i

g

V' ...-_._..._.--.1.;.t~—- -\.....~

,——.l.\__-

w..—.._ A A‘_.-c-———~

 
. ,_ ”pr _«

“mﬁm 37—...
I I '

-. ,“m‘ ~A.._ 1

.___-..- .g
. .3. V . «a .. _

.k. _ g... ._.,_..—.........._.- »

yum...

.. ... . 5%.;th ma....~ —A—->—p—w—<—~lf ~

m- .’. —... ._.,_._.

.. m-’._~‘-—. ._‘_. e

. «W *M“

' I

  
I an ; n u.— s;

ran-{Manama rang Mich-

 
igan Business-Farming There
is no Intention That;Pro-.
ducers Should .VSell
Direct

.In the September . > 8th- issue of

 
V _ MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING the fol-

lowing statement. was published:
“Mr. Orr, ‘(W. Orr, president of
the Bean Jobbers’ Association and
chairman of the committee appointed
by the Food Administration to buy

.beans. for the; Government) states to

Mromann BUSINESS FARMING that any
dealer or any producer of beans may

' sell to the Government in car lots

providing they can‘ satisfy the speci-
ﬁcations. * . * * Mr. Orr re-

‘quests that all farmers desiring to

sell their beans to the Government
write. to him at Saginaw and receive

-full- particulars as to speciﬁcations,

prices, etc.” ~—

-Again, in the September 22nd issue,
the following extract from a letter
signed by Mr. Orr was published. This
letter came in response to a written
request to Mr. Orr for a copy of the
Government’s speciﬁcations: “I
might say at this time that any pro-

.ducer who can pick his beans in ac-

cordance with Government _require—
ments, can sell to the army and navy
thru the writer the same as anybody
who has the beans—grower, shipper,
dealer, or whoever he may be.”

The U. S. Food Administration de- .

pics that there is any intent in the
Government speciﬁcations to encour-
age the producer to sell his beans di~
root to the Government, as shown by
the following letter just received
frOm the Food Administration:

“Regarding the producers’
beans to the Government direct, this
can hardly'be done, due to the fact
that the Government requires beans
to be either hand-picked or choice re-
cleaned and free from damage by the
elements. Beans to be packed in even
uniform net weight bags of one hun-
dred (100) pounds each. As you are
aware, the producer is not in a posi-
tion to pack the beans in this man-
ner.”

In view of this information, we Wish
to apologize to our readers for pub-
lishing the above misleading state-
ments, and to promise them that ere
another fortnight rolls around we’ll
locate the “nigger in the woodpile”
and bring him into daylight.

As we stated last week, Mr. Orr
went to, Washington to register a
protest against the price of $7.35
ﬁxed by the Government on its own
bean purchases. Mr. Orr'~ has \ re-
.turned, but the results of his visit
are a deep, dark mystery.
apparent, however, that Uncle Sam
has'decided he will pay no more than
$7.35 for his beans, which is 50 cents
less than Mr. Orr thinks he ought to
pay. , '

Well, 50 cents isn’t so much loss
on one bushel of beans, but supposing
somebody like Mr. Orr, for instance,
or any other bean .Jojbber, for --that
"matter, had 200 cars orgold-beans-on

his hands, 50 cents. aébiIshlel..—woulgl u --

represent-quite a neat iittile- sum -on
60 or-70 thousand bushels, wouldn’t

it? Now, folks, just keep those TWO
, HUNDRED cars in mind, for it is
' ‘ more than: probable that-1 “we . «shall
have more to say about‘them in next -

)g'

 
umummnmnmmlmmmmmmmmmlmmmmnmmnmnmtummmuuunimmmmmmmnmmmmwmnn

selling '

It is 'quite .

armiH‘omieiand-‘Markct.Wc-ckly, for Michigan Business Farmers

:‘SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER. 29th, 1917.

MW

munications :

makes it impossible for the farmer to
receive less than $2.05 per. bu. for
wheat? By law is there any penalty
of any kind that may be imposed on
an elevator man for offering less than
$2.05 per bushel.

are forced to pay the amount.

‘l

week’s issuexof M.’ B. F. We can as-
sure you that somebody’s either mak-
ing or, losing a pile of money out of
Michigan beans, and it isn’t the pro-
ducer either! .

There seems little doubt now but
that the action of the Government in
ﬁxing a price upon its 0 n needs will
likewise establish the price at the pri-
mary markets. Section 10 of the Food
Control law provides that “the Presi-
dent is authorizea to requisition
foods, feeds, fuels and other supplies

mill!"IﬂluﬂlllmullllﬂlllmﬂmﬂulllllllllllllllllllIHillIlllI|IlllllllllllmlllﬂllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllHill"IllllIlllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllillllll"IllllllllllllﬂlllIllmlllllﬂ'S—i

DON’T ,BE IN A HURRY TO SELL YOUR 'WHEAT

A” large number of subscribers have written in asking for further
. information on the wheat situation. The following is typical of these 007”

“Has there been a law passed_which-

next issue of Michigan Business Farm-

'what the farmers need.———B. F.,
We have mailed.
There is “no law forbidding a buyer of wheat to oﬁ‘er less than $2

per bushel. In fact he may offer whatever amount he sees ﬁt. Under the"

“price ﬁxed by the Government which enables the Michigan shipper to get
$2.22 on the Detroit market for No. 2.Red,.every shipper in Michigan

.BHOULD be able to pay at least $2 per bushel to the grower and still
have ample left for freight, handling expenses and proﬁt. In many parts

of the state buyers are oﬁ’ering as high as $2.10. Of course, the farther

the shipping points are removed from the primary. markets, the less

the buyer will be able to pay, on account of the additional shipping cost.

We repeat, hOwever, that no point in the lower peninsula is so for

distant as to warrant the price of wheat dropping below $2.00 and we

wish again to urge our readers to hold their wheat until their buyers

The buyers- will eventually come to terms, as they want the wheat
and the proﬁt they are sure to make under the Government’s guarantee.

you a. card for subscription to the
Michigan Business Farming. If pos-
Sible answer my questions in the

I think the paper is ﬁne, a Silt?-
S
Glad—

ing. .
scriber handed me a copy of it.

win, Michigan.

 
.nlllllllllllllllllllllﬂllllllllllllllllIllllllllllllllillllllllllll|lIIllllllllllllllllilmllll|Illllllm|[Ill|IllINll|HI|IlllIIlllﬂ|lllnlIllllIllIlilllllllillllllllllllllllllIIHHHII m mu l w

necessary” for the army and navy or
any public use connected with the
common defense. "' * ’-‘ To “ascer-
tain and pay a just compensation” for
the supplies so requisitioned.

It is not logical to suppose that the
Government will commandeer suf-
ﬁcent beans for its own needs and at
its own price and let prices on other
beans go where they may, and certain-
ly not so long as it has the additional
right to buy them in any quantity for
public use.

PLAY FAIR

c

\; \K
3

f _F. J
o” m." .’ ﬁre/ML '

_ . 1 nesmnss nanMEn: . ‘-'Say,.Friend, aren’t you chaining the wrong bird?"

lllllllllllllllllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIllll[lllllllllUlllIlIIllllUllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIIlllIIIlilllllllllllllﬂuuiﬂlmmlmlﬂllllllu|llllllllulﬂllllm

 
$1 PER YEARr-llo Premium.
Free List or Clubbing 01h:-

BEANS, $7; a
POTATOES, $1

These are the Prices Based on
Costs Recommended by the
Michigan Cost - Finding
Committee to be Paid
Producers

 
On Tuesday of this Week, Sept. 25th,
representative men of the bean and
potato, growing interests of the state
met at the Agricultural College to
investigate growing costs and deter-
mine the prices which the growers of
these commodities should receive to
insure them fair proﬁts.

It was unanimously agreed that $7
per bushel for beans would insure
but a small proﬁt to the grower, the
amount of the proﬁt being determin-
ed by the weather conditions, but in
any case where the yield was less
than 8 1-4 bushels, it would be neces-
sary to revise this price in order to
give the farmer a living proﬁt. Cost
ﬁgures which the board had very care-
fully gathered from all sections of
the state determine: the cost of rais-
ing an acre of beans at $59.43. as com-
pared with the New York state cost
of $61.38.

The price to be paid to the farmer
for potatoes in order to give him a fair
proﬁt was determined at S] a bushel,
for No. 1 grade, U. S. standard. with
Grand Rapids as the basic market.

The following men constituted the .

cost-ﬁnding board: Jason Woodman
of Paw Paw, A. B. Cook of ()wosso,
John Beal of Lakeview. Jothnn Allen
of Alma, R. C. Rothfuss of Adrian.
Chas. B. Scully of Almont.
‘ The naming of this committee came
as a result of a request of tho Govern-
ment that an investigation be made
into the costs of producing beans and
potatoes and a recommendation be
made upon that basis 'of the prices
the Government should pay for these
commodities. While the Government
has expressed no intention of abiding
by the ﬁndings of the commission, it
is believed that the report made by
them Will go along ways toward in-
ﬂuencing the prices to be ﬁxed.

We would be interested in knowing
how many of our readers would be sat-
isﬁed with the above mentioned pric-
es. Write and tell us whether they
will enable you to make a. proﬁt on
this year’s crops.

WHAT KIND OF A
GAME IS THIS ?

The following article was published
in a recent article of the Detroit Free
Press:

“If you want to buy potatoes cheaply,
join the Co—operative Homestead com-
pany. Officials of that organization are
taking orders for several hundred bush-
els of potatoes and promise to ‘sell them
at less than $1 a bushel.”

This is either a plain out and out
graft or the scheme of a few very
deluded ﬁnanciers. We think we can
quite safely promise the people of
Detroit that they Will not be able to
secure a single bushel of potatoes this
winter for less than $1, for the reas-
on that Mr. Business Farmer has de-‘
cided that this isqthe price he must
have in his ﬁelds; Add to this the
commission of the buyer, the freight
charges, the rake-off of the city com-
mission house, the proﬁt of the job-
ber and the retailer, and our city
cousin will be lucky if he escapes for
less than $1.50 per bushel for his
Winter tubers.

 
- {mamas  
,ss-ued Sept. 1, ’17—

 
Liaihﬂity :fl’O!“ L K i

to you.

 
,~.

Mir 1!

 
VERY day one reads in the papers of automobile accidents.
A child runs out from behind a wagon—400 quick for' you to dodge or put on
your brakes—you push back to pick up the little body, perhaps only a leg is broken—per—

haps worse, of course you must pay for the doctor and hospital bills and your liability is still more, $5000 has
been awarded the widow of a man killed by an automobile, right here in

Michigan I

Can you afford a risk like that?
of your savings and mortgage your farm.

Every day one reads of automobile ﬁres, on the
road, in transit or in a public or private garage or barn.
Is your machine protected or if it were burned today
would you have to give up the proﬁt and pleasure you
will get from it the coming summer and fall? I

Every daycne reads of automobile thieves and,

“joy—riders.” Not only are the cities infested with these
parasites, but the small towns and even the farmers are
being molested.
found days, weeks or months after damaged, sometimes
completely wrecked.

WHY RUN THESE RISKS WHEN OUR MUTUAL INSURANCE PROTECTS?’

At a small cost, we have provided for Michigan automobile owners living outside the cities of

Detroit and Grand Rapids a complete policy Which protects against Fire, Theft and Liability.

   
,JoSFﬁidin Antonin???

 
OFFICERS
EDWIN FARMER - - . ’reoidént
F. E. CH - - - Vico- ’roident
. . WALKER - - - Vice-i Want
5. R. KETCHUM - - - Vicod Proﬁcient
Wm. E. R038 - - - Sec'y‘ond Tmo.

 
CITIZENS’ MUTUA

 
. 28400 owners, like yourself, have banded together for their mutual protection-our assets have
Increased to $65000 and to—day over 400 agents in Michigan alone are. ready to answer your call.

YOU KNOW THE MEN BEHIND THIS COMPANY

All are substantial business men and business farmers, who
are responsible for the successful conduct of this company
during the three years of operation. All claims are met
promptly, we have already paid over two hundred and ninety.

You can ﬁgure HOW Low the Cost would he on Your ‘Car ’

Think of this protection, ﬁre, theft and liability for 25 cents
per horse power plus One Dollar for the policy. No farmer
in Michigan is rich enough to drive an automobile and assume
the risks which we are willing to take for him at this small cost-

The Important Thing Is—DON’T PUT IT OFF!

Everyday our agents write of men who have “put otf gettin’
insurance" just a day too long, we can’t help you after the
accident happens, unless you are protected by our policy.

Somewhere near you is a man who represents our company,

he is anxious to get your car protected—if you know who our
agent is. get in touch with him right away i Don’t put it
off and be sorry for years to come.

TELL USTHE NAME AND NUMBER OF YOUR CAR
ON A POSTAL CARD TODAY—LET US TELL YOU HOW
LITTLE CITIZEN'S MUTUAL AUTO INSURANCE COSTS!

4

Some cars never return, others are

NO FARMERF CAN AFFORD «I '
TO DRIVE AN AUTOMOBILE
mpg LIABILITY INSURANCE!

Some day it will happen]

A risk that might take- every dollar

t
l

 
ASSESSMENTS

The success of a mutual company
depends upon the promptness with
which its members pay their assess-
ments. ‘ Each member who joins signs
an application that he will be govern-
ed by the by-laws and Charter and
pay all just assessments.

'The ﬁrst assessment levied by this
Company was in January, 1917, with-
in sixty days of time notices were sent
out about $60,000 was collected thru
the mail. This response indicated the
willingness of each member to per—
form his obligations, and an apprecia-
tion of the low cost of insurance.

This assessment has also provided a
reasonable reserve of $65,000 and with
new business coming in of ﬁve hun-
dred new members per week, the Com—
pany is enabled to pay many claims
each month and has sufﬁcient funds in
sight to anticipate the needs of the

yea“ CANCELLATION

Members may withdraw at any time
by sending in their policy to the Sec-
retary, properly signed on the back and
paying the amount due at the time.

If the policy is sent before the as«
sessment is levied. no charge is made;
after the assessment is levied, it is the
duty of each member to pay his as-
sessment before cancellation.

The Company also reserves the right
to cancel a member, but after a loss
has been presented, it is their duty to
ﬁrst adjust the loss before cancellation.
The above rule protects the member
as well as the Company, and is fair

t° a1" POLICY covnns

Fire. Theft, and Liability in excess
of $25 up to $1,000, and liability insur-
ance in excess ,of up to $5,000.
By liability is meant damage claims
presented against the owner of the
car either for personal injury or pro-
perty damage; it does’ not mean dam-
age to your own car or to the people
riding in the car. -

 
L AUTO u INSURANCE COMPANY .  

 
WM. E. R033, SGQ‘éta‘ry
"WELL? MITCH-mm. 1 "

 
, 28’4007'0 MEMBERS .;

 
signe
\ letter

- 7‘— f reque

‘Gov‘e:
‘migh
ducer
corda
ment:
. thru
I who
} deale:
l The
nies
‘, Govei
‘ ‘ age t
l l rect 1
l: the 1
i frOm
! “Re
i beans
can I;
that
to be
, clcam
,- cleme
unifor
drecl
i aware

, tion 1
l ner.”
‘ In l

to ap
l Iishin
I

J -

ments
anothi
locate
and b
‘3 AS

. 1) Went
. protes
El ﬁxed

I‘H bean

f { lurnet
' ’ are a
[ appan
f i - has (14
i l, ’ $7.35

} ' less tl
| i pay.

‘ i We]
' on om
someb
or an
matte]
his he
nepres

l
f
{a
60 or
}

     
it?_ N
HUNI
, , more
i ‘ , ~ha-v'e..1

 
.. «yo...»-
, l

l

.. .-——-._.o..- _ ._.‘ . -.___..
W_,...‘_¢._l,- rq. .
r

....._. _.,-~._.........- m._.. ._

. V- -.._... , _v___,...—.._...,,

r>.‘-" ‘

W: ‘wa‘y “a”

-.._ - __._._._ _. .. .

 
\

   
‘70“, -No 4 _ .

f; "Food "Administration V Tells Mich-
“ , iga'n Business Farming There
is no Intention That-Pro- -

ducers Should, Sell
Direct

 
'/

 
'l..¢.
. .

 
. .In the September 8th issue of
MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING the fol-
lowing, statement": was published:
“Mr. Orr, 1W. Orr, president of
the Bean Jobbers? Association and
chairman of the committee appointed
by the Food Administration to buy
beans for the: Government) states to
_MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING that any
_ dealer or any producer of beans may
sell to .the Government in car lots
providing they can, satisfy the speCi-
ﬁeations. * * * Mr. Orr re—
‘quests that all farmers desiring to
sell their beans to the Government
write to him at Saginaw and receive
full- particulars as to speciﬁcations
prices, etc.”
~Again, in the September 22nd issue,
the following extract from a letter
signed by Mr. Orr was published. This
letter came in response ‘to a written
request to Mr. Orr for a copy of the
' Government’s speciﬁcations: "‘1
might say at this time that any pro-
ducer who can pick his beans in ac-
cordance with Government require-
ments, can sell to the army and navy
thru the writer the same as anybody
who has the beans—grower, shipper,
dealer, or whoever he may be."

The U. S. Food Administration de-
nies that there is any intent in the
Government speciﬁcations to encour-
age the producer to sell his beans di-
rect to the Government, as shown by
the following letter just received
frdm the Food Administration:

“Regarding the producers’
beans to the Government direct, this
can hardly be done, due to the fact
that the Government requires beans
to be either hand-picked or choice re-
cleaned and free from damage by the
elements. Beans to be packed in even
uniform net weight bags of one hun—
dred (100) pounds each. As you are
aware, the producer is not in a posi-
tion to pack the beans in this man-
ner.”

In view of this information, We wish
to apologize to our readers for pub-
lishing the above misleading state-
ments, and to promise them that ere
another fértnight rolls around we’ll
locate the “nigger in the woodpile”
and bring him into daylight.

As we stated last week, Mr. Orr
Went to Washington to register a
protest against the price of $7.35
ﬁxed by the Government on its own
bean purchase-s. Mr. Orr_ has . re-
-_turned, but the results of his visit
are a deep, dark mystery.
apparent, however, that Uncle Sam
has decided he will pay no more than
$7.35 for his beans, which is 50 cents
less than Mr. Orr thinks he ought to
DaY- i
Well, 50 cents isn’t so much loss
on one bushel of beans, but supposing
somebody like Mr. Orr, for instance,
or' any other bean JQ‘bber for zthat
matter, had 200 cars 01;,Aold-beans 'on

his hands, 50 cents aibuiahelmwould -.

nepresent-‘quite a neat little sum on
_60 orv.70 thousand bushels, wouldn’t
it? Now, folks, just keep those TWO

" 2 v 1%? than probable that we «shall

ummmlnmrmmmlmxmnmlmnImmnunumuminimummummlnmlmlmimunmlmmmnmmmnmmmmmmmm

I

selling '

It is 'quite ,

HUNDRED cars in mind, for it is

more to say about them in next . '

munications :

“Has there been a. law passedywhich

‘ makes it impossible for the farmer to
receive less than $2.05 per bu. for
wheat? By law is there any penalty
of- 'any kind that may be imposed on
an elevator man for offering less than
$2.05 per bushel.

are forced totpay the amount.

‘1

week’s issuehof M.- B. F. We can as-
sure you that somebody's either mak-
ing or, losing a pile of money out of
Michigan beans, and it isn’t the pro-
dﬁcer eitherl

There seems little doubt now but
that the action of the Government in
ﬁxing a price upon its own needs will
likewise establish the price at the pri-
mary markets. Section 10 of the Food
Control law provides that “the Presi-
dent is authorized to requisition
foods, feeds, fuels and other supplies

'next issue of Michigan Business Farm-

We have mailed

There is no law forbidding a buyer of wheat to offer less than $2

per bushel. In fact he- may oﬂ’er whatever amount he sees ﬁt.

"price ﬁxed by the Government which enables the Michigan shipper to get
$222 on the Detroit market for No. 2.Red,.every shipper in Michigan

CSHOULD be able to pay at least $2 per bushel to the grower and still
have ample left for freight, handling expenses and proﬁt. In many parts

of the state buyers are offering as high as $2.19. Of course, the farther

the shipping points are removed from the primary. markets. the less

the buyer will be able to pay, on account of the additional shipping cost.

We repeat, however, that no point in the lower peninsula is so far

distant as ,to warrant the price of wheat dropping below $2.09 and we

wish again to urge our readers to hold their wheat until their buyers

The buyers- will eventually come to terms, as they want the wheat
and the proﬁt they are sure to make under the Government’s guarantee.

..illl|l|llllllll|llll|IHIIHIIIIHIIlllllll|IllHillllllllllllllllIlll[lllllllllllllllll|IlllllllllllllllllllllllllllIIIlllHIHI!llllllﬂI"IllIllllllIIlllllllllIlllllllllllllllllIllIllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!IlllllIHIHIIIHIIHEI!llillllHIIIIIIHIHIHIHIH

Thclndependent ,Farm,”I-‘I’o_me an » Market .chkly, for Michigan Busmess Farmers
‘ ' ' g . SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29th, 1917.»

llmmll”llﬂlllllllmllIIllllIllliliillllllllllllllillillllllilllIlllllllllll|Illllllllllllllllllllllll"lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllulllmilrélllIllIlllllmlllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllilllﬂlllillllllll"mmIllllllﬂllllllllllllllllg

DON’T ,BE IN A HURRY TO SELL YOUR 'WHEAT

A large number of subscribers have written in asking for further
information on the wheat situation. The following is typical of these com-

you. a. card for subscription to the
Michigan Business Farming. If pos-
sible answer my questions in the

ing. I think the paper is ﬁne” a sub-
scriber handed me a copy of it. Its
what the farmers need.———B. F., Glad-
win, Michigan.

 
Under the

necessary” for the army and navy or
any public use connected with the
common defense. "' * * To “ascer-
tain and pay a just compensation” for
the supplies so requisiticned.

It is not logical to suppose that the
Government will commandeer suf-
ﬁcent beans for its own needs and at
its own price and let prices on other

beans go where they may, and certain-

ly not so long as it has the additional
right to buy them in any quant1ty for

public use.

PLAY FAIR

 
\‘V
\\§
\\
\ \\
\\

\
\\\\\\

s.
\\\
\h

b,
\\

\\

/ I
or
\i

. \-
Q

\
‘\\\\
\

l

. ﬁne/M

'- BUSINESS FABM‘EB: . “Say, Friend, aren’t you chaining the wrong bird?”

  
s
E
s
E
E
s
E
g

lllllllllllllllllllllllIIIIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllIlllllllllIl|IIIllIIIIllllllllllulllllllllllll

1 PER YEAR,--xo Premium.
$ Free List or Clubbing UH."

BEANS, $7;
POTATOES, $1 '

These are the Prices Based on
Costs Recommended by the
Michigan Cost - Finding
Committee to be Paid
Producers

 
On Tuesday of this week, Sept. 25th,
representative men of the bean and
potato growing interests of the state
met at the Agricultural College to
investigate growing costs and deter-
mine the prices which the growers of
these commodities should receive to
insure them fair proﬁts.

It was unanimously agreed that $7
per bushel for beans would insure
but a small proﬁt to the grower, the
amount of the proﬁt being determin-
ed by the weather conditions, but in
any case where the yield was less
than 8 1-4 bushels, it would be neces-
sary to revise this price in order to
give the farmer a living proﬁt. Cost
ﬁgures which the board had very care-
fully gathered from all sections of
the state determiner. the cost of rais-
ing an acre of beans at $59.43. as com-
pared With the New York state cost
of $61.38.

The price to be paid to the farmer
for potatoes in order to give him a fair
proﬁt was determined at $1 a bushel,
for No. 1 grade, U. S. standard. with
Grand Rapids as the basic market.

The following men constituted the
cost-ﬁnding board: Jason Woodman
of Paw Paw, A. B. Cool; of ()wosso,
John Beal of Lakeview, Jotlmn Allen
of Alma. R. C. Rothfuss of Adrian.
Chas. B. Scully of Almont.

The naming of this committee came
as a result of a request or tho Govern—
ment that an investigation be made
into the costs of producing beans and
potatoes and a recommendation be
made upon that basis 'of the prices
tho Government should pay for these
commodities. While the Government
has expressed no intention of abiding
by the ﬁndings of the commission, it
is believed that the report made by
them will go along ways toward in-
fluencing the prices to be ﬁxed.

