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THIRD GOLD CONTEST
'  Your l‘larne In Tdday -

So successful have the first 'two Gold Contests been that
we will start a Third immediately and the purse of $250 in
7 Gold oifered is the largest yet distributed v to friends of the

Business Farmer.

follows :

Apparently Mrs. John Elofson
of LeRoy, Mich., is the winner
of the $100 Gold First Prize in
the contest which closed October
30th, (just as this issue is go-
ing to press.) Mrs. Elostn
could give the contest only her
spare monents, so what she did
in the Second Contest anyone
can do in the Third; the only
advantage will be that the farm-
ers are not so busy in the fields
now as they were in September
and October, and the first prize
winner in the Third Contest
will win $150 in gold! Other
winners in the Second Contest

issue.

Evidently J. E. Yagr, of Care,
found little trouble in getting
more subscriptions to THE EU:-
mass FARMER. because in the
Second Contest he again won
second position, a gold prize of
$50, which makes $75 in all he
has won in the two contests. E.
J. Kramer, of Fowler, carried off
third prize; Victor Werth, Al-
pena. won fourth prize; Miss
Della M. Hart, Rosebush, fifth
prize; James Southerby, Otter
Lake, sixth prize, and Ray Pope,
Jonesville won seventh place.

It was a. friendly contest all
the way through, with each con-
testant doing just enough each
week to make it exciting. The

1.—The contestant or some mem-
ber of his or her family must be a
subscriber to The Michigan Bum-
pess Farmer.

2.—No professional canv‘asser or
anyone employed directly or indi-
rectly by this company can be a
contestant. . \

3.———Cash in money Order. check
or draft must accompany each list.

4.——Subscriptions to count must
be paid and post—marked not later
than December 3151:, 1920_

Prizes will be distributed to thosa
having the largest number of points
which will be determined as fol-
lows:

Each 250 Trial ,6-months new
subscription counts One (1).

Each $1 Renewal 1-year Sub-
scription counts one (1).

Each $1 NEW l-year unscrip-
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The prizes will be distributed January first, 1921, as

FIRST PRIZE: $150 IN GOLD

SECOND PRIZE: $50 IN GOLD

THIRD PRIZE: $25 IN GOLD
FOURTH PRIZE: $10 IN GOLD
Also three Consolation prizes of $5 Gold Pieces

to the next three in line. .

This makes an array of prize money which anyone will
agree is well worth the little time and eflort which it takes
to let your friends and neighbors know that you are in the
contest and offer to send in their new and renewal subscrip-
tions to The Business Farmer.

WOMAN WON $100 IN OUR;
SECOND CONTEST WHICH CLOSED OCT. 30

are anounced on page 15 of this

These Simple Rules Cover the Third Contest

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warm busy fall made it hard...
to show big totals, but the work-
ers were pretty evenly tied un-
til the last two weeks of the
contest, when Yager lost first
place and Kramer threatened to
hold it. A woman’s way won
out, and at this writing it ap-
pears that Mrs. Elofson will be
receiving the congratulations of
her friends before this paper
reaches your hands.

These contests are conducted".
simply to make a game of the
work which our, readers have
continually done for the BUSI-
ans anm since it was es-
tablished. We have never yet
had to employ professional sub—
scription agents or street-fair
fakirs to get subscriptions and
we never want to. These co'n-
tests give our friends an incen-
tive to do the paper a good turn
and we find that whenacontest-
ant is entered, his or her friends
and relatives quickly come in
and help them win the prize
money. All we want is new
fr-iends’ names on our mailing
list, therefore we offer a full
point for a 250 Trial Subscrip-
tion, bcause we know after you
have introduced THE BperEw
FARMER into a farm- home, its
merit alone will keep them sub-
scribing at our regular subscrip-
tion' rates.

scription counts Two (2). '

Each $3 Renewal 5—year Subs-
sription counts Two (2).

This is the easiest contest to win
in we have ever conducted because
it comes at just the right time of
year' there is no reason in the
worl why any marl, woman, boy
or girl, who starts into this Third ,
Contest cannot carry off ‘the First
Prize of $150.in gold if they will
apply themselves to the work more
or less of their time from now un-
til Christmas. .

THE BIG THING IS TO SEND
IN THE COUPON BELOW TO-
DAY.. Then we can send you ev-
erything necessary to start you on
our way to winning 1 Let every-

y know you are n to win a
prise in the Business Farmer con-
tent and be surprised how
they will ’ D you!

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demonium- broke loose, in ' the. .1391?er
of Trade and eyeryone, following

Rosenbaum’s- example began to sell. V
The next .day farmers who were

obliged to take wheat to market!
found that the price had dropped off
several cents a'bushel, and though"
they did not know it, the fault all
lay with the fool clerk who' madethe ‘
error. We wonder how much it
cost the farmers in, the aggregate ~
who had to sell wheat the next
day; . ‘ ,

But the‘case cited is one of many
showing the Wenderful efliciency of
Board of Trade methods.
are, described as follows in a recent
issue of Rosenbaum’s Review. ' '

“During .the war," says the writ-
er, who knews the. Chicago Board
of, Trade from the inside, “a man
who had sold short some 10,000 .
bushels of wheat was talking with a
couple of cronies one day, and of,
fered to bet that he could put the
market price of wheat down two
cents. I They took the bet. The man
had been a reporter on a Chicago
paper, but had changed his job some '
time before this happened. . He went
to a, telephone booth, called up a
member of a certainflrm of brokers
and said: _ , _ ‘

“This is So-and-So of the—J...
naming the paper with which he had

.been connected. ‘We, have an un-

confirmed report that the Kaiser has
committed . suicide,’ he went on
very seriously. “Have you received
any information about it?’ .

“ ‘Good lord, noi' the broker ex-
claimed. ‘Gash man, you don’t
mean it!’

“The practical joker hung up the
phone and waited to see what hap-
pened. It surprised him as mu_ch as
it did anybody. The brokerage ‘flrm
held a consultation and decided to
get in on the news. The idea was
that the suicide of the Kaiser.would '
mean the end of the war and that
prices would go down. They jumped
into the market, began selling, and
inside of a few minutes wheat drop-
ped 12 cents, a bushel. The man
who'had sprung the joke bought
quickly, because he knew it was a
fake. He made three cents a bush
el on his lot. If he had held it five
minutes longer he would have quad—
rupled his winnings.

“Several years ago, prolonged
drought and hot winds over the Corn
Belt stirred up a crop of unusual
proportions. For several days pric— .
es went up, up, up—untll it began
to get monotonous. Dispatches from
all directions stated that unless rain
came the damage to the '- growing
crop would be irretrievable.

“But somebody happened to tel-
ephone to a friend over in the Field
building just at that time, and the
friend happened to mention casual-
ly that it was raining over there.
The man at the ’phone repeated this
bit of news to somebody else, and,
presto! it was reported in Board of
Trade circles that it was raining
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or"; from - a ,standpip'e" on. the Field
buildingsa‘nd called drain! 5*: « '

1"Ye‘ar's, agothe market was sent ' “I "
skyg-rOcketing by a._el'ever~fske,i,ap~ x

parently perpetrated , by: a farmer

’cut in ,IoWa‘, but later said to} have -'

been canoes-ted by a famous figure

on the Board'of Trade. The Iowa ; 
farmer sent. in a story ~about”hew ._  '

the wheat crop was being damaged
by hugs of a greenish hue which had
appeared in, great numbers. He (add-
ed to .the impressive ecect of his tale

by stating that the bugs worked at,

night. The story got intolthe papers,
and caused an uneasy feeling among
traders. . '
tangible evidence of the'new pest
began to appear in the shape of pa-
per boxes sent from widely scattere
ed parts of the wheat belt and filled
with the mysterious bugs.

of these boxes of specimens; and the
market, anticipating a damaged and
reduced crop, sent wheat prices soar-
ing, while pandemonium‘reigned.
“Then the man who had concocted
the fake, and who had cleaned up a
pile of money on it. decided to play
it both ways. He went short on the
market and proceeded to undo the
effects of the green bug story. He

had reports wired in to the eifect ~

that the mysterious visitors were
the least. harmful of, all known in-
sects. I guess they were too, for
they were nothing but old-fashioned
But they had
fooled a lot of people out of a lot-
of money." ’ r l ‘

 

BUYING POWER OF EUROPE, IE
LARGE FACTOR IN WORLD
\' CEREAL SITUATION
NANALYSIS of the world situa—
A tion in regard to supply and de-
mand of cereals was made pub-1

lie 'by the Bureau of Markets, United 

States Department of Agriculture ,re-
cently.

Data gathered by the department  *

seem to indicate a supply of wheat

and rye to meet the probable Euro-‘- _
pean demand unless the buying pow- ..

er of Central Europe becomes mud:
stronger than it is now. Allowance
has been made in all cases for nor-
mal home consumption, seed and car-
rynover. ‘, Other cereals will meet
European demands even on the pre-
war consumption basis. 

In estimating the world’s needs
and supply of breadstuffs, however,
all. cereals must be considered, since
all in a degree are interchangeable
both in production and use. Wheat
and rye are used principally in the
making of bread; rice and millet
serve the “same place in the diet.‘
Bread eaters include most of the
people of Europe and the Western
Hemisphere and a portion of the
people in the other continents. Oats,

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' f__sought a lower retail milk price
for the month of November, the Milk

-r  .E/emmissien ordered that both the
“(buying and sellinglprices of milk

should continue the same for Nov:

‘ . ~"'emberas October. This means $3.80
‘*  per hundred or about 8 cents a quart

 .  the farmer and 16icents:per“quart _~ ‘
' r to the consumer. ‘

Pres. N. P. Hull) admirably pre-
sented thecase for the farmers stat-

...lng :that the milk producers could
- mot stand a- furthercut *in prices. He

pleaded with the Commission to give
the farmers a living price for their
product,‘ citing the fact, that too
many farm women and children are

., obliged to work long hours in the

field, largely because the farmer can-

’in'ot afford to compete in the labor

 .pricedshbor. .sec'y
Reed told how during the past few
days he had seen many farm women

' toiling in the fields, cutting and husk"-
‘ ’ing‘corn.‘p"uning sugar beets. etc.

Among. a number of ladies pres-

ent was a welfare worker in the slums ,

of Detroit, who made a plea for low-
er milk prices. She told how the

 i; m, ‘ minimums-remuner—

ing- from malnutrition, because. of
disc inability of their parents to buy
them suflicient milk. 'She said that
when urging mothers to buy more

~mlik for their children, the usual

response she got was a shrug of the
shoulders, and “no can afford.” -“I
don’t care how you do it,” she said
to the commission, “but please: gen-
tlemen, make the price of milk cheap-

er so the poor of the city_can buy it.’.' 7

This statement aroused the hon:
est' indignation of‘ Farmer Lockwood
who lives out Washington way. He

arose to his feet and in a dramatic .
'fashion disclaimed any responsibil—

ity on the part of the farmers for
“Send your
poor of the city out to the farm,"
he said, “and we'll feed them.’There’s
no need for any child in Detroit to

' cater for want of milk when there

are thousands of acres! just outside

this great city that are waiting to

Let your working people
of the city come to the farms and
help produce. this milk and their-
children‘ won’t be suffering for want

be tilled.

I of it." »

The distributing companies were
represented in force. Nearly. all
submit.th figures showing that either
"their profits had been very small or
else they had lost money during the
past'two .Or three months. All testi-

»- fled that the consumpti0n~ of‘ milk

had dropped off the past thirty days.

. All. testified that unemployment was.

one of the reasons, although some ad-

, mitted that it was the advent of

“cooler weather. Nearly all were sat-t

.  {seed that .a‘ lower; price ponld at
 prevent a further decrease in a
 sales. if not result in anincrease. ',
vHighland .Park- creamery 

 a loss of $5,200 during‘the,mentih
 51 Sept... when..milk‘ was; {4.10.2 The
7 :1 JohuISchlafi Creamery‘reported that
“ Eltflnd earned only $1.10 not, on [a

pitaliaation of 3500,00 during the
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- - Sound Advice to Dairymen
VERY dairy state is confronted with the problem of restricted
  lower prices. What to do tokeep .down'the losses
and save the industry is a question.
ems given to thedairymen of the state of ,Washington byMr. Homer
ostrich, secretary of the United Dairy Ass’n of um state. ,
f‘A-re you goingvltn. try and sell your cows for beef, or are you going
to a-y'na   on wheat home  - feeds Wynn
9‘ have"? The best dairywcows in the state on public auction today
wouldnot bring you over an average of $75.00, while you
‘ an average of $150.00 ormore for the better grades.
I The Sensible Thing To Do «
“As a rule the'thne togointo a business or stay in a business if
you can possibly weather the storm, is when things
I make the follmving suggestions:
“First. Churn yourown butter. .
Drink and use your own milk and buttermilk.
“Third. Kill and cure your own meat.
“Feurth. Eat eggs rather than buy meat from the butcher.
“Fifth. Protect your own interests by consuming and feeding

with another in your marketing problems,
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sential products which you must buy.

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consistently hold up the price of
milk. It is true that there is a sur-
plus of labor in this. city and. that
down, but! we cannot

cut the wages of our employee until

the cost of living comes down.”
The attitude of the Detroit dis-

tributors is this: The distributors

Live StoCk EXChanges Try Again

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BRAND new campaign, for the
A stabilization of-live stock ‘mar—

kets has been launched by the'

Nat-tonal Live Stock Exchange and
its various member exchanges, the
country over. If this were the first
undertaking of. this nature
started by these organizations the
outside public would be inclined to
expect something might come from
it. Is it not a remarkable coinci-
dence that the Various farmers’ or-
ganizations throughout the whole
country are striving for exactly the
end that the live stock exchanges
claim to be working for and still these
two tremendous forces, in connection
with the production and distribution
of meats, continue to work at cross
The livestock exchanges
are working to bring about stabiliza-
tion of markets and the Illinois Agri-
cultural society is paying Prof. H. W.
Mumford $15,000 per year to help
about the very same thing. If the
members 'of the two great associations

mentioned above could come together

on some common ground; -‘ if they
would, for the time being, banish
their prejudices and innate selfish-
ness they could, without question,
solve this difllcult problem in a com-
paratively short time. '

a It is hard for the lay mind to un-
derstand why conditions outlined a-
bove should exist but to those whom‘
have studied- the work of livestock
exchanges closely for the last ten
years; the reason for lack of results
in connection with some of their oper-
ations is not far to seek; the malady

-'-from the livestock exchanges are sui-

fering is organic rather than func-
 That these organizations have
accomplished? very much along some
line. must be conceded, but that they

 
  

 able togestablish an

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By H. H. MACK.

to bring about certain results and
everything has moved off smoothly,
until .some of the associations! ac-
tivities have run counter to the in-
terests of certain wealthy and very
influential members of the exchange.
A halt was called, immediately and
from that time on, nothing more was
heard of this branch of the work.
The membership of the livestock ex-
changes, at the diderent markets or
the country, is made up of commission
salesmen, pork packers, killers of
livestock on ‘a large scale and stock

yard officials. r

In view of the apbve facts it should
not be hard to understand why it is
difficult to accomplish anything in
the way of market stabilization,
through the agency of these organi-
zations. It is perfectly natural that
commission salesmen and yard super-
intendents should desire to equalize
live stock receipts so that gluts would
become things of the past; but for a
packer buyer of cattle sheep and hogs,
to forego the opportunity to save mo-

ney which buying on a market that,

is struggling with an over-supply
affords: is quite another matter. In
the opinion of the writer, not only
will the big slaughters of livestock
decline to favor the adoption of mea-
sures that will tend to prevent glnts
but they will, in a quiet way. do ev-
erything in their power to get an over-
load into the market at frequent in-
tervals. _ . .

The big packers are noted for the
splendid effectiveness of their bus-
iness methods; they evidently proceed
upon the assumption that “well
bought is half sold" and the methods
which are followed by them in their
buying operations do not always
square with the golden rule. They

. are, however, just as clever at smooth-

ing things over as theyare at buying

‘nnd’tliey pay press agents high" star:
has to apply- ,soo‘thing lotions to the”

raw ewes made by the practice of‘un-

- scrupulous methods.  the pack.

er-msmbers of livestock enchantelot
this country take an active  in
homing about the stabilization

‘i'lietroit  Price to Remain Unchanged 4' .

jccts Plea of Distributors that Price be Lowered During

November

know,—-—in fact some or them have

admittedr-e-that the present system '
of milk distribution is wasteful and‘
expensive, yet they'are not willing!

to take voluntary steps to correct
this system because it would mean
the elimination of some. _Neither
are they willing to accept a less

spread than they are now,“ getting‘
between what they pay the farmers.

and what they receive from the con-
sumer. They are willing, however,
that the consumer shall have cheap—
er milk provided the farmer can be
t—made to bear the entire burden of
lower prices. They are willing that
the consumer should have cheaper
milk, not because they have any par-
ticular compassion for the consumer,
but because they believe in keeping

the consumer good-natured and mak- :

ing him think that they are a bul—
wark of protection between him and
the grasping farmer.

By posing as '
the friends of the consumer, the dis- ‘

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on the good side of the newspapers

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and the other powers that be in the § :
city of Detroit, thus being in a po— ' "

sition to thwart any move on the‘
part of the consuming public to_re-'

form the milk business.

The claim of the distributors that
reducing the price of milk one cent
a quart, or the milk bill of a family

$3.65 per year, will encourage peo- ‘

pie to buy one quart where they
would otherwise buy a pint,or two
quarts where they would only buy
one, quart at 16 cents is so ridicu-
lous as to be amusing. We would
like to visit the home of a family in
Detroit which is so poor that it can-
not afford to pay 16 instead of 15
cents a quart for milk. We wOuld
like to know how much money such
desperately poor people spend for
coffee, cigars, liquor, candy and the
movies.

Mrs. Edward J. Jeffires, wife of
Judge Jeffries, and representing the
Detroit Federation of Labor on the
Milk Commission, said:

“I am very sure that the Detroit
Federation of Labor does not want
the women and children of the farm
working like men in the fields. If
there is one thing that the Detroit
Federation of Labor stands for it is
'the dignity of labor. We believe
that women’s place is in the home
and not in the fields or factory. We
want the farmers to have all that
their produce is worth so that they
may take care of their families in
the way they ought to be cared for.
The Detroit Federation of Labor
knows that it is not the fault of the
farmer that the cost of milk is high
in Detroit. We know that is is the
profiteering in the distribution of
milk that is to blame.
these gentlemen have 'told us that
they’are operating their plants at a
loss. I am surprised, indeed, that
a concern with a quarter of a mil—
lion dollars capitalization should
continue to operate at a loss of thous-
ands-of dollars per month where
there are so many good bonds upon
the market which will yield them
from four to seven per cent on their
money.” » '

To this remark, Chairman Drake ~ V
‘enf-‘ttkecommission roionedf “You - -

must remember that this Commis-
sion, has not taken the word of the
distributors as to what it costs them
to distribute milk.

"If that be true." returned. Mrs.

Johns... .f'you would better reform 
 system of distributints',’ I ,  . r

We had expert- I
.acconntants-go over their books and ‘ '
- gain. ofipront was not too grea ” ..

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_ E FARMERS in this section are

’very much interested in modern
improvements such as tractors, water
systems, lighting plants and bath and
toilets. It“ would be very interesting
to get some information on them
through your pape‘r.—S. G., Hanover,
Michigan, R. 1.

 

“ OW ARE you going to keep

them down on the farm?”
' This popular song puts a prob-
lem which just now is receiving the
serious attention of many economists
-—the shortage of farm labor. This
Shortage is partly responsible for the
general high cost of living, and food
prices will continue to be high until
the situation is relieved.

The opportunity for increased pay
in the city is undoubtedly one of the
causes for the boys leaving the soil;
but when they find the cost of living
in town also is proportionately high—
er, why don’t they go back to the
country? One of the reasons is be~
cause there are more comforts and
conveniences in the city, the econom-
ists say. Men don’t like to rise with
the sun and go to bed when the
chickens roost. They don’t like long
hours of back—breaking, monotonous
labor in summer, and being

snow bound in a house throughout

the wint e r,
with the cold
sea r c h i n g
each or a c k
and crann y.
As Whittie r
puts it:

“Within our
beds awhile we
heard
, The wind that
‘round the gab-
les roared.

W i t h n o w
and then a rud—
er shock,

Which made
our very bed—
steads rock.

We heard the
loosened

While the profits derived from a
modern farm are not so great com—
pared with those from city enter—
prises, many of the boys and girls
can be brought back to the farm or
kept on the farm by making the farm
home a comfortable place, in which
to live the year around. The pipe-
less furnace manufacturers are sup—
plying to the farm home one of the
prime requisites to comfort that it
used to lack—heat. And the things
that will keep boys on the farm and

bring the erstwhile farmers

 

    

heating his home with a modern furnace.

' COMMUNITY laundry! Visions
A of pictures you have seen that
were taken in foreign lands
showing groups of native women
standing in a river doing the fam-
ily washing appear before your mind
when you see these three words. But
this is not the kind of a community
laundry that we have in mind. The
kind that you will be interested in
is co—operative laundries that will re—
move that awful dread of washday
from the farm women’s minds.
More than fifty years ago various
foreign cities began building com-
munity wash houses along the rivers.
Each house is equipped with stand—

, Chas Bueker of Saginaw county shows that he Is a
.progresslve farmer by reading The Business Farmer and

back are heat, light and pow-
er. It is a question which of
that wonderful trinity has prov—
ed to be the greatest blessing
to the farmer and his family.

Electric light has supplant—
ed tho oil lamp, eliminating the
danger of fire from this source;
but electric light, has also done
more. It has lengthened the
farmer’s day, making the even-
ings pleasant for him and his
family circle. '

Power machinery enables
the farmer, despite shortage of
men as confronts him today, to

 

Outside the winter winds may blow, but Inside the
furnace-heated farm home of Lester A. Newark of Mulli-
Clwp- ken, all is comfort.
boards test,

The board-nails snapping in the frost;
And On us thru the unplastered wall
Felt the light, sifted snowflakes fall.”

cultivate the
soil and per-
form the chor-
es. There is
power for sow-
ing, cultivat-
ing, harvest-
ing, transpor-
tation, pump—
ing, wood cut-
ting, wash—
ing, churning
and countless
other purpos—
es.

T h e a d —
vance in mat-
ters of heat—
ing the farm home has kept pace
with the strides made in othbr direc-
tions. In pioneer days, the old fire—
place in the living room with its big
back-log, “beat back the front line.”
The rest of the house was unheated.
Later, stoves came into use, but
because of the drudgery connected
with them, they were used in
only a few rooms. The confinement
of the farmer’s family to" these
rooms was responsible for discom-
fort and poor health.

The pipeless furnace is
changing all this, bringing
comfort and convenience to the

now

exceed those that do. As farming
becomes more profitable and the
farmer's family comes more into con-
tact with the comforts of city life it
is natural that the installation of
modern furnaces will become mar

widespread. ‘

Modern methods are appreciated
by Women as much as by men. ,

Best of all, the modern im-
provements offers a saving in mon-
ey, time, labor and health. It is en-
couraging to think of the number of
proven utilities that are going into
the rural homes; pleasant to learn
of the improvement in living condi-
tions. Heat, light and power are
holding thousands of our young men
and women on, the farms, and in
time will restore the occupational
balance.

Editor’s Note: Upon the request of
several subscribers future articles will
be published showing the advantages,
cost, etc., of modern farm home im-
provements. To lend interest and val-
ue to the discussion of this subject we
would like to have our readers who
have installed these modern imprope-
ments to write us. their experience

‘ with Menu—Editor.

 

farm. It heats old or new
houses of three to eighteen
rooms through one register, by
the natural circulation of warm
air. The basement is kept cool
for storing perishable food pro-
ducts, all the warmth being
sent up into the building even—
ly and economically.

Thousands of pipeless and
other makes of furnaces, sup-
plying hot air, steam and hot'
water have been installed in
Michigan farm homes. Yet the
number of: farm homes in all
states which do not know the
comforts of furnace heat far

By MILON GRINNELL

power equipment. Many of you
have undoubtedly read of or seen
such laundries but not many, I dare
say, have heard of rural co-operative
laundries. A few of these have been
operating very successfully in rural
districts for several years. One of
the first was the outgrowth of a co—
operative creamery in C'hatfield, Min-
nesota, which is described in a bul—
letin issued by the U. S. Department
of Agriculture.

About 12 years ago the butter
maker of a co—operative creamery at
Chatfield, Minn., rigged up an old

could be organized to whom the

building could be rented.

A strong and active farmers’ club
located near this town, being favor-
ably impressed withthis idea, and
finding both rural and city dwellers
viewing it with approving eyes, call—
ed a meeting to discuss the subject
of co—operation. It was at this meet-
ing that the co—operative laundry
idea took definite form. And in or-
der to have it more thoroughly un—
derstood by all it was decided to call
the entire community together at a
picnic to be held a couple of months

 

Home of L. H. Snoble, lonle, Mich... another bus-
lness farmer, who keeps the folks contented by furnace-
heating the big farm home.

'Why Wash-Day Has No Terrors for Farm Women of Chatfield, Minn.

When Dad Brings in the Milk to Co-operative Creamery, He also Brings the Clothes to the Co-operative Laundry

separate corporation entirely. The,
objects of this arrangements is to
prevent friction between the officers
of the two corporations and by
making it a separate organization,
to enlist the support and patronage
of the town people, who are not
stockholders in the creamery‘com—
pany, but who hold about 30 per cent
of the capital stock in the laundry
company.

“The creamery company owns the
building, which it rents to the laun-
dry company at $10 per month, a
rental equivalent to 6 per cent on
the investment, and sfipplies it with
power and heat at the rate of about

 

ing troughs , $1 5 p e r
and stoves. , mon t h,”
For a few says C. H.
cents th 0 Han s o n ,
native w 0- author of
'me n c a n e bulle-
take their tin. .
clothes “The

there, and
wash them
in the run-
nin g w a-
ters a n (1
dry the m
o n t h e

 

larger Am-
erican cit—
ies’ have
taken this idea and improved upon

‘ it. Some of them have built special

3 indoor wash houses.

.
i

' municipal bathhouses.

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l
i
i

it

 

Ofttimes these
have been built in conjunction with
These hous—
es are divided into compartments and
each housewife has the use of one
compartment which is equipped with
two tubs and a ringer with hot and
cold water. The women [take “their
clothes home in the 1“wet‘“_>‘wash”
stage'and ‘dry‘them’ there. fin one
or two '0': the large cities municipal
lahndries have been‘establ‘ished,'; ‘to
 “hich‘hdfisewivésmey take alien
i’fiotfiéfii‘iénd' have   filly

v, Vl1!:“,"“ '5-6)‘

        
  

Co-operative Laundry at Ohatfield, Minnesota, where farm washings are done.

   
  

churn for the washing of his laundry.
The secretary of the company saw
this invention in operation one day
and conceived the idea of operating
a rural laundry in conjunction with
the creamery. The stockholders, act-
ing on the advice of the board of di-
rectors, were annually setting aside
_a. liberal amount of money for im-
provements and in 1912,“after the
idea had been carefully considered,
they'met and decided to use,f$2,000
of these deferred funds to'bhild [an
addition to the creamery "'inrwhlch
they ' intended ‘ ,t-‘o‘ establish" "the
"laundry; providing theta company

 

  

General view of interior showing modern power washing machinery.

 

later. At this picnic a vote was tak—
en, the women voting as well as the
men, and the count proved to be so
overwhelming in favor of the project
that the farmers’ club promptly call-
ed a meeting to promote the enter-
prise. The appointment of a commit—
tee to investigate other laundries, the
perfecting of the organization, the
scouring of the purchasers of stock,
incorporation, and the erection and
equipment of the plant followed in

such rapid succession that within 7.

months" they began operations.
Although the laundry has the same

officers that the creamery has it is a

  

   

company is
organi z e (1
under 'the
co - opera—
tive laws
0 f t h 9
state and
h a 3 been
capitalized
at $5,000.
Shares sold
for $5 each, but each of the 224
stockholders has" but one vote, re—
gardless of the number of shares he
holds. Desiring to make the enter-
prise as purely co-operative as possi-
ble, the company, after paying 6 per

 

- cent dividends on ‘all stock, refunds

a pprtion of the remainder of the
surplus in the form of a 10 percent
rebate to the patrons in proportion to
the amount of business done 'with
the laundry. ' I

“The building which is an addition ‘ .
w'ellfbuilt ‘

to the “creamery, is a.

