’“Wic/I z'gan ESS » FARM E 1,’;,; ‘,,, ’ ‘*: ' f“ 1755 f’ , r' ,, ,,:,;’__,::,,,,; An Ihdependent Farmer’s “Raddy Owned and Edited in Michigan Vol. VII, N0. 50 i -‘ 1 MT. CLEMENS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1920 LL ~_—A . — llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillIlll|HIlllll||IIHIllllllIIIHIIIIIIIIIlillllllllllllllllllllllllll||l|lllll|"lllfllIll|llllllllllllllllllllllll|IlI|IIHill!llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllflllllllI'lllllllllllllllllillllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllll LL'I' mm‘ré. I|llllIllIllllllllll|IllllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll 9 I E E E = = E— =— —-— = = = = .— = — .—— = = = __———'—‘ = =___ = = —— —-___ = -—— = ="— = = = = —— __ _ > = = = —- —— = —_ _— -—" = = .— ' ——- —— :2: __.___ ._.__ _ . .__—- . —_ "E. A Midsummer Day _-—-__ __ _ = k = :2 = = = "= ——... = II 3%”— ml ’1 HHHHUI IIIII"will"!!!IIIHIIIIIIIIII“Wm”IIIIIIIIIIlnllflllllflllllIllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHullIIIIIIHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHInIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllullIIIlllllllllllllllllllllllllll ‘ n t ' ' i l 18 Issue:—- 0 Camp_ e , F armers Choice for Governor—Farmers Back Candidate's for State Legislature I mmmlflllllflmlllflll mmmmmnuu F YOU have now or will have after Harvest which you would like to invest in a security pay- ing 8%‘per annum, please read this through. Two weeks ago on this page we announced to our readers why we needed this extra capital ‘and why we believed it to be a good investment. On nearly every mail since we have received reservation orders, like the one at the bottom of this page, for from ten to a hundred shares. We hope you were one of those fortunate enough to get a block of this 8% stock, but if you were not, please act quickly to reserve at least a part of what is still unsold. It is simply a case of “first come, first served!” THIS IS NOT a stock-selling propositions—no one collects one penny of commission for selling it e and every dollar you invest goes into making the company back of Michigan’s OWN farm weekly stronger and better prepared to fight the farmer's battles in our home state. THE WHOLE STORY IS JUST We offer 2,500 shares of Preferred stock in the Rural Publishing Company, incorporated in Michigan. 1910, at $10 per share. We promise to pay you 4 per cent twice-a- year, or 8 per cent annually, on every dollar you invest, before the common stock holders draw one penny in dividends. We reserve the right to buy this stock back after three years, by paying you 8 per cent per annum from the day you bought the stock AND AN ADDITIONAL BONUS 0F 5 per cent, or $5 on every hundred you invest ! W’e hope that every dollar’s worth of this» preferred stock will go to friends and readers of The Michigan Business Farmer. RAPID PROGRESS—You are familiar with the ‘ rapid progress which this weekly has made since its founding, as an independent weekly in 1917. The strength of a. publication is measured exactly by the number of its loyal friends and we will leave it for you to judge the present circulation or “good—will” value of THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER. It has not: been easy sledding over these war years with a new paper, but our advertising receipts for the first six months of 1920, were just 50 per cent in advance of last year, while our cir— - culation receipts for the same period showed a gain of 20 per cent, or a net gain from all sources over-1919, of 34 per cent. The net earnings for this period amounting to more than thertotal net earnings from the first issue in 1917 to the end of December, 1919. A DOUBLE INVESTMENT—While we know that your investigation of our balance sheet and your knowledge of the growth of our business, will justify your confidence in this pre- ferred stock issue which we offer at this time, we want you to feel too. that you are makng a double— THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS Fumes is more than’a business without a soul or a purpose, w hundred and on of our readers could avail themselves of cm 8% preferred VOTE—Only t o . V “mm om. "mm, ,M um luv. when one or more do ‘30 THIS WILL III ALL PROBADGLITY BE THE LAST usuo [mm-us Ol’ 1"!!! SAtE of TI"! SECURITY. plans the uponordorformbohu‘roanlvl “Mm.flrn.mvod. autumnal-suan mm mm. x , ~ investment. of not less than 5100 or ten sham to s Semi I! you want on, of it. so your "sanction order Is resolved. to will. return your «fin ‘ ‘———————————__~—~———4* RESERVATION ORDER 8% “09K A Mr'. George M. Slocum: President. ~ “ , THE .RURAL PUBLISHING COMPANY. r“: Mt. Clemons, Mich. _ f ’ ’ *' If «not slmdy sold. ’ our 8 .Vper‘: Icentmv‘e . please» reserve it today! innIIunitIuIumIuInmlumuuuuumuumumaluminumIinmlmmumlmmumumnn from a hundred to a thousand dollars or more. please for n... ....'—..‘.;........m of: en n is an institution; which widedicated from its first issue ’to “the needs of ALL the farmers of Michigan !” It has no- creed, nor politics, sponsors "no single farmers’ organization but believes in ALL that are working for his welfare. ' Particularly have we tried to be the friend of those who need- ed help or encouragement. We have never run from the fight in the farmers’ behalf or hesitated a moment between the right and the wrong path. So when 'we lay before you, our friends, 'who have stood. by this‘weekly during the first trying years this opportunity to help put it well over-the—top, we hope you will know. that yourare not only mak- ing a. good investment for your money, but giving a. boost tom Michigan institution working a service for this state, the ‘vaiue‘of which youlare best able to judge. - THE PRESENT OFFERING—From all the above you might, take it that we had several hund- red thousand dollars to raise.’ As a matter of fact, we need just TWENTY—FIVE THOUSAND DOL— LARS ($25,000), which we have decided to issue as a Preferred Stock, paying Eight per cent (8%) ' semi-annually or cumulative if any dividend is passed. The preferred stock is a prior claim to all dividends and to the business and property it- self, over the common stock and the dividends of 8 per cent per annum MUST be paid in full on the preferred stock before the common stockholders can secure one penny in dividends. It must be re deemed by'the company on June 2nd, 1940 at par. The company, however, believing that it will de- sire to retire this preferred stock after a few years, reserves the right to buy it back at a premium of \ 50c per share or 5 per cent premium on a share of $10 par value, after three years from date of issue. This means that if the company at the end of even five years, should decide to buy back this preferred stock, they would have to pay you $10 per share, plus accumulated dividends at the rate of 8 per cent per annum, plus 5 per cent or 50c per share, which would, if bought back within a. five year period amount to 9 per cent per annum on your investment. ' , SAFETY IN PREFERRED STOCK—The inter- est in the building, machinery, office equipment and paper stock of the company is to-day appraised. in value at $45,000, or nearly double the entire amount of this preferred stock issue. This does not take into consideration norv attach any Value- to the circulation and good will of the publication, THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER, its franchises branch offices and advertising contracts, which, as you can imagine are very valuable and would sell as a going-business at a high figure. It is on all the property of the company that this $25,000 has a prior lien-over the common stock and when it is understood that the common stock is owned by the publisher, editor and those ‘actively interested in the direction of the 'company’s business, it is ob- vious that the management will always be‘so con- ducted that neither the preferred nor common stock will be in jeopardy. » “ ’A CLOSING WORD—We hope to have only friends and readers of long-standing among those fortunate enough to get a block of this stdck issue. We hope that it-will be scattered into every county in Michigan. For this reason we will sell the re- maining shares in blocks of ten shares er mere at $10 per share, while it lasts, ranged for on a mutually satisfactory basis, when’ allotment of stock is made. . ' f , ' President. I Rural Publishing Company, Inc. suck. I! such tags our minimum sllotmon Ion wot-sh, therefore I ....'.......\..;.V..s'..o1..o.o.o....1’2. ferred stock in the Rural Publishing Company, It To]: Doller ($1010! ohm Payment to be arranged for on a mutually satisfactory basis. when a rwise this reservation order does not obligate me in anyway. ' I ma, iothe \ , Hills, ‘4‘, , D b ‘ . ‘ ‘ 4 .V' V\ -~ .V . V . ‘ d.‘ I i ' n..‘sg-cs.gn,..sn‘;g,stug-coooeoqut‘u no},on.){routeson'oocooooou‘oooobo‘ktgl‘L v. i ‘f ’ .' \4.. ', asp-oso-sos,ooooasouI'devscGuido-nodoeic'otllofieoloo..-pop6's‘oooeCOOO‘QI'OI-lI'leitgvp‘.. «a (A , .y-fiu _ I, 4 1:5 . > km“ _, Vi it your lit. ill Paymentdo be ar- .- llllllfllllilllllllfllllllllllllllllllllllllfllllIlllllllllllllllllHHllllllIllllllllllllllllflllllll||illIll||IllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllflllilllllllfllllllllllflllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIllIlllllllfllllfllllllliillllllfllllllllllllllflllfllllllllllllllllillllullfllflll .J "cm moment of stock is mods- to I ._ iguan‘. midi geod- price the present, "season. " j I The: acreageindsfl was» 102,690? _' members being of fine quality-and“ .‘ ‘ kept good in storage. better than in ' ordinary years. . ' ' ‘ ’ is ’ 7 It is reported that'Mame has 118’,- 000 acresvthis year (1920). however - the stand” is generally poor with " ‘healthy vines. All indications is for a decrease in production this fall. even with a larger acreage. ‘ Early this spring it was thought the acreage would be cut materially due to the late shipment of- fertiliz- er, but it resulted in later planting. The late planted potato vines are small and unless very” favorable grow- ..ging: season prevails they will yield a small "crop. \ ArooStook County, the potato king county of Maine, is; reported as hav- ing 90,000 acres, ax large increase over 1919.. The stand in Aroostobk is very uneven however, the vines are looking healthy. , A mini period for the past three weeks indicate a blight season and at present many farmers are report- ing blight. - This is earlier than we usually have blight. The cobbler varieties are looking better than the Mountain varieties. It is pretty hard at pres- 7 cut to predict what the yield will be, because Night or frost or something ._might come. ‘ ‘ Potato buyers are oflering from $3 to $4 per 165 lb. bbl. on fall de- livery contracts—Ray S. Hews, East. on, Maine. ‘ HOLSTEIN S DOMINAN County Agent F. S. Dunks, How- ell, Mich., states that there are 321 breeders of purebred'cattle in Liv- ingston County. There are 250 reg- jstered Holstein bulls, 37 registered Shorthorns andwl5 registered Jersey bulls. . Crop Reports n MONTCALM—The farmers are busy . harvesting oats, threshing and plowing for fall grains. Condition of weather is warm with frequent heavy rains. Some winds and hall. The condition of soil is good and crops growing Well. The farm- ers are not selling much of anything but some live stock and a few early potatoes. The farmers here are not building any- thing at present. Frank Young, an old pioneer resident was instantly killed, his auto having turned turtle, falling upon him. The following prices were offered at Lakeview: Wheat, $2,155; corn, $4; oats $1; rye, $1.55; No. 1 timothy 330° No, 1 light mixed; $30: cucumbei's, 8d per cwt.; hens, 220; springers, 40c; but- ter, 550; butterfat, 540; eggs, 42c; hogs, veal calves, 15c.—G. B. W.‘ SANILAC (C)-—The haying is about done, winter wheat all. in barn or stack. Farmers cutting oats which are a very- good crop. Have had a. few local rain‘ storms. Havo not had much rain in Custer but there seems to: have [been rains {around Sandusky' and south.‘ of. there this week. It would help the crops ‘ and make the ground in shape to plow wheat. Where‘ there has not been much rain the ground isgetting pretty hard, Some farms are changing hands. There has been two big faring changed hands around Sandusky in the last few days, one a. 160 farm. sold for $20,000. That is not so bad for a. price; it is a. good farm. The following prices were offered ._ . $2.20:~ oats. >660; rye $1.71; barley, $3; beans, C. H. P., $6; peas, 32,25; clover seed, $13.50: tim- othy seed, $3.40: alsike seed, $13.56: butterfnt, 63c; eggs, 50c._—A. B. GENESEE—-Farmers have been busy threshing, harvesting oats ~and barley cultivating potatoes and beans and plow- ing. The weather has been cxteremely , dry until the last week, when we had V quite a lot of rain. The heavy rain and hail of a. "week ago did heavy damago‘ in some localities. The, soil has been too - dry foitplowing but the recent rains will - make for work . mQutlhte g. 1it“: of W 1138' been 3° ,9 e s. . Samo' n‘fiimmltoodyields of.‘ when: ‘ - . yield a i ii 0. s. s-wero «Ila-l“ " Flint: 35,; com,. .: or ; ones, sec: in. 81.15: buckwheat}, 3 per cwt.; b ans (.0. H. . 86. I, c bean; (Red Kidney) $1 cwt.; H wheat and out strum. fl 3,: potatoes. c ~- _ _ V 2@2.60: onions, 32.7.5, a - 750 . i » era. dot. :5 liens. E HEAR a lot of talkabout the - farm boy leaving the farm. The chances are that we are going to hear even more of it before we are through. I live in the city, but personally, \I'm in favor of the farm Boy staying (in the farm— everyone is in favor o' the farm boy staying on the farm-~-~ that is everyone except the farm boy himself ! It’s hard to find a magazine or a newspaper that doesn’t bemoan the lamentable condition of the farmer and preach the necessly of the farm boystaying home. ‘ Famous writers write about it. , ,Editors comment on it. “ Politicians rave over the subject and campaigns are planned to keep the farm boy farming. And while this goes on the ., farmer lad continues to pack ,his grip or “telescope” and meander ' cityward-i—a la ,h F Horace Greeley ws' with; and Abe Lincoln. fy "40 Now,I dth “ ‘5 know anythin g about text book psychology or the art ing and I know but. I farming, think I know something about hu~ very little about man nature—and I think I know something about farmer boys—at least I have this much in common with them: I was raised in a rural community. I have lived on a farm. Most of my friends and acquaintances are farm— ers. Practically all of my schoolmates weer farmer boys. Lastly, I am not old enough to have forgotten what it is like to be a boy and unless things have changed a’ lot during the past half generation, farmer boys are very much the same as other boys. Boys don’t like to be kept any- ~where. Boys don’t want to he told where they must stay put ! _ Personally, I wouldn’t give two cents for a boy who doesn‘t like mo- tion, who doesn’t liketpr'ogress and oesn’t like activi y . ‘ WhTohg placid, peaceful, plodding Side of farm life has been played up so frequently in contrast With the city that the word “farming” hasubecome synonymous with the word stagna~ tioIn-may be wrong on lots of other things, but I’ll risk my meagre rep.- utation that I'm dead right on this. The way to keep the boy on the farm is not to try to keep him there ‘ at an; The thing to do, and the only thing to do, is. to make him like A ‘ ' he the f rm and the only way to ma him fike the farm is to makethe {arm likable and then prove to him that it is likable. After thats been done you don’t need to worry about , ‘keeping him there—you couldn't pullihim army with ’“a. 40-30 tank ' type.‘ I '» efrnctive 'ettort to do this. : ‘5“ ’7‘ get ‘awayvtrogn the of advertis— « It’s'goingrtotake' a lot otn'con- ' Why the Farm Bey ~Glues tothe I Allured by City Advantages Painted in Bright but False Colors By H. G. WEAVER ‘ nomic and practical aspects of . , HIS ARTICLE was written by one who might have been a farmer, I but chose city life instead. While he is inclined to ignore the eco- the drift of country people to the city. his views are refreshing and contain much pointed truth, com- ments upon this article are invited.—Editor. And if he can’t move on in the di- rection of progress, he's going to move on geographically—eand that means to the city! Let’s forgt all about this back—to— the-farm stufl. If the movement of labor from the city to the farm is a “backward” movement we had all better quite right now. Let’s abandon the expression “keep the boy on the farm." Let’s put the kibosh on it for all times. It sounds too much like Sing Sing prison talk. A boy who is worth having isn’t go- ing to let you keep him anyWhere. He will determine his own destiny. He will move along just to be inde- pendent—and the chap who isn't built that way doesn’t count ! . My father was a farmer. He was a good farmer. He was an up-to- date farmer; He was aggressive. He was a booster. He was an enthusi- ast and a Peptomist—in other words he was an exception ! It would have been the most nat- ural thing in the world for me to have followed farming. I’ll tell you why I didn't—I'll tell you the truth about it: Primarily it was because city and industrial life were more effectively press—agented. The newspapers had always been full of stories of com- mercial and industrial achievement. The popular magazines fairly reeked with highly colored biographies of. men who had achieved success in the city—men who were powers in. the big industrial world—men who had had their start as hard working farmer boys—men who went to the city to seek greater opportunities. And the city (according to the stories) received them with open arms. Most of them were elected to the presidency of the United States while not looking: others, of some- what lesser abillty, became steel mag- nates and oil kings. while the medi- ocre, second-class. general run of the mine, gravitated to the more lowly stations of bank presidents and rail— road directorswat least that's What the stories taught. That’s the kind of stuff the maga- zines handed me when I was a kid. That’s the kind of dope I read in the Sunday papers. Or. if I didn't like it in homepathic doses I could get Horatio Alger’s complete works—- from “Bill. the Bootblack” to “Mark the Matchboy”~—expressed in predi» gested monosyllables and sold on the easy—payment planll Even my own father couldn’t make much headway in competition with the metropolitan press. And again ——when i wasn't reading Alger books or milking cows, I was down at the village hostelry listening to suave drummers with diamond scarf pins and kinky noses lamenting the ne« cessity that forced them to visit such ‘ll "-nv'r ' 'Flinv “inipld ‘vaV p'n- quent in their descriptions of city conveniences. city salaries, metropolitan attractions, etc. THAT’S FINE SON, \ BUT LET ME SEE l.-\.. \.'.k.' , THE QTHER SHEET. V up the idea of farming, but that was ‘1 1e That was enough to make me give ' POLiTtCiANS RAVE OVER THE SVBJECY. not all——the farmers whom I knew ’ —the majority of farmers, the aver- age farmers, the old—time dyed—in-the .wool orthodox farmers——were not a cheerful lot. They were not opti- mistic. They were not boosters. They didn’t have a press agent. They i lacked an Horatio Alger. “' These same farmers—these aver- ,age farmers—~would listen to the .city man’s talk. They would listen with open mouths and hands falling limp- ly and helplessly at their sides. ' The younger generation also list- 3. - ened———they listened—they thought-— ‘ 4 they went back home—they lost in- terest in agriculture——they became bored with farm life—the city beck— oned them. Again they re-read the most thrilling chapter of “Ned, the Newsboy" and forthwith took up the study of time tables. ’ The city is well press-agented. It always has been and I guess it al- ways will be. The farm is net. The lives of great men carry a subtle ap-‘ ’ peal for the metropolismthe success- ful farmer is the Uncrowned King. I‘ve read a hundred—I guess a. thous- and stories that have lured me city-' ward. ' I’ve never been able to find but two stories that painted farm life as holding possibilities for big achieve— ment and real life i . The farmer needs press agents—- he needs lotS‘of ’em—he needs ’em bad. I shudder to think what will happen if this need isn’t filled—and tilled pretty quick. For the past six months I’ve stud- ied everything I could get my hands on that was supposed to relieve the farm labor situation. There have been many stories aim- ed in this general direction, but few have come within shouting distance of the bull’s eye. I’ll tell you about one story particular: Here is a synopsis of the first epi- sode: The uneducated son of an uned- ucated Pol i s h farmer goes If ‘. in have happened and 51*- 1» . a .. _. d“§‘="3 I wAs nA-s-o . iN A EUQAL COMMUNITY- to the city “to work through the winter.” In less than twelve months. he writes his rather than he is malt ing seventy—five dollars a week. The father answered the letter. toe?» wit: “If you make seventy-five dollars _ week, you stay there ! We, altogetheh-u the whole tamily——can’t make seventy. five dollars a month out here on farm." Maybe that kind of stuff does call attention to a serious condition, bu I contend that it makes the com! tion much. worse. I, ‘ .r U Maybe it, is a true sto.ry-:——51'-ll n question its authenticity—it c ‘ V personally I be; have it, did happen. But-—-— v What is to be gained by play such anfiineidwflm b . h 3 tune as 0 on t more satisfied? V y' ' '6 4 Does it make the farm anxious to rein Does it tempt the to take up agricul (Pub! . . fishedi ; as? t (we .boy who i rn?.' ‘,.; whitfius’ a --1e. “ , M g:- N 1916, Milo D. Campbell, farmer and lawyer of Goldwater, went as a delegate to a convention of the National Milk Producers’sfederation 'in Chicago. He was virtually un- known to those who had gathered from far and near to attend and ad— dress that gathering. He had no place on the program. But as he sat in the audience and listened to the speakers; watched the issues that are a part of every convention take shape; saw the convention divide it— self into two unequal parts upon these issues, he was seized with the conviction that those who seemed to ‘be in the majority were wrong. With- out hesitation and in his character- istic fighting manner, he arose to the floor and in a speech that rang with eloquence and conviction hammered down the defenses of the opposition, carried his point; and before that convention adjourned was elected president of the National Milk Pro— ducers’ federation. ’ Such was Milo Campbell’s dramatic entrance into the arena where the farmers battles are fought. From that time on he devoted nearly every waking moment to the farmers’ cause. He traveled all over the United States driving home truths about the farmer and the farming business. His advice and counsel was sought for by milk producers’ association from coast to coast. In every important battle over the right of farmers to organize and sell their products collectively Campbell was there with his coat off and his sleeves rolled up. His legal training coupled with his inate sense of justice, his love and compassion for the farm— er, made him a formidable protag- onist. After we entered the war Mr. Campbell was appointed a member of the Agricultural Advisory Com- mittee and spent most of his time in Washington where the Food Admin- istration and the President often con- sulted his views in conference over matters affecting the farmers. In this connection his. counsel was con- spicuously frank and fair to all con— cerned. More than once his watch- fulness prevented the adoption of policies that would have \been unfair and injurious to the farmers, and more than once he forced the adop— tion of other policies which for his sponsorship would not have been considered. THE BUSINESS FARMER did not be- come acquainted with Mr. Camp-bell during his boyhood days, nor yet during the years when he rendered splendid service to the state of Mich- igan, as a legislator, secretary to Gov. Luce, insurance commissioner, etc. It was not until three or four years ago that the exceptional worth of this exceptional man came to our at— tention and we found that all his life he was nearly always on the job when the farmer’s case was heard and that he was nearly, always in the right. It was not as a result of any (personal consideration for Mr. Camp- bell but of our admiration for his _ A Brief Sketch of. the- Life .. ngven him coura g e and p r o-. gressi v e- ness that e have on many occasion s the hand ‘ o f a p- pro v a 1. Go 'back thru th e files of THE BUS- I N E s s FARM E R and you 'will find article af- ter article in which Milo D. Ca'mpbel I figured as the out— standi n g champion o f t h e farme r s“ rig h t s a m o n g the na- t i o n a l f a r m leaders. T h ese are some of the reasons which led to the endorsement of.Mr. Campbell by the farm organizations and THE BUSINESS FARMER. Some readers have asked upon what grounds Mr. Campbell claims the support of the farmers, and it will not be amiss to review his record. A Farmer Boy In the first place Mr. Campbell came from a family of farmers. His father was.a farmer in rather mod— erate circumstances in Branch coun- ty. Milo worked on the farm until he was fourteen years of age when it became necessary for him to shift for himself. Through his own ef—‘ forts he secured an education, be- ing obliged to quit school and college on several occasions in order to re— plenish his pocket. For a time he taught school and was for several years county superintendent of schools. Later he studied law. While yet quite young he was elected to the legislature, where he exhibited such abilities that Gov. Luce chose him for his private secretary. From then on he has been more or less in the public service, practicing law at odd intervals, but giving a great deal of attention to his two farms in- Branch county where he has had at times herds of over one hundred head of pure—bred Holsteins. The past few years he has devoted almost his entire private attention to the active management of his farms. Among the public positions he has held should be mentioned the United States marshals-hip for the eastern district of Michigan, Mr. Campbell being appointed by Theodore Roose- velt. He lost his job, however, when MILO D. Weeds of 9‘ . Mr. W11- 1 son w a s ‘ elected. , C ampbell is a mem—‘ ber of the t i o n a l chur c h, but is us- ' ually lib- ‘eral in his religion 3 views. He h a s a p r e t t y fair‘repu- tation as a breach- er and fi 1 l e d more than one pul— pit and in church e s of more than one den 0 m i— nafion, M r . C ampbell was in a 1 a r g o measu r e res ponsi~ bio for the wheat price being set at $2.26 in- stead of $2. In a conference with Hoover at 3which Mr. Campbell was one of the few actual farmers present it was allgbut decided to recommend $2 as the minimum price when Mr. Campbell presented such telling ar- guments against it that the price was increased to $2.26. Later Mr. Campbell discovered that in many section-s of the country the dealers were not paying the farmers what they should under the guaranteed price. He immediately went to Washington, secured an audience with Mr. Hoover to such good pur- pose that the price to the farmer was raised throughout the country. Mr. Campbell’s greatest work per- haps has been in connection with the dairy industry. The efforts of the 'politicians of Chicago, ‘New York and other great cities to prosecute the farmers for charging what their milk' was worth aroused Mr. Camp- bell to such lengths that he under- took a campaign of publicity and bit- CAMPBELL ter denunciation of the farmers’ per- _ . secutors which gained the sympathy of the public and in almost. every in- stance secured an acquittal for the accused farmers. He has contributed in no small Way toward putting the dairy industry on a business basis and securing for the farmer a price commensurate with the cost of pro- duction. Nearly two years ago when the government took charge of the wool clip of the country Mr. Campbell un- covered and made public a gigantic conspiracy on the part of the Boston wool combination to‘ defraud the farmers and the public of millions of M r’ .. Congrega— , dustries Board, to whose include nearly all .douar‘s. through-their nisatfiniaaon at the, clip. Mr. .Campbel-l,;;pgesented§ii El facts andvfl‘gures 'which causedga, in+ to’ the U. 8.. W001 «Divisi‘on;,ie0t vestigation and nipped ~ thegame -. of». the conspirators in the bud. As-ure-“f cently as, the spring of the present, yearBernard Baruch of, the War In- attention \ .. the matter was brought, publicly ac- " knowledged ,‘ Mr. Campbell’s services in this connection. As-a result "or these efforts nearly a million dollars will .be distributed among the wool growers of the eastern section of the United States. . _- Mr. Campbell on :State Issues It has been asked Where Mr. Camp- bell stands on such issues as ,the state constabulary, taxes, the. ware-V house amendment, state institutiOns,_ etc. Mr. Campbell is opposed to the State Constabulary as it now exists. He believes in a state police force," how-ever, to be recruited from the wardens of the fish, game and forest fire departments and the inspectors of the food and drug department. He believes that we have too 'many war- dens with police orsem-i—police pow? ers. He wou d consolidate and give each warden ower to act in behalf of any state department. Butihe has no use for state police patrolling the state in‘uniformh He believes that local officials should be compelled under penalty of removal from office ' to enforce the law in co-operation with the state wardens, and that the latter should be depended upon in times 'of violent strikes, riots and other emergencies which are rare oc- ‘ currences in Michigan. Mr. Campbell'was the first candi~ dateyto declare for strict economy in, the conduct of state affairs. And he is the only one who has announced a ' definite plan of economy. He has promised if elected to bring about a' reduction in the innumerable boards and commissions of the state, entire? ly eliminating the functions of some and co-ordinating the functions of others. In this way he believes that a large sum of money can be saved to the taxpayers. ' On the warehouse amendment Mr. Campbell has stated that he believes in the principle of submitted consti- tutional amendments to the vote of the people. There is no doubt that had he been governor during the past two years he would have recommend- ed the submission of this question. Those who are actively supporting Mr. Campbell’s candidacy, and they the agricultural leaders of the state and rural com- munities, are thoroughly satisfied that Mr. Campbell, if elected, will. continue to give agriculture the same sympathetic consideration as in the past. As Governor of Michigan he will have the influence and’powe'r to render still greater service to Michi- gan agriculture. The farmers and their wives of this state can put Mr. Campbell in that position. It is up to them. w. HumfinmmHo~MA—LA"AL—d Jaw—.A 4.