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. - Michigan’s Crops are Fine, Thank You

0 WHERE you may in Michigan today and ask, “how ’s the
 crops?” and the truthful farmer will say, “The crops are
‘fine, thank you.” There never has been a season when every field
of grain and, vebetables produced to its full capacity. Thank the
Lord. for that I Maximum production par acre planted would
bankrupt three-fourths of the farmers- There has never been a
season when local droughts, floods, frosts or pests have not injur-
ed some crops. But there never has been a season when crops in
general looked so fine or promised so good a yield as the crops in
Michigan today. The rains have been plentiful, yet there has been
plenty of sunshine to ripen the crops. , The nights have been cool

- i _ shut except for a few isolated spots Jack Frost has done no damage.
«The hoppers hurt the crops in northwestern Michigan, but only

here and there did'they destroy them altogether- . All in all the

_ ‘_«_,.b,ooster for Michigan agriculture, has a weighty mass of evidence
2} .that Michigan still holds rank as. a premier agricultural state.

 -‘ Now what of the harvest? The last report of the-Bureauoof
 Crop Estimates forecasted an increase in corn of ten million bush-

 els, , ‘doesn’tgthe corn 7fine? ; We. have seen it growing ,
m‘  mostth the northern most county _in. the lower.

a;  "the:me .- tiers *‘of- counties you" could

go north the stalks are a little smaller and shorter, but well cared,

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and if you examine them you Will know that nothing can now pre-
vent Michigan from harvesting another bumper crop of corn. An
increase of 20,000,000 bushels of oats is also forecasted. Threshing
has cut this a little, but still it is a record to be proud of. Wheat
promises larger yields also by several million bushels.

True, there is an estimated drop in the production of beans
and potatoes. This is well. Although the acreage planted to p04
tatoes was less than the average the condition has been excellent
and it is now thought that the total yield will be around 400 mil-
lion bushels with Michigan producing less than 30 million. The
price of potatoes is way down now and while many think it will
come back, and it probably will, no such prices as were paid last
year are in prospect.

None,of the priceslon farm products are What they ought to
be, but unless theygo to considerably lower leV‘els the average
farmer is going to make a fair prOfit on-his operations, which will
fortify him against the impending “panic” that everyone loves to
talk about. It will be a fortunate thing for the nation at large if
the farmers have good crops this year and get good prices for

them.. We cannot vouch for the other states but from our person-

al investigation we find that Michigan will be right in the front

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[To the Farmers of the Northwest:

Next November you will join with all other
good citizens in choosing a president of the
7 United States for the four years beginning March
,4, 1921. -

You must choose either Warren G. Harding,
the Republican nominee, or Gov. Cox, the Demo-
cratic nominee. There is no third choice. One.
’j '01‘ the other of these two men will be elected.
; ,The affairs of the nation during the next four
'years will be directed either by a Republican or
'by a Democratic administration.

_ ‘Which will best serve your interests, both as
a. citizen and as a farmer?

‘ ‘ Let us look at it for a moment from the pure—
,ly farm standpoint.

Your experience of the past seven years, and
especially during the past three years, tells you
-' ~what you may fairly expect from a Democratic
administration.

' Your industry, the greatest in the nation, was
singled out as the target for a price-fixing pol—
icy which has limited the prices of the things you
had to sell while leaving you exposcd to the
exactions of profiteers in practically every other
51ine of production, distribution and speculation.

You have been told what you could receive for

' your staple products, either directly or indirect-
; ly; you have been subjected to restraints as to
shipping, and all sorts of exactions and annoy-
,ances. .

\But' there has been no limit placed upon What
(others might charge you for the things you have
.had to buy.

The result of this unwise, unsympathetic pol~
icy, while discouraging and harmful to the farm
producer, has not helped the consumer. On the
contrary, it has made conditions worse for him,
‘2 because it has tended to curtail production and
" at-the same time”has stimulated speculation and
"rofiteering. r

_ The Republican party is not a class or section-
_al'.party; its policies are intended to upbuild the
entire nation. But it believes that it is essential
to the welfare of all our people that the farmer,
whose industry is the very foundation of our na-
tional prosperity, should have his fair share of
the wealth which his labor creates. It believes
that if our agriculture is to be maintained the
mar must have an absolutely square deal.

 'h'e Republican party therefore, by its plat—
mp'and‘by the utterances of its candidates, is
bate a. thoroughly sympathetic, practical,

  
  
  
 
  

           
       
     
      
         
  
  
       
  
 
 
      

  

  

    

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helpful attitude toward American agriculture.
It promises a well thought out, constructive pro—
gram which will help make farming more profit—
able and therefore make our farms more pro-
ductive. -

In contrast with this helpful attitude of the
Republicans the Democratic party ofiers no pro—
tection to the American farmer against the cheap
farm products of foreign lands; on the contrary,
it re—afl‘irms its tariff-for-revenue—only policy
which throws the American market wide open to
the dairy products, grains and meats produced
on the cheap land and by cheap labor of foreign
countries. It promises no relief from the price—
fixing and price drive policies which have cost
the farmers hundreds of millions of dollars dur-
ing the past two years and have helped no one
but the speculator and the profiteer. Nor does it
even recognize the existence of the violent fluc-
tuations in the prices of farm products—more

violent and unreasonable during the past three ’

years than ever before in our history—which
have caused you such heavy and unnecessary
losses.

Pledges of the Republican Party
Here are the formal pledges of the Republican
party as set forth in the [agricultural plank of
the national platform. Read them carefully, for
they are of vital interest to yOu.

Practical and adequate farm representation in

the appointment of governmental officials and'

commissions.

The right to form co—operative associations for
marketing their products and protection against
discrimination.

The scientific study of agricultural prices and
farm production costs at home and abroad, with
a vieW'to reducing the frequency of abnormal
fluctuations, and the uncensored publication of
such reports.

'The authorization of associations for the ex-
tension of personal credit. 1 .

A national inquiry on the co-ordination of rail,

water and motor transportation, with adequate
facilities for receiving, handling and marketing
food. _ _

The encouragement of our export trade.

.An end to unnecessary price fixing and ill-
consddered efforts arbitrarily to reduce prices of
farm products, which invariably result to the dis-
advantage both of producer and consumer. ’

, The encouragement of .the production and
importation of fertilizing material and for its
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The extension ofthe federal farm loan act so
as to help farmers to become farm owners and
thus reduce the evils of. farm tenantry, and also
to furnish such long—time credit as farmers need
to finance adequately their larger and long-
time production operations.

Revision of the tariff as necessary for the
preservation of a home market for American la-
bor, agriculture and industries. (Note that the
pledge to the farmer is just as specific as-to 1a.-
bor and capital.)

Harding’s Endorsement

Senator Warren G. Harding, the Republican
nominee, in his speech of acceptance took ad-
vanced ground on behalf of agriculture; ~He
said:

“I hold that farmers should not only be per-
mitted but encouraged to join in co-operative
associations to reap the just measure of reward
merited by their arduous toil.

“Our platform is an earnest pledge of renew-
ed concern for agriculture, and we pledge efl’edn
ive expression in law and practice. We will hail
that co-operation which will make profitable and
desirable the ownership and operation of s
farms and which wil li’acilitate the marketing of
farm products without the lamentable waste
which exists under present conditions.

“A Republican administration will be com-
mitted to a renewed regard for agriculture and

seek the participation of farmers in curing the,

ills justly complained of and aim to place the
.American farm ‘where it sought to ‘be—highly
ranked in American activities and fully sharing
the highest good fortune of “American life.

“Becoming associated with this subject are
the policies 'of irrigation and reclamation so es-
sential to agricultural expansion, and the con-
tinned’ development of the great and wonderful
west.” ‘

Mr. Harding pledges federal co—operation with-
state governments in building and improving
farms-to-market roads rather than national
highways, to cheapen and facilitate the quick
shipment of crops.

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Farmers Win Legislative OlfiCes in Primary
Rural Vote Goes Ninety Per Cent Strong for Farmers’ Candidate for Governor
But City Districts Defeat Him

N THE FACE of practically com-
plete returns from the primary
election Attorney General A. J.
Groesbeclr has received the Repub-
lican nomination for Governor by a
plurality of about 25,000 votes. His
nearest opponent was Milo D. Camp-
bell who was endorsed and support—
ed by the farm organizations and
who according to final returns re-
ceived upwards of ninety per cent of
the" rural vote of the lewer penin—
sula.
Mr. Campbell’s showing in the rur-
al districts was a surprise to even
his most sanguine supporters. He

- did not, however, receive the sup-

port that was expected in some of

' 'the large towns and cities, his suc—

cessful opponent carrying nearly
every city of importance in the state.
Had the urban vote split between the
seven other candidates in the pro-

portion expected Campbell would
have been easily nominated.
The reasons for Mr. Campbell’s

defeat are clear. He was not de-
feated as some of the city newspa—
pers claim, because the city voter
considered him a “class’ candidate
As a matter of fact he ran much bet-
ter in the large cities than the ma-
jority of the candidates. The
organization that had been perfect-
ed by Mr. Groesbeck in Wayne and
Kent counties and the upper penin—
sula; Mr. Groesbeck’s appeal to the
Catholic voter and the laboring men;
and the last minute attacks that
were made upon Mr. Campbell by a

string of Detroit controlled newspa—_

pers were the factors that did com-
bine and contribute to Mr. Camp—
bell’s defeat. It was charged by
those unfriendly to Mr. Campbell
that he had made a “deal” with cer-
tain political interests in the state
in exchange for their support, and
while Mr. Campbell forcefully denied
this, the poison had been sown and
thousands of voters who had no use
for these political interests refused
to take a chance on Mr. Campbell
and voted for his opponents. In jus—
tice to Mr. Campbell the Busm’sss
FARMER wishes to state its positive
conviction that Mr. Campbell made
'no pre~election promises to any man
or organization, and had he been
nominated and elected he would
have assumed his office absolutely
toot-loose and independent. The
charges were so fanciful that the av-
erage intelligent voter laughted at
them, but unfortunately not all vot-
ers use their intelligence when they
go to the polls.

- The election had the usual num-
ber of inconSistencies and surprises.
For instance, it it were true that
Gov. Sleeper had pledged his support
to Campbell and it was worth any-
thing one might be excused for be-
lieving that the Sleeper strongholds
would go to Campbell. But they
did not do so. Huron enmity, the
home of Mr. Sleeper, gave Mr. Gross-
book a plurality of over a- thousand.
At the same time Sen. Forrester, a
strong Sleeper man, lost the county
by only five votes to John Hunt.

It was popular] believed that
Lieutenant Gov. uren Dickinson
would be amen: the leaders, and the
farm organizations had been censur-
ed by some political wiseacres for

their failure to endorse Mr. Dickin— '
son. .But the you showed that the

form leaders had sized" up Mr. Dick-
inson’s political standing correctly.
Instead of running first or second as
many had predicted Mr. Dickinson

 Was in sixth place when the finalre—
. turnswere recorded.

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notto' say that the lieutenant gov—

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The standing of the contestants as
shown by the unofiicial returns is in
the order named as follows: Groes~
beck, Campbell, Mott, Leland, Mar-
tindale, Dickinson, Mamilton, Glas-
gow, Earle. '

Another surprise of the election
was the poor showing made by Chas.
B. Scully, farmer candidate for lien—
tenant governor, who received less
than two-thirds of the rural vote that

Johnson of Fostoria won by a good
margin over C. O. Blinn of Caro, who
was another one of the gentlemen
who couldn’t trust the people and
whose record in the legislature was
reactionary all the way through.
Both Johnson and Butler had the al—
most united support of the farm bu—
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Campbell Thanks the Farmers

I WANT to express my appreciation and thanks to the farm
men and women for their loyal and all but unanimous support
of my candidacy. While it is, of course, a matter of regret that we
did not win, it is no disgrace to meet an honorable defeat.
campaign was clean, honest and fair from start to finish. The
farm leader; who worked in my behalf did so without thought of
personal rewards, and the tens of thousands who gave me their
votes had no more selfish ambitions than to do what was in their
judgment for thi good of the commonwealth.
feat there is powerful consolation in the confidence which the farm-
ers of Michigan have placed in me as shown by their votes. I have
no personal battles to fight nor ambitions that I am nursing, but I
have a desire to serve the people who have honored me.
tie for agriculture is yet on. Count me in the fight.

(Signed) Milo D. Campbell, Goldwater, Mich.

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was cast for Campbell. Mr. Scully
did not have the endorsement of the
farm organizations, partially at his
own request and partially because
the organizations felt that the gov—'
ernorship would command all their
efforts. It is apparent that Mr. Scul-
ly would have made a much better
run had he received the endorsement
of the farm organizations.

Ivory Defeated

Although greatly disappointed over
the defeat of Mr. Campbell the farm-
ers will have some consolation in the
fact that most of the candidates for
legislative offices who defeated the
farmers' warehouse amendment got
what was coming to them. Particu—
larly pleasing will he the defeat
of Wm. E. Ivory who was a candi-
date for re—election to the legisla-
ture. A young farmer by the name
of David Butler from the extreme
northern end of the Lapeer district
and virtually unknown to the rest
of the farmers defeated Ivory by
about two hundred majority. Thus
was Ivory's inexcusable abuse of the
power~vested in him properly re-
buked. The farmers of all Michigan
owe a vote of thanks to the farmers
of Lapeer county for retiring Mr.
Ivory to private life.

In the senatorial district of which
Lapeer county is a part, Dr. 0. G.

county farm bureau did not officially
endorse their candidacies.

In the Sanilac district, Joel C.
Merriman was defeated by Chas. F.
Burnham despite the fact that the
latter was made the object of scurril-
ous if not criminal last minute at—
tacks upon his character.

John Ketcham Wins

John Ketcham, master of the

State Grange, won the Republican
nomination for Congressman from
the fourth district by over three

thousand plurality. This will indeed
be good news to Mr. Ketcham’s thous—
ands of friends throughout the state,
both in the Grange and other farm
organizations Mr. Ketcham is a
man of considerable ability and great
forcefulness, both in character and
action. It goes Without saying that
his election will insure the people of
Michigan having at least one repre—
sentative in Congress who will rep—
resent the people.

, Clare Farmers Win

Both of the candidates endorsed
by the farmers’ committee of the
Clare legislative district, have been
nominated. Richard Emerson of
Clare received better than a thous-
and majority over his opponent, and
while Sen. McRae had a stifl three—

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received the practically unanimous
support of the farmers of the (‘lare
district.

In Kth county, Farmer Oscar
Braman won handily over his oppon-
ent, Burch. Mr. Braman was a
through and through defender of the
farmers’ interests at the last session.
He introduced the bill to prevent dis?-
crimination in buying practices anl
was responsible for the roll call
which put the opponents of the ware—
house bill on record.

Sen. McNaughton of Kent county
has also been renomiuated. The
senator’s record during the las‘ ses—
sion was uniformly satisfactory to
agricultural interests.

Currie Loses

Congressman Currie whom the
BUSINESS FARMICR believed should be
returned from the Tenth was defeat-
ed in a close race with Roy Wood—
ruff. Many months ago the radical
labor leaders made up their minds
to “get” Currie and the tactics they v
employed did the business. The Bus-
mass. FARMlSRi has no regrets for its
advocacy of Mr. Currie’s candidacy.
Neither does it have any censure for
the farmers who voted against him.
Both our motives and those of the
anti—Currie farmers were based on
what we respectively believed were
to the best interests of the farmers of
the district. Time alone can tell
whose judgment was the best.

Complexion of Next Legislature

It is our prediction that the next,
legislature will be more responsive
to the wishes and best interests of
the people than the 1919 legislature.
The farmers’ successful. campaigns
against the men who refused to let
the people vote on the warehouse
amendment will have a wholesome
affecttupon those who might again
be led astray by poor judgment or
the wiles of the enemy and prevent
a constitutional amendment from go-
ing to the people. Moreover, the
legislative personnel has been con-
siderably purged of its standpatters.
The new legislature will convene in
another four months and the BUSI-
ans FARMER expects to be right on
the job with both eyes open.

The next session will have little
time left for constructive legislation
after it gets through undoing the
work of the Sleeper administration.
This administration constructed mon-
umental political machines which
will have to be dismantled. There
are a half dozen or so commissions
which will either have to be kicked
out body and breeches, or so remod-
eled -that their own parents won’t
know them. The next session must
turn its attention to 'a revision of ‘
the tax rate—downward. That this
can be done by the employment of
a little common sense and ordinary
rules of business no one will have
the temerity to deny.

We suggest to the Farmers’ Fed-
erated Legislative Committee that it
draft a program of sane legislation
and economy and submit it to the
legislature. This should call for the
useless boards and
commissions, legislation to facilitate
the forming. of co-operative buying
and selling organizations, and a more
equitable method of taxation.

It will not matter greatly who is
elected the next Governor of Michi-
gan. Between the Republican and
Democratic nominees there is not
much choice. Both have held public
omce and both have a reputation for
attending to the people’s business
the way it ought to be attended to.
We have no doubt but what either of
the two men would, with the co—op-
eration of the legislature, give Mich-
igan an economical and.k business-like
administration. ‘  .

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ulation of the country is engaged

in farming. Seventy billion
represents the investment in farms
and their equipment, a sum that is
equal to the total capacity of any
three major industries that might be
cited. These two sets of figures are
- quoted because they indicate rough-
ly the tremendous and potential mar-
hot that is found among the farm-
era of America. Let me go further
and point out that the average buy-
ing power of the American farmer
has, during the past four years, in-
creased from $1,600 to $3,400 a
year, over 100 per cent, whereas, the
average buying power of the city
man still remains, approximately at
$900 a year.

Farmers Are Home Owners

Two-thirds of all the farmers in
America own their own homes. Con-
»trast this with the knowledge that
two-thirds of all city dwellers rent
and do not own their own homes.
arming is a profession and, des-
te 'many exceptions to the rule, a
profession which is passed from fath-
to son through many generations.
other words, there is a permanen-
cy both about the profession itself
and about the men who follow it. The
tarmer is, therefore, a permanent
citizen, a permanent power for good
in the community in which he lives,
and a permanent factor in any prog-
nosis of any market for almost any
produce that might be named.

The old idea of the farmer—gawky
obstinate and frequently ignorant;
living on corn pone, sow belly and
molasses in a sod house or timber
shack, scarcely better than the build-
!“ which houses his cattle and hogs.
has gone forever. The farmer is an
exceedingly intelligent individual
whose exacting profession demands
a large amount of both technical and
practical knowledge. The same skill
and judgment that enables the Mid-
dle Western farmer, for example, to
produce the best corn, Wheat, cattle
and hogs in the world also enables
him to buy with discrimination. He
is no “piker” in the action. A man
with an investment ranging from
$5,000 to $100,000 put into a farm,
may properly be called a business
man. The farmer is a business man
and buys as one. For such a man,
any reputable product carries its
own appeal.

A Serious Condition Exists

I wish to register here my emphat-
ic opinion, however, that conditions
may soon arise—in fact, are already
in existence, that will seriously limit
the farm market unless stringent
steps are taken to protect the farm-
er and to assure him a decent return
on his investment. The farmer’s
productive power is the measure of

FIFTY-TWO per cent of the pop-

Death Claims Dorr D. Buell, Farmer, Banker and Farm Bureau Chief ’

ORR D. BUELL, Market Direct—

or for the Michigan State Farm
Bureau and one of the best
known farmers in Michigan, died at
Lansing, Tuesday afternoon, August
3lst, after an illness of about six
weeks. ' -
Mr. Buell as taken sick about the
middle of July upon his return to
Michigan from a strenuous journey
in Canada where acting in the ca—
pacity of State Market Director for
'the Michigan State Farm Bureau he
attended a series of Canadian Agri-
cultural gatherings. Physicians dia-
gnosed his case as typhoid fever. His
condition became so bad that he was
removed from his home to a hospital
where for several weeks he hovered
between life and death. His condi-
tion was aggravated by a chronic
heart trouble, endocarditis, and dis-
. eased tonsils. Despite his serious
illness he submitted to an operation
for the removal of the tonsils and
,the last Word that was received by
' his friends was to the effect that he
i, had a fighting chance for recovery.