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‘ 'hi” TWIN-icky. Milk Producers’
- I which-operates in the territory
_ around St. Paul and Minneapolis
j and throughout. Southern Minnesota’

"is.,an‘ organizatiOn which _‘ has been .

used as a model by many other or-
ganizations. _This milk marketing
‘organizatiOn was brought into “exist-
ence as most similar organizations
by. the gross mistreatment of the
farmers who were selling milk to the
cities. Before the association was or-
ganized in - Sep-
tember, 19 1 6,
milk was sold by
measure regar d-
less of test and
the dealers tests
and weights had
 to go without ap-
peal. One group

a

of farmers was
played again 3 t
another and very
- often, less was
paid'for milk de-.
'livered to city
plants than was
being paid to
cheese factories

fifty miles away.
In those days the '
most successful
milk distributor
was the one who
could get th e
best testingmilk
for the least
money. Now all

~pay a fair price .
based on butter

and cheese and

buy by weight

and test. The

producers , to e l: ' , .

thatwtheyet, least have something-
to sayin regard- to the price at which
they will sell their-product and the
large distributors would not want to
go back to the old system _where
each farmer was paid on a different
baSianand always as- little as possible.
‘ Much of the‘organization 'work
was done by county agents in the

counties near St?” Paul and Minneap»

olis. These men saw the need of a
milk marketing organization and did
the necessaryrpreliminary work to
start one. ~The organization was for-
tunate in securing,men of consider-
able business experience as officers
and was a success from the start.
This does not mean that there were
no troubles to overcome. The city

paper proclaimed the new associa--

tion as the"‘milk trust" and business
men unitedrto fight it as they seem”.-
ed to think the farmers were trying
to work into a new field in which—
they did not belong. The ofiicers
were indicted and were pulled into
court every few weeks for two
years when the case was finally dis-

‘ missed.. ~
Five hundred‘farmers were in the

court room at one time ready to go ,

bail for their officers and because
there were so many the judge made
the amount unusually high. ,-
The Association seems to have
passed this stage and to have estab—
lished itself as a «practical business
organization. Milk distributors
grudgingly admit that is it a good
thing and the newspapers are now
listed as friend-s of the organization.
The first plan was to have a central
office where records of membership
would be kept and where "perhaps
two or three inspectorswould make
' their headquarters. The plan Was to
collect about two per cent of the
amount due each member from the
distributors for the service rendered
in inegotiating contracts and taking
care of complaints. It was soon
found that this form of organization
was little b.et.ter_,than_ none at all
as it did rhOt solve any of the big
problems. , It was found-that. there
Waitmce ’a‘s, fmuch‘milk on the mar-

  

 »k‘eft in.  as   November. V .In-
'- ' e-Some  rsgwonld have to
tit _ . ‘ “Who was to

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 By “H. ‘R.'

  

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HIS IS the fourth of a series (if articles onxmilk‘marketing in other ,.
states: In Minnesota the preducéi's have. of __a half mn- -.
lion dollars invested in central receiving stations; cheese and but- ~
ter plants.: Although they do not actually distribute the milk, theyvir.
tnally dictate the testing and selling prices. In these respects they are
years ahead of Michigan producers.
will appear in an early issue.—Editor.

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One of the fourteen plants operated by the Twin City Milk Producm' Ass'n.
. weighed, mud and delivered to retail distributors In 10-oallon cans.

porated for $50,000 divided into $50
shares, about $250,000 worth
which are outstanding. The mem-
bers are divided for purposes of ad-
ministration into groups known as
locals of which there are fifty two.
These locals have frequent meetings
and so keep in touch with the work
’of the organization. Each local nom-
inates a director before the annual
meeting each year and the choice of
the local is always the choice of the
membership, thus the organization
is run by fifty-two .directors chosen .

from. among the members. These
directors in turn elect the officers
from among their’number. These
officers are a president, two vice-

presidents, a secretary—treasurer and
one other. These five men are known
as the executive committee and are
in active charge of the work. The
directors meet every three months
and the executive committee every
week. ‘ .
Association Handles All Surplus
The surplus problem was solved
by the Association. taking charge and
directing the sale of all milk from
the farms of members. Contracts
are made with the distributors to
supply all the milk or a certain num-
ber of pounds each day and when
there is a surplus this milk is made
into butter or cheese andany loss is
pro-rated among the membership. To
take care of this the Association has
fourteen plants. All but two of
these are. at country points and these
two are located in the Twin Cities.
Some of these plants were built by
the Association but most of them
were built by local co-operative'or-
ganizations which later became a

V part of the central body. During the

month of June the Association handl—

ed over 10,000,000 pounds of milk
“and of this about

3,000,000
made into butter and cheese.
Where milk ‘is hauled to one

‘ was

of

,thesevp'lan-ts‘ themilk is tested and
{weighed at the 'plant and the cans
,_washed and returned.

Some' of the
plants have automatic can, washers
antiqin others «this work i’spdone by

Hhandn [The milk is run over a cooler
,,and then either trucked.“ tor-shipped
, tozthe [city in,_.._tbe ~distributor's.,cans.
' .ifthe‘re'is, 

   
  
 

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of~

 

This plant is located In St. Paul.

which gather the milk direct from the
farms. Until recently all of this
milk was taken direct to the distrib—
utor’s plants and even now much of
it is handled in this way. The con-
tract the producers have with the dis-
tributors provides that the produc-
ers shall send a tester to the plant of
the distributor who shall test the
milk of each patron at least once a
week. The distributor can work
withthis man but these tests shall
be the ones upon which payment shall
be made. This point was gained
only after the hardest fight the pro—
ducers ever had as it seemed hard
for some dealers to let the producers
supervise'weights and tests. Milk
shipped from country stations is sold
on the weights and tests at the point
of shipment. If there is any dispute
on weights and tests the contract
provides that the matter shall be left
to the State Dairy and Food Com—
missioner but so far he has had an
easy time as far as the milk busi—
ness is concerned as there has never
been a case presented to him for set-
tlement.

Visitors are surprised at the ap-
pearance of the central office. Here
twenty—five stenographers, bookkeep-
ers and other ofiice help are employ—
ed. The office is divided into depart-
ments all under the supervision of
an office manager, who in turn is re—
sponsible to the general manager.
This office receives a report each
day for the amount of milk or cream
delivered by each member whether
the product is taken to an Association
plan't or to the distributor direct.
One department takes care of this
work. Another department handles
.cheese reports. The yield of the
cheese and whey cream is figured
each day. Another desk receives the
butter reports and still another 'rep—‘
resents the purchasing department.

Sanitation Department

Through a sanitation department
the Association is a real benefit to,
the consumingpublic. This depart-
.ment is in charge of an inspector who
can go to the farms of the Associa.=

.tion members and help them to prep.- ..

erly eare'for their milk. Sediment
testsfare made each-month and'av cir-
cular latter is sent. out "to. each, mem-

her With the disk‘shfiwinfi the “mmfi‘vt'x

The milk ls hauled In by farmers,

Jorga‘nization show that profits would?
abs small when distributed over,.th'
.entire, .m‘embership, and the reason;

,nnessfiwui ~ be; “to, protect the '
. .  hep. _ 

   
 

. ~ . .-,-.~:- ~  -..=."‘l:r'-;i-
chines are used] as. agents foftenfit‘bll
purchasers that, itlais only necessafry
.t‘IQ’.;W.ash“ the mechifiezonce’0,1“.'.§Wi§°
armors fTVhe work of this defi’rt-

' intent has decreased themamoun “bf

sour milk by '50 percent .‘re’sultm" in
a saving of over $50,000‘,.per yearlto
members.

Five thousand checks are written
each month on .two check ,writing
machines. These machines ‘are‘pro-
vided with'automatic adding and
subtracting de-
vices 'so that "it
is almostim'pos-
sible for the‘op- ~
erator' to make a
mistake, . Milk
patrons . are} ; paid
once a month,g.3a_
cream patron _
twice a month,

Prices are
agreed toponce a
year and p. a
lengthy, contract
covering all‘pos-
sible pointsof
dispute is signed
by both produc-
ers and distribut-
ors. The Asso-
ciation has col-
lected all kinds
of data on prices
for the last 20
years and these
are used in ar—
riving at a fair
basis for prices.
Little attention
has been given
the cost of pro-
duction as a fact-
or in determin-
ing price in recent years although
that basis was the only one consid-
ered at first. The present contract
is based upon the average that
could\ be received from the milk if
it were made into butter or cheese
with an additional sum to cover
transportation charges andfla small
bonus over milk for manufacturing
purposes. At present the price is
determined as follows: The price
for October for instance, is arrived
at by taking the average New York
extra price for butter for September
and multiplying by 5.2. Then tak-
ing the September average of Twin,
Daisy and Young American cheese
on the Plymouth market and multi-
plying by ten. These two totals. are
averaged and to this is“ added the
differential which for October was,
eighty-five cents. This gave a price
of $3.80 per 100 pounds which was
{or 3.5 per cent milk delivered at
the distributor’s door. The butter
bases represents 3.5 times butter for
t‘he’fat, 20 per cent for overrun, .and
New York extra for the skim'milk in
100 per cent of whole milk. .The
differential varies from 40 cents in
June to 85 cents in October.

With this .basis the Association is
able to ~meet the competition\ of
cheese factories and creameries. and
still get a better price than can be
secured from either. The price is
arranged to encourage production
during the short months ,which are
October, November and December.
During the summer months 50 per
cent, of the milk produced by mem-
ber_s has to be made into butter or
cheese and during this time the
price must be close to that which
can be obtained by manufacturing.

The pictureshows a plant located
in; St. Paul where milk is received
from farmers and after being weigh-
ed and tested by the Association it
is delivered to St. Paul distributor-1
there being no chance for disputesaf-
to weights and tests. ‘

The Association is seriously icon-
sidering' «buying a large city distribut- .
ing plant. Figures collected by; the"

 

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Can you give met-advice Oh how toplo’w '

muck land uponngvb‘hlch there is [a h

thh of fetrn-‘hrakes and briers‘lf ‘Will:
. Can' You
- tell me of anything that I can spra the».

(special plow be- necessary?

plant. with to kill? the roots? Will:
land? _

ow on well-drained muck
., Scotts,‘ Michigan. -' '

Plowing muck presents a distinct-
ly different propositionfrom plowing

upland. A specific answer is difficult

because there are different kinds “of

mucks. There are mucks which con-
tain roots and are woody and mucks
that are formed largely from grass-
esiand sedges. The tractor has cer-
tainly solvedv many -pro‘blems of
. swamp reclamation but
horse plow must be used the very
best type is the fin coulter type. This
. has been used on some of our large
muck farms with success where-there
are few roots and shrubs. It is noth—
ing "more or less than a coulter which
is :attached to the share and pre'
vents throwing out the plow. The
plow has a long mold board. A plow in
m {ck will not scour as readily as it
wil in mineral soil; the plow should
be" perfectly clean before beginning
plowing. Some implement manu-
facturers have recently developed
various attachments which can b!
used to help the plow in turning over
the soil when the plow is attached to
a tractor. For horse plowing the
practical implement which is recom-
mended where there are many shrubs
and roots is the disc plow. It will
be found that in a loose muck "the
disc plow will work quite efilciently.

You ask what you can spray on
plants to kill the roots. Recent
work indicates that the application
of salt will be effective.

Alfalfa will grow on well drained
muck but the information we have is
not conclusive as yet. 0! course it
is assumed that the muck land must
‘be high in lime as alfalfa will not
grow on acid muck. We do know
that while sweet clover will grow
5011 muck successfully. This year
ftrom our white sweet clover plats
f planted June 7th and harvested Sep-
Qtember 20th we took off 4 tons of
dry hay to the acre. Of course, it
,must be remembered that this was
(just email plots.-—Prof. Ezra Levin,
’ Dept. of Soils, M. A. o'.

MOVING SILAGE
‘I am about to move from one farm to
_another three miles away. I filled my
silos on this place about the 20th of
‘ Septembe; and I wish to move the en-
eilage from here to a hollow tile silo.
- Will it keep?—-J. C. S., Vanderbilt, Mich.

Unless forced to do so it is not
‘advisable to move silage from one
isilo to another. It would be safer
i and just as economical to haul load
by load through the winter as feed is
needed. However, if it is necessary
‘to transfer the contents of one silo
to another we would advise waiting
until cooler weather. The silage
should keep well if handled rapidly.

In placing the silage in the silo it
should be packed tightly and if found
; to be dry, water should be added. No
i load should be allowed to stand over
‘ night or for a number of hours he
store being placed in the silo. The
process of filling should be continu—
x ous, since the silage exposed at the
a top in both silos Will spoil. Should

‘ "theiransfer'be made in cold weath-
er,- fr'eezing should not be allowed

is liable

where a"

' reliability or the

to occur.—J.,F. Cow, Professor Farm
drops, M. A; D.-  ' _

 

-: a ‘ FLOWING WELL

‘ We have a flowingwell and some have
told ‘us that if we shut it off the water
to take another course. Is this
true‘i—J. L:, Gagetown, ‘Michigan.

 

V I would say that I think it would

n“ot be possible to do this since the
reason that water flows from a well
is simply because its source of supply
is a point higher that the outlet of
the well. Flowing wells occasionally
cease, due to the fact that this source-
oL supply is exhausted or becomes
lower during dry weather or if some
other well should be tapped into the
same supply it would afford a larger
and easier way of escape for the wa-
ter which might cut down or lessen
the flow and reduce the pressure
from the original well.—O. E. Robey,
Eztgmion Specialist in Drainage, ll.
A. .

 

H. W. BUBISKE & 00. 5
Will you advise me as to the
W. Dubiake 00,, l‘n-I
vestment Securities, 111 W. Monroe St.

  

now handling a safe investment?—F.
P,, Grand Travel-5e County. Michigan.

The .H. W. Dubis’ke Company is
a large brokerage concern having
omces in all the principle cities. It
is licensed to sell approVed stocks
and bonds in Michigan.
handle‘ only stocks of proven worth".
If you will advise what securities it
is offering for sale in your section, I
shall be able to tell you mere about
the soundness of the investment.—
Editor. ' ‘

 

GREAT WESTERN OIL CO. ,
Would you kindly advise me through
the "Farmers Service Bureau"roolunm-of
your paper whether or not the Great
‘Western Oil Company of Houston, Texas.
is a reliable mncern?—‘-G. A. E, Pete:-
key. Michigan.

The Michigan Securities Commis-
sion advises us that this concern is
not authorized to sell its stock in this
state. In 9,999 cases out of ten
thousand I could safely advise you
to leave all stock alone.
or case poor folks like you and me
are not oflered a chance to 
The big fellows grab up the “sure
things.”——-Iiiditor.

 

 

LOT CREAM CAN REPLACED

About four weeks ago I expressed a
can of cream to the Durand Creamery
Co., Durand, Mich, and a few days later
received a check for the cream but have
neVer received my can back. I have
written to the company twice but have
received no reply, I should judge that
the can was lost ‘in the expressing it
back—S. N., Olivet, Mich, Sept. 9th.

The company was unable to trace
the can in question so they immedi-

ately forwarded a new can to our .
. subscriber.

COMPLAINT AGAINST SUGAR CO.

I see in your paper several subscribers
have had outstanding debts ollected
through you so I am asking a avor of
you. Last fall when I grew smr beets
the company could not furnish me any
help to take care of the crop, so I had to
get'help the best way I could but I had
to pay more per acre than the contract
called for. I did not figure my time and
asoline in taking the family back and
orth five miles. The money I paid out
of my own pocket was $15. so'I wrote to
the Independent Sugar ’ Company and
they wrote to the field boss to settle it.
He only offered me $7. I said “no, if
you cannot afford to pay me the full
amount I will not take $7,” and since
the Mich. Beet Growers' Ass'n started, of
which I am an officer, I have written to
them but got no reply. so do what you
can about this matter. Will thank you
in advance—H. W., Mariette, Michigan.

We took the matter up with the
sugar company which replied as fol-
lows:

Regarding the claim of Mr W. Mar
lette, we wish to advise that he has no
claim against us whatever. We paid him
$170.18, $190.60, and $104.90 extra bon-
us which makes e. total of $475.68 for
4.62 acres of beets out of what he claim-

was five acres planted.

In regard to his labor, wish to say that
labor conditions were very bad in 1919
and as he was a new grower possibly did
not understand some of the conditions
that labor expects to find when working
in sugar beet fields.

The trouble with the average’
grower is that he expects too much from
the companies and wants them to do all
the work and take care of all the troub-
les he has with his beet field when he
receives the money for his crop himself

beet -

and the sugar company “to nothing ex-‘
tra for this expense.

This labor, when'placed with a grower
is just the same as a hired man to him
and he must expect to handle him in the
same way,_ as he is working entirely for
the farmer and not for the company. as
you will notice by the application which
every grovVer must sign in order to get
labor from a sugar company.

We believe that if you had seen Mr.
W33 field and known the conditions as
we know them, you would agree with us
that Mr. W. has been treated fair in ev-
ery respect. It. is our. obiect: to.
grower all the service we possibly can,
but some expect more than they are en-
titled to.

Hoping you will understand this 'mat-
ter as We do, and will advise Mr. W.
that he has received all that. is coming
to him as far as we are concerned, we
are.-—-Independent Sugar Company.

AMOUNT HAD BEEN REID T0
SUBSCRIBER'S CREDIT

Last November I sent an order for
two dresses, $2.49 and $2.29, respective—
ly, with postage, to the Bedell 00., New
York City. I received the dresses but
the one at 32.29 was too tight in the
sleeves so I sent it back with 200 to ex-
change for one like the other. I
never heard from them although I have
written them.—Mrs,

we wrote this company twice be-
fore an answer was received. They
enclosed Mrs. P’s money in their

letter to her.

 

SATISFACTORY SETTLEMENT

.- 1 Sent $17.96 the 10th of last August "
to the Chicago Mail Order Co.
~~ One of

girls the 53.33%?
.coata for my . r >
but the other-was too small so I return-
ed it by insured parcel st asking them
to return the money, :8. 8. as I thought I
could get a better fit at a local store.
They sent me a card saying that they
had received the coat and to wait 10
days. I waited tw0 weeks and then
wrote them but they have never answer-
ed.—--G. m. Pinconning. Michigan.

Mr. F. received a check from the

company covering the amount due
him a short time after we wrote the
Chicago Mail
plaining the above. ‘
(Continued on page 7)

mileage/Ill.- Is th‘e proposition they are "

'It claims to -

In the oth- ,

give the.. ..

have .
J. L. P., Ionia, Mich. .

Order Company ex»

‘ *smprn‘v‘orrsobuon"

7 ,' Will you please send me the address ‘ a; ‘
.‘of a few different looation‘s‘i‘of commis-  
sion parties who are buying potatoes _ .
that areresponsible parties to send tot-.-

T. 0., Caro, Michlga
. . I

t .

'  a resident of Indiana. my father  
and ‘I shipped hogs to Allen..Cyphers fa:

Downs, CommiSSion men of Indianapolis.

r and I would like to knew how you think it . A ‘ .
would work with potatoes. 1 had the idea . 

present 1 f' to me and I thought I‘
would ask your opinion on the matter.

and if it is a sound and good proposition
I would“ like to know the names of com-
mission firms dealing in‘ potatoes in car
lots in Chicago and Detroit—«W. H, 8.,
Fremont, Michigan. ' ’ 

 

The names and addresses of coir:
mission firms in Detroit: Chicago.

Grand-Rapids and - Pittsburg have. I

been mailed to these subscribers, and
similar service will be given to oth-

ers who desire it. We cannot vouch 5‘"

for the. responsibility .of these f con:
cerns except to say that they. are the
leader-sin their line, have an estab-
lished reputation for - honesty. and
are believedto .be. all right. » How:
ever, commission firms are known to
do some things not exactly in accord
with recognized business ethics when
they have contracted for goods at a
price higher than the market“ war-
rants when theyare received. Farm-
ers who ship to commission firms
should see that their stufl is properly
graded, of good quality, etc. In the
case of a rejection of potatoes, ship-
pers may secure an inspection by
government men and if in good con-
dition can force acceptance. The
farmer who desires" to take advant-
age of the higher prices at "consum-
ing centers should accompany ,his
shipment and negotiate the sale in
person—Editor. '

DRIED BEET PULP

Please advise me through the columns
of M. B, F. where-I can purchase dried
beet pulp in loo-pound sacks. Thanking
you in advance—E. E. W., Hart, Mich.

 

The Larrowe Milling 00., 'of De-
troit, contract. we understand, for
the entire pulp output of several
Michigan factories. Write to’them.
—Editor.' ' '

 

COLLECTING FOR PAPER SENT
AFTER THE EXPIRED.

I was a subscriber to a Detroit paper
that went out of business. My suba
ecription was paid up to three months
past the time that this company went out
of business. A Milwaukee publisher ad-
vised mg that he had taken over the bus-
iness of the Detnolt concern and he would
send me the paper for as long as I had-
been paid up to the Detroit publisher,
But when my subscription expired he_
kept right on sending me the paper. Af-
ter sending it a year he sent me two or
three, statements. I paid no attentign to

‘them‘because' I thought there was a gov-

ernment law that would compel him to
stop sending the paper after. the sub-

‘scription had expired. Now he has turned

the account over to an adjusting associa- ‘
giant} Can he collect?-——J. K, Pewamo,
c

Courts have decided that a sub '

scriber must refuse to accept the

paper from his carrier if he does not

wish to pay for the paper. The fact.
that he accept it is taken as*
evidence that, he desires to have the"
paper sent—Associate Editor. ’

 

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3 today and save your h'erse from danger
Mywsqlf from delay‘ and annoyance.

CALICS put yeah: the always ready class.
' ; Ceinpared toluhrieesustalned by your
horse from fallini. or peaslblefatal‘lees.
let to mention damage to wagons and

RANCE.

  

THE NEVERSLIP WORKS

NEW BRUNSWICK. N. J.

   

   

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n  ': ,esday and they . _
: ‘gn-s‘ inst one. week charging us over six
{dollars commission”. M1 wrote to them at
the time also two or three times since to
have them. ship back the poultry crates
as you cannot hardly find them now to
buy. "They never even answered the
letters: now is there any way they can
’be made to- pay for crates or else ship
me some. I will need some soon.
took enough commission rout
keeping crates.—~M H. F.. Clio, Mich.
We took this matter up with the
Detroit Beef 00., who replied as
follows:
“We ecolvedthe» t.w.e _ ops from Mrs.
F. on‘ .ebr'uary 26th. an ‘ on Feb. 28th
we delivered to the express comp—anyone
coop to be returned, the other coop be-
ing so badly damaged that the express
company refused to accept it. We are
not surprised that Mrs. P. never receiv-
ed the coop We returned. The writer
ventures to say-that not more than one
half the coops started on their return
journey ever reach their destination, at
least that‘ha’s been curb-experience dur-
ing the last four years.
"Poseiny you do not understand the
- present method of returning; empty coops.
The express company holds the‘coops
at their terminal here until they have
enough for a certain district to fill a
.freight car. This'car is then shipped to
scone central point in that district and
the coops are distributed to their des-
tination from there. ' ~
“I have seen at the Union Station in
Detroit a pile of coops 400 feet long
and 12"feet high waiting to ‘be shipped
back to their' ’owners. "No care is tak-
en of these. the rain and weather wash
of! the return tags. and it is impossible
to make proper deilveries. Some of
these coops remain there two or times
months.

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“The writer made a trip to Lansing
some years ago to lay-the matter before
the State Railway Commission. They
made some efforts to remedy the matter
but as it was necessary to place before
them each specific case it was impossible
to get action in any general way.

“Our customers generally blame us
for the conditions but the trouble is
with the express companies. Our bus~

iness depends on our customers getting
their coops back promptly for if they
do not get the coop we do not get the
chickens.”+Detroit Beef Co.

We happen tolknow that their
statement with reference to piling up
of coops at the express office is true,
as we have personally'seen them.
Various efforts have been made by
commission men and by farmers
themselves to correct this condition
but Without success. Some day when
we have nothing else to do we will
tackle this “white e1ephant’“‘ourselv-
es.—Editor.

 

JEWETT, BIGELOW a'BROOKs
EXPLAIN

Mr.” E._ H. Jewett, president of the

above company, takes eXception to

statements made" about the stock of

 

this concern in our Oct. 23rd issue.
In a letter‘to‘TnEVABUsmEss FARMER,‘
he explains that his""cbmpany owns
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town.

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F or Meal

HESE fall and winter jobs.
are waiting for Interna-
tional Kerosene Engines eve ry-
where. ‘ And the feed grinder. stone burr
meal and flour mill, fanning mill, and buzz

saw represent only a few of the many
farm tasks handled successfully by Inter-

Save labor, save time, save money, make a
profit for yourself during odd days by grind-

with International kerosene power.

Your nearby International dealer
sells International engines—1%
3, 6 and 10 h. p. Bear this in
mind the next time you are in

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gradelcoal fields 'of Kentucky and
West Virginia. These mines produce
a varying grade of coal, heflsays. The
product of} one mine may he'unsuited
for one purpose, but entirely suited
for another. ""For instance,” Mr. Jew-
ett says, "Our Elkhorn property is a
wonderful by4product‘1and gas coal,
our Hazard properties are most ex"- ‘
cellent domestic and malleable coals,
our Guyan property is a very fine
steam coal; our .Varilla and Harlon
properties are fine gas coals, etc.” Mr.
Jewett admits that coal..pr-ices are
'due for a decline, but states that the
cost of mining his properties is low
enough to stand a drastic cut in pric-
es and still ‘yielidlhandsome dividends,
and that the lowest expectations of
profits will not‘be less'rthan 25c pm

on the invested capital.

. THE BUSINESS FARM§§:_I.d0es- not
wish 'to {do this -or any Other concern
an injustice, and we are glad to pre-
sent the above facts ton‘our readers.
In these days when all kinds:oi‘.:v;wi.id£ ,
cat schemes arepbeing floated-Ito  "
arate .peopleirom theirymoney, and
abnormal _.c0,ndltions are likely. to up-
set the best laid.planԤ' and calcula-
tions, .we'deem it a duty to urge our 
readers to go slowly in investing their‘ ‘

savings in stock propositions. .,.a‘-‘We
have no doubt as to'the honesty of the
Jewett, Bigelowjdv. Brooks Co.—'—’-in. fact,"
capcegn “with,  satisfactory .reputa-
mu.- but before investing in the stock
of? this or in? other. concern in these

 

make a thorough invalidation and.

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fit than hogs not fed Milkoline. . H.
3.3mm a successful feeder of Middletown.
Ma. said $30 worth 01 Milkoline made him an
extra mfitogwo. IleeJaeksono£Wa pingers
Falls. {eY-i. says'Mllkoline fixed up a unch of
shoets'ln fine style and is great for brood sows.

