An Indep \ _: 5:: , l y Owned and higan endent S Wee-k1 9 Edited in Mic Farmer Ex.“ 2...»: . =3. :\l PER YEAR $1 , NOVEMBER. 20, 1920. SATURDAY CLEMENS, M T . :. .., _m___ww_rm_. __ V01. 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Figures receiv- , ed by the French Commission, in . New, York, show that out or 7.000;- 000 acres whichwere rendered “11-. , flt-tor cultivation by the effects of battleirom 1914 to 1918, only 280,-.- 000 acres will not be in a condition . to permit oi! soWing next spring. The rest of the agricultural area has been restored, or will be restor- ed, by the end of the current year.) The reports to the Commission show that 4,000,000 acres, or more than half of the devastated farm land are already under cultivation. The bar- vest has been so good that 'the French government has been enabled to cancel contracts for the import of South American wheat into France. ”The French Department of Agri- culture has compiled the following figures giving the progress of Frances efforts to feed herself. ' 1920 1919 -. ’ ths. ths. Wheat ....62,7_06,270 49,653,700 Mixed Grain 1,076,140 967,940 Rye 8,426,600 7,299,370 Oats i , _ ,. g ' ‘-’ Barley 3... 7,15%319’ -' 4,999,340 ; . . . . 42,228‘,01i0‘-~ 24,935,840 Considering that rye and barley ‘ are used for bread making in' France it p is reckoned that the crop situa« tion practically insures complete suc- cess in feeding the nation with home grown cereals. Last year it was necessary to import {41,000,000 cwt. of wheat. The improvement means - a national saving in money and an agricultural restorationxwhich brings a measure of. prosperity to a large proportion of the population, which had previously been deprived of the ' means of livelihood. CANADIAN SIP INDUSTRY Sheep in Canada today number 266,447 more than in 1871. This startingly Small increase in almbst halt a century reflects the crisis through which the sheep industry passed twenty-five years ago when the bo-ttom' dropped out of the wool market. It also shows the industry has recovered from the blow and is assuming its old importance. There were 3,155,509 sheep 'in Canada in 1871. When the great slum-p in wool occurred, many great western range herds were sold off. In 1911 only 2,160,000 sheep were left in Canada. Today there are 3,- "on the up grade. x, r :j ‘censusflot the government; “Their-”es- timated value is $50,402,000. The sheep industry .in the, United States buttered even more. ‘The sheep population of-tlre United States, ac- cordingrtb- government estimates, has tallen 0! 4,000,000 in the.last dec- ads. Proportion/ate. decreases have :‘ taken place in‘ Australia, Argentina. and British South America. Millions of sheep were slaughtered in Europe during the war. , , , In Canada, the war started sheep . Wool prices sky- rocketed. The peak was reached last year when wool soldaround 62 cents a pound. Despite a bad situ- ation in the market th’is'year, sheep men declare world conditions are bound to maintain wool prices at a high level for at least ten years. The increase in sheep in‘ Canada has been due chiefly to the interest of farmers. The whole tendency of agriculture is toward diversified farming.” Small flocks of‘ small farmers have more than made hp tor the loss of the big range herds. Farmers Grain Dealers to Consider Collective Selling and Buying Steps to unite the selling and buy- ing agencies oi! the Farmem’ Ele- 421,958,. according to the last~..shjeep’ ' 75g=per c‘ent or the 4,600 term Unicorn, averaged 13,669 lbs. duds; 19199 ' ' Beef Your Poor COWS Now Your good cows have been paying the keep of your boarders long enough. Beef the boarders. reduced herd, fed Unicorn, can produce as much as the Whole herd did before. At less cost for feed and roughage. Unicorn. They \ When your cows freshen, start right by feeding tain a maximum production . _ for a longer lactation period than ever before. " Geod cows, fed 4‘ Unicorn, always-make/aprofit; .. CHAPIN SLCOMPANY ’ YOur 0]] O ‘ \_ ‘ Macintosh—The initial \ » . her company. of. Johnawood.. . _ lemmas submitted a bill to the - - supervise ' ‘Sfih ' ' -.». _ 1' .. .. This "association am about evators of the ~eouiitry‘ which" handling about one billion hushels grain annually for. their, 500,000 farmer stockholders and purchasing. , pliers worth of" . 1 about 250 millions d: farm supplies. ‘These'i‘elevatorsv rep-__ resent a" paid up investment 91331003;- 000,000 and isvby far the largestco- operative organization in the world; ' » FARM BUREAU NOTES Upper Peninsula membership cama- paigns are concluding witl'; 6,462 members to date and possibility 0‘! 7,500 when completed entirely,.O-n'~ tonagon county has asked as; a' membership campaign next summer. The percentages of' farmers joining as compared With the number visit- ed _is higher in the upper. peninsula than in the lov‘ver part or the state. The Elevator Exchange Depart- ment is no'w'composed of 31 associ- ations, four which joined this ‘week are the Port Hope Go—operative ASSP'. ciation, the Farmers’ Co-operative Co., of Harbor Beach, the. Elkton Farm Elevator 00., and the Chip- pewa County Farm Bureau. Thirty-one counties have oflicially signed the seed contract with the seed deportment. The last 6 coun- ties to sign are Otsego, Marquette, Huron, Leelanau, Benzie and Emmet. The seed and purchasing depart- ments did a $100,000 worth of bus- iness this week; Hall! of which was in a sale of clover seed by‘the seed department: the other half was made up of purchases of‘ bran, mid- dlings, (coal and flour by the ' pur- chasing department. The Traflic department is. flooded with requests for refrigerator cars. It reports that there are very few available refrigerators in the coungs try but that the state farm bureau is getting its share. It is going to be necessary that a number 01 shippers use box cars. ‘ ' STATE AGRICULTURAL BRIEFS Pontiac—Latest reports indicate that t. rearrangement“: ant an no ramp , finish-eds ot_ herds have be ted at a cost ranging from 50 The danger is Bureau, and farmers should continue to watch their hogs and immunize them tram the malady. Mount Pleasure-The Borden Company has closed its local plant until January 1st. owing to the unsettled conditions in the milk trade. The company has announced that it will separate cream for «farmers at cost of . operation and without charge for the use of the Bor- d equi ment. This is a ‘l‘safety firs " po icy w ieh all the big condensaries are closed?mM hire" membership drive has n us egon county with an approximate membership of one thousand. O, F. Marv or Hol- ton been elected preeiden ‘; B. D. Pendell,‘ of Cesnovla. vice- esident- E. Cookers“. White River; Norton; 8,, N. McNutt, Moorland ;. Abner Bel-son, ’Fruitport, member. executive committee; delegates to state meet , R. R. Emens. Holton. and Warren Bla tland. city tend t 1 its Omen—— s s o ose min industrmisit the threat of the presi- dent of the Owes-o Sugar means . The company has been enjoined b the state game and fish do. m emptying refuse water tron: its plant into the river on the grounds. that the character and tempera- ture of the water kills the fish, Rather than submit to the edict the sugarcom-i j' ' parry declares it will move' its plant to another city. . N'rth Branch—The north Branch Pro- duce Ass’n. has been organized- for the m 0 buying out either the North G in Go». or the Harper Elev:- tor 09.. or in case neither desire to sell. to build a separate elevator. The fol- omcers have been lowing Ernest Hodges. Perry Fricke: my Ire - Brown. gmflgm, pem__ mu Wm. ' Y ,- ury, them-genus, home“. 1417 numbers been-sounder“! A. u .y ' ‘ i - ! P93 'Mider, Gilmoremtwp" , lee! M Knetan gL, ' county boat-4.01 ank ile, , Company . elected: Pres. Vim . ~ Clue Keeler; directors, ' mtym;w 5‘ — ~' U flon of. its county -' ' , at Boston, Mass, was the ' tax) and all single : ‘ nation-wide . 0 November 20 . .1920 HE DEGREE clas. which took the Seventh degree at the 5th annual session of The National Grange degree classwhich was ever ieceiv- ed 'at one-time into any secret frater- nity of any kind in the world. It numbered 9,860 persons representa- tive in large rt of the agricultural population of he New England states but numbering candidates from every state in which there are State Granges. ' Twenty nine states were repre— sented by voting members at'this session of The National 'Grange. Twenty thousand people were in at- tendance at the largest day’s session Friday, Nov. 18, ~when the degree was conferred. No such gathering of farmers was ever before held in any place, at any time, by any organiza- tion. National Master Lowell in his ad- dress touched a new advanced point in the progress American farmers are making toward their proper place in industrial and national life. He Said in part: ‘.‘We are certainly glad to came to this great historic city of Boston, on the 300th anniversary of our Am- ericanism,” and we are willing that '1 Massachusetts should have the glory of the occasion, if she will admit that we helped a little ” “There is but one equitable form of taxation," he said in discussing the Nolan Bill (the one percent land tax proposals, ".and that is when , every form .of wealth pays its 'just proportion of taxes. Another equally 'erroneous idea is that of a heavy tax on‘ all unimproved land holdings, for if. this were done‘and they were all forced on the market by reason of such tax (which is the intent) it would cause the depreciation of farm lands fifty per cent There is ' no more just tax than an income -,tax for it is never a charge against any- one who has not the means to pay. -“Since the war,” he said, discuss- ing‘ the condition, of the disadvantage of agriculture. We could 'name many laws and rulings of our NatiOnal government (not to mention state enactments) that have proven of injury “to us. We have searched faithfully to find one such law or ruling to our advantage and _have failed to find it. “We have rejoiced that labor has I ' been enabled’to secure a much high- er. rate of wage, but we little expect- - ed that they would turn and demand cheaper food from us without first ascertaining'the cost of production and ‘discovering that we were not taking too large a margin of profit. As your spokesman, we feel the Grange should be still liberal, and notify all interests that we are will— in: to sit down and have a fair un- ‘ derstanding of values; the farmer receiving the same pay for the same . hours’wWOrk as others receive, no more, no less, but THAT THIS IS THE LAST CALL. If no attention .is paid- to this by bankers, manufact- urers, railroad and labor organiza- sons, and the government continues to use its great power to import raw material free of duty to reduce costs [as a possible expedient the Grange will be forced to join other organi- satio'hs in the movement to organise selling organizations hick will fix the price of foods. no threat in this, WE WILL EE WEN tional Grange _ agriculture, - "great changes have taken place to . be 107 bushels per acre. By A. M. “ Press Correspondent, National Grange largest ._ ing been granted charters during the year. .Extension work Was reported in nearly every Grange state. A splendid program of entertain- ment was put on by theMassachu- setts Grangers, including an exhibit of New England Agricultural pro- ducts in which all New England state Granges participated, highly educa- tional, and showing agricultural pos- sibilities and achievements of high order. Trips to Plymouth and .Con— cord, a New England turkey dinner by Sommerville Grange near Boston,’ an inspection .of Boston Harbor by boat, addresses by Vice—President elect Coolidge, Lieutenant—Governor Cox, and Mayor Andrew J. Peters, splendid music, flne degree work _and real New England hospitality marked the sessions.- ' Michigan was well represented, and special honors were given -to their official delegates, State Master John C. Ketcham and Mrs. Cora E. Ketcham." Their pictures were print- ed in all the Boston newspapers as the new farmer congressman from Michigan, and considerable space given his .views on farm problems... and legislative measures. State Master Ketcham reported the Michigan Grange in good growing condition, and especially active in co-operative work, especially in sup- plying iarm'ers throughout the state with supplies through their co—op- erative buying organizations. The report of the legislative repre- sentative, Prof. T. C. Atkeson, of Washington, indicated that action on a number of matters of legislation on agricultural and other matters of general interest to farmers would be taken up during the second week session. His report was made pub- lic a week ago, but in it he suggest- ed to the Grange that a number of matters needed consideration, and a clear statement of Grange position. Among these he enumerated the No- lan Bill, to impose a one per cent tax on all land held in excess of ten thousand dollars value in one own- ership, the MendellLand Settlement bill, ‘or the Smoot bill, which is very similar, both of which he has op- posed before Congress, but on which ,there is no definite Grange action. He also mentioned several others .which he .had. favored, but on which .he=-w.anted.:definite Grange action, in- Stato Crop Report for November ember 1, issued by Coleman C. Vaughan, Secretary of State and Verne _H. Church, Agricultural Stat— istician, U. S. Bureau of Crop Esti— ‘mates indicates an increase over ear- lier estimates in the volume of the corn crop, and a slight decrease in the potato, clover seed and buck- wheat crops. The month of October was exceptionally favorable fer har- vesting the lwte fall crops, and the greater part of the work is complet- ‘ed. There is‘ considerable corn yet to be husked and some fall plowing and threshing to be done. Recent rains are aiding the growth of fall- sown wheat and rye, pastures and seeding. The estimated yield of corn is 40 bushels per acre. This is one of the largest yields on record and one THE JOINT crop report for Nov-v \ bushel more than last year. The to- tal crop for the state‘is 66, 000,000 bushels, and for the United States, 3,199,126,000 bushels. Thirty—four per cent of the state’s acreage went into silos, the average yield being ' 7.8 tons of silage per acre. The . quality is unusually geod being 92 per cent, or/15 per cent better than the average of the last ten years. 85 per cent of\the crop is estimated to be of merchantable ' quality. The amount of last year's crop remain- ing on farms is 3.5 per cent. The estimated amount of wheat marketed at mills and elevators in the state during October is 1,270,- 000 bushels" and the total amount since AugustII, 4,999,000 bushels. The yield of potatoes is found to This is‘ the vmarked falling off in the largest yield per acre since 1914 but, owing to a considerably less acre- age, the production is about 10,000,- 000 bushels less than in that year. The yield is variable. Some coun- ties in the western half of the state reported as low as 80 bushels per acre, while some eastern and Upper Peninsula counties averaged as high as 150 and 175 bushels per acre. The quality is generally good, the average being 94 per cent against a ten year average of 87 per cent. The United States crop is placed at 421,- 252,000 bushels, the largest crop on record with one exception. The yield of buckwheat is46 bush- els per acre making a total crop of 672,000 bushels or. slightly ‘more than was produced in 1919. The quality is 92 per cent, four per cent above the ten-year average. The clover seed crop amounts to 122,000 bushels, a reduction from last month’s estimate of 20,000 bush— els. Late‘r threshing returns show a _ average yield. The quality is very good. The harvesting of sugar beets is nearly completed. The lifting and hauling‘ of the beets was done with ’unusual speed because of the favor- able weather conditions that pre- vailed during the time. The condi- tion of the crop at time of harvest was 93 per cent as compared with a ten year average of 86 per cent. A Special inquiry relative to the quality of the bean crop shows the average to be 96 per cent, and that the average pick is 3.5 per cent, which is equivalent to 2.- pounds per bushel._ losos Annual Session at Boston Roberts Indicate Wide-Spread Cronge‘ Interest, Activity and Membership Growth ’ . LOOMIIS cluding the Kahn-Wadstrth meas- ure for the government operation by an operating corporation of the .Muscle Shoals air nitrate plant, the law for-the truthful labeling of wool- en fabrics, the necessity of pure feed, fertilizer and insecticide laws, a standard basket law, and a law for the increase of the usefulness. of the postal savings system. ' The state report of State Master McSparran, was well received. In it he outlined the growth of the Grange in Pennsylvania during the year commenting ‘on a revival of Grange spirit and of community work unprecedented in recent years. He also devoted a part of his report to a discussion of the relationship ex- isting between the Grange and the Farm Bureau work in Pennsylvania, expressing his conviction that Tye Grange should fill the functions of State wide activities in legislative and other lines of work, while the Farm Bureaus should work along the lines laid down in the laws un- der which they are organized to do extension and educational work. His report was the‘only state report which discussed this problem of Grange policy, and attracted much attention. The greatest growth of any state grange during the past year was re— ported by State Master L. J. Taber of Ohio. He also reported on the work done in Ohio in co-operation with other farmers’ organizations, espec- ially the success of the campaign against classification, the work of the Home Protective League, the wool mol and the co-operative buying of farm supplies. Reports of specially character were made by the Masters of the Oregon, Washington and Ida— ho state Granges. W. W. Deal of Idaho and C. E. Spence of Oregon told of the growth of their organ- izat'ons. State Master Spence in- vite the National Grange to meet in 1921 in Oregon, and was warmly re- . ceived. State Master Bouck of Wash- ington made a characteristic report, showing great growth in Granges, and in Grange growth especially in co-operative enterprises, noted their assistance in organizing banks, and expressed the anticipation of seeing the workers of their state soon re~ lieved from the “financial regime of the present time.” He said his state grange was urging the land value tax. This is not the position of the National Grange. He said this was the agreed upon policy of the affili- ated organizations, and in closing he expressed this sentiment, “We look forward confidently to the near fu- ture when the workers who produce all the usefullhings in the world shall come into complete control of the state and nation.” The Grange adjourned Saturday noon, for secret wbrk ,and entertain— ment until Tuesday, when consider- ation of national legislation, and grange business will be resumed. The report of the legislative rep-" ’ resentative, Prof. T. C. Atkeson, of Washington, D. 0. made public Sat- urday, indicated that action would be taken the folowing week reaffirm- ing the position of the Grange for private ownership and operation of the railroads and merchant marine, to strengthen the land bank laws,‘ for the improvement of'rural deliv- ery and the extension of the postal savings system to rural patrons, the necessity of legislation to legalize? co-operative marketing, better tarifl; protection for farm products, and,_ .7 the government operation of the ' '- Muscle Shoals sir nitrate plant to givg farmers cheaper fertilisers interesting . if. . '? .,“ ‘ .1.“ >1» \y: ' big premium for high tuitlvates his fields with HE BEAN market is in the ' . strongest statistical position today ”that it has been in six years,r The production of edible beans in this, country during 1920 was lees than» and , -, 31918,.a11d nearly two and a half half the production in 1917 314111011 bushels less than last year. The accompanying table gives the On top of that, the importation, of Japanese beans which have been the bane of the navy been I "exact figures. 'market' the- last tWo years has drop- pod to one- -half or one-third their former proportions The available figures of supply do not take into consideratiOn the hold over of prev- . ions crops in the hands of the or- ganized bean growers of California - and of the elevators oerichigan and New‘York. The amount of these supplies cannot be even estimated, but it stands to reason that they cannot anywhere nearly equal an amount that would increase the vis- ible supply to that of any recent year. The bean bear will seek to dis— ~ count these figures by pointing to Japanese competition. In fact, one of the largest operators in Michigan says, “there’s no hope for better bean prices so long as the Kotenashi bean is allowed to compete with the domestic product." But. we wonder if this operator has secured any fig— ures on the 1920‘production of Kot- enashi beans? Japan growers have suffered along with domestic growers by the drop in price and have followed suit in reducing acreage? Such reports as have been secured show that the Japanese have reduced their produc- tion of Kotenashi beans by over fifty per cent from last year. and other varieties of beans in varying propor- tions. The U. S. Department of Commerce supplies us with the fol— lowing information concerning the reduction of Japan’s bean acreage. The article is taken from the World’s Market. . “Importers of Japanese and Man- “Study Market if You W0uld sell at Best Advantage,” Advice to Farmers: Does he realize that- Comparison of Bach Sztuatton of. Preuzous‘ Years Shows 192013119111957111111931 m Years? 7 L A Glance at Bean Situation in 1911191811919 1920 ..» ' ' - lm arts ' To I H ‘7 W .i 'T'f""°é'.°" 1133?? €13.17": t." .1, 1259i 323593; 1917., 111.045.0011 9,747,999, 1.051.199: 19,792,993 97.33" 1918 ~17 397,000 ._4,145_;02'5 1 3.4947198 21,542,025 5. 4c » 191.9. . ._ . 11' 48's ooh " 774 558"l’“379275;095 10, 202558 ‘54 42 . 1929.13 :49. 101', 000 T411920 9001717909110 10,021,600 ”—2. 25 ‘Estimated for first ten months. f : ' fSeptember'lst, esti‘m'ate.b:"j ‘-‘~ churian ppas and beans are daily ex: pecting the opening prices to be . cabled from- Japan for Kot-enashi. Naga Uzura. Chunaga Uzura, Dalfue ' ku, Muroingen, Kumamoto and oth-'-‘ er varieties of beans. The growers in Japan suffered heavy losses last year, due to the general decline thru- out the world in prices for all varié eties of beans. as well aSjthe finan- cial upheaval in Japan. As a. result, the farmers have not ’plante-d‘ as much as they did last year, nor is, it expected that from the acreage which has been planted there will be a nor— 'mal yield, the reason for this being- that the proper fertilizer was not purchased in order to produce a greater yield. inasmuch as money in Japan was d‘fficult to obtain, and when obtainable was only secured at high interest. rates. “An unofficial, tentative report was recently received from Japan, showing to what extent the acreage .of the different varieties of beans had decreased. It is noticed that in only one variety, namely, the Shire— maru Azura, is there any increase over last year. This is due to fact that the domestic variety of white narrow beans, to which the Shiromaru Azura is similar, has been rather scarce. and it is hoped by the Japanese shippers that be— cause of this scarcity they will be able to realize the correspondingly‘ higher price. “The following is a list of the the- different varieties with the percent age of decrease and increase of acreage in per. cent. ' . Increase Decrease Daifuku . .48 Kumamoto ..‘. . . . .‘42' Muroin'gen . . . 28 Kotenashi . . . . . . . 69 ' Naga Uzura ..... 14 . . Maru Uzura ...... 10' ’ Shiromaru Azura . . 110 Chunaga Uzura . . .23 , Kintoki ....... -'. .15 Green Peas ...... 52 “It is expected that the importa- tion of all kinds of foreign beans will be very much restricted this year on account of the heavy accu- mutation and the lack of demand on the pait of the consumers. Domes- tic g1 owers are rather anxious about the coming croppsince they do not expect to realize as high prices as they consider they should get, com- paring the price of beans with the [vice of other staple food commodi- ties.’ The smaller «yield is strikingly il- lustrated by a comparison of import figures for this year and last. In 1919 a total of 3,635,965 bushels of beans and lentils were imported from Japan. Importations from other countries of beans, many of which came originally from Japan, brought the total to almost five million bushels. Total import figures for «the first ten months of th toss out year are not yet availae bu portions or them are and they 911917 ' a great falling off in imparts. instance, we are advised by a' spoon}, " . report from San Francisco that thew .4111port‘s of beans received at "this 2:139:99 or San.Francisco and Seattle; from Jan112t.1920.t0 October 347th, ‘ ‘ , 1920 were 989. 593 busiléis; Ninety ~pér cent of these were KotenashisL-f Japanese. into competition' which is] the: principal beans that come with the navy been During the month of October the imports at”, '3 these two ports amounted to 26, 000 bushels," indicating a progressive de— - crease as the year comes to a close. Our correspondent says: be imported from Japan within the next few months but it is probable that the importation will continue at about the same rate. ” ' \ So much for the sunoly. Now what about the demand? The de- mand is Improving. Men, are'belug 'thrown out of employment. all over the country/ It is becoming a mat- ter of necessity for people who have disdained to eat beans the last three years to make them their chief art- . icle of diet. Slowly but surely con- sumption of beans is picking up. As- the winter advances and pocket books become leaner'improvement should be more rapid. Says J. Ralph‘ Pickell f‘Beansv doing ‘bet- ter. Inquiries large, but buyers hes— ltate. should continue. ” We lost our reputagion once for" predicting the bean market wrong. We vowed then and there that we’d never do it again. But we can’t help it. ’Tis bred in the'bone. We s'take‘ our reputation a second time upon a prediction that bean valhes .will increase and 'that farmers will get a dollar or better a bushel more; for beans three months hence than they can get now. Farmers ’Losses and Profits are Determined More by Marketing Than by Production Practices HE FAILURE of farmers to study marketing has cost them, indi- vidually, a total of many, many millions of dollars. It is not when the farmer reaps his harvest that he makes money. Neith- er does he make it through econnom- ical and efficient methods of produc- tion. He makes or loses his money when he sells. The live stock man does not make his money in the feedlot. Eificiency in the feedlot often amounts to nothing to him in the end. He makes or loses his money when he sells. The exercise of good judgment and the practice of efficiency in the bus- iness of farming and live stock feed- ing is very necessary. It is indispen- able. Neither of these businesses will succeed accidentally. Their successful conduct depends on the high degree of skill and the great amount of the most painstaking ap- plication, those essentials that make of any business a success insofar as the details of its 7conduct contribute to its success But the advantages gained through the most efficient conduct are frequently lost entirely through failure to exercise an equal degree of efficiency in marketing. This is exactly what the average farmer or feeder is doing todav. He is operating with thought and care; 'he is marketing thoughtleSsly and recklessly. The farmer prepares his coil with the greatest of care, pays a class. , seed, scientific ,""omoliency, and then sells his entire 7 ion by chance. The feeder selects 49 live stock with care, feeds them . 