.  was about a week before his
_»death and those who had been anx-
i for:st watching his progress had
- come to hope that he was on the

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'Capper and the Farmer

HE ACCOMPANYING article consists of extracts from Sen. Arthur
TCapper’s review of the farmer’s place in Amtrrican business as pre-
sented to the banking fraternity. As a farm paper publisher and one
of Kansas’ senators Mr. Capper wields a large influence for the good of

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his absorptive power as a buyer of
any commodity. As a matter of
fact, despite the figures that I shall
point out and which indicate on the
surface a huge aggregate buying
power, there exists today a serious
condition in American agriculture.
The farmer, despite his unique posi-
tion as both a capitalist and laborer-
is much more than any laborer the
victim of arbitrary and outside con-
trol in the prices he receives for his
handiwork and products. No other
producer in this respect is as helpless
as the farmer. He must take what
he can get for what he has to sell:
there is no price fixing power in
which he has a direct voice. Yet
despite the disproportion between his
return and his investment, he does
not hesitate to put more capital «into
his profession. Being a serious—
minded man, in love with his profes-
sion, intensely conscious of his re-
sponsibility to society as a producer
of foodstuifs, deeply patriotic in
every sense of the word, he frequent-
ly buys and invests much beyond le-
gitimate limitations of his yearly in-
come.

Do not be misled by those false
prophets who point to the marked
increase in values of agricultural
land as an indication to quote a great
New York newspaper, “that planting
and reaping have been profitable."
Do not forget that much of the re-
cent and rapid increase in values in
the Middle West and particularly in
Iowa, has been the result of rapaci-
ous land speculation. This specula-
tion in itself has not only unduly in-
flated land values in this region be-
yond the limits of their productive
returns but it‘has increase farm ten-
antry to an alarming degree.

He Feeds the World

I am afraid that we too often for—'

get or overlook the very fundamental
part the farmer plays not only in bus-
iness but in our very existence. It
is the farmer’s business to feed and
clothe the human family. At any
time in the history of the world, the
race is only a. few weeks or months
at most from starvation. Let the
farmer cease to produce for a single
season; cut off the yield of field and
flock and herd: of vine and tree, and
we perish. .The coal from the mine,
the oil from the crevices of the earth
the, fall of the mountain stream sup-

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ply part of the energy that turns
the wheel-s of business; but the
greater power—the man power—«is
merely the food grown by the 'farm-
er, converted into human energy.
The calories‘of heat under your
boilers are not so vital to your bus-
iness as are the calories of energy in
your workmen. A strike in_ the
coal mines paralyzes business; but a
strike by the farmers would utterly
destroy business because it ,would
destroy life itself. Business eiisted
before the power of steam and elec-
tricity was discovered. but business
has never existed and never will ex-
ist without man power, and that en-
ergy comes from the soil and is
brought to us by the farmer.

So then, in the first place, if bus-
iness is to deal wisely and equitably
and for that matter profitably, with
the farmer, it behooves us to remem-
ber what we owe agriculture; or
if we do not recognize the obliga-
tion, at least to remember how d
pendent upon it we are. .

Farmers Are Not Radical

He reads, he thinks, he discusses
and when he thinks he has arrived
at the truth, he acts. Business, es—
pecially in a time like this, can make
no greater mistake than to antagon-
ize the farmer. We are appreciating
these troublesome days as we never
have heretofore. how great is, the
steadying, stabilizing influence on
the nation of the man on the farm.
He is not radical, nor a moss back.
nor a non-progressive, but he is our
safest, mos-t disinterested citizen,
worker and guide,
truly interested in the general wel-
fare. I know him as a man who
does more reading, morethinking
and observing than the average
town citizen and I believe that more
than any other he is leaving his im-
print on the history of the country.

The farmer does not wan-t to be
coddled. Blandishments do not'ap-
peal to him—they make him suspi-
cious. He is a keen detector of buns
and sham. All he asks is a fair deal
for himself and the assurance that
business is willing likewise to give a
fair deal to the consumer of his pro-
ducts. He has a right to demand
that. And given that, he can be de-
pended upon to stand for justice and
right and for that type of democracy
which we glorify as Americanism.

Michigan Agriculture Loses One of its Young, Aggressive
Leaders at the Promising Stage of His Career

Dorr D. Buell was born on the
old Buell homestead near Union City,
Michigan in 1882. As a boy he at-
tended the public school and was yet
a very young man when he went to
Northern Michigan and started in
the farming and banking business at
Elmira, Otsego county. In both of
these enterprises he‘ was conspicu-
ously successful and at~times had un-

der cultivation and in pasture a half.

section of land. He was among the
first to introduce scientific methods
of farming and pure—bred stock into
this section of Michigan and the re-
sults he obtained amply proved his
wisdom. For a number of years Mr.
Buell bred and sold pure-bred cattle
and hogsand thoroughbred horses.
He also specialized in the perfecting
and growing of seed potatoes, 'and
his brand, the Petoskey Rural Rus-
set, has been sold in all parts of the
United States.

But Mr. Buell's abilities soon at—
tracted the attention of people out-
side his locality. Because of his suc-
cess in growing potatoes he was made

.. president of the Michigan “Potato

 

Growers’ Association and when in
the spring of 1918, the Michigan Po—
tato Growers’ Exchange was organ-
ized, Mr. Buell seemed to be the
logical choice for manager. He was
accordingly elected. Without any
precedent to follow Mr. Buell safely
guided that organization through the
shoals of many untried experiments,
with such marked success that the
name and fame of the Michigan Po-
tato Growers’ ExChange soon spread
over the entire United States,‘into
Canada and even to some countries
across the seas. From that'time on
Mr. Buell had little rest. Demands
for him to speak at all kinds of ag-
ricultural gatherings came from all
corners of the continent, and during

, his two years as president of the Ex-

change he explained the plan of co-
operation to tens of r
farmers in many statesof the Union
and in Canada as well.

When the MichiganState Farm
Bureau was re-organized for busi-

ness Mr. Buell Was'strongly recom-

mended for the presidency. But thru

I atechnicality in theby-laws of. the.

because most.

thousands of ,

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is interesting and important and" vi-
tal. It is the biggest place. He sets

the pace. He is the one man ,We can ‘

not do without. But what we. as
business men must: be more deeply
concerned in now is the relation Of
business to the farmer. V
The Producer of Real Weal‘th
Business has too long been in that

state .of ignorance shown by the.

small boy whose teacher asked him,
“Where does tapico come from?”
The lad truthfully replied, “From the
grocery store.” He was accurate but
short sighted. It isn’tvthe grocery
store that feeds your men. Basi-
ness must remember that it isn’t
business that feeds business either
with food or with dollars. ' A nation
cannot grow rich swapping dollars.
The farmer is the great producer of
real wealth. It is his business that
makes the wheels of every other bus-
iness go round. While thousands
and thousands of. farmers have lost
money this year either in cropsfor

livestock, yet the farmers of the. .

United States have produced enough
wealth to pay off two-thirds of this
country's not war debt, the ,total
commercial value of their product
this year being well over $15,000,-
000,000, 6r about
more than last year. And this was
accomplished under even more diffi-
cult price and labor conditions than
in war times.

Should be First in National Policy

The Business of farming should be
put firstin our national policy. We
should give the business which is the
drive wheel of every other business

its full economic rights. We should.

map out a great constructive program
for agriculture and put it through;
give free rein to every legitimate
scheme of co-operation among farm-
ers and tax the la-ndhog speculator
out of existence.

' I have asked that such a program
be made a national plank in party
platforms at the next election, be-
cause we must be committed to such
a policy nationally to properly an
speedily put it through. i

To have a more prosperous agri-
culture we must encourage legisla-
lation legalizing collective bargain-
ing by farm organizations, regula-
tion of the packing industry, fair
prices for farm products, extension
of European markets for' livestock
and foOdstuffs, elimination of profit-
eering- cheaper money for the farm-
er who must borrow, good fural
schools and a good roads system that
will benefit the farmer as well as the
automobilist.

organization he was unable to qual-
ify for that position. However, the
Farm Bureau did not intend to strug-
gle along without the assistance of
Mr. Buell and so last spring he was
offered, and accepted the position of
Market Director of that great organ-
ization, which new has nearly 80,000
members. ' In this capacity Mr. Buell
became one of the “big men" in‘ the

organization, and in his death. the A

farmers of Michigan have lost a dis-
tinct asset in their business. It was.
while in harness for the Farm Bu-
reau that Mr. Buell contracted, the
disease which resulted in his death.

What further positions of prom-
inence and influence which Mr. Buell
might have held had he lived onecan
only surmise. His organizing ability
was rapidly attracting the attentidn
of farm organizations a— over the

country. _ While it. was. not generally 

known his friends .were grooming
him for a place on, the State ~Bimini
of Agriculture and had he lived he
would undoubtedly have been" nom' ' 7
nated at the spring conventionlB“
thus it Often happensrthat man .
taken away at the Zenith of h- a

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, givent and perhaps more substantial
,Ii‘nes than any'other state farm bu—
. . reap federation in theUnited States.
’ ; .IThis was the report brought back to
. Michigan by this state’s representa-
, tive from the American Farm Bureau
Federation meeting a week ago in
Denver and the western states group
{meeting in Salt Lake City.
Practically every other state farm
bureau federation in the
built largely along educational lines
with the promotion of small group
activities .as the fundamental policy.
Michigan has gone ahead in the \be-
lief that it is not just “how to pro-
duce more” that the farmers want
but- how to market and distribute
better what they now produce and
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gram fundamental in other

may lose sight of the vital necessity '

for action in an economic or, if you

please, a commercial way. While

this difference in state farm bureaus

s3» is true, indication is that it will not
 continue '30. “States further to the
 '- west of us are preparing to develop
:,~ ' ~ on a scale parallel to that of the mid-

 ' ' dle west. More than 300 represen-

,_ v p. f - " tatives of the state farm bureaus of
? California, Wyoming, Idaho, -Wash-
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zona and Montana took home with

f  them from a two dayS' meeting With'

a majority of the executive commit-
tee 'of the American Farm Bureau
Federation in Salt Lake City last
week the idea of the substantial fin-
ancial program, in other words, a
$10 membership. '
. Idaho, Washington and Texas this
fall will start a $10 membership cam-
aign and several others, notably
lorado and Arizona will launch
their drive around,the first of the
ear. The far west is adopting the
action not talk" program of Mich-
igan. They see the necessity of
handling the economic programs of
their members directly through co-
operative marketing and are appre-
ciating the centralization in activi-
' ties is essential but with all there is
7. the realization such as we have in
»Michigan that this great develop-
.ment is not going to be accomplish-
, ed over night, that there is a lot of
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,HE Michigan Stat-e Fair, in ses-
, sion at Detroit, has brought to-
gether the finest exhibit of pure-
bred. live stock ever shown in this
.state; while Michigan, Indiana and
Canada are fairly well represented
in this wonderful showing,.by far
the larger portion of the exhibit
comes from Ohio. A train of 60
', cars of show stock, left the State
 . ‘li‘air grounds at Columbus, last week
_ “destined for Detroit, but it was
found neCess'ary to divide the con-
signment and make up two trains
before Detroit was reached.

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' ation has'called a meeting for Sept.
- 13 'to‘fibe held in Chicago for the con-
j. sideration of live stock commission

i’-f.~-*eelling-methods; for more than a
;--,.‘:year? past, co-operative live , stock
install-ing associations and 'the mem-
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can: considering the advisability of
establishing commission firms in all.
middle ‘west markets to 'which co-
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MAP OF MICHIGAN STATE FARM BUREAU MEMBERSHIP

The above map shows the latest state Farm Bureau membership figures. The shaded porn
tlen of the ma! Indicates those counties which have not been campaigned. A campaign Is to be

put on In every one of these counties as soon

total membership to date. according to the figures used on this map, In 15,805.

as the Farm Bureau oflioers can get to them. The
However, new

members have been added In all of these counties and _en Intensive campaign has been put on In
lnohem county eInoe these-flours were given out. so the present memberehlp Is around the 80,000

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By H. H. MACK

000,000 bushels- and wheat around
775,000,000 bushels. Barring an
accident'to the crop, corn should be
plentiful and cheap this year. It
will be below a feeding basis, and
those feeders who have had the
nerve and the money to continue
in the business will again 'm-ake
handsome profits from feeding corn
to stock. All signs point to a much
needed- surplus of corn, and it is
probable that during the coming
year the United States will once
more take her place as an exporter
of corn instead of an importer."

New Zealand kills 8 million sheep
andlambs annually, the meat from
which is frozen and shipped out to
marketpnder cold sterage condi-
tions; for the most part, this frozen
mutton and lamb has gone to Eng-
land until this year when an ac-
cumulation resulting from a lack of

transportation facilities during war,

is now being marketed in the United
States. There is reason to believe
that frozen ‘mutton and lamb will
continue ~-to 'find its way into this
country throughout the coming year.

 

Live stock coxnm'ission firms in all
of the leading markets of the coun-
try will resist the, recent order is-
sued ,by Secretary of Agriculture,

"Meredith," reducing the commission

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injunction was granted in the district
court of Chicago on August 31 which
will forestall all action on the part
of federal officials until a.test case,
involving the validity of the order,
has been decided. 

There is a fair prospect that thous-
ands of range cattle growers will be
forced out of business this fall by
by the scarcity of money and the in-
ability to secure credit. There is
good reason to believe that western
bankers desire to foster the growth
and development of the live stock
breeding business but the tremend-
ous amount of frozen credit in exist-
ence and the pressing demands for
money from other sources, makes it
impossible to do so.

Mississippi reports a large num-“

ber of feeding hogs but very little
corn in sight to finish them with; the
high prices which prevailed during
the war for cotton, caused southern
farmers to rush into cotton raising
to. the neglect of all other crops and
nothing do finish hogs with is'now
in sight. In the meantime, southern

farmers have gone on increasing their

herds of hogs and their only hope is
in a northern outlet for their shoats.
—__‘ As time goes on, the long-suffer-
ing Public is coming to regard with

Naomi misgivings the proposed sep.‘
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   :Dues of $10 Per Member Expected to Become Uniform in All F arm Bureau States

, in the development of this program.

The westerners were asked to meet
with the middle west group at Man-
hattan, Kansas, September 21 and
22 to consider ways and means of
interlocking interests in wool in a
national selling agency.
gram calls for organization of pools
in the varous states, with overhead
machinery that would regulate or di-
rect the flow of these wools on to the
market. D. D. McKay, president of
the Utah federation voiced the senti-
ment of the westerners when he said
that such a plan had- the approval of
the far west and mountain region.
Several state indicated that they
would have representatives at Mars-
hattan when the attempt will be
made to work out details of the na-
tional wool marketing scheme that
is intended to end the competition
between the various state pools that
Is now unfortunately true.

The meeting endorsed the “truth
in fabric” bill now before Congress
and also the proposed legislation
which would give Germany purchas-
ing credit in this country to the ex-
tent of approximately one billion
dollars, which amount is due from
the United States for property which
was confiscated during the war. This
legislation, it is expected, will speci-
fy that this credit be exhausted in
purchases of raw products in Amer-
ica. If so, it will do much to stabil-
ize the demoralized wool market, in-
asmuch as Germany is one of the
largest users in the world of low

grades, which are now hang-ing
heavily.

Another action of the A. F. B. F.
executive committee at Denver

which met with favor at Salt Lake
City, was condemnation of a trade
practice of steel interests that takes
millions of dollars from the farmers
of the country in unjustified profits.
It was shown that big steel interests
are discriminating against farm may
chinery and implement manufactur~
ers of the middle west in the sale of
products from factories in Duluth,
South Chicago, Gary and other plac-
es of similar geographical location is
forced to be made with a charge add-
ed equi'valent to the freight rate on
such products from Pittsburg. While
this custom protects eastern granni-
facturers of such products, the fed-
eration could see no reason why
farmers of the mid—west and far
west should be forced to bear this
burden. A hearing asking that this
custom be thrown into the discard
will be requested of the federal trade
commission at Washington, D. 0

‘A Few Notes From: Here and There of Interest to Breeders and Feeders

their various allied lines as contem-
plated by the United States govern;-
ment. They recall the so-called “died
solution” of the Standard Oil Trust
and they are inclined to view with
suspicion the recent statement, giv-
en to the press by representatives of
the Big 5, that their immense stock
yard holdings had been optioned to
a firm of Boston brokers. It is es-
timated that the value of the stock
held by the big packers, in 15 of the
leading stock yards of the country.
exceeds $40,000,000.

A computation made in Chicago
last week indicates How the depreci-
ation of hides, wool and by-producte
values is penalizing beef and mutt-on.
Making allowance for such depreci-
ation $11 cattle now cost as much in
the beef as if appraised at $13.36 a
year ago. Lambs at $13.50 new are
on a parity with $17.96 at the same
time last year. The _approximate
depreciation in cattle by-product
compared with a year ago is $2.13
per cwt.; labor and other expense
have advanced 23c, a disability of
$2.36 per cwt. In the case of".lambs,
wool and 'by-products have depreci-
ated $4.36 per cwt.; labor and other
expense have increased 100,,a total
per cwt.
weight. To aggravate the situation,
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SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 11, 1920

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The Defeat of the Farmers
HE DEFEAT of Milo Campbell for
Governor was also a defeat for the farm-
ers of Michigan. For many months past there
had been crystallizing among the farmers a
desire to unite upon some man for the high
position of Governor. Through the action of
the farm organizations Milo D. Campbell hap-
pened to be that man. The farm organiza-
tions’ choice fell to Mr. Campbell, not as a re-
sult of any deeply laid political plot as has
been charged, but as a result of careful inves
tigation and prolonged consideration of the
merits of a number of prospective candidates.
Neither Mr. Campbell nor anyone except those
having the best interests of the farmers at
heart and unselfishly concerned in the person-
nel of the next Governor of Michigan were in
any way responsible for the endorsement of
Mr. Campbell. .Any charges to the contrary
are false. >
The farmers have no apologies to make for
presenting a candidate for Governor. The
farmers constitute about fifty per cent of the
voting population and about seventy-five per
cent of the tax—paying population of the state
and their united support of a man for Gov-
ernor was based upon the purest of motives
and their constitutional right to name the next
Governor if they could. The farmers’ candi-
date was not defeated because he happened to
be Milo Campbell. He was defeated because
the farmers who had the votes to nominate
him did not use their votes and those who had
the votes to nominate some other man did.
The farmers could not have made a better

 

 

choice than Mr. Campbell, and we question.

whether any man whom the farmers could
have united upon would have made anywhere
nearly as good a race.

\Vayne county and the upper peninsula were
responsible for the farmers’ defeat. Outside of
Wayne Mr. Campbell ran a neck and neck
race with his successful opponent. Had Wayne
county and the upper peninsula split
among the several Wayne county candidates
in the proportion predicted Mr. Campbell
might have been nominated. But the vote of
Wayne county showed powerful organization
efiorts just as Mr. Campbell’s rural support
showed organization. The Republican nom-
inee did not secure nearly four times as many
votes in Wayne county as his nearest oppon-
ent solely because of his personal popularity.
His landslide in that county was the result of
many months work on the part of the smooth-
est working political machine in Michigan.

Neither Mr. Campbell nor the sixty-seven
thousand people who gave him their votes

need to be ashamed of the outcome of the"

election,. Taking into consideration , all the
circumstances Mr. Campbell made a remark-
able run. It is undeniable ,that M124 Groes-
~bcck’s record as attorney general stood him
well. Moreover he was able through the co-

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was his declaration , ‘t the prepoeed'i parach-
ial school amendment. would be unconstitw
tional. While there were really no grounds
for his making such a declaration and no reas-
on Why the friends of the parochial school
should have given him their support because
of his" declaration, it is probable that he re-
ceived enough votes from that source alone to
give him his plurality. ' '

The rural vote showed that the farmers were
almost solid for Campbell. Although it is im-
possible at this time to make an accurate analy-
sis of the results it is estimated that ninety
per cent of- the farm vote went to Campbell.
But the total vote cast in the country districts
was Only about one-fourth- of the voting
strength. Had one-half or even one-third of
the rural voters gone to the polls Campbell
would have been nominated.

This is the first time in many years that the
farmers have taken a fling at state politics,
and considering that they are novices at the
political game they came mighty close to scor-
ing. Some lessons have’been learned from the
campaign which will stand the farmers in
good stead another time. A few years ago
such unity among the farmers would have
landed their man, but the urban vote has now
become a factor to be reckoned with. The
farmers are still numerically strong enough
to dominate state politics providing they act.
But if the passive farmers cannot be brought
into action, then the politically active will
have to seek the support of their city cousins.

