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'1 New. York Dairymen to P00] Milk Proceeds l

Dairyrnen’sLéague‘Presents Co-operative Contract which Would Put Eighty Thousand Mill: .
HE NEW YORK Dairymen’s League"

is trying ’an experiment in co-operation
which will be watched with interest by dr-
ganized farmers everywhere. The plan is
the last word in 'co-operation. Under it the
farmer absolutely: surrenders to the League
all right to his product, pledges himself re-

' sponsible for the acts of the League and agrees

to‘ pool the proceeds of his milk with those
of all the other members.

' . The New [York Dairymen’s League has'a
total mebership' of 88,128, scattered all over
the state of New York and adjoining coun-
ties of . Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Ver-
mont. Part of its membership supplies
fluid milk to the distributors of New York’s
great industrial centers, part of it supplies a
score or more of condensaries, and the rest
dispose of their milk -’ to cheese factories and
creameries, many of which are owned out-
right by the organized farmers themselves.

After several years of bitter opposition on k

the part of. the city distributors the League
has been able to work out a fairly satisfac-
tory agreement for the sale of fluid milk.
In this direction its work compares favorably
with that of the Michigan Milk Producers"
Ass ’n, and other state dairy bodies which
have had the. distributing problem to con.-
.tend with. But the League has met with ev-
en greater difiiculty in securing a standard
contract for the outlying districts which fur-
nish milk to the manufactories. But it recog-
nized the fact that its members living out-

‘ Producers on Same Footing

Following a conference with the conden-
sary manufacturers when the present situa-
tion first developed, in which it was clearly
disclosed that the condensaries had no defi-
nite plans for resumption of operations, the
executive committee of the League voted to
recommend to the members that every mem-
ber sign the cooperative contract and get in
a position to pool all proceeds from milk and
to sell League milk for October for not less
than $3.85 per hundred pounds, with the us-
ual freight and butterfat differentials. This
price was to obtain no matter where the pro-

‘ ‘ducer lived Or what the nature of his market.

side the industrial areas were entitled to as

much protection as those within, so it- has '

made a special study of their problems and
bids fair to find a solution thereto. ' "
In normal times it was diflicult enough to

. effect a standard working agreement between

the farmers and dairy manufacturers, but in
the face of business depression, with milk
_‘ plants shutting down, it became well nigh
impossible. The League has found, despite

- ,‘;s large membership, that it  virtually at

the mercy-of the condensaries, many of which
are owned by the distributing companies of
New York City. By curtailing production
in their condensaries or shutting down en-
tirely they arezable to divert great quantities
of  from the remote districts to "take care

~ of any shortage ”‘ that might develop in the

industrial centers as a. result of a strike, etc;

This situation was brought to a head when
the condensaries began to Close" down all over
,.the country. Anticipating an... enormous Eur-

 opean demand for condensed milk products
 the condensaries accumulated- mt ' ‘stores _

which they Were unableto  ,of. .. Bath;

A  ‘01? 9th‘anr continue manufacturing milk pro-
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Sowing and Harvesting

HERE is. nothing more true than that

“whatsoever n mun soweth that shall he

nlso renp;" nnd we have abundant proof,
in the everyday experience of life. that "he
that soweth iniquit shall reap inihuityz” that
“theythat plo"w in unity and sow wickedness,
shnll'renp the samcg” and that those who have
“sown the wind shall reap the whirlwind.”
Then. ngnin, we have the comforting assurance
that it we “be not weary in well—doing, in due
senson we shall reap, if we faint nets" and
.thnt “to him that soweth righteousness shall
be a SURE reward." These are metaphors in
which n1] men are described as husbandmen,
sowing the seeds for the harvest and reaping
the fruits thereof,

Thfey are sowing their ,seed in the daylight ~

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The]: 'are sowing their seed in the noondny
‘ are

They oil's sowing their seed in the soft twi-

They airs sowing their seed in the solemn
night; I
What shall their has-vest be?

Come on sowing the seeds of word and deed,
Which the cold know not, nor the cnrclesl

heed
0f the'gentlc word nnd the kindest deed
That have, blessed the henrt in its sorcst need.
Sweet shall the harvest be!

.And some are sowing the seeds of pain,
0! into remorse nnd in maddhned-brnin;
And the stars shnll fall nnd the sun shall
wnne.
Ere they root the weeds fromvtho soil again:
Dark will the harvest liel

And some are standing with idle hand,

Yet they scatter seeds on their native hand;

And some are sowing the seeds of care,

Which their soil has bone and still must bear.
Sad will the harvest be!

And each, in his wny. is sowing the seed

or good or of evil. in word or deed:

With n careless hand o'er the earth they sow,

And the fields nre ripening whero'er they go;
What shall the harvest be?

flown in darkness or sown in light,
flown in weakness or sown in might:
flown in meehness or sown in wrath.
In the broad work-field or the shadowy path,
Sure will the lamest bei
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Theplan is described. in brief to the Busi-
ness Farmer by Mr. Fred A. Hoan, of the
Dair‘ymen’s League News editorial staff, as
follows: . g I

“The association will continue to'sell milk
to distributors and manufacturers. The milk

  {also be'manufa’ctured into various 'milk
as " products in" plants now operated by the assOc-
Liation,‘ Igor hereafter, owned by farmers.

 'iill’mwdmfrOml the sale of fluid milk or

  
  

 deture’dproduéts ‘will be pooled in a

  i‘Shflcient money will- be tak- V‘

on out to meet the expenses of operation, mar-
keting of milk, advertising, etc., and the re-
mainder will be distributed equitably among
the members, each getting the same base price.

“The farmer will not only be a producer,
but a manufacturer as well in competitiOn
with existing manufacturers. As the result
of operation of the plan, the farmer will have
a permanent and stable market. Under the
plan, the manufacturer cannot shut down his
condensary or other plants and throw milk
back on the hands of the farmer in order to
maintain or enhance the price of manufac»
tured products which he cannot export or dis-
pose of in the domestic market. In a word,
the producer will have a, continuous market
and he will get for his milk exactly what
milk is worth whether it goes to a cheese fac-
tory, creamery or condensed milk plant or is I
sold as fluid milk.”

Under the co-operative contract the pro-
ducer appoints the League his sales agent
and grants it “full power and authority to
sell said milk in the fluid state, or in its
discretion to manufacture the same into such
products as it may from time to time de-
termine, and to sell such manufactured pro-
ducts, the proceeds of all such sales to be
blended into one fund and distributed” to
the producers according to the amount of
milk supplied. Before such distribution is
made the League draws upon the fund for .
whatever amounts it needs for operating ex-
penses, etc. The producer also agreen in the
event of the Association failing to sell his
milk to manufacture. it himself into such
products as he desires and turn the product
over to the Association for sale. ' ’

The Co-operative Association agrees to re-
ceive all milk or milk produCts from its mem-
bers, secure a market for them at the highest
possible price, create special funds to reti'f
loans, build warehouses, parchase , 18?er
buildings and equipment. . \

The above plan is truly co-opnrative which
is the biggest thing that can be said in 
favor. Under it every member of the As-
sociation receives all the benefits enjoyed by
every other member. This naturally appeals
more to the farmer in outlying sections than
to the one living in the vicinity of large
cities, for the fluid milk market is generally
more stable and higher than the market for
manufactured dairy products. At the same
time the arrangement is a benefi‘ to the fluid
milk producer in that it protects him at all
times from possible competitipn of the, re-
moter sections. The disadvantages of the
planare that themilk producer signs away
his individualism and his right to dispose of
his product where and at what price he sees:

’fit.’ ' The human equation is' a large factor ’

here. If the officers intrusted with 
gut the .detalis of the plan are entirelyyt’r‘ust-
worthy, the farmer is amply protected; {But

\ unscrupulous» men in control of the 
.tion could soon wreck the project. ' "

 

   
 
     

 

 


 
  

Plenty” , - 4
of Potash

FTER five years of Potash
famine thereisnow plea of
Potash to be had at prices t at
will permit it to‘ be used at. a
good profit.

Who Potash in mixed fertil-
izers was sold‘at five dollars r
unit, everybody exclaimed t at
the price was “prohibitive.”
This was a state of mind. As a
matter of fact, when the records
of long continued experiments,
east, south, and west, were care-
fully gone over it was found that
there were plenty of cases where
the crop increase from the use of
Potash on corn, wheat, oats,
cotton, tobacco, potatoes, v e-

' tables and fruit returned over ve

dollars per unit, even valuing the
cropsatpricescurrentbeforelilld.

Now prices of Potash are less
than one-half of these “prohibi-
tive prices," and prices of farm
products are still high enough to
make the purchase of the five to
ten per cent Potash fertilizers a
very profitable investment when
yields alone are considered.

But this is not all. The shippin
and keeping quality of many 0
our truck, fruit and special cm s
has suffered from lack of Potas .
- Plant diseases have increased
for the same reason.

, Our best lands have been over-
worked to the limit and need
restoration.

The fertilizer manufacturer
who really has the foresight to
understand that he serves his
own and his cus’torhers’ interest
best by furnishing what his com-

.munity reall needs will return
to the forum as that were found
most profitable for his commun-

    
   
    

   

 
 
  
   
 
 
   
  
    
    
   
  
  
 
 
 
   
  
   
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
   
 
 
   
  
  
 
  
 
   
    
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   

ity before the Potash famine
upset things. Indeed this is ut-
ting the casemildly, for pro ion
should be made not only to re-
store the old high Potash formu-
las, but to use additional Potash

’ to restore the drain on the soil

during the past five years.

We never advised the use of
Potash on soils where we had
reason to believe it would not
prove profitable, and never shall
do so.

There is not a single crop on
which Potash has not been found
profitable on many types of soil.

In the readjustment period

. when farmers must use every

means to_assure success it is of
utmost importance that they
should not be turned aside in
their efiorts to buy fertilizers
with a reasonable (five to ten)
per cent. of Potash.

Potash Pays.

and after five years of Potash fam-
ine it will pay better than ever.

'It takes time to produce and
ship Potash and lar e stocks are
not carried at Potas works.

Therefore it is imperative that
you notify your dealer at once
what brands of fertilizer you will
require and that you should not
be induced to chan 8 your order
on any claim that t e right kind
of goods cannot be secured.
'Stick to it and you can get what
you know you want.

SOIL AND CROP SERVICE
POTASII SYNDICATE
H. A. HUSTON. Manager
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.HIRTYéTHREE elevators and co-
operative ess’ns‘ have joined the
elevator exchange. of the state
farm bureau and are doing business
in grain and beans solely thru this
‘one agency, according to the state
farm bureau. Most of the elevators
have also requested that all of their
business in hay be handled through
the same channel. I

The elevators are well distributed
over the state, five in Huron, 4 in
Kent, two in Branch. two in Barry,
two in Ottawa and the rest extend-
ing from the southern border to Sault
Ste. Marie. Indications. seem to
pointthat there will be two or three
times as many members in the next
few months. ‘ »

At the last meeting-of the Board
of Control ‘of the exchange, '1’. E.
Buell, manager, reported that a
total ’of 79 cars had been handled
during the first three weeks since
the exchange has been doing busi-
ness, in spite of the handicap of
just getting organized and the lull
in the market due to the presidential
election.

The board ordered that a hay de-
partment be established and that a
man experienced in handling hay-be
put on the job. The Upper Peninsula
. and the thumb district will probably
furnish the major part of the hay
business of the exchange, but. be-
cause most of the co-operative elevat-
or associations have signed an agree-
ment to do their hay business with
/ the exchange, it is probable that con-
slderable business will come from all
over the state. The Chippewa

to market 2,600 cars of hay this sea-
son has agreed to take the responsi-
bility for the grading of its product.

NATIONAL CONVENTION OF- 00-
‘ , OPERATIVES

The National Board of Farm Or-
ganizations has issued a called for a
National Convention of all the agri—
cultural co-operatlv-e organizations
Ithroughout the United States to meet
at the Statler Hotel in St. Louis, M'ls-
souri, December 16, 17, and 18th..
The purpose is to gear up existing
farmers' selling and buying machin-
ery and set in motion a national
movement_ to meet the acute and dis-
tressing needs of agriculture.

"The purpose of the convention is
for action," says Charles S. Barrett,
who is now starting on his seventeen
years as President of the National
Farmers’ Union. This sentiment will
meet.with approval from farmers
everywhere who are facing disaster
as a result of the recent disastrous
declines in farm prices.

The total annual turnover of the

NE OF THE surprising things
about the methods pursued by
some of our leading breeders of

pure bred hogs is the fact that they
persistently ignore the advice given
them by their friends and refuse to-
immunize their herds. At the open-
ing of his auction sale which was
held on Wednesday, November 10,
Barney Romsdell, Hanover, Mlch.,
made 'the announcement that all .of
the hogs that were offered for sale
that day had been double treated and
that certificates of immunization
would _be given the buyer of every
hog sold on that day: the announce-
ment 'was well received by the crowd
and the sale started oi! on the jump
and never let up for a minute until
everything on, the bill was sold. No
breeder, who cares and takes pride
in his work, should for one moment
trifle with such a terrible risk; in-
' faction of :hog cholera is distributed
throughout the state and no one can
guess where it will show up next. _
~It is~ reported that some farmers

I ' reaming in. the, "western part of this

state having some sick hots on their
 were‘aeked why they did not

f ~ have them-vaccinated; the reply was

< that the hogs were so cheap that the
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‘ agricultural cooperatives  »
lupus—several millions. annually-a‘
and cp-ordinated snort“ on the parts_-

County Farm Bureau which expects.

"g’uard_;-of “double
ed. ' Hogs were selling for $15 9913 4 .. _

of the various organizations now en-
gaged in the marketing of wheat,
livestock, cotton and milk is of the
greatest importance. Farmers'

Unions, Equities, Milk Producers' As-.

sociatlons.‘ Granges, Gleaners, Farm
Bureaus, and other groups are all
invited to participate in the coming
meeting. Various committees now
working on the grain question will
have opportunity to meet and har-
monize their programs in case it may
appear thatthere now exists some
conflict of opinion as to procedure.

 

CONVENTION AMERICAN , FARM
BUREAU

The annual convention of the Am- '

erican Farm Bureau Federation will
be held at Indianapolis, Dec. 6, 7 and?
8th. It will be a real event in Am-
erican agricultural affairs.

The._central purpose of the con--

vention will be the formulation of

a national agricultural policy. These '

who have been invited to participate
in drafting such a policy include
some of the biggest men of the na-
tion both within and outside the farm
bureau ranks. v

Speakers of national prominence "

are scheduled to appear on the pro--
gram and a total of at least 1,200
delegates and visitors are expected
to attend. The American farmer will

await the outcome of this great at"

ricultural gathering in the hopes that
it will present a practicable, work-
able plan for united action toward a

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STATE GRANGE ANNUAL

The Michigan State Grange will
convene December 14, at the banquet
hall of Pantlind Hotel, Grand Rap-
ids, tor a four day session. 'The
Grange will open in form atlo A.
M. Tuesday. I

On Tuesday afternoon the Master
will read his annual address. Tua—
day evening a special degree team
from Charlotte will exemplify the
proposed new short ritual. Wednes-
day forenoon reports of ofllcers and
standing committees and in the af-
ternoon the State Lecturer will con-
duct an open program. Following
this will occur the annual Grange
banquet at one of the city churches.
Thursday and Friday will be devot-

ed to business and consideration of

reports of committees. Election of
ofl‘icers will also take place, prob-
ably on Thursday. Thursday even-~
in: the fifth and sixth degrees will
be conferred and on Friday evening
the new officers will be installed. Do-
tails of the meeting will be publish-
ed later. -

Suppress the HogCholera MenaCe

cwt. when the above statement was
made. It is this kind of talk that
makes men, in other walks of life,
sore on the farmer. Unless conditions
change, very soon, hogs will look
high at $10 per cwt.; our friend, who
could not afford to treat them when
they were worth $15 per cwt., may.
have a better opinion of them when
they drop below the ten dollar mark.
The old adage—“anythingworth do-
ing at all is worth doing well”——-ap-

plies to the conditions described _

above.

The hog breeders of the country
should band themselves together for
the commendable task of cholera
eradication; if every farmer in the
country would vaccinate his hogs the

disease could sodn be brought under V

control. j'l‘hose who are oppOsed-to
vaccination give as a reason thatthe
treatment is liable to “set up" the

disease in a healthy herd o! 110835 ’

the occurrence of tumors, a short.
time after vaccination is also cited

as evidence of the dangerous cage; ‘- ' ” ‘

actor, effith'e treatment.- The war

has  extended experience m _.
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‘ HE CROP report'ing service of the
3 U. S. Department of Agriculture
was begun in 1866 and has been
carried on continuously since that
time, the accuracy of the reports be-
ing constantly improved and their
scope widened. In twenty states the
.work is carried on in (go-operation
with the State Department of Agricul_
ture or similar state agency. These
reports -are based on information
gathered from many sources, but the
principal source of information is
the farmer himself, nine-tenths of
-those who send in reports (in crops
are farmers. Among these are
many hundreds of active intelligent
farmers who have been making these
reports for ten, fifteen, twenty and
some as long as forty years. It stands
to reason that these men would not
continue to make these reports——
without a penny of compensation—-
unless they ~were getting some di-
rect personal benefit from them. At
present there are about 60,000 reg-
ular crop reporters and over 200,000
special reporters. Every agricultur-
al county in the country is covered
and nearly every township. _

A word as to the accuracy of the
reports. For two years 1918 and
1919 during the existence of the
United tates Grain Corporation all
of the wheat sold in the United States
was reported to' the corporation so
that there has been a check on the
crop estimates. From these reports
it has been determined that the gov-
ernment estimates oflwheat produc-
tion for these 'two years has been
'within two per cent of the actual
production.

And now to get to the heart of
our sub'iect—-—how do these crop re-
ports benefit the farmer and why
are they of more importance to him
than to the speculator? The farmer
is directly benefitted by these reports

because they are unbiased, disinter-

ested and as nearly accurate as it is’
practicable to make them, therefore,
the farmer can use them as a guide
in planting and marketing. By ob«
serving whether the indicated sup.
ply is'or will be relatively“ large or
small as' compared with previous
years he can decide , intelligently
whether to increase or decrease the
acreage in a particular crop, and
whether to sell his harvested crop
immediately or hold for a probable
advance in price at a later date.

An increasing number of farmers
are making a direct use 'of govern-
ment crop reports. There is on file
in Washington hundreds of letters
from individual farmers and co-oper-
eitlve marketing associations testi-
fying to the value of such reports in
the handling of their business. Last
year a delegation of apple growers

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By W. F. OALLANDER
U. 8. Bureau of Markets.

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The F armérs’ Crop Reports

6‘ HO BENEFITS most from the government crop reports, the
Wfarmer or the speculator?” has long been a mooted question.
Thousands of farmers oppose the official collection and indis-
criminate publication of figures disclosing to speculators the amount of
their annual crops. The fact is generally overlooked that whether or
no the government secured these figures the speculators would have
recourse to reports of their own gathering.
I supplying the farmer with information about his own business which he
has never been in a position to get for himself.
tended, however, that the farmers should be so organized that they
can at least add to the efforts of the government along this line if not
The organized farmers of America should
maintain a staff of crop reporting experts in every important agricul-
tural county to furnish them with instant and reliable‘data whenever it
is wanted on acreage,- condition, and prices of crops, etc. The accom-
panying article is a portion of an address upon this subject delivered
before the Farmers' National Congress by Mr. M. F. Cullender of the
U. 8. Crop reporting service.—Editor.

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visited Washington and. testified be-
fore a congressional committee that
the government reports on commer-
cial apple production last year had
saved the apple growers of the coun-
try a million dollars, or about three
times the cost of the service. One
potato association in a single coun-
ty in Minnesota telegraphed that the
reports on commercial potato produc-
tion last year saved the growers one
hundred thousand dollars in a single
year. In 191 a study of the govern—
mentjeports on potatoes by the coun_
ty.agent in one county alone saved
the growers close to half a million
dollars. Instead of selling at 80
cents, they got from $1.50 to $2.00
a bushel. The growers of early po-
tatoes in the South watch the re-
ports of potato production in the
North for the previous year and
plant accordingly.

The indirect benefit to farmers de-
rived from these reports is probably
quite as great as the direct benefit.
Accurate crop reports'reduce the risk
involved in buying farm products
and carrying them in storage until
needed, therefore, legitimate buyers
and distributing agencies can oper-
ate on small margins, and where
competition exists they can afford to
and do pay higher prices to farmers.

With the rapid organization of
farmers throughout the United
States, the need for more complete
agricultural statistics is being in-
creasingly felt—statistics monthly of
stocks of grain on farms and in ele-
vators; statistics of live stock pro-
duction; and statistics of
plantings in order to avoid over-pro-
duction I

What would happen if the govern-

intended ,

ment crop reports were entirely
abolished? Who would profit most
by their discontinuance? Certainly
not the farmer. Speculators have
their own means of getting inform-
ation and no onecan prevent them.
The individual farmer has not. Crops
and live stock are grown in the open
and cannot be hid. Speculators can
and do get information all the time
by letter and. by telegraph, through
traveling salesmen, local buyers and
dealers, country merchants and bank-
ers, and' through crop experts em-
ployed by them at high salaries and
through various private crop report-
ing agencies. Were it not for the
statistical bureau of the Department
of‘Agriculture, which is a disinter-
ested federal agency, through which
farmers can pool information regard-
ing local conditions and have it sum-
marized into an accurate report for
the whole county, farmers would be
at the mercy of speculators who
would be -free to issue any sort of
misleading reports designed to in-
fluence prices to their own advant-
age and farmers would have no
means of checking them up. The
crop reports injure no one but the
speculators, who could well afford
to pay many times the entire cost of
the Bureau to have the government
crop reports discontinued or dis-
credited. »

It is frequently .said that the spec-
ulators use the government reports
to depress prices paid to the farm-
ers. A study of the situation would
hardly bear out this contention. The
fact that the markets are influenced
by these reports shows their value
because if prices are depressed by

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was expected, they are likewise rais- ,
ed by the prospects of a smaller crop ‘

than was anticipated——one‘ is just as
likely to happen as the other—~——and
the suppression of the
report or the attempted concealment
of a large crop would react in the
long run to the detriment of the
farmer.

