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FFORTS begun several months ago to
bring the cooperative elevator associa-
tions of Michigan into a federation were
crowned ,with Success last week when forty-
three elevatOrs affiliated at Lansing .under
the name of Michigan State Farm Bureau
Elevator, Exchange.
associations were represented at the meeting
but thirty-three of them were not prepared
to take final action, being obliged to report
back .to. their membership before afiiliating.
The Farm Bureau believes, however, that the
majority of these will affiliate and that before
autumn at least one hundred co-ope’rative el-
evators will have joined the Exchange.
"‘ The Exchange will be'operated as a de-
partment of the Farm Bureau,;doing its bus-

brokerage agency,” says J. P. Powers, as-
sistant secretary of the Bureau. “A Board
_ of Control elected to manage it is composed
of the following: W. E. Phillips of Decatur,
Earr Whitney Watkins of Manchester, Carl
Martin of Coldwater, Jacob Landis of Scott-
ville, M. S. Shisler of Caledonia and two
members to be designated by the executive
committee of the State Farm Bureau. This
Board_wi_ll‘meet in‘the immediate future to
hire a Manager and" start the Exchange to
work, Incidentally, the Exchange will do a
purchasing as well as a' marketing business.”

’The need in Michigan for an Exchange of
this kind has long been apparent. ,The co-
operative elevator movement has been very
rapid of recent years. In the throes of co-
Operative enthusiasm some elevator associa-
tionshaye been organized in communities in
which. volume of business was ‘not suflicient
to support a co-operative’elevator With "prof~
it. These naturally have had their trials.
Some of them have failed. Others have been
kept going by liberal doses of borrowed cap-
ital. Nearly all, however, have felt the need
during the past four or five stringent years
of a strong parent organizatiOn to which
they could take their troubles and secure
help for their problems.

Undoubtedly the greatest. weakness of the
co-operative elevator has been that it com-
peted with other co—operative elevators in
surrounding territory. Each elevator oper-
ated independently ,of the others and each
,was .anxious'to secure. the maximum returns
to its patrons. ‘ Consequently it was forever

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List of Elevators That Have Affili-
ated, With the Michigan State
Farm Bureau Exchange

Decatur Co-Op. Ass’n, Romulus
Farm Bureau Ass’n, Dowagiac Farm-
ers’ Co-Op. Ass’n, Lowell Farm Bureau
Local, Rockford Co-Op. Elevator, Yp-
silanti Farm Bureau , Ass’n, Hastings
Co-Op. Elevator Ass’n, Martin Farm
Bureau Co-Op. Ass’n, Parma Co-Op.
Elevator Co., Bellevue Co-Op. Elevator
Co., Holland Co-Op. Ass’n, Fowlerville
Farmers’ Co-Op. Ass’n, Four Counties
Co-Op. Ass’n, Union City Co-Op. Co.,
St. Johns Agr’l. Ass’n, Marlette Farm-
ers’ Co-Op. Elevator Co., Coopersville
Co-Op. Elevator Co., Cedar Springs
Marketing Ass’n, Quincy Co-Op. Ele-
vator Ass’n, Amble Marketing Ass’n,
Conklin Co-Op. Elevator, Lake Odessa
Co-Op. Ass’n, Albion Farmers’ Elevat-
or Co., Mason Co. Co-Op. Marketing
Ass’n, Grand Blanc Co-Op. Elevator
Co.,‘ Tri-State‘ Co-Op. Ass’n, Goldwater
Co-Op. Co., Paw Paw Co-Op. Ass’n,
Bangor Co-Op. Ass’n, Trufant Farm
Bureau Exchange, Howard City Mar-
keting Ass’n, Lawrence Co-Op. Co.,
Kent City Farm Bureau Local, Moline
Farm Bureau Co-Op. Ass’n, Charlotte
Co-Op. Elevator, Gladwin Co. Co-Op.
Ass’n, Concord Farmers’ Elevator Co.,
McCords Co-Op. Ass’n, Caledonia
Farmers’ Elevator Co., Hartford Glean-
ers’ Co-Op. Elevator, Fowler Co-Op.
Elevator, Butternut Farmers’ Co-Op.
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speculating upon the markets with the result
that the elevator having a shrewd manager
succeeded in getting the top of the market
when the elevator with a " manager of less
speculative foresight got the lower price. Be-
cause eaeh elevator acted independently of
the others there was .no_ information avail-
able as to_ the combined stocks held by all,
and marketing was therefore carried on in a
more or less unintelligent manner.

Similarly, with each elevator. purchasing
supplies in only Such quantities as to supply

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its immediate territory, it could not secure
the most favorable prices. With a large
number of elevators, however, buying col-
lectively the purchases, it will be immediate-
1y seen, will be so large as to insure the very
lowest possible price from,the manufacturer
or wholesaler. This is perhaps one of the
greatest benefits that will be derived from
the federating of the elevators.

Additional assistance will be rendered by
the Exchange along the lines mentioned in
these columns several months ago when the
Exchange’s plan was first suggested, to-wit:
To collect and disseminate information
among its members relative to market quota-
tions and crop conditions, yields,etc.; to work
for the best conditions in transportation; to
establish a claim department; to establish or
adopt uniform grades and standards; to de-
velop carlot markets for Michigan products
and to find new markets; to increase demand
for Michigan products by judicious advertis-
ing; to adjust grievances between members;
to foster methods for utilizing waste and sur—
plus products; to own and operate feed and
flour mills, storage warehouses and terminal
elevators.

The completion of the Michigan State
Farm Bureau Elevator Exchange gives the
farmers of Michigan two strong central or-
ganizations for the marketing of their grain
and beans. The other is the Gleaner Clear-
ing House Ass ’n of Grand Rapids, which
has been a "pioneer in the co-operative mar'
keting field, with a somewhat different plan,
however, than that now being promulgated
by the Farm Bureau. The Gleaners, we un-
derstand, now have upwards of fifteen or
twenty'strong elevators in their chain. This
farmers’ organization, will not accept an- el-
evator into their circle which does not have
sufficient business to practically insure its
success from a standpoint of profit to the
stockholders. The leaders of this organizap

'tion are men of long experience in the mar-

keting field, and We are advised, are making
unusually rapid progress with their federat-
ed elevators and central clearing house.
Through these two channels, the Michigan
State Farm Bureau Elevator Exchange and
the Gleaner Clearing House Ass ’n, the farm-
ers of Michigan should be able to market
their grain to the greatest possible financial
advantage, and to solve that end of their
marketing problem as nearly as it is possible

to solve it under presentpmarketing systems.‘

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FEDERAL LOANS MONTH OF MAY

During the month of May, 1920,
an aggregate of $1,191,100 was loan-
ed to 294 farmers of the United
States by the Federal Land Banks
on long time first mortgages accord-
ing to the monthly statements made
to the Farm Loan Board. The Fed-
eral Land Bank of Omaha leads in
the amount of loans closed, the same
being $269,200, the Federal Land
Bank of St. Louis following with
$262,100. The other banks closed
loans in May as follows: St. Paul,
$243,100; Berkeley, $140, 700; Wich-
ita“ $76, 800; Spokane, $75, 200;
Sprinfield, $58,300; Louisville, $35,-
600; Baltimore, $18,600; Columbia,
$7,900; Houston, $3,400; New Or-
leans, $200,

During May 238 applications were
received by the twelve banks, asking
for $756,509, and during the same
, month 288 loans were approved by

them amounting to $806,000.

On May 31, 1920, there were op—
erating in the United States 3,983
Farm Loan Associations, and the to-
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Federal Land Banks through these
associations to 12,298 farmer-bor—
rowers as of that date, amounted to
$347,990,941. Deducting from this
amount the loans paid off in full by
borrowers, to-wit: $10,919,630 the
grand total of loans in force as of
May 31, 1920, $337,071,311 is dis-
tributed within the Federal Land
Bank Districts as follows: St. Paul,
3453101400; Omaha, $45,165,440;
Spokane, $42,727,970; Houston, $38,-
348,141; Wichita, $27,745,900; St.
Louis, $27,631,180; Louisville, $25,-
352,000; New Orleans, $22,992,205;

Columbia, $17.95 6,880; Berkeley,
$17,126,100; Baltimore, $13,533,-
400; Springfield, $13,181,695.

PRIZES STIMULATE PRODUCTION
OF GOOD HORSES

The Horse Association of America,
in conjunction with leading district
fairs from Maine t-o-Galifornia, offer
one hundred dollars in cash prizes
at each for the best grade draft
teams." The conditions stipulate a
first prize of $50, second prize of
$30 and third prize of $20. Awards

to be made to the best teams of draft
geldings or grade draft mares shown
in harness to farm wagon. Horses
in sucmteams must be at least 16
hands high and weigh 3, 200 pounds
or over per pair. Horses must be
measured and weighed (stripped to
halter only) on the day of the com—
petition by an ofiicer of the fair and
a card giving such height and weight
signed by the officer in question, at-
tached to the bridle before the teams
enter the ring.

Eighty per cent shall be allowed
on the merit of the horses, ten per
cent on the harness and ten per cent
on the wagon. No discrimination
shall be made against the harness or
wagon on account of age, providing
they arein good repair and clean.
Driver must be under 18 years of
age.

The list of fairs that have been
recognized to date includes the Sag-
inaw County Agricultural Society,
Saginaw, Mich.

Similar prizes are being ofiered for
mule teams, but the list of recogniz-
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farm loads?

OUR live stock and the produce
from your fields, carried in freight -
l trains to the cities, thunder past count-
l less danger-signs with the warning,
“Look Out for the Cars!" Each one of
these marks the crossing-place of a
country road—a road without rails, lead-
ingto railroad and town. Each one
marks a farmer’s right-of-way.
Since your farm is a 1920 enterprise,
I} probably it is fitted with most of the
following modern equipment—the tele-
phone, good lighting and heating, a silo,
a mapure spreader, a cream separator, an
automobile, an engine, a tractor. -
But have your hauling problems found
their proper solution? Are the time-
losses and difficulties of a decade ago
still impeding your endless carrying of

Government statistics'show that in

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1918 alone, 350,000,000 tons of farm
produce were transported to local ship-
ping centers in motor trucks. The same
national figures prove also that American
farmers are the greatest users of motor
truckswamong all industries. No pro- .
gressive farmer can afford to overlook
impressive facts like these.

Your name and address mailed to our r
ofiice at Chicago will bring you descrip- l
tive folders that will prove interesting 3
and instructive. Put an International '
Motor Truck at work on your farm and
on the roads which are your right-of—way. ,
Handle all your miscellaneous farm haul-
ing with railway efficiency. The nine i
International Motor Truck sizes range
from ;{ ton to 3% too. Keep in mind
that these trucks havebeen made for
years by the makers of good and trusted

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HOLSTEIN-FRJESIAN ASS'N PLAN _ '

- SUMJKER MEETINGS

The state and local associations
are planning a series of summer
meetings in the nature of auto tours.
The plan is to start from some cent-
ral point in the forenoon and visit
several herds, stopping at noon for
a basket lunch' and a short program
and finishing the rounds of herds in
the afternoon. The series for the
week will be arranged for in ad-
joining counhies, so that breeders can
go on with the caravan for several
days and visit as many herds as they
like. This will afford an opportun-
ity to get acquainted with the breed-
ers in the neighboring counties and
to see their herds and should prove
a very attractive outing. ‘

This plan was worked out with
great success in Livingston County
nearly ten years ago, when the mem-
bers of the Saginaw Valley Holstein-
Friesian Association were taken over
the county to visit the herds, and it
should prove equally successful on a
larger scale. The tours are being
scheduled for the latter part of July
and early August and will cover a
large part of the ternitory where 10-
cal associations have been organiz—
ed.

SPUDS LEGAL TENDER IN POLAND

The erstwhile lowly Murphy has
perhaps attained its greatest distinc-
tion in Poland, where it is new
standard currency.

In the district around Grodno, the
American Red Cross reports that all
the local help. employed in the Ware-
houses or in the activities of the field
units is being remunerated with a
weekly wage of potatoes. They are
glad to get paid in that way because
potatoes being a staple article, do
not fluctuate like the various species
of paper money that are in circula-
tion. Twenty pounds of potatoes are
regarded as a fair daily wage foo an
ordinary laborer. A member of the
Polish nobility recently purchased a
complete set of drawing room fur-
niture for 12,000 potatoes.

LIVINGSTON COUNTY HOLSTEINS
GO OUT OF STATE

Three cars of registered Holsteins
were shipped from Howell, Living-
ston County, Michigan’s most wide-
ly knowu Holstein center, on Satur—
day, June 12th. One car went to
Delaware, one to Pennsylvania, and
the third to Camp Pike College,
Camp Pike, Arkansas, Where the
government is establishing a course
in Animal Husbandry. These cattle
will prove quite a surprise to some
of the natives of Arkansas, who have
been familiar only with the sort that
Pollock calls “coffee cows,” and we
trust that one carload will not pro-
duce such a ~surplus of milk in Ar-
kansas as to prevent furlher impor—
tations.

GLEANERS PURCHASE ELEVAT-

OR IN CALHOUN
. The Gleaner Clearing House As—
sociation have purchased the Lini-
han elevator at Battle Creek and
will have it in full operation by July
15. This elevator has a bin capacity
of 12,00 bushels, besides two large
warehouses. H. E. Newell, of Grand
Rapids, will be in charge of activ-
ities.

SILO CAPACITY

Many farmers erect silos that are
not in proportion to their farms. In
determining the size of a- silo one
should build, the matter of quantity
of feeding material is not the only
consideration. The size of the herd
is very important. A tall narrow silo
is better for a small herd than short
broad one. For best results. a cer—
taln amount of silage should be take
on from the top each (1117.11 the
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New York Central Lines Show How Live Stock May be Loaded to Save Freight Expense

URING THE past few years there

has been a great change in the
——- personnel of livestock shippers
manifested on the market on which
live stock is shipped. This change
has oom'e about through an increase
in the number of independent ship-
pers and the representation of co-op-
erative associations. As in all bus-
iness the “new shipper” finds difli-
culties which he had not anticipated
and also finds that there are many
details to be considered in making
livestock shipments in the most sat-
isfactory manner.

The lack of knowledge in this
connection has cost many shippers
a “pretty penny" and it is with an
earnest hope that this undue ex-
pense may be eliminated that the
following suggestions are made. In
handling livestock shipments the
common carrier—the railroadmhas
problems, too, and while these sug—
gestions are made primarily for the
shipper adhering to them will help
the railroads in handling your ship-
ments in the most satisfactory way.

It is the earnest desire of the rail—

roads to deliver stock to market in-

the best possible condition and to do
so requires the close co-operation of
shippers. You are respectfully re
quested to study the following sug—
gestions which, if faithfully follows
ed, will mean money saved and loss
of stock and damage to the supply
of foodstuffs eliminated.

When about to ship livestock to
market, the first thing to do is to
find out as near as possible what
stock you will have to ship on a giv-
en date and then order car or cars
from railroad agent accordingly—-
single deck or double deck cars, as
the case may require. It is advis—
able to put your order for cars in
writing, showing'date, time ordered
and kind of car required, also date
you intend loading stock. Co-opera-
tion with your railroad agent is nec-
essary, give him time to furnish the
cars for your use, do not expect cars

can always be supplied on short
notice.
Load stock to best advantage,

straight carloads of any description
are more easily loaded than mixed
stock. Care should be taken not to
overload in weight but you can ever—
load by number of head, which is
overcrowding. The loss of bullock,
hog, sheep or calf reduces your prof—
it. It is false economy to load too
closely and lose animals by so doing.

Before loading stock into cars, ex—
amine'your car and see that it is
free of protruding nails or other pro—
jections which might cause injury,
and that‘the floor is in good condi-
tion.

Live stock to be shipped is not in
actual possession of the carrier for
transportation until stock has been
placed in the car and the live stock
contract signed.

Stock should be consigned direct
toparty or parties to whom it is to
be delivered at destination. If inter-
state, that is, forwarded from one
state into another state, the Federa’.
Law, or 36-hour limitation with re
spect to feed, water and rest should
be duly executed. If stock is to be
moved intra—state, that is, from one
point to another in the same state,
it will be governed by that State‘s
law regarding feeding, watering and
resting. Inform yourself regarding
these laws and thus avoid cemplica-
tion.

“Don’ts” For Livestock Shippers

DON’T-fail to examine cars to
nails and holes before loading.

DON’t fail to erect partitions sep-
arating each kind of stock in the

car. .
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ing sand or shavings in summer and
straw or swail hay in winter.

DON’T fasten partitions to inter—
fere with opening doors.

DpN’T use poles spiked to side of
cars for partitions. They come loose
and are likely to cause serious dam-
age to passing trains and are difli-
cult to remove at destination without
injuring the car.

DON’T build temporary upper
decks in; single deck cars. They are
likely to fall down in transit and
stock yards are not equipped to un-
load them. -

DON’T overcrowd stock in the
cars. Hogs should have suflicient
room to lie down. It is cheaper to
use two cars than to cause dead and
crippled stock by overcrowding.

DON'T load calves in upper decks.

DON’T load hogs in the upper
deck if you have a double deck load
of hogs and sheep.

DON’T load hogs under cattle.

DON’T load hogs next to the door
for movement through Canada, and
see that such shipments havesa ten
inch board along floor at sides of
car and that bottom of partition is
tight to floor and ten inches in
height.

DON'T load bulls loose with other
stock. Partition or tie them.

DON’T make instruction for feed-
ing or market privileges indefinite;
say “Stop at X for feed;” “Stop at X
for market;” “Stop at X to complete
loading;” not simply “Stop at X.”

Marking of Stock

Whentwo or more people are in—
terested in a shipment forwarded to
market, the animals should be so
marked as to enable stock to be sold
and yet identified by owner or ship-

’per. This may be done by clipping
Roman numerals (I-II-III-IV, etc.,)
or other character on hip of cattle,

   

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or by the use of tags.

Sheep are usually marked with
paint applied to top of head, should-
ers, back or hips. Marking with a.
dot is better than a stripe, avoid
smearing the paint on the wool. By
using different colors at large num-
ber may be thus marked. Hogs may
be marked by paint or tags. If paint
is used, stripes are usually made
across the back. Plain marking of
stock is optional with shippers, but
important to commission firms, es—
pecially in handling shipments of
mixed ownership.

Bedding of Stock

Sand if available, is best for bed-
ding cars, in summer. Straw should
not be used for hogs except in cool
weather. Shavings are also good.

Loading: Mixed Cars
If you have consignments of cat-
tle, hogs, sheep and calves, load the

cattle in one end of the car'and the
hogs in the other end, two partitions

will be necessary, using the middle,

compartment for the lightest stock,
sheep and calves.

The partition should be well built,
both as to material and construction,

.to permit no possible chance of break-

ing down.

It should be secured in the middle
at both the floor and ceiling of the
car. The partition should be flush
with the floor of car so hogs cannot
root off boards.

Bulls should be tied or partition-
ed off from other stock.

Boars or other animals inclined to
be vicious should be partitioned off
separately.

More than 90 per cent of the losses
of stock shipped into stock yards
are due to overcrowding and inse—
cure partitions. The strength and

     

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kind of partition is an important fact-
or in loading livestock. ’
The partition may be secured by
wiring each end tightly to the sides
of the car, in at least three places,
using heavy wire, and fastening it

at bottom so that partitions cannot, " I

be raised by hogs rooting under it,
or place cleats on both sides of car
on each side of the partitions, and
on each side of uprights at top and
floor of car. Make cleats as long
as the partition or upright against
which they rest and at least two in—
ches in depth. Nail cleats securely
but do not clinch nails used in hold—
ing cleats. Do not nail partitions to
cleats or cars.

Freight Charge Comparisons

In loading stock bear in mind that
mixed and straight loads have differ-
ent rates.

If you load cattle in with small
stock, sheep or hogs, or both, you
pay freight on a load of cattle, there-
fore it will not pay to load one or two
head of cattle with a deck of sheep
or bags, as you will pay for a load
of cattle at the rate with reference
to kind of stock loaded with cattle.