It should not be thought that because the
farmers have lost one battle they are van-
quished. Defeat in this instance will act as a
stimulus to greater efiort in later political
campaigns. The farmers of Michigan have
awakened to their duties as citizens. They
will not go to sleep again. '

Dorr D. Buell

AM writing this in memory of a friend who

has just died. Two months ago we grip-
ped each other’s hands in a: friendly greeting.
I seem to feel his hand-clasp yet. Today he
lies within the grave. Again I am confounded
by that eternal but unanswerable question,
“Why does death take those who have just
reached the threshold of their usefulness to
mankind when there are so many others who
could better be spared?”

Dorr D. Buell was the kind of a man whom
everyone was proud to call his friend. He
was one of those rare individuals who is “al-
ways the same,” in the presence of his friends.
While he might differ with you in politics, re-
ligion or business he never permitted these
differences to intrude between him and his
friends. I was intimately acquainted with
Mr. Buell for nearly fifteen years and I can
recall no instance when his smile of welcome
or his hearty hand-shake left me in any doubt
as to the sincerity of his greeting. Which, as
everyone knows, cannot be said of all friends.

In the death of Mr. Buell I have lost one of
my dearest friends and the Business Farmer
one of its staunchest supporters. But we are
not alone. Wherever Mr. Buell was known he
made friends,——enduring friends, who will
miss him from their circles. Moreover, the
farmers of Michigan have lost a champion
who as marketing head of the Farm Bureau
might, had he lived, become a powerful figure
in the agricultural affairs of the nation.

Carry a Light

JUST returned from an automobile trip

upstate and was obliged to drive part of
the time at- night,. As usual I passed many
teams and pedestrians on the road Without a
light. Why people will jeopardize their lives
in this fashion is beyond my understanding.
Time and again I have narrowly missed hit-
ting people walking along the side of the road
just out of range of my lamps, and more than
once I have had the cold sweat break out on

, me as I have turned a‘ corner on a dark night

and come squarely upon a team. A less careful
driver might easily have smashed into it and
added another death or two to the long list of
annual automobile tragedies, _ ‘ .

 

walk or drive. the: highways 35. mm (with: t ,,

carrying a light of some kind. The pedestrian

orthe man who drives a team of horses does» ‘ i I
’not appreciate this danger. He thinks that

the lamps of an oncoming automobile should
be able to detect him with case. But let him

drive or ride in an automobile at night and

he will soon discover how hard it is under the
most favorable circumstances to detect at a
safe distance any, object in the road which
does“ not bear a light.

Automobile tran is rapidly on the increase.
Travel by foot or by horse is not so customary
as formerly. Nevertheless there are a large

number of people in the'aggregate who walk a

on the road at night. If they do not carry a.
lantern or a flashlight their life is in danger
every moment,. The number of fatalities re-
sulting from the failure of persons to take
this precaution grows ever greater. If you
travel the highways at night either by foot,
horse or automobile, either carry a lantern or
increase your life insurance at once.

Is He a Good Citizen?

HANGING to talk with a farmer over in
western Michigan the other day I sound-
ed him out on politics. I asked him how he
liked the outcome of the primary election and
whom he thought would be the next president.
He laughed. “Oh, I didn’t vote in the pri-
mary and I guess it doesn’t make much difler-
ence about who is elected President. I don‘t
take much interest in such things.’ ’

Then the argument started.

“You’re a funny kind of a citizen," I said,
or words to that eifect. “‘Such things’ as you
have no interest in are responsible for the
building of this road we are standing upon.
They construct your schools and educate your
children. They determine the size of your
farm profits and how much of them shall he
spent in taxes. Government, politics, and
‘such things’ are one and the same thing. Just
because you take no” interest in them don't
think for a moment that no one takes an in-
terest in them. Those who want laws passed
to give them special privileges take a keen in-
terest in ‘such things’ and they usually get

what they want. People who want to escape

their just share of taxation are tremendously
interested in ‘such things’ and the fact that
you are growling about your taxes shows that
they got what they wanted. Everyone who
has an axe to grind at the expense of the other
fellow is on the job every minute seeing to it
that men are nominated and elected to office
who will turn their grindstone. The reason
the grindstone turners are elected to oflice is
because you fellows who aren’t looking for
any special privileges take no interest in ‘such
things’ ” _

Put that man down as a poor citizen who
cannot findthe time to inform himself upon
politics, government and ‘such things,’ or ex-
ercise his right of franchise whenever he has
the chance.

Now that Congressman Fordney has been
rcnominated for the ’steenth time and the
eighth district is probably in for another two
year regime of standpattism, we presume it

will again be safe for us to comment upon Mr.”
Fordney’s flunk on the bean tarifl, without .

being accused of having ulterior designs upon
Mr. Fordney’s political goat.

The primary is over. Now watch the poor
chap who promised everything this side of
heaven in order to get votes make good on his
promises. He has our sympathy. '

Congressman Ciirrie was defeated in the
tenth district because he was man enough to
stand between the freezing public and the

striking coal miners. Enough good farmers .

aligned themselves 'with the radical element

who sought his downfall to bring about his 1 Iv

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iBETTER TIMES IN SIGHT
I have been reading what others
have written about the farm and it
makes 'me feel like saying
-: words. I" was raised on the farm,

'- am 55 years ,old and farming has

I admit the benefits of this separation

j'_ public schools prevailing
' . time, that Galileo would have suffered
- 3.3 he did; ' that Hugh Latimer and
[‘John Hues would have. been led to

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been my occupation up to thetpres-
ent time, so you can see I have had

‘ sbme experience and know what I

am talking about. I must‘ say I
have had a hard time of it, I have
paid 'big prices for seed and taken
,a very small price to the crop when
harvested or perh ' lost it entire-
ly.
“up- in the hot sun or eaten up by the
grasshoppers year after year until
I have felt many times like giving it
up and trying something else, for it

‘ , does seem to me that the farmer has
a very hard row to hoe at the present -

time. We pay the other man his
price for what we buy and take his
price for what we have to sell. Is
it any wonder the farmer is discour-
aged“? If I am not mistaken the
farmer should receive first notice, for
what does the man in.the city eat if
it is not the products of the farm?
I don’t blame the boys for going to
the city as long as they can get big
wages but if we all go we will all be
hungry in a very short time.

I think I have had my share of
bad luck as a farmer, and even this
‘very year I have lost at least $300
worth of crops by grasshoppers and
cutworms, but I have some grit left
yet. Yes I bought another farm

about two months ago and I am de-

termined to fight the battle through
to the end.

Cheer up, brother farmer, I believe
there are better days in store for you
and I. Capital will not always rule.
It is a lOng lane that has no end,
and the end may not be very far
away. They say every cloud has a
silver lining. Let us hope the dark
clouds that are hanging over us so
heavy at the present time will be
cleared away sometime in the near
‘future‘, and you and I shall see the
silver lining that we have been look-
ing tor so long and patiently—0'. H..
P.. Williamsburg, Mich.

Go to it friend! You have tht proper
spirit... It more of the young men of the
farm could see it the way you do there
would be no need for a “back to the
farm" movement, Here’s wishing you
the best of success..~—-Associate Editor,.

SAYS PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS ARE
INEFFICIENT

To me, “religion” means theology.

Our constitution and our laws give

sufficient guarantee to safeguard all.

the theology in the world. We "wel-
come every man or‘woman to his or
her own religion, and insofar as that
religion conduces to the liberty or
pursuit of happiness of the individual
professing it, it must be protected
by us as though it were a part of
our fundamental law itself. But, we
must always remember that no re-
ligion, as such, has ever been vested
by our government with any political
rights. To be sure, we have left
church- property tax free, we have
made laws and regulations here and
there, and authorities have been len-
ient where it would help people to
worship the Almighty as dictated by
their own conscience. But, we have
never given to any religion, political
recognition.

It't-ook long, long centuries of

" struggle to educate the people up to

the point where they were able to
of church from state policy. Why?
Because of their. education. Do you
Mr. Editor, that with a
system of-education like that of our
at that

he stake? How long do you suppose
to blood soaked figure of Torquen-
a- gwould have been- allowed to
e are
Bones”; but the’ basic 9 nciple—
" hwy..not changed on lots
,itiwas forced" to g
assure. In, the

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a few .

I have had new seeding burn»

I see by the Press and various peri-

odicals that the proponents of the
school amendment are being de-
nounced as un-American because

they demand for all children below
the age of 16 a public school educa—
tion. Isn’t 'there something incon-
sistent about this?

First consider the public schools
—these are maintained by the state
and for the state. Is it necessary to
say anything more about them? It
is not necessary to praise them when
you stop to consider that with very
few exceptions all the men and wo-
men who have ever been not only at
the forefront but also 'within the
ranks of the country’s art and scienc-
es, have received their training with-
in the public school.

Now consider the parochial schools.
These are maintained by various re-
ligious sects and denominations. For
what purpose? Is'it possible that
they do not believe the state to be
able to bring up its own children in
its own behalf? Or do they want to
instill religious bias into their child—
ren? If so, what shall we citizens
of other sects do about it for our
own protection? What shall we do
about it for the protection of the
state? Is it not true that one rea—
son for the maintenance of the par-
ochial school, is that the theory there
of, is, for children to be so taught
and so biased, that they will in later
life, clique together, vote together
and stand by each other politically,
right or wrong. This constitutes a
danger to democracy. Who’ll deny it?

Aside from this, we have evidence
that parochial schools are decidedly
inefficient. We have evidence that

many of the teachers are really in-.

capable of teaching anything but the
Very lowest grades. How can we ex—
pect anything different? The power
that appoints them is responsible to
no one. To teachers do not have to
go through the exacting examinations
required for public school teachers.

Therefore all fair minded citizens
should vote for the School Amend-
ment, and for the officials who stand
for it, and will see that the bill is
enforced—E. W. Banner, 714 Mow/roe
St., Detroit, Mich.

 

RELIGION IN HOME AND SCHOOL
AS \VELL AS CHURCH

May I have a little space in which
to air my views on the school ques-
tion? I want to ask J. B. of Kent
county what he considers was God’s
plan when he placed man on this
earth? Christian people all agree.

- I believe, it was to know, love and

serve Him .on this earth, that we
might be eventually with Him in
Heaven. This being the case it hard-
ly seems probable that our children
will get a religious education by go-
ing to Sabbath school only and ‘while
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little or no religious training, just
hears the lesson.

Then why interfere with this great
work conducted by people who. de—
vote their entire life to God and are
well trained to teach religion?

Our country was settled by people
who so loved their children that they
made sacrifices for them that they
could have religious freedom, WHO
could be so narrow in their views as
to try to change this after all these
years, when our great country owes
its progressive condition to that God
they have always honored and wish
their children to do so to the best of
their knowledge?

This knowledge of religion must
be acquired by being taught, not by
chance as. children do not all go to
Sabbath school, nor in a hit and miss
fashion if they do, as it is one teach-
er one Sunday some one else the
next and not a teacher educated for
that purpose.

Now if any one finds any thing
wrong with any particular school, go
to the officers of that and have the
wrong corrected of course, but don’t
make it a national or a state affair.

God did 'not leave a command to
man to make so many dollars nor
so many automobiles but He did tell
man what to do to work out hisisal-
vation. If any one pays little or no
attention to this then please don’t
interfere with those who do. I have
not been a school director for eight
years as J. B. has but I am proud to
say I am the mother of eight child-
ren whom 'I wish to see fulfill the end
for which they were created. I think
when the time comes there will also
be another one to vote on that school
question.

All those schools can be supervis-
ed by the state, their records and
books examined etc., as the editor
suggests so there would be no chance
for a Judas among the teachers nor
any Bolshevists being trained.

If those who are opposing the
teaching of religion were properly
informed on the subject they would
see the good of these schools and
would try and weed out every bad
that might chance to be found, the
same as we do with other public at—
fairs.

The Constitution gives all the
right to religious freedom and I
think we will have it. Of course all
schools must follow the state’s out-
line of studies, so it would be similar
to public schools. I am for religion
being taught in the home, and in
the school of one’s choice as well as
the church. We can do this and
abide by the law and furnish the
country some of its best young men
and women in peace, as well as in
war as was so well proved a short
time ago. Then why not?—
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RISE OF FARM LABOR
Revolution in England!
But a bloodless one!

If one were writing in _ the ex-
clamatory style of the movie scen-
ario author, the above is the way in
which he would start telling about
one of the greatest and most note-
worthy labor movements not only in
England but in the whole world.

For it would tell how the labor-
er on the English farms, hitherto the
most oppressed, the most underpaid,
under-fed, under-clothed, worst-
housed of all English working men
has suddenly begun to demand and
receive his human rights.

The very absence of 400,000 farm
workers in the army caused Eng-
land for the first time to realize how

portant a cog in her machinery is
V 0 man who tills the fields, plants

e seeds and nos. 8 the harvest. The

Milt is that he s now not only en-

A 3 higher wages and shorter
ours, but is beginning more and
more to exert his strength thru his
owl: unions and is making a light for

     

   

better housing and better education-
al facilities for his children.

When the war broke out the av-
erage wage of the farm laborer was
about $3.80 per week. But with the
German submarine menace. it be-
came necessary for England to in—
crease her own food crops. There—
fore, a. Corn Production act was pass-
ed by parliament. It guaranteed a
certain price to the farmers for their
wheat and it bestowed the boon on
the farm laborers of a minimum
wage of $5 per week.

This became the law on Aug. 21,
1917, and ever since then the work-'
er has gradually gotten more wages
until now he has an average of
about $8.50, is demanding a mini-
mum of $10 and has his eye on an
ultimate $12.

Moreover, he is using a weapon
hitherto unknown in Anglo-Saxon
countries in disputes between farm-
ers and theirhelp. He is actually
striking in certain parts of England,
and there is a threat of bigger strikes
all over if his demands are not eat-
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AN OLD FRIEND SPEAKS

Dear Old M. B. F.: It has been
such a long time since I asked space
in “What the Neighbors Say” that I
feel justied in “butting in” again.
First I shall vote for the amendment
to make every child in the state at-
tend the public schools. Our vari-
ous churches still have at least three
whole months out of every year, two
days out of each week in the remain-
ing months and all the home time
and influence in which to teach re-
ligion if the amendment carries. This
is at least 2-3 of the child’s working
hours and if us church people can-
not get enough of our brand of re—
ligion into the systems of our child-
ren in two thirds of their working
hours I don’t think we ought to rob
the state of its fair share of the
child's time for teaching other things.
I read with interest Mr. Burnham’s
platform, but would it not be easier
to come to an eight hour basis on
the farm demanding extra pay for
extra hours, than to try and pull the
cities back to the ten hour day? This
v is the only plank in his excellent plat-
form that any progressive man could
not approve with enthusiasm. It
would seem, however, that every
legislator ought to have a land pol-
icy, say something like this: “The
unused cut over lands of theitate
should be brought into use either as
forests, stock farms or for general
farming. Speculators in these lands
should be driven from the state by
a special system of taxation, the pro-
ceeds of which should be used to
protect them from fire and re-forest
those of small agricultural value.”

—John 0. 8., Lawrence, Mich.

Glad to hear from our old friends once
in awhile. But why in tarnation should
we legislate out of private hands-into
public hands a. hundred million dollars
worth of property which is now employed
in the instruction of children in a stan-
dard curriculum and the teaching of
the bible. Granted that it MIGHT be
more desirable for all children to attend
the public schools, is it enough more de-
sirable to take that drastic and enor-
mously expensive step? Your land policy
plank is all right. There are too many
parasites waxing fat from speculative
values of unused land,—-—- Editor.

SONIETIHNG ABOUT OUR SCHOOLS

The recent world conflict has
brought home to the people a re-
newed sense of the importance and
value of our public school system.
Having become a melting pot—or
almost a dumping ground for many
foreign nations—our best single
means of absorbing the alien ele-
ment has been the teaching of the
children in the public schools. While
some pronounced elements in our
republic. condemn our free schools,
and drill their children during their
most plastic years in private sectar-
ian schools, the fruits of suc hsec-
tarian teaching only increase the
general sentiment that the policy of
one flag, one language, and one
school is the best for promoting Am- J
ericanism, and for keeping church .'
and state separate.

The best product of town and counv
try is our boys and girls and in or-
der to safe-guard their welfare it
certainly will pay the parents to
keep an eye on the schools and what
is going on there. How to secure
good building, good teachers, and
good courses of study without sac—
rificing the close personal supervi-
sion that a small group of managers
is capable of giving is a problem to
be solved in many places. Our
schools must not become a great un-
feeling “system,” nor through sheer
neglect become narrow and provin-
cial. Certainly the question will
never be properly handled by those
who think more of their business, or
their barns, or their blooded stock
than they do of their boys' and girls'
mental, moral and physical welfare.
The installation of characters, of
restraint, and imparting moral bal-
ance are obvious features of a good
teacher’s tasks. Others coming to
our friendly shores must realize that
liberty is not license, and that the
right of free speech is not fit for those
who despise authority and use that
right-to speak against good govern-
ment. ,. ' ’
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7 --then back at other days.

ed through a by-street and lo! a
» breed of downy yellow chicks
Dluffed their feathers and chirped
right merrily at me.

Standing by the high fence that
separated us I looked down at them
Once

IN MY usual walk yesterday I cross-

' again 'I was a little girl with flaxen

, ful—wondering —— loving!

hair, and eager heart and soul—fear-
Living

‘ one day in the world of people, sun

:and-sky;

the next, delving deeply

' into other worlds

1 letters on our page.

- been.

Ah ! I am glad I was born where
the air swept clear and free; where

there was plenty of space to run and ‘

play; where one could coast down a
steep hill, and cross wide, glittering
spaces of their very own, in no dang-
er of irate driver-s, frightened horses
or honking automobiles. I am glad
I know how soft and clean the coun-
try breeze is; how the silken floss of
corn feels as it touches one’s hot
cheeks; how bright the stars, and how
inky black the night. I am glad,
too, to understand how unspeakably
lonely one can be amidst the hurry-
ing flow of souls in a great city—
how happy, also. I thank God for
having watched the ebb and flow of
tides; for having felt the tang of
,ocean’s breath, for majesty of mount-
ains—steady —— quiet —— true !

And going back, on, through all
the varied years I sum them up in
one word—Life ! Thank God for life
with all its varied beauties; its
chance for going on-——now here, now
there; and from my heart I cry:
Lead me to fuller life, Creator of it
all—not mine to choose the way. I

know not, God, a single step. I’ve
learned through varied strivings,
Thou canst plan more wisely; that

Thy yea and nay are ever good. City

or country, ocean, mountain, vale or

plain—where’er Thou art, is home.

—L. D. Stcarns.

SEEN IN CITY SHOPS
HE LITTLE girls are beating the
high cost of living this year with

l a vengeance, and are “right in

what a variety! Today you see a

"little Miss with a perky bow of baby

blue and tomorrow she blossoms
forth with a huge bow of flaring yel—
low, vleing with the very sun itself.
How do they do it, I wondered and
the other day the question was ans-
wered. I had dropped into the crepe
paper department of one of our large
department stores to get some paper
plates for a picnic luncheon and there
was a regular bevy of girls, all buy-
ing crepe paper. '

First they get those patent fasten-
ers and then a group of chums get a
bolt of every color of the rainbow,
dividing the cost between them and
when there are a number of girls,

the cost is of course very slight and '

every little girl has a huge flamboy-
an-t bow of every color in the rain-
bow and when she blossoms forth in
a pink dress she wears a fetching bow
of pink and thus on down the line.
The latest youthful fashion bids fair
to become more than a merely pass-
ing fad for the little Miss can for a
few cents have a nice fresh bow to
match each new frock while wide
ribbon of which the latest bows are
now fashioned would cost dollars.

I stepped into the shoe department
to find what the latest styles in wo-
man’s foot wear would be this fall
only to be shoWn brown oxfords—
heavier than the summer kind—
mostly made of calf skin with round
toes and sensible heels. And then
the clerk displayed some wonderful
brown woolen stockings to be worn
with ‘them “ ' '

ANSWER. TO OUR QUESTION

As the following is the only letter
I have received answering our ques-
tion in the August let issue I have
decided to wait two more weeks 'be—
fore awarding prizes.

