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{it'ARM BUREAU

billets Was held in
With the A. F. B. F. convention

Bureau executive committee repre-
muting Michigan. As several sugar
beet producing regions of the country
"were not represented, this confer-
. once asked Pres. Howard to call a
‘5 national meeting soon when all or-
nnia‘ations of sugar beet growers
night participate. A wool confer-
-..ence was held. Mr. Illendeu of our

incentive committee represented

'liehigau. It was the sentiment of

‘alt‘that the condition 01‘ the wool
market warrants farmers of the

 
 
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
   
 
  
  
  
  
   

'1 NATIONAL conference on collar” .
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Berridge of the Michigan Farm‘ "

FARM' _euesAu- FAR '1

wool. A national embargo on wool.
weal products and muttons Was fev-
cred.

Another advance in refrigeration
charges threatens. On Dec. 14 the
National Perishable Freight Commit-
tee of the railroads will hold 'a‘ joint
meeting with traffic representatives,
relative to increase of the rates
charged for icing. The Michigan
State Farm Bureau will be represent-

'c‘ BS-FARM "

 
      

‘ “comprising railroads in Ohio Illinois
and Michigan has assigned several

men to form a new department call-
ed the agricultural department. Their
duty is to‘_, take matters up for farm-
ers. "This is another «tome that
railroads are studying the interests
of "producers, a result of‘the growing
influence of farm organization.
The wool-in-transit rate which the
traific department of the state farm

, A on“ 0-. .
er’sw abuse, the tir _ ‘ .‘
' made on one throw freight fate.
Consideration of the proposition has"

   

country holding firm with

their

rate would provide that

ed at this meeting by Traflic Com- bureau is endeavoring to obtain may
missioner Coombs. take some time to bring to pass. This
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HEBE and its relation to the

dairy industry has been brought
to the forefront of dairying thought
and has been made the subject of con-
siderable discussion. This has resulted
largely from the campaign of ,‘edu-
cational advertising which the Hebe
Company has been conducting in this
and other farm journals. This out—i’n-

DURING the year just closing

the-open discussion has demonstrated ,,

that the opposition to HEBE has
been inspired largely either by preju-
dice, misrepresentation of the facts
or misunderstanding of the nature and
purposes of HEBE and the manner
in which it is being advertised and
marketed. -

During this discussion many ques—
tions have been asked and answered

_ and many charges reflecting against the

product have been aired and refuted.

Although presented in a variety of
forms the charges against HEBE, when
reduced to‘fundamentals resolved
themselves into these two points :—

1. The belief that HEBE will injure
the dairy industry by being mar-
keted as a substitute for evap-
orated and condensed whole
milk.

2. The belief that inHEBEskimmed
milk is used simply as a means
of bringing cocoanut fat on the
market in competition with but-
ter fat.

In the advertising published in farm
journals and in the correspondence
resulting from this form of advertising
these points have been answered frank-
ly and fairly. In answer to the first it
has been shown that :—

HEBE is not being advertised or‘
marketed either as evaporated or con-
densed whole milk or as a substitute
for it or a substitute for anything else
-—but that HEBE is produced, labeled,
advertised and marketed as a new and
distinctive product (a compound of
evaporated skimmed milk and vege-

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A Year in the Open

table fat) for definite uses (cooking,

baking, coffee) and as such is building
its own market and thus increasing the
general consumption of dairy products.

In answer to the second point it has
been shown that. -—

HEBE is not being used as a means
of bringing cocoanut fat to the market
but that the converse of this is true—
that a small amount of cocoanut fat is
merely the vehicle by which a large
amount of. skimmed milk is being
brought to the market as a cooking
medium. In the production of every
hundred“ pounds of HEBE, two hun-
dred and ten pounds of skimmed milk
and only seven and eight-tenths pounds
of cocoanut fat are used. This small
amount . of non—dairy ingredient is
there merely to supply the large
amount of dairy ingredient with the
shortening and other elements neces-
sary to make it desirable as a cooking
medium. The cocoanut fat in HEBE
serves a purpose similar to the pur-
poses served by salt in butter and
gelatine and flavoring extracts in ice
cream—to make the dairy ingredient
more readily salable for the uses in-
tended.

As can be seen in this brief review of

the year’s development in the ,HEBE 7

discussion the Hebe Company has dili-
gently. sought to give to the rank and
file of the dairy industry all of the
facts by which they may judge the
product and know how it will affect

their business. It has always been the "

belief of this Company that‘the dairy-
men should have these facts and that
it is for the best interest of the dairy
industry as well as the Hebe Company
to give the broadest publicity to
all matters that directly affect the
industry.

It is only partial knowledge that is
dangerous and that is why many dairy-
men and leaders of dairy thought.
after learning all of the facts, have
come to see" HEBE in a different light
in its relation to the dairy ministry;

The HEBE situation is discussed at length in the booklet
“The Missing Third”--a copy of which will be sent free on
request to the Hebe company, 3281 Consumers Bldg, Chicago.

CHICAGO

THE HEBE , COMPANY

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been transferred to a Mega rate
committee. The sum bureau will
not be able to secure the rate on this
year’s wool due to the fact that there
was no tariff in afoot when the com-
nodity moved. -.

The Kent City Farm Bureau Local
is the latest to taint the Exchange. '

 

mm owns IN seconds-

In STATE-Association of Form- ‘ 7

’ Clubs held 'one of it! best
attended and most enthusiastic
’meetings last week in Lansing, near-
ly every county being represented by
one or more delegates.

Resolutions Were adopted endors-
ing the Great Lakes to Tidewater
projects as an economic proposition
which would enable ’ the ' farmerl'
products of the midwest to more
readily reach the markets of the
world; recommending federation and
more unity between the four great
farmers’ organizations represented
at Washington; recommending strict
enforcement of the prohibition law:
urging a tariff bill ‘which shall pro-
tect the American farmer on cattle,
wheat, beans and milk; tightening
up the immigration laws; opposirg
speculation on the future price of
farm products on Board of Trade,
bucket shops, etc. and asking Cong-
ress for the prompt passage of laws
outlawing this insiduous practice;
recommending appointment of praet
ical farmer for Secretary of Agri-
culture. Signed Lee Noble, Mrs. A.
M. Chapin, Mrs; Chas. B. Scull'y, Ed-
gar Burke, A. B. Cook.

The State Affairs committee, con-
sisting of Sen. Chas. B. Scully, re-
ported out the following resolutions
which were adopted. Debate was
particularly active over the Constab-
ulary resolution, A. B. Cook, of
Owosso, insisting that the civil au—
thorities should enforce the law
without outside help. Chairman
Biggers of the Boxing Commission
appeared before the convention to
plead in behalf of the wonderful ben-
efits derived by the high schools of

the state from the boxing law, but ,

to no avail. The convention went
on record as favoring the repeal of
the act. Other resolutions were:

Pledging cooperation with the state '

Teachers’ Association to bring about

» a complete change in the plan of tax-

ation for school purposes to conform
to a state unit plan; endorsing con-

, solidated schools and urging the

legislature to improve the laws per-
taining thereto; endorsement of the
State Constabulary; endorsing work
of State Live Stock Sanitary Com-
mission and urging continuance of
appropriations; approval of Farm
Bureau “7001 pool and recommenda-
tion of a plan of manufacturing
which will utilize the product as far
as' possible within the state (this
was anent the proposal of J. N. Mc-
Bride, representing the Farm Bu-
reau that the wool being held by the
Bureau: be manufactured into blank-
ets); recommending that the legis-
lature provide the appropriations re
quested by the M. A. 0., in order to
carry on work that is vital to the
agriculture of the state?
ment of State Board 01' Health, nee
clinics, visiting 'county nurses and
tuberculosis eradication. Signed:
Chas B. Scully, C. B. Bond, J. N.
McBride, Mrs. Wm. Schiif, Mrs. Elf
A. Smith ;
' Officers Elected

President, Alfred Allen, Mason;
Vice Pres; Lee S. Noble, Oxford:
Sec’y’l‘reas., Mrs. I. R.‘ Johnson,-

Rushton. C. E. Bond, Carson City

in an; I

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and Mrs. J. S. Brown of Howell were '

elected directors for a term of three
Commit-tee National Affairs:
Lee S. Noel-,e A. B. Coo’k Edger
Burke, Mrs. Almon Chapin, Mrs. C. 3.
Sonny. State Aflairs: Chas. B. Scale

11, C. E. 90nd,}. N. McBride. Min.
.. Wm. gems, Mrs. miA. Smith Com-
. mittee Legislative Federntede '1'”. -
"—Mc‘Bride, Edgar Burke, Alfred All

Committee Club Extension:
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.izers were requested.

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Number 16

 
 

   

‘E‘ss FARMER

' December 181'
1920_

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A F. B F. wrestles With 1 Big Market. Problems

National OrganizatiOn States Position on Speculation, Tariffs, Railroads, Finance and Marketing

N A THREE day meeting as har-

‘monious as last year’s session

was discordant, the American
Farm Bureau Federation laid out a.
constructive pregram of work at its
second annual session at Indianaip-
olis. December 6- 8

Prohibition of short selling of
grain by law was urged in resolu-
tions passed at the business session
’Wednesday. The work of the Farm-
ers’ Marketing Committee of ”was
endorsed and the demand of the
committee that farmers c-operative
commission companies be given seats
on grain exchangeswas seconded.
Demand was also made that co—oper-
ative livestock commission 'compan-
ies be‘given seats on livestock ex-
changes. Federal regulation of the
packers, stockyards and grain ex-
changes was asked. The Department
of Justice was requested to defer ac-
tion on the disposition of public
stockyards until farmers can study
the plans proposed'and make recom-
mendations.

Better Crop Reporting System

The right of farmers to prices that
will cover the cost of efficient pro-
duction'and a reasonable return on
invested capital was affirmed. I'i‘he
federation demanded the immediate
enactment of laws removing all re-
strictions on collective bargaining.
Congress Was asked to appropriate
funds to establish an efficient for-
eign crop reporting service under the
direction of the.United States De-
partment of Agriculture. The ex-
ecutive committee was. instructed to
establish at once a department of re-
cearch and economics which will in—
terpret these and other statistics for
the benefit of farmers.

Rural Credits

The investigation of plans to pro-
vide better credit facilities for farm-
The Federal Farm
Land Bank was endorsed and request
made that the loan limit be raised
to $25,000.

President-elect Harding was asked

.to appoint a Secretary of Agricul-

ture who has thorough understand-
ing of agriculture and is in full sym-
pathy with it.
ernment expenses was, urged. Re-
quest was made that farmers be rep-
resented on all public boards and
commissions. , .

The federation asked for the im-
mediate enactment of the truth-in-
fabric law and for a protective tariff
on farm products. - The deflation
policy of the treasury department
was cendemned and the co-operation
of banking and business interests
with farmers in the present crisis
was requested.

The policy of a guaranteed return
to the railroads on a cost-plus basis
was condemned and a reduction in
the present valuation of the rail-
roads for ratemaking purposes was
asked. Preferential rates on fertil-
The conven-
tion favored preserving the rate-
making power of state railroadicom-
missions. The Great Lakes-St.

, Lawrence water way was endorsed.’
I The Pittsbur-g-plus‘ basis of >
’, steel prices was opposed.

' Federal Taxation,

The federation recommended ”a I
careful study of federal taxation in- .
order that the burden may be fairly .

distributed Appropriations to fight

the pink hollworm of cotton and tub-

rc losis in cattle were asked for.

fiw-ork of county; home, and farm
is

_ ‘tional

- that to divide the

Strict economy in gov- .

fixing . '

quested the co-
operation of all

other f armers’

organizations.
All Vconsti‘t u-
am e n d-

m-ents, including

Middle West into '
two sections were
deferre d un t 11
the next annual .
meeting.

The following
committee we 5
appointed to con-
fer with the Am-
erican Bankers’
AsSociatio n a t
Chicago, wit h
reference to the
formation of
a hundred mil-
lion dollar ex-
port compan y :
H. E. Gore, West -
Virginia, W. E;
Shearer. of Ida-

ho; Clifford Thorne, of Chicago
. Don Livingston, . of South Da—
kota; George F-ox of Illinois; E.

H. Cunningham of Iowa and J. S.
Crenshaw of Kentucky. The gov—
erning body of the proposed export
company will consist of one farmer
one business man and one banker
from each federal reserve district.

The number of actual paid-up
members in the federation, accord-
ing to the report of the credentials

, committee is 655,931 of which 464,-

521 are in the Middle West. The
Middle West furnished $142,130 of
the $159,010 paid into the treasury
to date. There are 65 voting del—
egates—~36 from the Middle West,
ten from the South, ten from the
Northwest and nine from the far
West.

The convention devoted a consid-

erable portion of its time to the con- -

sideration of constructive measures
to relieve the present depression in

' the market for farm products.

Harding Deplores Conditions

The statement of Governor W. P.
G. Harding of the Federal Reserve
Bank that while he believes in the
orderly marketing of farm products,
the federal reserve banks can not
help farmers hold their crops for
better markets, was not received
with much favor by the convention.

By CURTIS S. BILL'

 

J. R. HOWARD

lie-elected President National Farm Bureau >
Federation. use

grain
ready for it,

President J. R.
Howard express-
ed the senti-
ments of the del-
egates perfectly
when he said:
“Our banking
, system has fol-
lowed the lines
of least resist-
ance and, great-
est profit. Bank-
ers have loaned
farmers money
to produce a
crop and called
it in as soon as
the crop is har-
vested. So the
crop has had to
be dumped on a
low market and
the banker sends
the money to the
cities for the
Speculators to
in holding

until the
when
sold at a. much higher

Farmers must have credit

consumer is
it is
price.

,that will extend through the con—

sumptive as well as the productive
year so that crops can be marketed
in an orderly way withbut depress-
ing the market unduly. We ask this
not as a privilege but as a right.

“The Federal Reserve Bank is not
a' farmers’ institution. It is oper-
ated by bankers and admirably serv-
es the purpose for which it was cre-
ated. According to reports I have
received from sources which I be-
lieve to be reliable, in normal times-
less than one tenth of one per cent
of the re-discounts of the federal re-
serve is farmers’ paper. Even now
the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank,
in the heart of the crop producing
section is reported to have but seven
per cent of its discounts in farmers’

' paper.

“The Federal Reserve Law must
be amended so as to give the farmer
equal opportunity and equal benefit
with the business man. If we can
not 'get adequate service from the ex-
isting financial institutions there is
but one thing to do—organize our
own agricultural banking system.”

A nation‘wide system of pooling
grain in bonded state or federal ware-
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' a sound basis until the

warehouse receipts, was recommend-
ed by err—Congressman A. F. Lever of
South Carolina as the most practical
means of financing the farmers mar-
keting program. His plan would in-
clude the following features:

1. Collecting grain in licensed
state or federal warehouse with of-
ficial grading, inspection and regus
lation.

2. Issuing uniform warehouse ro-
ceipts against this stored grain.

3. Pooling these warehouse re-
ceipts in the hands of a government
appointee.

4. Issuing certificates of indebt-
edness against these receipts, such
certificates to run for periods of
from three to 15 months. Such cer-
tificates will sell readily to the in-
vesting pu’blic, according to Mr. Lev-
er, and will provide ample capital
for financing the grain until it can
be sold to the consumer.

“Can you find any betted security

than 50 million bushels of some-
thing to eat?” he asked. “It is sure-
ly much sounder security than a

Pennsylvania railroad bond based on
a. locomotive or a tool house.”

Export Corporation

Willis H. Booth of the Guaranty
Trust Company of New York outlin-
ed a plan of the American Bankers
Association for a hundred million
dollar export corporation, which will
finance foreign trade by issuing de-
benture bonds against foreign col-
lateral. Stock in this company will
be sold to farmers, business men and
bankers. Farmers will be represent-
ed on the board of directors. “Our
plan is an adaptation of the English
trade acceptance system, which has
made England the greatest exporta-
ing nation in the world,” he said.
“Only by some such system can we
restore the industry and prosperity
of Europe which is essential to our-
own prosperity.”

“The greatest need of the farm-
ers is not to maintain an artificially
high level of prices,” said Eugene
Davenport of the University of Illi-
nois. “What we do want is a stable
market with the violent fluctuations
ironed out.”

A hopeful note was injected into
the meeting by W. P. G. Harding
when he said: “Things are not as
bad as they seem. We need to keep
cheerful and remember that there
are brighter days ahead."

The optimistic note was in evi-
dence throughout the entire meeting.
Farmers have been hit hard, but
they wasted no time at the Indian-
apolis meeting in shedding tears
about it. Instead they gave their at-
tention to constructive measures
that will prevent the-recurrence of
the disastrous experience of the fall
of 1920. They were unanimous in
their opinion that a marketing and
financial system can be developed
that will put the farmer in position
to be master of his own destiny in
the future.

Billion Dollar Loan to Germany

One of the most promising means
of quick relief, according to Gray
Silver, Washington representative of
the Federation, is the establishment
of a billion dollar loan to Germany,
based on Germany money and prop-
erty held by the alien property cus-
todian. A German purchasing agent
is already in this country ready to
begin buying as soon as Congress
grants the credit, which Mr. Silver 4
feels confident will be done quickly.
Most of the money will go for food—
stuffs and cotton.

Howard Urges Tariff

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' In addition to "better-credit facilities,
{he-r recommended a thorough system
of cooperative marketing and a pro-
»"wt-ectivetariff on farm'products as. the
most important relief measures. He
stated that at present we are impert-
ing from Cuba molasses for alcohol
manufacture which is the equivalent
of‘125,000 bushels of corn daily.
This comes in duty free. We' im-
ported 750,000,000 pounds of vege-
tableoils last year, also duty free.
This affects the market of every
dairyman, corn, hog cotton and pea-

nut grower in the United States.»

Wool, meat, wheat and many other
foreign farm products also come into
direct Competition with American
Farm products and pay no duty.

‘ “We do not necessarily ask for
a high tariff,” Howard said, “but we
do ask that the farmer be given the
same measure of protection as the
manufacturer. We have long had a
‘national policy ofprotection for in-
dustry and education for the farmer.
Let us now protect the farmer and
educate industry.

“The development of a system of
cooperative marketing of farm pro-
ducts is essential to the prosperity of
the nation as well as that of« the
farmer. Big business men as well as
farmers realize this. The industrial
world is watching our efforts with
interest and a great deal of sympa-
thy. We must not be in too big a
hurry, however. We must know
that our principles are sound before
we go ahead.

“Important as is the economic
value of co-operation, it is a even
more valuable in broadening ’the
farmers interest to include world
affairs. It will give farmers new
[ideals of citizenship; will make of
them a civic- force that will be a
great national asset.

“There has been considerable talk

9 “Wilma." declared Pra’ident'?-IHW-i
"ard might“ ringing” keynote address.