The rate from a given point to
market on cattle and double decks
of small stock is for example 30c
per hundred; on calves and hogs,
single deck 34 1-2c per hundred.
(See table of minimum weights of
cars.) Stock rates are based on min-
imum weights per car and haulage.
Minimum “'eights According to the

Imngth of Cars ’

Cattle, 36 ft. 7 in. and under, 22,-

000; calves, SD, 16,000, DD, 24,-

000; hogs. SD, 17,000, DD, 23,000;‘

sheep and goats, SD, 12,000,’ DD,
22,000; over 36 ft. 7 in. and under
40 ft., cattle, 24,000; calves, SS, 17,-
000, DD, 25,000; hogs. SD, 18,000,
DD, 24,000; sheep and goats, SD,
13,000, DD, 23,000; over 40 ft., cat-
tle, 26,000; calves, SD, 18,000, DD,
26,000; hogs, SD, 19,000, DD, 25,-
)00; sheep and goats, SD, 14,000,
DD, 24,0000. ‘

Above is shown the different min-
imums of weight to which all stock
with respect to kind is subject, the
rate also differs—usually cattle and
double decks of sheep or hogs are
the same rate, while sheep and hogs
single deck cars are transported at
a higher rate.

Consult your agent at point of
loading regarding railroad rules and
regulations.

lly loading cattlc in with sheep the
rate would be 22,000 pounds at 37
1—20 instead of 14,000 pounds at 37
1—210. You will readily see from this
that putting two cattle in with a
single deck of sheep, as against a
straight deck of sheep, you raise the
weight of the consignment 8,000
pounds, or the difference of weight
and rate between cattle and sheep.
Equalize your loading when you can.

Straight loads of hogs ,not over-
crowded, may be fed in transit, and
forwarded without unloading for 5
hours rest. If one calf is loaded’
with a carload of hogs, the entire
load must be stopped and rested for
5 hours upon the expiration of‘the
legaL time limit. Detention in case
of delay or feeding in transit can

therefore be minimized by refraim ,
ing from putting one or two calves in :

a load of hogs.

The minimum weight on calvesis.

higher than on sheep, however, you
may put as many as ten calves .in
with sheep and still hold the 511er
minimum; more than ten calves wit
sheep you pay the freight of calves:
Compliance with these suggest!
would eliminate the principal ca
for loss through dead and crippl
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r HE DELEGATION that waited on

, - Governor Harding and the Feder-
‘ al Reserve Board on Monday,
June let, consisted of more than
sixty men and in addition to Sena-
tors King, Smoot and Kellogg and
Representative Mondell, included
wool growers from thirteen states,
bankers, woolen goods manufact-
urers, representatives of theNational
W001 Growers Association, the
Fleece States Association, the Am-
erican 'Farm Bureau Federation, the
Bureau of Markets and the Bureau
of Animal Husbandry.

-The prepared statement for the
producer was read by Professor Cof-
fey, vice president of the National
Wool Growers Association and var-
ious features were discussed by Dr.
McClure, former Secretary of the
National Wool Growers’ Association,
by Dr. Wilson, President of the Wy-
oming Wool Growers’ Association,
by J. F. Walker, President of the
Fleece Growers’ Association and by
F. R. Marshall, Secretary of the Na-
tional Wool Growers’ Association.
Professors Coffey's opening state-
ment was as follows:

The Situation

Since May 20th, there has pract-
ically been no wool market in the
United States. This condition, so
far as we are able to judge,lresult-
ed from a number of factors. It is
a common custom for representatives
of eastern houses to visit the range
states in the shearing season, and
buy wools either by private treaty,
or from pooled lots. The wool
growers, the banks and other inter—
ests in those sections rely upon the
influx of money from sales of wool
in that season. This business was
proceeding largely as usual, until it
came to a standstill on May. 20th.

Prior to that time, wool buying
houses had been embarrassed by the
fact that the railway situation great—
ly delayed the arrival of their pur-
chases at the eastern markets. Fol-
lowing this there was some disturb-
'ance in the manufacturing trade,
through cancellation of orders, which
followed announcements of price re-
ductions by retailers.

Along with the above factors, there
was the effort to def-late credits and
release frozen credits. Unfortunate-
ly, the American wool market is
largely a matter of initial purchase
by speculators. With the attempt to
reduce credits, the speculators were
largely shut off from further loans.
This shutting down of credits was
also extended to some houses that
work strictly on a commission basis,
doing no speculating whatever, but
representing only bona fide produc—
ers.

The situation thereby created was
most serious in the range states. The
year 1919-20 had been a very ex-
pensive and disastrous one in Men-
tana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada.
Colorado and some parts of other
wool producing states. This was a
result of drouth conditions of last
summer and fall, protracted and se-
vere winter, necessitating the use of
unusual amounts of feeds purchased
at unusually high prices. The result
of these conditions has‘also shown
itself in a spring lamb crop that
' amounts to less than 60 per cent of

normal for the range states as a’

whole. . ‘
While we recognize that the Fed-
-eral Reserve Banks have not declin-
ed to handle sheep men's paper when
presented in proper form, there are
some member banks that state that
they are not in a position to initiate
such loans and therefore can not of-
fer the paper for rediscount. ’
We feel that the situation is part-
.ly psychological and to some extent
exaggerated by misinformation con-

I‘Cernlng the real position of wool in.

'the world’s trade, and in some cases
'by a misunderstanding of the facts.

, Extent ‘of‘ Requirements ‘
‘..The need for early return from

hi: woolclip" exists in a seridus Way

V'Arrangem’ents MadejThrouygh‘ Farm Bureau and I W

   

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Report of Special Committeeo’n Wool Financing of
, American Farm Bureau Federation

in the? range states where the wool
growers are primarily and altogether

sheep raisers, and to a degree in all *

fleece wool states. For wools that
are consigned, it is customary "for
the commission houses to make an
advance payment of 75 per cent in
order to enable the seller to con—
tinue his business until he receives
the final returns from his clip.

The data presented below shows
the amount and value of the wool of
the various states, which we estimate
has not been realized on in any way
and from which some revenue must

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products have been constantly ap?

preciating invvalu‘e.

, The! records of the Bureau of Mar-
kets show that wool prices in March,
1919 were averaging 25c a pound

for the grower, and that ‘in May.

1920 the average price was 63c, and
showing an advance of approximately
150 per cent; while cloth, 16 oh
clay worsted, in March, 1919, sold
at $1.30 per yard and in March,
1920 the price was $5.45, showing
an appreciation in value in excess of
300 per cent. It was further shown
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Will the Wool Market Come Back ?

HE PHENOMEN AL decline in wool prices the past sixty days has

caused some uneasiness among individual growers and the organi-

zations which are pooling their wool for them.
Michigan State Farm Bureau pool seventy five per cent of the estimated
value of the wool based on current marketing prices has been advanced
to the growers. Now should the market not recover its former strength
or mould it even decline lower the Farm Bureau would not be able
to pay the other twenty-five per cent which the growers expect to re-
ceive and might, indeed, encounter a loss from what it has already ad-
Now this would be all very unfortunate, indeed, and would
certainly tend to destroy farmers’ faith in organization, although farm-
ers could not justly take that viewpoint of it, as the Bureau could not
be in any ways blamed for the condition of the market.
should be said, that there the possibility of continuing low prices for
any considerable period of time is very remote, as the accompanying
article explains. The Business Farmer looks for an early turn of the
market, and while it may not reach its former high level of several
months ago, the price will, we believe, be satisfactory. Upon this sub-
ject, Alexander, Conover & Martin, a Chicago sheep commission house,

“America needs a great sheep industry badly and it is now only,
in its infancy and must have proper support and we think'it is going
Wool in our opinion never ought to sell for less than 500 a
pound and at present it would be one of the cheapest raw materials in
In fact wool ought to be bringing at least
one dollar a pound to be in line with other raw materials.

“We strongly advise those who have wool in storage or Who are
contemplating selling, not to sell at this time unless at a good fair
price, because we feel that the market will soon become stabilized
and a good fair price will be the result.
wool industry at work and they should receive all encouragement and

In the case of the

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be derived to make it possible for
the owners to continue their bus-
iness. ‘

The following table shows for a.
number of states, the reported pro—
duction in 1919 and our estimate of
the amount of the 1920 clip that has
not yet been sold or advanced upon:

 

States 1919 Prod. Est. Am’t
not sold or

advanced upon

Arizona . . . . 15,000,000 2,500,00
California .13,000,000 12,000,000
Colorado 9,000,000 8,000,000
Idaho ..... 21,000,000 10,000,000
New Mexico 15,000,000 15,000,000'
Nevada .10,000,000 5,000,000
Montana . . . 22,000,000 14,000,000
Oregon .13,000,000 16,000,000
Texas ..... 14,000,000 14,000,000
Utah ...... 16,000,000 5,000,000
Washington 6,000,000 2,000,000
Wyoming ..34,000,000 20,000,000
So. Dakota . 5,000,000 4,000,000
193,000,000 127,500,000

In addition to these amounts, there
is a total of 68,500,000 pounds in
the states of Maine, New York, Pen‘n-
sylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky,
Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas,
Nebraska and Illinois.

In our opinion the loans necessary
to be placed on this unfinanced wool
will amount,to.a total of $50,000,—

000.

The growers were first called upon
to present their case and showed
that the year 1919 was one of record
breaking conditions for feed as well
as labor, and in addition to that,
range conditions were such that the
lam‘bing crop of 1920 was approxi-
mately 60 per cent. Conditions in
the East were somewhat similar due
to an excessively hard winter and of
high feed costs. Regardless of these

,high pro’ductldn costs, the wool mar-

ket in the, Past two years has been
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dealers and manufacturers are talk-
ing in terms of reduced prices, retail-
ers and jobbers say that no reduction
in the price of finished products is
being made to them and in certain
sections prediction is made that those
holding discount sales will be oblig-
ed to replenish their stocks at prices
higher than were paid for the goods
sold.

The relation of the finished pro-
duct to the price of raW~wool was
discussed and it was clearly demon-
strated that the price the grower re—
ceived for his wool had no effect on
the price the consumer paid for his
finished product, the initial cost for
material entering into a suit, of
clothes being so small that in a $100
suit the difference between a price
of 20c a pound and a price of 70c a
pound, to the grower, would not
amount to more than $2 on an en-
tire suit. In 1919 woolen cloth man-
ufactured from wools produced in
1918 and costing 20 per cent more
than. they did in 1919, were sold on
the market at‘ a cost of over $1 less
per yard than the same grade, made
out of the cheaper wool stocks and
sold the subsequent year.

Another interesting sidelight on
the market trend shows that while
in 1910 the price that the grower re-
ceived—approximately 30c per pound
—was within 6c per pound of the
prige the dealer received and that
this level was practically constant up
until May or June of 1919, yet in
May, 1920 when the price to the
grower averaging 65c the price the
dealers received ranged from 70c
to 97c, showing conclusively that if
there is an abnormal advance ,in
wools at the present time, those who
have benefitted byit have not been
the producer but rather the dealer.

The quantity of wool stocks avail-

in the world, was next discussed.
The jeneral opinion, with one or two
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. the World 'at present were not ex-

cessive; in, fact, considering the
world’s enormous need for wool,
stocks were thought to be somewhat
subnormal and that the quantity of

wool held by England and Australia‘

was not in excess of 1,400,000,000
pounds and this represented the larg-
est available supply in any one sec-
tion of the world. Manufacturer's
lofts carry no excess stocks of wool
and stocks of manufactured goods
are low and mills must purchase
wools before starting to fill trade or-
ders. Mr. Strong of Strong, Huett
& Company, brought out‘this last
point. Mr. Jones of Holloway, Jones
& Donald, wool dealers, 'on being ask-
ed what he considered a‘ fair value
for wools made the statement that
their concern was advancing 25cand
that naturally they considered they
were Safe in the matter. His opinion
was that stocks held by Boston wool
dealers approximatey fifty ,mlllion
pounds and that, normally speaking,
Boston controlled 75 per cent of the
wools in the hands of the dealers.

One thing is evident, that unless
imports have been considerably larg-
er than normal, the quantity of WWI
of good grade has been quite well
used up during the first five months
of the manufacturing year.

No Arbitrary Price Set

No effort was made by growers to
fix or determine on a fair market
value for wools, as. the growers rea-
lize that wool is not a commodity re-
stricted only to the United States but
that it is a world product and the
vast majority of it is under the con-
trol of the British government and
that prices ruling at London sales
must, to a large degree,.determine
the values of the American growers
can hope to get for wools of similar
grade. The opinion of this summit-
tee is unanimous that this is not the
time for sales as no legitimate mar-
ket exists and sales can.on1y be made
in a speculative way to those men
who are safely figuring on making
profits on the deal.

In the opinion of the growers the
plan followed in financing the cotton
crop of 1914 is not practical in the
present situation. The prices arbi-
trarily established as a safe margin
fer cotton values became, finally, the
real market value for this product
at a price approximately one-half of
its normal value. The cotton trade
was two years in recovering from this
condition even though but little of
the loan fund was ever actually need-
ed or used. .

At the close of the discussion set-
ting forth ‘the situation the repre-
sentatives of the wool growers ap-
pointed a sub—committee consisting
of bankers thorough'y familiar with
the entire situation to further confer
with the Board for the purpose of
perfecting a plan. The outcome of
this conference was the formulation
of the following statement which has

been authorized by the Federal Re- ~

serve Board: .

“A wool grower may ship his wool
to one of the usual points‘of distri-
bution, obtaining from the, railroad
a bill of lading for the shipment; the
grower may then draw a draft against
his bank for such an amount as may
be agreed upon by the grower and
the bank, secured by the bill of lad-
ing. The Federal Reserve Act auth-
orizes any member bank to accept a
draft secured in this manner at the
time of acceptance, provided that
the draft matures in not more than
six months from the time of accept-
ance. _After acceptance such a draft
bearing the endoriement of a mem-
ber bank «is eligible for rediscount
or purchase by a Federal Reserve

‘\ Bank. provided that it has a matur-

ity of not more than. three months
from thedate of rediscoun-t, or pur-
chase. - ‘, - - '
“It was suggested that the Feder-
al Reserve Board. communicate with
the Federal Reserve Banks, pointing

of distrib ,ion- may properly ,1:
anced: by; faces n- ._

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i9 .‘mocratic

Republican Plank on Agriculture

E FARMER is the backbone of
t-he nation. National greatness and
‘economio independence demand a

‘“ population to be distributed between

industry and the farm and sharing on
equal terms the prosperity which is
whOlly dependent on the efforts of
both. Neither can prosper at the ex-
pense of the other without inviting
joint disaster.

The crux of the present agricul-
tural condition lies in prices, labor
and credit.

The Republican party believes that
this condition can be improved by
practical and adequate farm repre-
sentation in the appointment of gov-
ernmental officials and commissions;
the right to form co- -operation asso-
ciations for marketing their products,
and protection against discrimina-
tion; the scientific study of agricul-
tural prices and farm production
costs at home and abroad, with a
view to reducing the frequency of
abnormal fluctuations; the uncensor-
ed publications of such reports; the
authorization of associations for the
extension of personal credits; 8. na-
tional inquiry on the co- -ordination of
rail, water and motor transportation
with adequate facilities for receiv-
ing, handling and marketing food;
the encouragement of our export
trade; an end to unnecessary price
'fixing and ill-considered efforts ar-
bitrarily to reduce prices of farm
products which invariably result to
the disadvantage both of producer
and consumer, and the encourage-
ment of the production and impor-
tation of fertilizing material and of
its extensive use.

The federal farm loan act should

. be so administered as to facilitate the

acquisition of farm land by those de-
siring to become owners and proprie-
tors and thus minimize the evils of
farm tenantry and to furnish such
long time credits as farmers may
need to finance adequately their larg-
er and long-time operations.‘

Democratic Plank on Agriculture

To the great agricultural interests
of the country the Democratic party
does not find it necessary to make
promises. It already is rich in its

,record of things actually achieved.

For nearly a century of Republican
rule not a sentence was written into
the Federal statutes affording one
dollar of bank credits to the farming
interests of America. In the first

term of this Democratic administra-
tion the National Bank Act was so
altered as to authorize loans of five
years maturity on' improved ‘ farm
lands. Later was established the
system of farm loan banks from
which the borrowings already ex-
ceed $300,000,000 and under which
the interest rate to farmers has been
so materially reduced as t'o'drive out
of business the farm loan sharks who
formerly subsisted by extortion upon
the great agricultural interests of the
country.

Thus it was a Democratic Congress
in the administration of a Democratic
president which enabled the farmers
of America for the first time to ob-
tain credit upon reasonable terms
and insured their opportunity for the
future development of the nation’s

‘the ending of

agricultural resources. Tied up in
Supreme Court proceedings,
suit by hostile interests, the Federal
farm lean system, originally opposed
by the Republican". candidate for the
presidency, appealed in vain to a
Republican congress for adequate
financial assistance to tide over the
interim between the beginning and
the current year,
awaiting a final decision of the high-
est court on the validity of the con-
tested act. We pledge prompt and
consistent support of sound and ef-
fective measures to sustain, amplify
and perfect the rural credits statutes
and thus to check and reduce the
growth and course of farm tenancy.

Not only did the Democratic party
put into effect a great farm loan sys-

‘tem of land mortgage banks, but it

Lapeer Farmers to! Try. Consolidated School

AST week Hadley township, La-
peer county, voted by substan-
tial majority to form a Twnship

School Dist., consolidating the dis-
tricts. This is the first township of
Lapeer county to take this progres-
sive action. Hadley public schools
are adequate in room to accommo-
date scholars from the whole town-
ship. They are free from all indebt-
edness and buildings and equipment
will be turned over to the new dis-
trict. In addition, E. J. Hemingway
has oflered to donate to the district
ten acres of land opposite the school
building.

A Standard Agricultural School
will be operate beginning next Sep-
tember. Its organizations has al-
ready commenced and five trustees
will be elected at the first annual
school meeting, July 12. This
school' will receive from the United
States government $1,000 federal
aid; and from the state of Michigan,
$600 together with $300 for each
bus used for the transportation of
pupils to and from‘school.

Mr. Lightfoot, Supt. of Consolidat—
ed schools at Gaines, spent several
days last week explaining the Town-
ship District System to the voters.
His efforts were a material aid in
carrying the question at the polls.

The German element of the town-
ship either fearing that success would
injure their parochial or prompted
by that old desire to oppose progres-
sive Americanism, were practically a
unit against the proposition. They

were supported and encouraged
their attitude by Wm. Ivory, State
Representative of Lapeer county, who
was evidently influenced to forget
America and her ideals in order to
play cheap politics, confident that
the opposition was the winning side.
Ivory's record shows that he oppos-
ed Local Option when this was a
burning question in the county.
Farmers of the whole state remem-
ber how he opposed their interests
when as chairman of thelegislative
committee he failed, through negli-
gence or opposition to report out the
Terminal Warehouse Bill in time for
it to become a law. Lapeer county
is entirely agricultural and certain-
ly merits a more progressive and
representative man to look after the
farmers’ interest in the lower house
at Lansing. The Farm Bureau should
see to it that no incompetent cheap
politician is elected from Lapeer
county in November or even receive
a nomination at the August primar-
ies.

The election was the hottest con-
test in the history of the township,
and its progressive people are to be
congratulated upon the results of
their strenuous efforts to have the
voters remember that principle hand—
ed down from the ordinance of 1787,
“Education, Religion and Morality
being necessary to good government,
schools and the means of Education
shall forever be encouraged. ”—-—00n-
tributed.

in a‘

in-

   

" n entions G1ve ' Ear to Farm Problems

passed the Smith-Lever Agricultural
Extension Act, carrying to ever,

farmer in every section of the coun-r

try, through the medium of trained

experts and by demonstration farms, , G. i
the practical knowledge acquired by "

the federal agricultral department in”
all things relating to agriculture,
horticulture, and animal life; it. es-
tablished the Bureau of Markets, the
Bureau of Farm Management and
passed the Cotton Futures Act, the
Grain Grades Bill, the Co-operative
Farm Administration Act, and the
Federal Warehouse Act.

