? tons. Of this amount, 1,032,340 tens recj‘ suited from grinding flour that was: exported. '1 .. ;_-'. If all the wheat that was exported during that crop year had ~ ground into flour bygAmjer'ican..m-ills there-..would~have remained: in this than the figures giveniabovaa These calculations ‘ are : base an estimated productl‘g.,.of .7,1.-<.l'bs of miilfeed from each::barr’6i,offlfl,o§u " I meat regulations 'Whléhr. ‘ g, to~xawhighlpercentage ef'ti ' ” . ~ ‘ ’ V e Oats and peas withstand light frosts first be put in the silo after which ’ United States Grain 'Corpdrationfor ‘ v Shipping Board,-is;lending its ,influ- _> 1 cube tb'the‘s’upport [of applicy. which , 'depi‘ives'Ame'riéan‘millscfcthe right- } ful OprivllegeT ‘of’ grinding the j,wheat fand‘expofli’n‘gthe flour, and at." the he farmers j, d ' i h . . , _ eams“’tim'6 country'1,45'1,360 to‘ns more ‘jrgsd- : 'a ' ' v . 4 .‘2 r. '1 manufactured; this pasts-twee; cg)»: “ ‘rect during the perio mills :were- operating : .-‘instrn“ary with: . at "out? pounds‘per :day; another increased from fifteen‘po’unds to 24'pounds, and similar increases were acted by, other animals of the herd . This was sufficient evidence for us to " prove that oats and pea silage was super- ior to-corn silage, especially when given as we were-feeding. Our method of sowing is to work the ground as early in the spring as it can be plowed and harrowed, then sowing one and one-half bushels of peas to one and one-half bushels of oats per‘acre. The oats and peas will germinate even when the ground is cold and wet, and late spring frosts will not destroy the plants. The crop will come on in mid-sum- mer and when the peas are well pod- ded and most of the pods filled, the crop is ready for the silo. It should be cut and put in the silo while still green. Do ,not allow .the forage to become dry and then be obliged to add water; the natural juice of the plants is the'best and cannot be re- placed by adding water. Oats and peas can be handled much the same as hay when made into silage. It is better to cut, how- ever, when the dew is on to prevent peas and cats from shelling. The land is cleared in ample time to pre- pare the ground for: winter rye or wheat. This is a special advantage when considerable land is being farmed and labor scarce and hard to get. Oats and peas are much easier to raise than corn as they can be planted fully a month earlier and will not be damaged by frosts. More than that, no cultivation is needed, and when quack grass is bothersome, a heavy yield will choke out and des- troy the quack grass. ‘Farmers who live in the northern states can, well afford ,to test out this valuable crop, especially if they are finding it difficult to mature good corn for the silo. Oats and pea si- lage will come as near duplicating June pastures as any feed I know of, and it is well worth the tria‘l, es- pecially by those farmers who are conducting dairies in the northern states—Y. M. Johnson, Ashland, Wis. Wheat Exports Make High Mill Feeds barrel of flour is between 75 and 80 pounds, depending upon the charact- er of the wheat being ground. The above figures may therefore be ac- cepted as conservative. ‘ In round figures, millfeed consti- tutes one-third of the product of wheat flour milling. In- other words, in every. car of wheat containing 60,- 000 pounds that is exported, 20,000 pounds of valuable wheat millfeeds is lost to the farmers of the United States. At present flour export trade is practically at a standstill, while wheat is being exported as rapidly as ships can be secured to load it. This is largely the result of the policy adopted by the United States Ship- ping Board, which has, for several months,'indica‘ted a rate for ocean transportation on flour 25 cents per 100 pounds higher than the'rate on wheat. In doing so the Shipping Board is endorsing the action of the British Admiralty, which established the rate in order to discourage im- portation of flour and to encourage the constant operation of British flour mills"; ;, one of thelprincipal fact- ors in adoptingthis policy is‘the's'e- - curingito British farmers'the desir- able” millfeeds resulting from ~ the . milling Lot Wheat in British mills. The 4 resultingfsituation is that a (branch _ of the United States Governmlnt, the "dep‘ri‘Ves't . i ' 5 r . r -if§uittesni.»s” Wands "Per day. was ’duickiy 1:63.20 . . lo'ur' mi 1» _ increased supplies i‘of mil-Heed, . j needed atthis" time. . Ramona FOR BABY '_ . V The first feed giVen the “baby chicks‘shouid: be somethin 'ea'sy'to, poultry! ' digest. ' Many suCcessfu keepers start the chicks. on rolled oats.' Others use dry bread crumbs or finely cracked grain. The first requirement is that the chicks should not be fed too soon and the second essential is that chicks should not be fed too much. No food should be given the chicks until they are at least 48 hours old and not then "’un- less they show a good appetite. Whatever is given for the first feed should be fed in small amounts or the chicksshould be watched and ,what feed is left.at the end of about ten minutes 'should be removed. Chicks should be fed four 'or five times a day during the first week so. ‘that they may secure plenty of nourishment without overheating at one time. During the first few weeks of its life the chick grows very rapidly and it is very important that the ration contain the proper elements for mak- ing muscle and bone. Protein from an animal source‘ is the material which insures a good rate of develop- , ment in the chicks. Wherever pos- sible the chicks should be given un- limited quantities of buttermilk or sour milk to drink from the time they are placed in the brooders. If milk is not available, then the pro- tein should be supplied during the first week or ten days by the addi- tion of hard boiled eggs to the ra- tion. One egg daily for each fifty or sixty chicks will supply the pr-otein needed for growth. After» the chicks are about a week old, the ration should gradually be changed from the oatmeal or other starting, feeds to a more substantial ration of cracked grain and dry mash. Dur- ing the second, third and fourth weeks of the feeding period a good grade of