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Total Sheep 2,893,032
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I How Committee of Seventeen Can Help Farmer-1

  
  
 
  
  

-, the Collection of that price.

(“Should Ins

. ' .‘ FARMERS’ prObl-em that isnow

being-much" discussed is grain

marketing. ,The last organiza-
tiongto taket‘his matter up is the'
American Farm Bureau Federation.
The entire matter Will be investigat-
ediby its “Committee of Seventeen.”
The recommendations of thisz'com-

mittee will he awaited with much ill-9 1
terest, and its report Willmean much -

for" the success or the
Federation. .

The organized farmer will do well
throughout all of his investigations
andin'al‘l of his ventures in the mar-
keting of grain, to remember the
fundamental thin-gs that have been
eofv'vell established in» the world’s
business, and especially to remem-
ber that it is impossible to make any
permanent progress in business ex-

failure of the

sent through greater economy 'or
through increased efficiency. ~His
success in his undertakings will be

quite accurately measured by the
nearness of his approach to this card-
inal principle of good business prac-
tice. ' .

In any case it is ”not worth while
to ccnsider'arbitrary methods. They
always were tried in vain. The result
will always be the same. It will avail
nothing for farmers, no matter how
strongltheir organization to try to
succeed by arbitrary methods. No
organization of theirs will ever be
able to collect an arbitrary price of
their own fixing, on a single product
of the farm, unless conditions justify
The ut-
most that such an organization can
ever do will be to secure the most of
economy and efficiency in the produc-
tion and distribution of the products
if the farm, and in that way increase
the income of the farmer. ’

The farmers’ organization
helps the farmer in marketing his
grain will do so through greater econ-
omy or increased efiiciency in mar-
keting and that organization will re-
tain the support of the farmer only
because it enables him to make more
money. . ,

These statements may seem harsh
to the superficial thinker but they
are cold business facts. The farm-
ers’ organization that ignores them
will do so at its peril.

That’s because the big thing in
this world is successful business. You
may not believe it. But think it over
carefully and you will easily discov-
er that you are wrong, if you don't
believe it.

Neither will it be worth while-r for
any farmers' organization to look for
sustaining support from the outside.
It is idle for the‘ farmer to expect
that the consumer is going to help
him get better prices. In business
transact-ions he is not more anxious
to help the farmer than he is to help
any one else, He has always wanted
to buy as cheap as possible. He al-
ways will. He would be foolish if
he didn’t. What he pays and what
he gets for his money are the mat-
ters. of his chief cancern. So it will
not be worth while for the American
Farm Bureau Federation ' to spend
much time on the consumer expect-
ing that he will help the farmer
market his grain at a greater profit. -

All of which is no indictment of
consumers. It is simply a recogni-
tiOn of the fact that they are pos-
sessed of the universal human tend-
encies. They are Just human like
all other folks. Were they divine

1' things might be different.

. No farmers' organization can fix

, and enforce an arbitrary price and‘

it ban not secure and retain the aid
of the consumer in ,, getting better,
prices for the farmer; ,

But there are sent! worth-while

° things that the American Farm Bu—
reap Federation can do to help the
' 'Wer market his grain with great-

  

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HE ACCOMPANYING article was published in a recent issue of
the Rosenbaum Review, a former grain trade journal, but now de-
, vomd to both agricultural and grain trade interests.
eenting it here because it presents a somewhat different viewpoint than
we have been accustomed to upon an important subject. We positively
do not ages with all the sentiments expressed. ' We think the writer is
wholly wrong in economic theory to argue against the construction of
additional storage facilities at terminal markets. Of course, he does
not favor state-ownedelevators because thepatrons of his paper con-
sist m of people who are in the elevator business. Perhaps for
the same reason he opposes further construction of terminal '
. facilities. In a later article we will discusaour reasons for behaving
H that his argument in favor of farm storage as against ten-urinal storage
In the meantime, read this article with care, keeping
In mind all the time that the author is neither a farmer nor directly
’ interested in the farming businea.—Editor

We are pre-

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er profit. These things will be a
real help to the farmer and a valued
service to the country.

All true investigations that have
ever been made have shown that the
greater part of the margin between
producer and consumer is found at
the two ends of the line of distribu-
tion. The big expense is incurred in
the first stage of collecting the prod-
ucts from the producer and in the
last stage of distributing them to the
consumer. In marketing grain the
farmer has already pretty well taken
care of any excessive expense at his
end of the line through his farmers'
elevators. He has probably reduced
the margin of expense for collecting
grain fr'b'm the producer as much as
it is possible to reduce it. There will
be a fu ther increase in the number
of far ers' elevator companies in
the country and an increase in the
volume of the business handled by
them, but on the whole the influence

'of these concerns is now so nearly
universal that there is not the possi-
bility for the great reduction in the
expense of collecting the grain that
there once was. The Farm Bureau’s
‘Committee of Seventeen will find
much difficulty in making a recom-
mendation that, if carried out, will
appreciably improve present condi-

tions of marketing grain at the
country end. This committee may
not try. It will do well to place

proper appreciation on what the
farmers have already done through

their farmers’ elevator companies
and to give full recognition to the
field which they are filling.

The other end of the line is the
consumer’s end. It is up to him t’o
look after that. If the distribution
costs which he pays are exorbitant he
can not expect the farmer to reduce
them for him. The farmer is not
going to be interested in an attempt
of that kind even tho his own or-
ganization might take the lead in
the matter. The present farmer—1a-
bor movement is an attempt to 'get
the farmer to help the laborer-con-
sumer to live cheaper with no in-
creased benefit to the farmer. There
is little chance that the tamer will
listen long to this song-of the pro-
fessional labor promoter, but it
be well for the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation to tell the farmer
the truth about the matter and call
his attention to the fact that any
venture for the benefit of the farmer
that is not a clean cut producers’
movement is of no real value to pro-
ducers.

This Committee of Seventeen will
find, if it investigates that feature of
the grain marketing business, that
there are some things that it may
well recommend for the improvement
of the present system of marketing
grain that the farmer can do himself.
In fact, the greater part of the im—
provement that can be made will be
made because of what the farmer
himself does. Although grain mar-

Grain Marketing Committee of 17 Named

HE COMMITTEE of seventeen
1 men who will outline a plan of

cooperative grain marketing for
the middle West grain growing ter-
ritory of the United States has been
appointed by J. R. Howard, Presi-
dent of the American Farm Bureau
Federation. At a grain marketing
conference of all farmers’ organiza-
tions in the United States in Chicago,
July 23rd and 24th, delegates were
solidly united on the need of a
grain marketing system which will
stabilize grain prices and take" out

, the hazard and gamble grain growers

are subject to in selling their pro-
ducts. The conference requested
President Howard to appoint this
committee to analyze the present
marketing system and map a pro—-
gram of action to submit to the con-
ference later.

This committee represents the Na-
tional Society of Equity, Farmers’
National - Grain Dealers, Farmers’
Union, National Grange and the
American Farm Bureau Federation.
The Federal government, the public

and the agricultural press are terms--
These are.
of \ the ‘

sented on the committee.
the farmers organizations
United States interested in grain
marketing, 'and all of‘them have
state and national associations. All
organizations have endorsed their

representatives. This committee was
picked from a list of 150 available
men recommended by their organ-
izations, and is supposed to repre-
sent the best agricultural brains of
the middle West on grain marketing.
J. M. Anderson, Equity Co—opera-
tive Exchange, St. Paul, Minn.; C.
A. Bingham, Farm Bureau, Lansing,
Mich. ; P. E. Donnell, Farmers' Grain
Dealers Association of Missouri,, Wa-
co, Misaouri; John L. Boles, National
Farmers’ Equity Union, Liberal,
Kansas; Wm. G. Eckhardt, Farm
Bureau, 130 N. Wells St., Chicago,
111.; C. V. Gregory, Agricultural Ed-
itors Ass’n, Chicago, 111.; C. H.‘ Gust-
afson, Farmers' Union, Lincoln, Neb.;
William leth, Missouri Farmers'
Clubs, Columbia, Mo.; C. H. Hyde,
Farmers’ Union, Alva, Okla; Dr. E.
F. Ladd, Agricultural Colleges, Far-
go, N. D.; Dr. Geo. Livingston, U. S.
Dept. of Agriculture, Bureau of Mar-
kets, Washington, D. C.; .H. . R.
Meisch, Farmers’ Nat’l Grain Deal-
ers, Argyle, Minn.; A. L. Middleton,
Farmers' Nat’l Grain Dealers, Eagle
Grove, 1a.; Ralph Snyder, Farm Bu-
reau, Oskaloosa, Kan.; L. J. Taber,
Grange, Barnesville, 0.; Clifiord
Thorns, Farmers’ Nat’l Grain Deal-
ers Association, Chicago, 111,; Dr. H.
J. Waters, Representing the Public,
Kansas City, Mo. ‘

tract Farmer in Intelligent, Systematic Marketing of His Products

ket-ing in this country is very high—
1y specialized, the farmer. up to the
present time, has contribute] less
than others-to bring this about. The
worst fault he has is his lack of- sys-
tem in marketing. He is‘utterly ig-
noring any system at all. The com-
mittee might well recommend a sys-
tem by which farmers might market,
their grainxfrom the farm. No com-
munity of farmers is ever justified-
in dumping three-fourthg/of their
year’s crop of wheat on the market
in ninety days, yet they do it when-
ever they can. 4 Deliveries to country
stations should be made more grad-
ually and if the financial conditions
are not such that farmers can fin-
ance their operations in such a way
that they can control the delivery of
their grain from the farmers then
here is an important problem for the
Farm Bureau Federation.

As to price, the farmer guesses at
that. This committee might well
recommend that the Federation sup-
ply its members with such informa-
tion as will assist the farmer in se-
curing the best price. What a farm-
er wants is a price that will make
grain raising profitable—~a price that
will pay him the cost of production
and a reasonable profit. Investiga-
tion shows that if the farmer will,
in normal times, determine his cost
of production on an average crop
and add a fair profit, including all
actual costs, and determine the price
which he should have accordingly
that there are very few years that
will not at some time during the
year enable him to get that price pro-
viding that more attention be given
by farmers to keeping a record of
the cost of production and that they
be encouraged to determine what
price will pay them a profit and to
sell at that price when they can se-
cure it. .

If the American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration can induce the farmer to
study intelligent, systematic market-
ing of grain right from his farm as
assiduously as he has studied the
matter of production and then help
to make it possible for him to ap-
ply that knowledge to his business
it will have done a wonderful thing
for the farmer and for the country.
The country needs a prosperous ag-
riculture. Contrary to the belief
of most farmers, a proper degree of
prosperity in agriculture depends al—
most entirely on the proper kind of
activity among the farmers them-
selves. The trouble lies inside and
not outside the industry—43. thing
which no farmers’ organization can
overlook in its work and permanent-g
1y succeed.

There is-a tendency among farm—
ers and their leaders that this com-
mittee will do rwell to be brave
enough to discourage. These people
think they want to get into the term-
inal elevator business and that they
should get in by building terminal
elevators of theig own or have the
state build them. My idea goes to
the point of‘bui‘lding new terminal
elevators. This is a case of the
farmer wanting something that he
ought not to have. More terminal
elevator capacity would be a detri- -
ment rather than a benefit to the
farmer. The reason is that grain
stored at market centers is a bear
factor 0.11 the market always. The
more thereis stored the more bearish,
the effect will be. When farmers get
in a mood to sell they will sell as
long as they can—until storage and,
transportation facilities are congest—
ed and the movement stopped. If
more storage facilities were provided
at market centers, and especially if
those facilities the farmer called his
own. he would be led to dump his . .
grain from the farm even more spas— .

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cpunty seat or in the largest town in
' “every county in the United States one

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Ameizlcan Library {A's's‘ociat‘ion’Plans to EstablrshMoi'e CountyLbrariesanci ..

-, . HE UNTED States Bureau .of Ed-
' ., *ucation recently compiled statis-

‘tics which show that 2,170 of the
>2,964 counties in the United‘State's

, do not contain a public library of 5,-‘
"" 000 volumes or more.

This is not
astonishing when we‘are told that
' the libraries of the county receive an
income Vof only $16,500,000 while an

adequate income would be six or
. seven times that amout. But an act-
'ive'movement is on foot for the es—

' tablishing.of county libraries thru-
out the entire country—the open-ing
up of a complete library sy_
stem to the sixty million or
more Americans who live on
farms or outside of the big
cities. 'Then’ eVery farmer
and his family, no matter
in 'how remote a place he
makes his home, how dif-
ic'ult to travel are the roads,
or 'how small his comunity
may be. can hawe books de-
livered to him at his door.

This movement is being
fostered by the American Li-
'br-ary Association which dur-
ing the war supplied more
than seven million books to

"the iren in uniform here and
overseas. In its enlarged
peacetime program the A. L.
A. Will promote, as one of,
its principal features, the es-
tablishment of county librar-
ies in every state in the
union.

This program includes the
increasing of the supply of
reading material for the
blind, the development of
better citizenship and the
giving of an adequate li—
brary to our merchant ma-
rine.

County libraries are now
operating with much success
in the few states where tried out.
CalifOrnia, Maryland and Ohio, in

' having proven to their
own satisfaction the value of such li~
braries. The circulation of all kinds
cf'books is growing rapidly among
the rural populations of these states,
and in California 42 of the 58 coun—
ties already have adopted the coun-
ty library plan.

One of our best authorities on the
subject, Dr. P. P. Claxton, United
States Commissioner of Education,
tells us that he considers “the coun-
ty library plan an important stage
in the educational development of
this country.”

“Generally speaking,” said Dr.
'Claxton recently, “the cities of the
United States are well supplied with
library facilities, but there still re-

‘mains the great problem of giving

‘the rural citizens the same opportun-
ities of contact with the world of
books as are enjoyed by his city
brother. Personally, I believe that
the inhabitants of rural districts prof-
it even more from reading than do
9those who live in'the centers of pop-
ulation. My own experience, as well
as that of other educators, has been
that country people read better books
than townsfolk; they read bet’ter
books and get more out of them.’
Now that the war is over .and
peace has come back, the American
Library Association has turned Its
efforts from war—work into other
channels, ready to give us the full
benefit of its forty years of experl:
ence and the co—operation of its
membership of 4,000 active librari—
ans in all parts of the United States.
The success which the organization
had during the war in circulating
books among our fighting men in-—
spires us with confidence for the ac-
complishment of the enlarged pro-
gram. The A. L. A. plans to. raise
a fund of two million dollars this
year to carry out the work, this mon—
ey to be obtained not by a campaign

‘,or drive, but by the librarians, li-

brary trustees and friends of librar-

The county library plan, in brief,
is as follows: _
It is proposed to establish at the

[central library, stocked with an 11p-
“.itc-date collection of books and pam—

- farmer will have

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7 - Ways to Get Books’to‘théV'FGMer 3‘.

By F. ELLISON ADAMS

phlets,"giving‘ the best and latest in-
formation on subjects of special in-
terest to farmers, and also carrying
a wide variety of reading matter of
general interest and fiction. In com-
munities of any size in the county,
branch libraries will be maintained
of similar nature. The county li—
brary will also lend books to any
number of deposit stations-in' the

Mexico ‘where libraries/are scarce,

“who traveled over ninety miles thru“
the mountains with- thirty span of

«horses and [threelumbering wagons
of provisions for the stores of the
Navajo reservation. He tried to beg
books to read by the camp fire at
night.
at the little jerk water station where

he met the freight that. brought in

Good Books are the Making of Good Men and Women.

county, so that the smallest com-
munity therein, no matter how re-
mote or inaccessible, will have a li—
brary of its own. iveries will be
made by trucks or book wagons to
country stores, toll-gates, post offices
schoolhouses, private homes, or

wherever the deposit‘stations are
maintained, and upon request new
collections will be sent out in ex-
change for the
books on hand.

In this way every

access to the en-
tire collection.
The expense of
the service is to
be met locally,
by county taxa-
tion; the rate to
be governed in
each case by the
needs of the
county—but lim-
ited to a small
assessment. In
California, the
state in which
county library
service has reach-
its fullest devel-
opment, consider-
ing the great ad—
vantages afford—
ed to the individ—
ual and to the
community, “the
small expenditure

 

be an investment
which will bring
returns that can—
not be estimated
in terms of dol-.
lars and. cents.”

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have performed
in out-~of-the—way
rural communi-
ties. .T-hey con-
stitute the big-
gest appeal we.
have. for the ex-
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the provisions, was a\small. testa—
ment, a collection of dry essays, and
‘What a Young Man Should Know.’
The station was three hundred miles
from the nearest library at Albuqueré
que, but the man’s disappointment
was so great that the telegraph op-
erator—a young woman—~wrote to
the librarian and asked her to please
send, charges collect, any old books
she had on hand
which were too
worn for further
use in the li—

diately received
two large boxes
full of dilapidat-
ed books and set
to work repair—
ing them. She
pasted in all the
loose leaves and

 

tightened eac h
book securely in
the back, then

she made covers
of cardboard
over which she
sewed pretty cre-
tonne, fastened
each cover to its
book and stencil-
ed the name in
ink on the front
cover. The next
trip the teamster
made he had a
dozen or more
books of fiction
to read. He was
much pleased and
the news spread
among some lum—
ber men, a few
miles up in the
hills, who quick-
ly came for their
share of books.
Before the oper-
ator was trans-
ferred to another
station she had
repaired three
other. large box-
es of books, and
.‘ they went like
hot cakes”.
Ini a remote
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ton ca, Ma, “between- the £6,6t»_ hills , l

of the Blue Ridge 'and the Cumber-
land mountains, “live the descend-

ants of two" families between whom ,
the~fued has been waged for several"

generations.
coming industrious, law-abiding .cit—
izens, though .tothis day, the "men,

when intOxicated, are the terror ‘of

the surrounding country. When ';the
Book Wagon first visited these peo-
ple, ,the men Were seldom at home
and the women were shy and fearful
of strangers. It,was wit-h them ‘as
with the Indians—once =a
friend, always. a friend. For,
by degrees the library visit-
or has found ‘a place in their
lives and now every door is
thrown open in friendly wel-
come on the Book Wagon’s
semi-annual visit. 'From the
beginning: one young mar-
ried woman was more re-
sponsive than any of her
neighbors.
eager for books fer.herself
and easy ones to read to her
children. One day, .after
three or four years had pass-
ed, she met the librarian
with her usual,smile and
said: “Do you know, this
Book Wag-on is one of. the
best things we folks have?
Since you’ve been, coming
around, my husband 'has
learned to read from .the
children’s books. Sometimes
I have helped him with hard
words, but now he can read
real good.” Today he isen-
,joying Zane Grey,‘ Ralph
Connor, Dillbn Wallace, Jack
London and Dr. Grenfell, .or
any books that deal with
out-of—door life.”

The following story, also
from the‘ mountains of Mary—
land gives us another view of the
question. “When the Wagon made its
first trip to the mountains about Gar-
rett’s Mill, none .Wel-comed it more
eagerly than a lad of ten years. The
the son of industrious but illiterate
parents, he possessed a natural fond-

.ness, for books and a bright, active

mind that was the joy and frequent-
ly the despair of the rural school
teacher. Up to this time he had bor-
rowed everything that cbuld be read
from the neighbors, but, as few sub-
scribed to a daily newspaper, his op-
portunities had been limited. Now,
with a wagOn load of books to choose
from, he read more than ever, day
and night, until his eyes began» to
trouble him. After several years,
school had to be given up and his
parents forbade his borrowing any
more books from the Book Wagon.
They felt that he would never again
be able to read and that his eyesight
was seriously impaired. The librar-
ian tried to persuade them to have
' ’ After a
year of waiting, many hours of which
Wilbur spent idly in a darkened
room, he was taken to an oculist and
fitted with glasses. Books were once
more taken from the Book Wagon
and the following winter the boy was
sent to H-agerstown to high school,
twenty miles away. As the library
was not far from the railroad station
all (his leisure time was spent there.
This winter he is attending another
high school nearer home where there
is no library of any kind. Recently
the library received from him a re--
quest for books that would aid him
in preparing to uphold the negative
side of the debate: ‘Resolved: That
Capital Punishment Should be Abol-
ished.” The request, legible in term.
punctuation, spelling, etc., was all
that it should be.’_’ '

It is the farmer himself who must
lend his good will for the realization
of the nation-wide, county library.
system now being promoted by the
American Library Aesociat-ion. With-
out hisco-operation nothing can be
accomplished; and as this movement

a,

port. ‘3

Gradually they are, be- .

l

She was - always .

' is entirely fob his benefit, as well‘as gfi
for» the benefit of his family, his 160m; ., f
munity and the future gen‘erations'liej",; .
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NHere iE Charles F. Marvin, the Weather Man, a Scientist and Inventor, who, the Records show,
I is Right 90 Per Cent of the Time

By JOHN ANSON FORD

HARLES IF Marvin, Chief 'of the
Weather Bureau, was “discover-
ed” by a famous Arctic' eprrer
»—not while the latter was in the

’. Northland, to be sure, but in Wash—

The story goes back
to the ’80’,s not long after young
Marvin had passed a Civil Service
examination and secured an appoint-
ment as “junior professor”—an odd
title designating a position in the
Signal Corps, which in those days
carried on weather forecasting and
related work known to science as
meteOrology. It was the famous dis-
coverer of new land north of Green—
land, Major General A. W. Greeley,
'who discerned, while head of the
Signal Corps-after his return from
the Nerth, that Marvin possessed ex-
ceptional ability in mechanical en-
gineering, He foresaw the great Ser-
vice which the young man might ren-
der to his country in the Weather
forecasting organization, and open—
ed the door of opportunity for him.
II it *

If it seems a far cry from mechan-
ical engineering-to weather forecast-
ing, let the reader remember that 85

' to 90 per cent of the daydo-day fore—

ington, D. C.

v-casts of the Weather:Bureau~.are ac—'

‘ curate and that this remarkable rec—
ord has been possible because of the
increasing skilL of the forecasters,
supplemented by one of the most ex-
traordinary collections of scientific
apparatus and instruments to be
found anywhere in the world. Among
the inventors of these meteorological
instruments Mr. Marvin stands first.

Had Mr. Marvin spent his lifein
private employment and made as

= many fundamental inventions
some chosen industry as he has while

" in government service he would have

been rewarded many times over what
UnCle Sam has paid him. When he
, became chief of the Weather Bureau
in 1913, after 29 years of service in
subordinate positions, his salary was
placed at $5,000. There it has re—
mained,‘regardless of the H. C. of L.
and his invaluable contributions to
a government service which annually
saves the farmers, through its timely
warnings, hundreds of. thousands of
dollars loss in live stock and crops; 3.
service Which also acts aslthe trust—
ed lookout f-or numberless shippers
on land and water, warning them of
approaching storm, cold or heat; a
service performing a score of diher
important tasks touching the nation’s
daily life. One of the most remark-
able facts' about the Weather Bu—

,.

for -

man is that in recent years not a

-- ; single great storm has occurred in

this country which has not been ad~
equately heralded by the govern—
ment’s forecasters.

ng. Marvin’s contributions to his
chosen science have receiVed gratify-
ing recognition in the scientific world.
'When the office of chief of the Weath-
ger Bureau became vacant in 1913,
President Wilson asked the Nation-
at Academy of Sciences to submit a
list of men it would recommend for
appointment. Mr. Marvin’ s name
was one of four submitted. His ap—
pointment as chief came as a well—
merited reward.

Farm Land and Joint Stock Banks

dol-
lars worth of Ioans have been
made to farmers of the United

. _\ States under the Federal Farm Loan

Act in the three years of its opera—
tion. 'More than one hundred thirty-
five thousand farmers have been di—
rectly benefited. In addition to this
all'farmers who borrow, no matter
of Whom they borr-,ow have received
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nd Banks operating under the
in Lean Act have provided com-
tition which the farm mortgage
ers have, had to meet and which

-dur,ing the years of 1917,
“ in the reduction 'of

  

 

 

 

  

Stock Land Banks and the Federal.

‘ vin invention. .
weighing about 1 1—2 pounds records’

- vention.

Everybody has heard of box kites,
but few know that an improved type

. of box kite which will go_up a mile

or" more was devised by Marvin and

,buitt'to carry what is called a kite

met'eorograph which also is a Mar-
This little instrument

the atmospheric pressure, tempera-
ture, the humidity, and the velocity
of the wind. . .
Large num:
bers of these
kite meteor-
graphs'are in

use by‘ the
Weather Bu-
reau. ‘ Inc i- ?
dentally, the
reeling ap—
paratus by
which each
kite’s 40,000 '
or 50,0 0 0

feet of steel
Wire that is
wound up
automatica l-
ly, 'is‘ also
Marvin’s in—

* all," 1!:

Of /prime
impo an 0 e
in studying
soil moisture
is knowledge
of the rate
at which
evaporati o 11
takes place
on the sur-
face of bod-
ies of water.
One of the
instrument 8
used in this
work is also
the product
of his brain.
Still another
Marvin invention is a
graph of. exceptional‘
which makes a continuous
ord of atmospheric pressure so
that one can tell at a glance how
much the barometer has risen and

baro-
precision
rec—

fallen during a given period, No
weather forecasting can be done
without knowledge of changes in

barometric pressures. .

A study of the clouds, their char—
acter and movements, is another im—
portant phase of the work at the
Weather Bureau. To carry it on
better, M-r. Marv-in devised a nepho-
scope by which an observer views
clouded conditions of the sky, and
by means of scales and sighting ar—
rangements, determines the motion
of clouds and their apparent velocity.

Of all, the varied services under
Marvin’s supervision, first in im—
portance is the work of the Fore~
casting Division, which receives and
charts twice daily telegraphic re—
ports of prevailing weather conditions
and issues statements of impending
weather changes In the ease of se—

loans and never can be expected to

.make the bulk of the loans on farm

,lands. ‘ However, the fact that the
Federal Farm Loan System, with
its two plans of borrowing, is in.the
field does and will serve as a. great
regulating and stabilizing influence
upon rates of interest.

But the saving in interest is only
incidental.
all, from the farmers standpoint, has
been the fact that under the Federal
Farm Loan System the. farmer may
now secure his loans on the. ' long
time amortization 'plan. Under this
plan these four hundred thirty-«five
million dollars of loans, made by the
banks of the Federal Farm Loan.

E'System, were made fer penods from'
twenty to thirty-five years and the

farmer .was given theopportunity to

army the principal in small annual

or amt-annual payments amounting

 

 

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The greatest benefit of .

“Farm Loan Association and

 

Vere disturbances, warnings are is-
sued along the lakes and sea coasts.
The frost and cold wave warnings
are invaluable to many interests, in-
cluding the trucker and fruit grow-
‘er ,especially in the spring when
tender vegetation need-s protection.