The Democratic party has vastly
improved the rural mail system and
has built up the parcel post system
to such an extent as to render its
activities and its practical service in-
dispensable to the farming commun-
ity. It was this wise encouragement
and this effective concern of the
Democratic party for the farmers of
the United States that enabled this
great interest to render such essen-

tial service in feeding the armies of ,

America and the allied nations of
the war and succoring starving pop-
ulations since Armistice Day.
Meanwhile the Republican leaders
at Washington have failed utterly to
propose one single measure to make
rural life more tolerable.

gressionai power by urging schemes

which would strip the farms ofla- .
by assailing the principles of j.
the farm loan system and seeking to ‘
impair its efficiency; by covertly at- '
tempting to destroy the great nitro- .

bor;

gen plant at Muscle Shoals upon
which the government has expended
$70,000,000 to supply American

farmers with fertilizers at reasonable .
by ruthlessly crippling nearly '

cost;
every branch of agricultural endeav-
or,
mediums through which the people
must be fed.

We favor such legislation as.wiil
confirm to the primary producers of

the nation the right of collective bar- _

gaining and the right of co- operative
handling and marketing of the pro-
ducts of the workshops and the farm
and such legislation as will facilitate

the exportations of our farm pro- f

ducts.

We favor comprehensive studies of ; JI-
farm production costs and the un- :fl
censored publication of facts found ,'

in such studies.

Use of Shoddy Creates Wool Surplus and Demoralizes Wool Market

ALF A billion pounds of shoddy
were thrown on the American
clothing market in 1919, while

a billion pounds of, unmanufactured,
virgin wool were accumulating in the
storehouses. Shoddy is made of wool-
en rags, re-spun perhaps as often as
eight times. It is usually woven
with a small percentage of virgin
wool to stick the broken fibres tee
gether. 0f the 620,000,000 yards of
“allwool” cloth produced by the na-

' tion’s mills, the amount of shoddy

used would have produced 380,000,—
000 yards, it straight shoddy cloth
had been turned out. . Mixed with a
little new wool, it entered into a
composition of a vastly greater
yardage. In the same period, the
amount of new wool used would
have produced 240,000,000 yards of
virgin wool cloth, if’it had not been
adulterated with shoddy.

“Last year, as never before, the
shoddy interests succeeded in foist-
ing their good on the public," says
Howard F. Green, Secretary of the
National, Sheep and-W001 Bureau of

America. ._“0nly 600,000,000 pounds
of wool in its natural state
or 300,000,000 pounds of the

cleaned wool, were. converted into
cloth“ Most of this amountwas mix-
ed withs-hoddy to make it stick to-
gether. If the entire, 300,000,000

' pounds had been made into pure vir-

gin wooi cloth, it would have pro-
vided only 240,000,000yards, as
against the 380,000,000 yards of
shoddy goods.

“It would have taken 1, 550, 000, -
000 notilighds of virgin wool to have

_erage cost was $1. 87.

cloth
and
That

should have been virgin wool
for those who could afford it
shoddy for thinner purses.

would have provided for fair com-
petition between virgin wool cloth
and shoddy and for a fair range of
prices. Instead, through the lack of

stamping, shoddies‘ were sold as
‘sll wool’ and the public accepting
‘all wool’ to mean virgin wool, was
denied the right of choice and the
benefit of a range of prices.

“Today, the stores are filled with
shoddy clothing and a billion pounds

Wheat Price Less Than Average Production

HE COST of producing wiheat of
the .1919 crop was as low as $1

‘a bushel on just two farms out of
48Linc1uded in a cost of production
study just cmpleted by the United
States Department of Agriculture. On
20 farms it was $5 or over. The
bulk of the farms produced wheat at
a cost somewhat less than midway
between these two extremes. The
average cost per bushel for all farms
was $2.15. At such a price, half the
farmers in question would have lost
money on their wheat.

Fourteen representative districts
ingthe Wheat Belt were visted by the
field men of ‘the Office of Farm Man-
agement in making this investiga-

tion, a preliminary report of which

has just been issued. Nine winter
wheat areas were surveyed in Kan-
sas, Nebraska and Missouri, and five
spring wheat areas in Minnesota,

-. North Dakota and South Dakota. For
winter wheat 284 records were tak-

en, for spring wheat 197.

In ‘the winter wheat areas costs
range'd from $1 a bushel for two
farms to $8. 20 on one farm. The av-
If the price
received had been $1. 87 more than
half in these winter wheat growers

d would have produced wheat at a

crop would be covered.
' cent of the grow‘e‘rs would still fail

In the spring wheat areas the av—
erage cost was much higher, $2. 65,
the range running from $1. 10 for one
farm to $5 or over for 17 farms. If
the priCe received had equaled the
average cost, between 50 and 55 per
cent of thesevspring wheat growers
would have failed to break even.

Yields averaged 14.9 bushels per
acre for the winter wheat farms, and
8.4 bushels for the spring wheat
farms, and the cost per acre $27. 80
for winter wheat, as against $22. 40
for spring wheat.

Department specialists in cost of
production studies, point out in this
connection'that, for the farms cover—
ed in this investigation, the so-called
“necessary price”—tha-t is, the price
necessary to give the producer a fair
degree of certainty of making a prof-
it—would be found at a level consid-
erably above that of the average cost
of production. For example, to al-
low a profit on 80 per cent of the
wheat produced on the farms cov-
ered by this study, the price would
have to be about $2.60 as compared
with an average cost of $2.15. At
a price covering the average cost
plus 10 per cent, 75 per cent of the
40 per

to break even.

Iopinion and the ’1 ruth 1n Fabric I’mw

of virgin wool fill the storehouses.

The shoddy interests have become so '.
the

thoroughly intrenched through
right of their product to masquerade
as ‘new wool’ under the popular term
‘all wool,’ that they have been able
to create in their own interest an
artificial over- -supp1y of virgin wool.

“In spite of this billion pounds in "

the storehouses. the world produces
a third less wool annually than it
needs and the demand for new wool
is as great as ever.

selves between the public with its
demand for virgin wool and the
sheep men with their supply.

“As a result the wool growers are i

being forced into insolvency. To
save those of the West from immedi-
ate ruin, the Federal Reserve Board
has authorized the San FrancisCO

Federal Reserve Bank to advance "‘

money to help them carry their un-
sold clips. However, this aid affords
only temporary relief. The farmers
and sheep men must have permanent
relief from the unfair competition
of the rag— ”pickers

"That billion pounds of unmann-
factured virgin wool in the store-
houses, kept from the public which
wants and needs it by the legal right

   

of manufacturers to use nuidentiq"

fled shoddy in their ‘all wool' cloth
threatens the annihilation of th
sheep and wool industry. It is to
the interest of every voter to get
behind the French- Capper Truth in
Fabric bill and see that it is 611me
into law at the next session of Cong-
ress. Between enlightened public

the Wool growers may be able to
cover some of this spring's losses
next spring’ 3 clip. ”

They have , ,
signalized their 15 months of con- ,

literally crippling the productive .

The shoddy man- i
ufacturers have simply thrown them- ; .

    
   
    
     
    
    
  
 
 
 
 
  
   
  
 
  
 
   
  
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
  
  
  
 
 
 
  
  
   
 
 
 
   
  
  
 
 
  
   
  
  
  
   
  
   
 
 
 
  
  
  
   
   
 
  
 
   
 
  
   
  
  
 
  
 
   
 
 
  
 
 
  
  
   
 
  
  
   
 
     
    

 

   
    

 
    
 

    
      
 
     

      

 
   
     

  
 

     
     
 
  

    
   
    
     
     


 

   

         
 
  

  

 

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Published every Saturday by me
um “Billie MARY. Inc.
It. cm. Iiohlun
Members Agricultural Publishers Association
Boar-em in New York, Chi-(‘0, St. Louis sld Minneapolis 5"
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GEORGE M. SLOCUM ....................... PUBLISHER
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ASSOCIATES
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H. D. Lamb ................................... Auditor
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William E. Brown ....................... Legal Department
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Five years. zoo issues 83.00

The were. new on mama's; its status. émm m
shows to what date his nib-crimson is paid. When renewals are
sent it usually requires 3 weeks time before the label is changed.

Advertising Rates: Forty-lire cents per ante line. 14 lines to
the column inch. 768 lines to page. ,
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OUR GUARANTEED ADVERTISERS

We respectfully ask our readers to favor our ad-
vertisers when possible. Their catalogs and ptkres
are cheerfully sent free, and we guarantee you
against loss providing you say when writing or or-
dering from them “I saw your ad; in my Michigan
Business Fermer.’

Entered. es second-class matter, at post-office, Mt. Clemens, Mich.

Railroads Under Private Control
IX MONTHS of private control of the rail-
roads and what have we got? Everyone
clamoring for cars that cannot be supplied;
freight tie-ups»; late trains; embargoes; appli-
cations presented for thirty per cent increase
in freight rates.

The Farmers’ National Council told the
President last fall that the return of the rail-
roads to private hands would cost the farmers
an extra three to five billion dollars per year.
The statement was scoffed at. The argument
was made that private control meant greater
elficiency and greater incentive to serve! the
public and that it would be but a few weeks
before all the tangles in the railroad snarl
would be straightened out and everything
would be lovely once again. But not even dur-
ing the height of the war emergency were the
railroads in such a condition as they are today.
Private control has not only signally failed to
restore the roads to their pristine efiiciency,
but has actually permitted them to become
more demoralized and unfit for service. The
cost to the government of operating the roads
when they had to be operated at maximum
service regardless of cost and when hundreds
of thousands of cars were in government ser-
vice is insignificant compared to what it has
cost and will continue to cost the farmers and
other shippers because of lack of cars, cm~
bargoes and shipments delayed in transit.

The roads are returning as fast as possible
to that beautiful old basis of competition. A
writer in the Saturday Evening Post tells us
that there is no question but what the people
desire the roads to operate on a competitive
basis, but he does not explain why they should
so desire when the kind of competition practis=
ed by the railroads results in all kinds of in-
conveniences to the public. Take the matter
of consolidated ticket offices, for instance. The
man who has traveled any distance since the
government consolidated the ticket offices ap-
preciates their convenienCe. At the same win-
dow where he buys his ticket he may secure
any information he desires about train sched'
ules, fares, etc, on almost any line in the
United States. Under the old conditions a
man desiring to make a trip through a section
served by several lines was obliged to spend a
day or two visiting the respective ticket of-
fices of the various lines in widely scattered
sections of the city. And it is to those con-
ditions which the majority of the lines pro-
pose to return. ’

Nor is that. the only manner in which the
public is to be inconvenienced when the roads
all go again to their “public-be-dammcd”
way. Under government control cars were
routed over the most direct line. It didn’t
,matter whether the P. D. Q. or the X. Y.‘ 2.,
got the most profit out of the car. The gov-
Wt, being for the people, placed service
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P. D‘. 9., accepts acarlo‘advof
which can be tramported mitsdatimrtion (m-
tirely over the P. D. Q. lines it will never leave
the P. D. Q. tracks although the time in tran-
sit might be cut in half by re-routing part of
the way over the X. Y. Z. 5
Such are some of the penalties we will have
to pay for returning the railroads to private
corporate interests to be run for profit instead
of service. ' ‘

 

 

Kichigan and New York Crops

MOST OF THE early pioneers of Mich-
igan came from New York. We wond-
er if they have ever pined to return there. We
hope not. New York is a. wonderful state in
many respects. Its natural scenery is beau-t:
iful and impressive. Its canals, rivers, rail-
ways and splendid highways afiord ready
avenues of transportation. The soil is good.
The climate is‘ suited to the‘ growing of most
crops. And yet Withal we do not think that
New York state can hold a candle to‘Michigan
when it comes to farming.

The editor recently drove four hundred and
fifty miles through. New York’s choicest agri-
cultural counties. The topography of the land
is very similar to some of the best lands in
Michigan, slightly rolling. Soil types are al-
most identical with ours. Vegetation in gen-
eral seemed to be about as for advanced as in
Michigan, and yet the majority of grain crops
did not appear to be as far- along as they were
in Michigan two weeks previously. I was par-
ticularly struck with the poor condition of the.
corn. By the middle of June most of the
corn in the southern half of Michigan was up
eight to fifteen inches, but no where in the
state of New York did I see corn anywhere
near as high as that as late as the twenty-
ninth day of June. The same comparative dis-
tinctions are true of other crops. Such Wheat
and oat fields as I saw gave no promise of a
decent crop. Most of them were straggly and
uneven and did not indicate a half crop. As
an indication of the~ lateness of the season in
New York I saw several farmers planting
beans.

It is possible that my vision on the above
occasions was slightly colored by a spirit of
home pride, nevertheless I. am convinced that
a careful comparison between the crops of
New York and Michigan would show the lat—r

. ter far in the lead.

Farm Bureau’s Political Platform

E CANNOT speak in too high praise of

the effort of the American Farm Bureau
Federation to secure in the Democratic and
Republican platforms the inclusion of planks
dealing with specific farm problems. More-
over, in View of the reactionary beginnings of
the Farm Bureau, we are surprised and grat-
ified over the thorough progressiveness of
many of the planks submitted. We repro-
duce below the more important suggestions
presented to the national conventions of the
two leading parties:

1. We recognize agriculture as the funda-
mental industry and we pledge ourselves to give it
practical and adequate representation in the cab-
‘inet and in the appointment of governmental of-
ficials, and on: commissions on a bipartisan basis.

2. We pledge to all farmers the full, free and
unquestioned right of co-operative. marketing of
their farm products and purchase of. their sup-
plies and protection against discrimination.

3. We pledge effective national control over
the packers and all other great interstate combin-
ations of capital engaged for profit in the manu-
facturing, transportation, and distribution of. food .
and other farm products and farm supplies and
that railroads be required to supply the neces—'
sary rolling stock and. terminal facilities to prop-
erly and promptly distribute all farm products
when ofiered.

5. We pledge the perpetuation and strength-
ening of the Federal Farm Loan system and the
improvement oi facilities for loans on farm com—
modities and the administration or the Federal
Reserve system in such way as will at all times
supply sufiicient ready money for food produc-
tion needs by redisoounting if necessary all such
loans of Member Banks on a basis that will not
be above six per cent to the borrower. '

7. We pledge ourselves to the, conservation
oi! coal oil, waterpower, and other natural re-
sources in the public interests and to their distri-

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9. We pledge the repeal of wartime-Myrrh
evicting the rights'ot- free speech. tree pres. and
peaceabie assemblage, and we pledge the rector-
'ation to an loyal people of these fundamental
rights.

10. We are opposed to any form of compulsory
military training in time oi peace.

11. We pledge our support to graduated income
and excess profit taxes supplemented by a gradu-

   

ated inheritance tax to furnish the additional rev- .

onus needed to meet the cost of the war.

14. We pledge a. national system 0: highways
beginning with the farm to market roads as all
farm products must .go over highways hetero ar—
riving at lines of distribution of consuming cent-
era.

It is. significant that the Republican Nation-

al convention adopted the above agricultural

platform almost verbatim, and the Democratic
convention, after pointing out what the ad-
ministration had already done for the farm-
ers, adopted the esscnce of the Farm Bureau
platform. Both of the agricultural planks of
the two platforms appear elsewhere in this is-
sue and are worth studying;

If the two great parties mean what they
say, and we can judge their sincerity in part
by their past performances—agriculture will
get a better deal in the future than it has in the
past. But agriculture will get nothing unless
its organized forces present their claims for
recognition. Some of our statesmen deplore
the tendency .of capital, labor and agriculture
to organize and exert pressure against political
parties and legislative bodies, but experience
has shown that if bodies of people are indificr-
ent to policies and legislationeflecting them,
the makers of such polcies will be likewise in-
different. Hence, we rejoice that the Amer-
ican Farm Bureau Federation has gone into
politics to the extent of presenting the claims
of agriculture to the great political parties.

New York Farmers Want Farmer Governor .

. HE DECISION of Michigan farmers to

elect a governor this fall who under-
stands agricultural problems has had its ef-
fects in other states, and even the farm leaders
of staid and conservative New York state are
casting about for a gubernatorial candidate
who will measure up to the agricultural stand-
ards. John Dillon, former state food and mar-
ket director of that commonwealth is conduct-
ing a poll among farmers and finds an over-
whelming sentiment for a “farmer” govern-
or regardless of his political creed. It is also
proposed to conduct a referendum to determ-
ine whether the farmers will hold a mm meet-
ing and endorse. their choice for governor or
whether they will rest their choice upon a
questionnaire to be submitted to each candi-
date.

These are encouraging signs. They show
that farmers are beginning to realize they
have been derelict in their duties of citizen-
ship and are determined to show a greater in-

.tcrest in the future in the qualifications of

candidates and affairs of government.

The awakening will spread, and when the
movement has \assumed such proportions as to
become a factor in political affairs, 3 good deal
of the opposition now directed against farmers
going into politics will fade away.

The Democrats in national convention steer";
ed‘ shy of the prohibition issue only to nomin-
ate a wet candidate for President, thereby
placing the issue squarelybefore the people.

Ananias was counted 2. pretty fair liar, but
that was before the propagandists of the sugar
companies told their stories about the 1920
sugar beetacreagc. .

 

The bosses of the two leading .parties have
held their conventions and nominated their .
candidates. Now let’s have a people ’23 conven-
tion and nominate men whom the people can

support:

 

We suppose the Michigan State Constabu-
lary will post a soldier at every apple tree in "
Michigan this year, and inmre a bumper crop

  
     
   
 
  
 

  

       

  
 
 

  
   
   
 

  
     
    
     
   

 

     
  
  

   

   


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sheen consume scanner: ON
POOR LAND .

Twenty 01' us farmers here have
. organized and own a 15 h. p. gas

engine and a grain separator and
just lately have bought a beaner.
Our oflicers‘ are Dan O'Weefe, pres-
ident; Malcolm Carlson, secretary;
Edw. ~Wildey, treasurer. -

Now we can thrash when we are
ready and do not have to wait un-

' til the thresher men are willing to

come and blow one half of the grain
on the stack and charge a good Still!
price just the same.

The company’s name is the “Gar—
field, Mt. Forest and Bentley Thresh-
ing Company.” We could have more
than twenty members but we thought
twenty is enough as it saves the ma-
chine and the more members we
have the more trouble as all cannot
thrash at on-Ce.

About the same men that belong
to the threshing company also be-
long to the Michigan Sugar Beet
Growers’ Association. Two are
growing scab beets, the rest are
holding out. If we can grow beets
next year for our own factory, we
will be willing to give a certain
amount of acres to start for-noth—
ing just to help ourself. Whatever
we give ourselr we are not giving
Wall Street, where there is no re—
turn of any kind excepting foul air,
and we cannot live on hot or any-
kind of foul air as our lungs will

, give out.

The enclosed clipping is from the
Bay City Times Tribune of June 11,
also explains itself. I send them a
while ago a news item of. our asso-
ciation being 100 per cent true and
you ought to have seen how they
made me out a liar, as they inquired
at the Columbia Sugar factory and
also at the Michigan Sugar factory

. about their acreage and the compan-

ies oflicers said they had all the
acreage they could handle and did
not have any trouble getting it. From
what I can learn it is true they have
quite a lot or contracts from farm-
ers who never grew beets before.
It is very easy to get that kind of
farmer, as sugar is high. They
think it will bring a high price for
their beets. Mebbe so. Another
kind of contract they have is in the
huckleberry swamps of which there
is quite a lot here; they could not
raise a beet the size of a lead pencil
in all summer, so we just can make
up our minds that beets are very
scarce this year anyway and drop

raising sugar beets like hot potatOes

for the sugar kings and try our level
best to get our factories running by
next year. We farmers are willing
to raise beets then.

We all like your M. B. F.—
I“. 1'}. 8., President Grump Local,
Michigan Sugar Beets Growers’ As-
.v‘n. Bay County.

(mty two out of twenty-five members
vrmviug' beets certainly shows loyalty
t-x 11w cause: If the association stands
as firm all over Michigan even though
”101'“ demand for a better price was ig-

 

mm-‘d by the" sugar manufacturers, the
{Farmer-,4 have won a victory, They have
"“‘.\T.: the public that agriculture has
I awn Vo u'nkn up and that in the near
{‘Wi in demands will have to receive
it

x r- nitmiirm than it has in the past.
“’9 cannot understand why many coun—
v-y newspapers will take up a stand
:mnin't the farmer. The greater part
:H‘ ihcl“ circulation is among the farm-
or". Some day they will open their
r." s and see beyond the end of their
rcs ~ ~«Fditor.