0 answer these 'questions con-
Tscientiously requires a great deal

of thinking from all viewpoints.
And the woman who has the prob--
lem to work out will need to exer-
cise much patience and tact. If the
man has simply gotten into the rut
for lack of time to improve himself
then the work will be much easier to
accomplish than if the man had no
desire for improvement or self cul-
ture. Many men claim to be firm in
their principles when really they are
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Good Things Gone By

Gone are the days when we used to
horseback ride

Gone are the days when we
toboggan slides;

Gone is the dance we called the heel-
and—toe,

While in the air we only hear a' tale
of woe. -

had

We're hungry, we’re lenging,
For the days of long ago,

When our best dress was bombazine,
An we had little ‘dough.’

Gone are the days when we wander-
ed o’er the hills,

Gone are the times when we fished
in tiny rills.

Gone is the fun we had in husking

We’re wishing, we’re aching,
For the day of long ago?
When we could drive and spoon to-
gether -
While the horse walked slow.

Now it is move and hustle all day-
long. _ .

Now it is grab or else you're all in
wrong.

Go out, jazz to please a pretty girl,
Until your feet and brain are in a
monstrous whirl.

We’re hustling, we're bustling,
From the days of long‘ag-o.
While no one heeds this killing rush
From out the high or low.
——Conirtbuted to the Michigan Busi-
ness Farmer by Mrs. Charlotte A.

' sented itself.

be contented with such a man altho
she may‘make the best of her situ-
ation. Tennyson says, “As the hus-
band is the wife is, thou art married
to a clown» and the grossness of his
nature will have weight to drag thee
down.” But in these times when
Women have been emancipated from
the old order of things, she does not
have to sink to the level of an uncul-
tured and unrefined man, but W11
through her refining. influence bring
him to the standard of herself. Here
is where the woman will need to use
tact. His education may have to .be
done in a way that he'will not be
aware of what is being done for him.-
some men have traveled in the rut so
long that they have become like-the
old farmer who said, he did not
see why- his 'Betsy went crazy, ,she
hadn’t been out -of the kitchen for
twenty: year. Lamartine- says

,“There is a woman at the beginning

of all great things.” Women credit
the distinction of being well inform-
ed she has learned to apply herself,
to meet her obligations and that her
mission in life is to make a home,
to be a good wife and to teach the
members of her ghousehold those
principles which ‘go to make up the
golden rule. In answering question
No. 2, I would suggest reading to
him whenever an opportunity pre-
At meal time, while
he was partaking of his dinner or
supper, I would select current events
or any topic in which he might nat-
urally have an interest. I would se-
lect some item and have him read it
to me under pretense that heexplain
his under-standing of it to me then I
could argue the finer points with
him. I would keep plenty of good
books and papers and I would invite
the prominent and pregressive men
and families of the neighborhood to

our home and endeavor to get him

out to a Farmers? Club of some meet-
ing where he might be interested and
if he has the spirit of progressive-
ness your efforts will not be in vain,
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EAR CHILDREN:

ret to tell you. Aunt Clare,

who is Mrs. Clare Norris, is
not going to write you any more let-
ters. Why? Because I am going to
write them, and I am a man and my
name is “Uncle Ned,” so after this
week I want you to write all of your
letters to “Uncle Ned.” I am going
to have lots of stories, and puzzles,
and drawing lessons, and lots of your
I am going to
try and make it even better than has
But that will be some job,

won’t it, because Aunt Clare has

. always had so many good things on

‘: this page.

What she has promised

‘ you she would have published will
i be published because she has told

me all about them. One thing she

promised was to tell you about the'

State Fair and now that I am going to

1 write you every week I will tell you

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all about it. I guess I hadn’t bet-

ter write any more this time or there

Goodbye, until next week.—UNCLE
NED.

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OUR BOYS AND GIRLS

Dear Uncle Ned—«This is the first time
I have written to you. My grandpa.
takes the M. B. F. and likes it very much
We have two cows and three horses. I
am a girl 10 years old and live on a 200
acre farm. I have one brother, his name
is Revllo. I have quite a long letter so
will close for this time. Marvel Nied-
linger, Baroda, Michigan.

 

Dear Uncle Ned— My father takes the
M. B. F. and we like it very much. 1 like
to read “The Childrens Hour.” I will be
in the fifth grade when school starts. My
teachers name is Miss Ethel Wilson, I
am taking music lessons. We live on a
farm of sixty acres and have seven cows.
three horses, one-hundred and twenty-five
chickens and‘tenpigs. For pets I have
four cats. I hope my letter will escape
the waste basket— Dorthy Geib, Cale-
donia, Michigan. -

Dear Uncle Ned— This is the second
tim I have written. I am a girl of nine
years. I have two Sisters and one brother
My father takes the M. B, F. and likes
it very much. We live on a 90 acre
farm. For pets I have one rabbit. We
have 14 sheep, 5 cows, 4 horses, 100
chickens and two little pheasants. I
will close for this time hoping to see my
letter in print—Bertha Stroven,‘Fremont
Michigan, R R 6,

Dear Uncle Ned— This is the first
time I have written to you. I read the
boys and girls letters and think that
they are fine. M father takes the M. B,
F. and likes it ine. I have dark blue
eyes and brown hair, I an twelve years
old and am in the seventh grade, I live
on a 120 acre farm. We have four horses
one colt, pigeons and a crow. I did havt
forty hensand 75 chickens. I have, a
mile and a ,halt to go to school. Our
teachers namo' is Mr. Russell Scott. I

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School Days

Vacation days are over; the school
bell rings ones more,

,And throngs of happy children, go
flocking through the door..——
Hearts high with new ambition, and

vows that this new term, .

Shall stand for work accomplished,‘

with lessons Enew to learn,

Vacation days are over, but dreams
,0: hours‘ of play ‘

And thoughts or summer gladness
and hours free from rule

.Make pleasanter theuhours that-we-

must spend in school.

Vacation Days are over, School Days
are here again

We’ve'time for work and timedor‘

-.play;" that much is very plain'
If life were only playtime- we’)
quickly tire 'of Joy,

' For our pets we have a dog, her name;

help my mother with all the work. I
picked berries this summer. I wish that
seme girls would write to me, I would
answer immediately. I will close hoping
to see my letter in print. -— Miss Maudie
Hameck. Applegate. Michigan.

 

Dear Uncle Ned—This is my first letter
and I enjoy reading the letters and stories
on the Children‘s page, I have drawn
a picture of a little colt, I am eleven
years old and I will be in the sixth
grade at school next term. For pets I
have a dog, a cat, three little chickens
one colt, pigeons, and a crow, I did have
a coon but she got away from us this
spring. My letter is getting long so
-will close hoping to see my letter in print
Gladys Renton, Carelton, Michigan.

 

Dear Uncle Ned—.- I just got through,
reading the other; girls! and boys letters
and I thought I would write. I am- a
girl 10 years of age and in the fifth"

ads. My teachers name is Miss Wood.

have two sisters. ‘We have six cows
and three horses. We have some peache.’
and plum that will be ripe by next week.

1(‘guéeem and two kittensnamed' Bobby
e er,
B. F. r We have a Ford car. We ll .
{i go acne farm. Iwill close for thlsvz _°n«‘
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3a,. ems.“ mm. sWirling waters. It-

was. a masturbates dry-land dive
down a slope" ofnrock. So slipperly
,: was it that he continued to slide
 down, although he managed to turn
around, with face and stomach to

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By JACK LONDON

' Author of the “Valley of the Moon,” and other sulfides.

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the surface, and to claw Wildly up
with hands ‘and feet. Such effort
merely slowed his descent, but could
«not stop, it.

For awhile, at the bottom, he lay
breathless and dazed. When his
senses came back to him, he became
aware first of all of something un-
"uaual upon which his hand rested.
He could have sworn that he felt
teeth. At length, opening his eyes
with a shudder and summoning his
resolution, he dared to look at the
object. And relief was immediate.
Teeth they were, in an indubitable,
weather-white jaw bone; but they
were pig’s teeth and the jaw was a
pig's jaw. Other bones lay about,
on which his body rested, which on
examination, proved to be the bones
of pigs and of smaller animals.

L Where had he glimpsed such an
arrangement of bones. He thought,
and-remembered the Queen’s great
olden bowl. He looked up. A'hl
other of God i The very-place!
He knew it at first sight, as he gaz-
ed up what was a funnel at the far
spectacle of day. Fully two hundred
feet above him was the rim of the
funnel. The sides of hard, smooth
,_ . rock sloped steeply in and down to
g , , m, and his eyes and judgment told
‘ 'im that no man born of woman

with the sun. As he went deeper and
deeper the rubbish became more com—
pact, .so that he used the muzzle of
his rifle like a’crowbar to loosen it,
ere tossing it up in single and double
handfuls.

By mid-forenoon his senses begin-
ning to reel in the heat, he made a
discovery. Upon the wall which he
had uncovered, he came upon the be-
ginning of an inscription, evidently
rudely scratched in the rock by the
point of a knife. With renewed hope
his head and shoulders down in the
hole, he dug and scratched for all
the world like a dog, throwing the
rubbish out and between his legs in
true dog fashion.
clear, but most of it fell back and
down upon him. Yet had he become
to frantic to note the inefficiency of
his effort.

At last the inscription was clear-
ed, 80 that he was able to read:_

Peter McGill, of Glasgow. On
March 12, 1820, I escaped from
the Pit of Hell by this passage
by digging down and finding it.
A passage ! The passage must be

beneath the inscription I Torres now
toiled in a fury. So dirt-soiled was
he that he was like some huge, four-

 

Some of it fell

legged earth burrowing animal. The
dirt got into his eyes, and, on oc-
casions into his nostrils and air pass-
ages, so as to suflocate him and com-
pel him to back up out of the hole
and sneeze and cough his breathing
apparatus clear. Twice he fainted.
But the sun, by then, almost direct-
ly overhead, drove him on. _V

He found the upper rim of the
passage. He did not dig down to the
lower rim; for the momment the
apperture was large enough to ac-
commodate his lean shape, he writh-
and squirmed into it and away from
the destroying sun rays. The cool

and the dark soothed him, but his’

joy and the reaction from what he
had undergone sent his pulse giddily
up, so that for the third time he
fainted.

Recovered, mouthing with black
and swollen lips a half-insane chant
of gratefulness and thanksgiving, he
crowled on along the passage. Per-
force he crawled, ~because it was
so low that a dwarf could not have
stood erect in it. The place was
a charnel house. Bones crunched
and crumbeld under his hands and
knees, and he knew that his knees
were being worn to the bone. At

slower he progressed, for the final
stages of exhaustion were: coming
upon him. He knew that it was not
physical exhaustion, nor food ex-
haustion, but thirst exhaustion. Wa-
ter, a few ounces of water, was all he
needed to make him strong again.
And there was no water.

But the light was growing stronger
and nearer. He noted, toward the
last that the floor of the passage
pitched down at an angle of fully
thirty degrees. This made the way
easier. Gravity drew him on, and
helped every failing effort of him,
toward the source of light. Very
close to it, he encountered an in—
crease in the deposit of bones.

He observed with swimming eyes
and increasing numbness of touch,
that the passage was contracting
both vertically and horizontally.
Slanting downard at thirty degrees,
it gave him an impression of a rat-
trap, himself the rat, descending
head foremost toward he knew not
what. Even hefore he reached it,
he apprehended thatthe slit of bright
day that advertised the open world
beyond was too narrow for the agrees
of his body. And his apprehension
was verified. Crawling unconcern-
edly over a skeleton that the blaze
of day showed him to be a man's
he managed, by severely and pain-
fuly squeezing his ears flat back to
thrust his head while his eyes drank
in the openness of the freedom of
the world that the unyielding‘ rock
denied the rest of his body.

(Continued next week)

 

 could ever scale that slope. ~

 

 M ‘ The fancy that came to his mind

. caused him to spring to his feet in TEXACO MOTOR OIL. *

THUBAN COMPOUND *

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: . sudden panic and look hastily round
i  , , about him. .Only on a more colossal
' : ' scale, the funnel in which he was
trapped had reminded him of the
funnel pits dug in the sand by hunt-
ing spiders that lurked at the bottom
for such prey that tumbled in upon
them. And, his vivid fancy leaping,
‘ . he had been frightened by the thot
 V a a that some spider monster, as colossal
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lurking there to devour him. But

no such denizen occured. The bot-

, tom of the pit, circular in form, was

 a good ten feet across and carpeted,

‘ ‘ ~ he knew not how deep, by a debris

of small animals' bones. Now for

what had the Mayas of old time made " r 

no tremendous an excavation? He 5

nestioned; for he was more than

elf-convinced that the funnel was no
natural phenomen.

Before nightfall he made sure, by

a dozen attempts, that the funnel

was unscalable. Between attempts,

he crouched in the growing shadow

of the descending sun and panted,

dry-lipped with heat and thirst. The

‘lace was a very furnace, and the

ices of his body were wrung from

him in profuse perspiration. Through-

/. ut the night, between dozes, Tie vain-

§hpondered the problem of escape.

e only way out was up, nor could

his mind devise any method of get-

ting up. Also, he looked forward

with terror to'the coming of the day,

for he knew that no man opuld sur-

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the enact a hundred feet he caught '
his first glimmer of light. 1 But the,“
. nearer he approached'freedom, the

vive a, full ten hours of the baking
1‘: ' heat that would be his. Ere the next
 j - nightfall the last drop of moisture
would have evaporated from his body

‘. 7T;

  V , half-sun—dried mummy.
 . '- g ' With the coming of daylight his
 ‘ owing terror added wings to his
-hought, and he achieved a new and
profoundly simple theory of escape.
Since he could not climb up, and
{since he could not get out through
the‘sides themselves, then the only
ossible remaining way was down.
01 that he was! He might have
‘been working through the cool night
hours, and now he must labor in the
.quickly increasing heat. He applied
, * himself in an ectasy of energy to
 ‘ digging down through the mass of
 .. crumbling bones. . Of course there
Else how did the
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The‘tractor engine operates under
a severe strain. Full rated horse
power is reached and maintained
for long periods. High engine
heat is developed. A tractor engine
oil, in order to stand up, must re-
sist this heat. A good tractor oil
must resist dilution by the fuel.
It must prevent leakage of the
kerosene past the piston rings.
Leakage means loss of fuel and
when this occurs,stroke by stroke,
the loss is multiplied.The oil must
be thoroughly dependable-as rc-
pairs and replacements are hard to

‘ make and continuous operation is

a vital factor in securing full return
on the investment. The oil must

burn clean—as excessive carbon
deposits mean trouble and stops
for cleaning out.

There are three grades ofTEXAco

- TRACTOL—“B,” “C,” “D”—Grade

“B” for large engines in severe
summer conditions. Grade “C”
for large engines in winter. By
“winter”-—frost temperature
(about 40°F is understood. For
smaller engines use Grade “C” in
summer, Grade “D” in winter.
TEXACO TRACTOL is shipped in
55 and 33-gallon steel drums,
wooden barrels and half-barrels,
andfivc-gallon cans.Tryit.,“You’ll
see a difl'crcnce’Lnow in power,
and later in your bearings.

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TRADE AND MARKET REVIEW
Conditions in connection with the

not changed, materially, since the is-

‘g'nue of last week, except in connec-
tion with the retail and jobbing lines.
' Conditions are going from bad to
, worse with the jobber and general
retailer of all manufactured com-
modities and the end is evidently not
quite yet. Commercial failures are
reported from all parts of the coun-
try on an increasing scale, indicat-
ing that a sweeping readjustment in
values, both at wholesale and retail,
is in progress all along the line. ’ The
shoe and leather market is begin-
‘ning to take cognizance of the de-
creased value of hides and clothing
manufacturers and dealers are begin-

. plug to act as if they had heard that
wool was somewhat? cheaper than
formerly. meanwhile, all sources of
information tend to establish the

*Validity of the contention that the
ultimate consumer still declines to
buy, except from hand to mouth,

'.anything that he can possibly get

along without.

I As mentioned in this column last
week, wholesaler, jobber and retail-
er have lowered their prices to some
extent and are now busy urging their
customers to take immediate advant-
age of present opportunities to get
bargains for fear of a great advance
in values which is impending. The
consumer is, evidently, looking for
further concessions and in the opin—
ion of the writer he has the best of
the argument; liquidation, in con-
noctlon with manufactured commod-
ities, has not yet nearly run its
course and prices are bound to go
much lower in many lines before the
tide turns and permanent reaction
sets in.

The livestock and general situation,
in connection with cured and fresh
meats is on a much firmer price basis
than it Was at this writing last week;
the supply of desirable butchers stock
is inadequate to the needs of the
occasion and all signs point to a
sustained price list for all of the bet-
ter grades of meat during the next
60 days. The vegetable list is rap-
idly working lower as the season for
gathering progresses and the visible

.supply increases; nearly all garden
vegetables are now practically out of
the reach of a killing frost and a
fairly adequate supply of nearly all
of the leading specialties, is assured.
Reports from the potato fields of the

' state foreshadow a big crop of fair
average quality; late potatoes are
still in danger of being hurt by the
frost but ten days of good weather

I will put the crop practically out of
danger.

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\VHEAT QUIET

VHEAT Pulses PER BU.. SEPT. 8. 11320

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

’Gr‘aé’o isomeric»! N- Y:

«o. 2 lich ....I 2.51 I 2.51% 2 'Iuv2

‘0. 2 White ...I 2.55 2.52% 2.73v2

‘0. Mixed .. .1 2.55 2.48 , 2.87M
PmcE‘s‘ om: YEAR Aco

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There is really nothing bearish in
the present wheat situation except
the lack of milling demand and there

 

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are ample evidences of a. decided im‘

provement in this direction before
long. The wheat farmers of the
country seem to be regaining confi-
dence and many of them are said to
have visions of three-dollar wheat in
their minds. Export demand is lm-‘
proving and the bears in the wheat
pit again begin to show some timid-
lty in connection with their short
selling operations. Flour buying
continues on a small scale, a. fact,
which indicates that users of this
important commodity are holding

of! to the last moment before ordm'

lug increased supplies; this latter IL
"sumption is further established by

  
 

rent order for flour comes a ‘
upcall, indicating that the use:
Waited until his supply was
exhausted before 1111111 on

‘ The writer is o the

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the fact that with nearly 9 ' car-

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DETROIT .— Wheat and corn market firm. Hay and oats
lower. Beans drop 15c. Cattle steady. Hogs higher.

CHICAGO — Export buying causes wheat to advance. Corn
goes higher. Hogs higher. Cattle market strong.

 

 

 

 

 

J to press.—Edltor.

(Note: The above' summarized wlres ara~'recclvod AFTER the balance of the market pogo
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a. reaction toward somewhat higher
levels is probable during the present
month. It is hardly fair to assume,
that because values in manufactured
products are swinging lower as the
season progresses, food values will
surely follow; food values are con-
trolled by an entirely separate set
of conditions and circumstances
from those that dominate the mar-
ket for manufactured products and
while a break in values in the man-
ufactured commodity list. will tend
to weaken food calues by decreasing
consumption to some extent. it can-
not be counted on to overcome the
legitimate working of the laws of
supply and demand.

CORN SHAKY

conu PRIcEs PER au.. 891:. s. 1020

GE’éde"_mlo_Etrofi—I cue;ng

 

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No. 3 Yellow . . .I I
No. 4 Yellow  .l I l

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Mo. 2 Yellow . . .I 1.75 I 1.66 I 1_78
No. 2 Yellow . . . 1.75 l 1.65 |
No. 4 Yellow . . . 2.00 I 1.86 I

 

The corn market is extremely sen—
sitive because of the frost danger
that hovers over the country these
0001 September nights and spurts of
buying show up in the option mar-
ket at frequent intervals; buyers
are son satisfied, however, by sellers
who seem to be willing to supply all
demands. The crop is progressing
rapidly toward maturity and will
soon be, practically, out of danger

and all conditions are decidedly bear— -

lab; on the other hand, the visible
supply of corn is small and holders
show no disposition to come into the
market with increased offerings. The
situation seems to be so evenly bal-
anced that no marked change in val-
ues is expected ’until all danger of
frost is past.