'entlflcelly balanced fpods with painstaking regulaiity, protects, ' atches them grow With an affec- almost paternal and then sells ' Vésy llke‘. y- he gets By .1 M. into the game in the same way. He 'buys by chance. These men think a lot about mar— keting: they Worry a lot more; but they study marketing very little. They have in their their experience. volumes on produc- tion. They sfudy them'all. But if they have anything at all on mar— keting it is a little. o‘ut-of—date vest pocket edition, and even if they did study marketing it would be useless to study an edition of that sort. Marketing knowledge, value must be studied and it must be right up-to—date. Information 30 days old won’t do; it must be new to be of any value in reading the future and that’s the thing these men don't study. It’s mostly be- cause they don’t have the informa— tion to study. information that will help them. tiflcally, get their inspiration from hope. and take theirchance .011 the markets. These men do not study abouT the future of markets vvery much-«real- ly study about it—but_they guess about it a'lot. They are the great- est speculatorsinthe world. today. 3 They are also the-most unsuccessful speculators. They simply try to guess libraries, or in‘ to‘be of any ' But they produce scie11-. ,his'own guess. SHORTHILL, in Roscnb :ulm Review the high'market. To begin with, the average farmer or feeder does not know what the minimum price is that he ought—to sell his product for. The thing uppermost in his mind is to try to sell at the highest point of the market. He guesses at that. Tie loses oftener than he wins, and the re.n son is easily found. The reason is that there is one‘ chance to win and two chances to, lose. The chance to win is that the market Will go up, An equal chance 'to lose is‘ that it willg'o down. It is an axiom that .“What goes up must. come down,” and it is also true that what goes up must have ‘first gene done. .so thatresults based on these two chances alone would av-' erage very nearly even and guess- ing would be largely eliminated. The second chance against the guesser is It is the chance that he will not sell at the right time. The average human fears (not be- lieves. but FEARS) when markets are advancing that they will go high- er, and he-fears when-they are de-- clining that theywill go lower, so he hesitates to sell on the advancing market and later sells on the decliu: ing one because he is alarmed. He is disappointed but he losesebecause ‘= there is one chance for him and two against him. "purely ' academic. \"cut loose” and when to “hang a 3 right. mare times“ 11 A return to the original proposi- tion will avoid getting into something Farmers produce. they market stupidly. In in mar- skillfully; production they are expert; keting they are green. What the farmer needs to do is to._ 1 1 learn markets and marketing by per-. sonal study and then be guided by knowledge and not by fear. . traryto common belief, it is theelim- ination of this very natural human tendency to fear ’the future, by ' a substitution of a knowledge of mar- kets and the use of th’atvknowledge that constitutes in business in gen- eral the main I success and failure. _ too, needs more knowledge of mar- kets and less fear of them. " Our farmer ’may belong to some farmers’ organization. If he does not he ought to. The organiZation may help him with his problems of marketing; It can if it will. But no farmers’ organizatiOn, although it be a specialized marketing organization. can ever remove the necessity for the farmer hTfnself to know markets and marketing. That is, if 0111' Am- erican standard of agriculture is to he maintained. It’s/just as neces- sary for the individual farmer t0' study marketing have some idea about. when to act and when not to act. He .must know when to go in and when to stay out. He must know when to Despite What a lot of folks say. 1 possible for him to do this and I? The failure -Ft1r ‘1 "We can- not estimate the quantity which will 3 Im'pr0vement in bean mark‘et Con- . ,. difference between. So the farmer, ‘ He must him9eli' 1 1 :‘Hfit‘bfl ”'39 t . t -i’3Ir: mer”——a period of belated frost which, natives declare, has notwbeen equalled in a decade or more, has created a veritable revela- tion to the few who are actually in- terested‘in fruit. It has proven that, under favorable conditions, the re— —.gi-on “north of the Straits” is not only particularly adapted to ,fruit raising, but that, in the more pro— tected regions, a grade of fruit—ap- - ples, peaches, phims andpears, par- ticularly—equal to the best the coun— try produces, will thrive. From the cultivated orchard to the neglected, backyard variety of tree come reports of unheard of results with fruit this year. And the varied results, Secured throughout the pen— insula more than ever verifies the fact that fruit, assa “temperament- al”" crop, is deeply sensitive to condi- tions of soil, climate, and, yes, even . the. very currents of air. A recent survey of the fruit situ- , ation in Baraga county, upper Mich- igan——-parti-cu1arly in and around L’Anse, Michigan, "a region widely knpw for its excellent fruit possibil- ities, convinces the horticulturist that here. possibly is offered unlim‘ ited possibility for the cultivation of fruit. The Von Zellen orchard, at Skan- ) ee, a short distance from L’Anse, is a. splendid example of what fruit will do in northern Michigan under fav— orable conditions. Apples, plums and pears, set out over fifteen years ago, came forth in such quantity this year that the owners, for a time, questioned the likelihood of dispos— ing of the mammoth crop. particularly, displayed a tendency to produce in such volume that it was found necessary to prop the lower branches of the greater number of trees to save the limbs from fracture. The ‘Wealt-hy predominates at the ' - Von Zellen farm, although various other types showed up exceedingly well, 'Of the. 150 or more trees set 'out, the Wealthy displayed the best type of fruit—fruit not only pleasing to look upon, but of the kind which made famous the expression “like mother used to make. ” . Wealthy Apples The operations 'at the Northern Orchard preperty, located in Mar- duette county, are, perhaps, typical of the kind of management necessary to produce the best results. The trees, 4, 300 in all, were set out five years ago by Leo. M. Geismar, at present agricultural agent for the " county of Houghton. There are 3,000:a-p.ples trees, 1,000 cherry'an-d - 300 plum. In selecting the site Mr. Geismar displayed his knowledge of . the possibilities for fruit in upper ichigan, for the orchard is located on a plateau of about seven square miles in area, at an elevation of 160 feet above the surrhunding country, thus affording excellent air drains: ase On all: sides. - Although the Northern Orchard egu primarily as an experi- Vt in; out the est» in fruit, Apples, . All Varieties cf Plums, Apples, Peaches WA Young Orchard In Marquette County. "PPER'Michigan’s “Indian Sum—i to the next year or two for the es tablishment of: a profitable enter- prise. During the past two .years the orchardohas more than paid for itself, much of the product—cher- ries, plums and apples—going to the local market. The light sandy soil and the. free- dom of this site from most of the disadvantages Which beset the fruit grower in, the cooler latitudes. brought an almost unlocked for de- gree of Success to the operators this year. Though the fruit was permit— ted to remain on the trees until thorOughly ripe, not once was any .part of the orchard touched by frost, and more than that, potatoes and other truck crops planted in the val- ley were green and healthy long af- ter the same crops, in othersections, had 'been harvested to avoid a pos- J By 11.1). TUCKER l Can You Beat These Burbank >Plums§71~ Garden peninsula is but the exten- sion of the now famous Door coun- ty section, in Wisconsin, long noted for its big fruit crops, particularly cherries. « Three islands—~Washington, Sum— mer and Little Summer—separate the Garden Peninsula from Door county, Wisconsin, with but a com— paratively slight expanse of water intervening. A study of conditions in both peninsulas has brought out the fact that the soil construction, geographic features and climatic con— ditions of both the Garden Peninsula and Door county are similar. Wild fruit and berries of various kinds abound throughout the Garden Pen- insula. More than that, this penin— sula enjoys the distinction of being the only section of northern Michi— gan where butternuts may be found How Wealthy Apples Grow In Northern ‘Mlchlgan sible early frost. It is merely an ex— ample of the wise selection of land, and the proper, intelligent manage- ment of tree and crop that has stamp- ed the Northern Orchard as one of the most worthy horticultural enter- prises'now maintaining in upper Michigan. Lack of efficient help curtailed, somewhat, the program outlined by the officials of the com- pany this year, but in spite of the fact the trees continued to thrive and the crop to increase. The Garden peninsula, that neck of land jutting almost directly north from Delta county, into Lake Mich— igan, is another splendid type of a section particularly adapted to fruit. And it is a Significant fact that the f". " 'L growing wild. This region has also made rapid steps in agricultural de— velopment, although located from twenty to thirty miles from a rail— road. Another revelation which the pres— ent season has brought about is the possibility of upper Michigan for peaches. Experimentation with peaches has been in progress in var— ious sections of northern Michigan for many years with mediocre suc— cess. A number of varieties have been tried out, but until this year no one could report definite success with any one type. yThis fall, however, Robert Blem- huber, of Marquette, brought to light a type of peach which, experts de- clare, even surpass the famous Cal- ifornia and far—western product. And the feat was accomplished in,the back yard of the Blemhuber home. This type of peach originated from the pit of a California peach planted some ten years ago in the rear of' the Selander home at Marquette, and, 1n respect to that fact, Mr. Blemhuber has named his product the Mar- quette peach. Although the tree in question bore only a half dozen of the fruit, the peaches were of such size, flavor and texture, generally, as to cause wide-spread comment. Mr. Blemhuber is rated among the leading farmer— citizens of upper Michigan, and it is his conviction that, under the right kind of soil and climatic conditions, the Marquette peach can be made one of the most profitable enterprises, agricultural— ly, in the peninsula. ‘A hardy type of tree which has repeatedly proven 'its resistance to frost, heavy rains and other unfavorable conditions, there exists, in the discovery of this type of peach, a possibility hitherto unheard of. In his experimental work Mr. Blemhuber has pitted the Marquette peach against various other types, and invariably the form— er has outlived every. other type. This type of peach has been found to thrive more successfully in the light, sandy soil—a surface forma- tion which permits of the straight down- -shooting of the roots, result- ing in a strong, healthy tree. Given these conditions, Mr. Blemhuber de- clares, the success of the Marquette peach is assured. The Marquette peach has not, as yet, been tried out extensively. The mere fact that Mr. Blemhuber was one of but a few who were permit— ted to transplant the specie from the mother tree has limited the experi- mental work. Fruit Nursery And right here enters the function of a fruit nursery for upper Michi- gan Repeated statements that up- per Michigan is particularly adapted to fruit, and subsequent successes in small measure experimental ‘ work have created an urgent demand for some means whereby the more hardy type of tree may be selected’from the others, and determined as distinctive— ly suited to the northern Michigan region. Consequently Mr. Blemhuber, as one of upper Michigan’s most ener— getic fruit enthusiasts, is hard at work with the=state farm bureau, and. the state agricultural depart- ment, in an effort to establish afruit nursery for upper Michigan. “If we could get into this thing on a big scale, set out various types of trees and then satisfy ourselves, from- re- 1 suits achieved, of the best type of tree to produce, I am sure that the upper Michigan farmer Waui'd: soon come to reali2e the great possibility of this region for fruit ”~ declares» Mr; Blemhuber. ‘ ' .1. .w‘..:‘.' 1.. . at. .‘ . l . I! U A minimum”! , ll“) you x. ‘ or 00.. of Port Huron a good-in I bought $500 worth of stock in the con? cern last May and gave 810 and $16 a share for it. It has gone up to $80. What is the stock worth today? Why is it not per like other motor stocksl— ‘ W. V., mfipeer. Michigan The Michigan Securities Commis- also advises us as follows: - , "r11. Chief Motors Corporation of Port Huron has been twice approved by this Commission. On May 8th,1919,pennis- sion was given for the sale of $400, 000 of common and preferred stock, upon con- dition that 40. 000 shares of common stock issued to H. J. Martin in consideration of transfer to the Company of all the assets of the Chief Motors Corporation of Can- ado. be deposited in escrow with the State Treasurer until the Company is earning 6, per cent net On all of its outstanding stock and that all over $100 000.00 of stock sales be applied to liquidate the mortgages against the property of the Company. On May 28th,1920,pemis- sion was given for the sale of $45,000 of bonds upon condition that the previous mortgage indebtedness of $73, 000 be liquidated At the time of the last ap- proval the Commssion had assets and lia- bilities totaling $1, 118, 258. 56. " It appears from. the above that a good deal of money derived from the - sale of the stock has been applied against old indebtedness. Personally we know nothing about this concern. If it was promoted in the same man- ner as the majority of motor con- cerns in small cities, it is probably doomed to the same end——failure. The Only stocks quoted in the newspapers are those listed for that purpose with the Detroit Stock Exchange. In the absence of public trading and listing of this stock we have no way of. knowing what.its present market val- ue may be. Market value of any stock depends in a large measure up- on/what the holder thinks it is worth and what the investor is willing to pay for it—Editor. OLD ENOUGH TO VOTE If a young man or woman becomes of age, one day before election or primary some here claim they can not vote be- cause they were not old enough to regis- ter I claim that they are twenty- -one arm entitled to register and vote on eloo. tion day, by consent of the election board. In your answer to E J M. of Stan- wood Mich. you say that tht township board have. the right to set the highway commissioner’s compensation. I was under the impression that his wages were set by law at three dollars a day. If they have a right to set them where in the Public Acts can it be found?—S. R, W.. Sterling, Mich. One who becomes 21 the day be— fore election or primary may vote by applying to the election board, taking the oath of qualification if required, being regV'tered, and cast— ing his vote. Sec. 48 of the High- way Compilation Laws, Sec. 4331, of C. L. 1915 provides as follows: “The township highway commissioner and the overseer of highways shall be entitled to such compensation as the township board shall decide. The compensation of the Highway Com- missioner shall be paid from the general fund of the township, in the same manner as other township oili-~ cers are paid. The compensation of the overseer of highways shall be paid from the road repair fund, on approval of the township board.” l" tion it the following rates for each . day actually and necessarily devoted by them» to the service of the town- ship in the duties of their respective offices to be 'verriiied by aflldavit, whenever required by the township boards: First, the ofiicers compos- ing the township hoards, boards of registration. board of health, clerks of the poll and commissioners of highways, three dollars per day and at the same rate for parts of days." As the last is the latest act» upon.’ the subject I would be of the opin- ion that the highway commissioner must be allowed $3 per day for the least, but, by the former statute the board may allow additional compen- ' cation—W. E. Brown, legal editor. WHO INTRODUCED DOG LAW Can you tell me thrdugh the columns of your paper who it was that introduced the dog law—the dog tax? We under- stand that it was Mr. Orville E. Atwood. But he says not—IL A., Fremont, Mich. Rep. Reed, of Kalamazoo county, is. the author of the dog law—Editor. ’ AUTO HIT ON R. B. CROSSING While crossing the P. M. track at Sears with our car, the afternoon of Sept 8th we were struck by the motor Work car. The main srreet of Sears runs parallel to the railroad. Between the street and track is a coal shed, ware- so: shall be entitled to compensa-l — were scratched . and house. dope and shed is about 70 feet guleon themain‘smetwehadlooked» therightforatrainandsawno Aswedroveupbu thetraclt we looked to the left for a train.- The motor car came out from behind the line of buildings. They saw us first and yell- ed We looked back toward towh think- ing there was something doi n: then, Whenwesawummtheremno chance »forustostop.wewerealmostlnfront of them. They put on their brake and killed their engine, but struck us square- ly on center of the right side of3 our car. shoving us some distance down the track. Car was damaged about forty- iive dollars worth a dc from labor. We uised, not thrown from car. They were running rapidly thru town. They had no siren on their car. The work car was thrown from the track. We have heard nothing from the company can we expect to get any damages?— H. W. 1)., Sears. Mich. You will be obliged to make claim for damages or you won’t get any. Yours is a case that Wpuld require, a detailed statement to what occur- red. -If they did not give any warning by whistle or hell or some equally good noisemaker and you could not see them if you looked as you drove onto the track I would be of the opinion that the company would not only be liable for the damage to the car but to the occu- pants for what damage was done to each one. You should consult a good attorney—W. E. Brown, legal editor. COMPLAINTS AGAINST REBUILT (AND USED TIRE CONCERNS One of the most numerous types of complaints in our Collection Box De— partment is against firmswho sell re— treaded, rebuilt or used tires, making extravagant guarantees, which usual- ly are, however, merely paper.” Tires bought from this type of con~ cern are almost certain to- lead to dis- astrous experiences and Tm: BUSINESS FABMER has made it a strict custom not to accept any adverting of this nature, and wishes at this time to warn its readers against dealing with these concerns. Buy standard makes of tires from reputable dealers. You will save money in the end. “scraps of FARMERS’ PRODUCE COMPANY I wrote you some time ago about a. , sack of popcorn which I had shipped to the Farmers’ Produce 00.. Reopelle St, Detroit. and you answered sa’ying that if I did not hear from them to write you again. I have not heard from them. If you could do something to stir them up I would be very glad. There was about 60 pounds of the corn at about. 10c per pound in a new grain bag.—-R. L. N., Conemish. Michigan I am afraid you will never re— cover your money. Upon our failure to secures. refund from the Farm- ers’ Produce 00.. and the Michigan Produce Co., for subscribers who had shipped goods to them and hoping to prevent other farmers from being' victimized, we urged the postal a11— thorities to take action against these concerns, which they promptly did. Under date of Oct. 27th we received vise you that I have submitted the case (of the Michigan Produce 00., and the Farmers’ Produce Co.,) to the United States Attorney and the case will be presented to the grand jury which will convene at Detroit next week. I will try to have it pre— sented early in the term so that we can get prompt action. This course was considered best as I have been advised that several warrants have been “issued and I did not wish to do anything which would interfere with civil action. In the meantime please continue to have complaints sent to me D CHICAGO PORTRAIT CO. I noticed in your last issue Mrs. J S., Otsego county, complains of the Chi- cago Portrait Company. Several of my neighbors and friends were taken in by the same method. Here is the way they treated us. This Was last year, and they sold us the pictures for $10 and charged 37. 4.0 each for the frames. Wehad only ordered the pictures, not frames, and did not like to take them. but the agent was bound we should and finally told us he would take our note for part if we paid cash for the rest. Finally I paid him $17 40 and gave my note for $7. 40. When he had gone We found out that he sold the very same kind of pictures and frames to our neighbor for 815 and some odd cents. When our note was due we wrote to the company and asked them about this. They ignored the letter we wrote waited a couple of months and sent us a dun. I wrote again asking for an explanation at least, and again they igored out letter and sent a dun a. while later. Our friends advised us not to pay it so we did not heed their dun. Then they put the matter into the hands of a collection agency. We did not know what they might do so we sent the money. They did not send any receipt but of elevator. The coal from thecr crossing BEET COMPANY DOES NOT FILE , CONTRACT Thissummerlputinlflacrenofm beetsonshnres. theoontraot. Theco was thohandworkandlwnag mmdothetgssg: work. Now I can prove “that I cumul- edbeetsas agreement. The beat company failed to clean beets out untilweed; “fitteavcrylargesiaeinthe thefield telkthe ' M everyth did. 1- have about $100 worth of work on the field. ICan I hold either party for my work? have been posturing my cow on my hallo! boots but the ownet orders the to take her oi! claiming I haven't any hold on land now. How about it? My land and his lie in the village.- He claims he doesn’ t have to put in line fence between us. Can e him put in his half if I have mine upf—A Subscriber, Farewell. Mich. If the beet company contracted to do the hand work in propel-season and workman'like manner or similar provision and you arranged to- take over the owner’s work by team I am' of the opinion that the ,company is liable to you for 'failure to do the ' work. You do not have any right of pasture unless that was a part of the agreement with the owner. The ,village authorities have not provid- ed for line fences, etc., I would be of the opinion, that you could com- pel- the building of line fences under the general lava—W. E. Brown, legal editor. ' C DAMAGE FOR BURNING FENCE last fall or late summer I bought 40 acres of land. As the south portion of my line fence is in a low spot of ground while it was dry I went and reset my posts and fixed the fence in good shape. In the late fall my adjoining neighbor set fire on his part and let it burn 10 or 12 of my posts off and let my fence down, He neither replaced them or has offered to. This spring I turned 3 heifo Prq out on«my land. One I bought is full blood Durham, two are grades. This summer his scrub bull got in and served , them. Am I entitled to damage on fence, also the difference between a scrub and a thoroughbred bull?——W. R... Otter Lake, Mich You would be entitled to damage for the burning of the fence but not for "scrub bull." bound to maintain your. line fence and to make the damages just as small as possible. If' he failed to re- build the fence it would be your duty to rebuild your part of the fence and charge it up to him and sue him for it if he failed to pay.’ You could collect no damage from him. if your part of the fence was down, for trespassing cattle. '— W. E. "Brown, legal editor. TENANT‘S RIGHTS I am working a. farm on shares. I own a flock of.sheep and some time ago I wanted to pasture these sheep on a piece of unfenced wild land on this farm. The owner has sonic woven wire fence and told me to put it up. I did so Now the sheep have started to jump over this fence. I home thought of putting barb- wire of my own on top of this {once but neighbors tell me that if I do I cannot take it off when I move. Would I be obliged to leave this wire up or not?——R W. E. Stanwood, Mich. .Tenant has the right to remove temporary fence or wire unless agree- ment to contrary if the wire is re— moved before his time under the Act 89 of the P. A. .1917 is as f01~ the following from M13 E- 13- Fraser course will get the returned check I lease expires—W. E. Brown, legal lows: “The following tanship offi- postoffice inspector: ”This W111 ad— - (Continued on page 17) editor. Handy Hiran Hiram Gets His “Dander’l Up. ' ’ Bv Grinnell YOU WANT'A WATCH our N-N-O-w I’N M‘HAD! You CAN HAVE TO‘DAY OFF 1F You WANT, HIRAM! ALmoHT! SEE’lN SHE AiNT Navel! Bm ROBE, ' YOU KNOW! ...... l'LL RIDE THAT COLT To TOWN. (F i HAVE To WALK EVERV 51'69 OF THE WAY! ~ mantis st 51/ a, W -- 13".” /":.u:' x ‘ \ N ,‘¥ "11‘ ff ‘5 . 1” \1. \ ' ' thee. other party holdih: You would be \ inwwwwwrrwv-vnw L' vq Vfivw\ri,,lir.1.)_0, by [he (.ooilyeur 11:0 6:, Rubber Co. Onthefloorofthestockex- changeandinWall Streetallldnds ‘. business houses and manufacturing enterprises in the country; organiz- ed short selling and bargain hunting were the chief activities of the week and the usual nasty smudge of in- nuendo, insinuation and blackmail followed in the. wake of the dirty- gang of thieves that always hovm' around the market on such occasions. A conviction is gaining ground, among both interested and disinter- ested observers of recent Stock Ex- change operations, that some mean- nres of control must be adopted to ‘ check and regulate the activities of the gang of bear raiders who are doing their level best to throw the country into a. destructive financial panic; these ghouls, disguised as hu- man bongo, belong to the same chss as the man who commits mur- der, or burns buildings for the ex- ables. There is at the present time a definite movement on foot which has for its object the incorporation of the New York Stock Exchange. It is the opinion of the writer of this article that the parasites that live by market. raiding must be sum ily dealt with by the governors of the Exchange in order to save the country from a financial upheaval and the far-reaching disaster which always follows; if incorporation will, turn the trick, let the Stock Ex- change be incorporated, if not and ‘l there is no other effectual remedy, I let it be wiped off the map. The recent pronounced weakness of foreign exchange exerted a dc- prcssing influence over the stock market all last week and as there is apparently no remedy for this weakness, the outlook for the imme- ' .diate future has very little of en- . couragement in it. One of the con- tributing causes of the increasing - weakness of foreign exchange is the fact that there u, just now, so much of it for sale in this country. Since the signing of the armistice, Euro- pean countries have been buying our commodities without paying for them until, at. the present moment, them is a credit in our favor of more than $4 nonwoooooo Just as long as this trade balance is permitted to mcumulatc foreign exchange will continue to grow weaker. Another phase of a disagreeable situation is the shortage of money wi‘h which to pay the final install- ment of the annual income tax. Re— ceni'ly, when all classes were mak- in" plenty of money it was compar- atively easy for men to meet the tax levy, but now that. incomes are cut in two in the middle they find them; selves with not nearly enough mou- ey tom til-demos; many of theses firms had enough money not aside for fire liquidation of the ohliptlons referred to above but recently, when ‘ they found it impossible to burrow moleythey have drawnohfltdr urgency fund all now. Ind the- ‘ ,oelves without the necessary funds to make the December income pay- ment, the result is that many of ' these firms are begging the govenr: uncut to defer the com cine» . camber taxes until some tum time when money is more plentiful. f‘All of the staple We: of S: . new. Hogs steady , Cattle weak. DETROIT—Wheat active, temling higher. Corn and 70am dulland-weak. Cattlcdullandweakflogssteady. - CHICAGO—Wheat scarce and higher other grain week. (mm-hove mum—Editor mm- Iduao’obatlntna. MMMflam “manta-tumult.” up lowlthlu cum-hall Ian- 11 thecountryhavebecaweakforsevr eraldays,afactthathaehadade- Minimum» upon security markets. Cottonhasledthevvay downwardandvvheahasfollowed aclosesecondintheheadlongrace tothebottomofthelist. WIIEAT' ~V WHEAT/PRICE. PER 30.. low. 18, 1920 ,. and. Detroit l Chicago I. Y. lo.‘ 2 Bad . . I . -2.05 1.88 2.08 In; 2 mm. . . . 2.00 lo. 2 If!“ . . 