The aim- of the Weather. Bureau,
as guided in its enlarging program
by Mr. Marvin, hasbeen to serve
wherever its
facilities and
a special
need made
ticable. The
variety of
special uses
of the storm
..war11ings il-‘
lus‘trate
other phase
of the prac-
tical value of
the forecast-
er’s service.
.In advance
of a predict-
ed storm, the
rice planters

flood thei r
crops to pre-
v e n t t h e
straw from
being brok-
en by the

Wind. Agents
of marine in-
surance com-
p‘ani‘es stop
insuring car-
goes after a

 

storm h a 5
been predict—
ed. Fish‘e r—
men t a k 8
steps to Pro-
tect th e i r
boat 5 a n d
. F. MARVIN nets. Lum—

bermen make
their standing booms secure and reg—
ulate their log towing. At lake ports
vessels load hurriedly if they can
get off two to five hours in advance
of off— shore winds. If snow is ex—
pec'ted shippers must start 17 to 18
hours in advance

Not only on the farms and on the
water is the service of the W'eaiher
Bureau, invaluable, but cities also
"are constantly dependent upon it.
With notice of an approaching cold
wave greenhouses are closed and
their boilers fired. Preparations are
made at'once by heating and light—
ing plants in all cities, whether gas,
electriC,isteam or hot water. Fire
plugs, exposed mains, and general
plumbing are protected. Large stock—
yards drain their machines. Gaso-
line engines are drained. Work in
concrete is stopped. Street railway
companies arrange for more heat in
their cars. Natural gas companies
turn a larger amount of gas into
their lines tb provide for increased
consumption. Dredging of sand and
gravel ceases, and iron ore in piles

service prac-l

an—I

_for shipment is placed in the holds
' of veSsels to prevent the wet

mass
from freezing.

The Division of Agri’cultui'al Me~
teorology, another bran'ch of the bu-
reau supervises the work of about
400 special observers maintained in
connection with the corn, wheat, cot--
ton, sugar, rice, tobacco, fruit, and
other industries. It has charge of
the distribution of the special warn-
ings issued for the benefit of certain
crops and publishes data showing
weather c0nditions throughout the
country and the effect of these con-
ditions on certain important crops.

=1: at it

The bureau maintains throughout
the United States, in the West In-
dies, Alaska and Hawaii about 200‘
meteorological stations (employing
from. 1 to 15 persons, especially
trained in gathering data on which
the forecasters, located at five points

in the United States, base their
daily predictions which combined
cover the entire country. Mr. Mar-

Vin, while not specializing in fore«
casting himself, feels that these men
at the observation station and the
forecasters deserve a larger meas-
ure of credit than is popularly ac~
corded them.

“The public does not always rea-
lize the tremendous responsibility
resting on these men,” said Mr.
Marvin in discussing weather fore-
casting. “It’s no ‘fair weather’ job
that they have. Eternal vigilance is
their motto. We can measure the
responsibility that is theirs when a
great storm sweeps across the coun--
try? Did you ever stop to think what
would happen to ships, trains, live
stock, unsheltered stores of goods,
and a thousand other interests, if
the Weather Bureau was not on the
job when one of those West Indian
hurricanes comes roaring up out of
the Caribbean? I know of no oth-
er man whose task equals the fore-
caster’s at such a time. He must be
in touch every two hours with all our
stations down in the southwestern
section of the United States and.
points beyond our coast. At the ear-
liest possible moment he must warn
the section of the Gulf coast which he
believes will be struck by the mon—
ster of destruction. It may be Pen-
sacola; it may be Galveston; or it
may be in between. He must decide,
and send forth the warnings. I take
off my hat to these men, and if I
can devise an instrument or a piece
of apparatus that will make their
task easier by giving them more com-
plete and accurate data, I am proud
to make such a contribution as part
of my service to this great national
servant, the W'eather Bureau.” .

And this is only one bureau of the
seventeen that go to make up the
United States Department of Agri-
culture, all working together, each
using information furnished by the
others in planning and suggesting
better methods in agriculture for the
direct benefit of the farmers and also
for the benefit of every other citizen
of the United States.

Loan Farmers 135 Million Dollars

to only one per cent in excess of the
rate of interest.

The Farm Lean Act provides two
different plans, under which the
farmer may borrow and receive the
benefits of the farm loan system.

Under one plan, the Joint Stock
Bank, the farmer borrows direct of

‘the bank, the loans being made un—
‘der, supervision of the Farm Loan
. Board,

the rates of interest being
limited by law and commission charg-
es being prohibited. These banks

—.have made total loans aggregating

8O million‘dollars.

' Under the other pllan, ten or more
farmers may organize a National
secure
loans from the Federal Land Banks
upon. a mutual or co—operative basis,
each borrower having stock in, the

'York, $5,376,000; Ohio, $4,250,000;

ed,
bank tothe amount of-five per cent“

of his loan and each borrower parti-
cipating in the profits of the bank.
The Federal Land Banks also are
under the supervision of the Federal
Farm Loan Board and the rates of
interest are limited by law. These
banks have made total loans of 350 ,
million dollars.

Following is a table which Sh‘OWS
the total loans closed by both banks
in a number of important state's:

California, $12, 170,500;'Il‘iinois,
~l$17,321,000; Indiana, $19,241,000;
Iowa, $47,586,000; Kansas,- $19,-

001,000; Michigan, $6,285,000: New

$3,337,000; Texas,
$44,158,000; Washington, 311, 86,4,-
000; Wisconsin, $6, 318, 900; Grand
Total. Total number of- 1 ans , '

135, 641 amounting 129"“;
483,000.

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g- HEVMICHIGAN State Fair for
i 1920 has come and gone; it’s
' ‘ . daily details are now a matter of
.rhistory. The evidences of its out-
: standing merit and worth as an,
agency through which to.advance the
cause of agriculture in a great state,
are to be seen on every hand; in the
meantime imperfections and incon-
sistencies cannot be overlooked. One
of the sensations of fair week re-
sulted from the caustic criticisms of
the fair as a whole and of the policy
adapted by the board of managers,
which appeared in the columns of a
local newspaper. In the opinion of
the ~writer, some of the criticisms
“hit the nail on the head" but many
of the leading counts in the indict-
ment can hardly be made to stick;
_many of the salient features of the
fair were minimized and underesti-
mated while some of the weak points
in the management were magnified
and distorted. One thing must be
conceded, namely, the annals of ag-
riculture in Michigan have been am-
plified and enriched by the great ex-
hibition that was held in Detroit,
last week and the week before.
Features That Should be Changed
As intimated above, there are feat—
ures which were given prominent po-
sition in connection with the fair
that may well be dispensed with
when the details for future exhibits
are arranged. The writer inter-
viewed a large number of exhibitors
and visitors on the grounds and with-
out a single exception the abnormal
size of the ”midway” and the hair-
raisingsky-jumping were condemn—
ed. Not a word against aeroplane
exhibitions was heard but everyone
favored the elimination of the dare-
devil stunts in which human life was
endangered. Without a single ex-
ception, live stock exhibitors were
eloquent in their commendation of
the generous policy adopted toward
toward the
caretakers in the live stock depart-
. ment of the show. Many favorable
comments Were heard concerning the
two splendid banquets which were
tendered by the managers to the
exhibitors; occasions of this nature
under such auspices are always pro-
ductive of good—fellowship and these
were evidently no exception to the
general rule. The only valid com-
”;plaint, voiced by live stock exhibit-

-. */ Michigan Creps

HE CONDITION of all crops, ex—
l cept spring wheat, harvested dur—
. ing the past month and yet to be
fl‘harvested‘ is well above the ten-
;year average. Weather conditions
ghave been generally favorable and
ithe excellent prospects of August 1
have been maintained throughout the
past month for nearly all crops. Ab-
n‘ormally large yields of oats are
being reported and the prospects for
potatoes, sugar beets and truck and
fruit crops are especially good, ac—
cording to the September crop report
for Michigan, prepared-jointly by
Verne H. Church, Agricultural Statis-
tician, U. S. Bureau of Crop Esti-

mates and Coleman C. Vaughan, Sec- -

.retarygof State.

\Vheut: The spring wheat pros-
pects are much lower than early in
the season. The yield is disappoint-
ing, and the grain is badly shrunken.
The estimated production is only
540,000 bushels.

- The amount of wheat marketed at
‘ mills and elevators in the state dur-
ing August, estimated from the- re—
. ports of grain dealers is 1,428,000
bushels.

Corn: If no severe frost occurs
within two weeks, Michigan is as-

sured of another good corn crop. It .
is caring well in most sections, and

the condition is good except in a
few southwestern counties where a
severe drought has prevailed since
early in the season. The outlook is
or a crop of 60,258,000 bushels,
about 40 per cent of which wiliun-
ubtedly go into silos. The per-
‘tage of, condition is one point-
m 1881:8er 18; no:

    
    

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Criticisms Cannot Blind People to Value of Fair asEducctionul

By H. H. MACK .

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Institution . '

I f .‘ ., Association ‘ and f George .7 Bench, Ply-

 

 

H..MAOK gives herewith his impressions on the Michigan State

Fair Just closed. He makes somezuducisms, ‘bOth favorable

' and unfavorable which we believe are-Justified. To fmlmsgo a

fair successfully requires brains, foresight. and” keen bushes . ability.
The problem of all fairs is tom their exhibits interesting enough
todrawthecrowdsthatmneceesarytopaytheexpemu. This-
subject will be discussed in a later article on “1110 » Making of”:

Fair.”—Edltor.

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era, was concerning the small amount
of premium money offered as com-
pared with the amounts offered by
the state fairs of other states. En-
thusiastic commendation was heard
on every side for the thorough sani-
tation which was in evidence in all
parts of the grounds.

Wonderful Live Stock Exhibit

Never before in the history of the
state were so many richly bred do-
mestic animals brought together in
one place. Pure-bred live stock,
from six states of the Union and (Ian-
ada, combined to make an exhibit of
pedigreed live stock which is seldom

seen within one enclosure, exce‘pt at'

the International at Chicago. The
prejudice against opening the Michi-
gan State Fair to show herds from
outside the state, which formerly
prevailed, has almost entirely dis-
appeared and, hereafter, Michigan
breeders will welcome competition
from all parts of the country. One
of the weak points in the fair equip-
ment was revealed when the tre-
mendous rush of animals and poul—
try fllled all of the buildings and re-
quired the erection of several rows
of tent—sheds. ' ,

In the cattle department of the
show, the beef breeds led in both the
number and the quality of the ex—
hibits. Michigan has good reason
to be proud of the splendid pure—bred
beef herds which are being rapidly
developed within her borders and
last week’s developments in the
show ring prove that our breeders

can hold their own fairly well when ,

brought into competition with the
leading show herds of other states.
0. H. Prescott & Sons, Tawas City;
John Lesslter & Sons, Cla-rkston, with
their magnificent herds of Short-
horns. Wildwood Farms, Orion,
Mich.; Woodcote Stock Farm, Ionia,
Mich.; Dr. R. G. Martin & Son, 'Cros-

Reported in Fine

Oats: The condition of 93 per cent
at harvest time forecasts a total pro-
duction of 54,464,000 bushels as com-
pared with 36,875,000 bushels rais-
ed last year. The volume of the crop
exceeded expectations, and the qual-
ity is very good, except in some east-

ern counties where those standing in '

the shock were discolored by heavy
rains.

Barley: The crop was harvested
under generally favorable conditions,
except in a few eastern counties
Where some were discolored by rain
while in the shock. e .condition at
time of harvest was 90 per cent, as
compared with a ten—year'average of
87, and 61 per cent one year ago.
The forecasted production'is 6,968,-
000 bushels.

Buckwheat: Buckwheat has made
very satisfactory growth under gen-
erally favorable weather conditions,
except in the extreme southwestern

' counties where the weather has been

hotter than one year ago a“‘ 13 9.;-
cent 310% than Megan-mam

too dry. Reports indicate that the
crop is filling well. The condition of
88 per cent is ten per cent better
than the one year ago and nine per
cent better than the ten-year aver-
age. The estimated production is
684,000 bushels.

Potatoes: The condition is‘ one
point lower than last month. While
the crop in general is in, excellent
condition and promises a large yield,
late blight has made its appearance
in a number of counties» and the ex-
tent to which the crop will be injur-
ed by it is not yet known. The con-
dition of 91 per cent is 32 or coat

 

  

well, Mich., and Coupar a Curry,
Mariette, Mich., with their splendid
herds of Aberdeen Angus are all
doing their level best to produce an-
imals of the best beef type that will
meet the requirements of modern
market demand. The only real dis-
couraging feature connected with the
exhibit of beef cattle was the fact
that no buyers appeared . for the
splendid load of fat Shorthorn steers
exhibited by C. H. Prescott a Sons.
The Hereford exhibit brought a tre-
mendous list of richly bred animals
but only two Michigan breeders, Al—
len Bros., Paw Paw and J. B. David-
son» of Eaton Rapids were included
in the list of entries.

In the Galloway classes, W. M.
Vines, Howell was the only Michi-
gan exhibitor. In the Polled Durham
classes, Michigan was represented by
the Kelley Bros., of Plymouth, Mich.;
W. W. Kennedy, Grass Lake and the
Herbison Bros., Birmingham.

Very naturally, the dairy division
called out an extented list of entries
but in the department devoted to the
exhibition of Jerseys very little com-

.petition developed: the Brook-water
,Herd, Ann Arbor,

and Brennan,
Fitzgerald and Sinks, Farmington,
were the only exhibitors. The Farm-
ington firm only showed a few cat-
tle but the Ann Arbor herd was a
complete ”exhibit of outstanding qual-
ity. There were three competitors
for the honors in the Guernsey class~
es, all Michigan men: W. T. Bar-
bour, Birmingham; H. W. Wigman,
Lansing and John Ebels, Holland.
T e judge in the Holstein division
ha a difficult task to pick winners
from the uniformly meritorious an-
imals which showed up in this class.
The Michigan exhibitors of Holsteins
were as follows: C. L. Hulett & Son,
Okemos; O. J. Spencer, Jackson; The
Lenawee County Holstein Breeders’

  
     

' mouth-anneal: P. Hear. Detroit. The

1 Pickering Farm," Bolton, Missouri,

was the only exhibitor df‘ifloisteins

from outside the state. ‘-

: Oneiof theatriking features of .tho

' fair was the splendid'order. and de-
partment observed; by the ,immenso
throngs " of visitors that were going

and, coming all daylong throughout ~
the fair. Not one drunken or dis-r ‘

orderly person was seen within. the
grounds and the entire throng of
,sightseers seemed, to be' on their
good «beha’vior. During the after-
noon 'of Labor Day, the' entire
grounds, including the space sur-
rounded by the race track, was pack-
ed’ with a countless throng of young
people but 1 everyone was good-nat-
ured and well-behaved. ‘

Nothing at a state 0r county fair
pleases flhe average countryman more

than to find everything well kept...

clean and wholesome; past experi-
ence has demonstrated that it can
(be done and the concensus of opin-
ion is that itshould not be neglect-
ed. To permit conditions to exist
at a fair that endanger the health of
man or beast is without warrant
and should not be permitted. The
state fair ground during this year's
fair was a model of cleanliness: all
of the latest, up-to-date methods of
sanitation were utilized and the re—
sults achieved contributed to the
comfort and pleasure of everyone in
attendance. The manure was re-
moved from the stock barns at fre-
quent‘ intervals and taken away from
the grounds every day; the barn!
and pens, containing the show ani—~
mals, were thoroughly disinfected
every day during the fair. One of
the members of the board of fair
managers, H. H. Hall-iday, president
of the State Sanitary Live Stock Com-
mission, had charge of the work.
The Detroit Packing Co., a con-
cern which is preparing to open for
business in West Detroit before many
weeks had a fine booth and an edu-

cational exhibit on the grounds; a -

well-appointed plant, strictly modern
in all of its details, is nearing com-
pletion and facilities for handling a
large volume -of business are being
installed as- rapidly as possible. Stock
in the new enterprise has been sold
veryJargely to farmers and the
(Continued. on page 9)

Condition by Dept. of Agriculture

statistician for Maine states that
there is considerable‘blight in Aroos-
took county.

Beans: Beans have declined from
80 to 84 per cent in condition during
the past month, mainly as the result
of an attack of bacterial blight which
is quite prevalent in the Saginaw
Valley' and some other localities. An—
thracnose has also made its appear-
ance but it is thought the damage by
it will not -be great. The crop is
ripening and harvesting is general in
many sections. The present outlook
is for a crop of 3,440,000 bushels.

Hay: The estimated production of
all tame or cultivated hay is 3,149,-
000 tons. This is based on an av-
erage yield of 1.2 tons per acre; last
year’s yield was 1.15 tons per acre.
The crop of wild hay is estimated at
58,000 tons. The yield of alfalfa
from all cuttings is placed at 2.3
tons per-acre, as compared-with 2.0
per acre last year.

,Olover Seed: Clover seed is filling
well, and the outlook is for a good
crop and somewhat larger acreage
than last year. 128,000 bushels is
the estimated production from pres—
ent condition.

Stock Hogs: An inquiry develops
the information that the number of
stock hogs on farms September 1 is
four per cent. less than one year ago.

The estimated number is [1,314,000. .’

Wool: The total production of
wool is estimated at 9,841,000 lbs.
which is a slight increase over last
year. " .
Sugar, Boots: The , condition or

sugar hostels 90 per cent. top per

     

Acres A1.

Winter Wheat . . £82,169

lprlng Wheat . . . . 0,962

3:. - ............. 218.888,

. . . . x ..... 170,112

In. ll! ........ . . . . 4:5}?
r ...........

uokwllut. ........ 2

from . . . .. ........ 511'
.M’ M .....

‘ Blow Bead ....... 1.0 5

ileum ...... _£

mun E 0

five per cent above the ten—year av—
erage.

Fruits: The apple prospects have
increased to 89 per cent of a full
crop, or 13,350,000 bushels. 49 per
cent of this crop is considered as
commercial, or 2,165,000 barrels.
Nearly all varieties promise well, and
the quality is very good except in
some of the northwestern counties,
where scab is quite prevalent. There
is a large supply of early apples and
the market is very dull.

The peach crop is generally good,
and promises a production of 1,860,-
000 bushels. This is 80 per cent of
a full crop. The quality is 91 per
cent.

Pears also show an 80 per cent
condition, which is equivalent to
880,000 bushels. The crop varies~
considerably in different localities
and orchards. ‘

The outlook for grapes is excep-
tionally good, being 94 per cent of
a full crop as compared with a ten

year average of 78 per cent. The -

quality is excellent.

The amount of grain and seed
thrashed as reported by threshermen
up to and including August 21, 1920:
Winter wheat 332,168 8,099.01? ,

 

 

 
 
     
  
 
    
 

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Improving LiV1ng‘ Conditions

on 0037'

- One Hundred and Twenty- FIVE
' ' Thousand Farms

A rampart direct connected
automatic Delm—Lzlg/Jt quater
.92ka to operate rwz'I/z Deleo-
Ligbt.

11 complete electric ligkt and
power plant for farm: and
country Ingmar, :elflcranlzz‘ng
-—-air cooled—42a]! bearing:
~—na win—only one place to
oil—t/zid’ plate, long-lirved
battery.

Valve-in-Head Motor
Runs on Kerosene

Electricity furnished by Delco-Light lS replacing
the old back—breaking hand pump with r‘unning
water and the modern bath.

It 18 providing an abundance of bright, clean, safe
electric light throughout the house and barn—

It is furnishing power to operate the washing
machine, the churn, the separator and other labor
saving electrical conveniences-—

It is taking much of the drudgery out of farm life and
helping to make happy, contented farm homes—

And, in addition to all this it is actually paying for
itself 1n time and labor saved on over one hundred
moenzfyfi‘ve z‘lzozmmd farm llama.

A DELco-LnenT COMPANY, DAnLT‘ON, onno

‘ ~ DISTRIBUTORS:

M. In. Lasley, 23 Elizabeth St. East, Detroit, Mich. ,
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TRADE AND MARKET REVIEW

If there is any one thing that Am-
ericans should be proud of and de-
‘flbntly thankful foritis the federal
system. A country that is
solely dependent upon agriculture and
productive industry is completely at
the my of the shifting currents in
.aesueamofnatioml and huma-
~ timfllnanco. It is appalling to
think What might have happened. to
\ us, during the war am afterward,
, had the federal banking system never
been established. The wonderful
things accomplished by the federal
reserve system, in times of financial
stress and strain, is explained by the
New York Evening Post in its Mon-
day financial review as follows:

“Before the federal reserve sys-
tem was estab",»~d the New York
banks used at 4 .is time ‘of year to
send out every week to interior
h'm‘ks $5,000,000 to $10,000,000 ac-
tual currency. Nowadays the trans-
action is effected in a different way,
but the result is equally to pull down
New York reserves and New York
bank reserve ratio was already very
low when the season began. Two
weeks ago, the further depletion of
New York reserves was averted thru
New York’s borrowing from the Bos-
ton and Cleveland reserve banks, of
$47,500,000 on its holdings of re-
discounted paper.

“In that week the New York bank
lost $20,000,000 from its own gold
,holdings, but increased its credit in
the central gold fund $26,000,000.
Last week another expedient was
adopted: the New York reserve bank
taking up $45,000,000 of short term
[treasury bills from the private banks
of this city and selling them to the
Cleveland~and Boston reserve banks.
The week’s loss of $13,400,000 from
the New York banks actual gold hold-
ings is thereby more than counter-
balanced through $25,400,000 addi-
tion to its credit in the central gold
fund.

“These two expedient: have
brought New York’s reserve ratio to
39 1-2 per cent as against 38 5-8 a
week ago and 38 1-2 two weeks ago.
In the same fortnight the reserve ra—
tie at Boston has decreased from 53
1-8 per cent to 44 7-8 and at Cleve-
land from 48 3-4 to 46 7-8. The av-
erage ratio for the whole reserve
fund has changed very little it was
43 1-4 two weeks ago, 42 1-2 a
week ago and is now 42 7-8.

“The whole transaction illustrates
the promptncss and facility with
which on strain a credit can, be dis-
tributed under our present system. It
was’ essential that New York should
be relieved, in View of that districts
disproportionately great share in the
present week’s quarterly income tax
payments.” ,

There are many indications that
the strain on the money market is
gradually relaxing. On the New
York stock exchange, on Monday,
Sept. 13, money was available for 7
'per cent a condition which is really
remarkable in view of the tremend-
ous income-tax disbursements which
were impending on the folio ,
Wednesday. Recent liquidation of

large accumulations of food stwfl'Sp

held 130:- purposes of speculation and
the selling, on, a bargain-counter
basis, of large quantities of merchan-
dise, has liberated a tremendous

amount of money which is now avail-

able for legitimate investment.

The resumption of activities by
four woolen mills at Lawrence,
Mass, the announcement that east-
ern shoe manufacturers are about
‘ ready to begin operations and the
calling back of employes by the ship-
building companies of the country,
all foreshadow a material reduction
in the great eastern army of the un-
employed. In' some cases, wages
«have been reduced, it is true, but in
he some connection we note that
many of the necessities of life have

in“; the process of readjustment that
cost of living can be’reducedfin [the

cred, great hardship to the working
glasses of the country will be avoided.

 

5081! recently reduced in. price. If, »
deems tobe rapidly developing, the »

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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DETEOIT—Wheat and rye firm undcr hoary export buying. 3
Corn and be!) lower. Beans weak.

CHICAGO—Active trading in whéit. 1 Export buying active !
in lord and cured meats. Hop '11th on small receipts. , '

 

   
  
   
   

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to prom—Educ”.

 

WHEAT FIRM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WHEAT PRICES PER 30.. SEPT. 14. 1030',
and. lDurolt Ichlouo- .N. ..

No. 2 Rod 2.05 2.80% 2.5 ’

V0. 2 White 2.62 , '

No. 2 Mlxod 2.82 2.71"

PRIOES ONE YEAR A00 ,

Grade Instr-on thloaaoI N. Y.

No. 2 Whlto

No. 2 White

lo. 2 Mixed

 

 

The wheat market continues to
show remarkable strength, the infor-
ence being that export demand is
growing and that the millers of the
country are beginning to become
somewhat interested in the continu-
ed gain ln values. Large orders for
flour are reported from many sourc-
es and much improved demand for
Wheat for immediate milling pur-
poses. The only weak features, in
the present situation, is the declin—
ing tendencies of foreign exchange
and the fact that the gambling gang
seem to be all on the bull side of the
market. On Monday spot wheat
was from one to three cents higher
in Chicago than on the close of the
previous week. No. 1 hard wheat is
selling 10 to 11 cents over Decem-
ber. No. 1 Red is selling 11 to 12
cents over December. There is an
active call for all of the speculative
option with plenty of outside spec-
ulators in the market, nearly all of
them bulls, Canadian wheat is now
offered on a working basis and some
American millers are turning their
attention in tlhls direction. Press &
Co., of Chicago, advise purchase on
all breaks. .

 

CORN WEAK

CORN PRICES PER BUJ SEPT. 14, 1920

Grade lDotrolt' I Chicago N. Y.
No. 2 Yellow ...l 1.53 1.43% 1.66%
No. 8 Yellow . .
No. 4 Yellow .. .l
thIi'li‘lcéifs‘o'mr-E‘Ycalf-11cc .-

951cc lDe_trclt lthcagol N. Y.
No. 2 Yellow . . .1 1.58 } 1.42

No. 8 Yellow 1.58 1.42
V3. 4 Yellow 1.58 .

 

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At the present writing all signs
point to a continued declineJn the
price of corn and the killing'frOSts,
which are counted on to save the
market from a slump, will have to
hurry if they get a chance to spoil

(Note: The above tummrlud WIF- .0 1“!“ “Am 0. Iain“ of M I. 5
I: not In typo. They. contain Int mlnuo rm up u “seawater J‘m

    
  

   

 
 

  
   

any large percentage of the crop. Ro-
cout reports from the em but indi-
cotothat marathon one-half of the
crop is already are from damage
,mmfronandofowdonoftho
right, kind of weather will put the
entire crop, arm: the exception of
late planted fields out of dangerx.
Good “judges of weather conditions
assert, that I. light frost at this time,
would do more good than harm as it
would check the growth of the plant
some and help to ripen the grain.
Disappointing receipts, on Monday
of this week, drove the shorts to
cover and helped to balance up the
market. Pressure on December corn
is still very light because of firmness
1n the wheat market and the near
approach of the usual frost period
from September 20 to October 10.
On Monday, the visible supply of
corn was increased by 22,800 bush-
els, making the total 2,792,000 as
against 1,360,000 on this date last
year. Grain dealers report that it
is easy to buy corn but hard to find
buyers for it; formerly conditions
were exactly reversed and dealers
lost many orders because they could
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OA'IE EASY
NEW OAT PRICES. BIL. SEPT_ 14, 1920
Grade laurel: Ichlmo N. Y.
:0. g mg: . . . .8! .66
o. - . .‘ . .00' .88'
No. 4 Whit. ... . .84,5 A
PRIOEB ONE YEAR AGO
Grade IDetrolt IOhlongo N. 8?.
Standard ....... .12 .69 .71
No. 8 White .. . .70 ,6.
No. 4 White . . . .10

 

 

 

Oats, just now, seem to have a
few friends, all of the dopesters in—
clining toward the bear side of the
deal and all visible indications polnt~
lng'to lower prices, temporarily at
least, for this cereal. On Monday an
increase of\3,418,000 bushels in the
visible supply was announced mak-
ing the total 16,216,000 against 21,-
000,000 on this date last year. Press
& Co., of Chicago, advise the sale of
cats on all hard spots.