OATS WEAK

Oats are statistically weak but no
great change in prices is looked for
while corn continues strong; the
oats harvest is over and threshing is
progressing rapidly, yields are re-
ported to be satisfactory and the
quality all that could be desired. The

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of it in all markets during» the pas'
in

week and selling prices have decl
about seven cents per bushel since
last week’s high time. Chicago re-
ports and easy marketwith sales of
No. 2 at two cents per bushels over
September. The sales for - export
have been fairly liberal but on Sat-
urday, New York reported that en-
portera in that market were attempt-
ing to resell some of the grain that
they had purchased for exportation
but with poor success.

 

POTATOES INACTIVE

BPUDS PER OWT., SEPT 8, 1820

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

trade in oats has been very light in
volume for many weeks and bids
fair to continue so until enough of
the real grain is in sight to warrant
some sort of a forecast for the fu-
ture. The fact that all of last
year’s oat crop was exhausted, be—
fore the advent in the market of new
oats, must be reckoned with by those
who attempt to read the future in
connection with this important crop.
As time goes on, feeders are becom-
ing more and more friendly to the

oat crop as a milk producer, in con-.

nection with diary operations and to
take the place of milk for young an-
imals, making it certain that any
drop in current quotations will be
followed by an increased demand
from the farmers themselves.

 

NO DEMAND FOR BEANS

BEAN PRIOES PER.0WT_. GEPT. I, 1920

Grade ~ IDou-olt 10mm! N. v.

c. H. P. . . . .  0.00 [1.00 7.50
Red Kidneys  {15.50 17.50

PRIOEB on: vun A00

w. low-on [chimp I. V.
c; H. P. 
Prlmc ..........
Red «mm 
President W. J. Orr of the Michi-
gan Bean Company predicts lower av—
erage quality than last year for this
year's been crop and .conslderably
lower prices. He reports a sharp
falling off in the demand and does
not. look for any permanent improve-
ment until the business of the coun-
try has returned, permanently, to
pro-war condition. No change in
quotations is noted since our last is-
sue. Present weather conditions are
ideal for maturing and harvesting
the crop and in 30 days we will be
able to speak more authors/Lively on
the situation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Rye has had rather a quiet time

 

 

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WASHINGTON, D. 0., Sept. 11,
1920. -— Warm wave will reach Vau-
couver 13,. 0... about Sept. 13 and tem-

raturea will rise on all the northem

aclfic slope and northern rookies.
Proceedins southeast it will cross mer-

    
    
    
 

will warm up.
Alleganies near Sept. 17 and in
wave and cool wave will folow as
usual. While this warm wave near
gigolo a cooliwave is erpected A1-

A t combination of planetary
wear-@8191 include Mars. Jupiter.
«turn!a us. Earth. Venus and
n expected near Sept 11 that
cause sudden changes,

ratures, severe, storms, followed
filing frosts in northern arts,
our northern tier of Les
ddle provinces of Canada.
have been published of that
In; roam period. .

  
   
 

   
  

  

 
  
   
  
  
 

    
  
 

 

   

  
  
 
 

 
     

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

 

idian 90 near St. Louis about Sept'

A hurricane is expected in the Car-
ibbean Sea and Gulf ofMexlco dur-
ini the week centering on Sept. 14.
bu I cannot rive much information
about it. More definite information
[bout thcso'terrible storms is possible,
Weather pro lems to look after., I
am hopln at I may get assistance
in more oro y working out the hur-
ricanes, tom 008 and cold waves. My
time is all taken up with temperature“
frosts, rains and wows. But when
my recently t improvements in
weather foueuting gets before the
public me. be someone who has the
means wil come to my old and give
my.dlsooveries to the whole human
race. My new system of weather
forecasth will work in any country
on Earth where they have records of
past weather. I um not able to give
these greatest of all discoveries to the
world. I have liven forty years' work
to this great cause and have not ac-
cumulated support for old age except
that my knowledge of the weather will
give support. I offer this knowledge
to our race but I cannot give it away
and I am thoroly satisfitd that these
discoveries will not again be made
within twenty-five years.

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new on pmcas. sud can. a. 1920  - - - - - - - - - - - -  2-3:
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no. 4 WM: .... 3:” “5‘ ' unless one YEAR Aao
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‘Standard  .15 |_ .70” .33 New York . . . . . . . . . . . ..
No. a wmu  .14 I -10 .31
No. 4 White  .73 .00 The Detroit market has shown

very little activity of late in connec-
tion with potatoes and quotation.
can be regarded as only nominal.
What little demand there is comes
from hotels, restaurants and grocen
ies buying to provide for their daily
needs. No buying for winter use In.
as yet developed and is not expected
for some weeks to come; housewivcl
have learned from bitter experience
the folly of putting potatoes in col-
lar too early in the‘fall and they do-
cllne to make large purchases until
the advent of cooler weather.

HAY FIR-M

 

 

I‘ No. 1 Tlm.I Stan. Tlm.I No. 211m.
Detroit . .I31.00@82I80.00@31I29.00@96
Chicago . . Ia1.oo @ 39I 35,00 0 80

New York I45.00@47I 41.00@48
Pletshurg . [38.50 @38I38.50@86I83.00QM
I No.1 I No.1 I No.1
Inght Illx. Clover Mix. l Clover
Omit. . . I80.00@81 29.00 930 28.00@2.
chicago . . I 85.00 @ 86
New York I41.00@04 35.00@40
Finalsng . I33.” 634

HAY eggs: A vznnlgo
I No. 1 Tim.I Stun. 'l'lrnfiflc. 211m.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Light Mix. IOlovcr llllx. l Glover

 

 

 

 

 

’Plttsburg . I

Very little change in connection
with the hay market has been noted
since the last issue of this paper and
there is very little information avail-

able concerning the probable futufl »

of the trade. Both new and old hey
are coming to market very slowly
these days and in many localities,
consumers are having a. hard time to
secure the hay they require for cur»
rent feeding purposes. Western
markets report small supplies of :1-
falfa on hand and small daily arriv-
als. Reports from Canada indicate
a much smaller crop than last year
and an extremely active demand.
both locally and on foreign account.
In estimating the demand for hay
during the coming year, the decrease

* -- in the amount of live stock on the

farms of the country, must. be un-
en into consideration.

 

LIVESTOCK MARKETS
By B. H. Muck

Last week was a quiet one in live
stock marketing circles, the loading
feature, in connection with current
demand. being an increased inquiry
for all of the better grades of butch-
ers stock and an almost complete ne'-
glcct of the common kinds. In the
cattle division, prime, long-fed steam
sold strong and higher with an 18-
dollar top for yearling:- in Chicago
and the highest prices of the mm
for heavy cattle of exceptional finish
and rare quality. Killers are missing
the distillery steers and the
gross—fed westerns ' that formerly
came to market during this season
of the you hence the active compo-
tltlon for the few prime cattle that
do show up.

._ » mm points report. sharply low- ‘
beef and a. dull trade at the decline

the markets referred to also re ‘

so!

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‘ ' ‘f in all. ,of'its forms. With an
upeclally' active inquiry for carcass-
. of yearling cattle. . -

The demand in Chicago last week

. fir all grades of butchers cattle was

led.

.manvd for natives.

decidedly dull and from the opening
on Monday to the close , Saturday
night, prices worked gradually low-
er with a verybad ending caused by
a desire on the part of dealers to
make a clean-up before the advent

a double‘hollday. Last week’s

line in Chicago, on all kinds of ~

attic except choice corn-fed animals,
ranged unevenly from 50 cents to $1
per cwt. Choice heavy steers and
yearlings were from 25 to 50 cents
cwt. higher than the average of
week before. Stockers and feed-
were dull all last week at prices
cm 50 to 75 cents per cwt. lower
than the average of the week before.
The supply of stockers and feeding
cattle on sale included a complete
assortment and some very desirable
animals but lack of demand made it
inpossible to make a clearance and
the market went over the week—end
with’more left over in the feeding de-
rtment than on any preceding week
is year.
-Sheep and Lamb Trade V
Last week’s sheep and lamb mar—
ket developed about the same symp—
toms that dominated the trade in the
cattle department and values for
butcher kinds show a material
shrinkage for the week’s trading per-
:Mature sheep and yearlings
have been unexpectedly dull during
the past six days and the outlook for
this kind is not encouraging at this
writing. Native ewes, that sold early
in the week in Chicago for $7.50,
dropped to $6.75 on the close. Native
lambs took a tumble of $1 to $1.50
per cwt. and western lambs showed
a lower scale of prices in sympathy
with lower prices and a limited de-
Feeding lambs
were active all the week, values not
being affected by the drop in prices
aidfor fat lambs. The wool mar-
et still, remains dull and stagnant,
dealers reporting an increased in-
quiry but no material increase in the
volume of current wool sales.
Pork Products and Live Hogs
Last week's Chicago hog arrivals
were less than 100,000, the smallest
showing for any weekly period since
the strike, last spring. The live hog
market is giving unmistakable signs
of chronic “nervousness” of late and
wide fluctuations in this department
may be confidently looked for dur—
ing the next 30 days. Unless re-
ceipts of live hogs become more ample
prices will soon begin to harden and
the opportunity to buy cheap pork
will have passed until December.
Shippers were in the Chicago mar-
ket for yorkers and light medium
weights and prices for these kinds
advanced sharply on Friday and held
the gain to the close of the week’s
business. ~ Pigs were extremely
scarce all around the market circle
and they scored a sharp upturn in
value. 'Last week’s general average
price in Chicago was 25 cents lower
than the top for the week but 50
cents higher than last week’s aver-
age, $3.45 lower than for the cor-
responding week last year and $4.25
lower than two years ago. The

 spculative market in provisions has

 "fine load ofrhigh—grade lambs
* finality in the Detroit sheep yards,

exhibited a much healthier tone of
late and there has been a moderate
increase in,the value of, all of the
leading specialties.

For the most part, Detroit had a
dull week in connection with the
live stock trade; the chief cause of
the chronic dullness, that seems to
have settled down on the local mar-
ket; has been the extreme low qual—
ity at recent arrivals in all depart-
ments of the trade. The in-between
cattle that have been coming to De-
troit of late are just the kind for
which killers have no possible use.
Seventy-six carioads of stock came
to hand in the local market for last
monday’s opening trade and not
more than four or five cars of this
exhibit showed fair average killing

duality. The calf trade was fairly
 active with the best

_ selling for
$19.50 per cwt. -

With the exception of one extra
the

was  extremely com-

  

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- ch c lain

, :sho’wins. . .
showing up, locally those days and.

    

brought $14.

 

  

tart Mf‘Ml’i poor

ate at  ' ,
1 Very new, 'geod hogs are

 

the trade in this department is of
comparatively small importance.

SOMETHING ABOUT OUR SCHOOLS
(Continued from page 7)

be useful and practiable—not shoot
over the children’s heads and needs.
A great deal of what is termed edu-
cation, we fear, is too artificial, too
bookish to be of much value. Many
a high school graduate leaves the
school feeling above ordinary plod-
ding work, yet unfitted for any def-
inite undertaking requiring special
skill or training. The'country dis—
tricts do not profit by a system of
education that causes boys and girls
to look down upon honest toil. We
need a healthy, sturdy type of train-
ing that elevates the dignity of labor
with the soil, and helps to make
country .iiving more tolerable and
desirable. With all their short-com-
ings the rural schoolshave succeed-
ed in producing a pretty virile type
of new world citizens. Also, health
and education need go hand in hand.
Too often through over study, over-
work, or lack- of proper ventilation
in the school room, good health and
education are forced apart just
when they ought to be firmly united.

We would not close without men-
tioning the value in the schools of
the Bible—that great heritage of the
nations, especially of English—speak-
ing people. We see no valid reason

ROWE

 

F. D. L. ROLFE, Route 6, Mason,
Michigan, is not a happy man to-

“ day it is not our fault, because he '

is jingling a $50 gold prices in his
jeans, which he received as first prize
in our Gold Contest which closed
September first. He sent in a total
of 86 new trial subscribers, to the
first of the year for a quarter, (250)
and lead J. E. Yager, Caro, the win—
ner of the second prize, ($25) by
only one subscription. The third
prize, $10 in gold, goes to F. G. Hem-
inger, Otter Lake, Mich., who was in
first place earlier in the contest, but
had to bow to the leaders when it
closed. -

The three consolation prizes, of $5
each, go to F. G. Milliman, Scotts;
D. A. Ackerman, Mt. Plesant and J.
’W. Clark of Osseo, all of whom made
a game fight and helped to put the
BUSINESS FARMER into the hands of
a good many farmers who have not
had it before.

Taken all in all it was a most suc-
cessful contest, all the way through
even if the men and women who were
entered were busy on their farms
and with manifold duties confront-
ing them, they entered into the spirit
of it and made it close with a rous-
ing cheer.

Another Contest to Close October 31

To keep the interest up among our
readers who have always stood ready
to help and keep new friends com-
ing to M. B. F., we announce a new
Gold Contest with just double the
prize money, to close October 31,
1920, with the following prizes:

Grand Prize, $100 in Gold.

Second Prize, $50 in Gold.

Third Prize, $25 in Gold.

Fourth prize, $10 in Gold.

'l‘hree consolation prizes of a five
dollar gold piece each.

_I_____.——l__k'"‘—____’_‘"'7

MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER,
MT. CLEMENS, MICE.

I want to join in the Second Gold Contest, which closes Octob- I
It is not to cost m me a penny and I am to have as I
good a chance as anyone to win the $100 Grand Gold Prize. Send |

me a receipt book, samples, etc.

 I00....I.‘..‘..-I.-.II—..-.O~IIO.‘IOOO...DIIR. E. D.-  o n o a n.

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' vere losses to be sustained by ignor-

0F MASON WINS GRAND
PRIZE IN FIRST GOLD CONTEST

Second Gold Contest, Closing October 31th., has Double Prizes,
$100 in Gold for First and $100 in Gold
for Next Six Winners!

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"-"v‘vliy the Biblevjcannot be  ever! 

day in school "without sectarian-me
ed comment or explanatiOn. We see
many advantages to be gained by us-
ing the Bible properly, and many so—

ing it. Keen students of humanity
know that simply to give a young
man or a young woman a good tech-
nical training is not sufi‘icient to in-
sure that person’s happiness or suc-
cess in life. Young people must be
given instruction that will make
them a useful part of society, and
that will cause them to safe-guard
the rights and privileges of others.
Unselfishness is a thread of gold that
will knit our Republic together as
our law-makers can never hope to
do. We feel safe in saying that most
of us realize that our country owes
much of its strength and greatness
to its citizens moral integrity and
firm adherence to righteous princi-
ples. A good system of education is
one that stresses these truths. For
this really essential part of educa-
tion what better qualified text book
can possibly be secured than the
Bible?

Just as our fore—fathers struggled
and sacrificed that our country might
be established among the nations of
the earth, so must be continue nobly
to strive that our Republic may con-
tinue safe under the hand of God,
and escape the ever—present rocks
that have wrecked many a great na-
tion before us.———A. F. L., Mtchfield,

M tch.

There are no special rules for this
friendly contest, except:

1.——The contestant or some mem-
ber of his or her family must be a
subscriber to M. B. F.

2":-——No professional canvassers,
nor any one or member of the fam—
ily of anyone employed by this com-
pany can compete.

3.———Subscriptions to count, must
be fully paid and post—marked not

later than October 30th, 1920, at
midnight.
All Kinds of Subscriptions Will

Count

In the contest just closed we count-
e-d only new trial subscriptions but
to make it fair to all, wherever they
are working, we announce the fol-
lowing schedule of credits on which
the prizes will be awarded.

1 25c Trial 6 months subscription
counts (1).

1 $1 One Year renewal subscrip-
tion counts (1).

1 $1 One Year NEW subscription
counts (2).

1 $2 Three Year renewal subscrip-
tion counts (2).

1 $3 Five Year renewal subscrip-
tion counts (2).

Contestants are asked to mail in
what names and remit what amount
they have collected through the week
on Saturday and we will in turn send
out a bulletin each week stating ex~
actly where each person whose name
is entered stands. This will keep
you posted on how near you are to
the $100 Gold Prize money.

We make it easier for those who
send in their names by sending ro-
cerlpt books, samples, etc. You’ll be as
surprised as Mr. Rolfe, who walked
off with the $50 in gold, when he
had sent us only $21.60 in subscrip-
tions,—— how easy it is to win in a
Business Farmer contest.

   
 

   
  
 

Aspirin"

Name “Bayer” means genuine
Say “Bayer”—lnsistl

 

Say "Bayer" when

Tablets of Aspirin”——genninc
proved safe by millions and AL!
physicians for over twenty yous.
cept, only an unbroken “Bayer
which contains proper directions
Headache, Toothache, Blanche, 
Rheumatism, Colds and Pain. ‘ "
boxes of 12 tablets cost iew'ceffluq
gists also sell larger “Bayer packages.
Aspirin iv: trnnie mwn': m“ porn-r Manufaeo—
'1

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The. West Michigan
State Fair

Is the largest Agricultural m
‘sition in Michigan because it
fers the largest premiums
does everything possible to CI»
courage agricultural com
Be sure to see the W

Farm Products and Itha-

] I]. by.

“the

 

GRAND RAPIDS, man.
Pro-War Admission
7A.M.t05P.M. so:
5P.M.o011P.M. “I

50c
25c

 

 

 

 

 

99 SHOE BARGAINS .

Here is one of ninety-nine real burnt:
in the A (and

Rambler Catalog
comfth I. I I
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RAMBLER SH" 00 . Dept. 080. I- Y
N: LEE
shoes. I will Damn $4.88 on
are not In 17 I can
you will return money. inch:
Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ' . . . . .
Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Silt. .

 

 

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

CULOTTA & JULL
‘ DETROIT .

Not connected with any our

‘ house on this market. ‘ '  .

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; iounded by prosperous settlers.
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' EXGIMN‘GE  - .

 OENTEPER WORD, PER ISSUE.
‘5 .20 words or less. $1 per Issue,
cash with order, or 10 her word when
’chsrged. Oount‘ as one word each Initial
and each group of figures. both In body
‘of ad. and In address. Copy must be In
our hands Saturday for Issue .dsted fol-
lowing week. The Business Farmer, Adv.
Dept., Mt. Clemens, Mich.

 

     
    
 
 

    
   
 

   
  
 

  
 

   
 

deems & mean

220 AORES $8,500, WITH 40 CATTLE,
horses. crops, tools. Equipment worth $0.000.
improved road. mile RR station; machine‘work-

fields. RIO-cow brook-watered pasture,.1,0(l)0
cords wood, 100,000 ft. timber, lots fruit; 1~-
room house, running water; 80-ft basement
running water; immediate sale includes
livestock, wagons, machinery. tools, lot growmg
38.500, easy terms. Details this
and smaller farm for $2,700 page 22 Strouts

 

' Big Illustrated Catalog Farm Bargains 83 states.

STROUT FARM AGENCY. 814 BE,

 

FOR SALE—4,000 ACRES IN TRACTS To
suit. Presque Isle County. Heavy clay loam
soil in lime stone belt. Nothing better. Sur-
First class mar-

 

rice $15 an acre on easy firms. JOHN
G. KRAUTH. Mlllersburg, Mich.
120. 178 OR 181 ACRES: EXCELLENT

improvement , easy terms, immediate possession,
{gckifitolol if desired. GLEN PINCH, ston Rap-
. c .

IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A FARM
home do not fail to send for our list of farm
bargains, and then come and see our wonderful
country, and our growing crops will convince

you that Osceola. County cannot be beat. Three .,

small fruit farms at a special low price. CAL-
LAGHAN Av. OARROW LAND 00., Reed City.
Michigan.

 

FOR SALE—A N0 1 FARM, WITH BEST
of buildings and orchard. 120 acres, one mlle
from Dixie Highway, station, church and schooL
R. \V. ANDERSON, Clarkston, Mich.

 

80 ACRES FOR SALE. GOOD _ HOUSE.
barn, silo, hen house, fences, young orchard,
artly cleared, $3,500. ARCHIE DODGE,
entley, Mich.