commercial chick feed is very satisfactory for furnishing the“ grain for the ration, or finely crick- ed corn can be used. The mash for baby chicks should consist of equal parts of wheat bran and shorts;or wheat bran, shorts, and corn meal in equal proportions. If protein is not being supplied thru milk, either commercial meat scrap or a good grade of feeding tankage shouid'be added to the dry mash at the rate of one pound of meat scrap _ or tankage to each three pounds of bran, shorts and corn meat. As soon as the chicks begin to run outside and secure plenty of exercise, the feed may be given in unlimited quan— tities. The best way to insure rapid growth is to keep the dry mash con- stantly before the chicks in self- feeding hoppers and to feed as much cracked grain as they will clean up at each feed. To insure plenty of bone buildings material for growing chicks it is advisable that fine gran- ulated bone be put out in self-feed- ing hoppers where the chicks will have access .to it. Hoppers filled with fine charcoal is also a good thing to keep before the chicks as charcoal helps to correct digestive troubles. Green feed should form an import- ant part of the chick ration... If the chicks are running at large on green grass, nature will take care of the green ,food supply. If they must be confined,- then green food should be provided iii-such forms as lettuce, onions, sprouted oats,~or other tend- er: greens. FOR DRAFT HORSES ' ~' Frank"H.;Sweet of Sweet &_Piper,' rat‘wdthejK uses City Horse market, the demand for heavy- findermule‘s indunauuanv—nnnasnm has been»? ,, 'a-B'ub 338 n ‘ H--‘HH““HI—a “AHA.H»A.~AAH LI- five its ir- i-ao 27:] I'- WWWHWI ‘,_10.5 bushels, oats ‘5.17 .worked through the barns \ . floor to absorb the liquid. 3gen -in this liq- uid portion readily A - .The total solid ’ and“ liquid manure ‘ ' eighty tons;“: with; , : aw i 1» plant food value of ,, . snore than. $30.: In he hoary. . . . r, to he, » mt” .bt'.*t11‘ez‘.psst yin'ter in that “ » on," which forced. the transporta- ' 110115 users to realize that the” horse, .7 and mule were the only motive units ' = wholly reliable. f Z=Prospects for‘continued demand and'nnusual‘prices are excellent. 7 OF A TON on Trials made on the various exper- ’ input fields throughout the state by theUniversity of Missouri College of Agriculture have shown that an av--' erage application of eight tons of manure to the acre once in four years has increased the yield of corn bushels, wheat 5.24 bushels and clover hay, 937 tons. At prices which prevailed the first of the year this would be worth $4.83 at pre-war prices $2.44 for each ton of manure applied. It will cost the farmer not more than one .dollar a ton to col- l-ect the manure and haul it to the field. This would leave a net profit of ~$3.83 at present prices, or $1.34 at pre—war prices for each ton manure applied. The full value of the manure is usually not obtained during the first four years, for it leaves the soil in better condition and its effect upon later crops is of- ten quite significant. This becomes more noticeable after the first two or three applications, since. a liberal application of manure every four years will result in permanent im— provement to the land. By‘ very careful handling of ma- ‘ nure a live stock farmer, on average soil, should be able to return annual- ly, about two tons of manure per acre to his cultivated fields. It is not easy to save this amount except by very careful methods and persis- tent efforts. It is necessary that all straw and other suitable materials be as-bed- ding. This not only adds to the com- fort of. the animals, but serves as an absorbent for the liquid manure. If straw piles are sold, burned or left to rot file of course impossible to return this amount of manure. ,Kefep the manure together, don’t let it get scattered about the barn or late. Hogs and chickens may waste much of it. Where possible haul it to the field as soon as produced. If this is not possible, store it in shal- low concrete lined pits to prevent leaching. Use plenty of bedding in the stable or on the feeding floor to absorb the liquid. Straw, old hay, ‘ grass and leaves may be used for this purpose. Keep the manure together; don’t let it get scattered about the barn or lots. Hogs and chickens may waste much of it. Where possible haul it to the field as soon as pro- duced. If this is not possible, store it in shallow concrete lined pits to prevent leaching. Use plenty of bed- ding in the stable or on the feeding Straw, old hay, grass and leaves may be used for this purpose. About 35 per cent of the nitrogen and 55 per cent of the potassium is to be found in the liquid material. There is, however, practically no phosphorus in this part. The plant foods in’the liquid are all in soluble form and are very easily lost thru leaching. Furthermore, the nitro- passes off as am— monia when the ma- rnure is allowed to / ferment, hence the’ necessity for pre- venting forment a- tion. as far as pos- sible. produced in a. year bra well .fed,...ina- ' I tare: horse";is;r about," the case on "wen. 1‘ ste’rhyeish " , “L _ third 7 increase - brittle; . , must‘be- expése’d. totthe. weather it should belts a pitwithawater tight bottom. ORDER YOUR FALL FERTILIZER ‘Transportation difficulties may be- come more acute during the summer and since the manufacture and trans- portation of acid phosphate is of a seasonal nature, the orders should be placed early. ' “It may be necessary to use con- siderable fertilizer next fall to com- ‘ the Hessian fly, which has been qui destructive during this season. In some cases it is necessary to plant the wheat late and fertilize heavily, . depending on the fertilizer to .give the 'wheat a start equal to that of early sowing." 