RYE FOLLOWS WHEAT
The rye market is sharing the
prosperity that has recently come

 

 

Foster’s Walther Chart for Sept 1920

Very

 

WASHING‘KI‘ONr D. 0.. Sept. 18,
1920—Warm wave will reach Van-
couver. B. 0.. about Sept. 18 and
and temperatures will rise on all the
northern Pacific slope and northern
Rockies. It will pass eastward by
way of the great lakes, crossing con-
tinent in about five days and out onto
the Atlantic by way of Newfound-
land. As the storm wave crosses
continent all the country south of it
will be warmer than usual; north of
it cooler than usual. The cool wave
following this storm will go most be-
low normal in the ‘mlddlo northwest

rthern Re. “below
the Missouri, Ohio and
er- ....
mal temperatures in eastern sections
and: Pacific slope. Not

 

 

angwhere. . , .
ctober promises warm' weather
7 first and last woeks,with‘ uupsually,
jcooI-‘betWeeu. Not much cha. ,
precipitation. Most-precipitation the

 

 

 

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

much rain

figs-in

first half of the month. Most severe
storms‘ during the weeks centering
on Oct.- 1 and '27. Most severe frosts
in northern sections during the Week
centering on Oct. 4 and in the cotton
states during week centering on Oct,
28. Present conditions are favorable
to sowing Winter grain.- Business
and financial conditions are very
promising for 1921 and still more
promising for agriculture. A great
change is coming for America and
Canada favorable to the farms. in-
stead of over-crowding the cities.
Dangerous and destructive hurri-
canes oecur in the thru. great oceans.
the north Atlantic, north Pacific and
Indian. Those that occur in the At-
lantic are called by their proper _
names, hurricanes. those in the Po.-
cific are called typhoons and ,those in
the Indian cyclones. But they are
all of the same nature and are all or-
ganized by the planetary physical
forces which I call emetic-magnetism.
It has béen knowu for a long time
that a hurricane in the West Indies
pulls down a. cold wave in the middle -
outlawed—Alberta. Saskatchewan or
Manitoba. or “can- ‘ , a
of these Provinces and then coming
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_ Hay is scarce and arm in all Kiel!!- ,
many owners of horses .

* been: d~ul'1.-.cn..dt~~'anlat~

. , have been d

into the wheat deal. Chicago. on
Monday reported good "buying“of rye
by houses with cotton connections.

No.2 rye is calling 2 cents over m- ‘

toolbar. Detroit quote: No. 2 1131.94.

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’ $33.ka seams to be the m-
ating unto in connection with no
current been market and all condi-
tions. bearing upon the situation.
M toward lower prions” thum-
m advances and the impending hr-
vest Man the crop/into the market.
The weather during recent mom has
been ideal for maturing. the

out of danger, except from the risks
which attend the final gathering in
of the crop. In a recent interview
with the writer, a representative of
the labell Bean 00., of Detroit, one
of the largest handlers in this part
of the atatc’, expressed the belief that
beans would be very much lower be-
fore they turned for the better.

 

' POTA-TOES STRONGER

81’0” FIR 0WT.. DEPT. 14. "20

 

 

 

 

Mod 0qu
’Dou-olt ................ 2.88
Ohloaao WM. 2.0!
New York 2.40
a .............. 2.10

 

 

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_ Very little has developed of late,
in connection with the potato market
which would seem to give a line on
future prices but the situation has
developed no sign of. weakness; in
fact, them are well-defined rumors
that many early potato fields in the
state, that have shown a heavy
growth of tops, are not yielding near-
ly as large a crop as was expected,
earlier in the season. Blight has
made its appearance in many Michi-
gan" fields of late potatoes, jeopardiz-
ing the yield to some extent.

HAY FIRM

I No. 1 Tlm.l Stan. Tlm.] No. 2 Tlm.

 

 

 

 

Detrolt ..ls1 .oocaalso.00@81 129.00@3o

Chlcago . . l31.00 @ 39I 185,00 @ 36

New York [45.00 (62 47] I41 .00 (ll) 45

Plusbum . l38.50 @ 38136.50 @ 38I38.00 @ 3‘
I No.1 l No.1 I ,No.1
Inght Mlx. [Clover Mlx. I ‘. Glover

Detroit . . [30.00 @ 81 29.00 @ 30 28.00 @ 29

Chicago . . . 35.00 @ 36

New York ' I41 .00 @ 44 85.00 @ 40

Plttsburg .l83.00 @ 34

 

 

HAY Pflcss A YEANFQQO
I No. 1 Tlm.! Stan. Tlm.I No. 2 Tlm.
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Chicago ..I
New York
Pltuburg

 

 

I No. 1 I No. 1 'I No. 1
Mom MIX. IOlover Mlx. I Glover
Dotrolt . ,.|

 

 

 

 

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The hay trade is showing firmness
in all departments and the prospect
of lower prices seems to be rather re-
mote; the effect of the new freight
rates upon hay prices is still prob-
lematic-3.1 but the general conclusion
seems to be that the increase will be
shared by both producer and con-
sumer with the former getting much
the worst of the bargain. An ex-
ample of the effect of increased
freight rates is cited in connection
with the cost of shipping; alfalfa,
from Idaho to Kansas City, a trifl-
lng~ matter of $15 per. ton and the
question arises: What will the grow-.-
91‘ have left after paying the might!

gan markets, ‘
finding t «11th m. We WIT
daily 11.95:, ' _ .
human raccoon MARKET
flThe Detroit produce market" 11

 

 
  

exception of eggs an
ideal;

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and it will soon he almost entirely

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.Dressed calves and dressed hogs are
both in light supply and gradually
hardening in. price. The supply’ of
vegetables is fully adequate to the
"current demand and prices are work-
ing lower in many cases.

LIVESTOCK MARKETS
Many encouraging features, in
connection with the demand for live
stock, have developed during the
past week and the general outlook
for all animals that show killing

Iv quality; is, much better than on this
date, last month. From all parts of

the country comes reports of an im-
proved demand for all kinds of cur-
e'd and-fresh meats. The demand for
and by-
developed in
operations,
such as hides, wool, tallow, lard, eta,

products, which are

' is becoming more and more active as

. week, last year

the cool weather of fall approaches.
Chicago had a splendid trade in

high—grade steer cattle all last week,

more than 500 head changing hands
for $18 per cwt. The weight of the
bullooks that brought the top price
ranged from 1,147 to 1,825: only a
few yearlings were received that
were good enough to bring the top
of the market. Last week’s average
price for good killing steers in the
Chicago market was 25 ”cents per
cwt. higher than that of the
week before. On Tuesfiy, the open-
ing market day for last week, a two—
day supply of butchers cattle showed
up ond prices eased off temporarily
but came back later as the result of
an Bctive demand from many sourc—
es from which very little has been
heard of late. Canners and cutter
cows were dull and unchanged and
with the exception of the bologna
kind which ere a trifle higher, bulls
sold level w th last week.

Stockers and Feedei's Higher

An improved demand'for all of the
better grades of killing cattle has had
a favorable effect on the selling val-
ue of well- bred feeders. From all
parts of the country comes informa-
tion concerning pastures “knee
deep” and huge crops of corn, much
of it practically out of danger; a
good attendance of countrymen is
reported from all markets, thousands
of good feeding prospects are going
back to the country. Chicago has
had an over-supplyof undesirable
stock cattle during the past week and
this kind has been hard to sell.

Fat lambs scored a sharp upturn
last'I‘week and closed fully 50 cents
per cwt. higher than the week before.
The trade in mature sheep was dull

I . and slow all the week and with very

few fat wethers tolhelp out, the av-

.erage was only $6.75; this price was
I 81.05 lower than the previous week,

$1.15 lower than the corresponding
and $5.10 lower
than two years ago. The general av-
erage price of all fat lambs in the
Chicago market was $13.50 being 15
cents higher than the previous week,
3‘: W:- than on the corresponding

I dateone year ago, $3.75 lower, than
. two years ago and $4.25 lower than.

three years ago. Feeding lambs
were active and higher in Chicago,
early last week but they eased on,
lonewhat, before the close of the
week's trade. The week's average

‘70

There is still a limited”
amomft of the investment
.which pays 4% twice-a—year’
available, which will be sold
in lots of $100 or more, to
those who apply for it.

If you have extra money
.which is paying you less,
than night (8%) par un-
am. please inquire of Mr.
_.Goo~. M. Slocum, President,

' Rural Publishing Company, .

. Mt. Clemens; Mich. regard-

  

 

  
  

 
   
 
  
  
  
   
 
  
 
 
  
 
  

   

     
 
   
  
   
   
  
 
 
 

    

y, .
" he in,
‘ no '1! market which preva led
yearly last wool: has; partly disappear-y
1 ed becanoo of the generous offerings

,‘that come to hand, no in the- week.

  
   
 

 

m . ”"sat‘maoe s
substantial gain during the past
week; mm establishing the reliabil-

 

mado in this department during the
past five weeks. There are seasons
of the year and certain market con-
ditions which will cause big receipts
of hogs to follow a sharp upturn in
market values but the present is not
one of these times. Farmers, conti-
dent of a further rise in hog quota-
tions, are sure to hold all light hogs
back for the purpose of utilizing the
tremendous corn crop which impends.

The speculatiVe provision market is.

beginning to show strength and the
feeling seems to be quite general

that values will go very much hig‘h-~

er in this department of the trade.
The week's top in Chicago was 80
cents per cwt. higher than that of
the week before and ten cents high-
er than the previous high mark for
the year.

Facts About the Detroit Market

Detroit trade in cattle has been
rather quiet this week because of
the absence of many of the Jewish

    

" II tw eat II . ,
. 6I0 hood of Wcattle and pric-

~ we: wereIeasy all doy With a down- ’

ward tendency Sheep and lambs
were slow and steady in the Detroit

. market all i t
ity of the ptedictibns that have been ' as week and on Monday

the same price levels prevailed. Live

. hogs showed an advancing tendency.

nearly all last week and on Monday
the best brought $17. 25 per cwt. On
Monday in the Detroit market, 1,175
cattle, 248 calves, 1, 440 sheep and

.-1,70'8 hogs came to hand.

 

MICHIGAN AGRICULTURE EN-
RICHED BY GREAT FAIR
(Continued from page 6)
names of several tillers of the soil ap-
pear on the list of directors. Edwin
Dold, a member «of the famous Buf—
falo family of meat packers, will
manage the plant. The plant is lo-
cated on the main line of the _Michi-
gan Central railroad, the grounds are

,. ample and the location ideal for an

establishment of this kind. A buy-
er will be located in the Detroit
Stock yards and the methods fol-
lowed in the development of the en-
terprise, will be practically the same
as those in vogue in other'local pack—

highs-made sou bee1 consumed

    
  
 

Detroit. “

Ladies who visited the fair this
year were eloquent intheir appre-
ciatiOn of the educational program,

including lectures and practical dem-" ‘ I

onstration, which was .put on in the
Gleaner auditorium. The practical
demonstration of how the ideal Am-
erican home should be arranged and
decorated was certainly one of the
most practical and useful exhibits '
made at the fair; what could be
more appropriate and practical than
that the young people. of this state,
who visit the fair from year to year,
should learn there lessons of thrift
and household economy. The lecture
and demonstration of appropriate
dress and ladies apparel in general,
which was given every afternoon
during the fair in the Gleaner build-
ing was not only entertaining but
useful and instructive. In the opin-
ion of the writer, there are many
other depar ents, connected with
the fair exhi it, that Could ‘be treat,-
ed in apsimilar manner to thoSe de—
scribed above, with great profit and
satisfaction to the patrons of the
fair.

 

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manent owner.

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Thousands of Hudson owners know
Their satisfaction
in the Super-Six leaves nothing to tempt
them to experiment elsewhere.

Our experience gives confidence to
count every Hudson purchaser as a per-

Naturally we expect men of wide
motor knowledge to select Hudson. But
isn’t it a revelation of the convincing
way .Super-Six performance overshad- .
owe the field, that thousands who pro~
fess little mechanical knowledge are just
as unerring in their choice?

Can Any Endorsement
I Rival This?

For nearly five years Hudson has
outsold .11 the world’s fine cars. And
today its distinction is so wanted that
we see no curb to sales except the pro-
duction limitations that fine, accurate

More than 100,000 Super-Sixes are in
service. That exceeds the output of any
car in its price range by many thous-

It is a verdict—100,000 strong—for
qualifies and abilities, no other car can

 

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car.

 

 
 

Why are Hudson Owners
Indifferent to Other Cars?

'Isn’t It Because Contentment In
Hudson Ended Inquiry Into Others?

It fixes the specific reason for
dominance of a type, unlike any other

This chief issue is Hudson endurance.
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not use this invention, which by reduc‘

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Still Undiscovered

Years must elapse before we know
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test. Speedway trials, at double trans-

continental run that no other car over
endured to finish, and the abuse of high-
speed racing, failed to reveal the point,
at which Hudson endurance would
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with allithatwealth of water flowing
idly by !

They betrayed alertness, turning
their heads toward the far bank and
pricking their ears forward. Then,
as a,big~antlered buck came out
from among the trees to the water’s
edge, they flattened their ears back
and shook their heads and pawed the
water till he'could head the splash-
ing. But the stag disdained their
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slitted aperture and fainted on top
of the skeleton. .

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not know the passage of time, he re~
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own head, cheek by jowl with the
skul of the skeleton on which he lay.
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shining into the narrow opening. and
his gaze chanced upon a rusty knife.
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en and he ‘established the connec-
tion. This was the knife that had
scratched the inscription on the rock
at the base of the funnel at the oth-
er end of the passage, and this skel-
eton was the bony framework of the
man who had done the scratching.
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skull. The dust of the bone which
had once been the tabernacle of
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nostrils and increased his freil'Zy. He
attacked the skeleton with his hands,
tearing at it,1disrupting it, filling the
pent space about him with flying
bones. It was like a battle. in which
he destroyed what was left of the
mortal remains of theone time res-
ident of Glasgow. '

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.CHAPTER XXVIII.
OT FOR nething had Regan been
- named by his associates )The

Wolf of Wall Street! While
usually: no more than a conservative,
large scale player, ever so often, like
a periodical drinker, he had to go
on arampageof wild and daring
stock gambling At least five times
in his wing career had he, knocked
the bottom out of the market or lift-
the roof off, and each time to the
tune of a personal gain of millions.
'He never went on a small rampage,
and he never went too often. '
.He would let years of quiescence
slip by,‘until suspicion of him ~was
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men and interests he wished to des-
troy.'. But, though the. blow always
fell like a. thunderbolt, not like , a
thunderbolt was it inats inception.
Leng months, and even years, were
spent indeviously preparing the day
and painstakingly maturing the
plans and;conditions for the battle.

Thus had it been in the outlining
and working up of" the impending
Waterloo for Francis Morgan. Re-'
-venge- lay back of it, but it was re-
venge'agadnst a dead man. Not
Francis, but Francis’ father, was the
one he struck against, although he
struck through the living into the
heart of the grave to accomplish it.
Eight years had he waited and sought
his chance ere old R. ,H. M.—-—Rich-
ard ‘Henry Morgan—had died. But
no changehad he found. He was,
truly, the Wolf of Wall Street, but
never by any luckhad he found an
opportunity against the Lion-«for to
his death R. H. M. had been known
as the Lion of Wall Street.

so, from father .to son, always un-
der a show of fair appearance, Re-
gan had carried the feud over. Yet
Regan’s very foundation on which he
built for revenge was meretricious
and wrongly conceived. True, eight
years before R. H. M.’s death, he had
tried to double cross him and failed:
but he never dreamed that R. H.“ M.
had guessed. Yet R; H. M. had' not
only guessed but had ascertained be;
yond the shadow of a doubt, and had

promptly and cleverly 'double~cross— ’

ed his treacherous associate. ”Thus,
had Regan known that. R. H. M.
knew- of his perfidy, Regan would
have taken his medicine without
thought of revenge. As it was, be-
lieving that R. H. M., out of mean-

ness as mean as his own, without pro—e

vocation or suspicion. had done this
foul thing to him, he saw no way

"to balance the account save by ruin—

ing him, or in lieu of him, by ruin-
ing his son. . ,
And Regan had taken his time. At,
first Francis had left the financial
game alone, content with' letting his
money.remain safely in the safe in—
vestments into which it had been
put by his father. Not until Francis
had become for the first time active
in undertaking Tampico Petroleum
to the tune of millions of investment
with an assured many millions of ul-
timate returns, had Reganhad the
ghost of a chance to destroy him.
But, the chance given, Regan had not
wasted time, though his slow and
thorough campaign had required

' many months to develop. Ere he

was done, he came very close to
knowing every share of whatever
stock Francis carried on margin or
owned outright.

It had really, taken two years and
more for Regan to prepare. In some
of the corporations'in which‘Francis
owned heavily, Regan was himself
a director and not in-considerable ar-
biter of destiny. In Frisco Consol—
idated he was president. In New
York, Vermont and Connecticut he
was vice president. From controll-
ing..one director in Northwestern
Electric, he mplayed kitchen pol-
itics until he controlled the 'two~
thirds majority/x And so with all the
rest, either directly, or indirectly
through corporation and banking
ramifications, he had his hand in the
secret springs and.levers of the fin-
ancial and business mechanism which
gave strength to Francis’ fortune.

Yet no one of these was more than
a bagatelle compared with the big-
gest thing of all—Tampico Petro-
leum. In this, beyond a paltry
twenty thousa shares bought on
the open market, Regan owned noth-

ing, controlled nothing, though the

time was growing ripe for him to sell
and deal and juggle in inordinate
quantities. Tampico Petroleum was
practically Francis’ private preserve.
A number of his friends were, for
them, deeply involved, Mrs. Carruth—
are even gravely so. She worried

' him, and was not even above pester-u

ing him over the telephone. There‘

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,ruthersf perpetual nervousness.

«'N‘O‘i‘thw‘esth'rl Eectflél thanks .tO

Regan’s maéhina'tiOns,‘ had? actually

dropped thirty points and remained}

there, Those on "the outside .Who;

thought they knew. regarded.“ as», ,

positively shaky, Then there was'.the
little, o‘ld,'. solid-as-‘the—rdck-qf-Gib-
raltar Frisco Cd‘néolidated. 'Th‘d‘
nastiest of rumors Were afloat, and
the talkof a receivership was grow--
ing emphatic. Montana f "Ludo: was
still sickly under 'Mulhaney’s ‘ un-V
flattering and unmodified report, and
Weston, the great expert- sent out by
the English investors, had failedto
report‘anythin‘g :reassuring. For six
months, Imperial Tungsten, earning
nothing, had been’put 'to disastrous
expense in' the/great strike which
seemed only just begun.‘ Nor did
anybody, save the sever'al‘labor’ilead-
are who knew dream .thatiitf'wasi Re-
gan’s gold that was at the bottom of
the affair. , ” ~ '3. f'.
The secrecy and ‘d'ead'linesb of. the
attack was what unnerved Bascom.
All properties in which Franciswaa
interested were being pressed down
as if by a slow moving glacier. There
was nothing spectacular about the
movement, merely a steady persist-
ent decline that made Francisllarge
fortune shrink horrib y. _ And, along
with what h) owned outright, what
he held. on margin sufiered ' even
greater 'shrink'age. ‘ ,
Then had come rumors of war.
Ambassadors were receiving their
passports right and Ieft.‘ and half the
world seemed mobilizing. ' This was
the moment, with the market shaken
and panicky, and with the world pow-
ers delaying in declaring moratori-
ums, that Regan selected to strike;
The time was ripe for‘a bear raid,
and with him were associated half

a dozen other big bears who tacitly »

accepted his leadership. But even'
they did not know the full extent of
his plans, nor guess at the specific
direction of them. They were in the
raid for what theyco’uld m-‘a‘ke, and
thought he was in it “for the same
reason, "in their simple directnessiof
pecuniary vision catching no glimpse
of Francis Morgan nor of his‘ghostly
father at'who‘m the big blow was
being struck. “ . , . 7 ,’

Regan's rumor factory began wor‘k- _
ing overtime and the first to drop
and’the fastest to drop in the drop-
ping market were the stocks of
Francis, which had already'done con-
siderable dropping ere the bear mar-
ket began. Yet Regan was careful
to bring no pressure on TampicolPeté-
troleum.
head in the midst .of the general
slump, and eagely Regan waited for
the moment. of” desperation when
Francis would be forced to dump it
on the market to cover his shrunken
margins in ‘other‘ lines. ' ’ ‘

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“Lord ! Lord !" '

Bascom' held the side of his face
in the palm of one hand and grimacr
ed as if he had a jumping toothache.

“Lord! Lord 1” he reiterated.
“The market’s gone to smash and
Tampico Pet along with it. How, she
slumped ! Who’d have dreamed
it !”

Francis, puffing steadily away at
a cigarette and quite oblivious that
it was unlighted, sat with Bascom in
the latter’s private office. , . .

“It loks like a fire sale," he said;

“That won't last much longer than 1'

this time tomorrow morning—then,
you’ll be sold out, and me‘with you,"

his broker simplified, with a swift "

gance at the cock. ' .
It marked twelve, as Francfi'. .
swiftly autmatic glance verified. , ..
“Dump in ‘the rest“ of Tampico
Pet," he said “w'earily. {‘Tha't ought
to hold back until tomorrow." ,

“Then what tomorrowf’fjis b’nok-fgc
er demanded, _“with the bottom out"

and everybody including the cilia
boys selling short." " "
_ Francis shrugged his . shoulders
“You know I've mortgagedjtha'hid c§
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’ mg with atbeonege. , shall :I‘fsay—Well; that he struck me

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com-blooded and non-committal.”

_“Nonsénse',” Francis laughed. “He
was too good a friend of my fath-
er’s.” .

”Ever hear of the Cosmopolitan
Railways Merger?"-~Bascom queried
with significant irrelevance.

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“And he’s up "t0_{hlS eyes already.
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,lif'e‘tovabout one h'uh‘dred°"‘and sixty
a month. And as for Chris Wood-
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193.9” .. ' . . ”But that was before my time. I
,- fi‘Th‘ere’s Charley Tipper'y," Bas— merely.‘ have heard of it, that’s all.
com suggested, though it was patent Shoot. Tell me about it. Give me
. that he was hopeless about it. " the weight of your mind.”

“Too long a story, but take this
one word of advice. If you see Re-
gan, don’t put your cards on the
table. Let him pay first, and, if he
offers let him offer without solicita-
tion from you. Of course, I may be
all wrong, but it won’t damage you
to hold up your hand and, get his

~ play first.”

At the-end of an ther half hour,
Francis was closete with Regan,
and the stress _.of his peril was such
that he controlled his ., natural im:
pulses; remembering Bascom’s in—
structions and was quite fairly non-
chalant about the state of his affairs.
He even baffled.

“In pretty deep, eh?” was Re-
gan’s beginning.

“011, not so deep that my back-
eeth are awash yet,” Francis replied
airly. “I can still breathe, and it
will be a long time before I begin
swallowing.” , ‘

Regan did not immediately reply.
Instead, pregnantly. he ran_over the
last few yards of the ticker tape.

“You’re dumping Tampico Pet
pretty heavily, just the same."

“And they’re snapping it up,”
Francis came back. and for the first
time, in a maze of, wonderment, he
considered the possibility of Bas-
com’s intuition being right. “Sure,
I've got them swallowing.”

“Just the same you’ll note that
Tampico Pet is tumbling at the same
time it’s being snapped up, which is
a very curious phenomenon," Regan

. ,. “Yes,” Francis agreed with equal
) ’ , hopelessness. “There‘s pny one
thing the matter, with .him—his
father stillives.” '
“The old cuss never took-a flyer
, in his life,” Bascom supplemented.
sf: "There’s never a time. he can’t put
his hand on millions. And he still
, lives, worse luck." , _,
"Charley could get him to do it,
and would, except that one thing
that’s the matter with me.” p
, “No securities left?” his broker
... , . queried.
Francis ‘ nodded.
“Catch the old man parting with a
dollar without due security.”

Nevertheless a few minutes later,
hoping to find Charley Tippery_ in
his office during the noon hour, Fran—
cis was sending in his card. Of all

I ‘ jewelers and gem merchants in New

York, the Tippery establishment was
the greatest. Not only that. It was
- . ., esteemed the greatest in the world.
‘ i , '. __ More of the elder Tippery’s money
i i was invested in the great Diamond
‘I Corner, than even those in the know
' of most things knew of this particu-
. lar thing.
The interview was as Francis had
forecast. The old man still held
tight reins on" practically everything,
I . and the son ‘had litte hope of win-

! ‘ning his assistance.
l _ “I know him,” he told Francis.
) “And though I’m going to wrestle
with him, don’t pin an iota of faith

on the outcome: 'I’ll go to the mat urged‘

with him”, but that will be about all. "In a bear market all sorts of cur—
; ‘ f . The Worst of it is that he has the ions 'phenomena occur," 'Francis

ready cash to say nothing of oodles bluffed with a mature show of wis-
and ’ dom. “And when they’ve swallowed

enough of my dumpings they’ll be
ripe to roll on a barrel.. Somebody
wil pay something to get my dump—
ings out of their system. I fancy
they’ll pay through the nose before
I’m done with them.”

“But you’re. all in boy. I’ve been
watching your light, even before
your return. Tampico Pet is your
last."

Francis shook his head.

“I’d scarcely say that,” he lied.
“I've got assets my market enemies
never dream of. I‘m luring them on,
that’s all, just luring them on. Of~
course, Regan, I’m telling you this
in confidence. You were my fath-
er’s friend. Mine is going to be some
clean up, and, if you‘ll take my tip,
anything, and I’lldo my darndest for in thisshort market you start buy-
something big. Whatever happens, ing. You‘ll be sure to settle with
I’ll be at your house at nine tomor-. the sellers long in the end.”
rOW—_” “What are your other assets?"