2.08 2.04 PRICES ONE YEAR ACO No.2 flail No.2 White! “0.2 Iliad Milt I 2.27 I '2 as l 2.25 The bears in the Chicago wheat pit had a busy day on Monday trying to cover up and get even without at- tracting too much attention. The entire situation seems to have un- dergone a radical change and the bulls seem to be in command of the ship for the present. The effect of the holding back of wheat by the farmers is beginning to be felt in good earnest, receipts at Chicago showing a rapid decrease, of late, 9.} though the primary movement seems to be holding up fairly well. Ex- porters are buying freely and the news from foreign sources is all of a bullish tone. Russian advices seem to indicate that no more wheat will come out of that unfor- tunate country fo’r some months. ' There is another important fact that the bears In the market are begin- ning to think about, namely, the fact that the recent decline in grain values is the most severe which has been .known since the period imme-' diately after the Civil War: the sea- soned trader has long ago learned that markets do not goal] the time the same way. The prolonged busi- ness depression is acting as a brake on the wheels of speculative invest- ment and is really the leading bear market in the present situation. CORN coal PRICE! PER .01. NOV. 16. 1020 Grade matron IChlcagol N. Y. la. 2 ram ”.3 .9: r .B'Il/zl Mali; No. 3 Yellow ...l l No. 4 Yellow ...l l l P‘fiifis‘dNE—VEAR’1aq ‘“ H no.2 no.3 no.3 Volu rec-.4 Yell Detroit ..p 1.50 I 1.53 I 1.54 The corn market being under se- vere selling pressure did not share the prosperity enjoyed by wheat 21:13:; tlhe earlliy market session and w ow p cc tor futures was registered; when the wave of selling orders has spent its force, however, the market rallied sharply and on the close Hay corn was one cent above the opening quotation. The general opinion among impartial ob- servers of recent mutations in corn market quotations, is that a shrink. gigs of 86 cents per bushel, in the selling of this cereal, )3 about enough fur the present; shorts in the market are extremely sensitive evidently an-w ticipating an early change in market trend. ‘ oars 011' Pm” PEI! Ill” '0'. 8. 1820 and. m EMI I. Y. 2 m ... .87 .52 M 8 Wu ... 53%! 51“.! 4 m can nucu onzvn'aaao‘ MW. ”Wilt-Fm“ Wt .71 E .13 i :u a. aoIIQO‘OQQOCOII canyon-It‘oloo- York ‘naoa-o-a’auoa of high-class stock; The trade is well supplied with law-grade; unripe fruit, which is very hard to dispose of at any price. The general-opinion, among those who are familiar with ' the habits of the potato market is ‘ that, with the advent of permanent- ly colder weather, householders the Zeountry over, will move to fill their collars and prices will harden some- what. . y The November estimate shows an increase over October, indicating a total crop of over 420 million bush- els, the second largest on record. This fact should be carefully considered. In an early issue comparative potato crops and prices will be given. BAY llafTMIMMIhzzh. “28.0080 cm Iguassu” £0.81 .21 km,“ h:fm::§égm:: lad l‘lai I Ia.1 '11.me Glover ”MC ulflWQmCfl 0H“. Mg 20W In York DOOQ‘HOSJIOS: ”on “20.80.20” Detroit Ill" PIN“ A VIII I00 Wt. ”MO”! December oats droppal below 47 cents on Monday, as a result of the strong selling pressure but like corn this cereal rallied, late in the day, and the close was at the extreme high point of the day’s trading BYE The rye market is dull and quiet showing some strength when wheat starts up the line but quickly weak- ening in sympathy with a. dip in wheat and corn. No. 2 rye is selling for $1. 62 per bushel. BEANS BEA‘NS PER CWT., NOV. 61, 1920 Grade 109m I-chlcagol I. V. G. H. P. ...... l $.00 5.00 I 0.00 Rad Kidney: . . .l 8.00 I PRIGES ONE-YEA! AGO Ic. H. PJ Prime lRe‘d Kldneys ”“1 7.00 I‘ .50 [ Dm‘ t The current demand for beams is much improved from that which rul- ed at the beginning of'the month: the movement has not, as yet, gained. headway enough to warrant any great change in prices. Bean ex— perts are looking for better prices for this commodity before long. POTATOES The potato market shows more strength at all points, probably, as a direct result at the. prevailing cold g P Wanda: Chart for W I.“ '0 m...“ m 2.“. “rum to th tic nor po 6. e - ingm about 1.400 miles south of the familiar, dalmt exact] between St. Pan an pennant-tn (”I soothe: ”BMW WWW h Jgénéfiom filgvembg 85 m THE WEATHER FOR THE WEEK As Forecasted by W. ’1‘. Foster for The Michigan Business Farmer ' tomcnt the mus 'themouth. Wm” rcropsof cast of Rockies durhlgzlaat day. of November and first yu of December. A general assortment of Weather events is ex- pected. more than usual precipitation, a. norther, or blizzard, followed by cold weather that will continue to near middle of December, the coldest art of it being on meridian 90 near mber 8. Another set of severe - storms are expected to approach from extreme northwest not nu- from k "10, m anon-r great 9.1 wanna- and causing can. aura 36ml]! mze'ahovo pummaltotheendofnmbar.wnh, Inoculation than hirsthaltof >~ beraop-weuhuis or“: Ann-sacs will. :0 into 1.2] in M rospects that indicate as Sn average, condition. witha fair crop- lnout two‘thlrds of the continent one-third from fair- to poor cropl'. ‘ Mia-t I 4— ' _ aptly) raider. ' . it in” all markets last hip-than. low-'1‘“ '“Mi Detroit ”mean The hay market is holding its own fairly well in all parts of the country; supplies are not burden- some and the demand just about equal to the task of absorbing cur- rent arrivals without permitting an accumulation. New York‘and the upper-Atlantic coast district is fair- ly well supplied in spite of the em- bargo against this commodity which has been maintained by the New York Central railroad for several weeks past. At Boston, supplies of hay are not equal to the demand and quotations have been advanced from $1 to $2 per ton. The Detroit mar- ket reports a steady trade at the scale of prices which has prevailed for several weeks past. LIVE STOCK MARKETS 'There is little that can be said about the recent trade in live cattle, except to note a continued downward trend in. prices» for everything, ex- cept yearlings, which just about hold their own from week to 'week, with $17.50 top in Chicago. The direct cause of the slump in cattle values, during the last week, has been the ” arrival of excessive supplies in near- ly all markets. ' , Chicago got a big run of cattle Monday and the receipts for the first . two days of the week were 17,500 head larger than tor the correspond- ing period of the week before. Trade in some parts of the Chicago stock. yards was almost at a standstill on the mid-week days. the only thing that was asked for being gilt-edged yearling: and good bologna bulls. The hull trade weakened toward the end of the week and the close was, on a par with that of last week. Stockers and feeders are yielding under strain of declining cattle val- » 1195 for mature cattle. Eastern do— - mend. for Wade (ire-ad boot is, decidedly sluggish. relieving ofnearly all of her shipping do- we and causing 3 mg on trade. A substantial W in” the also at the American only of the unemployed inf having M to do with the decreased demands for all kinds of meat products and deal-VI"; or: are looking for a revival in (i find as the weather become perm; m snap ind Lamb W Haters sheep had 3. bd tun waatherandafamngoiflnamms“ Inimmm “2m. n h J M A A A Lng.d'-.u.. machining-annu- H111 bzvmwenrouremm (—9- p... , r—Ww» mJ-vv— M...“ . , , .Jiiniscaed. ‘0 Joining states. In view of the wide distribution of the infection. Sale— ” tr Firstshould be the Watchword and every 1103 should be given the double. met-neat, immediately. Owners of pure-bred stock should 1mist that the veterinary surgeon who treats their hogs shall furnish . them with a certificate of immunization for each hog, bearing his sig'na- - tire, thedatethatthe enimalwastreatedandtbesizeofthedoseadr . v I . in Chicago showing a lone trom Mou- ; day until Saturday of 75 cents to $1 1' *- per cwt. The average in this do- ‘ > . pertinent was $6. 30 for the week. Aged Wethers were bad sellers in Chi- cago 111111113: week. the loss tram the close of the week before being '75 cents per cwt. on the elder grades and 50 cents on year-lines. Thin 1.. western wethers tor feeding purposes 1' said 50 cents higher than finished stock at $7.50 per cwt. Last week’s Chicago lamb trade featured the lowest price since Nov: ember,‘ 19.18, the low point being touched on Tuesday and the trade firming up, somewhat, toward the close or the week as a result of im- proved weather conditions. The closing trade was 16 to 26 cents higher than that of the week before. - The top last week in Chicago for fat lambs was 812.65 and for feeding lambs $12. 90 per cwt. Live Hogs and Provisions . «Hogs have been coming freely, of 1 late and packers have been pounding ' the market until it is hitting right .«‘I' it" b ‘35}5'1.’ 5“? 5'“ GFLWTNH~ , around- the low point for the present ' season. The speculative provision ‘ market has been weak and unstable in sympathy with the weakness in both hogs and grain. The general opinion is that receipts will continue to be large for the next 30 days and that values will continue to decline until a new ”low" for the last four years is uncovered. The continued depression in business circles is also having a discouraging influence over the hog and provision markets and no recovery is looked for until after the holiday season is past. . The Detroit cattle market has been extremely dull and slew of_ late, ar- rivals being larger than the trade needed and the quality of the ‘ofl’er- lugs extremely common. Veal calves have been selling well at higher prica ., es than any other market- in the . country, similarly located. Sheep ' fiend lambs were dull early in the .-Week, but the close was active .a‘t "the best values that have prevailed since the close of the month. As us- ual. of late, Detroit has had an un- . satisfactory live hog trade; prices l have been out of line with other , markets and the packers have £re—' [ uuently declined to. enter the mar- ket. leaving sellers to send their hogs east. or to hold them'orer as they seemed to think \besti. .—w.——-ru—V—IVIWH|‘EPI,W‘. SIN 1A R Sugar prices are off again. De— .clinne in Cuhun raws the first of the week were followed by n‘drop in re- , . fined 10 10c wholesale. it looks as if the market was again going to play into the li-nnds ofhthe manufacturers and enable them to settle for their boots on a. low basis. .afler whlch we may expect. another advance, .We look for materially higher sugar prices with the coming of'spring and suggest to our'reeders who have to buy sugar to lay in a pound or two extra at current retail prices. ’on'rnorr PRODUCE MARKET- -"l‘l1e Detroit produce market'is (sir; Iv active along nearly all lines, the steady cold weather giving to the market an activity and dependable firmness, which it has not known at -ady preceding date this tall. . There ' is on active demand for all dairy pro- ' ducts. The. better grades of butter are selling well but the consuming public is tired of common butter and butter substitutes Fresh eggs are very scarce and tending toward higha ‘ or price levels; demand [or mtorage ‘ ' 1a Apples are in ample new“ » 5 MW will help you. uni tel: in line tor the 3250 Ital]; calves are in light supply and prices ' are firm. The poultry market is suffering from an over-supply and prices are tending lower. Wholesale Prices 4 Butter Fresh Creamery, print ..... . . . . 53-54c Fresh Creamery, tub ...... . . . . . 51-531: , Eggs Strictly Fresh ............. . . . . . 69-73c Storage Eggs ........ ....;. 51-53c Provision! ’ Family Pork, per bbl . .. . . . 42—45c Clear Back, per bbl. ...... . 32- 37c Hams .............. .. . . . ....... 32-3413 Picnic Hero-s . ...................-. 260 Shoulders ...... ........... ....... 27c Bacon .......................... 30-380 d ......................... 22-24c Dressed Hog- ' Under 150 pounds ........... .. . . 19- 200 Over 150 pounds ............... 16-181; U '9: EMARKET eEDITOR5 ”1“ ,J ‘ MAIL BOX “:3 NUMBER OF HOGS IN U. S. If you have in your office or can get the number of bugs in the United States this year and in 1919, will you please publish it with anything else in the way of statistics that have a. bearing on the future of the hog market in this coun- try?—J. J. P, Hillsdale, Michigan. . In answering the above query, we would most respectfully refer the writer to the last issue of the Busi- ness Farmer, on page 20. where is given many facts concerning the live stock industry. The U. S. Bureau of crop estimates figures the number of hogs that will appear in our mar- kets this year at 56,534.000; in 1919 the number was 62,073,000. Dur- ing the fiscal year which closed on June 30, 1920, the number of hogs slaughtered under government in- spection 111 the United States equaled 38,981,000. ’ The outlook for hogs and hog products is considered fairly good at this writing; of course, -much wfll depend upon the general trend of busines during the next 60 days. It price~cutting andgenera] liquidation continues, hogs will sell consider- ably lower, but should .a general business revival follow the presiden- tial election, the hog market will probably continue dull and steady during the next fortnightand after— ward, gradually seeking higher price l'vels. A CORRECTION N THE Oct. 9th issue a statement was published which discredited the Jersey Farm Dairy 00.. of Jackson. The information upon upon which this statement was: lum— ed was furnished, the Rusrrmss FARM- m by a prominent Hackson county milk producer. Investigation shows that our informanthad confused the Jersey Farm Dairy 00., with another dairy concern which was trying to get a foothold in the Jackson terri- tory. We find that the statements ,made against the Jersey Farm Dairy company were incorrect in every de- that the company is trust— worthy in every respect and that its patrons are well satisfied with the treatment. given them by this com— pany. The Boslm‘ss Fumes does not wish to injure any reputable indi— vidual or concern and gladly makes this unqualified retraction of the statement referred to —Edltor. CAN YOU USE $250? If you can write the Third Gold Contest Manager today a. postal cowl in care of T111: Busm‘nss FARMER. Mt. 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We can take care of orders from any . r. . part of the country - ,. . - The Larrowe .Milhng Company Deb-at, Mnch. \ mt. “'9 buy tame rabbi slr’ 1s .4180 Spring street. ML? TATISTICS prove that the m- iorily of accidents could have been prevented by a little fore- thought. There is no longer any excuse for a horse floundering or falling on . icy attests, susta‘dn‘ing opt-sins and brunet, perhaps becoming perma- neatly or oven bully injured. Red Tip Calks brown} I ah. easy way of showering that was o lute unfair to horse on driver. They are cool! and guicltly od- justed and once in w an in. venting din-per withm Do not confuse RED TIP colluwith imi- whens. Lookf or and insistupon the RED and you VIII get the best. Booklet why. Send (or it. 1115 1115ng31.111 WORKS» new "snowswncx. N. .1. to your job /, if you wear .3 11511111111 Slicker 1754sz warms/r: A.J. 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K231, Chicago, In Government Overcoats slightly worn, These costs have first class tailor would ask $75. 00 to make one from the some class of Men’s sizes from 3:. The smill sizes will make boy ever wore and are just the thing for school. Any of these coats should .wear for 5 years. Our price These costs dye a beautiful black or dark blue, which we will have done for you if you so re- quest by the largest dyers in Chiv cugo for s2. 75 additional to the first cost of $8. 75, but the cost of dyeing must accompany your " As a. matter of good faith, mail us.a deposit of $1.00, balance We always ship mv. unless other- FlIRS-Trappe‘rs &Shippers 1 We are buyers for You You manufacturers more for your furs. We use 4 standard deg la") years hmnrihie dEPilllgb, Tags etc” free BE RG GMAN-DAVIS 00., Ray Furs Macfiuuotts. for prime goods. and are in position to 1111' you as much at ’ 11 111111111 natuelm \Hclg, 1‘ng First Sat; [is gr- ., Willa ~ l '3 'BDPPEBS' Fool) 111011 TURKEYS ’ friends, 1 .5 HOUQAISEDS of dollars will be spent next year to control the '_ grasshOpper pest. Tons of poison will be shipped to Mich. to be distrib- uted by the farmers overtheir lands. This poison will be eaten by others than grasshoppers. Birds. our best . ‘will die by the thousands, for- o’hopper full of arsenic is just as fatal to a bird as the clear poison. Live stock or all kinds are in danger, ' and the question arises—does it pay? Isn't there a better and safér way to con-trot the hopper pest. Prof; Bur- gess of the M. A. C. thinks as does the writer that there is. If every farmer when the hoppers abound would raise a flock of turkeys and guineas the problem would be solved, and instead of providing a source of danger and destruction besides —a larger outlay of money thrown away, we would be sup- _ plying the market with birds and bring in a larger income to the [arm-- or. 'I know from experience that. 25 turkeys will rid any 80 of grasshop- pers. They will fatten on them and I know we need the turkeys. Michi- gan is the best turkey state in the U. S. and the natural feed (hoppers) are being allowed to be a source of annoy- . ance when they source of profit. This is a question which should be looked into by 0111- state this- fall. There are plenty of turkeys to be had now to supply every farm in the grasshopper infested region with a trio or a. pair. Next spring, it will he could be made a. too late so I say to the officers of the . state urged it to the- farmer and stop buymg poison to destroy all Our own wild life as WF‘ll as their own stock. — A. A. Whitccmb, Kent County, Mich. Sound argument! The wise man is‘he who turns his misfortune to his advan- tage if it can be done. Tu1keys will con- sumo an commons number of hoppch in a season. Turn the Terrible Turk loose. Let him turn the grasshopper from an instrument of destruction to an n _ LOSES 0N SPUDS WAS just reading in the M. B. F. of the potato farmers; cutting their throats by selling their potatoes at digging time or when the price is low and by not putting them in the cellar and holding them until the price is right. I would like to ask right here ‘ what is a man going to do when he owes a debt and the firm comes and demands its money? I suppose you wvouid tell him to wait until the price it: right then you will pay this firm? They will not do that. They know you have the potatoes and they are _going to get their money whether you lose or not. They don’ t care for your loss. We have to sell in 010611 to pay our debts when the firm calls for it. I was just figuring what my potatoes cost me per acre. Just $99 per acre. I got 40 bushels of good salable pota- toes per ac1e due to hail and droutb and light soil. Iget $1. 25 and $100 per bushel.— Subscriber, Penficld, Mich. \ I know right well that what you say is true of thousands of farmers in the. potato belt. It is the rule instead of the exception. I think howc vcr that our correspondent was not criticizing farmers who Po‘fi rbr‘lr potatoes in the fall from necosclty but the farmer who can afford to hold and inwnnd of storing the: pota- toes himself put them in the collar of the local dealer. Potatoes or other farm products should he kept out of the hands of.inflf-n'1"ent dealers as long as p03- Bible—Editor. -.._. STAYING lN T1111“ 01.11 111111 VERY farmer who has ever kept' E chickens have noticed that the springers after a time. Will 111-; dulge in the luxury of rotisting in the trees. it there are any. The more they; indulge the more they get confirmed. «in the habit to keep on roosting there- Beioré Winter sets In the farmer finds it almost impossible to make? the chickens roost where" he wants themv ‘ tos robst. He experiénces all this and knows it; but it rarely occurs to him I that he himself may be. like the chick-i" ens. The“ chickem act out of their nature, and be 1171‘s.: The chickens are arbitrary and egotistic in their mind 7 .They think that there is . no other i: Y‘l'mc as good as their are all in‘clincd - , . , body else would know it. , __ not.- know it they would soon find it , by the lawa and public opinion to pay fin to“ cultivate recs-ion," the highest . gift to man by nature, and about the only thing that separates us iron) the lower animals. In the absence of rea- son or high enough degree or it, we would be like the chickens, we would think that we are right and every If they did 0111,1011 we are going to stick to the ’ old roosts in spite of all opposition. ‘ Ninety- five per cent of. the people of > the world rank in this class, especially ‘ so in their religious. . What is reason? together in- mind'all previous infor- mation of all sorts from everywhere, comparing them with each other, making deductions from them and flu- ally reaching conclusions; The con'-_ clusions‘may be right or wrong ac- cording with the information back of it. One who gets much information. from nature direct has the advantage over all others who get mostly misin- fmmation and know absolutely noth ing about nature or- their Creator. He is enabled to measure men, animals and plants by the rule of nature Which . is the most, accurate rule there is.— 0. F. G., Webberm‘lle. Mich. The enemy of reason is prejudice The hon is prejudiced in favor of her native roost and refuses to be convinced that an artificial most is more to be desired Moms prejudices warp their reason and they are frequently led into taking the “'1'an course Nature is logical in her n‘mnrt'netioms She has no moods, plays no favorites knows no prejudice. Her mm a i~ ordered by logic pure and .ulvrmlo. Yes let's take some lessons From nature and learn how to take right 0""r"es When all our prejudices point the \VHY THIS; INJU'STICE? T IS in woman’s nature to desire to be loved, and this attributevis God- -given, yet, in the exercise of this attribute, much caution and the exercise of good judgement. is ab- solutely necessary in order that good and desirable results, only, shall be secured. It is the nature of woman to trust and confide and, if due caution is not observed, sad results may obtain and public sentiment condemns, without me1cy, the woman who has strayed from the bath of viltue _while cen- soring, but lightly, the man who has been perhaps the chief cause of this most regrettable condition. Is there any sufficient“ reason for ccnsuv‘iu'r the woman more severely than the man when both have left the path of virtue? It would seem that man. being the stronger in will power, by nature“ and while cont-rolled less by his afiections should bear the lar- vcr pmlion of? the responsibility and the accompanying censure when both have erred by the immoral act. Ella Wheeler Wilcox has treated in her trenchant poem, “Two Sinners”— this subject in such manner as to Show very fm'cefully the injustice done by curing public sentimentto the woman who has been a. partner in animmoral act and she has suffered the inmstice of severe censure, while but light cen- sure is cast upon the man, the more responsible party. There is, however, this conSolation, that human. unjust judgement will not be permitted to determine the final settlement of this regrettable trans- gression of God’s 111w.—-—'J._ T. Daniella, Clinton County. Mich. 7 w——-——.'~—‘ If comment is necessary upon this deii- , ‘. cafe subject we can only, of course fully agree with you. TllQI‘a should be no double standards of morality. The condit- ion of which you speak is perhaps natur- al. It is a heritage handed down from the centuries uhen‘woman was consid4 ered to be no better than a chattel Even in the biblical clay~ the double standard \1 as recognized It was pcrmissable in the éYes of God for men to .ba've many wives and concnbines, but dual. marriag- nu for mecn were not allowed Now, however, the entire civilized world rec- omizes the essentiallty 0! monbgamous marriage as the only safa and Sure foun- nation for a happyI sons life and an up- right citizenship. In .1}, lesser de so perhaps it lgé‘zisxtsr‘t upon the single £11- dam of mar 11y 111 though We have a long wa'yj yet to go béfbre the - morality- will be visited up .10 the some extent that the .- the warmth. If the map were in bi the same penalties for his e‘rr‘l omhp there 1176117 and . i wanted. from silky~ 7t! it, " CHEAPER MONEY FOR EARME‘ WOULD like to say a. few words; although do not suppose you Will .. . humble? I new: had a. chance to go to college. If the ‘Republican party would put . James A. Garfield or _a.n A. Lifiooin I would deposit my savings 11111111111» puny more argument, but when they - want us‘ to vote for Rockpleller and It is the bringing ; .bos, Sherifi' Ottawa County. in :Miqhisa km 1-; - print it. Excuse the thought of a simple farmer“ up-a Morgan, Wall Street & Co.) earn them $10 a day and pay you off at 50 cents and a. swift kick in- the pants”, then it you strike you are a red, I say" get up ~ i and: do .11 little thinking. 7 7.. They Will go over to the Phllllpino ’ Islands, take a. brass band along to droWn- the cries of our own people who are starving at the wharf in N. City, hunt some nigger out of the jungle, send him to college for 20 years and when they get thru with him he is a nigger still. , their swamps, build boulevards and marble palaces, loan them billions of dollars that American farmers and laborers have worked to get at 50 cents a day and then if we farmers and commOu folks at home want a loan on our farms and a decent wage we are not in it Would like to voice my opinion right here. It Uncle Sam wants to help the farmers, let him loan them money at 4 per cent, 110 bonus nor other extra charges, ‘the same way they do ’in Denmark and other European countries. his general department, industry’nnd general behavior. rion. America for Americans and a little more honesty. To the voters ol‘ the state of Michigan don‘t let them put it. over you. —-B. W. B. Fer- {ms Mich. There have been many abuses no doubt . in the distribution oi‘ government fundn. 11 does seem as though the government should show a little more sympathy to the farmer. and help him in getting the credit and the money wh'ch he so bad‘y needs at this stage. Evcrvthing is top- r7v turvy just now Mcbfm .‘heyfll right themselves after awhile. ——Editor_ CATTLE RUNNING AT LARGE HE last issue of your paper con- tains an article by C. E. R. in re~ gard to pasturing idle land in northern Michigan. I have lived here some 34 years, where cattle are, allowed 'to roam at will by a good many fmmers Can say from exper- ience that fence or no fence the prac- tice is a damnable nuisance. In the first place no young growth would over get much chance if cattle had a. free'cha‘nce at it. In the second place it costs a. good bit of money these days to. fence in a new farm, and new farmers are what these cut-over lands mod the most. $11 will cost enough to'gct started anyway without being forced to build fence before one is ready and able to do so. It is als_o a, fact that a good many cattle have no ‘ respect for a three wire fence or hard- ly any other fence and prefers. raid on crops to pasture knee deep outside. I have traveled many a. mile and swore many an oath after the stray cattle disputing my claim to a crop.—— . 0. D. S., Cheboygan County, Mich. Well. you ought to know. At the same time there ought to be a way provided for utilizing the thousands of tons of grasses that go to waste every year on the plains and cut- -over lands of the state You are speaking of isolated cases. 1 Clean up‘ ' Not lndls- . ' criminately but every man subject to Cut out immig’ra-r am referring to the tho‘usands of contigw I uous acres that lie in many parts settler, which grow much vegétation that should, if possible, be ‘used your opinion about that?—.