We would be interested in knowing
how many of our readers would be sat-
isﬁed with the above mentioned pric-
es. Write and tell us whether they
will enable you to make a proﬁt on
this year’s crops.

WHAT KIND OF A
GAME IS THIS ?

The following article was published
in a recent article of the Detroit Free
Press:

“If you want to buy potatoes cheaply,
join the Co-operative Homestead com-
pany. Ofﬁcials of that organization are
taking orders for several hundred bush-
els of potatoes and promise to sell them
at less than $1 a bushel.”

This is either a plain out and out
graft or the scheme of a few very
deluded ﬁnanciers. We think we can
quite safely promise the people of
Detroit that they will not be able to
secure a single bushel of potatoes this
winter for less than $1, for the reas-
on that Mr. Business Farmer has de-‘
cided that this is the price he must
have in his ﬁelds. Add to this the
commission of the buyer. the freight
charges, the rake-off of the city com—
mission house, the proﬁt of the job-
ber and the retailer, and our city
cousin will be lucky if he escapes for
less than $1.50 per bushel for his
winter tubers. .

   
- mm»

Michigan Families Asked to Fore-
go Meat ' on Tuesdays and
Wheat Products on Wed-

nesdays of Every
Week

Food Administrator Hoover has
announced thru George A. Prescott,
agent of the food administration for
Michigan, that after October 1st, no
.Michigan family should eat meat on
any Tuesday or wheat products on
any Wednesday. This campaign is
being inaugurated’ to conserve the
wheat and meat supplies of the United
States’ Allies. It is the ﬁrst time
that the need of food conservation
has been brought home to the peo-
ple of this state.

Every angle willbe used; every al-
leyway which may lead to the dissem-
ination of the ideas of the wheatless
and meatless days will be utilized for
publicity. The churc‘ues, the schools,
civic organizations, fraternal societ-
ies, every known organization, is ex-
pected to help spread the gospel
and secure absolute promises that the
days will be observed.

Housewives will be asked to sign
a card promising to observe in their
households the rules for Tuesdays and
Wednesdays. There are more than
804,000 households in Michigan and
the plan is to reach all if possible.

Under the regulations of the Gov-
ernment, every commission man,
wholesaler and jobber is brought
within the power of the food direct-
or in that they will haveto be lic-
ensed. This licensing means a strict
accountability to state headquarters
for everything, and it also means that
if they do not live up to the regula-
tions their licenses will be canceled
and they will practically be put out
of business. Each will lave to make
and take inventory, so that the state
can readily ascertain the quantities
of food on hand, how much of it is
being dispensed, and to whom it is
gomg.

There is nothing compulsory, how-
ever, about the observance of these
suggestions, but it is believed that
sufﬁcient results will be obtained
thru appealing to the public’s patriot-
ism to make the plan worth trying.

Naturally this kind of regulation
of the diet, if carried out in all the
states of the uniOn, will have a very
material effect upon the gross con-
sumption of the products involved.
Fortunately, for the farmers of Mich-
igan the wheatless day will not af-
fect them a great deal, and they will
suffer no worse from the decreased
demand for meat than the farmers of
any state. And there is always the
consoling thot that when people eat
less of one thing they consume more
of another. Let us lend our cooper-
ation to the wheatless and the meat-
less movement. It may be the means
of increasing the consumption of
beans and taters.

EmnnuumHIimmum!mmnmmmmmuummumummmmmmnnumunImmum: mum

STATE BRIEFS

DETROIT—A resident of this city
has just discovered that he can buy
the same tomatoes that he is paying
8 cents per pound for on the city
market, for 95 cents a bushel twenty
miles away. Only a triﬂing difference
of nearly $4, to pay the proﬁts of the
jobber and retailer.

UNION CITY—During the month

‘ of August, the 20 herds of dairy cows
tested by the tester of the Branch
County Testing and Improvement
Association, contained 14 cows mak-
ing over 40 lbs. of butter fat, one cow
'over 50 and one cow over 1250 lbs. of
'milk for the month. Two cows made
their owner a proﬁt above feed of over
.314 per head per month. In the four-
' yeanold class the best cow for Aug

mmmuumm

 
000.

r

lust, owned by Byers & Fisher, 'gayeiyé
‘ 970 lbs. Of milk containing 46.5 lbs."

of butter fat and making'a proﬁt of
$11.70; This~cow from the proﬁt;
standpoint made the best record for
August. In the three-yeanold class,
Fred Dunks of Union, carried off
honors with a cow producing 765 lbs.
of milk and 41.3 lbs. of butter fat~at
a proﬁt of $14.06.

LANSING——The State Liberty Loan
committee has been organized here
with Governor Sleeper as chairman
and Frank Blair of Detroit -vice
chairman. Mark T. McKee of Mt.
Clement is secretary. Grant Slocum,
founder of the Gleaners, was select-
ed as chairman of .committee to or-
ganize the entire state for the loan
drive.

CHARLOTTE—A Duplex truck was
sent from this place to the farm of
Undersheriﬁ Dilley in Roxand and
at one load delivered at'the local
elevator 200 bushels of wheat, making
about 7 tons. »

CHARLOTTE—‘~H. W. Hancock of

the Hancock Manufacturing Com- ‘

pany, of this city, is an admirer of
ﬁne cattle and is now establishing one
of the ﬁnest farms in this section of
the state. As soon as the buildings
are erected a herd of 50 of the ﬁnest
pure bred Holsteins to be had will be
brought here. Milking machines and
all other modern improvements will
be installed to make the dairy farm
up-to-date in every way.

BUCHANAN—County Agent Lur-
kins estimates the frost damage to
Berrien county to be at least $1,000,-
Seventy—ﬁve per cent of the corn
crop is lost so far as seed and grain
are concerned, and any one having
seed corn is urged to take good care
of it, as seed corn will be very high
and scarce another year.

LAWTON—Champrons and Moore’s
Earlies have been moving quite well.
Champions have been selling at 180
for four-quart baskets and Moore’s
Earlies at 220. Wordens are ripen-
ing and shipments will be made the
last of the present week. Concords
are coloring rapidly and if the pres-
ent good Weather continues some Con-

,cords will go to market this week.

GRAND RAPIDS—Milo H. Edison
of this city owns a‘ Jersey cow which
once attracted the attention of the
dairy would by her remarkable per-
formance, in which she displayed how
early maturity and persistency can
be combined to a most satisfactory
degree. Up to this time she is still
the “none-such" of all dairy cows in
this particular class, but her record
is threatened by another promising

in

lllllllllllllllllllllllllIIllllillllllllllllllllllllll

on the farms for two years.

1916.
the investigation of those two years.

lllllllllllllllllllllIll‘l'

column is new.
Man Labor
included for 1917
Feeds—
Concentrates . . .
Pastures . . . . . .
Cash sundries
Veterinary service and drugs . . .
Taxes, interest insurance

buildings .
Depreciation. tools and utensils . . . .

tablished by Hoover .
Totals . .

were compiled—Detroit News.

lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll[llllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllIll[lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

ll

ﬁ.

1 llllIllmllllllllllII'HllllIIlIlIlNlWﬂﬁi‘fﬁﬁmnmﬂIlllIllIIIIIIllllllHlIllllllllIIIlllI|lllllll|ll|Il|lIlllll|llIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllnumnuummulilllllllllllllll ---------- 1

MILK PRODUCTION COSTS SOARING
ESTIMATES FOR PRESENT YEAR SHOW

The ﬁgures in the table are ofr Michigan, from data obtained _on 25 repre—
sentative Michigan farms by investigators of the Michigan Agricultural Col-
lege. The man in charge of the ﬁeld work, F. T. Riddcll, spent his entire time
He saw feeds raised from the land and brought
in from the markets, saw the animals fed, scrutinized all the details of the
production and sale of milk by the farmers. _ .

The average expenditures for each stated item below ”is far the axerage
cow of the aggregate herd of the 25 farms, 459 of them in 1914 and L8 m
The ﬁrst and second columns of the table are the complied results ,Of
The third column, headed 1917,’car.r1es
the ﬁgures brought down to date. "I‘his was done by the college statistlcmns
from more recent reports. not from data gathered on the same ground, It IS
understood, but from representative data, gathered elsewhere, of equal value,
The ﬁrst two columns have been published heretofore in ofﬁmal form. The third

Expenditures in maintaining an average Michiggillls dairy COW:

..................... $28.68

Hauling milk and .horse' labor~ including for 1915
1916. railroad transportation, this last not

Roughagc (includes bedding) ..

Taxes, interest and depreciation on herd _ ......
and deprecxation on

Allowance for earning power of owner, over and
above that of ordinary hired labor ......
Managerial ability, risks of business, items not
included in above. and 10 per cent proﬁt
allowance as per rule for all business, es—

......... $150.57
It will be understood that the 191':1 _ tﬁgures are in part an estimate based
on going prices and apparent crop con 1 ions,
the year is completed, but they "will be relatively small, and nothing has been
known to happen to make the estimates lower.
tember,‘ which shortened the‘corn crop, for instance, came after these ﬁgures,

Jersey within the»
4911- . ,.I
den "Lucy," whose-.1 records 5311 '
"she produced'2874d pounds

.The newcomer ﬁts 4'

menial butter before leaching

 
prime as a dairy cow. As "she is just

getting into_her stride‘her ownercan
.look forward" to exceptional performs, .
ance and still greater proﬁts from‘

this cow. Salem’s Golden Lucy is

sired by Golden Lucy’s Eminent Lad”

85639, out of Salem Betsy 207880.

She is owned ,by C. & 0.-Deake of‘W

Ypsilanti, Michigan.

JACKSON—Warden Brice P.‘ Disque
of the Jackson prison has been given
leave-of absence for the duration of
the war and expects shortly to leave
for France as an ofﬁcer in the avia-
tion section of the signal corps. Cap-
tain Disque, previOus to coming to
Jackson, held a commission “in the
regular army and saw service both in
Cuba and the ' Philippines. He was

regarded as one of the most efﬁcient"
ofﬁcers in the service and as such his

services are of particular value to the
Government at this time. The ad-
ministration of Warden Disque at
Jackson has been successful beyond
expectation. The prison discipline
was/never better and the net proﬁts
are now from $16,000 to $18,000 per
month. An audit of the books
Tuesday of this week showed a bal-
ance on hand of $80,000. Warden
Disque has come into intimate contact

with the inmates of- the prison and.

has introduced many improvements
looking toward their physical and
moral betterment. Edward Frens-
dorf of Hudson, a member of! the
prison board of control, will assume
the position of acting Warden during
the absence of Warden Disque.
people of Michigan regret to lose the
services of the Warden, even tempor-
arily, but realize that it is for the
common good. In the meantime there
is a good man at the helm 1n the per-
son of Mr. Frensdorf. He has more
than proven this as a member of the

board of control.

DETROIT—Edsel B. Ford, son of
Henry Ford, on Wednesday of this
week ﬁled exemption papers, basxngv
his claim on industrial grounds.
He was called for the draft in the city

. of Detroit and certiﬁed to the board

as physically ﬁt. Mr. Ford claims
exemption on the ground that the
Ford Motor Company is engaged in
manufacturing war supplies for the
Government.

If the Government is as successful
in its efforts to increase potato con-
sumption as it was last spring to in-
crease production, the potato farmer
who escaped frost is twice fortunate.

 
llllllllllllllllg—

He kept minute cost accounts.

1916
$27.19

14.77

30.38
26.68
7.66
1.77
.99
9.49

10.33
.48

6.00

15.54

21.83
' 52mm

 
5150.29
There may be yariationd‘whe‘n
The heavy frost of mid-Sept

IllIllIll[IIlllllllllll||lIllillIIIIIIlllllllllllll|lllllllllllllllllllllllllllIII|lllIIIlllllllllllllllllllllllllII|IIIlllIllllllll|IIIIIllIllllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllIlllllllllIllllllIllIllllIllIlIlI'IllIIllIllIlIIIIIlllllllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT“

Oll'

, of their becoming any less.

The ~

IlllIlIlllllllIIllllllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllll[IlllIIllI|I|ll||[lIilIIllll|l|lIIlllllllillllllllllillllllHHIlllllllllllilllllllllllitilllllllllllililllllll|lllllllllllllllllllIllIlllllllllIllIllll|llllllililllllllllllllllllllllll

That They Cannot Longer
’ ' Sell Milk .at Past
‘ ' Prices.

It is apparent that the average
Michigan consumer does not appreci-
ate the Preca’rio‘us situation in which
the dairy industry of the state now
ﬁnds itself. The crisis which many
dairy authorities have been predict.

ing for the last year would come .

seems» now to havearrived that noth-
ing but the moat extreme measures
and the utmost cooperation between
producers, distributérs and consum-
ers can save Michigan’s great dairy
business. ,

Our readers know too well the his-'
tory of the steady rise in costs of
milk production the past year for
us to cite them here. It is only nec-
essary to state that these costs have
now become all out of pr‘Oportion to
the slight increase in the milk price,
and there seems no immediate hope
The pro-
ducers struggled thru the summer
only because of theirrpastures, but
with winter new, facing them they
absolutely refuse to keep up the un-
even struggle and herds are being
disposed of by the wholesale for meat
purposes.

The Michigan Milk Itroducers’ As-
sociation is ﬁghting valiantly to keep
the dairy industry intact. It is doing
everything within its power to com-
promiSe with the distributors on a
price that will permit the proﬁtable
continuance of the business, and ef;
forts are likewise being made to en-
lighten the consumer that he may
lend his co-operation and be willing
if necessary to pay a still higher
price for his milk, with good grace.

But the milk distributors and con-
densing companies blindly, refuse. to
see the light. They have never yet
shown any willingness 'to lay their
cards on the table and meet the
producers on a strictly business basis.

‘ As a result the members of the var-
‘ ious branches of the Milk Producers’

Association are holding meetings all
over the state and grimly, tho calmly,
binding themselves by spoken and
written agreement not to sell milk in

. the future at less than a stipulated

priCe.

At an enthusiastic meeting held
last week at Mt. Pleasant, at which
both President Hull and Secretary
Reed of the State urged the farmers
to stand solidly for higher prices.
See. Reed made the statement that
the condensaries of the country were
controlled by the Standard Oil Com-
pany and that they will not yield to
the farmers’ demands unless forced to
do so.

At the conclusion of the meeting
an agreement was drawn whereby
everyone pledged himself .to demand
$3 per hundred for milk after Octo-
ber 1st. It was signed by all present
and committees were appointed to go
out and procure the signatures of
every milk producer in the county.
UnleSS the local condensary pays the
price they agree to discontinue sel-
ling it their milk‘:

Producersall over the state are
taking a similar stand, and it is fair
to assume that matters will come to
a head within another thirty days.
The producers will not retract a sin-
gle step; they are face to face with
a business proposition which they
must solve and there is only one solu—
tion. The distributors will keep up
their bluff until the last minute, and
then they’ll pay the farmer what he
asks, not because they want to but
because they must. For people must

continue to have milk. and distribut-

ing companies must continue to reap
preﬁts. -

'i‘hene wouldbe a lot less sillyéti-

rade against the farmer if city folks I

weren’t so : gal-darned ignorant

-

 
m D; I?
g ' : tirie'nds‘
._ ,Michigan.

, If 'you
: ' v planito come to
, “‘Wéﬁghlngton in the. Mediate fu~
turd 'be sure to leave your Prince
Albert, your silk hat, your imperial
monetach'e and all your distinguished
Vair-s at home, else you'll he‘sure to
get. into trouble.
[to elude thesecret Service men in the
Capitol city is to wear. blu'e-deninis
tucked into the tops of cowhides, the
old felt hat, and a Wisp of‘hay over
the-left ear. When you hit Pennsyl-
vania avenue, ask the ﬁrst cop you
meet it he knows whether President
Wilson is to “hum,” tell him you’re
"Woody's” cousin from the Wolverine
state‘ahd just “kum” down to spend
.- a day {Or “tew” before “tater” diggin’
time; act generally as tho you were
from the country and had never seen

-. a, trmley car before, and you rmay es-
cape being arrested as the Kaiser in »

disguise or one of his tricky, treach-
'01'0"us aides traveling incognito.

Every “turriner” in Washington
today is under suspicion and every
senator and representative is looked
upon askance as a doubleeyed vil-
lain who has sold his soul to Wil-
hell-mr—all as a result of the recent
disclosure that the German govern-
Board had spent- $50,060 to inﬂuence
our dearly beloved Congress. Think
of it,-FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS
—no wonder Germany’s hard up! But
where’d all that cash go to? That’s
the question that the secret service
men are being hard put to ﬁnd out.
But pity the poor congressmen; they
dessen’t even go to the theatre any
more without fearing that some chap
in the next box will mutter, “There’s
the sonofagun that sold out to the
Kaiser; he’s spending the money
now.” Never in the history of the
sixty-three Congresses that have gone
before have there been so many poor
and needy Congressmen as since the
disclosures aforementioned.

But it will all blow, over in a few
days. Congress is working pretty
hard and the boys have to have a lit-
tle “scandal” and a little “investiga-
tion” ODCe in a while to ease the
strain on their minds.

' i 3 ‘

“Rotate is King,”'proclaims Food
Administrator Hoover, altho we’ve
just declared we had no use for kings;
however, this one is Irish and his
name is “Murphy,” so “hail to the
king!” Mr. Hoover believes every-
one should eat lots of potatoes. He
has suddenly discovered that it is an
excellent food, and should be eaten
at every meal. It may be served in
a. number of wa.ys—-—raw, cooked, bak-
ed, halt-baked, mashed, escallouped,
riced, German tried and French fried.
It may be carried conveniently in the
coat pocket and forms an ideal food
to "nibble” on between meals.

The reason for Mr. Hoover‘s sud-
den attachment to the potato is his
desire to stimulate consumption to
the end that the surplus crop, if there
be any, may be taken care of proﬁtably
to the grower. When it is considered
that the per capita consumption of.
this vegetable in the United‘ States
is only about one-third to one-half
that of Germany and England, the
Food Administrator will doubtless
meet with some success in populariz-
ing the article in this country. It is
estimated that if every person in the
United States would eat only one
more potato per day, it would-result
in the added consumption of 100 mil-
lion bushels. So you see, Mr. Hoover
hasn't such a difﬁcult job after all.

in addition to the efforts being
made to increase the use of the pota-
to as an article of food, the Govern-
ment is also studying plans for the
utilization of the tuber in the manu-
'_ ‘ lecture of ﬂour, starch and alcohol.
. It isjrdnubtiul if this will prove a- very

m. shortest» _ _ ,
the above .ivurpoaesa,"Small - and .. can
potatoes can be used,- novever, and.

The only safe way '

em, , be

whatever the Government does. to- en-
courage the commercial separation of.
the potato‘s’ ingredients, will prove
an added source of revenue to the
farmer. ’ ‘

O O O
Germany’s reply to the Pope’s peace
proposals," the text of" which reached
here last, Saturday, has received lit-
tle comment in oﬁlcfal circles. The
general OpiniOn is that the adminis-
tration considers the peace note an in-

dication that Germany is weakening,

but that is based upon her desire
to save hers . ~an llies from furth-
er losses, rather than a sincere wish
to end the bloodshed and

world safe for all time against a rep-
etition of the holocaust. In other
words Germany is not asking for peace
because she loves peace more and
war' Ies's. -

The Kaiser’s peace message is a
very elusive document. It professes
a desire for a cessatiovn of hostilities,
elimination of armed force, freedom
of the seas, and establishment of in-
ternational justice. But upon the
principle issues for which many of
the Allies are contending, viz., the
future status of Belgium, Alsace Lor-
raine, Poland, the message maintains
a most significant silence.

It is characteristic of the temper
of the Allied [nations that the Ger-
man note has caused scarcely a rip-
ple. It shows an unbounded faith
in their ability to whip Germany, and
a grim determination to consider no
peace offers inspired by the Central
powers. All in all, the war cloud is
as black as ever, and the prayers for
an early peace seem to have been said
in vain.

III I! *

The coal miners of the United
States have asked thru their repre-
sentatives at a joint meeting with
the representatives of the operators
for immediate wage increases rang-
ing from 20 to 70 per cent. The oper-
ators have flatly refused to consider
any such proposition, claiming that
the maximum prices ﬁxed by the Gov-

. i _. , 3‘"an
mﬁMIY' for , ”

g ‘ .Vh‘uge'waiifobillihas passedthe
Senate. ; It. provides tor deﬁciency ap-

.. propriationsfof nearly 8'billion‘s, made

necessary by the . war expenditures.
There were the usual claims of ex-
travagance and reckless estimates
during debate on the bill, and many
senators are apprehensive of the total
which the appropriations for the year
might reach. It is now known that
the cost of the ﬁrst ﬁve months of
the war is in the neighborhood of 20
billion dollars, which means a. cost of
upwards of 50,- billion dollars next
year. Representatives who are can-
didates for reelection next fall dread
to think of how the folks back home
will look upon what will seem to them
a throwing away of. the nation’s
wealth. But such is war.
.‘ I l

Plans are well under way to in-
augurate the second “Liberty Loan”
drive on October lst. Frank A. Van-
derlip, president of the National City
Bank of New York, and recognized
as the highest authority in the Unit-
ed States on ﬁnance. has surrendered
all his personal connections to assist
in organizing the campaign. His sal-
ary from the Government will be $1
per year. Bonds to the aggregate of
two billion dollars will be placed on
sale and every known method of le-
gitimate publicity will be used to
bring the attention of the moneyed
public 'to the desirability of. the bonds
as an investment.

In this connection it might be well
to impress upon the farmers of Mich-
igan that there is no better invest-
ment on the market than these Gov-
ernment bonds. They hear 3 1-2 per
cent interest and are entirely free
from taxation. The large majority
of the purchasers of the ﬁrst issue
of Liberty Bonds were men of the
city, but it is anticipated that the
farmers of the Nation will take a
goodly portion of the issue soon to
be placed on the market. Crops will
all be harvested within another few
weeks, many of them will be placed
on the market, and millions of farm-
ers will have a little surplus change
which they can invest to very good
investment in these bonds.

INDISPENSIBLE

UNCLE SAM:
forent ways.”

“th0 said you were too big?

We need you in a hundred dif-

_the French lines toward the

' sin a
Roulors

says the Courier De La Mouse, 8; news

a er of Maastricht. Holland, .a bomb“ fell
Iduper building near the. market and killed
or wounded 900 Germans. , , -

' in II t .- r‘
The Allies have resumed the oilenaive
on certain sections of the estern front
and have made some slight gains. Heavy
ﬁghting is now in" progress m parts of
the section held by the French, The ~
Italian offensive has halted temporarily

for the consolidation of positions won.
a- t a- .
German troops, after a violent bom-‘A
bardment south of the Mlette River, re—

lied an attack and reached
cently, launc Ncufachtel

road. The French ofﬁcial statement, is—
sued later says that after a sharp ﬁght
the Teutons were ejected from_ the [30-
sitions, losing heavily and leavmg pris-
oners in the hands of the French. The
artillery was active on both sides of the
river and in the region of Foese wood.
:0! a: a:

The latest report on the submarine
sinkings, while rather vague, ,WOUld seem
to indicate that the Allies have found
at least a partial remedy. It is appar-
ent that the sinkings have been conﬁned
mainly to smaller craft. This has been
more and more the case since the Ameri—
can destroyers were added to the BritlSh
patrol. Up to this. time the one best
method of combating the submarines
seems to be to convoy merchantmen with
a good—sized ﬂeet of destroYeTS.

t I ’ . -

The boys at Camp Custer are getting
down to hard work and the hill SldeS
are dotted with "moving squads of re-
cruits, learning the rudiments of mod-
ern drill. From early morning 'till late
afternoon the terse commands of drill
sargeants may be heard on all sides. The
boys are showing keen interest in the
work and ofﬁcers of the regular army
say they are both surprised and pleased
at the results so far obtained. The camp
is in need of books. magazines, etc,, and
the movement started to supply this
need is receiving the hearty support of
all. One of the Wisconsin quotas brought
to camp 21 black bear cub which was
duly entered under the name} of Bill
Bruin, There’ll be trouble “bruin” when
Bill gets to France. ‘

c at t .