“Which will be ,my busy day,” Francis shrugged his shoulders.
Francis smiled wanly, as they shook “That's what they’re going to find
hands. “I’ll be out of the house by out. when they’re full up with my
eight.” . stuff." > '

“And I’ll be there by eight then,” “It‘s a bluff!” Regan admiredex—

and oodles of safe securities
United States bonds. But.you see,
i (Grandfather Tippery when he was
, ' , young and struggling, and founding
1' , " the business, once loaned a friend a
' thousand. He never got it back. and

he never got over it. Nor did Fath-
l , er Tipperygever ‘get over it either.
l - The experience scared both of them.
l Why, father wouldn’tlend a penny
on the North Pole unless he got the
Pole for security after having had it
expertly appraised. And you haven’t
any security, you see. But I’ll tell
you what. I’ll wrestle with theold
man tonight after dinner. That’s
his most amiable mood of the day.
And I’ll hustler around on my own
and see what I can do. Oh. I know
a few hundred thousand won‘t mean

Charley Tippery responded, again plosively. "You’ve got the old man’s
wringing his hand heartily. “And nerve all right. But you’ve got to
in the meantime I’ll get busy. There show me it isn’t bluff.”
J are ’ideas already beginning to Regan waited, and Francis was
_, _ sprout .‘. ” suddenly inspired. .
- , - “It is,” he muttered. . “You’ve
Another interview Francis had that named it. I'm drowning over my

back teeth now, and they’re the high-
est out'oi the wash. But I won’t
drown if you will help me. All you
have got to do is to remember my
father and put out your hand to save
his son. If you’ll back me up. we’ll
make them all sick . . .”

And right here the Wolf of Wall
Street showed his teeth. g He point-
ed to Richard Henry Morgan’s pict-

afternoon. Arrived back at his
broker’s office, Bascom told him that
Regan had called up and wanted to
see Francis, saying that he had sOme
interesting information for him. ' ,

‘ _ *,“I’ll run around right away,”
Francis said, reaching forhis hat,

4 ‘w-hilehis ace lighted up with hope.
"He was an old friend offather’s,
and if anybody could pull me thru
hecould.” . __ . 1 ' ure. .
~,“'.'.‘Don’t be too sure,” Bascom re- “Why do you think I kept that
ied.._ and passed reluctantly a mom-.1 hanging on .the' wall all these years?”
before making confession. ‘ “I he demanded. .
T{hm} up-ujust' before you ‘re- Francis nodded as if the one ac-
irom Panama. '1 was very cepted , explanation was their, tried»
A“ 1-; pmldghim ,ofyour absence “and;ancient friendship.
0.! lyour'peri'lous situation here, . "Guess again,” Regan 'r sneered
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Out Damned Spot .

FOR 3. number of years the laws of Michigan

' forbade prize-fighting. The pugilists and
their roughneck followers were obliged to go
elsewhere to stage their bloody bouts. But the
1919 legislature, traditionally kind to anything

- that savored of commissions, salaries and jobs,
passed an innocent-looking law to place all box-
ing exhibitions under the supervision of a state
' physical director. This was not done for the
purpose of lefilizing prize-fighting. Oh, no,

  

interest in matters athletic. It is even said
that the ring sports who sponsored the bill
induced a well—meaning member of the clergy
to go to Lansing and lobby in favor of the
measure. How the reverend gentleman must
shrink in holy horror when he reads such ac-
counts as follows which the boxing bill made
possible. It is a description of the fight be-
tween Jack Dempsey and Billy Miske recently
staged at Benton Harbor, in easy distance of
Chicago, because they don’t allOw such things
as prize fights in that city:

“Before a crowd that jammed Floyd Fitnlmmons’
arena to the very stockadles, the mam who felled
Jess Willard in Toledo a little more than a year
ago smashed Billy Miske into submisaion. Given a
golden opportunity to Win a championship, a dis-
tinction that few men achieve, Billy Miske fell a
quivering mass of beaten humrwnity in his own
corner at the feet of Dempsey in less than a minute
after the third round had started.

“Two crashing punches to the jaw, the first a

_ wicked left that dropped the St. Paul boy like a
log for the count of nine and the other, a measured
right from which Miske did not recover for fully
five minutes, closed yesterday’s chapter' in the
history of pugilism.

f‘Just as Dempsey inserted the wedge against
Willard that cost the latter his title, so did he

‘open the road to ruin for Miske. Jack played
constantly for the head of his opponent for half
of the round, then suddenly shifting his attack to
the body, drove his right hand squarely against
the region of Miske’s heart.

“Down went Miske as limup as a damp towel. a.
look of terror on his coulntenence. Men with legs
(nrurage than Miske possesses would have stayed
down. But the damaged gladi-atdr, bearing the
toll-talc marks of the blow where it struck, strugg-
led to his feet and fell blindly into a. clinch. On
the spot where Dempsey’s fist landed were little
ml spots like blood blisters in convention.

“In spite of the hot fire that he took from-
Dempsey in other parts of the body and on 'the jaw
Miskc was far from whipped until the champion,
with the eagerness of a lion to bring down his
prey, drove that right hand punch against his
victim’s heart with so murderous effect. , -

"Thereafter, though, Miske was a different man“

._ Life seemed to have almosttled; heseemed in .
pain as he moved, and he groper! about for some .
sort of a defensefor the bruised left side. Billy
want to the round's conclusion and ambled up for,
the third with "distress written on his «face.

’ " “Dempsey required nothing more than the setting

« the punch on the heart created. Jack merely

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They call this sport. They legalize this ” ' would be" overcome "and everyone concerned,”

. thing to attract the youth of the state to the ‘ with'the“possibleexcepti01¥.9ffthe speculators , ' -

manly art of boxing; * Thor even "“supervise” Who! profit by "the "lfilmmflfic. marketing '
, it to see that. itis done properly. *And‘then. meth‘ ,, , MKS? the lament day, would be hens-

in the hg'fes of taking off the curse,_'thc_‘great jfltted- ' if“ V -- _ I ’ ”
state of . ichigan accepts a large fee from, the . . . . ‘
promoters to spend in athletic equipment for . " j ”Apple's ' ,. .
high 86110018- ' ' ' N-QTHIN G reveals -_ more clearly "the; weak
. Whogoes to a‘prlze.’fisht, becausethey are '7 - spots iii-the farming busgness than the ~
interested 111, the 13601"!qu 0f 13031118 3 ~‘Who present and prospective condition of the ap-
cares 8» ram 8 horn .Whether Dempsey has an ple market. The production. this year is far
better guard than Miske or Miske a. longer in excess of last year’s. The 10031 demand .
reach than Dempsey? A crowd of ring hab- has already been supplied. ' The foreign de-
ltutes WOPld soon .8720?" weary Of a long'drajwn‘ mend is potentiallylargc but the farmerhas
Ollt boxmg exhibmon . Wlth heavy-weight not'learned hOW to devclop it. So tens of
gloves, even though the highest Skill were d1s- thousands 0f bushels of marketable apples
played. N0, the reason men. pay $10 to, $50 will be left on the trees because it is cheaper
for. bOX seats at a prize fight 15 in the hopes 0f to letthem rot than it is to harvest them and-
SK$1114“; tWO men pummel 63611 other in 0 uncon- let them go begging for a market. The same
sc10usness. If blood 1s drawn so much the bet- trees that last year yielded the farmer an)"
ter. .A' broken nose, llps slashed to rlbbons, where from $25 to $50 will yield nothing this
streams 0f b100d pourmg down the naked year except a little hog food and cider. '
b04195 0f the fighters,—all add zest to the 0"" This is not a problem of production. There
casron and. make the spectators feel that they is no way as in the case of grain and vege—

have not spent their money in vain. .And the fables to reduce the production by cutting the
crowd has. no use for the loser who, faint from acreage. But there are «any number of ways
the loss of blood‘a‘nd repeated blows upon his in which the farmers can if properly organ-
heart, does not stand wobbly upon 1118 feet ized utilize their! apple crop year in and year
and take the terrific knock-out blow which out with. profit. . ’ V ' .
often sends him either to the hospital or the Ilitera millions of people who like 31ml“ ,

grave. , , and woulm buy apples for winter consumption
l’rize fighting “ 15 a damna’ble SPPt .upon will go 'without them this year even though
Michigan 3 bright escutcheon- Ollt With. It: they are left tarot irrthe‘V' orchards. The
_ g ' greatest enemy that the apple industryvhas is
P0011113 Wheat the cut-throat commission merchant who puts
THE NATIOAL Board of Farm Organi- locally grown apples on a price par with im-
zations will have'nothing to do with the ported apples from Washington "and Oregon.
suggestion that the farmers effect a gigantic He seems to have the notion that the only way
wheat pool thru their national organizations in WhiCh people W111 buy apples is from a
and control the movement and prices of the film? stand at five cents apiece. N0 eflort il
nation’s wheat crop. The argument of this made 1‘0 cultivate a bushel 01‘ barrel demand,
farmers organization is that such a proposal and the poor consumer shrinks With horror at
even if it could be carried" out which is doubted the-thought 0f laying down 3 barrel 0f apples
would be in effect if not in purpose a violation at five cents per apple. .
of the anti-trust laws. ' There ought never to be an over-production"
This may be true, but if it is true, the laws 0f apples in a great apple-eating country like
will have to be amended to permit of this pro- this. The apple growers ShOUId be 80 organ-
gressive marketing step being taken. The 126d that they 0011M far in advance 0f any
farmer has no desire to 80 control the market harvest develop a market for every apple to
on his products that he can fix the, selling be grown. .113 is 1101'» even necessary to talk
price without regard to the cost of production; flbOUt utilizmg the apple for its by-products,
That power would be dangerous to the public f91' when the PUbliC learns that'a way is pro-
no matter in whose hands it were placed. But v1ded whereby they can secure good apples at
the farmer does want a better system of mar- {1 reasonable price, 110.0113 Will think 0f SPOil‘
keting farm products. He does want to apre- 311g 3.1313, 11130101? EPPIG by drying it 01' mak—
vent over-production, speculation, flooded 111g c1der out of 1‘39 Juices.
markets and price fluctuations so far as pos- ”-
sible. If the adoption of a plan to eliminate Where Were the Women? ’
these evils brings to him power that might be “7E ARE disappointed. \Ve expected
employed adversely to the interests of the that the women" of Michigan would use
public, the plan would have to be carefully their right of franchise in the primary elec-

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supervised by the government. , ’ tion. But they didn’t. Reports showed that
Vthn' unorganized and unmstructed farm- only about one woman to every—ten men voted.
ers flood the market With a crop, confusion We are not going to criticize although we

immediately reigns. Elevators, railway sys- know full well that the farm women had it in
term and terminals are overwhelmed with the _ their power to decide every political contest
flood and it takes day and some times weeks in the primary. They had it in their power
to restore the marketing mediums to normal to prevent the defeat of several legislative
condition. Brices go down, way below cost, candidates who lost by a’handful of votes be-
and those who have not sold on the crest of cause the machine in the towns and cities went
the market, lose. But the farmer’s loss in solidly against them. They couldyeasily have
this case is not usually the consumer’s gain, named the next Governor of Michigan.

for speculators gather up the cheap ' crop, The ballot has been given to woman after a
hoard 1t, and when the market has returned long and strenuous fight. The most persist-
to normal, sell it at, h1gher prices. . ent argument against it was that the women

When the farmers become sufficiently '-or- didn’t want to vote. Do events prove that this
ganized there ought to be a way provided for was a good argument and that woman will not
the pooling of their non-perishable crops, by ( avail herself of her right 'of franchiSe‘l Have
states. These crops would, not have to be act. L we labored so long to give her something she
'ually moved to a common storage place, but does not want or' appreciate? Or , is her ,
could; be kept in storage on the farms or in. failureto votel. merely a ;- natural timidity
farmer-owned elevators. According to .a plan which must be gradually Overcome}. We pi‘é;
based upon a number of average year’s» or; fento believe the 1m, and “therefore, we
perience, a certain proportion of this crisp haye','no'reglrcls for the part we have played

   
 

  
    

 
 
 
 
 

 

  
  
  
 

  
  

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Tasmania‘s: Business Funk:

‘I believe that a statement is due

to the farmers of the state 'for
the splendid ' support that ,» accord-
ed me in the late primary. . It
was disappointing that so few of

them voted, but , there was perhaps

egreasonable, excuse for most of the
absent ones. Scarcity of help and
distance to travel were the chief
causes. The late closing of polls in

, the cities, giving voters the privilege

est voting after working hours aid-
ed‘the Detroit and mining districts

p in this respect.

I believe that fully seven out of
eight farm votes cast were for me.
I am very grateful for this expres-
sion of confidence. The chief cause
of my defeat was the lies put in cir-
culation during the last week ’ of
the campaign and that found way
into every paper in the state of any
wide circulation. .

That I had promised Governor
Ileeper appointment as United States
senator should a vacancy occur, that
I had become entangled in some way
with the Sleeper administration, that
Mark 14th was supporting me with
a grip on the administration if I be-
came Governor, that Col. Fred Green
of Ionia was also supporting me and
These were
lies of the deepestkind, and sprung
at an hour when they could not be
refuted in time to recover.

Governor Sleeper's appointees were
almost entirely for other candidates,
and especially those who had an
my of deputies_ to use in the field.
I am told that Governor Sleeper per-

. eonally favored me, but neither he
nor any one else ever intimated that

he expected any recognition for the
same, nor did I ever promise or hint
the same. The same doctrine would
eliminate Senator Harding from the
race today.

So far as I, know every ex—Gov-
ernor was at'least my friend if not
my supporter. Indeed I am very
proud of the class of support I re-
ceived in the state and the charact-
er of the men.

Mark McKee, if he supported me,

. did\ so without the slightest promise

or intimation of a promise of any
kind either direct or indirect. I
have probably fought Mark McKee
harder in the field of insurance than
any man in the state, and I am unp-
ehanged in my opinions about the
injustice being done the patrons and
the people of Michigan by these com-
binations. ‘They supported another
candidate. ‘They sent letters broad-

‘oast to their forty thousand agents

in the state to support another man

‘for Governor than myself.

Col. Fred Green of Ion-ia did sup-
port 1ne and I am pleased to ac-
knowledge the loyalty of that sup-
port. We have been personal friends
since we served together in the
Plngree administration. He never
sugested that his support was for
any ulterior purpose. that he want-
ed anything, and I am convinced
that he did not. .There never was
a candidate for any office on earth
more free from promises than was I.
But the dirty” work did its business
and client volv I deem it a duty,
howcv,ar to tell my friends who gave
the‘ 1' support that my campaign was
conducted honorably and according
to the best of political ethics, with-
out abuse or intrigue.

There is ‘work ahead for‘ all of us
who want to see things done for
Michigan Men don’t count so much
as accomplishment. Insurance ought
to be reformed in the state and save.
to the 1nsu1 ed about eight millions
'of dollars that now find lodgment
annually in the pockets of middle-
men and profiteers. I know full well
that this will not be done, the cards
are already stacked.

There should be a concentration of

‘Boards and commissions that Would
“ ‘il-iiOns to the taxpayers. This;

ne.’ There are too many

eighth grade school education,
should be attending_to all .of- it.

Our present state system applied
to any industry in Michigan would
bankrupt it in two years. .

Public printing should be cut
down to one fifth its present volume
and gotten out soon enough to be
worth something to, the public. Thus
saving half a million dollars in print»
ing and clerk hire.

The anti-trust laws of
that were adopted to curb corpora-
tions, are now being used only to
threaten and menace farmers. They
are threatened with prosecution if
they undertake to co—operate. Sen-
ator Harding has sounded the key-
note that should call for the amend-
ment of that law and make it possi-
ble for farmers to co-operatively sell
their own produce without corpor-
ate organization.

There are scores of things to be
done for Michigan and some day
they will find expression.

I am grateful for all the support
that come to me,‘ ”for there was not
a vote, not a word of praise, not an
influence that had back of it, the
slightest encouragement from me
that it would be repaid with prefer—
ment. That is the kind of help that
makes me satisfied with the result.—
Milo D. Campbell. Goldwater, Mich.

I

We think the rural vote showed clear-
ly that none or the farmers took any
stock in the last hour attacks upon Mr.
(hanpbell. It takes no. shrewd political
observer to discover the motives back of

 

the support alleged to have been given
Mr. Campbell by Sleeper, McKee. et. al.
It was known some weeks before the
primary that the race la between Camp-
bell and Groesbeck. he latter had
been a constant thorn in the side of the
Sleeper administration and obviously
the Sleeper crowd could not support him.
At the same time they did not care to
back a probable loser and it was per—
fectly natural that they Should turn to
Mr. Campbell.

Milo Campbell does not have to tell us
that he made no promises to the Sleeper
crowd or anyone else in exchange for
their support We already know it.
Nevertheless we are pleased to present
Mr. Campbell public disavowal of the
charges. as well as his pointed discussion
of the important issues confronting the
people Michigan has lost a. great op-
portunity in her failure to put Mr. Camp-
bell in a. position where he could carry
out his progressive views. ——Editor

JAILING MEN FOR TELLING
THE TRUTH

Would you please allow me a word
or two in regard to P. P. Miner,
Saginaw County,'M1‘ch. I am a‘ Debs
man myself. I think any man has a
right to vote for whom he likes, al-
though some say, “If you vote for
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Michigan, .

would like to ask if we haven’t been.
. dividing up for years and we want

to stop that dividing up, vote and
incorporate a system that pays the
laborer according to what be pro—
duces. If he produces $5 or $10 per
day let him get that and not let the
high cost of living consume more
than his wages will stand. Stop this
profiteering and stop some of the
press lying about the situation of
things. Make a law so strict and
binding that they will have to tell
the truth and then when a man tells
the truth don't jail him for it. The
constitution demands free speech,

free press and the right of peaceable -

assemblage, which we don’t get to-
day. A few of our head officials ig—
nore the constitution and accomplish
things to suit their own graft and
greed. What do they care for the
people.
after; not “you.” We want men that
will work for the interest of the peo-
ple not for their own pockets. A
few men like “Lincoln."—S. H. Slagle.
Warlord County.

That's an ambitious program. friend
Single. But it's all right. I have al-
ways thought that the solution to most
of our governmental ills was not so much
in a radically different 5 stem than we
now have as in the elect n of men who
will serve the people without fear or
favor. But they're hard to find—Editor.

SOCIALISM AND CHRISTIANITY

I do not Wish to enter the discus-
sion concerning parochial schools,
but I do wish to criticise William
Bennett for his article which ap-
peared in the August 28th issue of
the M. B. F. '

He says: “We can understand this
in Anarchists, Bolshevists, Socialists
and the like, for they hate anything
that is a strong bulwark and support
to our established form of govern-
ment, but we fail to understand it
in any class of Christian people.”
And again:~ “Of course if you are a
Socialist, nothing more need be said.
We can understand your venom.”

Now just what does Mr. Bennett
mean? It certainly appears that he
does not class the Socialists as a
Christian people. If such be the
case, nothing could be farther from
the fact. As a class, the Socialists
are just as religious as any other
class. Let me quote from the En-
cyclopedia Brit'tanica: “The ethics of
Socialism are identical with the ethics
of Christianity.” Obviously then,
Mr. Bennett’s remmks are the re—
sult of either ignorance or a desire
to slander a. class that is offering a
real remedy for the ills of our so—
ciety—0'. L. Halfka. Midland 00.

Its “big 1” they are looking

PAROCHIAL STUDENTS TAUGHT
1. LOVE OF GOD AND COUNTRY;
I am a girl fourteen years old, and 1
a'reader of the M, B. F'. I have-
seen a. good deal in your paper about
the parochial schools and I would like
to say something too. I would say to
that boy from Grand Blanc that he
knows very little about parochial
schools or Catholic church either.
Catholic children are taught in their
school the love of God, the love 0!
country, and to love their fellowmen.
Thereare no scandalous stories told
us about any Christian church bmuse
we have no time [or anything like that
I do think that boys who talk like
and think like that boy were taught
Christianity and educated would be
ashamed to be talking like they do.
I suppose if that bay had lived at the
time of the Revolutionary War he
would have called our glorious George
Washington and his little band of par
triot‘s Bolshevists or worse as ,‘he was
calling the Irish. We Americans
know how to sympathize with any
country wishing freedom. I also can
speak very highly of our foreigners
be rated so low. During the period of
the War those boys enlisted in great
numbers and did not wait for the
draft. They also bought Liberty
Bonds beyond their means as did oth-
er Catholics I know of. I would say
to that young man that he better wake '
up and step around and find out thing
before he writes about them and I
would also say that he better not
acquainted with some Catholic people
who are living a great deal better life
than he is for if he has read the bible
he knows what it says about scandal-
mongers. I don’t believe F. H. Car-
penter knows What he is talking a—
bout—47162 1., Bay City, Michigan.

BACK TO THE FARM ~

I am one of several thousand who
was recent-1y laid off at the Overland
plant until Nov. 1. but it is the end
of city life for my family if we can
locate on a farm. I tried to make my-
self believe We were prospering but
actually we were becoming poorer day
after day. Now we want to return to
the farm. Tell us how to get there.
I should like £1111 interview with some
good Michigan stockman or fruit grow-
er. If you can place me in commun-
icatlon with the above I will certain-
ly will appreciafe it. I shall consider
it a personal favor if you can find it
convenient to place me in touch with
any stockman or fruit shipper Within
your circle of friends who may be
looking for an honest, trustworthy
man. I shallbe pleased to furnish
you with any further particulars you'
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IS THERE AN OVER-PRODUCTION
OF \VOOL?

The average sheep in the United
States shears about 5.5 pounds of
wool. The average person in the
United States has been using every
year for the past twenty years an
average of 5.5 to 6 pounds of wool.
In order to produce all our wool at
home, we ought to have in theiUnit—
ed States about one sheep for every
person. In other words, we ought
to have in the United States today
about 110,000.000 sheep instead of
slightly less than 50,000,000. As
our population has increased in the
United States, there has been a con-
stant tendency toward fewer and
fewer sheep. Twenty years ago we
had 60,000,000 sheep and 75,000,000
people, but today we have less than
50,000,000 sheep and more than
100,000,000 people. Twenty years
ago we had to import on the aver-
age every year about 160,000,000
poundsof wool. Today our people
have so increased and our
have so decreased that it is neces-
sary to import nearly three times as
much u we did twenty years ago.
For the year 1920, our home sheep
produced a total of about 1.41.11 sou:

000 pounds of wool and we imported:
4 little over new 00 nil-oi

‘eiheep -

poi-hence with wool pooling.
" wool situation in the United States
,is altogether itinerant from the $ _

these rather dry figures in order to
illustrate the fundamentally weak
position of farmers' wool pools. We
heartily believe in the pooling of
farm products, but because of the
fact that we produce only 40 per
cent of our wool at home it will be
necessary for the men who handle
farmers’ wqjol pools to exercise an
unusual degree of intelligence in de-
termining just what price to accept.
Even though the farmers of the
United States had their wool in one
big pool amountingto 150,000,000
pounds it would still be impossible
to have an absolutely dominating in-
fluence on the wool prices. The wool
from Argentina and Australia dom-
inates the international wool trade.
From the standpoint of controlling
farm product prices by pools it would
seem that there is a much greater
chance of success with wheat or corn
or hogs than with wool. The only
advantage which wool has from a

pooled standpoint is the fact that it»

can be stored so easily. We hope

that the farmers of the United States

will not come to any definite conclu-
sion as to the desirability of pooling
farm products merely from their ex-
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nation; whichr'_ .mem.'

Knowing that many of our readers are
short of farm help we are glad to help
both them and yourself out by publish—
ing your letter. I think you have made
a wise decision. The 11111110 and address
of our correspondnut will be supplied
upon requestmlilditor.

A STANDARD \VAGE

Your “unemploynmnt” editorial
shows that your thinking on the sub-
ject has progressed far beyond that of
most editors who consider themselves
progressive. The next question is
how to fix such standard oculdli-tions
as you suggest and maintain the guar-
antee of a steady employment under
them. Sevcrml questions bob up right
here, So long as; the price of any com-
modity is fixed by speculators in open
market without regard to production
costs, how can the industry that pro-
duces it guarantee steady employment
to its wo1kers at any standard wage?
On the other hand, if prices of food.
clothing, etc , are to be fixed by cap-
italists who own mills and factories
on a basis of “all the traffic can hear”
of what use is it to fix any standard
Wage? In short what does a guaran-
tee of steady employment at standard
wages amount to unless accompanied
,by a guarantee of some fair and M
inite relation between wages
prices?—Stacy Brown. Ionic 00.. Mick. I

1 well recognise the obstacles M
sealed in the way of e. standard wage. in
you have pointed out it. habitutiie to»
any kind ofawagetha t tuber,
up by shunflaneo‘us W
as of thech commodities
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A MESSAGE TO FARM \VIY’ES
By Mary Queensbury
S WE scan the columns of news-
papers and magazines we not
- infrequently meet a lot of stuff
that we are tempted to call “hot
air;” things that are unreal, im-
practical, or able to benefit only a
few, if, in fact, any at all. Things
, that the writer could scarcely have
; believed in himself, or if he did, so
much more’s the pity for him.

I recall reading a war-time cake
recipe written by an individual who
evidently deluded herself into think—
ing she was saying something to
benefit humanity. She told of a fear-
ful strait she once found herself in
when, with-no cake for tea and the
egg basket nearly empty, unexpected

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guests arrived. She racked her
brain and concocted a recipe that
called for only three eggs. Poor
thing! If only she might have

known that more cakes are made
with less than three eggs than with
more, she would never have made
herself ridiculous by publishing that
absurd recipe with its absurd ex—
planations and excuses. Whatever
error I fall into, I trust that I may
never utter words that ring of in—
sincerity, or chatter and babble, and
let fall from my pen a lot of froth
and bubbles. ‘

I make these explanations least
the message I have for you dear sis—
ters, may sound sentimental, or
“hooky” and stagey. But I know what
I am talking. However, lest some-
one may, in some slight measure,
misinterpret my words, let me say
at the outset that I am not opposed
to higher education. One of the fin-
est, noblest, most inspiring things
of this earthy realm is the pursuit
of knowledge. But there are other
things worth while.

Listen while I tell you a bit of
biography, a brief outline of a wo—
man’s life, and when you have read
it perhaps some of you who are
downcast and discontented with your
lot will be better able to see those
blessings that are now surrounding
you. I am not writing fiction, but
facts, hard and pitiless.

This woman of whom I am speak—
ing was born and brought up in the
rural districts. When only a child,
away back in the district school, it
was noticed that she had an unusual-
ly strong intellect and every requi—
site for a fine student. But born of
poor parents, her chances for edu-
cation looked dark, and about all
that friends and relatives could do
was to express regrets that she could
not go through school. But while
these friends and relatives were
talking thus, our little lassie was
busy making plans of her own, which
later she carried out to a letter. It
would require a large number of

hardship and struggle. Suffice it to
say that upon a certain beautiful
evening in June, amid music and
flowers and congratulations, she re—
ceived her High School diploma. In
the fall she entered college with just
money enough to defray railroad ex—
penses. buy her books and pay for a
fortnight’s board. More volumes
would be required to tell the story
of her college days. Joyous ones, to
be sure, but clouded by too much
work and too little money. Here is
one incident of her life, an index to
the whole. While passinga restau-
rant where once she had slaved'to
earn her existence, she told her com-
panion of a cistern in the rear, and

dip out the water and wish that she
.might lose her hold and fall in. She
would welcome anything or any place
that would give her rest but never
for one moment entertained \the
thought that she could stop. Urged
on by her one great ambition, en-
couraged by friends, praised by well
meaning professors, she went ,the
’ smad’pace, working when other stu-
,d'ents were studying, and studying
When others were sleeping.