'Up to the present time very little
has been done in estimating live
stock production. Outside of esti-
mates made of number on farms
once a year, based on the census fig-
ures, practically no reports

stock yards and publicly

quent fluctuations in live stock pric—
es, which are not justified by
actual supply and demand. What
we need are monthly estimates of the
number of each kind of live stock
on farms, the number that is being
prepared for market, and other in—
formation of this kind. In the hands
of farmers well organized, it should
be possible to avoid in a large meas-
ure the periods of over-production
and under-production which have
been characteristic of the meat in—
dustry. Knowing with great_accur—
acy the future supply will go a long
way towards stabilizing live stock
prices. Some experimental work
along this line has been undertaken
in one or two of the states, but lack
of funds presents its extension. The
Department is planning, however, as

soon as possible to inaugurate an ex- I

tensive live stock reporting service,
which will cover the entire United
States. '

From what I have said the idea.
might naturally suggest itself that
farmers’ organizations should estab-
lish their own live stock and crop '
reporting systems. I am strongly in .
favor and believe there is a wide field ,
for statistical work to be done by
farmers' organizations in addition to f
the work already being done and 
which is planned for the future by :
the federal and state Departments of 1
Agriculture along statistical lines. It
should be constantly kept in mind, .
however, that the United States De—
partment of Agriculture was created
and established to promote agricul- :
ture. Therefore, the statistical ;
branch of the Department has that
object in view. If the crop reports
which are now being issued by the 3-
Department are not as complete ori
comprehensive as the organized l
farmers desire, they should indicate }
wherein the present service is inade-
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7- an BOARD of Trade claims de-

I i “livery intent on all future con-l
‘fztracts for grain bitught orsbldai’
bu_l:“'if ‘lts members Will be bones-t2

they will frankly admit that 99 ‘per
cent of'the trades are made without

.any intention of delivery whatever,

but for the purpose of closing out on
paper at a profit. Here is the test,
and 'I‘am going to openly challenge
them to show by actual figures taken
from their Clearing House sheets on
May__corn that the actual delivery of
corn amounted to anywhere near one
per cent of the total trades in'this
future. Come across with the fig-
ures, gentlemen, or allow the title
of this article to remain unanswered
in the affirmative. Do you think that
the fellow that makes a trade and
then closes it out in a short time to
grab a little profit wants the grain?
You would have to chase him around
four city blocks and tie him down
before you could deliver him a bush-
el of it. He is a gambler and not a
bona fide dealer, and furnishes an

overwhelmingly large percentage of'

the trades in this nefarious business.

The ruling oflthe United States
Grain Corporation prevented deliv—
ery to an unlicensed trader, and forc—
ed him out before the opening of the
delivery month. The only thing
that an unlicensed trader could do
under this ruling was to make a pa—
per bet on the future price of grain.

When they got to playing the jok-

, or wild» in the wheat pit in 1917,

May wheat was taken off the boards
and settlement ordered at $3.18 per
bushel. Settlement, mind you, not
delivery. In other words, cash in
‘ the chips you hold on May Wheat and
take the money or. pay the bank.
When wheat was taken off the
boards the gamblers and speculators
fled to corn, and to prevent the
roof being crowded on? the Board

of Trade, a 200,000 bushel limit ‘Was -

put on, which is about the same as
limiting the ante in a poker game.
This was kept on until after most 'of
the farmers had sold their corn at
around $1.20 per bushel last Feb-
ruary to meet March payments, then
the lid was removed, the sky made
the limit, May corn went to $2.00
per bushel, the gamblers and specu-
lators grabbed the millions and the
consumers paid the bill.

The Farmers' Side of It

The Board of Trade has maintain-
ed that their organization is neces-
sary to aid the farmer in the distribu-
tion of his grain. No greater fallacy
was ever advocated. Is anyone fOOl'.
ish 'enough to believe that these fel-
lows care anything about the farm-
er, or that the farmer is quick
enough to put anything over on
them? They have nothing to do but
to‘lay for the farmers' grain, and
they: see it coming long before he
hauls the corn sheller into the barn—
yard. Witness—corn about $1.20
per bushel to the farmer when he
was selling to meet March payments,
and.$2.00 per bushel a short time
afterwards when the speculator got
hold of it. Do the farmers want it?

“From one of the'leadin'g grain grow-

ing states comes delegates to'the Re—
publican conventionsinstructed to try
.to secure a plank in the platform to
prevent gambling in grain, and a

Congressman from another leading'
grain-growing state has introduced

a bill in Congress to suppress gamb-
ling in grain, which is sure to pass
and become a law. What the farm-
er' needs is a closer connection with
the miller, the cereal manufacturer
and the live stock feeder, and he has
made up his mind that the best way
to get it is “to kick a lot of profit
sucking middlemen outof the way.
A‘,1.a'r‘g‘e percentage of the grain that

tormerly-came to Chicago is now be:
ingshipped direct to the mills, in oth- ,

er‘cities, and, strange to say, is find-

.ing“ra better market “than the one

vfaffiishedjjby this wonderful boon to
“fil'e‘rfig‘in j, icago. The one thing
 figfifielarmers does NOT/need is
:gfimguorganization of gamblers and

 tspeculators to grab millionsi of dol-
' "Intrautetiv‘een'the farm where
grain is raised and the consumers'

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HIS ARTICLE was written by a man who had his fingers burned

by contact with the Board of Trade.
_ As the reader will note, the article was writ-
ten some months prior to the recent disclosures of Grain Trade meth-
ods. Some of the terms employed are the vernacular of the pit, and
may not be entirely clear to the reader, but the substance of the article
is understandable and will give the reader a clearer conception of what
happens to the farmer's wheat market when the gamblers get their '

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dinner table, and to argue that he
does is about as foolish as to claim
that a big crop of mosquitoes makes
fishing more enjoyable and promotes
health by thinning the Vfisherman’s
blood. Gambling and speculating in
grain is universally conceded to add
to the high cost of living, and the
thousands of men who hang around
these places and toil not, also strik-
ingly convinces that it adds greatly
to the high cost of loafing.

Farmers fight Hessian fly, black
rust, cinch bugs and other pests that
attack the grain while it is growing.
Isn’t it about time to swat the ani—
mal that attacks the grain after it
is in the bin?

Chalk and Blackboard Sucker Traps

Spread out over the nation like
a gigantic spider_web is a system of

leased wires with chalk and black- 7

board appendages that are used as

feeders to the Chicago Board of.

Trade._ What is the primary purpose
of these so-called branch commission

offices? .,To aid in the distribution.

of the necessities of life or to rope
in the country sucker and fleece
him? Did you ever visit one of
these places and notice the worn,
haggard look on the faces of most

'it look, strong before jerking

of the occupants sitting around try-
ing to get some of the money back
that they had lost, and sinking still
deeper into the mire? Can they
beat it? Did you ever notice that
when the professionals had the coun-
try long at the top that they almost
invariably opened the “market”
higher to drive in the remaining
shorts and induce buying by making
the
bottom out of thelhopper‘end skin-
ning the suckers they had caught in
their net? And did you ever notice
that these so-called grain swings are_
generally of about the range of the
margins that the commission firms
are calling? And did you ever notice
that after cleaning up the margins,
how they get the country short by
various means, and after they have
grabbed all the paper bushels in
sight, start putting the price up and
skin the suckers the other way? Can
you beat the pit professionals when
you are hooked on a leased wire sev—
eral hundred miles from them? Did
you ever try to guess which 'shell
the pea was under when it was in
the manipulator’s vest pocket? And
did you ever notice how they skin
the country dabbler in Bids and 0f-
fers that were called by their true

' International Crop Improvement Ass’n.

a1 meeting of the International

Crop Improvement Association to
be held at the Chicago Stock Yard
Inn, December 1, have just been sent
out by J. W. Nicolson, International
Secretary-Treasurer, and director of
the seed department of the state
farm bureau.

A. L. Blbbins, secretary of the
Michigan Crop Improvement Associ-
ation and Extension Specialist of M.
A.‘C. will tell the story of Michigan’s
system of inspecting’and marketing
seeds. Other speakers include some
of the best known authorities in the
United States and Canada.

.Michigan holds a position in ad-
vance of other states in the complete
manner in which it is organized for
seed handling, not only to develop"
high grade varieties, but to inspect
and market them, according to the
state farm bureau. The system is
made up of three parts, development
of seeds, done by F. A. Spragg, plant
breeder of M. A. 0., its inspection by
the Michigan Crop Improvement As-
sociation and marketing by the seed
department of the state farm bureau.

The Michigan exhibit at the Inter—
national Hay and Grain Show at Chi-

PROGRAMS for the seco’nd annu-

’ cago during the time of the Interna-

tional Live Stock Exhibition will
graphically portray these three phas-

es of the state seed organization. The

seed growers of this state not only
intend to take a greatinany prem-
iums at the show, but also they ex-
pect to produce one of the most im—
pressive exhibits. Most states have
plant breeding departments which
correspond to the Michigan Crop Im-

provement Association through none ‘

of them have yet been able to func-
tion as. thordughly’, but most other
states are‘not in as good a position
to sell their grain. They have no
organization that corresponds \to the
seed department of the state farm
bureau which doesvolume buying of
gu‘aranteed'seeds for Michigan farm-
ers and does volume selling. One

trouble in» developing the guaranteed

seed business in Michigan has been in
finding a market out of the state.
Individuals. want [good seed rinvari-

, R. Porter, Secly, GrimmAIf

ably,_‘._hut their ,Vorg’an-izati us a shot Produce, s" Ass'

prepared to do the business for them.
A great deal of missionary work has
to be done to show'other states the
advantages of buying seed, guaran-
teed not only as to variety but also

as to place of growth. This state is -

so far in advance that it must help
others in order to help itself. Farm
bureaus and crop improvement asso—
ciations of a number of other states
have asked for detailed information
on Michigan's methods. Indiana
which has had.an organization for a
year which corresponds to the Mich—
igan Crop Improvement Association
was assisted in its organization by
Mr. Nicolson,
his services for a meeting at Boise
on January 12. These are both live
seed states and their representatives
will address the annual meeting of
the International Crop Improvement
Association. B. F. Sheehan of Idaho,
who will address the meeting, is state
seed commissioner and is one of the
best versed men on the subject of
seeds in the wish Other speakers
are L. H. New an
tario, secretary of the Canadian
Seed Growers’ Association which is
one of the most efficient and largest
seed handling agencies in North Am—
erica and W. R. Porter of Fargo, N.
D., secretary of the GrimmAlfalfa
Seed Producers’ Association which
has developed the highest type of
hardy Grimm Alfalfa produced. The
program of the December 1 meeting
is as follows:

-Topic: Seed Inspection, Certifica-
tion and Marketing.

Canada’s Method, L. H. Newmai,
Sec’y, Canadian Seed Growers' Ass’n,
Ottawa, Ontario. 7

Opinions from Indiana’s Experi-
ence, W. A. Ostrander, Indiana Corn
Growers: Ass’n, Lafayette, Indiana.

Michigan’s Inspection and ' Mar-.

keting System, A. L. Blbbins,. Sec’y, I
1 Michigan Crop Improvement Ass’n,

East Lansing, Mich.

, Alfalfa Seed, Inspection ' in Idaho}
B. .F. Sheehan, Se‘c’y, Idaho Seed

Growers’ Ass'n, “ Boise, Idaho. '
Grimm Alfalfa Seed Inspection, ’W.

Farce. mam

  

. name, Puts

‘Idah-o has asked for'

of Ottawa, On-‘

that lighttl'irou‘gh the press.
. 3tuf£s of this great nation ‘3h0uldth
' ’“Om‘iW ’“331‘1‘8*~n.d mantra-1*

  

Sides 1 ,  _
and. cans "hermefjrsé
government got after them 'by‘ dark-

ing the “market” back" landfiflo‘i‘gh ‘ ' “ 
~ through them, first above and then
. below, ; and .vice versa?

To 8h0W~
.this thing up as I know it would '
make-Tom Lawson’s expose of Wall
Street looklike a Sunday school leaf-
.let. . ‘ , ‘ '

A Slam on Congress 4 .

A short time ago the Hearst news‘
papers of Chicago printed several sen-
sational articles about the United
States Grain Corporation and the
Chicago Board of Trade. Grain
Corporation officials were accused of
using inside information on which -
to gamble and speculatein corn, and,
.the claim’ was .made that some of
them had made fortunes Out of,it. A
Senate investigating committee was
appointed to look into the matter
and it is to be hoped that their re-
port will soon be ready for the pub-
lic. Then corn gamblers were ac: '
cused of- cornering May corn and
fleecing the public ~-out of THREE
HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS in .
thirty or forty days, which is nearly
THREE DOLLARS per capita for
every man, woman and child in the
United States. Did the Louisiana
State Lottery ever pile up such a
record? A Federal Grand Jury was
empaneled and the books of nine
commission firms were ordered laid
before it, and there ought to be some
real action behind the big 'smoke
barrage. ‘

.Well, these exposures apparently
got under their hide and surely stir-
red things up. In fact, there were
unmistakable sign-s that several of
those on the inside of the deals had a
severe attack of prickly heat. A few
days later a propaganda pamphlet
was sent the editor of‘-‘the Hearst _
paper making the exposures, and. he ‘
was apparently induced to write an
editorial entitled “The Board of
Trade as a Stabilizer,” as a'salve to
heal the wounds. The editorial gave
the details of a cash grain trans-ac-
tion taken from their propaganda
dope that was handled before the
war. Why they went back so far is
unknown, unless they didn't have
anything late in corn that Would
show up well in print. The editorial ‘
touched. on very little else and end-
ed with this astounding~ statement:
“The Board of Trade as a factor of

» social stability is perhapswmore im-

portant than Congress.” .Ye Gods! -.
'Can you‘ believe it? In justice to

. the editor, I want to say" that I‘ do

not believe that the editorial repre-,
sents the sentiment of the great line‘
all the ear marks of having been di-
of Hearst newspapers, but that it has
rected and inspired by the local
Board of Trade‘.’ More import-ant_'
than the greatest law making body
on earth!‘ To infer that an institu-
tion that has kept a senate inves-tigat-
ing committee, a Federal Grand J ury,
several United States District Attor-
neys and an’army of secret service
men busy the greater part of three
months to keep it from cornering
May corn and throttling the Ameri-
can people with exorbitant prices for
foodstuffs, is more» important to our
nation than the highest law-making
body ofit, is ‘astatement that must .~
not be allowed to' go unchallenged
and ought to be retracted by the pa>
per that made it. t ‘
The Board of Trade in Action

In the past, Chicago visitors have
been urged to see the Board ,of
Trade in action, as one. of the sights
of the city. .The almost universal.
comment of spectators who have
looked down on the scrambling in the '
pit is that it'resembles the incurable

ward in an- insane hospital, audit  

has been, freely commented- oq".1ag
anyone could contend that the food

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‘  MARIN, " G CIDER nonvNErcnnons
I  writing for information on cider

making. My neighbor,and {I nmade a
smallsixe'oider mill for oursel've. and, a
a  f the. other, neighbors want us to
tr .em cider. Is there an - ng {o
Prohibit our making for them Wou d
we have to Igpt a permitf—F. C. 14..
Sheridan. . ‘

Section. 29hr Title II of the Nation-

“ a1 Prohibition Act provides that the

penalties. imposed in the act against
the manufacture of liquor without a
permit shall not apply to a person for
{manufacturing nonintoxicating cider

nd fruit juices exclusively for use in
his home, but cider and fruit
juices shall not be sold or delivered
.except to- persons having permits to

3 manufacture vinegar. -

‘ The Bureau's interpretation of the
foregoing provision is as follows: Any
person may, without permit, and with-

;‘out giving bond, manufacture nonin-
s,toxicating cider and fruit' Juices, and

in so doing he may take his apples or
fruits to a custom mill and have them
made into cider and fruit juices. Af-
ter such noninto‘xicating' cider and
fruit juices are made, they must be
used exclusively in the home, and

' when so used, the phrase “nonintox:

icating’f ' means nonintoxicating in
fact and .not necessarily less than one-
half of one per cent of alcohol, as pm-

i vi-ded in Section 1-, Title II, of the
' said act.

1

Or if the person making such cider
and fruit juices desires to do so, he
may (1)” sell such cider and fruit

{ juices at any time to persons having

I said Act.

permits to make vinegar ; this he may
do under the provisions of said Sec-
tion 29. (2) If he preserves such cider
and fruit juices at the time they are
made, he may sell same to the publrlc
in general; this he may do under the
provisions of Section 4, of Title II, of
(3) Or he may sell said:
cider and other fruit juices- so long as

: they contain less than one-half of one
' per cent of alcohol, but the purchasers
, thereof can not use or possess the

same after they contain more than
one-half of one per 'cent of alcohol;
this he may do under the provisions
ofSections 1 and 3, of Title II of said
Act.  -
The operator of a customs mill is
not required to file bond. and secure a
permit provided he manufactures
sweet cider only and does not retain
possession of same at or after the
time it contains 1-2 of one per cent or
more of alcohol by volume. ' .
The owner of apples may manufac-
ture cider and sell same provided said
cider contains less than 1-2 of 1 per
cent of alcohol by volume. He may
also retain such cider inhis home and"
allow it to become vinegar. No bond

er permit is necessary. Persons pur-_

chasing cider is not allowed possess-
ion or use of sameafter it contains
1-2 of 1 per cent or more of alcohol by
volume—Jon", F. Kramer, Federal
Prohibition Commissioner.

 

UNION MORTGAGE COMPANY

I would like to thank you ve much
for a, little information in rega s in a
so-called Union. Mortgage Com y of
Detroit. Is it deserving of confidence or
is it a get rich scheme?——H. G., Mason.

The UniOn ,Mortgage Company was
approved by this Commission March
6, 1919, and permission given it to sell
$6,000,000.00 worth of unissued Pre-
ferred Stock, and $3,990,790.00 Com-
mon Stock was validated to be given
as. bonus with the Preferred Stock.
The approval was given ‘only after 81,-
000,000.00 Common Stock, which had
been issued for promotion,_was split
into two pieces. The larger" piece
$750,000.00 was escrowed with the
State Treasurer thereto remain until
the company, earned 6 per cent upon
the total outstanding Common Stock,
and this-stock is still here in escrow.
The smaller piece $250,000.00 worth

x’was, returned to the Treasury of the

company, thereto be held until the
further order of this commission.
The Union Mortgage Company was

. , examined bythis Commission the 24th

.‘ y‘.

"i

5- ' “mm ~17-‘3‘333i Isfmta not ad‘-

,jl

;. day [‘61 49:11....1913. and at. that tune
owed assets of $2.912-‘

 Sh

m ‘t ourexaminer

its ,.
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\the survivor without

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(A clearing Department for fennel-0’ over 1 day troubles. Prompt. careful attention given

to all complaints or requests for Information addressed to this department.
All Inquiries must be accompanied by full name and Name not ‘uud if requested.)

you .

age on first and second mortgage
bonds held in trust. The liabilities
of the company were found. to be $776-
1464‘5, which would leave net assets,
accOrding 'to examination of our ex-
aminer as‘of. that date, $1,060,074.17.
At that time also the actual cash re-
ceived from the sale of stock by the
company totalled $1,115,700.62.—The
Michigan Securities Commission.
EDITOR’S NOTE: From the state-
ment it appears that a good sized chunk

of stock was laid aside for promotion. a

bad practice. It also appears that the
company has not ct been able to earn
0 r cent on i. outstanding stock.

Un er the circumstances I would not

‘ advise you to invest in this concern. If

on desire further information, ask your
ker to write a correspondent bank
in Detroit. .

ADOPTING STEP-CHILDREN

Will you please state the disposal of
the personal property after the decease
of the husband, there being a joint deed
of real estate, a wife and children re-
maining? Also, what measures should
be taken for a man to adopt his step-
children, their mother alive and all liv~
ing with her at his homeT—L. R G.,

 

7 Freeland, Mich.
——-———--—'—-d

The real estate held by a husband
and wife in their joint names goes to
taking any
steps. The personal property is to
be divided according to the statute.
of distributions. From it would be
first paid. the expenses of administra-
tion. Net the widow's allowance for
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INNER TUBE NEVER CALIE;
MONEY .REFUNDED

The 7th of lite:I July I sent 826.78 to
Montgomery War & Co. for a tire and
inner tube. I .a short time I received a
check for $22. 0 from them and a letter
the% said they were out of that
so t ey were returning the mon-
that amount but the tube would be
ped. It never came. I wrote
t em and they stated they had sent the
$.78. I again wrote thorn calling their
attention to the mistake but have never
heard from them.—-—A. P., St. Johns, Mich,

This was a case of a green clerk
or something of that nature and as
soon as we laid this complaint be-
fore them they sent our subscriber
a check covering the balance due
him.

_—

TRACTOR HORN RECEIVED

We ordered a born for a Fordson
tractor from the National Auto Supply
Co.. Chicago,‘ the 14th of August, ut
they never wrote me as to whether they
received the order or not. We can get
no answer to letters wrote dined—F. A.
d: Son. East Jordan, Michigan.

Immediately we took this com-
plaint up with this company and af-
ter a short delay they advised us
they were trying to locate the papers
in regards to the order. Three days
later we received another letter
from them in which they stated they
had located the order, which they
believed had been willfully held up
by one of their employees with whom
they" had been having considerable
trouble. But, they went-on to say,
they were promptly filling the de-
layed order. A and Son received
the horn they advise us. Honk! honki

 

 

FIRM REIMBURSES SUBSCRIBER
FOR INCONVENIENCE CAUSED

I eat a ord for a lib t to the
Hartnman  d: Carve  the
22nd of last March On May I'lth I

received the set but they had not sent
the rockers for the rocking chair or the
domes of silence for the tablelegs. I
wrote them several times regardin

and on" July 15th received we they
were shipp th rocker. and domes and
em in a few days. They
they wer ‘creediting my ac-
.nz,00. New I hve no ac-
count with them because I sent the
amount in full, 48.8.5 with my order. I
hav not receive the rockch and domes

also stated

yet nor do I get re leg from letters ad-
dressed to them—lg: F. P., Gaines,
Michigan.» . ‘ ‘

In answer to ourletter the Hart-
man Company sent us a copy of
their. letter to oursubscriber. They
stated the Immersed. domes had
beenth and maths" become lost
in. transit, but car were ,eendins
?other.smment."‘. The: 82 men~

e Collection Bo

   

t t? We ,1?- “ “19'.

We are here to serve

such an amount per week as the}

judge of probate thinks is proper
taking into consideration the fam-
ily. The debts are next to be paid.
After that the personal is to be di-
vided, one third to the widow and
two-thirds to the children. The
step father, the mother and the
children if of sufficient age should
go to the office of the Judge of Pro-
bate and sign such papers for the
adoption as the Judge requires, and
he will have the proper orders and
records made—W. E. Brown, legal
editor.