With the departure of the 31st Mich-
igan infantry for Waco, the only units
left at Grayling are the ﬁeld artillery
and the second Michigan ambulance
company. These will also be on their
way to Waco at the time this issue
reaches our readers. Many pathetic
scenes were enacted as the Michigan
boys bid farewell to (lrayling for the
last time and started on the journey
which will end on the battleﬁelds of
Flanders. The troopers were all in high
spirits and pleased to start south as the
few cold nights at (lrziyling had made
them anxious to get to Texas before
the severe cold weather came. It is
rumored that the troops will be moved
on to French training camps before
Christmas.

I. It I:

The Argentina chamber of deputies
has declared for a break with Germany.
The same rcsolutirm was adopted last
week by the Argentina senate. This
comes as the result of the American ex-
posurc of von Luxburg‘s activities. It
is the gcncral opinion at the present
time that Argentina will become an ac—
tive participant in the war. At present
she is confronted with serious strikes of
railway, telegraph and telephone employ-
ees. Following Argcntina's stand the
Uruguayan (:ong‘rcss: has called a. special
session for Saturday to vote on the ques—
tion of scvcrlng relations with (‘lcrmanv
With Brazil :lll‘Ollil)’ aligned Willi the
Allies it now looks as though it wcrc only
a. question of time until all the South
American countries, with the possible
exception of Chile, will have entered the
lists of (.lermany's foes.

a: a a

The Russian situation continues to
hold the attention of the World and the
ﬁnal outcome is still a matter of great
uncertainty. It appears that Kerensky
and Korniloff have come to some kind
of an understanding and the impression
they are endeavoring to convey to the
outside world is that the recent trouble
was caused by a misunderstanding be
tween the two, but to the intrigue of
one Vladimir Lvoft, who acted as mes-
senger between Korniloff and Kerensky.
At any rate, a better understanding now
exists between the two and this explan-
ation will permit Kcrensky to treat Kor—
niloff with less 'severily or even to rein—
state him to a certain extent. The time
is not far distant whcn the severe Rus—
sian winter will terminate, for the time.
German activities on the eastern front.
This will give the hard-pressed Russian
armies an opportunity to res/organize
and regain their morale. Barring the un-
forseen, which is liable to happen in
that turbulent country, affairs in Rus-
sia should take on a more settled con-
dition from now on.

Agitation for adjournment of Con-
gress has been renewed among the
senators. Some leaders thot ad—
journment possible by October 5th
and nearly all believed Congress.
may get away by October 12th. Well,
the boys have been working pretty
hard the last six months. Give ’em
a little vacation.

 
1) till From. Malina": New York,
ennsylvania,‘ North Dakota
, ' Tana Minnesota Indicate
. Great 'Loss 'to P0-
tatoes

~ The latest reports that we have re-
‘Joeived’ upon.the conditions of pota-
' toes in some of the principal produc-
ing states fully bear out the state:
'-ments that have been made in these
pages during the last three weeks
' that the crop would fall far short of
that estimated by the Government in
its August and September forecast.

There is now an absolute certainty
that the Maine crop will not run over
60 per cent of’Tast year. In fact, as
neports continue to come in indicat-
ing that the blight and rot is spread-

ing rapidly some authorities are
making the estimate as low‘ as 50
per cent. Last year Maine produced
over 25,000,000busnels or potatoes.
The government forecast of. August
1st estimated the yield this year at
32,000,000. In view of the latest and
most authentic estimates, however,
the present year’s yield will not run
‘ ove‘r 15 million bushels, which lops off

17,000,000 from the earlier estimate of,
» this state’s crop alone. Maine buyers are
wary of all stock now offered lest rot
develop after it'is placed in storage.
This situation can not help but have
a very material effect upon the east-
ern supply and market.

New York is another leading pota-
to state whose estimated yield is
dropping rapidly under the devasta-
tion being wrought by blight, rot and
rust, to say nothing of the damage
done by the frost. Similar reports
are received from other New England
states, from Pennsylvania, Minnesota
and North Dakota. Wisconsin is the
only big producer of potatoes report-
ing anything like a normal crop.

We are anxiously awaiting the Gov-
ernment estimate for October 1st. We
look for a decrease of at least 50,-
000,000 bushels below their September
report.

LOSSES IN WEIGHT
OF SUGAR BEETS

Sugar beets left scattered about the
ﬁeld after pulling will lose ﬁve per
cent of their weight due to the evap-
oration of moisture. In a good yield
per acre this loss will amount to
nearly a ton. This amount is worth
saving. The loss may be prevented
by hauling the beets to the weighing
station immediately after pulling.
Another way to prevent most of the
above loss is to pile and cover the
beats with the tops. Four-ﬁfths .of
the loss may be prevented by this
plan.

The following shows the drying los-
ses of beets found by one of the ex-
perimental stations from various
causes: Scattered, 4.7 per cent; un-
covered piles, 2.92 per cent; covered,
0.92 per cent.

A study of this reveals several in-
teresting factors. (1) Putting the
beets in piles is not enough to prevent
the loss of considerable moisture,
nearly 3 per cent; while simply cov-
ering the piles with the tops saves
nearly 2 per cent. (2) Putting the

l
1..

lllllllllillllllllllillllllllllllillIllIllllllIIll]illlllllililllillIllllliﬂllllllliilIIIIHHIIIHIIHIIIIllllllllllllllllll

l

POTATO CROP HALF NORMAL
..SMYRNA MILLS, ME. —— The
potato crop is about 50 per cent
of normal and about 75 per cent
of last year. Late potatoes are
very poor and small in size,

DROUTH REDUCES CROP.

BARNESVILLE, MINN. —— It

' looks as if the potato crop would

not average over 50 bu_ to the
acre on account of dry weather.

POTATO PRICES ADVANCING

RIVERHEAi)_ L. 1,—Potatoes
have been advancing during the
past week and buyers have paid
$1.15 to $1.25 per bu. for grocery
stock» Tuesday the price went up
to $1.35. A good many potatoes
are being stored and corn cutting
is holding back movement of tub-
ers. Some of the large potatoes
have been dug and brought down

to the market.- D. A.‘Kaelln had

some that weighed 28 oz, apiece
and more that took only 20 pota-
toes to make a half bushel of 30
pounds. . —

i|IlllillIllillmillllllllllillllllHillmullllllillllllllllllllllllllll[IIIHIHHIIHIHIUI

I!”liilllllllIlIlilIIilIliIIllIllllilllillllllllllllIllHIlHIlHll

i

gtmmnunmuunmmmlmumImmummunammmnmummummnnlmnmmmmnmnnmmnunmmmm

IiiﬂlllilliﬂlmllllililllillllllIilillilll|IIlllliliilillliﬂlllllllilllIlnlllilllllilillllllllHIlllllllllﬂllllllllll

Tl

:1'Some m" Ii‘
: “soon-as .the-‘vbeets are
”- their :teams,‘ ’haulin-gré

hire teams 'so as to get ’ . _
weighed as’ soon" as positiliie.

is worth while—MyronrA. 0019b.
NATIONAL CROP REPORTS
SALEM, ORE—The Salem ’Fruit
Union estimates the apple yield in
Central Willamette ‘Valley at 40 per
cent of normal. The prune crop is
50 per cent. Good pricesare promis—
ed, but there is danger that the box

and car shortage may' interfere with
marketing.

GLENWOOD, N. .I;—The peach
yield is turning out about half of
what was estimated at
ning of the season. Carmens are out
of the road and Belles of Georgia
and Rays are practically through.
Elbertas will be on the market for a
week longer. The local markets in
nearby. towns have taken most of the
crop so far at higher prices than
those prevailing in New York.

GENESEO, N. Y.—Weather this
week has been slightly warmer, a
welcome change to peach growers,
who have been sitting up nights to
prevent damage from frost. Many of
the growers were prepared to start
smudge ﬁres if the temperature went
down to 35. The picking is now on
and several thousand baskets are be-
ing sent out daily.

SACRAMENTO—The dried
market is dull. Reports from
various bean growing districts

fruit
the
of

the state show that the crop will be ,

a large one. In the Colusa district
the crop is about 35 per cent larger
than last season, and conditions at
the present time are favorable for an
enormous yield.
valley the acreage in beans will be
about 30 per cent larger than it was
last year and the crop looks well, al-
though it is late. A big crop is re-
ported from the Island districts. Lat-
est advices from Stockton say that
it is estimated the bean crop this
season in the delta regions contigu-
ous to Stockton is 50,000 acres, with
an estimated yield of 12 sacks to the
acre against 33,000 acres last year
with a yield of 14 sacks. The pres-
ent weather in that region is cool and
favorable. The acreage planted be-
tween Modesto and Bakersﬁeld is
double last year, but on account of
hot weather, damage will amount to
over 30 per cent of last year. The
district arOund Salinas and Watson-
ville report a very good-looking Crop,
estimated to be about four times lar-
ger than in 1916. ‘

WATERV‘LIET, MICK—Fruit of
all kinds is light. Apples are scabby
and most orchards are affected one
way or another. A few of the well
attended orchards show good quality.

there. is a loss of [from onehalf. to one ;
ton per‘acre,‘ proper ,_ orfprompt action

'- would. besmade for cars.

. harvested 3,500 sm

the begin-q

In the Sacramento.

s._.

FRESNO, cum-4mm. ship " rs;

have been. up against, it “Mtg”. if: is :1

last _-,week
commencing

shippers We‘re ..notiyiied ;_t§$t
Sept. 15. no ._ promises

age of shocks, now followed
car shortage, will cut deep

b " the
g .the
grape movement. — ..

OXNARD, CALIFé—The ﬁrst lime."

beans of the season are showing a
light yield. R. .11. Beardsley, who
all. sacks last year

The short- "

,.,

Tk'et ,toj indicate that many hate. . ‘ . -
Sold, or if sold that they, haviwnoﬁ

‘ If: 'ilslthdugh the
$le potatoes has been-(dug,

~9.

mariner t
' . therais
nothing in 'the conditioner the-ﬁltr-

~ been readily taken care of by the dbl 'y

of the 80-lb. size, will have about. 3,000 '

sacks of the 100-lb.- size. Other ranch
ers report their yields running 15 to
20 per cent short. Increased prices
will make returns larger than last
year. , , , .
MURFREESBORO, TENN. -— From
information received from the farmers
and hucksters, prospects are Very. un-

mand. , ,
’_ Michigan average prices on pota~

' toes continue about steady. The av-
erase-is the same as reported lastgj'
vw'eek, $1.04. per bushel.

The lowest“
price reportedthis. week .waslﬁ cents
per bushel, at‘Gaylord, Otsego county, 5
and Leslie, Inghamicounty.' It is. sig-_

- niﬁcant that the price has been going“: ’

favorable for either an average crop .

or for‘good turkeys.~ Feed is so very
high that farmers are not feeding
any kind of poultry more than just
enough to get by, and this does not
indicate that quality will be up to the
usual standard. In addition the ture
keys will more than likely be under-
sized and undesirable, especially for
the Thanksgiving market. In this
section. we had a late Spring and tur-
keys are backward, for this reason,
as well as for the lack of sufﬁcient
quantity of feed. , '

OKLAHOMA—Our alfalfa crop has
been very light and only about “a third
of a normal crop has been shipped
out of here.

ENGLAND—English crop reports
are not at all encouraging. Acreage
under wheat, as anticipated a year
ago when the minimum was made too
low as compared with cats, shows a
decrease of 6,340 acres, while the
acreage under oats is the largest
since 1904. Barley also shows an
increase of 288,500 acres; bean acre-
age has been reduced 25,000 and” that
of peas increased 18,000; acreage un-
der potatoes increased 80,000, while
hay has been cut down by 108,000.
Most of these changes appear to have
been the result of ill-considered price
ﬁxing which disturbed the old rela-
tivity of crops. The number of cat~

tle in the kingdom, however, has been

increased and is now the largest on
record, the number being 6,227,150.
The number of cows in milk, hovVever
owing to the maximum price ﬁxed for
milk being too low as compared with
the cost of feed, is now 24,000 less
than {t year age. Sheep show 17,-
169,860: a considerable reduction; the
number of ewes declined 170,000>and
lambs 570,000; the number of pigs
about 250,000 less than a year ago.

MlHillllllllllililil|I|llll|lilllIlllllllllilillillllillllllllIIIllIIlilllililllilllllllllllllil|illlllllill!lilllllilllllmlllllmllillIlilliilllllllillillIllllllllliHilllllﬂliIllllHillllllllllﬂlllﬂllllllliimllllilllllillllllilimmllillllﬂiilIlllllill

“Sign the Pledge”

You can render the best service to Michigan Business Farming by
showmg this paper to your neighbors and asking them to “sign the

pledge.’ ’

We, the undersigned, by our signatures herewith, pledge ourselves
to one year’s subscription to Michigan Business Farming, and promise
to send $1 on or before December 1st, 1917.

NAME

ADDRESS

 
Circulator's Name...............................Address..(............

run-so nnnnn
I a.

IlIliilllliillillllliilmmlimlﬂﬂﬂmﬂﬂiﬂﬂﬂliﬂillillllﬂimililllllllllllllllllllllilllllllilllﬂulllllillllllllllllllllllll

.steadily upward in many of thelead-

ing potato sections- ' Last week Green;
ville buyers were paying $1.10, and
this week they are ,offering $1.15.
Last week the buyers 'of Grand Trav-
erse county were Offering from 750--
to “$1.00. This week all markets in
that county report a price of $1.
There is every indication from all

‘the potato sections that the farmers

are holding their tubers for higher
prices, and this is bound to have a
tremendous effect upon the prices.
There isn’t a single doubt in the
world but that it is perfectly safe for
our neaders to hold their potatOes
atleast until the end of the year, pro-
viding the opening prices are. not sat-
isfactory.

The Michigan wheat market is look-
ing up a little, the average thisweek,
of $2.04 being four cents higher than
last week. It is apparent from this
that some of our readers have taken
our advice and nefused to dispose of '
their crop at less than $2; Hang to
it. We say again, don’t sell your
best quality wheat for Less than $2.
You ought to have’$2.05.

The average prices being paid for
other products are as follows: Hay,
$12.65; Oats, 58 cents; ryue, $1.65; corn
$1.65; butter, .40; eggs, .37; hogs,
.16 1‘2; hens, .17.

Farmers at Grand Ledge, Mich., have
organized a new co-operative shipping
association. The Gleaners’ Association
was fast becamzing popular with the
farmers but its own members realized
than an open association to every farm-
er would be more'successful. The-
Board of Directors of the Grand Ledge
(Jo-operative Association was chosen
from different sections in the commun-
iy so that information concerning it
would be available to the greatest num- .
ber of farmers. ' .

APPRECIATIVE YOUNG FARMEB.

Dear Editor: I am a young farmer
working my father’s farm 9! 80 acres,
which he has taken up as- homestead
land some 45 years ago. We have a
splendid farming country around Pigeon.
We raise a little of everything but the
biggest money-making crop has been
sugar beets and beans. I read one
copy of your paper and it has done me
as much good as if I had read my three
other farm papers. Hoping that my
farmer friends who read this letter will
not hesitate to send for this inexpensive
and money-saving market weekly.—
. W., Pigeon, Mich.

will"lllllllilillllllll|llliliI-lllNHIIUIMIIHHIIIHIIIIIlllllllllillllllIlllllll|IllIllllillllliililillmililllllllillﬁ

FROST KILLS THE .1
POTATOES IN MAINE
EAST NEWPORT, ME.—Pota-
toes are about half of normal. The
heavy frost last week killed all of
the tops so that the potatoeh will
not grow any more. some say
they are rotting badly and show
small sizer

POTATO CROP IS LIGHT

CBOOKSTON, MINN.—Potato
digging has begun, but the crop is
light, although quantity is good.
The yield will be 30 to 100 bu. to
the acre. There is a good demand
at 950 at loading station for bulk
stock.

MAINE CROP ONLY ONE-HALF ,
. THORNDIKE, ME. —- Farmers
who are digging th 1r potatoes are
getting 100 to 125 u. to the acre.
There is much complaint of 'dis-
eased stock, while others show
considerabld rot. ,. Many of the
ﬁelds planted age“ turning out a.“
failure and are. not worth digging.
_ There will not be over 50 per cent
g of a cropf', .. . j »- 7
ﬁlmIIIImun"ImmmlllmmumIIm[nillllllumllllllluuﬂulmllll unlit"

autumnInumumunnmmlmummmmnmmnnnmunmmnnnmum[mumlmmmlmmmmmmnnnuumm

 
W :.'-",;.opabl'e prices. .

 
yr '- N “2.15 . " 2.25

 
, a greatly decreased I ﬂour production
an consequent hardship on the part

for the consuming public. ’We’bel-ieve

,.'.110W0Y91'9 that-“this conditidn will be
. rented-led before a great while and
Estate- there is a serious shortage of
- ounx ‘ , -

Certain. of the interests, grain and

. trade journals, etc., seem inclined to.
blame the farmer for the. situation,
claiming that he has ,held back deliv-

' cries 'with'the- idea of forcing unreas-

.1 There are ales two sides to every
question and this particular one-is no
. exception. This has been a year, of
great uncertainty both fer the dealer
and the farmer.
ially has had so many problems con-

. ,- W: j. fronting him all during the season of

production, that we do not wonder
. that it has been necessary for him to
stop and take his ‘_‘second wind” be-
fore delivering his grain to market.
--The_ ﬁrst great problem that con-
fronted him was that of securing suf-
ﬁcient labor to harvest the crop. The
great demand for labor from the man-
ufacturers of war materials, together
with the fancy wages paid, enticed
farm laborers away from the farms
by thousands. There was a great deal
of talk by the various “Committees,"
“Boards,” etc., appointed from time
to time, as to having the high school
boys, Y. M. C. A. boys and other kinds
of. “boys” turn out by scqres to help
the farmer harvest his crop. But of
course, as was predicted at that time,
by those familiar-with the situation,
when the time'came to harvest the
crop the farmer found that it was nec-
essary for him to depend on his own
efforts, together. in some cases with
those of the “women folks," to get
the crops off the ﬁelds. After such a
strenuous time it was only natural
that \he should take a breathing spell,
attend the county fair or, perhaps
have a few days’ outing.
, Then again the grower has been
bombarded by a constant fusillade of
talk and newspaper articles, ﬁrst rel-
ative to the appointment of a Food
Commission, then as to the setting of
a price, federal grades, etc., until he
has been put to it to know what the
ﬁnal outcome would be. ~Many regu-
lar dealers. who have every facility
for "learning the exact situation, have
been up in the air, so to speak, over
price and grading. Then how can
they expect the farmer to know all
about it and be ready to deliver on
the jump?

Another thing, we believe that un-
certainty as to grades. price, etc., has
led many country elevator /men to
place the paying price too low to the
farmer. After the ﬁrst few cars have
been moved the situatipn will be more
in hand. We feel that the grower
has shown good judgment in holding
back on the bulk of his holdings un-
till he saw which way the cat was
going to jump.

No more loyal Americans live than
the men who are found upon our
farms. It certainly shows poor judg-
ment on the part of contain newspap-
ers and grain trade journals to con‘
stantly condemn these peoples as tight
ﬁsted mercenaries. aiming at them

_s_atrical shafts of humor, .when as a
matter of fact they are the backbone
of the Nation in this time of storm
and stress.

Far better would it be for them to
suggest an investigation as to wheth-
er or not shoe manufacturers are war-

_ 1 , rantedﬂin charging an advance of from'

one hundred to one hundred and ﬁfty

«per cent on the price of their products;

when it is reported on good authority

1- that South American hides are piled,
up; by .tons awaiting a market.

a the price of coal? . Are
- ‘ " “ , the chem
. ﬁr.»

    
are * are still complaining of the ,
go of wheat and theprospect of»

The farmer espec- ‘

   
0113’-
a... *

 
*ﬁtm‘ and active.'.

is showing some improvement.

at this time,

nunumdnmlmnuunnmmmmmmmammn1

‘ absolute failure to provide for the
needs of certain communities? Let’s

have ,a little daylight on the~ matter.
If vie are going to ﬁx prices, why ‘
stop at the farmers’ products?‘ There
is a day of reckoning coming.

 
GRADE Detroit Chicago New York
- No. 2 White '
standard .62 1-2 .613-4 .67 1-2
No. 3 m .62 .611-4 .67
11.. 4 min. .g_1 .601—2 .55

 
Oats continue at about the former
level of prices. There is no doubt
but what we have a record 'crop of
oats both in this country and Canada.
The writer some time ago made a
trip through Ontario and We never
saw a better looking crop than they
had there, so far as oats were con-
cerned. The price is being maintain-
ed remarkably well, considering the
crop. No doubt many growers are
holding back on deliveries, waiting to
see the outcome of the corn crop. Then
again, as we have mentioned before,
transportation facilities are poor, re-
sulting in a supply insufﬁcient to meet
the demands of eastern markets.

Export demand is good and we be-
lieve it is bound to increase in the
very near future.
though buyers have held off till the
last minute in order not to WOrk the
market 'higher. This leads us to
think that prices will be fairly well
maintained even though deliveries in-
crease.

 
GRADE Detroit Chicago New York
' No. 2 Yellow 2.15 2.06 1-2 2.19
No. 3 Yellow 2.14 ‘2 2.18

.06
No. 2 Mixed 2.14 2.051-2 2.17

 
We are receiving more detailed re-
ports of the recent frost damage and

DETROIT SPECIAL—Poultry market looking up and good stock is in demand-
l‘ho left-over stock is rapidly cleaning up at higher mint. Dressed calves are
Hay demand more brisk than for 110va days.
peaches arriving and finding a» good demand. -

NEW YORK DAY LETTEE—Berplying your wire even date, bean market
The demand is betur and buyers seem more
inclined to take hold than for several weeks.
the current quotations and prospects of favorable advance.

RICHMOND WIRE—Good market here for all better grades of hay.
plies“ light and demand exceptionally heavy for this season.‘ Advise shipment-s

llllllllllllllllllllllllllllmlllllllllllllyllilllllllllllllllllllllilllllilllllllllllllﬂllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllIilllllllI|IllIlimllll|Ill!llIllIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllIllillllliﬂllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllIlllll

It looks to us as.

 
Michigan

Reports of sales at prices over

Sup-

IlllllIllllllllllllllllll|llllllllllllllllllIlllllﬂlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllﬂlllmllllllllﬂl

'l

r

they would seem to indicate that the
greatest damage was done in the
'sections which produce the least of
the corn shipped to terminal markets.
The present weather as reportéd from
all over the corn belt is just what is
needed to bring the crop to a suCcess-
ful ﬁnish.

The future market rules somewhat
stronger, although the cash market
at terminal points is inclined to weak-
en on slight pretext. While the price
of corn is exceptionally high for this
time of the year, still it must be borne
in mind that it is not out of line with
the price of pork and that is the form

sin which a large per cent of the crop
is marketed. ..

No doubt the demand for the new
corn crop will be extremely heavy.
There is a strong movement on foot
to increase live stock production and
this will increase the domestic de-

‘ materially.

Many farmers and farmers’ elevat-
ors in‘ Michigan will be in the market
for corn before a great while and it
will stand them well In nand to keep
an eye on conditions and buy at the
opportune time.

 
No. 1 Standard No. 2
Markets Timothy Timothy Timothy
Detroit 17 50 18 00 16 50 17 00 15 50 16 00
Chicago 23 50 24 22 23 20 21
Cincinnati 22 25 50 21 50 22 20 20 50
Pittsburgh 22 25 50 17 50 18 16 50 17
New York 18 19 17 50 18 16 17
Richmond 19 50 20 17 50 18 5016 50 17 50
M kt No. 1 No. 1 No. 1
at e ‘ Light Mixed IClover Mixed Clover
Detroit 16 50 17 14 00 14 50 13 00 13 50
Chicago 22 22 50 20 21 20 21
Cindnnsti 17 50 18 2 22 50 22 22 50
Pittsburgh 17 50 18 16 16 50 16 50 17
New York 16 50 17 ,16 16 50 16 17
Mmond 19 19 50:17 18
During the past week there has

been an increased movement of hay
to most of the terminal markets, es-
pecially those of the east. Reports
received at the time of writing this
would lead one to think that the grow.
ers were cleaning up on the old crop
at this time.