‘ arr“ in? [35; ti~ of at tSt ill . he he he to 1i- atla- [r. LIP not the result of any “movement to organize the farmers. ‘ On the contrary the action' is pure— "this office two years. . ‘n i ' V large‘rmajority ot, the agri- l‘tural districts .of thef's‘tate the armors have either endorsed one gr numberior the state senate house of representatives or are 0-. fl N n d ha. 0 e... g..- V H: H i I: H. m 0 b 9‘ best representation. This is state-wide 7‘17 local in its inception. The farm- "?‘;___ era are, however, moved by a com- , vim-on desire. ' To purge the legislature of its spenders and to punish those -whocouldn’t trust the people to vote ~""‘_‘on the warehouse amendment. V The sentiment for a change of rep- resentatives that will more nearly ‘ reflect the views and interests of the farmers is most pronounced in the Thumb, in nearly every district of which there is a hot contest be- .tween machine candidates and farm- er candidates. Among the farmers there is little division of sentiment. In several districts the local or coun- ty farm bureaus have officially en- dorsed candidates, and members'of‘ all farm organizations are joining hands to nominate them. ‘TJae Twentieth District ‘Th'e twentieth senatorial district comprises the counties of Huron and . Sanilac, represented last year by Geo. B. Forester, a banker of Dackerville, whose record for economy is notori- ous for its absence. The situation in this district is placed before us by a Harbor Beach subscriber, who Writes as follows: “Mr. John Hunt of Huron county became a candidate for state senator only after long pursuasion by mem- bers of the Farm Bureau, supposing it would be a clean—cut race between him and John Wallace. "Mr. Wallace ‘withdrew, and now ‘they’ have se- lected State Senator Forrester of Sanilac county again, who has filled _‘ In this dis— trict it has been an unwritten law that one county should name the candidate for a two term period and 'then the other county should have this privilege. This custom has been in effect for many years, but this summer the farmers of the district ‘ selected a Huron county man as their ‘- candidate. BecauSe of the opposition i. to the farmer candidate various fin- ancial interests in these counties have circulated petitions .for the re- "?‘nomination of Sen. Forrester. ,“In all fairness Huron county should send the next senator to the state legislature from this district and John Hunt, progressive Huron county farmer is the man who should receive the support of every fair- minded man in Sanilac and Huron counties. Mr. Hunt is personally known to those who have induced him to run, and without question,'if elected he would be one of the best senators that the district as a whole ever had. “John Hunt is'a pioneer of Huron county. He owns a large and at- tractive farm in Verona township on which he has labored, for over forty years to turn a forest into fertile. He has been intensely interested in whatever activity would make for vbetter and happier conditions in his ‘ Take Active Hand in Fall Campaigns ‘By THE EDITOR ' ,w Amused over Extravagancies of Last Legislature and Warehouse Reba-ff F i trict and state politics. bureau held on Tuesday. port these candidates. said—Huron County Tribune. Farm Bureau to Enter Politics HE HURON County Farm Bureau will take a hand in county, dis- T This, at. least, is the report that comes from the meeting of the executive committee and county ofllcers of the At that meeting it is said that a resolution was passed pledging the organization to do all it could in the coming ~ primary to promote and secure the nomination of John Hunt for sen- ator; Milo Campbell, for governor; Godfrey Gettle for representative and Chas. KB. Scully, of Almont, for lieutenant governor. stood that circular letters will be sent out urging the members to sup- The constitution of the organiza'tioniis silent on the Question of politics. 'but speakers last Winter made statements to the effect that theywould not try to control elections, but the members would be ex- pected to support candidates who would tailor their interests. County Agent Campbell says that he is barred from campaign acts ivities because his salary is partly covered by Federal appropriations. This would not necessarily influence the other officers and directors, he . It is under- » was one of five who did not v'o'ta‘,f community, as the‘ perusal of the following will show: 3 ' “Born in Wisconsin. Parents from New England, came with them to Lapeer county, where he was left an orphan at two years of age. Brought up by strangers. Educated in the district and high schools, of Oakland county. Taught in district and village schools 13 years. Came ’ t0 Huron county where he has since resided since 1878. ‘Cut the road to and cleared up a new farm. Twelve years supervisor of Verona town- ship. Twenty-two years president HurOn County Mutual Fire Insurance Co. President since its incorpora— tion of the most, successqu co—opera- tive elevator in Huron county. Help- ed to organizea county farmers’ in- stitute years before the state gave its financial assistance and was five years its president. Is a member of the County Road'Commission. He was chairman of the Huron county farm bureau membership drive. If elected he promises to fairly repre— sent every interest of the district.” Clare District A partial history of the farmers’ ~ polit i c a l moveme n t i n t h e counties of Clare, Glad- wi n a n d R0 s c o m- mon, con- stit u t i n g the Cla r e represent a- tive district and a part of the 38th senator i a 1 district, has a l r e a dy been given in t h e s e columns. It was largely thru efforts of John Fitzpatrick of Beaverton that meetings were held in Clare county to discuss endorsement of farmer candidates and resulted in choosing of himself and George Stehle to repre- sent Clare county in making such en- dorsements. County Agent‘ Atwater of Gladwin county took an active part in a poll of farm bureau mem— bers which resulted in the appoint- ment of Mr. Elmer Gedney and Levi Pfenning to represent Gladwin coun- ty. With Mr. Edward Coan‘of Ros— common county these four gentlemen endorsed 'Mr. Richard Emerson '01? Grant Township, Clare county, as the farmers’ candidate for the house of representatives. As campaign thunder this com- mittee has secured the, signed ap— proval of a large number of actual farmers of the district who are per- sonally acquainted with Mr. Emer- son and can’vouch for his ability and integrity. It is believed that the RWHARD EMERSON will place their confidence ’in the judgment of these and“ throw their. support toMr. Emerson. '- . ' .lived on a farm all his life and at present is farming 130 acres in Grant township, Clare county. He has represented his township on board of supervisors for ten years, and has been chairman of the board for five years. At present he is chairman of theClare County Road Commission. He .has always taken an active part in the agricultural af- fairs of his county, and is well—equip- ped to represent the farmers of the Clare district in the legislature. St. Clair. County, 2nd District Upon the urging of his friends Farmer John Volker of Marine City has entered the race for state repre- sentative from the second district of St. Clair county, opposing Mr‘. Frank— lin Moore, a well—to-do salt manu- facturer of St. Clair, who has held the office two terms. Mr. Volker has the endorsement of the Marine City local of the St. Clair County farm bu— 'reau and of the Starville Farmers’ Club. Mr. Moore’s stock argument as to why the people of his district should give him a third term is that by virtue of his being speaker pro tem of the 1919 session he st a nds a good show 0 f b e ing selec t e (1 speaker of the. n e x t sess i o n, t h er e b y conferri‘n g an honor up 0 n S t. Clair coun— ty. In fact, Mr. Moore says he has “alr e a d y received a large num- ber of vol- u n t ary pledges of support for that important office.” A strange statement, indeed, when no man knows who will consti- tute the next session of the legisla— dure. We have nothing against Mr. Moore. We understand that he was a very accommodating gentleman in the last session of the legislature,, voting for most of the appropria- tions, commissions and other meas- ures involving expenditures of the public money. His claim for future political honors should rest upon his record. THE BUSINESS FARMER repro- duces it below that his constituents may become informed thereon: On page 1863 of the Journal. of the House, session 1919, appears the follovifing: I “The; Committee on Revision and Amendment of the Constitution, by JOHN VOLKER _ v . Mr. Ivory,‘ chairman, reported Senate ,rest of the farmers of, the. district, , Resolution No. 5 (proposing the warehouse amendment,) without rec— ' ommendation. N ._ I _ “Mir: Franklin-- Moore .».moved that the j‘ointvresolution be], laid on?“ the, “ r table. "Mr. B-ram'an demand and nays. » _ “The motion made‘ by M then prevailed, a majority , members voting therefore. ,' And that was the end otth house amendment. ' .2 , Mr. Moore was conveniently « from the House when the~ " commission bill came up. But 11 tered a few moments after and. ,_~ just in time to vote for the resoluti to amend the constitution permit“ , an increase, in the salaries of cir'c i judges. ' Although Mr. Moore was in; House at the time the’ vote was talc-s en on the State Park Commission either way On the measure. , ever a few moments later he did vote to permit spearving suckers in the Chippewa river. . Mr. Moore voted for the State Con- stabulary and an appropriation of, $370,000. - John Volker . - _. John Volker, who aspires ~to- sues; - ceed Mr. Moore, is as we have said, I a farmer. He needs no introduction 'j. to the people of his district for near- » 1y everyone in St. Clair county knows. . John Volker. He was born on a farm in Michigan in 1863, and at tended the public schools. As a young man he took to sea and sailed the Great Lakes from 1885 to'1903, retiring as chief engineer. He then actively took up farming which he has followed for seventeen years. As one of the leading men of his com- munity he has held various positions of public trust. He has served for a number of years as township treas- urer, treasurer of his school district, and in 1914 was elected to a six year term as county road commissioner, a position which he resigned after two years of service. During the war Mr. Volker was active in all the patri- otic drives in every one of which his . district went “over the top” with fly- ing colors. A son served several years overseas, taking part in many of the important battles in which . he was several times wounded. 2 Mr. Volker is a member of the“ Grange and Cleaners ,and was secre- I tary—treasurer of ,the Marine City farm bureau which he resigned, how- ever, in obedience to the constitution of the Bureau when he became a candidate for state representative. Mr. Volker is a man of high char- acter, honest as the day is long, and his farming and business experience has been such as to equip him well for theposition he seeks. He believ— es firmly that it costs too much to run our state government, and that, if elected he can help reduce expend- itures. He believes in letting the pople rule, and giving them an op.- portunity to express their views on" amendments to the Constitution. If elected, Mr. Volker will prob? ably not be speaker of the next House but he will be something more im-, portant than that, a true representa- tive of the people of the second dis-A trict of- 9"\ “"~-- county. . Sanilac District In the Sanilac representative dis-2' trict a three—cornered fight is 0 (Continued on page 19) 5 r ~ ‘J , T WILL be recalled that in Greek Mythology Argus, the son of Zeus ' ‘ and Niobe,_had a hundred eyes. : peorge Livingston, Chief of the Bu- reau of Markets, United States De- partment of Agriculture, has but two eyes-being just an every-day hu- lman being—but his friends say that this vision is‘better than Arg'us’ ever was. It has to be good to see all sides of the big farm marketing prob- lems of to-day and then to look after -100’ field offices distributed through- out the United States, as well as to direct the activities of some 1,330 employees who are trying to solve them. But going back a little farther, George Livingston first saw the light of day on September 14, 1886. There” after, he spent 18_years on a farm. During that time he saw’a great many things. Other people saw them too. But whereas others sat down and grumbled at the hard lot of the farm- er, George «Livingston determined to ‘ apply corrective measures if he ever got the opportunity. At the same time he perceived that Mr. Oppor— tunity might fail to put in an ap- pearance, so he donned his hunting togs and went after him. At twenty-nine G. L. was an au- thority on grain and grain market- ing. He had graduated from the Ohio State University and thereafter spent five years specializing in agri- cultural and marketing methods in the capacity of instructor and assist- ant professor at various universities. His post—graduate course at Oorness University subsequently led him to Europe to study agricultural practic- es there. Then he joined the Bureau of Markets. His executive ability and genius for organization were soon recognized and four years later he was appointed chief of the bureau. Q ick to recognize ability in oth- ers eorge Livingston is never satis- fied until its full force is being ap- plied. When he established the gra‘in inspection service he assembl- ed the best talent that could be found—men who knew their business from the ground up. It was not an easy job. There were many persons who knew that while the adoption of standard grades would remove the guesswork from grain marketing and therefore be of huge benefit to the farmer, it would also reduce their own incomes considerably. How- ever, that did not deter G. L. for a moment. But instead of holding a bludgeon over their heads he sought quietly to secure their co-operation. And ‘he did. That is the way he does everything——quietly, courteous- ly, unerringly. For more than half a century ag- ricultural experts and agencies have devoted almost their entire atten- tion to production problems. But these experts are now agreed that the question of marketing is of equal importance, and that the pres- ent marketing system is wasteful and inefficient in many spots. They say that with the present methods farmers lose millions of dollars an- nually. More important than that is the economic waste caused by the quantity of food actually lost. It is only comparatively recently, however, that any organized effort has been made to develop the ma- .ch'inery of marketing to meet the nation’s requirements. And with the United States leading the world in the maintenance of a government agency to study and devise new mar- keting methods, economists and students of food distribution prob- lems everywhere are watching close- ly the results secured by the Bureau of Markets and the man who directs its activities. ' Thoroughgoing investigations of i existing conditions are basically nec- essary to improvement of marketing conditions. The Bureau of Markets studies current market conditions, the demand for specific crops. sourc— es of supply, methods .of grading, standardizing. packing and shipping farm products, transportation and storage, the nature of the commer- cial transactions by means of which -\ products move from the opt-0-, ' 1 . . ~ - ny’rnANK Gnome . r, . ‘ ‘ George Livingston, " in 1913. ‘ Workv'of the of‘Mnrlaets , I. r' l UNITED States Department 01 Agriculture and the State agri- Tculturaz‘l colleges and experiment stations for many years havegbeen rendering definite assistance to farmers in the solution of problems concerning agricultural production. cessity for devoting attention to marketing problems became apparent and an Office of Markets in the Department of Agriculture was created This omoc subsequently developed into the Bureau of Mar- . kets. The function of this bureau is to assist the farmer in solving problems of marketing and distribution, as the “Bureaus of Plant and Animal Industry of the Department of Agriculture have for a great many years assisted him in solving problems of production. , man of Markets deals definitely with the selling end of farming and is. therefore, concerned With' questions of economics and business. It has been in existence about seven years and during this relatively short time has done pioneer work in an undeveloped field. - w '~ , The work of the Bureau of Markets covers the entire United States and it has branch offices ‘or representatives in about fifty places. A few years ago, however, the ne- The 311- .. keting, methods of accounting and business practice used by agencies engaged in the marketing cf farm products, co-operative associations of farmers for marketing farm products the purchasing of farm supplies, etc. The specific commodities to which the most attention has been given are cotton and cotton seed, live stock, meats and animal by-products, dairy products, grain, hay," feeds and seeds and fruits and vegetables. Already conspicuous achievements have been secured by establishing standard grades for farm, products, reducing waste caused [by faulty storage and shipping methods, and lowering costs of distribution of some agricultural products. One or two examples will indicate what it is pos- sible to accomplish by improving the present marketing methods. By developing an inexpensive storage house for sweet potatoes and widely advocating its use the loss by decay of the sweet potato crop has been reduced from 25 per cent to 2 per cent—a saving ofabout $2,000,- 000 a year. The president of a national bank in Marshall County, Texas, has stat— ed that the service rendered ’by the Bureau of Markets in connection with the assistance given cotton growers in grading and stapling cot— ton before sale has been worth $150,— 000 to the county. Another promi- nent man in Hall county, Texas, states that similar service perform- ed there has been worth $200,000. Hundreds of letters containing state— ments such‘as these regarding all ag-' ricultural products are continually received by the bureau. G. L. considers that the standard- ization of farm products and the con- tainers in which they are packed is fundamentally the most important work being performed by the hu- reau: a work that is basic to all im- provement in marketing, for Without established standards and grades there is no recognized basis for buy- ing and selling; no common language by which the parties to a transaction.- may understand each other; no uni— form standard of quality upon which values and prices may «be, based. ' Mandatory standards have been fixed for American Upland cotton, including grade, coor and length of staple; for shelled corn, wheat and oats and for climax baskets and con- tainers for small fruits, berries and vegetables. Permissive standards have been recommended for white potatoes, sweet potatoes, Bermuda onions, strawberries, Seo Island and— American—Egyptian cottons, and ten— tat-ive standards have been formu— lated for some other commodities. There is urgent need for the stand- ardization of hay, wool, live stock, dairy and poultry products. In the matter of hay alone many farmers have stated that 9-10, of the losses sustained in the hay business are due to a lack of standard grades and a uniform impartial inspection service. He also believes that the econom, ic waste caused by shipping products to glutted markets and away from under-supplied markets, will be pre— vented by the use of the Bureau of _ _ V l. .1, ., , , min-owns 'm‘m luv-«of _oepamnont chum-lam”. Ir. George V -—-< warms-wreck, . a . w—i‘nh; l . live stock and meats. , farmers. , Self has noblilee'in his ‘1 . . “I, N _ Be'His ' »' Markets, ’ii‘e‘Wsu/service, which many ."fariiiers‘nud of‘inestimable value. iii ~market‘in-g- their produce. These 're-‘ ports "coverjlive stock poultry and dairy products, fruits, vegetables. peanuts, cotton, hay, feed, and seed. ' The cantaloupe, grow- :ers and shippers of California state that this service togeth- er with the assistance given by personal representatives of the Bit— reau of‘ Markets, have saved “them $1,000,000 in a” single season. . ,The daily, weekly and monthly re- ports and' summaries showing market conditions, prices, movement, sup- -.ply and demand in connection with live stock, meats, wool, hides and skins; the preliminary standardiza- tion of classes and grades of these products; investigations of waste ,and .loss in marketing with suggestions for improved methods .and stock yard supervision calculated to detect and prevent‘dishonest practices have effected a stabilization of the live stock markets and, a saving of mil- . lions of dollars, directly and indirect- ly, to the producers, shippers, and handlers concerned. Prior to the establishment ofIthese market news services a few large or- ganizations only were able to. obtain reliable information on market con- ditions. Such information is _now available to producers and to all in- terested parties. This protects the small producer and dealer,’ brings about more stable conditions and bet— ter distribution, and'benefits con- sumers as well. ‘ To make its reports of the utmost practical usefulness, the bureau .has equipped itself with the fastest sys- tem of communication available to- day, and its branch offices in the great consuming and distributing markets are connected by leased tel- egraph lines operated by bureau tel- egraphers. These wires are busy from eight to twelve hours a day in the exclusive transmission of inform- ation which is vital to intelligent and successful food distribution. At one time during the war the bureau op- erated 17,000 miles of leased wires. These wires now extend about 5,000 miles and the mileage must be fur— ther decreased on account of reduced appropriations. Before the news services could be successfully operated it was neces- sary to get the co—operation of the railroads, to obtain information re- garding the earlot movement of cer- tain commodities. At the present time nearly 1,200 agents-on 474 rail- roads, involving 2'48,000- miles bf road, send in reports which are used in connection with the daily tele— graphic bulletins on fruits, vegetables Another important factor in -mar- keting is the Food Products Ins-pec- tion Service established by the bu- reau, by the use of which shippers and others interested. can obtain cer- tificates attesting the condition of their perishable products received at central markets; a service that facil- itates the distribution of the products covered, hastens the release of cars, lessens deterioration and waste on account of delays resulting from dis~ putes as to the condition of products, and prevents unfair trade practices. At the present time fruit and veg- etable inspectors are stationed at twenty—five markets, about 147». addi- tional markets being served from these stations. Butter inspectors are stationed in New York,.Philadelphia, Chicago and Boston. ‘ Then there is the organization of farmers' co-operative associations—- permanent, economic institutions that have a far:reaching-effect. There ' are now more «than 14,000 ’farmers' co-operative associations in the Unit- ed States, in the organization of many of which the bureauwas called upon to lend assistance. A staff of experts is maintained to study practical meth-‘ ads of. co-opera‘tive marketing and to ' place the results in the hands of the The writer endeavored to .dramut from George Livingston something about himself. But without. success, 03190 , 3 and meats, . pal ‘ tov Bat eqt soc the age ' pin . OI‘E ‘nui wit 0118 ac]: ect ave ive ail- act- ind see or- avin on- ow in- the 135 at. an- est 19.3 W. to- 11‘- i ‘ principally one, as At the left. the simple box-ilke maohlne In the center of picture I; the Eleotropure pasteurlzer. . The picture at. the right shows a corner of the bottllnq department. The machinery is both mod-em and sanitary. . Farmers Market Their Own Milk in Ohio City Story of How Milk Rroducers of Richland County, Ohio, Overcome Their Distributing Problems - ducers of Richland County, Ohio, were practically at the mercy of the regular distributors, this distributor had absorbed every other dealer of any consequence. Thus intrenched the survivor began a systematic ef— fort to' still further enrich himself at the expense of the producers. Not only was the price of milk and cream materially reduced but the weights, and tests were continually in ques— tion. Whole milk dropped to an av— erage for the year of $2.20 per hund- ‘red, or one hundred and ten‘ or twenty, depending'on how the‘ scales were set, for 3.5 per cent butter fat test and 4 cents a point above and that much less below. ~About a year before UP TO AUGUST, 1918 the pro- the above ,date a feeble effort had been made to oppose these high-handed meth- ods in the organization of a small company with ten thousand capital and named the Richland County Farmers Dairy and Produce Com- pany, but the most formidable part of this undertaking was its name. Nothing tangible was accomplished ‘ towards regulating or raising prices. Bad'management, small capital, poor equipment and'an inevitable deficit soon brought forth an S. O. S. from the few who still clung to the wreck— age. This call was answered by J. F. Rudd, President of the Electro- 1‘ pure Company, of Chicago. Mr. Rudd, who was an experienced ~organizer, met with the producers a 'number of times, and finally made, .them a proposition to organize The Mansfield Electropu-re Dairy '00., with a capital stock of $95,000, us- ing the Electropure process to treat - their milk instead of pasteurization. Some two hundred producers sub- scribed the stock and the most mod— ‘ern dairy machinery and equipment was installed, of sufficient capacity to handle one thousand gallons of milk, five hundred gallons of ice cream and two thousand pounds of butter a day, which if properly handl- ed. would make handsome returns on the investment. In Mansfield there was a ready market for that amount of dairy products-of a better quality ~ than was being furnished. , ' ‘But right here is where the direct- ,‘ors made the mistake which ‘has so often been made in organizations of . I \ this kind. . They seemed to think that almost anybody could manage a dairy " -’~~‘~;.distr'ibuting plant, and the worst part sot thestupidity was that they could [not-she, convinced of this vital error .untII’ifiour men had 'tried and failed, Leach leaving a number of excuses but at afésmgle reason—at, least not the .‘ié-‘htsxreason'ior their failure, until .314; Ruhl took charge as temporary n‘agen. . One thing that Mr. Ruhl V' few. better than anything e189 was entrant the dist! ib‘ut— 11011161111“ 8U est m is t- know anything about . 