  

name“ liy; or: a _ .
which [agriculture is given recogni-
tion in proportiOn to its Importance.

 

“The’American Farm Bureau Fed- _

erat-ion has grown in strength and
importance faster than it has ' in
membership, and it has grown in
membership faster than we had. hop-
ed. We ask that you will help us
as farm bureau oflicers to plow
straight furrows, not only as an_ or«
ganiz-ation but as farmers and cit-
izens. If we cut and cover we are
not doing good plowing."

A special resolution was .wired to
the secretary of the treasury Mon-
day asking that the Federal Reserve
Board adopt a liberal policy in re-
discounting. and renewing farmers’
paper. A similar request was tele-
graphed to Congress“ Congress was
also asked to place an immediate em-
bargo on the importation of all food-
stuffs which come into “destructive
competition with similar American
commodities.”

Great Lakes to Sea

Governor W. L. Harding of Iowa
stated that similar action had been
taken by the conference of govern-
ors the week before. The governor
emphasized the importance of taking
action on the Great Lakes-St. Law-
rence waterway project as quickly as
possible, in order to open the Great
Lakes to ocean commerce. The re—
duction in transportation costs by

such action, he said, will add five-

cents a bushel to the price of all Am-
erican grain. “Adequate transpor-
tation is the cry of the hour," he
said. “We should study our trans-
portation problem and solve it now
for all time. The best and most eco-
nomical transportation is that fur-
nished by nature.
the good sense to utilize to the full-
est that which nature has so abund-
antly provided.” /—
The St. Lawrence waterway plan

in e eats, n”

We ought to have ‘

   

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should be a

.e 1.1;
complete. system '

receiptslfrom Which Could be 'used,!-to

eral warehonsiiigffor Lfafhx'nrdducti, '1 V

finance a system of farm 'marketing:*

and government regulation of pack-
are and stockyards. .

~ Farmers and Railroads
7 Clifford Thorns, who heads the
transportation department of the

federation pointed out the farmer’s ;
ests that these

vital interest in the railroads, since
the farmer pays half the freight bills
of the nation. Thorne was success-
ful last spring in reducing railroad
valuation for rate making purposes
nearly two billion dollars, thus re-
ducing freight $100,000 a year. “The
magnitude. of thefarmer’s interest
in' transportation justifies the feder-
ation in maintaining a transportation
department second to none in 'the
United States," he said. “The pres-
ent railroad law must be amended.
“It is fundamentally unsound, fen it
gives the railroads a guaranteed re-
turn no matter what conditions may
be. In times of industrial depres-
sion when business falls off, the
freight burden must be made greater
so that the diminished volume of
freight will net the same amount of
money for the railroads. , Under this
law we are always facing further
burdensome rate increases. We will
have to be constantly on guard to
protect the farmers' interests.”

Taxation Reform

The following suggestions for
changes in the federal tax laws were
made by H. C. McKenzie of New
York chairman of the federatiou’s
committee on taxation:

Reduce individual surtaxes so that
the maximum does not exceed 50 per
cent.

Revise excess profits tax instead of
repealing it.

Abolish tax-free securities.

   

f nae; increase ,‘rstes on use

up the difference.

McKenzie does not favor ‘the. sales, ‘
tax nor the. Nolan bill, and through.

his work on the taxation committee
of the National Industrial Conference
board has convinced business inter-
plans should fbe
-abandoned.‘ ~ He does not fa’vorthe
proposed federal tax on gasoline and
automobiles. p.

The farm bureau federations
should assist each classjof- farmers
-to form marketing associations, pool
their products and employ salesmen
to sell them, according to Murray
D. Lincoln, secretary of the Ohio
Farm Bureau Federation. The farm
bureau federations should maintain
departments of organization, market-
ing. statistical, purchasing, legal
and-legislative- Ultimately, he be-
lieves, these marketing companies
must be controlled by large farmers
holding companies. . -

“County. agents should remember
that their'biggest job is to work out
in their counties plans for increas-
ing and cheapening vprodu'ction,”
said M. L. Mosher of Woodford coun-
ty, Ill., president of the National As-
sociation of County Agricultural
Agents. “The county agent is too
high priced at man to fool away his
time doing miscellaneous buying. If
such buying is to be done, it should
be by some other agency."

'All other farm organizations
should co-operate closely with the
American Farm Bureau Federation,".
said Milo D. Campbell of Michigan,
president of the National Milk Pro-
ducers' Association. "It is the one
organization that can co—ordinate the
efforts of other farm organizations
without friction."

Farmers Lose More Than Billion Dollars by “ Bear Raids in Board of Trade

‘ AST WEEK, to open a dis-
L cussion of the Chicago

Board of Trade a statement of
the intents and purposes of this gi-
gantic commercial organization, by
its secretary, John R. Mauff, was
published. Mr. Mauff has evidently
made a close study of grain market
requirements and is amply able to
speak, authoritively, upon the sub-
ject; on the other hand it is Well for
the reader to remember that-this very
clever gentleman is directly interest-
ed in the future success of the enter-

prise fOr which he is acting in the .

role of an apologist.

.Among other things Mr. Mauff ex-
plains that the Board of Trade oc-
cupies the unique position of grain
distributor, receiving supplies from
the producer, on the one hand and de-
livering to the consumer on the oth-
er. He urges, and not without good
reason, the usefulness of the present
Board of Trade marketing system in
the establishment on every business
day, of a scale of selling prices, reg-
ulated by actual sales, in either the
pmvh r'nmrrmcnt or the option mar-
ket. He submits that by distributing
latest quotations on grain, the insti-
tution, with which he is connected, is
nu~“n~-min.~ n service for the farmer
and. the public at large, the value of
which cannot be estimated.

While the importance of fixing a
just accurate scale of selling prices
and distributing the same to the
country at large must be conceded,
there are many good judges of value
who maintain that the scale of sell-
ing prices established by; the gamb-
ling operations in the “futures" pit
of the Chicago Board of Trade are
far from just and equitable, In a
recent interview, Senator Capper vof‘
Kansas. who is preparing a bill to be
brought before Congress to prohibit
, gambling in food products, made the
statement. that recent bear raids on
‘ce‘real values on the Chicago Board

I , of Trade. had resulted in depressing

selling prices far below levels which
fth'e ‘current legitimate situation would
warrant,caus’ing the farmer to lose
billionsof dollars on hisyear's work.
Mr: Capper also stated that the de-
ils of the undertaking had been so
serif-arranged that the consumer
.. iii-reap but‘little benefit from the
notion in wholesale vainesp.

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By B. H. MACK

 

 

' Mailbox.-—Edit0r.

 

 

S EXPLAINED in last week’s issue, The Michigan Business Farm-
has decided to publish a series of articles, prepared by the mar-
ket editor, H. H. Mack, on the Chicago Board of Trade, the lead-

ing live stock exchanges and live stock markets of the country. The
above course was decided upon by the editors of this paper in response
to oft repeated requests for information in connection with the subjects
mentioned. There is an increasing
throughout the country to become familiar with the methods in vogue,
in connection with the marketing of their products, and it is to meet
this need that this series of articles will be published. A sincere ed’ort
to be entirely fair to both the proponents and the opponents of the en-
terprises under discussion, will be made; the advantages which each
project has to offer will be faithfully'set forth and the disadvantages
and drawbacks of the undertaking 'Will not be overlooked. An effort
will be made from time to timeto explain the meaning of all tech-
nical terms used in reports appearing in market publications. The
reader is invited to ask questions, concerning anything not made en-
tirely clear and these letters will be answered in the Market Editor's

desire on the part of farmers

 

 

 

 

To establish and distribute just and

equitable selling prices for commod-'

ities used for food is surely a com-
mendable thing but by the same tok-
en, to so manipulate the market as to
establish a list of prices which are
entirely unwarranted by conditions,
is a heinous,crime.

“The Chicago Board of Trade as
now conducted," said Senator Cap-
per, “is the world’s greatest gam-
bling institution. More wheat was
sold in Chicago in October than was
raised in the entire United States
this year. This‘year’s corn .crop
was sold 14 times in Chicago before
a bushel of-corn had reached the
markets. Only about 1 per cent of
the trading done in futures is a bona
fide transactions for actual delivery.

There is not the slightest doubt
that the gigantic raid made by the
bears on the Board of Trade was the'
chief cause of the recent disastrous
slump in the price of farm products.
Because a lot of market gamblers

find it convenient to bet: onvthe daily .

quotations, the farmer who has been
forced to sell hishogs and cattle at
a loss while 7meatvstill sells ‘at War
prices, is again made. the goat. .
“The farmer has lost .;mcr’é-" than
a billion dollars .by the bear raiding
practiced of . late on‘th’e Chicago . Board .
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houses have cleaned up over $40,000,-
090 in margins and commissions

Rccent Declines Bear No Relation to Actual World Supply or Demand

alone. The lambs who play the mar— -

ket have lost more than $100,000,000
in the last 90 days, in speculating in-
cotton and wheat.

“I find all grain and cotton dealers,
millers and spinners recognize the
evils of the present'system and are
anxious to stop gambling in food pro-
ducts. They will heartily support
this measure to place the busi ess on
a legitimate basis. I am also assured
of the support of the farm organiza-
tions. The commission houses, brok-
ers, bucket shops and market specu-
lators generally will fight it." -

Senator ’ Capper’s statement con-
cerning the sale in one month, on
the Chicago Board of Trade, of more
wheat and corn than is produced in
the entire United States in a year,
calls to our attention another one of
Mr. Mauff’s sweeping statements con-
cerning the smooth-working and gem
‘eral effectiveness of the Board of
Trade's price-making machine. He
states that Board of Trade grain mar-

ket is “constantly refieCting the in-

- exerable working of the—~ law of sup-é
';ply' and demand."

HCapper tells us. the entire crop of
corn produced :in this jc0untry this, —»

. Y8”;

, If, as Senator

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in atmosphere When a 'sliortssellfn .

bushel of it reached the market,
would not the inexperienced

- trader be led to think that the sup-
Dly of corn in the country was 14"

times as large as it really is?

Throughout a series of six lengthy
articles, boosting the Board of Trade,
published in The Chicago Drovers’
Journal, Mr. Ma-uff has devoted a‘ large
amount of space to the importance of
the practiceknown as hedging. That
the sale for future delivery of grain
which the dealer actually owns,‘ is
important cannot be denied, but this
is 'one of the few strictly legitimate
features for which the Chicago Board
of Trade is noted, and one Withwhich
the reformers would hardly interfere.
.The dealer who “hedges” owns the
actual grain that he sells for future de-
livery; his transaction is strictly le-
gitimate. .

For the sake of clarity. let us again-
revert to the question of supply and
demand in their relation to food pro-
ducts such as wheat, corn, oats,>live
stock and live stock products. There
are those among us who hold that the.
words supply and demand as used in.
connection with the Board of Trade
operations are purely fictitious terms
having absolutely no relation to the
every day, legiimate use of these
terms. It should not be hard to un-..
derstand that there is a wide differ-
ence between apparent abundance and
real abundance —- between apparent?
scarcity and actual scarcity. Be-
tween apparent demand and real de-
mand—between apparent lack of. de-
mand and actual lack of demand. f

The expert salesman or buyer thor~
oughly appreciates the needof a con.~
genial atmosphere in which to do
business; the comparatively small
coterie of traders which control the .
destinies of the Chicago Board 10f"

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ducing the proper "atmosphere” for

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“survey work was begun.

UR GREATEST natural resource“

is the fertility of the 5011.12
any agricultural community;

‘lcountY. state or, nation ignores this

basic principle eventually disaster
If” our .. informants have
spoken correctly it is possible to
find rural "communities of seme of
the older, settled regions of Michigan
that are less productive than form-
erly; theresult being tumble down

' buildings both in towns and rural
1, districts.

Usually a prosperous ag-
ricultural district means prosperity
for the merchant, banker and oth-
ers. The prosperity of the district
depends primarily upon soil fertil-
ity. It is prudent, therefore, on the
part of county, state and national
government to do all that is pract-
icable to increase and maintain soil
fertility. The Michigan soils pro-
gram calls for certain activities. One
of these is the soil survey.

The Michigan Farm Bureau Backs

the Soils Survey

At the November meetingthe ex-
ecutive ofllCers of the Michigan State
Farm Bureau endorsed and approv-
ed the soilxsurvey that is being con:
ducted jointlyby the U. S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture, Bureau of

'Soils and the Michigan Agricultural

College. In discussing it the' chair-
man spoke ‘of this as a “bread and

,. butter proposition.” ~

In this article I shall briefly out-
line the history of the soil survey,
our methods of procedure, extent of
the work in Michigan and some

things that have been emphasized by _

the work that has been done.

In this country the actual field
mapping of soils was begun in 1899,
although much commendable work
had been performed previous to that
date. Since its inauguration by the
U. S. Department of Agriculture the
Soil Survey has been extended and
pursued with vigor and usually with
foresight until at one time or an-
other some work has been conduct-
ed in every state in the Union. It is
notable that this phase of the De-
partment’s activities was not ham—
pered by a cut in its appropriation
orin other words this line of work

stood the acid test. In 1920. the
Department of Agriculture co-op-
erated with 27 state institutions.

This is desirable for the reasons stat-
ed by Dr. C. F. Marbut, Chief of
the Soil Survey.

“The policy of co-operating with
state organizations in soil survey
work was adopted at the time soil
The soil
survey work concerns probably more
completely than that of any other
activity of the Department of Agri-
culture questions. of both local and
of very general importance. The soil
is a body occurring everywhere and

, has everywhere a close relation to

the local agriculture. Most of the
questions of scientific interest and
many of those of practical agricul-

, tural importance can be treated best

when studied in their relation" to the
widest possible variety of geograph-
ic conditions, while all the questions'
of practical agricultural importance
and many of the scientific questions
have great local interest. It is em-
inently fit therefore; in fact it is
necessary in order to obtain the best

' results to have the work done by
parties consisting of representatives

of both points of view.

A survey by state men is neces-
sarily made from the point of con-
dition existing in that state and will
usually fail to show
with conditions beyond the state
boundaries. The results would have
restricted applicability and would

, fail therefore to serve the highest

possible purpose. A survey made by

ismen who see the matter from the . -'
gynatinnwide point of view is apt to

1;.lack that complete and sympathetic
contact with" local problems that is

 
 

to obtain the best and
i . Bit

relationships '

History of Soil Survey, Methods of Procedure and Extent of Work in Michigan

By M. M. McoooL

 

 

"IS IS THE first 'of a series of articles by Prof. M. M. McCool showing
what the M. A. O. hopes to accomplish for the farmers by a comprehen-
'sive soil survey and what the College’s future soil program will be. It
is the desire particularly to secure proper analyses of the soils in the nude
velOped counties, and determine if possible what crops, if any, can be grown

onthebalkofiheselands.

Still another result of the soil survey will be to

discover why some of the older soils of Michigan have “worn out" and still

others are producing as well as formerly.

program of the M. A. C. will be published in an early issue—Editor.

 

 

national and state representatives in

“doing the werk.

The scope of modern soil survey
is wide. In a soil survey the soils

are considered as such, not as geo-

logical formations, are classified,
their boundaries located and shown
on maps. It should be understood
that our views are distinctly agricul-
tural and not geological and the
work which is” being conducted does
not duplicate or take over that be-

. ing done or belonging to any other

state institution. We are making, So
far .as possible, a utilitarian soil sur-
vey of Michigan. —

Soils as a generalrule have prop-
erties of marks of identification by.
means of which the expert readily
recognizes them in the field. These
may be texture or the amount of
sand, silt or clay they carry, struct-
ural relationships, topography, solor,
vegetable matter content, lime cor-
bonate in subsoils, depth, drainage
and others or combination of sever-
al of. these. On this basis the soils
of‘a county or area are classified and
their boundaries located and shown
on maps in some suitable manner. It
naturally follows that a trained soil
surveyor is able to see important
differences in soils that the layman
or inexperienced person may not be

able to detect until his attention is

called to them. Such differences
often enable. one to account for var-
iations thatoccur‘in the productiv-
ity of soils as well as offering sug-
gestions as to the methods of im-
provement. It is understood by soil
investigators that the methods must
be altered somewhat to suit the con-
ditions as they are found’ in the area
in question. Soil classification is
the ground work of a soil survey.

Drainage courses are located and
shown on the map. The field work-
ers seek out the points of origin of
the branches and as accurately as
possible trace their courses until they
unite to form larger streams or leave
the area surveyed. The area of land
that are poorly drained or are in
need of artificial drainage are also
shown on the map. Moreover the

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topography or lay of the land is con-
sidered as well as the areas or fields
that have eroded or are eroding
badly and where possible prevention
methods are suggested. The amount
of land utilized is shown, as well as
the possibilities for development are
considered. The present state of
productivity and methods for im-
provement by means of lime and fer-
tilizer are also given proper consid-
eration.

Samples of surface and subsoils
taken to a depth of forty inches are
transported to the laboratory and
analyzed for. plant food, lime «.and
water relationships. This consti-
tutes one of the most important
phases of the work, inasmuch as it
affords a background or a basis for
future soil improvement or better-
ment.

Upon the completion of mapping
of the soil and the gathering of in-
formation concerning them a report
is written. This when published in-
cludes the soil .map of the country
or area in question.
weather conditions, agricultural re-
lationships, descriptions of the dif-
ferent kinds of soil found, their
plant food content, their deficiencies
if they have any and means of over-
coming them.

The Present Status of the Soil Sur-
vey in Michigan

Earlier surveys by the U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture, Bureau of
Soils, includes, Allegan, Wexford,
Cass and Genesse counties and also
the Alma, Owosso, Oxford, Pontiac
and Munising areas. Calhoun coun-
ty was finished in 1917. These are
to be modified somewhat on the basis
of the classification that we have
worked out and will then be made
to fit into the Michigan Soil Survey.

We have performed an appreci-
able amount of work of this nature
in Michigan, for example a recon-
naissance survey has been made of
the old lake bed soils of the Sag-
inaw basin, Thumb and southeast-
ern areas of the state. About one-
third of Chippewa county has been

 

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A second article upon the soils

Records of,

cent of clay in the subsoil.

  

covered in a similar manner. Solb
maps have also been ,made in St.
Joseph and Branchlcounties. In ad-
dition a very detailed survey of Ber-,
ien County has been completed co-
operatively by the College and the
U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bu-
reau of Soils. There were five men
in the field the greater part of the
last mapping season [and seven part
of the time.

We have deemed it advisable to
first establish our soil types in diif~
ferent parts of the state so far as
possible rather than to proceed from
within outwards so to speak. This
method naturally has slowed up the
initial work yet when the state
work as a whole is concerned it will
result in an economy of time and en-
ergy as well as in a unification of the
classification. Henceforth the map-
ping should proceed uninter-ruptedly.