5 This is a very important matter to all wheat growers and one which should have their immediate atten- tion. It is unfair to the railroads to ask them to move all the immense tonnage of fertilizer in'a few weeks. Not ohly is it unfair but it is decid- edly unsafe, if one wants the fertil- izer to arrive on time. It takes no more time to put in an order in June than it does in August and there is a lot of difference in the surety of de- livery for the June order. This is no time to cuss the rail- roads. ‘We need their service and we in return should do 'our part that they may give us service. ’There is another item which must be considered by wheat growers, and that is the. sheet of delayed ship- ments of fertilizer on this year’s crop of wheat. August and September shipments of fertilizer will get in the way of the wheat movement and vica versa. Here are two big freight movements which vitally effect the farm business and they shdhld not be allowed to interfere with each other as they inevitably will if ship— ments of fertilizer are not made early. '80 order today what fertil— izer you will need this next fall. DELCO OFFERS CHEAPER PLANT Those who have been waiting for a less expensive electric lighting and power plant to come on the m‘trket will be interested in the full page annuoncement of the Delco-Light Company, which appears on page 7 of this issue. Such an outfit, pro- ducing 1-2 kilowatt from a silent, air-cooled, kerosene-burning plant would be of little interest, if it were not brought out by such well-known and responsible manufacturers. The capacity, we believe, is large enough to take care of the average Michigan farm and it means not only ample . and safe light in all buildings, at any time day or night, but power for running water, which is as great a. help to mother and convenience to the boys. Of course, a washer, elec- tric ironer, fans and other conven- iences come with electricity, which is as Thomas Edison has said “the modern Genii,” a humble slave to do your bidding. THE BUSINESS FARM' ER hopes that every reader who has ever thought of a lighting plant for their farm. will send the coupon for full particulars which are gladly sent without any further obligation, if addressed-to the company at Dept. Z, Day-ton, Ohio. & . Us" is as: ‘ h'omehconveniené'e lEssa good lighting systemg‘a sYstem which will do away Withgthe dirty, ill-smelling kerosene lamp; which is a constant source of danger, is inconvenient, inefficient, and a care to the busy housewife, says E. W. Lehmann of the Univer— sity of Missouri College of Agricul- ' ture.’ Conditions change from year to year and what were considered lux- sidered necessities. This is particu- larly true with reference to condi- tions on the farm. Things are no longer “all right because our fath- ers got along with them.” The up- to-date farmer must have his home equipped with all modern convenienc- es not only because they add to the pleasure of living but also because they make him more efficient in his farm work. “I think your paper one of the best weekly farm papers published. I would also like to buy one of those Jersey cows pictured on front page 0: your paper.”—A Subscriber. Veterinary Dep’t LAME SHOULDER l have a horse that slipped and hurt his shoulder March 28th. I was leading mm out to water in the morning and noticed- it at noon. By that time he could hardly get out of the barn. He drags that foot and leg. Have had two doctors and neither seems to help him, Blistered it the first thing and then put bran poultice on for 24 hours. I am not giving him any exercise now, ex- cept once in a. while lead him to water. His soreness is in behind and under the humerus in those muscles called ex- tensor of elbow. That large muscle on the outside [3 shrunk away. He, can stand on that leg but he tips his knee forward a. good deal unless it is held back with a harness—E. D. C., Sanilao County. This shoulder should have been packed in ice or cold applications applied continuously for the first twenty-four hours: your blister simpc ly added to the inflammation you al- ready had. at the present time the animal should have absolute rest. should not be taken out of the stall for at least two weeks: this will ac- complish much more than any local treatment. Hot water applied and massaging of the muscles will be found somewhat beneficial. Should the muscles remain shrunk away have your veterinarian injest equal parts of Tr. Iodine and chloroform deep into the muscle: inject about eight or ten drops of this solution in a place and place the injections about two inches apart. This should be re- peated every four weeks until the shoulder is normal—W. A. Ewan, Veterinary editor. REMOVING COLLAR BOILS In answer to W. H. S., Newaygo County, would say that I had a col- lar boil removed by operation in 1912, from a horse four years old, and it has never bothered since. You can see the scar, but it has never been sore; of course you must use a per- fect fitting collar. It took about six weeks to heal up.--J. M., Saginaw County. FEEDING TOO MUCH V I have some hogs that don't eat what they ought to, I am feeding ground corn meal, and corn on the ear. Eighteen of them will only clean up one half bush- of ear corn and about six quarts ot meal to the feed. They grow but do not put on fat. They are last October pigs. What can I give them?- E. . M., Genesee County. You are feeding them too much corn, change the food to a more eas- ily digested nature. After a short course on» seine other feed you will be able to put them back on the corn and they will take on fat. This should be done gradually though. Feed them a little‘ charcoal in the feed morning and night. W. A. Ewan, Veter- importaii‘t ,_ farm I ' Name “Bayer” means genuine ' uries a few years ago areflpow con— ’ ' Say “Bayer"— insist! 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NEW BUTTERFL “nerd-:13 n materiel.“ “ulna |_ in. Made also in foulmer sizes afield”; ' 0m 5s. RI m .7 earn as: harem Par? "Om-I. . "blush-Dover 0a 2230 smear-team Saws 25 Cords a Day 1119 Ottawa Saw fails trees or cuts oil' stum a level with group ._ Saws up logse cuts or branches. cc entter. runs umpiack and other ltmach nery. Mounted on wheels. say to move anywhere. 10 Year Guaranteo.§ DODays Trill. Write for Free Book and Cash or Easy Term-a OTTAWR "F0. 60., [48] Wood 81.. mtlwl, Kill.- For best results on your Poul~ try, Veal, Hogs, etc., ship to CULOTTA & JULL DETROIT Not connected with any other house on this market. SICK ANIMALS = Sheep, Dogs and Poultry, mailed free; -’. dress Dr. Humphreys’ Veterinary- “ Mancini»,r 156 William Se, New Yale , ’ IS YOUR FARM FOR SALE?v Try and ad in (M. B. F.’s.