1‘?" (By Special Correspondent) within reason, who knew every phase of a dairy plant and of marketing the product. Mr. Ruhl’s idea of a manager was that he should be a man who had thoroughly learned the dairy busi- ness from the ground up. A man who could, if necessary, make good ice cream, churn butter scientifically, know how to treat and care for milk, utilize the by—products and above all, one who knew what bacteria were and how to keep them down to a min— imum by employing proper sanitary measures, proper treatment of milk and cream, clean bottles, clean pipes, clean cans and clean everything. He must understand that while ordinar- ily “cleanliness is next to godliness,” in the dairy business is a very part of godliness. After considerable effort Mr. Ruhl i succeeded in convincing the board of directors that he was right, and he Was author ized to look for a man meeting his specifications. This was no easy- task, because the men who would measure up all seemed to have better jobs, at better pay than his company could afford. ' But finally a plan was worked out whereby the manager would'become a direct partner in the business. He was to be given a small salary, fifty dollars a week, and fifteen per cent of the net profits. Under this ar- rangement J. L. Dickerson, a thor- ough dairy and creamery man, was attracted to the position. He at once began to do things. Not that his predecessors had 'not been active, but evidently through have been doing the wrong thing, because Mr. Dickerson’s very monthly balance sheet showed black figures at the end instead of red; and after three months of his manage— ment the company was earning at the rate of better than 16 per cent on the v inexperience ' first. entire Capital, and these figures are steadily increasing. I So much for the direct benefits. The indirect benefits to the produc- ers of Richland County are far great— er. As soon as The Mansfield Elect- ropure Dairy Company was ready to do business t ey announced that they would raise ‘t e price of whole milk to $3 per hundred for 3.5 per cent butter fat test and 5 cents a point above and ‘below, this price to be a minimum for the year. The other companies, of course, had to follow, which meant that every producer in the county was at once receiving 80c a hundred more for his milk, an es— timated increase of $4,000 a day, or $1,460,000 a year. At the present time the producer is receiving $3.50 a hundred for his milk, which is the Cleveland price, as compared with $2.20 received before the producers’ company was organized. The aver— age price paid in Cleveland in 1918 was $3.20, so the increase cannot be Wholly attributed to the general up— ward trend. There would have been no upward trend in Richland County if the producers had not taken the matter in their own hands and dem- onstrated that they could run their own business. The producers of Richland County are anxious that the story of their final success should be known to the producers of other parts of the coun- try, but are also very solicitous that other producers do not repeat their mistakes, should they undertake to solve their problem in a similar way. Electrical Pasteurization of Milk The method used by the Mansfield producers to pasteurize their milk is described in the July 3rd issue of the Literary Digest as follows: “The efficiency of the electrical method of sterilizing infected milk has been conclusively proved, accord— ing to The Lancet (London). The ’. the; objectionable qualities of p, _, ized milky We will ha’ 9 ‘ conclusion now is that milk can be rendered free from intestinal bacilli and those of tuberculosis by the elect— rical method described without rais- ing the temperature higher than 63 degrees or 64 degrees C. Says the writer: . “ ‘The temperature effect is very short in duration and in itself is not the principal. fact-or in the des‘truc-" tion of the bacteria. It is stated that. though the milk is not sterilized in the strict sense of the word, yet the percentage reduction of the bacteria taken over a period of a fortnight, is 99.93. “ ‘The keeping power of the milk appears to be increased, the taste is not altered, and, so far as careful chemical examination can determine, the properties not impaired, it is definitely‘stated that the milk so treated can be described accurately as raw milk free from pathogenetic bacteria. No very extensive work has been done nor safe conclusions deducted as to the biological value of the milk so treated, but so far ’ba'bies fed on this milk are reported to have done ‘extremely’ well. The bacteri- cidal effects are attributed not to- the direct action of the current, as such, upon the bacilli, but to the heat generated in its passage. “ ‘The opinion is expressed that in the electrical method the current raises the temperature of the milk more quickly than occurs in simple heat-sterilizing, and since this cur- rent passes through every part of. the milk the heat which it generates.- reaches the whole of the fluid at the same moment. We note that the electrodes used are made of cop er, and it is known that traces of this, metal serve a bactericidal purpose, but in the report it is stated that no s .,' - 4 \", trace of any copper or other. metal ' 7 i could be found. “ ‘The Medical Research Commit-~' tee concludes that this work has pre- sented us with ‘an elegant and prac- tical method of purifying milk for. human consumption, of which the, use upon a large scale becomes now a problem for closer financial and ad.- ministrative examination.’ ” Economic Value of ,Method THE BUSINESS FARMER understands that tests of this machine have def- initely proven its economic adva ages over the old method of pastel}. rization. 'It is stated that the ma chine can be operated frem’one-_ fourth to .one—third the cost 01,0' ' ating the steam pas‘teurizer. 1 L of the M. A. 0., and by mambo ‘ the Detroit Board of Health see a prove that the product is‘of a; u"; usually high quality, new say in a , later tissue afie- 14.1.3.9; J i" i ) , rate increase granted by the Inter- ’ state Commerce commission will cease lower prices. And it is quite likely. as ofllcials of railroads oper- oflng- east from and St. Louis report labor conditions better ' and increan emclency in the hand- ling of, height. and the roads are rapidly clearing away, the freight ’ congestion. Grain markets have de- clined in the face of small receipts to the fact that even though supplies were small they exceeded the demand, and if larger receipts are received at the markch and there will be an increased move- mentofgrainassoonastherail- mods get the present congestion cleared away—prices will decline even faster than they have been re- cently. Another factor that is hearing the markets is the credit out- look. Europe is curtailing her ex- ports' from this country because oef recent decrease in the exchange val- ue of her money in the United States. Credit she cannot get so her imports must decrease. Companies have been formed here in this country to assist foreign countries by advanc- ing credit to them, but these com- panies have gone no further, as the officials have began to wonder when they would get their money back, and, even though they can get high interest rates, it does not appeal to them with markets and finances in the present condition. These com- panies were formed, however, before the present slump in prices. Credit for citizens of this country continues rather tight, especially for the man that Wishes to speculate’ on Wall Street. Men that deal in \Vall Street stocks has been in the habit of bor- rowing around 80 per cent of their money on their‘securities but there is nothing doing at the banks on bus- iness of this kind now. One banker says that it is his opinion that mon- ey will never be as plentiful again on Wall Street as it has been up to the last few months. ,. Last Saturday the Interstate Com- merce Commission decided how the ,Wall sm-quthatflne DETROIT—Wheat easy. Corn quiet and Oats scarce and firm. Beans inactive and steady."0attle and hog markets slow. CHICAGO—Grains are weak and demand Both cattle and hogs are steady to strong. Hay in demand. ' lots: no». Muhammad , Is “(In "as. Mum-m to prom—Edna. _ small-smut» we! 1... ' increased freight rates will be ap- plied ln the state of Illinois. They granted the roads the right to in- crease the rates 40 per cent on inter- state traffic between Illinois and east— ern territory and a 35 per cent in- crease between Illinois and western territory. The commission states that this state is so situated that it may be regarded as partly in the eastern territory and partly in the western. We have been unable to learn whether this will also apply to Michigan or not, but after reviewing the conunission’s decision regarding the “Sucker State” there is no ques- tion but that we will be partly, if not entirely, within the 40 per cent limit. The war news, which has been pushing grain prices Skyward, has worn itself out and prices are again easy in all grains but corn. It is believed that the only thing that would cause grains, excepting corn, to advance at present would be re- ports of serious crop damage, but the only crop that can be damaged seri- ously is corn as other crops are har- vested or too far along. There are re- ports from the west of damage to the corn crop by early frosts. These re- ports have given the corn market strength during the past few days which we feel sure is only temporary. Apparently there is only one chance for higher prices and that is ship- pers being unable to secure cars, but this will have to happen between (POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT) 3. He advocates the products. ties. their families. .MARTINDALE 1. He was born one. farm and. has lived on one most of his life. 2. He owns and operates under his large well—equipped Oakland County and is a mem- ber of the Michigan Farm Bureau. _ providing of certain facilities by the — State for the better handling and marketing of farm 4. He favors lake to ocean route as an outlet to Mich- igan products and agateway for Michigan necessi- 5. He believes in generous treatment of service—men and He has had broad experiencin State slfairs as Repre— sentative. Senator and Secretary of State and as such took great interest in advancement of child welfare”, pure food laws, health laws, roads and the betterment of term conditions. He has at heart the highest good relation “at velopment of its business, social and religious life. ' MARTIND‘ALE. ' FOR GOVERNOR. ‘ Frederick C. FOR GOVERNOR OF THE- STATE OF MICHIGAN personal supervision a farm in‘ State ,.. laws relating to good of the State, the nor- now and next spring as anflzorifles believe that there will be plenty of new cars and locomotives by next spring. r, WHEAT WEAKEN S WHEAT PRICES PER 30., AUG. 17, 1920 o lbstrolt l Chicano I. Y.“ No. 2 “Id . . . . ‘2.47 2.54% 2.87 N6. 2 WM“ . . . 2.45 2.55 '/a 2.87 No. 2 Mlxed 2.45 2.80 PRICES ONE YEAR AGO Grads IDstrolt I Chicago I N. v. No. 2 Red . . . ; 2.2km No. 2 Whlte . . . 2.21 V. 2.32 lo. 2 Mlxed . . . 2.21 ‘/2 2.32 The war news has been dissipated and no longer gives strength or in-_ fluences the trend of prices in the wheat market as it did a week ago. The market is weak but prices are higher than they were at the close of last week. Wheat, for the pres- ent, is not expected to ;decline as fast as it did owing to the increase ’in shipping demand. Demand from the mills is strong at all milling point excepting Detroit. Export de- mand is very large again. Most of this export trading is done through the gulf ports. Some of these ports have their yards full of loaded cars that cannot be handled because of the failure of ships to arrive. Gov— ernment crop reports of August lst, for Michigan, show early threshing returns of winter Wheat indicate poor yields in the southwestern part of the state owing to, Hessian fly dam- age and winter-killing, but in other sections the yield is about normal.‘ The reported average: for this state is 15 bushels per acre. This puts the entire crop for Michigan at 12,- 855,000 bushels. Last year 19,285,- 000 bushels were produced. The U. S. Department of Agriculture in its August lst report forecasts the spring wheat yield for t "United States to be 262,000,000 bushe‘ls'as against 291,000,000 bushels for last month. They place the amount of winter Wheat at 533,000,000 bushels while the July lst forecast was 518,- 000,000 bushels. This makes the total for all Wheat 795,000,000 bush— els, or 74,000,000 bushels less than July lst report. CORN EASY CORN PRICES PER 30.. AUG. 11, i820 . Grads (Detroit [ehleasol N. Y.» No. a Yellow 7. . 1.10 I 1.859% 1.80% No. 3 Yellow . . . I No. 4 Yellow .. l I ruinous oii'Yffit—"Ado Grads lDetrolt [Ohlcagol N.~!,_ No. a Yellow . . . 2.08 2.04 2.06 No. 8 Yellow . . . 2.00 2.01 ' No. 4 Yellow . . 2.02 1.01 Enough strength was, gained by the corn market from dlflerent sourc- r... "the present condition be‘ ' ' tained, but in Order to mature , will have to have snfllclent mutiny..g: duringthe next ten or newsman, ‘ The farmers living near Brighton'in Livingston county suffered -.consider+ , table damage to their corn cropr "7 ' hall last week. Some report fields a complete loss. Thesauru- ment reports we will have 8,002,000.: 000 bushels of corn from the looks. This is a substantial over - last month's prediction. ‘ 1:101:18.” farmer reports corn too, way it gain in his state, "and first there will be a bumper crop there: ' "oars fireman oar sensors: no” snow 11, «no credo Wt l I. Y. No. 2 Vlth . 1.00 ' .75 .0. ' Ho. 8 WM“ . . . .99 .7396 No. 4 Whlts .. . . .98 , ‘ games one even: see , arst [Detroit].onqu I N._ Y. Standard 4 T . . . . . . .31 .15 No. 8 Whit. I . . .30 .74 lo. C White .79 Oat markets are experiencing a very good demand but a serious shortage of receipts and consumers are beginning to worry about where A they are going to get enough of this grain to supply them until October. They do not make much use of the new crop for feeding until that time. According to Verne H. Church, U. S. Bui‘eau of Crop Estimates, the pres- ,. ent condition of oats in Michigan promises a yield of 52,490,000 bush- els. The crops is 30 per cent better than it was last year at this time, and six per cent better than the ten . The yield for the en- a year average. tire United States is estimated by the Bureau of Crop Estimates to be 1,402,000,000 bushels,‘or 154,000,-' - 000 bushels more than was harvested last year.‘ RYE IN ACTIVE DEMAND Like wheat, the rye market ad- vanced on foreign buying and then declined later but there is‘so little rye on'the ma‘rket that theprice has not declined very fast. There is not much local milling demand to hold the price up where it is, but reports are about that Germany is taking rye rather freely under cover. The gov- ernment report suggests a crop of 77,900,000 bushels for the country, which is over 9,000,000 bushels less than last year. Rye rules steady on Detroit market at $2.05 for No. 2. BEANS QUIET BEAN mucus PER cw1'., sun. 11. 1920‘ Grade Ioecmlt'l'chloagol ILL c. n. P. . . . . 6.25 I 7.oo 1 3.00 Red Kidneys 415.50 111.50 PRICES our vans AGO Grade lDotrolt Ichlcsgo] N. Y. o. H. P. . . . . ..| 3.25 l l_ . . . . . .. i I We have another decline to report in bean prices on the Detroit mar- ket. They declined 15c during the current week, but the market is fair- ly steady and quiet. Regarding the future trend of the bean market, J. Ralph Pickell, the prominent grain . market authority, says, “Look for higher values. between now and 0c- tober." The average condition ‘of beans in this state, as reported by. government agents, is 90 per cent, , and. if this conditions - is maintain- ed from new on throughout the fall PH 0 . Rod” Kidneys e . . .I we will have a. yield of about 8,194,- ” 000 bushels. It is estimated that the yield for the six leading states will be 11,417,006 bushels, which is any 71,000 bushels less than last year's yield. _ Remember we m higher prices. _ ' g -_ g _. " truncationss‘eurw _' m r..-....v...... m .a......‘.....v.:.. coco-hose... couscous-owner "‘”"“°mmFS——————-——d' :. 1 r i 1.. , ’l l ~’.: New York iss.oo@45l ' ‘ I’m-hm . '1 ‘ Pitcairn" _ year’s production. 'nriix'ed, $15.75@1s; and- yearlings $17.25; ' . $16.25@17.15; . ‘ ' caverage325c lower; plain heavy cat— ;yigm I- of " I I! mfih-ithan Was produc- , estimated crop for _ fitted States is" 402,000,000 ’ H | Last-year’s yield was only {9000.000 bushels. HAY FIRM ., g ' [No.1Tlm.|8tnn.Tlm.lIo.2Tlm. t . . i88.00@88l84.00 0 36.33.00 @ 34 1 00®40l 29.00@31 32.00 (8, 41 [85.50 8 8532.50 9 8380.00 @ 31 1 No.3 I No. 1 No. 1 y , [Light fllx. IGIover Mix. I clover {firm , . . [84.00 @ 351 [30.00 @ 31' , ork' ' .oo @ 41l28.00 34 Fulcrum .Egdno @ 31! @ . HAY pmcss A “nice ‘ f No.1 Tim.l_stan. TirnJ No. 2 Tim. 5mm . .mno oezlaonoosztzuoooso . . .ooauomoo as: access Ilu It moon ooeuaanooaz , \ No.1 9 No.1 ..I.1 luau limictover me “clover mu . . inauguratoo crimson o 20 . omhhmv’wi '}ac.oo @ so 20 oo assign” a 82 than" . ' ! Hey it firm and in better demand than. supply. The crop has made some improvement during the last 'month and the totai production for the state is estimated to be 3,359,- 000 tons, which is slightly above the yield of last year. Clover .is averag- ing 1.16-tons per acre. The govern— ment places the yield for the United States at 88,600,000 tons, which is only 2,700,000 tons lees than last 'I-Iay prices -are expected to advance owing to the in- ability to secure cars to ship in. . WOOL MARKETS The wool market continues pract— ically unchanged in its stagnant con- dition, with almost no wool moving at least not enough to base fair quo— tations on, as most of what has changed hands has been at what amounts to forced sale, or else has ‘ been bought by those who had to have the wool to keep going. Prices are quoted “nominally” as high as 70c, still, but the practical top is 50c for the very best'wools which have been sold. _ All interests are keeping a sharp eye on the market, according to re— ports, “however, and any indications of activity will be closely followed by all concerned, as the feeling is becoming more and more general that the present "dead" condition ‘ cannot continue indefinitely longer. LIVE STOCK MARKETS "DETROIT—Cattle: Market steady at last week’s close, but trade very slow; some goingover unsold; best heavy steers, $12@13; best heavy steers, $9.50@10.50; mixed steers land heifers, $7.50@8.50; handy light butchers, $6.50@7.25; light butchers, $5.75@6.25; best cows, 38 8.25; butcher cows, $6@7; cut- ters, $4.75@5; canners, $4@4.50; best heavy bulls, $7.50@7.75; bo- logna bulls, $6@7; stock bulls, $5.50 @5325; feeders, $8@9; stockers, $6 @8; milkers and springers, $70@ 140. Veal calves—Market very slow at last week’s close; quality very common; 'heavy cull-s 50c to $1 lower best $18@18.50; others, $76114. Sheep and lumber—Market 50c to 75c lower; common thin lambs very dull; almost unsalable; best/lambs; $11@ 12; fair lambs, $9.50@11; light to common lambs, $6@8; fair to good sheep, $6636.50; culls and common, $2604. ~Hogs—Market slow; good heavy, $15@ 15.50; pigs, $15@15.25; roughs, $12 @1275; stags, $86010. , CHICAGO-v—Cattle: Light and ‘ handy weight steers steady to strong, top lightweight $17.50 best heavies bulk choice, others steady, slow, tie, ,vef‘ry draggy, bulk good grades, $§£61@l.5.75; ’grassers mostly $9.60 $34.50; good to. best’cows, .310.@ :' neatly . steady; ...medium cows, 'Biifi‘x0@9;59‘;fl unevenly 25c lower; 5c? ioWer; spot Bacon; bolog- " ‘ “3.6.2.5 6.71.50; veal calves others; 25, toiflc .a. , W-“ 13,...wm be, 4‘17,6’_,.5with Saturday’s «average; ‘ . ;~ canners and cutters, $4.25@ a ' J‘s . " “t closingasserts-strong- ’ hers" V. ' gathers steady, to- 10c loser: top, 310; bull: light and butchers, $15.26@*15.85; bulk packing sows, $14.15@14.50; pigs strong; bulk desirable, kinds, $14.25@15; Sheep, killing classes, steady to 250 lower; top western lambs, $13; top native lambs, $12.75 bu-k $11@12.25; tat eWes, largely $7@7.25; good Montana wethers, bid, $7.75; feeding lambs steady, the bulk good and choice, $12@12.40. THE PALMER BROTBEBS’ CASE According to reliable sources, Alexander MacVittie, Tuscola county agent, has made public charges against the quality and method of selling, which the Palmer Brothers, Belding, have employed in disposing of Shorthorn bulls, which he claims they imported from Canada. Several of our readers have writ- ten to us within the current week, asking if these charges were, true. We ' had previously begun investigations, because we are determined to “play fair" in a matter hi this kind. Un- der date of August 13th, Palmer Brothers, make the following state- ment to us: “In the matter of the slanderous publicity recently given our busi- ness in the Michigan press, we wish «TEE; is ~i . ‘ As renewed by w. r. Ci .... / / WASHINNGTON D. 0, Aug. 21, 1920—Late great improvements in my forecasts will begin with the first of November next. Warm waves will reach Vancouver, B. C., near Aug. 26 and temperatures will rise on all the Pacific slope and over the middle and northern Rockies. Its center will move southeastward, reaching St. Louis on about 28. Its path will be by way of Salt Lake. It will continue south- east from St. Louis, reaching Atlanta about 29, then northeastward, reach- ing Ottawa. and eastern sectiOns about Aug, 30 or 331. Very warm weather I to express our appreciation of your withholding judgment until you have given us an opportunity to show you our side of the case. “My brother and myself were in Lansing yesterday to present our case to the extension department, but found them all in northern Michi- gan on institute work. It is our in- uin Fen Ecuador. I will’prevaii ‘ " A" v summer. central path The con part or. low-ion center will rollovth about one day behind and the noble; wave center about two days behind. This disturbance will have than average force; will be larger than usual: more. rain is y _ from it than past averages of this My forecasts have said that §ulgust would bring more rain than - u y. - ~— I am expecting ,very destructive ‘, frosts in our northern states and the Canadian provinces east of Rockies’ crest during the week centering on< Sept. 11. Much of the corn .crop is late and, as I see it, will be' badly. damaged. These frosts will also damage some of the late crops in Canada. 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He had slept placidly for two ‘hours, occasionally nodding his head and muttering profoundly, although the case was a grave one, in- volving twenty years in San Juan, where the strongest could not sur- vive ten years. dence or argument. was called, decision and sentence were in his mind, having been put there by the Jefe. "The .prisoner’s lawyer ceased his perfunctory argu- ment, ‘the clerk of the court sneezed and the judge woke up. He looked about him briskly and said: “Guilty.” . ' No one was surprised, not even the prisoner. ~ “Appear tomorrow. morning sentence—Next case.” Having so ordered the judge pre- pared -to settle down into another nap,‘when he saw Torres and the Jefe enter the‘fcourtroom. A gleam in the Jefe’s eye was his cue, and he abruptly-dismissed court for the day. “I have been to Dodrig ez Fer- nandez,” the Jets was explaining five minutes later in the empty courtroom “He says it was a natural gem, and that much would be lost in the cut- ting, but that nevertheless he would still give five hundred gold for it.— Show it to the judge, Senor Torres, and the rest of the handful of big ones." ’ And Torres began to lie. He had to lie, because he could not confess the shame of having had the gems taken away from him by the Solan- es and the Morgans when they threw him out of the hacienda. 'And so convincingly did he lie that even the Jefe he convinced, While the judge, except in the matter of brands of strong liquor, accepted I everything the Jefe wanted him to believe. In brief, shorn of the multitude of de- tails that Torres threw in, his tale was that he was so certain of the jeweler’s under-appraisal that he had despatched the gems by special mes- senger to his agent in Colon with in- structions to forward to New York to Tiffany’s for appraisement that might lead to sale. As they emerged from the court- room and descended t}; several steps that were flanked by single adobe pillars marred by bullet scars from previous revolutions, the Jets was saying: And so, needing the aegis of the law for our adventure after these gems, and, more than that, both of us loving our good friend the judge, we will let him in for a modest share of whatever we shall gain. He shall represent us in San Antonio while we are gone, and, if needs be, fur- nish us with the law’s protection.” Now it happened that behind one of the pillars, hat pulled over his face Yi Poon half sat, half reclined Nor was he there by mere incident. Long ago he had learned that secrets of value, which always connoted.the troubles of humans, were markedly prevalent around courtrooms, which were the local points for the airing of such troubles when they became acute. One could never tell. At any moment a secret might leapat one or brim over to one. Therefbre it was like a fisherman casting his line into the sea for Yi Poon 'to watch the witnesses for and against, and-even the court‘hanger-on or casual seem- ing, onlooker. for So, on this'morning, the one per-l son ofpromise that" Yi Poonxfihad picked «out was: a ragged“*bld peon » who looked as if ,heahadbeen, drinks? ing" too-much, and yet would serial? inlhislconditmnot reaction I (it But there was no need for..the judge to considert‘evi- » Before the case ‘ the terror of it. not get another drink verywnnmeal: ately. Bleary-eyed he was, and‘red lidded, with desperate resolve paint-P ed on all his haggard withered line- aments. emptied, he had taken up his stand outside on the steps close to a pillar. And why? Yi .P.oon had asked himself. Inside remained only the three chief men of San Antonio—the Jefe, Torres and the Judge. What connection between them, or any of them, and the drink—sodden creature that shock as if freezing in the blaz- ing rays of the direct sun-rays? Yi Poon did not know, but he did know that it was worth: while waiting'on 'achance, no matter how remote, of finding out. So, behind the pillar, where no atom of shade protected him from the cooking sun which he detested,- he lolled: on the steps with all the impersonation of one placidly infatuated with sunbaths. The old; peon tottered a step, swayed as if about to fall, yet managed to deflect Torres from his companions, who paused to="wait for‘ him on the pave- ment a dozen paces on, restless and hot footed ‘as if they stood on a grid, though deep in earnest conversation. And Yi Poon missed no word nor gesture, nor glint of eye nor shifting face line, of the dialogue that took place betWeen the grand Torres and the wreck of a peon. ' “What now?” Torres Demanded. “Money, a little money, for thé love of God, senor, a little money,” the ancient peon whined. “You have had your money,” Tor- res snarled. “When I went away I gave you double the amount to last you twice as long. Not for two weeks yet is there a centavo due you.” “I am in debt,” was the old man’s whimper, the while all the flesh of him quivered and trembled from the nerve-ravishment of the drink so jalpably recently consumed. “On the pulque slate at Peter and Paul’s,” Torres, with a sneer, diag. nsed unerrlngly. ' ' “On the pulque slate at Peter and Paul’s,” was the frank acknowledge- ment. “And the slate is full. No more pulque can I get credit for. x I am wretched and suffer a thousand torments without my pulque.” “You are avpig creature without reason !” A strange dignity, as of wisdom beyond wisdom, seemed suddenly to animate the old wreck as be straight- ened up, for the nonce ceased from trembling, and gravely said: “I am Old. There is no vigor left in the veins nor the heart of me. The desires of my youth are gone. Not eVen may I labor with this broken body of mine, though well I know that labor is an easement and a for- getting. Not even may I labor and forget. Food is a distaste in my mouth and a pain in my belly. Wo- men—they are a pest that it is a vexation to remember even having desired. Children—I buried my last a. dozen years gone. Religion—«it frightens me. Death—J sleep with Pulque—ah, dear God ! the one tickle and taste of liv- ing left to me! ‘ - “What if I drink over much? It is because I have much to forget, and 'have but little space'yetto linger in the sun, ere, the Darkness, for my old eyes, blots out the sun forever.” Impervious to the old man’s phil- osophy, Torres made an impatient threat of movement that he was go- ing. “A few pesos, just a handful cf‘ pesos," the old peon pleaded. ‘ “Not .a cen'tavo," Torres said with finality. - “Very well," said thebld man with equal finality. ~ 4 ' ~ ‘ ' “What do you' ‘mean?”, , R - Torres ( rasped with swift suspicion. ' ' “Have you‘forgotten?” was the re-' _ tort, With such emphasis of signifi- canceas to—‘niake Yi Pooh wonder ' fonwhat reason Torres ' west? assassin, pens phi-nan no .f When the court room had , . ,. Chlnaman,” in his:- pOsture 'hind res should have murdered one them" was indeed a secret cf» price. “Beast ! , imal of the dirt l” ‘ Torres’_ clenched in his rage. send you‘ to San Juan. You know what that means. . Not only willyou' sleep with the terror of death, but never fer a moment of Waking will _ you be free of the terrorof living as you stare upon thebuzzards that will V surely and shortly peck your bones;- And there will' be no pulque in San Juan. There isnever any pulque in San Juan for the men I send‘therei' So? Eh? I thought so.‘ You will wait two weeks for the proper time when I shall again give you money. If you do not wait, then never,'this' side cf'your interment in the bellies of buzzards, again.” Torres whirled on his heel and was gone. YiPoon watched him and his two_cbmpanions go down the street, roun'dedjthe pillar to find the old' peon'sunk dewn‘in collapse at his disappointment of not getting any pulque, groaning and. moaning and making sharp [little yelping cries, his body quivering as dying animals quiver in the final throes, his fingers . picking at his flesh and garments as if picking off centipedes. Down be- side him sat Yi Poon, Who began a, remarkable performance of his own.“ Drawing gold coins and silver ones. from his pockets he began to count over his-money with chink and clink that was mellow and liquid and that to the distraught peon’s ear was as: the sound of the rippling and riffling of fountains of pulque. ' "We are wise," Yi Poon told him in grandlloquent Spanish, still clink- ing the money,‘while the peon whin- ed and yammered for the few cents- vos necessary for one drink of pul- que. “We are wise, you and I, old man, and we will sit here and tell each other what, we know about men and women, and life and love, and: anger and sudden death, the rage red in the heart and the, steel bitter cold in the back; and if you tell me what pleases me, then 'shall you drink pulque till your ears run out with it, and your eyes are drowned in it. You like that pulque, eh? You like one drink now, now, soon, very quick?” “ , - The night, while the Jets Politico and Torres organized their expedi- tion under cover of the dark, was destined to be a momentous one in the Solano hacienda. Things began to happen early. Dinner over, drink- ing their coffee and smoking their cigarettes, the family, of which Hen— ry was accounted one by virtue of his brotherhood to Leoncia, sat on. the wide front veranda. Through the moonlight, up the steps, they saw a strange figure approach. , “It is like a ghost,” said Alvarado Solano. ‘ “A fat ghost,” said Martinez his twine brother. ' “A Chink ghost you couldn’t poke 1 your finger through,” Ricardo laugh- ed. . , “The very Chink who saved Leon- cia and me from marrying,” _said H’enry Morgan with recognition. “The seller of secrets,” Lconcia gurgled. “And if he hasn’t brought a new secret, I Shall be disappoint- ‘ l‘Whai: do you want ~Chinhuman". *Ale'sangiro, the eldest. of ‘ "glee" new secret, "v‘eryi'nice; no secret maybe you buy,”fiYi=Pop “m” " murerrproudlyfi ‘ a _ Z “Your- secrets are 'too “exp jn rice di ou the pillar, * Yi Poona metaphdrs mallysat up. The Science were per; sons of-‘place‘ and wealth, ,, ThetTori: _ o Pig "without reason i'lAn- hands, . "(Because -‘;I;i am kind do you treat me thus: bl‘abbling' of your tongueand I will f will you drink pulque . . the Splash) 1 brothers demandedsharply. 