 

STEPFATHER'S RIGHT TO CHILD-

REN‘S MONEY

A man marries a widow with two
children. The mother dies with an in-
surance policy drawn in favor of the
two children. A guardian is appointed,
to whom the policy is paid. Can that
stepfather legally draw pay for those
children’s board from the children's in—
surance, held by their guardian—A sub-
scriber, Pigeon. Mich.

The guardian should make an al-
lowance for the care and support of
the children if you did not adopt
them. If he does not you are under
no legal obligation 'to care for them
for nothing. The fact that you mar-
ried the mother of the children does
not. make you legally liable for their
support after her death.-—- W. E.
Brown, legal editor.

   
    

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burse her for the inconvenience she--

suffered, the company advises.

RETURNS $21.80 '

Last June. I sent an order to Philips-
born‘s and Co.. Chicago, for a dress cost-
ing $21.88. They sent me a card saying
they had received the money and would
send dress in a few days. I have not
heard from them since althou h I have
written them several times. s I have
waited so long I do not want the dress
now buj wish my money back—Mrs. J.
H. 0., u Gres, Mich. .

We felt sure that as soon as
Philipsborn’s knew the facts of the
transaction they would cheerfully re-
fund our subscriber’s .money. We
advised them of the particulars and
a few days later Mrs. O. acknowledg-
ed receipt of her money in a letter

to us.

POMONA NURSERY WILL NOT
REPLY

I ordered some nursery stock on May
24th from the Pomona Nursery. Dans-
ville, N Y. I received word of a prompt
shipment and then did not hear from
them again until in July and at that time
the stated they would hold. my order
anti fall. I ave them three
times since requesting t ey refund my
money but they will not replfi. The
amount is $3.85.—Mrs. H, .. Alger,

ic

A‘lthough we wrote this nursery
two different times we were no more
successful in getting a reply than
Mrs. H. It does not look as if this
company intended to “come across."

 

MONEY RETURNED FOR GOODS.

NOT SENT

On May 4th I sent to the Boston Store,
Chica , for a skirt and blouse. I re-
ceive the skirt but not the blouse. l
have written them several times and
they alway ask for an exact duplicate
of the orig nal order which I send but
this is all the satisfaction I Igot. The
blouse was “At—Mrs. A. ,. 403 E.
2nd St, Flint, Mich. x »

Upon receipt of our letter the Bos-
ton Store sent us a check for $4.48

which we forwarded to Mrs. L.

ANOTHER CHICAGO FIRM. AD-
JUSTS PB-DMPTLY .
t 25th I returned a dress

valued at 85.10 to Leonard Morton &
C0,, Chicago, b insured parcel post. I
have written at twice but have re.
ceived n or the

reply or adjustment f
goods re urned.—-C. M.. Alba. Mich.
This company wrote us immedi-
ately upon receipt of our letter en-
closing a copy of their letter to Mr.

-~M., in which they advised they were

enclosing a check for amount due.
Mr. M. says, “I receivad check from
Leonard Morton d: Co.— Thank you.
Will try and send you a few sub-

scribeu."

 

 

LIGHT POLES ON PROPERTY

We bought a 40 in the village limits
lyears ago, and there is about 15 rods
of lighting poles inside the line. The
company was allowed to put them there 3
years ago by the agent who had this
place for sale.‘ There was-a deed made
out and the owner says he did not re-
ceive a dollar. The village says he at
$100 and the company says 350. on
see they asked the owner by letter if they
could place the poles inside the fence.
but the deed ea. 5 on the section line and
on the section ine they are. We would
like very much to have them moved and
the village says (yes they will pay $86 if V
we will ay $10 _ But it is the agents
fault an why should we pay any? Why
shouldn’t he may for his mistake as he
admits it was? The owner did not know
they were there until he came up from

‘his home in Wisconsin. He was angry

but said nothing. The village says we
bought the farm with the poles on. Why _
not pay to move them? We think the
agent should do it. He is rich and he is
not as nice to farmers as he should be.
There ism. flaw in the deed, we think,
as it provides only for the care of wires
and poles, It says nothing about new
business. Could we get out an injunc-
tion against them when they start to put
on new business as they expect to soon?
How much will it cost and where do we
get one and how and when do we serve
it?—-Mrs. W. J. W,, Stevenson, Mich.

 

If there was a deed of the right
of way to set poles and signed by the
owner it would make no difference
what the consideration was if it
was paid as agreed. If the poles
were on the place when you bought
it their presence was notice to you
that there was some claim of right
on the part of the owner of the
poles and you would be bound to
take notice of whatever that right
was. While there might have been
negotiations for setting of the poles
inside the fence, yet, if it was after-
ward agreed that they should beset
on the section line, and so stated in the
deedfthe former negotiations would
be merged into the deed and the
deed would be binding. If the
statement that they were to be set
on the section line was a mistake
and it can be proved that it was a
mistake then the deed would sub-
ject to correction by application to
the Circuit Court in Chancery. If
the owner did not sign the deed it
would not be binding and they could
be compelled to be removed by prop-
er notice as the agent could not have v
authority to sign such a deed if he .
was merely an agent for the sale of
the property. The agent would in
no ways be liable for the poles un—
less he has contracted in some way.
——W. E. Brown, legal editor.

 

DAIRY HEADS NOT CONNECTED
WITH CREAliflilRY -

Will you please tell me, thru the
Farmer’s Servié Bureau of your paper,
whether Pres N. P, Hull or See. R. C.
ReedVof the Milk Ass'n own any stock or
have any money interests in t‘ e Detroit
Creamery Co., or any other creamery?—-

A Subscriber, Ortonvllle, Mich,

I know beyond question that Mr.»
Reed has no financial interest either
directly or indirectly in any Distribut-
ing Company in the City of Detroit,
nor in any other place, and I posi-
tively know that I have no such inter-
est. I shall be glad to nave you give
just as wide publicity to this state-
ment as you cam—N. P. Hull, Presir

‘ dent, Michigan Milk Producers’ Ass’n.

 

NO WRITTEN AGREEIVIENT

1 am writing in regards to T, H., of
Lake City. Mich, inquiring about “‘3
father-in-law in "The Farmers’ Service
Bureau," The old gent was brought there
to visit a week or two, then was going to
visit some of his other children, but in-
stead T. kept him there and went to his
brother-in-law where the old man was
staying before and got his trunk and the

‘old man had 8440 dollars when he came

there and T. coaxed him to givethe mon-
ey to him Then. he was to keep him the
rest of h s life bfit he lived longer than
he thought he would so he sent letters to
his three brother-in-laws to make an
agreement some way with him. One of
the boys came over and came also in his
other brothers' place who were sick 'with
the flu at that time and they made an
agreement that T. was to take care of
him the rest of his life but the boys Were
to pay the doctor bills and pay the tuner-
al expenses. His brother-in-law wanted
to have a written agreement but '1‘. would
not sign it. So it wasn’t a week before
he entailed a lawyer and wanted 88.0 a

'month from the three boys which they

wouldn’t pay or can't pay as they have
big families to support, '1‘. was going to
bring him to the poor house so the boys
altered him 815' a month but T. wouldn’t
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.. Veteran Editor Dead

AS. M. PIERCE, the militant editor of the
Iowa Homestead, is dead. , In his, lam the
farm journal field is deprived of one of its
most fearless and independent thinkers and
the farmers of Iowa one of their best friends.
J as. Pierce held a unique and conspicuous
place in farm journalism. He was one of
these rare editors who never permitthe busi-
ness interests of their publications to inter-
,fere with their editorial policies. He was us-
. ually at variance with the majority of farm
paper editors and the advertisers in his pub-
lication upon social and economic questions.

He was one of those few farm paper editors.

who believed in government OWnership of the
railroads, and one of the still fewer who had
the courage to commit their publications to
' such a policy even at the risk of losing adver-
tising patronage. He fought the «return of
the railroads under the Cummins Esch law
with all the power at his command. But the
roads were returned and he then trained his
guns upon the authors of the law, both of
whom desided in states in which Pierce owned
farm publications. He fought both of them
tooth and nail in the primaries.
cousin was defeated as a result of the cam-
paign against him by the Wisconsin Farmer
which Pierce owned. Sen. Cummns, \of Iowa,
was renominated in the primaries after a hot
scrap and with bun-few votes to spare. In the
election he ran over onejiundred thousand
votes behind Mr. Harding, so effective was the

barage which Pierce poured upon his candiw

(lacy.
Mr. Pierce was a lover of clean politics. In

his home state of Iowa he investigated and un-,

covered scores of cases 'of graft and corruption
in high political circles. He despised special
privilege no matter- in what form it existed
and attacked it with such force that he 'usually
destroyed it root and branch. By, “reason of'
Hui dominant position which he heldin Iowa
agricultural afiairs and the wide circulation
of his paper, Mr. Pierce made and unmade
congressmen, senators and governors: He was
non—partisan at heart and in politics. A party
label meant nothing to him, ifrit coverned a

man whom he distrusted and believed ,un-.

worthy of the position which he sought. In
one campaign he would be found‘supporting'a
Republican for auhigh position;'in the next «a
Democrat. His readers might disagree .with
him; his friends argue- with him. It: made
not a particle of difierence. Once having dc-
clared himself upon a principle he was as im-
movable as the Rock of Gibraltar. V

’ Mr. Pierce had a pers0nal following among

the readers of his paper which few editors can ‘

.. claim. His sterling. character; his love. for

truth and righteousness; his virulent defense I

i , of what he believed was right won for: him the

 admiration and undying'loyalty‘ of his readers. ‘

.  confidence in him and his opinions was
, H j? reflected in the elections. In the majority of

" :seeo i ed by his devotion to the-great body‘of» ‘ .‘
laboring .men. When other farm paper 

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ors denounced the right of labor to strike, Mr.
- Pierce upheld it.
should rbencloser economic and political co-op:
oration between farmers and laboring men,
and  almost alone in the farm paper field
in that respect.

As a result of his nun-progressive views,

many of which were called radical and extreme "
by those who did not agree with him, Mr.

Pierce lost thousands of dollars worth of ad-
vertising every year. But he let it go. The
cancellation of a five thousand dollar adver-
tising contract meant nothing to him and afa
footed his views not one whit. Despite the my
casional loss of a contract, the Iowa Home-
stead led all other weekly farm papers in the
amount of advertising carried in 1919, which
goes to show that a farm paper can be made a
financial success without sacrifice of principle,

do, , and that not all advertisers seek to control the

publications which they patronize.

Jas. Pierce has left a definite mark upon
agriculture. In the state of Iowa he contrib-
uted immeasurably to the economic, education-
al, social and political advancement of the
farmers. He has blazed a trail which other
farm paper editors may do well to follow with
beneficial results to all mankind.

Bonus Bill Bobs Up Again

HE SOLDIERS’ bonus bill which the

country thought was well dead and bur-
ied, has been resurrected. Political advices
indicate that Congressman Fordney, who has
championed this pernicious piece of proposed
legislation will bring it to the, fore immediate-
-ly upon the reconvening of congress. While
we applaud Mr. Fordney’s apparent interest
in the welfare of the ex-soldiers, we must ad-
mit that he shows a deplorable lack of sound
statesmanship to propose to reimburse them

at this particular time when the country is

groaning under already grievous tax burdens.
If Mr. Fordney will devise a tax to meet the
requirements of this bill which will confiscate
the war profits of the munition makers, the
steel magnates, the coal barons, the sugar man-
ufacturers and the thousands of other pluto-
crats who are revelling in the profits of war,
we shall be with him on the proposition. But
those who know Mr. Fordney best are well
aware-that he would never treat his friends
like that. Soldiers’ bonuses will be paid like
all other expenses of the war, by a tax upon
the consumer which includes the soldier him-
self, the soldier’s family and the soldiers’
friends. _

 

' More Bushels Per Acre

AFEW WEEKS ago a striking advertise-

ment was published in these columns
under the heading, “More land or better
land?” How many farmers have settled that
question? When 'we compare the yield per
acre of certain crops in Michigan with those
of other'states we are forced to admit that a
lot of farmers in this state are not giving the
subject of better land very much thought.

'In 1919 Michigan ranked third among all
other states in the yield per acre of winter
wheat. But that is an exception. In ordin-
ary years Michigan will rank from fifth to
tenth place in wheat yield, tenth to twelfth'in
corn yield, sixth; to tenth in rye, third to
sixth in cats. Considering that there are for-
ty-eight states competing for the honors, that ’s

not so bad. ‘At the same time it might be‘ bet- K
. ter. The record is even poorer when it comes

to beans, potatoes and sugar beets. Our aver-

, age yield of beans per acre is particularly

poor. The average yield covering a period of
 years (1914-1919) was slightly over nine
bushels to the acre. In  York during the
same A period it was over ten; in California

' Over fifteen; in Colorado nearly ten and a, half, » ‘
In an average number of years Michiganzs -

yield per acre. of potatoes is «lac thanthat of
New: ~York, Maine, Wisconsin, ’Minnesota.

: When the yield per acre in Michigan exceeds
one hundred bushels it is considered a fair

’He' believed that there

  

 
 
 

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Germany’s yield per acre'averages better than I 
two hundred bushels: France’s one  E
 and twenty-five; United Kingdom ’8 two hun— 
dred and ten; while that of the United'States .;

less than ninety, This is not a (30um

for the enlightmed farmers of this country   Y  A

be proud of.

We are not ' adVOcating maximum produe- .51.;
tion: on every acre that is being tilled. That ;
What we,“
are advocating is less extensive farming and

would be ruinous to agriculture.

more intensive, farming. Many , farmers, in
this state can cut their acreage materially and

by the judicious use of fertilizers and intelli-i - -

gent cmp rotation make the fewer acres yield
more crops with lea labor and expense. It’s
a subject worth looking into.

The Farm Bureau and the Farmer’s Strike
» ’I‘ IS said that methbers of the Farm Bur-

eau’s Marketing Committee of 17 which
met recently in Chicago expressed themselves
as opposed to the farmer’s_“s_t.rike.” Having

already oflicially declared against labor strikes
‘ the Farm Bureau cannot consistently approve . ~

of farmers’ strikes. At the same time the
Committee of 17 suggested no remedy for
meeting the present emergencies of the farm-
ers. The Committee of 17 made a mistake in
not recommending some united plan of action
On the part of the farmers to stem the down-

ward rush of farm commodity prices and re— v

stere them to their proper level. The grain
gamblers, have used extreme measures to force
the prices of grain to unreasonably low levels,
and the farmers must use equally extreme
measures to bring them back where they be-
long. The only way to do this is for the farm-
ers to withhold their products from the mar-
ket. There is nothing criminal, nothing un-
moral, nothing unethical about such a prac—
tice. It is simmy a matter of self-preserva-
tidn which is the first law of nature. But the
farmers need advice and guidance in carrying
out such a program. To be effective it should
cover the entire nation. To be thoroughly un-
derstood and appraized by the consumer the
reasons back of it should have the widest pub-
licity. To be entirely successful it should “ not

be permitted to overreach itself, and become a ‘

means of exacting unreasonable tribute from
the consumer. Such a program the Committee
of 17 could' have conscientiously adopted. In
not doing so it has lost a fine opportunity for
showing its ~real worth to thefarmer.

The Bald! of Gilead
IN ANSWER to the allegation made by
John Bower, Benton County, Ind., in a

letter to the editor of a western market paper, ’

claiming that on September 22, the writer lost
$600 per car on four loads of steers as a re-
sult of collusion among the, packer-buyers in
the Chicago stock yards, W. W. Woods, call-
ing himself director of the Bureau of Rublic
Relations of the Institute of the American
Meat Packers, gave the newspapers an elabor-
ate statement, a part of which follows:

“We regret that Mr. Bower, or any other produc-
er should have lost money on his live stock; we
know that many producers have suffered losses on
their cattle, but it lsunfalr to blame such losses

on the packers. Ofllcials of the institute have tried
to draw the producer's situation to the attention or

the public, for we realize that successful live stock

production is the basis of a successful packing in-
dustry. The year just closing has not been a par-
ticularly good one elthu- for the man who sells
cattle or the man who sells beet." ‘

.Would Mr. Woods, then, really have us be-
lieve that the American meat packers have
gone out of their way tc‘inform the dear pub-
lic concerning the, extremely low price at
which beefis selling “on the hoof!” A
splendid idea,- that, on your part, Mr. Wdods,

for the public  never have found it out, ‘ A

by  its most bills, ' x

The present members or the League or Nitionl _
scythe: certain  desired by the United ..
States will be acceptable to them. butmt a." . _ ,
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no; SYMPATHY non amms

think we farmers should feel sor-
ry for the city'people. -Do they feel
sorry for us? Last summer when we
had more work than we could. pos-
sibly do and big idle men were walk-
ing the city streets we could not hire
them» at any price. They would
.work in the city or not at all. ,And
their wives—what do they do to
help 'while we farm women are dig-
ging potatoes or husking corn. They
are sitting on the lawn or at a plot-
ure show. We farmers have our cel-
lars full because we work. Why do
city folks put everything on style?

Another thing I wished to say'is,
yes, there are many poor Catholic
people who would be glad to have

the burden of the parochial school.

and nunneries lifted from their
shoulders as it is get-ting so they
want all he earns, but when he asks
for help they want big pay. The
Catholic church may be all right,
but of latevyears it seems to be more
of‘a big money making business as
every Sunday there is a call for mon-
ey for one thing or another until the
poor Catholic layman hardly knows
what way to turn—One who knows,
Gd. Traverse County, Mich.

I am not defending the ways of the
people of the city. I know many of
them waste their substance in 'rlotous
living. They ought to have an object
lesson. At the sarne time I do not want
to see them and their little children suf-
fering for lack of food and coal. Neith-
er do you_ Christ said, "blessed are the
merciful.” I know right well that if

- there were mothers and children suffer-

ing in our cities for want of food, the
farmer would need no prompting from
us to show them mercies—Editor.

IBEET GROWER ANSWERS HQH. L.

N THE Nov. 6th issue of vour pa-

per was a letter from H. H. L., of
fCroswell on "Last Year’s Beet
Lesson,” that was very amusing and
surprising tq me. You ansWered him
rightly by saying his letter proved'his
sympathieswere not with the farm-
er. I think no one in this vicinity
did more or tried harder to get farm-
ers to desert the Beet Growers’ As-
s’n. by telling them they were sure
of $16 and maybe $18 or $20 per ton.
One would think from his letter that
beet growers are the only ones who
can pay their debts this year. If so,
there will be a lot of debts unpaid,

’ as the growers are few, aboutone-

» posite.

half. the usual number, and I feel

safe in asserting that more acres” of
beets were planted this year that will
not pay out than those that will show
a profit. He says last year’s exper-
ience will make it hard to get farm-
ers to join the Beet Growers’ Ass’n
another year. I believe just the op-
I have heard of none who
refused to grow beets that are
ashamed of their stand, and have
heard several that did grew say, "no
more for me." Some people cannot
realize that most people are willing
to sacrifice a few dollars for the
sake of a principle. It is all right
for the Medical Ass’n of which H.
,H. L. is a. member to organize and
set prices for their work, but for the
farmer it is wrong and foolish.
one grower who contracted for 50
acres was heard to say he “wished he
had never seen .a‘beet.” Another

' for 25 acres because of the $16 or

$18 dollar prediction says "no more”
and another for 25 acres but plant-
ed ’only 15 says, “Never again" and
another for 4 acres but“ harvested
none says “No more at the old price.”
These are all close by growers. '

I believe with the editor that the
time is near when the contract will
be mutual and will venture that
those non—association growers ‘- will
be xfeady to accept the better condi-
tions they are not willing to help
get. They will be like the pea grow-
ers here last spring. A number of
farmers contracted to grow peas at
no, but mostfarmcrsfirofused to con-
tract at that’s-toenail were called
idols; hora, etc...- .by some of the ‘80

  

   

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N YOUR editorial, fitment _Be .
‘ r Wdrse,”;of Nov. 13, you seem to

, settling with producers.

   

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, meeting with the canning people the

contract Was made 3 1-4c. -I haven't
heard of any 3c grower refusing the
extra 1-4c. ‘ To one of them it made
a gain of over $500». Do they thank
the Canning Co. or the fools? The
Crosweli Sugar plant may have a
good ‘campaign but mest of the beets
are coming from Ontario and I hear
the Canadians are also waking up.

I wish‘to ask H. H. L. or any one
else, “Why, when the state made it
possible to have a check test made

for sugar content did the Michigan”

Sugar Co. at once quit buying on
the test basis?”

Why is the wholesale price of
sugar always lowest while it
trols the price of beets?

Why, when one can buy sugar in
Chicago delivered at Crosweli sta-
tion at 10c do we have to pay 12c
here where they make a ton of it
every day? Why?—W. R. J., Gros-
well.

You can’t say enough about this sub-
set. The present method of contract-

: and paying for beets is indefensible.
No other class of business man but the
farmer would submit to it for one in-
stant. There is both a moral and busi-
ness principle involVed which should be
recognized and adhered to. The same
is true of the entire system of market-
ing farm products. For the love of Mike
wake up, farmers, and take your place
with other business men of the nation.
Answering your questions, the whole-
sale price of 4» sugar is lowest when
it controls the price of beets because
those are the great sugar marketing
months when both cane and beet sugar
are dumped upon the market. The mar-
ket may be manipulated at that time,
I do not know. I do know that it is a
big advantage to the manufacturers to
take those months as the average in
It is an advan-
tage which the producers ought to take
away from them also by insisting that
the settlement rice be based upon
twelve months 0 the year instead of four.
Your. second question I will have to
leave to some reader to answer. I can-
not—Editor.

LEGISLATIVE REPRESENTATION
FEAR that your editorial in the
issue of Nov. 6th with reference
to representation in. the state leg-

islature may convey a wrong im-

pression to your readers. I am tak-

ing the liberty of calling your atten-
tion to the practical workings of the
provisions for apportionment that
will prevent Wayne County, or any
other county in obtaining an undue
representationin the legislature as

long as this provision of the constis

tution is in force.

The provision concerning represen-
tation in the state legislature is Sec-
tion 3 of Article V, of the amended
Constitution. 1 have discussed this
section with the provisions of other
states with many and I have never
had any of them disprove this section
with the Michigan Constitution. The
clause that is of importance is as fol-
lows:

“Each county with such territory
as may be attached thereto shall be

86,633.

con-

   

entitled to a separate representative
when it has attained a population
equal to a moiety of the ratio of rep-

' resentation.”