 

LET FARMERS TAKE INTEREST
IN GOVERNMENT

The sound advice of Mr. John
Fitzpatrick, published in M. B. F. of
June 12th of Be'averton, Clare coun—
ty. should be heeded and acted upon
by the farmers of Michigan who
have, hitherto, left the arranging of
political affairs, very largely to the

politicians _while they the farmers

were busily engaged with their tarni-
ing affairs at home.

But times and customs are chang-
ing and for‘ the better. The Farm
Bureau and other organizations, in
the interests of farmers, the primary
producing class, are now coming to
the front and in the interests at gov-

ernment tor the masses rather than

tor the benefit of the classes.

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l. w.

No man should,“ entrusted with
the duties of a public otlice who does
not possess the three essentials for
acceptable' service-ability, integri-
ty and activity—and, from the agri-
culturists of Michigan, can be select-

, ed men in abundance who possess the

needed three essentials.

The present lack of help on the
farms, it is to be hoped Will not
long continue, whereby the farmers
are so fully and continually compell-
ed to give so full attention to the
raising of food crops that the non-
producers of food may not go hun-
gry. The press of the state is very
properly calling attention to the pos-
sibility of a food shortage in the
near future and which can be avoid-
ed only by the providing of the neces—
sary help to till the soil and raise
food crops—J. T. 1)., Clinton County.

 

Farmers everywhere are preaching
these very things, but a well known
party leader was overheard recently to
say that the farmers do a lot of talking,
but when it comes to voting they follow
the same old partisan dictates. We
think this gentleman has a surprise in
store for bird—Editor,

IN FAVOR on AMENDMENT

I am more than surprised to see
your staunch defense of the parochial
schools in issue of June 12. With-

out golng into a lot of details you”

certainly are lined up on the wrong

side of this question.

It is to be fervently hoped that
the tar-mere who have the least to
be gained by an alien pope forcing
his alien system upon a free Amer-
ican people and innocent children——
will carry the amendment by a hand-
some majority, thus teaching the city
cesspools a much needed lesson in
pure Americanism. While waiting
for this happy event, please be good
enough to read and meditate upon
the enclosed clipping. Why not pub—
lish some one else’s views or this
vital subject? How many priests
did you consulti—R. F. Lamb, Litch-
field, Mich.

The Business Farmer has never dis-
cussed this proposed amendment with
anyone 01 Catholic faith, either priest
or layman. Such opinions as we have
formed upori the subject are the result
of our personal and unbiased convictions.
We are not only willing but glad to
present others’ views on this subject
whether they agree with ours or not.—
Editor.

PACKERS’ SIDE OF REGULATION

Your issue of June 5, 1920 con—
tains a summary of the report or the
Federal Trade Commission, submit-
ted by the Farmers’ National Coun-
cil.

   

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It is appare t from the heading
given this artlc e. and from your ed-
itorial comment, that you consider
the above mentioned report furnish-
es justification for the passage of pro-

     

posed legislation to control the packs

ers. The mere fact that the suppos-
ed justification for such measure lies
in the report of the Federal Trade
Commission, should be suflicient ar-
gument against their passage.

The points made by this commis-
sion to uphold their contention that
monopoly exists have no basis in
fact. These charges have been re-
peatedly disproved by printed state-
ments issued by Swift &Company,
copies of which may be obtained by
anyone who is interested.

For the further information of
your readers, however, we shall re-
peat the principal reasons why we
believe the proposed legislation will
be harmful to both live stock pro-
ducer and packer.

1. The legislation is unnecessary
because there are plenty of laws on
the statute books now, such as the
Sherman and Clayton anti—trust laws,
and the Federal Trade Commission
Law to cover abuses if any exist.

2. Anything that hampers the
packing industry through govern-

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A Department for the Women

 

 

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF 11'
if N INTERESTING report has just
A been received from Washington,
D. 0., showing the result of a
survey of farming conduitions' thru-
-out the United States. The govern-
ment has been working on this sur—

' vey in conjunction with the Home

Demonstration agents who are pret-
ty thoroughly scattered throughout
the entire coui'try and therefore in
position to make comprehensive re—

“ ports from the different counties.

The report is composed largely of
quotations from different representa-
tive farm women throughout the

‘ states, with a summary of the ‘needs,

and also with suggestions as to the
remedy. We give a few extracts
from this report with the summary,
as it appears very interesting and
we would be glad to have our read—
ers give us their opinion of this very
vital question—for it is a vital ques-
tion to both the women of the coun-
try and .11e women of the towns and
cities for women in town have come
to realize more and more that they
are dependent upon their sisters in
the country—we cannot live for self
alone—it’s co-operation in every line
of work which brings success and
happiness.

It is believed that the survey just
completed by farm women themselv—
es in co—operation with home demon-
stration agents is but the first of a
series of intensive studies which will
from time to time be made not only
to show the needs but to mark the
advancement that is sure to come as
the government, colleges and farm-
ing people Work together on a com-
mon program for better agricultural
and a richer rural farmlife.

The Home Demonstration Agent

Women are ev‘erywhere welcom-
ing the services of the home demon-
stration agent much as farmers wel-
come the agricultural county agent.
This trained home economics work-
er, employed on Federal, State and
local funds and devoting all her time
to the advancement of home efficiency
is studying with home makers the
needs of individual homes and com—
munities and is thus able, by linking
her technical skill with the practical
knowledge and experience of the

housewives, to co—operate in the ac-

Edlted by GLADE NORRIS

complishment of large results

the State agricultural college
the Department

by
providing a" channel through which
and

1 tion and hygiene, through home dem-
onstrations in

 

 

of Agriculture
can deal directly
with rural home

WEEKLY CHEER

(a) Child care and feeding.
b Food se-
lection for the
family.

c Training in

makers. .growll andd at: wayfllooksbdll'eztry. the essentials of
_ .augn an opal s rg ..

Th? five out For 'a welcome smile .home n urging'
standlng pro b- Brings sunshine, while and

lems Which“ the
survey would in-

 

 

A frown shuts out the light. .

d The instal-
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dicate call for
special consideration are:
1. To shorten the working work-
ing day of the average farm woman.
2. To lessen the amount of heavy

,manual labor she now now performs;

3. To bring about higher stand-
ards of comfort and beauty for the
farm home.

4. To safeguard the health of
the farm [family and especially the
health of the mother and growing
child. .

5. To develop and introduce mon-
ey yielding home‘ industries where
necessary in order to make needed
home improvements.

These changes may most speedily
be brought about by:

1. Introducing (a) improved
home equipment, principal among
which are running water and power
machinery, and (b) more eflicien’»:
methods of household management,
including the rearrangement of the
inconyenient kitchen and the instaltl~
ment of a modern heating system fer
the whole house.

2. ’ Helping farm people to under-
stand and apply the laws of nutri-

improvements.

3. Cultivating the idea that in-
vestment in the comfort, beauty,
health, and efl‘iciency of the farm
home and community is a wise and
legitimate expenditure, and perhaps
the only means of stopping the drift
of young people to the city.

“The country offers greater oppor-
tunity for satisfying life than the
city and country women have as
great capacity as city women for the

enjoyment of life, but are more
handicapped with routine work
which absorbs their time and
strength."

The farm woman does not wish to
put up with today in the anticipa-
tion at something better tomorrow
or in her old age, but wants a chance
to enjoy today as the onlypossession
she is sure of. The woman feels that
she owes it to herself and her family
to “keep informed, attractive, and in
harmony with life as the years ad-
vance. ”

Women realize that no amount of
wise arrangement or labor. saving
appliances will make a home. It is
the woman’s personal, presence, in-

 

The Making of a Friend
By Edgar A. Guest

We nodded as we passed each day
And smiled and went along our way
I knew his name and he knew mine,
But neither of us made a. sign

That we possessed a common tie;
We barely spoke as we passed by.

How fine he was I never guessed.

The splendid soul within his breast

I never saw. From mo was hid
The many kindly deeds he did.

75‘s gentle ways I didn't know

Or I'd have claimed him long ago,

Then trouble came-to me one day
And he was first to come and say
The cheering words I longed to hear.

He offered help and standing near
I felt our lives in sorrow blend,
My neighbor had become my friend.

How many smiles from day to day
I've missed along my narrow way;
How many kindly words I’vo lost;
\Vhat Joy has my indifference cost!
This glorious friend that now I know,
”Would have been friendly years ago.

The bud but very little shows

To tell the beauty of the rose,
And him we greet in passing by

“’ith scarce a nod, the day we sigh

May blossom as the storms descend

“’ith all the beauty of a friend.

 

  

fluenco and care that make the
home. Housekeeping is a business
as sordid and practical as farming
and with no romance in it; home-
- making is a. sacred trust. “A woman
wants time salv'aged from house-
keeping to create the right home at-
mosphere for her children, and to
so enrich horns surroundings that
they may gain their ideals of beauty
and their tastes for books and music
not from the shop windows, the mov-
ies, the bill boards, or the jazz band,
but from the home environment.”

In the minds of many women is
the thought that the man at the head
of the house lives under a strain of
hard work and competition and that
“for him to have a comortable fire-
side and a family ”that is happy,
healthy, well fed, well clothed, well
sheltered and contented is his right
and his greatest boon."

Because of the shortage of help
prevalent throughout the country,
women consider it especially import-
ant that modern equipment and ma-
chinery so far as possible do the work
which would otherwise fall to wo-
men.

The farm woman knows that there
is no one who can take her place as
teacher and companion to her child-
ren during their early impressionable
years and she craves more time for
their care.~ Sirefeels the need of
making the farm home an inviting
place for the young people of the
family and their friends and of pro-
mating the recreational and educa-
tiOnal advantages of the neighbor-
hoodlin order to cope with the var—~
ious forms of city a'lluremen'ts. She
realizes that modern conditions call
for an even deeper realization and
closer contact between mother and
child. The familiar term, “God
could not be everywhere so He made
mother~s,’i has 'its modern scientific
application as no amount of educa-
tion and care given to children in a
school or elsewhere outside the home
can take the place of mothering in
the home ,

Farm women want to broaden
their outlook and keep up with the.
advancement of their children “not
by courses of study but by bringing
progressive ideas, methods and facil-
ities into the every day work and
recreation of heme environment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EAR CHILDREN:

We have said
so much about the Boy Scouts
.but very little about the Camp-

llre Girls, which organization cor-
responw to mat of the Scouts. The
girls learn how to take very good
care of themselves, they have delight-
ful hikes the same as the' boys, learn
to know the birds and flowers and
grow into beautiful women.

Their aims and objects as told in
their pledge is this:

To seek beauty; give service: pur—
sue knowledge; he trustworthy; hold
on to your health; glorify the work
nd be happy.

This is a creed which everyone, old
and young, boy and girl could well
afford to cut out and take as their
standard of every day living. .

And now I want --to tell you that I
too am to have a little vacation-

oh, your letter will appear just the

same as usual in the paper, as even
though I go away, I take some of my
work with me, but I’m going .up to
the northern part of our beautiful
state where the lake streams are-
cold, fish abound, and the roar of the
dusty city will be left far behind for
a short time.

    

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When I return I will tell you of
my vacation trip. Affectionately
yours, AUNT CLARE.

Answer to Last Week's Puzzle

GOPHERMINELK Goper-ermine-
elk. CAMELLAMARMOT camel- lla-
ma-marmot. MOLEMMINGNU mole-
lemming-gnu. ELKANGAROOX elk-
kangaroo—ox.

OUR BOYS AND GIRLS

Dear Aunt Clare—I just got through
reading the Children's Hour and I

. thought I would try and write to you. I

am 13 years old and will be in the 8th
grade next year. I am 5.ft tall and I
weigh 98 lbs. I have light hair and blue
gray eyes. We live on the lake County
poor farm and have a lot to do as we
have no hired “girl” I will close with
some conundrums. What belongs to
yourself and is used by your friends
more than by yoursel"? Your name
How does water get in a watermelon?
The seed is planted in the spring. What
is the most difficult ship to conquer?
Hardship. Ruth Lee, R 1, Chase, Mich

Dear Aunt ClareB—I like to read the
letters in the M. F. so maybe mine
will be well (leanog‘ghB to print too. We all
like the . as it has reading for
the whole family. I am nine years of
age and will be in the 4th grade next

. year. I have never been well so I stay-
ed in tow mggra grandma my are;
your in school and t is year I made 211

 

 

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and 3rd grades. We have a large farm
and a tractor. We have 1 1- 2 miles to
to go to school but mama takes us when-
ever she can. A Belle, Dexter, Mich.

Dear Aunt Clare—As I have never
written to you before I thought I would
now. I have been reading the letters
from other boys and girls and am inter-
ested in the Children’s Hour. I am a
boy 11 years old and passed into the
eighth grade this year. I have one sister.
I live on a forty acre farm I helped to
plant corn, potatoes, cucumbers and
beans. For pets I have two kittens and
a dog. We have 70 little chicks and also
two horses. I will close, hopin to see
my letter in print. Glen Mc anathan,
Mt. Pleasant, Mich. R 6

Dear Aunt Clare—I am a girl 12 years

 

 

old and live on an 80 acre farm. I am
in the 5th grade at school. I go to the
Otter Lake Agricultural School. My

teacher's name is Miss Florence John-

son. I live near a riverM and have lots of
fun in the summer. yfiparents take
the M. B. F. I guessM l cloSe now,

hoping to see my letter in print. Kath-

erine Kallungi, Tapiola, Mich.

 

Dear Aunt Clare—I am a girl nine yrs
of age and in the 4th grade. We live on

an 80 acre farm near the shores of
Lake Huron. There is a brook run”
through our farm and in summer I o -“

ten go fishing in it and picking flowers
along its banks. I like to wyour
sittgrt 1stories (and, lghe Ilefitersto from the
0 er oys an 3 r o

fig-m print. apElizaboth 1&1th

 
 
   

' as an apple, bussy as a
_ little thing you ever did see.

Children's Hour and
father tokosntgio' M. B. .-

I' ,1 “mumullllu ‘ ‘ "' "

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Dear Aunt Clare-—-I drew two pictures
one of a candle and another of a tree.
This certainly is the very busiest sea-
son of the year. We children are going
to have about 21 -2 acres of potatoes this

y.ear I would like to hear from some
of the children who write to the M. B.
F. Effie Hill. Cooks, Mich, R 1 -

   
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Aunt Clare—My uncle takes the
B. F. and I like to read the Boys
and Girls names and letters in the Child-
ren '5 Hour. This is the first time I have
written to you. I hopo this will escape
the waste basket. I am ’a girl 12 years
old and I am in the 6th grade at school
Our teacher last year was Miss Clem-
ents. I will close as my letter is got-
ting long. Violet Drayton, Lakeviow.
M.ich There is somethin etehat' is round
the pretty
Answer—
watch.

 

Dear Aunt Claro—I have read the
Children’s Page and funk it is enjoy-
able. I have never written to you before.
91 am about 15 years old and have two
brothers and two sisters. I would like
to have be e and girls write to me. Well
my letter- string quite long and will
close, hopi ng 0 see my letter in print.—

taBricker, Pt Huron, Mich, 2.

  

 

"Aunt Clare—I have ijust read an
no. 2
and likes it ‘
have" four little
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- .forlg.’seif-poss ’ ibis». , Fell

; her eyes theflightof t dagger to

' - assure herself that Vit's’iioiebned point

g~lh0uld not-strike'th‘e flesh'of anoth-

' .1 .er and wreak its evilness upon it, she

.drew from the breast-fold ' of— her
{ dress another tiny dagger. This,
- too, she tested with her tongue, ere
she broke Francis’ skin with the’
point of it and caught in the cup of
gold the several red blooddrops that
exuded from the, incision. Francis
repeated the same for her and on her,
, whereupon, under the flashing eyes,
the priest took the cup and offered
the commingled blood upon the altar.
dCame a pause. The Queen frown-
e .
“If blood is to be shed this day on
the altar of the Sun God ” she
began threateningly. -

And the priest, as if recollecting
what he was loath to do,‘ turned to
the people and made solemn pro-
nouncement that the twain were man
and wife. The Queen turned to
Francis with 'glowing invitation to
his arms. As he folded her to him
and kissed her eager lips, Leoncia
gasped and leaned closely to Henry
for support. Nor did Francis fail to
observe and understand her passing
indisposition, although when the
flush-faced Queen next sparkled tri-
umph at her sister woman, Leoncia
was to all appearance proudly indif-
ferent.

 

CHAPTER XXI

. W0 THOUGHTS flickered in Tor-
; L res’ mind as he was sucked down.
-The first was of the great white
hound which had leaped after him.
The second was that the Mirror of
the World lies. That this was his
end he was certain, yet the little he
_ had dared permit himself to glimpse
in the Mirror had given no hint of
an end anything like this. V
A good swimmer, a: he was en-
gulfed and sucked on in rapid, fluid
darkness, he knew fear that he
might have his brains knocked out by
the stone walls or roof of the sub-
terranean passage through which he
was being swept. But the freak of
the currents was such that not once
did he collide with any part of his
anatomy. Sometimes he was aware
of being banked against water—cush-
ions that tokened the imminence of
a wall or boulder, at which times he
shrank as it were into smaller com-
pass, like a sea—turtle drawing in its
head before the onslaught of sharks.

Less than a minute, as he measur-
ed the passage of time by the hold—
ing ‘of his“breath, elapsed, ere, in an
easier flowing stream, his head
emerged above the surface and he
refreshed his lungs with great in-
halations of cool air. Instead of
swimming, he contented himself with
keeping afloat, and with wondering

_what happened tothe hound and with I ‘

what next excitement would vex his
underground adventure. _ _

Soon he glimpsed light ahead, the
dim but unmistakable light of day;
and as the-way grew brighter, he
turned his face back and saw what

made him proceed to swim with a ’

speed stroke. What he saw- was the
hound, swimming high with the teeth
of its huge jaws gleaming in the in-
creasing light. Under the source of
the light, he saw a shelving bank and
climbed out. ' His first thought,
which he half carried out, was to
reach into his pocket for the gems
he had stolen from'the Queen's chest.
But a reverbrantxbarking that grew
to thunder ‘in‘ *the cavern reminded
him of his fanged pursuer, and he
drew forth-the Queen’s dagger in—
stead. ‘
.zAgain two thoughts divided his
judgment for action. Should he try
to kill the swimming brute ere it
landed? Or should he retreat up the
rocks toward the light on the chance
that the stream- might carry the
hound past him? _His judgment set-
‘ tied on the second course of action,
and he fled upward along a narrow
ledge. But the dog landed and fol-
lowed with such four-footed certain-
ty of speed that it swiftly overtook
. him. Torres turned at bay on the
, 1 cramped ,, footing, crouched, .' and
Misha! the dagger against the

   
 

  
     

 

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

  
 
 

 

 

 

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stead, playfully, With jaws wide-
spread of laughter, it sat drown and
extended its right paw intgreeting.
As he took the paw in his hand and
shook it, Torres almost collapsed in
the revulsion of relief. He laughed
with exuberant shilliness that adver-
tised semi-hysteria, and continued to
pump the hound’s leg up and down,
while the hound with wide jaws and
gentle eyes, laughedas exuberant-
ly back. ‘

Pursuing the shelf, the hound con-
tentedly at heel and occasionally
sniffing his calves, Torres found that
the narrow track, parallelingthe riv-
er, after an ascent descended to it
again. And then .tTorres saw five
things, one that made him pause and
shudder, and one that made his heart
beat high with hope. The first was
the underground river. Rushing
straight at the'wall of rock, it plung-
ed into it in a chaos of foam and tur-
bulence, with stiffly serrated and
spitef‘ully spitting. waves that adver—
tised its swiftness and momentum.
The second was an opening to one
side, through which streamed white
daylight. Possibly fifteen feet in di-
ameter was this opening, but across
it was stretched a spider web more
monstrous than any product of a
madman's fancy. Most ominous of
was the debris of bones that lay be—
neath. The threads of the web were
of silver and of the thickness of a

lead pencil. He shuddered as he
touched a thread with his hand. It
clung to his flesh like glue, and only
by an effort that agitated the entire
web did he succeed in freeing his
hand. Upon his clothes and upon
the coat of the dog he rubbed off the
stickiness from his skin.