   
  
  

   
 

 
 

 

  - The Fermi-iome
§\ A Department for the Women; ' 4/

‘ The Uncultured Husband

an “uncultured” husband, or else they prefer to give up their own social

I T LOOKS as if not many of our readers are troubled with the problem of

likes to reforming their husbands.
open one more week and then it will close.

We are going to hold this contest .

succeeded in transforming your husband from an animated,'sit-by-fl1e-flm,
stick of wood to a human being who goes with you to sociables, picnics, the
movies, and who endures company and other social pleasures for his own on-
joyment as well as yours,——get’ busy at once and tell us how you did it. Or,
if you are still at the job, let us know what hopes you have of succeeding.

Other Good Suggestions to Come

We have some other dandy suggestions for prize contests which will

be announced in due season.

We are not going to even suggest them now.

But we do want you to know about the big Home Improvement number which
we are planning to issue this fall. - “7e are tellingyou about this because we

need your help to make it interesting and helpful to our readers.

In that.

issue we will talk about the many inexpensive conveniences which make

housework easier and the home more comfortable.

We want letters telling

your actual experience with such conveniences as the electric or gas lights.
washing machine. improved churn, carpet sweeper or vacuum cleaner, run-

ning water, tireless cooker, steam cooker,

electric iron, electric cooking

utensils, furnace, etc. Any modern appliance, whether purchased or home-
made, which yen have used to advantage, will, I am sure interest other read-

ers. Tell us about it.

For the best letters on this subject we offer the fol-

lowing prizes: lst prize, $5; 2nd prize," $3; 3rd prize, $2 and $1 for each

letter published which does not secure one of the first three prizes.

These

letters may be mailed any time before Oct. 15thF—Editor.

 

were the times when she awoke in
the wee small hours of the morning

and lifted her head from a copy of

Greek or Latin or higher mathemat~
ics, when the poor tired brain had
gone on strike and refused to (it, her
bidding. But her mad passion for
knowledge was as intdnse as the
drunkard’s craze for strong drink.
On and on she struggled, until upon
another fair evening in June, 'amid
more music and flowers and congrat-
ulations, she grasped her degree of
Bachelor of Arts. Then followed
teaching and more study; courses at
the State Normal and various State
Universities with sometimes hard
physical labor intervening. But one
day, without any flowers or music or
congratulations, the crash came, and
she left the halls of learning a wreck
with little to show for her years of
persistent labor save

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tailored garments. The woman
of my story had her boy sweet—
hearts also, for she was as fair in
form and feature as she was strong
in intellect; but nothing so ordinary
or commonplace as marriage appeal—
ed to her. She sacrificed all things
on the one altar of learning. Occas-
ionally ‘she meets some of those old
sweethearts; fine men, with homes,
families and bank accounts, and
many another evidence that with
them life wages well.

Count your blessings, you women
and mothers of the rural districts.

Good-bye, until I come again.

 

CREAM PUFF RECIPE
Put half-pint hot water and two-thirds
cupful butter over the fire; when boiling
stir in one and one-half cupfuls flour,
and continue stirring until smooth and
the mixture leaves the sides of the sauce

80 you farm women who have.

weighty volumes to tell the story of -

- more
' with what you
of how she used to stoop down to ‘

MY...

.nserVes a n (1
her worn out
brain. .

In conclud-
ing this little
narratllve I’ve
this message
to leave with
you, my dear
sisters, plod_
ding away on
the old farm:
Yon who mar-
rie d t h o s e
b o y h o o d
sweethea r t 5

back’ in the
old count r y
school, w h o

pulled you out
of snowdrifts
and carried
you over mud
puddles, don’t
go . ar 0 u n d
sobbing be-
cause you did
not chase off
to the city to
se e k y o u r
fame and for-
tune, or climb
the steep lad-
der of higher
education. Be
content

ha v e,I a n (1
place a higher
value 11 p o n
the. t- t r u e—'
hearted, hard-
working hus-
band even if
he does greet

. you morning,~

n o o n a n d
night in blue
, jeans instead

of in strictly

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Home Love

HERE’S something here in
atmosphere
Of this old home place, you know.
By 90113}, that swells round the heart
and tells
The dreams as they come and go!
And so I say that whichever way
The farthest pathway calls,
I’d rather be right here, you see, _
Where the hearth light fades and
falls.

the

The evening’s blent with a sweet con-
tent ‘ '
. And lit with a rosy hue
0f happiness that is, I guess,
Sufficient for me and you.
And under the light of the lamp at
night
Old stories are lived again.
From pages tom and thumbed and
worn,
01' iron hearted man.

We rim the earth in a voyage of mirth
With some old raconteur
or turn the page that-some poet sage
Has lit with, a strange allure,
And then fare back by the beaten
track
That home love lights, you know,
To joke and jest our heartlest
By the hearth light’s changing glow.

That’s why that here there’s an at‘
mosphere

That’s filled with something quite ,

As deep and rare as the storied air
Of islands of delight;
A something bleut with a sweet con.
tent,
And lit .withb rosy hue
Of happiness that is, I guess,
, Sufficient for me and you,.
-.-Jay B. Iden.

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and beat
thordughly
it 5 well-beat-
en eggs. Drop
onto warm
greased tins (or
dripping pan)
a. tablespoonful
in a place.
Brush over
with the white
of an egg and
bake 10 or 15

.minutes in a

quick oven.
When ,cold,
slice off the top
fill space with
"cream and re—
place top.
Cream for in-
side: Take one
pint milk, place
one-half into a
tin pail and set
in boiling wa~
ter; reserve

from the other ‘

half tWO table~
spoonfuls »_to
mix with eggs,
and into the
rest while cold
mix one cupful
flour until it is
smooth; when
milk is hot pour
-in the flour and
stir until it is
thicker than
boiled custard;
then beat well
together the 2
tablespoonf u is
milk, two eggs.
one cupful of
granulated su-
gar. a .level
tablespoonful of
butter- and a.
teaspoonful va-
nilla or lemon,
add gradually
and continue
stirring briskly
, so thick
\that when cold
it will drop,
n‘ot pour, from
the spoon. The
puffs may be
kept on hand,
Then make the
cream fresh, 'let'
it cool. and fill

K" as many, as are”
wanted; '. '1.

into

. ' Plain or ,
‘De‘v’ile'd . eggs

  
  
  
  

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HELPFUL HINTS IN PUTTING UP .

trim sermon LUNCH .

The school lunch problem is one .

that deserves very“ careful thought ,' . of

and planning. With the short noon ‘ . ‘-' .

periods or perhaps the distance from ’ i -

home, 0. large number of children find ’

it necessary to carry lunches. This

is'oue of the most important meals ‘ .

for the child and comes at a time 5

— when he needs considerable nourish-

ment. There are usually from four
to five hours between breakfast and
the noon meal and during this time
there is more. or less mental strain.
Fatigue follows unless plenty of "
nonrishing food is taken. This is .
the. time to form good food hab- ’
its and everything possible should ‘be '
done to encourage the child to select
and eat the necessary kind and the
amount of food. “Every child has a
right to be as healthy, as present '
knowledge can make him. Prop.- .
or feeding is one of the chief factors '
in health.”

A hot lunch at noon is best, or at , . <3
least one hot dish. For the benefit ' ' '
of those who carry lunches, it might
be possible to provide the school with
a gas plate, tables, cupboard and the
necessary dishes and utensils. In
this way a hot dish such as soup,
cocoa, hot milk or hot malted milk
could be prepared and sold for .a
small sum and' would add much to
the lunch brought from home. The '
older children can be taught to pre- , , _
pare and serve these. simple. hot «
dishes and thoroughly enjoy having ‘ -
a part in it. A noonday lunch con- . L
ducted in this manner adds much to .
the social life of the school a part '
too often neglected. This scheme
has been carried out very successful-
ly in a number of city~ and, rural
schoolsuand more—than repays for
the additional work in better health
and increased efficiency.

The following may offersuggesf
tions as to the kind and variety of
foods for the lunch-box: sandwiches
made of Whole wheat, brown, nut,
rye, bran or write bread, mumm,
plain or cinnamon toast. These may
be varied by the use of eggs, cottage
cheese, cream cheese, jelly, marma-
lade, peanut butter, fruit'butter,
sliced or chopped meat, with egg or
lettuce makes most tasty sandwich-
es. Other fbods Such as baked beans,
cooked eggs, deviled eggs, potato or
cottage salad, “fresh fruit, stewed
fruits, custard, plain or sponge cake,
gingerbread cookies, graham or oat
meal, coarse food and fruit.‘ Bread
or muffins should always be
included in the lunch. Too much
cannot be said regarding the use of
milk and milk dishes. - A child should
have at least a pint of .milk a day
and a quart is better. A bottle may
be providedfor carrying milk if it
cannot be purchased at school. Sand-
wiches, Acake,,cookies, etc., will keep
from drying and be more appetizing
if wrapped in oil paper. With just
a little thought and care the lunch
box may be made very attractive.
Enough time should be allowed at
noon, that the lunch period need not
be hurried and for a short relaxa—
tion out of doors. A few ‘sample
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Cream Tomato Soup
Lettuce Sandwiches
chopped _. meat sandwiches

Potato Salad ‘
Apple or Orange ' Cocoa
Baked Beans . Brown 6r bran bread '
Stewed-or canned fruit ‘ ‘
._ Hot Milk. _ /
Egg‘vor Cottagp Cheese. ,Saudwich,‘
Milk or Melted Milk ' i . , .

Cookie or Cur Cake

inhuman -,Toa-s.t( 'cold)
.Stewed‘prune‘s
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heat, at meal time.

I merely glanced over the pages of
each at the papers of that day's mail

igusntil I came to the Woman’s page. of
M. B F. when there I found in black

and white the very problem which at
that time was confronting me. I

looked its remaining pages over very
’ carefully, but found that for the solu

tion _I must wait until the next num-
her, which, alas, would be too late for
this year.
However. it started me to thinking
and the more I thought about it the
more certain I became that it could

abe-done-with ' much less strenuo’usness

than I hadz-been'a'ccustomed to.
Mr. Thresher and gang were due
here on Tuesday evening so it was

' .up to us to furnish them with break-

fast and dinner the following day.
So on Tuesday morning I began my

’ preparations early.

I baked bread cookies, doughnuts,
crusts (of shells) for lemon pies, and
a pudding made of boiled rice,_- eggs,
sugar, raisins and creamy milk,
which is very nice to serve cold.

Iprepared and cooked until tend-
er a large kettle of string beans.
These. could/then be very easily and
and seasoned for
each meal as I ee’ded them. Apple
sauce and pickles too were prepared
the same day and in the evening I
pared enough potatoes for both
meals, arranged the table, put meat
and’rolled oats into the cooking
dishes all ready to put onto the

stove for breakfast.

After the breakfast dishes were
washed, they were re—arranged on
the table for the noon meal. I then

made the lemon filling for my pi_es,,

baked a sponge cake, and prepared
the meat, a thickly cut steak, which
I had, ordered over the telephone to
be sent me by parcel post. Into this
I pounded salt, pepper and a heavy
sprinkling of flour, after which I
placed it into a very hot frying pan
with a liberal amount of lard and
butter, allowed it to sear to a good

'rich brewn, then covered it with

boiling water ~and left it simmering
until time t9 serve at noon.

I now found that I had quite a
little time left to rest before it
would be necessary to begin furth-
er preparations for dinner.

Thus my twelve year old daugh-
ter and’I, quite easily served the fol—
lowing breakfast: Potatoes, saus-
age, gravy, rolled oats, string beans,
cookies, doughnuts, coffee, piCkles,
bread and. butter. For dinner: Po-
tatoes, beef steak,-gravy, beans, cold
slaw, rice pudding, apple sauce,
pickles, Lemon pies, cookies, cake,
doughnuts, coffee, bread and but-
ter. I believe Mr., Thresher and
gang enjoyed these meals as much
as though everything had been pre-
pared’ the same day and am sure I
did a great deal more—Mrs. W. S.
Bronson Michigan.

PUT YOUR WORK ON BUSINESS
BASIS

If’ the farm woman is to put her
threshing day work on a business
basis .the problems she has to con—
sider is this: How, with the mini—
mum amount of labor and expense,
can I prepare a thoroughly nourish~
ing meal for laboring men?

In order to do this she must take
stock of material in cellar and gar-
den and of the equipment with which
she has to work. For instance, the
woman who has a fireless cooker or
oil stove might have hot baked beans

. while the "woman who had to use

a wood or coal stove would choose
something that would require less
She must plan
carefully every step in preparation
and serving of the meal if she is to
save labor and nerve strain.

I use oilcloth instead of linen-for
my table; plan the ‘meal so there are
no side dishes, thus eliminating both-

~ dishes and labor of serving; prepare-
was much food as possible the day
before; use a teawagon or tray/tn"

taking all food and dishes to and

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toes are scraped and allowed to stand

in celd Water. -» - .j

Threshing day, as scon in the
morning work is done I make the
cold tea and pie filling and lay the
table, putting a cover over it until
nice] time.

About half an hour before meal
time I slice the cucumbers’into vine-
gar, cut the bread and put in bread
box while the men are washingpl
mash the potatoes and place all food
with the exception of tea, coffee and
pie on the table, these I serve from
a side table.

After dinner I carefully scrape
and. stack the dishes, wash in- hot
As each dish is wash-
ed I dip it into hot water and set up
to dry. If, the day is very hot I dip
the dishes in cold instead of hot wa-
ter.—-A. 0., Greenville, 'Mich. '

PLANNING MEALS FOR THE DAY

For breakfast have hamburg
steak, warmed up potatoes, bread
and butter, coffee and breakfast food
if desired.

For dinner, if I know they are
coming a day ahead, I make sure to
have plenty of goOd bread on hand
and butter that has been packed a.
week or two, because it goes so much
farther. Always ‘ have plenty of
pickles, .pare your potatoes the night
before and put them in water and
change it in the morning. Have in
mind sometime ahead what meat you
are going to have and select it the
day before and partially cook it.
Make your cookies or fried cakes the
day before and then all you have to

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naked apples go very good. Cabbage,

,vegetables and baked beans go very

goOd too. Be sure and have_ all
your bake dishes washed before
dinner.

After dinner the first thing to do
is to put away the victuals and make
sure to put to soak all dishes that
are dry. Take a dryvpiece of bread

and clean‘all the others off and stack

them, put your smaller dishes where
you can wash them first. Be sure to
have plenty of hot, water and soap.
Rinse well with boiling water and
dry with clean dish towels. Gather
all silverware and glass and wash

'and dry‘ as usual.

For supper I usually have some
good pork or apple sauce cake and
cookies. Use your left over meat
and cut in small pieces.- Make a
gravy to cover and put in a pan.
Make biscuits rolled thin and place
over top and bake. If you have

plenty of potatoes they can be made

into a salad if desired to do so.—
Mrs. L. 0. 0., Litchfield, Mich.

SOME APPETIZING MENUS

Following are some menus I have
served for threshers with a mini-
mum of labor on the days the meals
are served.

Menu I

Green corn on cdb. Boiled potatoes

Roast beef or pork Gravy
Sliced cucumbers with salad dressing

Pumpkin or custard pie
Sliced ripe tomatoes

Coffee Bread String beans, fried

The corn, beans, tomatoes and
potatoes could be gathered the even-
ing before, while the crust for the pie
could be rolled and placed in tins,
the pumpkin cooked and sifted, and

" ner.

dreading for ' " d it ' , \
fore. Carrots may be substituted

7 for pumpkin

In the morning the pies could be ,'
baked and the beans boiled ready to
fry in butter while cooking the din-

When the dinner is started in the
meat can be roasted in the oven, and
the top of the stoves is left for the
vegetables and coffee.
Menu II.

Boiled potatoes
Creamed Cabbage Pickled beets
Fried Chicken Gravy
Lemon or Cream pie or Rice Pudding
Coffee Bread Cottage Cheese

For this menu the beans could be
soaked, the beets prepared, the pie
shells baked, and the chicken clean-
ed the day before.

Menu III.
Creamed carrots Mashed potatoes
Escalloped Salmon
Cabbage salad, cream dressing

,Baked Beans

Corn Fritters Cockiee
Ripe Fruit Bread
Coffee Cottage cheese

The last menu requires less work
but most of it comes on the day the
meal is served. It would do for a
supper menu.

In preparing all the above menus
I have assumed that bread, butter
cookies, etc., would be ready a day
or two before the day one expects the
men. In them all side dishes have
been eliminated thus saving time,
table space and dishwashing.

Of course the items could be re-
arranged according to the vegetables
and fruit the housewife has on hand.
Personally I do not favor fruit pies
for unless they are baked fresh they
are apt to be soggy.

Hoping this may help some puz-
zled housewife, I am yours to help.—
B. N.. Moddersville Michigan.

 

 

 

 

Look for the
ROWENA
trade-mark
on the sack

and color.

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Best Wheat—Perfect Milling
That Make a Perfect Flour

There is a greater difference in flour than even
women of experience in home baking realize.

The difference in quality always comes out in the
‘ . ' baking. You could not induce thousands of women
in Michigan to use any other flour than

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Llly Wh 1 t e
“The Flour the Best Cooks Use”

They stick to this flour year after year because it makes for
them deliciously flavored, white, tender bread, rolls, biscuits,
and flaky, melt— 1n- the- mouth pastry.
There are definite reasons why LILY WHITE is so good.

In the first place the finest wheat is used—a grain of just the
right balance, neither too hard nor too soft.
and nutrition to build health and make a 100% food. As we
mill this wheat, it is cleaned four times, scoured three times and
then washed before going on the rolls for the first break. Only
the hearts of the grain are used—the very best part.
careful, scientific and sanitary milling converts the wheat into
finished flour of wonderful texture, uniformity of granulation
Flour could not possibly be made better.

Prove our claims for LILY WHITE by giving it a trial. It is
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‘USED TO ask Aunt Clare why

«to her, but she didn’t know the
I suspect 'that it was be—

this page have been for the girls and

"the boys weren’t interested in them.
.’ But I intend to
' chance to say a word, and I will
Ktry. to divide up our page from now

give the boys a

on so that about half of it will in-
terest girlsand the other half boys.
As a starter we- are printing this
week plans by Frank Solar for mak-

' ing a wheel-barrow. Where is there

(boy who has not at some time
wanted, to make a wheelbarrow?
Well, here’s your chance. Mr. Solar
tells you just how to do it.

'VWe have in store for both our
boy: and girls some thrilling and fas-
cinating stories. . We haven’t room

Week to tell you much about
them but keep‘your eyes open and
watch for them ‘

Well, Issuppose school has started
for most of you. Don’t I wish I was
going to school again in the little red
school house in the woods. You
may think that’s funny but most
people when they grow up have the
«me wish. And you will too. When
school starts there’s plenty to write
about, and I expect to hear from
hundreds of my boys and girls this
fall and winter.-—UNCLE‘NED.

 

CHILD’S TOY “’HEEL—BARROW
‘ By Frank T. Zola:

Instructor. Dep’t Manual Training,
Detroit Public Schools

HILE you are working
your garden, little brother Vor
‘sister will want .to help, but,
of course, they cannot be of much
assistance to you unless it is to car-
ry away the stones, pieces of sod and
other things you do not care to have
in the garden.

With a little red wheelbarrow the
little folks can have great fun and

I—

" will enjoy working with you.

It is not necessary to make the
wheelbarrow the same size as the
drawing, because if it is thought too
small the dimensions can be doubled
making a good~sized wheelbarrow.

Start work by making the handles,
they are 3—4 inch square and 28 in-
ches long. About six inches from
the ends round or cham'fer the corn-
ers making a good hand hold.

Next make the bottom board. It
is squared up 3-8 inc-h thick, 8 inches
long and 7 inches wide. The next
operation is to taper the ends “mak-

'ing one end 6 inches and the other

8 inches. The bottom is braded or
nailed to the handles 3 1-2 inches
from the ends.

The two sides are

, more of the boys did not write .

~eel is that he is a

" to the ocean,

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0W, don’t squirm, but—have you
a pet eel? Odd sort of pet, you
think? Perhaps. But the eel

is one of the queerest creatures in‘

the world. and de- .5,»
epitelhis snake—like
appearance, he is'
responsive to affec-
tion and'makes a
good pet. or course,
that isn’t the most
important thing.
What is really im-
portant about the

good deal of a puz-
zle. Naturalists, all
the world over, are
trying to find out
about the eel, and
information fr 0 m
anywhere is wel-
come.

Early in spring,
in most parts of the
country, young eels
about two inches
long and about as thick as the lead
of a lead pencil g-o swarming up the
rivers from the sea. They seek ponds
or still reaches of rivers and stay
there for about eight years, becom-
ing a yard long. Then the sea calls
them and they make their way back
sometimes crossing
long stretches of land, and travel-
ing on dewy mornings. This is the
famous eel-Jwalk or eel-fare.

But what is puzzling about the eel
is that no one has ever been able to

‘When Eels Walla. .

(Bit. Francis Rolt- Wheeler)

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though, that if the eels which have
lived in the rivers don’t go back to
the see, there are no baby eels at all.-

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had a really truly baby'eel. Young
eels are known, yes! They look like
thin slips of glass with a silvery eye.
They are quite transparent. Until
quite recently, this
transparent creature
was thought to be a
kind of fish." But it

changing
eel, just as a tad-
pole changes into a
1m.“

The babyhood of
' the eel is still a
.. .mystery. It is prob-
'able that the, egg
of eels are hatched
in the deep sea, be-
ing too light to sink
to the bottom and
too. heavy to float
to the top and that
the baby eel is born

nose. We don’t
know. We do know,

ourselves is a good thing, nature
study done to tea-ch ourselves, is bet-
ter, but nature study which will help
others is best of. all. It would be a
real help to science it a boy or girl
would report where, and on what
day, the eels had been swimming up
the rivers, and when the big ones
had been seen on the walk back.

 

 

head of an axe

wood against the
or iron.
. The wheel is 3-4 in. thick and Mn.
in diameter and should be cut as
round as possible to assure’its roll-
ing well.- Drill a 1-2 in. hole at the
center for the axle. 7 ,‘
Now drill the holes at the ends of
the handles for the axle, great care
should be exercised in boring
straight. This is difficult, as the
bit is held at an angle to the side
of the handle. The location of this
hole can be found on the drawing.
The axle should be made of hard-
wood and is held in place by brads
driven through the handles into the
axle. To keep the wheel from wob-
bling, place large washers each side
of it on the axle and drive brads
along side of the washers through
the axle. Before assembling the
wheel and axle try the wheel to
see that it turns easily on the axle,
it may be necessary to sand the axle

a little so it will fit the hole in 'the
wheel.

Sandpaper all parts well and tin-
ish with two coats of bright red
paint. It would be much easier to
pain-t the wheel, axle and front of
the box before assembling finally,
but do not allow paint to run in the
hole in the wheel or on the axle at
the center as this will keep the wheel
from turning well.

 

OUR BOYS AND GIRLS

Dear Uncle Ned— Will try and write
ou a letter as I have never written
{efore We have been taking the M. B.
F. for some time as a gift from a friend
of ours. I think it is a splendid paper
and like it fine. I have written a number
of stories an am sending you one to put
in “The- Chi drens Hour" for hem to
read if you like it. I am a. boy and am
interested in “The Children's Hour." Ray-
mond McConnell, V‘Veerontville, Mich.,

2., ,
Thanks for your story Raymond,
write us another one.

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Crickets’ High: as the 11th
The fire shone brightly on the hearth

. in the farmhouse away out in the count- _
_ ry. Beside the fire eat an old gray

whose name was Cricket.- Now Crick

~ was not a lasyrcat for .she caught many

mice and rats. who chanced to run h

way. She liked to'go into the fields an
hunt micetn the summer time. but now
it was winter. The wind was howli

about the hens and the rafters creek

and moaned wh la the snow fell thick and
fast. Cricket hunted mice in the barn
during the daytime, but at, night she
loved to set by the fireside and watch the
flames as they lept up the chimne in
high glee. Now tonight she was thin u
about a nice fat rat she had .caugh;
during the day in the barn. she tho
of summer and what nice times , she
Would have catching mice in _
when her mistress picked her up in he!

~19. and gently stroked her tur- until she "

f -l fast asleep, When she awoke she
was still lying b the hearth on her nice

soft pillow, the amee were still leapfii .,

the chimney and filing the room wi

rful glow, when allzof a sudden
she heard a gnawing over in a nearby
corner and a little ,
scampered by her. She felt ashamed for
not catching him, but to, her surprise
back run again, she pounced upon him
and had a fine meal to 'end all her

troubles for the night-g3. McConnell. /

Dear Uncle Ned—J lots to you one.
before but did not see my letter in prin
So will try again. I am a. girl 9 years 01

and weigh about 67 pounds. I have two‘

sisters and one brother. Their nm
and ages are, Ethel. 22, Harold, 19, 2%
Agnes. 17 We take the M. B. F.

I like read “The Children: Page.
Papa and Mama like to read everything.
We liva on.a farm of 120 acres, four
miles from Harbor Springs. We hav
6 cows. 6 calves, 4 pigs, 3 horses an
about 60 chickens. have a. pet dog
named Buster. As my letter is gett
long I will close—Delia Grauel, Harbo
Springs, Michigan.

 

Dear Uncle Ned—This is the first time
I have written to you. 1 am a girl 1'
years old and passed the 8th grade last
gear. I live on a 280 acre farm. We
ave 19 horses, 45 cattle. 75 chickens,
5 pigs and a pair of guineas I have one
brother home and one brother in Detroit.
They are both older the. .
OWn a Dodge car and I know how to
drive it. I planted some potatoes this
spring and they are looking fine.
my .letter is getting long will
hoping to see my letter in p t, and that
some of the boys and girls will write
glmg—cmglédred Collinson, Fayette, Mich
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close

 

Dear. Uncle Ned-This is th
havo written to you. My fatlferflgire:
the M. B. F, I am agirl 10 years old and
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supposed to can as y year.
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Dear Uncle Ned-—— Th .
I have ever written toia u; “i°,f,‘n’3’;,“';g
11 years of fire. I like to read “The Oh 1d_
drens Hour. My parents have taken the
B. F. ever since it star . For a. t
I have a little white Eskimo dog. iii.

 

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1-4 in. x 9 in. and lat-
er formed by cutting

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and the
bottom board, . after
this make the front, it

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and planed to fit the
bottom board without

. a Lcrack. The upper
corners of the front
piece are rounded to

11—2- in. radius.