‘The population of the state is 3,-
663,222 and the ratio of represen-
tation for 100 members would be
Each county that has a pop—
ulation of 18.317 would be entitled
to a representation. I do not have
the population by counties. I am
unable to give the exact. number that
would fall below that population. By
the census of 1910 taken on the pres—
ent ratio, or rather the ratio of the
present population of over 36,000
there would be 23 counties that
would fall below the 18,317 but it
may be possible that some of those
counties have increased their popu-
lation to above that amount and
will be entitled to a representative.
As a rough estimate there would be
at least 60 representatives apportion-
ed by counties that would be entitled
to at least one representative. That
leaves a balance to be divided among
the counties that are entitled to more
than one of 40 representatives. Bay
county might be entitled to be ap-
portioned 2 or 3 extra. Berrien
might get one extra. Probably Gen-
esee would get three extra. Hough-
ton 2 or 3 extra. Kent 5 or 6 extra.

Saginaw 2 or 3. Oakland 1 or 2 and

Wayne the balance.

If the full allowance I have sug-
gested is made it will amount to 21
of the 40 extra to be apportioned
leaving 19 to go to Wayne. Wayne
will scarcely be able to muster over
25 or 26 and this number will con-
stitute no element of danger either
in the way of affirmative legislfiion
or as a block to proposed legislation.
Twenty-five or thereabouts, which I
think will be more than they can
get, to 75 from the rest of the state
will not be at all annoying in the
work of the legislature or on the
policy.

As a practical working question a
small minority-may make themselves
so disagreeable that will stand but
little show with the balance or the

~members from up state, “corn fed”

statesmen. I think the danger lies
in an agitation to change that section
of the constitution.—W. E. B., Lapeer
County. . .

 

The editorial in question was based on
the presumption that growth of popula-
tion would give Wayne County 32 out of.
100 representatives, which with the rep-
resentatives from urban centers would
give the industrial cities a wuip hand in
all state affairs. It remains 'yet to be
seen what the proporion of rural rep-
resentation will be to urban, as the com-
plete figures of population have not yet
been announced. We see no danger in
changing the Constitution to prevent the
balance of legislative powor from going
to the industrial centers. Anymow, we

believe the legislature will recommend
such checks to industrial domination as
the situation warrants—Editor.

 

 

 

ME ELEOIION

Y THE greatest vote in our his-
B tory the people of the United

States declared on November 2
that a‘ change was wanted in national
and in most of the state administra-
tions. It Was the most sweeping Re-
publican victory that ever happened.
Had the war administration been Re-
publican and had the same things
happened that took place under the
administration of President Wilson
the victory would probably have been
the other way, for the public demand-
ed a change and the change will take
place, The electoral vote of the coun-
try will “overwhelmingly for Hard-
he. the ratio being more than three
to one. President Harding will be
supported by a Republican congress.
The Republican majority in the sen-
atewlllboahoutli whllointhehouso
the Republican 'Iflotity will be 153.
Naturally there will be 'a great over-

qvor and if the general change

.' 1pm  some “Hashan osmo-
. *- “m” warms sensor-911t- 1‘

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turn in federal oleialdom the, coun-"‘

 

will be a great thing for the public.
In the state elections there were '28
Republican governors and seven Dem-
ocratic governors elected. With the
exception of North Dakota every state
which elected a Democratic governor
was in the South. In this great po-
litical landslide the Republican party
not only has a great opportunity but
must shoulder great responsibility.
The American people have voted for a
change in national policy; they have
voted against the League of Nations
as demanded by President Wilson,
but the great majority favor a world
court or an association of nations to
discourage war. Probably the league
to which more than a score of nations
belong at this time would be accep-
table with certain modifications. All
of this will have to be thrashed out
and set right by the incoming admin-
istration. In choosing his cabinet
President-elect Harding will doubt-s
less use careful Judgement for on this
group of men will depend a large

share of the solutionof our problem.
—Ohio Farmer.

 

 

ON SELLING GUT-OVER LANDS

there .is a communication

from F. A."W., Alcona County,

relative to the London Land Com-
pany.

This is rather interesting to The
Northeastern Michigan Development
Bureau not only because the land
company in question is operating in
Northeastern Michigan but also be-
cause F. A. W. says he believes The
Northeastern Michigan DeveIOpment
Bureau means to be square. As Sec-
retary of the Development Bureau I
am glad to know that he believes
this way and Wish further to assure
him that it need be no matter of be-
lieving on his part but that he can
have the positive certainty that The
Northeastern Michigan Development
Bureau is absolutely on the square.

Perhaps occasionally we get a real
estate member of the organization or
rather a member of the organization
who is engaged in the real estate bus—
iness who may not do business as
everyone would believe to be abso-
lutely proper but on the directory is—
sued by the Bureau this statement is
made: “The firms herein listed as be-
lieved to be honorable in their deal-

, IN YOUR November 6th issue of M.
'. B. F.

lugs and worthy of your confidence.

Should this not prove to be so in your
experience the Bureau would appreci-
ate being so advised.” It is our de-
sire to eliminate from the organiza-
tion any member who does not deal
honorably and squarely with his
customers, and if F. A. W. will kind-
ly advise us as to the identity of this
“wise agent and member of the or-
ganization whom he encountered as
doing cunning crooked work,” the
Bureauwould esteem it a favor to
the organization and hold the com-
munication strictly confidential.
One of the land agents in ques-
tion, as spoken of in this article has
already been dropped from the 0r—
ganization. Not necessarily that we
are absolutely convinced that he is
not on the square but rather because
everything points that way.

However, I sincerely and thorough-
ly believe that many times a land
agent is charged with being crooked
when as a matter of fact such is nct
the case at all. For instance I know
of agents who sell land at a price
two or three times higher than sim-
ilar land nearby can be bought at.
At first blush this would appear to
one as being crooked work, 'but
look at the agent’s side of the case.
The agent maintains other agents,
does considerable advertising and is
at a large expense to make a sale.
When it comes to selling undevelop-

._ ed land which is nominally worth ten

to twenty dollars an acre, it is ob-
vious that an agent is not able to
carry the expense of selling an eighty
of such land on any five or ten per
cent basis. For instance 60 acres
at $15 per acre is $1,200, 6 per cent
of $1,200, which the average pur-
chaser would consider a fair percent-
age, is but $60. Certainly not a
large fee for the expense to which
some of the agents are put.

I know one land man who has
agents scattered through certain por-
tions of the United States. Upon
learning of a prospective purchaser,
he sends one agent. If this agent
is unsuccessful he sends a second one
and if the second one does not suc-
ceed a third is sent. This costs
money. Furthermore the man him-
self is continually traveling, meet-
ing with prospects or taking them
to the various holdings he has to
offer, showing land, etc. No doubt
there are some agents who are a lit-
tle exorbitant in their prices but I
maintain there is something to be
said in their behalf.

Now so far as selling poor land is
concerned, it seems that there is al-
ways a certain class of buyers who,
with every safeguard thrown around
them that is possible, will continue

to be beaten by purchasing the wrong '

kind of land. Then again there are

make an absolute failure on the land
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THOUGHTS or" POLITICS
November election

2 EF‘ORE the
 recedes too far into the back-

ground let us consider for a lit-

tle the part we women citizens played
in it. . '

Until the Fall election in ’Main‘e,

we were considered to be an unknown

quantity, represented by X in the
political equation. Two questions
were raised; first will the women

really turn out and vote and if they
do, how are they going to vote? '
‘ We voted as well as the men, numer-
iically at least, and in some localities
the ratio went as high as 60 to 40 per
“cent in our favor. Also we voted in
general, very intelligently, with one
or the other of the two big parties,
therefore our votes counted andwere

in, good numbers to be s‘ure, at the
"election, but not so well at the pri-
maries. Now you know that at the
primaries we have a choice of candi—
dates, we have a voice in saying what
«men shall run for office, but at the
election we have a choice of principle
only. V .

We had been struggling for over one

hundred years to be recognized as
citizens,- burden-bearing, tax-paying
citizens. The bone we had to pick
with England—taxation without rep-
resentation—was always to -me the
big uncontestable argument for sufl-
rage.
_ I do not know whether we will bet-
;ter politics, perhaps we will not, be-
ing very human like our men-folks,
but I do believe that politics will bet-
ter us, will be mighty good f0r us.
We will be much more Interested and
much better informed about the gov-
ernment of our county, state and
glorious country. A system of poll-
tics is absolutely necessary in a re-
public and a republic such as ours is
the very best form of government yet
evolved.

If We are interested in politics we
can take our minds and conversation
away sometimes from the small and
often monotonous details of house
keeping. I always enjoy hearing
men talk because they really talk
about something—they exchange ideas-
(He can generally learn by listening.

Have you ever jusr stopped and lis-
tme? m :1 lot of women'talking? You

We voted

*  evmment for

konw and'I know but we do not need

to tell that it is so often just about
nothing at all. Of course this does not
refer to you or me. .

We women living in the country
and in the rural districts need outside
interests, even if they bring a little
responsibility. We become tired from
too much monotony rather than from

\ too much activity.

Of course there are women who are
making themselves very prominent
and somewhat obnoxious. They make
a loud noise and are known for their
much speaking. These women want
to run for office, not because of any

outstanding ability, but just becaus '

they are women.

The women who do' not want to
carry their husbands' names, who are
willing to make a marriage but not a
home (and how on earth would you
label the children of such a union?)
do not quite approve of. We_ may
console ourselves by repeating that
very wise remak of Col. Roosevelt’s,
“Around every progressive movement
there hangs a lunatic fringe of the
mentally unbalanced.”

We are the normal and reasonable
body, they are the fringe only.

FIXING UP, Tm OLD HOUSE

HE. APPEAL of the new, farm'-
l er’s Wife of St. Charles, reminds

me of my own experience as a

bride. »

I found myself many miles from
home in a tiny run-down house 24x36
that I was to make a home of.

My husband was a. very busy man
having many acres of farm land and
fruit to care for as well as stock.

We found the house and barn both
painted red, the woodwork of the
._house also red with white plastered
walls. The first impression I had as
I stepped in was that the rooms were
about 2x4 and the glare from the red
and white was simply unbearable, so
I coaxed my husband to buy some blue
and gray paint, also some white enam-
el and we also purchased some tan
colored oatmeal paper with which we
covered living room, dining room and
bed room walls. I painted the wood-
work white enamel, it washes so easv
ily. I bought cream-colored silkoline
and a box of wax crayons and made
my window curtains with a pretty
stenciled. design on the sides and
across the top ruffle, the design being

all in blue. I could not afford a couch '

 

Child and Mother

0h, mother, my love, if you’ll give
me your hand

And go" where I ask you to wander.

I will lead you away to a beautiful
land.

The! dreamland that’s
yonder.

We’ll work in the sweet posy garden
up there,4

Where mOOMt- and starlight are
streaming,

And the flowers and the birds are

,, filling the air

With the fragrance and music of

g.

waiting out

There’ll be no little tired-out boy to
undress,

No questions or cares to perplex you;

There’ll be no little bruises or bumps
to caress. '

Nor patching of stockings to vex you.

For I’ll rock' you away on the silver
dew stream

A

And sing you asleep when you’re
weary,

And no one shall lmown of our beau-
tiful dream

But you and your own little dearie.

And when I am tired I’ll nestle my

head -

In the bosom that soothedme so
often,

And the Wide-awake stars shall ,sing
in my stead

A song which my dreaming shall
soften.- - "’

So, mother, my love, let
your dear hand
And awaythrough the starlight we'll

me take

wander, I
Away through the mist to the bean-
tiful land, ‘
The dreamland that’s waiting out
yonder.

--Eugene Field.

 

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or a linoleum so I bought Japanese
‘straw matting for my living room.
this was cream and blue. I bought a
couch frame at a sale and \made a
tick for it and a cover of blue and
cream colored material with a rume
around it. I had a rag carpet for the
living room and some rag rugs for my '
bed room which I had made ere I-
was' married. ‘

I had no bookcase but many books, '
so with some boards I made a three
shelf open case, painted it white and
hung it with 'silkoline. _

In the kitchen, which was very
small, I painted the casings gray and
the walls bluo. ‘We put down a well
and built sink over which I hung a
medicine cabinet,'a glass shelf be-
neath held soapsr etc. .With my
stove, kitchen cabinet and tiny re-
frigerator my kitchen was full.»

Upstairs were two good. rooms and
a hallway. I calsomined 'one roam a
delicate purple, and one a salmon col-
or. I stenciled the purple with black,
and the salmon with red and green
foliage and roses. We painted the
woodwork and floors a steel gray and
built a wardrobe in each room. Lat-
er we built a porch, screened it in and
used it for a sleeping porch.

When our family increased to ,six
and finances permitted the make-
shifts were replaced by good substan-
tial furniture.

We painted our house white, doing
it all ourselves. In the yard we had
a great time as it was all grown up to '
brush and lilacs that had to be grub.
bed out and sod carried to fill the bare
places. We planted flowers and vines
on. our veranda until one would hard¥
ly recognize the place.

It took lots and lots ofphard work
and patienCe but we were amply re-
warded by the restfulness that came
in the end. It mattersonot whether
the home is costly or not, order and .'

-» beauty can prevail even tho produced

from simple things. ,
“Home is not merely four square walls.
Home is where affection falls."

Home is Heaven an earth, to you,
mothers are entrusted the making of
manhood and womenhood of the true
Americans of tomorrow. The coming
generations will be the tribute to the
mothers of today—G. D.

 

 

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EAR CHILDREN: I expected to
D award the prize this Week for
the best letter about the fair'
you attended but juStas I was about

to begin this letter my mail was
brought to me and I found several
more letters tel-ling about fairs so
you will have to wait another week
or two. I have received several let-
ters about what some of you did on
Hallowe’en. One boy says he and
some other boys went out in the

evening but they did not do any of '

the mean tricks I told you about. I
hope none of you ‘did. Did you re-
member to give thanks on Thanks-
giving Day for the many things you
have to make you happy?—UNCLE
NED.

 

OUR BOYS AND GIRLS

Dear Uncle Ned—I am a girl 9 years
old. My father takes the M. B. F and
likes it real well. I am in the 4th grade
at school. I have one brother and no
sisters.-—Adaleva Brown, Barryton, R 1,

, Michigan.

. Dear Uncle Nedz—Here is another lit-
tle jollier Who would like to Join your
merry circle. We live on a 97 acre farm.
We have three horses and one pony. two

uinea’ hens‘and a lot of other animals.
We live one mile from school. My broth-
er' wrote a few weeks ago. I am a girl
twelve years old and in the sixth grade.
I will close witha riddle. It is this: I

A‘or pets I have a. cat and a dog. Mg
. old. Wenfeed it with

went across the field and fouud some-
thing. It wasn't flesh. it wasn’t bone
and in three Weeks it could walk alone,
Answer: An egg. Wishing the M. B. F.
and all good luck—Miss Alice Krieger,
Michigan. '

Dear Uncle Nedz—I am a boy 11 years
old. We live on a farm of 50 acres. We
have 2 horses and 2 colts, l cow and 2
calves. For pets I have 2 rabbits and
3 cats. l have 3' sisters. Their names
are Alice, Laura B.. and Lillian—Joseph
E. Defield, R_ F. D_ 1, Coloma, Mich.

Dear Uncle Nedz—I am a. girl twelve
years old. I am 78 inches in height and
I weigh 69 pounds. My eyes are brown-
ish green in color, and my hair is light.
My name is Mabel Greene, Plymouth,
Mlch., R 4_ .- 4 _

Dear Uncle Ned :--—I am a boy nine
years old and in the third grade sf
school. My papa takes the M. B. .F.
live on a 40 acre farm. We have 3 hors-
es and two_cows. For pets I have a dog
and some rabbits—Wilbur Showers.
Ithaca, Mich. .

 

 

Dear Uncle Nedz—I .am a girl eleven
ears old I am in the sixth grade.

to. to the. Frenchtown school, I have
three sisters and one brother. I live ‘on
a farm of 10 gorse. We have seven
cows, ten calves, seven horses, also about
thirty pigs and about one hundred chick-
ens. We have a big soline engine to
pump water for our ores: \and cattle.

brother has a. little rabbit about a wee
a 1 l i “iii”. “2“: if”
bage an aso gve t m o rn .--
Evangeline Tatro, Pinconninz, Mich" R.
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.whlle. ‘Presently he came‘ in.
M

said the farmer, "did you hays ; "trons.
‘ble with the sheep?” ‘No."veaid e boy,
{mugs} had some trouble catching.
. am .'

"I hygnit 

Dear Uncle Ned—I just finished read-
ing “The Children's Hour." I
read the boys’ and girls' My
father takes the M. B. F. and likes it
fine. I am a country girl of 15. I have
5 brothers and 3 sisters. We rent a farm
of 160 acres. I have one-and three-quar-
ers miles to go to school. My teacher's
name is Doris Aldrich. I like her line.
I would like to have the boys and girls
Write to me.—Carmel Shedell, Remus,
Michigan,

.Dear Uncle Nedz—I wish some of the
girls would write to me. I wrote to a
girl by
never heard from her. I'wyote to her a.
month ago. I «am 11 years old and in
the sixth grade, I have a brother in the
8th grade and a sister that teaches the
school. If Dorothy Van Steenis would
write to me I would Write back as she

*said. I would like to get a letter from
Theo. Tracey, «Helen Steile Rose Tar-
kowski, Anna Madzelan Deatrlce Van

Epps, or any one. I will

answer their
letters—Gladys Rickert,

Saranac, Mich.

Dear Uncle Nedz—I did not see my
letter in print last time I wrote you so
I thought I would write again. . Last
time I wrote I, sent two riddles and they

Wars in print, so this time I will send a.

story. ,
. Once upon a. time a farmer hired ' a
boy from the city to work fer him. One

night he told the boy to get the sheep

and put them in the sheep pen, and he
went to supper. The boy was roxieugvlon
> 19 i ,V I. .

  

      

   
 

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lambs” 7'1

 

‘ Marjorie Graham.

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said the boy. The farmer went out to
see. and there were were, 6 jackrabbits.—-
carolina Collins, 'Applegate, Mich.,

Dear Uncle Near—My father take the
M. F. and likes it very much. I gm 3
girl 10 years old and in ,the'sixth grade
at school. My teachlgr's name is Miss

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four kittens and one cat. p1 wislh s03:
gfaailigwoulgflwntfi tg me, and I will

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bush, Mien, R. R, 2 er no

Answers to Last Week's Puzzle
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GO-rilla. 2. COR-k.
RAN-sack. T-urkey. ‘3.
SO-uth. WAR-hing. Y-oko-'

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, ., “STOCK;EXI_’-OSITION .
N THE travail of a great industry
an .event of supreme importance
will deveIOp at Chicago the first
week of December. It is the twenty-
iirst anniversary of the International
Live Stock Exposition and will be
staged this year on em unprecedented
‘ scale, both as concerns numbers and
merit. North America at the con-
clusion of the European war was in
possession of bovine and ovine Seed
stock of. incalculable value and the
uppertendom of this national posses-
sion will be displayed at Chicago this
year. In view of impending meat

scarcity, the problem of replenishing '

the national larder is of more import-
ance than ever at this juncture.

’ Live stock in common with other
industries has passed through a per-
iod of deflation and
The new basis of production cost int-
erest is reviving and will accentuate
as the fact becomes ‘apparent that
within thenext five years there will
not be enough beef, pork or mutton
produced in the United States to
‘maintain pro-war consumption. .

Profit in live stock production here-
after will depend on quality. The
function of- the “International” is im-
u ovement of the herds and flocks of

e country—a task to which
agrarian interest must now address
itself vigorously. On this account the
1920 display possesses more than us-
ual interest, concerning not only‘pro-
ducers but consumers.

As a spectacle of, animal life this
year's "International" will exceed in
scope and magnificence all former
eiforts in the show ring on this conti-
nent or Europe. ~

More closely associated than ever
before are live stock and grain pro-
duction problems; hence this year's
corn show, made possible by a liberal
donation from the Chicago Board of
Trade, ‘will be staged on more exten-
‘sive, scalethan last year. Corn makes
live stock raising possible; without
live stock “King Cor-n" would be min-
us a stout prop.

 

~ TO PROTECT FAIR RATES

Fair men from all over the country
will meet at Chicago December 3rd, to
protest against a proposed increase
in railroad rateswhich would double
'the expense to exhibitors.

George W. Dickinson, of Detroit,
President of the International Assoc-
iation of Fairs and Expositions, has
received notice that the railroads pro-
pose to do away with the schedule
which allows exhibitors at fairs a one-

- bray rate for the round trip, of their
products from farm to fair and back

to the .farm. This rate has been al-~

'I-iowsa by the railroad, said Mr..Dick-

4' * lose-shamans onus? ww- .
__ - . , inson, to stimulate interest" in fairs

readjustment. _

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which have been recognized as valua-'
ble factors in building up the country.
Even during war-time, the one-way
schedule was allov’red to‘ remain in
force. -

Mr. Dickinson declared the propos-
ed change in rate would not only mean
financial loss to the fairs themselves,
but would impose a hardship on exhib-
itors of moderate means, and probably
mean that many high class animals
and farm products would not be
shown. ‘

HORTICUL’I‘UR-AL \SOCIETY
MEETS

The 50th annual meeting of the
Michigan State Horticultural Soci-
ety will be held in the Pantlind H0-
tel, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Novem-
ber thirtieth, December first and
second. The meeting will open at
ten thirty a. m., on Tuesday morn-
ing, which will be inthe form of an
open meeting, subject, "Experiences
of the Past Season.”

“Marketing Problems,” will be dis-
cussed‘by R. V. Goff, Sturgeon Bay,
Wis, and will be of special interest
to all. “Dusting versus Liquid Spray-
ing,” is another subject to which
plenty of time will be given. “Farm
Financing‘by Communities," is a new
idea and will be discussed by Hale
Tennant. Mr. Nicolson, chief of the
Seed Department of the Michigan
Farm Bureau will bring some news
to you that will lower the cost oi
your cover crops. Mr. Stillwell, In-
vestigator of Markets, U. S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture will give an ad-
dress. “The Present Status of the
Grape Thrip and Apple Leaf Hop-
per,” by F. L. Simonton, will give
you the latest authority regarding
these injurious insects which have
wrought havoc throughout the state
this past season. Mr. C. A. Bingham,
Secretary, and Mr. F. E. Coombs,
head of the traffic department of the
State Farm Bureau, will also ad
dress the meeting. “Orchard Fertil-
izers for Michigan Soils" by Prof.
Halligan of M. A. C., will give you
the results obtained the past year.