EUNHIHIll|IlllIllllllllllllllllilillilllllllllillllllullllllllllllllllllllllllIllllllllllllmlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllﬂlllllllllllIlllllllllllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllllﬂllllﬂﬂlﬂlﬂﬂlllllllllllll“llllllllg'

llllllllllllllllll

Sept 30 2 3 4 5. 6 1917

Cold

Gold

Severe Storms _,

WASHINGTON, D. C. Sept. 29.-—
Last bulletin gave forecasts of dis-
turbances to cross continent Oct. 2
to 6, warm wave 1 to, 5, cool wave 4
to 8. Temperatures of that disturb—
ance will average lower than usual
and frosts, preceding and following
the warm wave, will go farther south
than usual. We are expecting severe
killing frosts 2 or three days before
and 2 or three days after the warm
wave of this disturbance reaches
your longitude. and as far south as
frosts sometimes occur at this sea«
son,

The ‘stonns of thisdisturbance will
beunusua‘lly severe and heavy precip—
itation is expected on much of the
continent} particularly on northern
Paciﬁc slope, in the central valleys
east of Rockies. near the great lakes
and in the Ohio valleys. We expect
much late corn to be ruined by the
' frosts .of this great storm and a frost
scare for at least the northern part
of the ~cotton belt.

. Next warm wave will reach Van-

EmmulllllllIlllllllﬂllﬂlﬂllllﬂﬂﬂlmmlllllllﬂmﬂlIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIllIllllllllllllllllllllllllIllllllllllilllllllllIllllllllllIllIlllHllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

   
THE WEATHER FOR THE WEEK

As F orecasted by E. C. Foster for Michigan Business Farming

    
Itmmmlmlilluummcmmhummus:disarmamentumummmnnnumm1mnuimmumlImmmnmummuunmnmmmmmuumnnmum ..

couver about Oct. 8 and temperatures
will rise on all the Paciﬁc slope. It
will cross crest of Rockies by close
of Oct. 9, plains sections 10, meridian
90, great lakes and Ohio valleys Oct.
11, eastern sections 12, reaching Vl-
cinity of Newfoundland about Oct. 13.
Storm wave will follow about one day
behind warm wave and cool wave
about one day behind storm wave.

All the weather features mention—
ed in the above paragraph constitute
the “disturbance” the eastward move—
ment of which is the key to weather
forecasting. The average movements
of the disturbances is about Wthus:_—
They move, in a rough, varying c1r—
cle, around the north magnetic pole.
the center of which is near 70 north
latitude and 94 west longitude.

The disturbances usually come from
the extreme northwest and'the aver—
age path of their centers runs south
east to Arkansas, then northeast to
the lower lakes and down the St.
Lawrence river. They affect the
whole continent and cause all weather
features and changes. It is our ef-
fort to forecast the time, movements
and eﬂects of these disturbances. The
tropical storms belong to a separate
class of disturbances.

The disturbance mentioned above,
is expected to reach meridian 90 near
Oct, 11 as it moves eastward. Very
warm weather will accompany it and
.the last end of it will be a cold wave
causing more killing frosts in north-
ern sections.

llllllllllllllllllllllllIIHHIIIIIHIHJHI.‘llllllllllllllllllIIIIIIIHHIIHIllllllllllilllllllIII]lIiil[llll[ll[Illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllml

‘llllllllillllllllﬂllllllllllllllllllnllllllllllllllllllllllllIillllllllllllllllllll

. Boston report; that the bulk of the
arrivals consist of old bay of a very

poor quality, while the demand is,

mostly for the better grades of No. 2

hay. We feel that this method of prO‘ 1
ceedure, selling the remnant of the .

old crop, shows mighty good judgment
on the part of the growers.

Let them complain a little if they
wish, they will anyhow. Get rid of
the old, poorer stuff ﬁrst. Otherwise
you will have to take a discount on it
if buyers have plenty of. the new, bet-
ter grades. Of course in many local-

ities the old crop has been pretty well .

cleaned up. But there are other parts
of the country and state where much

of the old, off grade stock is still be—. '

ing held. In any locality where this
condition exists, get your heads to—
gether and arrange to work off the
old stuﬁ ﬁrst. You certainly have a

right to “ﬁgger” as well as the other I

fellow. ~ _

New York reports receipts hardly
sufficient for the demand, with a ﬁrm
demand and arrivals being disposed
of about as fast as received. Some
new hay arriving but the bulk of ar-
rivals-“is old stock.

Pittsburgh reports that while the
receipts have increased they are still
below the demand. Nashville reports
show about the same condition, with
slow deliveries on account of railroad
congestion. The Baltimore market is
ﬁrm as quoted with the demand for
the better grades, timothy and light
mixed.

There has been a very light move-
ment of hay to the Detroit market,
according to general reports of deal-
ers. The market is very ﬁrm at the
prices quoted.

Many of our friends will be ship-
ping hay from now on and we wish
once more to caution them about the
grade in the car. Be sure it runs

evenly through and if there is some
of it a little off, place it by itself and
advise your buyer as to the quantity.
This may result in preventing a re-
jection and subsequent loss.

 
Demand for beans is rather light
and dealers are evidently waiting to
see just what the new crop will be
before buying to any extent. As ad-
ditional reports come in it becomes
apparent that the frost damage in
Michigan will be very heavy. Re-
porters from different sections report
damage anywhere from forty to sev-
enty-ﬁve per cent. And it should be
borne in mind that the crop has by
no means reached the point where it
is safe from. frost. It will still re-
quire some {ime with favorable weath-
er to mature what is left.

Old beans, with the exception of a
few lots being held by certain inte1~
ests which failed to sell before the de-
cline from the high point last spring,
are pretty well cleaned up. The same
report comes from the Colorado pinto
district and the California. pink and
small white districts. Looks as tho
the new crop would start in with a
fairly clean slate. _

It is still too early to say what ef-
fect on the market the Government’s
price will have. Dealers as well as
others seem to be in doubt about the
matter. nly the future and move-

ment of" he new crop will determine.

 
Rye situation about that of last
week. Offerings from country elevat-
or points are few and far between.
There is a very strong demand and
buyers are out after car or even'less.
than car lots.
back on deliveries and elevator men
are looking for the high price on any
they may have in their house. Cash

No. 2 is quoted on the Detroit mar- '

ket at $1.88; Chicago, $1.90 1-2.

Farmers are holding

   
" their: Moh'ﬂelimn Rodnﬁ: ”
.wluleancked l white-sacked
1.55 f use ‘
~ 1.15.". m '
1.05, 1:60
14:50 . .13. .
. 1.50
1.25 1.20

 
New York reports the market strong
:up until Tuesdaywhen 79 cars of

Jersey potatoes arrived and a much
weaker feeling l-developed. Prices
. owed a considerable decline. Ar-

..rivails of Long Island potatoes have
been light. Maine cobblers and Green
Mountains are arriving- Arrivals
from the west are very light.

. The arrivals on the Boston market
are heavier but the price is holding
up well on the fancy stock. Ordinary
stock ﬁnds a weak demand.

Pittsburgh reports white potatoes
in only moderate supply. The Phila-
delphia market has advanced under a
brisk demand and the same is true of
other eastern markets.

The Chicago market continues
steady. The receipts are not heavy
but expected to increase shortly. The
demand is good and the price incl’ned
to strengthen.

The Detroit market is ﬁrm at about
the former level, with arrivals rather
light and the demand good. Arrivals
seem to be just a little on the green
side. No doubt this condition will be

remedied shortly as the stock ripens
and the quality will be as good as
could be desired.

 
About twenty cars of onions arrived
on the New York market during the
past week but the demand was more
than equal to the supply. Best yel-
lows brought $2.75 and $3.50; best
reds, $2.75 and $3.00; whites, $3.25
and $3.50. Poorer stock in 100 pound
bags, all colors. moved at from $2.00
to $2.25 per bag."

Detroit quotations are $1.75 per bu.,
for good domestic yeIIOW' onions.
Pickling onions, white, $4.00 to $4.75
per bushel. The supply is light and
has been for some time. We see noth-
ing in the situation to cause any un-
easy feeling on the part of shippers
and would not be surprised to see a
somewhat ﬁrmer market.

 
Chicago reports that the home-
grown cabbage season is prolonged by
the lateness of the Wisconsin season
and that the bulk of arrivals from
farmers have sold around 850. to 900
per cwig it would seem that the mar-
ket should improve but of course the
season for moving this crop is limit-
ed and no doubt this has a great hear-
ing on the pricc during a season of
liberal yield.

The cauliﬂower market shows a wide
rango of prices. Poor stock goes as
low as 2700. pcr crate. While the choiccr
grade: sell as high as $3.50 per crate.
The bulk. of the. offerings sell around
$2.00. Markets are being supplied
mostly from points nearby.

.. : * rug“?

W

1‘ APPLES

    
The eastern markets report the
apple market as especially strong
under an active demand. The market
is under supplied, only a few cars ar-
riving daily on any of the markets.
They are mostly from California and
are mostly Kings. The apples are of

good quality. large in size but of
rather light color.
Philadelphia reports a good move-

,ment of apples there this week, the
"cool-er weather helping the demand.
Virgin’a Grimes’ Golden brought $4
to $5.50; Greenings. $5 to $5.75; Gravy-
.ensteins, $2.50 to $5.00 per barrel;
Blush. $4.00 to $6.00; 'Wealthy, $2.00
"'to $5.00 per barrel.

The Detroit market is ﬁrm with a

1'. That islwhat, many people" are paying _
not them. “ Sometime-somehow, weak

 
a... is was. >~

 
,haps conditions may change so that,
the apple’hungryﬂcitypmm m be

able to get mantra-arm from the]-

farms, apples which are now being
fed to stock, get them at a price which

Will permit of their being new more '

extensively, and at the same time
show the farmer more than he is now
realizing for them Speed the day!

Here is a good one, clipped from
Everybody°s 'Magaz'ine: The tailer’s
sign in a little inland town was an
apple, simply an apple. The people
were amazed at it. They came in
crowds to the tail-or asking him what

on earth the meaning of the sign was.

The tailor with a complacent smile,
replied: “If, it hadn’t been for the

apple. where would theolothing busi-

ness be today?"

Grapes

Demand for grapes is good on all
Michigan ' markets but. the eastern
and far western grape growers seem
to be put to it to know just how to
proceed. They are in a quandary to
know whether or not :theGrovernment
will allow the manufacture of whiss
key at the [end of the war. Should
they not allow this, there will be 'a
much greater demand for wine. 0 ,
the other hand it takes about tw‘k
years for wine to ripen, and there is
no telling what conditions may be at
that time. We suggest that they
make marmalade of the crap. Then
we can all enjoy the product.

 
Regarding the butter market, the
New York report says that the past
week has seen a ﬁrmer situation with
advancing tendencies. Butter of all
grades is pretty well cleaned up and
there is a fair use of storage butter.
Receipts are considerably short of
last year, as has been the case most
of the time this season.

The New York receipts up to last
Saturday were 1,235,000 packages,
against 1,454,000 for the same time
last year. This will give a fair idea
of the supply as related to other sea-
sons and when it is borne in mind
that the demand is greater this year
it would indicate advancing prices.

Under grades on nearly all markets
are pretty well cleaned up and buyers
are looking for stock a little under
the top market. The Detroit market
rules ﬁrm with a rather light supply.
Fresh creamery extras are quot-ed at
42 1—2 to 43c; creamery ﬁrsts 42 1-2
to 42c per pound.

 
EGGS

Somewhat lighter arrivals of eggs
on Detroit and Chicago markets. It
is reported from Chicago however
that there has been a rather heavy ar-
rival. on certain days, of Off-grades,
which in the majority of cases found
poor sale and some of them went into
storage. ,

Eastern markets report eggs as not
so active but the arrivals being fairly
well taken up. The Detroit quotations
today are 380 to 400 per dozen for
strictly fresh Michigan ﬁrsts.

4,

I

 
LIVE WT. Detroit Chicago Cinn.
Turkey 4~25 18-20
Ducks 20-25 18
Geese 15- 17 ‘ 15 — 18
Sp ingers 24-25 21-22
Hens 1 23-2 19—21
No. 2 Grade 2 to 3 Cenes Less

 
Chicago and DetrOit both rEﬁort
that the average arrivals of springers
now are too heavy for,broi1ers or fry-
ersw The Chicago trade has been just
a little dull, following the Jewish
buying for the holiday season, but ar-
rivals have also been light and this
has a tendency to balance the situa-
tion and prevent a decline.

‘ rush sh

ing had ceased. . ‘ _ . .
one. time; Shippers realized-that, the .
demand, would lessen and War:-

. Mingly. The ,slliprnents ”lessened,

 
hots-e areal“.mvocme my»

lust after the high tide had been
reached, showing that _ shippers were
using their heads and that as a re

suit of this the market had remained,

ﬁrm. Go, to it, boys. keep this in
mind in the future. it has taken us
some time to learn some of the things
”we should know but we are getting
on to a few ofvthe kinks anyhow.
How are the turkeys coming? Now

is the time to get them rounded up

(no doubt they have been leading
somewhat of a nomadic existence all
summer) and see that they lave a
little extra deed, sort of looking to
the time when you will wantrto pre-
pare (them for Thanksgiving market,

 
um 1 pm . ~ '
Steers, good to prime 9 50-10 00,17 00-17 90 11 75-1 00
Simeon. to fair 8 so. 8 7534 00.11 001025-10 so '
Hammmopﬁm 800. 8 2510 can to 10mm 50
Cows, average 6 50- 6 753 8 00-10 00 7 25- 9 00
Cums,—Cumn 4 50‘ 5 50; s 00. 6‘50 5 25. 6 so
Bengt-"rue .5‘6 50 7 00 7 50- 8 50 '7 50- 8 15
Vulgialr to good ‘15 00.45 50 31600-17 000500.16 so
Chicago reports that rece pts of
cattle this week are practically the

same as a week ago, only an increase
of about 1000 and the trading was
more even than usual. Everything
selling stronger, good grassers ad—
vancing the most. Bulk of sales have
been 15c to 250 higher with a rather
slow trade towards the end of the
week; Butcher stuff has, been in good
demand all week with the bulk of stuff
selling steady to strong with a 10c to
150 advance, while some of the real
good stuff advanced more.

The demand for stockers and feed-
ers is increasing every day and no
doubt it will be advisable for Michi«
gan feeders who expect to buy this
grade of stock to get in while the
going is good. Choice feeders have
sold this week on the Chicago mar-
ket at $11.00 to $11.75; fair to good,
$9.50 to $10.50; medium, $8.25 to $9.

he Detroit market reports rather
liberal receipts and a market not quite
so strong as last week. There is a
heavy demand for canners and the
market on this grade has been well
maintained. '

 
Packers 100—150
Pin 100 down
As was the condition last fall, the
heavier weights of hogs are going to
bring a premium again this season.
General receipts continue. light and
the market has not changed much
during the past week. Demand has
been strong enough to take all that
have been offered and the tendency
has been stronger.

The Detroit market shows a slight
advance with receipts only moderate.
There is a good demand for all grades.

There has been some talk of Gov-
ernment supervision of the hog mar-
ket. The price would be based on
cost of feeds, etc., and from time to
time the packers would regulate the
price of their products, under Govern-
ment supervision, amending to the
price of the raw material. No doubt

15 50 16 00‘,” 601
16 5017 01‘14 001

GRADE Detroit 1 Chicago I But fllo
Heavy 240-290 18 00 18 50 | 17 60 19 00119 25 19 50
Medium 200340 '16 50 17 10E 18 00 19 00 19 1519 25
Mixed 150200 16 0015 51 17 60 19 00 18 9019 25

7 80 18
7 85 i 17

 
it would prove a difﬁcult job and one
which the authorities will hesitate to"
tackle.

 
GRADE Detroit Chicago Buffalo
rophmt. 16.00-16.50 16 50-17.75 17.00-17.35
Yearling: 1350.14.50 12.50-14.50 1350-1459

‘ Weihm l 9.50. 9.75 , 8.90.1250 .11.50-12.00
Ewe: . 9.25-1115 *1 9:41.15 manners

 
Not so attire pres--

 
[During the past week the sheep and

 
‘ can _ be said ermine-lama

.to the restricted rbps.rati¢;zns

’ on all terminal markets.

A

' wholesale price on

                 
have been" rathes 319%; m

was

and at times 'there'5diirfi‘g'v.,ﬁe week
, have .m mmm clean ‘ ,
up on their offerings. ‘ ' , _ . .

 
The Milwaukee market on mill feeds .1 , .»
a strong demand ~‘fr.o_m the brewers,
is strong and higher, due, no doubt
of the
mills owing to the shortage-of grain '
'This 00134
dition has made it dfﬂiculit to .ﬁll- back
orders- let alone take :on any new ones ,,
Bran has advanced around $2.00'te -'

$2.50 per“ ton and 'middlings around

$2.50 to $3.00. _ . ,
The. movement of new cotton seed
meal will be late. There is a good
demand for the old crop meal still
being offered and no doubt the com-
ing winter will see a good demand ,

from live stool: feeders with corres-

pondingly high prices. Very few
ﬁrms are quot-ing for fall delivery.
Chicago wholesale prices" quoted at
the time of. writing are as follows:
38 1—2 per cent protein, $49 50; .41 per
cent protein, $52.20; 43 per cent pro—
tein, $53.70 per ton. The Chicago
' 'linseed meal is
$57.50 per ton.

Barley

Milwaukee reports that the barley
market is ﬁrm and advanring under
malsters, etc. Receipts were 338 cars
against 508 cars during the same time
a year ago. The choice offerings are
cleaned up rapidly but the medium
and low grades are not so much 0m
demand.

Duluth reports a fairly heavy move-
ment of barley to the terminals. With
strong bidding by eastern buyers the
price on that market has been advanc-
ing steadily. Buffalo malsters are re.
ported as having a hard time to. se-
cure sufﬁcient stock for their immedi-

-ate needs, even at a premium over

markets.
The price generally

$1.35 to $1.45 per cwt.
Toledo Seed Prices-

~Clover seed was quite active at T0-
ledo last week, reaching $14 for Oc-
tober as the top, which, however, was
not maintained. The crop is still in,
the making ‘with the season very late.
Timothy seed still holds around the
$4 mark for March, with other
amounts trailing under at about the
cost of carrying. No new features in
the. market brought out during the
week. Seeds of all kinds, however,
are at a high level and timothy feels
the inﬂuence. Prices below are those
of Saturday as reported by J. F.
Zahm & 00.: ‘-

Clover'sPrime. $13.30 to $13.50,
closed $13.30; Oct. $13.55 to 13.80,
closed $13.55; Dec. $13.50 to $13.62 1-2
closed $13.50: Jan. $13.55 to $13.67 1-2
closed $13.55; March $13-65 - to.
$13.77 l-2, closed 3:13.65. .

Alsyke—No.‘2, $12.30 to $12.40; No.

runs from

 
'9 $12.10 to $12.20: Rciected. $11.75

.i,

to $1200; N. E. G. (mixed with clover
timothy. etc). $3.60 to $11.60. Prime
$12.50 to $12.50. closed $12.50; Sept.
$12.50 to $12.50, closed $12.50; Oct.
$12.50 to $12.50. closed $12.50; Dec.
$12.00 to $12.00. closed $1200; March
$12.70 to $12.70: closed $12.70.

Timothy—~No. 2, $3.50 7.0 $3 60; "No.

.2. $3.35 to $3.45; Reiected. $3.20 to

$3.30; N. E. G3. 450 to $3.15. Prime
$3 80 .to $3.82 1—2, closed $3.82 1-2;
Oct. $3.80 to $3.82 12 closed $3.8?- 1-2:
Dec. $3.87 1-2 to $3.87 1-2, closed
$3.87 1—2; March $4.05 to $4.05. closed
$4.05. ' .

 
Detroit Produce Markets.

CABBAGE—600 per bu...

GREEN CORN—$2 per sack. '

HONEY—New white; 17c per lb. .

CELERY—Michigan, 12 to18c per
doz. .. ,

TOMATOES'~-H.ome~grown, $2.25"
per bu. , ' . .

POTATOES-«$1.65 per bu. in ob-
bing lots: _ , f ‘ -, '

 
’1

 
muses vimnta,

$6.25 per 1m.

. ‘ Vegetables
Carrots, $1 per bu.; beets, $1 per

V Flu, ' turnips, $1 per bu;- green onions,

sac per don; cucumbers, $1 to $1.25
per bu.; garlic 114 to 1150 per 111.: . raid.-
ﬁshes, 500 per don; green peppers, $2
per bu.; parsley, 25 to 35c per doz.

. ' Hides .

No. 1 cured, 20c; No. 1 green, 16c;
No. 1 cured bulls, 15c; No. '1 green
bulls, 120; No. 1 cured veal kip, 23c;
No. 1 green veal kip, 19c; No. 1 cured
murrainz, 18c; No. 1 green murrain,
150.; No. 1 curedcalf, 280; No. 1 green
calf, 24c; No. 1. horsehides, $6; No. 2
horsehides, $5; No. 2 hides, 1c and
N0. 2. kip and calf 1 1-20 lower than
the above,- sheepskins (as to‘ amount
of wool), 50c to $2 each.

U. s. MARKET REVIEW
WEEK ENDING SEPT. 18

Despite the fact that shipments of
Irish potatoes this past week were

 
.about 860 cars heavier than a week

ago, prices have advanced consider-
able. Jersey Giants are selling to!)
at $11.12 to. $1.15 per bushel, as com-
pared; with 90c to 931:- a week ago.
Jobbing prices are also higher, altho
they have not advanced as sharply as
prices in the producing sections. Jer-
sey Giants are jabbing at 31.15 to
$1.40 \per bushel, as compared With

bbltam311.30perhm,.leny

your at. this time. Jobbing prices
are slightly weaker than last week.
Wealthies are jabbing at $4. 00 to
$5 75 per barrel, as compared with
$4. 50 to $6. 50. . The apple movement
is getting considerably heavier. About
306 more cars moved to market than
a. week ago. Ilhnois, Virginia and
Michigan more than doubled their

. shipments and New York is shipping

considerable heavier-

,.

Peach shipments from Colorado and
Washington have been heavier this
past week than a. week ago, and most

of the increase was from these two

sections. Last year at this time the
New York and Michigan crops sup-
plied the market, but this year the
main Elberta crop is not moving,
heavy from either of these states.

-Prices of peaches are slightly ﬁrm-

er than a week ago. Marylands are
jobbing at $1.75: to» $2.75 per basket,
as compared with $1.50 to $2.50 a.
week ago- Prices of Colorados are
also slightly ﬁrmer.

 
The onion moves ent from Massa-
chusetts, New York and California
was considerably heavier than a week
ago. Fob. prices at Rochester were
$1.25. per bushel which is a decrease
from the price a week ago—As re—
ported by Bureau of Markets, Chicago

EDITOR’S NOTE—We are now mak-
ing arrangements for a special tel-
egraph service on the receipts and
prices of products at primary mar-
kets up to the last day of. going to
press.

IIIlIlIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIImulllllllllIllllIIlllIIllIIlIIlIlIlIIIIIlIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllIllllIIlllIlIlllllIlllllllIlIlIllIlllllllllllIllllIIIIIIIllllllllllllllllllllllll

PROVIDE STORAGE FOR POTATOES

Uncle Sam Believes Farmers Should go Slow in Placing Their 1917
Crop Upon the Market, and Urges Them to Provide
Suitable Storage for Their Crop.

li‘shed a recommendation from

the United States Government
that the farmers of the nation ship
one-third of their potatoes upon dig-
ging, and provide storage for the bal-
ance to be shipped thruout the re-
mainder of the year. It is recogniz-
ed by the highest authorities that the
only safe way to put the present year’s
crop upon the market is to do so
gradually, and the Government sanc-
tions and encourages the practice of
holding the crop for later develop
ments.

An authority upon potato storage
gives the following terse pointers in
the Sept. 22nd crop report issued by
the American Steel and Wire Com-
pany:

“The potato warehouse is not a
storage proposition; it is used as a
transfer house, to sort and clean stock
and ship to distant markets. The
total capacity of such warehouses is
wholly inadequate to take care of
the potatoes for any save a small mar-
ket. It must be left outof consid-
eration in the problem now eon-front-
ing the nation.

”Potatoes stored in ﬁeld pits suf-
fer from. moisture, cold, lack of ven-

I“ LSEWHERE in this issue is pub-

   
A' '4 130 (or;
w].

 
\ \
SECTION A- -A

l‘ of [‘2 'Jm/

”In/04c lea/3'

    
EK’JoIs/b IE EC

     
OI,

mick urea/m
tel/or 9/ [40/ km]

A// canard/o m [1/0/47
'1 ondroo/oboyt Ila; /ew/

tilation. This is never to be consid-
ered other than a makeshift.

“The potato may be stored in the
farm house cellar to doubtful advan—
tage. In this form of storage the es-
sential requirements of successful po-
tato storage are rarely, if ever, at-
tained. The capacity is not and can-
not easily be made adequate.