Between two of the lower guys of
the great Web he saw that there was
space for him to crawl through the
opening to the day; but, ere, he at-
tempted it, caution led hif to test
the opening by helping and shovinqg
the hound ahead of him. The white
beast crawled and scrambled out of
sight, and Torres was about to fol-
low when it returned. Such was the
panic haste of its return that it col-
lided with him and both fell. But

_the man managed to save himself by

clinging with his hands to the rocks,
while the four-footed brute, not able
so to check itself, fell into the churn-
ing water. Even as Torres reached
a hand out to try to save it, the dog
was carried under the rock.

Long Torres debated. That farth-
er subterranean plunge of the river
was dreadful to contemplate. Above
was the open way to the day, and the
life of him yearned towards the day
as a bee or a flower toward the sun.
Yet what had the hound encounter-
ed to drive it back in such precipitate
retreat? As he pondered he became
aware that his hand was resting on

b . ~
less," {neseless

hie " d.’ 8

. . ._ fee}-
skull; His'ffrighte _ ~ _ g _
ed over ' the carpet 30f." bones, and, be-

yond all doubt, he ginade out the ribs .
and spinal'columns mama ”bones -‘

of what had‘bnce minim. This in«

clined»»htm-towardi'the water as the V

way out, but at’sight of the foaming
madness of it plunging through solid

rock he recoiled. ' '

Drawing the Queen’s dagger, he ,.£
web-guys
with infinite carefulness, saw what ,
the hound had seen, and came back .

crawled up between the

in such vertigo of retreat that he, too
fell into the water, and, with but time
to fill his lungs with air, was drawn
into the opening and into darkness.

In the meanwhile, back at the lake:-
dwelling of the Queen events no less
porten-tous were occurring with no
less equal rapidity.
from the ceremony at

the Long

House, the wedding party was in the .

action of seating itself for what.
might be called the wedding break-
fast, when an arrow, penetrating an
interstice in the bamboo wall, flash-
ed between the Queen and Francis
and transfixed the opposite wall,
where its feathered shaft vibrated
from the violence of its suddenly ar-
rested flight. A rush to the win-
dows looking out upon the narrow
bridge, showed Henry and Francis
the gravity of the situation.
as they looked, they saw the Queen's
spearmen who guarded the approach
to the bridge, midway across it in
flight, falling into the water with
the shaft of an arrow vibrating out'
of his back in similar fashion to the
one in the wall of the room. Beyond
the bridge, on the shore, headed by
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THE SIGN‘ OF QUALITY

 

Look for the
ROWENA
trade-mark

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* “Tell me, hOW do you make such
delicious bread and biscuits?”

said Mrs. Newly-wed to one of her girl friends.

“It’s the easiest thing in the world. I’ve never found
it any trouble to bake good bread, rolls, biscuits and
pastry when I had such good flour as

8 , . ' .
. Llly White ,
“The Flour the Best Cooks Use” ‘

LILY WHITE is a flour containing the choicest selection of 1
soft and hard wheat grown in America.
the flavor and color.

After being cleaned four times it is scoured three times, then i
actually washed, so that every bit of dirt is removed from the ,
kernels of wheat. Everything baked from LILY WHITE is
light, tender and of delightful flavor.

Give LILY WHITE 3. good trial.
feet satisfaction. '

VALLEY CITY MILLING co.

GRAND RAPIDS. MICHIGAN
“Millers for Sixty Years"

Soft wheat improves
It insures the baking of a good looking
loaf of bread. The flour is correctly balanced to make as good
bread as it does biscuits and pastry.

There is just enough hard wheat in LILY WHITE to make it
the ideal all-around flour.

It is guaranteed to give per-. 2.

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The potato market is in about the
same condition it was a week ago.
Consumers at Detroit are not buying
quite an plentiful as last week but
the market is steady and receipts are
only our. Chicago prices have drop-
ped slightly and Pittsburg has higher
prices but New York continues at ,
Last week’s price. Reports .01 the
growing crop are tavomble.

but some difficulties promise to ac-.
company the marketing of the sees-
,on’s crop,” says the Chicago Dazly
Drovers Journal. “Under govern-
ment control the wheat market was
pure'iy artificial, andtatmnrn to i: . - .
natural movement 0 cereal - . , ‘ ‘.
accompanied by credit and transpor- weekly Trade and Mark 81 Renew

“don difficulties, the results of which _ . .

mart}? begfidoage a quite general THE CAR simrtage mtu'. ation continues erihea' l with the possibly
and 1935.1 conclusion that, barring' - slight improvement resulting from the movement of box cars to
lfifiesprma cm? damtge mu the western roads under the order 01. the In - be 00 area .C C [m ‘S- [No.1 Wtcamflndlo.2m
now and thmhinghndthgu wfifnbg aion whereby 19,800 cars were to'be delivered to the Western hues. MI. 9“,,“ .. ,uu‘au‘”fl @3118.“ a
dgfinfigfd Eggnbleerronowed by a (sub- Mailbox], President of the American Railroad Association states that Wt... 'gfigga‘mngsmu
stantial advance early next year. 10,280 cars have how received by the_Westem roads Pm? 6,223 cars are PM u. -fl“ 1:3.‘1‘23: “:39 z a“
551161! Wheat is and milS’t be MTket" “1 tI'aIISlt. Regardlng OBIS fit for 31119ng 13qu gram ll], Mr. AIShtOD Ill-lchtm.1clovomu.l clover

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1““ be large this 3'8”“ “‘9 Arm‘ €13 say there will be plenty of money to loan the farmers during this nan-on ..fia’ifieflfé {5.12.3231
lingwmlug’ 8.31”“ e’fhau’s?’ Afi‘ period, but it doesn’t Show up very fast; in fact, within the last week $10803“. '13.“;23 £3; 15$333§31u°°®m
11:11:32; 11331153395213” will: 1in 01' two banks, b01311 country and City, have refused to loan money on the ”mum '.m.50021I1-¢:oo@32'l
Europe, France and’Roumania have new crop of wheat. Credit, during the summer, is a necessity, With at

good crops, there will be a place‘ for least 75 per cent of the farmers and if they cannot get it they have to
every buSh-el Of the 250’000’000 ”-313 cut PTGdfl'I'BfiOID3 which muses a food shortage. So it is up to the bank-
flb‘lugllt tn: coorllntdgxlnayyeEfvihadfgll 9115 to help the producer-of fOOdStUfi if they Wish to keep this country
at‘heB relic oi?F foreign excha’nge will PI‘OSPGI‘OUS and aVOld anythmg that resembles a panic,
continue to be a factor in export
trade. If these reports are correct.
the position of wheat is strong, a con-
dition that should be reflected in
prices when the movement of wheat _
is no longer hampered by ovorladen son [or these drops. The 1919 sur-
markets and overworked ”“12“?- plus is practically all gone in the the switchmen’s strike, and when an since June 1 there have been ample

”Readers are warned that thlS 1s United States; in factksome oats the embargoes were lifted, the beans rains, the July 1 estimate should
“Ct a prediction, but Simply a state- have had to be imported from Can- flocked in in large numbers. The show improvement in both condition
ment or conditions as they Prom?“ ads. to help care for the needs her-e. decline in grain prices had some ef- ”Id yield and confirm to expectation
to affect the price 0f wheat during And reports from the country, until feet on bean prices, though they have Of the present that an enormous hay
the coming months", ~ the 1"“ few 'days, show the 1920 held up remarkably well under the "09 will be realized this year.,

The wheat market at_Detrmt i“ crop of oats in an unfavorable con- circumstances. Hot weather always
inactive but at other 130th shows dition. causes a cessation of demand for
advancing tendency due to increased beans,- Iresh vegetables largely tak-
export buying and unfavorable re- ing their place.
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There are comparatively few in the
hay trade who quite realize the sig-
nificance of the government’s June
1 estimate forecasting the tonnage
of hay on the present crop. The con-

_ _ \ _ _ . . dition is given at 88.9 er cent 1
Prices 1n all grains excepting wheat has dropped. It IS believed a. forecaster! yield of p112,000?o;ltl

that prices will continue downward up until about the first of January, “Ilsa and inasmuch as last year’s
after that prices are expected to turn and advance again. ' wndmon 0” like same date was 94

per cent and m the past nine years
_ only once has the condition been low-
"Sllpply centers stocked up during 91' than at present, and inasmuch as

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. _ “Acrea eshave about come "There is'less of pessimism in the

country. M1-11ers are good buyers 1n BEAN PRICES PER cw1.. JULY 6. 1920 . previous gforecasts. Michigan IDWitfi air, although the market is still er-

the western markets. am. IE);}I‘OI$ lChlcagoll N45); come nearer 100 per cent than was ratio and quotations are hardly more

.——_— ‘fiedILK-‘lpl .s...:.; .25 £111.33 “:25: anticipated. New York, too, will than nominal. Some trading in fine

CORN‘IDWER 'anIfi-oh§*\r_g£n:udo plant more beans than last year, Australian has been done, but for

‘ ’ ' Grade :lOetrolt IowE-Ignl n. v. though not up to the mark of two the most part the market has been
egg—PRICE?Pf:tB:"-'~gluil‘y6d,aiulg,2’9- c. H- P- ------ .l 7-25 l | years ago. Good weather conditions rather dull. '

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dicate any marked volume of busi-
ness. Some cnsignments are report-
ed and here and there sales at un-

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sure a ood cro .”—The Bean Ba .
“Things have been more quiet in g p g

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”“‘ "Grade qutron’lcnicago THEY? of June than for a long time previ- RYE DROPS changed rates.

.' ,II ".7 1.88 I {2.05 1 , . ' i ' _ - . _ ”l . . - 1‘ '
33‘ 3 $2113 ...1 1.92 I ”GI/2| cos y Many oumons have been ex _ Rye has contlnued downward dul‘ Further cu1ta11ments 1n the null
rm 4 Venow ”A, 1.90 I I messed concerning the cause for the mg the last week but IS actlve and

 

schedules is announced.”

Ohio and Pennsylvania fleeces.—
~De1aine, unwashed, 70@72c; fine un-
washed, 620; 1—2 blood combing, 70
@700; 3—8 blood combing, 53 @550.

Michigan and New York fleeces.—
Fine unwashed, 58@60c; delaine un-
washed, 68c bid; 1-2 blood, unwash-
ed, 67@680; 3~8blood, unwashed,
53@54c.

Wisconsin, Missouri and average
then another rise in temperature. ’The New England—L2 blond” 60@630;

dreaded hot winds are feared while 3‘3 blood, 5013525: 1‘4 bioodr “SQ
this great hot wave is crossing com- 470. ‘

tinent about middle of July. ' Hot - - - - ..1 __ _ '

winds at that time in the great cent- Virginia. and 33131.3.1‘ 1; 2 blood

ral valleys would be dangerous to unwaShEdr 709 bun 1',‘ ’flOOd‘ un‘

corn and northern late oats, There washed1 50®52IL

is no remedy against these destmet- Secured basis: Texas—Fine 12
months, $1-60@1.65; fine 8 months

, ' slackening of demand and probably firm on the Detroit market at $2.15
Corn has lost the strength it each reason given has had something for No. 2. Export demand is good
showed on the market last week. The to do with it. in this grain.
prices on the Detroit market declin—
ed 1'3c. The main reason for the
weakening of corn was that the
price was too high. It was shutting
off many uses of the grain, the fore—
most one being feed for hogs. Corn
was so high and hogs were so low
that the latter could not be fed on
the former at a profit. This is shown ., . 1 "
by the active selling of hogs. Many 001
com using industries had to stop
using the grain owing to the high
price and this reduced the demand
to a great extent.

 

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THE WEATHER FOR THE WEEK‘
As Forecasted by W. ‘1‘. Foster for The Michigan Business Farmer

followed by other disturbances, wind—
ing up With unusually cool weather
that will cross continent, reaching
meridian 90 near July 25, followed by
cool weather to end of month and

 

Fonda WutthH-n for July 1920

  

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OATS CONTINUES DO‘VN‘VARD gently with our great corn and oats

 

 
   
 
 
 
 
   
   
  
     
  

OAT PIICES PER BU., JULY 8. 1920

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grade lbetroit lelcagol N. Y.

No. 2 White ...l1.16 [1.08'/;|

No. B White ...l1.15 I 1.07 I

No. a I'v'hlte .. .I 1.14 | 1'00--.
:PRICES ONE YEAR AGO __
Grade lDetrolt [Chicaool hi. Y.

. stamhrd ....... I
No. I White ...I .72'/a .72'/2
No. I White . . .l .72 .71 V21

 

   

Oat prices are following the trend

'. ofcorn. There was several drops in
-the Detroit market during the‘past
Week, the total of uii amounted to 91:.
We one unable to understand the res.-

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couver, 'B, 0., near July 13, 19, 27,
Aug. 2 and' temperatures will rise on
all the Pacific slope. They will cross
crest of Rockies by close of July 14
20, 28, Aug. 3; plains sections 15, 21,
29, Aug. 4; meridian 90, upper great
lakes, Ohio—Tennessee and lower Mis-
sissippi valleys 16, 22, 30, Aug.‘ 5;
10m great lakes and eastern sec-
tions 17 23, 31, Aug_ 6. reaching vi-
cfin’i‘ty of Newfoundlz‘ ""1 about 18, 24,
Aug. 1, 7. Storm \ ves will follow
about one day behind warm waves,
cool waves about one day behind the
storm waves. . ' I
During first week of this weather
period a. great high temperature
wave will moss continent and viii be

 

producing sections.
I also have fears of destructive
hails during the weeks centering on

Aug. 11 and 25. These hail storms-

can not be definitely'located but they
will probably occur between longi-
tudes 80 and 100 and between lati-
tudes 40 and 50. I am only point-
ing out the danger dates, _ There is
not enough known about these de-
structive weather events to enable me
to make positive forecasts otthcm.’

 

 

$1.45 bid.

California—Northern, $1.55,; mid-
dle counties, $1.55; southern $1.30
(131.35. ,

Dragoon—Eastern No. 1 stap‘e,
$1.65 @110; custom clothing, $1.54!;
valley No. 1 $1.55@1.60.

Territory—Fine staple, $1.70; L2
blood combing, $1.50; ‘3-8 blood
combing. $1691.05: fine medium
clothing, 51.45 @151). '

Pullod—--Deluine, $1.70: AA, $1.50
@1135; Asupers, 31.30%}.40. ‘ . _

 

 

 

   

   

Linens—Rest combing. 5318560;

 

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' noting in oil stocks.

encumbrance: compared
best man, sown

 

kind of more; choice corn ted hutch-
ecr stock,” 60@75c lower; others 31
01.50 lower. KNOW, 256654:
lower than yesterday‘s arm-age: bulk

light mid light butchers, Hesse:
‘ 1535;11qu 250 lbs. and over, 313.25

015.10. Sheep—Bulk ' direct to
packers; few sales Steady. ‘
EAST BUFFALO.——Cattle: Slow.

Calves: 31 lower; $6©16. Hogs--
25c lower; heavy, $16@16.25; mix-
ed, $16.50@16.75; Yorkers, $16.65
@16.75; light Yorkers, 315.506
16.50; pigs, 515601615: roughe,
$18; stage, $8@10. Sheep and
lambs—Slow; lambs 50c lower;
lambs, $8@16.50; other unchanged.

 

DETROIT PRODUCE MARKET
Buyers .are active in the market

' for all kinds of dairy products. Re-

are large and every—
thing is easily disposed oi to either
consumers at packers. The market
holds- its firmness. but eggs are only
steady. Receipts are large and re—
guire careful handling, as the
weather is pretty hot tor shipping.
Dressed calves are suffering also
owing to the weather. Many dam-
aged ones arrive only to be condemn-
ed as unfit for food and a. greatdeal
ot‘loss results, chiefly because ship—
pers do not use enough ice. Hogs are
steady. Buyers are actively taking
the best hens and broilers, but the
market has been receiving a large
percentage of small broilers for which
there 'is little demand and an easy
market is quoted. Fruits and veg-
etables are firm. Strawberries are
not in good supply and shipments
show the nearing of the finish of the
There is nothing to take the

ceipts of butter

season.
place at the strawberries, as receipts
of other varieties are not large

enough to make a market and prices
are very high. Receipts of vegetables
are small also and buyers have
trouble satisiying their needs. Pric-
es are sustAined in nearly all lines.
Apples—New, $4@4.50 per hamp—
er; western, boxes, $5.50@5.
Strawberries—Home grown, $8‘@
8.50 per 2.4-quart case; shipped in,
$667 per bu.
Cherriese$ 5 @6 per 2 tequart
case for sour and $3.25@3.50 per

leequart case for sweet.

Dressed hogs—Light, 19 @20c;
heavy, 17@18c per lb. '
. Dressed calves—~Best, 21 @ZZ‘c;
ordinary, 17 @ 20¢ per lb.
Live Poultry—Broilers, 6 0 @ 6'5 ;
Leghorn broilers, 48@55c; hens, 36

@370; small hens, 34@350; roost-
ers, 220; geese, 20@22; ducks, 32
035:3: turkeys, 3864M per lb. '

Hides—No. 1 cured calf, 28c; No.
1 green. call, 25c; N0. 1 cured kip,
20c: No. 1 green kip, 18c; No. 1. cur-
ed; hides, 16c: No. 1 green hides,
13c; No. 1 green bulls, 10c; No. 2
cured bulls, 13c: No. 1 horsehides,
$7; No. 2, horsehides, $6. Tallow:
No. 1, 8c; N0. 2, 6c. Sheep pelts, 25c
@250; No. 2 hides 1c. and No. 2 kip
and call, 1 1-2c off.

 

NATIONAL FARM BUREAU REP-
RESENTATIVES TO COME To
MICHIGAN
The President.and Secretaries oi
eleven middle west Farm Bureau
Federations meeting at Ames, Iowa,
June 22nd and 23rd, started an in-
vestigation to find out how to cor—
rect the evils of heavy gluts, sharp
fluctuations of prices and the total
inability of the producer to drive a
bargain for the products of his years
work. Each state will send a repre-
sentative to a meeting of the Can
adian Council of Agriculture in Win-
nipeg, July 13th, to study the work
of the United Grain Growers. The
next step will be a meeting of all
state organizations of farmers inter-
ested in grain marketing. J. R. How-
ard, President of the American Farm
Bureau Federation, has been asked
to call this meeting. The State Fed—
erations will then meet again on

July 28th at Lansing, Michigan.

 

. FARMER PLAYS AT GREAT ODDS

It may be the great and constant—
gamble with bugs, weather and mor-
kets is one of the things that makes
farming so fascinating. The general
public does not realize that agricul—
fipro is just about as certain as spec-
. Observe these
Memo doubt the statement it you

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ampofwhent. ‘ - ’
'Potcto yield my be reduced from
25 to 50 per-cent by a short dry

 
 

spell. ,.
One cold rain. can ruin an apple
crop.

One hot, muggy day my entire-
ly spoil a crop oi beans.

And to these features must he
added the fact that countless insects
are at constant war with the farmer
and that, after he has brought his
crop through all these dangers, he

has practically nothing to say about _

the fiices hE-g'ctsr—The'Nation’s Bus-
iness. ' ,.

 

MANY GROWING SORG‘HUM

A marked increase in the produc-
tion of sorghum syrup is indicated
by reports received by the United
States Department of Agriculture,
which has been. engaged in a special
campaign to induce greater produc-
tion of. thhi crop because of the keen
demand for sugar substitutes. At
the beginning of the World War the
annual yield of sorghum syrup in the
United States was approximately 13,-
009,000 gallons. This his increased
steadily until for the past year it
was approximately 30,000,000 gal-
lons. The average. yield of syrup per
acre has been about 100 gallons, but
the fact that this figure can be in-
creased is indicated by the depart-
ments experiments in which more
than 400 gallons per acre have been
produced. in some localities.

In urging increased plantings to
sorghum the department’s experts
point out that despite the increasing
yields the demand is still greater than
the supply, as shown by the price- for
syrup, which has ranged tram 90
cents to $1.50 per gallon, and in a
few cases even higher. .