The important feature of the co-
operative agreement is that in so far
as possible in the conduct of the
detailed soil surveys, the Bureau of
Soils is to furnish one field assistant
for each one furnished by the Michi-
gan Agricultural College Experiment
Station, the two to constitute a soil
survey party. Each institution will
pay the salary and subsistence ex-
penses of the man thus furnished.
The expense for livery hire will be
shared equally by the two institu-
tions.

These co-operative plans cal-1 for
detailed work in the ,, undeveloped
portions of the state, the county be-
ing the unit area. In the conduct of
this phase the mappers will 'be on all
farms and the boundaries of types
ranging in extent from a few to large
numbers of acres will be isolated and
shown on maps.

The cost of the work is not great
due to the co-operation with the U.
S. Department of Agriculture. Ber-
rien County has been mapped in de-
tail the past season at a cost of ap-
proximately twenty—five hundred dol-
lars. It should be noted that this is
a large and difficult county to map
owing to the variation in soil and
diversification of agriculture. Sev-
eral counties in the state will not
cost more than one-half this sum and
it is very doubtful if any one will
cost more. This means a permanent
piece of valuable work at a less cost
than the construction of one-quarter
of a mile of good road!

The work is being conducted ex-
tensively on the cut over sections of
the state. It seems that it is more
important to locate the larger areas
of different kinds of land in a short
time than it is to spend much time
on details. The average cost of a
soil map of the undeveloped coun-
ties will run under three hundred
dollars aside from the cost of the
report that is issued.

Several things have been reveal-
ed by the soil surveys thus far con-
ducted in Michigan. An abundance
of corbonate of lime underlies the
greater portion of the heavy lands
of the Saginaw Valley, Thumb area,
eastern and southeastern Michigan,
or the area known as the old lake
bed. The nitrogen content is high as
is the potash, but the phosphoric
acid is the plant food constituent that
is lowest but in fact it runs higher
than in most of our soils. Atten-
tion to drainage and soil tilth is gen-
erally necessary. The deeper sandy
soils are usually not high either in
lime, phosphoric acid or nitrogen.
However, the shallower sandy soils
are generally very productive when
drained. The percentage of the
lands in St. Joseph and Berrien
counties not in need of lime for best
results has been found to be very
low. The corbonate of lime is not
generally found above 36 inches in
the heavy soils of these counties and
ln-case of the sands it usually lies
below five feet from the surface.
Large areas of light surface'soils in ,
Berrien County contain a small lire-r; ,

'e, _
presence of this material «doubtless?
adds to the agricultural value fies; _
these soils. — .2

  

      
    
 
  
 
 

  
  
     
   
   
 
 

  


 

    
 
  
 
  

    

 

0U. 01117111 believe a thing just

Ibeoause you see it in print.
Practically every writer exaggerates.
It seems that we as an American peo-
ple like extremes and sensations. Ev-
en a newspaper editorial has got to
have more than a one-half of one per
cent kick or else we pass u. 110.

Most stories are based on truth but
if you seek facts rather than enter-
tainment, you 've got to use a smoked
glass and fade out the brilliant color-

in:
etc.

The woeful plight of the down trod-
denIfarmer-has been pointed out, ex-
plained and“ discussed so extensively
that the condition itself has been ag-
gravated.

You can't get an insight of country _

life by reading popular fiction any

more than you can get a true picture .

of France by attending the Parislenne
Follies.

If I am to believe what I read in the
daily paper, there is only one type of
agricultural laborer and one type of
industrial worker. Here they are:

First, the farm hand—the benighted

unfortunate working fourteen hours ‘

every day'and Sundays for the meagre
stipend of $65.00 per month.

Second, the factory worker, who is
on the job not to exceed six to eight
hours a day for which he receives all
the advantages of the city with $50.00
per week throwu in!

According to the city press-agent,
there is no such thing as a farm hand
working less than fourteen hours a
day, nor a city employee who works
more than eight hours out of a pos-
sible twenty-four.

But listen—There are two sides to
the story—The truth may be stranger
than fiction but it is not so sensational.

‘How many farmers do you know
who work fourteen hours a day con-
sistently? Or if you’ re a city man,
how many factories in your vicinity
observe the eight hour day with a min-
imum wage running into two figures?

I can show you no end of shops right
here in the Unionized City of Chicago
where nine and ten hour days are
still in style. And I know plenty of
farmers—up-to-date farmers, proper-
ous farmers, business farmers—who
d on 't average more than eight Or nine
hours per day when you figure it out
on a vearly basis.

Most of the exaggerations have been‘

in favor of urban life. The city has
been advertised beyond all reason.
Rural life has been clouded with pes-
simism.

The anecdote has been told and re-
told about the fellow who became sick
after all his friends entered into a con-
spiracy to tell him how badly he look-
ed. No wonder the farmer is sick——
No wonder the farmer boy seeks a
change of climate.

Before me I have clippings from
newspapers, popular magazines, sta-
tistical reports and a number of farm
papers. A few—a very few of the
stories are constructive—.—The majority
tell me that the farmer is the goat-
even the articles that are written os-
tensibly to please him are designed to
do so by calling attention to the fact

.that he is very much imposed upon.

I see the expression “rural worn”
used repeatedly. A farmer is quoted
as saying "to hell with farm life" and
in my favorite weekly the sub- head
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Writer Claims Advantages of City and Disadvantages of Country have been Crossly Exaggerated

Being one of a series of editorials regarding the fa .n labor problem, issued
by the Hyatt Roller Bearing 00., Chicago, and written by H. G. Weaver.

farmer is the “Madeill of the social
fabric."

I think every paper in America
must have published that deep indigo
story about the Michigan farm labor
shortage. I have seen it copied and

.recopied by farm papers, newspapers,

magazines and trade papers from all
over the country.

‘Presumably about the same time
that it was issued I had occasion to
visit Detroit and incidentally learned
that there were within that city thous—
ands and thousands of men unable to
find work but little or nothing was
said about it in the papers and 1? 2
country lads continued to dock. city—
ward.

Last week, I visited one of the sec-
tions of Chicago where several em-
loéatefl. I
counted 268 men in line waiting for

jobs—jobs, mind your—just pla;'.~.-or-
dim, everyday, unskilled labor,
JOBS.

I looked at the bulletin 'where the
more attractive openings were listed.
The wages ranged from $3.50 to $5.00
per day

Do you know what board in the
city will cost you?-——But never mind,

 

 

we’ll get to that later.

The main point
is this. Industrial laborers are not
scarce—at least not in Chicago.

I talked to one of the employment
agency men—He told me that within
the city limits there were 80,000 men
seeking employment! I asked him
what an unskilled country boy could
earn._ The answer was from $3.50 to
$4.00 provided he were strong, willing
to work hard ’and were lucky enough
to get a job at all.

t t t

It is a popular belief that without
preliminary training the farmer boy
can move to town and readily earn
the wages of a skilled mechanic. This
is a fallacy—the farmer lad has as
much to learn before he becomes a
competent factory employe as the city
chap must learn before he can earn
his salt as a farmer.

We need a better understanding be-
tween city people and farmers. The
average person of the city does not
realize that the farmer of today is
quite a different individual from the
farmer of the “sixties.”

Contrary to popular opinion, there
are plenty of farmers even as far west
as Peoria who don't say “B’gosh” and
you can see more “hicks” on upper
Broadway than youll be able to find in
the grocery stores of St. J0, Missouri.

There is unquestionably a difference
between the city mind and the coun-
try mind, but this difference cannot
be detected by signs of nay-seed or by
Whether or not a man secures his
trousers with gallowses, suspenders,
horseshoe nails or a belt!

One of the principal points of differ-
ence between the city man and the
farmer is their respective attitudes
toward money. ,

The city man looks upon money pri-
marily as a medium of exchange.

Every move that he makes represents

a cash disbursement.

With him money is the one and on-
ly measure of value. His money buys
what he needs. Nothing comes to
him without it. His transactions al-
ways involve a monetary considera-
tion.

1With the farmer it is different.
Much of his business is conducted
without cash Many of his transac-

tions do not involve the use of cur-1

rency at all. Money does not play an
intimate part in his life.

his food direct from the soil. The

nature of his livllhood for the most .,
> - , part is the same simple process that
has existed «since the time that man '
»made his

t appearance on earth.
The farm

  

He gathers.

stransactiens assume the.

form of barter and exchange. Those
necessities that he does not raise he
buys from the.,_villoge general store
and oftimes effects full settlement in
b1 19.18 of wheat, bales of cotton,“

anl produce.

Considering the large volume of bus-
iness transacted by the farmer. he gets
along with a surprisingly small
amount of cash. He may go days .or
even weeks at a time without taking
part in a transactiorl that involves the
coin of the realm.

The farmer. of the old school looked
upon money as something to be sav-
ed. He abhorred a cash disbursement.

The farmer of today is influenced
by the customs and traditions of the
past. Contrary to popular opinion he
is not stingy. He is perhaps the most
liberal man on earth. He will give
you anything that he has weep:
money.

And again—the farmer" s attitude
towards money makes it difficult for
him to understand the daily life of
his urban brother He is inclined to
look upon the earnings or the city em-
ployee as unincumbered profit. When
he hears of a man earning ten dollars
a day, he immediately has visions of

a rapidly growing bank account. If
he is a land owner, he resents such
absurd liberality on the part of the
industrial employer—if he is a wage
hand, he begins to consider the advis-
ability of moving to town.

Youth is ambitious and restless.
The appeal of the printed word is
strong. The desire to get something
for nothing—to earn a ,1iv1ng without
the prescribed sweat of the brow—is
a strong human characteristic that is
more or less evident in all of us. The
given or implied promise of a soft
job, attractive hours, with big pay,
has tempted the farmer lad to forsake
the old homestead”

Personally, I don't believe a country
boy has ever moved to town without
experiencing a keen disappointment—-
a disappointment that varies in direct
proportion with his ambition to suc-
ceed and save.

The first few days he is astonished
by the high prices of all the necessi-
ties of life.

Then he discovers that the attrac-
tive salaries so picturesquely describ-

ed in the magazines and movies do

not actually exist in real life.

After he secures employment he is
dumbfounded to find that there is just
as much hard work in the city as in
the country.

Having a boss standing over him
all the time rather gets on his nerves
and the fact that he .doesn’t see the
sunlight more tlnn once or twice a
day serves to aggravate the condition.

A few months, or perhaps weeks,

pass by—the bright lights no longer '

attract. He begins to see through the
veneer. He is willing to return to
the farm, but usually it's too late. He
will find conditions changed.
no longer fitted for farm work. ..He
has sacrificed his birthright for an
overdose of cabaret. His place has
been filled by someone else and the
fatted calf sold to Swift or Armour.
There are thousands of farmer boys
in the city barely breaking even, but
stimulated by the excitement of the
new environment or else too proud to
acknowledge a mistake, they tenac-
iously stick it out.
,, From my own experience, gained
through a rather checkered career, I
don’t believe it’s possible fer a young
chap without training to consistently

”.Imake more than $5, 00 per day in any

city in AmeriCa—alnless perchance he

i has the good fortune to be born into c

family of the Plumber: and Pipe-Fir
ten AfistOcracyl. . .,

But that’s another story. -. ’

The farm labor sh

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seemed to have solved itself. The
weather man favored the harvest. The
crop was gathered and has been safe-
ly stored away.

We do not yet face the bread line.
The farm labor shortage is no longer
acute because it is out of season but
the problem has not been solved.

There is one reason and only one
reason back of the bar leaving the
form, he has reasonable hope of bet-
tering his condition elsewhere. .

The automobile has brought the
farmer boy in direct touch with met-
ropolitan life. The barrier of dis-
tance that has heretofore separated
the country from the city has been
eliminated. The younger generation
sees the contrast in the form of sup-
erficial attractions and the tempta-
ion is too strong to resist.

There is no spectacular side of coun-
try life. It has to do with fundamen-
tals. The advantages of the city are
on the surface—the attract the eye
and temporarily intoxicate the brain.
The city is always on dress parade—-
at least it so appears to the unsophis-
ticated country lad.

There is but one sure way to get
men and women back to the farm, and
that is by making rural life suflic-
iently attractive. Agricultural de-

. oclopment will come only as it paysI

and satisfies people to live in the
country!

And mark my words, farm life will
neither. be attractive nor renumera-
tive until we are all sold on the im-
portance of agriculture. .

The crux of the whole situation is
just this:—

In order for the farmer to make
money he must be able to secure and
hold farm labor.‘ But he cannot se-
cure and hold labor unless farm life
is made attractive.

On the other hand, the argument is
advanced that the farm cannot be
made attractive without money.

Apparently the riddle does not lend
itself to solution.

But— listen!

Last year in the State of Illinois
alone, the farmers lost over fifty mil-
lions of dollars through unwise in-
vestments in oil stock and other get-'
rich- -quick schemes.

Fifty million dollars would have
done a lot toward making the farm
attractive.

There is only one conclusion. The
farmers themselves are not sold, on
the idea of farming.

If the farmers were sold on farm-
ing they would not be investing mil-
lions of dollars in outside ventures
when their own industry needs addi-
tional capital. If the farmers were
sold on farming, they wouldn’t be
selling their cattle, decreasing their
acreage and moving to town.

The farmer has never received a
reward proportional to his effort.

This will be adjusted in the new
era of things. Comprehensive plans
for cc-operative marketing, cest find-
ing, etc, now under way through pro-
gressive ‘ agricultural organizations
will help solve the farmer's financial
problems, but there is an even more
urgent need for constructive propa-
ganda that will upbuild the morale
of our rural population.

We can’t help the farmers with-
out helping ourselves. Sooner or lat-
er we will learn tc appreciate the
importance of agriculture. Whether

we help or sit by with folded arms ,

and look on from the side lines, . the
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Same shape, 1-2 hath

No.1—Mlnk-.stretch
1-2 width for Weasel.
as wide for Fox.
for Olvet Oat. House Oat. 1-2
wlder.

No. 2—8kunk-stretch. Also used for
Possum. Upper portion used for Hint-
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KNOW of no other ,

which to emphasize more fully

the important of handling and
curing furs properly, than to relate
the fact that a fur buyer in this
neighborhood went out and bought
a bunch of furs of a trapper for $7,
shaped them up, and brought them
in to our local dealer and sold them
for $24.

Of course, this was an exception-
al case, but your writer finds it an
easy matter to double the value of
furs bought of other trappers, es-
pecially if. they can be had while
they are partly “green," so they can
be shaped up to proper proportions
and left under correct conditionsfor
curing. With no thought of boast-
ing, but rather to give weight to
what I may write in this article, I
will state that my furs are so care-
fully handled and stretched, that I
always receive a premium for them.
Any trapper who will take the same
pains as I do with my furs, can rea-
lize the same results—it is" merely
a matter of “know how,” and a close
application of that knowledge.

A Few Good Trapping Tricks

Before going into details of hand-
dling and curing furs, it would seem
fit and proper to offer a few of the
methods employed by your writer
during his fifteen 'years’ experience
as a trapper.

To kill the metal scent of traps
when new, bury them in loud for
several days, or smoke them with
'leaves, rotton wood, bark, size, be-
ing careful not to get them too hot.

Oil all working parts of traps. See
and
that all parts fit true—using the
file if necessary. If jaws do~not set
level, turn the spring to the right.

Always dig a little cavity for the

manner in

trap to "set in, leaving it so it will

be on a level or a little below the
surface of the ground. Place the
trap with the jaws (not the spring)
toward the point from which the
animal is supposed to come. .

I always cover not. only the pan
and the jaws of a trap, but the spring
and chain, .also.
1111 to see that there is nothing un-
der the pan to prevent “from allow-
ing the trap to spring, and that
there are no small sticks or pebbles
Where they will catch the jaws of
the trapand hold them apart when
the animal springs it.

trap will prevent it frOm freezing
down in cold weather and failing. to
spring when tripped.

-. TakingGoodOareofaIAneofrraps

I aim to see every one of my traps
, , sa' any-=- This guards against any
. ‘ , ‘ ed animals ,

Iam always‘care- _ '

A little dryt
dirt, leaves, grass or moss under the _~:

Trapper Gives Suggestions on Trapping, Handling and Curing That Will Enable You to Make

a Good Profit on Your Winter’s Catch

By M. COVERDELL

traps, and fighter tear them loose.

It must also be admitted that some
trappers unworthy of [the name, will
steal furs .out of traps. Then, af-
ter an animal has been in a trap
several hours, the rush of blood to
the parts in the trap causes a dark-
ening of the skin and a consequent
lowering of the quality. This is es-
pecially,true where the animal dies
in ththrap, or if the weather turns
warm during the day. During cold
weather, the'captured animals us-
uallydie a horrible death if left in
the trap for long, and they are then
very difilcult to skin.

Correct Skinning is Important

I skin an animal just as soon as
possible after taking it from the
trap. It is easier done at this time,
and there is no danger of the heat
of the animal’s body discoloring the
flesh side of the fur or causing any
hairs to slip out.

Skinned animals should not be
thrown carelessly about, for other an-

imals to pick up, which would cause

them to pass one’s baited traps, on
account of not being hungry.
writer carefully saves all carcasses,
utilizing them as feed for the hogs,
or hanging one each day in the
scratching shed for the chickens, it
being just high enough from the
ground to force the layers to take
the. essential exercise in reaching it.

With a keen knife, I split the skin
from the hind foot, up the leg, to
the vent. If Coon, the skin is then
split up the belly to the chin and
down each fore leg to the foot“ This
is called “open" skinning. Skunk,
mink, possum, muskrat, civet cat,
weasel, marten, house cat and fox

_ are skinned “cased,” the hind legs

being split as with “open” skinning,
and. the hide drawn oil without split-
ting down the belly. The bone al~
ways should be removed from the
tail, and where the weather is some-
what, warm, the tail should be split

, to the extreme tip, to avoid grease

settling there, heating, and causing
the fur to slip. If the point of a
tail is accidently pulled off carefully
tack it back with fine thread. Noth-
ing so depreciates the value of a fur

Your -

as to have the tail disfigured or en-
tirely removed. ‘

Furs Must be Stretched Correctly

I try to stretch furs as near as
possible the same shape as the ani-
mals from which they are taken, ex-
cept, of course, they will be consid-
erably longer than the animals which
wore them.

Boards for stretching should be as
thin as possible these from ordinary
goods boxes being best. Furs can-
not be stretched as well on a thick
board; they do not show up asi-well
as they do on thin boards, and they
are much easier removed from a thin
board than from a thick one.

Stretching boards should be not
only ovalled at the upper end (like
illustrations,) but they should be
beveled down on each edge, so the
furs will slip on easily and without
tearing them; also, to allow them to
be drawn off without damage when
cured. (Tap the oval end of a board
against the floor, when removing
a fur from it.)