 

100 ACRES EXCELLENT FARM. $12,500.
Must sell, sickness and old age. Write GEORGE
BAKER, Shepherd, Mich, R1, Box 72.

 

FOR SALE—44 A. ABOUT 40 A. CLEARED.
No. 1 soil, No. 1 basement barn, good house.
good henhouse, good granary, young orchard, good
well and trout stream. 1 mile from East Michi—
gan Pike, 8 miles from good live town. Price
$7.5 an acre PAUL SIEGRIST, Whittemore,
Mich.. Iosco County. -

 

160 ACRE FARM. 90 A. IMPROVED, 20 A.
timber. Good buildings, windmill and orchard,
no house; near railroad, markets and schools.
Low price, cash or part payment and easy terms.
M‘. A. ’I‘OMLINSON, It 2, Port Austin, Mich.

 

WANTED—SMALL FRUIT FARM. WEST-
ern Mich, near railroad. Address “0" mm M.
B. F., Mt. Clemens, Mich.

mISCELLANEOm

BUY FENCE POSTS DIRECT FROM FOR-
sst. All kinds. Delivered prices. Address "M.
M." flare Michigan Business Farming, Mt. Clem-
ens, 1c 1.

 

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FOR SALE—100 BUS. ROSE" RYE CLEAN-
ed and free from filth. Price $2. ROY
CAMPBELL, Hudson. Mich, R 4.

 

-FOR SALE—RED ROOK WHEAT. OERTI-
..ed by state class one. Also 0 Boson Rye in
Oakland County. number 2018 and Timothy
seed. R. W. ANDERSON. Christen, Mich.

 

FOR BALE—ONE 12 H. P. ADVANCE
steam engine in good running order, at s ber-
gain price, Address JOHN BRENNER, Green-
ville, Mich, R 3.

 

FOR SALE—SWISS TOGGENRURG GOAT
and 2 kids two weeks old. 46 GRAND AVE_,
Mt. Clemens. Mich.

 

FOR SALE—WATERLOO TRACTOR WITH
three bottom plow. International silo filler, B-
L-K two unit mill-(er, forty Star Cow Stalls with
steel mangers and water bowls. LORENZ BROS,
East Lansing, Mich.

 

'FOR SALE—WINTER SAND VETOH. TEBT
amount 98. 25 per lb. JOHN OGREN, It 2.
liox 123. Manistee, Mich.

 

FOR SALE—1244 WATERLOO ROY TRACT-
or. Good condition. L. C. SALOU, Northville,
Micli., R 2, Box 77.

 

OORN HARVESTER. ONE MAN, ONE
horse, one row, self gathering. Equals corn
binder. Sold direct to farmers for twenty-three

years. Only $28. with fodder binder. Shipped
by express to every state. Free catalog showing
pictures of harvester. PROCESS CORN HAR-
VESTER 00.. Selina, Kansas.

 

Is Your Farm For Sale?

Write out a plain description and
figure 50 for each word, initial or
group of figures. Send it in for one,
two or three times. There's no cheap-
er or better way of selling a farm in
Michigan and you deal direct with

_ the buyer. No agents or commissions.

If you want to sell or trade your

farm, send in your ad. today. Don’t
Business
-iFarmers’ Exchange gets results. Ad-
m'dress The Michigan Business Farm-
"en-Adv. Dept.,~Mt; idleness- _.  i

just talk about it. Our

 

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thls department. We are herevtoserve you. All Inquiries must be; sooompsnled‘ by full name and address.

 

  
 
  
 
 
   

  

 

 

ulnu  requests“ vol“ Iifiormstionil {chm
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MARL DEPOSITS

I'd be very' glad for information on the
subject of marl deposits. I have one
that has been analyzed from 95 to 98
per cent. and as I am sick and unable
to look after the business end of it I’d
like to sell my interwt. I am told that
it is a rich deposit. Is it sold by the
sore? If so what is such worth per
acre?—M. L.. Niles, Michigan,

There are two ways in which marl
may be commercially utilized; one
is in the manufacture of Portland
cement and the other is for agricul-
tural use as a substitute for ground
limestone on acid soils.

The use of marl in the manufact-
ure of Portland cement has not been
generally successful, although there
are still a few plants operating suc-
cessfully with this material, the ma-
jority of those that started out to
use this material have either sus-
pended operations entirely or have
substituted limestone for the marl.

As a substitute for ground lime-
stone for application to acid soils,
marl has been used very successful-
ly. In a few places in the statebeds
have been opened up on a commer-
cial scale but the experience has

been that it does not pay to ship this

material over any great distance. As
marl naturally exists in nature, it
contains a. large amount of water,
this often amounts to 50 per cent or
more; before the marl can be eco-
nomically transported by rail, the
water must be eliminated and this
operation is usually expensive. It is
doubtful if any method will be found
whereby the water can be taken
out of the marl as cheaply as lime-
stone can be ground and for this
reason, it seems improbable at this
time that marl can ever compete
with ground limestone for long dis-
tant shipping. Consequently, the
outlet for marl for use on farms is
a. local proposition and should be
taken by the farmers Who are with-
in hauling distance of the deposit.
The price which is usually paid for
marl is 500 to $1.25 a load depend-
ing upon the conditions under which
it is obtained. In some localities the
farmers load their own wagons and
in other localities the marl is exca-
vated by the owner and loaded into
the wagon—Andrew J. Patten, Chem-
ical Section, Experiment Station, M.
A. 0.

COWS KILLED BY CARS

I had two valuable cowe killed on the
M. & N, E. R. R. the let of July. They
were appraised at $90 apiece by unm-
terested parties, The Co any manager
come to see me and oflere to settle for
half. They also wrote me a. letter offer-
in me the same. Do on dvlse me to
tags it. or are they oflige to ay in
full? The road is not enced bu is on
state land—A. 8,, Fife Lake Mich.

 

If the cows were killed on the

railroad that was unfenced and not.

at depot grounds, or grounds used
for depot or loading purposes, the
railroad is liable for the full value
of the cows and this R. R. but re-
cently sent me a check fof the full
value of a cow killed although
they at first denied liability and af-
terward oflered half of the value.
The offer was refused and they then
paid in full.———W. E. Brown, legal ad.
“or.

 

SEEDING TO ALFALFA

I have a 12 acre field of sand loam
ground which is well drained. This
field has a. good crop, of oats on it now.
I WlSh to seed this field to alfalfa. Would
it be advisable to seed this field the last
of August with a nurse crop of rye?—

_H. 13., JeddO‘ Mich,

 

Under conditions which usually
prevail in Michigan. it is not advis-
able to plant alfalfa as late asthe
last of August. We would suggest
planting next spring either With rye

or other grain as a nurse crop or

without a companion crap. If ground
is fertile and has been treated with
ground limestone or marl, good stand
may be secured with a nurse crop, but
when planting alfalfa for the first
time it is usually a better practice
to prepare a firm, well—worked seed
bed' and seed without a companion
crop .in May or early June. Spring

  

 

«editingwmshsocpre an, ample sup wide

ply of rainfall are usually most do-
pendable. » -
Alfalfa planted after a cultivate
crop, such as corn, beans, beets or
potatoes, usually makes a better
start, if free of weeds, and will last
longer than when planted after cats
or small grains. Seed fromlthe north-

west, particularly the Grimm variety,‘

is best for planting in Michigan.—
J. F. Corr, Professor of Farm Crops,
M. A. 0.

RECEIVES AMOUNT OF LAND
NAlIrIED IN CONTRACT"

A bu s a 100 acre farm from B on a
contrac , A road divides the farm, the
contract calls for 48 acres on one side
of the road and it only measures up 42
acres. Does the term 100 acres more or
lees cover a loss of six acres? If it does
not, how would A go about it to recover
the loss? And can A get the taxes
changed from 100 acres to 94 acres?—
A Subscriber, New Haven, Mich.

 

If the contract in proper form
calls for 48 acres of land the vedor
must deliver 48 acres of land or re—
pay the dli‘ference. A more or less
clause would not apply to so large a
difference unless it is clearly intend-
ed to be so from the wording of the
document. If it assessed as "100
acres at an apparent valuation per
acre, the supervisor should reduce
the acreage and valuation and if he
does not, then apply to the board
of review, who will undoubtedly do
so. The remedy would be on a suit
for breach of contract to convey
title to 100 acres when only the ex-
act number of acres you find was
conveyed in a deed. The details
should be left to your attorney if a.
voluntary adjustment can not be
made between you.—-W. E..Brown, le.
gal editor.

 

RENTING' ON HALVES

Would you please state what you
would consider fair for both the tenant
and landlord to furnish when renting on
halves. The farm is an ordinary. until-
ed, general farm, raising grain, ome
cattle and maintaining a. flock of rom
40 to 60 ewes. Would you consider it
the tenant's place to market all crops
without any compensation? I consider
nothing fair unless it is fair to both,—
A subscriber. '

If nothing was said in the lease
about marketing and was the usual
way in that locality I would consid-
er it a part of the duty of the tenant
to do that work as much as it would
be his duty to harvest the crops, or
husk the com. I should consider it
a part of his work for which he is
paid in the half he receives:—
W. E. Brown, legal editor.

          
 
 

CAN SELL STREETS AS  "
We have in our township a. tract at
land that Was platted about 68 Fm
ago, and was recorded, would this ,.
become outlawed? Part of plot is in
city. Streets are opened and houses
built on all the lots, In township there.
are about 12 houses built on plat but no
streets are opened. This plat has streets
from No. 7 to‘No. 14. No. 7 and-8 are
0 so. This property has changed ban
9. out six times and the'last owner
now selling the streets for lots. On to!
roll. and his deed is only mentioned ms
of plat and number of lot and when
sells lots they are sold gy lot numb
and name of plat, Has he got a righ
£21 siell streets for lots?—G. L. Monroe.
0 .

 

Formerly one could gain title to
streets or parts of streets by adverse
possession the same as he could no-
quire title to' private property I)
adverse possession, Even thou
platted if one gains title by adverse
possession for the time required by
the law and by all the proof requir-
ed by the law then he becomes the
absolute owner and may sell the
same ‘as . any . other property's-4
W. E. Brown, legal editor. ’ '

MAINTAINING COUNTY ’AGEN'!

Has the Board of Supervisors the pow-
er, to appropriate money to maintain
County Agent or Farm Bureau?——W.
E, Frederick, Mich.

We call your attention to Act 81!
P. A. of 1919 which grants to
Board of Supervisors of the various
counties, authority to raise a tax for
this purpose and to appoint an Afi
‘rlcultural County Agent. 19.130 0

 

your attention to Act 200 P. A. of

1919 which appropriates the sum
$3,000 for the years 1919 and 192
for the Michigan Farm Bureau. No

, part, of this appropriation is howem

used for the purpose of paying the
County Agent in those counties where
such agents have been appointed.
0. B. Fuller, Auditor General, Lmu'
ing, Mich.

 

TENANTls SHARE OF EXPENSE:

Where land owner furnishes all 5
tools, feed, etc., what share of expe
such as repair on tools, fences thr
bill, etc. should tenant pay and w
share 0 increase of stock of crops
milk and chickens. should tenant havef—o
A Subscriber, Fowler, Mich.

,There is no law or custom to de-
termine what either shall pay. It in
a subject for agreement between the
parties at the time the bargain
made. If not in writing then it '
to be established the same as any
fact in dispute between parties by
the best evidence each can obtainr-s
W. E. Brown, legal editor. ‘

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MONEY RETURNED

Regarding our account with Sears,
Roebuck & Co., which you helped us to
settle, check came July 27 and wish
to thank you very kindly. Opposite
side is the letter they wrote me after
you wrote them,—-—T. Harbor Beach.

'We find that it is necessary to can-
cel your order on account of the diffi-
culty in getting the railroads to accept
it for shipment. A check for the amount
you sent us will be mailed you within a
day or two—Sears, Roebuck and Co.

 

SUBSCRIBER RECEIVES CHECK

In last week's issue of M B. F. I
read an account of how you succeeded
in getting mone for one of our read-
ers from the arewell Co., 0 Philadel-

hia. Now I have had the same e r-
fence with this company, I order a
skirt from them in. A ti] and when it
came it was too tigh, so on Mfy 9th
I mailed it back to them b neured
areal post. I have written hem two

otters about it and can get no answer.
I paid $4.35 for theskirt—Mrs. F. N
Riverdale. Mich, July 12th.

We wrote this company twice but
received no reply and was preparing
to write again when we received the
following let-tor from‘our subscrib-
61‘:

Received my check from the Ware-
well Co _ on August 4th, They did not
write one word simply sent check‘ for

84.85. I thank you very, very much for
{for assists ce.—Mrs. T. N., River-dale.
ich..  th.

 

Gina‘s MAGAZINE A

In December I918 I sent the Hearst

Magazine four dollars for two years

subscription to begin, at that time. I

lligve failed to get a. magazine since Feb.
tn.

i. mean or.
or“! '

 
   
     
   

I have~ wr on them
they always solver. and say

 

2.0 althou h- my time is not out until ‘

they will send missing copies, but no

magazine do I get. Could you do
thing for me1—A. J. W“ Owosso,. Mi
July 12th. ‘

We wrote the Hearst Magazinb
Company regarding this complaint.
August 12th our subscriber wrote In
as follows:

I received the Hearst Magazine com.
menclng with the July number. I
tFl‘iarjik yottiaii'olr your tkindness, the M. B.

, s oer ny grea. for the farms
A. J. W.. Owosso, Mich M

 

RECEIVES COPY. OF. JOURNAL

Some time ago ‘I sent 2.96 to
Farm Journal Phl‘ladelphla‘, Pa... a;
payment for a. four year subscriptio
to the Journal'and a copy- of their boo
titled, “How torDo Things." I reoei
the book but not the Journal, I have
written them several times but get ,no
geply.—-T. H., Port Austin, Mich, July‘

We wrote the Farm Journal ask-
ing themto look this up. Some
time after writing them we wrote
Mr. T. H. asking him if he was get-
ting his magazine. He answered as
follows: ' '

In repl to your letter will gay that
I receive - my :flrst- copy of the .F‘am
Journal recently since last March. Hem,
ing it may continue with thanks for
Kong:- szesrvice.-—T. H., Port Austin. moi;

 

    
 
  

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Gartereand‘ ask your wife to
examine them. She will recog-'-
nize the superior grade-of ma-
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stand why it is that “Bostons”
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NOW. Write to

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The Best Breeders

advertise in The Michigan Bus-
Winess Farmer. It will be worth
your While to read the livestock
"ad ' tisements _. in every issue '
H in "posted, wen » what they -

  
 
  
  

 

   
 
 
 
 
  

' L538; ,, .. . ,, .36. 94
__ Bette Geo. Eldredge Co.- and
them, and see if I coul *do’ better there.
$0.1 sent them a case on April‘s and
notified them by a. letter. Up 1:? date I
haVe not received any pay or heard from
them, ' Another party around here was
fooled the same way. What can we do
'wlth such crooks?——-J. L.. Remus, Mich.

A letter was immediately dispatch-
ed to this concern asking that set-
tlement be made. at once with our
subscriber. The letter was return-
ed unopened. The correspondence
in the case was then laid before the
Detroit postofiice inspector who made
an investigation and reported as fol--
lows: ~ '

You are advised that the party re-
ferred to whose former address was
477 17th St. this city, is out of business
and left Without leaving change of ad-
dress and present whereabouts is un-
known,——-E. E. Fraser, postoflice inspect-
or.

_ Moral: A bird in the hand is worth
two in the bush. Do business with
those whom you know are reliable
and shun the alluring promises of

the stranger.

  

NEW YORK CITY COMPANY RE-
TURNS $9.95.

About the middle of December, 1919,
we sent for-a set of furs to Bellas Hess
& Co., New York City, N. Y., and re-
ceived them 0, k., but as muff was not
satisfactory we sent it back. We re-
ceived word that they got it alright and
they wanted to know if we wanted the
money back or a muff. We wrote and
told them that if they had a mud! that
was satisfactory to send it and if they
didn’t to return our money. We have
written several times but received no
word—W. F., Fostorla, Mich., July 8.

We referred this to the Bellas Hess
& 00., who advised us that their rec-
ords showed that they still owed our
subscriber money but they were un-
able to locate correspondence regard-
ing same. They stated they were writ-
ing Mr. W. F. and sending éheck.

We received a check for $9.95 from
Bellas Hess & Co. July 27, and thank
you very much—W. F., Fostoria, Mich..
July 28th, 1920.

 

CHICAGO CO. RETURNS MONEY

Early in May we sent a small order
to Phillipsborn's and immediately
ceived a part of the order. Goods
amounting to two dollars ($2) did not
come and we wrote them to that effect.
They sent us a blank to fill out, request—
ing us to get the signature of one of the
P. 0. force as proof that we had not re-
ceived the goods. We did this and have
been filling blanks and writing for our
money back ever since. Yours very
truly. W. S, K., Leonidas, Mich, Aug. 4.

This complaint was referred to
the company who advised us that a
check had been mailed to our reader
before they had received our letter.

Upon arriving home from our vacation
we found check from Philipsborn's and
your letter. We thank you. Your paper

is much appreciated in our community.
. S. K., Leonidas, Michigan, Aug. 28,

 

GOODS RETURNED IN 1917

I sent to Bellas Hess & Co., October
18, 1917 for a coat, priced $12.98, I re-
ceived the coat October 29th, but finding
it too small I returned it on November
let. I have never received my money
back. The company claims they never
received the coat—Mrs. E. K., can
Grove, Mich, Aug. 16th.

We wrote Bellas Hess & 00., re—
garding this transaction. A few days
later our subscriber received a letter
from them. They had the following
to say:

We have received a communication
from the Michigan Business Farmer re—
garding a. coat you returned to us in
November. 1917. ‘

We are sorry that We are unable tb
locate any record of receiving same and
that you have allowed such a length of
ime to elapse before taking this mat-
ter up with us.

large as ours is Unable to keep corres-
pondence for such a length of time, but
you may be sure that had the package
been received by us, we would have been
pleased to have made a satisfactory ad-
justment with you.

However, as the matter stands, we are
unable to do anything for you.

Regrettlng this unfortunate occurrenCe
we are—Bellas Hess & Co.

 

RETURNS DOG; NOW GETS HIS
” MONEY BACK

Last January I ordered a. fox hound
from the Westmlnister Kennels, Tower
Hill, Illinois. enclosing $35 with the un-
derstanding that I could return the dog
within ten days if I was not satisfied
with it and get my money back. The dag
came but was not as represented so I re-
turned it. They acknowledged receipt of
.the dog but. to date I have been unable
to get my money back—D. R,, Blaine.
Michigan. July 3rd.

We wrote the Westminister Ken-
nels but did not receive any answer.
.We wrote to our subscriber asking
him if he had heard. from them and
he advised us that he had not, so we
again wrote them but again we re—
ceived no reply. As we Were prepare
ing to carry the complaint furth’er'we

 

received the-following letter tram D.
‘Ro: I v .I ‘ . , l . .

 

  

You doubtless realize that a. firm as ‘

  
 
   

thou lit-1;..would try 

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.r ce ed a check today from. the
estrninister Kennels for=the amount due
V .i I want to thank youfor collecting
this and if you will make aecharge-I‘ will
,be glad to. pay it.—-4D. R,, Blaine, Mich,
August 20th. ‘ . '

No we do not make any charges
for this service. We are glad‘to help
our paid-up subscribers and all we
ask is that they write us as soon as
they receive word from the company
that they have entered complaint
against so that we may remove the
complaint from our files if it is set-
tled and if it is not we can again
take it up with them. We have two
complaints now against reliable com-
panies and these companies have in-
formed us that they have returned
the money but we can get no reply
from the two subscribers as to
whether they have received it or not
although we have written them sev-
eral times—Associate Editor.

 

ORDER EXGI-IAN GED

The forepart of June I sent to the
Kingsley Tire and Shoe Shop of Chicago.
111., for a. pair of repaired army shoes.
The price was $2.90, I ordered size 10
but they sent we size 8 1-2 as I return-
ed them to be exchanged. I have writ-
ten them several times but they will not
answer.——Mr. N., Good Hart. Mich.,
July 24th,

 

“"Thisicomplai'nt was forwardedt

the Kingsley Tire and Shoe,“ is-lidp;.;g
Shortly after Mr. B. N. received ay.‘

letter stating asf‘follows:

We have made a careful search of our;
records and find that these shoes Were.
received and We are today issuing an or-v
der to have other shoes shipped to take;

the place of those which did not. prove
satisfactory. This second sill pmen
should be in your hands within the no):
few days and we are sure when yru re ‘
ceive them you will have no further
cause for complaint—Kingsley Tire &
Shoe Shop. by C. W. W.