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Iliceai-u}:7t:lcle'1 Neg: -- I
am a 9 rl oars
old and in the 3th!!!
grade at school. This is
' first time I have ever
' written to you.
teacher’ name is Miss
l Della ay. ‘My sister
' has had a letter in print
so I will try my luck. I
have two sisters. We
live on a Jan-acre farm.
Well, I will close for. this
time. —— Mae _Wa.tson.
Hemlock, Mich.

 

‘ Dear Uncle Ned—Thin
is the first I have writ»

ten. 1 am a gir 8 years
old, and in the tough

grade. at school.

nathier takes the M. , B.

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- grain stored at the central markets,
,- «on though stored in his own elew'
. yators, would have the same bearish

set on the farmers' market as if
were stored in any other elevat-

‘ ore. The fact that grain is stored in

there is the reason for its bear-

h influence on the market.
Ansntirecropotgraincannothe
consumed at once or. course. The

ge-central markets and known to

" “major part of it must be stored as

until the market needs it.‘ But,

r the former. the best place to store
khrlghtenthefam. If the mar-
letgoeslewit wiliaotgoso low
with thegrain on the farm as it will
7 if it is in the terminal elevator.
git goes high it will go higher with

e~ grain on the farm than it will if
be grain is in the terminal elevator:
Vastly more storage on the farm for

in is needed far worse than more
mine! elevators.

The farmer charges that others
manipulate the price of his grain. It
may be that they do, but the farmer

the one who makes that easy to

. If he did not market his grain
until it is needed, manipulation
would be difficult indeed; Nothing
will do more to destroy manipulation
d the price of grain than intelligent,

dual marketing from the farm.

oh a practice is the only thing that
prevent the severe congestions
at we now have in the movement
of grain and for which the farmer al-
ways pays heavily in the end. For
many reasons the farmer ought to
market his grain for more regularly
than he now does and anything the
American Farm Bureau Federation
can do to induce and enable him to
do it the Committee of Seventeen
should recommend that it do. It
should not lose sight of the splendid
opportunity it here has to render 5
real service.

"The farmer also complains that
gop statistics and market informa-

on are manipulated to his disadg
vantage. When that happens it hap-
gns because the man who uses the
formation has it and studies it and
go farmer who sells does so without
owing the fects behind the mar-
ket. Some farmers say that such in»-
formation should not be given out at

LET’S ALL GO IN FOR THE
SECOND GOLD CONTEST!

 

. Mason, Mich. Sept. 3, 1920
Manager Michlgan Business Farm-
or Gold Contest:

Received your check for 850 as
first prize in the $100 Gold Contest»
Thanking you very kindly for check
also for the fair and honorable
way in which you conducted the
contest. ‘-

“’ishjug you good luck and suo-
.oess, I remain, ever at your Ser-

vice.
D. L. BOLFE.

 

 

 

,
If Mr. Rolfe‘were the Winner in
our new contest, which closes Oc-
tober 30th, at midnight, he would
receive a Hundred Dollars in Gold,

ause «we have just doubled the

tal prizes in the second contest—

800 in, gold to split among the win-
acre!

The readers of M. B. I“. have al-
ways been anxious to help this week-
ly and its great circulation in every‘
county in Michigan today, and its
rapid spread into northern Ohio and
Indiana, is largely due to friends
among our readers who have used
every means of boosting it.

You, our friends, have helped,
without any promise or prize or re-
turn heretofore, and we know you
are willing to continue, but just to

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l MICHIGAN nvsmnss puma, ‘

MT. CLEMENS. HIGH.

or 3,043! 1-920.
whack. samples. «a,

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- the work, we are putt ng up tliese

I want to joint in the Second Gold Contest, which closes Octob-
It is not to cost me a penny and I am to have as good
as anyone to win the 3800 in Gold Prizes.

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sneeao'see’eeoosoeoe-
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for; ma. that ”hem... not want“

' anyone else to know anything about
his business and he does not want to
know anything about it himself. The
farmer can never get too much in-
formation about the supply and de-
mand for the crops he has to sell and
what the market conditions are from
day to day. Rather than have less
information on crops and markets,
the farmer needs vastly more at his
finger's ends and the American Farm
Bureau Federation is in splendid po-
sition to give it to him. .
So, the American Farm Bureau
Federation has an ample field for
useful and profitable endeavor in
which its activities may always be

determined by economy and em- _- ‘

steady. the two great, haste rocksorn

which business advancement is
foundedir multimedia: opportan;
ity- is the apps . _
farmer to act in ly in produc-
tag. and marketing his grain, leaving
with him the responsibility for the
proper use of that intelligence. The
outstanding things, in connection
with marketing the farmers' grain,

that are now awaiting the action of ’

some farmers' organization are:

1. To place at the disposal of the
farmer all information that may be
of value to him, on grain - roduction
and demand, and on mar st condi-
tions.

2. To encourage and make possi-
ble a gradual marketing of grain
from the farm. -

3. To encourage storage of grain
on the farm until it is needed for
consumption.

4. To discourage the erection of
more terminal elevators, either by
the farmers or with state funds.

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add a zest and make a lay-game of

gold prizes.

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In this contest, all kinds of new or
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Let someone in every family enter
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It s a man 3 Job
to keep up With Michigan

.In the passing of a decade, almost, Michigan, by a phenomenal V
growth, has leaped from comparative industrial obscurity to a com-
‘manding place among the commercial centers of the nation. .

  

Hand in hand with this expansion, has grown the demand for tele-

‘phone service in Michigan.- .Some idea of‘ the problems confronting
the Michigan State Telephone Company as the result of this advance
in industry and population may be gained from consideration of
these facts:

In 1910 the state had a .population of 2, 810, 000 ,served by 143,300
of our telephones, or one for every 19% persons.

In 1920, it is estimated from the available census returns, the popu-
lation is 3,210,000; a growth of approximately 400,000, and is serv-
ed by 292,851 of our telephones, meanings one for each 11 persons.

Therefore, while the population has grown 14.2 per cent, the num-
ber of telephones has grown 104.3 per cent. The company has, in
the face of war conditions, material and labor shortage and sky-
rocketing costs, more than kept pace with Michigan’s growth.

It has been necessary, in order to meet the myriad problems con--
fronting the telephone service, for the company to make surveys and _
estimates, years in advance, of the volume and direction of popula-
tion and industrial growth in order to intelligently build to meet
it. All this company’s resources and efforts have been used to meet
Michigan’s requirements, as indicated in these surveys.

Had the 14.12 per cent increase in population been evenly distribut—
ed the problem would have been simplified, but the‘growth has been
greater at some points than at others. There have been times,
therefore, when the surveys did not compare with requirements and
times when the engineer’s estimates could not be met

But the telephone people, facing these and many other obstacles,
carried on and are still carrying on, determined that their future
efforts shall exceed even those of the past.

They are anxious to have the people they serve know what they are

doing to solve these problems and that despite all difficulties they are

determinedio make Michigan’s telephone service the best obtain-
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If you are planning on a sale this- year, write us now and
‘ CLAIM THE DATE !
This service is free to the live stock industry in Michigan
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HE BUSINESS EARLIER .Was one of the first farm papers in the
TUnited States to establish a service department through which its 1‘

readers might secure free of charge advice and information on air
Since then other publications have I
sought to emulate this service,- but many of them not having the heart
interest or confidence of its readers, have been obliged to fake inquir-
ies in order to fill up their department. During the past two years I
The Business Farmer has received and answered literally thousands
of bona fide inquiries on hundreds of different subjects.
what your problem may be, rest assured that The Business Farmer
stands ready to help you without charge. -—Edltor.

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WHO FEEDS STOCK?

Party of the first part is to leave seven
cows on the place and tools that are now
on the place and to furnish one half of
all seed and second party is to furnish
half and each is to have half of all crops
and fruit and everything that is raised
thereon and party of the first part is to
leave one brood sow and twenty-five
chickens on he place and second party
party is to furnish one cow and a. two

', year old heifer and each is to have half

of all increase of all stock the title and
ownershi to remain with the party who
furnishe the stock. All stock is to be
fed on the undivided crops and every-
thing sold is to be drawn to the nearest
market and proceeds divided equally.
Each is to pay half of all veterinary
bills. Second party is to draw out all
manure and do 13:11 work on said farm
in season and in a good workman- like
manner ach is to furnish half of the
binder twine and all phosphate used and
except labor. Second party is to have the
right at the expiration of this lease to
remOve as much coarse fodder from the
farm as he now brings on the farm. all
surplus is to remain thereon at the ex—
piration of this lease First party is to
leave all coarse fodder now on farm
and furnish and help put up 80 rods of
fence thereon Now the rest of this
contract is as all other contracts. There
was 12 1- 4 acres of wheat sowed on the
.farm last fall In September. B helped
A drag the ground once and B did all
the drilling of the wheat and pays half
the bill of threshing also all labor. Now
A paid $26 00 and some cents for phos-
phate to sow with wheat, and this
spring there w 3 $36. 00 and some cents
worth of phosp ate used on oats and corn
which A refuses to help pay. Also A
does not want to sell all surplus which is
not needed to supply each party. A want!
each to save 50 bu. and B can sell his
share of the rest while A holds his half
for higher prices. will that give each the
same or can B make a sale at the same
time? The contract starts Nov.1 while
the wheat was sowed in September. ——-
Mrs O. M. S, Vassar, Michigan.

I am of the opinion that each must
pay half- of the expense of feeding
the stock at whatever time it is fed
and if feed is bought that each must
pay half. I am of the opinionthat
A is liable for one half of the phos-
phate used after the lease began and
can not collect for phosphate sown
before the lease commenced. I am
of the opinion that A may hold his
half of the crops to such time as he
desires to sell and that B may sell
when he thinksthe market is advan-
tageous fore his share of the crops.
The surplus may be sold as provided
ingthe lease. I think B would not
have authority to compel B to sell his
half at the same _time B sells. There
being no provision in the lease giv-
ing either authority to make sales
without the consent of the other
neither would have authority to sell
the others share without his consent.
—W. E. Brown, legal editor.

 

TEIE TO SOW SWEET CLOVER

Would like to know which is the best
time to sow sweet clover seed on sandy
land. I haVe some land- that I want to
put into rye and would like to seed it.
Would it come up too big in the rye if I
seed it this fall? Does lt burn out as
easy as June clover? How much should
be sown per acre?_ — R. L. B. Mason. Co.

As a rule best results are secured
by seeding. sweet clove; in the early
spring. When seeded " with rye it
should. be seeded early before the
rye makes 'a rank growth. From 18
to 12 pounds of Scarifled .seed per
acre issuflicient. If 'thesunscarifled
Fseed is used from 16 to 18 pounds
will be necessary.

, Sweet clover is quite sensitive to
soil acidity and on soils that are ten

fare. usually secured. The
should be inoculated and the sand
1bed should be quite firm- when the

 
  

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inoculate,- a bushel of seed—0. R.
Megee. Ass’t Prof. of Farm Crops. M.
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DAMAGING ROADS WITH TRUCKS

Will you kindly inform me through your
paper whose duty it is to keep four miles
Of highway in repair over which heavy
loaded trucks travel going to and from

the gravel pit to the road which a party .

is building. Two miles of this road is
on the county line between. Sanilao
St. Clair Co. and the other two miles is
known as the Wild Oat road, the main
traveled road to the city of Pt. Huron
This road has always been a. %0 00d road
but since these trucks have een tra-
veling on it it has been cut up fierce
and is hardly fit to travel' on It don't
seem right 1: at a. private party can use
this road and spoil it in‘order to build
four miles of gravel road that he" gets
money for building. Now should the‘road
districts in the two townships bear the

extreme expense of keeping this road in ,

in repair or the man who sells the gravel
or the truck man who gets good pay for
drawing it or the man Who is building
the good road?———Subscriber Jeddo, Mich.

Practically all travel upon the
highway is by “private parties.”

Highways are constructed for use "

by private parties so that all parts
of the country may become accessi-

ble. Private parties may use high— _

way for travel with any size load not
.prohibited by law or regulations,
and the repairs to the highway caus-
ed by such use shall be borne by the

public the same as any repair to the 1

highways. However, should private
parties injure a highway in a way
prohibited by law or regulations
then they are liable ‘for the damage.
The drawing of gravel upon a high-
way is a legitimate use of the high-
way—W. E. Brown, legal editor.

STORING DUCHESS APPLES

Would you please tell me how to store
Duchess apples so they will keep for a
long time?—F. B., Grand Traverse Co.

Duchess apples are .not' usually

stored for later use insofar as one~

of the principal advantages of this
variety is due to the fact that ' it
comes earlier on the market when
other varieties are-‘not-avallable. Of
course, it could be kept in storage
the same as any other variety, _hold-
ing it at a temperature of from“82
to 35 degrees F. in a room where
the air is fresh and sweet and of a
moderate degree of humidity. Oom-
mercially we could not recommend
the storage of Duchess apples as the
cost of storage would have to be add-
ed on the price of the fruit and it
would be necessary to place them on
the market somet me in the fall
when other winter varieties would

be placed on the market much cheap- j'

er. —0. P. Halligwn. Professor of Her.
ttculture, M. A.

 

UNRECORDED ' DEED

My mother bought 40 acres of land,
but was not put on record. A few months
afterwards she died My father bought
land adjoining, and had my mother's 40
acres added to his land and recorded in
his name. Father married again but
died some months ago Can the children
claim their mother’s 40 acres, and wins
13 a widow's rights. If children sign a
on mother's 40 acres with the under-
standing that he 15 going to sell and d
not, can they claim it? Does a ch11

liying with legal parents. lose all clauim'

t it th rt -—

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If the deed of the land:

ed by. the mother was delivered to

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_' their mother’s “403' '
his real estate descends one third to

the .widow and the balance to his

children in equal shares. His perm
sonal, after the payment .of debts,
funeral expenses and allowances

3 willibe divided one third to the wid-

ow and two thirds to the children.
The" allowance depends upon the

facts of each case and are determin-.
.~e‘d partly by the statute and partly:

by the judge or probate.

' hf the children sign off on their
mother’s property they can not
claim it on the ground stated unless
there are additional circumstances
ohoWing that the execution of the
deed was procured by fraud. A child
living with its parents loses no
rights ofinheritance from either par-
ents—W. E. Brown, legal 'editor.

DRAIN ALONG HIGHWAY

A year ago last spring the county
started to build a gravel road in front
of my place and they put a creek on my
side, which was across the road. There
is another farmer on the same side of the
mad and the county promised at the
time they dug the creek to giVe the both
of us a. bridge and now they are trying
0 just put one bridge in for us by buy-
ng a right of way of me, which I do
at want. We have been without a
ridge for over a year, with only a tem-

rary one and a dangerous one at that.
,ow they do not want to build a. bridge
until another year, What. I want to
know is can they do that or can we make
them give the both of us one. There is
no way of getting a threshing machine in
~here and we are in need of one badly.—
. W., Standish, Mich.

The highway‘law provides: “When
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'self personally liable for damages.—

‘ sale by B to C then it is 0'3 prop-

' to get to the lake.

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lent-a “moaned. at 1...: __ one, .
‘ way'pacrosrstiehif , ‘,
drain ' connecting ‘the highway with .
each «enclosed fields-and with

brine it seems

farm entrance, Which bridge or pass-t
age tway'shall be charged in the first
instanceas, a part of the construc-
tion of such drain, after which such
bridge or passage way- shall be main-
tained by the owner of the land."
You can compel compliance with this
law and the officer who neglects his
duty in this regard may make, him-

W. E. Brown, legal editor.

NOTICE TO REMOVE. PROPERTY

November last A hmht- tanner B
taking possesion in December. B sold
to C ensilage in silo on farm bought by
A. O hasn‘t removed ensilage to date: A
wants to fill silo September 1st or soon
after. Who should A notify, B or C
who would be holding for damage if it
isn't moved by filling timeT—tA. E. F..
Litchfleld, Mich,

I would notify both B and C to
move the silage and fix a reasonable
date- I would be of the opinion that
if there was a clear and undisputed

 

erty and he is causing the annoy-
ance and damage. If there is any-
thing by which the sale of B to C is
not a legal sale then it would be B
who is causing the delay. I would
notify both so there could be no loop
for both or either to avoid their duty.
—'—W. E. Brown. legal editor.

CROSSING MAN’S PROPERTY

I would like ,to know whether a per-
son has a. right to cross another man’s
property to get to a lake, or whether he
may be compelled to wade the stream to
get to the lake‘i—H. N., Arenas County.

————r—-—-—Q

You cannot cross private property
One may use a
navigable stream to get to public wa-
ters—W. E. Brown, legal editor.

 

 

 

 

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Who are Honest?

E PREFER to believe that the great majority of people and cor-
Wporations are honest. In our correspondence with firms against

* whom complaint has been made as a result of an unsatisfactory
transaction we find the trouble to have been caused in the majority of
instances by the following factors: misunderstanding, delay in the
mails, loss of articles in transit and inofliciency of company employees.
Rarely do we find a case where a firm deliberately seeks to rob its
patron. Many firms are having difficulty nowadays in getting the goods
to fill their orders, and some of them make the mistake of rétaining
their customer’s money for an indefinite period, hoping to be able to
fill the order before the patron loses his or her patience and demands
It; would unjustly appear from some of the
complaints published in this department that some firms were trying
to defraud their customers and that our intervention was all that pre-
vented them from getting away with it.
against a too ready acceptance of this belief, for in the majority of
cases it is not merited. Whenever we come across a firm whom we
believe to be dishonest we will not hesitate to say so.—'The Collector.

We caution our readers

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‘AUTO SUPPLY COMPANY BETTIE-S
CLAIM-: OF $4.45 .

I sent to the National Auto Supply Co.,
Chicago, 111., for an order of goods but
they proved unsatisfactory so I return-
ed them, The company said I could have
my money back or the amount applied
on some other order. I made out a. new
order and sent it to them at the same
time that I~returned the goods. which
was in March. So far I have not received
my money or the new order.—-S. R., Au-
burn, Mich.. July. 19th. , .

We wrote this company and they
advised us that they could not 10-
cate_ all the paperspertaining to the
transaction but in order to adjust
matters they were sending Mr. S.
R. a check amounting to $4.45.

I was really very much surprised when
I got the check for 54,45 from the Na-
tional Auto Supply Company. I certain—
ly appreciate what you did to secure this
ettlement for me. Mr. S. R., Auburn.
Michigan, August 18th.

MISUNDERSTANDING

On November 7th, 1919 I sent an or-
der of $7.40 to the Bedell Co. 17th to 18th.
{St near Fifth Ave... New York City, for
two sweaters. and have never got but
one letter from them. They said they
ad‘ received .my order. that they did not
ave the sweater but ill could wait a
abort time they would fill my order, I
waited a long time then wrote them. and
wroteand wrote them. I know I have.
written them at least five times and have
reply.—-—Mrs. L. W., Charlotte,
: ich., May 23rd.
9' We wrote the Bedell Company ask-

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our little girl, to Bellas Hess & Co. When
.the order came there was only one dress

wrote you about some ‘

they had not sent it before, If it is time
for our subscription to run out please‘
notify us as we wish to continue receiv-
ing your paper.—Mrs. L. W., Charlotte,
Michigan.

sorr SENT

On May 3 I returned to Montgomery
Ward & Co., a suit which was unsatis-
factory. . I ‘had the parcel insured and
have written to them three or four times
but have received no reply whatsoever
The No. is 39B1006, navy blue, 328.95%
you {can collectdthils forAme it will be a
grea accommo at on.-—- . 8., Rhod
Mich., June 21st, 88’

Upon referring this complaint to
Montgomery Ward and Company we
received a reply from them in which
they stated they had already, for-
warded a new suit in exchange be-
fore receiving our letter. “

I received your letter in regard to the
suit I returned to Montgomery Ward &
Company. They did not lose any time in
getting the suit here. I thank you very

much for the favor.—A. S., R d .
Mich, July. 12. . ho es

 

‘ CHECK RECEIVED

Last .fall we sent for two dresses for

and I wrote them about it but haven't
been able to get any reply. The amount
due me is $2.49.——Mr. D. H, K.,' Wheeler,
Michigan, August 151:

We advised the Bellas Hess & (30.,
about the above complaint and they
Wrote us that they were taking the
matter “up with . our subscriber;

Shortly after we received" the ”fol-5 "

lowing, from D. H. K.:
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Proved by Greatest Growth

HE second ear sale of Gillette Tires was greater than
the secon year sale of any other tire ever placed on
9 market. They render more service-give greatest
mileage at least cost. That is the reason.
The greatest of mileage value is gained through might de-
rived from the perfected Gillette Chilled Rubber Process
which toughens Rubber as iron is toughened when changed
to. steel, prevents tread and fabric separation—reduces sand
blisters and blowouts—mcreaseseresistance—multiplies

endurance—makes rubber heat-proof and col roof r /
sulting in the mom serviceable tire for any motoring semdcepon en} mi:
fill-longestacordGeflli ngntirsgid. Putnorfi: or a full set on your car. Lower
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Gillette Rubber Company, Factory, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
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HE form of rear axle used
on a truck largely deter-
mines the performance of the
truck, because the rear axle
combines four important func-
tions in one unit—load carrier,
transmission, speed reduction
and difi’erential. V

TheWalkerBalancedDouble
Reduction Gear meets every
condition of the ideal final drive
for trucks. It combines the,
advantages of the chain and
sprocket, the worm drive and
the internal gear without the
disadvantages of those types.
Its high road clearance and its
ability to secure traction for one
wheel when the other is slip-
ping, makes it particularly ad-
vantageous in road and farm
service.

The demonstrated success of the
.Welkerdrive for several years has
made necessary increased production
facilities, which will soon be avail-
able in a new factory at 87th and
State streets, Chicago. “

In choosing a truck—insist on the
famous Walker axle.

Walker Axle Company
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EXGIIANGE

' FIVE CENTS PER WORD. PER ISSUE.

20 words or loss, 81 per Issue,
cash with order, or 70 per word when
- charged. Count as one wogd each lnlt.'-1
. and each group of figures, both In body
of ad. and In address. Oopy must be In
our hands Saturday for Issue dated fe-
lowlng week. The Business Farmer, A'dv.
Dept., Mt. Clemens, Mich.

         

 

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STRO‘UT'FARM AGENCY, 814 BE, Ford Bldg,
Detroit, Mich.

 

FOR SALE—2.000 ACRES IN TRACTS TO
suit. Presque Isle County. Heavy clay loam
soil in lime stone belt. Nothing better.
rounded by prosperous settlers. First class mar-

Sur—

 

kets. Price $15 an acre on easy terms. JOHN
G. KRAUTH, Millersbul'z, Mif‘h.
120. 176 OR 131 ACRES: EXCELLENT

improvement. easy terms, immediate possession,
stock, tool if desired. GLEN PINOH, aton Rap-
ids. Mich.

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 willI convince
you that Osceola County cannot be beat. Three
small fruit farms at a special low pnce. CAL-
LAGHAN & CARROW LAND (.10., Reed City.
Michigan.

 

FOR SALE—~A NO 1 FARM, WITH BEST
of buildings and orchard. 120 acres, one m1le
from Dixie Highway, station, church and school.
R. \V. ANDERSON, Clarkston, Mich.

 

100 ACRES EXCELLENT FARM. $12,500.
Must sell, sickness and old age. \Vr1te GEORGE
BAKER, Shepherd, Mich, R1, Box 72.

 

FOR SALE—84 A. ABOUT 40 A. CLEARED.
No. 1 soil, No. 1 basement barn, good house.
good hcnhouse. good granary, young orchard, good
well and trout stream. 1 mile from East Michi-
gan Pike, 3 miles from good live town. Price
$75 an acre PAUL SIEGRIST, Whittemore,

Mich. , losco County.

 

WANTED TO RENT WITH PRIVILEGE OF

buying, small farm near market for poultry, po-
tato and truck grewing. N. DEAN, Summer-
town, Tenn. '

 

FARM OF 85 ACRES, GOOD EIGHT ROOM
house, two barns, root cellar, some fruit, two
wells, sandy and clay loam soil, four and one-
half miles to Greenville, Mich. I'oor health.
must sell. A bargain at $1,800; $1,000 cash.
1‘. C. BALLINGER, Owner, Manistee, Mich.

 

FOR SALE—159 ACRES SAND LOAM CLAY
subsoil, house. burn, other improvements, timber.
(‘LARE ERNST, Prescott, Route 2, Mich.

 

120 ACRES. GOOD BEET AND BEAN SOIL
in ’l‘uscola On. Good buildings, flowing well.
GEO. PEARSON, Saginaw, Mich” 435 Howard
St.

 

FOR SALE—45 ACRES
small fruits or poultry,
wint. W I). REISII,

SUITABLE FOR
2 miles from shipping
Memphis, Mich.

 

FARM FOR SALE—108V: ACRES, BEST OF
1:1nd, brook through pasture, fine barns 14- -room
nouse, oak finish electric lights, steam heat, oom-
plcte both, 1-4 mile from high school, fins locu-
11011. Box 44, Route 1, Metamora, Mich.

fiMISCELLANEOUfl

BUY FENCE POSTS DIRECT FROM FOR-
est. -\!l kinds. Delimmxl prkes. Address "M.
M." care \lichigan Business Farming, Mt. Clum-
L’lIS. Mich.

 

 

 

FOR SALE—RED ROCK WHEAT, CERTI-

 

.ed by state class one. Also only Rosco Rye in
Oakland County. number 20162 and Timothy
seed. R. W. ANDERSON. Ularkston, Mich.

FOR SALE—~ONE 12 H. P. ADVANCE
steam engine in good running order, at a bar-
gain price Address JOHN SKINNER, Green-
villc, 1111011.. It 3

 

FOR SALE—WATERLOO TRACTOR WITH
three bottom plow. International 5111) filler, B-'
l.—l{ two unit milkcr. forty Star Cow Stalls with
steel mangcrs and water bowls. LORENZ BROS ,
East Lansing, Mir-l1.

 

FOR SALE—~WINTER SAND VETCH. TEST
amount 98. 25 per ll). JOHN OGREN, R 2,
.lox 123, Mnnistoc. Mir-h. -,

FOR SALE—12-24 WATERLOO BOY TRACT-

nr. Good condition. L. SALOU, Northville,
‘.l‘.cl1., R 2, Box 77.

 

CORN HARVESTER, ONE MAN, ONE
horse, one row, kelf gathermg. Equals corn
hinder. Sold direct to farmers for twenty—three

years. Only $28. with fodder binder. Shipped
by express to every state. Free catalog showing
pictures of harvestei.
VESTER 90., Selina, Kansas

 

EXPERIENCED GENthrAL 421m?“ 3‘”
Wife desire poor on on s c or ry arm. wn
ngul opleraltc tractor. FREE) FREELAND, May-
vlle, Bic .