I stretch a fur as soon after skin-
ning as possible. In no case, allow
a fur to freeze before stretching.
Tacking the fur on a board tempor—
arily, I carefully scrape all the fat
and meat from the flesh side, using
a dull knife or square edged board.
(Caution: Do not scrape too deep,
else the real skin—the part which
holds the hair firm—«will be broken,
causing the fur to “shed.")

After cleaning up the flesh side
of a fur, I remove the tacks or nails,
and carefully restretch 'it. By this
plan, the funk; greatly increased in
size, and will cure more readily and
thoroughly than if poorly stretched.
(Caution: Never pull and stretch at
a fur until it leaves the hair set
thinly over it, which would give it
the appearance of a poor product.)
Use plenty of nails or tacks in the
stretching.

Some Good Rules for Curing Furs

If a fur is wet or muddy, I try to
dry and clean it before stretching,
and I never allow the sun or rain
to touch one while, curing.

Under some shelter, where there
is plenty of air circulating, in a cool,
dry place, is the spot for curing furs.
If furs are stored where mice, rats,

Michigan Breeder Takes High Honor

F. GIBSON, of Bridgeport, Mich.,
has just returned from Atlanta,

° Ga, where sixteen of his Im-
proved Chester White Porkers were
awarded nineteen prizes, rewarding
Mr. Gibson handsomely for his trip.
Mr- Gibson’s champion soil-pound
boar, which won first place at six of
the larger county fairs in central
Michigan, was awarded second hon-
ors at the national show, and a senior
boar exhibited by the Bridgeport
breeder was pronounced the champ-
1011 of his class. ‘

Competing against 2,700 pigs, the
local exhibitor’s herds won three first
prizes, nine seconds, two thirds, one
fourth and one fifth prize, more than
paying the expense of the trip, Mr.
Gibson said.

Mr. Gibson is an enthusiastic read-
er of THE BUSINESS Fauna, and we
are naturally pleased over his success
at the National Swine Show. Mr. Gib-
son’s success as a breeder affords an
example of the value of good breeding
and everlastingly sticking at it thru
all setbacks and disappointments.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 

 
 

 
 

 
  
 
 
 
 

 
 
 

  

 

 
 
  
   

 

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birds or chickens can reach them,
they are sure. to have the flesh side
eaten till the hair becomes loose, the
fur being practically ruined.

I never use salt, alum or other
cosmetics in curing furs. One thus
may whiten them, but the experienc-
ed fur dealer can detect their use at
a glance, and he will “grade” your
fur according to its quality, not its
appearances.

I always leave furs hanging (and
not too close together) until thor-
oughly cured, even till they are sold
Keep furs under lock and key at
night They are getting to be so
valuable, it is not uncommon for
thieves to raid the honest trappers
fur supply.

Marketing of Furs is Important

I have known men who were good
trappers, to come out at “the little
end of the horn” when it came to the
selling side of the game. Your writ-
er handles and cures his furs as
above instructed, and then, with first
class products, demands top notch
prices—and gets them, too!

I leave the furs right on the
stretching boards till time to sell
them. They are easier handled in
this way, and will present a better
and larger appearance than if re-
moved from the boards; One also
can run over the flesh side of the
furs and remove any dust that has
collected. This gives them a fresh,
clean appearance, and materially
adds to their value.

I try to keep well posted on mar-
ket conditions, and if our local fur-
dealer is willing to pay me what I
consider he should for my furs, I am
glad to sell to him; if he isn’t, then
I consider it my privilege to ship.
Here, however, one must be cautious.
All fur dealers do not pay the sky-
high prices they quote; they beat
you on the “grading."

It is a good plan to make the first
shipment to some dealer who will
promise to hold your consignment of
furs separate until you can write him
whether or not his prices are sat-
isfactory. After one finds a reliable
concern, this is not necessary, as one
should ship to the same house year
after year (that is, as long as fair
treatment is accorded,) as regular
shippers are somewhat favored in
“grading," which is no more than
natural and right.

When to Trap Furs

Do not trap too early or too late.
Generally speaking, the season is
from, November to April. “Springy”
hides—those that have started to
shed, fade, etc.——are not in good de-
mand among manufacturers. As
soon as this condition is noticed, set:
ought to be pulled up. By doing»
this and following the laws of the
various states and provinces, the V31-
uable animals of America may be
and THE TRAPPEB
MAKES THE MOST MONEY.

 

 

 
   


   

 

 

 

    

TRADE AND MARKET REVIEW

During the past week, business
conditions have floundered along in
the same rut that they have been in
for the last 90 days; deflation has
progressed and prices for many com-
modities have continued to decline.
The pig iron and steel industries are
practically at a standstill, as far as
new business is concerned, with no
prospect of permanent improvement
until well into the new year. The
cut in prices made by the independ-
ent manufacturers to the price levels
made by the U. 8. Steel Corporation,
got them very little new business and
the Independents are only running
their mills at 50 per cent of their
capacity. The corporation mills are
running at full blast, working on old
orders and turning out more finished
products than on any other preced-
ing date this year.

To get a proper understanding of
the steel situation, it is necessary to
know that there are three classes of
buyers who patronize the two divi-
sions of the steel manufacturing bus-
iness. One class gives all of its or-
ders to the Trust; another- all to
the Independents and a third and,
by the way, much, the largest num-
ber, buy of both when conditions are
normal, taking of the Trust what
they can get prompt deliveries on
and permitting the Independents to
take care of the overflow. Of late
there has been no overflow, hence
the tremendous reduction in the out
put of the Independents. Fitting
nicely into the above mtement of
facts is the announcement made by
the manufacturers of farm imple
ments that prices will be the same
this year as last.

Grain prices seem to be in a piv-
otal position fluctuating up and down
within comparatively narrow limits
as the bear gang pursue their regu-
lar program of selling short and
evening up. Statistically and from
the standpoint of foreign demand,
Wheat occupies a strong position but
buying operations are held in abey-
sure by the extreme depression in
financial circles and the consumma-
tion of the bull program is, for the
moment, deferred. Nearly all of the
different grades of live stock have
declined to new low levels and fresh
meats, at wholesale, are selling at
the bottom for the season, so far.

There seems to be a growing con-
viction, among those who have made
a comparativestudy of existing con-
ditions of supply and demand, that
foodstuffs are low enough for the
present and with the turn of the
year and an upward revision in sell-
'ing values is looked for. In the is-
sue of Dec. 13 the Wall Street Journ-
al published the following interest-
ing analysis of the current food out-
look given out by the president of
one of New England‘s leading retail
grocery firms:

“So far as foodstuffs are concern-
ed, I believe the cost of living has at
the moment reached the lowest point
it is likely to hit for the next eighteen
months, or possibly two years. Any
number of commodities are selling
below the cost of production, a con-
dition that nrver obtains for long
with any class of goods.

“Sugar is the best appreciatedex-
ample—off from 25 to 9 cents at
wholesale. Coffee, though less is
heard of it, is another, for it has
dropped from 26 to 7 cents. Flour
and potatoes, both fundamentals of
the human diet are also in the same
boat. Other less important items
could be named to swell the list.

“The wail from the farmers is
very real and regardless of Federal
aid to alleviate the present distress
it. is morally certain that producers
of foodstuffs are sure to curtail their
operations sharply next season. It
. is not human nature to attempt to
raise bumper crops after zyyear or
losses. _The curtailed production
will make itself felt before next fall

~ be nearer normal next year when
melodic strain is no more.

. ~--the more so as buying-power will '

  

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GENERAL MARKET SUMMARY -

 

lower. . .

CHICAGOHWheat strong.
tle dull. Hogs lower.

' V DETROIT—461mm working ‘higher.

Corn steady. Oats lower.

Cattle Steady. , Hogs

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smaller than he imagined—the pro-
ducer next year will not be in a po
sition of begging for a moratorium
That is why I look for a rebound of
at least 50 per cent in important
foodstufl items in the next twelve
months. The world cannot deflat
four years of inflation in a single
year.” -

The problem of unemployment is
becoming more and more serious as
time goes on and sweeping reduc-
tions made in the wages of those that
are working are of daily occurrence.
Detroit. with her 110,000 idle men
and the state with an idle list that
will approximate 250,000 brings us
nearer to the bread lines and soup-
kitchens of other years than we care
to be. The holiday season of 1920
will bring with it little of comfort
and enjoyment to the homes of
Michigan laboring men.

On the New York Stock Exchange
conditions have been going from bad
to worse, many standard stocks, in-
cluding some of the motors, making
new low records and the entire list
showing very little rallying power.
Very likely activity in the bond mar-
ket has been noted during the past

week'and some of the issues, notably '

tractions, have made record-breaking
declines.

Railroad securities are still under

pressure, the recent break in South-
ern Pacific being the signal for
throwing overboard the stock of
nearly all other lines; receipts are
falling rapidly, as the result of de-
creased tonnage and passenger
traffic and some of the operating com-
panies are said to be already in fin-
ancial straits.

WHEAT

 

WHEAT PRICES PER BIL, DEC. 14, 1920

 

 

 

Grade lDetrolt I Chicago 1 N. v:
No. 2 Rod . . . . ' 2.0. 1.7. 1.94 V:
No. 2 White . . . 1.9.
.No. 2 Mixed 1.9. ~ 1.39%

 

 

 

,pmcss ONE YEAR 1100
1No.2 RodI No.2 WhlteJ No.2 1mm
1 2.40 1 2.33 1 2.38 '

 

 

 

 

Detroit

 

The majority of the traders, in
the wheat market, are becoming con-
servatively bullish and the result is
not only a gradual increase in the
selling value of this cereal but a un-
iform firmness which this branch of
the market has not known since
early last fall. The active foreign

demand, which absorbs primary re-
ceipts, every week, is the pillar ot
strength upon which the bull move-
ment is predicated and the bears be-
gin: to hesitate about following the
short selling program much forth-
er down the grade. The visible sup-
ply showed a gain on Monday and
in response to this information, the
market eased, of! temporarily but
when it was learned that the in-
creased supplies were largely in the
eastern part'of the country and,
probably, largely Canadian-grown
grain, the market righted to and clos-
ed at prices 3 cents higher than Sat-
urday’s close. The only obstacle, in
the way of a strong bull market, is
the alarming financial situation and
this element has already been large-
ly discounted. Cash buying of wheat
by the mills of the country is com-
paratively small in volume; the call
is principally for Red wheat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OATS

OAT PRICES PER 30., use. 14, 1920

Grade lDou-olt. 1011mm“ ll. Y.
No. 2 wmm 55% .50
No. a White . .5315 .49
No. 4 White .4914

PRICES ONE vans nee

|No.2 wmul No.8 WhltoTNO.‘ wmu
Dan-01:1 .85'/a I 84% 1 .33

 

 

 

Country offerings of oats are in-
creasing and the market is showing
signs of weakness. The fact that

oats are badly colored, works against

any material advance in selling pric-
es at this time.

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CORN

NEW CORN PER BU., DEC. 14. 1920
Grade lDatr-olt IChlcago N. Y.
Yellow . . . .82 .1093 1.01 %
Yellow .81
Yellow .70
Falcsgougsiii‘noo
moist Yell.1 No._8_Y_ell.1 No.4 v.11.
. .1 1.52 1

 

 

 

 

No. 2
No. 8
No. 4

 

 

 

 

 

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NOTE: Old corn ls selling 10 cent: higher.
Bears in the corn market have
been arguing for some time past
that corn must go lower because the
farmer, badly in need of ready mon-
ey, would soon begin to flood the
market with the new crops. Good
judges of the present situation, in
connection with cereals, point out
that corn and cats are the only
grains that have gone down to pre-
war levels an-d they argue that corn

 

 

 

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WASHINGTON, D, (3., December
18, 1920.—-Durin¢ the week centering
on December 28 a warm wave wxll
come into the extreme northwest and
temperatures will rise in all the Rock-
ies and so eastward to, and in the
States near. New Orleans. Behind
it will come the storm center and
following that the cold wave with
nine south and snows north. The
storm center will move toward New
Orleans till it is about halt. way be-
tween ‘ Recit fills-usage the Atlantic
coast, then , ' _
its course toward VPlttaburt/ and ‘Ot-
tawa. It will be a large storm, cov-
ering most of the-continent and pass-
ing on, to the Atlantic during the last
days of December. Generally, warm
weather, asfan strange, will prevail

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THE WEATHER FOR THE WEEK
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‘tion will be near the general average

‘as the southern people call them, as

cember 18 to near the end of month.‘
and then will come the blizzard, Pre-
cipitation is not expected to be heavy
till last days of December and first
days of January, and then most of it
in eastern sections. A moderate cold
wave is expected to reach meridian
90 about December 22 and furnish a.
few inches of snow, in northern sec-
tions, for the Christmas holidays,
Christmas day will probably be
warmer than usual.

The January chart forecasts will
be a little late this month, and will
be published about December 25, That
will be a. radical month 1n the way of
storms and other weather featured
Greatstorms are expemed during the
weeks centering on January 9 and
27. In a general way the ppm-

for January, snow or rain will be near
the average as to latitude. Two first
blizzards are expected, or nor a.

the clan scenes of'tho two at
Item mn‘i’cn-tioned . above. $13?
too. "'41 crop weather. during 111111117 fl
expected in all of North Amen-i

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and a better feeling pervades

Corn
fairly

is low enough. for this year.
prices have been holding
steady at late and in event
wheat .follows the upward trend
which has been outlined by its
friends corn will surely follow suit.
We consider it good policy to “sit
tight” on‘corn for the present.-

 

RYE
Rye is lifeless and market prices

fluctuate slowly and within narrow

limits. Cash No. 2 is selling
$1.55, ten cents lower than
week's quotations.

for
last

BEANS
BEANS PER O‘N'I'" DEC. 14. 1920

 

 

 

and. 1Detrolt I Ohlcaoo N. Y.
0. ll. . ...... 4.10 4.75 ”0
Rod Ildnoyl . . . 11.00 10.00

 

PRIOEG ONE YEAR A00
10. H. P.1 Prlmo [Red Kidney:

namlz'....19.oo 1 7.1o1 11.30 .

 

 

 

The bean market shows no signs
of’ improvement, the going price .01
$4 per cwt. comparing unfavorably
with $7.10 on this date last year and
$12.50 two years ago.

POTATOES

BPUD PER "OWT., DEC. 16. 1920
I Sgckodl Bulk

 

 

Detroit ............... 2.00
Oh lcago ............... 1 .85
New York ............. 2.85
F] ltsburg .............

 

 

PRICES ONE vszfn nee
com". .............. _.1 2.48

The potato market, following the
general trend of many of the staple
food commodities, is working lower.
Scanning the market reports trom
the various Michigan cities it deveL
ops that good merchantablo potatoes
are lower in Detroit than at any oth-
er point in the state, probably, chief—
ly because of our close proximity to
Canada. All markets report a soft-
ening of selling prices during the
past week as a result of increased
receipts and a. decrease in demand.

 

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a mu . 20.01%“211'25no @ 20125.00 o 20
chalcaoo . 30.00 @ 32120.00 @ 29120.00 23
New York 31.00 @ 38188.00 @ 37131 .00 as
Plttsbul'l . 39.00 @ 30121.50 @ 23 20.00 a 21

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No. 1 1 No. 1 I
IIngm Mlx. IOIover Mix. 1- Clover

 

 

Detroit . . 25.00 0 26123.00 0 24122.00 @ 23
Chicago . .'128.00 @ 29126.00 @ 28125.00 @ 26
New Yuri 81.00 0 88134.00 G 85130.00 («2 32
Plttsbufl . 27.00 0 28127.00 @ 23123.00 @ 25

 

. HAY PRICES A YEAR AGO

1 No.1 IE1:$tan.Tlm.1 bio—.2310:
Detroit . .129.BO’@ 30128.50 @29121.50 @ 2|

1 No.1 1 No.1 1 No.1

1nght Mlx. lOloxothlx. l clover

Sou-on . . 121.5073 23120.00 @ 211277.50 @ 23

 

 

The hay market situation in De-
troit is called weak With a decided
tendency toward lower prices; offer-
ings are not large, it is true, but the
demand-is so freakish and undepend-

able that dealers hardly know where

they are at. One of Detroit’s lead-
ing hay dealers made the following
statement to a representative of this

‘ paper on Monday: '

“The country is full of hay that is
being quietly urged on the market
but we are discouraging shipment of

large quantities because there is no-

dependable demand. Local horse
owners have but little hay on hand,
it is true, but they will wait until
the last minute'betore they buy be
cause they are expecting lower
prices." ‘

 

WOOL

The Commercial Bulletin in. a re-
cent issue published the following:

that, ,

\

“There is more wool being sold _

the
market. although prices are quotable
on a. lower basis. *Many grades of}:

wool now are'believed to be dragging '~

on the bottom and the outlook for
thsmoro remote future loyal-fon-
coursgin‘. Meanwhile there j ”are,
prospects that congress.,may ”pea 81
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Michigan and New York fleeces:
Delaine unwashed, 46‘ and 470 ; fine
unwashed, 29 and 3°C; 1-2 blood un-
washed. 32 and 34c; 3~8 blood un-

.. washed, 29 and 30c.

 

SUGAR
The option deal in sugars has been
extremely weak of late and the cash
market for both raw and refined
sugar is adversely affected, by the
marked weakness in future deliver-

ies. Refined sugar is selling for 9 .

cents per pound, wholesale and the
raws for 4 to 4 1-2 cents. Detroit is
selling eastern granulated at whole

‘sale for $11, powdered for $13.10

and beet granulated for $10.90 per
hundredweight. \ -

LIVE STOCK MARKETS
The cattle trade has shown little

6 change of late, the chief feature of

the market being dullness and mark-
ed lack of demand, especially for all
of the common grades of butchers
cattle. On the opening on Monday,
Dec. 6, receipts were shown to be
smaller all around the market :ircle
and the result was a slight harden-

’ ing of the steer'market in Chicago;

it was also noticed that shippers to
eastern points were showing more in-
terest in the trade and it was their
bidding that gave the market what
little activity it had. The run of
range cattle was, disappointingly
light and anything in the way of an
active. demand would have put prices
much higher than they were. [The
trouble with the whole situation
accrue to center around 'the question
of employment or lack of it. Men
who are out of work are hard to in-
terest, especially, when prices are
still hovering around the late war
average. Reports from the eastern
dressed beef trade showed very lit-
tle change from the values that pre-
vailed during the last week in Nov-

  

ens
" ', '2'." ' , , . larger‘number" ‘
3.05m snarenssymn'ia fleeces: prim dropped to. the extreme low
. Delaine, unwashed, 47 and, 48c; flue
- unwashed, 30 and 310; 1'~2' blood
‘. combing, .33 and 35¢; blood combing,
'80 and 31c.