BREEDERS EXHIBIT AT " FAIRS

We are going to exhibit our herd
at Detroit, Jackson and Grand Rap-
ids fairs. Our show herd is headed
by a 1919 State Fair ribbon winner,‘
Model King Segis Glista, whose dam,
Glista Fenella, 32.37, is the highest
tested daughter of Glista Ernestine,
36.96, that wonderful dam who is the
only cow of the breed that has six
records‘above thirty pounds. She is
owned by the Cornell University.

We will be pleased to have breed-
ers or prospective breeders look us
up when they are attending the fair
at any of the above cities—Grand
River Stock Farms, Corey J. Spencer,
owner.

 

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market in less time.

nature to hogs or poultry. .

 

cessful hog raisers from New York to Cali-
fornia during the past seven years have prayed
that Milkoline helps and gamete digestion,
tending to insure perfect assimilation‘of feed.
It helps tone up the system so that hogs are
Jess subject to disease. and tactically msures
gains of 2% pounds per h per day. )

University Tested fif°§i9$§vg

while Ass’t. Prof. of Dairy Husbandry at
Missouri University conducteda scientific best
on Milkoline and found that Mllkollne fed hogs
put on more weight and showed.82.57% more
profit than hogs not fed Milkohne. W. H.
Graham a successful feeder of Middletown.
Mm, said $30 worth of Milkolme made him an
extra profitof $420. Lee Jackson of Wappingers
Falls, N. Y., says Milkoline fixed up a bunch oi!
shoots in fine style and is great for brood sows.

9 ’ . Milkoline is guaran-
can 1 Spa". teed not to rot. soul:
or mould. It will keep indefinitely In any
climate. Flies do not come near It. It is
always uliform, and is guaranteed to
you money or it docsn’t cost you anything.

Distributed b 

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Aids Digestion: fihgmi‘li‘g

FeedEverq 3'14 Ho .. A

Save feed and get your hogs ready for
' Prove at our risk that you
can save fully one third your feed, makin . it
possible to feed every third hog free by fee mg

Milkoline 53 _2_¢_: 26311015 ' '

Milkoline has a base of pasteurized and sterilized, , '
modified Buttermilk. It is guaranteed not _to con-
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Zc’a" Gallon M ‘1k°"n°'
'comes In con-
densed form, and you do the diluting on your
own farm. When fed as directed Mllkolme
mixture (one part Milkoline to 50parts water
or swill) costs only 2c 3 gallon. Full feedln
directions free. It is shipped in convenien
kegs and barrels which we supply free. The
prices are as follows: 6 gal. $7.50; 10 gal.
$12.50: 15 gal. $16.50;. 82 gal. 2.00; 65 gal.
$19.50. It pays to buy in barre lots because
you save 60¢ a gal. over the 5 gal. quantities.

30 "5' Day Guaranteed

° You are safe in ordering any
Tr'a" quantity of Milkoline today
Feed one half the shipment to your hogs an
poultry in a thirty day test. then if you
aren’t entirely satisfied return the_unused
part tens at our expense and we’ll immedi-
ately refund every cent you paid us. We
are so confident that you will find Mllkoline
the best money maker on the farm that the
S. W. Boulevard Bank of Kansas City sub-
stantiates this offer. You are the sole Judge.
Send money order. or check, _to us or our
nearest dealer and we will slup immediately.
Our booklet. “How to Hustle Heavy Hogs to
Market" will be sent free on request—your
name on a card Will do. I

Saginaw, Mich.

 

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what you raise!

YOU W'ANT THIS \VEEKLY IN YOUR MAIL BOX EVERY
SATURDAY, BECAUSE—

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—it brings you all the news of Michigan farming; never

get the best prices for

—-—it is a practical paper written by Michigan men close to
the sod, who work with their sleeves rolled up!

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the interest. of the busi

ness farmers of our home state.

no matter whom else it helps or hurts!

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005E. list the date of any live stock sale In
M‘chigan. If you are considering a sale ad-
Vlse us at once and we will claim the data
for you. Address. Live Stock Editor. in. a.

F.. Mt. Clem ens.

. 4, Belgian and Percheron H0130!—
IlzluronCE- P. Ottr‘x (‘hal‘lollo Mich "
Oct. 19, Holstolns. Michigan
B‘rlesian Ass'n, Jackson, Mich,
Oct. 26. Poland Chinus.
Iouiu. Mich.
Oct. 27, Poland (‘hinns
,Blnnchurd. Mich.
Oct. 28, Poland (‘hinns

' Holstein-
\\‘esley Illle.
Boone—Hill. Co..

(‘lvdc Fisher and

IS. It. Leonard. St. Louis, Mich.

Oct. 29, l’ulzmd (.‘hinas. Chas. Wetzel &
Sons. Ithaca, Mich.

ct. 30. Poland Chinas. Brewbakef’dz
Suns, Elsie, Mich.

Feb. 1. Poland Cbinas. Witt Bros" J38-

Icr. Mich.

 

 

LIVE STOCK AIICTIONEERS

Porter Colestock. Eaton itnpids, Mich.
. E. Bullpen, Perry, Mich.
Harry Robinson, Plymouth, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

CATTLE

H O LSTEIN-FIIIE STAN

 

 

 

 

 

What a Purebred Holstein
-. Sire Will Do when bred
to Scrubs

Resume of eight years’ experiment
Iowa Agricultural College:
"The average of all the records
made by first generation heifers, sir-
ed by a Purebred Holstein Sire,
shows an increase of 2314.5 lbs. milk
or 71 per cent in milk, and 67.15
lbs. fat, or 42 per cent in fat, at an
average age of 3 1-2 years over' the
record of their scrub dams at an av—
erage of 6 years.”

Send for free illustrated booklets.

THE HOLSTElN-FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION

295 Hudson Street
Brattloboro. Vermont

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at

     

 

 

INCREASE THE EFFICIENCY

of your
DAIRY HERD
by using a
REGISTERED HOLSTEIN SIRE

We have bulls of uII lges listed at
reasonable prices.

Also grade and purebred cows
and heifers

MICHIGAN
HOLSTEINFRIESIAN
ASSOCIATION

Old State Building Lansing. Mich.

 

 

 

 

I VERY HANDSOME AND STRAIGHT SON

of a. 21.60 in. 2 yr. old daughter of Johan
Hanger-volt] Lad. Wlmfie daughters are noted for
Individuality and performance. Born Month 25.

13l'_]()_ sired by a grandson of Bcrtjusca Pauline
3d. 34.80 lbs. butter and 585.80 lbs. In
7 days. Price $175 delivered to your station.
For extended pedigree address,
L. . KETZLER
Flint. Mich.

 

 

BABY BULLS

Grow your own next herd alto. W. 11ng
three beautiful youngsters—«straight u 3 line.
big-boned rugged fellows. They are All by
our 38 lb. senior sire. KING KORNDE
ORISKANY PONI‘IAC from splendid -
vidual dams of It. backing and tho but
of hlond lines.

Write for our sale list.

BOARDMAN FARMS
JACKSON. MIOH.

llolsteln Breeders Slnco 1906

 

 

 

OHAMPION

"Erick E KRAST LINDENWOO
7.88

Bull born March 18 ,1919.
in. Sun of u 0 61 1b.. bull, who“ mu
"oucordiu Champion (80 A. 11.90 6‘ fall, 2
whom 30 Ibo.) mm In an 18. a '11:. you on
rauglner of. Johanna. Concordh Chung): loo
here) when alto, Colantha. Johnna mp on,
39.9 A. R. . daughters. 0 lbovo 80 lbl. Ho
.4. 9. big growthy fellow, ready for heavy service
i~~2tween 2-3 and 3-4' white and nicely method.
«inarnnteed a sure‘ breeder and especially priced
:t 5200 if taken at. once. Write for pedigree.

EDWARD B. BENSON a SONS .
Hill Ores: Farms, Munoon. Mich.

 

 

MB MIIK PBOOUOER

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

A non of Manlr‘crest Application Pontiac—
I32652—from our henvyyearly-milking-good-bulr
tor-record dun will solve it.

Muplecreat Application Pontiac’s dam mode
35,103 lbs. butter in days; 1344.3 lbs. butter
Ind 23421.2 lbs. milk in 365 days.

19 in one of the greatest long distance sires.

His daughters and sons will prove it.

Write In for pedigree and prices on his, sons.

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

Pedigrees and prices on application.

R. Bruce McPherson. Howell, Mich.

 

R SALE REGISTERED HOLBTEIN BULLS
nearly ready for service from good A. R. 0.
dams, also bull calves. Wm. Grillln. Howell. Mich.

WOLVERIUE STOCK FARM REPORTS GOOD
sales from their herd. We are well placed with
the calves from our Junior Herd Sire “King Pon-
tiac Lunde Korndyke Segis” who is a. son of
"King of the Pontiacs” from a daughter of Pon-
tiuc Clothilde De K01 2nd. A few bull calves for
sale. W. Sprague, R 2. Battle Creek, Mich.

MUSOLFI' BROS.’ HOLSTEIN 

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

Musom‘ Bros., South Lyons,

 

 

Michigan

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

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

HILL CREST FARM, Ortonville.
or write
John P. Hehl.

 

 

 

 

Mich.

1 81 Griswold SL.

SOLD AOAII

Bull calf last advertised sold but have 2 more
that are mostly white. They are nice straight fel-
lows, sired by I son 0g King Ona. One is from
a 17 lb. 2 yr. old dam and the other is from a
20 lb. Jr. 3 yr. old (hm, she is by a. son of
Friend Hengerveld De Kol Butter Iloy, one of
rhe great bulls.

Mich., R 2.

JAMES HOPSON om, nwosso.
Herd Headed by Johan Pauli!" . De
Kol Lad 230554

a son of Flint Hengerveld Lad
and Johan Pauline DeKol twice
30 lb. cow and dam of Pauline
DeNijlander (Mich. Champion
two years old.)

Bull calves from dams

28 pounds.
Roy E. Fickios, Chesaning, Mich.

A murmur

TWO' REGISTERED HOLSTE‘IN HEIFERS

16 and 19 mos. old, sired by a 29 lb. and 27
lb. bull. Dam of older one a 14 lb. junior two
year old, well bred, good individuals. Also a fine
mole calf from a son of the great King of the

Detroit. Mich.

 

 

 

up to

 

 

 

 

Pontiacs. Cllf'l dam 3 lb. cow.
For partlcnkrs nddress
H. T. EVANS
Eau Claire, Mich.

 

TWO BULL OALVES

Registered Holstein-Friealan, sired by 39.87 lb.
bull end from bury producing young cows. Thou
ulna or. vary nice And will be priced chap If

bold noon.
HARRY T. TUBES. Elm“. Mich.

A OBAIIDSOII OF
KIIIO OF THE POITIAOS

that will be ready for service in September
who" own Slater has just made over 221135,
of butter on A Jr. 8 year old and who” Dun
ha mdo over 20 lbs. end we own both of
em and they are due to freshen again In
not?! will be M young bull

wen grown md n top line that could not
it. but. IIII Dun’s 1-2 ulster bu just made
we Song:

In only $150.00.
In I fully accredited Herd.
IAZLEY OTOOK FARM. Ypsilanti,

Adam ul oonupondenco to
JOllll BAILEY

319 Atkinson Ave.
DETROIT, MICEIGAX

 

Mich.

 

 

 

FELIX WI'I'I'

udnou Former.

grunge your .19. etc.
weekly

 

_ . LIVE srocx FIELDMEN
I. II. IALL.  Cattle and Sheep

......n---.uu.-.o......cana.\o.7.-..-uoo.-o....
One or the other of the above well-known experts will visit all livestock sales of
Foorhnoo in Michigan, northern Ohio and Indians. u the exclusive Field Men of line Michigan

they no both honest and competent men of standing in their lines in Michigan
end Whnmg‘t and radar ‘o'i‘lftliih "£2: “nanny tgale, making bids and pure
Write corn Duper. er oer ' ‘ rec
boy *‘ 1k exclusively In the Interests of Michigan's OWN

r
UR HERD SIR

MODELOKIIIO srais'ausu

Ills sire u 30 lb. non of Lakeside King Segln
AIbon Do K0}.

His dam, Gum Fenella. 82.37 lb.

Her darn. Ghats Ernestine, 35.96 1h.

Hn_ three nearest dams average our 33 lbs.
end his forty six nearest tested relatives average
over 80 lbs. butter In oeven days. 9 offer .ono
of hi- oona ready for service.

GRAND RIVER STOCK FARM!
Gorey J. Spencer. Owner. Eaton Rapids, Mich.

FOII SALE TWO BULL OALVES

One 10 mos. old large size, more light than
rt. Dani's record 20.2 lbs. butter, 13 near—
est dams average over 24 1-2 lbs. butter 7 days.
One 9 mos. old from an 18 lb. 8 yr. old. Six
nearest dams on sires’ side avenge 27.63 lbs.
In 7 days. .
OSCAR R. RUMSEY, Hudson. Mich.

SON OF OARNATION CHAMPION, WHO HAS

 

a 40 lb. sire, I 42 lb. dam and two 42 1b.
sisters. Born May 8, 1920 from a daughter of
5 281b. cow. Her six nearest dams average 27.5

Ibo. Nearly white. Federal tested herd.
H. L. VOEPEL. Sobewaing, Mich.

 

 

Hrnrronns

Cows with calves at side, open
or bred heifers of popular breed-
ing for sale.

Also bulls not related.

ALLEII BROTHERS

PAW PAW. MIG".

Hardy Northern Bred Hereford:

BERNARD FAIRFAX 824819 HEAD OF HERD
20 this year‘s calves for sale. 10 bulls md 10
heifers. '
JOHN MQREOOIL Hurlxvillo. Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

ANGUS
’PURE nan sunbeam.

 ANGUS CATTLE AND O.l.0.
SWan ere right Ind are priced rlght. 001'"-
Imndonco 'cited and. Inspection Invl

CARI. BARTLETT. Lawton. Mich.

 

 

 

SHORTHORN

S-HORTHORNS FROIII AR ACOREDITED HERD

grandsons and granddaughters.

Mnxwulton Jupiter 754193 heads our herd.
JOHN SCHMIDT d SON. Rood City. Mich.

.We Wish to Announce

to the farmers of Michigan that we
are now ready to supply them with
Canadian bred Shorthorn females
either straight Scotch or Scotch
topped milkers at reasonable prices.
If your community needs the serv-
ices of a high-class Shorthorn bull,
write us for our Community Club
Breeding plan. ‘

PALMER BROTHERS

 

 

 

Established In 1898 Balding. Mich.
HAT DO YOU WANT? . I represent 41
KHOPTHORN breeders. Can put you in

touch \riih best milk or beef strains. Bulls all

Iagcs. Some females. C. \V. Crum, President

Central Michigan Shorthom Association, Mc-

Brides. Michigan.

 

Shorthorns at Farmers’ Prices

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

FAIRVIEW FARM
F.' E. Boyd

Alma. Michigan

SHOBTHORIS

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

F. M. PIGGOTT A SON. Fowler, Mich.

 

 

HE VAN BUREN 00. SHORTHORN BREED-
ers' Assoriution have stock for sale, both milk
and beef breeding,
\‘Vritc the secretary.
FRANK BAILEY, Hartford.
ONLY A FEW

SHORTHURNS AT OLD PRICE.

Wm. J. BELL, Rose City, Mich.

FOR SALEs

“I

Mich.

 

LEFT

 

Clay Bred Shorthorn bull calf
{ruin a heavy producing dam.

HUBER. Gladwin. Mich.

 

uplo ,Ridge Herd of Bates Shorthorns Of-
fers for sale a man hull calf 9 mos old. Also 2

 

younger ones. E. TANSVVELL. Mason, Mich.
r Sale, Milking Shortborn Bulls from two to
Hi mo. old. llnms giving 40 and 50 lbs. per

day. Yearly records kept. Herd tuberrulin tested.
JAS. H. EWER. R 10. Battle Creek. Mich.

 

ENT COUNTY SHORTHORN BREEDERS'
Ass'n are offering bulls and heifers for sale. all

ages. Sell the scrub and buy 1 purebred.
A E RAAB, Soc’y. Oahdonla. Mich.

OR BALE—POLLED\ DURHAM BULLS AND

Oxford Down Rams.
J MGARMO. Muir. Mich.

 

HEREFORDS .
REGISTERED HEREFORD OA-TTLE

King Repeater No. 713941 heads our herd.
A gmndson of the Undefeated Grand Champion
Be eater 7th No. 386905. We have some fine
bu for sale and also some heifers bred to Re-

nter. Tony B. Fox. Proprietor.

HE MARION STOOK FARM. Marion. Mich.

MEADOW BROOK IIEIIEFOBDS

Bob Fairfax 405027 It head of herd. Regis-
ured stock. either sex. polled or horned, mostly

thy me. Come and k them over.
..EARL O. MoOARTY. lad An. niobium.

 

 

I" HIIEIOBD sinus.
know of 10 or 15 load: fancy $qu
Shorthorn and Angus steers 6 to 10 0 Ibo.
Owners anxious to IOU. Will he) buy 59.
commission. C. F. Boll. Fairlie 6. Iowa.

 

 

 

Homo and Swine

bases.
will also help you
live-stock

you. They

 

 

 

I The Most Profitable Kind -

of forming. a car load of grade dairy heifer:
from LENAWEE COUNTY’S 'hefiviest ml]! “0‘
ducon to include 3 pure bred AN U8 hull of the
most extreme beef type for combination beef on
dairy farmm‘ g.

Car lot Ihlpmentr assembled It GLENWOOD
FARM for prompt shipment.

Methods explained in SMITH’S PROFII‘ABLI
STOCK FEEDING. 400 pages Illustrated.

0E0. I. SMITH. Addison. Mich.

 

 

GUERNSEYS

 

UERNSEYS FOR SALE. 1 BULL. 8T. AUS- ‘
tell Sultan, sire Longwater Prince Charmant
(18714) 4 A. R. daughters/116 lb. m at 2 1-2

years old. Dam, Dagna. of Hillhurst (35969) A.
R. 548 lb. fat at 2 1~2 yrs. old. 1 bull calf.
mos. old of similar breeding. Also a few flno

heifers of the above bull. It will Day-you t0
Investigate. Prices and pedigree on application-
MORGAN BROS., R 1. Allegan, Mich.

REGISTERED GUERNSEYS

ORDER YOUR BULL CALF NOW
for later shipment. Let me send you I real Ded-
lgree of better breeding. ,

J. H. WILLIAMS. North Adams. Mich.

 

 

 

JERSEYS

Senior Herd Sire

 

Junior Herd Sire
Noble Sensational Lad You’ll Do’s Duchess
l ' ' Oxford 158393

“This BHEO Jrnsrrs

of capacity, type and beauty.
Let us know your wants.

HIGHLAND FARM, Shelby, Mich.
Samuel Odell. Owner. Adolph Hoeg, Mgr.

 

FOR SALE—:REOISTERED JERSEY GATI’LE.
both sex. Register of merit testing done.
J. L. CARTER, R 4, Lake Odessa, Mich.

 

MPROVE YOUR JERSEY HERD WITH ONE

of our Majesty bulls.
FRANK P. NORMINGTON, Ionia, Mich.

 

AYRSHIRES

SALE—REGISTERED AYRSHIRE
bullaFSSd bull calves. heifers and heifer cams,
Also some choice cows.

FINDLAY BROS.,

SWINE

POLAND (7H1 NA

BIG BOB MASTODON

Sire was champion of the world. his Dunn
sire was grand champion at low: State hit. Get
1 grand champion while the getting is good. Book-
ing orders now. Bred gilta are all sold. but have
10 choice full pig; sired by a Gnndson of Duly
er’s Giant, 3 boars and 7 cows. Will coll open
or bred for Sept. furrow, to BIG BOB.

0. E. OARIANT. Eaton Rapids. Mich.
POLAR!) ORIRAS

  WITH QUALITY
Nlno fall film out of litters of elem
thirties: for

 

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solo.
E. MYORANTS. St. Johns. Mloh.

BIO TYPE "'4"

O H I N A 8
. fin to ofler at present.
‘10 NIOSE 8308.. St. Charles, Blob.