“The potato storage collar is built
with no idea of what are successful
storage requirements: Their number
and capacity are not sufficient to ban—
dle the big crops of poxaioes.

“Rectangular pits, not too deep.
with cement walls, or walls cemented
offer a. good solution of a big storage
capacity, quickly erected, and at a
cost not prohibitive. These pits may
be located in a dry barn cellar, in an
implement house, a hay barn. The po-
tatoes in the pit are covered with
earth and straw to control the temper-
ature. Ventilators placed at inter-
vals of 6 feet along the pit and ex-
tending to the ﬂoor, and long ther-
mometers inserted into the potatoes,
make a fair control of conditions pos—
sible. Ventilator should extend down
to the bottom of the potato pit.

“The potato should be'tull r’pe for
storage; that is, contain the maxi—
mum amount of dry matter. When

m it!
\“ “\“ NEW

\q;\\ -. \\ far/16 fm

     
.4 ,
-’§ I512 Farr/r79 507,0: 6
. WI le'apor/ ow can/era I” /

/ 2:4 'Boora’ 1w 'f/} I
/ spaces «

 
.1 ‘ . . “v. u.

I, n ‘ f

\ \\&\\\\\\\‘ “A ‘
[.250'

SECTION 38

 
MATERIALS FQEG‘UIRED

 
45 “Efﬁe-Yd, emf
U
:2 (u. yd: pebb/ca

_I

 
. "stern-”an. apples are 351111111“ $1.50 .
to $2.503 a barrel higher than last

 
IIII

 
WWIIIIIIIIIWWIIIIIIH

v

         
llllIIIHIIIITllllIlllllIIIIllllllIIIIIIIIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

  
—an over-heated exhaust pipe, 21

he Can buy

 
at so low a cost to you.

$65,000
CASH
ASSETS

for Policy
25¢. per H. P.

IIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlll|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII|lIIlll|llIlIlIlllllllIllI|IIIIIIllIIIllII|llIIIIIIII|IllllllI[IIIl|I[Illl[IIIIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHII

HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllll

1n1'11llllllllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllll Illllllllll uh'nmm'num

m

)1

1

Like a Thlef 1n the Night
“back” explosion, and your car ignites.
There is no chance to save it---too much gasoline and oil around.

, 5 car goes up in smoke, and then what?
to. take the chance of his car burning on the road or in the garage when

CITIZENS MUTUAL FIRE, THEFT
AND LIABILITY INSURANCE

. Tell us what car you own 011 a postal to-day!

 
. HOWELLW

Wm. E. ROBB, Sec’y

CITIZENS MUTUAL AUTO INS. CO.,
Howell, Michigan

11m . ""‘lllll‘

A

lllIIIIIIIII IlliiillllllllllIllllllll|

The
No automobile owner can afford

  
IllllllllliIHllllllll

28,400
MEMBERS

:3

300
Claims Paid

llllllllllllilIIIIllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIillllllllllllllllllnl.11.. .

   
,wmHrnnw'w'W‘W“‘11.11.1“:‘1‘WHIHI‘*‘r15151:“HIIIHHIHHHE

 
.1 U- 11m—

Men—It’s the Last Word in Farm Shirts!

There’s genuine satisfaction in the shirt that
won’t shrink~the RACINE. You can buy your
. right size and know it will ﬁt~after it’s washed
The collar won’t choke you,

as well as before.

and the sleeves won’t run up your arms.
full-cut to give your body “breathing”

The collar 15 low and comfortable.
and the buttons are sewed to stay

Your deale r will show you the RACINE. If hedoesn’ t carry
it in stock it will pay you to write us or ﬁnd one who does.

The Chas. Ala-hale? Mfg. Co., Racine, Wisconsin

the vines are killed by blight before
the potato is fully ripe the keeping
quality is affected adversely.

“While cool storage is ﬁavmable
to keeping, yet, under all circumstanc-
es the storage cellar must be frost-
proof and kept not colder than 3.0 to
41. degrees Fahrenheit, for the pota—
to is easily flozen and as easily be-

'comes sweet from the accumulation

of sugar. In very cold storage the
amount of sugar may easily reach 2
per cent. ‘Sweet’ potatoes keep in
warm storage (68 deg. F.) lose grad-
ually the piled up sugar.”
Undoubtedly the most unsatisfac-
tory form of storage for potatoes is
the concrete cellar, plans of which
are shown on this page. These plans
were drawn by the architects of
the Portland Cement Association and
will enable any farmer to build his
own cellar with little effort. We will
be glad to supply any of our readers
with a set of these plans upon 1:0-
quest. Write at once, addressing
your letter to MICHIGAN B USINESS
FARMING, Mt. Clemens, Mich.

Comfort -Weari— Economy

 
. LMIRQ 1:: K
, ' The Old Reliable?

The seams are solid,

  
Has Hus Label

 
It is
room.

«v— ,n, w

We Will Pay You Well

For Your Spare Time

 
\Ve want a representative (Man
or \\ oman) In every localltym Mithigan
to look after the subscription work for our
now u cckly market papei MICHIGAN
BUSINESS FARMING. The work
will be especially easy because every
farmer is a prospect for this new paper.
The work will not conflict in any way
your farm work and will give you a
good paying job when you cannot Work
on the farm. “by not let us send you a
salary check every month for your spare
time work? Can you handle a COL nty, if
not tell us how many townships. \t 111e
tod ﬂy for particularsto the Agemy Dem,

. MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING,
Mt. Clemens, Michigan.
m

 
ROSEN RYE:—-The new selected and
improved rye, for immediate shipment,
.We obtained our seed from The Michi-
.gan Agricultural College, and have Gen-
iuine ltosen Rye for sale. Write for
‘prices. Straclian S: Son, Tonia, Mich.

 
exam SLOCUM' ._ . ., . .. ..
‘ n. L. RUNNILLS ' . . .

, row, no tears, no heart aches.

E
g .
' WWWMIHIHIHIHIHIllllllllilll

s

 
M. as... .‘u' some mac» Owned Mum
‘ siren”. ._Ssr‘rsi«'n ER 29TH, 1917 '

 
nmron
roanns'r AHLOBD .. . . -. ‘nnr'ron

AFN! CAMPBILL srsnx ' ‘- . :m'ron woman's Dam '
m. e. A. com . . . . vs'rsmsxnv Inrroz
war. a. snows ' . ' . . , . . ‘ non. Imros

 
' Published every Saturday by the
RURAL PUBLISHING COMPANY
GEO. H. BLOOUM, Bec’y and Bus. Mgr. . f
' Plant and Offices. Ml. Clemens. Mich.“
_ Onions: Durham, Choice, it" Your, 81-. Lows, Emma

ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR

Nohmium, quuor Clubbing Offers. but a weekly worthﬁw tuna .

whatlu askfor it and mm bplsauor your m back anytime!
Entered u second—clu- metter, at Mt Clemens. Mich.

 
When the Shoe Finches

C C ES SIR,” says Uncle Hiram Hicks, “folks

Y is funny. Charge just as much as you want

to for the

they don’t need—and they pay the bill with nary

a grunt; but put a tax on their stumicks and they
holler like pirates?" '

‘It' may be seen that Uncle Hiram is‘a ’close ob-
server of human nature. We agree with him,
“folks is funny"—decidedly funny. If wenever
suspected \it before the truth has at last dawned
upon us that for the most part the human race
is a mighty queer animal whose mode of living
and general conduct constitutes one of the most
peculiar, mystifying and paradoxical phenome—
nons of nature. ,

But to return to the speciﬁc manifestation of
the phenomenal human characteristics as men-
tioned by Uncle Hi, we are led to remark that the
American public is paying the highest price in
the history of the country for both the necessi-
ties and luxuries of life but with what a varied
grace do they pay the two bills. ,a

The pleasures of life are never so expensive that
people cannot afford to partake of them in some
measure, nor the necessities of life so cheap that
they cease to cry about the high cost of “grub."

The demand for luxuries seems to grow in direct
proportion to their swelling cost;but the only way
to solve the High Cost of Living is to put a rein
on the appetite and cut down the grocery bill.

The great American family somehow manages '

to squeeze enough out of the weekly pay envelope
to buy gas for the buzz-wagon or tickets for the
theater, and smile while they buy; but a rise of
one cent in the cost of bread invites the indigna-
tion of the public and a federal investigation.

It is nobody's business how much folks spend
to keep up appearances; but the cost of feeding
the stomach to keep body and soul together is a
problem for the world’s wisest to solve.

The prices of foodstuffs are high but only in
comparison with previous years. We as a people
are prone to measure the value of everything by
the initial cost, failing altogether to take into con-
sideration the intrinsic value or the service ren-
dered by the commodity. Because of this pro-
pensity it may be natural that people should
protest against the increased cost of food; but
on the other hand. common intelligence should
open their minds to the essential value of the
commodity, and direct them to appreciate that
they are buying the fuel of life very cheaply,
indeed.

Make it Easy for the Boy.

AY MOTHER, has the boy been called? Has
S the babe you used to croon to sleep in the

old wicker chair grown to manhood and
marched away to join the colors? We know the
meaning of those tears that dim your eyes, and
your trembling lips, tho mute, speak volumes of
the sorrow that ﬂoods your heart tonight. The
boy is gone; you wept the day he went away and
you didn’t know the parting could be quite so
hard, but your grief then is nothing to the silent
torture that you endure when you listen, in the
morning from long force of habit, for his step
upon the stair; when you wait for the kiss he
was wont to leave upon your cheek ere he swung
off to the ﬁelds; when you strain your ears at
night to catch the faint sound of his Whistle that
always announced his coming from an evening
trip to town. . _‘

We would not deny you the tears that you spend
for the absent boy. They are the symbol of your
love for him; without love there can be no sor-
Tens of thousands
of-American mothers mingle their tears with

"'yours,_for their little boys have likewise gone,
and they may not return.

It is an occasion that
calls for tears, this sending away of mother’s

   
' memento ymﬁother, .hefll have _ _ ,
_ management you can sire 'hini:ﬁst'reﬁsthen
‘Assoou'rn Barron _ . .
, in him; tell him that, Yeuj‘knOW; he will? live ciean

luxuries of life——the things '

   
a» .

need or mucus

 
mm“ “new” by DrOGMmins‘hn‘unboundéd is!

and” manly, and come home toyou after :the war

' is over, with}. an . unsalted rripnind and a character

asp’u’re and spotless-ids the day he left the farm.
leavinga weeping mother at thegate.
ture,
recollection of which 'Will keep them steady in the
face of great moral and physical danger. 'There'
are lonely night hours. there are days of sickness,
there are weeks of trench warfare when many

It is- a pic-

a. “teller needs a' friend". And what a privilege,

it is to be able, even if for amoment, to think
back in retrospection of the. gray-haired , little-

lady who followed him.‘ down the path of the old,

farm yard and with a quaveringvoice, bade him
God speed. To know that her-theta are with him
always should bring comfort to the soldier boy
and enable him to lay down to pleasant dreams
of home and mother. ’ .

. Says the. Chicago Tribune

"‘If the embittered farmers of Dakota who are re.-
lymg to the cry to oonscript all wealth except agri-

average American. If there isvany class in the world

whose lot is prosperous and secure it is the American

farmers of the middle west.

“Furthermore the main
by the Nonpartisan league .
has ﬁxed the price of this year’s wheat at $2.20 and
insured the next year’s yield at a minimum of not
less than $2, , o ‘

_“Now the farmer, being an intensellly human indi-
v1dua1 and fully awake to his own p ivate interests,
as he should be, is violently protesting because he
cannot get $3 for his wheat, or as much more as
the conditions of the war allow. This may be nat-‘
ural, but it does not go very Well with his vociferous
protests against war proﬁteering. ‘ - ,

“And how are we_ to take his ululations over price
ﬁxing seriously when coal, copper, steel, and other
war commodities are undergoing the same process?
Excess proﬁt taxes leave him unscathed, the income
tax bears more lightly on him than on ,,,any other
citizen. and he is more liberally exempted under the
draft law.

“To the average man protection from extortionate
prices of food is about the ﬁrst necessity. The price
of wheat has been ﬁxed after investigation, and
fairly, We believe, and the Nonpartisan_ league must
devise a more appealing grievance if it 18 looking for
more power, .

HE TRIBUNE’S logic is sound and thecon-
clusions reasonable, but the premises are
faulty.

It is not true, as we understand the situation, -

that the farmers of Dakota are protestingragainst

the maximum price ﬁxed by the Government up?

on their wheat because they are unpatriotic or
desire to shirk their duty to the government in
time of war.. They are standing for a principle,
pure and simple—a principle that has to do with
equal rights and equal taxation. They are mere
ly protesting against the discriminatory practic-
es in ﬁxing a maximum price upon their product,
thru one arm of the government, the Food Ad-
ministration, while another arm of‘the Govern-
ment, Congress, refuses to place a proportionate
share of the burdens upon those most able to
bear it.

Nobody takes the government's regulation of
coal prices seriously, for the simple reason that
nobody has yet seen any eﬁect from it. Coal
may be cheaper at the mines today than a few
months ago, but it is certainly no cheaper to the
consumer. The same is true of the price-ﬁxing
program on steel, copper and “other war com-
modities” whatever they may be. No beneﬁt
comes to the consumer. The commodity passes
thru so many‘hands' and undergoes so many
transformations in the manufacturing processes
that whatever the original saving intended it is
effectually covered up by the time the ﬁnished
article reaches the consumer. And it must be
remembered that the farmer is a consumer who
must pay high for his raw material and for the
machinery to carry on'his farm work. The ﬁx!
ing of a price on wheat comes straight home to
the farmer, but the ﬁxing of a price on the
natural minerals does not affect him or any other
consumer a single whit. .

If the assessor should plaCe a tax against a
farmer’s barn and exempt his neighbor’s barn the
case would be a parallel with the present at-
tempt to ﬁx a price on one commodity and» let
another go scot free. ,

Diversiﬁed Farming

HE ONLY safe farming is diversiﬁed farm-
ing, and not a single year passes by but the ,

overproduction of some crop lends proof and
emphasis to the statement, '

The greatest blow that has hit the south since .

l

"'lllll|illIlllllllllllllliﬂlillllmlllllllllllillllllllllililllllllllllIllllllllllllIlll[Illlllllllllllliilllllllllllllilillllllllliﬂllllilllilllllllllll|"mIllIIllIIliumIllllllllllﬂllﬂllliﬂlllﬂlﬂﬂmlulﬂﬂlillmlllllllﬂllmIlilliilllImIm|lllllillllllimlllil‘lllﬂilllillllil‘il‘mllﬂi ‘

 
. taught the farmers “of. th'

[sure than: was. , It ta‘ugbt‘
" ingthei‘rfseeds in ﬁne hill; :1
‘ wisdom Ofdiversiﬁedtfarming. .

- Howgortunate are the boys. Who went to camp. ,

the fallacy of your course?

 
The southern planter still growsﬁeidsﬂo “cotton,

huts .1... Wyataomstiﬁns is. mum

' ' - - A“ ”Winﬁiumes‘amlly rsiveet‘JOtatoes, , white pom
we'think" that they will chm” “‘1 the its». mestof 1th... stains, beans and cljmmysndx.
“19'1“? products of the"south are already making;

, themselves {alt-.Qin competition .with northern *

"It is a regrettable messes- “ an inertia;-

' ing tendency in {-Michig’an toward the Onecrop .

habit. .Too. many acres» “of meanings, of farms
are: being planted toj’a’ sing-le’ crop ‘to.,which' the

- owners (frequently; give their ,u-ndivideszEattention

much to the detriment. ‘ef "the ‘otheri crops; on
farmer plants too‘ many ' beans, his neighbor plants

' too many potatoesflor‘ an ar beets, its-the case

may‘be.~ Frequently'th'e é tire: resources ‘ofjthe
farmer are gambled on a single-crop,- and much,

too frequently for the goodof-business farming, *

the crop fails or ﬁnds no market. . We have a very
goddillustratio'n‘of the idea this year. __Tens of,
thousands of farmers "in the" state bought expen‘
sive' seed 183st spring and planted .thelargest, ac-
reage of potatoesiin the history of the state. Were
it not for thegreat war_:demand upon farm pro-
ducts, these potato producers would unquestionr

...ably suffergreat less this year thru low: prices

resulting from‘ the ovenproduction. Fortunate-
ly, however, itappears that the demand will take
care of the extra supply, but remember~ that this
is due to an artiﬁcial ahd not naturalcause.

No state of the union offers such splendid op-
portunities. for diversiﬁed farming as Michigan.
Her fertile soils will grow every crop indigenous
to the temperate climes. Friend farmer, why not
be wiser than your southern cousin, and get out
of the one-crop habit before you are stung. 'Why
wait for the bugs or soil exhaustion to show you
‘ YOu'll be planning
your crops for next season within another \few
months. Take the hint and in your plans provide
for a generous planting of legumes, and do not
forget the value of, live stock. Be a diversiﬁed
farmer the next few years and you cannot fail
in the farming game. -

Getting Ready for Prohibition

HE SALOONKEEPERS of the state are get.-

I ting ready for prohibition. But they’re not
the only ones, not by a long shot; the man-
ufacturers of patent boOze'medicines are getting
ready for the occasion, too, and they’ve already
begun to ﬂood the state‘with their literature. If
you want to know the su'ccesSor to old King Whis-
key in Michigan, look at the announcements of

his coming in the Detroit newspapers. His name

is T—A-N-L-A—C—guaranteed 16 per cent pure al-
cohol, b—gosh. .He’s a deceptive old boy, with a
real punch and an eye to business. With the help
of our daily press, and the drug fraternity, he
will begin where ‘Whiskey left off, and ﬁnish the
job for old D. T.

Booze is booze, no matter whether it comes in
a pure-unadulterated state _with its name clear
across the bottle, or whether it comes sneaking
concealed in hitters and elderberry and labeled
“medicine.”

The farmers of Michigan put the old state on
the dry list last fall, and it looks how as tho
they wduld have torﬁght to keep it there. A law
on the statute books makes it a crime for a ﬁrm
to advertise deceptively and a crime for a news-
paper to publish the advertising. Both these
crimes are being committed ,,but no effort has yet
been made to apprehend the offenders or dis-
courage. the practice. Michigan is supposed to
have a department ‘of justice; somebody please
call their attention to the injustice that is being
perpetrated upon the good people of Michigan
who voted the state dry and want it dry.

It has just been discovered that the per capita
wealth of the nation is $1,965.' This means that
if all the country’s wealth were evenly distrib-
uted, every farmer and his wife and each one
of' their children would. possess property ,or cash
to the precise" value of $1,965. In'other words,
the average. American family-of 'six'would be
worthr$11,790. Now look about you and :tell us
how many of your country and town acquaint--
ances are Worth that much. A

 
mimmu' ,.

 
memwunumum Immmummuumuui

 
UllllllllIllllllI“IllilllllllllllllIlllllllllIllill!lllllIllIIlllllllHl|illlllﬂlilllllllﬂllllllUiulliillUUlllllllNlllilllllllllllllllilllllI“illIllllllﬂlilllllllinlllillllllllllllilllllllilllllllIllilmmmlﬂﬂﬂmﬂwmmmﬂmlmllnmunﬂlllllnllillullulilililmlﬂlllllllillllllﬂllliilllmﬂlﬂlmmlﬂlumﬂmllﬂmﬂlmﬂ

   
Wlmlmmmumunmmmu

 
E :
.'
F;

  
'_- .1. ' , meatfless’ Ida'yt’has arrived in Michigam '
' rSodn xtheﬁ‘hoalaless’” day? will Come along. ‘: Shall'
'1. ~ ,1.“ g p . ~ “ 'iwe‘also have, the “Shoe-less" day, the “‘coa‘t—less",
‘, , Whenever'we read 0171‘. Roosevelt pouring the . day, the “pant-less” day? Heaven forbid, but it ~
V , ‘ p . vials othiswrath upon those With whom he does not it must be,‘ give, oh" give us, the “lifeless” day,

. . a there» much speculation agree, We are. reminded or Tthebully Who sought and end it all!
‘ eir lesaas What‘ffetion the Gevern- ' to' intimidate the neighbor’s boy by swearing at ,
take inicase the'Allied nations de- him; After a long tirade of abuse and curses, When the government places a. maximum price
voided tempt Germainyk; peace terms, proffered during which the smaller chap stood with a com- upon shoes, clothing, farm implements and all
thru the medium. of, ther‘Kaiser. The fact must , placent smile upon his face, the bully ﬁnally paus- manufactured products,——and 'not till then—can
not be overlooked ,,fthat there is’ little evidence of ed for breath. Then up spake the other: “All we justify the ﬁxing of a maximum price on
social or political unrest in Germany or a desire them things you been callin’ me is what you are.” . wheat or any other farm commodity.

   
,te, ‘ \

 
WWII!!!"Milli!"IillIlll"1|!!lemill!“milllllﬂlllWWII""3|"!!meIll]Ill!lIllIHillIll"mlIllIillIlllllllllllilmﬂmﬂﬂlmmﬂlﬂmmmmlllmllilllllilm|lll!IllllllllllllillllllllllllWimmﬂlﬂlﬂﬂﬂmmnillllﬂmmiimnﬂﬂMl"mlMﬂmﬂHmﬂllHlllmllmmllllllmlliHimllﬂlllllllllllmllllmuHillllll"IllllilmllllIllliillillllliHililiI[mltilillillllllllllllillmllﬂmﬂlllﬂﬂlllll"

   
‘ . ‘ v ' "IWFI'PZ’JII ' I
' ‘ e ,, weir; ~ ‘ _ ,
! {he a I ,1 ‘ ., ' . ‘ V
A ' ‘ -— - A H-H'm" ' ' ..
‘ ‘ ’I , ll . , //
, _ . . , \ . ”may, . x
.k ‘ I I W '3‘. i ’
a? .I
I
t
a,
g.
To SAVE AT THE:
E ' a BUNG“°LE if
E
. g .
3
i
I E
.3
E
a
a
E
g a
g s
5
s
E ,
g A “Close-Up” of Some of the Heads of Government in the Allied Countries.
. a From left to ri ht they are, President Poincare of France. Prince of Wales,
' . a Mme. P Eir Ernest Birdie, King George of England, Field Marshal Haig
f " g (behind the King), the Queen of England. ,
" g
E
_ E
-. a
g g
'4 s
i
V a
‘r . . , 7 Altho Many Farmers Have Found the Horse too slow for the needs of this
E Airplanes in the Making. A mammoth Plane Factory is now in the course Modern Age, Farmer John Schweiger still clings to the Good, Old Plodding
; . of construction at Detroit which has ambitions to be the Center of the Airplane Team of Oxen. They’re Always on the Job, never run away or Have a Broken
i Industry for the United States. ' ‘ Crank Shaft.
.: : g
E i
‘ 3
g
a)”

llllllllllllHillillll'lliiﬂlll'lll

    
I
i

E
E

 
In the Training Camp- Every Art of Modern vWarfare is Being Taught to the Several Hundred Thousand American Boys now in Training‘for Army
,Life. Above scene shows Soldiers Erecting Brush and Wire Entanglements.

e _.

      
5:1"|"mill"IililllllllllllllllliliuuL V mi N ‘ ”W'I" "‘ " M; .u‘ ‘ IllllilillIIlllliUllillillillillillllllllIlulillIllllllIllillillllllilllllllHlllllllllllHHIHIIHIIIlllllllllllllllllll: lllllllllllllllllllllllﬂl[lmlullulm m x...” Muillﬂlil‘l. , ' mm“
. . v n ‘ , ' W’ ,

 
.- IME' . To RAISE

w

 
es of most commercial fertil-
‘4‘s at present are high. Potash is
hot unobtainable. Only by most
”-l'npulous conserVation of stable man-
, and an increased use of legumes
green manure, and of ground rock
. oephate, can the commercial fertil-
" er shortage be met, even temporar-
thy. There remains one thing, how-
ver, that may be done to increase
yields, which costs no more now than
fdid before. it may safely be said,
'I believe, that if all sources of’art'i-
ﬁcial chemical fertilizers failed, our
total farm output in many sections
could not only be ma‘ntained, but
. even increased for a considerable time
Wsimply by the application of lime to
’ .acreeges that now are lowin yield or
lying fallow because they are too
sour to grow proﬁtable crops. Lime
7 can and should be put on all sour
‘ land. By a plentiful. use of lime we
can, ﬁguratively speaking, make our
“war bread” of stones. ‘

The e is perhaps no considerable
sectio
some local supply of limestone. marl
or. oyster shells. Ground limestone
for direct application to the soil costs,
delivered on the nearest siding. from

_ $1 per ton up, depending on the length
of the haul. If crushed limestone is
not available, burned lime, either
ground or hydrated for agricultural
use or the ordinary lump lime carried
by all dealers in building materials,
may be used in emergency, though
lime in this form is frequently more
expensive. 0n the other hand 'If
burned or hydrated lime is used the
applications should be less than one-
half those of ground limestone.