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point of the season. The decline was
the most noticeable in the depart-
ineut devoted to the sale of heavy
Yorkers and light mediums; Pigs
have been demoralized all the week,
the best selling for $9.50 per cwt.
in Chicago.

While last week in the Detroit cat-
tle market showed very little activ-
ity in demand, the average of prices
for everything except canners and
feeding cattle, was called “from 50
to 75 cents higher than the close of
the week before. On Monday of this
week prices Were generally lower in
spite of the fact' that the run was
moderate. The soft weather, which
has prevailed of late is against the
trade in dressed beef and veal and
partially accounts for the marked ab
sence. of demand.

good lambs selling for $11 per cwt.
The Detroit hog trade has been fair-
ly active, or late and prices paid
here have compared more favorably
with those in- other markets than

they did earlier in the season.

VITAL STATISTICS
Estimated receipts of hogs in Chi-
cago this week, 220,000; last year,
for same week, 238,000.

Aggregate receipts of live stock at
Chicago, last week, were 385,000;
for the corresponding period, last
year, 451,000.

Live stock receipts at leading west-

  
 

Sheep and lambs '
have been dull and slow many fairly“

    

arkets, V iaét’m

corresponding period in 1919, 716,-”-
000.’ Since Nov. 1920, live stock re-
ceipts at ‘ western markets~ have
equaled 3,097,000; for the same per-
iod, last year, 3,753,000. '

Average price of hogs at Chicago
last week, $9.80; for the week be-
fore, $10.20; for the same week, one
year ago, $12.80; for the-same week
two years ago, $17.56; for the same
week three years ago, $17.05.

Hogs packed between Nov. 1 and
Dec. 10 this year and for five pre-
ceding years are shown by the fol-
lowing figures: In 1920, 876,000; in
1919,1,212,000; in 1918,1,534,000;
in 1917, 1,012,000; in 1916, 1,519,-
000; in 1915, $1,412,000.

Last week’s shipments of cured
and .fresh meats from Chicago were
48,350,000 pounds against 54,492,-

000 the previous week and 89,741,-"

000 a year ago. Lard shipments
were 8,375,000 against 8,370,000 the
previous week and 15,473,000 8. year
ago. Canned meat shipments were
26,726 cases against 33,122 the prev-
ious week and 24,989 a year ago.

Armour and 00. report last week’s
fresh and cured meat prices the low-
est of the year. Beef trade contin-
ues depressed but demand for fresh
pork cuats is unusually strong. Col-
lections hold fairly well under exist-
ing conditions but noticeably tighten
in the South. Foreign inquiries are

larger. '

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who 1‘ lowin ' are cheflrec‘eipts and
Ding. p ces 0 live Stock for Monday,
D00 1 ._ .,

~ . RECEIPTS. j
Cattle ............................ 998 '
Calves .......................... 497
Sheep and lambs ................. 2,260
Hogs . ............................ ,425
' CATTLE .
Best heavy steers ........... 9.50-11,50~

Best handy wt. butcher steers 87.25-9-25

Mixed steers and heifers ...... ,00-8.60
Handy light butchers ........ .00-6,75
Light butchers ..... 5.00-5.75
Best cows ' ........ . .......... 6.50-7.75
Butcher cows, ....... . ........ 4.50-5.75
Cutters» ..... 3.75-4.00
Canners ...................... 3.00—3.50 ,
Best heavy bulls ............. 6.00-7.00
Bologna bulls ................ 5.50~6_00
Stock bulls .................. 4.50-5.00
Feeders ..................... 7.00—7.75
Stockers ..................... 5.00-6.75
Milkers and springers .. . 65.00— 00.00
. CA 1
Best grades ................ 13.00—14.00
Culls ....................... 8.00-11.00
Heavy ...................... 4.50—7.00
“rEEKLY MARKETGRAM
U. S. Bureau of Markets
Washington. D. 0., week ended

Dec. 13, 1920.

FEED: Feedstuffs movement re-
mains below normal because of con-
tinued favorable weather conditions.
Bran and middlings prices steady in
majority of markets but declined
sharply in Cincinnati. Bran sold in
Cincinnati as low as $30 to $31 per
ton compared to $35 last week. Red
dog lost $9 per ton past two weeks.
Linseed meal demand slightly improv-
ed, cottonseed meal remains weak;
sales 43 per cent meal $37 Chicago.
Hominy lost $ lper ton; gluten is
steady and unchanged. Demand for
all feeds is of hand to mouth char-
acter. Beet pulp broke $4 per ton.
Chicago quoted: Bran, $25.50, mid-
dlings, $23.50. Minneapolis, linseed

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'morc milk on Lane-iced, or if for
my other reason you are not
entirely satisfied, return your
empty sacks and unused Latro-

change but Detroit quoted beef lower.
In the range cattle department of

‘ the Chicago stock yards, receipts for iocdong‘gicvu'yocntofyour . . ( :.
the first two days of last week were ' ‘ I ““"y , .‘ - " * ' BU “ ‘5' '
/ ' ,- Dcalcrs selling Larro-lccd are _‘ . . "m“, ‘.~. . “RANT ANALYS ‘ . I,

5,700 less than for the same days of . . .. eulhczzed to annexe: the '_ . ' 5 ‘ DEPRUTFEESNUTURDERZOZ' 1,.

the week before, 10,000 smaller than
the week before that and 12,000
smaller than the correspondingper-
10d last year. The marked increase, . 1,, :5. M1,:- ‘.—
‘ 5 recently, in arrivals of range cattle _ ‘r- ”39 V§£E@@§r

Weigh Your F eed— ,
Weigh Your Milk

; quotations, in this department, show
a gain, over week before last, of 50

l to 75 cents per cwt. Veal calves

i have been very dull in all markets,
That‘s the way to put your dairy on a business basis—find
out exactly how much you are feeding each cow and -
exactly how much milk she is giving. It has been' our
advice to dairymen for eleven years.

of late, and prices are quoted sharp- -

ly lower for all grades; coarse heavy

calves are almost unsalable.

Sheep and Lambs

Pick out one' cow-éany cow you choose—~and let the gain
in her milk yield prove how cheap Larro really IS.

oil 60 to 60 cents per cwt from the , , . . 9

closing trade at rue week before km. 3 If you don 1'. get more milk than before, and hi: you don";

i make more profits from Larro (never mmd w t you pal

‘ The sheep departments of all of

i the leading live stock markets are

l for it), take the two empty sacks and any Larro you have
left back to your dealer and get your money back.

featured another bad break in pric-
es last week, the main cause being
Write for names of Larro users in your neighborth and
your nearest dealer. , .

the since! the run which was 25 to
40 per cent larger than for the same
The Larrowe Milling Compa
2i03Larrowe Bldg., Detroit, Mich.

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days the week before. Aged ewes
have been in liberal supply and are

Aged wethers sold with a $5.75 top
and were called 50 cents lower. Year-
. ling weth'ers entered a loss of 75
E cents to $1 per cwt.
I . r-For the first two market days of
last week, lambs in the Chicago stock
yards lost $1 to $1.50 per cwt. in
price and the market was decidedly
dull and weak at the decline. In
Chicago, packers only stayed in the
market a part of each day and the
latter half of each day’s trade was
well nigh demoralized. Feeding
lambs were in light supply in all ‘ ‘, .
markets; in Chicago the range of 62 - ' , ' i
to (iii—pound lambs~ was $10 to $11
percwt. ,' _ -
’ _ likeness anvarovislons
~ - , ' The ' early; estimate 'for‘ Chicago’s
. ,"hg’gj, receipts. on‘Monday' of last week
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Is, Your Farm For Sale?

Write out s plain description and figure so
for each word, initial or group of figures. Send
it’ in for one, two or three times. There's no
oheawr or better way of selling or farm in
Michigan and you deal direct w htihte buyer No
fluent: or commissions. If you want to so] or
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TEE MICHIGAN FINANCE
CORPORATION

As I am interested in the Michigan
Finance' Corporation I would be 813d 11
You could give me some information re-
garding the company's standing. wheth-
er lt is a good one to invest money in.
15 it going to be a paying concern and

is the company reliable?—-A. S, F., R001!-
ford, Mich ”

The Michigan Finance Corporation
is capitalized at $5,100,000, 3600.-
000 common and 4,500,000 prefer-
red. Par value of preferred, $10,
common, $1. The company was ap-
proved by the Securities Commission
February 28th, 1920, and permission
given for the sale of $4,500,000
worth of preferred stock and 525,-

000 shares of common stock, upon~

condition that 75,000 shares of com-
mon stock, issued to A. E. Manning,
et. al., for promotion be escrowed
with the State Treasurer until the
company .is earning 6 per cent net
on all outstanding stock. Manning
was formerly assistant state banking
commissioner under Mr. F. L. Mer-
rick. He resigned, we understand,
to take charge of this Eompany. As
a general proposition, the issuing of
a large block of stock for ”promo-
tion" purposes does not look good
to us. The $75,000 that has been
given outright to Mr. Manning must
come out of the rest of the stock-
holders at some time andiin some
form. This fact should be taken into
consideration. However, most of the
men who are identified with this
company are well known business
men and so far as we know thorough-
ly reliable. 'Whether their proposi-
tion will pay out is another. thing. No
man can determine Char—Editor.

 

PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN CATHOLIC
TERRITORY

Is it possible that there is no law in
this state which compels a school dis-

trict to provide educational facilities for‘

its children? I have in mind a case here
in Kent county. where there is a. school
district composed largely of Catholics
and German Lutherans who send their
children to the parochial schools. The
Protestant people of the district are not
of sufficient number to control the school
affairs of the district, and at a. recent
meeting of the school electors the propo-
sition to rebuild a public school which
had burned down was rejected because
the parochial school vote was in prepon-
derance, and the electors were not in-
terested in building a. public school to
teach‘ the thirty or forty children of the
Protestants of the district. What would
be your suggestion in such 'a. situation
as this?—Reader, Kent County, Mich.

The legislature in making the
school law evidently did not contem-
plate such an emergency. Section
5675 of the Compiled Laws of 1915
provides that the board shall have
power to lease or buy sites out of
money provided for that purpose. If
they have no fund for that purpose
the district board could not act; but
if they had a fund for that purpose
I think they could be compelled by
mandamus to perform a plain duty.
I also think that the State Supt. of
Public Instruction could remove the
whole board and have others appoint-
ed in their place if they refused or
neglected to act. It never dawned
upon me that a district would not act
when to fail to do so would cause
them to lose the primary school mon-
ey. This would be a case where com-
plaint with all the facts should be
made to the Supt. of Public Instruc-
tion—W. E. Brown, legal editor.

 

FLAW IN DEED

If A buys a. farm from B and B
agrees in the contract to furnish a. good
deed but in one transfer one man's wife
did not sign the deed. can B's adminis-
trator force A to pay the last paynfent
until this missing link is adjusted? Does
the law compel B to furnish an abtract
though not mentioned in the contract?—
A Subscriber, Levering, Mich.

It would be difficult to pass on the
question you. ask with out the con-
tract, or at least the wording of the
part concerning the kind of a deed
he is to give. There is a diderence
between furnishing a good deed and
furnishing a good title. In a proper

. kind of a contract there is an agree-

ment to , furnish a 7,.“me'rchantabls
title" and lfthe chain of title shows
a. deed' of a man, without the wife's
signature it would be such a defect
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a good title. N The vendor does not

agrees to do 80 but the absence of
an agreement to furnish an abstract
would not relieve the vendor frOm
furnishing a good title if he agrees
to do so in the contract. — W. E.
Brown, legal editor. '

CROP FOR MUCK LAND

I have three acres of muck broken
and in line shape. What canI raise on
it? Would frost catch crop-ll. Land
around muck quite level, Would po
corn do well?-Is there a market for it
Land is fairly well drained, I‘ own a
truck and will truck. what I raise. to
Detroit.—-—F. ‘M. D,. Lapeer. Mich»

Most muck is frosty so you should
keep thisln mind. Take no chances
with frost resistant crops. It should
be not , however, that although
there ha 6 been years in which frost
did not do much harm, for example
in 1919 and 1920 frost was not ser-
ious in the southern part of the state
where there was sufficient rainfall.
Experimental evidence and practical
observations lead us tobelleve that
the first factor in growing muck
crops is maintaining the mineral con-
tent of the soil. Most muck is defl-
clent in potash and phosphorus even
if it is virgin and has had no crop
on it. Muck should have a dressing
of manure or a commercial fertiliz-
er which contains considerable pot-
ash and phosphorus. A very import-
ant factor in putting a muck field in
shape, especially new muck, is to
roll it thoroughly; three times is not
too much. I will not go into the
details of the rolling beyond saying
that if the muck is well packed lodg-
ing of grain will not be so excessive.
Crops that are hardy to frost and
grow well on muck are alsike, tim-
othy, red top, field peas, sugar beets
short season varieties of corn and
sunflowers. The question as to
what crops to raise depends entirely
upon the type of farming. If you wish
to get into intensive farming, cab-
bage, onions, celery and' lettuce are
successful muck crops. ‘

I am not acquainted with pop corn
on muck. So far as I know pop corn
is not any more hardy than ordinary
field corn, so there is no special
adaptability of pop corn to muck.

I would be pleased to have you
advise me as to the details of your
situation and I would be very pleas-
ed to answer you in detail. (It is
very difilcult to generalize abou’t
muck when we consider that there
are many different k‘nds of muck.—
Ezra Levin, Extension Specialist, M.
A. 0.

LAW AGAINST FARMERS SELL-
ING MEAT

I would like to know something about
f‘ne law which prohibits farmers from
selling dressed meat by the halves, quar-
ters or otherwise. Butchers here threat-
en anyone who .sells dressed meat by
halves or quarters—F, Hillsdalo
County, Mich.

I presume that the authorities are
acting under the provisions of Act
120 of the Public" Acts of -903, C. L.
1915, Sec. 6498 and following. There
may be city ordinances governing
such sales; as cities and villages are
given authority to pass ordinances
upon the subject.- The regulations
are so long that you will get a bet-
ter idea of the law by. reading the
whole statute then I could give you
a brief digest of it. There are some
other regulations but the above ci-
tation is the most important regula-
tion—W. E. Brown, legal editor.

 

VDISOHARGED WITHOUT LAWF'UL
EXCUSE

, Can a man collect for the balance of
a year if the man
firedhim without a lawful excuse? Could
he hold the garden or sell it to some one
else?——~C. A. 8., Allegan, Mich,

If you hired for a definite time and
were discharged without a. lawful ex-
cuse you would be entitled to recover
the difference between what you

 

would have received if you 11341035; .
tinned under the contract and a what:

you did‘receive working the best you
could at other jobs. The holding .of
the garden as. you put it would do:

- pend upon the lawfulness of your 615‘?

, WWyW-fizgfltewn is a; editor.

have to furnish an abstract unless he.

W38 working for'

' limomnm‘e CATTLE .
Would you please publish in your pull-l9

 

er the law regarding the impounding or ' ~

cattle that run at large? Also what, is

legal charge and would the man that .f
holds the cattle have the right to collect! ‘

the damage from the owner? If the man

looks them up in the barn can on do

gayfi‘hing— with himf—C. S; 0., bodes.
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The statute for impounding cat! _:

tle that are at large in the highway .,

of 1915, Sec. 14779, and following.
The charges'for taking up horses and
cattle-are 50¢ per head, 10¢ per head
for sheep and swine. .
es’belongs to the one who took them
if put in a public pound, and the
pound keeper is entitled to‘ 4c per
head. They must be impounded in a
public pound is there is one; but if
there is no public pound they may
be impounded in some suitable place
under the immediate charge of the
one who impoundsvthem. If no pub-
lic pound a barn is a proper place to,
impound them. He must care for
them and see that they have prop
or feed and the owner must pay that
in addition to the fees. There are
no damages to assess for cattle .tak-
on up for running at large in the
highway. If they are taken while
doing damage the one impounding
them is not entitled to the fees but

to the damage the animals do and .

the cost of feed. Methods‘for giving
notice and for fixing the damage is
provided for in the statutes.———W. E.
Brown, legal editor.

FEEDING PEAS TO HORSES

Are peas hard on a. horse’s kidneys and
how do they compare with oats as a. grain
ration ?—-—K. 0., Lupton, Mich. -

Peas are a very satsfactory feed for
horses, being more efficient as a grain
than oats. They should, never, how-
ever, constitute the sole grain ration
as they contain too large a. proportion
of protein, which is hard on 'ihe
horse's kidneys. Fed to the extent of-
half the grain ration in connection A
with corn, barley or oats, and timothy
hay, they have given excellent re-
sults. I would not advise their use
with clover or alfalfa hay—Geo. A.
Brown, Professor of Animal Husband-
ry, M. A. 0.

 

INFANTS ARE LIABLE FOR
NECESSARIES

M son, who is under age, While work:-
ing Jackson, Mich, last winter was in-~
duced by an agent to sign u for -a. course
of lessons with the Interna. ional Corres-
pondence Schools of Scranton, Pa. “He
soon grew sick of_ the deal because he

.was not advanced in his grades enough

to handle their work. So after trying
one or two lessons, which he paid for, he
quit. Butth’e school can’t see it that
way and they are trying to collect-$118
for the full term. The account is now
with American Adjusting Association of
Progldence, R, I.—E. D. F., Prattvllle,
Mic - ‘ '

Infants are liable for necessaries
and if this course of inStructlon’ was
a necessary he would be liable; but
if it was not and was not adapted to
him he would not be liable—W. E.
Brown, legal editor. +—

 

CANNOT CROSS NEIGIIBOR‘S
PROPERTY TO PUBLIC DRAIN

I have a piece of land close to a. county.
drain and it is a natural water course.
I pa on the drain and my neighbor will
not list me go to the ditch. Have I any ‘
rig-ht to tile to that drain across their
land which is about 14 rods? It is a
pasture lot. Also there are trees close
to the fence so we cannot run machinery
along on account of the limbs hanging ov-
er so and every year we have to pick
brush and clean up trees that. fall over
on ours. What way can we compel him
to take care of them?—-N. M. 1... Web-
bervllle, Mich. ,

You have no right to ditch across ,

your neighbor’s land *unless a public -'
drain has been established. The mere,
fact that it is a natural water course-
does not give you any right to change
it nor could_,you gather the water V

from your premises in ditches or m... :-

rows and cast it upon your neighbor
in any other manner than it would no
in a state 0! nature. “11 you‘wa‘nt .
drain across him ”unset-hays
public .. drain 6351:119th ‘ of. buy
way . from [your newsroom I.
from what your letter
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SOLDIERS’ BONUS Bfin!)
N YOUR issue or Nov 27 on the
editorial page you make
. once to thessoidier's Bonus B-ill.
Congressman Fordney is a man that
was chairman of the committee and

was a man well chosen for the posi-

tion and I hope he has sand enough

> to push it through.