~ Classified: , B ‘ fess Farmer’s.vExchange.’: 9 alt flhdsj’th h ye . or“? '. . . t ,"e I ..~‘ I . y. N f K?) x - \‘1‘? iii... K / To-avom conflicting dates we WIiI Withoul cost. list the date of any live stock sale In Michigan. If you are considering a sale ad- vise us at once and we will claim the date '0? You. Address. Live Stock Editor. M. B. 'F.. Mt. Clemens. . Aug. 6. lhlroc-Jerseys . O. F. FEE—r, Pavilion. Mich. , - . net. 2_r.. Poland cmnu Wesley “lie- I Boone-Hill 00., 28. Poland Chime. E. R. Leonard, St. Louis. Mich. Oct. 29, Poland Chinas. Clyde Fisher, St. Louis. Mich. Oct. 30. Poland Chinas. lbas. Wetzcl 6: Sons. Ithaca. Mich. Oct. 31. Poland Chinas. Brewbaker 6: Sons. Elsie. Mich. Blanchn rd, Mich Oct. "I"! you a proof and tell you what it will cost. tel-'18. 20 or 52 times. Breeders Auction Sales advertised here at special low rates: ask for them. Write today!) IIII _ liliilllillillllllliiiiilllilillllill 'Illl You can change size of ed. or (OPEOIAL ADVERTIEING RATES under this heading to honest breeders of live stock and poultry will be eerlt on newest Better still write out whet you h '- I on is m, ‘ I I. . - . . e to m. ‘00!!! I! Mien All You wish. COPY Orliihenm'must he recelvgd one Virgil hgfglgpdld‘o'? 1:!!!“ BREEDERG' DIREOTORY, THE MICHIGAN IUSINESS FARMER. Mt. Clemens. Michigan.‘ _HAreH HERO ' (State and Federal Tested) YPSILANTI, MICE. ' OFFERS Y‘OlIIIG SIRES Yearlings and younger, 0“I of choice, advanced regifitl‘y 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. ' CATTLE HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN Convert Roughage into Dairy Products with Purebred Holstein Cattle Cows that convert the roughage of your farm into the best of milk, but- tor, veal and beef are worth more to you than cows that are particular about their food. If you sell your milk for direct consumption, to a cheese factory or condensary, of course, you won’t consider any other breed. When it comes to butter, bear in mind that the separator shows that the Holstein cow still leads. If you have any young stock you need all that extra skim milk. Send for Free Illustrated Booklets. They contain valuable information to any Dairyman. THE HOLSTElN-FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION 295 Hudson Street Brattleboro. Vermont llll llle PBOUOEB Your problem is more MILK. more BUTTER. more PROFIT. per cow. son of Msplccrest Application Pontiac—- 182652—from our heavy-yesrly—milking-good-bub— tor-record dsm will solve it. ' Heplecreet Application Pontlsc‘s dam made 85,103 lbs. butter in 7 days; 1344.3 lbs. butter and 23421.2 lbs. milk In 365 days. He is one of the greatest long distance sires. llls_ daughters and sons will prove it. \l'rite us for pedigree and prices on his sons. Prices right and not too high for the sverege Jain farmer. I'r-’igrccs and prices on application. It. Bruce McPherson. Howell. Mich. BUTTER BOY ROSIIIA PRIIIOE 257572, hcrl sire, son of King Om. His sire is from a 30 lb. cow that made 1,345 lbs. in one year and dum, Butter Boy Rosina 2nd 200, 540. made 29 lbs. and almost 800 lb. in ten months. she has a 33 and 34 lb. sister. Have some fine young buls and heifers and some heif— ers brc:l to haul. all from A. it. cows with records from 2:2 to 30 lbs. Write for prices. Hampshire hops. fall boars, ready for service and gills. Hocking orders for spring pigs. Belgian and Percheron Stallions and mares. Im- ported and American bred. OINAW VALLEY STOCK FARM Eli Sprunger a Son. Props., Saginaw W. 8.. Mich ' FOR SALE 5 HEIFER CALVES age from 2 to 8 months 3 B L CALVES one ready for heavy service 1 COWS two with .18 and 20 lb. Seven day records. Five with good profitable cow testing records. Write for pedigrees and prices. Herd free from discuss. - . . BROWN. Breedsvliie, Mich. Breeder of Reg. stock only *sAsv suns - "Grow your own next herd sire. We have rthree‘beiutiful youngsters—straight es a line. (big-boned rugged fellows. They ere. all by; our 88 lb. senior sire, KING KORNDYKE 'ORISKANY PONTIAC from splendid indi- widual dams of A. R. backing and the best ,of blood lines, , _, ,. ,, ». Write for, our sale list. BOAROIAI. FARMS - v- «elimination. A m Breeders Since moo 1 OLVERIRE STOCK FARM REPORTS GOOD sales from their herd. We are weu pleased with the calves from our Junior Herd Sire “King Pon- tiac Lunde Korndyke .Segis" who the lotbilde De K01 2nd. A few bull mine for eels. '1‘. . Sprsgue. R. 2. Bettie Creek. Mich. MUSOLFF BROS.’ HOLSTEIN: We are now booking orders for young bulls from King Pieter Seals. Lyons 170506. All from A, R. 0, dams with credible records. We test annu- ally for tuberculOsls. Write for pric— es and further information. Muslofl Bros" South Lyons, Michigan LAST ADVERTISE!) SOLD, but have one more for sale. Nice- ly marked. straight back line. a fine indivldml large growthy fellow with the making of a hrgé bull. Would do someone s-lot of good. Dam hes/ a. 27 lb record, e large cow and a). great milk producer. Sire e son of Friend Hengerveld DeKol Butter Boy, one of the great bulls. JAME8 HOPSON. JR. Owcsso - - R2 - - mum.“ REGISTERED .HOLSTEIIIS 3‘3: “3‘3: WM. GRIFFIN. R. 5.. Howell. Michigan A WELL BilED llllLsu-zlll BULL cALr Filil SALE Born Dec. 21, 1919. A hull of good quality, has a good_etraigbt rump and s conformation that will satisfy you. His sire’s dam is s 33 lb. cow with a 10 months record of 1,007.76 lbs. butter. This sire. King Flint also combines the blood lines of 2 families of 3 generation of 30 lb. cows and 2 generations of 1.200 lb. yearly record cows. Dom: Has a 21.36 1h. 3 yr. old record. Her dam has a 25.4 lb. record. OEIIBIDA FARM Welter T. Hill. Prop. Davlson. Mich. Bulls From an Accredited Herd HILL CREST FARMS. MUNSON. MICHIGAN RISINGHURST JOHANNA ORMSBY DIMPLE 195003 born Nov. 25. 1915, is offered for sale. His sire is by Johanna Concordia Champion 60575 (29 A. It. 0. daughters, two 80 lbs, 9 above 20 lbs.) who is by Colanth Johanna Champion 45674 60 A. R. 0. daughters) a son of Colantha 4tb’s .l‘ohanna, 35.22, the only cow to ever hold at one time 11 world's records in every division from one day ten year. His dam. Lindenwood Dimple 2nd 139424. 