T Crop Reports

W.)-—Most of the
farmers are cultivating. Some have be-

haying. The planting is done. It is
fine growing weather for crops. Just
rain enough to-kecp thing, growing. The
farmers are selling some poultry and live
stock. There is no building done but
some repair W0 The following prices
were offered at Lakeview: Cucumbers,
$3 cwt..', hens, 20c; butter 556; butter-
£31: 57c; eggs, 36c; wool, 20%: him—G, .

 

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OAKLAND (N)——We are having a fine
growing time. Corn and potatoes are all}
planted Com is making a good growth.
Oats and barley doing dine. Wheat is
turning color, Most of us have started
haying Which We finfl lebette!‘ than ex-
pected. Stock of all kinds are domg well.
Most all the wool is handled by Farm
Bureau. Not much building being done
on farms. Dr. C. S. Sutherland is build-

Hay was all cleaned
up this spring and so was most every—
thing else in the feed line—LEE

 

SHIAWASSEFr-The rain of last week
was the saving of all farm craps and
also enabled many farmers to plant their
bean crop. Farmers. as a. rule did not
care to risk high priced seed in the ex-
tremely dry soil. Spring crops in this
section is now making a good showing.
in coming up, but now is.
showing a good stand. Early potatoes
are doing well and late ones are Gaming
on very good, Prices on farm produce
has not changed to any extent for the
past two weeks except potatoes. getting
higher in price every week. Owing to
the early drought, hay is a veryr light
crop and the rain came too late to make
much improvement in the growth and
many farmers. are now cutting grass
it is not making any gain in either qua--
ity or quantity. Wheat is coming on
well and promises to be a very fair crop,
although, the yield will be far below
normal, but seems to be of good quality.
Oats are light but are making good gains
since the ruins of a week ago—D. H. M-

 

SANILAC (C)——Are having some nice
Weather for the growing crops. The crops
in Custer are looking fine. Hay and oats
and there are some pieces of
when looking good and some not. Have
had nice showers of: rain, just.
enough to keep crops wins. .
sane nice pieces 01 com and beams. there
were quit a lot of beans sowed and most.
of them are looking good- There were
not many'acres of sugar
Custer this year. There ’was chickory
sown, there are some very good stands of
chickory and there has been some pieces
torn up and planted to beans The Town-
ship of (luster is building another mile
of gravel read. one and one—half miles
west of McGregor. Everybody is busy
getting ready for haying such as doing
cultivating , Prices
altered at Sandusky are: Wheat $2.70;

Buckwheat, $2.50 0 ft; Oats, $1.07; Rye
3.09.; B - '

$2.01; Barley, $ .

«nary. 324.80; Beet steers, 9c lb; Beer
3215; OInverseed, $20.00; Alsike $20.00;
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‘ eluding 10 acres corn,

_ clay loam—easy terms.

KRAUTH. Millersburg, Mich. .

LAGHAN dz. CARROW LAND 00., Reed City,
Mich. . .

FOR SALE—231 ACRE FARM BARRY
. County, new house, tenant house, two basement
barns, cement silo, garage, etc. Price, 855 per
acre. Address. WAYNE E. GAY, R 2, Clover-
dale. Mich.

FINE FARM FOR SALE CHEAP. EIGHTY

Ex Hi:

_ mum size-.socepted,.2o words. To ~_‘in-

in this low rate. we are compelled to eliminate
el bookkeeping. Therefore, our. . rms on 9”?"
fled advertising .are cash - n..:' with order.
Count as o'nofg'word each Initial and‘iechvg'oup
0' Murat. .bcth' lntthe body otthe ad and in the
address. There» is 5 cents (Word for each is-
sue. regardless of number of timered runs. There
e no discount. Copy must reach us by Wednes-
day of preceding week. You will help us con-

tinue our low rate by making your remittance

.“MNY Hahn—Address. Michigan Business Farm-
Ol‘. Adv. Dep't. Mt. Clemens, Michigan.

gums A muses

174 ACRES $6.800 WITH CROPS, HORSES.
14 cattle and machinery, tools. growing crops in-
80 acres cats 27 acres
hay 1-2 acres potatoes, 3 1-2 acres buck-
wheat, 7 1-2 acres alfalfa: near markets bill
cities; machine-worked fields, spring-watered past-
ure, valuable wood, apples, cherries; 9-room house,
maple shade, 2 barns, silo, 2 poultry houses: re-
tiring owner includes all at. only _ 00. may
terms. Details 'page 31 Strout’s Big Illustrated
Catalog Farm Bargains 33 S te. Copy free.
gTROUT FARM AGENCY, 814 BE, Ford Bldg.,

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120 ALL IMPROVED EXTRA BUILDINGS.
$150 A. Stock, tools. crops, terms. Immedi-
ate possession. write GLEN PINCH, Eaton Rap-
ids, Mich, R 5.

HARDWOOD LAND, RICH
$12.50 to $15.00 an
roads, schools. Four to five
Never failing clover

JOHN G.

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acre. Neighbors.
miles from Millersburs.

seed will make your payments.

 

FOR SALE—CHOICE UNIMPROVED FARM
lands in Thumb District of Michigan. Near rail-
roads and good markets. Buy direct from owner

 

and get better land for less money. ALBERT
HEATH, Harbor Springs, Michigan.
CALIFORNIA FARMS FOR SALE. WRITE

for list

IMPROVED FARMS FOR SALE—OSCEOLA
and adjoining counties Offer great opportunities
for the farmer. Productive soil, fine climate,
good roads and best of schools, farmers well _or-
ganized, three branches of Gleaner Clearing
House, everything to make life worth living and
iivig easy to ma e. Let us send our descriptive
booklet of the wonderful country, and tell you
of the great bargains we have to ofler. CAL-

E. R. WAITE, Shawnee, Aklahoma.

 

 

acres. Forty two in crops. Buildings and fences
good. FRED E. SCHERZER. Rhodes. Mich.

gagISCELLANEOUm

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

 

WANTED—FOREMAN FOR LARGE FARM.
Rent and living free. Salary 81,200 per year.
MICHIGAN STATE PRISON. Jackson, Mich.

 

10-20 TRACTOR IN
Reason for selling. Want
OHAFFEE, Fentou, Mich.

FOR SALE—CASE
good condition 8500.
larger tractor. RAY

Is Your Farm for Sale?

Write out a plain description and fig-
ure 50 for each word, initial or group of
figures. Send it in for one, two or three
times. There's no cheaper or better way
of selling 3 farm in Michigan and you
deal direct with the _buyer. No agents or
commissions. If you want to sell or trade
your farm, send in your ad today. Don’t
Just talk about It. Our Business Farm-
ers' Exchange gets results. Address
The Michigan Business Farmer. Adv,
Dept., Mt. Clemens.

 

 

RESULTS! ‘

April 6. 1920

 
 
    
 
   
  
 
   
   
 
  
    

 

Michigan Business Farmer,
Mt. Clemens, Mich.

Gentlemen: -— Enclosed please
find check for $14.60, the sum due
for 13 weeks' chicken ad and ‘one
week strawberry ad. If we need
any more ads we will let you
know later.

Your ads surely bring business.
We're all sold out for April and
May. Yours is the best paper for
Michigan farmers that there is in
the state. Continue inthe same
good way and you will have the
support of every bona fide, farmer.

Cordially yours,
C. W. HEIMBACH.

Route 5, Big Rapids, Mich.

M. B. F. bringsthem

 

 

  

 

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this department.

PROPERTY BEBONGS T0 WIFE

‘ .A man and woman are married holding
a. joint deed. The man dies thereby leav~
ing the property to the woman; She
marries again without having the ‘deed
changed. She later dies. Can her hus-
band claim her property? How do the
children of her first husband stand in re-
gard to the property? Can the children
of the second husbandclaim it?—-—M. A.
S. Osceola. County,

 

Upon the death of the first bus-
band the property became absolute-
ly the property of the wife the sur-
vivor, if it had been deeded to
them as husband and wife. There
was no needlo change the title deed.
It washers the same, as it would
have been had it been deeded to her
direct. Upon marriage the second
time the title was not changed from
sole ownership in the wife. Upon
her‘death it becomes the property of
her children. If she left no children
but had parents, or brothers and sis-
ters, then one half would deScend to
her husband and the other half to
her parents, first and if they were
dead than to her brothers and sist»
era. The children of the first hus-
band are strangers to the inheritance
unless they are her children also. The
children of the second husband stand
in the same relation, they are strang-
ers to the inheritance unless they are
her own children also—W. E. Brown,
legal editor. ‘

 

KILLING MILKVVEEDS
How can I get rid of milkweeds on
land of a sandy nature?—Troy Fruit
Farm, Oceans. County. ‘

 

Clean cultivation and frequent go-
ing over with a well sharpened hoe
is the most effective method of con-
trolling mllkweeds. After a good
soaking rain the plants pull easily
and when pulled are not likely to
send up shoots again. In killing
milkweeds the keeping back of top
growth will starve out the large part
of the plant under ground. This
post is a serious one and spreads
rapidly, hence extra expense of cul-
tivation is warranted in controlling.
Seeding down fields infested with
mllkweed to alfalfa will usually erad-
icate them in several years.—
J. F. 00x, Professor of Farm Crops,
M. A. 0. ‘

 

PASTE NAME ON VOTER’S TICKET

I would like to have the law referring
to a person running on a slip for High-
way Commissioner. Can he put the
slips in the booth?. As I understand it
he has got to distribute his slips 100
feet from the voting polls—A Reader
Elmira, Mich.

 

The statute provides for the use of
slips when a candidate dies, resigns
or for any cause there is a vacancy on
the ticket, and the committee certl-.
fies another name to fill the vacancy.
In this case the inspectors themselv-
es shouid paste the slip on the tick-
et before the ticket is handed to the
voter. If one is running as an inde-
pendent candidate and was not reg-J
ularly nominated he must do his
jelectioneering 100 feet from -the

booth but I can see no legal objec-

tions to his furnishing the inspectors
with slips to be used by the voter or
to be placed in the booth for the use
of the voter. If it is ultimately the
voters choice that determines wheth-
er the slip shall be used—W. E.
Brown, legal editor. . .

ESTATE GOES TO SURVIVOR

How woum law divide , rop‘erty
under the ing conditions Hus-
band and wife and two children. Bought
a place on joint. contract, art of the
cows bought on a note signe by both of
us, part on note signed 1ust by husband.
Some of horses bought with money re-
ceived as payments on another . place
owned jointly some are on,notes sign-
ed Just by husband. What bank account
we have is in both nestles. My husband
intends I should have all free and clear
in case of his death, but says he doesn’t
think it is necessary to make a. will. Is
it?—-—X. Y. Z., Isabella County.

If the real estate was purchased by
deed or contract in the name of bus-
band and,wlfe, in case of death of
either “ whole real estate wuld
go to i‘; :xrvivor. If the personal
was intended to be owned jointly,

 

.then, in caseof death of either, the

survivor would own half of the per}-

 

 

 

 

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long to the estate ofthe other. If

semisolid.- tarnien' every uni-trouble}
e are. here to serve you. B’ubroribere desiriiig

     
 
  
      
 

   

 
 
  

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experunei some __ 1

 

the Oporsonal was conveyed‘to‘the' hus-'

' band and Wife by conveyance to them .

as husband and 'wife and-also to the
survivor then it wou-ld:go to the
. survivor. Otherwise the half 'of‘the
deceifiéd would descendas other per-
sonal property. Unless some spee-
ial evidence that it was arranged to
have the property owned by the two
then property that was purchased by
the husband alone and property pur-
chased by the husband’s note signed
by the wife would alsobelong to the
husband as, the wife is not liable on
a note she signed for her husband. »
Some conveyance, by will" or other-
wise, is necessary to give the wife
the whole title in case of his death.
——W. E. Brown, legal editor.

 

BIDDING GRASSHOPPERS FROM
UNFARMED LAND ~

Has the state power to go ahead and
rid the unfarmed land from grasshoppers
and charge the expense to the land own-
ers’I—Subscriber, Walkerville, Mich.\

 

We are not aware of any statute
covering the matter mentioned.—
Ooleman- 0. Vaughan, Sec’g of State.

 

SALE WAS FRAUD

I would like your advice in regard to
trouble We have. A bought 80 acres of
wild land for $1,600. A paid down on
said land 8600. A wa living on afore-
said land 6 years. Built little house
and small shed. but he can not make all
living on this land because the farm is
very poor and not worth‘ $900. A hired
seller and offered him $25 to help him
sell the bad place. So the hired man
found a buyer in Chicago and A wrote
two false letters to the buyer in Chicago,
tells him how nice place he is going to
have (40 acres of (aforesaid 80 acres)
good land, 20 -acres cleared, good new
ouse, big barn, for only $2,700 so the
buyer believed A and sent him $1,000
cash, then A sent contract to B, to be
So B did and moved from Chi-
cago to his new place, then B found
poor house, small shed in place of big
barn and but two acres cleared. B was
greatly dissatisfied and wanted money
back from A but Ah refused. He spent
B's money by pure asing adjoining 80
acres from bank of Standish for $4,050
and paying $1,000 cash which was the
money he got from B. Please answer
in our Michigan Business Farmer what
can be done with these and how,-—Sub-
scriber Standish, Mich. .

 

From your statement of facts I
would be of the opinion that the sale
was procured by fraud and that it
would be set aside and the money
ordered returned. However it is such
a matter that good personal counsel
should be obtained and full and com-
plete statement of facts submitted.
—W. E. Brown, legal editor.

 

NOT LIABLE FORv LOSS

I sold 4 tons of hay at my sale last
September to a. party. He ask'ed if he
could leave it in the barn until he had
time to draw it. I told grim that the
harms roofs leaked and it was at his
risk. He drew some in January, some in
May, and of course some of it rotted by
getting wet. Now do I have to stand for.
this rotten ha . It was 0. K. when I
sold it N ,, Manlstee County.

Under the statement of facts the
loss is the purchasers and you are not

' liable for the injury.——W. E. Brown,

legal editor. '

 

THE COLLECTION BOX

I wonder if you can help me with
an order as you have others. In
March _I sent to the W 00..
Philadelphia, Pa, for a 'skirt sent
0. O. D. I got the skirt all right

 

 

 

 

, the last of March but found it was

much larger than I ordered, so on
April 5th I returned it and wrote a

‘ card telling the reason I was return-

ing it. Since then I have written
them four letters but have receiyed

. no answer ;n‘ot even a, word toshow
* they had received the skirt.
.' $4.36 for the skirt with the C. 0., D.
. collections—Hrs. H. B.

I paid

lit, Warmes-
ww County. ‘ .. . 7

 

We got in touch with the company
and received word from them that
they had refunded our subscriber’s

.money. June ,19th we resolved the

following letter from her. -
' Gentlemen: I received a check
from the , . :00... Philadelphia.
yesterday. Thank you for your 11
in setting I' settlement tori ole;
Mrs If. ~

    
 
  

 

  
 
  

    

 

    

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have beg-ed and « '
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siege. ture'.

- They *are'goingxto vote to consolidate.
the, district schools of Hadley township
.Lapeer County to one school to e as
Hadley Village. Now the 801100
trict to which we-b'elong-is on the south.
'count ' line. but‘ln Hadley township, Lg.
peer ounty : but Iellve-on the other side
of road on in Oakland County. De I
"have a. vote. on this-question? -Will
have to help support this school? Shbuld
I not have a vote?—-A. F. 8:. Oakland
County. , . ‘
——-——-—:.-C. .

I am of the opinion that if the elec-
tion ls~held under Act 117 of the_P.
A., 1909, for the organization _ of
township school districts which ap-
pears to the'purpose'as indicated in
the letter, that you are a legal voter
at the election if you ' meet all the
qualifications of an lector, being a
citizen, owner of operty, etc. The
act contains the following: “Pro-
vided, that if in such township, or
as a part of such township, there are
fractional schoolfdilstricts already
organized, the school house of which

is within the boundaries of the town- :
ship, such fractional school district .

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shall be considered a part of the ,

township for school purposes,

where in such fractional school dis-

trict shall be qualified to sign the I
petition for or vote upon the ques-

tion of the organization of the town- :
legal 5

ship district.”—W. E. Brown,
editor.

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WIFE GETS SHARE

My brother and I bought a. farm and 3 '

had a. Joint deed made. After we had
bought the farm my brother 0t mar-
r e .

the deed standing between him and I?—
J. W., Livingston County. . .

 

If the deed is to yourself and your
brother and no other designation or
limitation is made therein then each
owns an undivided half. If he should
die without children his wife would
inherit Ono halfgand 'you andyou‘r
brothers and ,_sisters, .or' their child-
ren if any are deceased, "Would in-
herit the other half of his share. You
would still own your original half.
You could. ask for partition at any
time. In case of trouble between he
and his wife the judge would have a
right to dispose of his interest as his
judgment determines—W. E. Brown, 1
legal editor. ‘

 

ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF DEEDS,
MORTGAGES FOB‘ SALE BINDING .

Is my acknowledgment of deeds, mort-
gages or contract for sale of real es-
tate binding to either party without the
notary seal? I have in mind parties
that have sold their farm and received
money down on contract to bind the
bargain until . deed and. possession was
give and acknowledged before a not-
ary Ibut has not his seal. Is it good?—
M. B.. Gratiot County.

.._...—.__.

 

The acknowledgment to legal doc-
uments certified to by a Notary Pub-
lic in Michigan are good in Michigan
without seal unless required for use
out of the state—W. E. Brown, legal
editor.

 

OWNER OF STOCK HOLDING

I own two farms some distance apart
drive cattle to and from on highway
Neighbors have no fence on highway. My.
cattle destro their crops on account of
no fence. Vgho shall stand the damage
if it be carried to the courts?—-Subscrib-
er, Montcalm County... i

As one is not bound, to build high-
way fences I am of‘thepplnlon that
one who uses it to drive cattle must
keep them within the highway and»
is liable for any damage donegont-r
side the highways? . E. Brown, le-

 

 

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HEP ANIMALS 0N PREMISES
I have a. neighbor; who raises a large I
flock of, turkeys every year which roam ‘ '

on my fuflILmIIOh—ot the time. dblngdanii-

fall apples.~ I

with this Amen

farm.but~ he

ye no Iattention. , is the state

aw? Can I force this man tokeep his

turkey on, from my form or not?
Reader: Osceola‘County.

.T one "who keeps < turkeys in was "
' Respzuth 1 MI rammi

   
   
 
 
 
 

  

and T
qualified school electors residing any- .

What could his wife clam if he ,
should die, or if he left her and gave her ‘

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their ideal: and backed by '
sin and childrenvall the in le_ Lost
Souls Were arching the air' 1111 with
feathered bolts from their bows.

A spearmen of the Queen tottered
into the apartment, his limbs spread-
ing vainly to -supp0rt him, his eyes
glazing, his lips beating a soundless
message which his fading life could
not utter, as he fell prone, his back
bristling with arrow shafts like a.
porcupine. Henry sprang to the
door that gave entrance from the
bridge, and, with his automatic, he
swept it clear of the charging Lost
Souls who could advance only in
single file and who fell as they ad-
vanced before his fire.

The siege of the frail house was
brief. Though Francis protected by
Henry’s automatic, destroyed the
bridge, by no method could the be-
sieged put out the blazing thatch of
roof ignited in a score of places by
the fire-arrows discharged under the
Sun Priest’s directions.

“There is but one way to escape,"
the Queen panted, on the platform ov—
erlooking the whirl of waters, as she
claspedone hand of Francis’ in hers
and threatened to precipitate herself
clingingly into his arms “It wins to
‘tlio world. ” She pointed to the suck—
ing heart of the whirlpool. “No one
has ever returned from that. In My
Mirror I have beheld them pass, dead
always, and out to the wider world.
Except for Torres. I have never
seen the living go. Only the dead.
)And they have never returned. Nor
has Torres returned."

All eyes looked to all eyes at sight
of the dreadfulness of the Way.

“There is no other way?” Henry
demanded, as he drew Leoncia close
to him.

The Queen shook her head. About
them already burning portions of the
thatch were falling, while their ears
were deafened by the blood—lust
chants of the Lost Souls on the lake
shore. The Queen disengaged her
hand from Francis’ with the evident
intention of dashing into her sleep—
ing room, then caught his hand and
led him in. As he stood wonderingly
beside her, she slammed down the
lid on the chest of jewels and fasten-
ed it. Next, she kicked aside the
floor matting and lifted a trap door
that opened down to the water. At
her indication, Francis dragged over
the chest and dropped it through.