You state 61 the taxes imposed
npOn the American people to pay this
bonus. You do not even consider the
‘poor excervice man who only got
330 bonus 3. month of which $6.60
and ’more was taken out for War

wRisk Insurance, :h-is laundry and his
:allottment to his folks at home and

, ,which in most cases left him only
> from at the most $15 to as low as.
. 75 cents per month to live on during

_ the time he ”served, which was 'in
many cases and ‘most, over six
months which as you state that the

munition workers, coal barons, steel

,magnates, ebc., piled up huge profits
and also how about those from re-
ceived from $10 to $30 per day
working in those places? They
earned in one day as much as the
service man received in a month
and had at least .25 more days to
make more in.

You’do not hear an cit—service man
crying about that extra tax in which
comes his share to pay his own bon-
us. He will pay his share with the

,, thousands who made these extra
millions and 25 extra days pay for
the service man's month pay.
can best stand the extra tax? The
ex-service man or the sugar manu-
facturers, coal, barons, steel mag-
nates etc., and the other taxpayers?
Who does the most grumbling and
why?

above
referred to get $15 and less a month,
tramp through France and Flanders
mud and .endure the same weather,
carryup to 70 pound packs in the
_Bame mud for 20 miles a hike and
live on iron rations day Jitter day
just a short time and we will see
who and why they will appreciate
a bonus.

As I figure it out this tax on lux-
uries for one year and just as the
other' extra taxes are for a year will
make a very large hole in this bonus
tax and no one will ever miss it any
more than now it as much. As the
public is getting used to it by this
time as a matter of course as I am
and seen service and know a little
of what I am talking of.

I see no reason for so much of
this grumbling from those outside of
the err—service man when hedoes not
grumble about his paltry share of the
taxes with no millions of dollars of
bonus in sight either. Mr. Fordney

- is to be helped in his effort to put

., the bill through and he shows his
sound statesmanshi-p in his efforts to
put it through at this time andnot
when a lot of us are dead and gone
.or on the way. NOW is the time
and not 10 or 20 years from now
for the bonus to ex-service men.—-—-A.

._ .4. 1’, Oxford, Mich.

   
 

 

  
 
 

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I have been a reader of your pub-
lication 'for some time and until re
cently have been well pleased with
your editorial policy. However, I
cannot let your editorial entitled

“The Bonus Bill Bobs Up Again”-

pass without a werd or criticism.
Yur stand on this matter is entire-
ly different from what would be ex-
pected of one in your pesition, and
entirely foreign to the principles of
Americanism.

Just why so many farm organiza-
tions and publications are exerting

fso much more effort to block the

cause of justice for fighting men of
the World war, and using so little
effort to curb government waste and

3. f Sextravaigance is not at all clear to

ex-service man. It, as your ed«
1 suggests, yen think the civil-
‘1ation a financially ember

 

refer-

 

from one to three years service with
almost no pay.

Personally I am a farmer, and ex-

.,pect to continue as one and I am

Just as much interested in securing
just legislwt-ionlor farmers as any-
one else, but I feel that the soldiers
of the late war are entitled to first

consideration and that their. claims

for justice should be considered be-
fore the claims of agriculture. It
seems to me that farmers as well as
all others should bear in mind that
these men looked very good to them
two‘ years ago when they stood be-
tween them and the Kaiser’s guns,
and’ it is small stuff on the part of
anyone to oppose them in their et-
tortsto secure Justice.

It I understand this matter correct-
ly this bill was drafted and approved
by the American Legion and Mr.
Fordney has merely been selectedrto
introduce it into congress, and -is
not the author of ‘it, as your edi-
torial would have us believe. As
the American Legion is com-posed en-
tirely, of -men whose Americanism is
above question or criticism it seems
to me very likely that organized agri"
culture will be placing themselves
in a very unpatriotic light if they
attempt to obstruct the passage of
this measure and I believe any real

American will agree with me fully
in all I have said. ——D. P, R. 6. Con-
tinentai, Ohio.

 

You misunderstand our position, It
has always been a hobby of mine that
men who fight a nation's wars should
have the major share of the “spoils" of
war, In the case of the world- -war, the
‘spoils” were. the enormous profits that
came to certain classes of people. In
the Oct. 11th 1919) issue or the Busi-
ness Farmer, said: ‘We have had a.
feeling that the nation has not fully paid
its debt to the young men who gave up
active careers to fight for their country.
Congress and the nation at large have
had every opportunity to liquidate this
debt 11 n a just, safe and practical bas—
is It as not done so." At that time I
was strongly in favor of legislation that
would recompense the soldier boys in
part for the sacrifices they had made.
War profits were everywhere in evi-
dence, easily taxable. But Congress and
Mr. Fordney had not then learned the
political value of a “soldier’s bonus bill"
so they let the golden opportunity pass
by Today, the situation is radically
diflerent The war profits have become
scattere and invisible; state and nat-
ional taxes are burdensome; and finan-

‘ cial depression stalks the land-hitting pro

ducer and consumer alike. We need live
billion dollars to carry our government
through the coming year. How to raise
this amount without unduly burdening
the consumer is a perplexing question.
I am wondering what would happen if we
added another five billion on top of that
to pay the soldiers a. bonus. Many times
five billion dollars could be raised by a
graduated income and inheritance tax
which would confiscate large incomes.
but I know the calibre of Mr. Fordney too

well to think for a moment that he will:
suggest such a thing as that Nor will
Mr. Fordney disturb the profits of the
sugar manufacturers, and the coal and
steel profiteers. He has already public-
ly declared himself against a hirthertax

So whence is to come

on automobiles.
'I concede the jus-

the soldiers’ bonus?
tics of the soldiers’ bonus. I am will-
ing to pay my share it I can But I am
thinking of the millions who are already
suffering from oppressie taxation You
cannot squeeze blood out of a turnip no
matter how much you need it. It you
boys and Mr. Fordney will get your
heads together and devise a plan of tax-
ation which will force those who secured ,
the profits of war to pay the major Fpart
of the bonus, then the rest or us fun):
will dig down a little deeper and
enough to pay the balance—Editor.

RUNNING CATTLE AT LARGE
NOTICEDfin a recent issue that o.
D. S., of Ohe‘boygvan county thinks
it is not right to graze cattle at

large on the cut-over lands of north-
ern Michigan. He is one out of fifty.
In our county we have a thousand
acres of. idle wild land that could be
used for this purpose. We have some
people who have lived here for thir-
ty-five and forty years and have never
put up more than two wires around
their clearings. It is all right it
their stock got out onto some. one
else’s land but if any stock gets on
their land, they set up an awful

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of 23 pade cows produced $743
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they can give.

But have you figured feed

against milk?

' You may be astonished to find
that for each dollar you spend
for feed you are getting a too
turn of only $2 or $3 in milk.

Where Unicorn IS fed, $1 paid

for feed brings yOu a return of

$4 or $5 in milk.

Your own ration may be geta
ting the milk, but it is not

getting the profit.

Change .to Unicorn. Get the
same amount of milk, with
less money spent for feed. The

'saving is clear profit.

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' Chicago

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Mechanisms...“ ' .. .

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1920

Published every Saturday by the
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113th White? .
T HE CONTROVERSY surrounding ' the
continuance of the state constabulsry
seems to have resolved inself into a debate on
whether black is white. The comtabulary
press—agents are trying to prove to' the public
that black is white, but a considerable portion
. of the state of Michigan still cling to the well-
established theory that white is white and'can-
not possibly be made to appear black. Over
at the Farmers’ Clubs meeting at Lansing the
other day Sen. Chas. B.- Scully and a repre-
sentative of the Michigan Anti-Saloon League
succeeded in convincing a majority of that
well-balanced 'body that under certain condi-
tions black may be white, although Mr. A. B.
Cook, chairman of the Farmers’ Federated
Committee, who is a man of unusually clear
vision, did his level best to prevent the organ-
ization going color-blind.

A circumstance that is‘ quite likely to paint
this entire situation in false colors to the eye
of the farmer in his well-known respect for,
the law andlhis passion for rigid law enforce-
ment. Make it appearthat Michigan would
revert to the lawlessnessof savage days except
for the presence .of a mighty army of 150
troopers and you’ve got the farmer and all
other law-respecting people gaifed through the
gills. That’s precisely the picture that the
constabulary artists are painting for the people
of Michigan. If you surrender to the direful
prophecies thus presented you are a good and
obedient citizen. If you protest that the pic-
ture does not represent a true condition you
are no better than the thugs.

But even at the risk of being classed with
low company by the several score of gentle-
men who are making an easy living out of the
State Constabulary and the scores of others
who would like to make the Constabulary a

7 personal bodyguard for themselves and prop-
erty,——all at the expense of the taxpayers,—
The Business Farmer refuses to be frightened
into submission by the horrible picture that is
presented of a Michigan minus a state police.
We endured several generations of saloon law-
lessucss when booze flowed from every cross-
roads village; we' passed safely through local
option and state wide prohibition when many
dry counties Were surrounded on all sides by.
wet bailiwicks and when the avenues, of illeg.
al liquor trafficking extended in every direction
from the borders of Michigan,-——and no one
ever thought of creating a state police to usurp
the duties of the civil police in enforcing the
law. Having passed through these experienc-
‘cs what reasons have we for believing that the
icivil police will not acquit themselves equally
Ins‘ well during the early labors of national pro-
‘ hibition, if given half a chance? ' -
Below are'reasons why The Business Farm-
tar cannot give its support to the State Constab-
:hla‘ry: '
*m- we already have adequate civn amine-é
‘ senior-chm the law. The presence of state;
f ’ hwcouutyoethe, howl—flu“

 

in the subscriberie receipt and ’

 

    
 

3rd. The State Polioe‘do not render a
commensurate with thus-cad. haplbeof‘tho
fanciful testimony to the =OIh-u'y,

hints receive very little benefit than the State
Farmer can probably but out this statement

from their own experimces or chute-widens.

The civil police of [Michigan New York and
Pennsylvania, all border states have not had
a chance to enforce the prohibition law. The
State Constabularies of these states have been
trying to do it for them. It is a fact that has
somehow or other escaped observation that vi-
olations of the prohibition law seem to be most
plentiful in thrice statm which have a constab—
ulary. Given a decent chance to enforce these
laws, cooperation of law-abiding citizens, add-
ed facilities in the way of motor cycles, and
occasional encouragement or prodding when
necessary by the chief executive of the state,
and the civil police will enforce the liquor
laws far more satisfactorily and at one tenth
the present expense. In cases where the civil
police refuse to do their duty inspectors of the

Food and Drug Department could be empow- .

ered to investigate and prefer charges of mal-
feasance against such oflicens, upon complaint
from any citizen.

If one-half the pressure that is being brought
to bear upon farm organizations and the legis-
lature to extend the tenure of life of the state
constabulary were applied to the Governor,
the sheriffs and other police authorities, there
would be an altogether higher respect for the
law and a more rigid enforcement.

 

"We ring the bells and we raise the strain,

We hang up garlands everywhere,

And bid the tapers twinkle fair,

And toast and frolic—and then we go

Back to the same old lives again." .
. —Susan Coolidge.

 

Peasants or Plutocrats.

(C LL FARES the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates and men decay;
Princes and lords may flourish or may fade;

A breath can make them, use breath hath made:

But a bold peasantry, their country’s pride,

When once destroyed, can never be supplied.

OLDSMITH’S lament over the fate of

Sweet Auburn, “loveliest village of the
plain,” where
no more,” comes down through the ages to
warn us against the evils of expanding com-
mercialism. “Trade’s unfeeling train,”
“usurps the land‘ and dispossesses the swam,”
more ruthlessly today than when the poet
wrote. We are becoming accustomed to it.
To Goldsmith it was a new experience. The
poet felt keenly the decline of the rural corn-
munity or its expansion into a big, busy 1n-
dustrial city. In his eyes a tree, a flower, a
brook were more beautiful and worth while
than the gigantic industries‘ which despofled
the landscape and harnessed the waters of the
brook for'pow . -
“A time there was. o’er England’s griets began,
When every rood of ground maintained its man:
For him light Labor spread her Wholesome store—
Just gave what life required, but gave no more;
His best companions, innocence and health;
And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.

A straiige philosophy for this day and age
when the world is running a Marathon after
the almighty dollar. Indeed, times have al-
tered. The little hamlets have expanded into

, villages, the villages have become large towns '

and in instances great‘-cities..“Where once the
cottage stood, the hawthorne grew,” where the
sober herd "low’d to meet their young and the ..
noisy .:geese‘ ,gabbled. ‘0 ’er. . the, pool, r‘ ‘ unwieldy
Wealth; and < culmin-

 
 

   

  

“rural mirth and manners are '

out Pm‘ term"? 4N0 ,_ ,

, gone e myot nachos thingt‘w; _
wooden, M isno'more..
power have usurped the Main} “my!

  

life to their selfish ends . so have they unconay'. :
sciously conspired to make ml occupagons 'on

1m attractive and less renimerativo‘.
gradually but none the less surely, agricultural
pursuits have lost their pristine charms.

Commacialism’s corroding influences have. 'i Q

reached into the heart of the renal W
and blasted the pm and contentment within.
Let us pause in the mad race for gain and take

note whither we are going. '

 

Internationalism.
(‘WE MUST think internationally,” says
Chas. M. Schwab, the steel magnate,

, dimodng the prevailing business stagnation '

and the future of American trade. ‘80 we
should. Whether or not we join the League
of Nations or any other association of nations
we cannot escape the responsibilities this will
devolve upon us, nor the opportunities that

will come our way, as a member of the great ..

group of nations making up the earth. Pos-
sibly we do not like to look at it this way.
Perhaps we would much prefer to Wists
with the nations on the planet Mars instead
of on the planet earth, but it seems that we are
to have no choice about this. Our planetary
location has been fixed. We cannot change it.
Hence, we must make the best of it. And
making the best of it consists in being friendly
with the other nations of the earth, in trading
with them and encouraging them to trade with
us, in seeking their counsel and altering them
ours for the advancement of peace and pros-
perity all around the circle. Even those who
talk so meaningless of Americanism, America
for America, and holding aloof from Europ-
ean affairs, must know that by the very nature
of things this “splendid isolation” policy,
while it makes good powder for political prop-
agandists, cannot long endure. Indeed, the
falling ofl? of exports and the growing disin-
clination of foreign.countries to trade with us,
should already have revealed to us the folly of

such a policy. At first blush it may seem a. I

far cry from the League of Nations to the de-
mand for and the price of the farmer’s pro-
ducts, but a little open-minded investigation
will disclose ‘a rather intimate relationship.’

 

Party or Country?

“NO MAN loves his party better than I

do, but I love my country, my home
and my friends better than I do the shibboleth
of any political party.” So spoke Milo D.
Campbell before the American .Farm Bureau
convention at Indianapolis last week. They
are patriotic words, spoken by a patriot.
Many men prate of their patriotism and their
love for country when down in their hearts

they know they would betray their country in- '

to the hands of partisans if it r“-emed to their
advantage to do so. Mr. Campbell minced no
words in his address to the Farm Bureau gath-
ering. He made it plain that while he expec-
ted the Republican party would fulfill in every
particular its pre-election pledges to the farm-
ers, and the country he. would not countenance

- its failure to do so, even to the extent of cm-

bracing some other political party in the event
of such failure. .. Country must come before
party if our democracy is to live.

 

,Fman' cing Export Trade. .
RELIEF for suffering industry is in sight
, as a result of a formation of a huge. ex-
port banking corporation, with a hundred mil-
lion dollars capital.
tory the financial interests have turned con-

siderate eyes to agricultural needs, and'havev

    

 
 
     
  

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‘ Anerican commodities should pick up, which
in turn should: have a stimulating effect upon
domestic industrial and financial conditions.

- All of which will bear a close relation to the

futureoffarmcommodityprices. .\ .‘

 

Relief for the Farmer.

W0 SEPARATE pieces of legislatibn

have been introduced in Congress to af-
ford relief to the farmer. ,Sen. Copper is the
father of a bill that would-virtually wipe out
future trading on the Boards of Trade except
by bona fide farmers who expect to deliver the
actual grain under future contract to bona
fide dealers. The objects of the bill would
be accomplished by putting a prohibitive tax
upon the gross amounts involved in future
trading. The measure is getting some oppo-
sitlonasistobeexpecmdfrommeBoardof
Trade and thousands of substantial citizens
who profit from their speculations on the
Board of Trade. ' It remains to be seen, how-
ever, whether‘ the gambling facilities of the

then
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the country.

Another bill under discussion would revive ‘

the war finance corporation and enable the U.
S._G0vernment to employ alien property now
in its custody as collateral for underwriting
loans to Germany and Austria for the purchase
of food products. This bill has the backing of
all the leading farm organizations. Financial
interests are opposed to the bill. Again it re-
mains to be seen whether the special interests
are to have their way as they always have had
or whether the interests of the great producing
clam are to have first consideration.

Sentiment is strong among the farmers,
their leadm's and their representatives for
remedial legislation. It is practically certain
that some find of legislation will be adopted
in the near future which will either re-
form or e; lish the Board of Trade, extend
financial relief to farmers who. are holding
their crops, and stimulate the export demand
for American food products.

 

Advices from- Washington say that Mr. Fordney
will oppose an embargo against-the importatiori of
foreign wools. beans, etc, which are raising havoc
with the American farmer’s markets. Election's

@112 Elma Spirit of Christmas in 11115

“FOR UNTO us s was to born, unto us a son

is given, and the government shall be upon
Hie shoulders. His we shall he calls! wonderful.
Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Fath-
er, The Prince of Peace.”——Isatah 9.6.

- ' 1 I 0

As we approach Christmas time two questions
arise in every thoughtful mind. First, why do
we observe Christmas? Second, how‘can I best
celebrate Christmas? We observe Christmas be-
cause the. prophecy made by Isaiah several cen-
turies before Christ has been fulfilled.

In sublime language the prophet foretold the
event that brought light and gladness to all the
nations. When the night of gloom was dark and
Israel sat weeping the man of God sang a new
song of hope, for he foresaw thedawn of a glor-
lous day. The day of Christ’s coming.

After the lapse of twenty-five centuries it is '

perfectly fair and very helpful to construe Isaiah's
words in the light of their fulfilment.

To do so is to lift Christmas meditation into
lofty realms befitting the august revelation made
by Him who came and so lived as to make for the
progressive nations of earth one column holy

3?.
' The Prophecy Fulfilled

Christ came. He was cradled in a manger.
The W136 men saw His star in the East. They
journeyed to where the Child was and worshiped.
The child grew to manhood and lived His more
mature earthly life as artisan teacher and mar-
tyr. To these facts all
'm' modern history bears
" common attestation.