27.33 lbs. butter, 465.30 lbs. milk, average per cent fat 4.70. is by Duke Ormshy l‘letertJe De Kol 44764 (10 A. R. 0. daughters. 2 above 30 lbs.) end out of Lindenwood Dimple 104601. She has 75 per cent the same breed- mg as Lindenwood Hope. 30.61. Write for price and other information. EDWARD B. BENOON A SONS. Munson. Mich. ‘AZLEY Smell FARM ‘ YPSILANTI. MICH. Increase Your Production at the Price of $50 Bull born May 3rd. Sire a grandson of John Hengerveld Led 61 A. R. O. Daugh- ters. Dam is 2 year old granddaughter of a 21 lb. cow that will be tested at next freshening.‘ We have just finished testing 2 cows. O‘he made over 30 lbs. the other made 27.65 from 1'79 lbs. of milk in 7 days. . ,, Jill-III BAILEY. . 319 Atkinson Ave. DETROIT, MICHIGAN IIIIIIllllIlllilililillilllillllllilllIllIlIlIlililliilitlillliiilhliiiIli‘% OUR ‘HERD 5|!!! 1 hom- KIIIG- SEGIS sum His sire is 30 lb. son of Lakeside King Begin Alba n De K01; The dam. Glista Fenclln, 32.37 lb. Iier (ism, Glistn. Ernestine, 35.96 lb. His three nearest (isms average over 33 lbs. end his forty six nearest tested relatives average over 30 lbs. butter in seven days. We offer one of his sons ready for service. GRAND RIVER STOCK FARMS c. 6. Twin, Mgr. Eaton Rapids. Mich. BIO ROOK - HOLSTEI‘NS Herd Headed by Johan Pauline III: K01 Lad 236554 a son of Flint Hengerveld Lad and Johan Pauline DeKol twice 30 1b. cow and dam of Pauline DeNijlander (Mich. Champion two years old.) Bull calves from dams up to 28 pounds. . Roy E. Fickics, Chesaning, Mich. i .' no nauseous nuns. ,»’ALBO know of 10 or 15 load: fancy QUIT“! 'Shorthorn and Angussteers 5 to 1000 lbs. Owners anxious to sell. Will hel buy ‘00 commission. C. F,.Bell. F‘slrfie d. town. MEADOW BROOK REREFOROS Bob Fairfax 495027 at head of herd. Regis- tered \stocli. either sex. polled or horned, mostly A any We. Come and look them over. ..EARL c. McOARTV. Bad Ass. Michigan” ' serous _ The Most Broiitable Kind of farming. is car load '0! grade dairy heifers from LENAWEE COUNTY'S hesviest.mllk Dro- ducers to he 1 pure bred ANGUS hull of the most extreme best type for combination beef and dairy farming. Ger lot I Ipmcnts stumbled st GLENWOOD FARM for prompt shipment. Methods expla. nedin SMITH’S PROFTI‘ABLB STOCK FEEDING. 400 pages illustrated. GEO. B. SMITH. Addison. Mich. E" "was enso seasons. ANGUS CATTLE AND 9J3. Swine ere right and ere priced right. borro- Ipondence solicited end Inspection inle CARL BARTLETT. Lawton. Mich. GUERNSEYS REGISTERED GUERNSEYS - ORDER YOUR BULL OALF NOW for later shipment. Let me send you a real ped- lgree of better breeding. J. M. WILLIAMS, North Adams. Mich. UERNSEYS FOR SALE. 1 BULL. ST. AUS- tell Sultun, ‘sire Longwster Prince Charmant (18714) 4 A. R. daughters. 416 lb. fat. at 2 1-2 years old. Dam, Dagm. of Hillhurst (35969) A. It. 548 lb. fat at 2 1-2 yrs. old. 1 bull calf. 6 mos. old of similar breeding. Also a few fine heifers of the above bull. It will pay 3031 ‘0 investigate. Prices and pedigree on application MORGAN BROS.. R 1. Alleoen, Mich. SHORTHORN ssosrnosss 5 bulls. 4 to 8 runs. old, all roens. pail fed. Dome good milkers. the formers' kind, at farm- ers’ prices. F. M. PIGGO‘I'T & SON. Fowler, Mich. THE BARRY COUNTY SHORTHORN BREED- crs Association announce their fall catalog reed! for distribution. Scotch. Scotch l‘op and Milling Shorlllorns listed. Address W L. Thorpe. Sec.. Milo. Mich. HE. VAN BUREN CO. SHORTHORN BREED- ers' Association have stock for sale. both milk and beef breeding. Write the secretary, ' FRANK BAILEY. Hartford. Mich. OR SALEnPOLLED DURHAM BULLS'AND Oxford Down Rams. _ J. A. DeGARMO. Muir. Mich. Shorthorns at Farmers’ Prices ' FOUR SCOTCH TOPPED BULL CALVES under one year old. These are all wane and choice individuals. FAIRVIEW FARM F. E. Boyd Alma. Michigan SHORTHORIIS Sud» 1mg?” LE" Wm. J. BELL, Rose City. Mich. FOR SALE TWO REG. SHORTHORN BULLS ready for service. Also one Reg. Shorthom heifer. Herd tuberculin tested. Writs M. B. HALLSTED. Orion, Mich. Clay Bred Shorthorn’ bull calf from a heavy producing dam. W 8. HUBER. Olodwln. Mich. NICE STRAIGHT LIGHT COLORED BULL calf born February lst. Sired by Flint Hen- gerveld Led, whose two nearest dams average 32.66 lbs. butter and 735.45 lbs. milk In 7 days. Dam, n 24 lb. daughter of a son of Pontiac De Nijiamler 35.43 lbs. butter and 750 lbs. milk in l days. Write for prices snd extended pedigree w . i... C. KETZLER Flint. Mich. vHA’l‘ DO YOU WANT? SHORTHORN breeders. Can put you in nuch wilh best milk or beef strains. Bulls all ages. Some females. C. W. (‘rum. President (‘entral Michigan Shorthorn Association, Mc- Brides, Michigan. I represent 41 aple Ridge Herd of Bates Shorthorns OI- .‘ers for sale a roan bull calf 7 mos. old. Also 2 younger'onee. J. E. TANSWELL, Mason, Mich. TWO BULL OALVES Registered Holstein-Frieslan, sired by 39.87 lb. bull end from heavy producingyoung cows. These calves are very nice and will be priced cheep i! sold soon. HARRY T. TUBES. Elwell. Mich. 36 pound son of KING OF THE PONTIAC’S Heads our Herd several 30 pound cows all under Federsl Sup- ervision, good bull calves and a few bred heifers for sale. HILL CREST FARM. Ortonville. Mich. or write ' ' ' ' ' John P. Hehl. 181 Griswold fit... Detroit. Mich. Business Former. - be! are both honest sud eompétentrmep of standing in their lines ’it): Micbiuni end they will represent my reader of this weekly st an: Isle.m'-i-’*lr bids in.‘ cl this Their 30:7:an ‘1’; ' ‘ Write them III we _ , srmnee you .ssls.’ etc. my work exclusively weekly! _ “I, 7' - 3 ~ 3 _ Live srocx FIELD MEN—4 3' . One or .the other of the shove well-known experts, will visit all live-stock lee of Importance in Mirhlnn. northern Ohio end Indiana. u the exclusive Field Men 0! The chigur, HEREFORDS Hardy Northern Bred Hereford: BERNARD FAIRFAX 624819 HEAD OF HERO 20 this year’s calves for sale. 10 bulls and 10 heifers. JOHN MacOREOOR. Herrisvlile. Mich. REGISTERED HEREFORD CATTLE KING REPEATER HEADS OUR’HERD We still have eight good bulls and some heif- ers for sale. Come and see them. , ’ MARION srocx FARM Tony B. Fox. Prop. Marlon. Mich. .. cattle and Sheep Horses and Swine .u........