—Editor. SHERIFF HITS CONSTABULARY— 8 DON’T think we need the State Constabulary. It is only an extra burden on the taxpayers. It I had, my say it would be done away with. If the sheriffs and police get the prom- er support I think they can do‘ the work without any trouble. -C'. Dem ' Ottawa is another fruit spewing cm‘ which, according tot-‘hthe constaibulary . pogandists“. needs _State Police. to combat the mospersxe. bandits before the Consmbu into. existence; is not recordé‘d. glad to ssyn that There air-asp. o What is ‘ . of" I L Michigan untouched by the hand of tho, "cu: this ’leotion sure has been a . . .. likea man’ s wife or daughter would . vote d1f1’ren't than the 01’ man an’ ' so it kinda looked to me’s if/I might ,‘be able to control quite a few votes, . my family numberin’ several——-s_ome ‘ more" I reckon that’s - ' daughters disagreed—an yet 4 . .an’ Every one of’ em could give good ‘ an' sufficient reasons for their views ‘ . has elapsed fly argudd“ that if women {get the fight to vote it_ would’ nt Tehw‘ge 1:119 political outcome in the 5' least; Women, it was said, would volts“. .f'vefedmn' so the gen ’rl results would " ~ he the: same whether the. women Vot- as their husbands or fathers of em female women; but goodness! I ,I found that a man with full grown 1.:dja-ughters can’t hardly control his . oy‘vn vote—not only have I learned this little lesson but there’s a lot learned the same lesson—take it right from your pore o’ Unk, the dear little Women his got minds of their own, , an’ they’ re turrib‘ly sot in them too . — . , Th1nk1n that mebbe my girls would like a little advice an’ like enufl’ a little instruction an’ this be- in’. a vacation time with me, I went out to the farm where the daugh- ' ter an. her husband lives an’ started ingto give advice but I didn’t git far with it—.—n'o ‘I didn’t git a great way. ’_cuz she had more insight into the political situation than her dad ever » hopes to attain an’ we didn’t agree on any partic’lar—anot on one ’cep- in’ dinner—her dinners most allus agrees-.wivth me an’ so I overlook some of 'her shortcomin’s on political questions—but jest the same I wuz oonsider’bly s’prized to see how much she know an’ by a little inquirin’ I found that the majority of women who intended to vote, wuz equally ’well_ posted an’ they wa ’ant no guess work abdut how they intended ‘to vote neither—each wuz. sot in their views an’ some times sisters differed with each other an’ even mothers an’ each an’ that’s a geod sight more’n lots of men can do \an’ the men’s been fig- urin’ the game for years too. An’ ’nother thing I’ve learned—- - contrary to all past predictions, wo~ , men ,don’t care a mite wh-at‘color a man’s eyes are,“ what church he goes to, whether he’s married or single her what party he belongs to .-—-it’ 5 what he stands for that counts 'With them an’ let me tell you that - .1 most of the. dear women has jeSt about .got the diffrunt candydates calibre flggered dowuto a fine point as they themselves look‘at it or, as the teller sez, from their own view- point. _ One thing that stands out very plainly an’ wuz a surprise to me is this: Women, .in the-short time‘ that since suffrage wuz granted them, has sure been studyin’ conditions an’ they’ ve. done it on a broader basis than men usually do -—‘—-they studied both sides an’ they ain’t a (bit of sentiment con- nected with‘ their political views—— if-any of my friends think there is, " .jtlst start an argument with some of 'em ~a‘n’ see—you won’t last longbut you’ll be a sight ‘wiser when you git through for. “trail'little wo- men.”,; whose place is .111; the home 4 tendin babies, as the ward heelers t/ell us, has not only ’tended babies when babies needed ’tending an’ tak- on care of the homes an’ made good wives an’ ’mothers, but they titted themselves for thething that has been granted to them an’ right . thinkin’ men everywhere resneot our women more an’ honor them more ‘ 2 than ever before in the history .0: ' . the 1111113111.. ’Course there’s the political wire a; great eye opener to your Uncle but I’m‘ glad to learn jest how little =1, , ever knew aboutupolitics ‘an’ the su— perioi; intelligence of our American mothers; wives an’ daughters. —-—Cor- dially. —Umcle Rube. ‘ Learn its cost. of a few more acres of land. the actual added profits. advanced type, scientific machine. against breakage or defects. COLDWA'TER, . _ . . Indianapolis, Ind. Peoria, Ill. Jackson. Mich. Harrisburg. PI. Omaha. Neb. - Kansas City,Mo. Unproductive land is no asset. owned never fattened ' a bank account. acre alone that swells income to the high tide. Your Dealer Who Sells New idea Spreader Then compare this with the cost And compare the final results that land or spreader will give, the increase in bushels harvested, More than one hundred thousand high pro- duction, big value farms owe success to the regular spreading of manure with a New Idea. twenty percent of them yearly crops are due to this strated increase-met bankable, added incomenmade possible only by greater fertilizing efficiency which the New Idea gives. You can get other spreaders cheaper. then, why change from the old wagon and pitchfork method at all, unless you want, and aim to get, the best? Our Gold Seal Guarantee absolutely protects you The New Idea Spreader Company “Spreader Specialists” ._.BRANCHF£ AT ~ Chicago, Ill. Syracuse, N. Y. Waterloo, Iowa , S 61 3 pay farmers in Notting’hamshire and ' Lincolnshire,. England for topped beets delivered .at the factmy ac-_ coxding. to the Westminister Gazette. The announcement is made by the directois of the company, Which Will manufacture beet sugar. at Kelham, .111 1/44/44,! Ill/l EeOriglnalMdeSpi'adlngSpr TERRORIZL PEANUT GROWERS The? peanut growers of Alabama are 111‘ for terror now ; Gov. K1131; :has received rep01 ts that“‘n1ght r1116 ., 11511371117: warned taxi “not to “ get'ari’y peanuts out o *the ground until theh'prices goes to $85 a ton. ”_ ' THREE hundred acres worked right will bring more farm profit than the Whole state of Patagonia. - The number of acres It is ‘ bushels per Find what it is doing for farmers everywhere Reusterca “NEW IDEA” and_“NISCO”—-— two trade-marks representing Spreaders that are identical in quality, Ten to This is positive, demon- Naturallyl But OHIO Minneapolis. Minn. Columbul. Ohio 1 - St. Louis. Mo. ,71:.originalwidgisanding-sesame: . ".2. . in principle, in design and in mechanism, except for some minor differences in running gear which adapt them to varying field conditions in difl'erent parts of the country STRAW SPREADING .ATTACHMENT easily put on or taken 08' your New Idea Spreader. Gives two machines in one. one man operates it. Big capacity; spreads straw 8 to 10 feet wide. Ask your dealer about it. Light and simple; This little book is very much worth while reading. Better fill the coupon .The New Idea. Spreader Co. Coldwater, Ohio Free copy of, your book. “Feeding the Farm." . Nai’ne and address of nearest New Idea dealer. ‘ Name ‘ " Street or R. F. D.’ State. . ; l k i i , g“ - An r Mme’rWeekly Owned m ‘ Edited to Michigan ssmnsr, NOVEMBER so, 1920 Published every fiaturday by the MAL PUBLISHING ”OOMPAM. Inc». It. elm. -»flhhluu Members Agricultural Publishers Association , Represented in New York, Chicago; Si". 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When renewals are my requires 3 weeks time before the label is chanzed- AaVBN-ISIHQ Rates: Fort -flve cents 1’ line. 14 lines to the column inch. 768 linesyto page. no m“ lee stock and Auction Sale Advertlslng: We offer special low rates to reputable breeders of live stock and poultry; write us for them. OUR GUARANTEED ADVERTISERS We respectfully ask our readers to favor our ad— vertisars when possible. Their cat-loss and prices are_eheerfully sent free, and we guarantee you asamst loss providing you say when wnflnzpr or- dering from them. “I saw your ad. in my MIC Business Farmer.” Entered as second-class matter, at post-office, Mt. Clemens. Kich. Another Thanksgiving COMES ANOTHER Thanksgiving. What have I to be thankful for? is the thought that forces itself upon the common mind as this day approaches. The individual who feels his utter dependence upon God and ac- knowledges God as the source of all material and spiritual blessings, always finds something to be thankful for. He may be clothed in rags, and thanks God that he is not naked. His food may be a crust, but before he eats he offers up a simple prayer of thanks that he need not go hungry. His house may be a hovel, his pillow a stone, his covering a sackcloth, but if he be filled with the true spirit of God, he will be thankful for even this poor shelter. This is an age of grumbling. Few men are so healthy, few so wealthy, few so blessed with ‘ the comforts and pleasures which make life easy, happy and satisfying, that they do not find something to grumble about. Indeed, it seems that the more we have the louder we grumble. Some of the most contented people I have known are' those who possessed but lit- tle of the world ’s goods. All of which gobs to show that half the joy of living is in striving and not in having; in anticipation and not participation; in work and not in play. I am not one of those who believes. in “let- ' ting well enough alone.” Such a theory as that never contributed one dot to the sum total .of the world’s knowledge, righteousness and ‘ happiness. I' believe that oppressron should be overthrown and inequality righted. I be- , licve that all human efiort should be directed toward making it harder for the 'rich to ac- quire morc wealth than they need and easier for the poor to earn the comforts of which , they. are now deprived. This may be social— ism. Call it what you may. Another name for it ’is justice. For the sake of justice to all who work honestly for a living I shall forever complain and strive against the forces of in- ‘ justice. In the furtherance of this ideal we should never lose sight of the fact that all classes and conditions of people who dwell in these United States are in infinitely better circumstances than any other people of any other age and any other, country in the history of the world. The Thanksgiving day which we are soon' to observe will be the 299th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving day observed by the Pi1-' . grim fathers. , Itwis impossible to refrain from , striking a comparison between the conditions surrounding that brave band of men and wom~ ' : on and the conditions which surround their posterity today. Driven from their native homes, toesed upon Atlantic’s wild bosom, thrown upon the forbidding shores ~of anim- known‘ land whose western boundary was a limitless forest inhabited by beasts and Ind. ' .Nisescand £30ng a. ,. intuit? :thcatenirgg :. with a; , "humble papa ,, bleak November day and thanked God for his mercies! Our crumbs wduid have been as man-' no. to them; our comfortable homes as palatial , mansions; our conditione- of life as a Utopia to be dreamed of but never realized. » Is there not a lesson .to us all in this reflec- tion? Have we not in spite of the inequalities and discouragements' that come the wayof each and every one of us a great many things to be thankful for? God pity the man who has ninth- ing to be thankful for. raiment, no children, no future! He does not exist. There is something, always something to be thankful for. Sc'otchman, “if your meat be spare, think of those who have no meat; if your clothes be out of season, think of those who are in tatters; if your only credit is a sound body, be content. for there are many who suffer; if you be sick, think of those who die; if you are about to die, think of all the misery and suffering around you, and be glad on it.” Protecting The Constitution DURING these trying days when class seems pitted against class in a silentstruggle for special privilege the Constitution forms a con- veient refuge for those who desire to see no changes effected constitutionally nor statuta- bly which would in the slightest degree disturb the complexion of our present economic fabric. Referring to the Constitution as the “pallad- dium of our liberties” has become as hackney- ed a practice as boasting of one ’8 “American- ism.” And it means just about as much. If We Had the Time ' By Richard Burton If I had the time to find a place And sit me down full face to face “71th my better self. that can not show In my daily life that rushes so; It might be then I would see my soul XVas stumbling toward the shining goal. I might be nerved by the thought sublime, If I had the time! IfIhadthetimetolet-myheart I Speak out and take in my life apart, To look about and to stretch a hand To a. comrade quartered in no-luck land; Ah, God! If I might but just sit still ‘ And hear the note of the whippoorwi II, I think that my wish with God’s would ryme.—- - If I had the time There may be in this country of over a hun- ‘ dred million souls a few thousand who are not good Americans andwho do not revere, the Constitution as the fountain head of political wisdom, justice and liberty. Those who would destroy the Constitution are. fanatics, few in number and little to he feared. The special interests have appointed themselves as guard- ians of the Constitution and are frantically appealing for help to protect it from an enemy which exists only in their guilty imaginations. The greattruths pxpressed by the Constitu- tion are fundamental. They will not be de- stroyed. But as the striving for riches and power increases; as wealth becomes centralized; . as new problems arise and intrude themselves in the Constitutional tenor of our ways, we find itnecessary to make changes in the Gong stitution' to protect its sacred principles frOm the forces of evil which inevitably accompany ‘ those changing conditions. , The patriots who drafted our Constitution nearly a hundred and fifty years ago, wise and fer—seeing though they were,- could not have looked forward to this, day and its peculiar problems. It there- fore becomes necessary to occasionally. bring the Constitution up to‘ date. There is no need of any radical change in the Censfitution, but. our reverence for that 33%;.th shoem- ,nfit-W “BMW? _.; , ' eel and ' Writ) ”afloat such/revision ‘ ,. ~ L . w -"-- No home, no food, no, In the words of the old to our- .,. 7. re ,rybofidy else! Whiie‘ir'iis true in many specie that'he'is a'fish..a "poor fish” fastheyf Barr-411° huge-kt sucker in the pom—415.18 un- kind to keep remindinghim of the fact; " Ger» tain prescribed rules of conduct, businem, 3th; , ice and rules of every other kind are expected " to rule the affairs. of every class of peoplcflbut,’ k the farmer. As for him, he is expected to con— 5 ' form to a. special code-oftmorals which are as ’ " changeable as the wants and the whims of all ' the other classes. - ‘ For instance, out in the corn belt the farm- .‘ era are burning corn for fuel. Itis simply a. matter of business prudence. Why sell fifty, cent corn to buy eighteen dollar coal when cérn is the cheaper fuel of the two? . Common 1 ' sense echoes “why?” But not so the fellow who sees in everything, the farmer does or says a vicious conspiracy to starve the world or ex- act an exhorbitant price for his products from the poor. He finds the burningof corn even under such circumstances an inexcusable Waste of food. - “An economic and a moral crime]? he raves. Throw him in the padded" cell! In his wake comes an apologist of the Department . , of Agriculture, who acknowledges the farmer’s ' “moral responsibility” to the rest of mankind j and points out with great care the economic . reasons for burning corn. Shades of Solomon! “Has reason forsaken this people? Whose business- is it. whethwths - farmer sells his corn, burns it, or makes it into pone? He bought the-seed, he planted it, be worried and sweated orer it till it had reached the harvest. It belongs to him to do with it as he sees fit. The world is rolling in com. You could pave the milky way with the coho of this season’s crop. If in the face of the downward sweep of corn prices the farmer finds it cheap-‘ ' er to burn corn than to enrich the coal. barons, . .why explain it, why apologize for it, why even mention it! , "‘ ' ' Our magnificent forests have been stripped . of their vegetation. Ruthless and complete has been the devastation. - Our streams have , ' 1 been robbed of their fish, our woods of their game: Our mines have been wastefully de- prived 9f their ores. Our railroads have been ‘ wrecked. Our natural lakes and rivers have been desecratc'd and capitalized for private benefit, All this is excusable, permissible—- pure business. But if the famier burns his corn, well, that’s another matter. “Fish of- . the farmer and fowl of everybody else.” A County €ommission E NEXT- legislaturc will be asked to adopt legislation that will permit couri- ties. to change their form of government. There are those who believe that the present method of handling county affairs is cumbersome, in- efficient and unnecessarily expensive. . They believe that by a commission form of govern—A ment the taxpayers will be better and cheaper served. The commission idea. for county gov- ernment is merely an application of the ci-y commission idea. Formerly all town and art- 1‘33 were governed by a board of trustees or al— dermen elected at large or by wards. In the majority of cases these men were Wholly unfit to administer the affairs of the municipality and as a result there was graft and waste for which the taxpayer paid dearly. Hundreds of municipalities have now discarded that eye- tom and have erected in its stead a commission form of government under which the entire 111'? ' fairs of the. city are administered by a board" ' of three to twelve men, elected at large ‘accord- ' " ing to their ability and experience. In the .ma- ;. Jority of cases this system of government has? given the utmost satisfaction. ' There is no absolute certainty that the coun- ty would receive the Same benefits from a com. mission form 'of'governmont as the‘c'ity, but 7, IS assayed, that it would. Anyway there win mfip‘ijw ‘MGPP I ardent-'9 Pu“ "IGWW F.“ I. (POW I .’I l- 550‘ H T ‘K 'I 1Vl‘ I "IV era-'73 :H I ’4'! ”W ceives “from the state. urdensome 'i taxation. j Salary Amendment Defeated. .| V ' HERE . is much sorrowing War at the , State capitol these" days. The boys are - weeping over the remains of the salary .amend- . 1’ ment which was pretty badly mangled in the V last election. The three "state ofiicials hit hardest .by‘th'e failure of this amendment to ' receive the required number of votes are the ‘ Auditor General, the Secretary of State and the State Treasurer. . . _ ' Auditor General Fuller has served the state of Michigan for many years at the nlggardly salary of $2,500 a year. The same abilities which he gives to the «state of Michigan ex- pended along some other line would no doubt ' bring him triple the financial rewards he re- The Auditor General is the watch-dog of the state treasury. It is he. who keeps an eye on the appropriations and warns the state legislature when in its occasion- orgy of spending it bids fair to exceed the limits. With the eye of an eagle he delves 1n- to the estimates submitted by the various in- stitutions and does not hesitate for a minute to condemn the items which he thinks might be omitted or abbreviated. Auditor General Fuller is entitled to receive larger pay from the state of Michigan. Perhaps the services of the State Treasurer and Secretary. of State entitle those worthies to slightly higher com- pensation than they are now receiving. ' ' Be that as it may, none of. the state officials 'will receive or deserve to receive higher pay so long. as they resort to subterfuge and decep- tion to wrest it from the voters. Instead of \coming out openly to the voters and telling them in plain English just 110w much of a salary increase they thought they were entit- led to, they cunningly contrived an amend- ' ment to take the power of fixing state salaries out of the hands of the people and delegate it to the hands of the legislature. Not one in a thousand voters would have understood the . true meaning of the salary amendment had it -~ not been explained to them. The legislature tried the same game a year ago when it sub- mitted the amendment to increase the salary _ of circuit judges. The people are not penurious. They believe . that public ofiicials should be adequately corn- pensated for their services. At the same time they do not intend tofmake the public job car- ry so high a salary that it will become a. polit— ical plum. We believe the people of Michigan are sufficiently intelligent and fair-minded to understand the necessity for increased pay in certain state positions, but they properly re- sent any attempt to pull the wcol over their eyes. . They are perfectly capable of determ- y-ining the size of the salary to be paid state ,officials, and they don’t careto have the job delegated to the legislature. Whoever was re- sponsible for the wording of the salary amend- ment is responsible-for its defeat. g Capital 'And Labor. UBLIC opinion has not been kind to labor. Organized labor is partially to blame for this, but not 'wholly. During the war certain - branches of organized labor were inclined (to . be pretty nasty, about some things, and the public resented it. But in the main, labor has not been any too well treated, and labor knows it. Labor has brains and intelligence, facts . which some employers deny or overlook. . La- ‘bor’s intelligence told ”labor during the war . that Opportunity was knocking atits door, and. if labor did not seize that Opportunity to secure an insurance against the future, it 'would be forced to return to its old , position of humility ”and. helplessnesswhen there should "again be more men than jobs. “’ : Wh ,tever; revulsion of feeling we may have. A ‘ _ . «1 experienced toward the man who toilsbecause 9i hwarranted‘ strikes and impossible ;, 4e. 5 ’ , gatedby professional labor union- .ow-“look. upon labor 2-in a more: WWW. _ be Labor is absolutely atrthe mercy of the employer. ~ Hundreds of thousands of men are ‘ out of employment. When there is no work 'to be had, no fobd for the larder and no coal for-the hearth, men do not quibble over wages or working conditions. They take what is of- fered them. The employer is now in a posi- tion to pay labor almost any wage he sees fit and labor can only submit. Some employers are already taking advantage of laber’s posi- . tion by reducing wages without regard to the cost of living. Let it be said to the credit of the great majority of employers that they are taking a very sane and charitable view of the situation and show no inclination to arbitrar- ily reduce wages unless a lower cost of living should clearly warrant it. This attitude will ’ pay in the long run. To take advantage of labor now when labor is in no position to pro- tect itself would be to sow the seed for future trouble. , . There have been no reduction of wages in the shop of .the Business Farmer. There will probably not be any. The men and women who perform the clerical and mechanical work necessary in the publishing of this paper are partners in the business. They are entitled to a fair wage and a share of the profits which they help to create._ They are entitled to live comfortably, enjoy life and toasave against a rainy day. It is our aim to help them do that. If the ecst of living comes, down we shall con- sider that to be their advantage and not ours. This policy pursued everywhere would make for better feelings between employer. and em- ployed and spare the public from the- annoy— ance and costliiiess of the periodical clashes between capital and labor. Julius H. Barnes, former director—general of the United States Grain Corporation, is acting in the role of an apologist for the gamblers in food products. Why should we expect anything else from the man who was mainly responsible for permltlng the resumption of option trading in wheat during the re-adjustment period. It is rumored that Mr. Barnes is to head a 60 million dollar’ corporation for the exportation of grain to foreign countries. The, sugar manufacturers haven't yet decided what they will pay the farmers for their beets next year. As soon as they do they will let the farmers know. ll THE WEEK’S EDITORIAL [I THE DISAPPEARING FARlVIER TEN YEARS ago the cities of the United States had nearly seven million fewer peo— ple than the country. Today the inhabi- . tants of the cities outnumber the country people by four million. This is one of the danger sig- nals chalked up on the census boards by the fed- eral Bureau on urban and rural population.‘Prof. Hobson of Columbia University makes this drift to the cities an even sterner contemplation with his demonstration that 100 years ago 87 per cent of all Americans lived directly off the soil, where- as today less than 33 per cent are engaged in‘ agriculture. No matter how great, how rich, how mighty America’s cltles become, life annot be sustained without food ,and food cannot be rais- ed on asphalt pavements of factory floors. The bone and slnew of A‘merlca is on the farm; and the drift of Americans away from the farm is as serious a matter as would be the drying up of“ any other well springs upon which communal life. depends. , Such a problem cannot be met by hom- ilies or proclamations. It can only be met by making agriculture relatively as profitable as other‘lndustry, and by providing country areas relatively with as many advantages as. cities have. "What the farmers need,” observes The New York Herald, “ls not more land but more men; they will get themwhen the working hours, pay and conveniences _of the farm overbalance urban attractions.” Not only do the farmers need “more men,” they also need greater business facilities. When their spokesmen appeal to Wash— ington, as they did this week, for federal assist- ance in “obtainingloans’? necessary to their fun- ctioning, their appeal-discloses that despite all the new agencies ”for fiscal expansion in time of stress, the needs of agriculture are not yet met. _-Tl_I‘e. thing for us‘ all to get into our heads is that the. farmer’s ‘preblem‘ today is not the farmer’s problem alone. It is the cities’ problem as well. - Tjheiithing for In, to realize—awarned, once more, ‘ as iweare'fby "census ”figures—ls that self-interest ' problem recently, by the announcement that and dull: imp-urbfii‘popuhuqns' to join in making ,. , _ __ Schoc aye ~ . ., HE" MOUNT Clamens high school is; " " across the street from my ofli‘ce. F quently I stand for a moment at my wind, . watching the boys at their games! or listening to the. strains of Annie Laurie or sonic of the good old school songs which flit across the way 1 from the open windows of the high school. 