ON SELLING CUT-OVER LANDS
(Continued from page 7)

they buy, when as a matter of fact

they would make a failure on the

best land in the country.

I agree with F. A. W. that some
settlers are to blame for their own
condition. The Agricultural College,
Development Bureaus, County Agri-
cultural Agents, bankers, adjacent
farmers, supervisors and almost any-
one,’ would be willing to give advice:
some of which by the way would not
be worth much; and yet people con~
tinually buy poor land. However.
this same thing is true in every walk
of life for we read of people buying
the Statler' Hotel in Detroit from
strangers on the street. '

I am not personally familiar witl
the land which F. A. W. belieVes i‘
would be a crime to sell for farming
property but I venture to state tha:
unless it is much poorer than mos:
land in Alcona county it can be farm
.ed or rather'operated at a fair profi

’ if handled in the right manner. Thi:

of course is another story and sinc<
at thc
present time there are thousands oi
acres of undeveloped. land which
will make splendid farms and whicl
can. be bought at remarkably lov
prices there is no need for the av
erage man to attempt to'deve‘lop thg
light lander—T. F. Marston, Sec'y c
Mon,
opment Bureau.

We have never heard of any sugge-
tion that the Northeastern Developmen:
Bureau is not absolutely on the squzux
We recognize that in the development on
sale of any land there may be misundm»
standings and unwarranted criticisms 1.:
methods employed. The Developmon
Bureau of Michigan have done a grca
work in settlin up the cut-over landr
and increasing e fame and consequent-
ly the value thereof. We know they ar
scrupulous about, the character and nor.
esty. of, those who seek membership in
their ranks. Atythe same time that doc
not altogether prevent land sharks from
parading under their protection untii
ound, out. ,There is some poor land in
northeastern and northwestern Michigm
just 3.9- there is in southeastern and

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 AND lIIARKET REVIE‘N

No‘change in the business situag

tlon since the last issue of_t-his pa-
per, can be noted, except, that liq-
uidation has continued with the in-
evitable depreciation in the market,
able value of all staple commodities
and basic materials; the elements
of depreciation has progressed so far
that banks, trust companies and oth-
er financial institutions, that loan

money and deal in securities, are be~'

ginning to feel the strain that results
When commodities, which have been
accepted as collateral for loans,
shrink 50 to 75 per cent in value. The
information that a string of banks

_ in the Dakotas, the patrons of which

are almost exclusively, farmers, have
closed their doors, will come as a
great shock to every one who has an
interest in the general welfare and
prosperity of American agriculture.
That many farmers, especially in the
west, have demanded and received
more credit than they deserved, from
the banks they were doing business
with, nannot'be denied. If these men
had limited their activities to the
business of farming,
there is good reason to believe that
the result would have been diner-
ent. Quite often it transpires that
having on demand an unlimited
credit is not an unmixed blessing;
my western farmers abused the
confidence placed in them .by their
bankers, by engaging in all kinds of
wildcat speculation, with the sad re-
sults recorded above. There is one
thing that the Michigan Business
Farmer would like to have thorough-
ly understood by all of its readers,
namely, the attitude of this paper on
the question of rural credits. We
believe that in the matter of bor-
rowing money, the farmer should

.. receive exactly the same treatment

as other borrowers; if investigation
shows that he is a good risk he
should .be given the accommodation.
If the reverse is true the banker, who
refuses him credit, is not only play-
ing safe himself, but he is placing a
much needed check upon the vent-
uresome spirit of his client.
Business, along all lines, is.mark-
ing time, deferring as far as possible
the laying in of the usual supply of
goods for next season’s business, is
the belief that prices have not yet
reached bottpm. Pig iron, steel and

‘ lanber are at a standstill and pro-

ducers are in a quandary as to what
course to take; they urge that they
cannot continue to pile up products,
indefinitely, without making some

" sales. On the other hand they call.

attention to the fact that to supply
a normal summer demand for the
products they turn out, their plants
should be run to the limit during the
entire Winter season. Producers also
menton the fact, that postponing the
making of purchases until toward
airing, will- complicate the shipping
situation and produce a congestion
that will make it impossible for con-
sumers to get the goods when they
are needed.

A new disease and one that threat-
els to be destructive to current and
future prospects for export trade
with European countries for the want
0! a more appropriate name is called
“cancelitis.” Buyers, who have made
contracts for American made
at prices somewhat above present
levels are cancelling orders by the
thousands. It is also hinted that
Anterior-us are playing at the same
some n connection with import
business; the future outlook for our
foreign trade is not encouraging at
this Writing.

_The fluctuation of market values
on the New York Stock Exchange
‘ g V the past week have been
very irregular - but with the single
exception of railroad securities, the

/ drift of the market has been

 lower price levels; in con-
fiection with industrials and foreign
 enterprises. conditions nearly
 ‘ demoralizatlou have

 ..  .  money market was, >
 . cal rates dropping from 10.

cent

  

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POTATOES

 

 

 

 

show decline.

weak. Corn market firmer. ‘ Cattle average higher, While hogs

 

 

list page Is s'ct In type.
wing to pross_——Edltor.

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(Note: The abovo.summarlzed lnformatlon was received AFTER the balance of the man-
It contains last mlnuto Information up to wlthln one-half hour of

 

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quietly at the latter figure; the in-
ference was plain that the absence of
demand for call money was the re-
sult of a clearing out of. speculative
accounts and a lack of the confidence
in the future of the market which
leads todnvestment buying of secur-
ities. There is at the present mo-
ment very little of encouragement in
the industrial outlook.

WHEAT

 

‘ WHEAT PRICES PER BIL, NOV. 28. 1020

 

 

Grade Instrolt I Chicago I. Y.
No. 2 Red . . . . 1.92 1.01 1.00
No. 2 White . . . 1.90
No. 2 Mixed . . . 1.90 1...

 

 

 

Pmcrs our YEAR soo
lNo.2 Rod] No.2 WhltsI No.2 mm
Detroit | 2.24 I 2.22 I 2.22
After making a good start on
Monday of last week, wheat, in keep-
ing with all other staple commodi-
ties, has had a bad time 'of it, prices
slipping to a new low record nearly
every day and the. whole situation
showing hardly a sign of reaction-
ary strength. All authorities agree
that wheat is statistically strong and
should be selling higher but the se-
verity of the current business de.
pression combined with the natural
dullness and inertia of the market
seem to overcome all other» condi-
tions and prices 'continued to sag.
The visible supply is small and the
same can be said of the primary
movement. Export demand is tak-
ing all of the grain that is available
but in spite of this important fact,
the market continues its downward
course. It is very generally believed,
however, that prices have gone just
about low enough for the present
and, while no one is heard advising
the purchase of wheat for the long
pull, very few can be found who care
to advise selling the market short.
Wheat was stronger on Monday
gaining 2 cents per bushel in Chl-
cago but brokers remember that it
did the some thing last Monday and
after that something happened.

 

CORN
Corn has been very weak and top-
heavy, of late, showing little dispo-
sition to recover after big declines
in price and dealers are beginning to
ask if the yellow stuff is really worth

 

OORN PRIOEB PER 30.. NOV. 28. 1020

 

 

N and. 'Dstrolt. Icnlosgo 'I. Y. ,
o. 2 Yellow . .. . 8 -

No. 8 Yellow . . . .31 .08 P.”
No. 4 Yellow . . . .83' ‘

 

 

 

 

PRICES ONE YEAR AGO
"10.2 VOILI  VOILI No.‘ Yell.
Detrolt . .I 2.58 I 2.58 I 2.80

 

anything at all. Both corn and live
hogs are playing tag, chasing each
other down the price scale. The
old fashioned practice of blaming
the decline in hogs upon the weak-
ness of the corn market and vice ver-

so is coming again into vdgne. It "

would be hard to find a reliable mar-

ket authority that would advise put-

ting out an extended line of short
corn at this time; on the other hand,
it is very hard to find a man with
:our-age enough to bull the corn
market on present conditions. Since
the high point, last year, cash corn
has declined more than $1 per bush-
cl. The weakest element in the

presentjituhtion is the large supply'

of old corn which is hanging over
the market. Corn sold 1 1-2 cents
higher in Chicago on Monday. Cash
corn shows a decline of 5 cents per
bushel for the week.

 

 

 

 

 

 

’ t  I SPUDB PER CWT" NOV. 28. 1920
GENERAL MARKET SUMMARY - ‘“°*°“ 
. m:- "'.".'.'.:::::::. 32%: '
DETROIT—Wheat shows | strength. 'Corn and oats weak. 2i:..¥.°"‘..:::::::::::: Iii:
Beans easy. Rye lower. Grain movement small. . ‘ PRIcEs on: vs“ no ‘
CHICAGO—Wheat not in demand and price declines. Oats Detroit - - - - - - - - - - - - - --18-°° 52-“

 

Very little change in the pots—tn
market is noted, the soft weather
having overcome the slight strength

'Which the market showed during the

prevalence of freezing weather; sup-
plies are ample to the needs of the
case in all markets. The general

opinion seems to be that the advent:
of permanently cold weather
demand.

will
harden prices and make
much more active.

BEANS

 

[BEANS Pea own, nov. 23. 1920 “
Instr-cl: IOhlosooI II. V.

 

 

Grads -
c. H. P. . . . . u, 4.40 , I
Rod Kidney: . . . . 8.00

 

PRICES ONE YEAR ‘AGO
Ic. H. P.I Prlmo IRod Kidney!

Detroit ....| 8.65 I 3.30 I . 11m .

 

 

 

There is very little current demand
for beans but the general opinion
seems to be that cold weather is need-
ed to energize the bean market.

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HAY

 

I No. 1 'l’lm.I sun. TIm.I No. 2 Tim.
Detroit . . I29.00 Q aolzs.oo Q 29I21.00 O 20
. . 33.00 0 88I81 .00 0 cannot: .01
New York 38.00 @ ‘OI 135.00 0 a
Plush!” . 81 .50 O 31|20.00 G 80 21.00 ‘2.
No. 1
Clover

 

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Detroit . . 28.00 0 29 20.00 9 2128.09 . 2'1
0 . . .00 Q 81

In York .00 39 84.00 Q 81

Plucbum . 28.00 29B0.00 Q 81 ‘

"AV PRIOIR A YEAR AGO
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OATS Detroit . 25.so@23|21.soazslzo.soon
No. 1 No.1 II .1
0‘7 “no” PER 5”" “ov- 23' 1930 Light Mlx.I0lovsr MILlI Glover
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Pmors our vrsn use
"‘02 White! socwmul No.4 wmu
Detroit I .11 I .10 I 415

 

 

 

 

 

The deferred options in the oat
records, frequently, of late but the
market have been making new low
decline in the selling price of cash
oats, since we went to press last
week, has only equalled 3 cents per
bushel. Country offerings are still
very light and dealers in‘lower Mich-
igan are finding it. very hard to buy
oats with which to supply the needs
of their current trade.

 

RYE
The rye market still contines to
swing idly with other grains show-
ing no independent action of its own.

No. 8 rye is selling for $1.58. This‘

price is 2 cents lower than was quot-
ed on the same day last week.

 

 

4

I THE WEATHER Eon THE WEEK
, As Forecasted by W. '1‘. Foster for The Michigan Business Farmer
' ‘ by those severe stmns. The new 105

Weather Chadian-rd- I.”

levers oven

3 I

- WASHINGTON, D. 0.. November
27,.1920.—-Cold weather, generally is
expected durln the first half of l):-
cember. Not or from November 0
the final high temperaure wave of
November will overepread the North.-
ern Pacific slope, Northern Rockies
and Middle Northwest and then ex-
tend eastward and southeastward
till it envelopes the whole country.
About that time Saturn, Mars and
Uranus will combine their batters on
our planet and another set of bad
storms, similar to those of first art
of November. will lnauguarte the rst
week of Dooemboru I offer you ,the
same advice I did for thefirst part, of
November. Put your outdoor affairs
in condition for bad weather gener-
ally. Precipitation will be increased

 

 

 

 

 

-tho past month. The high

vwould have been regarded as miracu-

 
 

days' weather period promises more
precipitation for he period. of those
storms » the average of the last-g
165 days' weather period. The loca-
tion of these storms will not be ex-
actly the some as for the first ten
days of November, but you will do well
to spare for somewhat similar
weat or for the coming week. ‘

Better weather forecasts were nev-
er made than these bulletins gave for
and low
temperatures. the rise and fall of-
temperatures, severe storms, cold
waves, rains and snows were more
completely told a. month in advance
than any one can repeat from memory
for the past . month. There was s
time when such correct forecasts

    
 
  
   
  
 
  
   
  
 
 
 
   

  
 
  
  
   

lous. but it is now not much more dif-
ficult than to- know when to expect
your railroad train. ’
Now. listen. Very much similar
reat storms, frosts, rains, free
llzzards, snows. cold, cold waves wil
occur during the week centering on -
December 9. - '

       

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ing their consignments this way of
late and offerings are light in the
local market. The demand is active
and, if it were not. for the dullness
in all other commodities, hay would
soon be selling higher-in the Detroit
market. ~

. WOOL ,
’ Wool is quoted lower,'the decline
being the result of a combination of

conditions and circumstances which

tend to weaken the whole situation.
At the London sales, now going on,
prices for merino wool show a de-
cline of from 10 to 15 per cent
while many other grades show a de-
cline of 30 per cent in price. Cross-
breds fell- 25 per cent and Cape of
Good Hope and Natal wools 16 to
80 per cent. Sixty eight thousand
bales were held over unsold. The
goods market is quoted weak and
manufacturers are apparently indif-
ferent to the Outcome of the market.

, SUGAR

New low levels have been reached
in the sugar market, refined having-
dropped to 9 cents in New York.
The American Sugar Refining 00.,
has closed its refineries owing to
lack of demand. On the 1 cent sugar
basis beet growers will receive only
$10 per ten for their crop.

LIVE STOCK MARKETS

A .determined effort, on the part of'

the owners of cattle, to get out of the
way of. the “squaw winter” recently

prevailing has resultedin a glut of,

all kinds of cattle in all markets. Chi-
cago has been struggling with a tro-
mendous oversupply tor the past ten
days, and the result is a decline in
values of from 81 to $2 per cwt. from
the closing prices of week before last.
The average quality of the cattle that
are finding- thoir way into market.

these days. Is very low and commit. ' L‘: V‘
slou salmon are having the mm :1:

their lives iu the effort to make.
daily elm. .Witltwsitow, v

   

 
     
       
    
        
      
     
   
      
      
   
   
    
 
   
     
     
        
 
   
    
         
         
           
   
            
         
          
     
         
    
     
     
      
        
   
     
    
    
   
    
    
   
     
    
      
        
   
    
      
        
     
      
      
       
      
   
       
     
      
     
    
 
    
     
      
    
    
     
   
    
     
   
  
 
 
 
   
 
 

   

  
 
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
 


 
  
   
  

  

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To our customers——

The fur season is ‘close at hand
and we Want to say to
friends and shippers that the trade
is‘now: going “through it trying time.
But the fur business will still re-
main the fur business and the thin-
ning cut of the fakirs and speculat-
ors will be agood thing for the
trade. The good houses still remain
and its up to you to deal with one
of these reliable firms.

Our list will be out later on, mean-
while we advise caution. Write us.

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to your inspection. unless otherwise requested.
Ion pay the balance when you have received the
raincoat. . ’

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The tremendous run contained a
goodly mixture of feeding cattle and
these sol-d frombo cents to $1 lower
than on the close of the week before.
There are thousands of experienced

cattle feeders that will 'not put in a.

“hoof” this year, simply, because
they cannot ~raise the money with
which to finance the deal. If advices
from the Chicago market can be he-
lied on. desirable feeding cattle are
selling. lower there, just now, than
on any preceding date in four years.
Feeding cattle are coming greatly
mixed, giving buyers the opportunity
to make selections that are suited to
their individual needs. The men who
finish cattle this year will have many
things in their favor.

Arrivals in Chicago during the last
half of the week, were lacking in
quality cattle and prices for some of
the better grades of (filing cattle ad-
vanced from 25 to 50 cents from the
extreme low point of the Week's bus-
iness. The beginning of the hide
movement, after nearly a‘ year of de-
pression and declining prices, was the
subject of much discussion in stock
yard circle over the week end. On
Wednesday, at the Chicago stock
yards, was made the largest single
transaction in hides ever made in the
history of this country, when 750,000
hides weresold by Chicago packing
firms to one large tannery. The pack-
ers also sold 125,000 hides, last week,
from their South Ameriican plants
and marked of 200,000 more to their
own tanneries. This movement in
hides is taken as an encouraging omen
by the trade and other important an-
nouncements, are looked for shortly.

Sheep and Lamb Trade

The leading feature of western
sheep and lamb markets is the de-
mand for feeding lambs; this kind
are beating out the finished natives in
price, a carioad selling in Chicago, on
last Wednesday, for $13 per cwt. The
sheep trade is dull and lower. Fat
native lambs got a bad start last
week and were weak until the close.
As in all other branches of the live
stock market, the trade in sheep and
lambs is suffering from the protracted
depression in the business world.

Live Hogs and Provisions

If one-half of the reports are true
concerning the current cholera out-
break, the prospect is that America
will be short of young hogs this'year
for replacement purposes. The pre-
dictions of lower prices made in this
paper last week and the week before,
are coming to hand right speedily and
still further recessions are looked for
before the fall tax-paying" season is
passed and the big surplus of fat hogs
is marketed. For more than 20 years
in 'this country, the big provisioners
have manipulated the American hog
market to suit themselves; there is,
however, good reason to expect that
these men will this year make a deter-
mined efi'ort to prove to the outside
public that they are complete masters
of the live hog and commodity situa-
ion.

«The activities of the farmers’ or-
ganizations of the .country, in connec-
tion with market problems, has
brought about a fight between the
farmers of the country and the men
who make a business of merchandis-
ing the farmers’ products and, so far,
the latter seem to be having their own
way in fixing prices. ~ Recent arrivals
of live hogs have been liberal in all
markets and shipping demand has
been. conspicuous by its absence. The
trade has a weak undertone and low—
er prioes are looked for during the
next 80 days.

Never before. in the 40 years' his-
tory of the Detroit stock yards, have
cattle- been so hard to sell as during
the past week. One of the main caus-
es for the extremely low prices pre-
vailing is the common quality of ar-
rivals. many of the animals being en-
tirely 'un-iit for. food. Sheep and

lambs have been weak and lower and

the same has been true of veal calves.
The local hog trade goes by flts‘and
starts, Detroit. packers frequently
staying out of the market when a big
run is on sale and coming in the fol-
lowing day and making“ a bargain
counter cleanup. Saturday's estimate
for last Honda'y’s Chinese hog run
was 83,000 but 53,000 hogs came to
hand on that day.  hog runs
and. lower prices latest prediction for

. coming week. A .'

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AVERAGE MICHIGAN PRICES
Special crop correspondents report the
prices paid the farmer during the week
ending Nov. 20 as follows: WHEAT:
Average $1.86 1-2; highest, Williams-
. Kalamazoo and
$1.70. . Average, 91o;
highest, Atlanta. $1.00: lowest Corunna,
85c. OATS: Average. 58c; highest,
Williamsburg, 800; lowest, Trufant, 40c.
RYE: Average, $1.~ii' highest, Baroda,
$1.60; lowast, Bear La. 6, $1.15. BEANS:
per cwt., $4.02; highest, Cor-
unna, $4.60' lowest, Lakeview and Wil-
liamsburg, £3.75. POTATOES: Average,
er cwt. $1.33; highest, Trufant, $1.70:
owest, orrunna, $1.00.
best grade,‘ $22.50; highest, Atlanta,
Kalamazoo, Baroda and Battle Creek,
$25.00; lowest. Corunna. 814.00. KENS:
Average, 19 1-2; highest. Colo% 220;
lowest, Corunna, 16c. SPRIN ERS:
Average, 20 1-2; highes Battle Creek,
250; lowest, Bear Lake, 60. BUTTER:
Average, 57c; highes Corunna, 66o;
lowest Trufant and llliamsburg, 500.
EGGS: Average. 62 L20; highest. Cor-un-
na, 70c: lowest, Bear Lake, 570_ BEEF
STEERS: Average, 6 3-40; highest, Bat-
tle Creek, 80: lowest, Atlanta and Cor-
unna, 6c.B F COWS: Average 4 Idol
highest, Bat ,e Creek, 6c' lowest, Atlanta
and Bear Lake, 40. lions Aver
live weight, 12c; highest. Corunna an
Atlanta, 140; lowest, Battle Creek. 100.
HOGS- Aver-a e, dressed, 17c; highest,
owest, Colon, 18o.

  

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MONTCALM, N. W. -— Farmers are
husking corn. Weather is rather chang-
eable. Soil is rather wet. Farmers are
Lots of sal
around the country, some things are as -
ing good and some poor.—-G. B. W. Lake-
view, Nov. 19.

GRAND TRAVERSE —— Farmers are
getting up wood and haulinf in co .

ome potatoes are being so d throng
the Farmers Co-operative Society. Not
much news just now. Auction sales 00-
cur quite often. Some snow on the
ground but raining this morning—C. I...
B.. Williamsburg, Nov. 19.

KALAMAZOO-Jl‘he farmers are husk-
ing corn, and trying to get ready for
winter but the weather is not favorable.
The weather is quite cold as there has
been snow on the ground for about a
week now and it has been snowing quite
a lot lately. Many of the farmers are
selling some of their grain—H. H. F.,
Climax, Nov. 14.

INGRAM—Weather warm and foggy.
Some rain, no frost in ground. Farmers
are plowing and gathering cider apples.
A good deal of corn t yet. Qu to a
number of farms tfililhanglng hands
prices from 8150 $326 per acre 1
good farms. Farm stock and crops
prices are the cause of selling farms.
Stock looking well.—C. L. 11., Williams-
ton, Nov. 20.

MONTCALM—Farmers are still husk-
ing corn and some potatoes being hand]
this week. Weather is warm and r

‘ leasant. Sell in good shape for glowing.

ots of potatoes being held an ware-
houses are full on account of car short-
age. Most of farmers around here
short of hay and are feeding Whig
straw but it does not seem to be a go
good for horses—M. C. P., Trufant, Nov.

CALHOUN—Farmers in this section
are husking com as most of them hnv
some out. The weather has come 0
fine after the young winter. The soil is
in line shape. There is not much sellin
as farmersfeel that the prices are to;
low. It is hard work to sell any kin
of stock and get any price at al . Po-
tatoes are a. little bett since the cold
weather. set in.—C. ~E. ., Battle Creek.
Nov. 20.