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alwaysun‘form, and is guaranteed to make
youmoney orit doesn't cost you

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modified Buttermilk. If is guaranteed not to con-

    

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cessful hog raisers from New York to Cali- densed form and you do the dilutinfion your
fornia during the past seven years have proyed Own farm. When fed a; directed e
that Milkoline helps and assists digestion. mixture (one part Milka no to .
tending to insure erfect assimilation of feed. or swul) costs 2c :hgfallon.
It helps tone 11:) £9 system eo'thst hogs are directions free. tgisch pped
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Feed one half the shipment to your
poultry ln_ II day test.

aren’t entirely as return
part tone at Our expense and
at;er refund every cent you
are seconfident that you will
the best money makeren the farm that the
B.W.Boulevard Bank of Kansas City sab-
etantistes this oil'er. You are the sole judge.
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MARKET AND TRADE BEth
, At the time of going to press with
this page the country is anxiously

awaiting election results, as it will .- 9,.“ 3;,“me   
doubtless be several days before com- ,  g  . . .l 55/ I  p.  . ._:
Plow information WmJ’e “Vaflable' DETROIT-Wheat‘ higher. Corn and . oats steady; Cattle "°- ‘ WM“ :1: V ~55 V” ' l V ii

business activities that have been
'waiting for the issue of the election
will continue to wait. The dominant
note, in connection with all lines of.
trade at the present moment is un-
certainty. Lack of assurance as to
how for price-cutting will go before
stabilization of values takes place.
Uncertainty concerning the outcome
the election referred to above and
_ a vague suspicion that perhaps, af-
ter all, the decision at the polls may
~have comparatively little to do with
bringing about a business revival.
There are indications that business
is anxiously awaiting the decision of
the farmer as to whether he Will sell
or hold his products; in this connec-
tion a conviction is gaining ground
that the purchasing power of the
American farmer during the coming
year, will be less than one-half of
the estimate made earlier in the sea»-

son. I mercantile standpoint; some impmvfi able. in current receipts. Primary an“. 19.1,." scum”; u. y,
Recent announcements, in connee- Mment is reported in connection with receipts are said to be as large as o. "_ p. 4‘40
tion with our exports and imports the demand, for raw cotton and fab ever and Kansas reports a liberal Rod Kidneys iaoo‘ i

for the month of September, show a
complete reversal of the form shown
earlier in the season when the aver-
age of our monthly import account
was far in excess of our export show-
ing, indeed, so serious had this mat,-
ter become that even many of our
trade experts were of the opinion
that the time might soon come when
the balance of trade would be perman-
nently against us. In the month of
September, while our exports only
increased $28,000,000 over the show-

Edited by H. H. MACK ,

 

 

GENERAL MARKET SUMMARY?

 

 

CHICAGO—Wheat higher.
stock active and higher.

,. firm. Calves, sheep and hogs active and higher,

Corn easy. Oatszsteady. Live

 

 

 

wing to press_-—Edltor.

 

(Note: The above summarized Iniormatlon was received AFTER the balance of the mar-fl
kot page is set In type. It contains last. mlnute information up- to withln one-mm hour .1

 

 

 

 

gone to the wall the country over.
The proprietors of department stores
throughout the country report a fav-
orable opening of what promises to
be a thriving Christmas business.

Advices from eastern textile cir-

cles report a sluggish demand for
both cotton and woolen cloth and
a disposition on the part of employ-
ers to cut wages and reduce the
weekly output by decreasing the'
hours of labor". The cotton goods sit-
uation is extremely unsatisfactory,
both from a manufacturing and a

ure options are selling at higher
prices than on this day last week.

Readjustment in the selling prices
for structural steel is proceeding at
a rapid pace and many large users
and handlers are completely at sea
as to how they shall proceed. Pig
iron is declining rapidly as a result
of a sharp break in the selling price
of coke, recently announced. In less
than one month coke has declined
$7 per ton and the end is evidently
not quite yet. Pig iron prices have

movement on the part of growers to
hold wheat for higher prices that had
one-half the show -of success, that
the present undertaking seems to
have and short sellers are atraidoi
the game. Compared with the quo-
tations printed on this page last week
wheat has advanced 8 cents per bush-
e1, ‘being an average of a trifle over
’ one cent per day for the period in-
volved. Market dope, which is be-
ing sent out «grom leading trading
points, all makes the claim that so
far theeffect of the proposed hoard-

movement of wheat to market. Short
interests are handing out bear prop-
aganda by the bucketful but few of
them seem to be“ willing to back up
their views by definite action. Can-

adian wheat is going abroad in‘

large quantities, moving across the
United States to the seaboard, a
practice which will probably con-

tinue to the end of the exporting»
season, Our growers should not for-j

get that every bushel of wheat from
Canadian fields, which is exported,

adds one more bushel to our. surplus-

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' an? anions m"su.,'"no’v. 2, 1920‘- :1

 

 

 

 

 

, "lows one use no , . .
A - mos wmulwoa ,wmui No.4 wnm; 

 

Detroit! .14 , 1, .l .73' I. -- .12 -r

 

No recent change .in-Quotations for,  .y 

cash oats has been noted. Quotations _
in the speculative market have dipped
toward lower levels,

1y reacted to' iormer levels. ' \

 

I

RYE ‘

s The rye market has been a feature-
less affair tor some weeks past: tol- ,
- lowing closely the fluctuations of the

wheat market and showing absolutely
no sfgrns'ot independent action.
No. 2 rye is quoted 2 cents higher than
last week at $1.75 per bushel. '

BEANS

 

BEAN PRIOEB PER 0WT.. NOV. 2. 1920

 

 

 

PRICES ONE YEAR A”
I0. H. PJ Prime [Rod Kiln”!
..| 8.00 l T '11.!0

 

 

 

 

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The bean market is marking time,

meanwhile many farmers, who have
their crop ready for market, are acr
cepting present low prices and helping
to increase the volume 01 the visible
supply.

POTATOES

 

SPUDS PER WT., NOV, 2, 1020

 

 

 

ing of the preceding month, the fall- d l. d f o 2 to 10 61. um. The 8",,“ l n,
ins-01f of impms equalled $14o.- 13,3; m;.,’fet$,s “:30de ,0 be a,” when the show-down finally comes. M...“ ,,,,,,,  ' 13.,
000,000. No data in regard to 00- solutelv dun with buyers showing In a recent issue the Chicago Tribune 3M“? Pk  - - - - -- 8-15' 2-09 " ‘
tober is yet available but it is' quite very little in’terest in the replenish published the following: 4- Pmsbufg 

generally understood that. the com-
parative ratio of exports to imports
has continued along the same gen-
eral lines as in September. One thing
cannot be overlooked while discus-
sing the volume of business .done in
domestic circles or with ‘ foreign
countries, namely, the deflation‘ of
values; our recent export showing
would seem much more impressive
and the shrinkage in our imports
would not have looked nearly so
large had they been computed in
terms of the inflated dollar.

The persistency of the American
tanner and cotton planter in demand-.
ing some provision for the exten-
sion of credit to agricultural inter-
ests, has at last resulted in the for-
mation of two important financial
corporations for the special purpose
of fostering foreign and domestic
trade; one of the corporations will
have a capital of $100,000,000 and
will operate under the direct super-
vision of the committee of commerce

" ntain prices notwithstanding the

ment of stocks. That the conditions
described above will long persist
does not seem likely, as many plans
are known to be now in the making
that will, when fully matured, call
for large purchases of all kinds of
building material. As this page goes
to press information comes, fresh
from the wires, that several Ameri-
can railway systems have already
placed orders for rolling stock and
trackage equipment exceeding in
cost $100,000,000; these equipments
considered in connection with plans
for expansion under consideration
by all of the great trans-continental
lines, make it certain, humanly speak-
ing, that American railway interests
wil spend during the next five-year
period, more than a billion dollars
in betterments. ‘

 

WHEAT

 

WHEAT PRICES PER BU.. NOV. 2, 1920'

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"There are intimations from the

seaboard that a considerable quan-'

tity of wheat has been bought by ex—

porters inanticipation of a large for?

eign demand and a big advance in
prices. ‘ If their position is right,
.prices might move up. ,If not, and
they sell out, a decline might easily
result. The sentimental efie‘ct of
farmers holding' movement is bull-

ish, especially at Chicago stocks are
around 700,000 bushels which is too
small for a big market.”

CORN
coon PRICES Pan su., NOV. 2. 1920
Grade lDatrolt IOhlcago N. Y.
No. 2 Yellow  1.00. l .92 1.11%

 

 

No. 8 Yellow ..

No. 4 Yellow . . .

*fi‘fiéémfivsilt—‘A‘ob
[No.2 Yoll.LNo.3 Yell.l No.4 Yell.

Detroit . . . .l 1.48 E I I ~

 

 

 

 

 

 

Corn has gained about 5 cents per

 

 

 

 

 

slam-able margaritas“: higher prices;   

  
  

 

   
  

 

   
 

 

 

 

PRIOEB ONE YEAR A00
Detroit . .. . . . . . . . .l 2:30 I

 

 

Very. little change has been noted. iii

connection with the potato markets of -

the country during the past week; .the'
weather continues favorable to heavy
crop movement and very unfavorable
to the storage of the crop tor winter

use. Nearly all of the leading mar-' '

kets report the receipt of large quanti-
ties of green and scabby stock which
must be sold at a discount of 25 cents
per cwt. Locally, ,there has been 'no
change in selling prices. " Reports
from Michigan digging operations in-
dicate a much smaller yield than was
for-merly‘predicted. ' .

 

BAY

 

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

Detroit . . 20.00 @ 30 28.00 0 20 21.00 0 28
Chicago . .. 2930 Q 31 27.00 Q 20 24.00 0 28
New York 85.00 @ 33 I 82.00 080‘
Plttxburo . I81 .00 @ 32 28.00 0 20 21.00 0 20

 

 

| No.1 I No.1 I No.1 .
Inght Mix. [Glover Mix. l Clover

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

occassionally," .- ‘ ,g,
' during the pastweek'but have prompt—.3 g ‘

(lash.

 

 

   
  
   
   
  
       
      

 

.- - Grade IDotrolt [Chicagol N. v. bu. since our last week’s issue and D I _ 2 2100 2.2..“ 21
and mmme 0f the Amenca-n Bfmkess' No. 2 Red ....l 2-21 I 2.21 '/2| 234 '/2 the general outlook for this cereal omit ‘.'.'22'1.%‘3% 221112530321 Q '
Ass’n. The smaller organlzatlon Wlll No. _2 White ...| 2.19 seemsto be somewhat improved. it is New York 82.oo@se 29.00am:
b dertaken b southern bankers No- 2 Mixed ...I 2.19 i~ [2.32% : Piusburg .2o.00@29 29.00080 .
e “n y a fact however that the corn market
and will have a capitalization of PRICES ONE YEAR AGO ’ ’ HAY PRIcEs A YEAR um I
$12 000 000‘ which represents a levy no.2 Red] No.2 White] No.2 Mixed has not fouov‘led the rally in Wheat mm mm sum. Tlm.[ No.2‘l'lm. ~ 4
of 41 pg“, bale upon the cotton crop Detroit l I I and extremely narrow fluctuations are Detroit ...121.50@28l ~ 1 l
'* ’ . ' . " - ’ n .1 u . . .. .
of the myth; this corporaflon will Wheat market operators, in com- féfiegofoga; théiecéfigggucfig  LlIh:Mlx.iclovo: nimi '07on i
2’3 ?;ganlzed under Oggeof‘gfevg‘éf mon with the brokers in very many ket has been' depressed or late by re_ P°"‘°" H l _
01' I 0 8X POSS ll . ' I , v . 1 I .‘
' the coEton swon Other departments 0: commerce’ are ported offers to sell corn to Atlantic The hay trade is rapidly working to’ . .1
“‘5! ' ' completely at sea. as to how to pro— .1) tt f ti 1, l “I ,  - 1
Retailers in many departments of ' seaboard points at 10 cents perbushel a 6 91‘ 0,0 ng'n near 3' lAmerican.  .g p
, , ceed. Never before, in the history. markets ems 1; Boat!)  - th  , - 11
trade are announcing price rows. of this country has my future of under the best that Chicago can do, t d 1 t PM it: , e”, 7,93,. g g "a
ions" Which While they are Worth the wheat” gamb’lepresented so many said “3 hale been We’l’ylgrowem m 1i; e 1::urzlfi-kzé :3“ :31 $331: “9‘:  f 4- 1
taking advalimge 01’ do not Place difl’erent 9118338 to the average pit Texas and lealmma' 00"“ is firm Sept the. one moted’above.’ sumliosegf-r’? ' '1'   c
the articles I’Sted on “ pre'w‘“ 1001’” trader'and “bucket—shopper". Nev— in the Detroit market ~withdemand hay are Bmaliund ‘omflm m my;  , t,
mg by any films; the Pubucv how‘ . or before has there been a concerted and supply fairly. well balanced. hem,‘ The railroad; m1”  .  1
ever, seems inclined to take them ser- v , , _ . - being, discriminating sharply as I- t  t 7 I 7:
ions” When they ‘mnoxlnw that'ult‘g ' furnishing cars for the: shipmentjjfofr g1:
go back to .Pm'war v . “65- WO 3‘ P ' , hay and a slight improvement  ' c
cause the imlure of many reputable r , h ‘ ean  , buying gmvemt Would “can,  i
firms. Emil“. 31‘. mam $9111: '“ ‘F I keep saying that bean prices have 1‘0th , .ed the botiDmo I - “Wm M  Ever ‘mw' I";
_ ,iwfigebecguse 011‘ a digposmo'n on  am sure to 'Strike it some of thesedays. ,I can see nothing  .  
 ' " ‘ ‘0 ~ willwarrant belief in lower cesiorbom’andlcansee'oon- n 0- ,3 has, 7 .4 
. the part‘of the retail meatn'ade, to. M 4 ‘ Cunt hub?!” must, on“  j

experts, in

    
   
 

 

“,tnctj'that icarcass‘ cost has'be'e’n‘ ‘re- "
  from 20 to" 30‘ per CentL’ll‘Ianym
; it both ‘ *ess" ritual-"earns  tied in
’3'  f connection " wilzh-~the'~~  

'  and many-Wimsflvs 

      
   
   
   
  

a... o: as  mumby awakens; am.

looking for a bean fight. but it 1  “1‘  , . a
mom'Snpply and  19"“  i {1!
market in Mgmgm-'7r-J- MW 

 
  

 

 

 

      

 

 


  
   
  

f _ ,_ g; ; pas week,nthe trade
  dull
 ' . _ _‘ for ’ :killiajt (kinds but *
and:active for stockers and
 Severalof. the leading out-
markets have been rather poor-I
supplied with cattle of late and
life resulthas‘ been a hardening of
H rallies at these points. . The mid-
‘9:  tradeqn Chicago was weakest,‘
'f‘decreasing' receipts toward the week-
1;: ’re’nii'fé‘beingtthe‘occasicn for a reaction
 [thatcarri'ed values back up to last
7f ' .‘wee'k’l‘close in thebutcher cattle de-
‘ ' '  Eastern demand for
 dressed beef, especially for the com-
<'.moaer-~grade‘s,' .was reported to be
I sextremely adull . with selling. pr
 _""ftending lower. 
  )Chlcago‘ had a splendid tredefin
*' stockers and feeders last week and
 _ g outside markets reported similar con-
~ditions. _, A list of feeder buyers,
published'in‘ a Chicago market paper,
7 .shows -the names _of buyers from;
“nearly all'vof the corn-growing states.
. In cennection with a live stock mar-
ket experience extending over nearb
ly forty years, the writer does not
' remember conditions more favorable
-' to extensive live stock, feeding than
these which the coming year

 
  
  
  
    
 
   
 
  
   
  
  
  
 
 

’ ; pertments;

 
 

Sheep and Lamb Trade
Chicago had a splendid sheep and
lamb trade last week, the former be-
“  ing in imperative demand at prices.
“ in some cases, fully 31 per cwt. high-
: er than at the recent‘low point.
' few western fed ewes sold for $7.25,
’ mature wethers at $8.60 and year-
ling wethers at $11.50 per cwt.
_ _. tive lambs scored a big advance, the
 ‘ "best aeiling from $1 to 7-81.50 per
cwt. higher than on the closefof the
_- I . week before; the top for native lambs
" '_' "was”$13.60 per cwt. The supply of
' western lambs was small and the
quality rather
iatnbsi were in active demand
prices that looked fully 75 cents per
cwt. higher than those paid on .the
close of the week before; best food-
, ing lambs sold in Chicago last week
. for .813 per cwt.
' _"_~Live Hogs and Provisions
The average price paid for hogs
‘ in Chicago last week, $12.60, was
the lowest average since February
1917; this average was $4.10 lower
than the high price for the current
season and $9.60 lower than
high price paid last July.
 "provement is noted in
7 with the current trade in cured pork
\‘ products and the northern demand
" Southern trade has
{ not been nearly up to expectations
’ ' this *year owing probably to the low
Export clearances
Mind and cured meats have been
very large of late
stocks, which a few months ago were
, considered burdensome,
. J‘rapidly reduced in anticipation
' g the winter packing season,
' -- now near at hand.
‘While wholesale prices for pork
“products have been materially re-
 ‘  duced since the recent slump in live
‘ ‘  hogvalues, retailers are holding their
‘ ,.pr.ices decidedly out’ of
wholesale cost.
,, The Institute of American Meat
Packers recently gave out thefol-
, ' r lowing: ~ “Selling prices of carcass
,5, ‘ ’71hee‘f Kathroughout  th _
‘ : anaverage decline of» approximately
 ' - 1.3 v/p‘er cent at, the'endofjoctober as
. " , -"‘compared"with the first week in sep-
* ,, ' ' Fresh pork declined heavy.
’ In the domestic trade from Oct.
. 00hr“, the __wholesale prices, of-
t-‘pork loin'a, whence come - pork

 

 

 

' "for fresh pork.

price of cotton.

and provision

 

country"show

 
  
  
  
 
  
  

are ‘

finder ightT-i‘re'ce

    tending higher at} late; the top
on Mondayth being $17.
The sheep and lamb trade in the
Detroit stockfyarde, has shared the
prosperity that has featured other

markets; best lambs selling for $13.25

on Monday of the current week. Hogs
‘were dull, locally, all last week, but
on Thursday the “climax came when

absolutely. no local buyers showed
up in'the hogiyards.
were sent east on orders on the day
referred to and the remainder had to
be held over Sunday at tremendous

expense to shippers. On Monday of

the current week hogs were inactive
demand in the Detroit market, the
bestmixed bunches selling for $13.50
per cwt.

DETROIT PRODUCE MARKET. I

Detroit got an over-load of live
poultry late last week and a'consider-
able quantity went over Sunday, un-
sold; this stale stock is being worked
on as rapidly‘as possible and at prices
full strong with those paid last week
but the result is that trade-will con-
tinue to be dull until this leave-over is
worked off. Dressed calves are active
and higher under small receipts, both
of live calves at the stock yards and of
dressed stock to down-towu handlers.
Dressed 'hogs have been going slow
but1 with the advent of cooler weather

 

,7.
_ . .15  cwt.
ipts veal calves have"

Fifteen loads

  

abundant. supply and prices are easy.
‘ ' Wholesale 'l’rlee- .

   

Butter

Fresh Creamery, print . . . . . . . . . .53-54c ‘
Fresh Creamery, tub . . . . ........51-63c
. V E!“ - .
Strictly Fresh . ._ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62—68c
Storage Eggs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50-520
' Provisions
Family Pork, per bbl. . . . . . . . . . . 40-42c

Clear Back, per bbl. .. .. . . . . . . . . 33-39c

Briskets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 20—220

Hams . . .“~. . .r . . . . . . . . . . ; . . . . . . . . . 34-37c

Picnic Hams . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26c

Shoulders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28c

Bacon . . . . . . .1 . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . .34-40c

Lard . . . . . .' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 1-2-24c
, Dressed Hogs

Under— 150 pounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Over 150 pounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19~20c
. Dressed Calves

Fancy Count Dressed . . . . . . . . . 20-21c

Common to C oice . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 16-170
’ Live Poultry

Spring Chickens, large . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Leghorns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Large hens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300 '

Small hens ...‘. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 22c

Roosters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Ducks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30-320

Geese . . . . ........ ............ 35-260

Turkeys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35-37c
Feed
By the ton in lilo—pound sacks
Bran . . . . . . . . . . . . .' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Standard mlddlings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .» $43

Fine middlings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $53

Coarse corn" meal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $46

Cracked Corn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $47

Chop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $41

Detroit Live Stock Prices.
Receipts and-Prices at Detroit Live Stock
Market on Monday, Nov. 1.

RECEIPTS

Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.806
Calves . . . . . . . . . . .‘ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430
Sheep and lambs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,861
Hogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0. . . . 2,917

inach Sans:  ’—

 

 

1 lncle Rube S

TROUBLE—REAL AN’ OTHER-
WISE

OW OFF'EN we hear

-' v - time worn remarky‘The‘wm-ld
is full of trouble," an' folks
talk jeet's if life wasn’t hardly wuth
the livln’-—-talkin' if there wa—ant
any such thing as joy nor happiness
to be had any place an’ don’t. cha
know we kinda git to thinkin’ they're
’bout right—sometimes we do, es-
pecially where we see somethin‘ sad
or somebody ha‘vin' lots 0' trouble.
It seems sometimes like’s if this
world was made jest to be sad in—-—
mebbe to make us want a better
world in the life that's to come when
we're shuflled‘ olf’n this vale of tears
an' git what's coming to us in the
life hereafter.  '

Settin’ in a restaurant 'tother day
with my two llttleboys, I kinda got
to thinkin’——-sort of a meditation—
a man, young he was, crossing the
street an’ he was bent nearly double
-crippled up somethin’ awful, an’
I went out an' spoke to him an‘
finally 1’- sez, “you seem to be havln’
your share of trubble all right an' he
sez “ah, I’ve got lots to be thankful
for," why, he sez, “for three years
I could walk a step—wuz right in
bed all the time with rumati'z but
now I can do lots of work an’ lots
of folks are. so much worse oif’n I
..am that I think I'm party lucky my
7 self," he sez.

Well, with my little boys, I went
up the street an’ I saw a man with
one leg off close up to his body; two
blind men playin’ hand organs for
a livin'; a woman with, her face all
drawn an' twisted out o’ shape from.
terrible burns; a little boy draggin’
himself along with crutches "count
of infantile paralysis or something;
an’ 01’ "maid doomed to live single
most all her born'days; a man who
had jest buried st; ilfth wife; a pol-
'itician who had lost his job an' a
I pronteer with a lot of high-priced
sugar on  hands an’ I said to my-
self the world sure is full of trouble
e-trot‘uile‘ everywhere! An' I kept
thinkin’ about“ after I got home——
what a lot of. sad things I‘d, seen
,. the thought of ,it{ made me sad

 
   

that ol' _

 

like men travelin' on a sandy desert
as it were—they don’t notice the
sand ’cause there's so much of it—-—
itfs the water holes or a little bunch
of green stuif that they notice an’ so
it is in this life—there’s so much
gladness, so much health an' happi-
ness ’at we don’t think anything
about it—it’s common as not to be
noticeable an’ it’s only when we see
the sad side of life that we think any
thing ’tail about it, an’ then we size
the whole thing up an"judge the 01’
world by just the few cases of real
trouble that we’ve happened to
notice.

- ’Course lots of folks make trouble
out of a little thing, imagine the hull
dum world is again ’em if they hap-
pen to stub their toe an’ fall down
or somethin’wthey're lookin’ for
trouble an’ they find mostly what
they’re lookin’ for—we all doe-but
there’s so little real trouble compar-
ed with all the happiness that it ain't
hardly worth m'entionin’ at all. I re-
member of readin’ once of a noted
man—I think it said he was a in-
fidel, whatever that it, an’ he said
“if there is a God an’ be is so good,
why didn't he make health contag-
ious’ stead of disease?” Now mebbe

'he thought that wuz a smart ques-

tion an' meb‘be it wuz, but migosh!
when we think about it, it don’t
seem so smart ’cause health is con-
tagious, laughter an’ mirth is awful
contagious an’ most of us has got it;
love an’ kindness also is contagious,
it spreads over the whole world a1-
most—’fact is we know there is
more sunshine than clouds, more joy
than grief; more health than sick-
ness an’ more honest men than
thievesr

An’ say.r Let me tell you here an’
now that I ain’t a g'oin’ to lissen to
any more of this darn wailin’ an’
sobin’-—-it don't git me anything an’
it‘-don’t.git anything for you—I’m
jest a goin' to believe this is a purty
good 01’ world after all an’ the very
thingsi intend‘to do is to leave it.
When we’ve got health an’ somethin’
to eatan’friends an’ things like that,
we ain’t got nocause to be bellerin’
around about this beln a “vale of

 .anf ..a.land. of...sorrow for it.
"ain‘t’no such thing unless we want
“to, make it so—jest let as wear a

smile if we don’t wear much of any-

Q thing- else—a smile will cover up

morefn "a frown any way, so let’s
cut out the grouob an’ commence
right now. to. live an’ help make the

“01’ world a glad place in which to
. "aloud

Gordially 10m.-I-UN_CLE

. p t is inliberal sunny magi!  y
‘ IBM In in” price. Vegetables are m -', . L1: t- (than

t
l
.

breeding condition and every one is. v.
“~a guaranteed producers» ' A ‘  

  
   
  

 

  
   

   

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Be 1 news; . . . . . . . L. . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.25-8 25
Butcher cows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.00-7.00
Cutters . . . . . . . . . . .' . . . . . . . . . . .' 3.75-4.00
- Cannot-93¢..............‘.......x 8.00-350
- Choice bulls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.00-7.13

Bologna bulls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.00-6.75

Stock bulls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4.50-5.75

V Feeder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8700.9.50

Stockers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.50-7.7'5

Milkerland springers . . . . . . 65.00-110.00
CALF' PRICES
Best _gra.des . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $16.00-16.50

 

WOOL MARKET

In a recent issue, the Boston Oom-
mercial Bulletin published the follow- A
ing: “The market has been very dull
during the past week and the tendency
of prices is lower. The settlement of »
the English coal strike is considered a
helpful factor in the market situation.”

Prices are more or less nominal.

 

THE KELLY AUCTION OFFERING

On Wednesday, November 10, on
a farm 3 1—2 miles south of Ypsi-
lanti, will be held a dispersal sale of
one of the finest herds cf Shorthorn
cattle ever offered in lower Michigan
and a splendid flock of pure-bred
sheep; all the prospective buyer
needs to know about this high-class
offering is that these animals have
been bred, pure and clean, on the ‘
farm from which they will be sold.
for more than 30 years. The outer-
prize was established by Ben. D. Kei-
ly, who was born and lived on the
farm or in the vicinity, for 76 years.
The sale is made to effect a settle-
ment of the estate which he left. “

The flock of pure-bred ShrOpshires
was established in 1873, and a start
with the Shorthorns was made in
1887 by the purchase of a few of
the best bred animals that the coun-
try afforded in that early day; a
painstaking system of development
has been faithfully pursued ever
since. The herd has been strength-
ened and modernized from time to
time by the purchase of bulls, of
pure Scotch breeding and the addi-
tion of fashionably—bred females,
purchased from some of the best
breeders in the United States and
Canada. The familiar Shorthorn
names: Mysie, Rose of Sharon,
Cruickshank and many others fa-
miliar to the ears of Shorthorn breed-
ers appear in the list of pedigrees
and the well-known livestock auction-
eer, Andy Adams, will be right in
his native element when he scans
the genealogical records of the an-
imals that he is called upon to sell.
There are thirty head of cattle in
the offering, 26 females and four
bulls, including the three—year- old
herd bull, Banker 717768, sired by
Imported Hillhead Chief, dam Im-
ported Claret 23. Several of the
two-year—old heifers are still open
and the bred females are safe in calf
to Banker. \ Several cows will be sold
with beautiful calves. by their sides
and the offering of yearling and
weanling heifers are par excellence,
both in breeding and individual per-
fection.

Ben D. Kelly, the founder of the
Kelly dynasty in Shorthorns, and
the senior member of the recent firm ~
of B. D.‘Kelly & Son, raised two
sons, L. C. and W. B. Kelly, both of
whom have stood faithfully by their
father and mother in the develop-
ment of one of the finest farm homes
in Michigan and in—the splendid
breeding enterprise which has help-
ed to make it worth while. In the
joint capacity of administrators of
their father’s estate, the sons are
making this auction sale to facili-
tate the division of the personal
property which their father left
among his heirs. The farm, con-
sisting of 245 acres of fertile land.
watered by a beautiful living stream;
has been purchased by the younger

.. brother, W. B. Kelly, who will con-

tinue the breeding enterprise so
firmly established by the father. The
Kelly brothers who, like their father,
are well and favorably known by
 breeders will stand by the
purchasers at this sale. All of the
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’Partyisms f difvylde‘ the body politic

Where-we should. all stand as one for
justice ‘and righteousness 0n the‘
earth. " Is'r'n's‘ divide" the church,
sporting the harmony that .should
exist in the work. He has given us
to do, that of building his kingdom
of righteousness and peace on the
earth. He says “My word shall'not
return tome void but it shall Vac-
complish that whereunto I have sent
it"?! .
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schools that all may'know the Lord
from the least to the greatest. Build
again the family altars that have
been thrown down. 'Christians, ov-
ercome evil with good. Use the wea-
pons of our warfare which God
gives, knowing that they are mighty
through him for the pulling down of
strongholds.