0n . such occasions my thoughts are carried away on the wings. of memory to the days when I. was a carefree, freckled~faced, snub-nosed lad, with patches on my pants, and sang the good old songs with a nasal twang that robbed the " music of whatever harmony it might possess. . A few days ago the superintendent invited me to come over andgive a talk to the high school students. I went, but believe me it was ~ some job. One minute I was talking to the _' ' scholars, the next I was back in the dear old school room of my high school days listening to some worthy citizen of the town expound the lessons of life and secretly hoping that he Would soon bring his remarks to an end. I wondered how many of the boys and girls I was talking to were wishing the same thing. As I talked a lot of little details of my own school'days kept bobbing up in mind and I told the young folks about them. Remember the first pair of long trousers you wore? Remem- ber how everybody you met that first day glued their eyes upon them and refused to look' at anything else? And, oh, what an awful moment it was when you entered the school room that first day. To make a bad matter worse the first day I. wore long trousers to school a mischievous young lady in my class observing me intently when I sat down as the last bell ceased its clanging, exclaimed aloud, so that all might hear, “Oh, he forgot to pull up his knees,” Yep, I blushed clear around back of my ears. Ah, yes, those were the hap- py days. On the face if Incomplete returns it appears that all five amendments submitted at the last election have been defeated. A large percentage of the "no" votes cast against such worthy meas- ures as the “excess condemnation” amendment and the “absent voters” amendment may be trac- ed to those who went to the polls for no other reason than to vote against the school amend, ment, and in order to play safe voted “no" on all" the amendments. Another reason why amend- ments that should have been adopted were de- feated was because few voters had the chance prior to election day to study the amendments, and .had neither time nor patience In the voting booth to discover their import. As a general thing voters who do not understand an amend~ ment vote “no.” It is the duty of the Secretary of State to make clear to the voters the purposes of amendments proposed to the Constitution. But the amendments as submitted are usually about as clear as mud. If the present Secretary of State does not have a sufficient grasp of the English language to explain proposed amend? ments so that the average voter can understand what he is voting for, the legislature would bet- ter give him explicit directions to follow. We know of no reason why the women of Saginaw should object to the “beer and sauer- kraut” inducement held out to men to enlist in the army of occupation. For a long time we have been wondering what to do with that troub- lesome minority whose only joy In life is to eat, drink and be merry and who persistently violate our prohibition laws to indulge their appetites. The beer enlistment poster suggests a solution to the problem. Conscript them for service ov- erseas. The sooner we are rid of them the bet- ter. For a long time past we have been at a loss to understand the real purpose of that very au- gust and dignified body, The Institute of Ame ican Meat Packers. It must cost a large amount. of money to finance an organization which A. supposed to deal with so many difficult and (1'61- icate situations. Some light has been upon-the of the leading members of the Institute, after pleading guilty to the systematic adulteratlon 0 grain, over a period of years, was let off wit paltry one-thousand'dollar fine. , .. If ‘a group of clothing manufacturers withf their goods from a declining market, that's 39 business. If a group of farmers withholdj_ crop’s from a declining market, that’s a strike. Twenty-four boards of'supervisors have" for the abolishment of the state constah ~What have the constabulary’s press agents \ L‘... .. YEAR . ,. , By Emma IGIary Wallace - T IS SO customary for us to re- we are apt to grow somewhat cal- loused as the years pass, and to feel much as the old lady did when she prayed on Thanksgiving Day. “I am thankful, Lord, for all the . things I have been thankful for oth- I er years. There’s no use taking your . time. or mine to repeat them. You «know. what they are as well as I do. Amen. ” True thankfulness does not get rid of the obligationof expression A ‘quiteuso easily. It rejoices in the ‘Nevidence of watchful care and the working out of the Divine Plan. It I is a deep, soul- satisfying makes us desireearnestly to be more worthy ’of our blessings. All of which brings me to some of the reasonswhyI am thankful this year. I migh't'say in the beginning, that during the twelve months which are past, the finger of deep sorrow ‘ has come nigh and touched me. And enables me to see and to know that g time'is fleeting and that the griefs of this life are not necessarily, as I ment for what has gone before, near- ly so often as a preparation for what is yet to come. We do not grieve be- cause examination day hasarrived and severe tests are put to us, be— cause we know that if we meet the test, it will entitle us to advance— .,ment to something which we have anticipated as possessing or enjoy— ing. I am thankful that the teirible \war is over and the nations have set up earnestly those reconstruction tasks which will make peaceful homes and happy childhoods and abundance,'available once more. -I am thankful too that time is passing so that those who have suf— fered deeply because of it, are be- ginning to feel the mellowing of it all, and to look up and beyond the first kcenncss of the anguish which it brought. ' I am thankful that the solving of the many acute problems facing the world today, is in wiser and more ex- . perienced hands than mine, and that ' all I have to do is to do that part of the world’s work which faces me with such efficiency and thorough— ' ness and earnestness as I may com— mand. _ , I am thankful for the increasing 'findings of‘ science, and for the pos— .‘sibilities which these are opening up ‘for greater human service. I am ”thankful for the long hours of study '4 couragement, and the unusual abil- ity brought to bear by scientific w'orkers upon the secrets of Nature. : How much we owe these good friends often without realizing it, when‘ we send a cable or pick up a telephone, ; orrstep into a swiftly moving vehicle. 0r again,’ when we call a physician ’ or read of a terrible plague which . has visited some far land but spar- ‘ ed us—because of our scientists. ' I am thankful for sunshine and ,fresh air and material gifts and the printing press and education oppor— .. ,rich and full. To whom much is ‘5 iven, surely it is right that of them uch shall be required‘ {--.I am thankful for stable govern- “,znonh—one in which there is enough gltatlon and ceaseless surging stagnation. Yes, I am thank- to the ideals of democracy and undations of our 'perSOnal sacrifice. ‘I am ml for the opportunity to up- View our causes for Thanksgiving ,I in a purely perfunctory way, that“ emotion » which lifts usout of ourSelves and , . words, yet I am thankful for the faith which ‘ g once mistakenly thought, a punish- ‘ and persistence'in the face of dis- . 'tunities which make life happy and! desire, and achievement to pre—‘ , Republic four forefathers laid at such a. standards and to car” 1011:. :, For all that God, in mercy, sends, For health" and children, and friends; For comfort in the time of need, For every kindly .word and deed, For happy thoughts and holy talk, For guidance in our daily walk— For everything give thanks! IFor beauty in this world of ours, For verdant grass and lovely flowers, -- ' ’ - For song of birds, for hum of bees, For the refreshing summer breeze Give Thanks home _ , For these, and everything we see, For hill and plain, for stream and wood, For the great ocean’s ‘ mighty - flOod— ~ In everything give thanks! For the sweet sleep which comes at night, _ For the returning morning’s light, For the bright sun that shines on. high, For the stars glittering in the sky 0 Lord, our hearts we lift to Thee For everything give thanks! --‘ ward their blessings for the coming generations. I am thankful for a Christian land and the great stirring of the public consciousness which voices itI-_, self everywhere in the thought and “How can I serve my fel-_ lows? How can I save the babies? How can I make conditions safe for youth? How can I prevent misguid- ed older people from doing them- selves and othersharm? I make the present count for a stronger and finer citizenship in the future?" _ I am thankful for the new world conception of motherhood——the con- sciousness that it is not our own children alone for whom we must care, but all the children of the race. I am thankful for time. Some people say that Time is Opportuni- ty; and others have declared that Time is Money. It is 0n1y~0ppor— tunity and it is only Money and it is only Privilege if we make it so. I am thankful for the vision and, ,. the desire and the determination to make Time Count! How can' SUGGESTIONS FOR THE .‘.‘NEW FARMER’S WIFE” HAVE found that method or sys-' tem helps a great deal, while there are“ times when one cannot carry out the program to the letter . yet it helps in the long run. When you rise, throw the bed open to air, and comb your hair. I know a great many womenwho never comb their hair until the morning work is done, and some, it— is; sad to say, let -» it go' all day. Then'dress and you are ready .for the day and feel ready for anything,_ even an early caller. As soon as breakfast is over stack the dishes and put 'the fgod away and tidy the (table. Then sweep the floor, make the beds and tidy] the sitting room. Then you can wash your dishes and wash the stove and your kitchen as well as the rest of the house is in order. .A_way I have to help in dish Washing is to have a piece of. old blanket (say a quarter) fold it and lay on the table at the back, then have your pan of hot suds to wash dishes and a pan of hot clear water to rinse them and 2967. A set of Toy Animals. Cut in 1 size, .The Cow requires 57% yard of 27—inch material and the Horse, 7-8 yard of 36-inch material. Price ‘10 cents. 2937. Set of Toys. Cut in one size. It will require 5-8 yard ‘of 24-inch material for either itoy. cents. Price 10 Dow-3061 ' ' 3061', Doll’s Set. Cut in 5 dolls, 16,18, 22 and 24 inches in heighth “Yard of 40 inch material fer- the cape, the’ bonnet. Price 10 cents. 22. 24 and 26 inches in km , inch doll Price, 10 cents. Made Gifts for the Children . 10 cents. sizes. For Size 18 will require 5- 8 yard. . I. of 36- inch material for the dress. 5- -8 and 1- 2 yard of 20- inch material for" ‘and 5- 8 yard for the hat. 2273. A Dainty Set for Dolly. ‘ The" pattern includes all styles illustrated. " Is cut in 6 sizes. For dolls: 96,. 18, 29.’ 1113-.sizes.‘ or dolls s, 41101133 in length. T5he ,ygrdsr 61% 279111011 material dress requires 1 1- 4 yard 01:27-inch 5. material, the pettlcoat 1-2 yard, and 1:21; the Wrapperan the combination ‘5- 8 yard forI an 18~.- . 2970. A Set of Pleasing Toys for the Children. Cut in 1 Size. ‘ Either style requires 3—4 yard of 27-inch .ma- terlal. Price 10 cents, . 2300. An attractive Set of Toy Ani- mals. ‘ The patterns are cut in one size only. I It will require 1-2 yard of flannel for the sheep, 3-4 yard for the dog, and 3-8 yard for the pig, Price, - {902 1 New‘ Dress and Hat for. 2275 A Miss Dolly. Cut in 6 sizes. For dolls 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 and 26 inches in length: Size 24 will require 1 1- 2 " yard of 27- inch material for the dress, Price 10 Long Clothes Set. dCut ' 18, and 20 It .will6 require 2 1- 8. 178 d 15-24411thr td‘i . ~ yer o c mater ,. and 2 1- -8 yards of 24-“ ‘- uch material for the coat. for an 18 (1911-. Price 300 x . jce'nts - 1902 D011’ then: turn them on the standing, the plates as straight up .as' possible so all the water .can drain 011.01 course you will have to Wipe the silver and glass ware. Then spread a. clean cloth Over the rest and leave'them until you are all ' done with the tins and pans or iron ware. Or if you are very busy just let them alone till Wanted for the next meal and they will be dry and . shine as much as, the polished. One can wash a large ‘tableful in short order in this way and it saves the dish towels.’ Another thing that I find helps me - is to buy the bleached toweling and make tray cloths as long as needed for one side of the table. be pinned on and save the cloth a great deal. Then if any- thing gets spilled you can change the tray cloth and its alllright and tidy again and they are easier to launder than so many tablecloths. If there are children, ‘a piece of. » white Oil cloth pinked around edge saves a lot of spots from the table cloth as well as a lot of work.. If one is handy with a paint brush they can make there oil tray cloths pretty, but the plain white always looks better to me than a soiled table ; cloth and they keep the cloth clean where the men sit if their work is blanket. ‘ They can ” table .. 1 the, " very diity as is often the case 0113 the farm. A Quick Cake One egg beaten, add and beat in . one cup (scant) of- sugar, 1 cup" cream, (either sweet or sour; if sweet use 2 teaspoonsof s powder in the flour, if sour use 1 scant teaspoon of soda in a. little. hot water), 2 cups flour, flavor to taste, teaspoonful salt. By adding baking" ‘ 1-2 cup of molasses and 1 more egg, .. also spices, it makes fine, ginger bread. Raisins may be added. Drop? cookies held out when one is busy.‘ If this sounds good to use, will send recipes. for some other things, like corn bread and others that helped " me. Yours‘for useful“ thoughts—v Mrs. L. D., Lake Odessa, Mich: ‘ HAND VACUUM CLEANER N REPLY to Mrs. H. 0., OX Bow, Lake, I wish to say, I have a hand vacuum sweeper "call'ed Sweeper ' Vac, made by the Pneuvac Sweeper 00., Boston, Mass, which gives splen- did service. There is an air tight bag Which collects the dust and a. carpet sWeeper which gathers any of the coarse dirt that any carpet Isw'eeper gathers. Ten years ago this Sweeper cost $15.00‘Ibut I dare say it might be bought for less thanthat price today. It weighs 12 pounds.‘ ‘ Apple Butter Recipe I was glad to see the recipe for candied citron and wish to say. to those who make apple butter the » old tedious method that Ilhave a way I like much better. I run ,my sweet apples thru the meat grinder after pealing and coring, and put them over in‘twoJlarge graniteket- ‘ ties to cook in sweet cider enough to ‘ ' cover. Then with my-puddin-g stick 5 ' I stir every few minutes as they boil and they soon get soft and smooth as apple butter should be In; another kettle or boiler I put' the extra amount of sweet cider and hen . .,1 until thick, then when the apples are cooked enough—about three hours- _I I put the two together and in a very short time have as nice apple butter as I used to make—“like mother’s" ——and without that an day’ s stirring.- ; Some of it- I sweeten and add c1114 '1 ~ 5' » namon as some of our family like ' ,«it best ' N.‘ ‘. etc. ., with \ , 'ed. man" and started out.- Now my . courage ‘would not alloW me to try , any business with so little prepara-' tion. Of course I could cook and bake so his digestion was not spoil Then the baby came and was another experiment. But she grew up, as also have the other five, at least the- littlest is ‘ten months old ‘ andhealthy with five teeth. And all, this time my‘experience . has increased as well as my Weight. One of "my favorite time savers is to fold my washing as I take it from the line in the same creases as it will be’ folded when ironed. Then I do not iron lots of garments, sheets dish towels, baby’s napkins and ‘in summer, towels, pillow casos and most of the underwear is aired and' folded for we like lots ‘ of clean things and like the smell of the fresh sunned clothes. Another thing I have learned late- ly, from a raisin box recipe is to make pie crust with hot water in- stead of cold. I never could make good crusts before. - Dissolve the lard in the same ' amount of hot water as you w0uld cold and s-tir_in' flour‘and salt. No pinching in is» necessary Land“ at this time of~y‘ear, crust made this way and put in an earthen bowl, greased 'wilh lard and covered will keep three or four days and be sweet. This is a saving of tigne to me for I_often 1want to make pies quickly. ' ,1 The other night I was invited to supper at. my sister—in-law.’s ‘house. Among other good things were beans baked with onions. Now possibly everyone else \has eaten them cook-- ed this way but if not, try it. ' I read the letters on “Thresher’s Dinners.” and» “Uncultured Hus- bands” with interest. I do not think there are as many uncultured folks f . now— —a- days as in the past, for near- ly every American has' a small amount of education and that helps to broaden people. Also a good lodge where-men meet helps, espec- ially for farmers. Whom, we all know, have the most humdrum lives unless they make great- efforts to lighten them. Of course with'the telephones and daily papers we- are, not-cut off entirely from the outside world. . ‘ Making Work easier on the farm” is a subject ever dear to we house- keeper’s heart and it seems to me, has been neglected more home than it. has out of doors. Very few menstry to do their work Without proper machinery, either .. owned or boriowed, while very few Women even have bread mixers. My b1e1d mner is another labor saver which I Sli’lllo never try to do without. And nowhoping that this will on— courage some better--house-keeper to lo ter Writing, even ‘if it does not hep the little lady from St. Charles, I will sign myself—~00 Clinton Co. GRANDMA CAPS r» T HAVEfan old‘question or req‘u’es‘. — to place before. the readers .of our department Where can a person get help to fashion the little Grandma caps which five see nothing of nowadays, but Which I have ' heard several grandma' s wish for? The changeable weather causes them to catch cold, where if they had 1 a lace cap, it would be sufl‘lcient pro- tec .ion to do away with colds to a great extent. I would like the name 1‘ 0f mate ‘ial used, amount of ribbon , and perhaps a few. violets, also the smut cf lace. Are there any colts to be. purchaSed to help one in - shionin'g bowie, rosettes and mak-' “man felk’ organ and did . ’ ken-ll other girls I was certain I,’ could keep 1101139 for the one “best «ored this fall. in the _ a . ow many years ago was a -reat'd with any respect? One said he w0uld like to know, how long these salads had to . be cooked after they were made. But , ’now salads are made’in hundreds of ’ ways, but I know, if it had not been for'our good papers, some of us would not have known so many ways to utilize the left o‘vers, thereby giving us the saving idea. Where We save in one way, we can see a way or an idea forms itself that we can have something to please one of Our children perhaps— an idea—- something they see with the min’d s eye. —L. 8., Pierson, Mich. Household Helps »DYEING WOOL AND SILK CREPE I‘have a. tan dress of wool and small part silk crepe that I would like to make into a. waist or two for winter Which of the new shades would be suitable for a fair complexion, hair medium biown? Where can I get the dye?——-Mrs P. D., Brown City. Michigan 1 Diamond Dyes are by far the most reliable. Get the kind purpose for wool and silk. .If you have a fair complexion and "medium,brown hair the best color w0uld be the rich, dark brown so fav- A_nd a tan would take brown better than most any other color excepting black.‘Then if you will use a tiny bit 0': cream lace for a V neck yoke, or a c1eam lace collar— or a tiny touch of embioidery in gold can be, most effectively used. I am sure you will be pleased with the ef- fect. Brown “IS very good this fall.. Look for the ROWENA ' trade-mark on the sack for three sack of LI E 'o‘lor‘ chosen—4f you’haye a. Vb’r'o'wn skirt or can buy one to wean With it, you will have a complete and - stylish costu$ie, while if you only hare a black skirt and do not wish to purchase a new one. I would certain- ly not advise wearing a brown waist with a black shirt, but in that case , would color the material black, using a‘sa trim for that color a very little of the burnt orange—400 much col- ,. or is worse than none however. INSECT 0N FERNS Will some one please tell me What to do with a. Boston Fern that has lice on -- it or something of the sort? The leaVes seem to getsticky and little brown hard scales settle on them. The fern is grow- ing good but the l’eaves wilt and drop off. ——-Mrs. F T. P. Coral, Mich The insect infesting yOur ‘fern is without doubt (the soft brown scale) Lecanium hemisphericum. They can best be controlled by washing the plant in luke warm soap suds to which has been added nicotine. While this nicotine is not absolutely essential still it does a great deal to the efficiency of the application. After thoroughly washing the plant in this way it should be rinsed oi! in a stream of cool, clear water. The fronds which are most heavily infest— ' ed should be removed from the plant. ——Eugem‘a McDaniel, Research Assist- ant in Entomology, M. A. 0. THE AMAZING OUTCOME OF A SORE FINGER AD IT‘NOT been for a sore fing— er the famous Liberty Loan drives which produced the sin- ews that had so much to do with winning the big war might not have been possible. Wearing at Liberty Loan button . o . conversely, purchaser o. a bond, not :wearing one “sh w. had ‘ f i ed up” the slacker who bought his bond ‘ i, ,1 Unduestionably theibuttons had much to do with the success of the drives, but what had a sore finger to do with either bonds or buttons? Just this: the buttons are made of the same base material as collodion. Collodion is “liquid cuticle! The printer cut'his finger. Going for his bottle of collodion he found it has tipped over and the contents run~ nin-g out had hardened on the shelf. This started the printer to experis menting; ’Pyroxyli‘n was 'the'result,_ and Liberty Loan buttons are made of Pyroxlin Plastic. So are the Campaign Buttons. And buttons are by no means the only useful articles of commerce re- sulting from the printerfs sore fing- . er. Thousands of things, familiar to us all, are made of pyroxylin; things-1 we never associate with sore fingers; nor, for that matter with cotton, which is the base material from which perXylin is made. Among these articles are combs, “ivory” brush and mirror backs and numerous toilet accessories, umbrel- la handles, dice, collars, automobile windows, clock _ and photo. frames, advertising and toy novelties and many other useful and ornamental things one never thinks of in con- nection with sore fingers.’ ‘ EPSOM SALTS TAKE OUT IODINE Iodine spots may be removed from linen without damaging the fabric, with Epsom salts. Dissolve 1 table- spoon of salts in 2 tablespoons of hot water, and when cool, pour over the spot. Let It remain until the stain can we washed out in clear water. Then wash the article in soap and water, and dry in the sun. 711: 81014 or , QUALITY Let Us Be Thankful Even as the Puritans offered thanks for bountiful crops and prosperity so should we be thankful for ’ Wheat—the soil’ 8 greatest gift to mankind. ~ And so should we be thankful for Lily White ‘ . “The Flour the Best Cooks Use’ because LILY WHITE is scientifically milled from the finest hard and soft wheats grown in America. Every process that enters into the manufacture of LILY WHITE is the result of years of experience, extraordinary skill and unflagging desire to produce the best. LILY WHITE IS milled to a state of uniform granulation that is perfection. Only the nutritious wheat kernels are used. It is positiVely supreme in color, texture, volume andxwholesome- ness, and is guaranteed to be the best flour you ever used. The Thanksgiving Feast ‘ Bread, biscuits and rolls made from LILY WHITE are light and tender; blessed with remarkable flavor, enticingly appe- tizing and wholly digestible. ' Thanksgiving Dinner. It is the one great item of food for Awhich all should ever be thankful. Good baking results are assuredvith LILY WHITE. It has been a favorite encrations with women who take pride' in their baking. One Y WHITE will convince you of its many superior qualities, and you will be surprised at the ease with which you can produce really won- , . ' V _' . - ' _ derful baking results. VALLEY CITY MILLING CO. ‘ damn wins, mould-1m ‘ ” “Millers F0, Sixty Years” Don’t forget bread at the \ . \ . ' ‘,_ 24‘. ~'a,~'..'.d.."5v‘- H1“; .‘ urn-1:.- .. . \ _, Novemben \H‘Ovember frost is in the air harvest hay is moum; . .tn the fields lay ripened grain Where seeds last sprint were sown. ’ The; leaves have turned to brown and ' gold ’ - , ‘ And many trees are bare ,- The blrcls have flown to warmer dimes. ' Where sunshine floods the’ air, . ..And all without is bleak and drear The grass is scared and brown; And. all the ground is littered with Dead leaves that have blown down. But in the home the fires glow And near its cheerful blaze The children plan for wtnterw And dream of summer’s 118. AM to each mind there ome the thought 01‘ all the things that bless Our lives, and there is offered up A prayer of thankfulness. " IVE MORE days, and 9 then— Thanksgiving. ‘And what a lot we "have to be thankful for. Some of us may think, “I haven’t anything to be thankful for,” but we all have something that we can feel glad over. Those of us which can run and'jump and read can be . thankful that we are not crippled like many boys and girls are. If we have our papas and mamas with us we can thank God on this day of thanksgiving __for that. Even if you are crippled or have no mother or V 'father' there are many things when \you stop to think that help to make this world a pleasant place to live in. f - ‘One little. boy wrote me. his mother was dead. He says he has lived at many places since she went to . heaven and now he is living on a farm. The people he lives with are .good to him and he calls them papa and mama. If this boy was asked what he had to be thankful for I think he would answer, “I am thank- ful for having a good home and that the people are kind to me.” I am printing his letter on our page this week and I wish some of my nephews and nieces would write him a letter. Will you do this to please me? I feel sure you will make him happy. if you do. I suppose you are planning on go- ing some place or having a lot of company at your home and eating so many good things Thanksgiving Day that you will be sick the next day. I know I used to do that when I was small and lived on the farm. What are your mama and papa plan— ning on having that day, turkey, duck, chicken or rabbit? Uncle Ned’s folks are going to have chick- "en. We all like that best. I Wish we could all have a big dinner to- gether on Thanksgiving. Wouldn't it take a great, great big table if we all sat down at once? And what. '~lots and lots of good things it would take to feed us. . After you have eaten your dinner “ sit down and try and think of the things you have tobe thankful for. At‘ least be as thankful as the little .boy who ate so much that he had the stomach ache. When asked what he Was thankful for he said, “I am glad I haven’t as many stomachs as a cow ' because my one aches hard enough." I hope yen all have a good time.— UNOLE' NED. OUR BOYS AND GIRLS Dear Uncle Ned—I am a boy 13 years 'old and am in the 7th grade at school. My. teacher‘s name is ebster Hastings. I. like my school and teacher. It is raining today and I was reading the M, . and got so interested in the let- ,tfers that other children wrote that I thOught [would write. I think that all children ought to write to interest‘those that'do not write 'and make them an):- ' to write too: I live on an 80 acre , My mother died . with' appemn- . When I was 5 yearsold and left 5 3’ children, two. boy got out of it? xi, ‘ :What Does College Mean? ~ . By New 5. Carey (Francis w. Parker School) RE YOU planning to go to col- lege‘!' If so, what are you go- ing tor? \What do you want to What“; attracting'yon there? . . Maybe you're interested in the Sporting Page of . . the nev‘vspaper. So you ought to be. It is a poor sort. of boy or girl who has no interest in athletics and in the great national games and sports of his or her coun- try. Perhaps you're thinking that the best paid positions are more easily se- cured by .the well- trained man or woman. That is true. As a gener- al rule, you'll find that the richest members of any community contain a high proportion of college folk. Or, it may be, you’re a ‘grind’ and like learning for its own sake. That’s good, too. Nothing, not even money, can give the amount of satisfaction in life that comes from being-well posted on many subjects, and lube- ing interested inall. , At the same time, neither Sports Dollars, nor Scholarship arethe rea- sons for‘going to college. They are all incidental. The real value-of col- lege lies in the fact that it opens life in the best way. It turns a boy into a man and a girl into a. woman by its personal contacts on the field, in the class room and .by friend- ships, and it giv- es a fair chance to find out where your chief interest lies, and in what line of work you are likely to do best. It teaches how to meet peo- ple, how to adjust your’Selt to new surroundln g 8. wh‘at competition means, how to ac- cept an honest de- feat wlthout whimpering and a , honest victory without boasting. Of course what You get out of college will depend on what you try to get. If Sports, Dollars, or Book Learning is all you want, that is all you'll find. But it doesn’t follow that being able to do the 100-yd. dash under ten seconds, or being able to scheme a little slick— er than the other fello‘w, or. know- athletic ' ing Sanscrit roots, is going to make ‘ a full and worthy citizenship. Col- ‘ ...to..,teach Maniliness and W0- ' ass in "t‘he biggest sense. .ng » have lived at many places since my moth er died and now live on a farm. The folks where I stay are good to me and I like them very much. When i came here 3 years ago they told me that they did not care if I called them papa and mama So I do. I have a hundred dol- lars in the Delton State Bank. ’For pets I have a coolie dog, a yellow and white kitten and 17 rabbits. We 'have 100 chickens, 3 horses, 3 cows. 3. little calf a. week old, and 6 young cattle—Leslie R. Whittemore. Delton, Mich. Dear Uncle Ned:—-I am a. farmer’s daughter. I~go to the Miller school and am in the sixth grade. I have'three sis- ters and three brothers. We have» 3 acre farm.