MONTMORENCY, Central—The farm-
er. are Just getting started their ae-
sociation. The weather is 00 d ' started

to freeze the night of the 12th. Lots
0 potatoes in pits. The growers are
about divided on potatoes}; part holding,
part shipping. Considera ie hay. is be-
ng bought at present. Several farm
are putting on lightnin rods this wee
If the cold weather cont nues it will mean
that feeding has started in earnest.—
P. 11,, Atlanta, Nov. 16. '

BERRIEN, West—Weather model-at»
ing at present; have had close to zero
weather the past week. The freeze
caught some potatoes still in the ground.
A11 corn shredding outfits are busy now
whenever weather will permit. Some
mint growers didn’t get their mint plow-
ed over and are awaiting the first op-
portunity to do so. uite a few chickens,
eta, being shipped the city markets
for the' Thanksgiving trade. All other
farm products seemingly at a stand-still.
—O , Baroda, Nov. 8..

MANISTEFr—Farmers have been snow-
ed iu this last week but the weather is
better today: turned warmer with sun-
shine. The snow is goin fast. Will get
one more chance to tints huskin corn,

and there is lots of it out yet. era 1.
not much being sold‘in these parts and
prices goin down every day. Auction

sales are a the go again even if stuff
doesn't sell 'for‘ much. There not
much prospect of things being any better
for, a while in these parts—C. H. 3.,
Bear Lake. Nov. 18.
SHIAWASSEE—The first snow in this
section centre the 14th of this month.
fallin on unfrozen ground and was soon
melted. The weather was quite cold, but
is more moderate at resent. Not much
can is husked yet, armors being busy
with their beans and clove thresh-
ln . Beans are as a rule of goo quail
an quited'ree from anthracnose, yiel -
ing from thirteen to eighteen bushels per
acre, On account of low prices. hun-
dreds of bushels of apples are left on
the trees. Many growers are . holding
their potatoes for igber prices. _
are a. few cases of hog cholera reported
in thi township, (Shiawassee) but not,
of alarming extent, as rompt action has
taken to prevent spread of the
d sea—D. H. M... Durand, Nov. 15.

 

   

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CITY OWNER TO SELL 40-AORE MICHI-
nn farm for 81,250 with horse. tow and calf.
wagon. harness, potatoes, oats. hey; just oif Dixie
Hithwey, on improved road, 1-2 miles RR
.tO‘mi 103m! ge, large pasture, woodlot; finely
situated house. southern exposure. barn. etc: only
$600 cash. balance easy terms. Details this and
farm fully equipped for $3,000, page 80 Strouts
Big Illustrated Catalog Farm Bargains Michigan,
Illinois, Indiana. Wisconsin and 29 other states
Copy f-ree. STROUT FARM AGENCY. 814 BE,
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. FOR SALE—440 sense OLD OUT-OVER
.hardwood, heavy clay lnnd_ Densely grassed to
clover and timothy. Easily cleared. 6 miles
--from Onaway. llva neighbors, $16.50 per acre;
10 per cent cash, balance, long time 6 per cent
or. can be paid from returns of cover seed. har—
vested annually from 10 acres, 8-4 mile from two
schools. JOHN G. KRAUTH, Millersburg, Mich.,
Presque Isle County.

 

FOR BALE—48 AORES OF GOOD LAND
10 miles from Grand Rapids. Mich; room
house, plenty barn room. fine water. This place
is on a main traveled road and a very nice loca-
tion. With this farm I will give a young pair
of horses. and two good cows. enough stalks to
run them through end 200 bus, of corn, and
all tools that goes with any farm. My price is
only for all, 82,700. endeI would like half down.
Now if you are looking for a nice cheep 'nhoe

Owner. MRS. CHAS.
ROOD, Belmont, Mich. -

 

FOR SALE OR EXOHANGE—1.800 ACRES
$10 per acre; elegant elevator, lumber, hay, coal
——no opposition; feed barn: 50 farms; sales and
exchanges made everywhere. REED REALTY
00., Carsonville, Mich.

 

SHAWNEE. OKLAHOMA. CENTER OF A
sreet fanning country. Wri for free agricul-
tural booklet. BOARD OF COMMERCE. Shaw-
nee, Oklahoma.

 

FOR SALE—120 ACRES, RUILDINOS. VENO-
80 under plow. Mile from school. to
market. James Fontaine Estate, Lekeview, Mich.

 

WANTED—1'0 RENT A GOOD 160 AORE
farm. Have good horses. tools and help to work
same. Can furnish good references.
better still. come and see me. EN
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I will please you. Being-is for 100.
O. H. SCHMIDT, B 6. Bay City, h.

IUV IFINOI POW. DIRIOT FRO. FOR-
set. All kinds. Delivered prices. Addre- "M.
M.” learn Michigan Business Fer-ling. It. Olen-
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WANT THE CHEAPEST. "INDIE" III-T
poverl Then ask me about the LITTLE TWIST-
ER Power Transmitter for Ferd and Dodge oer-s
FRANK R. WEISBERGER. Saline. nasal.

 

FOR SALE—A HAY IALINO OUTFIT ALL
in good running order. Internsflcnal tractor and
also a Wolverine beler. all complete. Can be
bought on easy terms for half price. T808.
CONBOY, Washington Ave.. Flint. Mich,

 

INOUIATORS °fill!) dIRtOODIRGtE-lOlthR
to'insure d very. on' pay re p ces,
fibula: us and save money. any reliable mags.
largest" jobber: in central west. NOB
POULTRY PLANT, Ohatsworth, Ill.

 

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Write or.
E. BRAD-

 

(Oontlnucd. from page 5) .
take it so the sheriff took him away to
one of his dauxhter‘s, The old man was
not an invalid, is 83 cars old and was
good and spry when e wont there and
good and em? yet, only a. little childish
once in a while. What I wanted to know
is, can '1‘. keep the money for board. He
had no written agreement and T, says
that the old man gave the money to his
Wife Who passed away about a ear ago.
The old man had his trunk ful of good
clothes when he went there and T. has
some of his clothes yet but won’t give
them up. They are clothes he had when
he came there.-'—A Subscriber, Missaukee
County. Mich. ‘ -

 

Agreements not in writing are dif-
ficult of proof. If T. agreed to care
for the aged man for the balance of
his life upon the payment “to him or
his wife of the $440 he could be com-
polled to do so or to pay his expense
elsewhere—W. E. Brown, legal editor.

 

CANCELLATION OF ORDER '

On the let day of‘May, 1920, I con-
tracted with an agent representing a
lighting lant corporation of New York.
for a lig ting plant to be delivered and
installed in my residence as soon as pos-
sible, with th agent representing to me
as follows: aid agent was to be here
on the 81st day of May, 1920. for me to
go with him to solicit orders and I was
to receive the sum of ten dollars for each
lighting plant that was sold during my
time with him. The agent did not come
as he had agreed and I heard nothing
from I sent the company a writ-
ten notification of' cancellation of my
order of the lighting plant as the agent
did not live up to his agreement, The
lightin company answered and said that
I can] not cancel my order. The light-
ing plant was shipped from their ware
house on about the 26th day of July. It
is here at the station now. I refuse to
accept it on the. grounds of the misrep-

resentation of agent of the lighting com-
o

pany. Can the company force me take
:36 fighhting plant?—L. W., Sanilac Coun-
, c .

It would be necessary to examine
the contract signed by you for the.
plant to show whether you had the
right of cancellation. His misrepre-
sentations with reference to your
agency would n V e a misrepresen-
tation in regard to e lighting plant
you had contracted for. . It would be
better if you did not sign contracts
for strangers—W. E. Brown, legal
editor. '

 

FEDERAL BOND & MORTGAGE
COMPANY

Will you please give me information
through the M. B. F. as to the security
of’ the "Federal Bond and Mortgage
00" Detroit, Mich—A Subscriber. Fow-

. lerville. Mich.

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The Federal Bond it Mortgage Com-
pany of Detroit has been registered
with this Commission since Novem-
ber 1917, as dealers in securities. We
have never had any complaints con-
cerning this Company and believe they
do a legitimate business. However,
this Commission does not recommend
the purchase of any security and its
approval should not be construed by
investors as an endorsement of value.
—Mlchigan Securities Commission,
Alice E. Alexander, Secretary.

(Please advise what securities this
concern is offering for sale in your local-
ity and we will investigate its worth.—
Editor.)

 

TENANT TO HUéK CORN

If I rent a farm for a year end the
leasor leaves a pile of straw on the
place am I entitled to a share of the
straw harvested this year? And also
would I be compelled b law to husk his
share of corn? The p ce is rented on
111311;. and halt—J. C. 8., Williamston.

c .

You would be entitled- to a share
of the straw of this year unless your
contract is otherwise.- If you are
to do the work on the farm I would
be of the opinion that part of the

work is to husk the corn and that it-

would be part of your bargain to do
so.—W. E. Brown, legal editor.

 

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WIFE CAN PREVENT SALE

I have been renting m .fether-in-law's
farm and now desire to cave after hav-
ing given him three months’ written not—
tice. I wish to~have e sale of my share
of cattle, hog and hay. Cows and hay
are already ivided. Can a wife who
objects to such a sale being made pre-
vent the same in any legal want—R. E.»
Litchfleld, Mich. .

 

The wife can prevent the sale of two
cows, five swine, ten sheep'snd suf-'
ilcient hay and grain to it on the
animals for six months. N ‘e bal-

 

ance of the personal *kncwnt as

 

has the right of control and sale.

.The husband has the right of con-V

trol but‘nc’t of sale of the animals
specified. The wife sometimes pre-
vents the sale of all property bygfil‘:

ing a bill for divorce or for separate:

maintenance and, upon proper show-
ing, andnjuncticn is frequently is-
sued to restrain the sale until the
settlement of the- divorce case—W.,
E. Brown, legal editor.

 

A CROP T0 TURN UNDER FOR
FERTILIZER

What would be the best to plant and
turn under for fertiliser? Would
beans be as satisfactory as anything
else? If so how much should be plant:
ed to the acre‘I-F, M. L, Edmore, Mich.

 

The green manuring crop to use
for the above mentioned purpose
will depend upon theseason of year
that the crop can best be sown, and
the condition of the soil. When it
is possible to sow between August
15th and the first of September, a
bushel of rye and 20 pounds of hairy
vetch per acre usually makes an
abundant growth for plowing under,
the following spring, especially on
those sandy ‘soils that are adapted-
to the growing of vetch.

0n soils that are not acid, sweet
clover usually makes an abundant
growth, and the second crop'may be
used for green manuring, while the
first may be used for hay or pasture.

On acid soils soybeans frequently
give good results for green manur-
ing purposes. Would suggest using
either the Manchu, Ito San or Black

Eyebrow varieties, since they [are
much better adapted to Michigan
conditions than many of the late

varieties, such as Mammoth Yel-
loy. Soybeans may be sown in rows
28 inches apart, using 35 pounds of
seed per acre, and for best results
should be sown the latter part of
May—0. B. Hayes, Ass’f Prof. of
Farm Crops, If. A. 0.

 

PHONE SERVICE

Our market own is Carsonville and
there are four f us want beget a phone
in our homes. The Michigan State Tel-
ephone Company will not put in a phone
for us because we are Just outside their
territory without the consent of the com-
pany which has the territory in which
we live and their central ofiice is in Ap-
plegate, a town which we do not use,”
They will not give their consent so we
are without a phone unless we take the
A legato phone. We would have to pay
$3.50 and installation charges and e
es of 10 cents for each station to station
call and 15 cents and ti cents toll for
each rson'to person can of 3 minutes
and cents for cacti additional minute.
Now I think we shoud get a line to our
nearest town regardless of territory. Is
there not some way we could get sex-:-
vice from the line we want without
mg to another centrnlomce? Their l e.
is I miles away. and the line‘we want is
so rods from my house—L, J. W., Car-
eonville. Michv y I p _

I think you are entitled to con-
nection with the line nearest to
you. I would advise you to state
the facts to the Michigan Public
Utility Commission, Lansing, Mich.,
and ask them for an order compell-
ing them to furnish you with tele-
phone service. State to them that
you are willing to comply with any
reasonable regulations required of
you and to pay such rates 'as other
'similarly situated pay. If they re-
quire a formal complaint and do not
prepare it for you or if they require
a hearing on the matter'ycu should
comply with their instructione.— .
E. Brown, legal editor. ‘

 

LABOR mass) BY RENTER

If a land owner rents his land on
share; to a. renter and the renter em-
loyes he'l to work in lping to seed and
~ meet 0 crop and case the crop
does not mature or is damaged so the
share of the renter will not pay the help
or if the renter should hire more help
then his share can. pay for the labor can
the laborer collect en! of the landown-
er’s 'share fer his world—at. Ill. A., St,
Johns. Mich ‘ ' -

The laborer can only look to th
tenant for‘ his pay. The landlord's
share is not liable for the contracts,
of the tenant—W. E. Brown,-- legal
editor. , ‘ t _ ' _

 

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farm stock and was the husband ,

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FIVE YEAR ODD CHILD
SCHOOL AHENDANCE " fig}.
At what age must a child be'teke'n
into our public school‘l‘ Has a child the:
was five years old in spring and on‘
the primary lists right._to..:e “Lin”
«school? What about-ewnhtldhthtéis-H .
five new but was not live when the .cen-
sus was taken and is not drawing primary
money? Has the teacher any right to
send a child home from school that, is

 

East 6 years 'old because she does not 

ow the letters or figures, saying. shell 4
not compelled to teach kindergarden in
public school? Our teacher last year

taught children that were five the latter ' '

part of- July. The one we nave now a does
not want to be bothered with these small
children although she is getting 835 g
month more than our last teacher.—A
Subscriber, Saginaw County. Mich.

A child that is a bona fide resi-
dent of a district must be admitted
and instructed in the primary school
if five years old. The parent will be
compelled to send them when they
are seven. It will make no difference

 

whether the child is on the list for ..

primary school money ,or not. A
child five years old is entitled to in-
struction. The teacher of a primary,
school has no right to send a child
of six years of age away from the
school because she does not know her
letters or figures. If the child has '
not had instruction it is her business
to give it.

—W. E. Brown, legal editor.

 

STATE REWARD ROAD

A state reward road is graded, an
stakes are set 25 feet from center ‘
the road. How far back of these stakes
are .they allowed to take sandl—G. M. L. >
Tustin. Mich. .

Sec. 4638 of the Compiled Laws pro-
vides, in part, as follows: "Any sur-'
plus earth or gravel taken from one
portion of the road may, with the con-
sent of the highway commissioner, be
used to fill such depressions in any ‘
other road in the same district: Pm-
vided. That no earth shall be dug,
plowed or scraped nearer than within
eight feet of the margin of the high-
way without the consent of the own-
er of the premises adjacent theretOr-l
W. E. Brown, legal editor.

 

WIFE REFUSES TO SIGN OFF

A month ago I sold my farm to a men.
He paid me 8300 down on tbg agree-
ment that we shall vacate the place &
the last part of this month, I signed ,
receipt for the $300. Now my wife says
she will not sign off. If I have to back
gut could this man hold me liable for
amages? We own the farm ionth
Would my wife have to sign cal—R.
Pinconning, Mich, '

You would not be liable for dam-
ages if your wife refuses to sign the
deed. To convey any title to‘ land
owned by husband and wife togeth-
er it is necessary forthe wife to'eign
the deed.——W. E. Brown, legal editor.

 

PAPER SENT AFTER EXPIRA-
TION DATE

figubscribed for a paper two yearsego
an sent them the money for the year ~
subscribed. But when the paper should
have expired as per the date on the label.
it did not'but kept right on coming every’
week and now I haVe been tting state-
ments allthe time to fly or the o, r
ear. I just got a lette from an a -
usting company stating they were going .
to take action against me at once for the
payment of the other year that I nev :-
told them to send—H. A. 8., Willis, 11

If you subscribed for a definite
time that is the extent of your con-
tract end the extent of your liabil-
ity.—-W. E. Brown, legal editor.

 

VOTING RIGHT on surnnvrsons .

Has the Supervisor or chairman of the
town board a. right to vote on any sub-
ject coming before said board? We have ~
ust had a recall- election to recall our
supervisor who put the town to quite an
expense for (ligating? 1-1:: the the
o c arge eve 'u e town
——W 8., Fremont, Mich; - Eh

 

The statute provides that these-l, ‘ ’ V

pervisor shall be a-member of the‘
town --board. As a member of - the
board he has the right to vote on
all’ questions. The items enumer-
ated in' the recallsstatute apassedjin -

1917 are the itemslof expenseto; be“ 

paid by thefito’vmship. The ammo
is liable for theseexpens‘es but rm
not-shy as to the liability of {the

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. 0'. You a "proof-and‘toIl-you what ltuwiii-cost for 18‘. 20 or 52 timos.
. .- Auction Sales advertised here at ~spooiai._iovw rates: ask

 
  

You on
for them. Writs today i)

change size of ad. or copy as often as you wish.

'1 live stock and poultry will be sent on reads“. Better still, write out what 'you havetoofier, let us put n, in type.
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IREEDERS' DIRECTORY. THE MICHIGAN IUSINEBS FARMER. Mt. Clemens, Michlgan.

 

 

 
   

CL'AIM'YOU-R. ’
SALE DATE ’

‘ .i'l'o avoid conflicting sates we will without
cosh-4M the date of any live stock sale in
Michigan._- I! you are considering a sale ad-
vise us at.once and we will claim the date
101‘ yen. Address. 'les Stock Editor, M. B.
F-. Mt. Clemons. ,

Dec. 8. Spotted Poland Chinas.
ninth Spotted Poland China ’Ass’n_,

‘Franken-
Alfred

Grucber, Secfy, Frankenmuth, Mich.
’Feh. 1, Poland Chinas. Witt Bros. Jar
081'}. mob. . . - , ‘

 

 

 

’ LIVE STOCK AUCTIONEERS

Ed. Bowers, South Whitley, Ind
Porter Colestock, Eaton Rapids, Mich.
John Hoffman, Hudson, Mich.

J. J. Post, Hillsdale, Mich.

J. .E. Rapport, Perry, Mich.

Harry Robinson, Plpmouth. Mich.
Wm. Waffle. Goldwater, Mich.

CATTLE 1]

HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN

 

 

 

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, A
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.

 

 

 

 

 

' ever 30 lbs. butter in seven days.
--of,.his man; ready for service.

 

  

  
 
 

   

A Real Bull and Ready White

His Sire is both a Grand Son of

Pontiac Korndyke and King of the
Pontiacs. Enough said on the Site’s
side. »

His Dam is a. 14.48 lb 2 year old
and the. Daughter of a 23 lb. 3 year
old, her Dam is a 20 lb. Cow. His
Dam is ‘a. Grand Daughter‘ of King
segis Pontiac Howell. Only one un-
tested _Da1n"-in his pedigree and she
has R. 0. Daughters and one
A. R. Son and all for $100.00.

5 JOHN BAZLEY

‘ 319 Atkinson Ave.
DETROIT, ‘ ’ MICHIGAN

MR MILK PRODUCER

Your problem is more MILK, mots BUTTER,
more PROFIT. per cow. ‘

A- son of Mapl'crest, Application ‘ Pontiac—
182652—from our heavy—yesrly-milking-good-but-
tor-record dam will solve it. ‘

Maplecrest Application Pontiac’s dam made
85,103 lbs. butter in 7 days; 1844.8 lbs. butter
and 23421.2 lbs. milk in 365 days.

He is one of the greatest long distance sires.

His daughters and sons will prove it.

Write us for pedigree and prices on his sons.

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

Pedigrees and prices' «in application.
R. Bruce McPherson. Howell, Mich.

Yearling Bull For: Sale

Bull 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 on yearly test
Nov. 15.

ROY F. FICKIES

Chesaning, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

: I Dispersion saileeoi
Registered Holstein
I Cattle '

Having sold my farm 1 will offer my entire

_herd at Public Eula WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER

1,- 1020 at the farm.

The herd consists of my yearling herd sire.
dam» an 18 lb. 3 yr. old. one bull calf and 14
cows and heifers. none over 6 years old. Herd
on Slate Accredited List.
o’ebcb A. M Sale of cattle about 1:30 _p. m.
Farm 1-2 mile south and 1-2 mile east of the
depot. Parties met at train by appointment.

Charles 1. Cook, - ramming Mich. '

Sale of tools at 10 .

 

 

SHOW BULL .

Sired by a Pontiac Aaggie Korndyke-Henger-
veld 'DeKol bull from a nearly 10 lb. show
cow. First prize junior calf, Jacksbn Fair,

1920. Light iii-color and good individual
Seven months 0d. Price, $125 to make
room. Hurryi

Herd under Federal Supervision.

BOARDMAII FARMS

JACKSON. MIC'H.

 

 

 

 

Holstdn Breeders Since 1906
. .. ‘FOB SALE
A son of Pontiac Aggie Korndyke

fromra 2.0.32 lb. daughter of Friend

Hengereld Die K01 Butter Boy, born

April 1, 1918. For price and pedi-

gree write the ‘

ALFA STOCK FARM, Dowagiao
__. Chester Ball, Prbp.

 

I” ‘0.  econ HERD sine .
, MODEL KIIIG. SEIilS GLISTA

His sire a so lb. ’um of Lakeside Km
Albsn Dr K ‘ ’ ‘ ‘ 3 so“.

. 0.. v
' His dam.,.Glista‘ Fenelia. 32.37 I .

b
IHer.,dam, Glista Ernestine, 35.96 15,
His three nearest dams average over 83 lbs.
and his forty six nearest tested relatives average
We offer one

AND- RIVER STOCK FARM.

Corey J. Spencer. Owner Eaton Rapids. Mich;

 

'_ OR SALE REOIBTERED HO‘LSTEIN BULLS

nearly ready for service from good A. B. 0.
dams also b ll calves Wm. Griffin. Howell. Mich.

o

 

i the Clothlldo De X0] 2
' sale. "1‘. 'W. Sprague

 

‘ SOLD AGAIN -,

Bull all last advertised sold but have 2 more
that are mostly white. They are nice straight fel-
lows sirsd by a son og King Ona. One 18 from
a 7 lb. 2 . old dam and the other is from a
20 lb. Jr. Bryn old dam, she is by a son of
Friend Hedger-void De K0] Butter Boy.
the great bulls. .

JAMES HOPSON JR.. Owosso. Mioh.. R 2.

one of

 

‘ SPECIAL
PRICE THIS MONTH

A line Straight Young bull, born Oc-

tober 27th. sired by a 35 pound Son of King

of the Pontiacs. First check of $7 5 takes
him-sI-Pmoney refunded if not satisfied.