4 ' Igm hert twei kne' 1 into kno papa} l stra ’vhun nfltl lay ridd the . Liar ‘ God ' kep' scaf life hear an on to t tle t awa on ' pul’t crox ,3. W ach und bars hidi saw the 1480 hair ratt Win “.pers chei whi mys W’ail H hing-“you have very lune , g gnheilsaid. “One time your (brother, ‘ the :Senor Alfaro ._ Some secret. chi“? . Bx gEhicovr‘vas on his feet quiv- ‘eager interrogation. ‘ w much?" Yi Poon said. _ , y. .I possess !” Enrico cried, ere ,urnflngzptoAlesandro to add: “You " ;with him, son. Pay him well it an prove by witness of the eye." 'Ypu‘bet,” quoth Yi Poon. “I got witness. He got good eye-sight. He ‘s’eey.man stick knife in the Senor Al- ’{iarOfs back in the dark. His name " ‘f‘Yes, yes,” Enrico breathed his m .a'vBuSpgfise. r . at; > ;‘fOne thousand dollars his name,’ [11 ‘ aid Yi‘ Poon hesitating to make up as- his mind to .what kind of dollars he my leould’dare to claims “One thousand ,5... ., ollars gold,” he concluded. m ngnrico forgot that he had deputed [n “the transaction to his eldest son. he; “Where is your witness?" he “1' shouted. \ (it; 19 _ And Yi Poon calling, softly down yt ‘ k. the steps into the shrubbery, evoked 13' the pulque-rataged peon, a real— 35 looking ghost who slowly advanced ,9— “ and tottered up the steps. ’ At the same time, on the edge of m- } town, twenty mounted men, among is _ whom were the gendarmes, Rafael, m ,y Ignacio, Augustine and Vincente, [d- ' * herded a pack train of more than is ~ twenty mules and waited the com- iy «A mand of the Jere to depart on they [d I ,knew not what mysterious adventure is r ‘. into the Cordilleras. What they did It; know was that, herded carefully rs \ depart from all other animals, was a is .. strapping big mule loaded with two e_ hundred and fifty pounds of dyna- a I mite. Also, they knew that the de- n, V , lay was due to Senor Torres, who had 3‘ ridden away along the beach with it' the dreaded Caroo murderer, Jose k . Mancheno, who, only by the grace of it _ ‘ I God and of the Jets Politico, had been _ “ kept for years from expiating on the ‘ls’ scaffold his various offenses against 3- I ‘ life and law. 7 And, while Torres waited on the m _. ‘ . beach and held the Caroo’s horse and K‘ 1 an extra horse, the Caroo ascended 1' , " on foot the winding road that led 34' to the hacienda of the Solanos. Lit- 1‘ , ' tle did Torres guess that twenty feet ‘1 . away, in the jungle that eucroached u on the beach, lay a placid sleeping, ‘n ' pulque drunken, old peon, with, ‘11 ' crouching beside him, a very alert :3 , _,a very sober Chinese with a recently ’1' ‘ acquired thousand dollars stowed l9 ' under his belt. Yi Poon had had ‘1 ‘ barely time to drag the peon into lt hiding when Torres rode along in the d ’ sand and stopped‘almost beside him. u ' Up at the hacienda all members of 'y . the household were going to bed. ' 4 Leoncia just starting to let down her 10 1 hair, stopped when she heard the 1- ' rattle of tiny pebbles against her L8 Windows. Warning her in low whis- n J “.pers to make no noise, Jose Man- n cheno‘ handed her a crumpled note t- whiCh Torres had written, saying it » ‘ mysteriously: [— ‘ “From a strange Chinaman who it waits not a hundred feet away on n. . the edge of the shrubbery.” h A And Leoncia read in execrable 97 Spanish. “First time I tell you secret about 0 “ ‘Henry Morgan. This time I have ' secret about Francis. You come a 7 '0 along and talk with me now.” Leoncia’s heart leaped at mention 3 of Francis, and as she slipped on a i- mantle and accompanied the Caroo 7 L “it never entered her head to doubt 1- that Yi Peon was waiting for her. ‘1 And Yi Poon, down on the beach and spying upon ‘Torres, had _no a doubts when he saw the Caroo mur- 1 derer appear with the Solano senorita ouhd and gagged, slung across his “boulders like a sack .of meal. Nor I'Yo Poon have any doubts about action, when he saw Leoncia ~ the. saddle or the spare ~ ‘nd‘ take away down the beach ""galiop,“with Torres and the "riding-on either side of her. the pulque sodden new to at so sat! a pace that he 7 ass at the hacienda, ‘ w “h knocking () , die with'i‘knife in his ’back.’ at Chinaman togk the road '- at [the ‘ ' YQQCan’t CompeteWith M ac" Mixing feedonthefarmisold i;- k ioned, like with am The modern time and money saving wayisto haveitdonebymachinery r rooLbs. Tl UN I C 8 RN MIR? um i ' A O '3 t“ o ' mo: um: I WW5 PRUIUN . 23“); EAT 4.5% l CARBWYDRATES 5 Avatar. mt cnnfi‘iifé to. "endorse, may “Better Sires-BetterStoclc" We will award a money prize of $1,000 to the county that first eliminates its inferior sires. This prize will be awarded under rules provided by the Bureau of Animal Industry, United States Department of Agriculture. Detailed information on request. Labor is scarce and high You 1 on a large scale. Inourmiflswemix-atonofUnim. Dan'y. ° Ration in one mln' ate at, a power cost of afew Cents. ' , l can use yours more profitany on other work. ‘2 Unicorn requires no labor. Ready. to feed, you get it as you need it. No worry or work of on hand a supply of many Mercia kinds of feed. Made of the best feeds. Put togaher in the right way by men who have learned by experience Be Wise. You can’t compete with machinery. lower your milk ductiou cost by feeding Unicorn. CHAPIN Sr COWANY, Chicago "—35:4- . ~( I —- .—-v -l-..—- _ .. _,M-_ ‘_‘__‘ . . .. . as ,i. .. .. .._.»,, Us} ’ CREAM SEPA TOR ;; . wx sxecrs Dis 0L K’smlllmmm: l fi r). l #7,! — Salt Lake City 1-." :: Perfection- is it too much expect? A machine may be said to have reached perfection when, through mechanical and engineering ex. cellence, it renders a dogma: of senior: in money- and labor-saying never before attained. Years ago, the United States Cream the of perfection as a money saver, by in opbn . " “ n the world’s record for close separation—a record tint still stands. ' The perfecting of the United Scares Disc Bowl is the bet; achievement in cream separator building. With this notable n19 finement, the laboresaying features of the United States challenge: and welcome all comparisons. Thosewhoknowtheeaseofoyermon‘ ,the ‘ pimp ofclcaninghsay the United Sateen: rem mthemossimportantdctzilofmflk ' ‘ . Write for liter-mire today—~but be sure to have th 11de ‘ Snares dealer near yor ’show the machine itself. 6 U Vermont Farm Machine Corporation Bellows Falls, Vt”. Chicago, 111. Portland. ' l ' ‘: .ypehas v been ¢n ibdefiengent d d " C wne n v .r ted in Michigan. For? SATURDAY. AUGUST 3 21, 1920 Published every Saturday by the RURAL PUBLISHING GOMPANV. Inc. Mt. Clemens, Mlchlgan . ' Members Agricultural Publishers Association Represented in New York. Chicago. St. Louis and Minneapolisby the Associated Farm Papers .Incorporsted GEORGE M. 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When renewals are sent it usually requires 3 weeks time before the label is changed. Advertising Rates: Forty-five' cents per agate line. 14 lines to the column inch, 768 lines to page. ' Live Stock and Auction Sale Advertising: We offer special low {ateihto reputable breeders of live stock and poultry; write un or cm. OUR GUARANTEED ADVERTISERS “’e respectfully ilSk our roadch to favor our ad- vertisers when Dossiblc. 'l‘hcir catalogs and prices are cheerfully scnt free, and we guarantee you against loss providing you say when writing or or- dering from them. “I saw your ad. in my Michigan §:V___~ Businch Former." M w__ Entered us second-class matter, at post-oiilcc, hit. Clemens, Mich. Unemployment ' ‘NE OF the greatest possible afflictions that can come to a nation is wide-spread unemployment. Fortunately we have not had this condition to contend with in this country fer a number Of years, but there is no certain- ty that we shall entirely escape it. Six weeks ago the woolen mils closed down, and threw ten thousand men out of work. Last week it is reported, automobile tire factories in Ak- ron, 0., reduced their working force, relieving 25,000 men of their jobs. Although the nation as a whole is suffering from a shortage of labor, it will be some time before these 35,000 men can secure other labor to which they are ac- customed. In the meantime, their income has stopped. Probably a few have been saving and have a bank account to fall back upon. A large number, however, have probably lived from hand to mouth as is quite customary these days, and will be confronted for the first time in yearswith the problem of securing enough money to feed and clothe themselves and families. Some have said that labor would be merely getting its just dues if it were obliged to beg for a job and a living. But we cannot take any such harsh view as that. We have no desire to see bread lines in this land of plenty and pros- perity. The rank and file of the laboring peo- ple are honest. They return a. dollar’s worth of labor for each dollar received. With the cost of living where it is they are receiving no more than they must have to live com fortohiy. ’l'hcy are not to blame for the rash and uncom- promising attitude that some of their leaders 'havc assumed toward industry. Moreover, pcrhaps if we analyze that attitude it may not sccm so unreasonable as many have supposed. For years the laboring classes have earned barely enough to keep the wolf from the door. Yet when the cry has gone up from the de- pressed labor ranks that they were the victims of a capitalistic system, a good many employ- ‘crs of labor have answered it by saying that opportunity awaits every man to rise above the common herd and become a part and par- cci of the very system condemned. That is foolish argument. True, such an opportunity exists, but if every man should suddenly ac- quire the capacity to arise to the opportunity, thcre would he no one left in the common herd and none to do the common labor, which if the wheels of the world continue to go around must be performed. In considering the labor problem the man who has the capacity foradvancement should be left entirely out of thereckoning. He is the exception. It is to the great mass of labor, r—tliat army of plodders, large " of body and small of brain, muscled to do heavy jobs but limited in mental equipment for finer work, content to leave the intricate jobs and their re- wards to others more fitted. to perform them, ‘——it into this type of labor towth the nation 11911.13 siveits I ‘ wany and-save "anewhundred. lars‘a and eticconsideration. This.“ _ ,. 2 '. »- ~ ’ ' stay-fesdrthsms: to' enjoy'theirzsimple pursuits: of JpleeCSure. the while ; give them sufficient warranties against non-employment and cut in wages, and‘the 1a- bor problem will take care of itsel . ‘ ’ ' As You Love Good Government - AS YOU LOVE good government begin to- day to examine the candidates who are seeking your votes at the primary electiOn. Voting, to a good many people, is nothing but routine like eating and sleeping- Many peo- ple eat everything that is set before them with- out understanding or caring what efiect it' may have upon their physical bodies. Great bodies of voters go to the polls at each election and cast their votes without considering the cOnsequcnces of their acts. Most of the men whom the Republicans of Michigan nominate at the coming primary election will be charged with the duty of mak- ing and enforcing the laws for the next two years. The amount of taxes we will pay, the kind of laws under which we will live, the pol- icics which will in some way affect our social and economic well being,.—all will be determin- ed by those whom you elect this fall. Let there be no mistake. Let no personal prejudices blind us to our duties as good citizens of Mich- igan and cause us to vote for men who may prove false to us after they are elected. In many districts of Michigan the farmers have endorsed candidates for office. Such act- ive participation in political contests is most commendable. We talk much about the ideal of the office seeking the man. And when groups of people arise to the full responsibili- ties of their citizenship and boldly pledge their combined strength to candidates whom they have sounded)out, without 'any strings attached to their fealty, the nearer we will ap- proach to that ideal. At the same time even these groups may make their mistakes. Men may be endorsed whom the rank and file can- not conscientiously vote for. It is, therefore, incumbent upon every individual to personally investigate the candidates and give their sup- port to those most qualified to serve. But do not misunderstand the meaning of the’term “qualified.” A man may be emi- nently qualified from the standpoint of edu- cation and technical preparation and yet be wholly unfit to represent the people by whom elected. The qualifications for the legislator are not so exacting as some might think. Of first importance is the honesty of the candidate. It is not necessary for a man to stoop to'such low traffic as horse-stealing, hootlegging, lar- .ceny, etc., to be dishonest. The man who would be moved by bribes of either money or political influence is just as dishonest and un- desirable as the horse-thief. Courage is an- other essential in the selection of our legislat‘ ors. Spare us from the week-kneed, namby- pamby fellow who follows the bell wether no matter where he may lead. A good education helps a great deal, but common sensev‘is worth more. It is not necessary as many used to be- lieve that a good lawmaker must be a good lawyer. The legal aspects of bills are thresh- ed out in committees all of which access to the entire legal department of the state. A fair mind, an honest heart, a back-bone well lined with lime, and an understanding of the needs of his constituents should be the primaryqual- ifications of the man who Seeks public office. Think this over between now and the, primary. Talk politics with your wife and with your neighbor. Take a Ireal‘live interest in it, and when you go vote, you will cast your ballot with a new sense of pride and responsibility. ‘ ,Take a Week Off SAY, FARMER friend, why don’t. you take a day 01f? Pack up Some grub,'grab a few blankets, pilemother and the kids into the old fiiv‘ver and hit the highway. for, the tall timber. Get for enough away so? you can’t wthe bloat at the calves when the, mg: forgets bunch ~ of nice, to th v dby I .g h .mei‘ijtheffarmi;wgso I, ; leftsit: man-’temovedm inchh d ‘ weren’t you surprised to find that had kept‘ri‘ght on.:growin'g. ‘An’. nobody h“ 7 carried "away the fencesnor cut down, their): ple orchard nor burned the barn nor tipped the corn crib over either. Don’t you ’sposQ-it- would be safe to leave ’em again just fona. 13w '0 days? I Don’t you ’spose it would pay- you and the folks to get away from. the grind of farm work for ashort spell and do nothing but loaf .and fish. Take a week off. Drive up into the " wdods or plains of Northern Michigan; where lakes, rivers, bass, pickerel, trout, wild berries, an ’—everything abounds. take it easy; play with the children; make love to the wife ;——for one solid week. ‘Then acme home. ‘You’ll find there ’3 nothing like a good- oldiashioned outing to piit the farm folks in trim for the fall work. . l ' ‘ What Is Preferred Stock? ‘ E HAVE learned a few interesting things since we announced the offering of a preferred interest in our own company here, in an issue two weeks ago. V . In the first place it develops that there are a lot of good farmers, mahy of whom have a few hundred or perhaps a few thousand dol— lars which they are, anxious to invest where ' it will bring them a little more than the sav- ings bank’s 4 per cent. and yet they do not understand the simple difference” between Pre- ferred and Common stock. 1 Preferred stock derives its name from the fact that" it is always a prior claim over com~ mon stock, both as to dividends or priority in case of bankruptcy. It usually pays a. fixed an- nual interest, which must be paid in full be— _ fore the common stdck pays any dividend. , When it is “Cumulative,” all back dividends I must be paid before the common can derive any profits. ’ Common stock is usually the voting or act- ive stock of the corporation, shares in all prof— its, but where a Preferred stock is issued, shares only after the fixed dividend on the Preferred stock has been paid in full. In case of bankruptcy, the Common stock shares in the assets of the defunct company, only after the Preferred stock claims have been settled in full. Preferred is therefore considered a more , conservative investment than common stock, because the rate of dividend is fixed in -ad- vance and its interest is prior to that of the common. The interest or dividend rate is usually the barometer of any investment risk. One man buries his treasure and sleeps over it with a shot gun; he takes no risk, but he receives no interest. His money is loafing. Probably the safest investment in the world is a United States government bond, but they accordingly pay the lowest interest. An investor in oil stock may get 100 per cent a month, as they often have, but the chances are just about a hundred per cent against it. You can meas- ure the safety of an investment pretty fairly by the returns promised. Silos In Michigan E KNOW of one spot in Saginavfi‘Coun- ty where by following the line of vision completely around the horizon of that fertile prairie country one may count nineteen silos, some in groups of two or three beside the big red barns. Some day we want to take a pano- rama picture from that spot and when we do we shall publicly - challenge: these boosters from Wisconsin or New York (the two leading silo states) to duplicate or better it." “ " We are iii-great" hopes and, firmly-believe i, that the 1920 census will ,show that Michigan leads in, the number Of these “silent sampling}- of business farming” on her farms. 5 ' : V ‘ . 4 T, ‘ ' The State Constabulary " pepers of hats in; Forget the farm; . ting ting any are 'e a dol- tav- not the be— _ led me _ ck, id- he o \t l ’ t l , facts '2; it. " um: “GERMAN LUTHERANS" AND THEIR “FOREIGN SCHOOLS" .While engaged in a little escapade ‘ through several rural districts of our state, a copy of your valued paper was brought to my attention. . It was the number dated August 7th. 1‘ it I find 3 reply to ex—Governor Ferris Signed by Jess. Hamilton, auth- or of the proposed anti~parochial [and private school. amendment. As this article contains at least one mis- representation, I feel justified in sub~ mittlng‘ a few facts fer the protec- tion of your readers. Mr. Hamilton writes: “The Ger- man Lutherans have furnished more ministers that have been convicted for disloyal acts than all other dc- nominations in the land, and they are the only religious denomination conducting foreign parochial schools that have taken the question into court to fight a legislative act when the legislature of Nebraska passed a law compelling elementary instruc— tion to be in English.” It isl—this your valued paper will not hesitate to concede—indeed a sad state of affairs when it becomes possible in our great state to present such a blatant misrepresentation of to intelligent people. Either ‘Mr. Hamilton is ignorant or he is a malicious perverter of truth. To pdn a hideous statement on paper is not difficult for individuals of Mr. Ham- ilton’s calibre, but to follow up his assertions with proof is quite a dif— ferent matter.’ Note, kind reader, e. 3., that when he speaks of a Polish Roman Catholic school in Detroit “where not a word of English is spoken,” he fails to substantiate his claim. Fact is that no such condi- tion exists. But isn't it unfair, dis- honest and un-American in the high- est degree to deliberately lead an un- suspecting audience astray? Then as to the “German Luther- ans”. and the “Foreign Schools.” Why does Mr. Hamilton continue to call the Lutherans of this country the German Lutherans? If Mr.‘ Hamil~ ton has any knowledge of actual con- ditions, he will know that over 90 per cent of the religious work con— ducted by Lutherans in this country is conducted in the American lang- uage. Is it fair to place a church body which since the days of the Rev— olution and particularly during the recent world war has always and in 'every instance proven the loftiest type of patriotism for our country, under suspicion of being German, im- periali'stically German, in spirit? Does not history itself slap Hamilton in the ,face? Nor are the schools of the Lutherans “foreign” schools. The Lutheran parish school, kind reader, was born and bred on American soil. It has never had any connection with any foreign country. Does Mr. Ham- ilton know that the American Luth- eran parochial school was founded in identically the same‘manner as oth~ er American church schools in the country? Does Mr. Hamilton know that from the founding of this nation up to the days of Horace Mann, who died in 1859, there was no such an institution as the public school? Episcopalians founded their own Dar- ish school; Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, Congregationalists and many other denominations founded their own parish schools. ' Even the higher schools of learning such as Harvard, Yale, the University of Chi- cago, also our own University at Ann Arbor were founded by such denom- inations. It was not until thousands of parents neglected to send their children to either a Parocmal 01' _3 prl' vate school that the state gra€1011§1y and very wisely came to their asstst— ance by providing a free state school, L 9., the public school. They have always paid taxes cheerfully for their upkeep' and improvement. Luther— "ans even now send their children to :' the public schbol after they have in 'ftheir ,own church school received an education and training in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. And though Mr. Hamilton may not know the rest of the hundred million in— habitants of this glorious country do. ”‘ (that astotmeb n, parish, school lue loyalty and “ is absolutely beyond reproach. Luth- with the. speculator, middleman and erans believe that Daniel Webster was right when he said: “If we abide by the principle taught by the Bible, our country will go on prospéring; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catas— trophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity." Lutherans also believe that the fath- ers of our country were right when they established the complete separ~ ation of church and state and in the very first amendment to the consti— tution of“ our country declared not only that Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, but also added “nor prohibit the free exercise thereof.” Finally the statement that the “German Lutherans have furnished more m'inis‘t‘ers that have been con- .victed for disloyal acts than all other denominations in the land”_ con- victs Mr. Hamilton of prevaricatious of the most hideous sort. If Mr. Hamilton does not know it, all the rest of the country does know that whatever “German”~ ministers were convicted for disloyal acts during the recent war were not Lutherans, but isolated members of the state church of Germany, wandering immigrants, with whom the Lutheran church which in this unhappy and unwar— ranted campaign’ is .defending its magnificent system of congregational schools against a nefarious attack never has had the slightest degree of connection. Place Mr. Hamilton with his ignor- ance and malice aside of such illus- trious leaders as ex-Governor Ferris, Frank B. Leland, Congressman Dore- mus, lax-Congressman Denby, Milo D. Campbell, Supt. Cody, Dr. Hall, F. C. Martindale, Loren Dickinson, Ho- ratio S. Earle, Mr. Kenney of our State Normal at Ypsilanti, State Sup- erintendent of Public Instruction, H. E. Johnson, etc., etc., and you 'will have no difficulty in making the choice of American intelligence - and fair play.~Frederick Kolch, Highland Park, Mich. OSCODA DISTRICT A. Mulholland is out for represent— ative for the Oscoda district. He seems to be after the scalp of Rep. Irvin Chase now representing the district who voted to table the pro- posed warehouse bill and not submit it to the people. Evidently Mr. Chase could not trust the honesty of his own people with the balance of the voters of the state. It seems that he would sooner take his chances elevator man. What will the Oscoda farmers say when they ask him for their votes August 3lst. Mr. Mulhmiand is now supervisor of Richmond township, the largest township in the county. He held the office of register of deeds two terms, and is a. good all around business man. He will be a credit to the in- terests of the farmers as well as all others—1. G., Reed City, Mac]... Yes, Mr. Chase was one of those who ‘couldn’t trust the people, and we are surprised that he has any further polit- ical ambitions‘.———Editor. MR. AT\VOOD’S RECORD The farmers here are interested in the record of Mr. Atwood in the leg- islature. We want to know how he voted on bills. Will you please tell us through your valuable paper. It has come to the point where we farm- ers have got to have clean and hon— est men to do our business at the capitol, and if he has been loyal to us we want him, but otherwise we do not. There has been some talk ' about his voting against bills that were favorable .to the farmer.——- It. 8., Fremont, Mich. It is true that Mr. Atwood voted against submitting the warehouse amend- ment, although he as well as other 'farmer" representatives, received many letters and petitions from his own people in favor of the proposal. It will be im- possible to tell you how Mr. Atwood stood on many other important meas- ures for the reason that he Seems to have been strangely absent from his post when bills came up. Out of eighty odd days the legislature was in session Mr. Atwood was absent both with or with- out leave a total of twenty—eight days,— Editor. REP. AARON MILES In your good efforts to let the farmers know where the members of the last legislature stood don’t ne- glect to tell them about the good work of Rep. Aaron (Paddy) Miles of Big Rapids. He was one of the few members of the House who was openly for the farmers’ warehouse amendment and voted consistently against useless expenditures, salary increases, commissions, etc. The farmers of Michigan had no better friend in either branch of the leg— islature than Mr. Miles as an exam- ination of his record will prover—t One Who Was There. Since you mention it I recall that Sen. Baker once upon a time spoke in like terms of Mr. Miles. I am glad, indeed, to have this opportunity to,present Mr. Miles’ record and trust that the farmers of his district will not forget him.— Editor. KEEP OUT OF POLITICS? “Keep out of politics" is a warn- ing given constantly to young men who show an inclination to interest themselves in public affairs. The civic standard is MW in any commun- ity where a reputable citizen who Seeks office encounters suspicion, re- proach, or obloquy. The full powers confided to the people presupposes the participation of all citizens in the business of government. Every citizen is “in” politics. The Constitution of the United States puts him there, and his conscience grants no exemptions. I have heard men boast that they never per-form jury service or that they have a “pull” that gains them some other immunity. A corruptible public official finds his job unprofit- able unless he is able to enter into partnership with another bad citi- zen. r If I am more concerned with my privileges and immunities than with my duties, I am skidding; I am on the way to becoming a bad citizen. If I neglect to vote because it is incon- venient to meet that obligation, or I assume that my neighbors will pro‘ tect me with theirballots, I am a dodger and a slacker. . ._ . Blind confidence in government by good luck is bound to bring disaster. The constant vigilance and intelli- gent action of all the people is essen- tial to enlightened, capable govern- ment. ' Am I a good citizen? Is the first question in the American catchism. Government is a complex business, but citizenship may be reduced to three essentials; understanding, loy— alty and service. This morning I saw a boy scout walk to the middle of the street, pick up a piece of paper and deposit it in the litter-box at the next corner. He didn’t have to do that; it was my business quite as 'much as his. That lad exemplified the good citizenship that is always on the job. In the rebuilding of the wall of Jerusalem, every man labored “over against his house.” In like manner, an American citizen’s duty to his country is immediate and personal, and lies at his. own door. 