‘ I go to school eyery da . We have six cows and two horses. y teacher’s name is Minnie Rinehart, There is 44 scholars in our school—Mary Plis- ka, Pinconning, Mich, R. 3. My Dear Uncle 'Nedz—I am a. girl 11 years old. I have one sister 7 years old' -: her very much. 60 " and she is in the 2nd grade at school. . For pets we have a little white kitten and his name is Snowball. We have some little banmms the. We take the M. B, F. and »I.like to read ‘The Children’s Hour” page. I did not attend any fair this year but enjoy reading tht letters of the girls and boys that did attend—Your friend, Marian E. Ellison, Belding, Mich.. R, 1. Dear Ucle Nedz—I am nine years old. I am in the sixth grade, My birthday is the 28th of November. My papa and mama have 2 work horses and one little colt. Her name is Jessie. I like I have two brothers and two sisters. Their names are Clar- ence, age- 3, Walter, age 1, Mary, age 17, and Nellie, age 15. For pets I have two chickens, three cats,_a d g and a, pig.— Pearl Robinson Barton C ty. Mich. Dear Uncle Nedz—I am a girl ten years old and in the fifth grade at school, My teacher’s name is Miss Harris. We own a farm of two hundred and fifty acres of land, We have seVen cows, eight youn‘g cattle, about _one hundred sheep and seven hogs. For pets 1 have a-dog, two rabbits, two cats and a lamb. When I pass the eighth grade I am go- ing on to high, school—Rose Thayer, Perry, Mich. ‘ ' . . TRA§w§ . fi‘ -_ ~ ——-—-—.. 5: Tees-r5 50ME or *9" MV BOY'fD WORK ON THE OTHER SlDE Mr.;Pincus’r-.Ioni‘io alwwydoihx‘domethinz bright which pleases Mr. mm ,,:_ . W13! ‘ 7 ' ’5”- “W. " ”he!“ afoul-Imus” 611%ka each block Each of “the “ rigours 3 A " e '\ ~51 ""rds'is coinpbledLoi the five," l ’ rustic, reading, . a‘de at school ,this' year 'and‘ we n‘m Uncle Ned-+1 am ‘in‘ the mm. n ve lessons every day. They are in“ th- 27' geogaphy. language. My teac I“: name is H Jeflry. I have one sister and. twa broth- 7 wo , ers. We .have about 40 rabbits, horses. four pigs}, five cats. and one dot. ——Adeline Zylman, Vicksburg, MiohJ Dear Uncle Ned :-—I am ten years old. - spelling and . I My birthday is on December 13th. I' am in the fifth grade at scnool. I have one mile and a half to walk. I love my . school and my teacher. I also like house, work and do quite a bit of it. I have'b brothers and 3' sisters, Goodbye—Pan- ina Weber, Freeland, Mich.. R. F. D. No. 3, Box No. 62', Dear Uncle Ned:—-I am a girl twelve I am in the seventh grade at. years old, is Miss school. My- teacher's name Minnie Rinhart. She is a. very. good teacher, I .go‘ to the Miller school. I liVe on-a farm of 100 aces. We have six cows and. four horses. For pets I‘ have- three rabbits—M183 Beatrice Meyette. Pinconning, Mich. - Dear Uncle Ned—I am a boy 11 years old and mine 4th grade at school. I 'see you wanted the boys to write so I thought I would do so. Did any of the boys and girls raiSe any chickens this Summer? I set three hens and-raised 19 chickens. I raised a big patch of pota— toes thls summer, too—Dick Hewlett. 'Alanson, Mich. Dear Uncle Ned:-——I wonder if you al- low children of my size and age to share in this department? Perhaps I am old in years, being nineteen, but I am young at heart as I feel no older than when I was ten, only in that I feel more ex- perienced. There being a. department- for "grown-ups” and children but none for we “in-betweens." We have to sit back and look On or elsatake part in one or the other,-if We. are allowed to. Maybe you'll say that I belong in the other Admrnncnt, . ifr aux- :but I find .the children’s letters interesting and thought I'd like to write to them. There’s a. bumper crop of nuts here this year: We have five bushels of butternuts gathered and about the same of shucked walnuts, and some hickory nuts, but they are not so plentiful as the two kinds first hen:- tioned, We live on a rented farm. There are. fourteen head of cattle, four of hor- ses and seven of hogs here. e also have a .very pretty kitten and my young— , brother, who is eighteen, has a couple of bunnies. I have two brothers and a. sis- ter who are married and have children and two brothers and a. little Sister at home. She is six next month and lots younger than any of the rest who are living. I went to the state fair this fall and, if Uncle Ned admits me to the cir- cle perhaps I’ll write and tell you. about my trip, sometime. Good-bye for now, Best wishes to all—Framces Monroe. Hudson, Mich. You are rather old, Francis, to write to this “department, but what you~say is true. We haven’t any department for the “in-betweens." I talked-with the editor and he said we didn't have the space now but when we published a larger paper he would be glad to have such a. de- partment. So you see how it is. Un- til that time you may send a letter to “The Children’s Hour” once in a while if you wish, but no one over 16 years of. age can compete for prizes. 6 l. Our Puzzle Corner FRACTIONAL BIRDS 1 of a musical instruuient. of a month. 1 ' of an herb. -. of an animal. 2 . of a city in Ireland. of one of the U. S. A. ‘ of to rummage. ~ ‘ of a bird. , t . 3 . ‘ of money. - ' of a 'point of the compass. of admonition. ‘ f of a city in 'Japan. , DIAMOND My first is in pop. My second'isto drink slowly. , - My third is a green vegetable. . . "s . My fourth is one who comm-3f“. ‘ i, I. the first Thanksgiving. ,. , . .-.My1i.fthisa€ Elam-ruled .m.‘-'¢h study of grammar; . -. . ,, - , . L14? , . . .. fl o » , evade the over-use .e ‘ drugs or alcohol. but" depends install upon» hygiene and nutrition. f—Snfl’s Emulsion of super-refined medici- :' nal cod-liver oil, is. a" helpful way to ’ protect the ' body against weakness. Wt & Bowne. Biomfield, 1'. I. 20-48. ' Toke KI-MOIDS for Indigestion. - - ~71“... c~~—-'=—-a 300 main wilt: of the purest. whitest and best light known to science. Nothing to wear louterutoutotonler. Simple. Safe. Absolute satisf guaranteed. Send for catalog mmfin‘ tarnish“. for everyduiaowurpose' odes and aged position. Writctodayc.y m IIIII‘I' lldlil sass Fill!!!" unrest. last 309 chum $369r * F LANNEL ‘ SHIRTS scum Rnéad>m3 SEND NO MONEY Two wonderful Susquehanna Broadcloth Flan- nel Shirts only $8. 69 Direct from factory. No mlddlemnn’s profits. IWould cost $6 or more elsewhere. Perfectly tollomd. Cut ex— tra full. comfortable fitting Winter Weight. Soft turn down collar. Two extra strong large pockets. Double stitched throughout. Thoroughly shrunk. For work or semi-dress. An amazing bargain. Bend no money. Pay postman only $3. 69 plus postage sfterarrival. Then try them on. I! not pleased return at our expense; your money returned at once. Order by number F‘S43li6y State line. Specify gray or blue. Only two shirts to a customer on this special offer. WAREWELI. com-an Dept. F8485 ‘ Phlladelphla. Pa. , 5 GOOD $1 . MAGAZINES Good fixmj 1' :2 White Ems“? in??? $100 , HJ‘mtflle: hmfi" allIOIIDl-ZRBYCLUBNIJMBEI75 ADoflarBiflwilido—Wehhedierisk Scldlndmk mincc: & SUMMERHAYS 25 North Doorhorn Street. Chico.6 mafia us. but it youmvlrlill on it may \prevent some other farmer from making the same mistake. -—A. W. B. Charlevoix, Michigan. Next! Let’ s hear from other read- are who have been roped in by this concern .-——Edi.tor. —~_,...——_o_..___.._.‘ SPECTAGLE FIRM MAKES GOOD , I sent to a Chicago spectacle house for a pair of spectacles last February. They came all right but the bows were so stiff they hurt my ears. _,The company sent a notice with the spectacles stating that if I wanted better frames to retfirn them with $4. I returned them on ebruary 27th, at 2the same tirne sending a. money order for the $4. 20. The company sent me a card stating they had received my order but I have never received the glas- ses. I have written them several times and only received one reply from them and at that time they s'ated that my glasses must have been lost in the mail and they would look the matter up— Mrs. J. E. H_, MonrOe County. It required two letters from us be- fore this company replied. Then they informed us that in spite of the fact that their records failed to show that they had-received any order from Mrs. J. E. H. they were writing her and enclosing their check. Our sub- scriber advised us nearly two weeks later that she had not received her money'yet. We again got in touch with this company. Mrs. H. receiv- ed her money on the 4th of October. DELAYED COOPS EDITOR BUSINESS FABMER: Again referring to your letter of October 15, in reference to returning of poultry coops from Detroit: Our Terminal agent has made a. personal investigation of this com- plain-t and advises that at only one terminal did he find there had been any trouble experienced in prompt return of poultry coopsand it seems that this trouble was due to sortie misunderstanding of routing sched- dule. This matter has all been straightened out however, by Term- inal agent Newark and no further trouble is expected at this 'point. At the other terminal in this city the coops have been handled promptly and without delay. I feel safe in saying that you -can advise your subscribers that every effort possible is being and will be made at Detroit to see that these empty coops are not delayed after they are turned over to us.—H. B. White, General Agent, American Railway Express Co. FIRM PAYS STORAGE CHARGES I would like to have some assistance in straightening out a shipment: of roof- ing paper I ordered from the Manufac-' turers Outlet Co. It was shipped March 27th to Pinconning. They were supposed to have notified me at Bentley, The bill of lading the Outlet Co. sent me had my Bentley address on but the bill of lading came to Pinconning with the goods, had no other address on only Pinconning. Now I happened to be in Pinconning about July lst and called to see if my paper was there and it had been there about 30 days and had me charged with $8 stor- age which I refused to pay. Now it is still there. I wrote to the company about it and they advised me to leave the shipment and place claim against the railroad company Now then, the error was made by the Buffalo agent. I am- not at fault in any way as I was not notified at all.———O, R., Bentley, Mich. The above complaint was received the latter part of July, and we immed- iately wrote the Manufacturers Out-' let Company asking them to pay the storage charges and have the goods released to our subscriber. The Com- pany advised us that they were in no fault in the matter, havlnlr complied with our subscriber's shipping instruc- tions, to which we. replied that they had falled’to notify him of shipment of goods. Noting their own error they returned that. they would have the railway company cancel the charg- es on the grounds that the agent at Plnconning should have notified our subscriber at Bentley of the receipt of the goods. They tailed, however, to convince the company that it should stand the cbarges and. so they wrote our number altering to pay half the storage charges if he would pay the otha' half and the freight. This our subscriber properly refused to do, and we again wrote the company in his ' behilit asking that the storage charges be paid and the goods released to our. . subscriber. This was done, the com- pan? paying 1:110:11“:th Central $34.16. Our subscriber paid the freight amounting to $3. 21 and got his goods. sewn months sitter the ' order was: IN)?“ Fm )1-".~ 7? ~‘ ”M t' Rt m m ck? ; Second. ll hasmorethanthe ordinary serenin strength, therefore, you usegless Third-3 There are no fail- 3' um—it always makes" the . sweetest, most palatable of Fourth: Itie used by mil- lions. of housewives-leading. domestic science teachers HHHH HHHH HH HHHH [H‘lllllllll H“ H: "HiH - l -_- llllilmll'llllulullllllllummuuuuunmuIm‘M'Hl’l’lll'lllllllll ll!1llHllllllllHlHHHllllm"unlwllnlmthl i ALUME BAKING .POWDE F2 Fiflh: It IS the best Baking Powder that can be produced. Was given highest awards at World’s Pure Food Exposition, Chicago; Paris Exposition, Paris, France. "Cola-ti ' Sixth: It contains only such "limp. ° ingredients as have been officially approved by the United States Food Authorities. 4 cup butter. V2 cup sugar, 2 e329. V2 cup The finest uali Baking flour,lleveltea- Powder-at theq mosttyeconomical Efigg giggle? cost. “The Biggest Bargain That % cup chopped Goes into the Kitchen Today.” Pound can of Calumet contains full 16 oz. Some baking powders come in 12 02. instead of 1602. cans. Be sure you get a pound when you want it. nuts, 1 teaspoon lemon juice. Then mix intho regular way. Exchange Pennies for Dollars It pays to invest in cow health. The cost of a package of Kow-Kare, the great cow medicine, is measured in cents; the increased milk' income from a. healthy cow is reckoned in dollars. Kow Kare enjoys a quarter-century record of leadership in the prevention and successful treatment of all cow aflments due to weakened digestive or genital organs, such as Barrenness. Retained Afterbirth, Lost Appetite, Scouting, Bunches and Abortion. The Kow-Knre treatment is inexpensive but produces prompt and visable results. One trial will convince you. Buy Kow-Kare from teed dealers, general stores or ts. ‘DAIRY ASSOCIATION C0. LYNDONVILLE, V'r. NOTE: The Tradsomark Aname has be.“ unbound fro- Row-nun KM remnants oi BOTH the PnEVENTlVEfi and cunanvr anall- tlss of the row. bore is not the sllehtsst chill lo tor-ale or manufacture. GOVER"ME"l' WOOL BLANKETS 20.080 elem: wool army blankets purchased direct-from U. 8. ml“ Didalon. Blank-ll that. aroreolwoolandwlllbepyouwsmlorssv— sralyeoratoeoms. Thorswmateriolalonels worth more than the price we ask. Slightlyinedlnloedm, butprscfldallyu iuussm Alli" sun: so “WV-Mi ”r! M ‘ M W" We" _. blame “Bayer” means genuine Say “Bayer”—-lnsistl ’ Say “Bayer” Then you are sure of getting true‘ Tablets of Aspirin” —genuine Aspirin proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for over twenty years. Ac- cept only an unbroken “Bayer package” which contains proper directions to relieve Headache, Toothache, Earache, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Colds and Pain. Hand tin boxes of 12 tablets cost few cents ug- gists also sell larger “Bayer packages.” Aspirin is trade mark of Bayer Manufac- ture Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacid. GOVERNMENT SHOES At 3; Their True Value 20,000 paid genu- ine Russet shoes, slight- ly worn, but neatly re- paired with genuine, Oak leather Uppers guaranteed two years Dyed everlasting black when requested with- out additional cost. Worth $12.00, wear- ing value. Our price, $2.90. \ $2.9O Pair 25,000 pair :Fielld Shoes, slightly worn but neatly repaired and repolished w h e rever necessary. Manufactur- ed under government specificati o n s f o r strength and durability. Three thicknesses of sole leather, foot leath- er lined. waterproof slightly worn, but a $15. 00 value. $3.90. $3. 90 .Pa'irr Our price 15, 000 Trench shoes slightly worn but neatly Trench repaired and repolifihed Shoe wherever necessary Equal new in wearing value. ' Heaviest of high grade leather, waterproof, triple sole, studded with hob nails, and heels with metal horseshoes; worth $18.00, our price, $4.90. As an evidence of good faith . mail us a deposit of $1. 00 for each pair of shoes ordered, stating style shoe desired Balance on delivery. KIIOSLEY ARMY SHOE GO 8852 Cottage Grove Av... Dept. 3231, Chicago, Ill 1 ‘ DOWN . ‘ 1 ‘ONE YEAR ‘ d no money. [9] var Go. 2260 mama.“ nest-u BOOK 0N DOG DISEASES And How to Feed Mailed free to any address by the Author g, H. CLAY CLOVER C0., lnc., Maria's Pioneer Dog Medicine: 118 West Slat Street, New York SICK ANIMALS 'Skoop,_Doxl; and Poultry, mailed free. ; . ._ r. Read an 0868111011 Sdé when buying A 1;) ' ayor 0"‘BOOK about Sick Horses, Cattle-f hreyo’ Veterinary - 156 “Villain St, New York 7‘ John C. ' _ ' Spaulding, Vice-President. and Treas- . ‘L1er; Goo. B Math , JOHN c. BUTLER Presldent lonla County Farm Bureau. IONIA FARMERS ORGANllZE _ By R. C. Carr Secretary and Manager of Ioma County Farm Bureau. OST of the people in Ionia. County‘ must have come from Missouri for they had to be shown pretty thoroughly before they would agree to put on the member- ship drive in their County for the Farm Bureau. Ionia is one of the rich southern counties which has _never had a County Agricultural Agent. The farmers here have contended that increased production without im- provement in marketing conditions which would give the farmer pro- tection, simply worked to the detri- ment of the farmer. Their theory was that if marketing conditions could be" improved whereby the far- mer would-be sure of a reasonable return for his work and investment, that then they would be interested in more efficient methods of produc- tion. This is the same cry well known by students of political economy, that theiunorganized 'maSses have been making ever since improved machinery and methods have speed- ed u the resent high standard of living. The Ionia Farmers further said, that the farmer, being unorganized, up to the present decade, in a com- mercial way, has been the last class in the United States to-have their standard of living raised. He had to keep up the system of working from early morning until after dark, while other classes have reduced their work day to six or eight hours, because, as his production increased through improved methods and machinery, the speculator made use 1 of a small surplus and would force the price of farm products down when the farmer had to sell and force them up when the producer came to buy. The speculator also, in a very subtle way, managed to convey the impression to the con- sumer that of course the farmer was to blame and was rolling in wealth. Therefore, the farmer in order to have. some of the good things of life found it necessary to keep up the same old grind. .These things the farmers of Ionia saw, so when the State Farm eau, which is “organized for Bus- iness, ” was explained to them, they said, “at last we are going at. the right end of the farm problem, let’s get on board,” and they did. The result is that Ionia Cbunty now has 1, 600 members with over 2 000 in, is com-' view when the ~recanvass plated. Every township is." organized with" y-_ President, Vice-rPreSident Secretaryéy .. d. it civilization and made possible Bur-_ (”158330-- , ' kin, Nathan Greene, Leon (intend. ' W. Stewart, Geo. WoOldridge. Rep-_- resents-fives to State Farm Bureau, H. E. Powell, A. M. Welch and Wm Toan. Harry L Carr who has been with the State Farm Bureau in or- ganization work for the last ten months has been employed as Coun- ty Manager and Secretary On Oc- tober 22nd, the county board of deleo gates9met at Ionia and formulated policies under which the farm bureau will be Operated in this county. Questionaires-have been sent to all' members in the county asking them where they wished to have an incorporated community unit or- ganized. These units will have a board of 8 directors, the first direc- tors elected being also delegates to the county board of the proportion of one delegate to every fifty members, this will bind all the local units together through the county board of delegates. Monthly meetings of the countyex- ecutive committee will be held to which all the managers of local units Will be invited for c0uncil and advice. Managers of local units will be required to submit trial balances to the county executive committee monthly. In this way we hope to standardize practices and promote efiiciency. Besides local incorpor- a-ted units we are also going to or- ganize local branches of the county farm bureau. These branches will be simply for educational and social purposes and will be at points which are not trading cen— ters. Local branches will be gov- erned by an executive committee consisting of the Pres, Vice-Pres, Sec’y & Treasurer, elected annually and by the members. Each local branch will be entit- led to one delegate on the county board of delegates. When the county is fully organized {into in- corporated community units and local branches, the township system of units will probably be done away with. The farmers of Ionia County are sure that the Farm Bureau is on the right track and they intend to do all in their power to keep it so and are desirous of co—operating with any organizations which tend to improve living Conditions. They are ,watching with interest the effort of their brother farmers in the great wheat states to hold back their wheat in Order to obtain a. just price for it. Farmers here are incensed at the action of the speculators in calling this movement a strike and are also beginning to wonder at the action of some of the: officers of the State and National Farm Bureau in not supporting this movement. ' Do these officers realize that the. Farm Bureau is organized .for bus- iness and that here in Michigan we are doing with woolrwhat the west- ern farmer is trying to do with wheat, hold it out of the specula- delegates. ' H08. B. BUELL Manager Mlohldrsn State Farm Bureau Elevator Exchange. tor’s hands, get it to the consumer, more directly and obtain the cost of production and a reasonable profit for ourselves? ’ The next few months are to be the critical ones for the County. State and National Farm Bureau and many people are saying that the State Board of‘Delegates should be called together to better outline the policies under which the Farm Bur, reau should operate. HOW TO DESTROY YOUR - ORGANIZATION 1. Don’t come to the meetings} 2. But if you do come, come late. 3. If the weather doesn’t'suit you, don’t think of coming. ’ 4. If you do attend a. meeting, find fault with the Work of the officers and other members. ~ 5. Never accept an office, as it is easier to criticise than to do things. 6. Nevertheless, get sore if you are not appointed on a committee, but if you are donot attend the committee meetings. ' 7. If asked by the chairman to give your opinion regarding some import- ant matter, tell him- you have nothing to say. After the meeting’ tell every one-you meet how things should have been done. 8. Do nothing more than is absolute- ly necesisary, but when other mem- ‘bers roll up their sleeves and will- ingly, unselfishly use their ability to help matters along, howl that the as- sociation is run by a. clique. ANNUAL MEETING r-FARMERS’ CLUBS The annual meeting of Michigan State Association of Farmers" Clubs will be held in Senate Chamber, Cap+ itol Building, Lansing, on- Tuesday 18mg Wednesday, December 7th and ‘ t . ' Every effort is being put forth by the executive board to make this a most helpful and- instructive meet-- ing and every clubsand all persons in- terested are’invited to'reserve these days and attend this meeting. CANADIAN IMARKETIN'G PLAN The movement on the part of the ' farmers of western Canada to hold* their wheat awaiting better price: and the formation of a co-operativo selling agency has assumed practi-- cal form after a two days’ conference ’ held at Winnipeg, Man. . Plans were _.com_pleted for the co- operative mar- keting of Wheat by the united farm- ers of three provinces, the machinery , . being similar to the Canadian wheat : board which goes out of business on} ' Jan. 1 but is pracfioallyu. 0ut~oLabnfir -?_ iness now. Instead orebeing under governm' t business organization Was re-fi "Mmmws tam: Bureau type or gsrded by the meeting of mid- west state farm bureau representa— flies in Columbus, ohm, 1m week “as the model for cooperative live- stock shipping organizations through the middle west. The report favor- do: county, instead of community, --._,._ livestock shipping units was made "ray F G. Ketner, of the Ohio Farm ~3nreau Federation; D. O. Thomp- son, of the Illinois Agricultural as~ satiation and H E. Lute, of the Ne- ,braska Farm Bureau Federation. The report declared that caunty ‘instead "of community business units made for greater eflciency in oper- Iatiops by providing for more uni- formity in shipments, better hand- gling‘ of claims for losses and damag- ‘ be, more favorable insurance, the hir- ing of higher grade employees, larg- or volume of business and ' "better grading. Another point especially consid— ered Was that this larger type of or- ganizatifon, could exert more of a 'regulartory influence on the flow ‘of livestock to market than is possi- ble now and that when the plan ex- tends over the mid west, producers will be in position to have consider— ably more voice 'in the prices at Chi- cago, Detroit, Buffalo, Omaha, East St. Louis and other large marketing centers. Ohio now has six counties operat- ing on this plan. While Michigan has not yet en- deavored to elaborate on livestock shipping activities through the farm bureau, it has many counties using this centralized method of market- : ting. St. There was considerable discussion at this meeting of model types of farm bureau organization aiming for uniformity in the work in all of the affiliated states. Several of the state farm bureaus, being without the great membership and large fin— ances of the Michigan institution, are operating along promotional rather than commercial lines. By this, it is meant that many states confine their operations to building up or— ganizations apart from themselves for commercial functioning, and then endeavor to play mother to them. In the case of the Michigan I State Farm Bureau, it has been rec-’ ognized that a parent’s influence oftentimes is disregarded and that because of this it seems . wise to bring up a seed department, pur- chasing department, elevator ex- change, etc., in the way it is believed they should go. By organizing these activities as departments of the, whole, rather than as separate units. Michigan believes that all of theii interests can be correlated efficient- 1y, with successes of one offsetting the shortcoming of another. By the other way, each would stand alone. What friend Aesop once said about a bundle of sticks might well .be re— called Publicity of state farm bureaus came in for considerable attention at Columbus. It was the concensus of opinionpthat official organs were to be frowned upon, largely in the belief that there were sufficient pub— lications in the various states now to handle news, not selfish propaganda, of farm bureau activities compre hensively. The fact that things one party says about himself are usually » discounted ,materially was recogniz- ed. Iowa’s nepresentative declared that they were satisfied that the publishing of an official organ in that state has been a mistake and that its accomplishments have not been near commensurate with ex-_ pense and grief involved. The gen- eral method of publicity of the Michv ‘ igan State Farm Bureau seemed to be proved out by the discussion When the dairy problem was dis- cussed, most everybody present threw up their hands. It is critical the country over. Groups of producers are being pitted against others. For. example, it was brought out that recently when producers in the Win, Mo..- district withheld their milk from the market in exerts to ‘ - 1 erenoc. 'mnamd that .the financial situa— ' tion will partially responsible for the northern Ohio and southern Michi- gan and bought mun, heretofore, go- ing principally to creameries and condensarles, and shipped it to St. Louis. Secretary Coverdaie of the Amer- ican Farm Bureau Federation said that Milo D. Campbell, head of the National Milk Producers" Association of Goldwater, Michigan, had asked the American Farm Bureau to in- terest itself in the dairy problem of the country, but that before a gen- eral conference was called milk pro-- ducing interests in all parts of the country must indicate that such ac- tion would have their support. The National Milk Producers' territory has largely been confined to New York, New Jersey and parts of Connecticut, Michigan, Pennsylvan- la and Ohio. Every representative at the meet— ing indicated that the dairy situation was acute in his state, and further admitted ignorance as to how a so- lution of the problem was to be ob- tainedx _ President Snyder of the Kansas Farm Bureau Federation was asked to outline what success the Wheat Growers’ Association of America was, having in its efforts to have farmers of the country hold wheat from the market until $3 a bushel might be offered. The Wheat Growers' Asso- ciation membership is practically 10‘ cal in Kansas, Nebraska and Okla- homa.- Mr. Snyder said that while the holding effort was laudable as wheat is selling for less than cost of it failure at the holding elm-t. Loans are virtually impossible to secure, and many farmers while desiring to hold» their wheat for the time, are compelled to sacrifice it to meet debts. Hundreds of. tenant farmers in the wheat and particularly" the corn belt are facing bankruptcy, it was indicated. J. .P. Powersand R. V. 