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can and will uncover the hiding
places. Isms cannot fool the Lord
or bribe him. .116 knows them that
are his. The foundations stand.—
An octogenarian whose grandfather
served intthe Revolutionary war as
did fOur of his brothers, the only
sons of a widow who Was a victim
of the Cherry Valley massacre. I
love my country and stand for it in
righteousness—Mrs. L. V. Nelson,
Ellsworth, Michigan.

 

True words, every one of them. You
have a lineage to be proud 01'. Tell us
more about your ancestry of Revolution-
ary days. I think M. R F. readers
would-find it interesting. Editor.

COLD STORAGE FOR MEAT
 PRODUCTS

 

 

 FIND ENCLOSED P. 0. order for

two. dollars which I believe pays
for “three subscriptions; in our

" ‘case would be past present and fu-

ture. I tried taking orders for. your

paper but all the' wide-awake.farm-

ers are already taking it. If you
know anything about Luce county
you will not need to be told that
anything as good as.M. B. F. spreads
over it like wildfire. We think it
just fine and wouldn’t think of go-
ing without it.

Here is an idea I have been mill-
ingr over for some time. Up here we
do not raise any more than ‘we use
of meat animals, but we ship them
out in the fall and then the meat
cars ship them back all the year. If
the Luce County Farm Bureau
would co-dperate and build a small
cold storage and smoke house and
let each sell his stock and whatever
he handled to the plant and buy
what meat he wanted as he wanted it
the rest could be sold to camps by
the quarter or' 100 pound lots cheap-
er than they can buy from the meat
cars as there is two freight charges
saved besides all the profits made,
while it is gone.

I see by the calendar'put out by
the state of Oregon that they have
small cold storage plants in all their
large towns.’ It seems to me that
we work right into the hands of the
railroads and profiteers. No wond-
er they all get rich and the farm—
ers don’t. Well here’s to your c-on-
tinned su‘cCess with, M. B; F. We
sure Would miss'you. You are do-
ing-a great work—Mrs. F. E. R,,
Newborn}, Mich. ~-

I know of“ no reason why your plan
should not be carried out with good re-
sults to all concerned-e—except possibly
the railroads and' the profiteers. Why
not suggest it to, your farm bureau?—
Editor. ‘ ‘ ‘

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7 .Th f.‘ mer gwoul‘d do well to

eat those present prices, but he should

“‘hold'this own paper, andthen when
the purchaser refused to pay five or,

six hundred dollarsperuacrefin; land
that can’t; possibly ~produce ‘~ that,
much iper acre thesafiarmer "himself:
would get his landhack- and not the
money lender as is now the case and
occurring here every day. Iowa’s
main crop is corn and hay, mostly
corn, and anyone knows_a man could
not pay out any such prices as five,

, ‘sixand’ even seven hundred per acre

and those that have purchased are
renters that have saved up a few
thousand and when the raise came
thought it was time they got a
home before it went hi‘gher.‘ 'And
now many are losing whatfithey'have
as they can’t pay off with the crops,
and the money'lenders are reaping
the harvest with glee. I will close
wishing M. B. F. all the good luck
this old world affords—E. P. P., Dun-
Mp, Iowa. A

We have followed the speculative ad-
vances in Iowa. farm land values, and
knew that the bubble would burst sooner
or later. We’re mighty glad to hear from
you on this subject. Keep us M B. F.
folks posted on what’s going'on in Iowa.
will you? Thanks.—-—Editor.

LAST YEAR’S BEET “LESSON”
BELIEVE through your paper
many farmers are at odds today

over the beet question. Many
wanted to grow beets but was told

P

that others would not neighbor with .

them, etc. I noticed that you made
the statement that if the factories
run they would run on a much Small-
er tonnage. The plant located here
will have as large if not the largest
run in years. This has been an ideal
year so far for beets and the farmer
that did put in beets will havethe
money to pay his debts and then
some this year. ' - '

I have land and my "sympathy is
with the farmer but I believe they
asked something that will never be
granted. The factories made some
money last year but what about the
six years they lost money at this
place? I believe last year’s lesson
will make it hard to get farmers to join
the organization this year.-—-H. H. L.,
Physician and Surgeon, Croswell,
Michigan. - .

You may "have land," but your letter
shows that you sympathies are not with
the farmer. ‘0 man who secures his
principal income from some other busi-
ness than farming can fully know the
trials, the troubles, and the problems of
farmers. You wrote your letter before
the avalanche took place in sugar pric-
es. It is predicted that wholesale sugar
will go to eight cents per pound before
the first of the year. That would mean
$10 beets. The sugar content is high.
That means extra profits for the manu-
facturers: in which the farmer will not
share. You seem to know something
about the “losses” of the Croswell plant,
Repeating your question, we ask, “What
about -them?" We'll wager you a ten-
year subscription to the Business Farmer

that through either the Farm Bureau or-

the Beet Growers' Ass’n the growers will
have a conference with the manufactur-
ers, and one-half the profit out of the
beets within the next two years—Editor.

GRAZING IN NORTHERN MIGH.
1 SEE- IN your paper a good many

complaints from farmers

ownland a mile or so from where
they live and wish to pasture it but
have trouble with their neighbors
from the cattle running in on the
crops planted along the road. Now
if we could get a law passed to com-
pel everybody to fence‘ the roads it
would- stop all the trouble.

Up here in the'northern part of
the state it would be a good thing
if all land that was not enclosed
with at least a three-wire fence .be
declared open» for free pasture.uThere
are thousands of acres in every town-
ship in this part of the state that is
lying idle which if it was pastured
would stop a good many fires and
would. soon grow to timber again. I
wish”yo.u. would ask everyzs'ubs'crib-
[er to send in a postal card -to "you
stating , their ,‘.views_ on ,thuis. 2-7 ,0. E.

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. _ -. HE GREATEST "curse 37th the? po- 
 » tato‘ market is the. farmer - who
' ing his potatoes on his own place.  . "
.ha-uls his potatoes to tho«'warehonsa -- ’
and! gets permission to- store" than V

makes no preparations to: stop--

until such" time as he wishes tonsil;
There is nothing to prevent” the"
dealer from shipping these potatoes
whenever he wishes todogso as lens
as he is willing to” put up the market
price when the farmer calls, for it.

The storage potatoes are always

the first ones to come in as most -' 

farmers who store potatoes draw
them just as they dig them from the
field, thus whentho Warehouse own-
er sees a good market in the cities,-
hs can ship out the stored. potatoes
and get a good, price for them.
the time the storage potatoes are
used up a few other farmers. get
tired of waiting for the price to
come up at his home market and 3
potatoes are
brought in and sold at the .101! fig-
ure which the warehouse owner of-’
fers them'. By the time this bunch
has been Shipped out and have made
the dealers a good profit another

'bunch of farmers get tired and cut

loose at the same figure and thus it
keeps on until finally the follows.
that -stored their potatoes in the”
fall begin to see that potatoes are
coming in- freely and they fear they
will go still lower and they also get
nervous and settle up with the
warehouse owner at the same low,
figure or less than he could have
taken when he first hauled them.

What have they done? They have
out their own throat and everybody
else’s. If it were not for the fol-
lows who store their potatoes or got
in a hurry to sell at the digging
season to save carrying them in and
out of the cellar every one could
have the right price for their. po-
tatoes. No man should raise pota- '
toes unless he has a place to. store
them on his own farm. Every potato
should be dug and put in the coir
lar unless the price is right. If this
were practiced...by r everyone there
would be no need of long time crodc’
its, the price woud always be right.

Why should the farmers {howl
about the cutthroats when he leads
himself to theblock and hands them
the axe and says “go to it.” . 0 ’

If you have no cellar get one, no
matter what you have to sacrifice to
get it, it will pay for itself in two
years. at the least—A Potato Farmer.

Ri—ghto.. The farmer is often his .Own
Worst enemy. He uses little if any jud _
ment in the marketing of his crops. . 0
either sells all on the opening market or
holds all until a ‘few weeks of another
crop. This fact accounts largely for
fluctuations in supply and price. We have
{at a long way to go before we will learn

ow to market our crops to the best ad-
vantage. But we’re on our way—Editor.

 

MORE ABOUT THE LONDEN
_ LAND COMPANY

N GOING through our valuable
l farm’ paper some time. ago I

noticed where J. K. M., of Essex-
ville asked of you information con-‘
cerning the reliabl-lty of the Londen
Land Co. I am a farmer and resi-
dent of the mentioned county and
will gladly give the above mentioned
party any honest information he so
desires, as a brother reader would, ‘
concerning this company and also
information as to quality, of land
here. Will state herein that most a
all good land in this county is set- "
tied as the paper stated, but still a
few good pieces‘of mixed timber
lands iii our {locality yet could be

had at prices about as bur editor: 
acre, and '

stated from $20 to $30 per
very good grade of land. - 
Regarding the reliability of Lon— :

doubtful,xbut as to the grade 0
quality of- their-'land-I can sayh’ e.
that ’ithonsist’s” of the poorest "7
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'  ,; " as, names it
ilwiliackyto,‘ the state and it was
 h‘tsiip‘rby this concern and many
». other speculators or land sharks,,as
classed,
for the priCe-of..from“$1r to $3 per
.acre and,sel’ling rtothe. settler, or ‘city
,Rman who is perhaps lame on select-
..ling soil for $.15 to $.25. per acre.
_ ‘ _We have many acres of suchland
. in this county and also many failures
secazused ,by .the crooked work of
regents of such companies and I say
'..,right, here that the time will soon
.be here when, with the .assistance of
such journal’sas the M. B.~F.’and
Cits readers, co-operating together,
that the-land sharks will be obliged
to wale I residing here in this
county can see them work, failures,
"years of savings, of honest hard-
working 'rnen, taking their meagre
earnings, using such in developing,‘
j building, fencing, and then leaving
" al to mandals. This can be seen in
hundreds of places in this north
country. '
The so-called abandoned farms, of
which the number is increasing as we
all know, is not due'as some would
believe, by the calling to _the city
by the offer of ‘big money, but dis—
couragement of the farmers them-
selves due in the first place by buy-
ing just such lands, from these con-
cerns and if there is any way of
"blocking their game we all are go-
ing to do it. I am, and have been
taking many farm papers, but ofall
of them none does such keen and
complete work as the M. B. F. in lo—
cating just such men as
Bros., unreliable mail order
panics and trouble in general.
’ I will say right here it is a mighty
hard proposition. for a prospective
settler to steer clear of land agents.
We have many companies some 're-
liable’ that are now‘operating in N.
E. Michigan. The Northeastern De—'
velopment.Co., of Bay‘Cli’iY, I be-
'lieve means to be‘isquar‘e, b‘utglyfo-ufid'
,through perSOn‘al‘experience that one
of its member's was one of the wisest
agents that I ever encountered when
‘it came to cunning crooked work, but
'I did not bite. But I will herein
,vouch that John G. Krauth of Mill-
ersb‘i‘rrg to, be one "hf the, most re-_

com-

‘liab‘le land’fl’rfns to deali'w‘ith. see '

.in M. B. F. that he lay advertising
through its columns and can say
that anyone buying from him need
not worry over the grade of lands
that he buys.‘ One point that I
would always follow, never buy un-
developed lands in this part of the
state until such” land has been seen
in, summer time. Some settlers are
to blame fbr their own condition,
buying and paying a payment with-
out seeing what they buy, and even
then, those that are unexperienced
in judging soil, should have some one
that knows soil as lots of this soil
here is deceptive." They then would
avoid some of this trouble, but the
Londen land, with a good man for
judging would pronounce it a com-
plete failure. We want settlers here,
but it would be a crime for me I-
.believe to recommend any of this
lafid.-——F. A. W., Alcona County.

 

I am sure our readers who ever thought
of locating in northern Michigan will ap-
preciate the information you have given
concerning. the character of the lands.
aAnother reader, Mr. J. S., of Glennie,
says *he will be glad to show anyone in-
terested about his county and help them
to differentiate between the good and
.poor land. We want to thank both those
readers for their willingness to be of
servrce to us and our readers.-—'Editor

CONSUMERS’ LEAGUE

T HAVE joined nearly every farm

organizationthat I could and yet

-- I feel there is a great need for

another organization to meet the

farmer half way. Organized to buy

the same as we are organized to. sell,

in".car lots. This’would be the con-

,sumers’ organization in the city of
Detroit which was organized like-

wise. ’Could you” give me any in-

,formation’regarding same? Donlt
you. think that crop reports should

one, given by local agricultural agents
~linstead, of someone guessing and

range" farmer; thinks there is not"
I overproduction. .xAs’ the farmers

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I; -;make an “overproduction 'when‘ the ’

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jamming will come {:of, it, gin
e would  “

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l ‘ e . _  “but gym)”; I} . -

  

ures were .usedand averaged up on
.cost'of ploughing, dragging, yields-
and so on. Would be pleased to give
you all the results of meeting if you
Wis-h me to’ do so. I have farmed
all my life‘ and live in Charlevoix

county—H. J. K., Boyne ‘City, Mich.

 

The Consumers' League is no more. It
was not strictly co—operative in principle
and was wrecked by its promoters. Its
affairs are now in the hands of the bank-
ruptcy courts. But you are right. There
is one more link to be forged in the co—
operative chain, and that lies with the
city consumer. The era of unemployment
and lower wages which we have Just en-
tered should serve as a stimulus for or-

anizing such co-operativa buying. asso-
ciations. There is much to be, desned in
an improved crop reporting service. This
ought not to be left to the government.
It should e. handled by the farm organi-
izations. By all 'means. let us have your
production cost figures—Editor. ~

SOCIALISM VS. REPUBLICANISM
I’VE GOT a word to say, gust for a

 

“second. Maybe I’m’ butting in

but I can't help it. It is, in re—
regard to Mr. Atwood saying that he
voted against putting the state in
the warehouse business. He says
this\is a start toward Socialism and
contrary to the Republican form of
government. I would like to ask him
if he ever looked into Webster or any
of the encyclopedias? I think if he
ever did, he wouldn’t talk about
something that he knows, so little
about. We know that “Socialism”
is contrary to the Republican form
of government or the Democratic
form of government. They have no
government of the people, it is a
government of a few dominating the
many.
to look up Webster or any of the en—
cyclopedias probably he' wouldn’t be
so fast to ridicule something we
know so little about—S. H. 8., Har-
riette. Michigan.

CROOKED.» POLICE OFFICERS.
J“ST a word regarding, the service

 

the so—called State Police are
gifing'us. "While'the Writer was
in Lansing a year ago this summer I
heard an exrpolice state that he

. and two others thatwere on duty at

night..made over $700 apiece by let—
ting autos loaded with booze cross
the state line. Now if this is what
the taxpayers are paying their mon-
ey for I think' they might as well
hunt another .job. You may publish
this if you see fit. As I was always
against that piece of political ma-
chinery and I have no reason to
doubt but what that fellow told what.
was straight but I couldn’t prove
anything against him as I didn’t see
any money change hands. I like
M. B. F. first rate—W. R. B., Man-
ton, Mich.

We should ‘not infer from the instance
you cite that all members of the constab-
uiary are grafters. I think the' general
standing of the state police force is high,
although there are instances on record
such as you cite. But this is true of all
public agencies. There are scoundrels in
public positions just as in pr1vate posi-
tions. But there are, in our judgment,
many other reasons why the constabulary
should be no louger (tolerated, and that is

'no reflection upon the personnel of the

force, but upon the value of th econstab.‘

ular'y as a Dermanent institution.—Editor.

 

MOONSHINERS
ILL you advise me by private
letter how I could notify the
‘government where moonshine is
made and sold without making my
name publicly known at least in this
town. I would not mind having to
sign my own name to my letter to
the government but further than
that I would not want to be brought
in as any witness. Now this town'is
full of moonshine distillers and sell-
ers and our officers are just as deep

in the mud as the others are in the,

mire. One has to be very careful
not to'say one word about the stuff.
-—-Mrs. E; M., Oheboygan, Michigan.

 

My dear madam, don't you know that
one reason ,why the laws are violated and
officers become corrupt is because the
citizen has, not \the moral stamina to
oppose it? Thouandg of good, upright
citizens will wink at‘law violation rather
than accept the rather distasteful public-

aity- that: comes swith exposing it. _ :You

can make. a. charge against suspected
moonshlning and bootlsgging,‘ but if r, you.
are not. willing to go into court to nova

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—But unless you supply these tonics and laxa-
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Besides, your animals are apt to get “off feed” and ,

out of fix.

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It helps to keep up the milk flow.
It keeps feeding cattle right up on their appetite.
It keeps hogs hcaltny, thrifty, free from worms.

It‘mfans health and thrift for all animals.

Always buy Dr. Hess Stock Tonic according to the size
of your herd. Tell your dealer how many animals you
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SATIlRADY. NOVEMBER 3, 1920

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, Another Rural Loss

UNDER THE present state law which fixes

the boundaries of legislative districts
and the apportionment of representation in
the legislature loss of rural population means
loss of representation. and loss of representa-
tion means swinging the balance of the law-
making power to the cities of the state. Ac-
cording to the present apportionment the
county of“Wayne has thirteen representatives
in the legislature, out of a total of one hund.
red. This ratio is based upon the 1910 popu-
lation figures. Detroit’s great growth to a

‘population equal to about one-third of the

state’s total, would now, however, entitle” her
to thirty-two representatives. The constitu-
tionfixes the maximum membership of the
house at one hundred, so it is patent that eith-
er the constitution must be amended to in-
crease the house membership, or that the state
must give up nineteen representative positions
to ‘Wayne, or that there must be a radical
change in the method of apportionment. The
situation ushers in a problem with which the
next session of the legislature will have to cope.

The last thing we ought to do is to increaes
the numerical strength of the legislature.
While not as large in numbers as the legisla-
turesof some of the other states it is neverthe-
less too wieldyfor really efficient business. In-
stead of amplifying it, we ought if anything to
be cutting it down, but in cutting down we
should be careful not to deprive any section of
the state with its just share of representation.
Then the question arises, “what constitutes
fair representation?” Should population con-
tinue to be used as the basis of determining
representation, or should the county be used as
the unit, or should occupation be taken into
consideration? If the first plan is followed,
one county,———Wayne,——-wil] have one—third as
many representatives as the other eighty-four
counties combined. Under the second plan
every county would have a representative re-
gardlcss of size or population, with possibly
one or two additional representatives for coun-
ties having an extra large population. De-
t’roit would strenuously object to that, of
course.
been suggested as the proper method of repre-
sentation in Congress, the various occupations
of the state would be entitled to one (ix-"more
representatives depending upon the number of
people engaged .inthem. This plan. wouldgive

to Wayne county 3, large representation, but

instead of the farmers sending a majority of.

’ their repgesentativesx from the ranks. of law.

yers,‘ merchants, .i'banker's, etc.,fas they do at

a present, they would . send, farmers and would, -
3 thereby have {much I larger voice in legislation

 

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such ,an Opportunity. ' TheLcOunty‘ 'of Wayne.

lation in" the past, and beam reason to fear

‘ithat she will not be fairly treated in the fu-

‘furé. ,At present the character of the legisla-
ture is such that it is well nigh—impossible for
any special interest? to secure vicious legisla-
tion. » But disturb this to any great eftent and
you will have special interests in domination.
If the state of Michigan gives Wayne county
one-third of the representatives in the legisla-
ture, Wayne county will become the head of
state government although the seat may re-
main st Lansing.

The Hopper Problem
EE MEN are complaining that the poison
which was sowed premiscuously over the V
farms and cut-over lands of northern Michi-

 

gun to combat the grasshopper [has destroyed .

entire swarms of bees. Other objections to
this method of checking the hopper are heard
from bird admirers who claim that thousands '_
of the pretty songsters died as a result of cat-

,ing the poisoned, bait, ;Wllll& individual farm-

ers reported the loss of horses, cattle, hogs and
sheep from the same cause. Some other means
must be employed to destroy the hopper evil.
It is neither safe nor sane to cover the fields
and the highways with a deadly poisOn upon
which birds, animals and even children may ac-
cidentally feed. Theremust be other combat-
tive measures which can be used with as good
success, and the Agricultural, College should
institute at once ,if-itzhasnot alreadydone so,
an\~‘cxhaustive study of happer habits, both
here and abroad, and the best and safest'meth-
ods of destroying the pest. When a plan of
proceduge has been settled upon the state leg-
islature should be asked to adopt legislation
forcing every land owner in the afliicted ter-
ritory to use this method'when thepest putsin
We’ll wager that a few suc-
cessive campaigns of exterminationwaged in-
tensively and extensively over northern Mich-
igan would virtually wipe the grasshopper out
of existancc for many years to come. It is a
matter that may well have the best thought of
our agricultural authorities during the ensu-
ing winter months. _ \ -
_ ‘ Fixing Prices

FARM PAPER editor says this talk.

about merchants and manufacturers be-
ing able to fix their own selling prices is all
nonsense. He points to the long and growing
list of ' commercial failures to prove his con-
tention. He asks the question, “if these men
had thcrpower to fix the selling prices of their
goods would they have failed?” Yes and no.
If he means power without limit and prices
beyond reason, they should not have failed.
But if he refers to power and to prices in the
commonly accepted meaning of those terms,
they mighthave enjoyed such power and still
failed. \ -

Discussing the readjustment process and its
effect upon business in general With a hard-
ware dealer I expressed my sympathy for the
merchant caught with a lot of high~priced
“Y/es,” returned my
friend, “some of them will be caught, but it'
will be their own fault. They should have pre-
pared for a return to normal prices.” What
did he mean? Simply that these men should
have added a slight additional profit on their
sales to have protected them from loss when
the inevitable decline inprioes should come.

There is no secret about how‘ the manufac-

. turer or the merchant arrives at a selling price ‘

based on» cost-plus}; profit." The-manufacturer ‘
introduces an elaborate cost~finding system in

his plant. Every 'singleitemjof cost fromthe

soap that,  in“ the‘waéhérmm"to_the_ raw
materialjs   theflmshed arti-
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in. certain limits manufacmreré and, wombat?
fire they please and the public. hummus-s

buy their  ‘ 7 -

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Men do not (fail in business: becausei‘as 
fannpaper friend eXplains they hays no power; ;_.
er’ to fix the selling prices of theirlgoods. Busi-g. 

ness failures are due principally to poor 

ness judgment, poor salesmanship, poor, loba-  ‘

.tion and resulting lack of trade. Some" manu-

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lecturers fail because they expend. their pm.  .1‘;

ducing poWer faster than they create a market-
'for, their goods. Others failbecause they do

n9h§hpwd fast enough and far-seeing? com...  44.?

pctitors take their trade away from them.

It must be apparent to anyone who gives ,

the matter 'a little. thought that the prints"

causes of commercial failures are not the‘-i,é'7_
causes which» keep the farmer’s hose, ,to the...  
grind-stone and deprives him of hisgprqflts..g-*
year in and year out. Of competitor-er  
-misfits inthe- farming game 
"in other lines of business. Wasteful and un- " 

scientific methods of farming'cause many fail-
ures, but what explanation will our farm ed.

itor friend make of the farmer who employs.  i

the same rigid rules of business that are fol-
lowed by successful merchants and manufac-
tuners, and yet at the end of his mason is

forced to accept a price that is less than his,  
cost of production, in ' g of which he ‘

had no voice?

 

Can the Milk Commission Survive?v

HE MILK distributors of Detroit are

'not feeling very good over the decision
of -the milk commission that the buying and
selling price of milk shall be the same for the
month'of November as for October. They. had
appeared in a body before the Commission at

its monthly session last Friday and petitioned r

for a retail Selling price of 15 cents per quart,

all of the decrease to come out ofthe farmer.

The petition was. refused.

The temper of thc~distributors following the ‘

commission’s findings indicates that the real
test of the commission’s strength is yet to come.
Both farmers and distributors are bound by
a' “gentleman .’s agreemen ” to abide by the
findings of the Commission until the first of
the year. Either party may then retire from

the arrangement if »he so desires. The follow- ~

mg two months will be critical on“, It  

estimated that there are :a hundred thousand",

men out of employment in Detroit. Every ef-r
fortis being made by the city authorities and
the city newspapers to drive dOWn the cost of
food. Milk has been made the principal ob-
ject of attack. These agencies are using with
good efieCt the argument that there isa sur-
plus of condensed milk on the market. and

that producers of raw milk should reduce their

prices to meet those of the condensed product.
They overlook altogether the facts of produci

lion cpsts. They refuse to understand that it 
is eamer and safer to effect economics in the '

distributing system than to deprive the pro- -  ‘

ducers of legitimate prices. With the people

of Detroit in this frame of mindhtho milk pm 
ducers may as well‘make up their minds first .~

as last that they will have a stubborn fight on,;-' ’ ‘.

their hands to maintain the present level bf???“

prices. . -g

. x When milk was scamequ mugfé”

all too glad to submit their idiflsrencoe with file?
producers to a court of arbitration if it'v‘vou'ld:
msure them a steady supplyFEsfmilk: ‘ 
When milk is plentiful and1thouseuds of farm

ers outside the Detroit areagare looking fo ‘ ‘1'
market for  Which-limiterly. went“; to

   

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0 Ir 2  «tile L’maehifiérffol
d'flxinfg the selfing prices of

l  Ethel!"   nearly all important
‘- . dairy  Michigan the milk produc:
 ersghavegniillionQQf dollars invested in dis-

' >   ’tributing plants, receiving stations, cheese and.

i i 7 ~.,butter  They are thus able to protect

themselves from fluctuating prices, logses due
to surplus and the other evils of the “raw milk
industry. After four years of, existence has
-the Michigan Milk Producers’ Ass’n anything

I  to show in the form of tangible assets that it

has ever been in existence, and will be able to
protect its members when the crucial moment

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The Motive ,

it‘d  HY," asksa subscriber, "have you

‘ -'kept still so long on ythe League-of

; Nations, issue and then talk it solstrong a few

weeks. before the election?” Then he answers

;  own question by saying, “you did it to
‘ influence votes for Cox.” Friend, your reas-

oning is faulty; . If we elected  president
by direct vote of the\people, you might, have
some grounds for your statement- A few
thousand votes ,' gained“ for Cox plight have
helped him in the final totals. But you forget

7 that if the Republicans of Michigan have one

more vote than-.the nearest contending party
the presidential candidate of the Republican
party would receive the entire electoral vote
of the state. Give as credit, friend, for hav-
ing enough good common sense to know that
if we could have cenverted every Republican
farmer in Michigan to the League of Nations
lane and as a result he would have voted for

Cox, the Democratic candidate would still

have fallen far short of carrying the state.
Why we have remained silent so long on the

League of .Nations God only knows. ’Why the.
‘ majority of the American people have reject-

ed this great peace covenant God only knows.
Did we fear the tongues of the partisan-baundl
Did we shrink from our duty lest we be charg-
ed with Wilsonism an‘d De‘mocratism? Did
we tend shamelessly by while designing poli-
ticians conspired for the sake of politics to
tear'the peace covenant to pieces, because we

could not bear to stand the false insinuation.

that we were sponsoring the Democratic ad-
ministration as support of the League issue
might imply? Possibly these arerthe reasons
why": thousands of American citizens either
remained aloof from a discussion of the issue

f ‘0r permitted their partisan pr'ejudiCes to cor-
‘  rupt (their reason" and their conscience in open

opposition to the covenant. We, admit that we
were remiss in our duty to God and man in
not presenting the true facts about this coven-

- ant many months ago. With partisan news-

papers publishing their partisan views upon
the subject, it was the duty of all nonpartisan,
independent newspapers like the Business
Farmer, to discuss the issue upon its merits.
And to have done that meant to support the
issue. The only motive _which moved the
Business Farmer to‘niake an eleventh hour ap-

' pcal for‘the League of Nations was the acute

consciousness that thousands of people, influenc-
ed by partisan leaders and partisan newspap-
ers, would, go to the polls and cast a partisan
ballot, without taking~ into due censideration,
the merits of this great issue that was before
them, If there is anything, about such a mo:

; tive to criticise, then we haVe no conception of
.right' or Wrong. I '~ . ‘

 

1' ; The Farmer’s-Strike

i 'Acoonnmo to réports mom;   

We centers the» farmers’; strikeis“ m

 

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"engines. mi”

andbids fairito become ,nationéw‘ide in its pro; ., p.
" lone.  is, a- veryiunusual   that 4',
" "t’ "ogstrikerS-_ere;,.smk1ng_' .  or: ' - '

 
   

coiintry» to the ether. T  the farmer has
been doing some of damning himself. A

strike is justifiable. onlyl‘when all other means;

to attain a legitimate end have been exhausted.
The labor unions haveinade some mistakes and
amused opposition from many who Were their
- best friends because they have ' at times been
arbitrary in their demands and arbitrary in
their methods of enforcing them. ,Let us hope
that the farmers will make no such mistakes.
The farmer is a pretty solid sort of a citigen,
and commands the high respect of the other
classes. Some of them cuddle him along by

 

 

H THE; WEEK’S EDITORIAL

India’s Wheat Crop Fails

 

 

 

ABIG change has taken place in the world’s '

wheat situation and it passed unnoticed
by the trade. India has probably been elim-
matcd as a wheat exporting country for the

' crop season, due to drouth which is said to

have cut the. crop of the Punjaub district in
half. Now the Punjaub happens to be the
greatest wheat growing section in .India, rais-
ing around 85 percent of the 375,000,000
bushels -harvested this year. This figure al-
lowed for theoretical exports of 40,000,000
bushels, according to oficial reports. Permis-
sion was recently given to export 15,000,000
bushels of which 112,000 bushels have cleared,
but the permit specified that it might be with-
drawn at any time. New drouth in» India is a
very serious afiair, and is always followed by
famine. What country would permit wheat to
be exported in‘ volume when it is certain that
for every bushel cleared another bushel ,and
perhaps two would have to be brought in from
Australia! Cables already indicate that the
Indian Government is about to institute fem.
inc relief work. Read Kipling, and see what
this amounts to. The failure of the Monsoon
was noted in these columns some time ago, and
that is all that was necessary to know that
India would have a short crop. Broomhall’s
recent statement indicated that the world had
an exportable surplus of wheat around 40,000,-
000 above requirements. Since that statement
was made the 40,000,000 bushels has vanished
in thin air because India has been eliminated
as an exporter. Propaganda continues to be
circulated to depress wheat prices in this coun-
try by reports of the brilliant prospects in
Australia. The latest estimates on the crop
are 144,000,000 bushels, which would leave
100,000,000 bushels for export. In 1917 Aus-
tralia raised 152,000,000 bushels. October 1st
in Australia compares with April 1st in the
United States, and we have seen excellent crop
prospects go glimmering many times within
6 to 90 days of harvest. I don’t believe the
latest reports from Australia. -Consider my
own much more reliable. Argentina has been
getting riins of late and crop reports from
there have improved considerably. It is only
45 days before wheat will commence to be out
there i n the more advanced sections. How-
eVer, there seems to be little prospect of more
than an average yield. —1_tosenbaum Review.