'When I say to myself, “I hold an. inalienable partnership in this na- tion; its prosperity and happiness rest with me,” then I have, caught the spirit of true Americanis'm. Then‘ «indeed I am a worthy citizen of. this mighty republic and a contributor to the forces that make for" its‘perpetu “yr—Meredith Nicholson. V " I «A FARMER TEACHERS, AMENDMENQ’i .. , .. Good for you JSSwH fl ‘ hope every parochial so . state for young children. , its doors. Are thoseischoo tionaPl? Are they teaching '_ or their church creed? church teach that their rules be obeyed before the laws state? _ Ten years ago I taught 591100? a German Lutheran community *-’ of my pupils thirteen years- , had been attending “church a” and his education had been so glected that he could only, fourth grade ..work though her bright and should' have been (1 seventh. -‘ I asked him what grade he been taking and he said “Oh, Ge man and church doctrine.” He is they must go two years before th‘ would become a full church member I can not see why the public schOOst are not enough ’or can not be made; good enough for children sixteen; or, under where both schools exist gen,“ erally all the improvements in th public schools must be fought for by the teacher and superintendent. They. do not want thcir taxes any higher I can see no objection to reading? the Bible (without comment) or re.- peating the Lord’s Prayer in an public school. But no private school should receive any public state funds _ My husband is Catholic. ' We were married by a Judge. This spring he . was very ill in St. Johns hospital. Springfield, Ill. The priest there call-f ed upon him and told him he could» not receive him for confession or give him the last rites (if he should- not live) of the church unless he get: a special dispensation from the Bishu op. Then our children must be but», tised. and reared in the Catholic- church. That the church consideredx illegitimate where the parents wefié married other than by the priest. II also asked him if he would consider leaving me. Of course no church. priest or preaCher matters, if! we at fit for or ask God to receive 118. bit: should any child under 16 years taught by a church that puts their“ authority before the State? Shou not every state see that all institute tions recognize the laws of that state Are not the marriage laws to be re ognized by all institutions? Should any church he allowed to say mew timate to any child born to lawful! married parents? ' I enjoy the paper fine. I expect to be a Michigan Farm woman SOOD'.“ Mrs. E. 0., Auburn, Ill. - DESTROYING WEEDS Remarks noticed by Thompsonville’ subscriber in M. B. F. of Aug. 1th and will give you a case of the weed , law as applied by the road commisr. sioner of Deerfield township, ‘ costa County. Mr. B. F.'Anspaug_ seventy-one years old living all alone; p on one hundred acres of stump land had a field of rye that was about 0 third milk weed. His binder broke, and the commissioner didn’t wait to? him to get repairs. Put a gang men to cut the weeds and destro, his rye. Mr. Anspaugh's house ‘ ed with contents and grain at th ing time last year. His last yea taxes are not paid. He“ will about sixty dollars cost of cuttin weeds with this year’s tax. can be used for pasture and r land. If the weed law is put in or it will go back to the state for If and is worth more to cut the than the land will earn—J. and Mccos‘l‘a County, Mich. f No doubt‘the case you mentio .‘exception, and I should sayth facts are as you describe them wa commissioner exceeded ’ " lty,——Editor. . i numerous menu; peeially. the departmefi Neighbors ,Say." 12. V ' price " "b, (55!. .I _ _. Things Ready Day Before In answer to your question - i. ng-M. B. F., “How ‘ to Make . Tfiresh Day Work Lighter,” I will tell you how I manage it. \ get my table ready in the din- «ing room the day before, extend it arge enough for the number of per- ons expected, if possible. If one "testableis not large enough, I use two . smaller ones to seat eight or nine per— ons each. It is better to have 4, plenty of table room, for sometimes 4:, extra help happen along unexpected "and if two or three extra places are 1:, planned for none of the men have i to wait. I spread the table cloth on the tables and fill sugar bowls, salt "and pepper shakers for each, and if . I have plenty ‘of dishes to set the tables in full I do it and if not set ' them as'far as the dishes will go - and when the table is prepared a I clean sheet may be thrown over it t ‘ and the dust will not settle on the f dishes. , ‘Another way to save washing is to v use a white oil cloth. If one has i the two tables for the family use ! enough oil cloth can be bought for l. both and it can be used to good ad— : vantage around the kitchen after- ward if not used on the dining room table. If one large table is used the . oil cloth can be kept from year to I year, roll‘it on a broom handle, tie . it in three places. It can then be ; stood in a' clothes closet any place , and not injured. Thresh day is a hard day on linen as many times it ( gets badly stained and at best is hard to wash. If one has not enough chairs to ' seat all the help select strong boards ‘ which may be used at the sides of ' the tables place a chair at each corn~ er of the table and lay the boards _ on them, pillows may then be laid on the boards and make comfortable seats, the chairs may then be used around the ends of the tables. Another thing that causes a lot of I confusion Thresh Day is dishes,for g the men to wash in. I use one or two :tubs which may be arranged on a bench outside. About 20 minutes before dinnerwr supper fill them half full of warm‘ water. I use about three roller towels to each tub de- pending on the crowd. A cake of soap may be dissolved and pour in enough of the soap in each tub to make a good suds. It will eliminate a lot of the waste of soap by forget- ting the cake of soap in the dish of water. . If thresh day comes before the po- tatoes are dug I get them the day before carrots and beets may be pull— ed and topped and put in a cool place until needed. Beet pickles may be made two or three days ahead for thresh day and are much better. I have made a batch of cookies and doughnuts a day or two before, in case the mill crew should happen along for supper unexpected as is sometimes the case, with the aid of home canned vegetables and a little baking done ahead a good meal may be served on short notice. I prepare enough pie crust the day before and put it in the iCe box un- -til needed in the morning. Pies bak- ed the day before are not as good the bottom crust soaks the juice. For supper I bake a couple of ' cakes for a variety, but as a rule men 'do not care so much for cake, it is too dry. I find that chocolate eclairs 1 although quite a lot of work, are rel- ”ished by the men-morethan cake. will send any one who writes me “if-the directions and recipe for making ’ ' Here is the menus for din- , _’ utter and pepper and salt, cu- umber pickles, bread and butter, ‘p’kin pie, cake, tea and coffee. _8upper—Boiled potatoes, home ’kedpork and beans, creamed car- “ sliced cucumbers, preserved es, home madebuns, eclairs, ‘ke Ieftfroin' dinner. three: small, ,childrem and, 5A negates y... the women. J V. 'A “How I'Made Threshing Day .Work' Lighter.” gmnmmnImmuuIumIummummmmmmmlmnmunmmimmumnmmnmmnmmmmlmmnnmnmnmmummmmmuiImummmmmhnulnhmllmmmmmmumqmg g - E . allIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll|llllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllWWII“lflmmulllmflflllllllmflmflflllflmlllllllIlllllllIlllllflllfllflflllllflfllmlmfllmlflflllllllllllllllllllllllfi Great Interest Shown in Thresh Day Question . WOMEN readers of The Business Farmer are showing that they are Just as willing as the men to help make our paper bigger and better by the fine letters received in answer to my request and offer of prizes for letters On “How I Made Threshing Day Work Lighter." Letters are coming in every mail and from all parts of the state. More letters and the names of the priZe winners will be published next week. . In “The Question Box" on our page you will find our prize question for this week. The reader who sent in this question will receive our check for $1. with these preparations before thresh day I can serve 18 or 20 hungry threshers dinner and supper and not be overtired. In case the men with the mill might be at the house over night, I roll a winter blanket and comfort together for each two men for some of the women may be like myself,_ short of room in the house for extra people to sleep. The rolls can be quickly handed to them and they can make beds in the hay and one does not have to stop to hunt bedding. -——- Mrs. W. H., Oheboygan County. Serves Fish or Roast Beef I saw you request letters on “How I Made" Threshing Day Work Lighter,” and I decided to take a hand in that question as I find that While I may not make it as easy as some of my farmer sisters, I know that I do not have such a hard day of it as some of my neighbors who seem to need 4 or 5 extra women to help out at that time. Now first, usually you do not know the exact time the machine will be at . your place. But the machine is in your midst and coming toward your place, so I bake my bread at least a day before they can arrive. I also bake a double batch of cookies or fried cakes or a dark cake '(for that will keep moist) the day I bake the bread. I see that my beets and cu- cumber pickles are made soon enough to be real good by that day. I plan two kinds of vegetables besides po- tatoes, these vegetables are what- ever are in season, sweet corn and cabbage, salad string beans, toma— toes, cucumbers or whatever the garden provides. For the breakfast I like warmed potatoes, bacon and eggs and buns, breakfast food, cof- fee and fried cakes or cookies, its easily prepared and the wife can easily prepare and serve the meal alone. I prefer fresh fish or fresh roast beef for dinner and the roast, be it oven or pot roast makes a nice gravy for the potatoes. By having the bread, dark cake and cookies or fried cakes made a day or so ahead, I make my pies the day the machine comes. We usually have the threshers one day so I plan for 3 meals and make out my menu for each meal and with the help of one woman who can assist and who knows how to do things, I get thru‘ the day without any fuss or worry. I think. every farm wife should figure on more men than just enough. Have plenty of.what you cook. Its hard work to thresh and the men are kept busy every~minute and get hungry, so serve them‘ all they_want to eat and have plenty left for the neighbor children Other questions received‘and published in that box will be paid for at ' this rate. Send me questions regarding problems that are troubling you and _ let our big family thresh them out for you. awarded for the best and second be CLARE NORRIS. ' llllln1lli|lllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllIlllfllllllllllllllllIllllllllllilllllllllllIIllllllllllllllllllllllIllIllIllHIll|lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIIIllllllIllllllllllllllllIIllIllllII|lll|Hll|MlIIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Prizes of $2 and $1 will be st letters on week’s question.— where the farmer's wife and the good man of the house eat and can have a little visit with this distant neighbor 'or neighbors and thatlittle visit will make threshing'day easier work and make your distant neigh- bor feel that you are not living just for the almighty dollar. ,Do not forget to pay the lady who assists you that day, liberally, un— less you have or will assist her to make threshing day lighter work- at her home. — Mrs. H. F. B., Champ- gan County. Put Everything on Table Before Men ' Sit Down to Eat A few days before‘ I expect threshers I bake cookies, fruit cake and make doughnuts, all of which are improved by being made a few days before us- ing. I also bake pie shells for lemon pies, or any kind I want to make that - require a crust baked separate. I also boil beets for pickles and have them in cans ready to use. Then the day before they come I bake sufficient bread to last while they arehere and as I usually have cabbage salad, I also prepare the mayonnaise dressing on that day. Have your dining room table ready by putting in all the ex- tra leaves, and set it all complete ex- cept the eatables. The next morn- ing as soon as my morning work is done I get the potatoes cleaned and ready for the kettle, slice the meat which I fry in two large dripping pans in the oven. I usually avoid having sauce or anything that makes extra dish washing. Put the cups at each plate and pour tea or coffee from a large pitcher. Pie and every— thing is put on the table at once to save extra steps. Cook enough po- tatoes at noon that you can make po- tato salad for supper, and as you wash your dishes put them back on the table and it is ready for the next meal. Have plenty of hot water and gold dust and dishes are soon out of the way. The men fill two tubs with water, put on a bench in the shade, saves much dirt in the house. Follow my rules and “Threshing Day” will no longer be a bugbear.—— Ms. 1., Armada, Mich. Telephone Great Help I think the rural telephone a great help to the farm woman at threshing time. In that way you know about what time to expect the threshers and get an idea about what meal or meals you are to have them. Last year I prepared the following dinner alone: , stewed chicken, potatoes, One vegetable, whatever is in season, bread and butter, pickles, mince and apple pie, a generous plate of cheese, coffee Who 886 m t 0 gum:mummummuummmnmmummumnmmummlmmuuuunmmImInnmmmmmug and water for think threshing == ,, , a 3 those who wish. I is next to a cir—’ g £3 The QuestionBox E plan on plenty of cus and 8180' g H 1' < bev 3 everything and plenty for x the g ' 0W (fan a WOW ‘39!" § everything. well farmer or' . two tented “1‘11 a man Who “9‘ g cooked and palat- .who might can 3: glected to develop his social g able and also to to see when the 2 nature and has no time for cul- g ~ have everything machine ‘ would 5 ture, and refinement? What 5 ready to "put on . be in their neigh- E. can she do to get him to mingle g; the table when borhood. Invite 3 with other people of good tam'i’ = , they come in"... them in. to eat at = *4 We". ~ , ‘ . Mrs’.-'M.;.s.‘,cixmi« nthe secondtable' Eu » chums}, ‘; baking ~ powder biscuits with plenty of gravy, v owntamil ** f ti .njonffi. " ~‘."M r '- Simple But Wholesome/Manly = If I amto have. threshers-for . . g dinner_ I usually serve potatqes, , ' a ‘»meat,\ one vegetable, pickles. - and pie. '1 usually peel pota- toes the evening before and cov- - er them _' well .with vwater and then I cook the avegetablethe day before and set on ice. -I have the‘ pie crusts made and usually use a one crust‘ pie so that I canjust stir up the filling and fill in the morn- ing. The meat could beyroast pork or stew. Cook the day before and warm just before eating. If! frying meat one has everything ; ‘ else along so, nicely that about all there is left to do is to fry the V meat. And for supper I serve fried . potatoes, c‘old' meat, cold cabbage salad or cold sliced cucumbers, cake, sauce or substitute potato salad for fried potatoes. Some of the thresh- ers like one kind of cake and some another. So I stir a white cake bat- ter up and turn half in a cake tin to " bake and thelother half I put in a little spice or even a taste of molass- es, for. icing I get the pulverized su- gar and just stir up with milk and p, t it on as it is on the cake or 1-2 of3 the mixture and in the other half I add a little cecoa and put on'the light cake. By this way I stir 2 cakes of one batter and 2 icings of , one mixture. This makes threshing . time very much lighter on the house- wife—Mrs. W. I. D., Freeland, Mich. Bakes Pics and Cakes In Morning You asked for ideas on making threshing day as easy a day as pos- sible for the farm wife. Will give you my opinion on it by stating how I manage it. To begin with, I bought a ham which could be kept for some days in case of delays. The day be- fore the threshers were to be at our place I boiled the ham while I cook- ed my days meals. Then during the day in my leisure I pared potatoes ’ and left them stand for next morn- ing. Also prepared what vegetables I intended to use. I managed to bake bread one or two days ahead so as not to have that on hand for that day. Then early the next morning while my range was heated from get- ting breakfast I baked my pies and cake. If one prefers cookies instead of cake they can be baked several. days ahead. While my pies were in the oven I set my table and ~-éooked the vegetables and kept them warm on the range. '80 all I. had to pre- pare at the last moment was potatoes and gravy. Coffee or tea whichever is to be made I find it easier to have everything on the table when the men take their places then to wait and then scramble to place things on the table when they are seated. So you see I had most of my work done real early and had a rest of . several hours on our nice shady porch besides. If one has them for several meals the work can be plan- ned so as to be only half as hard by a littlecareful thinking.——C’.~M., Belle- vue,‘ Michigan. Garden and“ Cows Supply Most Needs As we are in moderate circumstanc- es I cannot have as elaborate meals for threshers as some folks do, but I try to have everything as good as possible, and have plenty of it. My menu for dinnerrwas, mashed potatoes, meat loaf, brown gravy, bak: ed beans, cabbage salad, pickled beets, pickled cucumbers, checolate cake, coffee. bread, butter, brown bread with raisins in it, applepie, cheese. I madevthe meat loaf, bread, cake. brown bread and baked the beans the " day before. ' i V .‘ The. evening betore I pared‘the piss for pies. ‘Early next. morning I» . baked... the pies and pared, plenty of potatoes and made-the salad. The rest . of, the dinner was finished very " 7 without any rushing." . We ted mentathreshers beside ‘ ' £91811 W23» 4.1,, a “landmine you Weiderabjle space V, _ , men who voted at "the-- . warehou e , resolution, you, please print the proposed go uftion,an’d. answer the» follow~ es" sinner“ of use th ' l in: questions? ~‘ii’irst. ployes usually do? And what would their salaries amount to? ’ ,_ Second. How much money would be required to operate them, beside paying salaries? Third. -Would it increase our tax- es, and how much? Fourth. Are enough now? More than a year ago you sent out . a call for money to defray the ex- pense of preparing and circulating petitions to submit the question to the people. ~ If the people were as anxious as you claim about this matter, they must have sent in a lot of money. How much money was collected? Who has the money? ‘ ' And Why was it not used for the purpose it was collected for? ‘ Very .truly yours.~Joel C’. Merri- . man, Deckerville, Mich. . I am pleased to accommodate you, Mr. Merriman. In the first place you are mistaken about THE Busmnss , FABMER sending out a call for money to defray the expense of circulating petitions. We will pay to any San- ilac county charitable organization the sum of $50 upon receipt of proof that THE BUSINESS FARMER did make such a call. If you fail to produce the proof you convict yourself of ~ slander against this publication for insinuating that money collected from our subscribers was diverted to our own uses. The Warehouse Amendment ‘Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michi— gan, That the following amendment to article 10 of the constitution by adding thereto a new section to be known and designated as section tensa of said ar- ticle ten, authorizing the state to borrow money to be used for the construction 1 our taxes high i and operation of terminal warehouses v, within the State, and to issue bonds therefor, is hereby proposed. agreed to and submitted to the people of this State: "Sec, 10a. The state may borrow not to exceed five million dollars for the construction of terminal warehouses in the cities of the State and may operate the same for the reception, storage and ‘sale of foodstuffs grown in the state and consigned thereto by the producers there- of or by eri-operative associations of such prducers and pledge its credit, and issue bonds therefor on such terms as shall be provided by law. _ Your questions.about the werking out of this amendment hardly do justice to a seasoned legislator. It is presumed that before you voted against. submitting this amendment to the people you make investigations into the state—owned elevators and warehouses of Louisiana, the state- owned elevators of North Dakota, the municipally owned elevator in Seattle and many other publicly-own- ed terminal marketing fagilities that are in successful operation in this and foreign countries. What was the result of your investigations? We would like to tell our readers about them. If you did not make any in— vestigations why did you vote against the amendment. Was it your habit during the last session of the legis- lature to vote for or against meas- ures without knowing something about them? Do you confess that you were nothing more than a figure- head during your tenure of office? The writer was not a member of the last legislature. Therefore, he is not supposed to know what steps the legislature might havetaken to carry out the provisions of this amendment. But his gommon sense tells him that it was the idea of the proponents of this measure that they terminal-warehouses should be self- '. ‘supporting, People WhO put their goods in private storage have to pay for it. Why shouild we expect the ' I” to perfor t e same service ,4 .fifout charge".in Thefathers of the amendment intended. that the state .‘lshe‘uld supply its credit to build the warehouses“ and a central manage- 4 meat. The expense of operating the .i warehougegwould be cared for by its ' In Louisiana the state- " ' ! «facilities have not Why‘should ( Yo. I p r HOW-many men would be _ enquired to operate $5,000,000 worth ‘ . got warehouses, working as state em— e expenditure of, money that makes state taxes necessary? The legislature, does it not? The last legislature was a notorious spend— thrift. It created commissions, and apprOpriated funds without rhyme or reason. You were a member of that legislature. I have your record be- fore me. You voted to submit the $50,000,— 000 read bonding proposition to the people. Did yen find out how many extra people the State Highway De- partment would have to employ to carry out this road building pro- gram? What about their salaries? How much of this $50,000,000 will be spent in administration and how much in actual road building? I’ll wager that you cannot answer and yet you voted for it. You voted for the Michigan State Constabulary and an annual appro-‘ priation of over $370,000. You even voted against an amendment “that would limit the life of the Constab- ulary to two years. If you are such a strict economist why did you vote to perpetuate such a large tax bur- den? You voted to submit the resolution authorizing an increase in the sal- aries of circuit judges during the period for which they were elected. You voted for the bill to legalize prize-fighting and to create a boxing commission. This bill carried an appropriation of several thousand dollars. I suppose that before you voted for this you satisfied yourself as to how the appropriation would be Spent and how the people of your dis— trict. would be benefiitted. If not, feel free to use these columns for the purpose. 7 mé‘.‘ "3 v Laey I . an arts 53;. . the two years "1919520. 01:31:50,000; ;: N You “voted for‘ the -' Community Council bill. also creating'a commie- sion and appropriating money. In carefully scrutinizing your rec- ord I fail to find a single instance 'where yo uVOted against an appropri- ation bill or a. commission. The farmers’ warehouse amendment was. the sole exception. If there was one tell us about it and we will pass the information on to our readers, for above all things we intend to be fair. As a matter of fact, Mr. Merriman, you are merely fidundering about like a fish out of water looking for some kind of an excuse for voting against the farmers’ warehouse amendment. And you cannot find one that will sat- isfy your constituents. You know that the amendment was merely an enabling act. The resolution plainly says that the amendment would “au- thorize” the state. There is nothing said about “requiring,” “ordering” or “instructing” the state to build warehouses. The resolution says the state “may borrow" and the state “may operate," not “shall” or “must.” The concluding words of the resolution says that the 'bonds shall be issued “as shall be provided by law.” The amendment merely proposed to remOve the limitations against the state engaging in enter- prise, and enable the legislature at its own discretion to sell bonds, build and operate warehouses, etc. But if the legislature should find after an investigation and experimentation on a small scale that public owned ware— houses could not be operated with advantage to both consumer and pro— ducer, it would certainly never think of spending the entire $5,000,000 system of Michigan aims boys and girls for the duties of good citizens as payer is properly required ‘ , the financial means, and this as good reasoning tells 118 *th much wiser and also more econ to educate for good citizenship it is to correct and punish the ant citizen who violates the»le When we speak of education well to recognize that the “so of life” provides for us ’the most ua-ble lessons which come to :us. wise instructor has offered the fol ing as a proper definition of the w “education”-‘—“a.n education con in the high and full development. all of the powers and faculties of on being." And this should be the earn est purpose of every one who reach es the years of accountability. Whi‘l it may be wise to separate “chur. _ and state” Some religious instructi n' in our public school should a, 'would prove the “dynamic” for th making of good and useful citizens,» —J. T. Daniclls, Clinton County. “ EGG PRODUCTION INCREASES. In a North Carolina experiment breeding a flock of hens .to ahig production male resulted in a 54’ pe cent greater egg yield in the next_ generation. The flock of common“ hens laid .88 eggs per hen per year just because the taxpayers said it The second geneFation laid an aver“ might. age of 136 eggs In a Year- THE sueu OF QUALITY ‘ Look for the RO‘VEN A trade-mark on the sack balance. ious. It is an all-around flour. Lily White . “The F lour the Best Cooks Use’; ls Sure to Please You It is milled to'meet all the requirements of quality, and yet it sells for only a little more than ordinary flour. The quality of the flour comes out in the baking. How it bakes, the flavor, the color, the nutriment, all depend upon the selec- tion of wheat and the processes of milling. LILY WHITE is made from the choicest wheat grown in this country—not too hard, nor too soft, but just right for perfect Only the “goodies” of the kernel are milled. The wheat is cleaned four times, scoured three times, and actually washed once before going into the rolls for the first break. The result is a flour of superfine texture, of perfect uniformity of granulation, of a most palatable flavor, of unsurpassed color. Everything baked from LILY WHITE is light, tender, delic- Countless thousands of women are enjoying reputations won from baking wonderful bread, rolls, biscuits and pastry from this high-grade flour. , Try LILLY WHITE—Results will convince you. Satisfaction A is guaranteed. Ask for LILY WHITE at your dealer’s. VALLEY CITY MlLLING co. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN ‘fMillers for Sixty Years“ r "EAR CHILDREN: Well here it a is nearly fair time. Most every day this coming month, some- where in Michigan, farmer boys and {girls will be getting up extra early, V V and the boys will help» their fathers do the chores while the girls help theirmothers fill a great .big basket with lots of good things to eat. Then they .will all get their best clothes on, the boys and fathers will ' hitch the horses to the double buggy, and they’ll all get into the buggy and away they will go to spend the whole day at the fair. The boys and girls will ride on the merry-go—round, go up on the ferris wheel, go around and m the exhibits. go to some of the mom, maybe. eat peanuts and candy and drink lemonade, and at dinner- time they will get their big basket and spread a blanket down under some shady tree, set all their good things out on a tablecloth spread over the blanket and then eat so much it seems as if you couldn’t eat any more. In theafternoon they will have another good time and start home so to get there just before dark. The boys and girls will be so tired and sleepy that they will think they never want to go to the fair again, but when they get up the next morning, I’ll bet they will want to go again that day. I always felt that way when I was little and lived on a farm. Will you all write some day this coming month and’ tell me about the timevyou have at your fair. ' One‘ of our girls, who lives in Brown City, wants to know how many subscriptions it will take to get a camera and a wrist watch, if she gets old subscribers to_re~sign. .We do not give premiums for get- ting old subscribers to renew. Af- fectionately yours—AUNT CLARE. OUR BOYS AND GIRLS Dear Aunt Clarez—I just finished read— ing the letters from the boys and girls and I thought I would write too. 1 am 12 ears old and in the seventh grade. ’ I ave brown eyes and I weigh 77 pounds. I live on an 80 acre farm. We have five horscsand eight cows. For pets we have a. dog and 10 rabbits—«Ellen Dean, Bad Axe, Michigan. .