'Tanner were Michigan’s representatives at this meeting, M. A. Thomas, coun- ty agent in Monroe county, border- ing on Ohio, also was present. NEW FARM BUREAU OFFICERS EGINNING this week R. V. Tanner becomes the assistant secretary of the Michigan State . wFar In B u- reau and J. P. Powers takes charge of the legis- lative activi. .ties of the organization. Mr. ' Tan— ner is famil- ia r w i t h farm bureau work and knows coun- ty agen ts and leading farmers in all parts of the state. He was gradu- n. 1'. Tamm- ated fr 0 m in 1909. he was assistant forest ranger in Leutinei National Forest, Montana. In 1912 he was married and farmed until 1915 when he accepted the po- sition. of county agricultural agent for Mason county. The war came on after he had been two years in this Work. He" joined the army and DepartmentofM. LC. became a captain and served until 1918. Since then he has been coun- ty agricultural agent for Barry coun— ty and assistant manager of the seed department of the state bureau. Mr. Powers is well known through— out this state and others for his work as assistant secretary in helping or— ganize the state farm bureau. He has also been director of the publicity department. He was the first active assistant which Sec- retary C. A. Bingham had over a year ago when the organ- ization of the farm bu— “'wa reau began. His experi- ence as a newsp a p e r m a n i n Mic h i g a 11, New Yor k, a n d N e w Jersey, and his farm bu- reau activi— tie s h a v e given him a familia r i t y wit h t h 9 work which he now un- dertakes. «..... ~.v.4>i~(m-Ivnm. ~= . . ins..- mu. J. P. Powers much milk it themost profits is the cheapest feed they can buy. Write fornamesofLai-rousen lnyour cighbo 11 name thedealcrncemutyou. n t oodandthe 0‘ The Larrowe Milling Company ’ Larrowo Bldg.. Detroit, Mich. .2. "if M W Many ltati produced that is important. \‘mwm ct More M 'lk ' No matter how much milk your cows are producing on their resent ration—~Larro-Feed must make them produce more —or your money back. That‘ 15 exactly what the Larro guarantee means to you—- ‘ more milk or your money back. The one way to put your dairy on a business basis IS to find out exactly how much you are feeding each cow and exactly how much milk she is giving. Weigh Your Feed— Weigh Your Milk This has been our advice to dairymen for eleven years—it is the secret of the success of the men who feed Lerro. They know just what they are doing and they have learned that it’ not how much a feed cost. but how That the feed which make. Prove Its Superiority ...,. (2) For twO years thereafter - will! A Alf-g3 l . " (spEcIAI. Ao‘vEn-rieiuo nA-I-E'e‘ nudor‘thle heading amass . write uot what you have to offer. let us put It In true. éhow You a. stroll and tell you what II. wlll cost for 18, 20 or” 82 "times. size of ed. or copy as otten as: you swish. Cop v: 0.0“ towns .must be NaIll lldllll IlllllIlllllllIllIllill.lIllllllll'llllillIlllllllIllI.ll IlIlIIIIIIIiI 1,.nIbHIeAlt of live stock e'nd poultry will 110 Im biog eI}; .yeeII before nets of issue. 'auinIIEss FARMER. sit. Clemens. Mlehlgsnp-T'hv'" MUG. here'- at special low W: fink 31..er .‘w-BREEDERS’"DIREOT0 -—‘-~:«mr:‘nw la main ponlllctlng units We “w“; without. ., 0031. list the date of any live stock sole In Michigan If you are canslderlng a sale ad- vlse us at once and we will claim the dash for you. Address. lee Stock Editor. M. B. EJI. Clemens. Nov 23, Durocs. Albert Ebersole, Ply- mouth, Mich. :‘ Dec. 8, Spotted Poland Chime Franken- muth Spotted Poland China Ass'n , Alfred Grueber, Sec'y, Frankenmuth, Mich . Feb. 1, Poland Obinas. Witt Bros, Jas- ocr. Mich. LIVE STOCK AUCTIONEERS Porter Cblestock, Eaton Rapids, Mich. J. E. Ruppcrt, Perry, Mich. Harry Robinson, Mich. Plymouth, "mm , - , .H’OLSTEIN-FRIESIAN --‘=.. l REGISTERED HOLSTEIN SIRE will increase the production of your grade herd by 100 per cent. It can be done in two genera— tions, and we can supply the bulls. Write us. Michigan Holstein-Friesian Association H. W. Norton, Jr., Field Secretary Old State Block, Lansing” Mich. TWO BllLL OALVES Registered Holstein- Friesl ll, sired by 3,9. 8.7- III. bull and ram heavy produ ng young cows. These .cslizes, a verywnice end will be priced cheap I! sold soon. MERRY pauses. IIwell. Mich. MR MILK PRODUCER Your Problem is more MILK. more BUTTER. more PROFIT. per cow A son of Maplrcrest Applicatism Pontiac— 132652—from our heavy yearly- -milkin¢-BOOd-but' .Iter~record dam will solve it. Meplecrest Application Pontiac' 11 dam made 85,103 i . butter in k7 cleysi5 1344. 3 lbs butter end 2342 lbs. mil In 36 11 Is is one of the greatest 5long" distance sires. His daughters and sons will prove It. Write us for pedigree and prices on his sons. Prices right and not too high for the average dairy Inrmer Pedigrees and prices on application. R. Bruce McPherson. Howell. Mich. “SPECIAL, PRICE THIS MONTH A fine Straight Young bull, born Oc- tober 27th, sired by a. 35 pound Son of King of the Pontiacs. First check of $75 takes him—money refunded if not entailed. Other bulls in proportion. HeId under Federal Supervision. HILLOREST STOOK FARM Ortonvllle, Mlch. or write ._ John P. Hehl. 181 Griswold St... Detroit, Mich nor Sale: A Dandy Straight Well Marked and I well grown bull calf bom March 27 1920. Sire is a son of Flint Ilengerveld Lad whose two ___ SHOW BULL Sired by a Pontiac Aaggie Korndyke-Henger- vcld DeKol bull from a nearly 1!) lb. show (Iniv, First, prize junior calf, Jackson Fair, 1920. Light in color and good individual Seven months od. Price, $125 to make room. Hurry! Herd under Federal Supervision. e BOAROMAH FARMS JACKSON. MIDI-I. Holstein Breeders .Since 1906 nearest dams average over 32 lbs. butter and 735 lbs milk in seven days. Dam s. 28 lb. granddaughter of King chis Price $300. For extended pedigree write L. . KETZLER Flint. Mich. a FOR SALE—TWO BULL CALVES. A HOL- tein and Durham about 3 months old. Both ahve heavy milking dams. Not registered. $50 each if taken at once CHASE STOCK FARM. Marlene, Mich FEDERAL ACCREDITED HERD BULL FOR SALE old enough for service. 1113 dam’s 7 day record 20. 85 lbs butter, 467.80 lbs. milk 305 days 161153 lbs. milk, 548 lbs. butter. Two A. 0. daughters. His sire a 24 lb. grandson oRf Colantha Johnna Lad. Price $200, VERNON CLOUGH. Perms. Mich. Yearling Bull For Sale 81111 born Sept. 28, 1919, evenly marked and a fine individual. Sir- ed by my 30 lb. bull and from a 20 lb. daughter of Johan. Heng. Lad, full sister to a 32 lb. cow. Dam will start 011 yearly test ‘ Nov. 15. ROY F. FICKIES Chcsnning, Mich. SOLD AGAIN Bull call last advertiser] sold but have 2 more .- that are mostly white They are nice straight fel- . lows sired by a son og King One. One is from ‘ a 17 lb. 2 yr. old dam and the other is from a 20 lb Jr 3 yr. old dam. she is by a son of Friend .Hengerveld De Kol Butter Buy, one of be great bulls. Mlch.. R 2. IAMES HOPSON JR.. Owosso, A Real Bull and Nearly White His Slle is both a Grand Son of ‘Pontiac Keindyke and King of the Prntiacs. Enough said on the Sire’s side. His Dam is a 14.48 lb, 2 year 01 and the Daughter of a 25 lb 3 year ,. old her Dam is a. 20 lb. Co‘w. gis Dam is a Grand Daughter of King Segis Pontiac Howell Only one un- tested Dam in his pedigree and she has 2 A. R. O Daughters and one A R Son and all for $100 00 JOHN BAZLEY _ 319'iAtkinson Ave. DETROIT, MICHIGAN ————i ,.‘ .. . , .___— OUR HERD SIRE MODE! KIIIO SESIS OLISTA His sire no 80 lb son of Lakeside King Seder, ban De ‘Alflis dam]? oGliste Fenells, $2.78 lb. , ’ Her derri, Glista Ernestine. 8‘5. 96 lb. . Hie three nearest dams average over 88 15., :end his forty six nearest tested relstives average ’over 30 lbs butter- in first; days. We on" one ' I'his so s ready ioree RAND RIVER: STOCK FARM. Gorey. J} Spencer. Owner ‘v hell r delves. Three .3: IAWEWJIEIIm Micki .. . ~ A FOUNDATION TWO REGISTERED HOLSTEIN HEIFERS 10 and 10 mos. old, sired by a 29 lb. and 27 lb. bull. Dam of older one a 14 lb junior two year old, well bred. good individuals. Also a fine male call from a son of the greet King of the Pontiacs. (Haifa dam a 20 1b. cow. For particulars address H. T. EVANS Eau Olalre. Mlch. WOLVERINE STOCK FARM REPORTS G OD sales from their herd. We are well pleasedw the calves from' our Junior H rd Sire "King lw‘oi'I- tiac Lunde Korndyke Segis" ho is a son . of “King of the Pontiacs” from a daughter of P011- tiac Cl thilde De Kol 2nd. A few bull calves for sale. Sprsgue, R 2. Battle Creek, Mich. fl FOR SALE 23 Registered Holstein Females 11 in calf Good individuals. No damaged udz ders. Nothing wrong with the co Good reasons for selling. Will take 33. 000 for the bunch. Can sell in less numbers The calves will be worth more than half of my price. in- vestigate at once. M. HAUTALA. Mich. Bruces Crossing. SHORTHORIIS Mom-Henna mom AN AcoHEDIrEo Hsno .iil‘l‘mmautiéi 3.111%?“ if“ "‘ ' I- . ends our herd; one mummified-.01“. m...- HAT D0 ~YOU WANT? . -. SHORTH'ORN breeders. -‘ Can putt: u in touch wilh best milk or beef strains. ulls_ all g.es some females ‘ W. - Cr‘u‘m. President Central Michigan Shortliom Amocistion, Mc- Brides. Michigan. . .. - SHORTHORN OPEORTUNITY 15 Cinnamon Bred Shorthorn Females Owing to the burning of our cow barn and" feed we will be forced to. dispose of our entire herd; .. 9 two year old heifers due to calve about Jan. 1st. 3 young cows and calves. They are an attractive lot and we will make attractive prices. Terms will be giVen reopensible parties. Come"; and see them. ._ APLMBER BROS, Balding, Mich. W. S_ HUBER, Oledwln, Mlch., offers or sale a choice bull calf,, sire, Robert Clay by ashinc- ton Clay. am, Charlotte's Gem. by Maplelsne Dan Oxford out of Charlotte B 2nd. -..- SHORTHORHS 4 to 8 mos. old all terms, pail fed. the farmers' kind, at farm- Mich. 5 bulls, Dams good milkers. ers’ Iprices. M. PIGGOTT a. SON. Fowler, THE VAN BUREN GO. SHORTHORN BREED- ers' Association have stock for sale. both milk and beef breeding. rite the secretary, FRANK BAILEY. Hartford. Mich. ONLY , FEW LEFT AT OLD PRICE. Wm. J. BELL, Rose Olty, Mich. KENT COUNTY SHORTHORN BREEDERS" Ass’ n are offering bulls andheifers for sale. all Sell the scrub and buy a purebred. uses RAAB. Sec’ y. Caledonia. Mich. ‘ Maple Ridge Herd of Bates Shot-thorns 0f- fers for sale s roan bull calf 9 mos. old. Also 2 younger ones. J. E. TANSWELL. Mason, Mich. ’ ’ . l'OR SALE—POLLED DURHAM BULLS AND Oxfordfl Down Reina. i. A. DeGARMO. Muir. Mich. HEREFOBDS HEREFORD CATTLE Haggis. HAMPSHIRE We can furnish registered bulls from 12 months and older best of breeding and at a 1'er low price, have also some extra good Herd headers, We have also: a large line of registered Hampshire Hogs. Gilts, Sows and Roars. Write us, tell us what you want and get our prices. Le FAYETTE STOCK FARM. La Fayette. Ind. .I. Grouch a. Son. Prop. 120 HE EFOFD 81131138., ALSO know of 1 or 15 loads fancy usury Shorthorn and Angus steers 5 to 10 0 lbs. Owners anxious to sell. Will help buy toe commission. C. F_ Bell Fairfleld Iowa. MEADOW BROOK HEREFORDS Double Disturbe'r Bull at head of herd. Some hoice Fairfax/ females for sale also bulls any gs. Come and look them over. EARL c. McGARTYFBsd Axe, Mich, REGISTERED HEREFORD OATTLE' 713 3941 heads our herd.’ King Repeater No A grandson of the Undefeated Grand Champion Repeater 7th No. 886905. We have Some fine bulls fd’i' sale ahnd also some heifers bred to Re- Eaton Rapid-- . me!)- ‘a eALE—HEoIsTE‘HEn Hose-run 0015.1 nearly ready for service from gnod R 0. dams also bull calves Wm. Griffin. Howell, Mich. LARGE REGISTERED HOLSTEIN COW five year old, well marked and a good milker, also her bull calf, sired by a son of Johan Hengerveld Lad. once a 22 b'. two year old dam. Price 8250 for the pair R. H. BARNHART. R 1, 8t. Ohdrles, Mich. SHORTHORN Why buy Bulls that come from Herd: you know nothing about? the best lot.» 6f Bulls ever sold In Mich. recline from $200,103 $500 0. H. TRESGOTT &_ SONS Herd at Prescott. Midis". , Tens ,Olty, Mich IIIoIILAIIn sIIIIIIIIIonIIs' For the next thirty days we sire going to alter ' Prices ~ I ,~ Tiyour while to read the livestock} _ advertisements in every 138“- . A to keep 110811811 011 :vvha't they ‘_ 2-11 ater. Tony B. F 11é K.Proprletor Ontonagon 0mm” Ii-eHE MARION s FARM. Marlon, Mich. FOR SALE REGISTERED Hons-runA puns ANGUS 'MUITON Aim worn. om; ' Avondele I represent 41 I gWOOI Growers' Association, ganization that how numbers 20,- operated under the federal . now labeled l The Most Profitable Kind l ' of farming. e car loiid of grade dairy heifers from LENA WEE COUNTY’S heaviest milk pro-. GUS hull of the: most extreme beef. type for combination beef end. ducers to include a pure bred AN dairy farming. Gar let shipments assembled st GLENWOOD' FARM for prompt shipmén Methods exBlIained in SMITHS PROFTI‘ABLE STOCK FEE NC 400 pages illustrated. o. s. s‘mrm Iddlsbn. Mich. I The Best Breeders advertise in The Michigan Bus- “‘iness Farmer. It will be worth “have to sell The Wool conferences held-.111 It cage two weeks ago. Thursdaysend ' Friday was one of the 111034: import- ant meetings that the wool growers #01“ this country have ever held. 11319.9. leading speech of the meeting W made by Geo. M. Wilber.-: .0!- Marys—I ville; .0?" Mr Wilber is chairman 01‘: the executive committee of the. Ohio Ian 901%- 000 members and will, this .year. market between six end seven mil- lion pounds of wool; the Organizer: tion referred to has recently pur- chased a wool storage plant valued at nearly a half million of dollarsiand Is now in a position to handle the en- tire wool output of the state The association will handle, this. year, abbnt' one-half of the wool produced in the Buckeye state. Mr. Wilber is prominently mentioned in ennnec- tion with the position of Secretary of Agriculture in President Hard- ing’s cabinet. In his speech he ad- voca‘ted a. chain of wool warehouses which can be operated coordinately and sufficiently large to accommo- ~ date all of the wool in. the United States. These Warehouses would be owned by the growers and should be heuse act There are many valid ar- guments for the establishment of a. wool trade system and a list of cred- its which would save owners of wool from being gouged by dishonest deal- ers. Mr. Wilber gave it— as his opi—n' ion that the American wool grower should be protected by a, tariff against the shipment into this count try of millions of pounds of cheap wool, flooding the marketrand caus- ing a break in prices that will make it impossible f01 the grower to do business at a profit. . . 0111' “fool-Growing Enterprise Comparatively few, even‘ among farming classes, realize the :ir‘nport-t ance of the sheep growingrundertaky ing in this country. present, an investment of: more than $500,000,000 employed in the busi- ness of mutton and wool growingin the—'United States; our annual wool product, computed at pre-war values equals $150,000,000 and the yield of mutton, estimated on the same basis, represents as much more. More than half a million people are now engaged in the business of handling wool and its substitutes, yet we do not produce one half of the wool act- ually used in this country; another important fact. that ‘might be men- tioned in this connection, has to do with the amOunt of wool that should .be used in this country if the high priced clothing, which the American- public buys. were really what it pro- tends to be. If the clothing, that is “all wool” were really true to the label, our annual wool production would not edual one- ‘fourt‘h of the amount which would be annually consumed by qur mills. The crying/shame of our time is the fact that with wool lower than at any preceding date in 20 years, the clothing buyer can’t buy a high- grade suit of even, so called, all wool, clothing for less than $100. \ Importation of Frozen, Mutton One of the greatestinjustices ever permitted‘ by our government has been the importation of frozen mut— ton and lamb; this trash, from other countries, which they. do not care to’ 'eat at home, is dumped into’ V ing one cent of duty and is sold in direct competition with * splendidly bred and carefully fattened Ameri- can products, The cennivanoe .of the big packer in the importation and ,sale of this frozen stuff which is said to have been under low temper... f’ atures for the last three years, is one of the greatest of the many crimes ’agsinst the American farme1-,that this bunCh of gougers have ex been guilty of When the matter has been. brought to the attentlo - representatives or the Big Fife h‘ god the issue by s W816" - There ‘ is at ' our' *"3 market withOut the necessity of pay— ~ {1 i “I” '~11andi,~11g it to both: producer "consumer at the same tim—e.- what 2 consideration. ‘--n'et profit. sidearm 100 per Some or the big packers and CBR’I their. employee, are 110w under in-. dictmeut 'Ior selling frozen lamb, . I that cost" them. -_8 4 cents per pound, If this isn’ t for 35 cents per pound.- and .; W— H.EI’OLAND CHINA SALE .-. Ebusiness of selling pure-bred Po- EJ‘LH Iafid China hogs~ at. auction came to .a. close last week. in the holding of two. $portant ~sales, one for William J. at Eaton Rapids. and the other 3311‘ homey Ramadan, at Hanover. near Jackson. Both of the above sales were considered fairly successful when the ex- tended business depression is taken into Both of the‘ herds, from Which the auction offerings were made, ' the . catalogue, 'Eaton Rapids; A B, ice given was , plant was furnished by the Lalley Light were composed -of many animals of great individual merit all carrying in their vein the richest blood lines known. to aBig Type Poland China ‘bneed All of the hogs 'oflered wars in fine condition but nonegof them showed that condition of ‘ll‘over-.flt11_es's'~' which has come to be so common in connection with modern auction sales of pure-bred stock. The auctioneer at the Clark sale, which was held on Tuesday. November 9, was the veteran, Ed: Bowers, South Whiteley, Ind. Mr. BWerE was ably assisted in» the ring by Col Jim Post.HIlIsda1e. and Col Porter Colestock, Eaton Rapids. At the Clark sale, the average for 25 hogs was a trifle less' than $5 0 The Clark giving the pedigrees 01' the animals pffered, contained the names of some of the most famous hogs that are knoyvn to the breed, such as Smooth Wonder 36. the I'four-year- old boar bred by M P Rancher and for e last three years' at the head of the -~ laik heid. Many other names or noteli hogs appear in this list such as Orphan's Superior The Big Orphan, L's Big. Orphan, L's Long Prospect, The Clansman, the fam- ous Des Moines family and .nany others of —equal note. The highest priced sow In the sale was W'onder Princess 245460. The following breeders bought hogs at the Clarke sale: Thomas P. Clarke, Man- chester; C. A Hicks, Parma; D. ‘Markle, Bentley, Eaton H. L. MayS, Nashville; Peter Alexander, Rice Creek; A. R. Fisher, Charlotte; F. M.' Whittaker, Concord; G. A. Bryant, Charlotte, C U. Persol, Olivet; Clark Van Vlerah, Eaton Rap- ids: Wesley Hile, Ionia; Eli Leonard St. Louis; Dr. E. Stimson, Eaton Rapids; J. _E. Mygrant, St Johns; and Brubaker Bros, Elsie. One of the most intereting exhibits at the Clarke sale was the elec- tric system by which the sale ring was lighted. The system was installed, com-, plate, in less than one hour and the serv- very satisfactory; the Rapids , Corporation, Detroit, Mich. . H The Ramsdell Sale. , n An auction sale of large Type Poland _China hogs was held on Wednesday, No- vember 1-0, at FareWell Stock Farm, the property of W. B_ Ramsdell The farm is located on Farewell lake, 8. beautiful body of spring water not far from Han over, Mich. The sale was snappy from start to finish and, while the prices se- cured looked low when the (an uality of the animals in the offering is ta on into 0011- sideration, their average was higher than on many of the proceeding sales this sea~ 3011: Every animal sold was guaranteed a producer and a certificate of double ~ i'mfi'iunization was tarnished with every -did sites: for which this herd ‘ Michigan, .hog sold. Another privilege granted to the buyers at the Ramsdell sale hadpin the opinion of the writer, very much to do thhqh the ’success of the undertaking; all fiur qhasers 0f sows were given the priv ege of breeding to one of the splen- is noted Col. William Waffle, Goldwater, Mich. was the auctioneer in charge, and he was assisted by J L Post, of Hillsdale and John Hoffman, Hudson, Mich From the first call for bids until the last hog was sold, the interest never la god. The highest priced hog in the Ram'sdell offer- ing was agilt sired by Outpost 124421, a bear that sold for $10,,000 last .summer 1' The buyer was F. E. Haines, Hillsdale '_ The next highest price -vtas. $127 paid by B Butler, Eckford; Mich, for a litter mate of the top-notcher described above. Several hogs sold for above $100 and the average for 36 bug’s was $72. 50 Besides the great oar, Outpost, de- scribed above, many great names appear in the pedigrees of the animals of which the Hanover offering was composed. Formerly at the head of the herd and Still 00611111111! a place of ,honor on the {arm and in the history of the breed in is the boar. Smooth Wonder 346539 This wonderful animal was to haVe been sold at .the emotion but only 1a ‘few days before the sale, he was the victim 'of an accident that left him pain- fully lame, Clansman Image 2d, No. 867725 the splendid yearling boar now aft the head of the Ramsde'll herd,. grandson of the- famous $50 000 boar, The Clhnsman 103095. mls described above, the Ramsd ell off- g included the descendants of Giant mister, Big Bob, King’s Giant, Des Willie: and Reish’s Col. Jack, a noted son lac... Besides the ani- ’ ‘ '9- here at rooclnl low um: «I: for them. '- (8PEOIAL ADVERTISING RATES under this hoodlna to honest breeder: of lIvo stock and arm cat who: you 11ch to ol'lo‘r, lot as out It In two. show you I proof ind tell you what It will cost for 18, 2a or 82 tl mos size of ad. or copy as often (a you wish. Gwyn” flying: must be I‘ O D R .EREEDERB’ DIRECTORY. THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER. Mt. OIIIIIIM, Mlohloul. poultry will be cont on request. received one week before duo of Issue m—u—t—u—u—m "I‘llIIIlIIIIIIIIIll'IIIIIIIIIIIIII‘I'r Better. still,» You can ohunlo Iroodors' Auction Sales advertised 311mm 111:. 1.111.531.1911": Corro- Swingers rib and no 9P1 “‘1'". 11d 11cc I lied and 11m ’csn‘l: cBARTLETT. Lawton. Mich. _l " GUERNSEYS :3 GUERNSEY BULL CALI/ES From tested and untested dams. SatiSfaction guaranteed. Write for prices and breeding to MORGAN BROS, Allegan, Mi'ch., R1 mnsnvs . Get Your Start in Registered Jerseys for $500! 5 heifers from 5 mos. to 1 yr.’ will. be sold at this price If taken at once. Write for breed- ing and description to FRED HAYWARD, Scotti, Mich MPROVE YOUR JERSEY HERD WITH ONE of our Majesty bulls. Flu Mich. NK P. NORMINGTON. Ionla. on SALE—THREE PUREBRED JERSEY bulls ready for service. Tuberculin tested. can-ran. 11 4, Lake Odessa. Mlch. AYRSHIRES FOR SALE—REGISTERED Avnsmng bulls and bull calves. heifers and heifer calves. Also some choice cows. ‘ FINDLAY BROS" R 5. Vassar. Mlch. BROWN SWISS OF CHAMPION 5 YR. Two GRANDSON Rosalind B 3905, 16,- 804.4 pounds milk, 727.64 pounds fat. Also can spare one young cow bred to Sire of above calves. Federal accredited herd No. 4453. R E WIN H. KRAUSS. Sobewalng, 531% SWINE POLAND CHINA Mich. THE THUMB Hanoi Big Type Poland Chinus. Largrst herd in North- eastern Mich. Boers and 111115 for sale. E. M. ORDWAY, MIIIlngtoa, Mich. us 11:31" onto POLAND CHINA PIGS sm- ed by Big Bob Mastodon at the lowest. price. DoWITT C. PIER. Evert. Mich” BIG 'BOB MASTODON * Sire was champion of the’wwld. His Dam’s Sire .was. grand champion at Iowa State Fair: I have 6 'chdice spring boar pigs left that will make herd boars. Will price'them at $50 apiece if taken soon. Sired by Big Bob Mastodon. C. E. Garnant, ' boars, Eaton Rapids, Mich. _ .-_.. , . d two miles Ea 12 o ’clock noon. ALFRED GRUEBER, Secretary, treatment. . THE F RANKENMUTH SPOTTED POLAND CHINA BREEDERS ASS’N of Fronkenmuth Township, Saginaw County, Mich Will Sell at PUBLIC AUCTION on December 3111,1920 Alfred Grueber’ 5 Farm two miles North ‘of Frankenmuth Junction, at 40 Head of Registered Spotted Poland China Hogs The tops of three herds will be sold at this sale. - Write for Catalog. Route N 0. 2, Frankenmuth, Mich. Mall all bids In care of Alfred Oruebor to Follx wm, Floldmnn. No guarantee: honest BIO, TYPE POLANDS. HERD HEADED av W's Sailor Bob No. 397305. Spring pigs. b lh sex for snl 0w CALDWELL a SON, SprIngport, Mich. AROE TYPE P. C. SPRIHa BOARS, MARCH Land April furrow. Also one Sept. yearling. The big bone and big litter kind. For prices and it iin write )eelE. 8W. LANDENBERGER, Parma, Mlch, BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS A few choice spring boars ready for service won first premiul.nt Saginaw Co. Fair. All cholera immuned double treatment. Also fall pigs at weaning time HOWLEY BROS" Merrill, Mich. L.T..PC l have a fine lot dof spring $330k sired by Hart’s Black Price 11 good son of Price, grand champion of the world in 1918. Also have a litter of 7 pigs, 5 sows and 2 boars, sired by Prospect Yank, a son of the $40, 000 Yankee, that are sure Humdingers. F. T. HART. St. Louis. Mlch. ,9 GLOSIIIG OUT SALE of Big Type Poland China hogs, which represents the work of 25 years of constructive breeding. Everything goes including our three great herd Mich. Buster by Grant Buster, A. Grant, Butler’s Big Bob. Two of the best yearling prospects in Mich. Modern type. high arched bucks, great length, bi}; bone. Come and pick out what you want. .Our prices are right. JNO. C. BUTLER, Portland. MIch. C. Roars now WALNUT ALLEY w... .1... homes. Get your order in on full pigs for I am BIG TYPE P. .going to price them right. . . GREGORY Ionia, Mich. oonard'a B. T. P. 0. See my Exhlblt at Mloh. State Fair. All stock double immune. Pub- lic sale Oct. 28. Get your name on mailing list. E. /R. LEONARD R 8, St. Louis, Mich. HERE'S SBMETHIIIG GOOD THE LARGEST BIG TYPE P. C. IN MIOH. Get a bigger and bet or bred boar pig from my herd, at a reasonable price. Come and see them Expenses paid If not as represented. These been In service. L's Big Orange, Lord Clunmn‘an Orange Price and L's Long Prospect W E. LIVINGSTON. Pal-ma. Mlch. 111111111 .1111: 1111113 . L. T. P. C. BRED 80W SALE NOV. 10 ' 5 tried sows and 20 spring gilts, 2 ‘aged boars. ' nre" 3.1'1111 boars and» 5 spring boars. If you looking for something good, here is where you can get it. Write for catalog.’ W. B. RAMSDELL Hanover, Mlch. IO TYPE P. O; 80W8 0F CHOICE (BREED- . bred to Big Bone Bone Boulder No. 726,- 672 for Sept. farrow. Healthy and urowthy. Prices reasonable. A L. W. BARNES a SON. Byron. Mich. Mi, ' OI: My, What» asOfiportunitjv! We m now oderlnx a few choice big type _ Poland China. Bears, from ,Blg Smooth Jones, one 3111:3313“ bleed1m s dbet't sites, from Dams by such noted don Wog‘cttcndt Hglcitqirest Bob. 1 n' 36 r breedin Indi 'd ll they win mam ou.‘ 5110581 0. z '1 “I ‘III LLCRE , lv'ARMfe Kulamljlgfl _Mlch. POI-AND CHINA-8 7: wins QUALITY fall gLYDE FISHER: Spring pigs either sex.‘ Match Hillorcst Wonder. Masto-.,, “of eleven and _' T. P. 0. SPRING BOARs. SIRED BY WIL. ey's King Bob. out of Grand Daughters of Disher’s Giant. All immuued with double treat- ment. John D. Wiley, Schoolcraft, Mich. L s P c FOUR CHOICE SPRING AND FALL hours left A few extra nice gilt- left bred foot April furrow H. O. SWARTZ. Schoolcnl’t, Mich. FOR SALE REG. DUROC JERSEY STOCK N'IOOG ONE MODEL KING CRIMSON CHIEF 168151 Farrowed June 16 1519 \Veight about 500 pounds. Price $75. C H. STANLEY; R 2, Paw Paw, Mlch. AUSTIN STOCK FAR Service hours and open gilts, $35. 00 to $40. 00 each. Mumford and Orion (‘herry King blood These are real hogs. At {our fairs they won 44 ribbons. 10 Champion, 16 blues and 14 red. Double immune with pedigree: Satisfaction or money back Bloomlncdalo, Mlch. ~ UROC Bronkwater'D JERSEYS Boers—Ready for Service Big type, large bone and rugged, with plenty of quality. This is your chance to buy high class individuals at reasonable prices. OPEN GILTS of choice breeding and the right type. Panama Special. the Principal 4th, Cherry King and Great Orion families. Now is the time to buy before the demand takes all of the good ones. Write Us For Prices and Pedigrees Mull orders a specialty. Satisfaction guaranteed. BROOK\VATER FARM Ann Arbor, Mlchlgan H w. Mumford, Owner J. B. Andrews. Mar. Orion spring pigs by Walt's OrIon. First Sr. Yearling Detrolt Jackson, Gd. Raplds and Saginaw. 