WANT D— O BUY FROM
'1 t5 5 oIrIcads of No. .1 mixed hay. Sta, ~
A FRUITPORT AG-

. Gerald 1.; com “ '

PROCESS CORN HAR- '

raccoon:

 

Fruitport, Mich. ., -

   
  

 
  
 
  
  

 
 
 
   

COW. TESTING PAYS
HE dairyman who practices good
business methods and continu-
ally weeds out’ poor cows is sure
to increase his profits,” says E. M.
Harmon of the University of Missouri

L

College of Agriculture at Columbia.

“This point is very well illustrated
by the following results from a re-
cent summary of the herds for the
first and second years work in the
Webster County Cow Testing Asso—
cia-tion.
Av. milk Av. f-at Av. pf’t
per cow per cow per cow

First year . .5543 253.7 $109.95
Second year .5730 279.7 121.87
Increase . . . . 193 26.0. ' 11.92

The records on these cows have

very materially increaSed their sale"

value. In addition to that the own-
ers have an accurate index on which
cows to save and which heifer calv-
es to raise. But even disregarding
the above considerations, the in-
crease of $11. 92 per cow is much
more than the cost of the testing,
showing clearly that the cow test-
ing association is a prbfitable propo—
sition.

These men are gradually building

their herds up to a point of real
profit. They are doing it through
their cow testing association. It

isn’t the man who makes one phen-
omenal record and then quits who
establishes himself as a breeder. It
is rather the man who can start in
and'gradually increase his production
and profit year by year.

 

WHITE DIARRHOEA

Recent investigations prove that
white diarrohea in young chicks is
caused by a germ known as Bacter-
ium Pullorum. Conclusive evidence
points to the fact that it is only dur-
ing the first few days of its life that
a chick is liable to infection with this
disease. It has been shown by ex-
periments that the most critical per-
iod of infection is the first 48 hours
but infection can take place up to
96 hours. It has been fairly proven
that female chickens recovering
from white diarrohea becomes a. car-
rier of the disease. In such birds
these bacteria. are found particularly
in the ovary. In this organ they
cause many of the developing ova
(yolks) to become abnormal and un—
dergo degeneration. Many of the
yolks which do not degenerate con-
tain these bacteria. These infect
the chick which hatches from the egg.
These chicks then serve to infect
others in the incubator or in the
brooder. Incubator chicks suffer
more from this disease than hen
hatched ones.

The treatment of white diarrohea
is one of prevention rather than
cure. No cure has yet been discov-
ered. Breed from only hens free
from the disease. The College at
East Lansing is in position to test
the hens in a flock to determine their
fitness to be used as breeders. Feed
the young chicks on sour milk or hut-
termilk. The acid found in milk will
destroy thengerms of the disease. Ex-
periments prove that the mortality
rate of buttermilk fed chicks will
lower the mortality rate from 36 per
cent to less than 9 per cent.

IS CLEO CLEAN?

Much has been said by the oleo-k

cleanliness of their product. It is the
leading statement in many of their ad-
vertisements. Just how clean is,it?
Does the advertisement of the sales
room tell the tale?

Last springthe Board of Health of
a certain city in Michigan where an
oleo factory is located, spotted a car
of fat that had been shipped in for use

Jo the factory. There. was something
about the car that attracted suspicion.

Upon investigation it was found
that the’car had been shipped about
through three states. The mystery
deepened. Finally the place of first“

shipment was located and it proved, to- '~

be "a rendering plant where the fat:

from dead horses and cattle he‘d been:-

tried out. 1 ~

  
  

We have always been suspicious of i.
the cleanliness of i W

Indiana, Kansas,

71 ‘ prefer it
7,1’lcasont, Michigan

never could persuad ourselves to try
even a sample 0f it. Suspicion is al-

ways aroused by th man who is al—
ways boasting about his
?Look out. His honesty is liable to be
of the rendering plant variety.

0160 is a fraud, a moonshine pro—
duct Born in a rendering plant, Steep-
ed d'ishonestly and rearer in decep-
tion Camouflaged with cow’s milk
and placed before the public in attrac-
tive form 8.0001111113111816: by a. pill of
yellow coloring matter to hide its nat-
ivity. We believe in the true yellow
or gold and butter. All other yelllow
is looked upon with contempt. -Ore-
pon League Dairy/man.

 

STALLION FIGURES .
. According to a compilation for. 14
states having stallion registration
laws, following is the relative propor-

;tion of purebred, grade, crossbred,

and mongrel stallions:

Purebred stallions . . . . . . 27,694

Grade stallions . . . . . . . . 12.734
Crossbred stallions . ..... ' 9
\Non- standard bred stallions 71
Mongrel stallions . . . . . . . . . 2,915

Total ..... .43,423

The 's ates represented by these

figures are California, Idaho, I,owa
Minnesota, Mon-
tana, New York,vNorth Dakota, Ore-
gon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota,

'Utah and Wisconsin.

 

OLD BONY SCRUB
Boodbye, old brindle, bony scrub,
The time demands a better breed.
You eat enough, but there’s the rub
You never pay for half your feed.
So after all these years we part,
Butpray remember as you go,

If this should break your bovine
heart

You broke my purse, long, long ago.

—Virgmia Extension News.

 

BLOAT

”We have a cow nine years old who
came in October 27. 1919. and gave milk
until August 1.1920 and is due to freshen
December 11,1920 but she is extra
large and seems to be bloated ad has
been so for about two weeks She has
been getting the same food as the rest
of the herd What is the cause of this?
D. B., Bellaire, Michigan.

 

If the bloated condition, as you
have termed it, is caused by the for
mation of gas, which can be deter—

mined by .tapping. over the region.

of the flank, the condition is no
doubt due to either indigestion or
tuberculosis. I would advise you to
give a purge Consisting of Magnesi-
um Sulphate lbs. two, powdered Ging-
er and Gention equal parts 1 ounce,
powdered capsicum one dram and
powdered Nux Vomica two drains,
dissolve the entire contents in two
quarts of hot water, let cool and
give slowly at one dose. Should the
bloat return have her tested for tu-
berculosis. If the enlarged condi-

tion appears to be in the uterus, then .

it is caused by the formation of an
abnormal quantity of fluid, a :ondi—
tion known as dropsy of the womb.
In the majorityof cases this does no
serious damage and is righted‘ at

 

(time of calving—W. A. Ewalt, vet-
erinary editor.
“Enclosed find $2.00 for 3 years.

I do certainly enjoy reading your pa-
per and would not like to be without
it. I have been away from home. that
is why I have been slow with my
money. I find so many things in the

M. 13. F. that is a help to me. I'

thank you’much for" sending me the
paper.—D. 1S. Johannesburg,Mtchigan.

I wish to express my appreciation
of the best form paper in Michian,
the M. B. F. You-r editorial in re-
gard to the school question, proved»
beyond doubt your fairneSS in that‘
and other matters or grave concern.
Sincerely Wishing you much success,
I remain.—-—J. 19., Mancelgna’. Michigan.

 

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Yours is the only 7' real farm paper.
to a daily—R. Z., Mt. 1. "

 

honesty. ,

F ARM SANITATION

 

The 1.1..1..1...1.1...’..u 1.5.50 pr... ‘
vent disease among livestock and poultry
and give directions for using

Kreso D111 111.1

(STANDARDIZED)
‘rmsuiuns 111111 msmrscmu

which in specially
- adapted for use on all

Livestock and Poultry

‘BOOKLETS ' _ K '

No. l5l—FARM SANITATION. Describe- and
tells how to prevent disease. common to
livestock. _ ' «-

No. l57—.DOG BOOKLET. Tel§,how to rid
the dog of “flea- and to elp prevent

inane.

No. l60—— HOG BOOKLET. Covers the comp
mon hofdioeasea.

No. l85—HOG WALLOWS. Give. co'mpleta
directions for the construction of n can-
creto hog wallow.

No. l63-I’0ULTRY. How to get rid of lie.
and mite, also to prevent disease.

Kreso‘Dip N01. l‘ois sold in original»
packages at all drugstores.

 

ANIMAL INDUSTRY DEPARTMENT OF

PARKE, DAVIS & CO.

DETROIT. MICH.

 

 

 

 

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Hero is one of ninety- -nine real bargains’mhown
in the

new Rambler Catalog A good durable
comforta'b ”$4 35
“111A SHOO '
Locally they would
cost not less than 87.
perhaps more. Even
in our chain More.
the scllinl! -. costs
brings price to
Buying by mail does
" away with these ex-
pensive selling forc-
’6, high rents and
all other unnec-
essary overhead
You get the
benefit.

     
  
  
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
   
  
 

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top to bottom. All , ~
genuine chrome: resists ‘—
barnyard acids. Heavy soles of oak tanned leath-
er—wear like iron. Space, comfort—well—wsu
them all the first day and you won’t notice them.
Brown only. You take no risk, simply send tho
coupon. Shoes are shipped. pay the postman
54.35 on arrival. If you like them keep them.
if‘ not return them and we will refund money, in-
cluding postage. Your word is enough. Don’t delay.
Mail coupon todayé Send for catalog. Sales last
yoar over $1, 000, 0_00
RAMBLER SHOE co., Dept. G38, New York Olt

Send my pair of RAMBLER worth while 'wor
shoes. I will pay postman $4. 35 on arrival. If
shoes are not satisfactory I can return them and
you will return money, including postage.

ame

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400 Special Awards 400'

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WOLVERIN’ENT‘I‘OCK FARM inaioliv‘s oooo

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.tiac 'Ulothilde De ’Kol 2nd. A few bull calves for
Idle. T>\W. Sprague. It 2. ,Battle Creek. Mich.

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Breeders'

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on what It will cost torts; 29
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or 52 .g’tiine's."
low rates; ‘usk for them. Write today L)
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, sultry, will be sent on request.
..o_i‘ copy as often as you wish.

THE Micniosuwaosmess FARMER. Mt. Clemens, Michigan.

Better still, write out what you have to oil‘er,
Copy or changes mutt be received one week

 

V , .1 ‘d‘filllnm

let us put it Intvvfl-
before date of Issue.

SHORTHORIVS FROM ANvACCREDITED HERD

 

. CLAI . M YOURW
isALE DAT‘E '

 

'0? you Address. Live Stock Editor. M- 3'
Mt. Clemens. ‘ _,
Oct. 4, Belgian and. Percheron R0383-

Leurcnce P. Otto. Charlotte. Mich_ .
Oct. 19.‘ Holsteln‘s. Michigan Holsteln-

Friesian Ass'n, Jackson, Mich.

26. Poland Cliinas. Wesley Hue-

ct.
lonia. , Mich

Oct. ,217.' pasta Chinas.‘ Boone-Hill _Co..
Blanchard. Mich. . .
Oct. 28. Poland Chlnas. Clyde Fisher and

E. R. Leonard. St. Louis, Mich.
Oct. 29, Poland Chlnas. Chas. Wetzcl‘ &

Sons. Ithaca. Mich. _
~0c't' 80. lfolan’d Chinss. Brewbnlter &

I Sons..-Elsie. Mich . . . '
Feb. 1, Poland Chinas. Witt Bros, Jas-
_, J )cr, Mich.

  

 

LIVE STOCK AUCTIONEERS
Porter Colestock, Eaton Rapids, Mich.
‘ . ~ .. Rapport. Perry, .Mlch

I Harry

 

 

Robinson, Plymouth: lMich.

 

 

CATTLE

HOLSTEm-FRIESIAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

J INCREASE THE EFFICIENCY
" of your _
IDAIRY HERD
’ ‘ ‘ by usinga
REGISTERED HOLSTEIN SIRE

We have bulls of all ages listed at ‘
reasonable prices.

Also grade and purebred cows
and heifers

MlCHéGAN
~‘I-IOLSTEINFRIESIAN

ASSOCIATION
Old State Building Lansing. Mich.

 

 

 

 

I -VERY HANDSOME AND STRAIGHT SON
of a 21.60 lb. 2 .yr. old daughteriif Jolirm
Hengerveld Lad. whose daughters are .noted for
‘ individuality and performance. Born' March 25,
1920. Sired by a grandson: of Bertjusca Pauline
8d.' 34.80 lbs. butter aiid.585.80 lbs. milk in
'7 days. Price $175. delivered to your station.
' 'For extendedvaegigraeE addressh ‘ ,

Flint, Mich.

Grow your'o'wnv. next herd sire, We have
three” beautiful. youngsters—straight as a line.
.blrbone‘d rugged fellows. -»They are all by
'our 38 lb. senior sire,’ KING KOHNDYKE
splendid indi-
backing and the best

 

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us dam of
otiblood lines. ' ~
-.write forxogir sale list; , ‘

7' A l“ " BOARDMAII FARM
,» JACKSON. MICH. ,
Holstein Breeders Since 1906

 

 

 

 

-BACKE ROAST LINDENWOODHCHAMPION
'Bull born March 13. 1919. She is a 7.33

Concordia Champion (30 A. It. 0 daughters. 2
above 30 lbs.) Dam is an718.93 lb. 2 year old
daughter of Johanna Concordia Champion (see
whose sire. Golantha Johanna Champion,
has 61 A. R. 0. daughters, 6 above 30 lbs. He
Is a big growthy fellow, ready for heavy service
between 2-3 and .34 white and 'nicely marked.
Guaranteed a ,sure breeder and especially priced
at $200 if taken at once. ' Write for pedigree.
_ EDWARD B. BENSON a. SO
Mich.

~Mll'lllll K PROOUOER

Your problemris more MILK, more BUTTER,
more PROFIT. per cow. ‘

A son of Maplecrest Application Pontiac—
182852—from our heavy-yearly-milking-good-but-
tor-record dam will solve It. '
. Maplecrest Application Pontiac’s - dam made
85,103 lbs. butter in 7 days: 1344.3 lbs. butter
and 23421.2 lbs. milk In 365 days.

He 18 one of the greatest long distance sires.

His daughters and sons will prove it.

Write us for pedigree and prices on his sons.

Prices right and-not too high for the average
dairy farmer. : _ , _:v _.

.Pedigre'es 'sn‘d priced on implication.

8. Bruce McPherson. Howell. Mich.

- HIII Crest Farms, Munson.

 

 

.nearly ready for service from; good A. R. 0.
dams. also bull calves. Wm. Griflin, Howell, Mich.

sales gfro their herd. -We' are. well pleased with
the Calves ~- rem our ”Junior Herd‘Slre‘ "King Pon-
tiac Luncle. Komdyke, Segre". who is s
“King of the Pontiacs" from a daughter of Pen-

 

upsets sacs?) Holsters;

filfire” now booking V'orders for
{‘0 11¢. milieu-om King Pieter See‘s,
"amenities. nil? from A. R. 0. dams-

hforedlhge records. We test annu-

 

a 17 1b. 2 yr.‘old dam and the other is from a

We believe all three, should work
the work.

We have it on high authority tha

erage of 3.8% fat.

1,000 lbs. butter and 21,000

and two generations of 1,200

them all to stay in Michigan.

cattle.

GEIIRIDA FARM ‘
Walter T. Hill,
Davison, Mich.

 

AN INTRODUCTION
Mr. Dairy Farmer, Mr. Holstein Breeder meet King Flint
ALL THREE are working to a common purpose—to increase the pro-

duction of Michigan Dairy herds.

We feel sure that no Michigan bull has ever been better equipped for

His three nearest dams each averaged to produce 100 lbs. butter and
' 2,100 lbs.~milk per monthlor a full lactation period with an av-

~His dam is one of Michigan’s greatest family—three full sisters that
have produced over 30 lbs. butterlin seven days, two of them pro-
ducing over 700 lbs. milk, and two of them producing more than

His sire is the direct descendant of three generations of 30 lb. cows

His first three sister-sto enter yearly test will each produce more than
800, lbs. butter and 17,000 lbs. milk as heifers.

/ Lei: KING FLINT Help You Improve Your Herd
Through one of His Sons

'_A son of this great young sire suited to head any herd in Michigan,
grade 'or purebred, can be secured in Genesee County and we want

Write us about your herd, tell us what you need and what you feel
you can afford to pay and let us help you find just what you want,
in Genesee County, the center of Michigan’s long distance dairy

together.

t there are none better individually:

lbs. milk in ten months.

lb. yearly record cows.

ELMOREST STOOK FARM

G. L. Spillane & Son ()0.
Clio, Mich.

grandsons and granddaughters of
Maanlton Jupiter 754193 heads our herd.
JOHN SCHMIDT & SON. Reed City. Mich.

 

Avondislo

 

HAT DO YOU WANT?
‘aHORTI-IORN breeders. Can put you
(inch will) best milk or beef strains.
ages. Some females. C. W. Urum,
Central Michigan Shorthorn Association, Mc-
Bridcs. Michigan. .

I represent 41

Bulls a ll
President

 

Shortliorns at Farmers’ Prices .

,FOUR SCOTCH TOPPED BULL CALVES
under one year old. These are all roans and
chorce individuals.

FAIRVIEW FARM

F. E. Boyd Alma,

Michigan

 

SHORTHORRS

5 bulls, 4 to 8 mos. old, all mans, pail fed.

arm; ‘good milkers, the farmers' kind, at farm-

ers DrlCeS.
F.

M. P‘IGGOTT &'SON. Fowler. Mich.

 

EGISTERED‘ AND GRADE SHORTHORN
cows and heifers for sale, $75 to $200.
EIER BROS., Byl‘on, Mich.

 

THE VAN BUREI‘I CO. SHORTHORN BREED-
ers' Association have stock for sale, both milk
and beef breeding.

Write the secretary,

 

 

 

FRANK BAILEY, Hartford. Mich.
SHORT HORNS limo“... tail?” ”“7”
Wm. J. BELL,'Rose City, Mich.

Clay Bred Shorthorn bull calf

FOR SALE from a heavy producing dam.

W S. HUBER. Gladwln. MlCh.

 

aple Ridge Herd of Bates Shorthor'ns Of-
fers for solo a man hull ciilf ll mos. old. Also 2
younger ones. J. E. TANSWICLL. Mason, Mich.

 

or Sale, Milking Shorthorn Bulls from two to
16 mo. old. Iliinis giving 40 and 50 lbp. per
day. Yi-iirly records kept. llerrl tuberculin tested.

JAS. H. EWER, R 10, Battle Creek, Mlch.

 

 

ENT COUNTY SHORTHORN BREEDERS'
Ass’n iire mill-ring bulls and heifers for sale, all
ages. Sell tho Hi'rllll and buy a purebred. _
A. E. RAAB. Sec'y, Caledonia, Mich.

FOR SALE—POLLED DURHAM BULLS AND
Oxford Down Home.
J. . DcGARMO. Muir.

 

Mich.

 

 

 

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

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

HILL CREST FARM. Ortonvllle,
or write

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

sow AGAIN

Bull calf last advertised sold but have 2 more
that are mostly white. They are nice straight fel-
lows, sired by a son 02 King One. One is from

Mich.

 

20 lb. Jr. 3 yr. old dam, she is by a son of
Friend Hengerveld De ”K01 Butter Boy,
the great bulls. .

JAMES HOPSON JR., Owosso. Mlch..

sis BOOK IIOLSTEINS’

Herd- Headed by Johan Pauline De
' Kol Lad 236554
a. son of Flint\ Hengerveld Lad
and Johan Pauline DeKol twice
30 1b. cow and dam of Pauline
DeNijlander (Mich. ‘Champion
two years ,old.)

'Bu-ll calves from dams up to
28 pounds. -
Roy E. Fickies, Cliesaning, Mich.

one of

R2.

 

 

 

 

 

A GRARDSON OF
KING OF THE PONTIAOS

that will be ready for service in September
whose own Sister fine just made over 22lbs.
of butter as s. Jr. year old and whose Dam
has made over 20 lbs. and we own both of
them and they are due to freshen again in
Ianimry and Will be tested. This young bull
.3 well grown and a top line that could not
he beat. his Dam's 1-2 sister has just made
over .30 lbs.

“is price i only $150.00.
From ‘a fuly accredited Herd.
BAZLEY 8TOCK FARM, Ypsilanti, Mich.

Address all correspondence to

JOHN BAZLEY

319 Atkinson Ave."

 

TWO BULL OALVES

Registered Holstein-Frieslsn, sired by 39.87 lb.
bull and from heavy producing young cows. These
calves are very nice and will be priced cheap it
sold soon.

TUBES. Elwell.

HARRY T. Mich.

 

OUR HERD 8

corn. Kiiiii SEGISEGLISTA

His sire a 30 lb son of Lakeside King Segls
Alben De Kol. -
His dam, Glista Fenclla. 32.37 lb.
Her dam, (liista Ernestine, 35.96 lb.
His three nearest dams average over 33 lbs.
and his forty six nearest tested relatives average
Over 30 lbs. butter in seven days. We otter one
of his sons ready for service. .
GRAND RIVER STOCK FARMS
Corey J. Spencer, Owner. Eaton Rapids, Mich.

 

FOR SALE TWO BULL OALVES

One 10 mos. old large size, more light than
dark. Dani’s-record 20.2 lbs. butter, 13 near-
est dams average over 24 1-2 lbs. butter 7 days.
One 5) mos. old from an 18 lb. 3 yr. old. Six
nearest dams on sires’ side average 27.63 lbs.
in 7 days.

OSCAR R. HUMSEY. Hudson, Mich.

 

 

 

ASON OF CARNATION CHAMPION, WHO HAS
' a 40 lb. sire. a 42 lb. dam and two 42 lb.
sisters. Born May 8, 1920 from a daughter of
a 28lb. cow. ller six nearest dams average 27.5
lbs. Nearly white. Federal tested herd.

H. L. VOEPEL. Sebewaing, Mich.

A FIOROATEON

TWO REGISTERED HOLSTEIN 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
iinilc calf from a son of the great King of the
Pontiacs. Calf's dam is 20 lb. cow.

For particula rs address

H. T. EVANS
Eau Claire, Mich.

SHORTHORN

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. ‘

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Business , Farmer.
They are

and they will. represent any reader of

Write them 'in care of this paper.

 

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DETROIT. MICHIGATI' PALMER BROTHERS m: h
Established In» 189 Balding. e .
* LIVE. STOCK FIELD MEN
e. u. BALL. . Cattle and sheep
FELIX WIT‘I' Horses and Swine

..One or the other of the above Well-known experts will visit all livestock sales of
. Importance in Michigan. northern Ohio'a'nd Indiana. ,as-the exclusive Field Men of The Michigan

both honest and combatant men of standing in their lines in Michigan
this weekly atrany sale, making bids and purchases.
Their service'is free to you. They will also help you
in .tbe interests of Michigan'sAOWN live—stock

dairy fanning.

STOCK FEEDING. 4 (l0
GEO.

 

 

HEREFORDS

REGISTERED HEREFORD OATTLE

King Repeater No. 713941 heads our herd.
A grandson of the Undefeated Grand Champion
livpcuh-r 7th No. 386005. We have some fine
bulls for s.ile and also some heifers bred to Be-
pcntor. 'l‘ony 15, Fox. Proprietor,

THE MARION STOCK FARM. Marlon, Mich.

Rob Fairfax 495027 at head of lieril. Regio-
tered stock, either sex, polled or horned, mostly

any age. Come and look them over.
..EARL C. MCCARTY. Bad Axe.

 

 

Michigan. .

120 HEREFORD STEERS. ALSO
know of 10 or 15 load; fancy quality
Shorthorn and Angus Steers 5 to 1000 lb:
Owners anxious to sell. Will help buy 50o
commission. C. F Ball. Falriield, Iowt.

HEREFOROS

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

Also bulls not related. -

ALLEN BROTHERS

PAW PAW.

Hardy Northern Bred Hereiords ‘

BERNARD FAIRFAX 824819 HEAD OF HERD
20 this year's ('lllVi‘B for sale. 10 bulls and 10
heifers.

JOHN MacGREGOR. Harrllviiie. Mich.

 

 

 

 

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ANGUS.
I - I "based; seenoasu-
BARTLETT ANGUS CATTLE AND 0‘.I.G.
SWIHe are right and are priced right. borro-
spoiidence solicited and inspection invited.
CARL BARTLETT, Lawton. Mich.

 

l—The Most Profitable Kind -

of farming, a our land of grade (iser heifer!

from TiENAVVEE COUNTY'S heaviest milk DYO‘

dimers to include a pure bred AXGU'S bull 0! tbs

most extreme beef type for combination beef and
Car lot shipments assembled

at GLENWOOD
FARM for prompt shipment.
Methods explained in SMITII'S I’ROFII‘ABLI
illustrated.
Mich.

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pages
B. SMITH. Addison.

 

*every
breeder_

Can use M. B. F.’s
Breeders’ Directory
to 'good advantage

What have YOU,
to offer?

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 


    
 

     
    
   
  
     
   
   
    
    
    
 
 
   
 
  
   

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-' heifers of the above bull.

 

 

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one 1b. st 2

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It will my 30!: to
investigate. Prices and pegreedi on applies :1.
MORGAN IR08.. R 1. Alison. Mich.

REGISTERED GUERNSEYS

ORDER YOUR BULL OALF NOW
or later shipment Let me send you a real Ded-
ee of better breeding.
J. M. WILLIAMS. North Adams. Mlgh.

JERSEYS

senior Herd Sire
Noble J‘Senrgsttxional Lad

PIIRE BRED JERSEYS

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

HIGHLAND FARM, Shelby, M011.
Samuel Odell. Owner.

  

 

 

 

 

Junior Herd Sire

 

FOR SALE—REGISTERED JERSEY CATTLE.
both sex. Register of merit testing done.
J. L. CARTER. R 4. Lek ke Odessa, Mich.

 

IMPROVE YOUR JERSEY HERD WITH ONE
of! our Majesty bulls.
ANK P. NORMINGTON. Mich.

AYRSIIIRES
For: SALE—REGISTERED AYRGHIRE

lonla.

 

 

 

«bulls and bull calves. heifers and heifer calves.

Also some choice cows. _
tFINDLAY BROS» B 5. Vassar. Mich.

SWINE Vi

POLAND CHINA .

Poland-China
Sale Circuit

Oct. 26, ‘Vesley Bile, Ioniar, Mich.
Oct. 27, Boone-Hill 00., Blanchard.
Oct. 28 Leonard & Fisher. St. Louis.
0012 29. Chas. \Vctzel & Sons, Ithaca.
Oct. 30, \V. Brewbaker & Sons, Elsie.

 

 

 

 

These firms, members of the Cent-
ral Michigan Poland China Breeders’
Ass’ 11, will offer to the public an of-
fering of such Poland China hogs, as
have never been offered in the State
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 boars of
such class as are certain to make
breeding stock of the highest merit.

Col. Harry A. Eckhardt, Dallas
City, 111., and Col. 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.

Mr. A D. Gregory, Ionia, Mich"
will represent Michigan Business
Farmer as fleldman, 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’ Au' .

I E. n. LEONARD, Pres., St. Louié.

C. A. BOONE, Sec.-Trea.s., Blanchard

(Pohnd Chins Breeders are urged to join this
association. Write the Secretary.)