— Dear Aunt Clare—I have written to you before but my letter was not in rint. 1 am a girl 9 years old and will (3 in the 4th grade at school. Today is my father’s birthday, so I made him a cake. I live on a 60 acre farm, I have one sister. We have a new Ford car. Helen Freeman, Owosso, Mich. Dear Aunt Clare—We take the M. .B. F. and like it very much. I live on a. forty acre farm. We have two horses, two cows, one calf, nine pigs 25 chick- ens. For pets I have a large white cat. I wish some of the girls would write to me. I hope to see my letter in print. Agnes Becckman, Hampton, Mich. Dear Aunt Clare~As I have never written to you I will try now, I am a. girl 12 years old and am in the eighth grade. I live on a. farm of eighty acres. We have 4 horses 5 cows and 19 pigs. Papa takes the M. B. F. and likes it fine. I have five sisters and four broth- ers. We have a Buick car. Hoping to see my letter in print I will close Beatrice Putnam, Caro, Mich, Dear Aunt Clare—This is the first time I have written you. I am a girl ten years old and in the 4th grade I live on a farm of 200 acres, I like to read the let- ters of the children‘s hour. My father takes the M.B.F. and likes it very much. I have two pets, 3. pet lamb and a cat. I have three sisters and five brothers. I hope to see my letter in print. Mary Thclen, Fowler Mich., R 3, Dear Aunt (Harm—This time I have written to you. thirteen years old and will seventh grade next ycnl‘.‘ ame will be is the first I am a girl he in the My teacher’s Miss Olive Ennestp For . n {‘"pets I have a dog, .a cat and a rabbit, I live on a farm of one hundred ,and 'tweniy acres. We have two horses and no new and two calves, five pigs, about Vl’l‘lty-flve old hens and fifty young elf’iipkens. .VVe have lots of little rab- ’ but they are pretty wild—Mildred 'Oswvalt, Tower, Michigan. . ar Aunt Claret—I am a girl a 12 ms old and am in the. 5th grade at so 001. I‘like“ to go to school. Teachers name is Mary Coneton. I will tell you about one day when I took a stroll into QM'EWOOds; It was when the lilies and l “ Were in bloom. We were invited inner and we all went out, into Wade'Weywegt over to .Lost‘ Lake his? pine tree ‘ l _ «om; $a ‘ with the sides unequal. Guam-.4. How to Tell Birds by Their light (By Francis OOKS will tell you a lot about the'markings of birds, the ex- act differences between various ‘ kinds of hawks, for example. But how often does one really get suffi- ciently close to a bird to be sure? A fellow who knows the woods ought to be able to tell most of the birds by the way they fly, for there is as much difference between the burst of a part- ridge and .1116 slow flapping Of a crow, as there is between the jump of a scared jack rabbit and the go—as-you: please amble of a skunk. Some troops of birds are easy to tell. Swans fly in the form of a V with the sides equal. Ducks in a V Grey Geese in a series of small V's, Cranes in the shape of a W, Black Brant in a line side by side, shags in a curving line like the letter S, and Flamin- goes in a straight line, beak to tail. Bolt-Wheeler) The individual style of flight of a bird depends not a little on the shape of the wing, as well as its size and the weight of the body which has to be lifted. The Humming-bird's flight is like that of an insect, in sud- den darts and poises, while the huge Albatross swings up and down like the waves of the sea. The Grouse speeds like a bullet, the Swallow skims. At a distance, Swallow and Martin might be mistaken for each other but their flight is quite dis- tinct. A flash of red in the trees may betoken either 9. Cardinal or a . Tanager, but the first glimpse of the flying bird tells the difference. The bumpy flight of the Finch family is quite characteristic, as is also the snappy jerk of a Flycatcher going after an insect contrasted with 'the swoop of the Swallow. It‘is as im- portant to know a. bird by the way he files as by the color of his feathers. Ill|lilllllllllillillllliililIlllllllilIl|illlIHillllHHIiIIlilllllliIilliiillillilllliIllllllllllilllllllllllllillilllllllllllllIllillllllll|illll"ll|illlllll|lllllllmill|llIllIllll”Illllll|i|Il|lH!llIliIl|lllllliIlllHHIIillllllllIlilillllmililillillllllllil came to a little stream and we got a drink. We had a dandy time. Papa has his grain all cut. My father takes the M. B. F. and he likes it very much. I wish some of the boys and girl would write to me.——Agnes Petersen, Itodney. Michigan, R, 2. Q \ Dear Aunt Clarez—I am a little ,girl 12 years old and will be in the seventh grade when school starts, I have been helping my mother in the house this s summer. I have two pet lambs and a. dog, also a tiger cat. I wish some of the girls would write to me. I would answer all their letters. 1 am sending a drawing and hope to receive a prize,— Marien Wiles, Adrian, R. 6 Dear Aunt Clare—This is the second time I have wrote to you. I have two brothers and one sister, Russel, Clarence and Beulah. I am 10 years old. Have CITIES rpmSSAQQUsETTS LTEK WEI. s»- Mr. Brown is puzzled. He has walked a sign post-“which has relatives, but the sign does notiltell the mWages?'afjeafenawrimmm gives the namesgi .Iour-dglaces, a long distance when he finds , _ in each-of, which he tones” cochplace.’ What V \. tor iii-mung _Nellio ,Isbun, v brown hair, blue eyes. weigh about 56 pounds. I will close orthis time hop- ing to see my letter in print I will close. Arvilla Davis, Clare Mich. .Dear Aunt Clare—This is the first time I have written to you. I am 18 ‘ 13 years old and will be in the ninth“ grade When school begins.- I have one- sister and one brother. For eta we have tw0 kittens and a pup. 3 takes the kittens by the neck and throw: them around but they seem to like it. Well I will close hoping to see my letter in Elsie Muscott, Breckenridge o , . / Dear Aunt Clare—This is the first time I have writtmte you. I am 18 years old and in ninth‘ grade next year. I live on a farm of 80 acres. 1’ have two sisters. I would like to know how many subscriptions it would take for a camera and a wrist watch and have old subscribers re-sign. I would lib some of the girls to write to me. I will close, hoping to see my letter in print. Violet Wietshere. Brown City, Mich. Dear Aunt Clare—This is the second time I have written to you. I am 10 years of age. I weigh 82 pounds. I have ~ two brothers and five sisters. I live on a 75 acre farm. I hope to see my letter in print. Anna C. Schooi', Fairnouth. Mich Dear Aunt Clare :—-I thought I mould write you a letter. ‘I am 10 years old and in the fifth grade. I‘have one broth- er and three sisters. Do We get a prize far drawing? My mother is dead, she has been dead almost two years. She died on Thanksgiving day. We have two hor.4=.s..tbree cows, three pigs and about 50 chickens. We have a car. I will clone with a. short poem, The Smallest Girl I never spoke before today The smallest girl am I, And as I have not much to say I’ll only say good-bye, ' . -—Margaret Michels, Buckley, Mich.‘ Dear Aunt Claret—I have just finish reading the boys' and. girls’ stories a thought I would write one, too. I am '11 years old and in the sixth grade. I have one mil to go to school. I have one brother and one sister. We enjoy the M. B. F. Here is my story: One day as my father and I were cock- ing hay in our orchard I saw a birdn’ nest in a tree. I asked my father to Hit me up so I could see what was in it. He did so and I saw two white eggs in it. I asked him what kind of eggs they were and he said that he: did not know. The next day We came past there and there, was a yellow bird on the nest.—Claribel. L. Withold, Munith Michigan. Dear Aunt Clare:-——I am a girl eleven years old and I will be in the seventh grade when school begins the 1st of Sep- tember. We liva qn a 140-acre form, We have two little calves about a month old. We have sixhorses, and six head of cattle. For pets I have one Angora ca. it is yellow and white. We have an 01 hen and 20 chicks about,two weeks old. I did have a dog but it was getting so old that my Uncle had to kill it, We have about a hundred sheep and lambs. W3 sold about 200 quarts of raspberries an about 600 quarts of cherries and a lot of other fruit. We sold six bushels of harvest apples and we have a lot more apples to sell. I am going to write a true story. The title of the story is A Rabbit Story One day my father was cutting hay dowu in the field. It was in the forenoon and I thought I would take him a. drink of water, When I was about a foot from him he told me in be quiet. I didn't make any noise and he motioned for me to come there. So I went where he was and what do you suppose I saw lying there in a little nest? saw six little rabbit: ’ and they were gray with white spots on their heads. I don't know whether were Belgian hares or what they were. We were afraid papa would run over them with the mower so he put them in my apron and I carried them up to house and made a nest for them. I f them some milk and I kept them olive until the next day. than my uncle and my brother took them back to the field and put them in the nest, Then a few days afterward they went down to the field to see if the nest was empty and it was, and we concluded that the old rabbit came and got the little rabbits and took them away. . -——Irene’Kahle, Adrian Michigan. Dear Aunt Clare—I wrote to you once. before but as I did not see my letter in print I thought I would write again. ,I was ten years old the 6th day of Aug. My sisters gave me .a nice surprise part . Papa and. one’ofjny brothers are threshing with our machine away from home this year. We expect .to have threshers at our place soon. . lg oldest sister is going 2th the normalf Muskegen and my other. urgent: to the high school ,at ;Muskegon. ».-. will be in the eleventh grade. mylej— long ‘I'wm e ’_'se. ; Min {my I‘ '1 w , Dea "Aunt ‘ . 4 a I . r 1 f7»: H from last week) ' . ‘Knlkaska County - Five. out of six Kalkaska corres- pendants, while admitting that the 3loss'has been great, disagree as to ‘ the extent and whether it is greater or less'than last year. W. H. M. of Kitth reports damage to buck- wheat, millet, corn, rye and wheat. The hoppers are not doing as much damage as earlier. He concludes, ‘ “The weather is fine with cold nights. ' The crops are looking pretty good." 0. B. of Kalkaska writes, “In re- gards to the crops in my neighbor- hood there is very little lefflof any- thing but grasshoppers." Mrs. R. E. 19., reports that the damage in Ex- celsior township has not been as grantee in surrounding townships owing to the fact that poison has been plentifully used in previous years. The principal damage in that township has been to seeding. She says; regretfully, “This was an ideal year for seeding and in fact all kinds of crops if it had not been for the grasshoppers.” ' G. A. B., of Kalkaska bands us this jolt, “Having read your article in the M. B. F. ,and also from the trend of your letter regarding the, grass— hopper plague in Northern Michigan I consider it would be useless to tell you anything about it as you don’t seem to want to be convinced.” But this letter from S. S. P. of Kalkaska makes us feel better: “The township here has used over a ton of arsenate poison so far, and iwhile the hoppers have been bad and are still, we do not consider them serious. In fact, crops are in better. condition in most instances because of plentiful rainfall than they were last year. We drive about the coun- try a great deal and from what we see they have done some damage to crops south of us where they worked earlier in the year but our crops were further advanced and with the help of wet weather they have so far kept ahead of the pest Some fields of corn and buckwheat are quite bidly eaten and we are afraid of some damage to seeding, but other- wise have nothing to fear because of ' the extensive use of poison. As to estimating any loss to crops as far as our own are concerned we consid— er it very slight and what we know of the 'surrounding Ineighborhood, could not be considered serious. In fact, we feel that our crops are go- ing to make as good or even a better showing than for the past two years.” / \Vexford County One out of five correspondents in this county believe the damage done by hoppers is as great as last year. Threesay that it is much less while the fifth believes the damage is very slight. B. H. M. of Manton tells of the damage to cats and seeding and says that the use of poison has done a lot to kill off the hoppers and pre- vent loss. His conclusion is that “there will not be as much damage this year as in the past two years." J. E. N., of Mesicksays, “They are not so bad this year as they were last.” W. E. H. of Cadillac believes ' that we have not been full informed on the hopper subject. yet from close reading of his letter it is clear that he does not think the hoppers as bad as a year ago which was practically the same conclusions we have previously stated. Mr. H. writes entertaineg of specific in- stances! loss,- why the hoppers are I worse in some plum than o}hers, why farmers are handicapped in their fight, results obtained from the use of poison, . 'Un- -‘ dew outsideezaid harms state a ' .or better still the owners at the out- ‘ _ ' lands who have made millions " the timber are e somth way as they are new core- in " to out noxious woods on such to poison the ‘chominfl *3 m before the Steuben”! it L to mini. the “‘3‘” ~ ‘- _‘montinthomt Teachers.“ 1|!" imam .or- communeer ' ' and they cannot sell out at any price. I think the grasshopper plague must be combatted in a sane, intelligent way and not made a subject for ex- - travagant stories, but every means possible should be employed to give aid to the farmers in the northern section of Michigan in, eliminating this. deadly foe to every growing crop. My request in closing is,‘ if“ you really desire to aid farmers in this section that you use your paper as a means of educating people as to our need of controlling hoppers by compelling owners of vacant cut-over land to fight them the same as local residents. Wishing your valued pa- per every success, etc." G. B... of Manton, says there has been “very little damage in his neighborhood. In my opinion," he writes, “there was a thousand times more damage done by hoppers a year age than this'year. We never have any damage from them only in times of severe drought. I don’t know what damage has been done in other localities but in my opinion there has been ‘no damage anywhere in Michigan to speak of.” Little Loss in Emmet Only one out of four correspond— ents in Emmet county seems blue over the hopper damage. J. C. J. is certain the pest is worse this year than a year ago, but cannot say as to the preceding year because he was not farming in Emmet. R. W. A., of Petoskey, says: “The hoppers are here but not as bad as you have been informed by newspa- per men. Crops are looking the best they have in years in this immediate neighborhood.” Mr. A. understands that to the north of his place the dam- age has been greater, due to adjoin- ing slashings where the hoppers breed. E. H. C., of Brutus, does not find ‘ the hoppers as bad this year as last. One neighbor lost a field of oats, an~ other a field of cucumbers and at present the hoppers are bothering the rye but does not think the dam- age wiil be great. The use of poison has helped to stem the pest. “The press reports,” concludes Mr. 0., “do exaggerate the hopper damage, for although we are troubled with them they are no worse than last and the damage will not be so high due to the plentiful rain." A. 0., of Harbor Springs says the total loss will not exceed one fourth of one per cent. Missaukee Escapes Serious Damage Three correspondents in Missauke‘e county agree that the damage is less than last year and not nearly so great as pictured. J. C. P., of Falmouth credits this to the plentiful rainfalls and cool weather, but he fears that a dry, hot, August might mean great- er damage. He says that a number of farmers have left the neighbor- hood because 0 the ravages of hop- pers and their inability to get help. VJ. D.,.also of Falmouth says, “There are some grasshoppers here but they have not done any damage so far as crops were never. better in years. There are always some cranks look- ing for frosts and grasshoppers or something else to holler about but believe me I have always lived in good old Michigan and farm crops never looked better." A. R., of Lake City, writes, “The pest is not so serious this year as in 1919. The grasshoppers appeared earlier than usual and in great num- bers so that it seemed as though the plague would be greater than ever before thereby causing the rumors that have been circulated. Precau- tions were taken in many cgmmuni- ties to fight the pest and mud: grace hopper ‘depe‘ was used. Perhaps on and heavy showers the post has not thrived. I know o; no «nowhere farmers have lost entire fields on m the one. last year. The damage, in gain new.» “It ,9 l l .I. " GilletteTlrc lea tire of plus ue.. And here is ample .;. proof of that—second year sales of Gillette Time run ‘- greaterthanthesecond year also of any othcrtiro‘ ever produced. That tremendous demand was developed only by actual delivery of greatest mileage at least cost. . ‘ ,. Gillette Cord Tires, like the hardy old polar, have grit. spirit, 1 endurance—that take punishment without a whimper. * The exclusive Gillette Chilled Rubber Process toughens rub- ber and develops strength, endurance, recuperative quality ‘ to the highest mileage economy. - . The Gillette Cord is built for mileage, and gives it. It hal .* proper suspension of cords which spreads vibration and strain “ evenly over the entire structure of the tire. It has proper re- siliency. It can have no tread separation. It can not be affected‘by heat or cold. It can not lose its pliancy. It can give you nothing but easy riding, money-saving mileage on any car, under any condition. Put one Gillette or a full set on your ma- , chine now. , ,,: If there is no Gillette dealer in o 1 write our general sales office. GILLETTE RUBBER COMPANY Factory: Enu Chh-o. Wis. General Sales Offices: 1834 Broadway. New Yeti lette' ‘ Wm\\u\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\l\\‘.\\\‘v‘\\\“\\\\l \\ ‘ .\\\\ 19‘s“ \ \\ Q your vicinity; for masmemmss ~_ Ship your Our prices aunrsnteed Send your no i cream me 0" weekly price. today at. We pay ‘ shipping . ., the week charges lug lllllilllflllll‘lllllllllllll ' I _ illlllllmmflllil HERE’S AN INTRODUCTORY- COUPbN—Tear it out and handili‘t; ‘-= llliHHiliHfllHllflHlmflillliHHflilHflifllfllllifllliflllllllilliilillilliilllfllllflliifllillflllliflfllll a In M: ‘ o. c. o a a name one Ir-n o. . Introduced hy‘yonrreaderr Will You Introduce a Friend or Neighbor? to a friend or neighbor who is not a subscriber. It is worth 250 to him, because we will send The Business Farmer on trial to g any new name from now until January, 1921, nearly 6 months, for» this coupon and a quarter (250) in coin or stanws. '. ': 25 This Coupon is worth twenty-five cents to any NEW C subscriber introduced by an old suhscriber. .. .. .. ..‘ TheiMichigan Business Farmer, Mt. Clemens,‘Mich. Friends: 'f , , ’ I want to introduce a NEW subscriber and for a quarter, (250) enclosed in coin onstampsfon are to send our weekly every week until January, 1921. ~ _ -> ". 0.. C..l.l»t.‘ o of. o»n.o.u-5~.I Qtvm..-.G- o sow-u;- built? . , . 1' Am eon-obooonnnoooo.o|‘ooooneocooe-oo-oeoo’ooooogu M DOeOOCAOOOII'I.IIOCCO....IIOBI‘I.....‘ .‘O...’I.‘..QZ.A n . .9 . . ‘ ,\. this department. The latter I ~Would not do. About a year ago my wife died. Since then and before none of; them seem to be interested in the old gentleman's welfare. Then tried to i make an agreement f0r the sons to pay ,.C"the burial expenses and doctor bill and ’ ,I would care for him all his life, That .' they refused, Then I engaged the ser- ‘vice of a lawyer to collect board after a certain date or make them take care of him themselves. They would not pay. So the sheriff took the old gent to the son's home. Being they were so stub- ' born and was so opposed to having the old gent around, could I charge board for the three years? He is- an invalid. I was not able to have him at the time he was brought and did not ask me whether we were in a position to care for him nor let us know he/was coming. How much should I charge per week?— T. H.. Lake City, Mich, - There having been no agreement on the part of the sons to pay. for the care of their father there would be no contract liability therefor. An express contract is necessary. The supreme court of this state has'said: “Care of an aged and infirm father by a daughter is usually dictated by the better instincts of a common hu- manity and is so rarely bestowed upon contract that no implied con- tract can be predicated upon its be— stowal or receipt. The law will not associate with the discharge of a purely filial duty an implied obli- gation to pay for the same. To sup- port a recovery therefor an express contract must be clearly shown.” The sons were liable in a proper proceedings in court to pay for the care of their father if they were of sufficient ability to do so. The sta- tute says: “The father, mother, and children, being of sufficient ability, of any person who is blind, lame, old, impotent or decrept, so as to be unable to maintain himself, shall, at their own charge, relieve and main- tain such poor person, in such a man- ner as shall be approved by the di- rectors of the poor of the township. where she poor person may be.” The statute provides what steps shall be J, taken if the child neglect to care for the parent. / The supreme court in another case has said: “There is no common law liability resting upon a son to pro- vide for his father. There is a moral obligation resting upon a son to care for his father so far as is consistent with his own means and station in life, but this does not become a legal duty except by statutory enactment. This liability does not attach until the proceedings set forth in this statute has been had.” I am of the opinion that you could collect noth- ing from the sons for the care of their father without an express agreement on their part to do so.——- W. E. Brown, legal editor. SHALL WE DO A‘VAY WITH THE STATE FISH COMMISSION? Would do away with State Game Com- mission because it screens fish from free passage up the Manistee River, Until‘ the erection of the Commonwealth Power Co.’s dams in the Pine, theStronach and junction in the Manistee river we were able to have a steelhead trout or a suck- er in the spring. But since the comple- tion of the dams the fish commission has had men here taking spawn and have had the fish ladders screened at the upper end which preflents us catching any fish. We have to drive 24 miles to get a fish and then pay 10 cents a pound for trout and 5 cents a pound for suckers. The fish ladders are properly installed. We absolutely know neither a steelhead or a sucker ever got over the Stronach , and none has gotten over the ladder at the Junction in the two years it has been in, We think hereabouts that such ‘things ought to be looked into. We do not believe the fish commission has a right to prevent us catching the fish we, as taxpayers, help pay them to raise. ,I . am sure every voter in Wexford, Lake, ,l Benzie and Man stee counties would vote to do away with the State Fish Com- mission and we think we have more than aneven chance with the other“ counties all .the state. We want to get this mat-l »tgP5‘before the pea 1e. Now Mr, Editor please publish ths letter and ivo us ,‘llr idea on the same through t e Mich- ” n Busines Farmer.—J. 0. Jr., Har- ta, Mich. ‘ It is true that we operated a field Ms ‘tion at the above dam for a few oaks the past spring, for the pur- ’ We caught at (at blur no Deni-uncut?» to tho” lit the ’same . ‘ mug? So there was nothing else ., , ‘ but keep him or send» paint about six: thousand ‘rain- -. out, not which, about ~ jseventy- , "Lin our i.” w mil" troubled. from mild! . . . ., e are here to serve you. All Insult-lea must be accompanied river aftervbeing'.- handled, for fish gcultural purposes. jWe took upwards ; 'of six million eggs from which-nearly 1 five million young fish were hatched and distributed, including very liberal planting in the rainbow streams of the four counties mentioned in your letter. 7 This large output of young rain- bow trout would have been nearly a ,‘ total loss if our work had not been carried on. Comparativer few of the large trout go over the dam thru ,1 the fish chute as constructed, and those, that get over are damaged or ' injured to an extent that most of them would not get very far up- stream. Conceding, however, that every trout would have gone over the dam, if they had not been inter- cepted, not one per cent of the eggs deposited would hatch under nat- ural conditions. In other words, there is an enormous waste, under natural conditions, which is saved through fish cultural treatment. Rainbow trout were entirely un- known in this state until after they were introduced from the hatcheries, and the spawn was obtained from the far West, through fishing operations that were identical with our field work at Junction Dam Brook trout were also unknown in all of the counties above mentioned until the streams were stocked from hatcher— ies. If hatchery operations are dis- continued, it is~absolutely certain that trout of all kinds will be practically extinct within a few years. This fact probably is not generally ‘known nor understood. rim! SAFES NOT FIREPROOF “In 1915 I bought a safe from the Meilink Co. of Toledo, sold to me by the Lewis Sales 00., their agents, and in 1920, February 5th, my house and con- tents burned, also safe and contents burned to a, crisp, the size of safe is 3 1-2. I DaYed $42 for same also $42 cash and $15 war savings stamps and $100 worth of jewelry burned with it com- pletely spoiled. I wrote to the Lewis Sales Co. and they referred me to the Meilink Safe Co. of Toledo Ohio, I wrote them about the matter and they told me that that size safe was not guaranteed but the safe was guaranteed to me also their circulars guaranteed them. I am a subscriber of your paper and I see by the Farmer where you have helped others. Can you do anything for me?”-—-—-A Subscriber Gladwin County. We wrote the Meilink pompany, uand they answered as follows: ‘ “We build a large line of safes for all kinds of purposes. There is no Safe Company in business that we know of, that can make a claim to an ‘absolutely’ fireproof safe, nor does any company guarantee a safe as such. This depends entirely upon the condition of the fire. “The Lewis Sales Co. are not ’our appointed agents. We sell small safes to anyone that wishes to buy them. “As far as his reference'to a guar- antee is concerned we know nothing of such guarantee. We do not guar— antee safes in this manner. If we know the conditions under which the safe is to be used, we can advise the purchaser what he ought to buy and we are very careful in giving this kind of advice. “The No. 3 1—2 has not a very heavy wall and consequently has not enough fire protection to be .used as a good risk in a country dwelling, nor would we recommend it for such. The ante can be used in cities where the .fire risk is not so great, and in departments and places of this kind. The Meilink Steel Safe 00., Formerly the Underwriters Safe 00. . CHICAGp FIRM PAYS “April 14 we sent a money order of 317,96 to Philipsborn'a of (Calaicago for 1 summer suit for a.‘ boy, ri $4.98, also for 1 kimona, priced $ .98, total, $7.96. I received from our mail carrier his re- ceipt for the $7.96 and handed him a $20 bill because we could not mane change, _ but when he came next day he put a re- ceipt in the mail box of $17.96, the: change .that wouldi' have con. my due 1: d I sent finch VI ‘02-, o , ' ‘ a. tall? K spoke-to hlmka ~‘two’ receipts. 3H 9 cl . e. ColleCtion B0 . for selling the two. - Co. .askedume. to send. the substitute {will for- , ‘ , The suckers initials taken? in— olden-tally ' along _with the} rainbows do not and will not go. over raunchy- way, like the ene'inStalled at, Junc- tion Dam. .We sold them for ‘five 1" ‘cents apiece, a merely nominal sum, in view at the times. Our object in selling them was to obviate the ' charges as to discrimination and fav- oritism that were made when we gave them away in ferm'eryears. All ‘ receipts from sale of suckers and the limited number of rainbow trout, were turned into the State Treasury. We believe that our work is fully justified by the "wonderful success that has resulted from the planting of trout throughout the state and that there would be no~ complaint whatever: if it wei'e generally known or understood that there would soon be no trout fishing in any season of the year, but for fish cultural oper- etions. Any further information that we can give you along these lines will be cheerfully furnish«ed.———Seymonr Bow- er, Supt, Michigan Fish Commission. LICE ON PEAS I haVe about nine acres of contract ' eas, which, until a. short time ago were ooking flne, Then all at once the‘ vines Were coveredlup with small lice, and within a few days the pods seemed to , curl up and the vines wilted right down. Can you tell me what causes this? I would be glad to hear through M. B'. F. and thank you in advance—C. L, T.. Deckerville, Mich. Treat your peas in the same way as M. S. of Monroe county has been advised to treat his cucumbers.— Associate Editor. ' I have explained to Philipsborn's and filled'out blanks they sent me, but the questions are all the same. I thought perhaps you would try and see what you could do, I received a boyssuit, age 11 but nothing whatever like they agreed to send for the price, in fact there was a tag attached telling me there had been a. substitution of inferior grade made, I never received letter explaining things. except a card telling me my merchan- dise had been sent. but no kimono. has ever arrived nor any settlement for same saying nothingof the ertra $10 that was sent."—~Mrs. A. K. 0., Bancroft, Mich. We referred this complain to Phil- ipsborn’s and,received a prompt re- ply stating they were making a set- tlement, but through an error our subscriber did not receive the full amount of money due 'her. We again got in touch with the company and they replied they would adjust the matter to the entire satisfaction of Mrs. A. K. 0. A few days later we received the following letter. from Mr. 0.: - "" “Yours at hand in our mail yesterday. Also a letter from Philipsborn's making a. complete settlement and we are very grateful. To how you We appreciate your double kl dness, please, find enclos- ed a $1. While‘we feel your services have been worth more, we can hardly spare more at present. Thanking you once again we remain,”—.A, K. O. M. and Wife Bancroft, Mich, July 28th. As there-is no charges connected with this service to our. paid-up sub- scribers we have credited the dollar on your subscription by advancing the expiration date on your paper one year.