Thus there is available for almost
every farmer, at normal cost, in spite
of war conditions. a material which
for the time being. may avail to In-
crease our agricultural output enor-
mously. The initial returns from the
application of lime to sour land are
sometimes remarkable. An invest-
ment in limestone often pays a dwi-
dend of a hundred per cent or more
the ﬁrst year, if care is taken at the
same time to maintain the organic
content of the soil. ,

It is the duty of American farmers.
inthis national crisis. to make the
most of this. our cheapcst and most
easily available agency for speeding
up production. Var or no war. a car-
load of crushed limestone where need-
ed is always money in the farmers’
pocket at the end of the crop year.
And a carload of limestone. judicmus-
ly used by each farmer whose land Is
too acid, will augment our supply of
breadstuffs by a surprising number
of millions of bushels.

TO PROVIDE PROFITABLE
POTATO DISTRIBUTION

The planting of potatoes was urged
to afford an adequate food supply and
the response by growers was in ac-
cordance with the request. The sea-
son has apparently provided a fair
to large crop. There is. however,.no
need of growers becoming panic-
stricken and putting their crops on
the market at a price below cost. Mr.
Hoover, the National Food Adminis-
trator, has said that Agriculture has
many times “sweatcd” and not ade-

, quatelv paid for food supply. The
present wish and plan is to see that
the cost of potato growing plus a fair
proﬁt is had in the sale of the crops.

The following plans are submitted
at present. viz. that one-third of the
potatoes‘bc shipped at time of dig-
ging. one—third put. in storage with
Federal Reserve Loans where needed,

and the remaining one~third stored at
home and distributed throughout the
‘r’emaindcr of the year. Storage
hmlses on the railroads should be
‘ eased or built. The potatoes graded
nder direction, of county agents and
,' rage receipts used for loans. Later
lains, will be promulgated as to this
lien given out byéthe Federal Re-
m": banks, at present consult local
aukers.’ Some plans are under way
large. city buying and storage, at
"_rvest time. Send to the U. S‘. De-

  
ltoRE AND BETTER CROPS.

' Director of Markets.

of the United States without .

  
847 'on Potato Storage. Plans are at

present being made for -moetinga,vo_to
potato growers throughout the state

in different places to discuss these
plans. Please write this ofﬁce what
your ”advice and wishes, are. All food
stuffs will be needed this year, and
there need be no alarm about pota-
toes if proper market plans are con-
sidered.~——Jas. N. McBride,

MICHIGAN BEAN GROW-ERS
’ -MEETING OCTOBER 3rd

The Michigan Bean Growers Will
meet at Saginaw, Wednesday,, Octo-
ber 3rd, at 11 a. m.. at the Court
House or a hall near thereto. This
meeting will be of the utmost impur-
tance not only to the State but to
the, bean growers of the United States.

_The National Food Administrator, Mr.

Hoover, advised the Bean Growers
that the United States would not ﬁx
the price of beans, directly, but want-
ed the growers to have .the cost of
growing plus ’a fair proﬁt; The op-
portunity is at hand for agriculture
to be placed on a business basis. The
United States Food Administration
has made recognition of A. B. Cook
as the National representative of the
Bean Growers’ Association. Alev
Pollar of Saginaw is secretary of

much inconvenience later.

them until they are in constant use.
3. Plan farm help,

get in the silage.
Feed will be high.

of lime on certain soils will help.

prolonged the life of the machine,

llllllllllllllllllllllllllIIIIiHHHIlllllllllllllllllllHHIIIHiHHIIIHHIHHIHHJIHIIHIHHHEIiii!!!|IilIlllllHIHIIIHIHHHIHIHHIHHIHHIHEIIHIE

ﬁll!llil[HIIHHIIIIHHHH

the Michigan Bean Growers’ Associ-
ation. Bean growers and representa-
tives of Agricultural organizations
are asked, by all means, to be pres-
ent. The Michigan organization of
bean jobberswill meet at the same
date. Government orders for beans
are distributed through W. J. Orr of
Saginaw. Mr. Orr desires the co—op-
eration of growers. The present price
of beans ﬁxed by the United States
for military supplies does not apply
to the crop of 1917.——Jos. N. MOB/ride,
Michigan Director of Markets.

MORE SIMPLIFIED
FARM ACCOUNTS
With the pendulum of present

day education swinging far over
into the ﬁeld of agriculture, it has be-

 
come with some agricultural speakers '

and writers a stock subject for homily
and rebuke that the farmer keeps no
accounts. It is incredible to the
economist and the theorist that any
man could be so blind as to endeavor
to conduct any business without at
least taking a yearly inventory to dis—
cover if there be depreciation or appre-
ciation in tllo’value of his stock in
trade. -

But those who incline to judge the
farmer harshly for this laxity, this
unbusinesslike attitude,
to reﬂect that where any custom or
condition obtains so widely as to in-
clude in industrial class, that custom
or condition has its roots in soil that
lies deeper than the surface.

It is very true that no business man
would dream of dispensing with an ac-
counting department, but commercial
accounting has long since been worked
out to the exactness of a science and
the business man who is in need of
either experienced counsel or trained
clerical help to assist him in handling
his accounts can secure either or both

 
partment of Agriculture for Bullotlnw‘

Michigan

E
i
g
E
E
E

THE BUSINESS FARMER’S CALENDAR

Reminders of the. Things That Should be Done
0n the F arm This Week '

1. Examine the furnace or base burner.
other part, has become worn or burned out.

. 2. Ilave a look at the chimneys and roofs before the cold weather. ‘
tive chimneys cause heavy ﬁre losss each year and usually no thought is given

High school boys can handle a potato fork during the
cooler weather when perhaps they would not stick during the heat ot midsummer.
.4. Michigan is scheduled for another freeze about October 3rd. Don‘t wait,
5 Weed out the scrubs and feeders in your herd before winter comes on.

6. You may hav trouble getting fertilizer.

7. On rainy days have a look at the farm machinery. Clean 0!! the accum-
ulated dirt, oil running gears, etc., paint Where necessary and you will have

8. If possible, separate the roosters and young cockrels from the flock.

will do well .

.54' _ ..

"by the outlay o .
per- cent of his income ;.,whereas,‘ all
‘ systems of. farm act-(muting are still“
in the experimental. Stage. and the. av-
erage farmer, be his intentions ever so
good, can not easily ﬁnd either pro-
cedent or trained help’ to assist. him.

Moreover, in keeping comprehensive '
set of books he muSt meotnnd solve >

all of‘theproblems with which the bus-

iness man contends, and in addition

mustrcope with a choice ,collection oi

knotty problems that are, especially,
.. peculiarly his own. .

For instance, the storekeeper or me

tory owner may hire ten men to assist

him, paying them an average wage of
$10.00 per week. His weekly'out lay
then for help is exactly and invariably
$100.00.
two men, paying each a monthly wage
of $25.00. ’ But they must board with‘
him and to discover exactly what his
help casts him involves the keeping of
household accounts, and this in its
turn is rendered more than ordinarily
difﬁcult from the fact that so much of
the food used is produced on the farm
and is not easily susceptible of accur-
ate valuation. '

Let us then begin our crusade for
business methods on the farm, by in-
ducing the farmer to keep for one
year an approximate account of a sin-
gle enterprise. Let us not discourage
him with hair-splitting discussions of
depreciation of machinery, appoint;

lhlllll

It may be that the grate or some
Making the repairs now may save

Defec—

Remember that a. good dressing

i—lll|llUlilIll|IlllllHlIll]llHlllllH!”I!Ill]IilllllllIlllllllllllllllllllll|lll|Ill|l|HlIlI|l”NIH|lllllH|[Illlll|lllllIll[IlllIliHHllllHHlllllll

lllllllllllllllllllllill HHUHHHHHIHHIIIHHHH l—

ment of general expenses, interest on
investments. etc. Rather, will it be
wiser and productive of greater good if
we make his ﬁrst lesson as easy as
possible. and require him to consider
the easily comprehended questions of
labor, feeds and cash change against a
glven enterprise with cash receipts or
other income from the same. '

in chooosing the poultry account by
which to illustrate a simple method for
keeping the record of a single enter-
prise, I had three reasons: First, it
is an enterprise common to practically
all farms; second, it nearly always
shows a gain, however poorly the bus-
iness has been conducted, and this in
itself encourages the beginner to per-
severe in his keeping of accounts; and
third, it is on'of the simplest to handle
of all farm enterprises.

It is not necessary that a daily ac-
count be kept of labor. Simply make
a note of time required to feed and wa-
ter the chickens and gather the eggs,
for say three successive days in a
month. Combine these three amounts
and divide by three, thus securing an
average of each day. Then multiply
the average by the number of days in
the month and the product thus ob—
tained represents the total hours of
labor for the month. 11' extra work
is done during the month. such as
cleaning or repairing hen house, pre-
paring poultry for market, setting
hens. etc., this time should, of course,
be added. Then by keeping record of
the feeds which will be found more or
less ﬁgured at market price, and when
on the next sheet the income from sales
of different kinds, eggs, chicks, hens,
etc. sold, and the start is made. Once
the germ is planted the task becomes
much easier and more simple, when in-

‘ stead of being dreaded, you will look
forward 'to the evening ‘with pleasure
to see how things balance ups—ﬁll. B.
Rushing. ‘

  
a. comparatively, small

90*? Immnsme 2 '

The farmer hires, let us say, .

' percent beets.

o

 
sit-GAR ”sari/rigors] j ' ‘
of the Federal "trade "

 
"The reports

commission on the . sugar . beet

3 industry oi the United States contains ‘ ' ,
"many

interesting facts. It shows,
among other things that Michigan and
Colorado each have 16 beet sugar
factories and thus lead all the other
states. _01 the 14 factories built in
1899, eight of them were in Mich-
igan, and since that time the develope-

ment of the sugar beet industry in the»
The season of

state has been large.
1914-15, . the United States produced
over. 720,000 tons of sugar, approxi-
mately. one-ﬁfth of‘which was supplied
by Michigan. - ' .

For some unexplainable reason, the
cost of growing beets in Michigan is
somewhat higher than that average for
the other states, which consequently
smaller proﬁts per note. ‘The aver-
age proﬁt per acre on ’13 Michigan
farm during-the threejears 1911, ’12
and ’13 was $17.80 or $1.63 per ton.

“It is hot probable,” says this report,
that any standard crop Would year
after yearlyield better net returns per
acre than beets.” And there is al-
ways this important fact to be kept
in mind, that there is no crop which
can supplant boots in this latitude to
provide sugar, an article for which
there is a continuous and increasing
demand.

The report ris not as complete for-the
enlightenment of the grower of beets
as it might be, as many pages are
taken up with the cost of producing
the sugar from the beets. Little
attention is given to the cost of pro-
ducing the raw product or the many
problems which beset the grower of
sugar beets.

If the ﬁgures given in the report
are reliable, the sugar manufacturers

, of Michigan are not making the~huge

proﬁts popularly supposed. However,
since none of the manufacturers are
listed by either name or locality,
there is no way ot"knowiug whether
Michigan factories are waxing fat or
starving thin. 29 companies oper-
ating 5' years show a wide range of
results. from an 18 per cent loss on
the invested capital to a 45 per cent
proﬁt. The average proﬁt for these
29 companies which produce over 95
percent of the domestic sugar, was
11.9 per cent on the capital invested.
This amount is based on an average
cost of about $5.50 per ton for beets.

“A signiﬁcant fact brot out is the
high value of by-products in the Lake
states, The amounts in the column
showing credits for stock in process
and by-products are mainly for by-
products consisting of pulp and mo-
lasses. This large credit for by—pro-
ducts in these states is due to the
great value of pulp. The factories
in the Lake States have accessible
markets for dried pulp; this is quite
a proﬁtable feature of their business.”

The federal commission believes that
not only is a sliding scale price for
beets equitable and fair, but that con-
sideration should also be given to the
sugar content. It notices an unfair
discrepancy between $5 for 12 percent
beets, and for instance $5.50 for 16
It is pointed out that
if 12 percent beets are worth $5, 16
percent beets should be worth $6.68,
or 41 and twothirds cents for each
additional percent of sugar.

WHAT RIGHT nernons
WILL Accomausn

Ninety bushels of oats to the acre
is the record made this year by Carl
Vrooman. Assistant Secretary of Ag-
riculture, on one of his farms at Che-
noa, Ill. The average for all the oats
harvested on the Vrooman farms
this year was 73 bushels per acre.
The average production of oats per
acre for Illinois for the past ten years
is 33.1 bushels. The fact that Mr.
Vrooman was able to more than doub-
le this average on his entire acreage
and almost to treble it on one ﬁeld,
it is pointed out, is proof of the eﬂ‘i-
cacy of the methods recommended by
the United States Department of Ag-
riculture. All of the oats were grown
in accordance with methods approved
by the. Department; : , . - '

 
.—

 
:. 1% an

agr'm'mncr or- .m- T

   
mum?

3:96:99.

T0, BEGET LIKE '

Great as is the scope for skill in
the management of soil and crops
there is still greater scope for skill
in the management of live ' stock.
When a farmer sows or plants seed
for a crop no skill in tillage will make
any variation in the kind of crop.
When the stock breeder goes tb work
it lies largely with his own judgment
and skill whether or not he produces
an improved animal. Continued se-
lection and hybridization have made
our farm crops what they are and
with ordinary cultivation there is
little tendency to deteriorate. In the
case of live stock a‘ single generation
omay make the greatest dilference
either for better or for worse.

It cannot fail to strike the observ-
er ~how wonderfully uniform in ap-
pearance wild animals are. Rabbits,
squirrels, foxes, etc., are each an ex-
act production of the type. This is
not the case with domesticated ani-
mals. The more the breeding of the
stock has been kept under control the
more variable the stock may be it that

control is injudicious.

The ﬁrst principle of breeding, like
begets like, establishes the importance
of pedigree of blood. When animals
.are all of one strain of blood from time
immemorial they .all settle down to '
one type. There is no reason why
they should vary. The male element
and the female element work together
to ﬁx the type. When a cross takes
place between animals of two different
types whether different strains of the
same breed or different breeds there
ls. a struggle for inﬂuence between the
different types. As a-result the pro-
geny may show some of. the points of
each of the parents or sometimes may
resemble one of the parents very
closely and show no resemblance to
the-other. These variations are not
arbitrary. 'Where the male and the
female are both equally pure bred the
progeny usually- show a mixture of
characteristics. When one is pure
bred and the other is cross bred the
purebred type will always predomin-
ate m the young. The blood of the
pure bred parent is prepotent over
the other parent because it has a ﬁxed
type Whereas the other is a mixture
of types without any ﬁxity.

This explains the prejudice of ex-
perienced breeders against mongrel
sires. They may be ﬁne-looking ani-
mals perfectin every external 'point
but they have little if any prepotency.
They may produce strong, healthy
stock but there is no certainty that
this product will not cast back to
the inferior strain of the blood. The
average run of female live stock
throughout the country is of indeﬁn-
ite breeding so there can be no cer-
iaintynvhat the produce will be like
if they are mated with badly bred
Sll‘eS‘. With the same class of stock
the pure bred sire will impress his
oWn good quality on the offspring.
Among dairy cattle the inﬂuence of
the pure bred sire will tell not onlv
in the shape and constitution of the
calves but also in the milking capac-
ity of the COWs. This influence will
be for good if the sire comes from a
line of milking cattle. It will be for
had if he comes from a non-dairy
family. A pure bred hull of beef pro-
ducing type will spoil a dairy herd
just because of the prepotency which

      
~' .

Ami

mg pure bred breeding gives him. LOCI: T0 TﬁE 311001)

This is no argument against the use
of pure bred sires in such cases, it
only shows the necessity of under-
standing every aspect of the princi-
ple “like begets like.” The same prin-

ciple holds true in the selection of

parents of good constitution. Deli-
cate onunsound parents, poor feeders,
poor milkers or vicious bad tempered
animals are apt to produce these
qualities in their progeny. .
The breeder who keeps before his
mind the principle that like begets
like and who remembers that it is
applicable in a full sense only to an
imals of pure bloOd has made one step
in the direction of making his stock
more proﬁtable. If he breeds for milk
he will ﬁnd out the best of his cows
by keeping a record of their produce

and will mate them with a pure-bred .

bull of a good dairy strain. This is
important for in the same breed of
cattle there is much variation in
dairy capacity. If he breeds for beef
he will take those heifers which show
.the earliest maturing and quickest
fattening qualities and will mate them
with a hull of an early maturing beef
type. It is all a matter of selection.
No one need have unproﬁtable live
stock if he will make it a point of
selling the bad ones and breeding only
from the good—John Underwood.

 
G. H. CONN, D. v., Editor

IHAVE A horse that will be ﬁve years
old in May and he is thin in ﬂesh.
When I turn him out he runs and plays.
He was not worked much this winter. I
feed him oats, corn and timothy hay.
—H. D., Escanaba, Mich.

Have this horses’ teeth examined and
if there are any long hooks on his grinder
teeth have them ﬂoated. Use a ground
chop feed for a time and at each meal
give a handful of oil meal in the feed.
For two or three weeks give him one table-
spoonful of Fowler’s solution of arsenic in
the feed at each meal.

IS THERE danger of blood poison in a
calf of a. cow which has not cleaned for
ten days? The calf was taken away
from her as soon as this happened and
fed milk from a cow which had not been
fresh long. , This milk was gradually
substituted with skim-milk until the cow
was three weeks old, at which time it was
getting half and half. It then went in-
to spasms and died in a few liolursr—S. '1‘.,
Grand Ledge, Mich. ,

No cow should be allowed to go longer
than three or three and one-half days with
out being cleansed and it is usually best
to remove the after—birth not later than
two days after calving. It is possible for
a calf to suck the milk from a cow that
has absorbed enough of this septic mater—
ial that it would make it sick and it is al—
so possible for the cow to absorb enough of
this material that she may die from blood
poisoning. This calf was not poisoned
by the dams milk but died .with acute
indigeston caused by eating too much
and too greedily. Feed calves at fre—
quent intervals and do not allow them to
drink too fast.

HAVE A fine jersey heifer that dropped

a calf about ten days ago. The next
day I noticed her right hind quarter
swollen and ,it has been very hard and
swollen evcr since. I can milk a thick
stringy lumpy substancc from the tplll.w"'
A. M.. Alliance, Ohio.

lathe this quarter wcll lhl'cc times :1
day with hot watcr for ﬁfteen or twenty
minutes. Massage the quarter thoroly
and strip out all of thc milk that you
possibly can. Take a poke root ﬂuid
extract one ounce and of camporated
oil 'ﬁve ounces and mix then rub this in
well after each formentation with warm
water.

 
.‘t...llll|ll‘u -

Agriculture.

imr wk ‘ltmmmm.

E applicable to farming if made to read;
seed coin dry.” ‘ - ‘

 
)

Seed Corn Kernels

A good selection of colonels for the Army is scarcely more important
than a good selection of kernels for next year's supply of seed corn. Both
might well be Judged on past performances, says the U. S. Department of

Germination tests do not tell the whole seed corn story. Corn that will
come up but that Will produce an unproﬁtable crop is worse than seed which
wont grow at all, because it fools a farmer into using labor and land that
are lost. Know what your seed‘ will do by selecting it yourself.

Cheap seed corn may prove very dear; the seed corn that produces the
best crop is the cheapest, no matter how high the cost may seem.

. If you must buy seed, pay your neighbor a reasonable price for selcclcd
dried seed of a variety that has made good in a neighboring ﬁeld; but don‘t
: pay a stranger a fancy pr1ce for seed claimed to give miraculous yields.
"Trust in Providence and keep your powder dry” is an injunction equally

Actual tests have proved that Carefully stored seed corn will yield as
much as 18 bushels more the acre than seed from the ordinary storage of the
corn crib. ‘ This would mean almost double the yield for some folks. '

llulilllllllllllllllllmllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllIlllIlllllllIlllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllllllIllllllllllIlllllll"Illllllllllllllllﬂmﬂﬂllﬂﬂlﬂullullllllllllllllll

.,..wh.l!é.:1.{Hun mow

 
“Trust in Providence and keep your

   
I;

B“C“e¢mmmww
. . BREED/”G PROBLEMS

.; t .

sow's WELFARE.

Some time ago a gentleman visit-
ed our farm and looked over the stock.
He remarked that the brood sows were
in too godd conditi'n. He continued

to say that the brood sow should be '

rather thin in order to get the best
results at farrowing time. It was no
use to argue with this man so I told
him to wait until the sows tarrowed
and then he could see for himself that
it paid to keep the brood sow in good
condition. A few weeks later he had
the opportunity to see these same sows
with their litters and he had to ad-
mit- that he was wrong in his state-
ment. . ‘

And when you think about the ques-
tion, it is only reasonable to admit
that a pregnant animal should be kept
in very good condition because she
has not only her own body to feed
but also those of her young. An ani-

. mal is selﬁsh in one respect and that

is that she will use all the nourish-
ment that she needs for her own body
before she gives any of it to her young.
When she is fed more than she needs
for herself, then the young are going
to get the surplus and if there is no
surplus, the young do not get their
share. The same is true with- the
dairy cow, the ewe and the mare. .

The kinds of feeds to give the brood
sow is another problem which should
deserve considerable attention. Corn
and similar feeds are not good for the
brood sow when fed in any great
quantities. Corn, which contains
mostly carbohydrates does not tend
to build up muscle and bone and tis-
sue. Sloppy feeds should also be
avoided as much as possible because
there is too much bulk and too little
nourishment in the most of them. I
mean by sloppy feeds thin sloppy
feeds containing mostly water and the
real food in it so diluted that a great
quantity of it must be eaten in order
to get any great amount of nourish—
ment out of it. Brood sows must have
considerable feed containing protein
such as middlings, oats. etc. Protein
is the food that builds up the-bones.
tissues and muscles. The sow needs
this because She is nursing the young
and that is the kind of food thatthey
demand. If the sow is fed too much
corn she becomes too fat and the pigs
are weak and sickly. This is the
reason that we sometimes see a great
big fat sow have a small litter of very
small weak pigs.

Farmers the country over are just
now studying the hog question and
making every effort to establish
strong, healthy and proliﬁc herds.

The careless methods of old are
going into the discard. and farmers
are beginning to treat: Mr. Hog with
the deference to which he is en-
titled.‘iL. S. Brmnm.

FALL pilgrim" CHEAPEST
FEED FOR LIVE STOCK

,(ll'uin for making bread for human
use is the most important thingr for
the human race. Wheat, corn. rye,
rice. and other grains have grout im-
port-alive as human food. Novel-the
less we must produce meat. and espec—
ially must we preserve the breeding
stock. ,for the United States may be
the m0s important source of both
meat and breeding stock in the world
after the war.

The cheapest food for live stock is
pasture. Do. not neglect the fall seed—
ing of ram and small grains for feed-
ing of hogs and cattle. A small quan-
tity of rape seed will produce abund-
ant pasture for hogs.

Oats, wherg the seed can be obtained,
should be put in for both cattle and
hogs. , ’

Grass pastures should be looked af-
ter and treated as an important crop
on the farm.

Alfalfa is one of the few seeded le-
gumes the seed of which can be ob-
tained. While the crop seeded this
fall would not be ready for pasture
this year, farmers with plenty of live
stock give this crop careful consider-
ation if their soil is adapted to it.

 
’//////7/////7/’////{’/

K

N\\1x\x\\\\\\\\\\mx\\\ww

/

 
Exhibit to Your Door

Mail a postal for our new tank
showing full line of Kalamazoo
products. Get wholesale prices
--learn how hundreds of thou-
sands have saved money getting “A
Kalamazoo act, to You.”
' ' IT -priced
wrlte Today has makes
Kalamazoo savings bigger than
ever this year. Get your new stove
now and save more in fuel bills.
ont— stages—-
walting. We pay t e freight. ,
Cir am We“; er es '
tn . orca a as o. . a“
naumxzoo mv: co. ”V
Mfrs. Kalamazoo. llch. ’
We manufacture Stoveskanm,

 
Gas Ranges. Furnaces, Kitchen

,rabies. QM ‘
'A Kalamazoo 1/ ‘

'DllCCl to You

      
from same crop!