-....-.. n..-..-.-..--. .n.... free to you. may interests l.. ‘.,What_,have YOU -- rm ..mi”ii$ :5: _ I A I ‘ - o! Michigan’s JERSEYS Highland Farms-Jersey: Offers: Bulls of serviceable age, ‘of R. O. Sire and Dani's, with high production records. Also bull calls. Write for printed list of prices and description. ' HIGHLAND FARM. Shelby. Mloh.. R 2. or Sale—alert” hull calves. Oxford and Mo- jcsty breeding. Dams are heavy producers. J. L. CARTER. Rd. Lake Odessa. Mich. MPROVE YOUR JERSEY HERD WITH ONE of our Majesty bulls. FRANK P. NORMINGTON. lonla. Mich. AYRSHIRES SPECIAL. SALE REGISTERED AYRSHIRES Beginning June 12th.. for 30 days we will sell bulls lit for service for $1.00. Bull calves and heifer valves for $5 . _ Fill in ms Vassar. R 5. Mich. SWINE POLAND CHINA BIG BOB MASTODON _Sire was champion of the world, his Dsm’s site was grund champion lit Iowa State Fair. Get a grand cimlnpiou while the getting is good. Book- ing orders now. Bred gilts are all sold, but have 10 choice full pigs sired by a Grandson of Dish- er's Giant. 3 boars and 7 son. Will sell open . or bred for Sept. fsrrow, to BIG BOB.‘ . E. GARNANT. Eaton Raplds. Mich. WONDERLAND HERD LARGE TYPE P. c. ~ A few choice bred gilts for sale. Also fell gllts and boars, some veryv’good prospects of excellent breeding. Gill's bred to ORPHAN'S SUPERIOR Ile by BIG ORPIIAN’S EQUAL by BIG BONE ORPHAN by the BIG ORPHAN. Dem, BEAUI‘ 'S CHOICE by ORANGE-BUD. by BIG ORANGE A. Free livery to visitors. Wm. J. CLARKE, Eaton Rapids. Mich. BIO TYPE PO- - land Chines. . . Glits all sold. My l920 crops will be sired by Giant Clansmen No. 324731, sired by Giuut Cinnamon and Art‘s Progress No. 3 A. D. GTEEIORY, Tonia, Mich. .—every ..ca.j..s. Erin. pits - Breeders’ 13W” ’ “ to good advantage v of ,. 2. 7 ' I ) . A Ire-“n u..— 21‘ ‘ r ' ' see 2“ see paid _ not eer‘repreeentedh 1‘ El worries: E's Big. Orange Lords L Orange Price and L's'Long Prospect. W. E. LIVINGSTON. Perms. Mich. " POLAND CHINAS WITH QUALITY Nine fall gilts out of litters of eleven and thirteen, for sale. J. E. MYGRANTS. at. Johns. Mich. L s P c FOUR CHOICE SPRING AND FALL hours left. A few extra nice gilts ' left bred for April furrow. Ii. o. swnnrz. Behoeloreft. villain. B T. P. C. sows AL‘L SOLD. ORDERS booked for boar pigs at weaning time from Mich. champion herd. Visitors always welcome. E. R. LEONARD. R 8.‘ 8t. Louie. Mien. In TYPE P. O. Gil-TS ALL SOLD. HAVI 'L. W. BARNES A . » Byron. Mich. TH ANNUAL r.‘ o. onto sow eeu. March 13. 1920. For rticulen write \‘u'. J. HAGELOHAW. uoueu. Midi. Big Type Pole d China. Arm during three boar rigs st wee rig time at reesoneble price. Beg- Write for‘ pedigrees and prices. MOSE BRO... 8t. Cher-lee. Mich. . L. T. P. C. I have a fine lot of spring pigs sired by Hart's Black Price, a good son of Black Price, grand champion of the world in 1918. Also have a litter of 7 pigs, 5 sows and 2 boars, sired by Prospect Yank, a son of the $40,000 Yankee, that are sure Hinndingers. F. T. HART. St. Louis. Mich. \ I Am Oiierlng Large Type Poland Chine Sows, bred to F's Orange at reasonable prices. Also fall pigs. Write or call. CLYDE FISHER. R3. St. Louis. Mich. ' T. P. 0. ALL SOLD OUT, EXCEPT SOME {all gilts. Thanking my customers. JOHN D. VJILEY. Schooicraft. Mich. BOARS ALSO SOWS AND PIGS. ANYTHING you want. Poland China of the biggest type. We have lured them big for more than 25 years: over 100 head on hand. Also registered Perch- erona. llnlsteins, and Oxfords. Everything sold at a reasonable price. and a square deal. JOHN C. BUTLER. Portland. Mich. ‘ FAREWELL LAKE FARM large type I’. 0. Have a ilne lot of spring pigs by (.‘lnnsmnn‘s Image 2nd. The Outpost and King’s Giant. I will sell King’s Giant No. 327,- 749. He is a real sire. lie was first prize year- ling bimr tit Jar-lump (Jo. fair. 1919. W. B. RAMSDELL. Hanover. Mich. L T.POLAND CHINAS. Orders Booked for spring pics from Linc Lucans Strain. ELDRED A. CLARK. St. Louis." Mlch.. R 3 B'EGISIEHED POLAIID OHIIIA PIGS 3 BOARS AND 3 SOIVS 8 WEEKS OLD FOR- SALE. ADDRESS 0. H. """T" "ont'rlc. Mich. R. F. D. No. 1 DUROCS . -J..- oy WalI’ Orion. First 5r, Veins Jackson. Gd. Rapids and Saginaw, 1919 Phillips Bros, Riga, Mich ..,‘ L312 .;5,, DOROC JERSEYS. FALL BOARS. WEIGHT ._'00 lbs. each. Sired by a 800 lb. boar. Priced reasonable. c. E. DAVIS & sou. Ashley. Mich.‘ PEACH HILL FARM‘ Duroc sows and gilts sired by Proud Principal. Romeo Cherry King Brook- water. Gold Stomp 7th and Rajah out of dams by Limited Reich and the Principal IV. Bred to Peach Hill Orion King and linjrlh Cherry Col. INWOOD BROS.. Romeo. Mich. MICHIGAIIA FARM Sells Dnrncs Aug. th. Write for catalog. 0. F. FOSTER. Mgr. Pavilion. Mich. uses .lElisry FALL 80m ‘ ' N sired by Orion illierry Ling Col. 2ild., first aged hour at Detroit in 1910. These are growthy and the right type , priced to sell. W. O. TAYLOR. Milan. Mich: Duroc Jersey Sows and Gilts bred for Aug. and Sept. furrow. 1.000 lb. herd boar. “ .ios. SCHUELLER. Weldmen. Mich. gSAEIREED I N G SIZE AND O. L. POWER. Jerome. Mich. Duroc sows and gilt: bred to Wait’s King 82949 who has sired more prize winning pigs at the state fairs in the st 2 years than any other Du- roc board. Newt n Barnlmrt. St. Johns. Mich. BOAR’ PIG F nusoc b... .l... i... “£1”..°"?2%'.‘o"3‘.'.‘§ E. E. CALKINI. Ann M. Mich. BOfARnS. GILTB AlgbdaROOO COWS . .o 9. ages. owe re or open. New- ton a. Blank. Hill Crest rim. Perrineten. Mich. term 4‘ miles straight eouth of Middleton. For: me: one ounce seen no. Breakwater breeding stock. Choice spring pigs. JOHN ORONINWITT. Carleton. ‘ Mich. weeks. by Big Long Eels“ ‘ ' 7 .se‘. , ' .. , ’ xICh. : ' HP ..«. I snoowvr‘m nevi. n:o.~.o'unoo Benny hogs. Spring? pigs for sale. J. E. MORRIS. Formington. Mich. “AKLAIIIS I PREMIER “HIEF ,ngd‘ "Boar—Reference only—No. 1 2 9 2 1 9 1919 Chicago International 4th-Prize .Ir. Yearling A few spring pigs left at $25 BLANK a POTTER Potterviile, Mich. APLE LAWN. FARM REG. DUROC JERSEY Swine. Order your spring pigs now. Fairs and trios not a-kin. VERN N. TOWNS. R6. Eaton Rapids. Mich- , O. I. C. SWINE—14W _ D CONTAINS THE blood lines of the most. pied herd. Can furnish you stack at "live and let'h‘ve” prices. A. J. GORDEN. Oorr, Mlch.. R 8. ' AIM OFFERIN? FOR FALL DELIVERY HIGH c 83 regis ere Sllroasl' l "r l. rams. Flock establishedI {Allonumg ewes and C. LEMEN. Dexter, Mich. FOB SHIIOPSHIIIE write or cell on ARMSTRONG BROS.. R 3, Fowlervillo. Mich. HAMPSHIRE SHEEP Everything sold out both ewes and rams. ' I am breeding 50 ewes to "Stroma‘n 209" an excellent big boned type ram lamb that YEARLING RAMS that have size and type (887') i223 WANT _A SHEEP? Lei.