—Editor. ' - WATCH TRANSACTION “I answered an adv. for watches sell- ing at $2.95 or 2 for, 8 .90 and one free ow I sent the money and ‘did not hear from them for a long time. I wrote and asked them to . give a reason for the delay, They,thcn delayed two weeks and sent me the three watches but not the kind they advertis- ed. One of the three was in bad'shape. the main spring was twisted and the back cover could not be placedback, and. 3 wrote the company about it, but they 0 not give, an answetil-i Now_ the ad- a . M. B., dress, of this firm is Co. Chicago, Ill."——C Mich, July 11th. Upon receipt of the above letter we wrote the company, and a few days later received the following from Mr. B.: l r- - ,— » ‘fsince You wrote lithe, Merrill, Elliott Phelps . Vote 1: . agreed ‘. to excha not” hear u“ , hbao . mm them‘o' $83935 ‘ :1 . ‘ r. . e , Elliott Phelps '- 3'7 i. . Several, insects, inter f. ., » ,welfareaf’cucumber an'dmnu’ _.,. .43 The Cucumber Beetle (striped), reads. 1 on theyleav'es; and the young tunnel ,, as grubs in the roots. PlantTmOreW g' -. seeds than are neededgto“ produce ‘ ‘ -’ i. vines and thin ou-t'the injured plants and dust with hydrated lime and ‘ ~ flour of sulphur (one of sulphur "to five or six of lime), through coarse cloth. Some prefer ‘ar'senate of lead powder mixed with‘ nine parts of hy- drated lime. About the bases of the . . vines“ on the. ground throw some ; w v? :1 tobacco dust to prevent beetles from -' A - layin geggs on stems. Paris green is not reliable onthese tender vines. " , The Cucumber Louse usually starts in anfew hills and then spreads over the. field, cold, wet'weather being no. orable to the louse. Some prefer to bury the first few vines attacked . to retard spreading. A good spray 'r is Persian insect powder, 1-2 ounce , ~ to a gallon of water; also nicotine sulphate, 1-2 pint to 50 gallons of water, if 40 per cent sulphate is used, spraying upward from be- neath. The difficulty lies in getting the spray on the lice. Each louse must be fairly hit to be killed. The large Black Squash Bug, on stink bug, not only feeds on vines, but probably also carries the wilt. It may be trapped on cold nights un- der pieces of board and dropped into a can of water, having a little kero- ’ sene on top—Special Bulletin No. 93, Experiment Station, M. A. 0’. HAIRY SAND VETCH Will you explain through your paper‘ the following: The value of hairy sand vetch as hay, The time for cutting. Will soy beans do well on fertilized sandy soil? The value of the hay and the sale for same. Will alfalfa grow at- . ter soy beans? Whichis the most pay- ‘ .- ing crop on sandy soil, wheat or rye?’ “ What are the beneficial returns from one application of two tons of lime and 250 pounds of phosphoric acid per acre on a crop rotation of corn, wheat, and hay? ' Are cow peas considered as of as much, value as fertilizer and hay? Which of ' the above is the best to plow under for green fertilizer?—-F, C., Newaygo Cq. Hairy Vetch is frequently used for hay, good results being secured by sowing the mixture of two bushels of cats and twenty pounds of Hairy Vetch seed as early in the spring as ‘ ’ a suitable seed bed can be prepared. This mixture_should be cut for hay . and when the oats are in the early" dough stage and the vetch is form- ing pods. . , Soy beans fisually produce a fair growth on fertilized sandy soil. Well cured soy bean hay has about the same feeding value as clover or al- falfa hay. The seed have nearly the same feeding‘value as oil meal. It should be easier to secure a catch of alfalfa after raising a crop of soy beans provided the soil is not acid, and the seed is. inocillated. On a light, sandy loam a larger ‘ yield of rye is usually secured than. ‘ wheat. The price per bushel how- . ever, will have to be taken into con- ' slderatiOn in determining which is " ‘ the most profitable crop. ‘ -, Cow .peasdo not produce as much growth in this state as soy beans. If it is desirable to,plowsunder a sum— mer grown crop, soy beans may be used. Rye and vetch: however, make considerable growth between regular ‘ crops, and'consequently are more desirable for this purpose—0. R. £89088, Ass’t Prof; of :Farm Crops, M, r COMPANIES CAN RAISE~ RATES «i , I am interested in some ,good life inc ~ . “ K surance, Kindly advise ‘me if the rates ‘ " .can ever ‘be' raised in the Bankers" Life I _ ‘ Association, Monmouth, Illinois, 6r Nat- ~ ' ional Life Assoc atien, Des Moines, 1m -—F. A. g N.,V Galien, Mich. ' " ' The Illinois Bankers, Life Associa- i] , tion of MonmouthigflllinOis,‘ and. the National Life. Association of“. Des Moines, Jews are authorized .to trans- ' not business in this sftate as'ioov‘op. ative or assessment life Companies'of this class have right, to levy additional ‘ * ‘ or 'ncreapfefthe. to o ' _ ', Vii t, ,. .b‘ A , lists; in ep’gods that should stake/a shot were? r r hchouid explain th ‘ / pet'his demand. a “giganto‘hell,” Alesandra said, Realise had opened the door and lashed a light on the face of the im- i‘f;fio:1‘§nnaté- caller. ' "*1 have, big secret,” Yi Poon pant- ‘ed,’ , _"Yery big brand new secret." -“Gome around tomorrow in busi- ness hours,” Alesandro growled as he -~ prepared to kick the Chinaman off present. the. premises. “I don't sell secret,” Yi Poon stam- mered and gasped. “I make you I give secret now. The Senorita, your sister, she is stolen. She is tied upon a horse that runs fast down the'beach." But, Alesandro who had said good night to Leoncia, not half an hour ,before, laughed loudly his unbelief, and prepared again to boot off the traflicker in secrets. Yi Poon was desperate. He drew forth the thous- and dollars and placed it in Alesan- dro’s hands, saying: “You go look quick. If the Sen- orita stop in this house now, you keep all that money. If the Senorita no stop, then you give money back." And Alesandro was convinced. A minute later he was rousing the house. Five minutes later the house ' peons, their eyes hardly open from sound sleep, were roping and sad- dling horses and pack—mules in - the corrals, while the Solano trible was pulling on riding gear and equipping itself with weapons. Up and down the coast and on the various paths that lead back to the Cordilleras, the Science scattered questing blindly in the blind dark for the trail of the abductors. As chance would have it, thirty hours afterward Henry, alone caught the scent followed it, so that, camped in the very Footstep of God where first the old Maya priest had sighted the eyes of Chia, he found the entire party of 'twenty men and Leoncia cooking and eating breakfast. Twenty to one, never fair and always impossible, did not appeal to Henry Morgan's Anglo- Saxon mind. What did appeal to him was the dynamite-loaded mule, teth- ered apart from the oft-saddled forty odd animals and left to stand by the careless peons with its lead still on its back. ' Instead of attempting the patently impossible rescue of Leoncia and recognizing that in numbers her woman’s safety lay, he stole the dy- namite mule. , Not far did he take it. In the shelter :0! the low woods, he opened the pack and filled all his pockets with sticks of dynamite, a be); of de- tonators, and a short coil of fuse. With a regretful look at the rest of the dynamite which he would have liked to explode but dared not, he busied himself along the line of re- treat he would have to take if he suc- ceeded in stealing Leoncia from her captors. As Francis on a previous occasion at Juchitan had sow'n the retreat with silVer dollars, so, this time, did Henry sow the retreat with dynamite—the sticks in small bund- les and the fuses, no longer than the length or a detonator, and with de‘ tonators fast to each end. Three hours Henry devoted to lurking around the camp in the Foot- step of God, ere he got his opportun- ity to signal his presence to Leoneia; and another precious two hours were wasted ere she found her opportunity to steal away to him. Which would not have been so bad, had not her escape almost immediately been dis- covered, and had not the gendarmes and the rest of Torres’ party mount- ed, been able swiftly to overtake them on foot. . When Henry drew Leoncia down to hide beside him in the shelter of. a rock and at the same time brought ' his rifle into action ready ‘for play, - she protested. ‘said. “They are too‘many. wfight youwiil be killed. “We haven't a chance, Henry," she If you And _ then what ‘will become of me? Better that ".,ycu:make your own escape, and» to bring 11!, meringue to be retaken, , ’ diet—and Tet me be _rlearest siste‘r.. 1 " t‘v'ou and . and watch. Here they came now. You just Watch-u Various mounted on horses and pack mules, whichever had come handiest in their haste, Torres, the Jets, and their men clattered into sight. Henry drew a sight, not on them, but on the point somewhat nearer where he had made his first plant of dynamite. When he pulled the trigger, the intervening distance rose up in a cloud of smake and earth and dust that obscured them. As the cloud slowly dissipated, they could be seen, half of them, animals and men, overthrown, and all of them dazed and shocked by the explosion. Henry seized Leoncia’s hand, jerk- ed her to her feet, and ran on side by, side with her. Conventiently beyond his second planting, he draw her down beside him to rest and’catch breath. - "They won’t come on so fast this time,” he hissed exultantly. “And the longer they pursue us the slow— er they’ll come on.” True to his forecast, when the pur- suit appeared it moved very cau- tiously and very slowly. “They ought to be killed," Henry said. I haven’t the heart to do it. surely shake them up some.” Again he fired into his planted dy- namite, and again turning his back on the confusion, he fled to his third planting. After he had fired off the third ex- plosion, he raced Leoncia to his teth- ered horse, put her in the saddle, and ran on beside her, hanging on to her stirrup. . (Continued next week) But I’ll UNCLE SAM’S HIRED MEN WHO SERVE THE FARMERS (Continued frOm page 6) he had a great deal to say about the work of the Bureau of Markets, and in doing so the force of his person— ality and capability was plainly evi- dent in spite of hi smodesty. “The Bureau of Markets is en- deavoring to devise the quickest, most direct and least expensive meth- ods of getting products to market,” he said. “Slip—shod methods must go, for the new methods will be bet- ter. “Of course, it must be appreciat- ed that the job can not be done over- night. Present marketing methods are the product of evolution, and bet- ter marketing practices must come through gradual impre-lc-ent in methods and procedure. It has tak— en decades and in fact a century or so to develop the production side of agriculture to its present degree of efficiency, and there yet remains much to be done. I hope that the development of efficient marketing machinery will not take that long, but it is a vast undertaking, ' and every step of the journey must be sure-footed. “To accomplish that result the bu- reau needs to have on its staff work— ers of proved ability through practi- cal experience; workers who are keenly sympathetic with the farmers’ needs. In a word, we want in the Bureau of Markets the best market- ing specialists found anywhere in the world. , “But of equal importance is the hearty co—operation of everyoge. By the character of service rendered we want the farmer to know that the bureau is his friend, and not to hPsi- tate to call upon it to help him solve hismarketing problems. It is his bu- reau and we are ready and anxious to serve him." In that last sentence is contained the keynote_to George I'iivingston’s code. Service to others is his reli- gion. He is constantly devising some means of, helping the farmers with their problems, and the only reward he asks is that the farmers come halt way to meet him. p—————-:—-———- HAP“: rinse “It il a mistaken idea that scrubs are more hardy, than “pursue a. Pure-brads are hardy if only these are, kept which are of good cent itu- / M Amaéytltmtc. a: in b re trust in . “But they have no chance, and .. Million Dollar Educational Institution i’ Greatest stock show ever held in Middle West. M .A. C. and U. S. Joint Agricultural Show. Model Fur Farm and fur animal; exhibit. Model Power Farm operated by Henry Ford: Big farm machinery show. Horticultural exhibit. Art Institute. > Boys' and Girls’ Clubs’ demonstration. Amusements Horse racing, auto racing, auto polo, horse jumping contests, bands, concerts, free vaudeville acts, daring airplane aerobats in V startling acts, the midway circus, fireworks and many other features. Seventy-first Annual Exposition 10 Days, I 10 Nights . DETROIT Sept. 3 Sept. 12 ” (Political Adv.) Emory Townsend Candidate for Nomination for Congress . 8th Congressionial District O To the Voters of the 8th Congressional District: Honorable Emory Townsend of Saginaw, a successful farmer, an- active member of the Michigan Farm Bureau, a good lawyer and bus- iness man, who two years ago came near being nominated for Cong- ress, is a candidate for nomination for Congress at the primaries, August 31, 1920. Remember that the primaries are more important than the gen- eral election. Is it not your imperative duty to go to the primaries, August 31, take a Republican ticket and vote for Emory Townsend? He will make a good Congressman and not be absent ninety per cent. of the time as some others have done. The World War Veterans should be paid a liberal bonus not by I, p. the veterans, their relatives or common people as has been prepose ' but by the “STAY AT HOME PROFITEERS.” « \ ’ Little Live Stock Ads in ‘ .Mo, Bo F0 . I , Do the Trickl “on”! 7,189“ (L??- {a Dcizarment of g‘. ' cur~ weekly vwii’, J'h‘BY. are on When you write any adverti; 4r". tact'zthat you are alreadgrgotgtni’a- paper-t lollm “unswe' f atrium-“mm fifth,wéu.'.°:rh1=' ‘ ' 5 .3“ c - W m 3.3"?" ' Ml ' ,‘opy u = , n. IM'MIMI ,.l:tur’ ey’for ’it‘we dated i’n - ' lowing week. The'lueineu Fm. Adv. Dept. Mt. Clemens. Mich. ' . .ssssms&1eumss $2.200 OAS" SEOURES 878-AOHE FARM with Valuable growing crops, 29 cows, 2 horses. calf. bull. machinery. tools, implements, dairy utensils; in- heart leading dairy section: 100 . acres fields, spring-watered pasture, woodlot. fruit . trees, sugar maples, 9-room house. running sprint! water: bis 3-story barn, new sense; affairs must be settled; everything for 87,200,, only $2.200 .cash, balance easy terms. Details page 24 Strout's Biz Illustrated Catalog Farm Barzalns 83 States. any? free. STROUT FARM AGENCY. 814 B E, 0rd Bldg., Detroit, Mich. FOR SALE—IMPROVED 40 ACRE 'FARM including small two story house,_ large hip NOf barn, corn crib. well, four acres timber, half mile {mm navel road. near one of the best small towns in the state. Now is the tune to see the crops it will produce. Price $4,800. The build- ings alone are Worth $8,000. CARL H. WHIT- NEY Merrill, Mich. FOR SALE—2,000 ACRES IN TRAOTS 'ro suit: Presque Isle County. Heavy clay loam .soil in lime stone belt. Nothing better. Bur- rounded by prosperous settlers. First class msr— ets. Price $15 an acre on easy terms. JOHN G. KRAUTH, Millersburg, Mich. FOR SALE—102 ACRE FARM, PARTLY IM- ' proved. For description and price write to B. A. DOUGLAS, Twining, Mich. FOR SALE—459 ACRES SAND LOAM CLAY subsoil, house, barn, other improvements. timber. CLARE ERNST Prescott, Route 2. Mich. BUY FENCE POSTS DIRECT FROM FOR- est. All kinds. Delivered prices. Address “M. M." care Michigan Business Farming, Mt. Clem- ens, Mich. FOR SALE—TWO GOOD D. S. P LLED Durham Bulls. 8 and 0 months old. EDW. GUN- DEN, Pigeon, Mich. WANTED TO BUY A SECOND HAND CIDER mill. eitllcr hydraulic or other power. PETER SI‘IFERNICK, R 1, Gladwin, Mich. 'E'ELI. THE MAELING EPARTMEN'I 1-—-if your name or initials are not t. correct on our lie 2—" your rural route or box num- ber is not correct on our list. 8—” the expiration ’date is not cor- rect, following your name. 4—" you do not get your paper regularly every Saturday or earl- ier in the week. 5—lf you get more than one copy of each Issue, your name is dupli- cated on our list by mistake, please send both address labels. 6—if you know of anyone who has had trouble getting their Busi- ness Farmer. “711cm writing or renewing al- ways send in your address label recent issue you have received, torn from the cover of the most recent issue you have received, it will assure you of immediate attention to your complaint. MAILING DEPARTMENT, The Michigan Business Farmer, M t. Clemens, Michigan. 'RESULTS! April 6, 1920 Michigan Business Farmer, Mt. Clomens, Mich, Gentlemen: Enclosed please find check for $14.00, 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 in the same good way and you will have the - . support of every bona fide farmer. I 7' .‘ Cordially yours, M ' I C. W. HEIMBACH, Gnome 5, Big Rapids, Mich. m. s. F. brings them. y' a candidate for, the, state legislature. '_ We say "exclusive? because we know‘ or no other candidate who'has .so ’ clearly and forcefully expressed himg- self on state issues. We are not 're-. producing this platform for the pur- pose of furthering Mr. 'Burnham's candidacy though, we are mindful of the fact that it may have that effect. Inasmuch as there is another very good farmer running for the state legislature in the same district, (al- ‘ though he has not .upto the present time declareda platform) we refrain from suggesting to our readers in Sanilac county which of the two they should vote for. We are taking up valuable space for the printing of Mr. B'urnham’s platform because it is such a clear and concise definition of issues pertaining to the welfare of the farmers. It is a. platform which commends itself to us very strongly, with the policies of this publication. Read and call it to the attention of the candida-tee in your county: . - “The liquor question is settled for all time so far as the states are con-.. earned, the 18th amendment having become a law, and the action of the Supreme Court of the United States in upholding its validity places the control and enforcement of the law in the hands of the Federal govern- ment. Any change or repeal of the 18th amendment must come through the congress at »Washington, D. C. Our government is one of represent- ative authority, but I believe it is the duty of every citizen to lend his moral and spiritual aidin upholding the law. Any attempt to evade a rule of action as defined by a major- ity of the electors cannot but have one result—the end of constituted authority. Those who would pre- serve our institutions and observe the law. “We are drifting away from eco- omy in public affairs. The per cap- ita expense of running the state gov— ernment according to the report of the auditor general which is the of- ficial public record for the year 1919, was $6.81 while in 1916 it was but $2.17, or about one-third the present cost. The taxpayers of Michigan will be called upon to pay immense sums of money on account of the very lib- eral appropriations of the 1919 leg- islature $5,000,000 for good roads, $2,000,000 for Jackson prison, $1,— 500,000 for the University of Michi- gan, $2,000,000 for the erection of the state’s new office building, and also the increase in the running ex- penses of the various departments of the state government caused by the general rise in prices. It may not be much harder for us to pay what we shall be called upon to pay in 1920 than what we were asked to pay in 1916, but we shall demand and ex- pect that every dollar shall be spent economically and that the state shall receive a just and adequate return for the money expended. The peo— ple are in no temper to tolerate ex- travaganc or graft. “I believe that in all financial transactions the state should be gov- erned by the same rules as the indi- vidual citizen, for the state is but a collection of individuals associated together for the purpose of govern- ment. The tendency of the times to foster public improvementsby bond- ed indebtedness and according elect— ors who are not tax payers a voice in these matters is wrongboth in principle and policy, ‘and a pay as we go program wherever expedient is a far safer course than a. long drawn account with its added rate of in- terest. “We should demand a. ten hour day pay to be measured by results. Those who labor on \the farms have never been able to qualify in .the eight hour class and. the returns on their farm investments preclude‘the possibility of ever. getting a rating from -R. .G. .Dunn, and yet we are asked to compete With those who) would idle while the nation [and state suffer for the lack of production. We lire not asking sympathy.‘ we are appealing to the American con.- science for one enduall. _ 7 _ . 1 , _ ‘ "One of the greatest rabid s on tox=tne+ramny1ojttn t , "mile (humanity to educsiegihelr children ,as‘ ~tho'se more .. rotten-fetus sltuateed. This~is‘ one of the glaring being concistent in its every detail . a- square deal; alike I for; r, sens“ defects of the, rural educational" sys~ tem. If we are to retainxou‘r social caste find emaintein the ideals” upon which-our government ire-founded it must be apparent to all thinking citizens that every child should have the legacy of his birth- right, a trained mind and a healthy vigorous body. I am in favor of any and all legislation that will give. to our rural schools the means to this end. ' - . “.I am also in favor of legislation that will give to our teachers in the public schools an adequate return for their labor and a competence, for old age. .The training of our child- ren, who will be the citizens of the future, is one of the, noblest of all ceilings and merits its reward from a grateful? public. v “I am opposed to and will vote for the repeal of the act creating the state police. I do not believe it is in keeping with our free institutions to maintain a standing army of one hundred and fifty-four men in times of peace and drawing a combined sal- ary of $211,360 and no one so far as I am able to determine can give an intelligent reason for their creation and appointment unless it was for gallant and meritorious actionlin the field of politics. Now we have in every county in the state a sheriff and numerous deputies and marshals and a very large number of police of- ficials whose duties are to execute and enforce the laws and maintain peace. If their force is not sufficient to accomplish this,the statute pro— vides that any and all citizens may be drafted-and sworn and compelled to assist in the performance of this duty. We also have a national guard of trained soldiers that can and may be called out in case of riot or other emergencies. It would seem, there- fore, that every ordinary precaution had been taken to protect the lives and property of our citizens prior to the birth of this august body. “I am opposed to and Will vote for the repeal of the dog law as passed by the last legislature. It denies the right of local self government to the people in the various townships of this state; it places an excessive and uncalled for tax upon all dog owners, compelling claimants for losses to adjust these claims with the county officials, thereby increasing fees, delaying adjustments. and di— verting all balances that may accrue to the contingent fund of the county which hertofore was apportioned to the public schools. . “I am opposed to all useless com— missions as I believe they are added burdens to the public. They receive their official appointment from the governor. of the state, and very often are. chosen because of the political activities. They are responsible to no one, being a law within themselv- es, and are merely duplicating the powers and duties of the executive “office. “I believe that all general legisla— tion affecting the Whole state should be referred to the people. Had this been a law the Warehouse Amend- ment would not have been defeated by the enemies of agriculture in the session of the last legislature. “I have been asked how I stand upon the beet question. I have al- ‘Ways been lead to believe and revere the doctrine that ‘the laborer is wor- thy of his hire.’ That the farme’ris' entitled to the fruits of his labor goes without question; and. the “right of" organisation for, the purpose ofcol-g- lective bargaining isgconsidered by, all fair—minded persons to be, smut-,7, _ ter of right; and sound , in" principles; 2 andfhas .recelved.,‘tl_,1"s sanction, ‘ of congress and. .the-,courts".-"In'conclm ~ sion, «1 would-shygtthat I-‘a'mnot .a‘n- tagoniSti-c to any business 1 but I shall , (w h a ' * endeavor, as far}, _ to secure a bet’t‘e’ and forward . Say “Bayer” when proved safe by millions and ' physicians for over twen ce t only an unbroken “Buyer w ich contains roper directions to relieve Headache, .Toot ache, Ear-ache, N ' Rheumatism, Colds and Pain. Hand ~thl boxes of 12 tablets cost few cents. 5mg- ’sts also sell larger “Bayer peck-gee.” spirin is trade mark of Bayer Manufac- ture Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacid. Here is one of 99 real bargszins shown in . a... .... c.5435 I 1‘ ‘ bier catalog, A rents and other 113nm. 581'! overhead. ,Genuine chrome ,uppers, resists barn~ , yard acids. Heavy . soles of oak tanned lesther—-wesr like item’splce. icoinfort-well—wear them all the first day end you won’t notice them. Brown only. You take no. risk: simply send the coupon. Shoes are shipped, pay the postman $4.85 on arrival. you like them keep them, if not return them and we wdi refund money, including postage. Your word is enough. Don’t delay. Mail coupon today. send for cataloeue. Sales last year over $1,000,000. r Rambler Shoe 00.. Dem. use. New York on: Send my part of Rambler worth-while work shoes ‘I will my postman $4.35 on arrival. If are not entirely satisfactory I can return them and you will refund money, including postage. Name r ' ... Address meme Low introductory offer ate this :1 saw rig within reach 0? all at small 0 cost of other ri . 53w: your Winter’s w in few hours. Powerful (cycle motor. may to operate, li tto days' ni For best results on your Poul- try. Veal, Hogs, etc., ship to CULOTTA & JULL DETROIT . Not connected with , any other g house on this market. ‘ lo- messes: I '3’ .I‘AD n . Then you are sure of getting true} A‘fin ‘ Tablets Of Aspifin’l—fenm 99 SHOE BARGAINS T ’ I tyrann- 49- We “1W 5' x F asses: :55. 9553‘ '— r: - ‘ ism .‘ Sis-E mlifixllo‘imlnfiimm llllifllllilfllllflliliililflllliml '1 " IIIlllllglfillllimlmlllllllllIIlllflfllilllillINllllllIiHI!IllI[illIIllfll‘llillIll"!"HilllllllllllIIll"llllilllllIlllllllllllllillIllllIllllillilllllllllllilllli|llllllllllllillllllllllfi 843112, ’A “ Sen-is of them seem J tom the sickness—W, D,. Mich . [pin young turkeys isone r y‘jmptoms of Bl‘ackhead which 1 pk tectious and very fatal disease . ortality often reaChing as high Nit-oer cent in _' young turkeys. ever, from the one symptom you jd'it would be impossible to tell gm 1y ,whether the turkeysare af- with'Blackhead or not. Jain 'theuc of Blackhead the youngsters ex ibit a drOWSy attitude “ tit. constantly increasing lack of w ’r, the appetite diminishes, the 1' than ruffled, Wings pending and "there is a general debility manifest— Diarrohea is nearly always pres- and quite characteristic. The dmppings are soft and yellowish in color and during the latter stages the head may present a darkened or purplish appearance due to an impaired circulation ,of the blood. Thesymptom “has lead to the disease being termed Blackhead. ’ "There is no known method of treatment fer Blackhead that has proved entirely satisfactory. - ‘The or- fg‘ariisms causing the disease are very deep seated in the liver-causing very characteristic spots on the surface, awhich may be noted upon making a post ‘morte'm examination. .This Smak'es the parasites practically im- mune to any curative agents. ‘ As soon as any symptoms of the disease are noted the affected birds should be immediately isolated from . ‘the'flook. Thouroughly cleaning and disinfecting the wards will tend to {keep the outbreak in check. Five per cent solution of carbolic acid is a good disinfectant. Where the di— ' ,sease has become prevalent on prem- '~iSes' to such an extent as to make the raising of turkeys unprofitable it is advisable to dispose of the entire lot ‘ and allow a period of approximate— ‘ 1y two' years to elapse before restock- - ing. Liming or plowing the runs of feeding yards is indicated. ' Naturally, affected birds should be destroyed, their carcasses burned or .deeply‘buried. "Often the confine— - ment of turkeys in close yards has been tried with favarable results. g The above suggestions are offered ‘on the strength of a guess. That mayor may not be the trouble with the turkeys. The only way that we could tell definitely whether or not the turkeys are affected with the dis- ease called Blackhead would be to I cautious of the affected birds to our . Dr. E. T'.