“Even the Sun Priest does not
know that hiding place," she whis-
pered, ere she caught his hand again,
and, running, led him back to the
others on the platform.

“It is now time to depart from this
place,” she announced. “Hold me in
your arms, good Francis, husband
of mine, and lift me and leap with
inc,” she commanded. “We will lead
the way."

And so they leapt. As the roof
was crashing down in a wreath of
flame and flying embers, Henry
caught Leoncia to him, and spring
after into the whlr‘ of waters where-
in Francis and the Queen had already
disappeared.

Like Torres, the four fugitives es-
caped injury against the rocks and
were borne onward by the under-
ground river to the daylight open-
ing where the great splder~web
guarded the way. Henry had an
easier time of it, for Leoncia knew
how to swim. But Francis' swim—
ming prowess enabled him to keep
the Queen up. She obeyed him im—
plicitly, floating low in the water,
nor clutched at his arms nor acted
as a drag on him in any way. At
the ledge, all‘four drew out of the
water and rested. The two women
devoted themselves to wringing out
their hair. which had been flung
adrift all about them by the swirl-
ing currents.

“It is not the first mountain I ' ve
been in the heart of with you two,"
Leoncia laughed to the Morgans, al-
though more than for them was her

speech intended for the Queen.

' “It is the first tinie I have been in
the heart of a mountain with my
husband, " the Queen laughed back,

   
 
 
 
  
  
 
  

and the barb of her dart sank ”deep .

into Leoncia.
“Seems as though your wife, Fran-
cis, and my wife-techs aren’t going

_ to hit it off too well together," Henry

said, with the sharpness of censure
that man is wont to employ to con-
coal the. embarrassment caused by

 

 

   

 

his Womanklnd.
And "all inevitable result of such

 

,. on
and more embarrassing.

women almost enjoyed the situation.

'Francis cudgeled his brains vainly

for some remark that would amelior—
ate ma‘ttersy whileHenry, in desper-
ation, arosersuddenly with the obser-
vation that he was going to “er-
plore a bit, ” and invited, by his hand
out to help her to her feet, the Queen
to accompany him. Francis and
Leoncia sat on for a moment in
stubborn silence. He was the first.
to break it.

“For two cents I’d give
thorough shaking, Leoncia.”

“And what have I done now?" she
countered; '

“As if you didn't know.
been behaving abominably."

“It is you who have behaved abom-
inably,” she half—sobbed, in spite of
her determination to betray no such

you 11

You've

feminine signs of weakness. “Who
asked you to marry her You did
not draw the short straw. Yet you

must volunteer, must rush in where
even angels fear to tread? Did I
ask you to? Almost did my heart
stop beating when I heard you tell
Henry you would marry her. I
thought I was going to faint. You
had not even consulted me; yet it
was on my suggestion, in order to
save you from her, that the straws
were drawn—yes, and I am not too
little shameless to admit that it was
because I wanted to save you for my—
self. Henry does not love me as you
led me to believe you loved me. I
never loved Henry as I loved you, as
I do love you even now, God forgive
1118.1!

Francis was swept beyond himself.
He caught her and pressed her to
him in a crushing embrace.

“And on your very wedding day,"
she gasped reproachfully in the mid-
most of his embrace.

His arm died away from about her.

“And this from you, Leoncia, at
such a moment,” he murmured.

(Continued next week)

PACKERS‘ SIDE OF REGULATION
(Continued from page 7)
difficult for us to finance our busi-
ness, and will discourage the put-
ting of new capital into the industry.

3. To deprive the packers of their
refrigerator cars would increase the
difficulties and expense involved in
marketing perishable foodstuffs.

4. Intereference with large com-
plicated business on the part of the
government makes for INEFFICI-
ENCY, and hence higher expenses,

. which would undoubtedly result in

a greater spread between livestock
prices and dressed meats, causing
eitherrlower prices for live stock or

' higher prices for meats, or both.

5. The evils that the bills aim
to cure simply do not exist. There
is no monopoly; there are no unfair
trade practices; and the charges that
these things do exist are based on
the unfair report of the Federal
Trade Commission, which is unre-
liable as a basis for legislation.

Last year Swift & Company made
net earnings from all sources of $13,-
870,181.34 and handled over 16,—
000,000 meat animals, resulting in
an earning of less-than 87 cents per
head or 6 3-5 per cent of investment.
We believe livestock producers will
agree that such reasonable prefits do
not indicate necessity for further
legislative regulation.

This letter is written with the sole
purpose of presenting, in a fair man—
ner, some of the more important
facts regarding the proposed legis-
lation—Swift & 00., per 0. 0. Mat-
thies, Commercial Research Dept.

Facts are what we want. But the
“facts" of the packers do not agree with
the facts of the Federal Trade Commis-
sion. so we must draw our own conclu—
sion which of the two are more likely
to be correct and unlnfluenced by biased
motives. -—Edltor. _

 

HIS HEARING RESTORED
The invisible antiseptic ear drum in-
vented by Mr, A. 0. Leonard, which is in

reality a mln'ature megaphone, fitting in-,.

side' the ear and entirely out of sight is
restoring the hearing of literally hund-
reds of people in New York’ City. Mr.
Leonard invented. this remarkable drum
to relieve himself of deafness and head
noises, and it ‘does this so successfully
that no one could tell that he is a deaf
man. This car drum 'is eective when

deafness is caused by catarrh or by per-

ofrated,. partially or wholly destroyed
natural drums A request for informa-
tion addressed to A. 0. Leonard; Suite

84. 70 Fifth Avenue New York City, will

eb given a. prompt repiy. --'Adv.

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means genuine
Say “Bayer”—- lnslstl.

 

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Then you are sure of getting true “ ayer
Tablets of Aspirin’. —genuine Aspirin
proved safe by millions and prescribed by
physicians for over twenty years. Ac-
cept only an unbroken “Bayer package”
which contains proper directions to relieve
Headache, Toothache, Earache, Neuralgia,
Rheumatism, Colds and Pain. Hand tin
boxes of 12 tablets cost few cents g-
gists also sell larger “Bayer packages.”
Aspirm is trade mark of Bayer Manufac-
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Kills Fleas

Scatter Black Flag powder on floors,
under rugs, in bed clothes and 1n cloth-
. in to kill fleas. Blow into fur of dogs
an cats with wder gun. Kills by tuba-
lation. Bug: on ’I eat it—Ihey breathe it,
and die. Destroys flies. fleas, ants, mosqui-
toes, bedbugs, roaches, some moths, and
lice on animals, birds or plants. Harmle.‘
iFo pcu lo and animals. Look for the BLACK
nademultsud tbered- and- yellow wrapper. :‘
' At drug, department, grocery and hardware stores,
or dnect by mail on receipt of price. if
U. a. Gov t (Bulletin 771,Agr1'.Daét.) allow:
that 9713.: cantBamarBs he ugjnsect powder: r2371
IongeAn t1chbcl m the SEA ED
GLA SS TT’LBEG'C inure of' insect powder' ' a;
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(except west of aches.

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year with a
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Dept. 440 «Ming,
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$335.13.. SALE DATE” .

To avoid conflicting dates we will WILI’IOUE/
008i. list the date of any live stock sale in
Michigan. if you are considering a sale ad-
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for you. Address, Live Stock Editor, M. B-
F.. Mt. Clemens.
Aug. 6. Dame-Jerseys . O. F. Foster.
Pavilion, Mich.
Wesley Hile.

Oct. 26, Poland Chinas.
Tonia. Mich.

Oct. 27, Poland China. Boone—Hill Co.,
Blanchard, Mich. . .

Oct. 28, Poland (‘hinas Clyde Fisher and
E R. Leonard, St. Louis, Mich.

Oct. 29. Poland Chinas. Chas. \Vetzel &
Sons, Ithaca, Mich. ‘

Oct. 30. Poland Chivas.
Sons. Elsie. Mich.

Brewbaker &

HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN '

HR MILK PRODUOER

Your problem is more MILK. more BUTTER,

more PROFIT. per cow.

son of Mapkcrest Application Pontiac—
lB2652—Irom our heavy~yearly-milkIDg-lood-buto
tor-record dam will solve it.

Maplecrest Application Pontiac's dam made
85,103 lbs. butter in 7 days; 1344.3 lbs. butter
and 23421.2 lbs. milk in 365 days.

9 is one of the greatest long distance sires.

His daughters and sons will prove it.

Write us for pedigree and prices on his sons.

Prices right and. not too high for the average
dairy farmer.

grees and prices on applies 0 .

LI
R. Bruce McPherson. Howell], Mich.

BUTTER BOY ROSIIA PRIIIOE

257572. herd sire. son of King On. His sire
Is from a 30 1b. cow that made 1,345 lbs. in
one year and dam, Butter Boy Rosina 2nd 200.
640. made 29‘ lbs. and almost 800 lb. in ten
months, she has a 33 and 34 lb. sister. Have
some fine young bulls and heifers and some heif-
crs bred to him, all from A. cows with
records from 22 to 30 lbs. Write for prices.

Hampshire boss. {all boars, ready for service
and gilts. Booking orders for spring pigs.

Belgian and Percheron Stallions and mares. Im-
ported and American bred.

SAGINAW VALLEY STOCK FARM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ell Sprungsr a Son. Props., Saginaw w. 8.. Mich

 

 

BABY BULLS

Grow your own next herd sire. We have
three beautiful youngsters—straight as a line.
big-boned rugged fellows. They are all by
our 38 11). senior sire. KING KORNDYKE
ORISKANY PONTIAC from splendid Indi-
vidual dams of A. ll. backing and the best
of blood lines.

Write for our sale list.

BOARDHAII FARMS

JACKSON, MIOH.
. Holstein Breeders Since

F OR SALE

5 HEIFER CALVES
age from 2 to 8 months
3 BULL CALVES
one ready for heavy service
7 c S

1906

 

 

 

 

two with 18 and 20 lb.
with good profitable cow
for pedigrees and prices.

Five
Write ‘

seven day records.
testing records.

licrd free from disease.
H . BROWN. Breedsvllle, Mich.
lirccdcr of Reg. stock only

 

 

MUSOLFP BROS.’ HOLSTEINS

We are now booking orders for
young bulls from King l’iclpr See‘s
Lyons 170506. All from A. R. O, dams
with credible records. We test annu-
nlly for tuberculosis. Write for pric—
es and further information.
liluslofl' Bros.. South Lyons. Michigan

SOLD AGAIN

linll calf Inst ndvertiscd sold but have 2 more
that arc, mostly white. They are nice straight fel-
lows. sircd by :1 son 0g King 01121. One is from
a 17 ll). 2 yr. old dam and the other is from a
20 ll). 3 yr. old dam, she is by a son of

.lr.
‘l-‘ricnd Ilcngcrvelzl De K0] Butter lioy. of
Mich..

 

 

 

 

one
the great hulls.

AMES HOPSON JR.. Owosso. R 2.
WOLVERINE STOCK FARM REPORTS GOOD

sales from their hcrd. We are, well pleased with
the culvcs from our .innior,llerd Sire "King Pon-
tiac Lunde Korndyke Segis” who is a son of
"King of the l'ontincs” from a daughter of Pon-
tiac. clothilde llc K01 2nd. A few bull calves for
sale. ’1‘. W. Sprugue, lt Battle Creek. Mich.

$ 125°00 no if born Nov. 23, 1 919;

Evenly marked. Two nearest dams average 22.5
Sircd by a son of Alcartra Pontiac Butter
Federal tested herd.

VOEPEL, Sebewalng, Mich.

FOR SALE

Four head registered Holstein heifers, coming

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TAKES A HOLSTEIN BULL

 

 

 

HATOHTHERD§

(State and Federal Tested)
YPSILANTI, MICE.

OFFERS YOURS SIRES

Yearlings and younger. out
of choice advanced reSISU‘Y
dams and King Korndyke A!“
tis Vale. Own dam 34.16 IbS-
butter in 7 days; average 2
nearest dams, 37.61, 6 near-
est 33.93, 20 nearest, 27.83-

 

 

 

 

Bulls From an Accredited Herd '

HILL CHEST FARMS, IUHSON, MICHIGAN
RISINGHURST JOHANNA ORMSBY DIMPLE
195063
born Nov. 25, 1915, is offered for sale. His Fire
I! by Julianna Concordia Champion 60575 (29
A. R. 0. daughters, two 30 lbs. 9 above 20 lbs.)
who Is by Colanth Johanna Champion 45374

. R. 0. daughters) a son of Colantha 4th's
Johanna, 35.22. the only cow to ever hold at one
time 11 world’s records in every division from
one day to a year. His dam, Lindcnwood Dimple
2nd 139424, 27.33 lbs. butter, 465.30 lbs. milk,
average per cent {at 4.70, is by Duke Ormsby
Pietertje De Kol 44764 (10 A. R. 0. daughters.
2 above 30 lbs.) and out of Lindenwood Dimple
10-1601. She has 75 per cent the same breed<
fng as Lindcnwood Hope, 30.61. Write for price
and other information.

EDWARD B. “BENSON & SONS. Manson. Mich.
A NICE STRAIGHT LIGHT COLORED BULL

calf born February lat. Sirod by Flint Hen-
gerveld Lad, whose tw0 narest dune avenge
32.66 lbs. butter and 735.45 lbs. milk in 7 do a
Dam, a 4 lb. daughter of a son a! Pontiac
Nijlander 35.43 lbs. butter and 750 lbs. milk In
7 days. Write for prices and extended pedigree
to

L. c. KETZLER
Flint. Mich.

 

 

TIYO BULL OALYES'

Registered Holstein-Frieslan. sired by 99.8? lb.
bull and from heavy ng young. cows. Those

sold soon.

assay 1'. roses. Eiwali.
SHORTHORN

SHORTHORNS FROM A” ACCREDITED HERD
grandsons and granddaughters of Avondale
Maxwalton Jupiter 754193 heads our herd.

JOHN SCHMIDT G 80“. Bud City, Mich.

. SIIORTIIORIS

5bulis.4to8mos.old,ai.iroa pailtod.
Dams good miners. the farmers‘ kind. at farm-
ers’

F. I. PIOOOT'I’ A 80H. Fowler, Mich.
THE BARRY COUNTY snoRTHORI DRIED.
ere MM announce their (all sat: read:
for distribution Scotch. Scotch top and
Shot-thorns listed. Address-
'W.L.Thorpo.los..lliie.lloh.

THE WAR IUREN 00. SHORTIIOHN BREED-
ers' Anociationl have stock for sale. both milk
and beef breeding.
Write the secretary,
FRANK BAILEY. “Word. Mich.

FOR SALE—POLLED DURHAM BULLS AND
Oxford Down Rams.
A. DoGARMO. Muir. Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shorthorns at Farmers’ Prices

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

product
calves are very nice-and will be priced cheep II’

 

’ I m DIEM--
BARTLETTS 23.5. .ce LE also 0.10.
Swine are rig-ht angina are p rlght. corre-

spondence so 0" In
cARL nARTLET‘I’. Lawton. Mich.

 

 

GO’ERNSEYS

BUERNSEYS FOR SALE. 1 BULL. ST. A08-

tell Sultan. ro Longweter Prince Cbarmmt
(18714) 4 A. R. daughters, no Tb. fat at 2 1-2
years old. Dam. Dagna oi Bilihurst (85989) A.
R. 548 lb. fat at 2 1-2 yrs. old. 1 hull calf. 0
mos. all similar breeding. Also a few tine
Micro of the above bull. It will pay 10“ '0
investigate. ' and pedigree on amino-don.

Prices
MORGAN “108., R 1, Allan», Dish.

REGISTERED GUERNSEYS

ORDER YOUR BULL CALF NOW
for later shipment. Let me send you a real ped- .
lines of better reading.
J. M. WILLIAMS. North Adams. Mich.

 

 

 

JERSEYS

0
Highland Farm- Jerseys
Offers: Bulls oI serviceable age. of R. 0. M.
Sire and Dani’s, with high production records.
Also bull ails. Write for printed list of mice.
and description.
HIGHLAND FARM. Shelby. Mich" B 2.

r SH-u'sun calves. Oxford and la-
jeaty breeding. Dams are heavy producers.
J. L. CARTER. R4. Lake Odessa. Mich.

IPROVE YOUR JERSEY HERD WITH ONE

 

 

 

 

 

 

FOR SALE from a heavy producing dam.

W S. HUBER. Gimlu. Mich.

 

Ridge Herd of Bates Shorthorns 0f-

2

ch.

aplo
for: for sale a roan bull call 9 mos. old. Also
younger ones. J. E. TANSWELL’, Mason. Hi

 

or Sale. Milling Shorthorn Bulls from two to

in "vn n14. Denis riviw: 40 and 50 lbs. per

day. Yearly records kept. Herd tuberculin tater).
”is. H. EWER. R 10. Battle Creek. Mich.

 

The chances you take are all in
, your favour when buying a
Herd Site from us

We test every cow as she frmhens. Call
advertised some time ago for 8100 and sold.
his Grand Dam has since made over 30
of butter in 7 days, 98.5 lbs. of .milk
In one day. \Vhat is be worth today? The
place to buy your .Herd Sire is the

BAILEY STOCK FARM. Ypsilanti, Mich.

Fully Accredited Hard.

Address all correspondence to

JOHI BAILEY
. 319 Atln‘nson Ave.
DETROIT. MICHIGAN

 

 

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HAT DO YOU WANT?. I represent 41
‘HORTHORH breeders. Can put you in
touch will: best milk or beef strains. Bulls all

 

 

ages. Some females. 0. W. Crum. President
Central Michigan Shorthorn Association, Mc-
Brides. Michigan.

HEREFORDS

 

 

~ HEREFORDS
Cows with calves at side, open
or bred heifers of popular breed-
ing for sale.
Also bulls not related.

ALLEII BROTHERS

PAW PAW. HIGH.

 

 

 

 

36 pound son of‘KING OF THE
PONTIAC’S Heads our Herd

Several 30 pound cows all under Federal Sup-
ervision, good bull calves and a few bred heifers
for sale.

HILL CREST FARM, Ortonvllle,
or write

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

Mich.

 

OUR HERD SIRE

MODEL KING SEGIS GLISTA

His sire e. 30 lb. son of Lakeside King Segis
Alban De Kol.

His dam, Glisia Fenella. 32.37 lh.

Her dam, Glista Ernestine, 35.96 lb.

His three nearest dams average over 33 lbs.
and 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

Corey J. Spencer, Owner. Eaton Rapids, Mich.

BIG ROOK I'IOLSTEIIIS

Herd Headed by Johan Pauline De
Kol Lad 236554 .
a. son of Flint Hengerveld Lad
and Johan Pauline DeKol twice
30 lb. cow and dam of Pauline
DeNijlander (Mich. Champion
two years old.)
Bull calves from dams up to

 

 

 

 

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Hardy Northern Bred Hereford;

BERI‘IRPO FAIRFAX 824819 HEAD OF HERD

20 th... year’s calves for sale. 10 bulls and 10
heifers. .
JOHN MaoGREGOR. Harrisvliie. 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 STOCK FARM
Tony B.. Fox, Prop.
Marlon, Mich.

MEADOW BROOK HEREFORDS

 

 

 

Ilob Fairfax 495027 at head of herd. legis—
tered stock, either sex, polled or horned, mostly
any age. Come and look them over.

..EARL C. McOARTV. Bad Axe. Michigan..

120 HEREFORD STEERS. ALSO

know ,of 10 or 15 loads fancy quality
Shorthorn and Angus steers 5 to 1000 lba
Owners anxious to sell. Will help buy We
commission. C. F, Ball. Fairfleld. Iowa.

ANGUS

I The Most Profitable Kind

ear load of grade dairy heifers
from LENAWEE COUNTY'S heaviest milk pro-
ducers to include a pure bred ANGUS bull, of the
most extreme beef type Ior combination beef and
dairy farming. .

Car lot shipments assembler! at GLENWOOD
FARM idr prompt shipment.