~ American. Hampshire‘ Sheep Association send you a dandy booklet with list of breeders. . Write COMFORT ‘A. TYLER, ‘Sec'y. 10 Woodland Ave.. Detroit. Mich. IT PAYS TO BUY PURE BEE!) SHEEP 0F . PARSONS muslin? I )sell and ship everywhere and DI exprc 1,: ' c { y , :- urges. Write for club offer end price list. Oxfords, Shropshircs and Pollcd— )ehines. PARSONS.Gmndlsdgedliich. R. 9 I CANNOT SELL YOU ANY MORE. ewes until next fall. To some grown up, I can offer 10 very good yuuillz Shropshire ewes that will lamb in April for 3400. Their inmbe contracted to me should not more than purchau price next fall. . Also 10 mighty nice ewe Come and see them. KOPE-KON FARMS. lambs for $3 50. Goldwater, Mich. b PE T STOCK Wellhed 176 lbs. October 1. B kin. r .'« ,. ‘ BEG "RING Pia. (or 1920 rains. °° ' "am ~'- . EITHER “x CL ELGIAN HARES—YOUNO AND our s'roon Gen furnish stock not akin. Also yearl- "x u‘ ""h" w'” "‘"°"' "W"- .n high bred. Semi for prices. . ' in; cows. Will breed fer eqriy fell littefl- Snt- _ SHERIDAN nnoslrnv. Sheridan. m. hfeetlon consumed. ——~ F. HEIMS & ION. Davieon. Mich. bred some all sold. Nave “£0139 Sept. pigs, both sex. sired by Liberty Defender 3rd. from Col. bred dams. Gllts will be. huddle en Orion. boot for Se furrow. N. O. KEEILER. 0mm. .eh. E OFFER A FEW WILL-III” SELECT- ed spring Dnroe Boers, e bred eowe end our. in season. Call or write MeMUOH-TON a relieves. er. Louie. Mien. GILTS BRED FOR AUGUST FAR- IIIIIIO .0... JESSE BLISS & SON. Henderson. Mich. BERKS HIRES ARGE ENGLISH RECORDED BERKSHIRES. Bred gills and spring pigs for solo. PRIMEVAL FARM. Osseo. Mich. "BEIIKSHIIIES “‘5 QUAL'TV Hoes" equipped with that delicious lean streak and not so much blnbber. . A few choice sow pigs to offer. splendid iiuliylrlusls. ARZA A. WEAVER. Chesaning, Mich. GREGORY FARM BERKSHIRES FOR profit. Choice stock for sale. Write your wants. W. S. Corsa, White Hall, Ill. REGISTERED BERKSHIRES OF FOR SAL the most fashionable brffiding. Bred or open. (‘ilts and young hours. so a ' Ni) aged stock. Prices, $50 to few fall pigs. 100. ,, HICKORY GROVE FARM. Pontiac. Mlch.. R3 CHESTER \VHITES p SWIM! Pigs in Pairs or trios from A—l mature stock at reasonable prices. Also ,a few bred Gilts for May furrow F. W. Alexander, Vassar, Mich. EGISTERED CHESTER WHITE PIGS FOR sale at prires that will interest you. Either sex. \Vriie today. ALPH COSENS. Levering. Mlch. HAMPSHIRES BOAR PIGS Ltrl"._ orders for spring pigs, Cheaanlng. Mich. I 6 TWO FAL “:25le at 8 weeks old. W. A. EASTWOOD. A FEW BRED GILTs LEFT and fall boar pigs from new d lin s. blocJOHNe W. SNYDER. St. Johns. Mlch., R 4 HAMPSHIBES Am all sold out on sows and gilts bred for spring ferrowing. Have a. (ew sows and grits-bred for June and July farrowmg that are good and Spring pigs either sex. l Advertisements rem Inc 18 times or longer. Advertising Department. Mt: Clemens. It in type. send proof and quote rates by return mail. Michigan. POULTRY BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY Write out what you have to offer and send Address The Michigan Business Farmer, inserted under this holding at 80 gents per line, per issue. Special i it in. we will put POULTRY PULLETS White and Brown Leghorn and White Rock Pullets, 8 weeks and 13 weeks old, ready for lin- mediate delivery. We will sell one, two and four weeks old chicks to be shipped not more than 100 miles. Let us give you ll description of this st’m‘k. All of these Pullets rmd Chicks are fine birds of excellent growth. American and extra high class English White Leghorns. FARMS ASSOCIATION Desk 2. Kalamazoo. Michigan ORPINGTONS AND LEGHORNS Two great breeds for profit. Write today for free catalogue of hatching eggs, baby chicks and breeding stock. CYCLE HATCHER COMPANY, 149 Philo Bldg. Elmira. N. Y. MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS. Toulouse Geese. White Pekin M ouch Iii. once. Uld ducks MICI‘I. ducks, either sex, weigh 10 pounds. CHASE STOCK FARM. Mariette. LEGHORNS C. BUFF LEGHORNS, BABY CHICKS, EGGS for hatching. liens, Gockerels. Farm raised. Good laying strain. J. W. WEBSTER, Bath. Mich. GRABOWSKE'S ' s. 0. WHITE LEGHORNS Stock and eggs for sale. Circular free. ~ LEO GRABOWSKE. Merrill. Mlch., R 4 j,— WYANDOTTE Rose and Single Comb R. l. Reds. Barred Plymouth Rocks. Superior color. Prolific layers. Prepaid by parcel [Gist and safe delivery guar- anteed. Illustrated catalog free. iNTERLAKES FARE: Box 4, Lawrence. Mich. CHICKS—CHICKS 10.00 Chicks every ’i‘uesdlly in June and July. . . ., (Y. \, Grilnrl layingr strain. 5. \hite Leghorns at $14.25 per 100; $7.50 for 50 postpiiill. Full count, strung, lively chicks. Also Ailconns at $l6.2:’l per 101); $8.50 per 50. Satisfaction guaranteed. Eleventh season. Order direct. catalog. HOLLAEID“HATCHERY, R 7, Holland, Mich. BABY GHlSli Free From record laying purebred stock. White Leghorns, lirmvn Luellm’ns, $17 per 100. AllCOMS, $18, Postpaid. lliur arrivle guaranteed. Catalog free. SUPERIOR HATCIIERY, Clinton. Mo. MATCHING EGGS Fag 3mg illiclllllil EGGS FROM A HEAVY LAY- nig strain of S. (‘. It. I. leds at $2.00 per set- ting of 1.": eggs, $10.00 per 100. Stock of excellent type and times. Satisfaction guaranteed. F. HEIMS a. SON. Davlson, quality at all Mich. B. I RED MATCHING EGGS. $9 PER 100. Special was from 300 egg hen. 75¢ each. W. H. FROHM, R 2. Mt. Clemens, Mich. . C. Leghorn Eggs. from Kulp and Gale Strains $1.50 for 15. $8 per 100. M. l’ekin duck eggs, $1.50 for 8. Mrs. Claudia Bette. liillsdale. Silver Laced Golden and White Wya’ndottes. Eggs from best quality, only $1.75 per 15: $3.25 per 30 by parcel post prepaid. Buy from old re- liable, Clarence lirownillg, R2, Portland, Mich. White Wyandottes, Dustin's strain, culled by ex- perts for utility, size and color. Eggs 15 for $2.00, 50 or more 100 each, by mail prepaid. VANO FARM, Hartford. Mich. priced right. Spring boar pigs at 3‘15 93- “.3 _ t'.t‘ tion guaranteed. (.all or write weeksv Ogbssiifizlvzns, New Lothrop. MlCh- LANGSHAN BLACK LANGSHANS OF QUALITY 0- I' 0' Bred for type and color since 1912. from pen headed by Block Bob. First prize cock o I c at international show at Billizllo, Jun. 1912. Eggs $3.00 per setting of 15. Winter laying strain. ER fiflfilTE DR. CHAS. w. SIMPSON. Webbervilie. A choice lot of spring and fail Digs. TWO Yea!