The Appleton saves all the feed value
of corn—while husking ears. it cuts
(or shreds) stalks, leaves and hunks
into ﬁne fodder that; gives twice better
feeding results than shock feeding. ‘

GUARANTEED TO DO MORE
WORK WITH LESS POWER
than any husker of equal size. Husk:
cleanest.shells least; has most efﬁcient
corn sever. Easiest,satest to operate.
FREE HUSKER BOOK
shows 4 Iizes i014 h.p.en¢inel and up.
Appleton Mfl.CO. 589 Fun scams-.111.

 
BSORBWE

TRADE MARK RES.U.S.PAT. :1“

Will reduce Inflamed, Strained.
Swollen Tendons, Ligamenta.

or Muscles. Stops the lamenessand
pain from a Splint, Side Bone or
Bone Spavin. No blister, no hair
gone and horse can be used. 82 ﬂ
bottle at druggists or delivered. De-

- scribe your case for special instruc-
tions and interesting horse Book 2 MFree.
ABSBRBINE, “L, the antiseptic liniment for
m’ankind, reduces Strained, Torn Liga-
ments. Swollen Glands. Veins or Muscles:
Heals Cuts. Sores, Ulcers. Alleys pain. Price 5-.
$1.00 a bottle at dcalen or delivered. Book "Evidence" free.

W. F. YOUNG, P.D.F., 229 Temple St, Springfield, Mass

 
6

 
MAKes arse LAZY HEN LAY
,“The Tale of a Lazy llcn” is the title of a new
book, which tells how to make your hens
”in lay every day in the your. Everybody,
H“ no matter ll you raise one chicken or a
H' "\ thousand, should send for this FREE
”If ztaboos. ll'rilrfar i: at once. It’s
1; ’

,.

'. .. nbsol utely FREE.

.’ i cﬂéﬁtl-f/M Pay/fall”;

2;..No. 2ND 51'. anguous, Minn.

 
a
-~

 
Durable. Powerful. Reliable

Massive. B dohud,heavywork—togivelasting'

servwe. Uses Cheapest Fuel. Pulls25t05095mom ‘

-\ 7- H~P.thm rated. .hlppod on three

months’ trlnl. Easy terms. Size!

‘ 1K to 22 EP. Io-Yeu

Guarantee. look

0 tree— postal gets it. fill-E

TTAWA MFG. CO.

1281 nun" Ohm. m. 0°0“

”"53"“qu

l. : " iv" . .,
iii.stillillliiinxix-w.-- . .

    
ROSEN RYE is practically twice as
good a yielder as common rye. It cross-_
fertilizes so get the pure variety from far—
mers whose yields have been inspected.
For list write, J. W. Nicolson, East Lan-, .
sing, Michigan. - ” , ,

 
MAN
big pay, easy work. ,
00., Dept. 738, Chicago.

To wear ﬁne suit, act as agent; ‘
Banner Tailoring

 
"WWW"

. a,

"E
E
E
' E
E
E
E
E
E
.g
E
E
-,,E

, _spoken\sort of person, answered,
_. scandalous!"

 
This Week’s Tested Recipe

APPLE SAUCE CAKE

One cup sour apple sauce. Scam half cup 3
shortening. 1 cup sugar (white or brown). 1 -
.teaspoon soda mixed into apple sauce. ‘Bp‘ieea E
to suit taste. Pinch of salt. 2 cups ﬂour. ' g
- This was kindly furnished by Mrs. F. Kan- g
arsk g

I:

.. .nlllunmlnuilnmylunmummun11mmum1mm111n1m111mmmmmlmmmmnmmmmmumnnmnmmmlu i?

Partners in Work and Partners in Play.

Y HUSBAND has had his automobile
two months and I have never . had
time to ride in it ” Mrs. Brownell told

her neighbor, and her neighbor, being an out-

“I think that’s

Mrs. Brownell ﬂushed and looked rather hurt,
soher neighbor added: -

“Really, Mrs. Brownell, I don’ t mean to be
rude, but I don’t believe in a wife being nothing
but the hand- -power in her home. You know heart-
power is just as important, and lots of folks think
it a heap more important, I for one.”

After her neighbor had left, Mrs. Brownell
found herself pondering over her words, and they
recurred to her many times during the day. In-
deed, their effect on her was so great that after

supper that evening when her husband went out 2

to the barn after the car, (without asking her
along, she noticed Even husbands get discourag-
ed!) she called after him: “Wait a minute, Hen-
ry. “I’m giong along.”

She enjoyed skimming over the smooth country
roads. There was a good gravel road from the
Brownell farm to town, and for the ﬁrst time
Mrs. Brownell really appreciated it. She couldn’t
remember when she and her husband had seemed
so chummy as they were during that ride. He
took genuine pleasure in pointing out to her the
various merits of the car, and they‘found them-
selves chatting as they had not done for many a
long day. Her husband kissed her good-night for
the first time in weeks, and said: “We sure had
a good time Milly. I enjoyed it. It’s no fun to
ride alone.”

These words comforted Mrs Brownell when
she surveyed the pile of stockings she had in-
tended to mend that night. “Oh well,” she
thought, “I can get them done some afternoon.
After all I suppose I have to be the heart- power
as Well as the hand power for .poor old John, who
ain’t got nobody but me.”

“I’ ve been thinking over what you said about
hand-pOWer and heart-power,” she said to her
neighbor the next day. “I took a ride with John
last night, and honestly, we almost went back to
our courtin’ days. John says to me this morn-
ing, and it was a lot for John to say: ‘To have
such a nice visit with you, Mary, just puts the
heart into me,’ he says!”

“There you have it,” exclaimed her neighbor.

“Too many women think of the merely mechanical

end of their home, and nothing else.
nish the hand—power only. A man wants some—
thing more from his wife than mere comfort,
although I’ll admit comfort counts a heap with a
man. A wife who is not only sympathetic regard-
ing her husband’s work, but joins him in his rec-
reation, furnishes heart power. She is his pal,
his partner. As your husband expressed it, she
puts the heart in him. Too many busy women,
especially farm women, forget how to have a real
good time. A wife who furnishes a combination
of hand power and heart power borders on the
idea. I try to furnish both.”

Which do YOU furnish?

Hand power, heart power, or both?

Getting Rid of the 01d Foggy Notions

E’VE ADVANCED since Grandma’s day!
V» Everybody says s0! The woman who

says, “What was good enough for my
grandmother is good enough for me,” is thought
queer now. It wasn’t very long ago that women
had a lot of old-foggy notions about cooking. It
has taken domestic science to banish them. You

They fur-

' can scarcely pick up a magazine~ or newspaper
. nowadays Without learning something new about
, making, such a Wide-spread wave of information
has swept over the country regarding it.

‘ I remember a friend of mine saying to me in
horror-struck tones “Do you eat soup meat?" She

thought, I guess, that that: was carrying'economy‘

‘f’.“goodness" or nourishing quality a; ' th- ..
”Went out with 11.11011 we know that the
imeat left cantalns almost all of the absolute

nutriment of the meat, and it is foolish waste to-

.throw away this good food. ‘

Lots of housewives; stln 1111111: that skim milk
is little better than water, and do not know that
except for babies, who need whole milk, the skim
milk is. just as good as..whole milk, since it con-
tains almost its full quota of bone and muscle-
maklng ingredients.

Lots of us used to think that oread is nourish-

ing only as it serves to convey to the system its

spread of butter, and often a second spread. We
realize now that it is the bread itself which is
rich in nourishment. '

Haven’t ;you heard, that ﬁsh is a'brain afood

' and celery nerve food‘and that tomatoes are con-

ducive to cancer and that grape seeds hasten ap-
pendicitis? The old Romans used to think that if
one ate nightingales’ tongues they would have a
beautiful voice! These other ideas are just as-
foolish! We are outgrowing them. '

Lots of good housekeepers still think that all

' the ingredients needed for mayonnake, as well

as the bowl in which it is made and the spoon
and beater used to mix it must be chilled on ice

Drafted

E WAS a dimpled, blue eyed boy
A little while ago.

To snuggle in his mother’s arms
Was all he cared to know. ,
I sang about my work those days
While baby boy slept on,
And oh! I was so tired, so tired
When every day was done.

GAVE him all the loving care
It was my power to give.

I watched o’er him and tended him
That he in health might live.
I never knew a good night’s rest
Till he’d to boyhood grown,
And every day I prayed that God
Would spare to me my own.’

uulnnnmlulu“:cuu-nunnununlnnnnlln

1-?nunnnuuun

he

EN THOUSAND men marched down
- the street
It was but yesterday!
Flags fluttered 1n the Autumn breeze,
I heard the music play;
And with my tear-dimmed eyes I watched
Those men, in khaki dressed
And knew somewhere among their ranks
My boy marched with the rest!

EAR GOD, it is to your kind care

ﬂ That I commend my boy.

I cannot have him with me now;

Life does not hold such joy.

He’ll go to France, and while I’m_ proud

And would not have him stay

I’d like to hold my baby in
' My arms again today!

ANNE CAMPBELL STARK

for half an hour. Domestic science teaches us
that all the ingredients for mayonnaise should be
of approximately the same temperature, but they
need not be really cold at all.

How many of us think that :in making cake one
must ﬁrst cream the butter and sugar almost to
a froth and then follow some arbitrary rule in
adding the other ingredients? Domestic Science
says that the whole idea of mixing aiiy cake or
mufﬁn batter is simply to have the leavening
agents—baking powder or White of'egg—added
at the end of the mixing process.

I have heard ever since I was a child that cheese
was indigestible, and would better not be eaten
at all, and if. eaten, should be consumed in very
small quantities. A statement issued by the Unit-
ed States Department of Agriculture says:

“Few people in this country eat cheese in suf-
ﬁcient quantities for it ‘really to form an impor-
tant part of the daily fare,” says the statement.
“Indeed, it is used more ,often simply as an ap-
petizer or as a seasoning for some other food.
Nearly every one relishes good American Cheddar
or ‘store’ cheese, but there is an impression that
it is indigestible and constipating. Extensive di-

.gestlbn experiments carried on by the Department

.WﬂnlﬂmmummmlummlllllllillllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllIlllIllllillllllllillililllmWIIMIWIIHIIMWUIHmmmlllﬂlmﬂﬂlﬂlﬂuﬂml‘m 4‘

manilnlmmunmumnnimmuum 1'. 11 ~ '1 1mm!”

'widening it as necessary.

cook two quarts of “
other mans. ._
, :‘S- ‘ and ' one oupful
. crumbs enough to
, mﬁture . . g .. i
, .' Place“ in oblong '
crate oyen for 20 minutes.
When cold the mixture
inch pieces and served on
salad dressln ing.
r If desired leave the mixture more moist and
bake in casserole or baking dish and serve hot.

NMWHMWWMI .. .1

beamed 1n 1 2
le'av as with

of Agriculture have demonstrated that more than '
95 per cent of the protein of cheese is digested
and 90 per cent of its energy is available.- Even
when eaten in large quantities and for long- per- ,
iods, no case of indigestion, Constipation, or other ‘
disturbance was observed in those who ate it.
One man who ate cheese as the chief source of
both protein and energy, eating an average of- 9.27
ouncesdaily, with bread and ”fruit, for more than
two years, did a fair ambunt of muscular-work
and kept in good'ehealth. ﬂ “

“American Cheddar cheese‘is' a very satisfac- ‘
tory substitute for meat. It can be kept in stor-
age for a long time, and contains much food in
small volume. ‘ _ -

“A pound of cheese supplies more than twice
as much energy as a pound of fowl or round steak
and almost twice as much protein as the same
amount of fowl'or ham; Cheese, therefore, is
usually a cheaper food than meats. '

“Cheese can also be combined in many palat-
able dishes. Whml‘ grated it may be used in
soups or with many vegetables. Other foods in
which cheese is used are: Macaroni and cheese,
Welsh .rarebit, tomato rarebit, baked ' rice and
cheese, baked crackers and cheese, vegetable and
cheese rolls, cheese omelet, oatmeal-and cheese}
and cheese mush. ‘ .

“Recipes and further information are given in
Farmers’ Bulletin 487, ‘Cheese and\Its Economi-
cal Uses in the Diet,’ which may be obtained free
on application, to the Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D."C.,” ‘1 ,,
II: II! t
We learn something every day. don’t we?

Fall Millinery

HE MOST fashionable hats for "autumn

Wear are fashioned of 'vedour and velvet.

So many of these are shown that it is hard
to think of any other kind as a possibility. Navy
blue and purple of various shades seem to be, the
favorite colors. The two colors are often com-
bined. One hat I saw was of purple velour, with
a band ofvelour swathed around the crown, end-
ing in two deep-fringed ends of navy blue, which
fell from the top of the crown well over the rim.
Another smart little hat which caught my eye was
a purple velvet, with a narrow edging of knife
pleating sticking out at the edge of. the rim.

I read a description of a tennis tournament the
other day, and it spoke in glowing terms of the
winter’s crocheted hat, which she made herself.
These are very easy hats to make, and are ideal
for the young miss Who starts to school along
about now. They are fashioned over buckram
frame, and some of the very smart-est looking
ones are made over frames purchased in the ten-
cent store. The hat is covered with thin silk or
silk muslin, matching the color~of the-wool and
the underbrim is lined with soft folds of silk,
of crepe de chine. Sometimes the underlining
is made of'crocheted woOl, but this is apt to give
the hat a clumsy appearance. The soft folds of
silk look better against the face.

Single crochet fer these hats has been succeed-
ed by double crochet, with a chain between the
stitches. The crochetlng is made around and
around, shaping it to ﬁt the hat, narrowing and
The edge ,: can -be
picoted if- desired-

Around the crown of the that two or three rows
of a different color can he crocheted dunking it

" look like a band .

 
9-\ .'

 
c0?

1'2». I indeeven :thousand dollars.——H. F. H.,
«Climax, « :

 
. some. ire» aniline
beans. ‘A 11211 t. but did not do

much. damaged. If. M., Hemlock.

  
.' --KA{§‘AH£ZQ , (keno—remote ﬁlling
the“ toe and-p owing-for wheat. The

 
frost, ‘Climax bank robbed last Friday
night, the- robbers getting between six

   
(man '(SouthwestF—Ten sues. have

.- been built within two-miles of this farm

'this'fall. Beans are ripening very un-
' evenly—5B, W., Leslie. , .

GENESEE (Northwest)~—-Farmers cut- '

ting corn and fillingSilos.“ Ground hard

..and dry for, IOWing wheat. If we (get

rainthere will be more wheat put in here

7 this fall than there: was last fall, Corn,
' "beans. and potatoes Were hit by frost.

There is: no ripe corn. Farmers are not
selling much”grain.—J. (5. 3., Burt.

; OSCEOLA (south Canaan—Frost of
Sept. 9, 10, 11 did "not do as much dam-
age as was at ﬁrst suspected, Farmers
are threshing, filling silos, plowing. On
Tuesday, Sept. ‘18th. 3,000 citizens of

Evert and vicinity gathered for a patri- ,.

oti'c, demonstration to bid good—bye to 47
men ofOsceola county who left for Camp
(Custer. .A feature was the presentation
of soldiers’ “kits" to the men by the lad-
ies oi." the Red Cross—E, A., Evart.

ANTBIM (SouthwestV—The weather
has been ﬁne' for crops the past two
weeks. It .is reported that the eastern
part of the county has been badly frost-
ed and! that corn and beans are lost.
Wheat and rye need rain. Farmers are
beginning potato harvest. The market
militia! opens at one dollar.—C. W. 0,, Ke-
w n.

OTTAWA (Northeast)——The frost on
the‘ 9th and 10th of - Sept. practically
killed everything here except potatoes;
The damage to corn and beans will run
into the thousands. Potatoes will be a
fair crop, Buckwheat. was hit hard by
the frost. Potatoes are selling now at
from’,$1.50 to $1.75.-——R. J. K,, Conklin.

MONROE (Northeast)——Farmers are
sowing wheat and threshing; not selling
«much. too busy. Some hay moving. There
will not be many hogs fed here for there
will be nothing to feed them. Very few
ﬁelds will make corn. Some farmers
have sold their .alsyke seed at $10.00 per
bu, Farmers are buying cows as they
get 32,50 per hundred for milk—F.
’Newport, Mich.

- BRANCH _ (North)—Farmers sowing

wheat and rye. They are selling wheat
and rye and holding oats and hay—F. S
Union City.

CALHOUN (Northwest)-—-Wheat sow-
ing well advanced; silo ﬁlling commenced
and will be in full blast next week. Farm-
ers too busy to haul wheat and other
(pjrodﬁce to market—V. H. J., Battle

ree .

'KALKASKA (West)—Farmers plant-
ing fall grain, Very much in need of
ram. Corn is in milk state. The frost
did vast amount of damage here. Pota-
toes In this county are looking good. Pas-

‘1

tures are very shorltﬁ being kept down by ‘

grasshoppers—R.
man ,

MIDLAND (EBIt)-—We ar

ideal weather for bean harveste angacvgrl‘rgi
cutting. A large number of new silos
are going up. ﬁve in one neighborhood,
there being about ﬁfty new ones in this
county. There is a scarcity of farm la-
bor to care for the crops on account of
the large number of farmer boys to be
drafted. The second lot left Sept 21
there being 58 in the bunch that went
«tan this ldeéte. ilA epntract has been let
0 grave m es 0 road h

—A. B., Mt. Haley. 8.1- e this fall.

BAY (Each—Farmers are harvesting

beans. Corn is ripening; that which
frosted is being cut to save for fodfiveﬁ‘s.l

South Board-

xi

ir
nehas all, been: killed around here by .

, buildings are going up.

 
09:8,): ‘0"i(West-kienm1)lé~ ad“; a; frost
much .damage.—'-C,,_A., ‘ . t . is
' ' ' W No”. lrwest)_‘-.-»W'h°¢._ ‘

i legit eowri hg'e and under ideal
. Corn Cutting; and, bean har-

conditions.

- vest - has been delayed where the frost

.did not hit too “EMT-'M. S. (3., Hemlock.

‘mvmosroN (Northwest)—-Sllo an-
int. sowing wheat and , harvesting beans.
Another car load of ,grade cows has been
sold here the past week at from $135 to

{150 a head. The Borden condensary is

paying $2.40 per hundred for 3-4 ‘milk
for Sept. and are bidding $2.60 for Oct.
milk—G. A. W., Fowlerville.

,INGHAM (Northeash)———Filling silos.
So e wheat being sown ; corn is ripen-

in slowly.. "Some beans pulled and are‘

ready to draw. Some farmer's cutting
second crop of clover; a very little seed
in ‘it.—A. N., Williamston.

GENESEE (Sou boson—Farmers are

threshing, ﬁlling si os, sowing wheat and

harvesting beans. Farmers who have
payments to make are selling their crops
as soon as poSsible, but the majority are
ho ding until after the rush season is
ov r. The pedigreed grains, such as
Ro‘sen rye and Red Rock wheat have
proven their superiOrity by comparing
the yields with common varieties in all
neighborhoods where both have been
grown, Several silos have been built
here and a. number of ' ensilage cutters
purchased—C. W. S.,. Fenton, '

MECOS‘I‘A (Southeas‘t)'—The frost of
a. week ago Sunday has been followed by
unprecedented hot weather. Corn that
was not hit is hardening up fast but
much- that was killed has been cut up.
It was a 50 per cent loss anyway. The
beans are'ripening but all beanson low
ground were a dead loss. Potatoes on
light ground are all right and will make
a good crop but many ﬁelds on low
ground are gone. Not much wheat or
rye is being held by the farmers. All
farmers in this part of the county are in
debt. and must meet their obligations.
Business is all done through notes ma-
turing in the fall, ,so there is very little
produce held over the fall months—F, M,
E., Millbrook. .

MASON (East ContraD—Weather has
been very dry and some ﬁelds will not
be in shape to work until there is rain
This neighborhood is about to organize
a Farm Loan Association—J. S., Foun-
tain.

CHARLEVOIX (Southwest)— Thresh-
ing and pickle picking are the order. The
weather is warm and dry. Quite a lot
of Wheat sown, some Red Rock. It is
costing $4 per bu. here, Buyers are of—
fering 750 for potatoes but they are not
gettingmany, . Many farmers are sow-
ing fertilizer in their wheat this year
for the ﬁrst time. With this kind of
weather corn and beans will big an aver-
age crop in ten days—C. B., llsworth.

CLINTOIN (Southwest) —-The weath-

"er has been ideal for ripening corn and

beans. Some ﬁelds of beans on sandy
soil are nearly ready to harvest. Corn
needs some time yet.——J. W, H., Grand
Ledge.

OAKLAND (Northwest) —— The frost
did not do as much damage as was at
ﬁrst thought, but a good many silos are
being ﬁlled on account of it. n Wheat sow-
ing is going on as fast as possible. Oats
was a good crop. Not much wheat, Some
are pulling beans. Buckwheat badly
hurt. No grain going to market and
not much stock. Not many apples for
market—E. F., Clarkston.

GRAND TRAVEILSE (Northeast)—
Fine weather for ripening crops. It is
quite dry for fall plowing, . Some new
The past two
years have been good years for the farm-
ers, enabling them to get out of debt and
to ﬁx up their places—C, . B., Will-
iamsburg.

BAY (Sontheast)—One of the pioneers,
Mrs. Anna Wardr of Merritt township,
died Sept. 18th at the age of 96 years,

- at the home of her son, W. J. Ward——

J. C, A.. Munger.

GRAND TRAVERSE (Sonth)——Part
of the corn was hit by frost: beans were
damaged most; cucumbers were mostly
all killed; potatoes were slightly hit in

’ » th'321 abutit, ,n'tseem .‘did'a.
htof e st, “ Gaylord.

need it for the corn crop;

-mpmnni 7t-Nortnwest);'rhe Frost

abdut c eaned up on the late corn and
late beans. A few beans are being pulled
and there are prospects for a good crop
of early beans. Farmers filling\ 81105.
Not much' wheat bein sown here this
fall. It has been too dry to do much
plowing—F. A. L., Coleman p

GRAND TRAVERSE (South)—-Farm-
ers are threshing; wheat yielding poorly,
about 12 bu. to the acre; oats about 30
bu.; rye 10: peas, 10. Beans are blight-
ing now, Some were killed by the frost,
most of them were damaged some. The
farmers are selling all kinds of cattle
now. A large barn on E. Rawlins’ farm
was struck y lightning and, burned, 35
tons of hay in it. Some new silos are
poing rected this fall.W, W. 0., Buck-
ey. -

MONTCALM (Southwest) —— Farmers
are mostly ﬂpished withwheat sowing;
corn harvest will begin in a short time.
Early potatoes are averaging ﬁne. Po-
tatoes are selling at 95 cents at Millers.
Soil is dry, however not preventing the
farmers from farm work. The farmers
are selling wheat, rye and potatoes and

0 not seem to be holding products for
higher prices—W, L., Greenville.

MONTCALM (Nortliwest)—-—Some of the
farmers are digging potatoes and cut-
ting oorn that was frosted; some corn
on high ground was not hurt. We have
had plenty of rain since the frost and
not so very cold. The farmers are sell-
ing some potatoes. Ten or twelve new
barns have been built in this section this
year.—E. W., Coral.

_ ST. CLAIR (East)—Farmers thresh-
1ng. Weather dry, Not much wheat
sown yet. but 'there will beta good acre~
age of wheat and rye sown this fall. The
farmers are selling fast at good prices.
A good. many farmers will do well if they
get their seed beans back from this year’s
crop. Buckwheat a poor crop and a
$3051 share of it cut by frost—I. J.-, St.
air.

OSCODA (Northwest)——Farmers are
busy threshing, ﬁlling silos and cutting
corn. Weather very dry and cold; soil
too dry for tillage. Frost did consider—
able damage to corn and beans. No corn
ripe enough for seed. Beans will not be
half a crop. Potatoes damaged about
25 per cent,—A_ S. S., Lewiston,

.MONTMORENCY (East)—The frost
killed our bean. potato and corn crops.
Potatoes about half grown. The farmers
are selling their clover seed. Have
shipped some young stock. The weather
1s dry and the soil so dry that not much
plowmg can be done. Some nice barns
have been built here this summer.——J. W.
Hillman. ‘

OSCEOLA (Naturalism—Farmers are
plowmg for wheat between threshing
JObS. All seem to be sowing Red Rock
wheat and Rosen rye, Farmer..- holding
oats, wheat, potatoes and hoof cattle for

.higher prices—W. A, 8,, Marion.