 

 

OON AFTER the price reductions were
announced ‘by the Ford Motor ,Com-
pany, B. 0. Forbes, the magazine writ-

er, interviewed Thomas A. Edison, one of
Ford’s (do-est friends. This is the way Mr.
Forbes relates the. incident:

. “Henry Ford. with all his eccentricities,
is a salmon!  are sometimes
 blessed. with - other explains—but he has
also Qualified in, the; other direction.”

' A I asked Edison how to account for the
 o!  Ford, and he replied.» “He «
is"!  follow. I I-had a problem to
recently, when Ford was here, which
' ’ the  in three ways. I told ,1

  
 

   

  
 

   
  
    

    
   
   
 
 

 

 

  
  

     
 

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not: Mord‘tostrike, that'he must be a nice lit-1,, ,
'tle'boyi-and accept-with good grace everything ‘_~_

that comes hl§ way. And that’s exactly what
the farmer has done all his life. But, alas, he
has now juined the strikers, and we presume
the. same nasty things that have been said
about striking union labor will be repeated
about striking. farmers.

If the farmers’ strike is for an arbitrary
fixed price of $3 for Wheat it is open to ob-
jection. If it is a strike against the gambling,»
the manipulation and profiteering tLat has
been going on for years in the grain pit at the
farmers’ expense it is entirely justifiable and
should have the support of all honest-minded
citizens. If we understand the spirit of the
American farmer aright his strike is a protest
against the cut-throat methods of the grain
gamblers. He is thoroughly disgusted and
disheartened over the annual repetition cf low

grain prices at the marketing season and high .

grain prices when the crop is in the hands of
dealers and speculators. If it costs $3 to grow ‘
a bushel of wheat the farmer should have $3‘
and more. But if some farmers can grow and
sell wheat at a profit at $2.50 per bushel, they

‘ should not hold for $3 and no attempt‘should

be made by other farmers to force them to.
Remove the artificial restraints with which

the grain gamblers have surrounded the mar- N ~

keting of grain, and our prediction is that
wheat would shortly climb to $2.50 per bushel,
and to better than $3 per bushel before an-
other crop. " ,

 

The Red Cross Roll Call

HE WEEK of November 11th to 18th is

the week of the Red Cross Roll Call when
every man, woman or child who believes that
the great work of the Red Cross should be
continued are asked to join or renew their
membership with their local Red Cross chap-
ter. Annual membership in the Red Cross
costs $1, and none is so poor that cannot con-
tribute this small sum to such a worthy char-
itable enterprise. We cannot all adopt home-
less European orphans into our homes. We
cannot all be present when famine, flood and
fire visit suffering upon communities and
countries, but we can contribute our dollar to
the Red Cross which will be present ready to
bind up the wounds of the injured, clothe the
naked and feed the starving. When you go to
town next week hunt out the local Red Cross
headquarters and become a member.

 

Can it be that Major Marsh of the State Con-
stabulary sees the handwriting on the wall? A
month agolhe was certain that the constabulary
could not properly function unless its force were
increased to two hundred troopers. Since then
he has reduced his estimate to 146 men and the
cost of maintenance from $547,967 to $335,780.
We have the feeling that when the legislature
gets through with the carving knife, all there
wil be left of the State Constabulary will be the
Major’s estimate.

 

The presence of the debonair millionaire, poll-
ticlan, ex-stock broker and highly esteemed mem-
ber of President Wilson’s oflicial family, Bernard
Baruch at farmers’ meetings in Kansas should be
full of suggestion to the sons of the soil. many
men of master m1nds,'not all farmers by any
means. are giving attention to the agricultural
problem these days.

 

We may be a trifle too old-fashioned to suit
some people but we can’t refrain from expressing
the opinion that U. S. Comptroller Williams was
doing his duty as a public official, when .he
branded as usurers and profiteers, the greedy
New York banks that charged from 15 to 30, per
cent interest on shorttlme br-okers’ loans, last
summer. ,

 

If we have been correctly informed, concern-
ins the attitude of President Gary of the. Ameri-
can.__Steel. Trust, toward declining steel prices,
he: is perfectly willing, that steel prices shall go 
lower now that he is convinced that his prefer-4
once! wll-I'h‘ave absolutely nothing to do with the

    
 

 

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 ONE ANOTfisRATHE ma.
,(GEST CLUB IN THE WORLD '
IF, SEVERAL years ago, you. had

 
  

told a rancher’s wife out in Color.-
ado, that she would 'be working side
_. "by side with afarmer’s wife in Maine,
" even though miles and miles of rail—
yroaid) track separated them, both on
the same piece of "work, both With the
same ‘cOmmon interest, and both with
the same ‘ spirit and zeal—why, she
A would 'have‘laughed in your face.
_ Furthermore, if you had gone on
to say githat not only Colorado and
Maine, but California and. Louisiana,
and North Dakota and New Mexico

7 all at the same ta‘sk,‘ she would have
looked about fora means of exit, and
called help, no doubt—but it is quite,
 quite ‘true.

'2??? Only a little more than a year ago
 every true‘ America-loving woman in
” the United States was working on one
 ‘ big piece of work, work for the sol-
5‘7 diers of our country fighting in for-
' eign lands, work for the people of
those lands, made destitute by the
fortunes, or rather misfortunes of
 war—and each state, and each com-
 munity, and each woman—farmer’s
wife, or city housekeeper—tried to
outdo her neighbor in speed, and ac-
curacy and love.

And: now that the great need is over
and all of these women are still bound
by. that strong red tie, the American
Red Cross, it seems a shame‘ to waste
the energy and organization, and help-

 _ one'uanother spirit which grew up dur-
 . ing the war. Colorado finds that the
  . problems of Maine, are just her prob-
5‘ ' lems in another accent. Michigan

feels that she and California have the '

same interests. And there is one
 r great big common interest that is ab-
 ' "solutely vital‘to every state and com-

 munity, and woman in the - whole
if. . country—health. -
 "Now it seems a natural thing,

2 doesn't (it, to turn this machine we
: have all made up together, to work-
. ing out that new problem for us, and
i that is just exactly what the Ameri-

can Red Cross plans to do during

, these days of peace. Keep up the
‘ national spirit of help-one-another,
and put it to use in helping the na-
tion learn how to live, and grow bet-
ter in health and strength.

The Community Health Center is
I one of the peace plans of the Red

Cross. You might call it the club
, house ofthis greatest of all clubs. It
J may be just a desk or table in an of-
: fice doWn town, or a store, it may be
i a little corner’dr a room, or a whole
‘ building combining different public
fl health offlCes under one roof, but its
‘ '1 object'ds to carry the news of public
3 health and how to keep well to every
5 one within seeing or hearing distance

3 ‘of "it‘s doors.

E A health center is a. place where any
§ one can find out where to go for
- § health information—where to get an

5 arm bandaged, where to get an eye
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 - 5 much the baby ought to weigh—what
 _' the baby ought to eat—why the little
' ' girl looks so pale—what food to eat in
1 certain weather—anything and every-
; thing about health.
, , . Of course it depends on where the
 s : Health Center is located just What
‘ E kinds_of questions will be asked.
} ,-,;In,the country the Health Center
will probably be a room where moth-
may leave their little folks while
at  go shopping, and at the same
line have the baby Weighed and meas-
red to see if he is keeping up with
 little girl on the farm next hers.
Wtimes it is a meeting place for
a’f-on these subjects, and one wom-
ay; bring one question, and anoth-
er the answer, and so 'the help
j; er} spirit of the Red Cross
“during the ‘War will go "on;

   
   
 

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' and: Florida and. Michigan would be'

 to take lessons in First Aid—how r

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—‘sending news Of home to the boy in

France, andnews from the boy to the
mother back home. It seems a. shame /
to i,_ let that great organization, so
neighborly, so friendly, so helpful,
juSt die. But' it won’t.

It means a great deal to the rural
communities which have never before
thought they could “get together" this

old, an.d‘150,000 of them did not live

one month; ;  -

. It is high time the ecuntry got-to-

gether. to ’ work out this problem 'of

Public Health," I ' ‘ ‘
That is just what the American

Red Cross is doing in peace times.

That is the program of the American"

Red Cross now that the .War :is over.

 

 

 

 

Older children," as well as Infants, 'come undo:I the Jurledlotlon of the Amerloan Red Green Public

Health nurse.
ton, Oonn., treatlno e ‘llttlealrl'e hand. ,

way. Out in Iowa county, Wisconsin,
one of the first steps taken by the
Red Cross for the; betterment of com-
munity life has been along the lines
of community organization, where‘
diflerent townships and -little com-
munities have met on a common
ground, to work together with
plan, and one purpose, for the gen-
eral good of all. Bringing people to-
gether in this way has had wonderful
results, so the people of IOwa cOunty
say, because they can work out their‘
problems together, and everyone
knows that “two heads are better than
one.”

They have started social centers in
various towns and the long winter
evenings are spent with lectures, ben-
efits, musical entertainments, etc., and
there is a. circulating" library, and
rest rooms in the larger towns. It
has all grown out of the help-one-
another spirit of the Red Cross dur-
ing the war. '

It is high time America did awake
to the need . of helpang-one-another.,
Last year there were 1,250,000 per-
sons who died of sickness in the Unit-
ed States, and 75,0000 should not have
died at all. They died of preventable
disease. "

It is high time we had Health Cen-
ters, and Public Health Nurses, and
training in How to Eat and What to
Eat, and Home Care of the Sick. "

Last year 100,000 persons died from
accidents” The Red: Cross teaches ac-
cident-prevention and first aid.

We all got together and worked
hard during the war for our boys
overseas, but do you know that there'
were ten babies that died in Ameni-
ca‘ for every ’man killed in France?

Only last year 300,000, American

babies died before they were one year

one "

The above Is a picture of Miss Jean Mannlnog'Amer-loan Red Cross nurse at Southlng-

1

There has always been and always
will be the Department of Disaster.

I Relief.- The Red Cross has aided vic-

tims of 250 disasters, fire, flood, tor-
nado, shipwreck, and other calamities
since it was founded 39 years ago.
But the greatest of all disasters
happen every day and most of us
don’t notice it—the disaster of people
dying when there is no need for it.
The disaster of preventable disease.
Are you going to told! your arms
now that the war is over, or are you
going to join with the ran’cher’s wife
from Colorado and the farmer’s wife
in Maine to work for your country‘s
good? . -
You no doubt joined the Red Cross
during the war. Your name has sure-
lyybeen on its rolls every year since.
The Fourth Red ,Cross Roll Call com-
mences November 11 and will
through the 25th—Armistice Day to
Thanksgiving—and that should be
the greatest get-together of all. ’

HANDBOOK FOR WOMEN VOTERS

LECTION is over, and many of
E us women have cast our votes to
> help elect the men of our choice
to their respective ofllces. "But there
are also many women who did not
vote, and I belive the reason in the
majority of cases was, not because
they, were not as good citizens as

’those who did attend the polls, but be-

cause they were not sure that they un-
derstood politics and its many sides.
SO they stayed at home rather than

"take the chance of making mistakes.

There is a book entitled, “Handbook
for Women Voters of Michigan," com-
piled by Mary B. Putman, Ph. M.,
Bertha G. Buell, A. M., and Bessie
Leach Pruddy Ph. D., of the Depart-
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I lodged elsewhere, and did not know
This house existed; now ’I sit-L ‘
And 'sce myself the lord of it. '

~ My foot was, free; for years of days as

I went myanreg’ardful ways. '

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of-the State Normal Courage; Ypsilanti,

'Michigan, which is. a. practicalvxguide -

to ’citizonshlip and will instructfivomen
how to use the ballot” intelligently. ' I
have one of these books and "believe
that there should be a' copy in "every
farm home where‘ there ; are women
voters. It is not only helpful to the
women who do not understand ,the‘
duties of a voter but contains much
valuable information. for. the woman
who has "already exercised the rights

granted her when Michigan ratified '

woman suffrage. ' The price of this
book is 25; each. Address your order

to Bertha a. Buell, Ypsilanti, Mich-v '

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Househbld Helps

PATTERN FOR MAN‘S OVEROOAT

Will you please tell me where I can
get a pattern for a man's OVercoat, ul-
ster style with shawl collar? What will
be the price of it?——Mrs. E. V., Osceola

County

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Thorough search has failed to re-
veal a pattern of this kind. It is
a very unusual one. Perhaps some
of our readers have such ‘a pattern.
If so, will they please help our sub-
scriber by loaning it to her? Name
and address given upon request.

 

 

 

 

VACUUM CLEANER

We have just moved to the country
this past year and I. find it difficult to
get along without some of the modern
conVeniences. am wondering if. you
could tell me the name of the best ‘hand
vacuum" cleaner, as we do not have
electricity. I would. be very grateful
for your help—Mrs. H. C., ‘0: Bow

Lake. MlCh. ' .
__.____._.

Two makes of this type Of vacuum
cleaner are on the market, the Bissell
and the Torrington. Theseare made
in carpet sweeper style, having a bel-
lows that creates suction‘ and while
they are not ,as satisfactory as elec-
tric. cleaners, they take up consider-
able more dirt than the carpet sweep-
er. I presume some.of, our readers
who have tried the hand vacuum
cleaner will be. willing to write their
experience for the benefit of Mrs. C.
In so doing please mention maker’s
name and address,

CANDIED CITRON
Please tell «me how to make candied
citron—J. H. B., Iosco County.

Cook citron in boiling water until
tender before adding to syrup; Drain.
Make a thin syrup of one cup sugar
to two cups water, using three—quarter
pound of sugar to one pound fruit.

Place the cooked citron in the thin
"Boil until syrup is fairly
thick. Let stand over night in the
syrup. Boil again the next day and
allow to stand in syrup again 'over
repeated the
third night in order to allow the syr-
up to penetrate the fruit thoroughly.
0n the last day boil the syrup until
very thick, remove the fruit, and al-
low it to crystalize.—Osee .Hughes,
Assistant Professor fowehold Sci»-
ence Department, M. A. 0.

 

BLEACHING ASPARAGUS

I would like to know how to bleach as-

paragus so that 'it will be like that you _'

get at the stores. Can you tell me how
to do this?———Mrs. G. C., Macomb County.

Asparagus is not commonly bleached
for market in this part of the coun-
try, but in New Jersey where it ,is. ex-
tensively grown for the New York
market, it is usually bleached. To
produce bleached asparagus the rows

in the field. are mounded with sandy '

loam to a height of about six inches
above ’the. level of the gr’ound. “ Thru
this sandy soil the'ne'w' sprOuts must
grow before reaching thesunlight. It

, is this growth in the absence, 'ofligift .
that produces“ the colorless or bleached e:- i

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8380 cut in 7 sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and
46 inches bust measure. Skirt 3377 cut
in. 7 sizes: 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34 and 36
inches waist measure. The Skirt meas-
ures about 1 1-2 yards at foot. This dress
for a medium size will require 7 yards
Two separate pat-
terns.

3369.—'Ladles' dress. out in 7 sizes. 34,
86, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust
measure. A 38-inch size will requ1re

5-8 yards of 36-inch 'material. .- The
width of the skirt at lower edge is about

1 1-2 yards.
3391.—Gir1’s dress, out in 4 sizes: 4.
I, 8 and 10 years. A'6-year size will
require 3 1-4 yards of 27 inch material.
’3375.—Gir1’s dress, out in 4 sizes: 6,
8, 10 and 12 years. A 10-year size will
require 4 5—8 yards of 27-inch material.
3398.~—Ladies’ apron, cut in 4 sizes:
Small, Medium, Large and Extra large.
A medium .size will require 3 7-8 yards
of 36-inch material. .
3393.—Child’s dress, out in 5 sizes: 6
months, 1 year, 2, 3 and 4 years. It will
require/2 1—2 yards of 27-inch’ material
for a 2-year-old size. » ‘
3037.—A practical model. cut in seven
sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42. 44 and 46 inches
bust measure. Size 38 requires 5 7-8
yards of 36-inch material._ Width of,
dress at lower edge is about 2 1—4 yards.
3386.-.—_Chi1d’s play garment, cut in five
sizes: 1, 2. 3, 4 and 5 years. A 2-year—
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. six inches below the top of
the mound. After the cutting season.
is over the soil is leveled down again
and kept level until ,just before. the
next cutting season—,0. P. Halligcn,
Professor of Horticulture, M. A. G.

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(Continued from page 4)
structure, 30 x 70 feet, costing about
$2,000. Between and joining the
two buildings are the boiler, engine
and coal rooms. This arrangement.
is convenient for the operators of
both plants, reduces overhead ex—
penses, prevents contamination of
cream and butterfrom the laundry,
andis economical'of heat and pow-
er., A portion of the second story
has been finished off for a lunch and
rest room for the employees.

3 ‘ Equipment

“The equipment is of the most
modern type. It consists of the fol-
washer, 2 three—apartment wooden

‘washers, 1 extractor, a soap cooker,

a starch cooker, 1 five-roll mangle,
2 compartment dry rooms, a ma-
chine for ironing white shirts and
collars, 1 dip wheel starcher, 1 neck
band ironer, 1 collar shaper, hand
irons, ironing boards, trucks, bask—
ets, and a standard scale.

“The washers are of very simple
internal construction. Rounded
strips of wood extend the entire
length of the interior. These pro-
jecting strips carry the clothes to-
ward the top of the washer, where
by their own weight they fall back
into the suds below, an operation
which insures cleanliness with the
least possible amount of wear. In-
stead of boiling the clothes, each
washing is subjected to steam under
pressure. This is one ofvthe very
best methods of destroying disease
germs, and. for this reason, if for no
other, the steam laundry should be
a favorite with all who wish sanitary
washing. ‘ '

“The extractor or “wringer” is an
other saver of clothes. The clothes,
instead of being passed between two
rubber rollers, are put intova large
kettle-shaped, perforated copper
bowl whichgrotates at a speed of
1,600 reVolutions per minute, and
thus'throws out the water by cen—
trifugal force. From the extractor
the flat work goes to the mangle to
be ironed and all other clothes go
to the dry’ room. Only the purest of
soap without any chemicals whatever
is used in the process, of washing.

“This equipment costs about $3,000,
and is similar to that used in good
city laundries.

Charges

-“The charges based on weight are
5 cents per pound. which includes the
ironing of all flat work, underwear
and stockings. An extra charge, has-
ed on the time required by an expert
hand ironer is made for the ironing
of all articles which can not be iron-
ed in the mangle. About one-half of
the patrons have this ironing done
at the laundry. The average cost per
week for the family washing in 1915
was $1.05. Patronage is about equally
divided between city and country.

“The laundry usually employs
about 8 persons.

“The farmers bring their laundry
when they bring their cream and get
it on the following trip. The collect—
ing and delivering of laundry within
the city limits is done by a local
drayman. In lieu thereof, the farm-
ersget a 10 ‘per cent rebate based on
the actual‘amount of patronage. All
city laundry is delivered 0. O. D.,
while the creamery patrons have
their laundry bills deducted from
their monthly cream checks.

' Igfllljldl'Y is -a Success

“That the Chatfleld Cooperative
Laundry has pr’ov'en to be a busihess
success is evident“ from the following
extracts ffi'omthe company's financial
statements: . ' _ , 

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 EAR CHILDREN: Did you have
a Hallowe’en party at your
,  home this year? Or did you
 have one at your school? Or maybe
‘ ‘ you attended one at the home atom
of your schoolmates. Did you? Tell
‘ me all about it, the games you play-
ed, how everything was decorated,
what you had for refreshments, what
game you‘liked best and why. I did
not attend a party this year and I
would like to have you tell me about
the one you went to.

When I was small some of the
boys, and sometimes girls, too, would
go around the neighborhood Hallo-

- we’en evening and do mean tricks

. i like. stretching a rope across the. road
. so to trip someone up, or they would
put a neighbor's buggy upon his
barn, or take the wheels ad from his
wagon and hide them, or let his cat-

' tle out. of the field, and many other
things. They thought they were
smart but people do not like boys or
girls that do such things. I know
that none of my nieces or nephews
would do any such things. I can tell
from the nice kind of letters they
write me that they wouldn't.

I am going to tell you a story I
heard once about what some boys
did one Hallowe‘en night. These
boys had decided that they were go-
ing to have a big time and do a lot
of mean tricks. The first place they
went to was where an old man and
his wife lived" all alone on a small
farm. One of the boys said, “What
shall we do?" and the boys began
to suggest mean things to do. “Listen
fellows," said one of the boys, “I’ve
got an idea! These people are very
poor and they are both so old that
they have a hard time to gather what
they have raised, so let’s finish
digging their potatoes for them, har-
vest their pumpkins, and pile their
wood all up nice in the woodshed.
What do you say? We can have lots
of fun doing it.” “Alright,” answered
the boys. The moon came up and they
started to work. They worked so hard
and time passed so quickly that it was
nearly morning before they finished.
The next morning these people got
up thinking of all the work they had
to do before winter began. The man
prepared to go out to do his chores.
When he opened the door he stopped.
.Then he called to his wife. And what
do you suppose they saw? Their
pumpkins and potatoes were all piled
up in front of the door. Looking be—
yond the pile they saw their corn
was cut and their wood all piled ln~
side the ‘woodshed. My but they
were happy! And the boys soon
found how the old couple felt and
'for the first time saw how they had
really helped them, besides having
fun themselves“ Then they
very happy too. '

This is the kind of a trick that I
like to see played, don't you? Goodby
until next week—UNCLE NED.

 

 

Boyhood Stories .
of Famous Men

 

 

 

 

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
THE village of Cambridge in
the early part of the nineteenth
century there was but one school
building, and it was on the main
street. ,

About two blocks from the school
there was a glove-maker’s shop, and
suspended above the door was a huge
wooden hand, which swung back and

—. ~-fotthawh~en the .wlnd~r.hlaw.

"There was one little boy who was
afraid of this hand and. the térriable

noise is .made'when it crashed and ‘-
-swung over his header: his way to

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By Carolyn Sherwin Bailey "

. . WERE down at the railroad
r. station the other day, watching
the freight being examined.
The agent doesn’t ‘mind having us
there as we don’t
interfere with ~
work. v
"There’s a Fish
Special going thru
pretty soon,” he
‘said.’ “Maybe I
can get a chance
for you and Bob
to go aboard for
a minute.” ~
“Fish Special!"

We cried. “How
can fish take “a” "
trip 7"

“All right if the
government starts 
agent snapped back.
“Maybe you don't know it, but the
Bureau of Fisheries stock rivers and
ponds with fish wherever they are
needed. It’s you boys who make the
need of it, fishing out of season and
without knowing the kind and size
of fish you ought to catch!"

Well, we didn't have any come-
back to that, so we waited for that
Trout Pullman to come in. You ought

    

. another line. If the governmen

to have seen the inside of it, all fit-
ted up for the comfort of traveling
fish. Bertha, chairs and all the rest
for the fish experts and big glass
jars
fresh water, for
the fish. In those
Jars were the aris—
ticracy of fishes,
hatched
governme n t i n-
epection,’ tr 0 u t,
salmon,
. bass, all fine spec-
imens. And with
each fish. was .a
recordr , showi n g
what kind of wa-
ter is needed, its
life habits, food
and enemies.
Before we had seen half what we
wanted to, the fresh engine was on,
and the Fish Special steamed oil to.

the Rocky Mountains.

On the way home we decided to
learn the fishing laws, before we cast
can
take the. trouble to look,‘ after fish,
we ought to try. You can give the fish
a chance too, in the rivers and lakes
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was the boy’s name—grew to be a
man with the same imagination.

\ That is why he could write the wond-

erful poems. which
world-wide. fame.

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OUR. BOYS AND GIRLS

Dear Uncle Nedz—My father has taken
the M. B. F. far about a year and I read
"The Children’s Hour" every week, I am
.eleven years old and in the seventh grade.
My teacher's name is Miss Ada Little. I
like her very well. I have four brothers
and one sister. I will send you a story
about the fair days:

The load. Fair

We attended the Ionia fair on Thurs-
day and Friday, August 16 and 17.
Thursday was a very nice, bright day.
We started about 8:30 and arrived at
Ionla at about 10:00 o'clock. We parked
our car in the grove and ate dinner the
first thing because it was so near noon.
Then we went to the fair grounds and
rode on the merry-go-round and the whip,
and then we went to the pony show. The
pony show was very good. The ‘ies
lions and elephants performed. ere
were three elephants, One elephant lay-
ed bowling alley and One danced, an the
other one stood on his head. There were
fiva lions. ’I‘heghall performed many
different ways. 9 ponies danced, teet-
ered and marched.
abian horse that danced very well. When
we came out of the show We went and

There- was one Ar- .

got some ice cream and sandwiches, then
We went to see the cattle and poultry.
By that time it was quite late so we
went and tried to get some dolls. and

~. hand-painted vanes, but we were not 'suc-
‘ cessful, so we went to the car and came

home. Friday we got to the fair about
9:30, First we went and got some pop-
corn and rode on the Ferris wheel. Then
we saw some men ride on a motor cycle
around a wall. It was just like a great
high house and two‘ men rode around on
the inside and performed on a motor
cycle, and one drove a car around there.
Then we rode on the whip and by that
time it was noon, so we ate our dinner,
When we came back to the grounds again
we wentand saw a show. The show was
not as good as the pony s’how. Then we
tried to get a doll, After a while we saw
the man perform with the aeroplane.
'Then we had some orangeado and candy
and went into the grandstand to see the
races. We saw the chariot race too. I
must close so the other boys and girls
will have a little room to write, too.—
Martha Marion, Carson City, Michigan.