1919 Phillips Bros, Riga, Mich REGISTERED DUHOG JERSEY boars, gilts, and fall pigs for sale. Herd headed by BTOIlkWuttl" -Demonstrutor 27th, No. 155217. H. E. LIVERMORE 1% SON, Romeo, Mloh. TH ANNUAL P. c. “an sow sALI . ron SALE AT FARM- 6 M"... .3 1920 F... Mm... "1.. - spams Balms w. J. HAGELSHAW. Auculu. Mlch. The big growtliy kind. ‘ " c 1-:. onvns a son. Ashley. MIch. I Am Offering Largo Typo Poland Chlno Iowa. bred to E's Orange at reasonable prices. Also Write or cc.ll R8. St. Louis. Mich. ' BIG TYPE POLAND cumns Early fall pigs for sale, either sex. These are real ones. Write for breeding and price. HIMM BR08.. Chmnlng, Mlch. DUROOS . PLEASANT v1£w ounoos. spring boats and tilts. prices before buying. W. 0. EUR INGAME I SON, Marshall, Mich CHOICE Come and see or get our . uroc sows and out: bred to Walt'o King 82949 ”who but sired more prigc winning pigs at the state fair: in the Int 2 years than any other Du- roc board Newton Bunhcrt. St Johns. Mich. EADOMIIVIEW FARM REG. DUROO JERSEY hogs. Spring pigs for sale. J. E. MORRIS. Farmlnoton, Mich. PEAIIII HILL FAIlII 8 ring boar pigs by Peach Hill Orion King. 152189. Satisfaction guaranteed. Priced at 5 u ’3 p INWOOD BROS.l Romeo. Mich, FOR RESULTS' % ‘ _ ' rur YouR uvrsrocx AD IN M B F’s. BREEDERS DIRECTORY lliiliifiiiiiifl Iiifliéii miilliiiiiilllllli‘iu'i“Ill'iiliiIli|il1 3 E 2 n r! in M “WM” melt“ yours you} m‘bonfisdmm minus! 1 auction 'open sows, gilts and fall pigs. Orion by Tippy Orion. long. Tuesday, The Westview Duroc Farm, 2 miles South and 1- 2 mile East of Nerthville or 1 mile north, 1- 2 mile East of Plymouth, will sell at . Stock, Tools, and , 50 Head Of Duroc Jersey Swine Consisting of two herd boars, seven spring (boars, 3 bred sows, , Herd bears used in herd, Cherry Premd ier 2nd, No. 102819, by Pal’s Cherry Orion No. 82089 by Pal Orion. Home Farm Tippy Orion 3rd N 0. 152141, by Breakwater Tipby Gibson Taxpayer 2nd ‘No. 156677, by Breakwater Taxpayer by Taxpayer, a. fine bunch of sows and gilts. A good time for the boys to start in the best of blood lines. Come to the sale and bring the boys November 23, 1920 ALBERT EBERSOLE, Prop. Plymouth, Michigan I or Sale—Reg- Duroe Jersey Weannng Pigs of breeding Either Am good quality end sex. oflering spring gilt: also. VERI. R. IOWNS, R 8. Eaton Rapids. Mich. nunacs 200 1b. big stretchy kind, 4 good spring bears, also xilts of some lithium. sired by Liberty Defender 3rd. Col. bred dams if you want good boars order at once. Prices $75 to $35. .«8. KEESLER CAmPNIS. Mich. UROOS, ANYTHING YOU WANT FROM A spiing gilt to a herd hear at prices you can afford to pay. Cholera immune Satisfaction guar- anteed. C L. POWER Jerome. Mich. 0R0 JERSEY BOARS. Bears of the lame. heavy-boned type, at reasonable prices. Write. or "better, come and see. F. J. DRODT, R 1, Monroe. Mich. Fall Pigs, either sex, sired by 800—“). 1%«year- old boar. GLEN GIBSON, Fowiorviils, Michigan AM OFFERING SOME HIGH CLASS SPRIIIG DUROG BOARS at reasonable prices . A few giits bled for Sep- tember furrow athargaln prices. TAYLOR ' . Milan, Mich. " nunocs Both Spring and. Fall Boar Pigs from Breakwater bred ~sire and dams. Write for what you need E. OALKINS, R 6. Ann Arbor. Mich. 5 Fall Boon of Last 80“.. Farrow, « 01mm pnrmrn - 911111: Herd Beth—Reference only—No. 129219 1919 Chicago International 4th PrizeJr. Yearling BOOKING ORDERS FALL PIGS AT BLANK A POTTER Pottsrviilo. Mich. 525 \ "'00 Jomy Sow: and Gilts bred for Ann. and Sept. Ingrow. 1.000 herd be at. lb. J08. SOHUELLER. Weldmln. Mich. Fan SALE Dunoc spams BOARS. sows and gilts of all 1898- Write “3 your wants Entire herd double immune JESSE BLISS a. son. Henderson. Mich. FEW WELL-BRED SELECT- E OFFER A bred nov- end r‘lteudisprinu Dumcnliolr‘s'du all! I TI 89330" flounuasron a. resume. 8:. Louis. like. MIGHIGAIIA DUROBS Service bears and open gilts at $40 and S50 each. These are real hogs, Satisfaction snar- anteed. O. F. FOSTER. Favillon. Mich. o . BERKSHIRES REG BEBKSI‘IIIIES Beans READY For: immediate service. also Digs both sex RUSSELL BROS. R 3, Merrill, Mich GREGORT FARM BERKSRIBES FOB profit. Choice stock for sale. Write your wants. ..S Corsa. White Hall Ill. emtsmnss, QUICK mnrumuo. FINE type Style. size and large litters. Fine lot of weaned pigs for as 0.11. wmfuev, Merrill, mos. ARE QUALITY 'Hoos. BEBKSHEBES Weaned pigs of the Very best blgeozd Atgnarl of the 1’“:ng g; specialty. We ran e pesse or no 2 118 m AR A. WEA VER. Oberanlm, Mich" CHESTERWHITES UVE‘MISI“ RATIO nude!" this‘ many. to 111mm bottom of "10' stock and poultry VII in; it will out “18. (hits. on «1:. Wren” W? cm tell ”a 00.33“" . n. , -, I" I" :1 AGREEDERS" BIRBOTORY. THE MICHIGAN BU8IME88 PARKER. It. atom mush ’ REGISTERED HAMPSHIII y good herd be .boonondc ' Will Thu-men, Prop. - 30 HEAD 5915.131?“ 30;;m0flm BOAR PIGS $15.00 At 8‘ Weeks 01.1 _ w. A. summon. Outgoing. Mich. HAMPSHIRE 0F WILITI- ‘ Some ercepti onn'g spring beers.I the .211 em ““153 .mDe."DD°D . ee . a i and lose Mm: m. at :1 notifies . price Odie :wrlh GUS THOMAS. N2" .Lotbrop Mich. 'O.I.O. O. I. c. and ORESTER WRITE SWINE Some choice spring gllts which will be sold open or bred 101' March lam-om. to one of my are. piss OLARE V. bonus, Odour. Mich no 111: o 1 11.311111: Am oflering for the next 30 do”. Hearlifi yarn»: silt-n. also sprint pin either .sox. Will make special. price. Ship (1 0. D. and record! ELM FRONT eeBTOCK FARM Dryden. Mich. v—V granoos boar-3W! slits. 16 head of fall pigs. Paper! furnished Inc. J. VAN mil, CHEM, Mich. 0. I. C.’s June and July boars and open gilts each one stumnteed feeder. Recorded 11nd express paid in full for the next ‘Mirty F. c. BURGESS. Mason, Mloh. . l. 03H Choice young Douro. March and April pigs at weaning time. CLOVER LEAF STOCK FARM, Monroe. Mich. l. c. SWINHY HERD OORTAIN8 THE 1.1.3.1 lines of the nest ne'er! herd. Can furnish you stock at "live end let live " pricel- A. J. GORDEN. Dorr. Mlch.. R 8. SHEEP Registered Hampshire Down Sheep Choice Rum bo—.well woelod- . 335 Choice Ewe Lambs. well wooled . . . . . . . 40 Choice Yearlings or two’s .......... I50 J. M. WILLIAMS. North Mimi. Mich. REGISTERED TWO YER‘R OLD HAMP- shire ewes and 20 eswe lambs. $150.00. Beg- lstered rams prieedt LONE OEDARO FARM. Pontiac, Mich. SHROPSIIIRE RAMS yearlings and one two year old. Field condition $30 to $40. Will pay express charges both ways if not as I represent the O. V. TRACY, Ithaca, Mich. runs osur runs use sum or PARSONS "firm [loll-ad sh eve my!“ ' nub-re . 3;. me since-Emmi: PABSON 8.6m dummies. 2.0 RAMS and Ewes, all Priced to close out entire flock. 8368. ~ w. w. omen. om. Mich. Registered Hampshire Down Ram Lamb. Boomer- ed Shortborn bull calf. Berkshire pigs of spring and fill] farro PRI IMEVAL FARM. Mich. HAMPSHIRE '- SHEEP A few good yearling rams and some ram lambs left to efl'er. 25 owes all ages {or sale for (all delivery. Everything guaranteed in represented. CLARKE II. 03300. HAIRE. West Branch. Mloh. EG.,DUROC-JERSEY' SPRING AND FALL pigs, either sex. Have stock not akin. Re- member our National Swine Show and State Fair winnings. Get ourxprices. F. HEIMSJ 80R Davlson, Mich. moon. Rm Oust Farms. Bred and open com and gilts. Boers end sprint: Dian. Farm 4 miles straight of Mldd lebon, Gratiot 00. Newton & sBlank, Perrlnton. Mich. DUROC BOARS ensured: ready for service. Geo.B. 38mins. Addi- son. Mich. , -. Foe .SALE: 8.1ous' ounoc noun ‘rnoh Brookwatcr breeding stock. Cho and 118 JOHN ORONENWETT.‘ Carleton. Mich. ’cIiESTER WHITES “wi'éfifl'é' “‘8 Some good boars ready for service. _ Will ship 0. O. D. and Rec. free. J. A. A D. G. MILLER, Swartz Creek. Mich. me Fine OWP Whites garnrdgulyd1‘4. 1920. Will ship 0. 0. D. w on m e or $13. 50 reg. Try one. Ralph Cessna. Levering. Mich IIEEISTEIIEDh “ESTER WHITE ewms, either sex. Boers ready tor ser- Price EPQILE V. JONES. Flint. Mich" R. F. D. No.5 HAMPSHIRES ~ HAMPSHIRES ““1"“ ”W“ m: “in m -t - bargain. book your order now-~ f b d I or JOeHR‘iW. SNYDER, R 4, St. Johns, Mich. name. .O.'I.C.BOARS Choice individuals, shipped to you c. o. d. express paid and gua’ran- teed right or your money refunded. All stock registered in .buyer’s /o’- ‘nms. Flock established Put your faith in BETTER BREEDING STOGK For the best in Shropshire and Hampshire rams write or visit KOPE- KON FARMS. 8. L. Wino, Prop. exhibit At ‘ oi. Ohio end Elohim“ See our State F‘aira . AM OFFERING FOR FALL OELWERV RICH class registered ropshire yearling ms and 1890. o. LE EMER. Dexter. Mich. FOR GALIE REGISTERED' OXFORD DOWN ages . Form ’Mric IRVII'G SHANFORD. My. Mich, R. F. D. O 0R BALE—REEF YEARLIIG. OXFORD Down rams. also 1 WHITE. It Pays Big / heavier-unmet cream-yin ”011.3102! . -‘ _ . Bret-WW“ ,liamston and St. - Aver-allege ' year. —0. C. G- .ing held. ——0. In. 12th. '* cider * present, but Special corre scents" “gum???“ ‘ gofiheaty?‘ Manist tee hithest. and and eat, Manlstee, $3. 00. erase D‘erow - ow,t.. .312 mm and Menistee. Jose b Average, p ' ; best Trutant, $30333?“ 1094:, $15.00. HEN s: mnmgeisr 411; Igormt, 22¢ ”LIQWm. '30:, 24.4.; lowest. highest, Flint, 050 spilowestyerafiee I 3"” 40c. 3-4c:2‘ hwgofl. Flint. 70¢: lowest, Trufsnt. STEERS: Dense $111;th 100.: lemmas4 t.3 ’l‘ru‘1 Illiit'nhs :BF“ 1:, . - c; g n Slow“ emf fiewport, 3c. m"11068: ive weight, 11c; highest, lowest,Mldla;nd,10 1-2c. HOG Average, dressed.16c; highest, aJoéeph 17c; lowest Williamston. 14c. - BERRIEN, (W.)--Very cold stormy; snow rind much wind. era are hustling new, ‘spremdi-n and basking com as they are all ufr 'd that winter has come to stay. Quite a. few farm. houses are ‘being remodeled this fall and the cold weather has found the owners not yet prepared for winter. «section of Berrien will soon noted for its fine farm homes; brick ve- nearing and stucco being used almost ox- olusively on new as well as old houses Both methods help to reduce the ruei cost. Farm sales almost daily and everything going dirt cheap. No demand for farm products at pres'ent. Fern» era are beginning to wonder; where thev are at. Taxe much higher than last Y5, Baroda, Nov 11 TRAVERSE.——F Farmers are doing chores, cuttin wood. hauling and husking corn. H11. 113 some weather. About 8 inches of snow on _ ground. Cold and windy. Not very many pota- toes being sold A few auction sales bo- B., Williamsburg, Nov. BAY (S E. )-——The weather has been fine to harvest the root crops and beans. Sugar beets Were good and are piled up at the weigh stations. They are all out of the ground. Most farmers have them . all delivered. Prices of all farm produce coming down below cost but other goods about the same. Potater good. Apples being made into 5 yielding large, corn good. plot much hooking done yet. All work on farms Is behind Some plowingbe- ing done. Sales are frequent and not good prices being received A number of farms being sold at good prices. mostly for lack of help. Not much grain being sold at present. Hay not moving as there has not been time yet to market go prelslg_ it yet. -—J’. C. Manger, Mich, Farm- RAND MANIST E (N. W )-—-—Farmers are doing odd jobs and getting wood for the winter. The weather is cold and it is snowing Looks like wmter. Lots of corn out in the field yet. Some are aiting for a corn husker, others have too much to do to get it done in time. We read or factories shutting down but it has not made any difference in these parts. Help is hard to get just the some but the farmer will be through with his work soon, then we can look for men to come along looking for work or ’a. hand out. There is not much be- ing sold just now, too cheap is the cry. C. H 8., Bear Lake, Nov 12 t.b ANTRIM. —-We are having an " old fashioned blizzard at this writing. The first show this fall. in full- leaf as there has been no frost to cause the leaves to fall Farmers have their work well near completion. Potatoes are nearly all dug and tho tore houses are full of potatoes. Farm- ers are holding the most of -ofr higher prices. Rye and wheat are look- ing fine. Pasture has been good all along. farmers have not had to {died much as you—C. F. W.. Alden, Nov MIDLAND—The tamer; are elm done with their fall Work. Some c1331t is being hushed. Chickory is almost done. The weather'i 3 much colder at this writ- 1.ng Not much produce going to market. gloss are down very low at present. ans are down to $4 per cwt A few buildings are being constructed in this vicinity, The Chemical plants and the large factories are at a, standstill at think they will start . soonH—J H. M., Hemlock. Nov. 12 . CALHOUN, (N C )——Fa.rmers are ve backward with their work. Trying to gel; their corn up. Help very scares. Cold weather froze the ground this mornl and ground is covered with snow on getting colder. The soil was just ri to plow but very little being plowed. gt farmers have been rushing their hogs market. There is hardly a hog left here. We are hoping for a. lot of good weath~ er yet—G R, Olivet. Mich... Nov. 11. MONROE, N E.-—Farmers are. busy these days. hufikins corn. tall in ; '2, m 7 2-513: lrslgheoty Wil— W The fruit trees are _ , l . IAN A..8HE P9 ’ “it '1" ‘ . HAMPUMNI s i... .0, t .W- My with lists-of V’Wd ‘ rundown-11°11 :, . ~1‘ .- . "New hm coco size woou Fan. “ 'Dfim’ [Ericed to' more 'cnick. 'wms nuts to -’ Joan own. a 1. 81W, mun. lMPROVED oucx TOP D!'_ Fflw lainc Merino Raine. FM noflanancusn. Lnlngeburg, lichllIan' ‘ , ' ‘ 0 teams. F03 SHHOPSHIBEmJi'ilLL'L and type - hoot. cell 11' J(allSl'fiovwoo goes. a a. Fewimllie. mu. . , ' also gems: ron .sALe. .. . _b'~nerl.> heavy sheerers. ' . HOUOEMAN 3308. n 4. Albion. Mich- 0000 BIG- xronos: Mlle, 1. 2, or 3 Venus OLD, at $25. Lambs, $20 to $25. Ewes cheap- ? o.‘ M. vonx, Millington, Michigan. FOR SALE—REGISTERED OXFORD DOWN Rams and Ewes. Prices to eelv . L . y » ~ ‘ nos munmw a. son, Brown cny, mom, a 2, PET STOCK FOR SALE, FLEMISH GIANT RABBITS. DOES, breeding age. $6. Three months old pslr. 55. Registered does $12 each. Stock pedigreed Quail. .. t renteed. ': y mmE. HIMEBAUGH. Goldwater. Mich. GOLLIE, PUPPIES Write Dr. W. Austin Emit, It. Clemens, Michigan 101' beautifully bred, Sable and \‘Vlnlae Scotch Collie puppies; mourn] heel drivers from trained stock. 1 ll Igloo buy momughbrod ‘ Collie and Airedale pupmee tor training. I! BALE—YOUNG FOX AND RABBIT Fohounds. Send two cent stamp for perticulam. E,' E. DAVISON. Freon“. Mich. . . ,i > . r I amount of cold wea- mllanflng bfeegilehuikints and lowmg. Must 0 ee 3 5.3133 been Ihauled. Potatoes hre allvdug; the average yield being about 125 b . per acre. Beans. are overlain: from 8 to 12 blL per core which is considerable -' below the expects - average. Apples are going to waste in tall sections of the county. Wheat and rya are not looking very good on the average farms. Farm- ers are not selling anymore than they have to; believing the. _prices will be ,a. little better before spring. Auction sales are quite plentiful, and prices received are very low. Several farmers are wait- ing to see how things look, next spring, before making up their minds whether to quit the {arm or not—.43. W. ,S, Fenton, Nov. LCONA—~Wewther has, turned cold theAlast few days and ground is frozen. Farmers are getting ready for winter. Some‘ are picking apples and feeding them to the, hogs and cows while others are leaving them on the trees. Hay pressing and hauling hay is the order of the day. Prices 1 farm produce are very low but there don't seem to be much reduction on what'we have to buy but we still have hopes of better times later on. Pastures have been good this fall. Stock looks good, Horses are cheap and sheep are ‘not worth shooting for fox bait. Most fermers hove their last spring clip of woolyet—D ,C., Lincoln, Nov. 11. MONTCALM—Farmers are husking corn. Weather real cold with snow flura ries. Farmers are selling some grainl an holding most of the potatoes for highetr prices. The farmers are getting interes - ed in the farm bureau which has recent- ly started up at Trufant.——M. C. 13,, Tru- fant. Nov. 12. , How To Get Mogmgggg and save Feed! on 1nd poor who've-teaspoon «gawk-room hie M W; venom» houeel winter: getcood hicke— 0009.113! mmnfin flicker». Beet-— . sun—ram”: am'; not doing -m‘o‘eh right now ' that. «They were ~.\ MUD-WAV-IUSH-KA FARM' ‘ . olers young stock and a few mature breeders ill be. . .,.- e Runner Ducts and W ml: Wandomfiédleo Chart. 0. gills. tpde‘ orp sonw ‘younaei; , - MKE O. MILLER. Dryden, Mich. . H-ITE CHINESE OEEBE, WHITE PEKIN ducks. 3. 0.’ Br. Leghorn. Ph'ce ordereeuly. MR8. CLAUDIA BETTS. guiliodsle. Mich. ORPlNGTONS AND LEGHORNS Two greet breeds for, profit. Write today for tree catalogue of hetciliniz. out. baby chicks and breeding stock. ' CYOLE HATCHER COMPANY, 140 Phllo Bldg. _ Elmira. N.'\'. cooker-e13 a. Hens, Leghorns, Mlnoms. Hoddeno. » Reds, Rocks,‘ Orpingtons, Wyn ‘ TYRONE POULTRY FARM. Fenton, 'Mlchlcan. BOURBON BED TUBKEYS stock not skin if desired. Order early. 0 S. C. R. 1. Red cockerels and pullei‘s. the dark‘ red kind and bred to lay. (1)3.” stock will put your poultry on a paying F. HEIMS a. SON Davison, Mich. .- WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS - WHITE AFRICAN GUINEAS‘ 80 acres of them, Reference 0. H. Burgess, Professor Poultry, Mich. Agricultural College. Farm for sale. WHITCOMB TURKEY FARM, Byron Ctr., Mich. LEGHORN S FOR _8ALE—Thlrty thoroughbred Rose Comb Brown Leghorn Roosters. T. L. BACON, B.F.D. No. 3, Box 109, Davison, Michigan SINGLE COM8 BUFF COOKERELS. FARM raised from excellent laying stock. Also Rufus Red Belgian Hares. J. W. WEBSTER, Bath. Mich. R BALE—ROSE COMB BROWN LEGHORN cockereis, $2.50 for single bird, $2 00 for two or more. Knlp strain. April hatched. W. E.‘CUMMINOS, Coleman, Mich. GRAIOWSKE 8. 0. WHITE LEOHORN COOK- erels for sale, only $2.50 each and up. LEO GRABOWSKE, Merrill, Mlch., R. 4 .,There will be a ~ other. buildings. Clay and sandy loam soil; level. ln Order to Settle Estate x PUBLIC LAUCTION Saturday November 27, 1920 ‘et 2:00 p. m. of a valuable 120-acre farm, 1 mile north and three and three-qnar- ' tors miles east of Shepherd, Mich. Two houses, barn, granary and Orchard, one flowing: .well and two other wells. All fenced and under cultivation, nearly all tiled. On gravel road. TERMB:—10 per cent of one-third of purchase price to be paid on day of sale, balance at one-third on confirmation by court. two-thirds on delivery of deed and abstract. J. D. .HELMAN, Auctioneer Other nrns's AN INTRODUCTORY COUPON—Tear it out and hand it to a friend or neighbor who is not a subscriber. It is worth just 25¢ to,_him, because we will send The Business Farmer on trial to any new name for ”six months, for this coupon and a quarter (250)- This [Coupon is worth twenty-five cents to any NEW subscriber introduced by an old subscriber. .. .. .. Friends : .- every week for six in 'l‘o.v_....'..k........ ‘ 2Immmlmlnnlnmmlmunmlmulm \ introduced-by your W: . , f e ..g'., ,~ The Michigan Business Farmer,/Mt_. Clemens, Mich. 1 want to introduce a. NEW Subscriber and for a quarter (25c) enclosed in coin or stomps you are to send 1 mnDngrofllam, Eiocutors. ' _ - wall You introduce a- Friend 0r Neighbor? ‘ in coin or stamps. I . .OOIOOOOOOCOCCOOOOOOOIO0.000IOOC'CIOIO'l' ' ' ‘ ‘ j; AUCTION SALE ~. . 'V ‘ . - _, “ ‘. l. ‘.- _' .' ',' .-.. ....- .l"..‘,_..’,~.',...... .,..s'..ooooopoeo’o‘o "9“,! ioo‘eedoooooooe our weekly I 1 \ \r » _ ’ x4" I OR SALE—R. C. B. L. COCKERELS, SIRED is by Mdigmhlln Sq5 tygnner$2 {slated for size and yers, we g 3., . ea 11. F1 Giant rtbblte. c emish ' E. HIM‘EIAUOH, Goldwater, Mich. WYANDOTTE Sliver, Golden and White Wyendones. Bargains 1n surplus yearling stock to mire room for growing birds. Clarence Browning. R2. Portland. WHITE WYANDOTTES. COOKERELS FROM ‘ ‘5 fiosgggmggnssgrpeiietfin May and June hatch. WILD TURKEYS $331 FOR PRICES- . ' : ' K GUARANTEE D FRANK DELONG, R 3. Thl'Ol RlYm. Mlch. DONALD HYSLOP. Mllllngton, Mlch ‘- Fog. sue—25 WHITE WYANI'IOT-Tl- oooxi _, . '. "x! erele. Price $3.00. \ - AUGUST}; BOROK, B 8, Reed City, Mlch. FOR SALE—rue: Inna. wart: our“ - Gotta oockereh and pallets m hstciuv £2.50 to 34.00; ~ .- . MR8. TRACY RUSH. R. 7, Ithaca, “ch. ,RHODE ISLAND REDS - . 6. WITTAKEH'S BED GOGKEBELS ' Both combs. Special discount on early orders. ‘Wn'te for price list. ’ INTERLAKES FARM Box 4 Lawrence. Mich. PLYMOUTH ROCKS ‘ _ . ' WEALTHY APPLE AND" " BARRED ROCK .POULTRV .FARM ‘leizsg'red ‘Rock -Cockerels if sold “118' month. F.‘L£ SMITH, Prop. E. W. TURNER. "9'. - Roscommon, Mich. 'DARRED ROCKS. PARKS ZOO-EGG STRA“ cockerels which will produce line layers next ear $3 each. R. G. KIRBY, R 1, Mich. HIGH strong East Lansing, BARRED ROCK COCKERELS FROM producing strain. These will make breeders next yezu‘. $3.00 each. .. MRS PEPRY STEBBINS, Saranac, Mich. BauRED ROCK COCKERELS and a few Pul- ieis $3.00 apiece. Mrs. W. A. Eastwood, ROCK COCKERELS PABTBIDGE sale at $3.00 and $4.00. FOR Wm. CRISMORE, R 2, Middleton, Mich. Chesanlng, Mlch., R. 2 LANGSHAN DR. SIMPSON'S LANGSHANS OF QUALITY lit-ed for type and color since 1912. Winter laying strain of both Block and White. Bare some cockerels for sale. Eggs in season. DR CHAS. W. SIMPSON ‘Webbervllle, Mich. TU RKE YS on 8ALE-—BOURBON nso runners. , \Vrite for prices. f MRS. GEO. HULLIBERGER, 8mm, Mich. ' FOR SALE—MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS. Write for price. MRS. B. B, SMATTS, R. 1. East Jordan. Mien. GIANT BRONZE TURKEYS. STRONG, VIGOR- one birds. Write at once for tall prices MR8. PERRY STEBBINB, Serenac, Mich. on SALE. MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEY8 Write for prices. Forest View Farm. MRS. H. D. HORTON, Fillon, Mich. a F'VE CENTS PER WORD, PER ISSUE. porword when charged. body of ad. and in address. The Business Farmer. Adv. Business Farmers’ Exchange 20 words or less, $1 per Issue. Count as one word each Initial and each group of figures, both In Copy must be in our hands Saturday Depi., Mt. Clemens. Mich. cash with order, or 10 ’ for issue dated following week. mums 7o rum-fl RECORD CROP FARM WITH HORSES, cattle. tools. produce. 158 sores near -good RR town ; yell cultivated flelds,- wlrwfenced past- ure, reliable wood. veriety fruit: new 5-mom house. new basement barn; making big money. but owner celled sway. must sell, includes pair mules, 14 nettle, colt. pigs, machinery. potatoes, min. lily. eta: $8,000 fakes All, pert cash, bounce any 0. Details page 82 Strout’s other states. Copy iris. 8 AGENCY, 814 BE, Fod Bldg., ‘ FOR RALE—IN CLOVER SEED BELT. 3.- 000 acre tract, 11 miles from Millet-shuts. Send! clay loam to clay loam. On account of distance to market I will sell entiretruct for $21,500.00. No cub peymenl: required—4f responsible P11?- chaser will apply Red or Sweet Clover seed re- turn annually from 40 acres—until land is paid for at 6 per cent. A dandy ranch proposition, JOHN G. KRAUTH, Millersburg, Mich. FOR SALE—420 ACRES, BUILDINGS, FENC- ed. 80 m:- plow. Mlle from school, 8 to market. June- Fonteile mm. mm. OUT FARM Detroit, Mich. m . Can urnish good references. ~ ling: still, come and see me.‘ JOHN E. BRAD- .IEY, Route No. 2. Gem. uni Saginaw. Re- Write EDWARD Detroit. Michiun. ? . . I B quires 33.500.00 men, soc cmm- . Avon Going to hold an * M’tmdoojust moth-1h” maelstrom Mar. which .also 8. Wolverine baler, all complete. Can be bought on easy terms for helf price. THOS. CONROY, Washington Ave, Flint, Mlch_ flee “home-folks", they on not it. but bum: sin- a- duo-.- . SEND US COMPLETE DESCRIPTION ' . - ‘ ' new romaine-“mm . ~_ ; FINE QUALITY OF TABLE HONEY—250 IN 60 lb. cans pitched two in is case or 270 per lb. in five pound pails, packed 12 to the crate or 60 the barrel. It ‘will please you. Sample for 10c. 0. H. SCHMIDT, R 5, Bay City, Mich. MCELLANEOIQQ < ‘ LBUY FENCE POSTS DIREOT FROM 'OR- el All kinds. Delivered prices. Address " IL" fag! Michigen Busine- B‘ennlng. Ht. 010:: one. . WANT THE CHEAPEST. HANDIEST BELT power? Th u ask me about the LITTLE TWIST- ER Power ransmitter for Ford and Dodge earl FRANK R. WEISBERGER. Selina, Kanns. FOR SALE—A HAY BALINO OUTFIT ALL in good running order. International tractor and / . Is Your F arm For Sale? it in for one. two or three times. There’s cheaperorliettermd “mucus-m Mantflrmwm'mb bunt. scanner commission It»! went to sell New. Inn; mum at that}. Don't . . Ix- elumse'gets results Address The B.- Inole firmer. Adv. Dept, Mt. Clemens. on worflx-whfle,hmou filth e WV \ If water were ld by the barrel at a fancy price- led H _.}’ more might appreciate its Value in the dairy cow’s ration and its import- ance in the making of milk. . ‘A' cow makes milk from two things: Feed and water. Feed costs money, and yet very few Of our dairy cows are being starved for want Of it. It is common knowledge that the cow that does not get enough to eat does not produce as much milk as she could produce, nor produce as cheaply. It should be common knowledge, too, that the cow that does not get enough water to drink produces too little milk. yet many, very, dairy cows thirst for want of it. Milk is seven-eighths water. In order for a cow to make milk most cheaply it stands to reason that she must be given plenty of water. Thousands of dairymen have learned that they have been getting too little milk in the past because they gave their cows too little water. follow. Herded out twice a day ‘to shiver through a drink of lay tank water It is simply the natural consequenceuof Just as too little feed meant too little milk— lack of enough water means less milk following out natural laws. and a higher production cost. Proven By Milk Records An investigation was made in 28 herds: (759 cows) where milk records were kept. One herd showed an increase of from 5 up I to as high as 10 lbs. per cow, per day, just as a result of giving the cows all the water they wanted when they wanted it. Four herds reported an average increase of 4 lbs. per cow, per day; three stated 3 lbs., - five showed 2 lbs., three 11/2 lbs. ; one 3/; lbs.; one reported an increase in milk yield valued at am. 56 per cow, per year; one av- eraged $5; one $10, ° one received 3% increase, one 8%, - two 1070 , one_121/2%; one 2070 , one 33%% , and only one herd out. of the 28 found that the increase was i “not much.” An average increase per cow per day of 2. _45 lbs. -. And now you ask yourself the question, "Csn I' afiord James Cups“ Hi my barn-i” f “Would it not be better to wait until next 1 ‘9’??? «f Water costs practically nothing, and very many of our‘ ' T h e y h a v e _ learned that when a cow has all the water she ' wants when she wants it at any‘ hour of day or night, remark- able increases in m i l k yield 8 Yet there is no magic about it. ilk-r and sold Neither of the questions has anything to do with the matter. The real question is “ Can you afiord to be without James Cups? ” You - Lose By’ Waiting The plain fact is that if next year some one 3 were to make you a gift cf the James cups, ;' you would lose money by waiting. 3 Two pounds milk per cow per day, for the 1 200 days the cows are in the barn, means 400 1 lbs. of milk, which at $3 per cwt. is a total I I of $12 for the season. i , In these days when feed and other costs are high, can you afford to neglect this extra profit? James cups will pay for themselves twice over during the season. Can you afi'ord to be without them? ' ' , James cups will sa've much" time and Work ~investigation shows that the labor saving is $2. 50 at least each year. " .,-.,,., -..'_.. 'Can you afford to continue the frost biting work of chopping open the ice bound tank out of doors? .................. .......... v \ Can you afford to continue feeding the bothersome tank heater through the chilly_‘ winter days. 9 Don't put off this drinking cup proposition a single day. Write us at once for a defin— ite price estimate covering a drinking cup. installation in your barn. We will quote you a definite price if you will tell us the number of stalls, of calf, pens, of cow pens, of bull pens for which you want cups and whether the stalls C- ; pens are Wood or steel. .If. you are intere‘sted in other labor saving ' equipment for the dairy barn such as cowfi - . . stalls, carriers, steel pens, ven ”f ' ‘ ‘or if you are interested in up to the -: dam in the planning of the new barn ....... also for our Sig barn bujlding and equipment book “The James Way N”