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g new power to the world.
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§ These new foices have
w changed the character of
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‘9/ : all peoples and all na-
$ 0 ‘ s .tious wherever they have
§ _ f 4 , gone. This fact brings
’ —\\mllz, wonder and worship into
’ \\‘ll l/é the Christmas spirit.
‘4? ' \ Q How speaks the rec-
”, 3‘ S ords? Look first at the

§§ beginnings. An innocent
fis$ helpless child, delivered

\ from the murderous hand
of Herod; growing to
manhood, toiling as car-
penter, like common mor-
tals. until thirty years of
age, teaching for the brief
period of three years, cru-
cified as a young man,
leaving behind not one
single scrap of literature .
and only a small group
of followers. '

These followers were
plain men. . They had ,no
money, no social or po-
litical prestige, no church-
es, uo schools, no govern-r
.ments, no, armies. From
the very start, they were
opposed by mighty kings
and fierce persecutions.
Nevertheless, the lnfin-V'
ence of the Namemt '-
st’eadlly forward. This.
theiages its comm have

  
   

Not only so, He brought '

teed helplessgxat. fie ir-

By DR. W. W. DIEHL

 

 

R. ‘DIE'HL is pastor- of the First Methodist

Church of Albion. His experience as a

teacher of Christ has been varied, ranging
from a twelve years’ pastorate in the heart of the
city of Gileago to superintendent of , the rural
churches of the Detroit area Methodist Episcopal
church. In this latter capsuxity he has been in
close touch with the farmers and has come to
understand their outlook upon life, to sympathize
with them in their problems and rejoice with
them in their successes. Dr. Diem is a graduate
01 the M. A. C. and of the Garret Biblical Insti-
tute. At present he is superintendent of rural
activities at Albion College. This Christmas mes-
sage was written by request and especially for
the readers of the Michigan Business Farmer. We
hope to present other sermons to our readers
from the pen of Dr. Diehl, in future issues.—
Editor

 

 

The new religion entered the chief cities of
the Roman empire, the centers of learning and of
commerce. It won adherents from the common
people and from Caesar’s household, and sat
down in the very center‘ of the "Eternal City."
It swept across oceans and continents, making
bad men good and good men better; it tamed the
wild nations that kings and emperors could not
conquer. It broke up the foundations of pagan
empires and built upon their ruins a new civ-
ilization, instinct .with the consciousness of God
and the brotherhood of man.

After the turmoil, confusion and ruin of the
world war it still lives, and with new courage
and added power, sets itself to the task of build-
lng Christ’s Kingdom in the whole earth. Today,
where o’er the sun doth his eternal courses run,
there the sons of men crown Him ”King of Kings
and Lord of Lords forever and forever.”

Under the fostering care of His spirit and in
the best types of civilization stately church struct-
ures are erected, charitable and philanthropic in-
stitutions flourish, great bodies of students as-
semble to inquire at His eternal fountain of truth,
wise law-makers gather together to perfect the'
best gOVernments of earth and millions of wor-
shipers from cabin and palace join in loud ac-
claim, singing: _

I
“All hail the power of Jesus’ name,
Let angels prostrate fall,
Bring forth the royal diadem
And crown Him Lord of all.”

His Per-scoutm-s' Doom

Where now are _His persecutors? What have
they accomplished? _

Herod and Pilate are dead. Porphyry and
Celsus are dead. Hume and Voltaire are dead.
Paine and Parker are dead. All these men fought.
Him, each in his own day.

Not one of them has erected an abiding mou-
ument. .No great material structure, no com-
manding philosophy, , no lofty literature, no
triumphant song, no new civilization, no new gov-

ernment and no militant host.

5 While no—oue new, is so poor asto do these
men honor, the reverse is" true of Christ. The-
; seen of the Christian era, and from all lands
M men mesa.- ewagrfihu master and crown."

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the legitimate interests of the farmers of.

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years. Events of today may be forgotten as site
obliterated by the smoke screen with which Mr.

. Fordney knowsso well how to blind his farmer

constituents. So why should no worry over the
demoralization of the mrmer's' marketsf

 

It is reported that the “Steering Committee”
of the New York Stock Exchange is threatening
to investigate the methods adopted by certain in-'
fluentlal brokers, who have been active on the
Exchange in creating the proper “atmosphere“
for the recent short-selling raids to thrive in.‘
The campaign of lies, lusts nations, misrepresen-_
rations and innuendo, directed against some of
the solidest and best-managed industrial enter-
prises tn the country, for sheer venom and under-
handed mendacfly has never been emhd, ex-
cept in the world‘s vile-t gambling den. n- is '
more than likely that the Business Conduct- Oom-
mlttee of the New York Stock Exchange may
slap some of these unrury gentlemen, lightly, o
the wrist. ,

 

“As many mince pies as you taste at Christmas,
so many happy months will you have," runs the old
English saying. So, mother, bake up the pies;
what are we if we do have the old fashioned stom-
ach-ache the morning after?

 

Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard
To get her ex-soldlers a pension,

But every list can had gone up the flue
To pay for state troopers’ retention.

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How shall .we observe Christmas? In {leash
lug and in selfish indulgence? In the execution
at greedy, gainful commercial enterprises? No—‘
never!

Three great basic considerations enter into
the fact of the incarnation.

To observe Christmas intelligently, and with
constructive purpose we must understand these
factors, appraise their value and comply with
their spirit.

First, Christ came to meet a real human need.
Even tho possessed of the law and the proph-
ets man stood in need of added revelation. Christ
came not to destroy but to fulfill. To fill full.
The divine nature and purpose must be made in-
telligible to human understanding. This univer-
sal need was fully met in the revelation of God
through Christ. He revealed the Father once
and for all time. Human need lies at the very
center of the incarnation.

Secondly, sacrifice. Christ humbled himself,
took upon Himself the form of aservant, made
Himself of no reputation, was tempted in all
points like as we, yet without sin and died upon
the cross that we might live. The fact of real
sacrifice must enter into every worthy Christmas
activity. Thirdly, giving. . “God so loved the
world that He gave His only begotten Son.”

We cannot here enter into a discussion in-
volving the complex mysteries involved in the di-
vine personality. We only affirm, that Christ
came as the free sacrificial gift of the Father.
God gave Him and He
came.

To really enter into the
Christmas spirit we must Q
make some worthy gift, g

 

that involves sacrifice.

Every added advance
in civilization multiplies
human need. War has
proveu a. colossal failure.
The world’s crying need §\\\\
is not armies and arma-
ments but Christ. This 5
Christmas should Witness .9
some worthy act per- a? .
formed by every Christian ”I .
to meet this new need. ;

In material things Am-
erica has become im-'
mensely wealthy. The
call for vast sums of
money to rebuild a world
civilization dangerously
near the verge of collapse
is upon us. To use our
resources in sacrificial
service as did Christ will
surely win the day. This
is now .our high duty and
holy privilege.

As the Father . gave
His Son, so must we now
give our sons and daugh-
ters in holy consecration
to the task of carrying
the truth, the life, and
the power of Christ to
all the ends of the world.
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WAS in the
year 16.35-0n
" a Nevem’ber
afternoon. Mrs.
Rachel Olcott was spinning flax in the
cheerful kitchen of a small house not
" far from Plymouth Rock, in Massa-
chusetts. Eastwa‘rd from the house.
‘the ocean'broke with a sullen. roar on

ward lay the few homes of the few
Pilgrims who were Mrs Olcott’n
neighbors.

Captain Olcott‘s ship has sailed
,from Boston for England, in the year
, 1632‘, and had not been heard from.
The little band of Pilgrims had
ceased to look for news from the Cap-
tain or his ship.

Mrs. Olcott kept up’ a brave heart

and a cheerful face for the sake of.
her four children. Robert, Rupert,

Lucy, and poor crippled little Roger;‘

but this November afternoon anxi-
ety filled her heart. Day by day her
little store of provisions had lessen-
ened under the stress of hunger until
even the corn meal had vanished,
and it became necessary to send corn
to be ground at the only mill in
all that region. Early in the day
Rupert and Robert with their sister
Lucy had been sent to the millers,
for it was well understood that each
comer must await his turn at the
mill. This grinding in those early
days was slow work, and much of
the day had passed before Mrs. 01-
cott expected them to return.

But when the sky grew dark and
the snow began to fall, the loving
mother grew anxious. She drew the
great armchair. in the cushioned
depth of which poor, pale faced little
Roger lay curled, far into the fire-
place; and then, when anxiety grew
to fear, she threw over her head
the hooded red cloak that all the

~ Puritan matrons wore, and hurried
over the hills, as fast as the drifting
snow would permit, to the house of
her nearest neighbor, Master John
Hawley.

As she drew the latch and Walked
in with impetuous haste, up sprung
John Hawley and stalked to the cor-
ner, where, ever ready, stood his
trusty musket.

“Indians, Rachel?” shrieked Mrs.
Hawley, springing to drop the cur—
tain that hung above the one win-
dow of the room.

“Put up your musket, friend,"
gasped Mrs. Olcott. “It is my boys
who are in danger They went to
the mill with grist. Lucy-is with

- them. Oh, save them!” she plead-
ed.

“They’re young and tough; they
will weather it through, and be home
by supper time," said John Hawley,
the staunch Puritan, drOpping his
musket to its corner, “I’ll step over
after supper and see. Go home,
and don’t worry."

To him, nothing less than Indians
seemed worth a moment uneasiness.

When he turned, Rachel Olcott
was gone, and his wife was at the
door, watching the red cloak as it’s
wearer urged it through the snow.

"A woman has no business to
look as she does,” exclaimed Mrs.
Hawley, closing the door.

“She's had trouble enough in Ply-
mouth, goodness knowsi—her hus-
* band lost, and that crippled child
to care for night and day, those boys
to bring up, and hardly enough mon-
ey to keep soul and body together.
And there she goes this minute with
a face like a sweet brier rose;" and
John Hawley demanded his supper
at once.

‘rHe had it, his wife looking as
am as any Puritan of them all,
he put on his waist coat and went
ubsayins:

If those youngsters have come
me, I’ll be right back. " .

But .he was not “right back. ” Mid-
' ht came down on all the Atlantic
,4 t. and he had not returned.
.mp9: for the young Olcotts.
at the hearth, and set back

the rocks of the Coast below; north«

to await their coming. The olaz
ing logs tilled the long. low kitchen
with light. There was no need of
aeandle, as the mother eat. to sing
her poor boy to sleep. But Roger
could not sleep. ,

“Tell me something more about
England, mother," he pleaded, again
and again. "It keep me from think-
ing of Lucy and the boys, when you
talk."

The firelight illumined the white
face and made, the blue eyes of the
boy more pitiful than ever in their
plaintive asking that night. _

The mother’s thought and her
heart were out in the snowdr‘ifts
searching with her neighbors for her
bright, rosy darlings, but her words

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By SARAH J. PRITCHARD

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wuld see a Christmaybough just
for once before I die.”

At that moment the door was
thrust in, and the boys, Robert and
Rupert. clad in snow, entered the
room. The mother, dropping Roger’s
mite of a hand, sprung to meet them
with untold gladness in her eyes, that
still looked beyond them in search
of something more.

_ "Lucy is all right, mother!” cried
Robert. “If it hadn't been for Mr.
Hawley, though, and Richard Coop-
er, and the rest, we’d have had a
night of it in the old cedar tree. We
couldn’t get a bit farther with the
meal and Lucy; so we scooped out
the snow in the big hollow, put Lucy
in first, when we had made sure there

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and her hand were ministering to

this child, bereft of almost every-
thing belonging‘ to the outside world
of work and endeavor.

“Well, then, Roger, shut your
eyes and try to go to sleep, while I
tell you something about Christmas
—the way we used to keep it—be—
fore mama was a Puritan, you
know." ' '

Then she told the boys of old-
time customs in her native land; of
her father’s house, and the great re-
joicing that came at Christmas time.
and lastly, with a vague feeling of
regret in her heart, she came to the
story of the great green bough that
was lighted with tapers and hung
with gifts for the good children.

“What made you be a Puritan,
mother? Why didn't you stay at
home?" asked Roger.

“Don’t ask me, my boy,” she said,
touching the shining face with a
kiss. “Remember that heaven is a
much finer place than England."

“Do they have any Christmas
boughs there, mother?"

“Something better than
my boy!"

"Mother, I’d like it, if God would
let me, to go to heaven around by the
way of clear England, no that I

boughs.

wasn’t a fox or anything inside; we
crawled in ourselves, with a big
stick apiece to keep off enemies, and
were getting very hungry and sleepy,
when a light flashed in our eyes.”

"But where is Lucy?” interrupted
Mrs. Olcutt.

"Oh, they are bringing her! And
mother, Mr. Hawley has been scold—
ing us half the way home for going
to mill on such a day. And we
never told him that we haven’t meal
enough in the house to last until to-
morrow. We took it brave."

“That’s right, my good boy; but
how did they find you?” Mrs. 01-
cott demanded.

"They didn’t;
cried Rupert.

'P'I‘hey had a lantern, and we saw
it; and then we made a dash after
the light, and brought them back to
the hollow. When they drew Lucy
out, she was fast asleep and as warm
as toast, ’cause Robert gave hef‘ his
jacket, and I tied my muffler on her,
too.”

“And she’s fast asleep this minute,
I do believe!” added Robert, as
two vigorous young men entered—
one drawing the sled load of meal
and the other bearing Lucy in his
arms.

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tie Roger -» drew
away from the
bleak New Eng-
land lite. It was evident .to everyone
who saw the lad that he was going to
the shiny shore—«although the little
Puritan boy had never heard much of
its being a shining shore ,-—and I think
that Was the reason he fell to think-
ing so much of the beautiful Christ-
mas bough. He talked of it when
awake, he dreamed of it when he
slept; and he told his dreams and
said. with tears on his cheeks, how
sorry he was to awake and find that
he hadn’t seen it after all-—and, oh,
he wanted to so much!

The time of Christmas in that far,
far away year drew near, and in all
the land there was not a Christmas
bell, a Christmas tree, nor even a
Christmas gift. .

Beautiful Mrs. Olcott felt that
her little Roger was getting very
near to the heavenly land. A phya
sician from Boston had come down,
and told her that the lad must die.
This bright little mother wished, oh,
so much! to make her child happy,

more and more}

and his little heart was set on seeing.

a ChristmaSAbough before he died.
She could not withstand his wishes,
and she said to herself, "If I am
punished for it as long as I live, Rog-
er shall see a Christmas-bough.” So
she took her boys, Robert and Rup-
ert, ‘and little Lucy, outside the
house one day, just a week before
Christmas, and told them what she
was going to do.

“Oh mother!” exclaimed Robert,
the eldest son. /

“They’ll persecute you to death!
They’ll drive us into the wilderness;
We shall lose our home and every-
thing!"

“Remember, boys, your mother has
been into the wilderness once and
she isn’t afraid of that. We shall
have the Christmas bough! I am
going up to Boston tomorrow, if
the day is fine, and I'll fetch back
some nice little trinkets for poor
Roger. Maybe a ship has come in
lately; one is expected."

On the morrow, clad in the scarlet
cloak, Mrs. Olcott set forth for Bos-
ton. She had not been there since
the day she went up to see the ship
sail, with her husband on it—the
ship that never had been heard from.
But that was more than three years
before, and it was ’in going home
from Boston that Roger had been so
hurt and maimed that his little life
was spoiled.

Great was the astonishment in

. Plymouth when it was learned that

the widow Olcott had gone to Boston.

, Why had she to go to Boston? She

had no folks living there to go to
see; and what had she been buying,
they wondered, when she came back.
Mrs. Hawley went down the hill that
same day to make an inquiry and
found out very little.

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As soon as Mrs. Olcott was well'

rid of Mrs. Hawley, she called her
boys, and bade them go to the pine
woods and get the finest, handsome-
est young hemlock tree that they
tould find.

“Get one that is straight and tall,
with well boughed branches on it,
and put it where you can draw it

under the wood shed, after dark ”'

she added.

The boys went to Pine Hill and
there they picked out the finest young
tree on all the hill, and said, “we
will take this one." So, with their
hatchets they hewed it down and
brought it, safely. home. the »next
night when all Was dark. And when
Roger was quietly sleeping in the
adjoining room, they dragged the
tree into the kitchen.
tall, so they took it out again; and

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went out and lit ‘the kitchen fire
anew from the ash covered embers.
She fastened upon the sprigs of the
tree the gifts she had bought.in Bos-
ton for her boys and girl. Then she
took as many as twenty pieces" of
'candles and fixed lthem upon the
branchesn vAfter that, -she ' softly
called Rupert, Robert, and Lucy, and
'told them to get up and dress and
come into the kitchen.
' Hurrying ‘back, she began, with a.
bit of a Iburning stick, to light the
candles. Just as the last one was set
aflame, in trooped the three child-
ren.

Before they had time to say a
word, they were silenced by their

, mother’s warning.

“I wish to fetch Roger in and wake

him up before it,” he said. “Keep
still until I come back!"
The little lad, fast asleep, was

lifted in a blanket and gently car-
ried .by his mother into the beautiful
presence.
“See!
said, arousing him.
mas morning now!
only have Christmas boughs,

Roger, my 'boy, See!” she

“It is Christ-
In England they
but

here in New England we have a
whole Christmas tree.”
“on mother!" he cried. “0h,

Lucy! Is it really, really true; and
no dream at all? Yes, I see! I see!
Oh mother! It is so beautiful! Were
all the trees on all the hills lighted

up that way when Christ was ’born?'

And, mother," he added, clapping his
little hands with joy, at the thought,
“why 'yes, the stars did sing when
Christ was born! They must be
glad, then, and keep Christmas, too,
in heaven. I know they must, and
there will be ‘good times there."

“Yes," said his mother; “there
will be good times there, Roger.”

“Then," said the boy, “I shan’t
mind the going, now that I've seen
the Christmas bough.- I—what is
that, mother?"

What was it that they heard? The
little Olcott home had never before
seem to tremble so. There were
taps at the window, there were
knocks at the door—and it was as
yet scarcely the break of day; There
were voices also, shouting something
to somebody.

“Shall I put‘out the candles, moth-
er?” whispered Robert. ‘

“What will they do to us for hav-
ing the tree? I Wish. we hadn't it,”
regretted Rupert; while Lucy clung
to her mother’s gown and shrieked
with all her strength, “It’s Indians!”

Pale and white and still, ready to
meet her fate, stood Mrs. Olcott,
until, out of the knocking and the
tapping at her door, her heart caught
a sound. It was a voice calling
Rachel! Rachel!”