 

Dear Uncle Nedz—I am a farmer girl
eleven years old and I read the Business
Farmer, especially the “Children's Hour.”
Am writin a story about the fair I at-
tended an hope it .is not too long—«Ar-
line Kurtz, Glennie, Michigan,

At the Fair

Our fair started On Tuesday, but we
did not go until the last day, which was
Thursday. In the forenoon we looked at

 

 

  
 
 
 
  
 
 

 

 

  
  
 
 
  
 
 
  
  
 
  
 

 

 
 
 
  

 

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under

things. There was all ‘kinds of ultry,
We liked the Plymouth Rock-A 'c lenl.
especially because we have them on our
farm. We also saw turkeys, geese, (inch,
guineas, pigeons and a mother cat With

‘ six kittens, I will not describe all these

, as it would make my story too long. They

ad nice horses and also nice cows, some

“fine Jerseysespeeially. Bythe time we

had looked at all thiis an,d .mfxch more it ,

r was dinner .time an :we .went. .to a tent
~whers we "atewour dinner; ‘

There was a
horse race and We hadlots of fun watch-

ing it. Soon after this there was an auto .

race. mostly Fords. ‘

The airplane was
supposed to.

up. but it was. too windy.

' It had gone up‘the day before. We went.

to the h tel for our supper as we had a

“long way to drive, and we started home

' school. .

? tired but happy.
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- Dear Uncle Ned. brothers and sisters:
Please stop over a littleand let'another
farm girl enter your 'merry' circle.- Well
now that I am here first of 9.11.1 want
to say “hurrah for the M B. F.” I am
a gir 1.4 years old and do not go to
My father takes the M. B. F.

sand thinks it ‘a splendid. farm paper.

:Well boys, fist busy and ‘w
‘seldom see
and I don't think Uncle Ned has of; ,

rite. 'I we?
ye letters in the M. B.

heart to put them in the waste basket.
As my letter is getting extra-long I will
close bidding you all dbye. Hoping
to hear from some of t 9 boys and girls
as all letters are welcome and they

surely be answered—(Pearl Maki, New-

berry, Mich, Box 144. '

 

Dear Uncle Nede—I am a little girl 9
ears old and in the fifth grade'at school.
have two brothers and two sisters. For
pets I have two rabbits and when I went
out to feed them this morning there was

a nest of little ones.,I live on a 120 acre

farm. We have four horses. 'six cows.
fifty-nine pigs and fifty hens. M?
father takes the M. B. F. and likes - t
fine My .brother and sister, fight over
the paper and see which one can get the
mail first. I wish some of the little boys
and girls would write to me.——Maggie

.Marie Miles, Mariette, Mich., R 2.

 

Dear Uncle Ned:——-I was 11‘ years old
the 1st of June. I am in the sixth grada‘.
I live on a. 120-acre farm. We have five.
horses, five head of cattle, about forty
chickens and one duck. For pets I have
2 kittens and I did have a crow but it
got sick and died. I have two state
one younger and one older than I. 11%
haven’t any brothers. I to to schoo
every day. I am taking Briana lessons.—
Gladys Renton, Carleton, ichigam.

 

Dear Uncle Ned—J like to read the
stories and letters in the M. B F. very
much. Although we don't take it, but
once in a while we get it~ I am eleven
years old and in the sixth grade at
our school. I will be eleven this Wed-
nesday, the 20th. I have dark brown
eyes and dark brown hair. I am tak
music lessons. As the bell is ringing f
school I will have to close. Your frien
Vivian, Le‘Roy, Mich. '

 

Dear Uncle Ned:——I did not attend any
fair this year because I had blood poison»-
ing in my limb. I am nine years old and
in the fifth grade. My teacher's name 1!
Ernest Haines: I like him very much.
have six lessons 3. day. I have one sis r
and three brothers. My sister's name
Essie. aged 3: and my brothers' us
are Lloyd. aged 6; George, aged 4: a
Earl, aged 1 year.——Anna Gault, Coleman,
Michigan. - ,

 

 

 

 

‘  Our Puzzle Corner

, DIAGONAL

My first is 'one of the twin cities.
My second is named after a Gree-
ian city. . '

My third is a city in New Jersey
suggestive of a fruit. ' .
My fourth is the capital of Texas.

My fifth is the capital of Colorado.

My sixth is one of the largest cit-
ies in Texas. .

The diagonal is where the cities
are found. ' ’

PROGRESSIVE WORDS

Two syllable words; the last syll-
able of each is the first syllable of

r the. next word.

« diam (oil 
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1. A purple dye.

2: A thin fabric. 5 , s

.3. A bird. 'fi'fi’l . .  2

‘4. Lower. “flywhlfi ?

5. Atrocities. ' (if; .  ' .
6. Hand covering...‘ ,0-  = ' 
7. Senatetive. " ‘.

8. A kind bf hat.

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1.31.1111 ,

 indicated by advices received .
'this- Week from the American, Farm
1, Bureau? Eed‘eration’. 

These; advices . indicate that the

Ralston-Nolan. land tax bill now l)e-'
f, , rose" Congress is practically dead.
,‘mchiga‘n endeavored by nation-wide»
-1puhlicity»to offset the extensive prop-

stfi‘nda of advocates of this notor~
lions single tax meaSure that would
fiddle approximately a billion dol-

j lars,annual in. extra taxes on lands,
,,..including farm lands irrespective of
improvements. —Michigan’s Congres-

clonal delegation also was commit-

teed to‘ opposition of it. '
Activities of the American Farm

Bureau’s representative on the tax-

' nation committee otth-e national In:

‘the. preposal for a tax

dustrial conference - board, repre-‘
oenting' the business and: manufac—
turing interests or the U. 3., have
resulted in that body condemning
of one

‘ per cent on sales of all commodit—

,.

ies, wholesale and retail. This tax
was'originally urged as a substitute
for the excess profits 'tax and if en?
acted would have passed on- millions
.oti‘dollars new raised from. excess
profits of large businesses to the
“poor dear public.” -

The American Farm Bureau rep-

eresentatites convinced most of the

delegates that this one per cent tax
en‘sal'es' or farm products could not
be passed onto the buyer and that
the 'tarmers’ profits are now so small
that he could not. asume this addi--‘
tional' burden. Furthermore, it was
contended thatthis tax is not econ-
omically sound in that 95 per cent
of it is passed to the ultimate con-
sumer. Wealth, would hear a small

partof the taxburden of the coun- .

try, it this arrangement was effects
xed. Their arguments were indorsed
by Charles A. Andrews 0! the Gor-
ton Pew Fisheries company, Prof—
essor Thomas A. Adams of Yale,
formerly chairman of the govern-
ment’s advisory commission in tax-
ation duringthe war, Professor Sel—
igman of. Columbia university and

“V Otto Kahn, New York “banking auth-

ority. , -

The National Industrial Confer;
ence board, however, indicated that
the excess profits tax was not an eq-
uitable one and should be repealed.

'To offset the loss of this item of

.‘5

  

95!“?

10.

amounting approximately to
the following

taxes,
'one billion dollars,
schedule is sugested:
1... Increase in Corpora-
tion Tax to 16 per
cent ..‘....$550,000,000
2. Quadruple stamp tax
' ratesT.. 
Increase first - class
postage rate to 3 cts
Increase cigarette tax
from $3 to $5 per M
Increase tobacco
rates from 18 to 24c
Increase to 10 per ct.
rates on musical in-
- struments, candy ,
chewing gum, and .
other so—called lux- '
uries, except auto-
mobiles, trucks, and
accessories
' Increasetax on_per~
fumes, cosmetics..
Special license “tax '01 .
50 cents per PLP. .on 2 _
' fiall’motor vehicles. . 100,000,000
9. ,0 Gasoline, one cent’
per gallon . . ."I..
Sugar, two cents per _ .
,poiihdfl . . . . 200,000,000
11‘, Cones, two cts. per ‘~ ‘
' pound . . . . .- . . . . 28,000,000

134,000,000
72,000,000
70,000,000

8,000,000
70,000,000
0,500,000!

45,000,000

 41'3", Tea, 10 cents per‘lb. 10,000,000

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'   e" I state ‘ifar‘I-n' bur-6.311. ‘m‘mces

arranging

“through the Elevator

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theimembe‘r he is not charged for
'the-service. In any case the mem-
ber cannot‘lose. Auditing of freight
bills on a sniall scale has proved of
benefit me great nmber 0t individ-
uals and associations already.

0 O t O

The firstcarload or wheat sold
department
came from the Farmers' Co-opera-
tive Elevator at Fowler. On October
23, the Fowler manager phoned the

- exchange sales—manager that he. had

a car of wheat to sell. - The sales-
man said he could get‘$2.05 for'it.
The elevator gave orders to sell. Be-
fore the day was over the exchange
had secured $2.11 for it. ,The first
week's business bears out predic-
tions that the Exchange would be
in aposition to secure Etc 8 cents
morethan some grain jobbers.

The Exchange mails to all eleva—
tors.every day the condition of the
market. This report is made up a
few minutes after the markets close
and is placed immediately in the
mail. It contains the current Chi-

cago cash quotations on wheat, rye,

oats, corn, barley and beans.

.One more elevator is using the
exchange, making a total of 25. This
is the Grand Blanc Co-operative El-
evator oi Genesee county.

1. t. t 0

Official Farm Bureau membership
is now 93,171. A membership cam—
paign in Algercounty commenced
Monday, Nov. '1. This is probably
the last of the counties'in the Upper
Peninsula that _..will be canvassed
this 18.11.. "Gogebec and Iron counties
were completed last week, totals are
not complete‘yet. In two townships
in Iron every farmer solicited icin-
ed the State Farm Bureau.

Ingham county attained a. mem-
bership of 1,800 this week. Muske-

‘gon cOunty has also completed its

campaign with a membership of ap-
proximately 1,000. Tallies are not
complete yet.

Gratiot and Osceola counties are

scheduled to be canvassed.

NEBRASKA COLLEGE' TO TRAIN

CO-OPEBATIVE MANAGERS

The Nebraska College of Agricul-
ture has announced it has added to
its list of courses a two-year course
in co~operativer business manage-
ment. Among the subjects to be
given special attention in this course
are: accounting, marketing, grain
type-writing and English.

Forward looking men everywhere
realize that the greatest limitation
in the business plans of organized
farmers is soon going to be a lack
of trained men.

Dean E. A. Burnett oi! the, college
says, “Marketing is a productive
utility, and. the marketing of farm
products is no less important than
planting, cultivating or harvesting
crops or judging livestock. The mar-
keting function must be performed
economically for the benefit of both
the farmer and the city consumer,
and the man who directs a co-oper—
ative enterprise should have a good

. knowledge of the marketing process

from field to factory and from rac—

tory to consumer)?

There is no doubt that in the direc-
tion of various co-operative enter-
prises there will be an important
field for many farm-raised young
men during the next decade. We

should like to see better tacilities .

offered by whichtheyimay be train-
ed for such work.- -

 

COUNTY FARM, BUREAU MAR—
_ ,  ONIONS .
. The Farm Bureau of Allegan coun—
ty toss, another step in. its marketing

_ program recently when}; the .county
«Agent in cooperation-with the Kent

countlAzantbr-ousht about arrange-

ments Awherebyv the * Grand .. Rapids .
V Growers" Ass'n will. act .3: 34119:»
spans tar ‘ '

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organization, the three;
united interests which the
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fiustice to the employees;
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Service to the public
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dependable, and perfect
in speech transmission,-
under all conditions and
'during all emergencies;
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Write out a plain description and -

two or three times. There’s no cheap.

Michigan and you deal direct with 
the buyer. No agents or commissions. 
‘It you want to sell or '
farmysend in your ad. teday__no at {i ‘7
‘just fun]; about f it.‘  “outfitting. 
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Two wonderful Susquehanna Broadcloth Flan-
nel.8hirte only 83.69. Direct from factory.
No middlemen’s profits. Would cost $6 or,
more elsewhere. Perfectly tailored. . Out 03-7
tn. mu. Cgmromm. stung. Winter mam
Soft turn down collar. Two extra; stuns
large pockets, Double stitched throughout.
Thoroughly sh For work or semi-dress. ,
An amazing bargain. Send no money. P3
spanner: only $8.00 plus postage after and ‘
pmmthem on. I! not pleased. return at
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nt {a oratories under he personal :.
pervision of Government: Inspector
ese oods havs been inspected an
ce 1 by the Government a to their

ioo‘nd tion. You can't beat this for qual-

, it ', guarantee. These goods were-\man-

niactured for Uncle Sam’s boys and not .
for the market. We refer you to the

gontract Department, Surplus Property

‘ ivision, Washington, D. C. Place your

orders at once, as this stock soon will

be exhausted. An opportunity like this

will never happen again. .

- l ' ‘ 20,000 pair genuine
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paired with genuine
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 88,000 pair 'Field r

’ Shoss. manufactured: - - ‘
un er. overnmen ~-,
specifications 0 r $330 Pair
strength and durabilit . Three thick-

nesses of sole leather. oot leather lined
waterproof, slightly worn, but a $15.00
value. Our price 33.90.

15.000 Trench shoes,
Trench slightly worn but guar-
anteed to equal new in
Shoe wearing value. Heaviest
of big grade leather.
water roof, triple sole. stud-
ded w th hob nails and heels
‘ with metal horseshoe:worth
$18.00, our price $4.90.

8,000 Army
A oveé‘coatts, 
- ma eo
$4.90 Pall’ the highflvercoat
, est grade, 90 per
cent wool. Some of these coats
have been slightly worn but 4
have been renovated in the
Government's own labora-
tories and are guaranteed to
i' be in first class condition.
3 These goods dye a beautiful
blue or black. Raw material.
is worth more than the price
asked for the coat. fries

  
   

‘ $8.75 Each
‘: New army bed
blankets in dark

gray, medium and

5  Bed Blanket light shades. These
‘ dark colors make a beautiful auto robe

and we are selling thousands for this
. purpose. Also blankets which were used
3 a. few times in local camps, but have been
laundered and renovated in the Govern-
ment’s own laboratories, and guaran-
teed to‘ be in first class’condition by

their inspectors.
Renovated wool, regular $9 to $12

value, assorted colors. our price,$4.90

each . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
New wool, regular $12 to $15
value, our price, each . . . . . . . . . . . 

Either of the above blankets are won-
derful bargains.

Mail $1.00 deposit on each item orderedi
balance on delivery. Overcoats an
blankets shipped by express, shoes b
parcel-post. Satisfaction guarantee .

Kingsley Army Shoe 0o. Dept .9
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 «Standards, Washington, D.‘ C.’
_ ' Whereas t e cities spend an av--
this year, and the statesandprivatev

. dials: 6.0.11 .atipn. Web 5.333%. W1
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saman ooon TO HAVE
BEAN LABORATORY '
County Agent A.'. G. Bovay, of
Saginaw County, has succeeded
in interesting the Department of
Agriculture in the establishment of
a “bean laboratory" in that county.
Details ‘of the plan asexplained by
Mr. Bovay are as folloWs: ‘

“The, Farm Bureau of Saginaw
county is especially interested in con-
trolling the diseases or beans and
since the- past season shows a tend-
ency towards the increase of blight,
root rot, anthracnose and other dis-
eases which if allowed to continue,
may undermine one of the import-
ant. crops of this county. We have
arranged with the Department of
Agriculture whereby a bean labor-
atory will be established in Saginaw
for the purpose of studying bean
diseases exclusively. Werpropose to.
have two or four farmer co-operat-
ors in every f-township in the county
that will grow from one to three
acres ofdifférent varieties of beans
under the direction of the Saginaw
County Farm Bureau and? the U. S.
Department of Agriculture. These
co-operators will 'be furnished sev-
eral varieties which we believe are
disease resistant, and these will be
studied-during the growing season
by experts in charge. There will be
one plot located somewhere near the
city which will be owned exclusive-
ly ‘by the Farm Bureau and the U.
S. Department of Agriculture where
certain tests and perhaps inoculation
of the bean plant of the different dis-
eases will be made. We believe that
this plan will give us a splendid op-
portunity to know more about the
disease-resistant varieties, and at
the same time be able to learn more
of control measures. The objects
of establishing this laboratory in the
county are as follows:

“1. To maintain an experiment-
al field station for the purpose of in-
vestigating the diseases of beans,
and for developing control measures
through the growing of disease—free
and disease-restraint beans. The‘dis—
eases to which particular attention
will be paid are the bacterial blight,
(anthracnose, mosiac rust, and' root
rots. '

“2. To provide a means of direct
contact‘with the bean growers thru
:the. Farm Bureau organization of
placing field trials and demonstra-
tion plots in the‘various parts of
Saginaw County, of such b‘eans as
the representative of the co-operat—
ing parties Wishes to have tried on

under field conditions. ' '

ISABELLA COUNTY ORGANIZED

Organization of the, farm bureau
in Isabella county has been com-
pleted and the membership is given
out at 1,417. W. J. Hazelwood, of
Allegan county, who has been direct-
ing the campaign in Isabella coun—
ty, has been selected to act as coun-
ty manager and seeretary.

 

MICHIGAN BOYS TAKE SECOND
HONORS V
Current reports have it that Mich-
igan’s team of boy cattle judges won

second .placein the ' Holstein judg--

ing at the National-Dairy Show at
Chicago. Hurrah! Another victory
won for Michigan’s live stock indus-
try. ~

 

HOW UNCLE SAM’S MONEY _
. ISSPENr ~ . .
According to the United States
Bureau ,of Standards, 93, cents
out of every dolar of Uncle Sam's

money' this year goes for war, past,

present or to come. I

Only one cent out of every dol-
lar goes for education and the im-
provement of the public health.

Copies of this remarkable analy: ~

‘

Sis-of our nati‘onal‘-budget"may be ‘

secured on applicationdo-Dr; E.
RoSa, United" States. Bureau“

erase 0116

agencies about. Ssper. year. per cap—

  

 

huge’ only span

    

of

$11 1115 .

  
    
   

 

 

 

capi‘ta for educatiou,—éar,ld*j§0i1.l§t01~

that, goes to the "land grant” coil“.
logos for militarydriill  "v " ‘

Without , anybody _ in" the
realizing'it, your Uncle Sam seems

to have become obsessed 'withwmiiie.‘ ',

tarism to the exclusion of the. nor-
mal, balanced. interests. of govern-
ment. Of course the truth is mere-_
ly that the army and navy havede-
veloped a “technique” for extracting
from Congress huge iippropriatidns

Whereas the other departments have /

not.

,According. to the analysis quoted
above, the national government is
levying a tax of $50 this year upon
every man, woman and child in the
United States, and of this amount
$46.60 goes for war and militarism.

Now on top of it, that ex-actor,
Congressman Julius Kahn of Cali-’
fornia, genially proposes a system of
universal military training which
will cost the country, according to
congressman Mondell,"the Republi-
can floor leader and watchdog of the
treasury, in the neighborhood of one
billion dollars a year!

 

BAY COUNTY FARMERS TO HAVE
' ‘ ELECTRIC LIGHTS

Farmers located in the territory
surrounding Bay City have been try-
ing for some time to get the elec-
tric company of that city‘to extend
their lines into‘the rural districts
but because of the expense it would
incur the officials have hesitated to
do so. But the farmers arenot to
be denied and many of them are
offering to pay for the installing of
the lines in order to be served. The
lines thus built are not the property
of the electric c'ompany but become
such after five years. Now we sup-
pose John D. will raise the price of
kerosene a cent or so a gallon.

 

MANAGER FOR EAU CLAIRE
FARMERS’ CO-OP. SOCIETY
The farmers’ co-operative society
of Eau Claire, Mich., has induced
Mr. Clarence Cook, formerly of
Benton Harbor, to accept the posi-
tion of manager of their newly form-
ed organization. Mr. Cook is a M.
A. C. graduate, and, it is said, ex-
cellently fitted for his new duties.

ONEKAMA FARM BUREAU SHIPS
WINTER APPLES '
Recently the Onekama Farm Bu-
reau held a meeting at which they
decided to ship (out a carloa-d or two
of winter apples. Each member who
wished to send apples was placed on
his honor that he would‘pack only,
grade‘A apples. : .,

 

INGHAM FARMERS STRONG FOR
. FARM BUREAU ,
Eighty per cent of the farmers of
Ingham county solicited for joint
membership in the state and coun-
ty farm bureau are joining, accord-
ing to Hr E. Straight, who is in
charge of the-county organization
work for the state farm bureau in
Ingham county. The farther the
canvass proceeds in the county the
better is the return of memberships.

 

MICHIGAN’S MODEL COUNTY
FARM BUREAU

Delta county’s farm bureau organ-
ization, with a membership which‘in-
eludes 98 per cent of all the‘farmers
of the county, is being used as a
model in many districts where the
state bureau is now engaged in or-
ganizing. ~

Delta has 16 community bureaus.
Every one has incorporated as a bus-
iness corner under the Michigan law
and its board of directors and ofli-
cers are under bonds.

 

FARM BUREAU DRIVE ON ' IN

' GRATIOT COUNTY -

The Farm Bureau drive for;mem—
hérship" ln' Gratiot County began this
week." 'F. B. Hines of Fulton is.

campaign ' Manager and Clayton C.

Cook jot shiaWassee county" ‘ film. »
seats the» State Farm Bureau. The
state organization is expecting Gra-~
tiqt .90" “in 119?“, - Whitman! over-i

    

“REESE-MED Arms'rrmrn‘  .

- country s

‘ concerns.

' 01.10.”

  

 ' ".Nonr  .'

~ i-Threeldf the delegatesfro‘ml-ths

United States ,to the:
sembly or” the ' International ‘In-
stitute of Agriculture at~ Rome, Nave
ember 3-16, are Dr. Thomas 1'.
Hunt, dean of the collogeof agriculm
ture of the University of California.
permanent delegate; Leon M. Est»~
brook, statistician and. chief of» the
Bureau of 'Crop Estimates of. the

United State Department of Agricnl- "

ture, and Harvey J. Sconce, of “Fair-
view,” Sideil, 11]., former president
of the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion aid prominent in organizing'ths
American Farm Bureau Federation.
Because of failure of congress to
provide a‘ specific appropriation" for
the paymentof the expenses of the
American representatives, it has
been necessary to delegate men who
will be in Europe at thetime» on oth-
er business or who are willing to pay
their own expenses. Dean Hunt, who
was appointed permanent delegate to
succeed David Lubin, is now‘.in Eur-
ope on sabbatical leave from the
University, and will reach Rome in
whom take part in the meeting.

Founded on Lubin’s Idea . ,
The Internationaldnstitute of Ag-
riculture was organiZed in 1905,
through‘the assistance of King Vict-
or Emmanuel, III, at the instance at

the late David Lubin of. Californ
who had first tried to interest sever -
other countries in the project. Mr.
Lubin conceived the idea of an in-
ternational clearing house for crop
and live stock statistics which would
make available systematically, .on
the same dates for the entire world.
information regarding the produc-
tion, consumption, marketing, ‘ and
distribution of agricultural commodi-
ties. He was the permanent dels—’
gate of the United States to, the in-
stitute from the time of its organisa-

tion until his death in 1919. ’
The institute has a direct interest
to American farmers, because the

prices of ‘American- products are do- _

termined, to a considerable extent,
by the relation between supply and
demand which is world-wide in ' its
application. The‘price of bread and
meat in this country is influenced to
a considerable extent by the surplus
or deficient production of bread
grains and meat animals in many
foreign countries as well as atzhoms.
Mr. Estabrook, who is thoroughly
familiar with the cropland live stock
statistical "service ’ of‘nthe United
States, and deeply interested in the
marketing and distribution‘of Ain-
erican farm products, is being sent
to western Europe by the United
States Department of Agriculture to
collect, ,in‘fOrmatio'n‘ on the present
and prospective'_‘supply, marketing
and distribution of agricultural pro-
ducts, especially cotton, wool, hides,
and skins. ‘The American represent-
atives will pay particular attention
to the marketing and distribution.
surplus, carry over, etc., of food
crops, fiber crops and live stock.

ALPENA FARM BUREAU MAN-
AGER GETS ASSISTANT
Manager James Briselden of the
Alpena County Farm Bureau has an
assistant now to help him with his
many duties. This assistant is Mr.

W. G. Jones who is a native of Mass- ’:

achuse‘tts but has resided in this
state for the last five years. He has
held positions with the General Mo-
tors Company and several other is 0

Mr. .Jones was iivingtfn
Detroit when he accepted his present
position.

WHAT \VBEAT' AND OATS 0081'
. THE FARMERS
1., 'The 1920 Wheat crop cost the
Missouri'farmer $2.26 ‘a bushel. The
1920 oats cropcost' him_.82¢ a bushel.
2.” At the'iocfober ISt’price for No.
wheat, less themoneeiifth .ot ringer-op

would bring a“ price equal to cost. 6: l ,

production. ‘Not one, county could 
cost of production for .its-‘oats crop 
Dabber-151.1920. prices. ' . f  
' '13. Four counties with ,a'wheat m
than 8“ bushels ‘ ' " 

    

      
  

     

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who is the re 01 26 A. R. 0. daughters. one For “mount. address

ovsr 30 lbe. His mother is also a grand- " H. 1'. IVAN. '
daughter of that Great bull Homestead Girl Eeu Olelre. Mich.
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 ~ ; i . a ' ' was c1. mm (mm W m 3* . DETROIT. ’ - MICHIGAN " ' . - {YR-2°“! ,,-1-  
‘ ‘ '  OATS “5“ ""3"" - . ' ' 23 Registered Holstein F d .
V .  The '  . Grain Company of ‘ (1‘35!!! c311: eoommgnmh No den-89.3 i

th the cows. ~v~- ,
mesons for selling. Will teke 88.000 torxtlge
bunch. Can sell in less numbers. .‘The calvee
will be worth more than in]! o! my price. In:

Chicago entered _'a _plee .of guilty
 the chem under the Federal

LIVE “00K AUDTIONEERS

For: sALE—nsolsrsasn HOLSTEIN cow.
We: 0 1 Mn Reside. m
0% well.

roe heifer calves. 1 bull cell.
R. J. IANFIELD. Whom. Mich~

 

 

 

 

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. « r A ‘ _ - . - n Robinson. Plymouth. Mich. o I ' Ml “-
 and mien-ending twenty-eight car , on "no 8'" “- "AUngféngggmmggf “'  .

 

 

load: at  fined $1.050 . ' “’7'

end  in the court, decorum; to 7" “0559. KING SEGIS GUSTA

OR SALE REGISTERED "CLOTEIN DUI“...

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Agricu lure. . ~ - ‘ Hie three unrest dems avenue over I! lbs.
It wee mazedpin the information " y ’ mg; gunfirm'fgmflhgyo;gfis Fall SALE .

A LARGE REGISTERED HOLO‘I’EIN 00W

 

 

 

filed in tho case that the cats were of in. me read: for service. 
, adultereted' with teed barley, dirt - “l?” "3"" 3"“ ""“l‘ m. “M? fifted'lzfififii“ ““ ‘ '°°" mm“ 
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v-  taken from the  by specialists of '  , ‘ ‘ . ‘
-  .- the-mu or Chemistry showed ‘ A-    snon'ruorm

 

that the added barley ranged tram
25 to 18 per cent, the average found
in All the simples examined being

 

Your Robin is more MILK. more BUTTER.
lore PROFIT. per cow.
lie Appliance P

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A .o. o, W m Shorthorns at Farmers Prices
182052—fron our bee quietly-milkiurtwd-but-

Holstein-Frieda:  Foun soonzlmro‘wso eULI. OALVES ,

 

 

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3 a  - 295 Hudson Street a . snow-moan breeders. Cm out you in ‘ 

 

touch wilh best milk or beef streins. Bulls all
3865. Some females. 0. W. Crum, 'President
Centre] Michigan Shorthorn Association, Mc<
Brides, Michigan.

We Wish to Announce

 

WE! Beam Six Years. Ago em Vermont
The publlmtion oi the notice of  "W
judgment in the Armour Grain case
‘tarmlnntet'ineotarae-thesepar-
‘ titular shipments. are. concerned. I.