‘ Other bulls in proportion.
Herd under Federal Supervision.

ngLLOBEST STODK FARM.

. Ortonvllis, Mich.
or write '
John'P. Hehi, 181 Griswold 8%.. Detroit, Mich

II FOUNDATION

TWO REGISTERED .HOLSITEIN HEIFERS

16 and 19 mos. old, sired by a 29 lb. and 27
lb. bull. Dam of older one a 14 lb. junior two
year old, well bred. good individuals. Also a fine
male call from a son of the great King of the
Pontiacs. Golf's dam is 20 lb. cow.

For particulars address ‘ '

' H. T. EVANS
Eau Claire. Mich.

 

 

 

‘ FEDERAL ACCREDITED HERD

BULL FOR SALE

old enough for service; His_dam's 7 day record
20.85 lbs butter, 467.80 lbs. milk 305 days

1 6, 1 1 5. 3 lbs. milk. 54 8 lbs. butter. Two A.
R 0. daughters. His sire a 24 1b. grandso
Lad. Price S 2 00 . -

of. Colantha Johnna
VERNON CLOUOH. Farms. Mich.

FOR SALE

23 Registered Holstein Females

11 in calf Good individuals. No damaged ud;
dcrs. Nothing wrong with the cows. 'Good
reasons for selling. Will take 83,000 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. Bruoes Crossing. Mich.
P Ontonagon County

WOLVERINE STOCK FARM REPORTS GOOD
sales from their herd. We are well pleased with
the calves If? our Junior Herd Sire “King Pon-
tiac Lunde orndyko Sogis" who is a. son of
King of the Pontiacs" from a daughter of Pon-

 

  
 
  
 

 a,8tats and Federal Accredited Hordaflud by.  ,1
,.WALKER LYONS 174771

 :HOLSTElN-FRIES‘IAN ' BULLS

" dam: have records averaging 30.11 pounds of butter from  r- -‘
dams with records up to 26.8 as Jr. four year cldszalid are

:‘Fflsrssnmimcm -.

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A. I-TWO BULL OALVES

Registered Helsteln-Frieslan, sired by 39.87 lb.
bull and from heavy producing young cows. These
calves are very nice and will be priced cheap I!
sold soon. . .

. HARRY T. TUBES. Elwsil. Mich.

 

or Sale: A .Dandy Straight Well Marked and
well grown bull calf born March 27, 1920.
Sire is a son of Flint Hengerveld Lad whose two
nearest dams average over 32 lbs. butter and
735 lbs. milk in seven days. Dam a 28 lb.
granddaughter of King Segis. Price $300.. For
extended pedigree write
L. C. KETZLER
Flint. Mich.

 

FOR SALE—TWO BULL CALVES, A HOL-
tein and Durham about 8 months old. Both
have heavy milking dams. Not registered. 850
each if taken at once. .

CHASE STOCK FARM. Mariette, Mich.

 

OR SALE—REGISTERER HOLSTEIN 00W.
Three heifer calves. 1 bull calf.
R. J. BANFIELD, Wixom. Mich,

FOR SALE

LARGE REGISTERED HOLSTEIN COW
five year old, well marked and a good milker, also
her bull calf born Oct] 27; sired by a son of
Johan licngerveld Lad. once a 22 lb. two year
Olil (lam Price $250 for the pair.

R. H. BARNHART, R 1, St. Charles, Mich.

 

 

 

SHORTHORN

RIOHLAND SHORTHORNS

Why buy Bulls that come from Herds you know
nothing about?

For the next thirty days we are going to offer
the best lot of Bulls ever sold in Mich. Prices
ranging from $200 to $500.

C. H. PRESCOTT & SONS
Herd at Prescott, Mich. Tawas City,

 

Mich.

 

Shortliorns at Farmers’ Prices

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

FAIRVIEw FARM
F. E. Boyd.
FROM AN ACCRED-

Aims,
  ited herd. that are

right, at readjustment prices_ ,
JOHN SCHMIDT a SON. Reed City, Mich.

Michigan

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‘PROFI'I'S

' MILK” CHECK LESS FEED

0“

BILLS.
* Jerseys
produce ECONOMICAth

hence at a PROFIT.

IIUNDREDS have proven
it. PROVE it yourself and
PROFIT thereby. 4
Write SEC’Y HENDRICKSON

. Shelby, Mich.
for free Jersey literature.

DO IT TO -DAY

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, Sootts, Mich

 

 

 

 

 

MPROVE YOUR JERSEY HER WITH ONE
of our Majesty bulls.
FRANK

 

 

P. NORMINGTON. lonla, Mich.
0R SALE—THREE PUREBRED JERSEY
bulls ready for service. Tubcroulin tested.

J. L. CARTER. R 4. Lake Odessa. Mich.
YOUNG BULLS, READY

  for service, sired by the is-

land bred bull Majesty's Oxford Shylock 156692
——dams are averaging 15.5 lbs. butter per week.
Write for price and description.

GU C. WILBUR. Balding, Mich.

 

 

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HAT DO YOU WANT? . ,1 represent 41
SHORTHORNV breeders. Can put you in

touch "Willi best milk or beef strains. Bulls all
ages. Some females. C. W. ,Crum. President
Central Michigan Shorthcrn Association, Mc-

Brides. Michigan.

 

w. s. HUBER, Gladwin, Mich., offers for sale
a choice bull calf,, sire, Robert Clay by Washing-
ton Clay. Dam, Charlotte’s Gem by Maplelfim
Dan Oxford out of Charlotte B 2nd.

‘SIIoRTIIoRIIs

5 bulls, 4 to 8 mos. old. all roans. pail fed.
Dams good milkers. the farmers' kind. at fann-

ers’ prices.
F. M. PIGGOTT A SON. Fowler, Mich.

HE VAN RUREN CO. SHORTHORN BREED-
ers' Association have stock for sale. both milk
and beef breeding.

Write the secretary, n
FRANK BAILEY. Hartforanlch.

'SHORTHORIIS AQI'NLJLD 'i-mcfsE.w

Wm. J. BELL, Rose City, Mich.

LEFT

KENT COUNTY SHORTHORN BREEDERS'
Ass’n are oflering bulls and heifers for sale. all
ages. Sell the scrub and buy a purebred.

A. E. RAAB, Soc’y. Caledonia, Mich.

 

Maple Ridge .Herd of Bates Shorthorns 0f-
fers for sale a roan bull calf 9 mos. old. Also 2
younger ones. J.  TANSVVELL. Mason, Mich.

 

FOR SALE—POLLED DURHAM BULLS AND

Oxford Down Rams.
. A DcGARMO. Muir. Mlch.

 

IIEREFORDS
I ’ IRE
  "gigs. HAMPsn

We can furnish registered bulls from 12
months and older. best of breeding and at a
very low price. have also some extra good
Herd headers. We have also a large line
of registered Hampshire Hogs, Gilts. Sows
and Bears. '

Write us, tell us what you want and get
our prices.

Ls FAYETTE STOCK FARM, La Fayette, Ind.
J. Crouch a. Son, Prop.

MEADOW BROOK HEREFORDS

Double Disturber Ball at head of herd. Some
hoics Fhirfax females for sale also bulls any
Be. Come and'look them over.

EARL C. MOCARTY. Bad Aka. Mich.

REGISTERED HEREFORD DATTLE I

I King Repeater No. 713941 heads our herd.
grandson of the Undefeated Grand Champion

R _ tor 7th No. 386905. We have some fins

bull: for sale and also some heifers bred to Be-

ter. To B. Fox. Proprietor.

HE MARUON STOCK FARM. Marion, Mich.

150 HEREFORD HEIFERB. ALSO KNOW
of 10 or 15‘ loads fancy quality Shortshorns and
Angus steers Ii to 1,000 lbs,. Owners anxious
Will help buy 50c commission.

 

 

,to sell.

 

   

 O. F.“ IALL, Fairflsld, Iowa

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- The Most Profitable Kind

of farming, a car load of grade dairy heifeil
from LENAWEE COUNTY’S heaviest milk pro-
ducers to include a pure bred ANGUS bull of the
most extreme beef type for combination beef and
dairy farming.
Car lot shipments assembled at GLENWOOD
FARM for prompt shipment. -
Me‘thods explained in SMITH'S PROFII‘ABLB
STOCK FEEDING. 400 pages illustrated.
GEO. B. SMITH. Addison. Mich.
 ’PURE IRID ABERDEEN-
Ancus CATTLE AND O-I-O-
Swine are right and are priced right. Corr“
invited.

spon’dence solicited and inspection
CARL BARTLETT. Lawton. Mich.

 

GUERNSEYS

GUERNSEY BULL CALVES .“

From tested and untested dams.

Satisfaction guaranteed.

Write ‘for prices and breeding to
MORGAN BROS, Allegan, Mich., R1

 

 

 

AYRSIHRES

 

FOR SALE—REGISTERED AYRSHIRE
bulls and bull calves, heifers and heifer calves.

“Also some choice cows.
FINDLAY .BROS.. R 5. Vassar, Mich.

SWINE  5)

POLAND CHINA

 

 

 

 

BIG BOB MASTODON

Sire was champion of the world.
His Dam’s Sire was grand champion
at Iowa State Fair. I have 6 choice-
spring boar pigs left that will maize
herd boars. Will price them 81:35.0
apiece if taken soon. Sired bi'Bfg
Bob Mastodon. '  "-' '
C. E. Garnant. Eaton Rapids, Mich.

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The Best Breeders
advertise in The Michigan Bug.
iness Farmer. It will beI-vvorth
your while to read the livestock
advertisements in every: issue
to keep posted on What they
have to offer. . _ ;

 

 

 

 

  

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i write out what you have to offer. let us out It In type. show yo
ou with. copy or ohang
Write today!)

.eri‘fiEoERs' DIRECTORY. THE mouloan-e‘uemzse FARMER. m- °"m°mv "Mm"- ‘

size of ad. or copy as often as
here at special low rates: ask

or them.

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ADVERTISING RATES "MO" "I" hondlns to honest breeders of live stool: and poultry will be‘eentfon request. Better still.
u I preof'and tell you what It will cost {fir 18.
so must be reoblved one weal: beforedate of. no.

 

PUBLI

1 2 o’clock noon.

treatment.

 

THE FRANKENMUTH
SPOTTED POLAND CHINA BREEDERS ASS’N-_
of  V

Frankenmuth Township, Saginaw County, Mich.

wan Sell g;

C AUCTION

on December 3rd, 1920

Alfred Grligber’s Farm,

two miles East and 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.
ALFRED GRUEBER, Secretary, Route No. 2, Frankenmuth. Mich.
Mall all bids in care of Alfred Grueber to Felix Witt.

Fieldman. l-le guarantees honest

 

 

 

THE THUMB HERD

Bis Type Poland Chinee. Largest herd in North-
eastern Mich. Boers and gilts for sale.
E. M. ORDWAY. Mllllnoton, Mich.

THE BEST IRED POLAND OHINA PIGS BIR-
ed by Big Bob Mastodon at the lowest price.
DeWITT c. PIER. Evert. Mich.

HERE'S SOMETHIII GOOD

THE LARGEST BIG TYPE P. O. IN MIOH.
Get a bigger and better bred boar pig from my
herd, at a reasonable price. Corn and see them.
ponses paid if not as. represen . These boars
service: L's Big Orange. Lord Clan-men,
Orange Price and L's Long Prospect.
W. E. LIVINGSTON. Perms. Mich.

FABWELL LAKE FARMS

L. T. P. O. BRED 80W SALE NOV. 10
5 tried sows and 20 spring gilts, 2 aged boars.
8 fall boars and 5 spring boars. If you are
'looking for something good, here is where you
can set it.
Write for catalog.
W. 'B. RAMSDELL

Hanover, Mich.

 

IG TYPE P. c. SOWS OF OHOIOE DRIED-
ing, bred to Big Bone Bone Boulder No. 726.-
672 for Sept. furrow. Spring pigs either sex.
Healthy and growthy. Prices reasonable.
' L. W. BARNES «I: SON. Byron. Mich.

.My, .Oh My, What an Opportunity!

We are now'offering a few choice big type
Poland China Boers, from Big Smooth Jones, one
of the breed's best sires, from Dams by such noted

 

sires as Grand Master, Hillcrest Wonder, Masth-
don Wonder and Hillcrest Bob.

You can’t get better breeding. Individe
they will please you. Price $50.

HILLOREBT FARM, Kalamazoo. Mich.

BIG TYPE

Nine fall gills out of
thirteen. for sale.
J.

 

POLAND CHINAS
WITH QUALITY
litters of eleven and

E. MYGRANTS. St. Johns. Mich.
POLAND CHINAS. SPRING PIGS

m6  of both sex for sale at reasonable

prices Registered in buyer’s name.
Sired by Big Long Bob.
MOSE BROS" 8t. Ohorles.
HERD HEADED av
W’s Sailor Bob No. 897305. Spring pigs.
both sex for sale.
. W CALDWELL a. SON. Springport, Mich. '

 

Mich

 

IG TYPE POLANDS.

 

ARGE TYPE P. C. SPRma BOAI‘IISl JMARGH:
and April furrow. Also one Sept. carting.
The big bone and big litter kind. For press: and

breeding write
E. W. LANDENBERGER. Parma. Mlch_

 

BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS
few choice spring boars ready for service won.

rst premium at Saginaw Co. Fair. All cholera.
ixnmuued by double treatman Also {all nice
at Weaning time.

HOWLEY BROS.. Merrill. Mlcll.

 

L. T. P. C.

I have a fine lot of spring gin sired by Bart’s.
o

 

Black Price, a good son lack Price. [rend
champion of the world in 1918. have a
use. of 7 pigs, 5 sows and 2 boars, sired by.
lProspert Yank. a son of the $40,000 Yankee,
libel. are sure Humdingers.

- K F. 1-. HART. St. Louis. mine.

 

‘ GLGSilGGllI SALE '

Big Type Poland China hogs, which represents
he work of 25 years of constructive breeding.
veryth'mflv flees ' including our three great herd

rs, ich. Buster by rent Buster, A. Grant.
Butler’s Big Bob. the best yearling
respects in with M. n > arched
geeks- gre‘a’l‘.‘ lenitrh‘ big bone. ome and rich
' I 5'0“ W 111' All
*"i‘hl‘no. c. BUTLER. Igor-limo. mg. .

'me', a. r. r. c. Geo. no menu a. non.
Sta. Fair.

Two of

 s. 0 s1 extracts-double immune.

' _ 6 your use on

b 1“?" .4 .133»... a a, .. .....'."ili‘ll.

L .11. 'P. ‘0. SPRING BOARB. BIPID’ DY 'WlL-i

out of Grand Daughters of
. 'tleet-

Schoolcraft. Mich.

I. WALNUT ALLEY

' BrookWater

 

BIG TYPE P.
C. Boars now
, ready for new
homes. Get your order in on full pigs for I am
going to price them ri hi.

. . émGORY
Ionia. Mich.

 

L S P POUR CHOIOE SPRING AID FALL
boars left. A few extra nice gilt!
left bred for April furrow. .
H. O. BWARTZ. Schoolcraft. Mich.

BRED 80W BALI.
For particulars write
Mich.

TH ANNUAL P. c.
March 13. 1920.
\.’.'. J. HAGELSHAW. Annual-n.

Am Ofierlno Large Type Poland china Cone.
| bred to F's Orange at reasonable prices. Abe

i ll . Write or call. -
'1 Elfin: FISHER. as.» Louie. Mich.

 

BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS

Early fall pigs for sale, either sex. These are
real ones. Write for breeding and price.
HIMM BROS; Ghesanlnq. Mich.

 

 

DUROGS

 

 

DUROOB. CHOICE
Come and see or get our

Marshall. Mich,

PLEASANT vu-zw'
spring boars and gilts.
prices before buying.

W. C. BURLINGAMF & 80".

 

AUSTIN srocK F’ARM
Service boars and open gllte. $35.00 to $40.00
each. Mumford and Orion Cherry King
These are real hogs. At four fairs they won 44
ribbons. 10 Champion, '16 blues and 14 red.
Double immune with pedigree.
Satisfaction or money back .
Bloomingdale. Mich.

DUROC
JERSEYS

Boar's—Ready for Service
Big type. lame bone and ruzsed. 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.
hPeneme Spatula ti? Orlirlnoipllzl1 nub. Orion
Ir a red on a es. -
c 16%: gains time to buy before the demand

takes all of the aood ones.
Write Us For Prices and Pedigrees

Mail orders a specialty.
Satisfaction guaranteed.

BROOKWATER FARM
‘ Ann Arbor. Michigan
H W. Mumford. Owner J. B. Andrews. Men

were

Sprlno flu by Welt's
Orion. l-' rot Ir. Yearling . -
Detroit. Jackson. ad. Rapids and Bedlam. 1010

Phillips Bros, Riga, Mich

assistants ounce JERSEY

. to. ll 1 1' sale. Herd. heeded
mm m ‘nd “ m o No. 155217.

       

 

by onokweter Demmdrator 21th
H. E. LIVERMOIIE a 8014. homes.

saints sum or...“
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Inc's souls and gifts. are. U W's III. :29:

Museum
state nth-“1mm other
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152489.  runs e

35 up. ~ . . .
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20, or 52 times, You can change
Br‘eeden' Auction Boles advertised

“E5DIOWYIEW FARM REGi .DUIIOO JERSEY
on.’ Spring 12'- for see.
- J. I. MORRIS. Pennington. Mich-

For Bale—Rep. Duroo Jersey Weanllng Pigs of
firgood quality Kialud wading Either sex. Am
0 erin spring is a . '

VERN? N. TOWNS, R 8. Eaton Rapids, Mich.

 200 lb. big stretchy kind, 4 good
some beefs. also tilts of some litters, sired by
Liberty Defender 3rd. Col. bred dams, if you
want good boars order at once. Prices $75 to $35.

-I-l. o. KEEBLERHOaseopolIs, illch.

unocs. ANYTHING you WANT FROM A

spring gilt to a herd hear. at prices you can
afford to pay. Cholera immune Satisfaction guar-
anteed. C. L. POWER. Jerome. Mich.

Dunoc JERSEY Bonus! Boere or the terse.
heavy—boned typg, at reasonable prices. Write.
or better, come an see.

F. J. DRODT.‘ IP1. Monroe. Mich.

5 Fall Boer: of Last Sept. Farrow.

OFFERING SOME HIGH GLASS

AM
SPRING DUBGG BGABS

at reasonable prices . A few gilts bred for Sep-
tember furrow at bargain prices.
W. O. TAYLOR

Milan.‘ Mich.

UROO BOARS. GOOD ONES. .
of Panama Special, ready for sernce.
each. September pigs. '8 5_00 each.

roval.
on impE. E. OALKINS. Ann Arbor. Mich.

ouullns PREMIER culrr
Herd Boer—Reference only—No. 129219
1919 Chicago international
4th Prize Jr. Yearling

BOOKING ORDERS FALL PIGS AT ’t'zs
BLANK a rowan
Pottervllle. Mich.

GRANDBGNS
340. 00
Shipped

FOR SALE—Reg Duroc Yeerllng Boar weigh-
ing 600 lbs. A bargain at :75. 8pm boar!
wishing 200 to 250 at $40 and 350. These are
real boars. We still have spnng sows at 840
and 850. Stock double immunized for cholera

F. MEI-8 & SON. Davleon,

nuroce. Hill Oren Perms. Bred and open cows
and gills. Boers and spring pigs. 100 head.
Farm 4 miles struight S. of Hiddleton. Inch"
Gratiot Co. Newton & Blank. Perrinton. bitch.

DUROC BOARS non ‘rnxzn

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

on one: one‘ ounce IDAR ' "tom
Breakwater breeding stock. Choice sprinfl Dill-
JOHN CROKENWETT. Carleton. Mloh.

 

uroo em and mm bred for Ans. and.
Sept. farrow.- 1.000 lb. herd boar.
J08. SOHUELLER. Weldman. Mlch-

 

Fon SAL ounoo orniuo some. sows
aéld gilts of all ages: Write us
your wants. En re herd double immune-
JESSE BLISS a. son. Mich.

Henderson.
we orren A rm “(nu-all: senor-
G ed amine Duroc Boers.

m. in c 11 mo hr“ in“ “a
E8830“.
MoNAUOHTON a arelieves. It. Lwh- IM-

MIGHIGAIM 'DUIIGGS

Service boars 'and open gilts at $40 and $50
each. These . are real hogs. Satisfaction mf-

anteed. r
0. F. FOSTER. Pavilion. Mich-

 

 

 

 

BERKSHIRES
DOING muov FOI

  immeth service. also
Du ' ~

. both sex.
RUSSELL IIOB.. N 8. Merrill. Mich

 

OREGON? [ABM 333381111!“ FOB
profit. Choice stock for sale. Write your

wants. W. B. Cores. White Hell. Ill.
srnxsmnrs m WU" 1°“
Weaned pigs of the very
best blood lines of the breed is our specialty. We
guarantee to please or nothing stiriu.
ARIA A. WEAVER. Oheeenlne. Mich»

 

 

CHESTER WHITEB

HESTEI WHITES POI SALE AT BARGAIN
pricee_ Will ship 0. 0. D. and reg. in buyers
RALPH COSENS. R 1. Levering. Mich
 OHEOTEII WHITE BWINI.

, either sex. Boers ready for ser-

vice. Prices risht.
LYLE V. JONES. Flint. Mleh.. I. I. II. It I

 

 

 

memes
twssmrs mm is M m s '-

bernin. book your order now
for bred gins.
JOHN W. SNYDER. I 0. it. John. M,

BOAR PIGS $15.09
» AI 8 Weeks Old
, w. A. um. ones-else. lies.

HMSHIBESJF 1mm

 

 

 
    

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Mloh. .