“ BleY CHICKS ‘ herd boars. Two fine sows due in_June and Eiffeng gilts. I ship 0. 0i fD.é. register in buyers nd guarantee sat s so 1011. . mum I do N C. WILK, Alma, Mich. . 0. Bear Pigs, Eight Weeks old. Slred by . l 0 ' Giant. Reg. in your name. $20 each. MH‘IIHIIIIEY L. FRY. North Adams. Mich. l. C. GILTS WEIGHING 200 to 275 L35. in breeding flesh bred for March. April. and May furrow. Guaranteed safe in darn. Itwlll _re- place any proving otherwise to your satisfaction or refund purchase price in full. v_e a few Oc- tober boar pigs ready for spring serVice that are right priced to sell. Herd cholera immuned 'by double treatment. F. C. Burgess R3. Mason, Mich. AND CHESTER WHITE SWINE-— o I Boar pigs of March furrow ready for June shipment. Price $20 each. Best 0! es-. Recorded free in C. W. R CLARE V. DORMAN, Snover. Mich. OR SALE—REGISTERED O. I. C. IRED BOWSJOxIIstuggrOgERpngER. Mariette, Mich. o-..:..°.~:s::. mum“. m CLOVER LEAF STOCK FARM. Monroe. Mich. Will ship 0. 0. D. 013m 0. I. C. sprint Dies. eleo special. summer EM MISTER WHITE AND O. I. C. SWINE. SOME good March pigs {or sale. Good bloodlines. and register free. J. A. MILLER. Swan-t}. Creek. Mich. MUD-WAY-AUSH-KA FARM on breedlggitztock in White . maidens, I .0. ‘I.‘C.-SOWS FOR SALE 4' v = 8 ONE OF THE our HERD! IN MIMI" . ’ 7 , wail-cpsersmmz “new i 3, Boone: Ducks. No more one this seeson. DIKE C. MILLER. Dryden. Mich. Started Mich. Chicks \Vlu‘te Leg .13c .140 Brown Leg 14c Eng. Log Anconns . . 15c . 35’ w... ,...-,... .i by Parcels Post Special price on 1,000 dots. Get your order in for some of these high grade chicks. hatched from selected bred—today breeders, kept on free range. WE GUARANTEE SAFE DELIVERY WYNGARDEN’S HATCHERY Box B. ZEELAND, MICH. hicks. Leghorns, Mlnorcas, Spanish, Houdans Campinas, Reds, Rocks, Orpingtons, Brahmas...- Wymdottes. Tyrone Poultry Farm, Fentun, Mich. O. K. Chicken Hatchery THOROUGHBRED DAV OLD CHICKS Barred Plymouth Rex. R. I. Reds: 8. C. Brown and White Leghorns. 2% chicks. $6.25: 50 chicks, $11; 100 chicks. $20. 0. Prop. O. MOENINGSTAR. A. Box 268. Phone 1 Fulton. Mich. BOSE COMB RHODE ISLAND RED EGGS FOR hatching stock. guaranteed, $2 for 1."). Wm. J. RUSCHE, Alpine, Ml_ch., R 1 BOSE COMB BROWN LEGHORN EGGS FOR sale. One fifty per fifteen eggs. Flemish Giant rabbits that are giants. Quality guaranteed. E. HIMEBAUGH. Goldwater, Mich. ROM COOK'S BEST: S. C. BUFF, WHITE Ill‘lil black llrpiilgton eggs. $4 per 15; $7 for 30 GRABOWSKE BROS. R 4, Merrill, Mich. HITE WYANDOTTES: EGGS FOR HATCH- ing from selected lliyers, $2 per 15, prepaid. Pens, 516 to 52:"). FRANK DeLONG. R3, Three Rivers, Mich. Eggs from vigorous early m’aturing stock from heavy laying strain. $2 per 15. $5 per 4.") by prepaid purcel post. R. (1. Kirby. R1. East Lansing, Mich. ATCHING EGGS—PLYMOUTH ROCKS (ALL varieties) White “hoodlum, Ailcuilzi and Ron- en lint‘ksz. (Ruining: 2r. SHERIDAN POULTRY YARDS. Sheridan, Mich. s. C. AND R. C. BRO‘JVN LEGHORN EGGS for liilil‘illllf; winter lLlyi‘I‘S, $1.00 for 13. . EVA TRVON. Jerome, Mich. S. c. Black Minerces exhibition stock Northrup strain Eggs for ilntching $3 for 13, $12 per 100. Cass Poultry Yard, C. J Deedl‘lck. Vassar, Mich. [The Best Breeders advertise in The Michigan Bus- iness Farmer. It will be worth your while to read the livestock advertisements in every issue to keep posted on what they have to sell. '1' .qr c BREEDERS ATTENTION! It you are planning on a sale this year, write us now and CLAIM THE mm 2 Thin «trio. ie the to thelive stock Industry In Michigan . .te I'm”de seams. rennin! own; are- on perm T IS interesting to watch a car owner gradually be— coming conscious' of his tires. If his first tires don’t give him what he has been led to expect, you will see him go ing back to the dealer for an allowance. Finally he reaches the point where he prefers to shoulder his losses himself rather than argue the matter out with the dealer. ' Meet him a year later and [you will probably find him rwith two or three different ‘makes of tires on his car. V y i t i There is less conviction. in the minds of motorists about tires today than about any other subject connected with ‘motoring. w _ . Uflitedr a 95 -. Rubber in “Hie World ‘- The driver of the car in the foreground probably does not realize that by round- ing the corner too quickly he may be taking as much as a thousand milesvout of his rear tires. A great deal of tire trouble can be avoided by slowing down to a reasonable speed in negotiating corners. Despite all the. claims, all the allowances, all the selling talks 'that are presented for the motorist’s consideration, he‘ goes along in his own way, seeking the tire that will give « him the greatest economy. Often you see him running foul of the irresponsible dealer. But sooner or later he finds out that claims and allowances and . selling talks can never take the place of performance. . tg'* More and more motorists are coming to reali2e that the ._ C 1. .fmotdeuandwst only way to tire economy is through better tires. ‘ Avoiding the dealer whose idea of busio ness is }merely to fill the eye or to supply a market and goo ing direct to the merchant who ‘ deals in quality. Never has the United States Rubber Company’s policy of quality first been more thoro oughly justified or Widely apo preciatéd than it is today. . Discounting, as it does, every temptation: to force produc— tion favor of a highly spec ' cialized; Wholly standardized ‘ product. ' ‘ . * . Even; when the production of U. S. Tires has reached two or _V three times, its present- figo ure,-_.vthe‘ test. will still be not howmany tires—but how good.