 

A SON OF
Klllli OF THE PORTIAGS

 

 

"campaign that was begun nearly six

.mrs ago to stop the rather prove-x

Jeni practice of edulterating oats
.3311! other feed grains with cheaper
grains and screenings. As long as
December-.1314. and January, 1915,
twentyveight car-loads of cats ship—
ped bythe Armour Grain Company
from Illinois to Maryland were seiz-
ed in Baltimore 1)? order of the
 on information furnished by
inspectors of the Department of
EAgricnltnre. The court issued a de-
"cree of condemnation and forfeiture
end it was ordered that the oats be

destroyed or released on bond. ‘—

‘Upon the proper execution cl 9.
 to the amount of $33,600 that
are oatsmldnot- be disposed-of in
Imitation of the law, the cars were

' released. In addition to seizing the

 and. requiring the cats and bar-
‘ley to be soldier what» they» were, the
Want entered a. criminal pros-’
ecution against the Armour Grain
Company for violating the Food and
,Drm Act. The United States Dis-
trict Attorney filed an information
in the Federal Court in Chicago, in
Inch, 1917. On May 29, 1920, a.
plea of guilty was entered'on behalf
in: the defendant company, and the
 imposed a. fine of $1.050 and
costs. ' V - 7

 investigation made by the“ in-
 under the Food and Drugs

, Act showed that a‘ number'of deal—
" newer-e adding. from 5 to 15‘ per cent ‘

of feed barley to cats. It wa‘s‘claim-

  some. dwiezithet the barley

1 free grown? with the cats in t the'
j  11nd. “.mewes 

  left the field. At one ele-

 

A'Slflllflflllfllflllfllllflfl

Let us helplyou locate a good Hol-
stein sire to use in your. herd.

We have good ones of all ages
listed at rhasonahle prices.

Write us what y‘ou need.
Michigan Holstein—Friesian *-
4 7 Association
11. W. Norton, Jr., Field Secretary
Old State Block. Insuring, Michigan

 

- I snowsuLL

 

 

Shed by e Pontiac Aede Enable-Beaur-
veld DeKoi bull from e nearly 19 lb. show
cow. First prize junior cell. Jeekeon Fair.
1920. Lam in color end [0011 individual
Seven months 0d. Price, 8125 to make
room. Hurry!

Herd under Fedenl Supervision.

BOARDMAII FARMS
~ JACKSON. MIOH.
Holstein Breeders Since 190‘

Yearling Bull or Sale

Boliborn Sept. 28, 1919, evenly
marked and a fine individual. Sir-
ed by my 30 lb. bull and from a
20 lb. daughter of Johan Heng.
Lad, full sister to a 32» lb. cow.
Dam will start on yearly test
Nov. 15.-
_ ROY F'. FIOKIES

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
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lChesanlng, Mich. ' ' -

 

 

out of that wonderful cow, Woodcrcst Core
35.89 pounds. heads our herd. Two nice
straight young bulls ready for service. It
will De! m to see them. Herd under Fed-
eral Supervision.

HILLGREST STOCK FARM

Ortonvme, Mich.

or write
John P. Hehi._181 Griswold 8!... Detroit, Mlch

 

 

 

 

 

For Sale: A Band, Straight We“ Med and
well grown bull calf born March 27. 1920.
Biro is e non of Flint Household Led whose two
nearest dame overuse over 32 lbs. butter end
735 lbs. milk in seven days. Dem e 28
ascends“
. .
' L. c. KETZLER
, Film. Mich.

 

R SALE—Two BULL CALVES, A HOL-
tein and Durham about 3 months old.

Both.
have heavy milking dams. Not registered. 850

each if taken at once.
CHASE s'rocK FARM, Mariette. Mich,

 

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.

It your community needs the serv-
ices of a high-class Shorthorn bull,
write us for our Community Club
Breeding plan.

PALMER BROTHERS

Established In 1898 Balding. Mloh.

 

The Best Breeders

advertise in The Michigan Bus-
iness Farmer. It will be worth
ybur while to read the livestock
advertisements in every issue
to keep posted on what they
have to sell.

 

 

 

Shorthoms and Shropshires

I “The B;  Kelly Estate Will Sell at Auction

Wednesday, Nov. 10th, 1920

At 12:30 o’cloCk
On the farm 3 1-2" miles southof

Ypsilanti," '  -Michigan

.30 Shorthorns of the beef type with milking-ability, consisting;
of 26"temales and 4 bulls, including The Campbell Claret Herd bull
Banker 717768 sired by Imp Hillhe'ad Chief ,dem Imp Claret 23. Also

' 60 head Red Shropshires of all ages. both ewes and ram.

This 13.035 otithe oldest“breedlnéiiestablishments in Michigan. .. . g.

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Immmi.
 " (sPsouu. ' AMER-rme
who uot‘wh‘nt you‘have to offer,
flu of ad. "on copy,'osz-ofta‘n as
here at special low rates: ask for the

BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY. TH

.illililllliililli:

dteIIJyo‘u what It will cost for 13,
one week heforodate of issue.

i , . .
E MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER. Mt. Olernons.'h1lohlaan.

mun"ruins!uisnmmum:IimmmimmimmmlmIummmmuuluuumum: n

sures; under this heading.” honest‘fbnpeden of live stock and poultry will be sent on request. A Better still,
let us put It;:ln two. shout you a proofing
you wismscopYuOl' changes must be. refilled
m. Write today )

26 or'Bz times. ,, You .‘oeni change
arsedm'.;Auotlon ..§ales advertised

 

 

 -!.IN.8_ HU-BER,‘~‘.GIedwln, Mlch.. offers for sale
t’choiceibull calf,, sire, Robert Olay by \Vashmlz-
tomClay. Dam, Charlotte’s Gem by Mspielane

Dad Oxford'out of Charlotte B-2nd. .

SHORTHORIIS _
' 6‘ bulls. 4 to 8 nice. old. all roans. pail fed.
Dams good milkers, the farmers' kind, at farm‘

-ers' prices. »
F. M. PIOGOTT A SON. Fowler. Mlch.

 

 

HE VAN 'BUREN OO.‘8HORTHORN‘ BREED-
ers' Association have stock for sale. both milk
and .beef breeding.
rite the secretary,
FRANK ‘BAILEY. Hartford. Mlch.
ONLY A FEW

"summons ..  

Wm. J.’ BELL. Rose Clty, Mlch.,

A._._

KENT COUNTY SHORTHORN BRE‘EDERS'
Ass'n are oflering bulls and heifers for sale. all
Sell the scrub and buy a purebred.

E RAAB, Seo’y. Caledonia, Mlch.

 

LEFT

$383-

 

aple Ridge Herd of Bates Shorthorns 0f-
fers for sale a roan bull culf 9 mos. old. Also 2
younger ones. J E. TANSWELL. Mason, Mich.

FOR SALE—POLLED DURHAM BUL/LS AND

(1 D wn Rams.
OXfor .' OA. DeGARMO. Muir. Mlch.

HEREFORDS

I20 HEREFORD STEEBS. ALDO
know of 10 or 15 loads fancy quality.
Shorthorn and Angus steers 5 to 1000 lbs,
Owners anxious to sell. Will help buy 60c
commiselon. ”C. F. Bail. Fairfield. Iowa

MEADOW BROOK H-EREFORDS

Double Disturber Bull at head-i of herd. Some
.boice Fairfax femaleihfor sale also bulls any
. C n and look em over.
‘0 EAORI:3 O. McOARTY, Bad Axe, Mich.

REGISTERED HEREFORD OATTLE

' ’- ater No. 713941 heads our herd.
.Iélrgrcldslgripeof the Undefeated Grand Champion
fié‘e‘at‘é‘r 7th No. 386905: - we ‘have some fine
bulls for sale and also somehoifers bred to Re-
ater. .Tony B. Fox, Proprietor.
geHE MARION. TOOK FARM. Marlon. Mlch.

W

ANGUS

The Most Profitable Kind 

f I f miin . a cut load- of grade . dairy heifer!
groina LElgAWEE COUNTY'S heanest milk in?
ducers to include a pure bred ANGUS 'bull of t 0
most extreme beef type for combination beef and

dsir farming.
Cyar lot shipmentsmassem'bled at GLENWOOD
FARM for rompt. s, pmen ‘
Methods Explained. in .SMITH’S PROFIPABLE
STOGK FEEDING. 400 pages Illustrated.
GEO. B. SMITH. Addison. Mlch.

 

 

 

BARTLETTS’nsa.sis..-§§:°=u*

0. .
‘ d rig Corra-
Swipe are atlth and are price

' ‘ rid inspection
'pondenéigiihcaltigTiETT. Lawton. Mlch.

GUERN SEYS

___’______.._—

~ _ 1'. aus-
UERNSEYS FOR SALE. 1 BUILL. 8
tell Sultan, sire Longwater Prince Chagmanzt
(18714) 4 A. R. daughters, {116 lb. fatrigmm A
years old. Dam, Dagna_of ilillhurst (3.)11 If 
R. 548 lb. fat at 2 1-2 ya. old. 1 bu f (:1 fine
mos. old of similsr breeding. Also a e
of the above
fiIfeilt‘Igate. Prices and pedigree on application.
MORGAN~ BROS.. R 1. Aileoan. Mic .

 

 

" mnsEYs
PUREBRE; JERSEY

tested.
Tuberculin Mich.

on SALE—THREE
’ V108?
Pull]?  seFI 4. ‘Lake Odessa.

J
HEIFER
an" bull

Registered Jersey (, ,  0.

pleasing dairy type, backed by high production.

‘ ' iw. quality considered’
Pmedcigg. (EASSETT. Kalamazoo, Mlch. /

Get Your Start in
Registered Jerseys for $500!

1 r. will be sold
to Write for breed-

Mich

5 heifers from 5 mos.
at this price if takent at once.
nd description 0
in“ a FRED HAYWARD. Scotts,

NIPROVE YOUR JERSEY HERD WITH ONE
' t bulls. .
Oil:RIAII‘IIIIE'I;a yNORMINGTON. Ionla, Mlch.

fr
,—

 

AYRSHIBDS
FOR SALE—REGISTERED ‘AYRSHIRE

“bulls and bull calves. heifers and heifer calms.

-Als some choice cows. _
0- FINDLAY 8308.,

~ SWINE 

"13mm  '_  (4

B_ 5. Vassar, Mlch.

 

 

bull. It will pay you to.

 

mg no]; MASTODON

Sire was champion of the world.

'His Dain’s Sire was grand champion
at Iowa State Fair.

I have 6 choice
spring boar pig's left that will make
herd boars. Will price them at $50
apiece iftaken soon. Sired by Big
Bob Mastodon. '

O. E. Garnant. Eaton Rapids, Mich.

WONHEHIAND Hiflli

Large Type Poland Chinas .r

PUBLIC SALE

November 9th /
\Vm. J. CLARKE
Eaton Rapids, Mich.

HERE'S SOMETHING GOOD

THE LARGEST» BIG TYPE P. c. IN MIOH.
Get a bigger and better bred boar pig from my
herd, at a reasonable price. Come and see them.
Expenses_ paid if not as represented.
in sernce: L's Big Orange, Lord Cinnamon,
Orange Price and L's Long Prospect. '
W. E. LIVINGSTON. Perms. Mlch.

 

 

 

IG TYPE P. c. SOWS OF CHOICE BREED-
ing. bred to Big Bone Bone Boulder No; 726,-
672 for Sept. farrow. Spring pigs either sex.
Healthy and growthy. Prices reasonable.
L. W. BARNES J: SON, Byron, Mich.

 

FARWELL LAKE FARMS

L. T. P. C. BRED SOW SALE NOV. 10
5 tried sows and 20 spring gilts, 2 aged hours,
3 fall boars and 5 spring boars. If you are
looking for something good, here is where you
can get it. ,.
Write for catalog.
W. B. RAMSDELL

Hanover, Mich.

My, 011 My, What an Opportunity!

We are now offering a few choice bl

. g t
~Ptolitilnd China Boats, from Big Smooth Jones 3:
i is breed a best sires, from Dams by such hoted
s res as Grand Master, Hillcrest Wonder Masto-
donyogohdert and Hillcrest Bob. '

can’ get bette ' I
they will please you. Plricebge5egmz. Indindmn

HILLcREsT FARM. Kaianiuoo, Mlch.

These boar. .

 

 

musnsmsis

Spring boars and gilts' from the Sr.
Champion boar at the State Fair at

,- Detroit this year also Grand Cham-'

pion at West. Mich. Fair at Grand
Rapids weighing 1,025 lbs.. If you
want something that will give you
satisfaction let us sell you a boar or

gilt. , v
ALLEN BROTHERS

Paw Paw, Mich.

 

IG  POLAND CHINAS
B . WITH QUALITY ‘
Nine fall gilts_ out of litters of eleven sno
thirteen. for sale. ’ ' « r ‘

J.\E. MYGRANTS, St. Johns. Mlch.

 

POLAND CHINAS. SPRING PIGS
  'of both ‘sex for sale at reasonable
prices. Registered in buyer’s name. .
Sired by Big Long Bob.
MOSE BROS., St. Charles, Mich

 

BIG TYPE POLANDS. HERD HEADED BY
W’s Sailor Bob No.

397305. Spring pigs,
both sex for sale. ‘
W_ CALDWELL a. SON, .Sprlngport, Mlch.

ARGE TYPE P. c. SPRma BOARS, MARCH
Land April furrow. Also one Sept. yearling.
The big bone and big litter kind. For prices and

d'n write
bree‘IEl.gW. L'ANDENBERGER. Parma, Mlch_

BIG TYPE POLANDd CleNASi w n

fw choice spring boars res y or serv ce 0
firste premium at Saginaw 00. Fair. All cholera
immuned by double treatment. Also fall pigs

nin time.
'at wen Hiawst snos., Merrill. Mlch_

it P B’ ‘
to advertise livestock
or poultry in
M. B. F.’s
Breeders Directory

 

‘

ping. Term::_ cash.

Col. Waffle of Goldwater, Mich.

 

Here is ‘one of the Greatest Offerings of the. Season!

Large Type PolandCIiina
— Public Sale

This offering consists of  tried sows, l5 spring gilts, 2
aged boars, 7 spring boars, 2 fall boars.

These offeriifgs sired by Clansman’s Image, 2nd, Clansman’s Im-
age, The Outpost, Orphan Superior, King’s Giant, Smooth Wonder, 3rd

These hogs have all been double treated for cholera and certi-
ficate of immunization goes with each hog. Crates furnished for ship-

Auctioneers
J. J. Post of Hillsdale, Mich.
H. H. Mack for Michigan Business Farmer.

Free transportation to and from trains

Those who attend .W. J. Clark’s sale Nov. 9, will be ableto at-
tend this sale, either by railor cross country, (on

 Nauember‘lwth, 

John Hofiman, Hudson, Mich.

. on;  - . ,.>- »

 

"condition and a number of

 mOfnlns as I more

 

W3  tin" mati- “83m! ' 

 

 

A ~57  .
 omoKENs   -~

..-

PleaSe tell me\ 1th f, ,ugh- the..st4.,.,i_3. 3111'."

what ails my chickens; [Some irne m
I saw a few of myyoun'g'roostersfiwhou

heads~looked as though; they had-abdon.

fighting. The feathers were. bloody look“), ‘
mgand I thought they had been fighting.
now, there areseyeral“ of .  glaflW-t

pu e a .
i have only seen ‘one old-hen hi'the‘ sense
condition. She .had young ones vamd. thgir
heads look the same. lave not lost any
of them from the ailmen , but s'm'wdn-
dering what it is and if’I can do any"-
thing for them. The whole flock have
the range of 100 acres. I have been
feeding wheat and corn with plenty...ot
fresh water, Can it be tuberculosis!—
Mrs. E. A., Gobleville, Michigan.

This is one of the three forms‘bf
rou'p. There is usually, a. loss of ap—'
petite, the birds'appear weak, walks
unsteadily, and becomes very much
emanciated. At ’times bre'athing do.
difficult and there is often diarrhoea.

The disease usually'makes its first,

appearance in the fall of theyear;
there is usually a peculiar offensive
odor with this disease and poultry-
men familiar with, it often recognize
the disease from the odor alone.
Treatment: The hen house should be
well ventilated, but should allow no

draughts on the birds, and should be -

kept clean and free from dampn’eSs.
It should be cleaned and disinfected
daily with some ‘ood disinfectant,
such as Kreso Dip or Creolin. If the
affected birds are not too valuable it
is best to kill and burn them to pre-
vent the further spread of the dis-
ease. If you wish to treat tth I
would recommend the following:
Oil of thyme, 30 drops; oil of‘euca-
lyptus, 20 drops; menthol, 10 grains:
oil of petrol, 2 ounces. Wash all af-

' fected parts with this solution twice

daily and give an abundance of clean
water and soft easily digested food.

COW’S UDDER SHRJNKS
I have a cow. 5 years old, Holstein:
was offered $150 for her, The last three
or four weeks the left front quarter of
her udder seems to be shrinking. After
milking a little from that udder the milk
stops. Then in a few minutes I can to
on and get the usual amount. 13 there
danger of tubercular trouble? Cow' v0:
12 quarts measured. twice a. day.— . H
C., Otsego, Michigan.

From the symptoms you have giv-
en I would say through some little‘
sensitiveness .of this quarter your
cow simply holds the milk; I would
suggest you examine the quarter for
a fibrous growth: while there is al-
ways a. little suspicion of tuberculosis
in cases where the udder is involved,
I would doubt it very much in this
particular one.. ' ‘»

TUBERCULOSIS IN RABBITS

Please tell me what is the trouble with
rabbitq that have a spotted liver_ Our
neighbors have rabbits. They let them
run at large. Today they,killed a couple
and they had White SDOLS on their livers.
They appear to be f t and in good con-
dition. I also raise rabbits, having
about 50. and I take much interest and
would like to ’know what causes spotted
liver, as I never heard of the disease be-
fore. Also its symptoms and if it II
contagious. Would like a remedy if 'there
is any.—4Miss D.‘ T... Deirll’s Lake,'Mich,

These rabbits have tuberculosis and
the meat should not be used for
food. There is no treatment for this
disease and the sooner they are
slaughtered and the ones that the
affected destroyed the better, for the
disease is very contagious.

BLOODY MILK

I am writing you in regard to meow
which gives bloody milk and has fqr two
weeks—F. McN,, Bad Axe, Michigan.

1

First give your cow 8. good cathar- , _ 

tic consisting of magnesium sulphate
two pounds, powdered 4' ginger and

gentian- equal parts one ounce, powd; . f

cred nu'x vomicaiand papslcu'm’ one
dram: mix all together/and simply.
the entire contentsotgtwo quarts of

“hot Water," let cool and‘SiIOr unit!

at “one dose. after forty-eight 1
give two drama at potassium,

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v; .ea‘rteiiminate’ the I menace.
the/moat -novel method undertaken

'animals imported into the

\countries are described.

..time, to the highest bidders.
wherd is headed 'by a

 established by _ the

jgnnit'edistates against the shipm‘ent
- f «5o! cattle from. England, o‘win‘g to the
. prudence of the
‘ 5' disease _ has "been

foot-and-mouth
responsible for
'iihm'erous experiments designed to,
Perhaps

pr- officials of the ministry of "agri—

..‘éh_lture is that of conducting exper-

iments at sea, whereby obsolete ves-
sels,;'are equipped with laboratories

‘. and» needed facilities for research

work”. Thereby it isvhoped to isolate
cattle suffering from this contagious

.disease and obtain data of value to

stock breeders.

. Fer the twelve months ending
Julie 20th, 1920, the number of food
United
States was 595,241 cattle, 4,613
swine, 164,789 sheep and 534 goats.
During the sameperiod the number
of pounds of} meat and meat food
products imported was 31,978,859
of beef and 36,217,858 pounds of
other products, classified as fresh
and refrigerated. Canned and cur-
ed‘ beef imported weighed 3,398,990,
while. 6,185,622 pounds of other
canned and cured products were im‘
ported. The Bureau of Animal In—
dustry during last June condemned
3,114 pounds oi. beef, 1,584 pounds
of pork and refused entry certificate
to 70 pounds of pbrk.

Commercial Travelers' Guide to
Latin America is the title of an
elaborate Volume recently issued by
the Bureau of’Foreign and Domestic
Commerce, United States Depart—
ment of Commerce,”Washington, D.
C.’ The book was written as an in—
formational text for citizens journey—
ing from this country into South
America on cattle—trading or other
business expeditions. The different
How to
reach various, sections, what steam-

r‘sfihiptlines to take, the cost of the
' 'trip,"'ancl'a description of principal

towns are adequately incorporated in
the? exhaustive text. The g0vern-

.men't mak’es__a charge of $1.50 for

the book. A .-

A FUTURE EVENT

Iowa swine feeders’ dayat the
Iowa Experiment station, Ames, is
Nov. 11. Thirty lots have been fed
on various commercial beds and the
results will be available.

‘ DISPERSIONSALE ON NOV. 5

The farm Owned by the late Mr.
Charles R. Woolger, located four
miles west of‘Wayne, Michigan, "is

expected to be a popular place with

live stock breeders_of this state
when on'November 5th, 40 registered
and'10 high grade Holsteins will be

placed on the auction block. As
{good a herd of dairy cows as any man

could want will be sold, one at a
This
grandson of
Pontiac Butter Boy. His dam has
‘a'record of 29.54 pounds of butter
as a 4 year old. He is a young hull
with great producing and transmit-
ting strains. ; -

I \The herd did good work in the
cow testing association in 1918 and
1919, several cows producing 8, 9,
and 10 thousand pounds of milk
during the testing period. Owing to

'the death of Mr. Woolger this work

has been stopped. The health of the
herd is excellent.

Two of the cows offered are the
property of Mr- Albert Carpenter.
These are young animals and are

Pores/to a ‘32_ pound bull, Huron Hill
"Ca‘ii‘aryNig De Kol,>n.umber 183402.

This“ bull is one of Michigan’s best

\' and largest, weighing 2,750 pounds.
j Ion'Uwas Grand . Champion at the
I _Wa‘yne County Fair. '

Another“ consignor at this sale is
' C.ijtellwagen, whols offering
1 balls. '. One ~ot.these is a 32

133111 'readyftor service, sired

  

  
 

 

 

L. T. P. ,C.
- I harms fine lot of spring figs slred_by Hart's
Black Price, a good son of lack Price. grand
champion of the world in 1918. Also have a
litter of 7 pigs, 5 sows and 2 boars. sired. by
Prospect Yank, a son of the 840,000 tankee.
that are sure Humdingers.
F. T. HART.-St. Louis. 'Mlch..

cLOsmc our SALE

of Big Type Poland China hogs. which represents
'the work of 25 years of constructive breeding.
Everything goes including our three great herd
boars, Mich. Buster by Grant Buster, A. Grant,
Butler’s Big Bob. Two of tho besV'yearlmg
prospects in Mich. ,Modernr .type, lugh arched
backs, great length. big bone. Come and pick
out what you want. Our prices are right.
JNO. c. BUTLER. Portland. Hush.

__‘

"5 ' BIG TYPE P.
  C. Roars now
V J ready for new

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

. . . GREGORY
' Ionia, Mich.

 

oonsrd’s B. T P. 0. See my Exhibit at Mich.

LState Fair. All stock double immune. Pub-

lic sale Oct. 28. Get your name on mailing list
E. R. LEONARD. R 3. St. Louis, Mich.

 

. T. P. C. SPRING BOARS, SIRED BY WIL-
Bey's King Bob. out of Grand
[lishcr‘s Giant. All immuned with double treat-
ment. John D. Wiley. Schoolcraft, Mich.

FOUR CHOICE SPRING AND FALL
L s P c bears left. A few extra nice gilts

left bred for April Irrrcw.
H. O. S‘NARTZ. Schoc'craft. Mich

 

"TH ANNUAL P. G. BRED 50"! “ALE.
March 13. 1920. For pn rticuiars write
VJ. J. HAGELSHAVV. Aucusta. Mich.

Am Offering Lai‘ge ‘i'ype Poland China Sows.
bred to F's Orange at reasonable prices. Also

1] )‘gs. \V‘riie cr-call.
m CLYDE FISHER. R3. St. Mich.

Louis.
BIG TYPE POLAND CHINA?“

Early fall pigs for sale; either SPF.I rhese are
real ones. Write for breeding and price.
’ «- HIMM B,ROS..,Chosanlng. Mich.

 

DUROCS

' DUROC
Brookwater JERSEYS
' Boar's—Ready for Service
Big type, large bone and rugged. with plenty

of quality. This is your chance to buy high class
individuals at reasonable prices.

OPEN GILTS

of choice breeding and the .right type.
Panama Special, the Princxmlulith.
Cherry King and Great Orion families.
Now is the time to buy before the demand
takes all or the 'good ones.
Write [is For‘Prices, and Pedigrees
Mail orders a specialty.
Satisfaction guaranteed. ,
BROOKWATER FARM

Ann Arbor, Michigan .
H W. Mumford. Owner J. B. Andrews, Mgr.

Orion

 

     

Spring pigs by wait’s
Orion. First 8n Yearling
Detroit. Jackson. Gd. Rapids and Saginaw. 1919

Phillips Bros, Riga, Mich

FOR SALE
ONE REG. DUROC JERSEY STOCK VHOG
CRIMSON (111112123 MODEL KING l\O

1 815
Farrowed June 16. 1919.
Weight about 500 pounds.
Price $75. ,
c_ H. STANLEY, fi 2. Paw Paw. Mich.

   

 

 

 

 

nEcIs‘TEnEiJ nunoc JERSEY

boars, gilts, and fall pigs for sale. Herd headed
by Brookwater Demonstrator 27th, No. 155217.
H. E. LIVERMOBE & SON, Romeo, Mich.

 

srnmc sonns  " "m
The big growthy kind.
0. E. DAVIS & SON. Ashley. Mich.

 

Due-cc sows and gilt: JI‘Bd to Walt's King 82949
who has sired more prize winning pigs at the
ltnte fairs in the last 2 years than any other Du-
roc board. Newton Barnhart. St. Johns, Mich.

E—ADOWVIEW ~FARM BEG. DUROC JERSEY

hogs. Spring pigs for sale.
J. E. MORRIS. Farmlnqton. Mich.

PEAGH HILL FARM

prIng boar pigs by Peach Hill I Qrion King,
,152489. Satisfaction guaranteed.

835 up, ~ ' , '
INWOOD IR08.. Romeo. Mich.
' i i . /

 

 

 

or Sale—lies. burns Jenny wear/ulna Plan of
' ’ her sex.

  
  
 

  
 

Daughters of .

Priced at ,

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‘ptBPlOIAL ADVERTISING RATES under this it
write uot what you have to offer, let us put It In typo. ,
size of ad. or copy as often as you wish. Copy or changes must be
here «at sowlal low rates: ask for them. waits todry!)
- ' uHEEDERS' DIREOTQRX, THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER,
O .

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. good entity's“ bu _ '
a can saris. ‘1. ,   a a ‘ '-
‘i’ld’auf mtg. gates do; out» sins.

'_ cums   :.....' w  ‘
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a» r .

 

DUROOS, ANYTIIING VOU‘ WANT FROM~A
sming gilt to’ a hérd hear, 'at prices you can
afford to pay. Cholera immune Satisfaction guar—
anteed. C. L.’ PO\VER. Jerome, Mich.

.noc Jersey’s, Herd headers in boars. Why!

Because they are bred right, {ed right, grown
right and from Grand Champion stock. Write or
better come and see. F. J. Drodt, l‘tl, Monroe,
Mich. '

1AM OFFERING SOME HIGH CLASS

SPRii-Cii DUBOG BOABS

at reasonabie’prices . A few gilts bred for Sep-
tember furrow at bargain prices.
W

 

 

. c. TAYLOR
Milan. Mich.
OR SALE—REG. DUROC JERSEY PIGS 10
weeks old, $16.00 each, registered in your
name. flVill sell for the prices until Nov. 1.
Either sex. I ship only the best.
W. E. CUMMINGS, Coleman, Mich.

 

 Both Spring and Fall Boar Pigs {mm

Brookwater bred sire and dams
Write for what you need.
E. E CALKINS, R 6, Ann Arbor. Mich.

 

murmurs p'nEuiEn GHIEF

No. 1291319

 

Herd Roar—Reference only
1919 Chicago International
4th Prize Jr. Yearling

BOOKING ORDERS FALL PIGS AT 525
BLANK & POTTER

Pottervilie. Mich.

 

EG. DUROC-JERSEY SPRING AND FALL

pigs, either sex. Have stock not akin. Re-
member our National Swine Show and State Fair
winnings. Get our prior-s. ,
F. HEIMS 62 SON
— Davison Mich.

ending to honest breeders of live stock and poultry‘wlll be sent on request.
show you a proof and tell you what lt"wlll cost for 18, 29 or I52 times.
received one week before date of Issue.