WONDERLAND HERD

ARGE TYPE P. O.
A few choice bred gilt: for sale. Also fall gilts
and hours, some bvery good Rprospects of excellent
breeding. Gilts her (I to HANbS SUPERIOR
he by BIG ORPHAN'S IEQUALh BIG BONE
ORPII IA by teh 1316 OR?
BEAU'I‘Y’SA CHOICE by ORANGE BUD. by DBIG
ORAN VGE
Free livery to visitors.
Wm. J. CLARKE.
Eaton Reside. Mich-

 

at] 11.2 old.
ragwedlng. Also 9. few tine.

 
 
  
 
  
 

Adolph Heeg, Mgr.

‘ Detroit. Jackson. as. Rapids and Quint". $.10

10eh
e'r’s Giant. 3’!

ml

Wand.

rb

”if?” a. firm" mm “'13. 13.53; Mich.
POLAND climAe

GARNAN'I'.
BIG TYPE WITH OVAL [TY

Nine {all ‘gllts outlet litters of eleven and
thirteen. for sale-.1
J. E. MYERANTO. 8S. 40hr". MIMI.

BIG TYPE "LA“

0 H H! A s
Noting to offer at pres
MDSE “3808.. 8t:n Mich.

“Lindhurst” Poland Chinas

few choice spring boars st 840 each if taken
by A8891. 20. W. H. LIN_D, Alto, Mich.

HERE'S SOMETHIRG. GOOD" '

THE LARGEST BIG TYPE P. O. IN MIOH.‘
Get a. bigger and better bred boar pig from my
herd, at a reasonable price. Come and see them.
Expenses paid I! not as represented. These been
In service: L‘s Big Orange, Lord Clansmgn.
Orange Price and Us Long Prospect.
W. E. LIVINGSTON. Perms. Mich.

 

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L.TPC.

I have A. line lot of spring1 gusset sired by Burt’s
Black Price, a good son 0 Price, grand
champion oi the world Also have A
litter of 7 pigs. 5 sows and 9128 boars. nadir by
Prospect- Yank, I. son of. the 840. 000 Isak“.
that are sure Humdingere

F. T. I'IAWY'.era St. Louis. Mich.

 

IO TYPE P. 0. SOWS 0F OHOIOE DRIED-
Ing. bred to Big Bone Bone Boulder No. 726..
672 for Sept. furrow. Spring pigs either sex.
Healthy and nowthy. Prices reasonable.
L. W. BARNES G EON. Byron, Mich.

BIG TYPE POLAND CHINA BRED GILTS,
one {All boar. spring pigs both sex. and tried
lows while they last.

HOWLEY BR08.. Merrill. Mich.

 

OAKS ALSO SOWS AND PIGO. ANYTHING

type.

We have bred them big for more than 55 gears“;

. 110 registered erch-

erons, Holsteins end xfords. Everythidg sold At
t. res-cfable p ce. an

A Acne reed :1.
MN .c. BUTLER. Portland. Mich.

WALNUT ALLE m...

homes. Get your order in on fall pigs for I am
going to price them

A. D. GREGORY
Ionia, Mich. '

BIG TYPE POLAIIDS

In introducing our herd we offer choice pins
by W’s Sailor Bob and out of dams by Buster
Boy. Lone Superbe. Smooth Wonder 3rd, and
Orange DesMoines. Priced to sell.

W. CALDWELL a. SON. Sprinmrt. Mich.

FARWELI. LAKE FARM

B. '1‘. P. C bears and gilte by Olensmsn’s Image
2nd, the Outpost Orphan Superior and King Giant.
Also 3 fall hours by Olnnsman's Image. A few
tried sows All with breeding privilege.‘ Boats In
service: Cinnsman’s Image 2nd, Smooth Wonder,
King Giant and \Y. B.’ s Outpost. Visitors wel-

come.
W. I. RAMSDELL. Hanover. Mich.

L s P c FOUR CHOICE SPRING AND FALL,
boars left. A few extra nice gilt-
left bred for April furrow
H. O. SWARTZ. Schoolcrsfl, Mich.

 

BIG TYPE P.
C Bears now

 

 

 

TH ANNUAL P. c. BRED 80“! SALE.
March 18. 1920. For particulars write
w. J. HAGELSHAW. Auouste. Mlch .

 

I Am Offer-Inn Large Type ‘Pelnna Ohlns Bows.
bred to F's Orange at reasonable prices. Also
{All pigs. Write cell.

CLYDE FISHER. R3. St. Louis. Mich.

B. T. P. 0. SPRING BOARS, SIRED BY WIL-
eye King Bob. out of Grand Daughters of
Disher's Giant. All immuned with double treat»
ment. John D. Wiley. Schoolcraft, ~Mich. ~

 

 

eonard's B. T. P. 0. See my Exhiblt At Mich.

State Fair All ates? double Immune. Pub-
11c sale Oct. 28. Gety name on mailing list.
E. R. LEONARD. yno 8, St. Louis. Mich.

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“germ hollow ”011312 ‘
VER 3'12: gator: Rep! 3-

DINIOO BOAR ”as A FEW oooo Ollie

left. Let me send.
you one on ADDED“
‘ E. E. OALKINB. RV 8.1.,Ann Arbor. Allch.

urocs. Hm crest Farms. Bred and 1611011 mm
and gilts. Bears and spngri 0.0
rm 4 miles straight S. of Mlddletdn. Mich”

Gmtiot Co.
Sarina bred new: all told.

DUROGS good Sept. pigs both lilex, sire

Liberty Defender 3rd. from 01. hrs
willb be bred to en Orion boar for Sept. (arrow.
H. o. KEESLER. (longhorn. Mich.

DUROC BOARS

ready for service.
Ion, Mich.

  

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by

 

FROM PB 1 z n
WINNING sirocx
Geo. B. Smith. Addi-

AM OFFERING SOME HIGH GLASS

SPRING DUROC BOARS

at reasonable prices . A l’ew .111. bred for Sep-
row at bet-gain prices.
W. G. TAYLOR t
2 Ion. Mich.

“In. DUROO BOARD
each. Sat tion guaranteed,

isfoc Vinita I
AUSTIN STOCK FARM. Bjoomlngdso. wecome.

mob.

 

 

1

OF BRvEEDINO SIZE AND
QUAPIblTY

DIIIIOGS

R. Jerome. Mich.

REG nunoe JERSEY 8:54.13. '23:
Can furnish stock not akin. Also yen‘rlv
Ing sows Will breed for early fall litters.
on guaranteed.
F. HEIMS J: SON, Devlson. Mlch.

oAKLAIIDS PREMIER. GHIEF

Herd Bonk—Reference only—No. l 2 92 1 9
1919 Chicago International
4th Prize Jr. Yearling

BOOKING ORDERS FALL "PIGS AT $25

BPorter le.P glob.“

FOR SALE: ONE DUROC BOAR FROM
Brookvuter breeding stock; Choice sprinz DISS-
JOHN ORONENWETT. Carleton, Mlch.

nurse Jersey 80w: and Olin bred for AuO- lnd
Sept. ferrow 1.000111. herd bolt
OS. SOHUELLER. Weldmen. |‘MIGI'I.

DUROC Boers and Glitz for sale at $26 to $50

Safizglct' Grated on? Eegistcfilrled in buyier’ 3b haras-
lOl’l guaran ee 8e b 1'0

shouts. Visitors welcome. e are E I

Mich.

MICHIGANA FARM LTD.
011.1188“: Dur‘ovziSan Boers, Sow: and OIIIA 0'
sees. us your rite
JESSE BLISS a SON. Henderson. Mich-

Pavlllon.

E OFFER A FEW WELL-DEED SELECT-'-

cd wring bum
in season. 01110:". also bred cows and

write
McNAUOHTONl AFOIRDYOE. .1. Louis. Mich.

no ‘ ‘
lune.

I-

head. '
Newton & Blank. Perrlpton. Mich.‘

dams. nt- ’

AND OILT8 $28 TO ‘50 .

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BERKSHIRE “2. ”WT." Aim“
1: 0
best blood lines of thy’eb‘reedp is our specialtit g,
guarantee .to please or nothing etirlng
RZA A. WEAYER. Dheesnlng, Mich";

cllESTEulllTEs

stock at res
for my fin-row

  
      
 
       
  

 

 

 

  

 

     
 
 

Spring Pigs In Pairs or ' , ;.
trio‘s from A-1 mntu

1.1 dzerA Also a menu ' x
e p Alexander. sneer. Mich. _, », 3

Fine Chatter Whites tel-rowed July 14. \
1920..Wlil ship 0. 0 1). when 2 mos. old for
$13 .50 reg. Try one. Ralph Oceans. Levering. Mich
REGISTEIIE ouceren Wurre ewme.
either sex. Boers resdyi forlor- ,5:

Price limit.
LYLE V. JONES. Flint. mom, R.‘ F. D. No.. D ‘ , .
memos -j -.

BOARS READY” FOR SERVICE

w. A. EAs'rwoon. consume. mob

 
 
 
 
 
  
  
    
    
       
   
    
   
    
       
  
   
  
    
    
  
 
  
   
   
   
    
 
  

 

 

 

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pigs only or W.
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Mich. n A , . '\

HANPSIIIRES OF QUALITY I

Some exceptional] fine un spring
They are extreme ndivld will?“ with best books.
feet. belts and breeding. They carry the
ed Approval and Moss 1.Messenger strains. at
e. sacrifice price. Cello

GU us THOMAS. N211: Latin-op, Mich.

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o. I. O. a CHESTER WHITE SWINE. BOOK. ‘ .
ing orders for Aug. and Sept, pigs to , \_
shipped when 8-10 wkh. 1.eeold. Sired by three of “ .—
the best bone of theb

CLARE V. DORIIAN. Shaver. Mloh.

0 I II GILTS

BRED FOR SEPTEMBER FARROW ‘ :
Everyone guaranteed safe in dam also a few . "
choice spring pigs. either sex. . . 1

I-' G BURGESS

“Meson. M101... R s ‘ ' " I
MUD-WAY-AUSH-KA FARM

oflers 0 I. 0. spring pigs. also special summer

 

 

 

prices on breeding stock in Wyandottes.
Barred Rocks. White Chinese Ge and White
Runner Ducks No more eggs this season. ‘
DI KE 0. MILLER. Dryden. Mich.
o. . (L's—8 Choice young boars. March and
Apn’l pigs at weaning time.

CLOVER LEAF STOCK FARM. qul'oo. Mich.

O. I. O. SWINE—MY HERD OONTAIN8 THI
blood lines of the most noted herd. Gen furnish
you stock at “live and let hve" prices.

A. J. GORDEN; Don. Mloh.. R a.

 

 

   

fieldman can to make

FlEL-DMAN SERVICE

Any breeder who expects to hold a sale this season of any variety

of pure-bred live stock, may secure the services of a Michigan

Business Farmer fieldman who is prepared to visit their herds

with a View to writing them up and rendering any help that a
the sale a success. ‘

IF YOU ARE PLANNING 0N1 SALE

a letter addressed to Felix Witt, fieldman, care of Michigan
Business Farmer, Mt. Clemens, .3111 receive prompt attention.

  

 
   
   
 

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THE BEST DRED POLAND CHINA PIGS SPR-
ed by Big Bob Mastodon at the lowest price.
D erTT 0. PIER. Evert. Mich.

 

 

 

  

3M!!! pig: by. Walt“:
Orion. First 81-. Yearling

 

Phillips Bros, Riga, Mich

WI ION?
boar.

 

BONGO JERSEYS. FALL BOARD.
each. Hired by I 800 lb.

Priced reasonab
c a. units a eon. Ashley, union.

Dome sour: and gilt: bred to Won't King 82948
who has sired more prize winning pigs It the
state fair: in the lat 2m rethsn my other Dn-
roc board. Newton Bernhert. St. Johns. Mich.

EADDWVIEW FARM REG. DUROC JERSEY
hogs. Spring plus for

 

 

 

Isle.
J. E. MORRIS, Pennington, Mich.

 

inn .1 me TYPE breeding.

1. CARL .szm,

 

O. I. C. SOWS FOR SALE

NB OF THE BEST HERD. IN ”ORIGIN

toung now due to {mow h societal)". Spring hear my tor shipment.
I ship 0. 0 1).. my express end resistor in buyer's name.

Choice id! vid-

aammm'

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J. O. MYGRANTS

 

 

_ ~ HIGH CLASS
Poland .' China Hog Sale
‘_Sept. :29, .1920 ’

AND 11.0 POPEQSON

will offer at public auction at the term of J. E. Mygrant’s 2 1- 2 miles ‘ ,
west and 3 1— 2cmlles north of St. Johns , j

42 Head as Follows: :‘ _ * 4-

13 .Spring Boers, 19 Spring Gilts and 10 Fall Yearling Gilts.
These are the tops of 2 herds as good as you will find anywhere.
Every hog double immu‘néd and shOuld be safe f1‘om cholera.

‘ _ Write for catalog to
J. E.MYGRAN'1‘S or L. O. POPE & SON
St. John. Mich.
send mail bids to A. 1). Gregory. Ionic .Hioh

 
        
        
         
      
    
     

 

    
        


    

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, hese two states and they Would in
.-..‘a. few years be as barren as the S
hare. Desert and as prontless to the
farmer - How' to get more for the
milk. that is produced is with these
people, therefore,- a vital question.
Milk at prgie e-nt really passes as food
{through three main channels The
first raw milk, as furnished in its or-

 

iginal form for daily consumption-

, the Round, cheese, and the third, but-
._tjer. Such milk as finds its way into
“ fdond-ensaries, milk powder factories

‘ and other lines will notice cousin-1

ered in ,this article as little or none
of it should really go through these
channels it the general welfare of
the farmer is to- be considered.

The extra nioney must then come
from the distributed milk, cheese and
butter. The first, milk, can only be
~ made to yield more to the producer
if the method of distribution is
changed. We have harped on this so
often that we will not spend much
time on it now, suiilce it to again call
your attention to the fact that out of
the price the consumer pays for the
milk at his door the distributor gets
from 55 to 60 cents and the farmer
or producer only from 40 to 45 per
cent of the total.

The other two lines, cheese and
butter, in‘the manufacture of which
most of the milk is used then, in or-
der to furnish more money to j the
farmer, be sold for more money to
the consumer. Naturally, you ask,
how is this to be done, and the ans-
wer is, by education. This educa-

_ tion must be two sided. In the first
place, the cheese and butter makers
must be taught to manufacture qual-
ity goods. Poor butter and poor

'cheese are .a drug on the market at
any price and were in normal times
always sold at a loss. Before the
war a great deal of the poor cheese
found an outlet over the free lunch
counter .of the saloons, being sold to
the saloon keepers... at 4 and 5 cents

as In dairy cows. Take the cow out of

 

mhrket but new that 1:11:11;
011 goes it goes begging atl
to 132 cents below the market and if

we had our say, would not be sold,

at 311 and the makers fined, instead,
for making it. You farmers who are

9 owners of the cows as well as of
the cheese factories and creameries,
therefore, must see to it that nothing
but quality goods are manufactured
at your plants. you moat insist upon
it and see to it that your rules are
lived ‘up to the same way that the
grading rules in the Western Fruit
Growers! Association are lived up to
by the members After you have your
machinery so adjusted that the fact-

cries will not dare to produce any»

thing but: the best, then sell it, under
a label and a guarantee through your

~ on selling “easy and then get busy »

on the his task, the advertising line.

As stated first you must produce
quality goods, then you must get
your own selling agency, so as to save
the middlemn's‘ profits for yourselv-
es and, then you must educate the
consumer to use more butter and
cheese'then he is now doing.

When next you. go to the cities,
just watch out for a ‘sign that reads,
“Say it With Flowers.” Those words
with a picture of carnations or roses

   
  

that it all, but it has made millions-

for the florists of the nation. Where
formerly. they could not get 50 cents
a dozen for carnations, nor a dollar
for roses, they are now selling over
20 times as many at $2 for carna-
tions and from $5 up for roses
the public is yelling ‘

Thepublic must j,
the food value of bu
and be taught that at t
ent price it is the best and cheapest
food.

A big educational campaign could
be carried on if every cheese factory
and cream'ery would deduct one per
cent from the checks issued to pat-
rons and this money than be used
for propaganda work. That one per
cent would give the faemer 10 to 20
per cent and even more before the
the first year was up.———Organized
Farmer.

 
   

Special MarketSeason for Horses

LEADING commission dealer in
horses at the Union Stock
,yards, Chicago, tells how farm-
ers can get their horse power for
nothing. He says it means careful
selection and knowledge of the mar-
keting seasons.
“The demand for horses is season-
'al. The best market of the whole
year for all classes, comes from
March to June} first. Horses are
wanted for the spring work on farms
—-——most of the farms in the east do
not raise enough horses for their
own use—~and draft horses are want—
ed in cities by the ice men, the‘ build-
ing contractors, and other lines of
business especially active in the
open months of the year
“There is a strong demand again
in the fall, when logging camps must
be supplied‘jwith horses, and coal
companiesf trucking concerns and
dealers take on extra horses to car—
ryon their work in the winter. Draft-
ers sell readily at these two seasons.
The farm chunk sells well in the
spring season, as welljas the express—
ers and wagon horses, and there is
,more- or less demand for single an-
imals throughout the year. The
buyers who create the real demand,
' h0wever, by purchasing, horses - at
largefiots of one to ten Thundred
horses, are ‘present in the spring
from March to June, and again, but
7, in- lesSer degree, in the fall. The
heavy draft types'flnd'good demand
in the tall, say from the middle of
August through November. In July,
again in Bec'eniber, J anuary Feb-
‘ 7 the market is lowest for all

live stock brought to market.

- » hardened work

more than the'cost ofjhorse feed in
the difference in purchase price.
Then, after the spring work is over,
if he has taken. care of his horse, he
can sell him in June for tally as
much, if not more, than he paid for
him in February. This applies to
drafters and the heavier .farm an-
imals. Farmers will get better pow-
er, and, by right buying and season-
al selling, get it for practically noth—
ing, if they invest in first class an-
imals which will resell readily at the
various seasons, instead of looking
for the cheapest. ‘

“Another thing to remember—~the
time given a horse for rest and fat-
tening after a hard season’s work,
is added dollars on his value. Ninety
per cent of our buyers will choose a
fat horse and be willing to pay more
for him. It is just as important in
horses as it is in other classes of
In
the fall, the farmer can figure the
number of horses he will keep busy
during the winter, and sell offa all
he has above the minimum. If rest-
ed and fed up a bit, they will bring
a much better price in November
than their purchase price in Febru—
ary.

“Seventy-five per cent of our corn
'belt farmers who could take advant-
age of this selling plan, don’t turn
over their horse stock each year or
even every five years, for that mat:
ter. The farmer who has pasture
enough to raise his own draft ani-

, male, if he breeds carefully, can not

only get his work done free, but rea-
lize a big profit on his surplus hors-
es. There is no reason whatever for
his ever having to write oil! anything
tor depreciation, for it is the mature,

 
  

With an under.

3- . y '
. ,7 standing of the marketing situation, -. ,:
corn belt farmers can get their work -
done fownothingond in many cases;=' . '
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heresy. or. seven and _'
' uh are most sale- ‘-'

insect!“ arm '1'"
Inine Merino Rams »
FRANK ROHRABAGHER, Lelnosbum, j ,

ANT A SHEEP? Let
Eileen Association send you
with list of breeders. Write OOMFORT
171. IR, 8110' y. 10 Woodland Ave..

 

Arnencan

ll HAMPSHIRE SHEEP

 
 

Hampshire" .
a dandv booklet ~,
Detroit. Mloh.’

 

 

- A few yearling rams and some rain A

lambs 1612a." clot. 25 ewes all ages for sale 5’ 1,5ALETBEG:STERED "AMP ° H I R I
or is. re ver usranteed as roaring 1m -m r- .1

[eprmm ‘1 mm ‘ HARRY E. PAYNE, Perry, Mich~
OLARKI I). RAIRI. West Branch, Mich YEARLING RAM.

d . FOB SHBOPSHIHEthEt have size gnd typ.

' write 01' mile

 

 

AI opylnm ion FALL DELIVERY HIGH Anmnnona° nukes" R 3. Fowlervllle. Mlch.
cine .egistered Shropshire srlin .
rams. Flock es lxiiehb ed 189 9.07e ‘ ewes and BLOODED

Fall “Emilia" midi};
Wm. LUOE sea city,

0. LINEN Hm "loll.

ewes.
Mich" R5

 

 

 

FOR SALE—4MALL FLocK cuotce RIG.
Hampshires. 7 two year old ewes; ewe lambs

 

 

an‘ 3 mm lambs. JOE KELLEY, Elsie, Mich”
’ Clinton Co.
on SALE: REG. IMPROVED ILIGK TOP

 

 

Deleine yearling rams. The profitable kind.
M m ““11 m T. H. LOVE. R 8, "0'0“, ”6h.

BETTER BREEDING $109K REGISTERED murmur Bins

For the bee. in Shropshire and Bemmhlre ram

 

 

 

curling: and two you old.
trite 313;?!on FARMS a, L. Winn. m LONI CEDAR FARM. ‘eethe. "loll.
ea 0 “111313."? “:13 ”611.. m liiehizn j
11-! I
m rm. ° COATS
D - Bach and Does.
' LONI GIMR FARI. Pentium I‘M.

 

Hill Crest Farms

Black Tops end American Merino; Fifty rams
for stud or farm trade. Farm 4 mi. straight
south of Middleton, Gratiot 00.

Newton & Blank, Perrinton Mich.

”ELAINE RAMS, GOOD SIZE, WOOLY FEL-
iows. Priced to more quick. Write wants to
JOHN BROWN. R 1, Blanchard, Mich.

DELAINE SllEE

its? PET STOCK

FOR GALE: FLEMISH GIANT RABBITS THAT
are pedigreedle and are well and healthy stock,

male and female
, HOWARD SNYDER R 2, Marlon, Mich.

     

 

 

FOR SALE. FLEMISH GIANT RABBITS. DOES.
breeding age, 36. Three months old pair, 35.
Registered does 812 each. Stock pedigreed. Qual‘
ty guaranteed. Ml h

c .

E. HIMEBA UGH. Goldwater,

 

LARGE, REGISTERED,

 

 

 

B & 0 type, both sexes, or Sale: Pedlgreed Flemlsh Glam. Rabbits
> ”91 "‘. v-lrs and steel greys. Five and six mos. old.
_ ilk-8 H. CONLEY & SON, Maple Rsplds, Mlch. RUSSELL J. COLLINS, R 1, Wolverlne, Mlch.

 

 

Scotch Collie Puppies
ire ,
EWALT'SS Sglib‘I’iECTOR

Natural heel~drivors, bred from farm-trained
stock that have plenty of grit. Have a few for
this week's delivery I also buy thoroughbred
Collie Puppies for training, either males or fe-
males. liz'ecd your follicle (1011195 to “SIR HEC-
TOI‘.” and I will buy the puppies.

Dr. EVVALT'S COLLIE FARMS,
Mt. Clemens, Michigan

   

MU "l‘Ult

E‘WAI T'b
A. 244685

K. 0. "NS.

 

 

 

 

POULTRY BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY

Inserted under this heading at 30 cents per line. per Issue. Spscm
rates fofldlgtlflerbneasngr longer. erte out what you have to offer and send it In. we wlll put
it In type, rend proof and quote rates by return mall. Address The Michigan Buslness Farmer,

 

 

 

 

 

Advertising Department, Mt. Clemens. Mlchlgan. \
' ‘ HITE VJYANDOTTES. COOKERELS FROM
POULTRY ' 200 egg buns or better. May and June hatch.

$3 to 38. Eggs $2 per 15

FRANK DELONG, R 3', Three Rlvers. Mich.

 

I MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS.
FOR SALE Toulouse Geese. White l’ekln
314 each at once. Old ducks

Mariette.

 

$333? 1.3113ng ‘6? RHODE ISLAND REDS
CHASE SYJI'OCK FARM. \ ”——
SINOLE 90MB RHODE ISLAND REDS

Early hatched, free range cockerels from stand-

Mlch.

 

. 0. BROWN LEGHORN COCKERELS. $1

 

11 srd»bred heavy winter layers. Liberal discount
end; ‘Xflfifigffinagfig $315339, Mich. on orders booked nuw for full delivery.
M 5- ' VALLEY VIEW POULTRY FARM
Mt. Pleasant, Mlch., R 8

 

ORPINGTONS AND LEGHORNS

rent breeds for profit. Write today for
{rererwcitlflogue of hatching eggs, baby chicks and

k.
£282?ng fitAOTCHER COMPNANV,149 Phllo Bldg.
El .

WHITTAKEB'S RED GDGKERELS

Both combs. Special discount on early orders.
Write for price 13st.
INTERLAKES FARM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

mlra Box 4 Lawrence, Mich.
ckerels A" Hons, Leghm'ns. Mlnorcas, Oam- , 1 .
'copines, lit-(ls, Rocks 0111111130113. \Vyandotjtes, A ILYDIEIETH R0
Brahmas Tyrone Poultry Fm“ Fenian» Mlch. ARRED ROCKS. PARKS zoo-see STRAIN-
cockcrc-ls which will produce flue layers next
' your $3 each.
LEGHORNS n. . «may, R 1, East Lansing. Mich.
SINGLE come BUFF Luci-norms. EARLY LANGSHAN
hatched Goekerels. Farm range from ~excel-

 

 

 

lent layins stock

w wsssrsn an”, BLACK LANoSHANs or QUALITY

Bred for type and color since 1912. Started
from pen headed by Black Bob First prize cock
at International show at Buffalo,Jan. 1912,1223.
3 50 per setting of 15. Winter laying strain.
As. W. SIMPSON. Webbervllle, Mich.

Mich.

RABOWSKE'S S. 0. WHITE LEGHORNS.

mi old stock for sale. . s
1{(2313(EIfiRABOWSKE Merrill. Mlch.. R '4. DR

S. C. White Leghorn Pullets

11 from ten to two 11111 lrcd while they
hayiilllt fie$1.50 each. May hz'itdied well bred

 

HATCHIN G EGGS

FOR SALE HATGHIIIE seas

d reducers, average weight about IFROM A HEAVY LAV-
“d from “0" 9 n1: main of s. o. I. Reds in 32 00 m m-

one and one- -haif pounds each
5 . .
VALLEY mac: Pouunv FARM “usual...“51.11.281.311? m... .. ,,,

Bloomingdale, Michigan silo-moon mutants

r. HEIMS a. son Devlson. Mich.
WYANDOTTE es: come enowu LEGHORN mes POI

 

 

 

 

 

sale. One M er hits 11
silver, Golden and White Wyandottes. Baraelns menu}, muffin“, that eg: “in,“ 011:1“!
in surplus Yearling stock to make room for mnnteed.
growing birds. Clarence Browninz. 82. Portland. I. HIMEIAUGH. Goldwater, Mloh.

 

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