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sore ears. A:
runs from them. The
much. Has been th may for. dearly
four months, I have tried oxide of‘zino
{a powder) and it .did not help,r.erld now

bathe her ears with zlnoleum diluted.
but neither seem “to give relic :Piease
tell me through the M; 13.11:. memo do.
-—A Subscriber, Central Lake, Michigan.

seem twitch story

This is caused by' dust, dirt and
water getting into the ear and not
properly cleaned out; it is most com-
monly seen in dogs that'have long
ears. Symptoms: The dog shows
great irritation by scratching, rub-
bing and holding the head with the
aifected ear downward, and painwls
manifested by the cries and yelps
which accompany any manipulation
of the ear. Upon close examination,
caked around the external opening,
matting the hair‘surrounding it, ‘ a
brownish, stick discharge with a
characteristic odor is noticed. If the

sucking sound is heard and the dog
eyinces pain. Treatment: The dog
should be secured and the ear ther-
oughly but gently cleaned out by hy-
drogen peroxide and absorbent cot-
ton swabs. It is necessary that the
whole of the external ear, and flap
and all, be cleared of every vistage of
discharge at the first treatment. The
ear and canal should then be there.-
oughly dried and the opening into
the internal ear filled with either of
the following dusting powders: Chin-
osol, fifteen grains, and boric acid
one ounce mixed together; or bis—
muth formic lodid, fifteen grains and
boric acid one ounce mixed together.
I prefer the first. An ear cap or
bandage should then’be a lied to
prevent patient from flapp n: the
ears and means should be taken to
prevent scratching or the affected
ear. The after treatment consists of
keeping the ear packed with the dust-
ing powder held in position with
cotton and bandage. It must be re-
membered that after the first wash-
ing and cleaning all further treat-
ment should be in the powdered form
as the use of lotions or liquids in any
form is only productive of pain.

 

ECZEMA IN .HORSE

Would you please tell me through your
paper what to do for a horse that breaks
out all over her body in the summer but
not in the winter? In the summer she
itohes so she is nearly wild, There are
scabs and under the scabs there is wat-
err—W. R K., Emmet County, Mich.

' This is a case, of chronic excema
and while I have'never .met with a
case that failed to recover under
proper care and treatment, yet the
majority of cases are very obstinate
and require considerable time to
complete a cure. I would advise you
to begin in the early spring, before
the disease show its appearance,
with Fowler’s Solution of arsenic and
potassium iodid according to pre-
scription given below:.

.Potasslum lodid. ounces two;
Fowler’s Solution arsenic Ad., Q. S.
ounces sixteen. ,M. SIG. One table—
spoonful given with syringe morning
and night.

until two pints of the above mixture
has been given; shouldthe disease
appear either before or during treat-
ment use the following wash: Zinc
sulphate and sugar of lead of each
one ounce. distilled water to make
one quart. apply to affected parts
twice daily. Shake well before ap-
plying. I might say after two pints
of the arsenic and iodid solution has
been given omit for two weeks and
begin again, keeping up in above
manner for at least three monthsdf
a cure is expected. ' ' «'5. W
JOHN PHILIP TO JUDGE “DOD-

Dms" AT INTERNATIONAL-ff ‘

A new judge will «pose e critical

 

e breeder of famous black cattle: 1
Philip has an extensive breed:

 
 

Bootla'nd In the 'famouaivalley of th
m will  V.

 

“fire e   “1
sew.»  22..., s» "first —

 

My Beagle hound, three years old.'ha.i;
yellow-colored. matter

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base of the ear is gently pressed ‘ a. '

eye over the f‘Doddi'esmthis year‘gatf.
the International Live Stock Show. .
He will belohn Philip of repute on. .

two continents both as a judge and.

farm at Lofthilock, Abel-decrier 1.

   
 
 
     

  

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 , »D'own.giiac,‘ Mich., R B 5
i \ 0. 10-0. .

 

 ' O. I. Q. and CHESTER WHITE SWINE
*Sume choice spring gilts which will be sold
open or bred for March Farrow.. to 'one of In!
good herd boars. ~Ais‘o fall pig!-
-' CLARE V. DORMAN. Snover. Mich

30  PURE BRED 0. l. (5. EDGE

for sale. Service boars and bred
elite. 16 head of fall igs. Papers furnished free.
I J. R. VAN ET EN. Olllicrd, Mich.

. 0. I. C.’s

June and July boars and open

 

ts each one

guaranteed feeder. Recorded an express paid
full for the next thirty days.
. . IUROESS, Mason. Mich.

 

o. I. Ole-4 Choice young boars. March and
April pile at weaning time.
I IA, ITOOK FARM. Monroe. "ION.

O. I. C. SWINE—MY HERD CONTAIN. THE
Hood lines of the most noted herd. Gee furnish
you stock at "live end let live" prices.

ORDEN. Dcrr. Mich.. R 8.

a: SHEEP"
Registered Hampshire Down Sheep

Choice Ram Lambs—well wooied $35
Choice Ewe Lambs, well wooled . . . . . . . 40
Choice Icarlings or -two's .. . . . . . . . . . 50

J. M. WILLIAMS. North Adams. Mich.

 

 

 

 

Hemm—
Reg-

REOISTER‘ED TWO YEAR OLD
shire ewes and 2 ewe lambs, $150.00.
bested rams priced to sell.
LONE CEDAR FARM. Pontiac. Mich.

SHROPSHIRE RAMS

yearlings and ongwtwo year old. Field scumbag:

 

830 to $40.‘ ill pay express charges
ways if not as I represent them.
O. V. TRACY. Ithaca. Mich.

 

leteredh‘vflempehlre Down Ram Lamb. «Register-

ed Shorthorn bull calf. Berkshire pics of
spring and fall farrow.
PRIMEVA'L FARM, Oeseo, Mich.

 

HAMPSHIRE SHEEP

A few‘good yearling rams and some ram
lambs left to offer. 25 ewes ‘ell ages for sale
for fall delivery. Every guaranteed as
represen . .

CLARKE U. HAIRE. Wm Drench. Mich.

 

 

Put your faith in

BETTER BREEDING STOOK ’

, For the best in Shropshire and Hampshire rams
“1.3%.? Eton ‘ '
- FARMS, 6. L. Win .
Goldwater. Mich. " m
exhibit at the Ohio and Michigan

See ' our
a re.

 

AM OFFERING FOR FALL DELIVERY HIGH
class registered Shropshire yearling ewes and
rams Flock established 1890.
O. LEMEN. Dexter. Mich.

FOR SALE REGISTERED OXFORD DOWN
- rams. all ages . Farmers' price. . .
IRVING SANFORD, Morley, Mich., R. I. D. C

 

on seas—nee. vseano oxrono
Down rams, disc 1 aged herd Ram.
w. a. wurrs. cal-um. City, Mich.

ANT A SHEEP? Let American Hampshire
Sheep Association send an is dandy booklet
eders. rite COMFORT A.
TYLER. Sec'y. 10 woodland, Ave.. Detroit. Mich.

 

DELAINE RAMS, GOOD SIZE. WOOLY FEL-

iows. Priced to move quick. Write wants in

' JCHN'BROWN. R 1. Blanchard. Mich. .

  IMPROVED BLACK TOP DE-
iaine Merino Rams.

FRANK ROHRJIBAGHER. Leingsburg, Miohlflln

n SHROPSHIRE-EWES seen 76 LAMB
in March, write or call on ‘ '
ARMSTRONG BR08.. R 8, Fowlerv‘ ‘e, Mich.

 

HERINO RAMs FOR SALE.
boned. heavy sheerers.
HOUSEMAN BROS, R 4, Albion, Mich.

 

FOR SALE REGISTERED ngLAINE name,
WRIGGLEsWOIEi‘BfI. 380133.}. .‘ifigiimenn a

 

FORDS: RAMS '1, a one vsene OLD
at $25. Lambs: $20 'so 325. as cheap:-
 o. M. YORK, Millingtcn. Miohl n.

R SALE—REGISTERED OXFO D
Follame and Ewes. Prices to sell. an own
JOE MURRAY a SON. Brown City. Mich., R 8

 

 ’PET swarm,

, R SALE, FLEMISH DIANT RAIIITB. DOIO.

breeding age. 36. Thr the 1d , .
.gmggxfi so :12 use.”sw psalmsdkou'el

a. mine-econ. Goldwater. Mich.

name.  r . .

      
  

“ChesterfBall,,Prop... * :  ~A

coon Blo-

 

aThe? annual meeting of the Corn
Belt meat'Producers'
will be held at thesaveryflotel, Des
.Moines,.on December 14 and 15. This
will be one of the most important
meetings ever held by the association
says the notice sent out by the sec-
retary. . 

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‘ '.‘Louis~ 1“. Swift strongly advises
the ovmers and shippers of stocker

'and feeder cattle not to force them

on the market while the present con-
dition as to prices exists, but to feed
them for the winter and spring mar-
kets, when .better financial results
may reasonably be expected. consid-
ering the abundance of feed for the
country and the lower prices at which
_it is being marketed. He believes
that there should be no liQuidation
in thescattle industry at present, ex—
cept along normal lines.”

 

The, next annual meeting of the
American Farm Economic Associa-
tion will be held Dec. 30 to Jan. 1
in Washington, D. C., at the National
Museum Auditorium, 10th and B
Streets, N. W. Special features will
be discussions of tests of efficiency
of the farm business; elements of
cost in producing farm products; the
relation of cos-t to price. and papers
dealing with marketing economics,
cost of production, land tenantry,
price trends and farm power. F. W.
Peck is the secretary. ‘His address
is 200 14th St., S. W., Washington.
D. C.

 

It seems that the Farm Bureau
marketing committee of 17, while it
was not entirely satisfied with what
it found out concerning the Board of
Trade operations and Live Stock Ex-
change methods it did discover that
no farmers were wanted as members
of either of these time-honored insti-
tutions. There is certainly some-
thing slightly suggestive in the “No
Admittance to Farmers" sign when
displayed by organizations that claim
to.be playing. the roll of benefactors
to agriculture. "

 

At Columbus, Ohio, the delegates

_representing Farm Bureau organiza-

tions of nine, mid-west states peti-
tioned the government authorities to
defer acceptance of the present pro-
posals from the, packers, to dispose
of their interests in stock yard on-
terprises, until a live stock market-
ing committee from live-stock pro-
ducers’ organizations has time to con-
sider them. That there is a very
dark complected gentleman in this
particular bunch of faggots, it is
universally conceded and the farm-
ers are doing their level best to
smoke him out.

Association

 

 

 

 

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miles west and 1 mile north of Croswell, or 1
_ County on

May 19. 1913. Sired by Pontiac Vulcan
No. 62815.
1914. sired by Sanllao Forbes DeKol No.
Cow Sanileo Forbes Mercedes No. 241969.
crises DeKcl No. 18422.
Cow Sanilee Forbes Pontiac No. 216209,
Sired by Senlleo
Forbes DeKoi No. 13422.
Cow Sanllac
Slred by Sanlleo
Forbes DeKol No. 13422.
Cow Sanlleo Grace No. 898266, born Sept.
Koi ivy No. 94194.
Cow Seniieo ivy No. 895481. born Oct. 4.
No. 94194. ,
Cow Sanliao Mona No. 456200, born Sept.
Koi ivy No. 94194. I
Cow Senllao Reva No. 456201. born Oct.
Ivy No. 94194.
Cow Sanlleo Oueen DeKoi No. 525252, born
DeKoi Ivy No. 94194.
Cow Saniiec Pearl No. 525258. born Oct. 24.

- Cow Senliae Daisy DeKol No. 211015, born
Cow Senllac Cllo No. 241968, born Mar: 21.
2-an April 20, 1914. Sired by Sanilao
'born October 27. 1914.
how combs-ergos1e1I-‘l5erterle No. 905661.
19, 1916. Sired by Traverse Dutch Do-
1916, Sired by Traverse Dutch DcKol Ivy
28, 1911. Sired by Traverse Dutch Do-
SIred by Traverse Dutch DeKoi
Nov. 24. 1918. Sired by Traverse Dutch
1918. 6lred by Traverse Dutch DeKol

A. R. O. granddaughter of Pontiac Butter Bo
who is a son of Pontiac Karndyke No. 2598

York. is from a granddaughter of Kin

 

 .724“. _‘ f pg L  T.'_.:. l / - _ _   r...
of Holstein-memo Cattle ’ .
. - /

Having rented. my farm I will sell my hard of registered Holstein cattle at the farm. 3 1-2

. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8rd

Commencing at 1:00 o’clock p. m.

A BUSY BUSINESS BUNCH

Pontiac Vulcan was bred at the Pontiac State Hospital.
copie No. 88977 and out of an 18-pound granddaughter of Pontiac Korndyke.
Saniac Forbes DeKol No. 73422 was bred at Newberry State Hospital.
daughter of Pontiac Butter Boy No. 2315; and sired by Northern Forbes DeKol No.
who is a son of Homestead Jr. DeKoi No. 28400 and Jessie Forbes 5th
941

56 .
Traverse Dutch DeKol Ivy was bred at Traverse City State Hospital and is from a 24—pound
and sired by Sir Mercena Rag Apple No. 51002
and Pontiac Ciothiide DeKol No. 49657.
Rocherm Kamdyke DeKol No. 215768 was bred by D.
of the Pontiacs No. 39037 and sired by Sir Woodcrest
Korndyke Kate DeKoi 7th, No. 1467 1 who is from a 32 pound dam. »

1-2 miles east of the Buel Town Hall. Sanilac
O

Ivy No. 94194.

Cow Sanllad Belle No. 525254, born Oct.
15. 1918. Sired by Traverse Dutch Do-
KoI Ivy No. 94194.

Cow Sanllac Mun-lei No. 532299, born Nov.
-29, 1918. Sired by Traverse Dutch De-
Kol ivy No. 94194. ,

Cow Sanllao Justine No. 605191, born Oct.
25, 1919. Sired by Rocharm Korndyko
DeKoi No. 215163.

Cow Sanllao Candace No. 605162, born

Nov. 1, 1919. Slrcd by Rocharm Korn-
dyke DeKol No. 215168.

Cow Sanliao Sylvia No. 605168, born Nov.
11, 1919. Slred by Rocharm Korndyke
DeKoi No. 215783.

Cow Sanllac Trlxy No. 605164, born Nov. 11,
1919. Slred by Rocharm Korndyke DeKoi
No. 215168.

Cow Sanllao Aneta No. 605165, born Jan.

26, 1920. Slred by Rooherm Korndyke De-
Kol No- 215168.

Ruii Sanlino Rock \No. 819396, born Nov. 8,
1919. Sired by Rooharm Korndyke Do-
Kol No. 215169.

Bull Senllao Jay No. 319397, born Nov. 25,
1919. Sired by Rocharm Korndyke DeKol
No. 215768.

weeks old.

10 Young Calves from 2 to 6 N
o.

Sir-ed by Rocherm Korndyke DeKoi
215168.

He was sired by Pontiac Cornu-

He is out of a
48868
Helena Burke No.

B. Armstrong, Watertown, New

 

interest.

.1. w. HALL, Prop.

TERMS—One year's time will be given on good approved notes bearing seven per cent

JAMES TURNBULL, Auctioneer

 

 

 

 

Advertisements» Inserted
rates for 18 times or longer.

POULTRY BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY

tinder this heading at 30 oents per
WP". 00‘ WMI you have to odor and send It in, we will put
it in type. "lid proof and quote "W by return mail. Address The Michigan Business Farmer,
Advertising Department. Mt. Clemens. Michigan. /

line. per issue. Special

 

 

 

 

 

 

POULTRY

MUEWAY-AUSH-KA FARM
offers young stock and a few mature breeders in
White Chinese Geese, White Runner Ducks and
White Wyandottee. Also 0. I. 0. spring gilu.
Write today for prices on what you need.
DIKE C. MILLER. Dryden, Mich.

HITE CHINESE OEESE, WHITE PEKIN
ducks. R. 0. Br. Leghorns. Place orders early.
MR8. CLAUDIA BETTB. Hillsdaie. Mich,

RHODE ISLAND REDS

WHITTAKER’S R. l. REDS

bred for color and eggs. A fine lot of kaeiell
of both combs at reasonable prices and satisfac-
tion guaranteed. Write for price list,

INTERLAKEES FARM, Box 4, Lawrence, Mich.

 

 

FOR SALE—TROROUGHBRED S. C. R. l. RED
~ cockerels from high producing strain, 82 to $3.
LYNN TUTTLE. Soottviiio, Mich., R 4

 

 

ORPlNGTONS AND LEGHORNS

Two great breeds ior'p t. Writs today for
free catalogue of hatching gs. baby chicks and
breeding stock. s
CYCLE HATCHER COMPANY, 149 Phlis Bldg.

Elmira. N- Y.
oekereis A Hens, Leghorne, Minoroes, Houdane.

Reds, Rocks, Orpingtons, Wyandottes.

TYRONE POULTRY FARM. Fenton.

BOURBON RED TURKEYS

stock not akin if desired. Order early.

Also 8. . R. 1. Red cockerels and pullete, the
dark red kind and bred to lay.
b S‘ur stock will put your poultry on e paying
a V

F. HEIMS A SON
Davlson, Mich.

Michigan.

 

Genuine "Army Flannel

Shirts 1-2 'Usual Price

Manufactured by the factory that made many
thousands of the regulation shirts for Uncle
Sam’s boys. Army colors Khaki and Olive Drab.
‘ ‘ These shirts are usually
sold at $5.00. By pur-
chasing the entire factory
stock we are able to offer
you these shirts for 1-2
usual price or $5.00 for
two. Single shirts $2.75
each_ We also purchased
from this factory the en-
tire lot of the greys and

 

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ed. We will ship color
wan lc. but
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._'Choiop individuals; shipped to you c. o. d. express paid and gum-an-
‘ teed right or your money refunded. All stock registered in buyer's

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LEGHORNS
PU LLETS 8| X

s 0 WHITE LEGHORli  ..

first week in December. now beginning to lay:
these Pullete will pay for themselves from the
first, They have drooping red. combs and are
pure white; highly bred stock. Price, immediate
shipment, $2.45 each. You may order direct
from this ad. All our stock is reliable; we guar-
antee everything. A few 5 months Pnilete at
$1.95 each. We will send you catalog and de-
scription. if you h.

STATE FARMS ASSOCIATION

 

Kalamazoo, Michigan
FOR SALE—Thirty thoroughbred Rose Comb
Brown Leghorn Roosters. T. L. BACON.
R

.F.D. No. 3. Box 109, Davison, Michigan
INOLE COMB RUFF COCKERELS. FARM
raised from excellent laying stock. Also Rufus

Rod Belgian Hares. ,

J. W. WEBSTER. Bath. Mich.

FOR SALE—ROSE COMB BROWN LEOHORN
cockerels. $2.50 for single bird, :2 00 for two
or more. Kulp strain. April hatched.

W. E. CUMMINGS, Coleman, Mich.

 

RABOWSKE 8. C. WHITE LEGHORN COCK-
erels for sale, only $2.50 each and up.
LEO ORADOWSKI. Merrill. Mich.. R. 4

OR “LE—R. O. I. L. COCKERELS, SIRED

by 1! winner. Bred for size and
layers. weighing lbs., $2.50 each. Flemish
Giant rabbits

1. thseeuon, Coldwater. Mich.

 

 

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PLYMOUTH ROCKS

WEALTHY APPLE AND
BARRED ROCK POULTRY FARM
zldzagred Rock Cockerela if sold this month.

F. L. SMITH, Prop. E_ W. TURNER. Mgr.
Roscommon, Mich.

 

 

BARRED ROCKS. PARKS ZOO-EGO STRAIN
cockerels which will produce flue layers next
ear $3 each.

R. G. KIRBY. R 1, East Lansing, Mich.

BARRED ROCK COCKERELS FROM HIGH
producing strain. These will make strong
breeders next year. $3.00 each.

MRS PERRY STEBBINS, Saranao, Mich.

 

 

BARRED ROCK COCKERELS and a. few Pui-
lets $3.00 apiece.

Mrs. W. A. Eastwood. Chesanlng. Mich., R. 2

 

ARRED ROCK COCKERELS, BRED FROM
V great layers. Bargain prices now.
W. C. COFFMAN, R 8, Benton, Harbor. Mich.

BARRED ROOK' OOOKERELS 51°33

nested proven breeding stock, book your chick
Large illustrated catalogue

 

and eg orders
25c. . temps for circular. ‘

NORMAN POULTRY FARM, Chatsworth. Ili

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LAN GSHAN

DR. SIMPSON’S LANGSHANS OF QUALITY
Bred for type and color since 1912. Wintei”
laying strain of both Black and White. Have
some cockerels for sale. Eggs in season.
DR CHAS. W. SIMPSON
Webbervllle. Mich.

 

 

 

TURKEYS

n SALE—BOURBON-
- Write for prices. ,
MRS. oso. HULLIBERCER, Seraneo. Mich,

FOR SALE—MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS.
Write for price.
MR8. I. B, SMATTS. R. 1. East Jordan, Mich.

GIANT BRONZE TURKEYS. STRONG, VIOOR-
ous birds. Write at once for fall prices
MR8. PERRY STEBIINS. Serenac. Mich.

OR SALE. MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEY.
VWrite for prices. Forest View Farm.
. MRS. H. D. HORTON. Fiilpn, Mich. ‘

 

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4 WYANDO'I‘TE

liver. Oelden and wmu Wyendottee. cereals.
in .snrpine yearling stock to make room for
growing birds. Clarence Browning, R72. Portland.

HITE WYANDOTTES. COCKERELS FROM'
200 egg hens or better. May and June hatch

 

 

 

85 to 88. Eggs 82 per 15.
FRANK ‘DELONG. R 8. Three Rivers. Mich.

 

Vlan TilliKEYS £33.“ answer ;'
DONALD uvsaor. Miillngtcrg, Mich r M -
Boumou' nan runxivs.

Toms, $8.00: hens, 85.00. . ,
MR8. ALFRED MEEK. Belmont. Mich.

WHITE HOLLAND MALE TURKIYO, FINE
vigorous young birds, .810 each. ' 
‘MRS. GEO. W. DRIVER. R 8. EWING. mi, j A

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We are duly thankful to the many thous- ,
ands of. live-stock growers and farmers ' in _ Michi-
gan, who haveseen the need of an adequate“ pack-
ing plant, in this, America’s fourth city, and ‘ have
encouraged the establishment of this c0mpany. a '

We are thankful for the number of these
men who "have joined hands with us and lent their _,
support to make this necessity a reality. ”

We are thankful that slowly, but surely
the price of the material and machinery needed in
equipping and enlarging this modern and efficient
plant are returning to normal and that we can again
receive honest labor from the men so employed.~ v

We are .pa’rtiCularly thankful 'for the

‘ / courageous and splendid help' given the Detroit
Packing Company, by public leaders, the press and
bankers V throughout Michigan, in the face Of
“propaganda”idesigned to injure our cause.” p'

And We sincerely beheve that there are
a great many Michigan farmers and live-Stock growers who,
are thankful that, at last, Michigan is to have a large In—
dependent packing plant adequate to prepare for the markets
of the world the product of their farms and pastures.

' . The Detroit Packing Company '
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In that Advlm-

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