 

 

 

of farming, a

 

 

 

 

 

FELIX WITT

coco-oases-

Business Farmer.

and they will repruent any reader of this
Write them in care of this paper.

 

8 years old. Also pair twin heifer calves.

.' M. MOORE, Brunswick. Mloh.

IVE HOLSTEIN BULLS UP TO 39 LBS.
breeding. lood producing clams. Priced to
sell. L. PRITCHARD a. SON. Elwell..Mlch.
REGISTERED HOLSTEIIS .35 7.5%:

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

weekly l

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28 pounds .Esisosm'ssmsmw
Roy E. Fickiesl Chesam'ng. Mich. s GEO. 3‘. sun". ”tint... u'i'on. '
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LIVE STOCK FIELD MEN »
E. N. 'BALL. Cattle onset-up

nsooocsael-a-eaeov

One or the other of the above well-known experts will visit all
importance in Michigan, northern Ohio and Indiana,

They are both honest and competent kflop of standing in their lines in Michigan
wee

Their service
arrange your sale, etc. l‘hey work exclusively In

Horns and Swine
live-stock sales of
as the exclusive Field Men of The Michigan

~e...-..-¢.-noccu-

at any sale, makrng bids and purchases ,
is free to you. They will also help you

 

 

FAIRVIEW FABB of our Majesty bulls.
|-', E. Boyd Alma. Michigan FRANK P. NORMIHGTON. Ionia, Mich.
summons 3"?“ $9.53 LE" AYRSHIRES
Wm. J. BELL, Bose OIL}. Mich. (
Clay Bred Shorthorn hull calf SPEGIAL S‘LE

neelsrrnnihvnsmnrs

Beginning June 12th., for 30 days we will sell
.bnlls lit for service for 3100. Bull calves and
heifer calves for S50.

FIIIDLAY BROS

V83”. I! 5, Mich.

SWINE

POLAND—ems

BIG BOB MASTODON

_ Sire was champion world. his Dani’s
sire was grand champion at Iowa state Fair. Get
9 grand champion while the getting is good. Book-
ing orders now. Bred gills are all sold. but have
10 chalice {all pigs sired by a Grandson of Dish-
er’s Giant. 3 boars and 7 sows. = Will sell open
or bred for Sept. farrovv, to BIG BOB.

C GARNANT, Eaton Rapids. Mich.

WONDERLAND HERD '

LARGE TYPE P. C.
A few. choice bred gilta for sale. Also fall gilts

 

     

 

and bars, some very. good D pact! of excellent
bre ng. Ilia bred to ORPHAN’S 8 EBIOB
be by BIG ORPHA UAL by BIG BONE
OR by e BIG ORPHAN. Dam,
BEAUTY CHOICE by ORANGE BUD, by BIG
ORANGE A.

Free livery to visitors.
Wm. J. CLARKE.
Eaten Rapids. Mich.
land Chinas.

WALNUT ALLEY GiIts all sold.

My 1920 crops will be sired by Giant Clansmsn
No. 324731, sired by Giant Clansman and Art's
Progress No. 377041.

A. D. GREGORY, Ionia, Mich.
HERE'S SOMETHING GOOD

THE LARGEST BIG TYPE P. C. IN MICH.

Get a bigger and better bred boar pig from my

herd, at a reasonable price. Come and see them.

Expenses paid if not as represented. These boars

in service: L's Big Orange, Lord Glansmsn,

()rangc‘fll’rice and L's Long Prospect.
. E.

LIVINGSTON. Parma. Mich.
BIG TYPE

Nine fall gilts
thirteen, for sale.
J. E. MYGRANTS, St. Johns, Mich.

BIG TYPE P. C. SOWS 0F CHOICE BREED-
ing. bred to Big Bone Bone Boulder No. 726.-
672 for Sept. farrow. Spring pigs either sex.
Healthy and growthy. Prices reasonable.

L. W. BARNES 8: SON. Byron, Mich.

L. T. P. C.

I have a fine ‘lot of spring gigs sired by Hart's

 

BIG TYPE PO~

 

 

POLAND CHINAS
WITH QUALITY
out of litters of eleven and

 

Black rice, 9. good son of lack Pn'ce. grand
champ on 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 Humdingers.
F. T. HART. St. Louis. Mich.

eever‘y, .. ,
' breeder——

Can use M. B. F.’s .-.,....;.
Breeders’ Directory.
to good advantage

What have YOU .

 

 

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FAIIEIEIJ. LAKE Hill

typsP.O.'Haveefls-elototqsdngplu
EYE-WW -. sums-um... .. cs
"g:.llata real sire. Hawflutpdn yes;-

749.
' boa t Jackson 00. hit. 1919.
h“ MP. ‘8. RAISDELL. m. lids.

BIG TYPE POLAIIISM

In introducing our herd we .0 ifer cho
’s Selle Bob and out of
IgoyYLOM Bilpcrha. 8w“ Wonder 3rd. and

Mo Ina.
W. OALOWELL A SON. W lids.

FOUR CHOICE SPRING AND [ALL
Lsp hcauleft. Alewextranlcegflte

m who". Emile-11.. sebum Mich.

'I'll ANNUAL P. O. IREO COW SALE,
6 M h 13 9.20 lhr m write
‘.I'?sz “AégLSHAWf Am Itch.

lo Type Poland China. Am adding "me boar
Bpiga at weaning time ct tea-enable price. Reg
istered fin buyleirs named gm‘hedby yBig Long Bob.
1 or pe grees an
Wrte MOBE BROS.. St. Charles. Mich.

:E:
E;

An Offering Large Type Poland China Sows.
I bred to F's Orange at reasonable prices. Also.

ll mu.‘ Writer) ca.li
h CLYDE FISHOERc R3. St. Louis. lids.

. T. P. 0. FOR SALE. SPRING PIGS. OF

both sex. filmed by Wiley's King Bob the Big
Smooth kind.
JOHN D. WILEY. Schoolmfl. Mich.

 

T. P. C. SOWS ALL SOLO. ORDERS
booked for boar pigs at weaning time from
Mich. champion herd. Visitors always welcome.
" E. R. LEONARD. R8. St. Louis. Mich.

Dumas

 

  

Spring pigs by Wait’s
Orion, First Sr. Yearling

Detroit, Jackson, as. Rapids and Saginaw 19“
Phillips Bros, Riga, Mich

scans. 11111111111-
Ib. boar.

 

 

DUROC JERSEYS. FALL
200 lbs. each. Sired by a 800
Priced reasonable.

C. E. DAVIS A SON. Ashley. lids.

PEACH HILL FARM Dunc sows and cuts sired
by Proud Principal. Romeo Cherry King Brook-
water Gold Stamp 7th and Rajah out at dams
by Limited Rajah and the Principal IV. Bred to
Peach Hill Orion King and Rajah Clserry CoL
INWOO OOD BROS Romeo Mich.

a. s

AH SELLIIG DUHOIIS
August 4th.

Get on mailing list for catalog.

W. C. Taylor, Milan Mich.

Duroc Jersey Bows and Ollie Med {or Aug. and
Sept. furrow. 1.000 112. herd boar.
J08. SCI-WELLER. Weidman. Mich.

nuance OFBRVEEDINO SIZE AND

QUALIT
Powv R. Jerome. Mich.
Dun-cc sows and silt: bred to Wan's King 82949
who has aired more prim winning pigs at the
state fairs in the last 2 years than any other Du-
roc board. Newton Bamhart. St. Johns, Kick.

Dunne EXTRA GOOD MARCH BOAR PIGS

by Defender's Cherry King from

Brnokvratenhred sows, $25 to 535. Registered.

E. E. CALKINS. Ann Arbor

Dunn BOARS, OILTS AND BROOD SOWS

of all ages. Sows bred or open. Ness-

ton 8: Blank. lIili Crest F‘arms. Perrington, Mich.
Farm 4 miles straight south of Middleton.

0R SALE: ONE DUROC BOAR FROM
Brookwater breeding stock. (,‘hnico spring pigs.
JOHN CRONENWETT. Carleton. Mich.

DUROC BOARS rnou PRIZE

“’INNING STOCK
ready for service. Geo. B. Smith. Addi-
son. Mich. '

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MEADOWVIEW FARM REG. DUROG JERSEY
hogs. Spring pics for sae.l
J. E. MORRIS Farmlncton, Mich.

OAKLAIDS PREMIER GHIEF
Herd Boer—Reference only—«No.~ 129219
1919 Chicago international
4th Prize in Yearling

A few spring pigs left at $25
BLANK ER
Pottervilie. Mich.

 

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«1111‘s. remiss.» ""°"' We..." swim. mm;

mm CAI-IOT-
mm inc-- all!

 

 

nun“ our: case FORMAUOIIS‘I' FAR-
mw. 1; sex.
use: cuss "ducal? °‘ Mich.

IlGIIIEAIIA Hill

Sells Dames A the 6th. Write for catalog
0 F. roe am "If”..- Pas s_lllcn. IM-

#‘

Henderson.

 

BERKSHIRES

LABROE ENGLISH REOORDED BERKSHIRES.
Bred gill: sndspn spring pigs for sale.
PRIMEVAL FARM. Oeseo. Mich.

BERKSH'BES ONE 801” TWO YEARS OLD
due July 7th. one boar Jan—
nary Ian-ow and (our cows March furrow for sale.
Beet blood lines of the hre ed.
sun A. maven. Chennlnl. lich-
GREGORY [All 3333831338 ron
profit. Choice stock for sale. Write 70m-
wante. W S. Corsa. White Hall Ill.

 

 

 

CHESTER WHiTEs
CHESTER WHITES 7533.5? ill'iiiiiu‘ii

stock at reasomble prices. Also a few bred Gilts
for Key (arrow F. W. Alennder Vassar. Mich.

 

 

HESTER WHITE AND O. I. C. SWINE. SOME
good March pigs for sale. Good bloodlines.
Will ship C O. D. and register free
A. MI LLER, Swartz. Creek. Mich.

 

REGISTERED CHESTER WHITE PIG: FOR
at prices! that will interest you.E1ther
sex. Write
RALPH COSENSWLeverinc. Mich.

your .wents. ‘

 

 

 

. lsertedcnder this no at 30 can per line
-1 “dorm-"2. ....." ......... Mm... m... 3......
“if-W. mfandedetenus murauremdl.lddcass1'nelleh leutuslesss I'm.
Mt. Clemens. Michigan.

 

 

 

 

' ’ruusrs

White and Brown Leghorn and White Rock
tsSweehand 13weeksoldreadyforlm‘
mediate delivery.

Let us give you description of this stock.

All of thus Pallet! and ndChicks are line birds
of excellent growth. American and extra high
class English We gflhgm. l i

A na ear e now ay ng.

nee TATE FARMS ASSOCIATION
2. Kalamazoo. Michigan

ORPING'I'ONS AND LEGHORNS

T10 great breeds for profit. Write today {or
tree ca of hatching eggs. babychle head
bleeding doe
CYCLE HATOHEEIOIOMPANV. 149 Phllo Bldg.

m M. . .

 

Fun S‘LE MAMMOTH IRONlE TURKEYS.
Toulouse Geese. White Pekin
duck;.1e(i)thgu:3x, $4 each at once Old ducks
well
CHASE STOCK FARM. Mariette. Mich.

 

 

LEGHORNS

 

EARLY
excel-

IIIOLE COMB BUFF LEBHORNS.
hatched Cockereia. Farm range from
lent laying stock.
J. W. WEBSTER. Beth. Mich.

 

HAMPSHIRES
BOABS READY FOR SERVICE

so 1 Bred Sow
EASITWOOD; Chesanlno. Mich.

 

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blood lion.

JOHN W. SNYDER. St. Johns. Mich.. R A

HAIPSIIIRES

Am all sold out on sows and gilts bred for
spring fart-owing. Have a few sows and gilts bred
for June and July fattening that are good and
priced right. Spring boar pigs at $15 ea. at 8
weeks old. sSatisfaction guaranteed Call or write

DU STHOMAS. New Lothrop. Mich.

 

 

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ARE!) FOR SEPTEMBER FARROW
Everyone guaranteed safe in dam also a few
choice spring pigs. either sex

Ii BlillliESS

Mason. Mich"

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C. AND CHESTER WHITE 81:31.1":

Ch c cow pigs of March Ian-ow. use

of tiff;i eGrand Champions Prince Big Bone and
C t‘. Schoolmasier. Write your wants to
LARE V. DORMAN, Snover. Mich.

ine lot at registered 0. I. C. Bred Saws of good
blood lines. Schoolmaster breeding weighing
250 to 400 lba at 860 to 89

JOHN ODOERFER. Mariette, Mich.

I. O. ’s——S Choice young been. March and

1-11 pi at ween nlng time.
CLAC‘IpVERP fEAF STOCK FARM. Monroe. Mich.

MUDcWAY- AUSH-KA FARM
O I. 0. spring pigs, also special summer
$522253 on breeding stock in White Wyandottes
Barred Rocks. “’hite Chinese Geese and White
Runner Ducks No more eggs this season.
. DI KE C. MILLER. Dryden..aMich.

l. c. SWINE—JV HERD CONTAINS THE
blood lines 6f the most nofed herd. Can turn is
you stock at "live and let live” prices.

A. J. BORDER. DON. Mich.. R 3.

SHEEP

I AM OFFERING FOR FALL DELIVERY HIGH
class registered Shropshire yearling ewes and
Flock established 1890.

C. LEMEN. Dexter, Mich.

 

 

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write or (all on
ARMSTRONG RROS.. R 8, Fowlerville, Mich.

HAMPSHIRE SHEEP

Everything sold out, both ewes and rams.
I am breeding 50 ewes to ”Stroman 209"a
excellent big boned type ram lam
Weighed 176 lbs. October 1 Booking orders
for 1920 rune.

CLARK U. “HIRE. West Branch. .ioll.

 

 

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Liberty Defender 3rd. Imus 00L Muffins. Gills
bred to 1111 Drum boar for Sept. (amt.
be". 0. KEESLER. Cassocolls. Mich.

REE... Dunno 115115111 82:39.12. 1::
Can furnish stock not akin. Also yearl-

ing sows. Will bléeed I i 1‘ ii l3 t -
infection guaranteed or our 11 t “8‘ Sat

 

“an? a SHEEP? Ln. American Hampshire
Sheep Association send you a dandy booklet

list of breeders. was. compens- A.
true. Sec y. se Woodland Ave- Detroit. Mich.

 

 
 

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F. HE IMS -& SON, Davison, Mich.

O. l. C. SOWS FOR SALE

ONE OF THE BEST HERDS IN MICHIGAN
Spring ths and l‘sllI yesrhngs bred for March, April and May litters.
d register In buyers name. It“ you want a BIG

elm an
every way. write me.

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guaranteed right to

R. 5, Mason, :Michigan

1 TYPE sow.

 

 

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RABOWSKE'S 8. 0. WHITE LEGHORNS.
Young and old stock for sale.
LEO ORABOWSKE. Merrill.

Mich.. R 4.

 

 

WYANDOTI‘E

liver. Golden and White Wyandottes. Bargains
in surplus yearling stock to make room for
growing birds. Clarence Browning, R2. Portland.

 

 

white Wycndottes. Dustin's Strain, culled by ex-

ports (or utility. aim and color. Eggs 15 for

82. 00, 50 or more 10c each. by mail prepaid.
VANO FARM, Hartford. Mich.

 

 

LANGSHAN

 

BLACK LANOSHANS OF QUALITY
Bred {or type and color since 1912. Started
from pen headed by Black Bob. First prize cock
at Interactions! show at Bulhlo, Jan. 1912. Eggs
$3.50 per setting of 15. Winter laying strain.

 

BABY CHICKS

CHICKS—CHICKS
5.000m chicks every Tuesday in July. Grand
laying! 8. C. \Vhlte Leghorns at $13 per
100: S7 for 50. full count lively chicks at
your door. Also Antoine at 815 r 100; 88
for 50. Satisfaction guaranteed. gleventh cel-

son. Order direct. Catalog fr ree.
HOLLAND HATOHERY. R 1, Holland, lick.

 

hicks. Leghorns, linorcas, Spanish. Houdans
Campinas, Reds, Rocks, Orpingtons, Brahman.
Wnndottee. Tyrone Poultry Farm. Fenton. Mich.

BABY CHICKS Fm“ "w" “vino Purebred
Rm“ Leghormi- $16 sigh molm‘lmlfimm

Postpaid. Live arrival guaranteed. Catalog free.
SUPERIOR HATCHERV. Clinton. Mo.

cmcK _ Reds, Barred Plymouth Books. 818
per 100, $9 per 50,‘ $4.75 per 25, prepaid and

 

 

safe delivery guaranteed. Catalog free. Last
hatch July 27th.
INTERLAKES FARM. Box A. Lawrence. Mich.

 

 

HATCHING EGGS

Hill SALE HATGHIIIE sass

FROM A HEAVY, LAY-
nig strain of 8. 0.11.1. Redsat $2. 00 per set‘
ting of 15 eggs. $10. 00 per 100.
. Stock of excellent type and

 

quality at all

es.
Satisfaction guaranteed.
F. HEIMS A SON. Davison. Mich.

 

. C. Leghorn Eggs, (mm Kulp and Gale strains
$1.50 for 15. $8 per 100. M. Pekln duck
eggs. $1.50 for 8. Mrs. Claudia Betta. Hillsdaie.

 

OSE COMB BROWN LEOHORN EGGS FOR
sale. One fifty per fifteen eggs.
Flemish Giant rabbits that are giants. Quality
guaranteed. v
E. HIMEBAUOH. Coldest». Mich.

ROI COOK'S BEST: 8. O. DUFF, WHITE
and black Orpington eggs. $4 per 15; $7 for 30
ORABOWSKE BROS.. R 4. Merrill. Mich.

 

 

E068 FOR HATCH-
82 per 15, prepaid.

HITE WYANDOTTES;
ing from selected layers,
Pens. 816 to 5.
FRANK DeLONO. R3. Three Rivers. Mich.
“REED nocK Ems mm vigorous early
maturing stock from heavy

laying strain. $2 per 15. $5 per 45 by prepaid
parcel post. R. G. Kirby. R1. East Lansing, Mich.

 

 

ATCHINO EGGS—PLYMOUTH ROCKS (ALL
varieties) White Wyandotte Ancona and Ron-
en Bucks Catalog 2c.

SHERIDAN POULTRY YARDS, Sheridan, Mich.

 

. 0. AND R. c. BROWN LEOHORN EGGS
for hatching winter layers, $1.00 for 13.
EVA TRYON, Jerome, Mich.

 

DR. CHAS. W. SIMPSON. Webbervliie, Mich.
KID I CANNOT SELL YOU ANY MORE

em until next fall. To some grown up
‘1 can other 10 very good young Shropshire ewes
that will lamb in April for $400. Their lambs

contracted to me should net more than purchase
price next fall.

Also 10 mighty nice ewe lambs for $350.
Come and see them
KOP E- KON FARMS. Goldwater, Mich.

 

PET STOCK

ELGIAN HAREs—VOUNG ANSD OLD STOCK,
all high bred. Send for price
SHERIDAN RABBITRY. Sheridan. Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

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It You Keep 1 or 2 Cows

order the New Butterfl Jr. No.
21/2—capac1ty up to 2501 . or 116
quarts of milk an hour. Price
$44.00. Terms, free
$2.00 can on With
order— alance
$3.50 a month for
twelve months.

If You Keep
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up to 850 pounds ~
or 425 quarts of milk an hour. Price

$78.80. Terms, free $2.00 coupon with order
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telling us which size machine you want and we will shi it for you to
try for 30 days in your own home. Then you can find out r your-
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Goupon Makes All of First Payment

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machine will save enough extra cream to meet all the
monthly payments before they are due. In this way you
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use on your farm and money‘in your pocket.

Pay Only $35.! to $649 aflonlh ‘
according to Size Separator You lleed

You get the benefit of the great saving in time and work while
the separator is paying for itself. After that the- profit is all yours
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saying if you send the con n below. You have the machine to use instead of a
catalogue to read. You ve a chance to compare the New Butterfly
with other separators in your neighborhood regardless of price. You
havea chance to see how much more cream you would save
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Life-Time Guarantee

Agalnst Defects In Material and Work-
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