OSCEOLA (East Central)— Some of
the farmers are plowing, others are cut—
ting corn which was damaged by Sunday
nights frost. On light and sahdv soils
beans are bemg harvested; on the‘heavv
5011s they are only beginning to ripen
where they escaped the frost—E. A.:

' Evart.

MIONROE (“’est Central)~~'l‘he far -
ers. are busy ﬁtting their wheat grouﬁg
which will be in ﬁne shape this fall we
are havmg some warm weather and we
the crop is
' but two weeks ——
Dundee. late. W. H

KALAMAZOO (East Central — —
ers are busy threshing. Geo). $332:
threshed 185 bu. of spelts from one and
one-half acres. Most of the wheat and
oats are good. The frost did big dam-
age to all growing crops, the corn will
be almost a failure. The farmers are at
a loss as to whether to cut up the corn
or let the hide go with the fallow. Chas
Swenser threshed 7 acres of wheat that
averaged 52 bushels per acre. Mr Lewie
Roe was at his brother Sumner line’s at
Battle Creek Thursday—H. F., (‘ilmhx

rUsoOLA (Northeastihweather ﬁne

for corn and beans and they ar .
ﬁne. Oats are turning out aboute480trgng§

e’

eat‘deal‘ of damage here, just '

d' gtlglA egdy to sow g
an. ng.r,_~
rainysfor grain and early potatoes. _ '7
Isabella county fair-is being- held. at 2 ‘
Pleasant this week; there is a: good dist
play of vegetables of all, kinds, also" of»
stock—«E. B.,, Remus. - _ _
INGRAM . (Northeastern).——Thr shin, 8
about half done. Wheat 9. sma crop.
Oats 45 to 50 bu.; barley, 30 to _40. 309°.
farmers have commenced filling silos... ,1
Jack Frost hit here the nights of the-gm“.
10th and 11th, cleaning up things in grog; ._,
shape. Corn hard hit and the best. 0 -

'it. needed three weeks at least of good

weather to mature. Late beans are,_
quite badly hurt, the early ones will rip— ,

en faster and more even. It will stop_)-;_

the growth of late potatoes—A. N., Will- .
iamston. S f mere

MA N East Central)— ome ar ,
are . 333m; wheat. others ﬁtting ground
for wheat and rye. Heavy land is dry
and hard. It has been very cold. There
is a little wheat being sold but mostly
fur seed purposes. Some_few silos are
being built—J. S., Fountain.

INGHAM (Central)-——Heavy rain of
last week put the ground in ﬁne condi-
tion for plowing. Corn, beans and pota-
toes doing well, but must have good
weather three weeks yet for .npening.
Quite a heavy frost last night; out all
crops quite badly‘ Too early yet to tell
how much damage; buckwheat killed.
Not many apples in this secton. Weath-
cr ﬁne for work.
Farmers busy on wheat ground.——C.
M., Mason. -

MIDLAND (East Central)—-Crops are
maturing very slowly on account of the
frost. Beans are beginning to ripen but
will scarcely be half a crop at the best.
Corn will be a pretty good crop. as the
ears are well ﬁlled but is about two
weeks late. Oats are nearly all threshed,
about 50 bu. to the acre. Will Loe’s
farm buildings, except the _house,
burned, including his Belgian stallion val-
ued at $500. Mr. Loe estimates hls loss
at $3,000, covered by insurance.-—A. B.,
Midland.

CHIPPEWA—Our county being. a pro-
ducer of hay chieﬂy there 13 little to
report. There is much hay out yet. Har-
vesting of grain just starting with bar-V
ley, wheat and oats, which appear to be ‘
above the average crop. Recent frosts
have killed potatoes here. .They were
well advanced, however, and perhaps will
not be injured much—J. L. R, Brimley.

OAKLAND (North Central)—N0t much
threshing done and no grain gomg t0'
market. The crops were gotten in in good
shape. Corn is coming along slowly on
account of cool weather but Will make
a good crop if frost does not get it. Po-
tatoes will be a. good crop. Beans are
about made and cutting commenced.
Very little clover seed to harvest. Buck-
wheat looks like a good crop. Apples
very light crop. No peaches or plums,
but nice show for pears, but none ready '
for market. E. F., Clarkston.

OSCEOLA (South Central)-—Farmers
are plowing for wheat. The weather is.
clear and pleasant. Wheat and cats
have been good. If weather remains fav-
orable without frosts for two or three
weeks will get a good crop of corn and
beans. The most of corn is only in boil-
ing stage. Potatoes are looking ﬁne—-
E. A., Evart.

MONTIHORENCY (East Central) -—— I
am late with my report. I have been
away all week and did not get this till
today. but will do the best I can. Beans
corn and potatoes are all frozen. They
are starting to ﬁll their silos. The farm—
ers are threshing clover seed and a lit-
tle grain. No holding going on; there
has been no sales yet—J. W., Hillman.

CALHOUN (Northwest)—-Farmers are
plowing for wheat. Weather is cool.
Soil is in growing condition. Potatoes,
corn and beans have improved since the
rains. but they want a lot of good warm.
weather yet. The light frosts Sunday
and Monday nights did not do much
damage here. Farmers are hoping for
good weather; without it there will not
be much corn. There are no apples here.
C. E. B., Battle Creek.

BRANCH (Norther-m—Farmers most-
ly plowing and threshing. Weather very
good with big damage by frost. Soil in
good condition. Not selling much. Farm-
ers holding. Poor outlook for corn. Lit-
tle building or buying. Farmers feeling

 
bushels per acre. Fall . - .
$3131 seeding is ﬁnished.-—G. (3-,, Lin- some places. There is hardly any fruit coming up and is looking“;o%a:it lsSJuSt rather blue as com. heam' buckwheat
. here—W. W. 0,, Buckley. beans on sandy land being pulled 2:33 %‘ndglattenp§ntat(oi:: are damaged badly._.
galliumnmmnmmmmmnm"mumImImumnmmmnnnnmmmsmnmmumnmnnmnmmmnnmmmnnm1ImmnmmnImmunmmmmunnnummmmmmumnnmnmnnmmmmummmInIunmmmlmmummmmmnInnImmmmnnummlI1mmmmmmmn_ __ __ CH) O tTh' C p
g “*— 1 u 18 ouon--——-—--—--|
g MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING,
E

    
"here’s _your chance to help, neighbor N;

 
See that this coupon brings back a good farmer’s subscription for this new weekly that means
so much to YOU and every other man who farms Michigan for proﬁt.

No need to canvass or ask for any money

I
I
I
I
. .. ~ I
Just show this copy of MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING to a neighbor, tell him What it Will I
mean to know as much about crop and market conditions as the market-gambler—tell him why you I
subscribed andhe’llgrab his pencil quick to get his name among the founders of the new weekly. I
. . . I

I

I

I

I

I

I

If you have not subscribed, this ~13 your chance; act quickly!

A few copies are distributed each‘week to farmers who may not; have had a chance to subscribe
"before—if you are one, and like our paper and\_ what it stands for,’ use the coupon and send a
dollar bill ‘now, or after harvest, as you please, the big thing 'is to get your name on the list so
i you won’t missgnext week's crop and market reports. ‘

mumHIWWWImllﬂlllﬂﬂlﬂmmﬂlﬂillmuﬂlllﬂmﬂlllIIIIIIIIIIWIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIillIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIilIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

. ,. ,\ ~’ 1

Remarks

   
I want Michigan Business Farming for
one year and I’ll send my dollar after crops

are sold this fall ............ [ ] (mark) I
. ' I
or I enclose $1 herewith

Yours truly
County ........State.......... St.‘...

o-one.no.u-u-nonooeooooeoeoeooo'

coconose-coo.-oo-oo-uee-oeneeoI-Ioeooooo

  
Mt. Clemens, Mich.

I
I
Here’s my support, we need just your I
kind of a ﬁghting market weekly in Michigan. :
I

I

[ 1 (which) I

.
n
o
o
o

o
O
0

~————-—.-——————————————‘

      
Some seeding dong. _ , .

   
' That Bull I am selling at the
Detroit Guarantee Sale, October 3. and 4

IS' FIT TO HEAD any herd of pure bredsvin the land.

INDIVIDUALLY he’s as nearly perfect as you ﬁnd
them in real life. Straight top line. Plenty of
Width and depth and length—he’s well developed
and big for his age. p

SEVEN—EIGHTHS WHITE TOO and beautifully
marked, as his photograph shows. ~

IN BREEDING he is all that the most exacting could
require. Combining as he does the blood of some of
the world’s most famous cows.

HIS SIRE is Pelletier Pontiac King Doro De Kol~—
Son of Woodcrest Dora De Kol (35.89 lbs. butter
from 648 lbs. milk) and by Spring Farm King Pon-
tiac 5th. »

THIS BULL IN TURN is out of another world fa-
mous cow Lotta Belle De Kol (34.90) and by
Spring Farm King Pontiac.

THAT GIVES HIM in his pedigree the greatest bull
that ever lived, King of the Pontiacs, and a former
world’s champion in both seven day and yearly di-
visions—eTweedie White Lady, 37.45 lbs. of butter
in seven days; 1127 lbs. in a year.

THE DAM OF THIS BULL we are selling at the
Detroit Sale is a cow of wonderful type—just the
kind to found a great family. Straight and broad
with lots of capacity. ,

SHE IS UNEEDA KORNDYKE ADDIE and her
present record is 31 lbs. We will test her again
this year and as she made that record from three—
quarters of an udder; and as she now looks as “good
as new”, we conﬁdently expect her to raise that
record.

AS IT STANDS the records of this young bull’s dam,
sire’s dam, grand dam and great grand dam average

34 lbs. .
YOU DON’T FIND this kind every day—such breed-

ing, such records, combined with superb individu-
ality.

SOME GOOD HERD‘is going to have a good sire—
I’ll be in the market for some daughters by this
fellow.

E. LE ROY PELLETIER

R. F. D. No. 3. Pontiac, Mich. .
DETROIT GUARANTEE SALE

State Fair Grounds, Horticultural Bldg.) _.
3 Detroit, .Mich., Oct. 3 and 4

'melmlﬂﬁlllﬂlllmﬂllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllIllllllllllIllIlllllllllllllllﬂllll|llilllllllllllllltlllllllllllllll|IlllIl|lllllI|lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIllIIllllllllllllllllillMlllllllllllllllllillllllllulllﬂiﬂlﬂllllll

\

     
ll:IlllllllllllﬂllHilllllllillll[HilIllllllllllllllllﬂllllllllllllllllllllllHHHHHIHHllIllllllllllllllllllllllllllﬂllllllllllllllllllllllillllllIllllllllllllllllllmllllllllmllllllllllIllmllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll"

 
\

W""‘"”"“"""l:lll‘H11;!LEili'i1"?HIHHHIHIHIIHHIIH|llllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIIllll|llllllllllllilllllllilliIlllll[IllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIllIllllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllIllllll|lllllll|llllllllHillllIllllllllllllllllllllllllll

  
\HHIHHIHH‘I‘HH

1H l'llmll‘ :qu mm, H I. M

 
lllllllllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllllllll!llllllllllll|lllI|lllll|IIIUIHlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllll. m

m l

Charla-sum... ‘ot Alleghn sold

a sheep and ten la’mbsior $176.. He.

received $156 for the ten lambs. ’- _

 
The Elkton Farmers" and "Gleam,

era" Cooperative Creamery won ﬁrst
prize on cheese atthe State Fair.

 
T. 1W. Carpenter, or the town ' of
Ward, near Escanaba, it is reported,
will have 60,000 bushels of potatoes
which he raised on his 300-acre farm.

 
Floyd Bradley sold to L. W. Love.
well, Tuesday, eight pigs six. months
old that, weighed 1390 pounds and for-
which he received $229.35, an aver

-age of over $28 each.

 
Brue & Powley of Deckerville shipp-
ed a carload of eggs recently contain-
ing_235 cases and valued at $2291,25.
One dray load contained 105 cases

. and 'was valued. at $1023.75, the most

valuable dray load 'of eggs ever shipp-
ed from this point. *

. ~

 
George Miller of Conklin, Mich., brot ~

to the elevator Wednesday a load of
wheat containing 102 bushels and 50
pounds and George took home a load
of cash to the amount of $313.65. As
far as we can learn this was the larg-
est load of Wheat ever brought to the
local market, the greatest amount ever
received.

One of thelargest shipments of
livestock to the Indianapolis market
came in from Ray Caldwell’s farm,
near Scircleville. H's consignment
consisted of nine loads of hogs and
one load of cattle.
hogs, weighing 116,090 pounds, that
sold at $18.50 to $18.60 for a total of
$21,158.95 for his hogs. The load of
cattle came to $2056 79, .so that his
entire shipment broungh him $28,-
219.74, regarded by the stockyards
contingent as a good summer’s work.

 
Hanging on the wall of the Isabella
County Courier sanctum is a single
stem of beans containing 70 pods, each
pod having an average of ﬁve beans,
or a total of 350. Just how much they
would measure up to the gallon, or
quart, or pound, hasn’t been ﬁgured
out as they are not quite all ripened
and ready to husk, but when they are
ready if somebody will bring in a
chunk of salt pork. we’ll guarantee to
get through the winter on a brand
that will beat Boston baked. Mr.
Hidey brought this sample from his
farm in Union.

 
Peach shipments are increasing
from Benton Harbor, and the Bureau
of markets reports a good demmd,
although the market is weaker. The
quality and condition of the fruit is
said to be good. Proliﬁcs are quot-
ed at from $1.75 to $1.10. A few E1-
bertas today brought $2.25 a bushel.
Poorer and similar varieties sold as
low as $1 a bushel. Light shipments
are being made in pears. The demand
is light and market only fair. Bart-
letts brought from $1.50 to $1.60 a
bushel. Grape shipments are small
but a good demand and ﬁrm market
is reported. Four quart baskets
Champions are quoted at 18 cents,
Moores, 24 cents.

 
Extensive improvements have been
under way at the Orr Bean and Grain
Co. elevator at Midland the past eight
weeks, and will be completed within
the next ten days. The changes have
been in the feed and bean depart-
ment. where new motors and bean
handling machinery have been 'in-
stalled, making this one of the most
up-to-date plants in the country. Work
will soon begin remodelling the old
Star Mill. One-half of the lower
floor will be made into ofﬁces, the
balance being used for retail feeds
and seeds. The old—grist mill mach-

inery in now being removed and will ,

be taken to Tawas City. New buck-
wheat mill will also be established in
this building if the crop warrants.
This company is also planning the
erection of a concrete block addition
from the rear of the Star mill
building to the railroad for a ware-
house. ‘

  
There were 476‘

Irish Hills, again dendonstrateis that

. the hills are ﬁne for other things

than scenery. The 270 fine wool lamb

ﬂeeces weighed 2300‘ pounds and at

05c brought $1495. , -

A Sebewaing farmer sold 11 head of _

Holstein cattle at the recent Saginaw
Consignment sale for $1,756. The herd
consisted of calves, two-year-olds and
three-year-olds. One ~co‘w and calf
brot $385 and a two-year-old sold for
$135. It pays to raise good stock.

Mr. Nelson Moone’ of Azalia deliver-
ed to Denton and; Sons one Poland
China hog for which he received
$111.60. The weight was 720 pounds

 
and the price ﬁfteen. and one-half cents ‘

per pound. Mr. Chas. Denton says it
wasthe largest hog and the highest
price ever known in Milan.

 
Farmers of Kalkaska county have
organized a stock company and lwill
incorporate for $10,000. Their pur-
pose will be to handle all farm produce
which the farmers. raise to put on the
market. They plan to build a. ware-
house in Kalkaska. this summer and
be ready to start business in the fall.

 
A Farmers' Co-operative elevator
company aS‘been organized in Mar-
lette. be members of the Board'of
directors are: John Nichols, James
Mahaffy, Thos. E. Keys, John Schnider
and Nelson Rasmussen. ThedirecL
tors held a meeting at once and or-

A single doad of wdol brought ’into' ‘ ‘
Brocklyn by Will Brighton from the

ganized themselves with John Nichols , .

president; James Mahaffy, vice presi-

. dent and Thomas E. Keys, secretary-

treasurer.

 
An association .has been formed in
Laingsburg with a charter membership
of 40 farmers which will be known as
the Union Cooperative Stock-Shipping
Company. L. E. Willett is president
and Fred Warren, secretary. The ar-
ticles of association have been filed
with the secretary of state at Lansing.
The company will be capitalized at
$15,000. Shipments will be made al-
ternately from Laingsburg and Benn-
ington. ~-

Georgc Dingman of New Haven,
Mich., has a facsimile of a Detroit
Gazette, of Friday, July 25, 1817.
Among the items were the following
extracts from current prices: Flour,
per barrel, $14.12; pork, per barrel,
$25.; lard, per hundred, $16.; butter,
per pound, 310; cheese, per pound, 25c;
eggs, per dozen, 37c; wheat, per bu-
shel. $2.00; corn, per bushel, $2.00;
oats, per bushel, $1.00; potatoes, per
bushel, $1.25,

 
A. J. Wise of Cement City, Mich.,
lost three registered ewes and two
lambs by the dog route. The h. c. of 1.
has not been discussed down to the
dog question which is where it should
have begun. Sheep will never be
raised until the 'dog business has been
placed on a logical basis. Every dog
should be taxed as the auto is and
every dog should wear a license plate
in front and in the rear and at night
wear a red light. In this instance $70
worth of mutton was taken from cir-
culation which would buy all the dogs
in Jackson county. ' .

 
The local branch of the West Cal-
houn Cooperative Company has just
completed its ﬁrst year’s business at
Union City, Mich. During the year
this company has shipped from this
station ﬁfty-four carloads of livestock,
consisting of 2,414 hogs, 1,083 sheep,
250 cattle and 265 .veal calves. The
sum of money this represents is very
close to one hundred thousand dollars.
The prices received by the farmers
have been in general very satisfactory,
so much so that there is a demand for
the company to take other lines _of
work, possibly leading up to a farm-
ers’ co~operative grain elevator and
supply company. The reports from
various other such enterprises show

.that much has been accomplished

along these lines, and surely there are
no better points as to location, fertili-
ty‘of surrounding country, nor .do we

concede a more‘intelligent community, g -

.z‘ n

 
\

  
l.
, 1‘

  
uaranteew f or 6 0 D ays

Every animal over six months of age has been tuberculin tested and will be guar- i ' ~—-

anteed against tuberculosis for a period of sixty days, according to the usual rules and

conditions goVerning such cases. That’s the way you buy them 1n the

 
Detroit Guarantee Sale

They are not only guaranteed against tuberculosis, but they are
a mighty good bunch of cattle as well. No females whose last calf
was not alive and fully developed when born. No aborters here. No
three-teaters, no bobtails or ringers. If you want good Holsteins
that will do you some good, we advise you to go to the

\

I!
”s
g
E

Michigan State Fair Grounds

Detroit, Michigan
October 3-4, 1917

lllllllll”MINI"lllllllllllll[ll"llIII!llﬂllllﬂlﬂlllllmmlllllllllmllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllulllllllmllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllImllllﬂMilli!!!"IMllllﬂlllllllmnﬂlﬂlllIIﬁllﬂlllﬂlllllllllIllI‘lllnIllHIIllllllllllllllllllllllll|Illllllllllﬂlmlﬂlllllmll1

 
EllllllllllllllllllllﬂlllllmlillllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllll l
ﬁllllllllllllllllllllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllilliIlIlIllHllll

gYou will find 150 of them there to be sold absolutely without
by-bidding or reserve of any kind.

The sale Will include the complete dispersion of the famous Yp-
silanti Farms herd owned by N. A. Cole & Son, including the three
times 30-lb. cow, Pontiac De Nijlander, her son and severalﬂgrand-

a:
_. E
=
=
'5
=.
=
=
_....
=
g
=
E
=
._= ,
=
- =
5-3
--=
_.
g
=_"
__ .
E
=
=
. =
E
=
E
E
2"-
:‘T: ‘

daughters. The herd also contains several other extra good'A. R.
O. cows and their offspring.

There Is a 29- lb. daughter of Sir Lilith Hengerveld.
A 28- lb. four-year-old daughter of Woodcrest Hengerveld De Kol.
A 26-lb. sister to the $25,000 bull, Rag Apple Korndyke 8th.
A two-year-old daughter of a 37-lb. cow just due to freshen.

 
ﬁg
i‘llllllllllHllIIllll||llllllllllllllllIIIl|llllllllllllllllllllﬂllllllllllll||||IllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIIllllllllllll|II||||||llllllIllllllllllllllﬂlllllllll|||||||||IIllllllllIIIﬂlllllllllllllllllllllll|||||llIllllllllllllllHllllllllllllllllllllllIllllllIllIllillllillﬂllllllllllllllﬂ

lllii.

l
l

A lot more of the same high average quality.

a

If interested write for a catalog

Liverpool Sale &‘ Pedigree Co., Inc.

Sales Managers
Liverpool - New York
, .mwmllllllmllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIllIllIllllllllllllllllllllllllIIIIIIIllllIIllllllIIllllllllIllllIIllIllllllIllllllllllllllllllll|||llllll'lllllllllllllllll|||Illllllllﬂllllllllllllll|llllIIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIlHIIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllﬁ‘"i“

llllllllllllllllllllllﬂlllllll|IllIlllllll|||||||||||l|IllllllllllIllllllllllllll|||||||||||||||llllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllIII|IIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIII

llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllﬂlllllllllllllllllllllﬂlllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!llllllllllliil

 
I’m going to ship five beautiful little Shetland V Ponies to f _ .,
or Girls real soon. Would you like to have one of them?

. ~ Pon
I am called the Pony King of America because I give Ponies away to Boys Po y
and Girls. I have given away 450 Shetland Ponies to 450 Boys and Girls -—— lCtlll’eS

all over the United States. . ' FREE

Now I am going to give away five more Ponies," and I want every . Children ﬁlessugﬁagzgalég
. 1

Boy or Girl who sees this paper to stand the same .chance. gee. a pony. Don’t wait. Write

. , your name and address in the _cor-
If you are a Boy or Glrl send me your name rlght away. If you . mg”;11;}gvghggtsgngumnghgeggl35:3_
are the Father or Mother of a Boy or GlI'l, send 1n your Pony Picture Circular free and you mu

. . . . have an equal chance to get one of the
Child’s name. I Wlll enter the name in my b1g F ree-fo -a11 . 0R1?“ iglestgﬁﬁiiisl 312 si‘ﬁlﬁgcﬁ‘ﬁileaf‘é’ﬁy
° s o .
P ony Chlb that Starts rlght away. ‘ . other child and it dloesn’t cost you a cent. Ge);
' " - your pencil and write your name now. -

No matter where you live, no matter how young. Parents Please Show this free offer to your child

. . and send in the coupon. You will be in-
every Chlld Wlll stand the same gOOd Chance to get a terested in the Pony Circular I send and your child wall
Pony with Buggy Harness Saddle Bridle and tﬁn’mii’ia tgéi$0313ifsii‘édtivﬁhEiié‘tiéidgmi53%?ﬁﬁﬁ’g'

‘ 9 , 7 y . 0 etc I .. a

‘ Blanket. Be sure to send 1n your name right now. 12333103? [ginttegiv‘gzgerﬁivﬂogfg . _ _
‘ " . v‘ at one time—not just one—so you see p . . If you want
h P K there are ﬁve chances to win one. , . . ' $3121?
e on y lng -' . Send in your child’s name. 3‘”, the
. . ‘ . ' ._ -, . . . 5‘ . - thin

630 Webb BulldlngaST- PAUL. MINN. . . : nﬂzgftﬁsz’éébslagsa’gai‘dﬁ‘t’tﬁt ﬁ‘l‘é , . £335. a. .3
' . " to own an outﬁt like this . oul‘dn’t you have , , g e nd m e
a lot of fun driving around the country? you: name.

i

‘.

The Psny King,
330 Webb 31:13.. St. Paul. Minn.

I went one of the Ponies you are giving away. Please
enter my name in your Pony Club and send me the Free
Pony Pictures.

P. O. Age..........

State.~.,.v........ ........................ R. F.D ........