Mt. 'Olemens, Michigan.

 

mmnwz::5.uu::nw'iii£’

mwm_gx,,_ , M,y:..‘
   

r  y . '(k
“a.

letter still.
You can chance
Breeders' Auction Sales {advertised I

urocs. Hill crest Farms. . Bred mud open..eowo

and gilts. Bears and springgpigs. 100 head:
Farm .4 miles 'straight S.» of! Middleton. _M;ich..
Gratiot Co. Newton & Blank. Perrinton, ,Mich.

DUROC BOARs. FROM“ P n I z n

. . WINNING swoon
ready for service. Geo. B. Smith. Addi-
son Mich. ' I. , I “ __.‘

 

BEG. 'otnoc son-Rs AND GILTS szs‘ro s50
ezllcb. Satisfaction guaranteed. Visitors welcome.
Ai ST'N .STOCK FARM, Bloomingdale, Mich.

on SALE: ONE ounoc BOAR FROM
Brookwater breeding stock. Choice sprint Dill-
JOHN CRONENWETT. Qarleton. .Mich.

 

DU?“ Jersey Sows and Glitsv bred ror'nuo. and
59M. furrow. 1.000 lb. herd *boar.
JOS. SOHUELLER. Weldman. Mich.

R8, sows
F9“ SALE °.‘.’..‘i°§n§”.?"§€ 52$ Write us

Your \vunts. Entire herd double immune-
.zssse BLISS & son. manual-sonL Mich-

"—'— Every
Breeder

 

Can use M. B. F.’s
Breeder-5' Directory
to good advantage

WHAT HAVE YOU
TO OFFER

 

 

 

 

 

Orphan‘s Superior
Smooth \Vonder, 3rd
L’s Long Prospect
Lord Clansmun

L’s Biig Orange
Art‘s Progress

and from trains.

 

Don’t Forget Clarke’s
Large Type Poland China
Public Sale A

NOV. 9th .. ' ' _’ Nov. 9th
THE PLACE WHERE YOU CAN GET AS
coon As THE BEST

50 tops of litters sired by such sires as

Sale will be held on farm under cover.
Catalogue on request.

Auctioneers:

Col. Ed. Bowers, South Whitley, Ind.
Col. Jim Post, Hillsdale, Mich. ,
Col. Porter Colestock, Eaton Rapids, Mich.

M. B. F. Fieldman will be in attendance;

WM. J. CLARKE, Prop.

Eaton Rapids,

The dams of these litters,
are_700 to 900 pounds sows. at
maturity. Nearly every gilt g0-_
ing in sale should do as well.
The boars are the best I ever
had. They all look like‘herd
boar prospects.

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‘ - m 6 weeks old. either sex Ex-
Dflfl Charges paid and registration papers free.
I. A. 0.—-——Brookwater breeding.

D. W. BUTHERLAND. Gd. Ledge, Mich.

MIGHIGAIIA DlIIIOGS

8.17100 bOAl‘A and open “fits ‘at $40 and 
 The” “'9 real hogs. _ Satisfaction guar-
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E OFFER A FEW WELL-IRED OIL!"-
Od. wring Duroc Boers. also bred .Ious and

Giltl in season Call write
McNAUGIITOh O FOOIIOYDE. It. LOUIS. Mich.

 

BERKsmnEs
 m‘smnis some user FOR
also

immediate service. £150
. both sex. ’
RUSSELL IRON" R 3, Merrill. Mich

 

Meme

BOAR PIGS $15.00

At 8 Week: Old
w. A. nerwooo. Ohmning, Mich.

IIAHPSIIIIIES 0F QIIALITY

Seine exceptionally fine young spring beers.
The! are extreme individ with best backs.

 

nab.
feet. belts and breeding. They carry the Exalt-
ed Approval and Mose Messenger strains. at
a sacrifice price. Call or write

Gus THOMAS. New Lethroo. Mich.

“AMPSHIRES OF QUALITY. SPRING BOAR

pigs only for sale now.
JOHN W. SNYDER

8!. Johns. Mich.. R A

 

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. annaonr Farm nunsnrans non.
profit. Choice stock for sale. Write your
wants. W. S. Cores. White Hall. 111-

BERKGHIRES, QUICK MATURING. FINE
type. Style. size and large litters. Fine lot 0‘
weaned pigs for sale.

0. H. WHITNEY, MOI'PIII, Mlch.

 

 ARE QUALITY H008-
Weaned pigs of the Very
best blood lines of the breed is our specialty. We
guarantee to please or nothing stirlng.
ARIA A. WEAVER. Oheeenlng. Mlch..

 

 

 

CHESTER WHITES '
Spring Pig: in Fair: er

  tying from A—l mtufl

stock at reasonable prices A’so a few bred Gilt-
for May letter! F. W. Alexander. Vassar, Mich.

“ESTER WHITEs morass 

Some good boars ready for service.
J Vail] imp C D. and Reg. free.

 

o. I: MILLER. slum. Greek. Mich.

 

some Fine Chester Whites fan-owed July 14,

1920. Will ship .0. 0. I). when 2 mos. old for

813.50 reg. Try one. Ralph Cosens. Levering, Mich
L

 CHESTER WHITE swans.

. either sex. Boars ready {or ser-
vice. Prices right.
LYLE V. JONES, Flint. Mlch.. R. F. D. No. 5

 

 

O. I. O. and CHESTER WHITE SWINE
Some choice spring glits which will be sold
open or bred for March Farrow” to one of my

good herd boars. Also 11 pigs.
OLARE V. DORMEI, GHOVOI'. Mich ’

BIG TYPE 0 I G SWIIIE

Am altering (or the next 30 days. 4 yearllnz,
boars and 6 yearling gilts. also spring mess 111of

 

‘ RegiStered Hampshire Down Sheep

. yearling! and one two year old. Field

 

 

Choice Rem Lambs-«veil wooled $35,
Choice Ewe Lambs, well wooled . . . . . . . 40
Choice Yearlmgs‘ or 50

two’s . . . . . . . . . . .
J. I. WILLIAMS. h Adams. Mich.

 

R SALE—REGISTERED RAMBOUILLETTE
lRame. Large individuals, shearing 1mm twen-r

t! to thirty pounds.
ROET. J. NOON, R 9. Jackson. Mich.

5 REGISTERED TWO YEAR OLD HAMP-
shire ewes and 2 ewe lambs. 3150.00. Reil- .
istered rains priced to. sell. ’
LONE OEDAR FARM. Pond-o, Itch.

SIIIIOPS’IIIIIE BANS

 

condition
880 to 840. Will pay express charges both

ways 11 not as I represent them.

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either sex. Will make special price. p
C. 0. D. and record free.
EL" FRONT 870°“ Fm" ages.  tocloee “tenure. .
WIII TIIOI‘IIIAII, PI‘OD. Dfldfll. .IOII. w- W. casLEa' 0'“, ‘kah
_ stared Hampshire Down Ram Lunb.
PURE BRED 0 I. C. H068 R0“ . . m. or

{Jump

6 fort luhi Slim“ 20“: it'll lmd spring and tall furrow
gilts. 1 head of ai pgs. spore urns e rec. - .
.3 R. van ETTEN. Oilfiord. Mich. PRIMEVAI— FARII. Onto. moh-

 

ed Bhorthorn bull

 

O. I. C.’s —

June and July bears and open gilts each one
a guaranteed feeder. Recorded and express paid
in full for the next thirty days.
F. c. BURGESS. Mason. Mich.

 

o. L 0.5—8 Choice young been. March and
April pigs at weaning time.
CLOVER LEN? STOCK FARM. MORPOO. "ION.

 

0. l. O. EWINE—MY HERD CONTAINS THE
blood lines o! the most noted bend. n furnish
you stock at "live and let live” prices.

A. J. GORDEN. Don. “John N 3»

 

H. C. POTTER

Registered

35 Head High Class Cattle.
20 Cows With calf at foot.

6 Yearling Bulls.

condition.

co-operation.

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Breeders’ Sale of

Thursday, Nov. 18,1920

at Charlotte, Mich.

at Eaton County Fair Grounds
1 o’clock p. m:

A few yearling and 2~year~old Heifers, bred. ~

This is an offering of good,well-bred Cattle, just in pasture
The kind that will make good. '

We ask the breeders of Michigan to lend their support and

BULLS IN SERVICE:

. _ N Captain Stanway 733132
     V  . _,
I Keep On 508019 0 ‘ .

. Calves by, and Cows and Heifers bred to these 

‘  '.   hitter  Jay 

JAY HARWOOD

Herefords

 

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HAMPSHIRE SHEEP

A low good yearling rams and some ram
lambs left to odor. 25 ewes all ages for sale
for fall delivery. Everything guaranteed as
represen

«anus Au. gums. um  -:.lloh..

Putyonttaithin

BETTER BREEDING $100K

IbrIthe beet in Shropshire and Hampshire ram

write or visit
ROPE-ICON FARMS. 8. L. Wing. Prop.
Goldwater. Mich.
See our exhibit at the Ohio and Michigan
State Fairs.

 

AM OFFERING FOR FALL DELIVERY HIGH
“clue registered Shropshire yearling ewes and
rams. Flock established 1890.

' O. LEMEN. Dexter. Mich.

 

R SALE REGISTERED “OXFORD DOWN
rams, all ages . ‘Fsrmers' price. .
IRVING SANFORD. Morley, Mich” R. .F. D._4

 

on SALE—REG. vesnuue oxrono
Down rams. also 1 aged herd Barn.
W. B. WHITE. Oar-son city. Mich.

 

DELAINES

Hill Crest Farms

Black Tops and American Marina. .Wty runs
for stud or farm trade. Farm 4 mi. straight
south ol' Middleton. Graflot 00.

Newton 8: Blank, Perrinton Mich.

ELAINE RAMS. GOOD OIZE, WOOLY FEL-
lows. Priced to more quick. Write wants to
JOHN BROWN. R 1. Blanchard. Mich.

Hm SAL IMPROVED eucx row on-
laine Merino Rams.
FRANK nonnnseousn. Lelnoebm, uni:th

MIT A SHEEP? Let American "mime
hoop Association send you a dandy booklet
breede Write ‘

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VIII! Iilt of n. WIFORT A.
TYLER. 800',- 10 Woodland Ave.. Detroit. Mich.

‘ a RAM.
598 sunmmsmlm‘fl': and em

I call on
Fowlervliie. Mich.
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GOOD BIG-
boned. heavy shearer;
NOUOEMAN DROO. I 4. Albion. Mich.

 

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bergain Mose. ,
O. I. YORK. lull-men. Itch.

 

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Rome and Ewes. Prices to sell.
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x GENESEE (Isa—Farmers rare,
beets ’husklns‘eorn. a _
piekd apples, It  been cutter. ,, I for;
the last few days. and we have had (to
on most every night. We had rains .dur-
ing’ the first part c! the r week and the:
soil ‘18 in good shape for plowing. ' , I
beets are very light around here. but gave

healing

the county. Beans are averaging very
poor taking “the crop as a, whole.
.toes are averaging a little over 100

bush-

quality. .Fsrmers are selling some note-V
toes. but by far the larger part of the
lcrop is being put into pits, or in the cob
ar.
ning on a co-operstive elevator.——C, W.l
$.. Fenton, .Oct. 30. _ _
BERRIEN (W.)—-’Weather .has .V been
bad for farmers all week, raining and
snowing. Most of the potatoes are yet
in the ground in. this locality, many fields
being too green to dig. Late potatoes are
not a full crop and are selling here at
$1.00 per bushel. There lmuch d
isfaction among the farmers at preSent
prices of farm produce. At several farm
sales lately‘ everything went very low.
Some hay seems to be moving to market
but 'not selling much or anything just
now.-—O .. Baroda. Oct. 28. ‘
MANISTEE ’ (N.E.)—nnn. work b
about all done except corn honking. Po-
tatoes are a light crop. from 25 to 140
bushels ,to the-lore Corn good. Fan
grain fine. Weather cooler We had our
first spit or snow yesterday. Auctions

t.

' ’are still the rage, but things do not sell

well this fall. There is nothing doing in
horses. they are bringing from $5 to 375.
while cows bring from $40 to $110. Hag
sold here recently for 823 loose: bale .
“(L—C, H S Bear Lake, Oct 0.

KALAMAZOO (S)—-—Farmers are busy
- husking corn,- sowing wheat and rye and
plowing for spring crops. '
has been quite dry until lately. The son
is beginning to, get damp. Many farmer!
are selling some mine and potatoes.
while others are holding their gratn.
thinking the price will go up.—-F. H. 11..
Climax. Oct. 27

CHEBOYGAN (N.W.)~——Farmers doing
tan- piowing«andmking out their root
crops. some husking corn and digging
potatoes. There has been a change in the
weather this week, it is raining and h
cold. The farmers are selling their ap-
ples and potatoes and some late pears.
A good many of‘the tau-mer- boys have
come back to the farm train the cities

—-0. W; B... Riggsvilie. Oct. 27.

MIDLAND (E.)——Farrners busy with
fall work. Beans are ‘almost on thresh-.
ed. Weather considerabLy colder. We
have had quite a lot or rain, but yester-
day it snowed. Ground in very good can-
dition. Have not had many treats. Not
much produce going to market. a. few ap-
ples and beans is all. Horses and cows
are going at a. low price at the sales.—

. . ., Hemlock. Oct. 29.

ALCONA (OJ—Farmers busy thresh-
ing and plowmg. Weather has turned
wet and cold with snow flurries. It has
been a. fine October for farm work. There
is nothing of any account being marketed
as prieea are very low on all farm pro-
duce. Stock of all kinds very low. A
great many auction sales. A Farm Bur-
eau has been organized in the count and
all are hoping for better times.—— _ 0.,
Lincoln, Oct. 38.

OSCEOLA (W.)-—-«Farmers are plowing
‘and getting wood up for the winter, husk-
ing corn and going to the auction sales.
The last two nights we had the first big
frosts of the season. Soil is in good con-
dition. Farmers not selling many pots:
toes, are storing them for higher prices.
Quitea number or silos are going up in,
this part or the county.—-W. A. 8.,
~ ion. Oct. 30.

,GRAND TRAVERSE (E.)—-There is
some change in the weather since last re-
port, it has rained and turned cold; had
a little snow flurry today. Farmers are
digging potatoes, there are a good many
in the ground. Low prices are kee l
farmers from hiring. as labor is higxlli
C. L. B., Willinmsburg. Oct. 29,

MISSAUKEE (E.)-——Farmers are try-
ing to finish digging their potatoes. which

stormed nearl' an the week. Yesterday
we had our rst snow. The Co—op’s at
Lake City have 28,000 bushels of potatoes
stored; some are selling, the price being
from $1 to $1.20 per hundred, No e
for cattle or hogs just now. Butter-fat
46c and hens 160, chickens 130.——H. E. N.,
Catcheon, Oct, 29.

ARENAC (ISO—Farmers are busy-get:-
ting out beets. husking corn, digging po-
tatoes. Beets are very small. Beans are
running from 7 to 8 bushels an acre. Po-
tatoes a very light crop and email. Cat-
tle and sheep. no sale and hogs just (air,
while the other markets are on the hum-
mer.—M. B, R., Twining. Oct. 29.

GRAND TRAVERSE —- Farmers are
digging potatoes and ’putting them in
storage. and bushing corn. The weather
his fine until the last two days.
Have not had a killing frost yet. Pota-
toes are not a good cm» here
fields using  ‘30 bushels
acre. A great many of thetarmers have
finished dkglngfiA‘. E. Acme. Oct. 80.
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~ tor-"brefids-tufll . ‘ . ‘ , . imports amounting to about 16 mil- Wrie tOday for prices on. what you need. AUGUST 0-, l3030K. R 3. _Bee¢_citr. Mich. '
' _"..~Withrthe extie‘p‘tion of certain Eur- Honvtons. ,Noithvr-Am-eflca’ South Am: D/IKE-c. MILLER. Dryden. Mlch. FOR S‘LEQURE "ED WHITE ,WYAN.
opean countries which are now prac- erica' Asia, and Australia .turnlsh WRITE CHINESE GEESE. IyIIIlm-Ed PEKgI waggtem cggkgaels and pullers, April hatch.
£10311: 01.1! or :fadei .neitfiat;°c?gg the exports 111 “18‘0ng namfid- . ggcga' gagile [663%]? militias. eriillisz. MR8. TRACY Rusn,‘ R 1. Ithaca. Mlch.
‘ng oraexporng nq —-—. m N - _.trnto » - _ ..V.,
. . o doubt Europe.W9uld re 11 RH D I L N
world Wh'eat‘ and rye ,fmducuwlfig Dre-war bread'consumption but here ORPINGTONS AND LEGHORN 0» .E S A. D REDS
"gained Slightly for t 6 Year financiallresources and. adverse ex— Two-great breeds for profit. Write today ror Egg:Gfiahgglwgeefigggfcggklgfelfinfrf};058m;
anal-919 as compared With the pre‘ han ‘r'alZBS' limit «her imports Eur- free 193ml°€uek 0‘ hawking ens" baby omen “1d std-bred heavy 'winter laye 5.1 Liberal discount
' . C . .
Werner“, 1909:1(13' All other car" Spa 5:131; depend largely on increas— fiver? llll’TCI-IEEIcIOMPnfN‘y. 149 Phllo Bldg. on order: sfoEkved vnloEw WrorP 8:1 ngverhnm
‘ mra. . . . 5
'6‘“; I‘m" tease in do d 001m- ed production .to restore normal con- * . r W- Phase“: Mich». R 3 g '
 e ore ' ’3 W r . '6‘ se . f_ _ sumption“r ‘ , ocllerels 8: Handy Leonel-nag Mlnorcas.nlftat:;- . > ~ 7 ‘ 
tries furnished 15 mlllion tons O 081' plnes, Reds, Rocks, Oi‘]JlYi,,t()ilB, Wye ( .     ‘.

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or - . v r V e for 12 . Write for rice list ‘ ‘5
sible return of these countrles to sumption of wheat and ry A p m . . I;
~ preduction and trade is pointed out European countries for 1919 was BOURBON-BED IUHKIEYS 1 Box 4 I TERLAKES “immense. Mich. >-
as a matter to be carefully observed 43,500,000 tons, or 26 per 059330133' “Willem;“é‘fnnifIfleiéééd'eoegéifil firfiynunen, the ._ ., . . . ' — a:
by American farmers, as they' are low the prewar average 01 ,r ,7 dark red kind end bred to laywt‘ on a paying PLYMOUTH ROCKS ‘- ' . . 
t is a lar e art in the Eur- 000 tons ‘-For 1919, the production our stock W111 put you 9°“ W :3
p. _ _ Sure 0 P y. g P . f 000 tons and the Rn- bflslfl- F—HEIMS & so" ARRED ROCKS. PARKS zoo-EGG STRAIN v ea,
.  . opeaP supply and demand for bread— fell to 30,403, t 13 1000 000 tons .Davlson Mich. cockere318 winch will produce fine layers next
 ' _ stuffs“ ports droppe l? l ’ . ’ ' 9"; (3'3& «and; n Ml h
’ The average cereal productiOn for or the decrease In PTOdUCtéoglh 1:135 PURE BRED STOCK. EiXTRII: Lam: dTSU- ' Y' 1’ Ea“ Lansm' ° " K
- ' ' ' ' o 31 er gent an e e- louse geese-$10 per pa r. ,0‘11' 3“. e “r‘ ARRED ROCK COCKERELs FROM HIGH . 
1918 19, was 254 million tons as amounted -t D 13 8 er cent. For. 15m, tom: 58, hens, so, \Villte lekln Ducks, producing 5min. These Wm make strong 
compared Wlth 257 million before crease in lmDOI‘tS - p . . h $6 per pair. Please order early. MI h breeders next yeah $3.00 each. - , ..
the war, a decrease bf 1.4 per cent. the present “year, 13 countries avg mm. W. M. BOWMAN, Bentley, 0 . MRS PERRY STEBBWS, Saran“, Mich.
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Twelve countries ol.’ Europe—Bel- produfed7o405660%0rt%glg {gnfggglggar PAR-""06 ROCK command far ml.
.. _ — ° at $3 and $4.
~; , gium” Denmark’ France’ Germany’ with 8’ ' LEGHORNS Wm. ORISMAN. R. 2, Middleton Mloh. ,.
.‘ lNGLE COMB BUFF COOKERELS. FARM 
 I? golfing gomflixcellent laying stock. Also Rufus LANGSEAN I
. 8 e K n 1‘ s.
 A J, w. “SEES-ran. Bath, mm DR. sIMPsou's LANGSHANS 0FloUALNIjrv
OF SALE OF ' 7 1.33333. “"23? 323. “1233.331 13nd. i235
FOR SALE—ROSE coma BROWN LEGHORN some cockerels for sale. Eggs in season.

 

 

 

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 . cockerels, $2.50 for single bird, S2 00 for two
I  Dunne STATE FAIR wmflfins .. m...     on  
a: . . ~ 7 ' W. E. CUMMINGS, Coleman, Mlch. , ' '
 3' . ‘ NOV. 18, 1920 RABOWSKI s. C. WHITE LEGHORN COCK- TURKEYS

 a.“ ‘ _ _ . i . l f l, r .
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ous birds. Write llt once for fall prices
- FOR SALE—THOROUGHBRED BROWN LEG- MRs. PERRY STEBBINS. saranao. Mloh.
horn hells, one year old at $1.25 each. Also
Rose Comb Brown.Leghorn Cockerels, May hatch- on SALE young WHn-E. HOLLAND MAL:
u ' ’ ed' ahsl'figflgég'smkfl R’ Turkeys. Twelve dollars each
I 0 d S l E t t m l 2' V"°v M'ch- JOHN CRAWFORD. Dowagiac. Mich.
.  l n r    e s a e 0R SALE—R. 0. B. ‘L. COGKERELB, SIRED on SALE MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEyg
\ fl ‘ by Ludjson sq" Winner‘ Bnd f" '1“ “m Write for. prices. Forest View Farm.
 I _ 0 ‘ Layers, weighing 5 lbs.. $2.50 “Ch. Flemish MR3_ H_ D_ HORTON Fluon Mich.
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.   _ P  B L I C A U C V l O N - liens, $5. Place orders early.
5 _ I " r WYANDOTTE MRs. EMMA GODSHALK. Marcellus, Mich.

_ .  _ liver. Golden 1mg Whltzekwyandomt 3a,.gain,  —fRED _BOURBON TOMS. Write
\ ' ' , ln surpus year mg I; c to m k or prices.
 ‘ ‘  November 279 1 ‘ crowing birds. Clarence Browning.  Iggglllflglf J. B. HUDDLE, Coresoo, Mich.

  ‘5 ’ » I i at 2:00 p. m. b ‘
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 . A 2.5.. mieblffififepmh‘r‘éi. r32 11038.2? rm.“gr‘i‘im“ana Busmess Farmers Exchange

l other buildings. Orchard, one flowing well and two other wells. ‘

All fenced and under cnlflvafiono nearly all tiled- 0“ ng’GI Toad-  CENTS FER WORD,~PER ISSUE. 20 words or less, $1 per Issue. cash with order, or 70

. per word he ch . d. Count as one word each initial and each rou of figure: both In
Clay and slandy loam sou’ level' . ' body of ad. and lYI arddregstge Copy must be In our hands Saturday for issgo dated following week.
TERMS:—10 per cent of one-third of purchase price to be paid on The Business Farmer, Adv. Dept", Mt. Clemens, Mich. . ‘

- ’ on confirmation b court. Other
day or sale, balance or (“18.th ' y ' ‘ THE VILLAGE FARM, so none $5,000.

two-thirds on delivery of deed and abstract. , ARM & L   Good 10 mm house_ bum 80 I 42_ Garage.
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$900 CA8" SECURES 120_AORE FARM Detroit pike, 20 rods‘ from good school. HENRY
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... T . . ' Executor-s. cellar, quantity corn and rye; good horse, cow.
 , f Ervm 14‘ Grahamr - heifer. calf. poultry. wagons. machinery. tools; FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE—FOR IMPROV-
 L ' productive fields, 25-cow wirefenced pasture. "11— ed 80 or 100 acre farm, (must be productive
. , uable wood. vanety fruit: new cottau. ham. elm and good soil) in central or southern Michigan;
‘ shade, flowers ,shruhs: near town and RR, good a splendid modem equipped home, 4 lots, fine "‘
t, . . , 7 schools; owner retiring includes everything at lawn, garden and shade trees. Liv. town 1,400
A; \ . $1.800. OHIY $900 cash. balance our terms- De- population western Michigan. LOCK BOX 36,
, . V . tails this and many other equlpped farms Illinois, Shelby. Mich.
Michigan, Wisconsin, ,Indiana and 29 other
, _ . -. more $3.232“ or  or: v     
a . f ' 0 w Michigan farm, fine 40 acres. spring we1_, good
for Tee copy- STROUT FARM AGENCY: 814 house and barn, 2 horses, cow pigs, chickens,
‘ BE. Ford Bldzu Detwlt» Mich- tools, crops, fruit and etc. A. GAUTSCHI, R 1,
e o o ’ t, M‘ h.
A: I am gomg so Californla, oogon stunt—ll? oLovan SEED BELT, 3,. 0"" 1° .
, . acre rac . m 188 from Millersbnrz. Sandy‘ MUST SELL AT ONCE 122 ACRES ALL IM-
_ . will sell my farm of 55 acres of good improved land and good bmld- flay loin: fowcflllny llrllnm.ti Ortr aiorfmntsgl distance proved. Good buildings, 3 ilfnllesd from Lasnsing.
‘ _ H .r - rt . 0 mar e so on re me or 1,500.00. Special price $152 per acre 801 BOOK ,W-
I.  ‘ ings and all. my Persona-{Pm}? 5’ d 5 u t v f E1 . 1 2 No cash; payment required—~13 responsible pur— HEMPY, Lansing, Mich., n 7.
Farm Situated 1—2 mlle 1.01.11 an C I 1:1 esowesf 0M1 hale 0r - Elinor mllnlpxily Refo or Sweet Clover seed ro- A
. mile south and 1 mile east of Eureka, hn on Gun y, c . I urn annun y rorn acres—fund] land is paid 80 ACRES IMPROVED F RM FOR SALE.
_ ' for at 6 per cent. A dandy ranch ro sition rticulars Write C. W. McPHERSON, Grant. 
There will be included in the sale ‘ ‘ JOHN G. KRAU'I‘H. Mlllersburg, Mich? po _ 1:33; E
3 homes" ' 3 Single buggles' 155 ACRE FARM WEXFORD CO N » 1:.
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11 head (if cattle. Pou'ble buggy- > half under cultivation, remainder in pasture, liv-  . . 
~ 20 tons ha _' , z wagons. ' - in: water, timber, fair buildings, nil fenced. \ ' '2'
y ' Market school and church hand Adjoi ood
All farm implements. _ ' Double and single harnesses- mm ’325 pa, me Terms 213;, w”: 5,... suv FENCE PoeTs DIRECT FROM F9!-
Farm will be sold at 1:30 p. m. sharp. _ , or. c. s. BURomELD. Carson cm. men. at “I ‘1’?“ D°‘"°‘°d Pm“ Add“ 1’“
. ‘ V ~ , V _ v M." can Michigan Business Fanning. Mt. Claim
Personal property immediately after. - ens.M1ch.
. V ~ ‘ I ' ' WANTED—TO RENT GOOD.
. > ' TERMS OF SALE:——'-On farm, 81.000 down. balance to'vmit buyer; on Damn! proo farm. Have good horses. tgols and hfiotolsgri 4 r '
' ,erty: Sales of ’810 or ham—cam. Ovet'810,ono year’s time It 0 per cent. same. Can furnish good references. Write or WANTED—m EVERY TOWNI AGENT nu" ~.'
» ._ , better still, come and see me. JOHN E. BRAD- mll‘ W1“ “PM!!! to. sell article every farmer 
‘ ‘ " ' 1.151.110th No. 2, Gowon, mch, needs; exclusive tel-filtory. TEE REHAB. LE' 
 J ' 0 le [0 COMPANY .Ponghkeepsie, N. I. .-
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