 

 

a—every
breeder...

Can use M. B. R’s
Breedero’ Directory ’
to good advantage '

> What have YOU f
to offer? I _

 

 

 

 

 


  
  
      
  

     

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WALNUT ALLEY

BIG TYPE POLAND CHINA

. have never been offered in the State

 
 
  

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Sale Circuit L
Oct. 26, Wesley Hile, Tonia, Mich.

‘Oct. 27, Boone-Hill 00., Blanchard.
Oct. 28, Leonard & Fisher, St. Louis.

Oct. 29, Chas. Wetzel All: Sons, Ithaca.
Oct. 80, W. Brewbaker & Sons. Elsie.

 

These firms, members of the Cent-
ral Michigan Poland China Breeders’
Ass’n, will oflfer to the public an of-
tering of such Poland China hogs, as

before. At these sales, held at the
above‘ named places, the farmer will
find Poland China Hogs that will fit
his exact needs, to produce more pork
for the same amount of feed con-
sumed. -This is an opportunity — at
which time, these firms will sell to
the highest bidder Sows and bears of
such class as are certain to make
breeding stock of the highest merit.

Col. Harry A. Eckhardt, Dallas
City, 111., and 001. Ed. Bowers of
Ind. will do the selling. These men
are the real articles as live stock
salesmen, and it will do the breeder
and farmer of our good state and un-
told amount of good to be at these
sales, if for nothing more than edu-
cational standpoint and to get ac—
quainted. Mich. is recognized, as
never before, as a state that produc-
es as good hogs as any state in the
union. It is up to the farmer to pro-
duce hogs of better and more‘ quality.
Quality brings the top price on the
open market. ,

Write for catalogs to the above
firms or the Sec’y of the Association.
a Mr. A, D. Gregory, Ionia, Mich.,
will represent Michigan Business
Farmer as fieldman, and will take
care of all mail bids which readers of
this paper place with him. Be at the
sales in person, if possible.

Central Michigan Poland China
Breeders’ Ass’n.

E. R. LEONARD, Pres., St. Louis.
C. A. BOONE, Sec.-Troas., Blanchard

(Poland China Breeders are urged to join this
association. Write the Secretary.)

WONDERLAND HERD

ARGE TYPE P. C.
A few choice bred gilts for sale. Also fall gilts
and boars, some very good prospects of excellent
breeding. Gilts bred to ORPHAN'S SUPERIOR
he by BIG ORPHAN'S EQUAL by BIG BONE
ORPHAN y the BIG ORPHAN. Dam,
BEAUTY’S CHOICE by ORANGE BUD, by BIG
ORANGE A.

Free, livery to visitors.
Wm. J. CLARKE,
Eaton Rapids. Mich.

“Lindhurst” Poland ‘Chinas

A few choice spring boars at $40 each I! taken
by Sept. 20. \V. H. LIND, Alto, Mlch.

HERE'S SOMETHIIIG GOOD

THE LARGEST BIG TYPE P. C. IN MICH.
Get a bigger and better bred boar pig from my
herd, at a reasonable price. Come and see them.
Expenses. paid if not as represented. These boars
In serVice: L’s Big Orange, Lord Clansman
Orange Price and L’s Long Prospect. '
W E. LIVINGSTON. Parma. Mlch.

 

 

BIG TYPE PO-
lsnd Chlnas.
_ Gilts all sold.
My 1020 crops Will be sired by Giant Clzinsmnn
No. 324731, sired by Giant Clansman and Art’s
Progress No. 377041

A. D. GREGORY, Ionia, Mich.
area

l have}. line lot of spring pigs sired by Hart’s
Black _Price. a good son of Black Price, grand
champion of the world in 1918. Also have a
litter of 7' pigs, 5 sows and 2 boars, sired by
Irospect Tank, 3. son of the $40,000 Yankee,
that are sure Humdingers.

F. T. HART. St. Louis. Mlch.

BIG TYPE P. O. SOWS OF CHOICE BREED-
_ing, bred to Big Bone Bone Boulder No. 726.-
612 for Sept._ furrow. Spring pigs either sex.
Healthy and growtby. Prices reasonable.

L. W. BARNES a. SON. Byron. Midi.

BRED GILTS.
one fall boar, spring pigs both sex. and tried
lows while they last.

HOWLEY BROS., Merrill. Mlch.

OARS ALSO SOWS AND PIGS. ANYTHING

you want. Poland Chinas of the b .
We have bred them big for more Sunfish“ 32::
over 100 head on-hsnd. Also registered orch-

erons, Holoteins and Oxfords. Everylihing sold st
es. ~

  
 
  

 

-' * aim» mean... your , ,
“lirW's‘ SailorBob and out of dams by Buster

in room

herd we omit, choice pill

 

smooth Wonder 3rd, and

Priced to sel

. Boy, Long Superba.
Orange DesMoInes.

   

 

 

FARYIELL LAKE .FARM

B. T. P. C. boars and gilts by Clansman’s Image
2nd, the Outpost Orphan Superior and KingGiant.
A150 3 fall boars by Clansman’s Image. A few
tried sows all with breeding privilege. Boats in
service: Clansmsn’s Image 2nd, Smooth Wonder,
King Giant and W. B.’s Outpost. Visitors wol-

come.
W. B. RAMSDELL. Hanover. Mlch.
L s P c FOUR CHOICE SPRING AND FALL
hours left. A few extra nice gilt-
ieft bred for April farrow.

 

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W. CALDWELL & SON. Sprlnaport, Mich. ,7‘

 
 
  
 

   

, onsets: on":1 union son FROM
Breakwater breeding stock. Choice sprint 9183.
JOHN cnouENWE'r-r. Carleton. Mlch-

 

Duroc Jersey Sow: and Ollie bred for Aug. 5"“
Sept. furrow. 1.000 lb. herd boar.
J08. SCHUELLER. Weldman. Mlch- .

Dunoc Bears and Glits for sale at $25 to $50
each. .(‘rated and registered in buyer's name-

Satisfaction guaranteed. These are, big browthy

shouts. Visitors welcome.

MICHIGANA FARM LTD. Pavilion, MICh-

or Sale: Duroc Spring Bears, Sows and Gllts Of
all ages. Write us your wants

JESSE BLlss a son, Henderson, Mich.

E OFFER A FEW WELL-BRED SELECT-

_ 613 Spring Dum B M
Gflts in season. Gill guild“ bred .0“ ‘

 

W. J. HAGELSHAW. Auousta. Mlch.

 

Am Oflerina Large Type Poland Chins Bows,
bred to‘ F’s Orange at reasonable prices. Also
fall pigs. Write or call.
CLYDE FISHER. R3. St. Louis. Mlch.

 

B. T. P. C. 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. 0. See my Exhibit at Mloh.

State Fair. All stock double immune. Pub-

lic sale Oct. 28. Get your name on mailing list.
E. R. LEONARD. R 8, St. Louis, Mlch.

 

HE BEST BRED POLAND CHINA PIGS SIR-
ed by Big Bob Mastodon at the lowest price.
DeWI‘I’T C. PIER, Evart, Mlch.

 

 

DUROOS

 

  

Spring pigs by Walt’s
Orion, First Sr. Yearling
Detroit, Jackson, Gd. Rapids and Saginaw. 1919

Phillips Bros, Riga, Mich

FALL BOARS, WEIGHT
200 lbs. each. Sired by s 800 lb. boar.
Priced reasonable.

C. E. DAVIS & SON. Ashley, Mlch.

 

 

DUROC JERSEYS,

 

uroc sows end slits bred to Walt's King 82949

who has sired more prize winni pigs st the

state fairs in the last 2 years than y other Du-

roc board. Newton Barnhert. St. Johns, Mich.

EADOWVIEW FARM REG. DUROC JERSEY‘
hogs. Spring pigs for sale. ~

J. E. MORRIS. Flrmlnqton, Mlch.

PEAOH HILL FARM

Classy spring boars sired by Peach Hill Orion
King, a splendid grandson of Orion Cherry King.
Write. or better still. come sd select your own.
Priced reasonable. Inwood Bros., Romeo, Mich.

APLE LAWN FARM REG. DUROC JERSEY
swine. Saws bred to Model Cherry King 10th
for Aug. and Sept. furrow. Write me your wants.
VERN N. TOWNS, R O. Eaton Rapids. Mich.

DUROD BOAR PIG

you one on epprovaL
E. E. CALKINS, R 6.

 

 

 

 

A FEW GOOD ONES
left. Let me send

Ann Arbor, Mich.

 

urocs. Hill Crest Farms. Bred and open sows
and gilts. Boats and spring pigs. 100 head.
Farm 4 miles straight S. of Middleton, Mich,,
Gratiot Co. Newton & Blank, Perrinton, Mich.
 Spring bred sows all sold. Have
good Sept. pigs. both sex, sired by

Liberty Defender 3rd, from 001. bred dams. Gilt;

will be bred to an Orion boar for Sept. furrow.
H. G. KEESLER. Cassopolls. Mlch.

DUROC BOARS FROM 1’ R I Z E

WINNING STOCK
ready for service. Geo. B. Smith. Addi-
son. Mic .

 

 

 

AM OFFERING SON HIGH CLASS

SPRING DUROG BOARS

at reasonable prices . A few gilts bred for Sep-
tember farrow at bargain prices.

W. C. TAYLOR
Milan,

Austin Stock Farm

Ofier 4 choice spring boar pigs from
900,1b. Orion Cherry King boar and
750 lb. Mumford Boar. Double Chol—
era immuned, $30 each. Satisfaction
or money back.

Bloomingdale, Mich.
 gslzlngulDlNG SIZE AND
C. L. POWER. Jorome.VMlch.
“Ea uunoc JERSEY  

V Can furnish stock not akin. Also yearl-
lng sown. Will breed for early fall litters. Set-

Islsction guaranteed.
F. HEIMS A SON. Davlson, Mlch.

oAKLAIDS PREMIER GHIEF
Herd Boar—Reference only—~No. 129219
1919 Chicago International
4th Prize Jr. Yearling

BOOKING ORDERS FALL PIGS AT $25
BLANK ‘G POTTER

Mlch.

 

 

SPRING PIGS

 

 

I. reasonable D co, and a square d
JOHN G. BUTLER. Portland. Mlch. '

Pottervllle. Mlch.

 

4. o.I.

 ~

c. soWs FOR SALE

m: on: THE BEST HERDS m MICHIGAN

' _ Young sow due to furrow in September. Spring~ boar ready for shipment. Choice idivid-
a" uals of BIG .TYPE breeding. I ship 0. O. D..

pay express and register in buyer's name.

 

 

 

H. o. swsn'rz. Schooicraft. Mlch. MGM‘IWili'l'Olil a FORDYOE, or. Louis. Mlch.
TH AnuuALr. c. BRED sow SALI
March 13. 1920. For particulars write ' BERKSHIRES

 
 

'  s) 15,.

 0.1. o. sme—Mv' HERD oouums rue

blood lines of the most noted herd. Con tumlll

you stock at "live and let live” prices
GORDEN, DOI‘I‘. Mlch.. R 

, 'SHEEI’ 
HAMPSHIRE SHEEP,

A few good yearling rams and some ram
lambs left to oil'er. 25 ewes all ages for Sltlt‘
for fall delivery. Everything guaranteed as
represented.

CLARKE U. HAIRE, West Branch, Mich,

 

 

 

 

 

HI" OFFERING FOR FALL DELIVERY HIGH
registered Shropshire yearling ewes and
Flock established 1890.

C. LEMEN. Dexter. Mlch.

class
rains.

 

W
LARGE ENGLISH RECORDED BERKSHIRES
Bred suits and spring pigs for sale.
PRIMEVAL FARM. Osseo, Mlch.

ammonia FARM BERKSHIBES iron
profit. ChOice stock for sale. Write your

wants. W. S. Corsa. White Hall. Ill.
ARE QUALITY HOGS.

 \Vcnuod pigs of the vcr

best blood lines of the breed is our specialty. \l’.
guarantee to please or nothing stiring.
ARZA A. WEAVER, Chesanlng, Mich.,

 

 

CHESTER WHITES
ORESTER WHITES

stock at reasonable prices.
l for May furrow F

Spring Pigs in Pairs or
trios from A-i inatur'
A’so a few bred Gil‘s
. \V. Alexander. Vassar, Mich.

ome Fine Chester
1920. Will ship C.
$13.50 reg. Try one.

REGISTERED

vim. Prices right.
LYLE V. JONES, Flint, Mich., R. F. D. No. 5

Whites farrowed July 14,
O. D. when 2 mos. old for
Ralph Cosens, Levering, Mich

 

CHESTER WHITE SWINE,
either sex. Boan ready for set-

 

 

HABIPSHIRES

    
 

IT PAYS TO BUY PURE BRED SHEEP 0F
 The Sheepmim

hot the giant." mu
‘ m roux ply 9n,

‘ .  $1533” clnbeoflor and ncs_list.
, Oxfords. Shropshirel md~Polled: shines.
393‘ PARSONS. GraAndLedge.M_igh‘. R. 9

 

Put your faith in

BETTER BREEDIIIG STOOK

For the best in Shropshire and Hampshire rams
‘t or visit
maOPE-KON FARMS, 8. L. Wlnn. Prop.
Goldwater, Mlch. '
See our exhibit at the Ohio and Michigan
State Fairs.

DELAINES

Hill Crest Farms

Bl ck To 5 and American Marinas. Fifty rams
for stud oiJ farm trade. Farm 4 mi. straight
south of Middleton, Gratiot Co.

Newton & Blank, Perrinton Mich.
ELAINE RAMS, GOOD SIZE, WOOLY FEL-

' . d to move quick. Write wants to
1MITSOI'IENflc;ROINN, R 1. Blanchard, Mlch.

 

 

 

BOARS READY FOR SERVIOE

ISO 1 Bred Sow
W. A. .EASTWOOD. Chesanlng, Mlch.

HAMPSHIRES OF QUALITY.

pigs only for sale now.
JOHN W. SNYDER
St. Johns, Mlch., R 4

HAMPSHIRES OF QUALITY

Some exceptionally fine young spring boars.
They are extreme individuals, with best backs,
feet, belts and breeding. They carry the Exalt-
ed Approval and Mose Messenger strains. at
a sacrifice price. Call or write

GUS THOMAS. New Lothrop, Mlch.

 

SPRING BOAR

 

 

 

 

O. I. C.
. I. C. & CHESTER WHITE SWINE. BOOK-
Ing orders for Aug. and Sept... pigs

to be
shipped when 8-10 wk. old. Sired b th
the best boars of the breed. y me 0!

CLARE V. DORMAN, Snover, Mich.

O I O GILTS

BRED FOR. SEPTEMBER FA
Everyone guaranteed safe in dam
choice spring pigs, either sex.

F G BURGESS

Mason. Mlch., R 3
MUD-WAY-AUSH-KA FARM

offers 0. I. 0. spring pigs, also special summer
prices on breeding stock in \Vliite W'yandottes,
"‘llarrcd llocks, White Chinese Geese and White
Itunncr- Ducks. No more eggs this season.

D KE 0. MILLER, Dryden, Mlch.

 

,sfew

 

o. I.‘ C.'s——8 Choice young boars, March and
April pigs at weaning time.

DELMHE  LARGE, REGISTERED,

B & C type, both sexes,
foamiii’comEv a. son, Maple Rapids, Mich.

 

IMPROVED BLACK ro‘r DE-
  lniim Merino Rains.
FRANK ROHRABACHER, Lalngsburg, Michigan

 

ANT A SHEEP? Let American dHargpsiglll-z
hee Association send you in den y 00 e
wits lis‘i of breeders. Write COMFORT A.
TYLER, Seo’y. 10 Woodland Ave.. Detroit. Mich.

 

Fan SHnopsmnE...l‘.‘:?::l‘.E..§'lli:

1] n
XIFIISISTIRS‘INGO BROS.. R 8. FowIOI'VIIIo, Mlch.

 

«NEARLY FULL BLOODED
  Shropshire breeding owes.
Wm. LUCE, Reed City, Mich., R6

 

 é PET STOCK

OR SALE, FLEMISH GIANT RABBITS. DOES.
breeding age, $6. Three months old pair, $5.
Registered does $12 each. Stock pedigreed Qual-

t' uarantecd.
y g E HIMEBAUGH. Goldwater, Mich.

It Pays Big

to advertise livestock
or poultry in
M. B. F.’s

 

 

 

CLOVER LEAF STOCK FARM, Monroe, MIOII.

N

Breeder's Directory

 

 

 

Advertisements
rates for 13 times or longer.

POULTRY BRE’EDERS’ DIRECTORY

inserted under this heading at 30 cents I
Write out what you have to ofl‘er and send It In, we w.” put
It in type, send proof and quote rates by return mail.

per line, per issue. Special

 

Address The Michigan Business Farmer,

 

 

 

 

 

. C. BROWN LEGHORN COCKERELS, $1
each. White I’ekin Ducks, $2 each.
MRS. CLAUDIA BETTS, Hillsualo, Mlch.

ORPINGTONS AND LEGHORNS

for
Two great breeds for profit. Write today
free catalogue of hatching eggs, baby chicks and

t k.
grYegdLnEz FIAOTCHER COMPAN‘Y, 149 Phllo Bldl.

 

 

Elmira. N.
ockerels a. Hens, Leghorns, Minorcas, cam-
' pines, Reds, Rocks, Orpingtons, Wyandottes,
Brahmas. Tyrone Poultry Farm, Fenton, Mich_

 

use.

LEGHORN S

INGLE COMB BUFF LEGHORNS, EARLY
shatched Cookerels. Farm range from excel-

lent hyins stock

J. W. WEBSTER. Both, Mlch.

 

RABOWSKE'S S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS.
Young and old stock for sale.
LEO GRABOWSKE. Merrill. Mlch., R 4.

WYANDOTTE

liver, Golden and White Wyandottes. Bars-ins
in surplus yearling stock to make roam for
growing birds. Clarence Browning, R2, Portland.

HITE WYANDOTTES. COCKERELS FROM
200. egg liens or better. May and June hatch.
$5 to $8. Eggs $2 per 15 -

 

 

 

 

 

 

_  5, Mason, Michigan

. ‘ I

 

 

 

FRANK DELONG, n 3', Three Rivers. Mlch.

guaranteed.

  

Advertising Department, Mt. Clemens. Michigan. . ’
POULTRY RIIODE ISLAND REDS
. SINGLAE “coins” {ROSE—ISLAND—REFS”
  MAMMOTH ERONZE ,TURKIEYHSX; Early hatched, free range cockerels from stand-
TOUIUUSfl (“3959- “mte deb aritbred heavy winter layers. Liberal discount
dut‘ks. Either 88X, 5* 0301‘ at one" Old no on orders booked now for fall delivery.
weigh 10 pounds. h VALLEY VIEW POULTRY FARM
CHASE STOCK FARM. Mariel!“ ""c- Mt. Pleasant. Mlch., R e

 

WHITTAKER‘S RED OOOKERELS

Both combs. Special discount on early orders.
Write for price list.
INTERLAKES FARM
Lawrence,

PLYMOUTH ROCKS

ARRED ROCKS. PARKS ZOO-EGG STRAIN
cockerels which will produce fine layers next
year $3 each.

R. G. KIRBY, R 1'.

Box 4 Mlch.

 

 

East Lansing, ‘ Mlch.

LANGSHAN

BLACK LANGSHANS OF QUALITY
Bred for type and color line. 1912. Started
from pen headed by Black Bob. First prize cock
st. International show st Bufl'slo, Jan. 1912. Eggs
$3.50 per setting of 15. Winter laying strain.
DR. CHAS. W. SIMPSON. Webborviilo, Mlch.

 

 

 

 

 

HATCHIN G EGGS

FOR SALE HATOHIIIG. Enos

FROM A HEAVY LAY-
nig strain of S. 0. R. I. Reds st $2.00 per set-
ting of 15 eggs, $10.00 per 100.

Stock of excellent type and quality at all

 

es.
Satisfaction guaranteed.
F. HEIMS a. SON. stlxon. Mlch.

“08E COMB BROWN LEGHORN EGGS FOR'
sale. One fifty per fifteen eggs. — 
Flemish Giant rabbits that are giants. 
Eguimeuuga. oémum. Illicit "

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