‘ Hallman of the Veterinary "Clinic, East Lansing, Mich., who will make a complete diagnosis of the InfilllllllIllllllllllIlllllllllllllllillllllllll Tran-ad Holstein-Fri ’I ‘1’ Fame b d‘ 7.1“ °~ he re: a case. and report‘the same to the own- ;er. This type of work‘is done by the College free of charge for residents of the State of Michigan. We are always glad to be of service in this manner Whenever possible and trust that the above information may be 0f service—W. E. Newton, Ass’t in Poultry Husbandry, M. A. 0. ' TONGUE LOLLING " Please advise me how to stop a horse from holding their tongue out. a horse that holds its tongue out when bridled and would like it stopped as it is a good horse, Thanking you in advance. —Frank Hegler, Deford, Mich. Tongue lolling is the name applied to this condition, or the habit of ex- tending the end of the tongue from the side of the mouth while driving. The habit may be first acquired in an attempt to protect a sore mouth from further injury, but its continu- ation is due to the relief to the res- pirations. This condition is not due to paralysis of the tongue but is wholly a habit. Treatment: First have a qualified veterinarian exam- ine the teeth carefully. The head while driving must be elevated with the‘overdraw check to bring the air passages toward a'straight line. The mouth may be closed with a noss band attached to the bridle. Attach— ing the'check bit to the main bit by means of a flexible rubber hose, will frequently prevent the habit. When these measures fail, amputation of a small portion of the tongue is the only recourse—W. A. Ewalt, veter- inary editor. ABSCESS 0N COW’S JAW Would appreciate it if you: could tell me What is the matter with my cow. She has abscesses on the side of her face_ They started in January and lasted un- .til she was turned out on pasture in the spring and then healed up, She is in good condition and has been fresh for 8 weeks and gives a good flow of milk. We have had two veterinarians and they both pronounced it tuberculosis of the bone. Would the milk be good for use? —T. E. R., Arenac County. It is impossible to give a positive diagnosis of this case without seeing the animal. She might have Actin— omycosis, commonly known as Lump Jaw. ‘She may have received an in— jury sometime which has affected the bone thus causing the abscesses to which you refer. Should there be a loose particle of bone fro‘m some. cause or other, you would get the ab- scess formation, at which time you would get a fetid discharge. From the symptoms you have given I can see no indication of tuberculosis. I would suggest you have a graduate veterinarian to examine your cow.— W. A. Ewalt, veterinary editor. lllilllllIIlllllllllllllilllll|||ll|lliilllillllHlllllllllllHIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIll:[Hill|Ill[Ill[IIlilllllHilllllllilllIllilll|lllHIIllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllillllllilillllllIllllHlHilillHII 1.. a: mama: l «is *mww 23.900. mmnmunm I have 4 mmnunmmmmnmnnnmmu 'H!Hill!llHHHllIlllH|{llllIliliillllillllllllllllllUllHHHIIHJHII l.l|ll|llillllllll|HillHill!lllilllllillllillllll |llHIHllllll|Hill|Illlllllllllllllllmilllllllll[HillIIllllllllllilllllllillilllillllilllllll[Illlllillllllllllllll “WiflflilllllmlillllilllmIlflllllllllfllllllllllllillllIlllllllllllllllillllllllilllfllllillillllllllillilllllllfllllll ‘ llllllllllllllIiHillHlII”HII|l|HIHlIHHIIHHIHHHll“!i i ! ‘ i'l‘lH’V'th MR. F. L. GARRISON It is a fact that the success of any business enterprise de- pends upon its efficiency and economical management, combined with ample capital for operatibr‘of its business. The Detroit Packing Company will have two millions or more of working cap- ital. The practical management of the plant and cold storage de- partments of The Detroit hacking Company will be under the di- rectionbf the General Superintendent Mr. F. L. Garrison, who has spent the past twenty-three years acquiring a full knowledge of every department of the packing ho'use business, from the pur- chase of raw material in the form of live stock through plant op- erations including dressing of carcasses, processing of meats and by—produ‘cts, marketing of all tonnage produced. His initial training and experience came through twelve years of association with the largest and best equipped plant east of Chicago. Later Mr. Garrison was connected in an executive capacity with three other packing houses in the East. We believe that the experi- ence of Mr. Garrison puts him in a strong position to handle the business of The Detroit Packing Company, as our present opera- tions will be conducted mainly in Michigan and in territory East, including all exports, with all of which he is full conversant. Mr. Garrison will be ably assisted by efficient managing heads of every department. i.iIHHlV‘Hy'nwmuunn n -na—aw *‘v-m-Q-l- DUPVALO, N.“ Edward 1’. Bold Pm. and Con. Mgr, KANSAS c-rv, MO WiCHITA,KA~s LivlnPOOL,ENG. an new on Hermosillheefime Y0 TriE FIRM unnco suns rooo ADMINISTRATION museum; mso 1920 Whirl-31.19}. March 16th, Detroit Packing Company, Detroit. Mich. Gentlemen:- Your letter of recent date asking about Mr. 2.1.. as a practical packing house man, noted. Mr. Garrison was with this Company from 1897 to 1909, during which time he fulfilled varied duties acceptably and doubt- less benefitted himself materially in acquiring definite'knowledge and experience in p king house practice. In 1909 he left us to take charge of a pee ing house in Ohio which he operated success- fully for five years. We believe Mr. F. L. Garrison to be both practical and capable and should you place him in your organization are satisfied he will credits.ny handle the business entrusted to him. Garrison Yours ve ry truly, ‘ \ m J COB PACKING 011? If Intoréctcdfcall in Person or Write a... L. wmnoy wntklm ' FMng I. «much Special Live Stock “visor Vloc-Pruldom. : . Plant cumin-day ~': _~ Sprinzweils’Ave. enquichiu'n Central 3:33. =r~ The‘Detroit icking'Conip d Jag: ; lllllllulllilllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllflfllllmm iii!|illllillIll|iI|ll|llHilllllllllllllllliiilllllilIlli é (SPECIAL ADVERTISING RA“ I To avoid conflicting LGLCS we WIII without cost, list the date of any live stock sale In Michigan. If you are considering a sale IO- VIse us at one end we will claim the due for you. Address, Live Stock Editor. M. B. [-1. Mt. Clemens. Oct. 26. Poland Chinas. Wesley Hik- Ionle. Mich. Oct. 27. Poland Chinas. Boone-Hill 0m. Blanchard, Mich. " _ Oct. 28, Poland Chinas. Clyde Fisher In R. Leonard. St. Louis. Mich. ~ Oct. 29, Poland Chlnns. Chas. Wetzel & Sons, Ithaca. Mich. Oct. 30. Poland Chinas. Sons, Elsie. Mich Feb. 1 Poland Chlnns. Brewbeher & Witt Bros, Jas- per, Mich. Sunder thirva is honest broaden of live stock {no . show you a proof and tell you what R It out for 18. 23 or 62 times. \Vou can 'ohgnue size eta xi; Breeders' Auction Sales advertlsed here 3: neckline: ms: esk for them. Write today i) LIVE STOCK AUCTIONEERS Porter Galestook, Eaton Rapids. Mich. J. E. Iluppert, Perry. Mich. Harry Robinson, Plymouth, Mich. CATTLE HOLSTEIN-FBIESIAN INCREASE THE EFFICIENCY of your DAIRY HERD by using a. REGISTERED HOLSTEIN SIRE We ha e bulls of all ages listed at reasonable prices. Also grade and purebred cows and heifers MICHIGAN HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION Old State Building Lansing, Mich. A VERY HANDSOME AND STRAIGHT SON of a' 21.60 Ru 2 yr. old daughter if John“ Hengerveld Lad, whose daughters .are noted for Individuality and performance. l‘mrn Mai-cu Li), 1920. Sired by a grandson of Ill-rtjusr-u Pauline 8d. 34.80 lbs. butter and 585.80 lbs. milk in 7 days. Price $175 delivered to your station. For extended pedigree address, L. KETZLER Flint. Mich. OLVERINE STOCK FARM REPORTS GOOD sales from their herd. We are well pleased with the calves from our Junior Herd Sire "King pan- tiac Lunde Korndyke Segis” who is a son of "King of the l’onlillcs" from a daughter of Pon- tiac ()lothildc Ilc Kol 2nd. A few bull calves for gale. 'l‘. \V. Sprugue, ll 2, lattle Creek, Mich. MUSOLFF BROS.’ HOLSTEIN) We are now booking orders for young bulls from King l'mxm Svu‘c Lyons‘ 170506. All from A. R. O, dams with credible records. We test annu- ally for tuberculosis. Write for pric- es and further informarion. MusoifT Bros., South Lyons, v BABY BULLS Grow your own next herd sire. We have three benutifnl youngsters—straight as a line. himboned rugged fellows. They ere ell by "in 39 lb. senior sire. KING KORNDYKE ()lilSKAXY PONTIAC from splendid indi- vidual dams. of A. ll. backing and the best of blood lines. Write for our sale list. BOARDMAR FARMS JACKSON. MICH. Holstein Breeders Since Michigan 1906 . .ACKE KRAST LINDENWOOD CHAMPION lull born March 13. 19]”. Sire is a 27.33 lb. son of a 30.61 lh. bull. whose sire is Johanna (‘cncordia Champion (30 A. ll. 0. daughters. 2 above 30 lbs.) Dam is an 183V lb. 2 year old daughter of Johanna Concordia Champion (see above) whose sire. Coluutha Johanna Champion, has 61 A. ll. 0. {daughters}. 6 above 30 lbs. He is a big grovrlhy fell-ow, ready for heavy service between 2-3 and 3—4 white and nicely marked. Guaranteed .1 sure breeder and especially priced at $200 if taken ut Ullm‘. Write for pedigree. EDWARD B. BENSON & SONS Hill Crest Farms, Munson. Mich. ’36 pound son of KING OF THE V PONTIAC’S Heads our Herd " Several 30 pound cows all under Federal Sup- _I'Q’_rvlsion, good bull calves and a few bred heifers ~3er ale. I HILL CREST KARI. ' or write. Ortonvmo. Itch. V V-ngnu P. mm, gee Griswold-83.. Damn. Mich. TWO . BULL OALVES * «ulster-ed iloisteln-Frieaial. lived by $9.87 I; fend [rum hggvy pruduclnw young cows. The" ‘ " ‘ \ ‘ iceund‘ will b} priced eh»‘ I! illiiliiilli liiililhliiliiii’lllillil r . :oulw will he am on request, a. ' illllliliiiiiiiillillil or copy as often no you with. canons! DIRECTORY, THE, Ml°fl'9£t!.'e'3l“°3y "KNEE. W- cm“ “WP”: mnmul PRODUOER ' Your problem is more MILK, more BUTTER, more PROFIT, per cow. . ‘ A eon ot mpleorest Application Pontiac—- 182852—from , our heavtyiyeurly-milklnz-good-but— tor-record dun will solve ' Mu)th Application .Pontlec's dam made 35,103 lbs. butter in 7 days; 1344.3 lbs. butter end 23421.2 lbs. milk In 385 days. _ .He rs one of the greatest long distance sires. I doubters and none will prove it. \Write in for pedigree and prices on his sons. Prim film and not too high for the average dell: turner. end price. on application. moc£L°liluo SEGIS cusn BI! site a 80 lb son of lakeside King Segll Alban De K0}. His dam, Glists Fenella’.'32.37 lb. Her dam, Gliata Ernestine, 35.96 lb. His three nearest dome creme over 38 lbs. end his forty nix nearest tested relatives avenue over 30 lbs. butter In seven due. We oler one of his sons ready for service. GRAND RIVER “STOCK FARM! Corey J. Spencer. Owner. Eaton Rapids, Mich. BIO BOOK IIOLSTEIIIS Herd Headed by Johan Pauline De K01 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.) V Bull calves from dams up to 28 pounds. Roy E. Fickies, Chesaning, Mich. A GRAIIBSOII OF KING OF THE PONTIAOS that will be ready for service in September whose own Sister has just made over 22lbs. Hf butter as 3 Jr. 3 year old and whose Dam has made over 20 lbs. and we own both of them and they are due to freshen again in lanunry and will be tested. This young bull :8 well grown and 9. top line that could not he beat. his Dani's 1-2 sister has just made wver 30 lbs. Ilis price is only $150.00. From a fully mredited Herd. BAZLEY STOCK FARM. Ypsilanti, Mich. Address all correspondence to JOHN BAZLEY 319 Atkinson Ave. DETROIT, MICHIGAN R. Bruce McPherson. Howell. to the farmers of Michigan that we ere now ready to supply them with Canadian bred Shortho‘rn females either straight topped milkers at “reasonable-prices. If your community needs the‘sgrv- ices, of a high-class. Shorthorn bull, write us for our Community Club Breeding plan. ' . , P Ell BROTHERS 898 Established. in 1 . WHAT DO ' YOU WANT? . SHORTHORN bra . Cu touch Wilkins-t mllherheei strain. lethal} 1 represent 41‘ uses. Some females. 0. W. 0mm, President Central Miehim - Annotation. Mo- Brides. Michigan. . i - Shorthorns at Farmers Prices FOUR SCOTCH TOPPED BULL-CALVES under one year old. These are ell runs choice indiviiualo. FAIRV‘IEW FARM rd Alma, Michigan illllilllillililllllilillilliilillii lwe Wish to; Announce ’ Scotch or Scotch- . Balding, Inch. am am.- maul“; you “in... let us 'o'rig’fmi‘me. 1. GOP]! or chsneermust he seemed one M’bef’eropmef Blue. ' e v ANGUS " \ of farming, a car load of grade dairytbeifen heaviest mm: pro« from,LENAWEE COUNTY'S most extreme beet type for combination beef dairy . farn’finz. v ‘ Car lot ehlpn examined at GLENWOOD FARM for prompt. n'lenL‘ . ethods e lainedin SMITHS PROHIABLB STOCK FE INC. 400 pages illustrated. CEO. 8. SMITH. Addison. m; «_ BAR'1' LE" "’“fis tfi'fi:‘£§§°§f€* » MO . . . . Swi ‘m page! skit. (bru- upmi'ci-g" ‘ . MW]: lam CARI. BARTLETT. Lynn. Hob. GUERNSEYB iGUERNSEYS FOR SALE- 1 IUL‘L. 8T. nus- tell Suit-.11; sire Lonzvuter Prince. Chem- : (18714) 4 A. R. daughters, $.18 m m at 2 1-2 . years old. DumDuxm o: Elnhurst (35969 A. .R. 548 lb. fat at 2 1-2 yrs. old. 1 ball on . .105. old of sir-flu > Also a low. In heifersuil the chem bull. I: will Pay You W investigate. Prices and pedigree on application. nonu- IIIOS- N 1. Aflenn. Mich. SH ORTRORIIS- 5 bulls, 4 to 8 mos. old, on room. poll fed. Dams good milkers, the farmer-3' finely“ farm- ers‘ prices. \ F. M. PICGOTT A SON. Fowler. M THE VAN BUREN CO. SHORTHORN BREED- ers‘ Association have stock for sale. both mill and. beef breeding. Write the secretary. ., FRANK BAILEY. Hartford. Mich. ONLY A FEW SHORTIIORIIS AT 0L0 PnIcE. Wm. J. BELL, Rose City, Mich. Clay Bred Shorthom bull on" from a heavy producing dam. W s. HUBER. Gladwin. Mich. LEFT I I apie Ridge Hard of Bates Shorthorns OI- fers for sale a roan bull call” 9 mos. old. Also 2 younger ones. .7. E. TANSWE’L‘L. Mason. Mich. (y or Sale. Milking Shorthorn Bulls from two to 16 mo. old. Dams zivimr 40 and, 50 lbs. per day. Yearly records kept. Herd tuberculin tested. JAS. H. EWER. R 10, Battle Creek, Mich. ENT COUNTY SNOHTHORN BREEDERS’ Ass’n are ofl'erinz bulls and heifers for sale. all ages. Sell the scrub and buy a purebred. A. E. RAAB, Sec’y, Caledonia. Mich. FOR SALE—POLLED DURHAM BULLS AND Oxford Down Rams. J. A. DQGARHO. Malt. Mich. SOLO AGAIN Bull calf inst advertised sold but have 2 more that are mostly While. They are nice straight fel— lows. sired by u son. 0;; King One. One is from I 17 lb. 2 yr. old dam and the other is from a 20 lb. Jr. 3 yr. old (lam, she is by n son of Friend Ilengcrreld De Kol Butter Boy, one of the great hulls. JAMES HOPSON JR.. Owosso. Itch" R 2. FOR SALE TWO BULL OALVES One 10 mos. old ltirizo size, more light than dark. Dom’s record 20.2 lbs. butter. 13 near- est dams nvcl‘nge over 24 1—13 lbs. butter 7 days. ()ne 2) mos. old from an 18 lb. 3 yr. old. Six nearest dams on sires’ side average 27.63 lbs. in 1 days. OSCAR R. RUMSEV, Hudson. Mich. FOR SALE REGISTERED HOLSTEIN BULLS nearly rendy for serxiee from good A. R. 0. dams, also bull calves. Wm. lrii’fin, Howell, Mich. A GREAT OPPORTUNITY Yearling Bill by a brother of the \Vorld’s Champion Junior 4-year old. and full. brother-in- hlood to the Ex—Chamnion Cow. Dam of can own sister to MAPLECREST PONTIAC DE KOL BANOSTINE, yearly record 1253.45 lbs, NILLCREST FARM ' Kahlua... Mich. A SON OF CARNATION CHAMPION, WHO HAS a 40 lb. site. a 42 lb. dam end two 42 1h. sisters. Born May 8. 1920 Iron a daughter of a 2Slb. cow. Her six nearest clams average 27.5 lbs. Nanny. white. Federal tested herd. VOEPEL. Sebewaing, Mich. SHORTHORN snonrnonns FROM All—ACCREDITED HERD grandsons and gi'nnddlulghters of Avondnle Mnxwalton Jupiter 754193 heads our herd. HEREFORDS' MEADOW BROOK HEBEFORDS Bob Fairfax 495021 at head 0: herd Retin- tered stock. either sex. polled or horned, mostly any age. Come and look them over. ..EA.RL C. MeCARTY. Bad An. Indian... Hardy Northern Bred Hereford: BERNARD FAIRFAX 62‘819 HERD-0F HERO 20 this year's calves for sale. 10 ball: end 10 heifers. JOHN flacGREOOR. Hmluiiic. Mich. REGISTERED GUERNSEYS "DEN VOUI'I IULI‘I' OALF IOW_ for. beam shipment. Let me send you I. zeal ped- Icree of better breeding. A J. M. WELLER”. none Ah“. M. . ' JERSEYS . , Senior Herd Sire Junior Herd Sire ' Noble Sensational Lad You'll Do’s Duchess 1 5 Oxford 158393 18 films BRED JERSEYS of capacity, type and-beauty. Let us know your wants. '~ . HIGHLAND FARM, Shelby, Mich. Samuel Odell. Owner. v Adolph Bees. Mgr. FOR 8ALE—REGISTERED JERSEY CATTLE. both sex. . Register of merit testing (10119. -J. L. CARTER. R ‘4. Lake Odessa, Mich. MPROVE YOUR JERSEY HERD WITH ONE of our Majesty bulls. FRANK P. NORMINGTON, lonia, Mich. AYRSHIRES FOR SALE—REGISTERED AYROHIRE bulls and bull. calves, heifers and heifer calves. A18 3 m choice cows. , o FOIIFDLAY nnos., R 6. Vessar, Ilich. SWINE POLAND CHINA BIG. BOB MASTODON' Sire was champion of the world, his ng’s‘ lire m champion u Ion Sta Foil“. Get a grand champion while the getting is good. Book.- inz orders now, Bred gifts are all told, but have 10 choice fall pegs sired by l. Gnnldson of Dish- er‘s Giant.,3 boars and 7 sows. Will sell open or bred for Sept. furrow, to BIG BOB. C. E. GARNANT. Eaten Ream. Mich. PE POLAND CHINAS WITH QUALITY Nine fall gins out of litters of eleven and 1- t . f)! sale. I tnr eels. “VGRANTS' 3L “hm, Mich. . HEREFORDS Cows with calves at side, open or bred heifers of pepular breed— ing for sale. ‘ - Also bulls notxrelated. ALLEI BROTHERS PAW PAW. HIGH. 120 HEREFORD 8131!“. Am know of 10 or 15 load: fancy I” Shorthom and Angus steers 5 to I Ibo ; Owners an: to sell. Will he boy He commission. C. F Ball. Poi Iowa. _ REGISTERED llEIIEFOR BATTLE / King Repeater No. 713941 heads our herd. A grandson of the Umlefeated Grand Champion Repeater 7th No. 38690{i. We have some fine bulls for axle and also some heifers bred to Re- Denier. Tony B. Fox; Proprietor JOHN SCHMIDT J: SON. Reed City, Mich. with a View to Writing them' up , 33033:. I some, ‘1 FIELDMAN SERVICE Any breeder who expects to hold a sale this season of any variety .of pure-bred live stock, may secure the services of .a Business Farmer" fieldman who iii-prepared to' visit their herdsf fieldman can to make the sale a success“ IF A YOU ARE PLANNING A. SALE a letter. addressed to Felix Witt, fléfieldmen, carelef Michigan Business Farmer, I I ’Clemeng. rm: MARION STOCK FARM." Marion, also. and rendering any I help that at I Will. ran etieetm. . ‘ IG TYPE POLAND CHIIAS. NOTHING TO' Boil’e at present. MOSE BROS., St. Charles, Mich. WONDERLAND HERD use: we: P. o. A few choice bred Kilt! fgr #:mumd mil “mull: ' . . m exec "‘6 “3' Eli” my rum-s SUPERIOR masons: heading to bred to SR ‘ so” BIG OW’S EQUAL e me can amour; CHOICE in omen sun. by 3rd ORANGE A. Free livery to Mm “RI. CLARKE. m- m Heb DIG 'FYPE PO-~ ‘ slum ALLEY m cm ' . Giles ell told. My 1920 am will he aired Giant Che-mus No. 324731. lira! b! M" n and No. 371041. A. n. GREGORY, ‘Ionia, Mich, , “vowel—3., ~ ' .B.«:"'F_."t ' Breed ’ am ,7 . - “a a rm.“ s .. ', The 'I’irofiitabIeKihd A ducere to include a pure bred ANGUS hull of ‘\ _ .h to 3 ' ' '- A .spri ‘ sired by- Hart’s “co » i incl; Price, “grind the ‘w‘orld‘h :191'8'. , Alsowhne n 5 com snd2iboars. siredvby son. ' o! the: 840,000 Yankee. rigors. _ ’ x .. c‘ u- “Oh. ’T’F" ‘ v . BIGgTVP-‘Eft o. sows or 0mm: sheen- . . V Mild to 1 Belle Bone Boulder No. 726.- .—- : ‘ A72< or Sept. w. Spring pigs either sex. . ~Healthv and growthy. ; Prices reasonable. - ['51‘ “I... W. BARNES & SON, Byron, Mich. r '- in: m: 7 POLAND CHINA snap mus. ~ 7 V on. M beer. spring pics both sex, and tried * wows while they last. _ . ' " N ' Hm? Um” Merrill, Mich. \“ _ Hams sonnmus noon THE LARGEST BIB TVP—E P. O. IN MIOH. . ~ Oct c bigger and better bred boar pi: from my hard, at a. reasonable price. Come and see them. ‘ In 1 not us represented. These boar: in. Janice: L's Bin Onnge. Lord Clansman. orange Price and L's Long Prospect. ‘ , 'W E. LIVINGSTON. Pat-mu. Mich. , l ‘ OARS- ALSO SOWS AND PIGS. , you wont. Poland Claim of the b t We have bred them bl: for more flitting? out: over 100 bend on hand. Also registered arch- crons, Holstelns and Oxfords. Everything sold at y I reasonable price. and a square deal. ‘ I -. . JOHN C. BUTLER. Portland. Mich. ~ - FAHWELL LAKE FARM . T. P. C. boars and gilts by Clansmsm's Image 2nd, the Outpost Orphan ‘Superior and King Giant. Also 3 fall boars by Clansmnn's Image. A few triad sows all with breeding privilege. Boers in service: Clansmnn‘s Imago 2nd. Smooth Wonder, King Giant and W. B.‘s Outpost. Visitors wel- come. nuvruma typo. "vw' HUI-ll 1 W. B. RAMSDELL, Hanover, Mich. BIG TYPE POLAHDS ~‘ ‘ In introducing our herd we offer choice pigs by W's Sailor Bob and out of dams by Buster Bfloy. Long Superlm, Smooth Wonder 3rd, an Orange DesMolnos. Priced to sell. W. CALDWELL a. SON. Springoort, Mlch. L s P FOUR CHOICE SPRING AND FALL . boars left. A few extra nice gilt! . ‘ left bred foor April furrow. ’ - H. . SWARTZ. Schoolcraft, Mlch. BRED SOW SALE. For particulars write Auousta. Mich. TH ANNUAL P. C. March 13. 1920. J. HAGELSHAW. VJ. Chlna éows, Am Offer-Inn Large Type Poland Also F bred to F's Orgnge at reasonable prices. ’ fall pigs. \Vrite ‘or call. CLYDE FISHER. R3, St. Louis. Mich. . T. P. 0. SPRING BOARS, SIRED BY WIL- ey's King Bob. out of Grand Daughters of Disher.’s Giant. All immuned with double treat- ment. John D. Wiley. Schoolcraft, Mich. oonard’s B. T. P. C. See my Exhibit at Mich. ' State Fair. ’ All stock double immune. Pub. lie sale Oct. 28. Get your name on mailing list. E. R. LEONARD. R 8. St. Louis. Mich. fin In: Vm' wui‘T'mE . . s. x Isfnction man I” . me for col-U Ml teed. _ - F. Hams A SON. Damon. Mich. DUROC BOARS ready for service. son, Mich. F803! PRIZE WIN NING STOCK G“. B. Smith. Addi- 0- H. FOSTER. Mgr. MIOHIGAIIA FAIIIA WHOGS ' Choice breeding stock for. sole. Pavlllon. Mich. olxunns pram elm -Herd Boar—Reference only—No. 7129219 1919 Chicago Internfinli ~' 4th Prize Jr. Yuri: BOOKING ORDERS mm. mos AT 326" ' BLANK a. POTTER Pottervmn. ‘Ilfll- on sale: m ONE Bum ’0" FIND- Broolmnter breeding stock also!!! will! via. JOHN ORONENWETT. m 803065 0. QUALITY. L. OFVBREEDINO SIZE IND" POWER. Jerome. Mich. Sept. furrow. uroc Jcmy Sow: and am: bred for Aug. cud 1.000 lb. herd boar. J08. SOHUELLER. Woldman. Mich. row. ' Spring JESSE BLISS 3: 80 N. GILTS BRED FOR AUGUST FAR- Difls either sex. Henderson. Mich. Gilts in season. Call or McNAUGHTON E OFFER A FEW WELL-BRED SELECT- ed spring' Duroc Boam,‘ also bred Iowa om! write & ' FORDYCE. Bunnsninns St. Louis. Mlch. LARGE ENGLISH RECORDED BERKSHIRES. Bred eilts nnd sprint: pins for sale. PRIMEVAL FARM. Ossco. Mich. ONE SOW TWO YEARS OLD duo .luly Tlh, one boar Jan- uary furrow no.1 four sows March furrow for sale. Best hloml lines of tho hrrod. ARZA A. WEAVER. Chesanlng, Mich]. GREG-0R? FARM BERKSIIIRES FOR profit. Choice stock for sale. Write your wants. W. S. Corsa. White Hall. 111. CHESTER YVIIITES o csrsrsn wmfas for May farrow F‘. \V. stock at reasonable prices. Alexander. Spring lrios from Also a few Pigs In Pairs or A»! mature bred (lilts Vassar, Mill. ome Fine Chester Whites farrowod July 14. 1920. Will ship C. 0. I). when 2 mos. old for $13.50 reg. Try one. l‘luiph Coscns, Levering, Mir-h HEEISTEBE vice. Prices right CHESTER WHITE either sex. Bosrs ready for ser- SWINE, LYLE V. JONES; Flint. Mich.. R. F. D. No. 6 HE BEST BRED POLAND CHINA PIGS SIR- ed by Big Bob Mastodon at the lowest price. DerTT 0. PIER, Evart, Mich. CS D Spring pigs by Walt's Orion. First Sr. Yearling Detroit. Jocks-on. Gd. Rapids and Saginaw..1919 Phillips Bros, Riga, Mlch BOARS. WEIGHT 800 1b. boar. I FALL Sircd by s UROC JERSEYS, " 200 lbs. each. Priced rensmmhlc. C. E. DAVIS & SON. Ashley, Mich. 5 King 82949 pigs at the r Duv Mich. 'Duroc sows and gllts bred to Walt' who has sired more prize wmmnz Istate fairs in the last 2 years than any other roc board. Newton Barnhart. St. Johns, EADOWVIEW FARM REG. DUROC JERSEY M hogs. .pring pigs for sale . MOR RIS. Farmindton. Mich. J.E PEACH HILL FARM ‘l s spring boars sired by Fench‘ Hill ()rion mute”: splendid grandson of Orion (.herry King. wmé, or better still. come ad select your own. Priced reasonable. Inn-cod Bros, Romeo. Mich. \ APLE LAWN FARM REG. DUROC .IERSEV swine. Son's bre to Model Cherry King 10th for Au. and Sept. furrow. Write me your mots. VERN N. TOWNS. R 8. Eaton Rapids. Mich. . nurse BOABPIGS u one on approval. .yOE. E. CALKINS. J! 6. A FEW GOOD ONES left. Let me send Ann Arbor, Mlch. alLTs AND BROOO sows . Saws bred or open. Nou- DIIHDG '3“:th on! ll. 1111! Great Forms. Multan. Itch. 3%)» straight youth of Middleton. HAMPSHIRES B. l Wm“. ".WL res line i on .. " write or cal am" a it.“ “PM. maroon V . 7 ~ A V ET STOCK: .- -F%“mii‘n‘.‘n§‘§'i'“ih‘iéfi".lon'§£.°fil§ Registered doe' 312 each. Stock pedigreed.“ an: “1 mnnmnakuon. Goldwater. Mich. ‘ ' E. A.“ For the best in S wnto or visit KOPE-KON FARMS. 3. L the. MD- Bec ' gum Fifi; exhibit It the own All Ml! UINEA PIGS ‘AND NEW ZEALAND R rabbits at modernity .priccs. Write - BRUCE W Mddlcvillc, : 'ml Lm a! m :m It type and collar Illa 11012., M ‘8‘: so cacti “mi its Winin- 1 MIL no. my. ' an- .n‘ m“ .a n." °mpsom I‘m. not. Ol‘lrzkasfil'onrfinckofm mh32.orio.uu' ' o .,n r eve oping «min. HAWTHORN mu. mu. liddlflilh. m. BABY CHICKS ' . _ lots, Locum-m. Mimosa, Spanish Hem 0' BROWN LEW Want" ‘1 (lumping, Reds, Rocks, Orpingtons: Brahman. cor-h. “'hlte Peki'n Ducks, $2 each. MR8. CLAUDIA BETTE, “Hid-lo. Mich. ORPINGTONS AND LEGHORNS V'l‘wn crest breeds for profit. Write today Tor free catalogue of hatching eggs, baby chicks and breeding; stock. CYCLE HATCHER COMPANY. 149 Philo Bldfl. Elmlra. N. Y." Mich. \Vyandottes. Tyrone Poultry Farm. Fenton. From morn laying purebred stock. White Leghorns, Brown Leghorns, $18 per 100. Anconas,‘ $18 Postpaid. Live arrival guaranteed. Catalog free. SUPERIOR HATOHERY. Clinton. Mo. CHICKS—CHICKS 5,000 chicks every Tuesday in fluly. Gum! laying strain S. C. White Leghorns at $13 per LEGHORNS 100; for 50. full count, lively chicks fit your door. Also Anconns at $15 per 100: O8 INGLE 00MB BUFF LEGHORNS. -EARLY for 50. Satisfaction guaranteed. Eleventh m- ium-lwd (.‘ockerels. l-‘arm range from cxcel- son. Order direct. Catalog free. 1. Holland. Mich. 1 lent laying stock. HOLLAND HATCHERV. R J. W. W EBSTER. Bath. Mich. I HATCHING EGGS FOR SALE "Arcana «ms FROM A HEAVY LAW- nig strain of S. C. R. 1. Red! at $2.00 per Iota ting of 15 eggs. $10.00 per 100. RABOWSKE'S S. 0. WHITE LEGHORNS. Young iillll old stock for sale. LEO GRABOWSKE. Merrill. RHODE ISLAND BEDS Mich.. R ‘4. SINGLE coma RHODE [SLRND’KEEE ~Stock of excellent type and qunlity at all lligrlyI h)ntcllerl, free rnlnge cockerols from stand- 563% f t, mnt'é’d arl- re: ieliV' winte ' r.. lib. lis t ‘a mac ion 8118. e . 3 r M“ 1m,“ “m” HEIMS a. son. Dovlson. Mich. on orders booked now for fall delivery, VALLEY VIEW POULTRY FARM Mt. Mich" R G Pleasant. WHITTAKEH'S HEB GOGKEBELS Both combs. Special disoount on early orders. Write for price list. INTERLAKEs FARM . Lawrence. BOSE COMB BROWN LEOHORN EGGS PM sale. One fifty per fifteen eggs Flemish Ginnt rabbits tbnt are giants. Quality mranteod. E. HIMEBAUOH. Mloh. Goldwater, RITE WVANOOTTES; EGGS FOR BATON- lng from selected layers, 82 per 15. prep-id. Box 4 Mich. BOAHS READY FOR SERVIOE Also 1 Bred Sow W. A. EASTWOOD. Chesaning. Mich. HAMPSHIHES blood lines. and fall A FEW BRED GILTS LEFT boar pigs from new JOHN W. SNYDER. St. Johns. Mich” R 4 Am for June and July priced right. weeks old. ferrowing Spring boar pigs at $15 ea. Satisfaction guaranteed. GUS THOMAS. New Lothrop. Mich. HAMPSHIRES . all sold out on sows and gills bred BDl‘ll’lQ farrowinz. llnve a few sows and grills bred that are good and for at 8 Call or write of C. Schoolmnster. A RE V. C. choice spring plus, either Mason, Ml the Grand Champions Prince \Vrite your wants to DORMAN. Snover. 0 I 0 GILTS BRED FOR SEPTEMBER FARROW Everyone guaranteed safe in sex. ch.. R 0. I. C. l. C. AND CHESTER WHITE SWINE Choice saw pigs of March farrow. Bloodlines Big Bone and Mich. dam nlsu a few F I) BURGESS 3 offers 0. I. C. prices on breeding stock Runner Ducks. MUD-WA Z—AUSH-KA FARM spring pigs. also specinl summer in White Wynndottes, DIKE G. ILLER. Dryden. Barred Rocks. White Chinese Geese am? White '0 more eggs this season. Mich. ‘ . I. “April pigs at weaning c.'s—8 choice young boars, time. CLOVER LEAF 8700K FARM. Monm. Mmh and Mich. you stack at “live on O. I. 0. SWINE—JV HERD CONTAINU THE blood lines of the most mafia herd. Con tarnish pr 1nd let u Inn. A. J. GORDEN. DOfl'. Mich" n .8. J S SHEE'I" E I" .Sprlnpégtcd “can CII'xsoId. analog; ~' . . both sex. ~ ‘ 7‘ ‘ . Liberty Detentiward. an (id. bred dams: coo H wilhohrodtoononoaboutorSLmi-aw. . ' . N. a. IEESIIEN. m ~ > "‘5 Alew mammalian-nun some JERSEY m was m cm «a: .Muonou reproach ' _, . 'm 1919; 1%.... us moth: out tho richt two “hula. all". “elm-n. ' ‘93,“; I “‘13? Co. rum. lich- rul m1 ‘ They will all make Ilerd llcmlers. First check gets first choice. Satisfaction or money mar-k. We have purchased a son of Scissors. the. National Grand Champion boar of the \Vorld. — - — a , fl ‘ l I” - o I I , . 0 a.“- w ‘2” .g. I -I “halo? iaoLsozns‘o R3 Th m m h F o . N. van. 0 . WYANDOTTE . ' .- E n from V! oroun om liver. Golden and White Wyandottos. Bargain: Bocxsm‘gfin‘ stock'nom he"; in. surplus YWHM “00k ‘9 make mom for laying strain. :2 per 15. 5 per 45 by premix! growing bmlS‘ 013mm” Browm’m' R2' Portland- parcel post. R. G. Kirby. R1. Enst Loosing. Mich. THE AUSTIN STDGK FAB” . BREEDERS or THE \Vorld‘s Greatest Strain of Registered Duroc Hogs. Clyde R. Austin, Proprietor. Bloomingdale. IIIi ch . Offers for sale 6 choice 3 months old boar pigs, picked from 3 litters of ll and 12; two siredeby 900 1b. Ypsnand 0. C. Kim; by C. 0. C. King by 0. Orion Cherry King bred by Ira llll‘kSUll. He has i. 0 Cherry Chief Dam Pig’s Dam 400 lb. yearling by Superb; boar, $40.00 ’nch. 4 sired by 700 lb. Mumford hour by l‘rincipul 6th, by l'rincipul 41h. This Mumford mm is u halflbrothcr to llrooluvnter Demonstrator the Grand (v‘hampion hour at Detroit State Fair. iler dmn Cherry Jewell King by Brookwater Cherry King. 2 have 400 lb. yearling \lnml‘ord dznn nnd 2 by 400 ll). Supean ' [11. $30 each. Pedigree furnished. YOU WANT THIS WEEKLY 1N. 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