“Unbar the door!" she cried back
to her boys. “It’s your father oall-
ing!" Down came the blankets; up
went the curtains; open flew the
door and in walked Captain Olcott,
followed by every man and woman
in Plymouth who had heard at the
break of day the glorious news that
the expected ship had arrived at Bos-
ton, and with it the long-lost Captain
Olcott. , For an instant nothing was
thought. of except the joyous welcom-
ing of the Captain in his -own home.

“What’s this? What is it? What
does this mean?" was asked again
and again, when the first excitement
was passed, as the tallyoun'g pine
stood aloof, its candles ablaze,‘ its
gifts still hanging.

“It’s welcome home to father!"
said Lucy, her only thought to
screen her mother.

“No, child, no!” sternly spoke Mrs.

’ Olcott.

“Tell the truth!” ,
“It's——a——'Christmas tree!" falter-

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Pilgrims and Puritans all, drew near
with faces stern antral-bidding, and

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said: ' ,

“I'll take it for the sake of the
good old times at home."

'Then every one wanted to take
'a .bit for the same sweet sake, until
the young pine was bereft ,of half
its branches. But still it stood, like
a hero at his post, candles: burning
and giftsfhanglng, until all but the
little h'ousehold had departed; and
even then, the last candle was per-
mitted to burn low and flicker out
before a gift was distributed, so glad
were the Olcott’s in the presence of~
the one great gift of that Christmas
morn; so eager were they to be told
«every bit of~the story, the wonderful
story, of their father’s long, long voy-
age in a poor, little, storm beaten
and disabled ship which at last, he
had been able to guide safely into
port. His return voyage had been
made in the very ship that Mrs. 01-
cott had hoped would arrive in time
for her Christmas tree.

That morning brought to Roger
something better than Christmas
trees—better, if such a thing were
possible, than the home coming of
the herOJCaptain—renewed life. It
may have been the glad surprise, the
sudden awakening in the bright pres-
ence of a real, live Christmas tree;
it may have been the shock of joy
that followed the (knocking and the
shouts at door and window, or the
more generous giving that came into
the little house near Plymouth. ICer-
tain it Was, that Roger Ibegan to
mend in many ways, to grow satis-
fied with 'bleak New England wind
and Weather, and to rejoice the heart
of all the Olcotts 'by his glad presence
with them. .

How To MANAGE A HOME ON
THE FARM

’M A MOTHER of a large family,

having raised ten children, so I

think I have~.some experience
along that line. I always tried to do
my own work, unless I was Sick in
bed, and so I let my children help me
do little things. Although I never
made them do too much or too heavy
work and I managed to let them go
to school, except one day. On wash
day I would keep the oldest girl
home. I always dressed them'neat
and clean, not with stylish clothes,
but I would always dress them in
gingham or other washable clothes.

_ I will tell you how I do my patch-
ing the quickest and best, to my
way of thinking. I do it mostly all
on the machine. I have four 'big
men now and two smaller ones to
patch overalls for. Some will say
“how do you do it?” When there
is a hole on the knee I cut the part
out that is worn and then as I keep
all the good pieces out of old overalls
I cut a piece a little larger ‘than
the piece I cut out of the overall and
sew it in and it looks neat and is a
lot firmer than if done by hand.

I always managed to do-my work
in the day time. I needed rest at
night. Some women would come to
me and say, “I don’t see how you can
do your sewing during - the day.”
There are so many ways of doing
things quickly and well, too. I
learned to put in sleeves without
basting, at least in every-day clothes.
I sew them in the garment before I
sew the garment under the arm seam.
It is easier. — . .

We built an addition to our house
last year and what I wanted my way
in was a cupboard in the well be-
tween thekitchen and dining room.
On the dining room side it has glass

doors and on the kitchen side it has .i

wooden doors. It is so handy and
. We
have a, furnace that alsois a handy

thin8.,'and we have a washer where

' j we, can use it by hand or power,rbut '

we can not alipget‘those things as
soon as. we“ gasped the. farm. It takes
yearsgsems'giete. Power} , thin-8 in
order. x; ”I #9: my; papers; lid paint-

  

   
  

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Put up in six pure fruit flavors: Strawberry, Raspberry, Lemon,
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Each in a separate package, at any grocer’s or any general store.

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'EAR CHILDREN: One

‘ ' [more and then Christmas, the

day we receive gifts and lots of
nuts and candy._ When next week’s
issue of the M .B. F. comes to your

. home you will be so busy with your

presents. and you may be at some of
your relatives or some of them may
be at your place, and will not have
time to read our page until two or
three days after Christmas so this
week I want to wish you all the hap-
piest and. merriest Christmas this
year that you have ever had. 'We
will have to have lots and lots of
snow between now and the time for
Santa Claus to come or he will have
quite a time getting around with his
sleigh and deers, or do you think he
drives an airplane? Maybe'he does.
Who knows?

Letters about fairs continue to
come every once in a whilb but fair
time is so far away, and We are busy
with other good times, so I am go-
ing to close the contest with this is-
sue. From now on I will not print
any more letters on this subject.
I will try and tell you next week who
won the prize. The prize will be
sent in time so that some girl or
boy will receive it as a Christmas
gift. Maybe I will tell you what the
prize was after the winner has re-
ceived it but not before because I

' want it to be a surprise to him or

her.-

Several boys and girls have writ-
ten me lately enclosing in their let-
ters clippings of the puzzles printed
at the bottom of our page, and with
these were the answers they had
made out. In their letters they ask
if I am giving a prize. I do not give
prizes for solving the puzzles. I print
them because I think you are inter-
ested in such things. They sharpen
your wits and give you lots of pleas—
ure figuring them out. Don’t you
think so?

Again before I close this letter I
want to wish you a merry, merry
Christmas and I hope you get the
gifts you have been wanting.—

‘ UNCLE NED.

 

OUR BOYS AND GIRLS

Dear Uncle Ned2~So many boys and
girls write you I thought I would try to
get my letter in print. I am a boy fif-
teen years old. We live on a 200 acre
farm, We have a Fordson tractor, a.
Union truck and a Dodge touring car. W'e
have three horses and twenty cows, For
pets I have thirteen rabbits, twenty five
pigeons and twelve pigs. We have 220
chickens and four ducks. We have a.
shepherd dog and his name is Shep. We
had 18 acres of beets this fall. My fath-
er takes the M, B. F, and likes it very
much. I go to school. and my teacher’s
name is Mr. W. K. Swain—Roy Tacey, R.
2, Bay City, Mich,

Dear Uncle Ned:——-I am a farmer girl,
13 years old. My brother takes the M.
B, F. and likes it fine, I have got 6
sisters and 4 brothers. For pets I have
I. oat. Her name is Martha, and she is
very old. My father said he would not
sell her for anything I am in the sev-
enth grade at- schoo. We had a pro—
gram at our school for Thanksgiving. I
was in a dialogue and drill. and a song.
I like to read The Children’s Hour, and
I wish the .Doc Dads would be in this
paper again. I live on a 00 acre farm.
Well I must close and leave some room
for the other boys and glide—«Jeanie
FalkxManistee. Mich. R, 1, box 58

Dear Uncle Ned:——-I am a boy 8 years
old and in the 3rd grade at school. We
live on a twenty acre farm. We have 3
horses, 2 cows, 6 pigs and also 30 sheep.
We have a Fordson tractor and a Ford.
truck, We have 250 chickens, My fath-
er takes the M. B. F. and I like it real
well. I have six sisters and two broth-
ers. For pets I have a dog and a cat,
For music we have a Victrola,-—Ray Tac-
ey, Bay City, Mich., R. F. D. No, 8.

 

 

 

Dear Uncle Ned‘:—-I am a girl 13 years
+old and in the 8th grade at school, We
live on a 40 acre farm 9 miles from 1:0kui
an
I pig—Mabel Johnson, Sidnaw. M

' Dear Uncle Ned:—-'I would like to Join
your Children's Hour, My father taken
then, B F. and likes it very much. I

I > like to read the children's page best. We

have had lots of company at school this
woek. I go to the Vermnya school. and
' ' ‘ I am 13 years old and in the 7th
do. My teacher's name is Miss Alice.
I like her There arell‘s pup<
seven boyst. tIh 1“;nt
to? thefDavison fair, but I eon' n

m -W¥lt’ anythinxflabout it. We .live

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Father calls me William, sister call:
me Will, '

Mother calls me Willie, but the fellers
.call me Bill!

Mighty glad I ain’t a girl—rather be
a boy,

Without them sashes, curls an things
that’s worn by Fauntleroy. ,

Love to chawnk green apples an’ go
swimmin’ in the lake

Hate to take the costar-lie they give
f’r belly-ache!

Mast all the time the hull year roun’
there ain’t no flies on me,

But jes’ fore Christmas I’m as good
as I kin be!

Got a gutter dog named Sport—sic ’lm
on the cat:

First thing she knows, she don’t know
where she’s at!

Got a clipper sled an’ when us boys go
out to slide

Long comes the grocery-Cart an’ we all
hook a ride! '

But sometimes when the grocery-man
is worried and cross

He reaches at me with his whip an’
larrups up his hoss.

An’ then I la]? an’ holler: Oh you nev-
er teched me!

But jes’ fore Christmas I’m as good
as I kin be!

Grandma says she hopes when I git
‘to be a man

I’ll be a missioner like her ol’es broth-
er Dan.

As was ct by the Cannlb’ls that lives
on Ceylon’s isle! ~

Where ev’ry prospec’ pleases and only
man is vile! '

325’ ’5an Christmas
By Eugene Field

 

 

 

 

But Gran’ma she had never been to
see a Wild West show, ‘

Or read the life of Daniel Boone, or
else I guess she’d know,

That Bufi‘alo Bt‘ll an"*00wboys is good
enough for me— ‘ ,

‘ Exccp jes’ fore Christmas I’m as good

as I kin be!

Then Ol’ Sport he hangs around so
sollum like an’ still—-

His eyes they seem a saying; what’s
'er matter, little Bill?

The out she sneaks down 017 her perch,
' a wonderln"‘what’s become

Uv them two enemies of hern that
used to make things hum!

But I am so perlite and stick so earn-
est-like to biz,

That mother says to father: How im-
proved our Willie ls!

But father, havin’ been a boy hisself,
suspicions me,

When jes’ fore Christmas I’m as good

as I kin be!

For Christmas with its lots an’ lots uv
candies, cakes an’ toys

Wuz, made, they say, f’r proper kids
and not f’r naughty boys!

So wash yvr face and brush yer hair,
an' mind yer p’s and q’s,

And don’t bust out yer pantaloons an’

don’t wear out yer shoes;

Say possum to the ladies an’ yessir to,

the men, ‘

An’ when they’s company don’t pass
yer plate for pie agln.

But, thinkln’ no the things you’d like
to see upon that tree,

Jcs’ fore Christmas be as good as you
kin be!

 

 

on a place of 189 acres but are going to
move some time I think this fall, My
father has bought a farm the other side
of Lapeer. I go to school every day, I
like all of my studies except history. I
live two and one half miles from Colum-
biaville.——Zella Leone Hill, Columbiaville
Michigan.

Dear Uncle Nedz—l have been think-
ing for some time about writing to The
Children’s Hour, but I never have, I
have been reading the letters quite reg-
ularly and enjoy them very much. I will
write one and see how 'it looks in print.
I go to high school. For my pet I have
a. black and white cat named Tom and a
dog namcd Burney. l have one sister
named Ethel. seven years old and in the
third grade at school, I live on an 80
acre farm. We own four horses and five
cows—Hazel L. Shepard, Ada, Mich., R.
F. D. 2,. 1

Dear Uncle Ned:-—I am going to write
about Hallowe'en parties. We didn’t
have a very big time at home, but we
had a good time at the school house, We
did tricks and played games, We had
popcorn, tarry kisses, peanuts, and a

Our teacher is Miss
Hayes. and she scattered peanuts along
the floor. The boy that got the most
got a big piece of taft‘y. We played
croquet and basket ball. It was ten
minutes to five when my sister and I
"or, home. I will let some one else write,
I would like to have some of the boys
and girls write to me,—Garnet Darly,
Standish, Mich., R. F. D.

marshmallow roast.

Dear Uncle Nedz—Would you like to
have another join in your merry circle?
I am l3 years old and in the 8th grade,

Our teacher’s name is Helen McDonald. ,

“'0. live on a farm of 200 acres. I have
5 brothers and one sister. Her name is
Holen. You wanted to know what we
did Hallowc’en night so I thought I would
write and tell you what we did at our
school,

The Friday before Hallowe’en we
thought we would have fun at our school,
We had a marshmallow roasr and we 'had
popcorn. After We got through eating
our popcorn we played a game “Putting
the tail on the cat," and we told fortunes
and after that our teacher let us go
home—Rachel Cook. Weidman, Mich.
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LETTEg To SANTA CLAUS

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Dear Uncle Ned:--I thot I would write
a. letter to the children’s department be-
fore I am too old to be a. member of it,
I will be seventeen in‘ January, 1921.
and any boy or girl who can guess the
date of my birthday I will write them a
letter and ,tell of the good times I have
on the ranch which we live on. I am
going to describe myself. I am- a girl
with blue eyes, brown hair, weigh 106
pounds and am 5 ft. tall, Hope you all
know me the first time we in met. I have
five brothers and two mirrors, Both of
my sisters are younger than myself. We
are having real warm weather at the
present. I am getting afraid that San-
ta Claus can’t come to see us this Christ-
mas if we don't soon get som'r snow I
like winter just as well as I do summer,
especially when I can go skating. \Ve
live quite close to a nice big creek, I
am waiting patiently for it to. freeze up.
We have never lived on this Pl'lCB’lll a
winter yet, \Ve moved ht-rc ln"t spring
and have spent the summer uni part of
the fall so far this year.~—E\relyn Brigg,
Ponca, Mich, '

Dear Uncle Ned:——l am a bov «night
We have
one hundred and ten acres of land. We
have seven horses. eightecn herd of cattle.
twenty pigs, eleven ducks and two hun—
dred chickens, For pets I have three
rabbits and a dog, I go to St. Michele
school and am in the third grade. There
are seven Dominican sisters teaching our
school. I have five brothers and seven
sisters, One of my brothers lives in
Texas. Two of my sisters are in the
convent, ”The rest of us are at home.
My father runs a threshing machine.
He likes the M. B. F. Very much. We
had a. nice Thanksgiving dinner. We
had a rabbit, chickens and two ducks.
As my letter is getting long now I will
close. From your new nephew. Andrew
Yoklin. New Lothrop, Mich."

My Dear Uncle Nedz—My father takes
the M. B. F., and likes it very much. I
have just been reading the children’s let-
ters so thought I Would write one too. I
am a boy 8 years old and in the 3rd grade
at school. My teacher's name is Miss
Johnson. I have a brother and sister;
My Sister’s name is Velma, She is three
years old and my brother’s name is Law—
rence. He is 5 years old and in the kin-
dergarten, For pets I have a dosr and a.
cat. We live on a 1,000 acre farm of
which my father is foreman. I help my
father with the chores as we have lots of
cows. horses. hogs and sheep to look after.-
ERUIBQH Chapin, Stanton, Mich., R, R. 2.

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Dear Uncle Nedt—I am ten years old
and haVe five nephews and a little piece,
Two of my nephews live in Chicago and
they spent their vacation here. They
liked the farm and they liked to have-
the letters in the Children's Hour read
to them, Their names are Emerson and
Leonard Wells. They helped me with
my chores and I miss them now they
are gene. We have six cows, two hors—
es and a flock of chickens. We grow
nice apples, peaches, plums, pears and
other fruits. We had some Wolf River

. apples, one of which weighed a pound
I‘ll/Pdh a. half,—-Walter Laing, Warren.
1c .

 

.Dear Uncle Nedze—My father takes the
Michigan Business Farmer and I like to
read the boys' and girls' letters from
The Children's Hour. I have 4 sisters
and three brothers, My oldest brother
is in Detroit, I am eleven years old and
am in the fifth grade in school. We own
100 acres 01‘ land and have 3 cows, 2
heifers and 2 calves. I heard that a
prize is going to be given when drawing
pictures, and I am going to try and
draw a Pilgrim and a. log cabin—Emma
Peerson, Kabra, R. 1, Box 78, Mich,

 

Dear Uncle Ned:-——I am a girl ten
years old and in the fifth grade at school.
My teacher’s name is Mr. Matheison. I
like him very well, My father takes the
M, B. F. and likes it fine. I like to read
The Children’s Hour. For pets I have
four cats and one dog, We have 6 com
and four horses. We live on an 80 ac—
re farm. 1 have one sister and her
name' is Louise. I Went to the fair this
year and had a nee time—Irene, My-
ron, Blaine, Mich. '

 

Dear Uncle Nedt—I would like to join
The Children's Hour. I am a girl elev-
en years old and in the sixth grade at
school, We take the M. B, F. and like
it very well. I live on a hundred and
eighty acre farm. For pets I have one
dog named Jack, and three cats. My
teacher's name is Miss Effie L, .Hales,—,—
Frances R. Ernest, Coleman, Mich., R.
F, D, No. 2.

 

Dear Uncle Nedz—I am a girl eleven '
years old, I am in the sixth grade. I
have two slsltgrs and one brother. We
live on a far of one hundred and five
acres. We have nine' cows and five
horses and one colt. We also have eight
rabbits. My father.takes the M,- . F
and likes it fine. I have blue eyesand
reddish brown halt—Frances Harring-
ton,‘ Berrien Springs, Mich.

 

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old. My father“ takes the M. ELF» 8:3
likes it ve well. I live on an 80 acre,
80 hens and! roosters. , I have ,onesister»
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settler toience in .3' or 4 acres the
first, few years if he doesn’t care to
,- fence the rest and let his stock run
With the rest. A while back we had
a crank move into the neighborhood.
He gave all the neighbors orders to
keep their cattle off his land. The
neighbors offered to put up the
lame, but he said he didn’t want any
-fence, only trouble. He got it, two
weeks in the hospitaland $80 doctor
,bill. So you bet he put up a. fence
as soon as he was able, and no more
trouble since. C. D. S. complains
about the cattle stripping the growth.
Well, I will givehim a. whole 40-
acre growth it he will clear it. It
costs at least $80 to clear the swamp
lands and sometimes more, All new
settlers are only burning it anyway.
v—-T. F., Menominee, Mich.

 

Apparently you believe in enforcing
the rule of “when in Rome do as the
Romans do." I have observed that much
of the clearing in northern Michigan is
done by burning, hence I could see no 0b-
jection to turning cattle on these lands
in their Wild state. Due consideration,
of course, would have to be paid to the
propieiity rights of adjoining land holders.

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CHEAP MONEY FOR FARMERS

0U are right my friend B. W.
i B., of Fergus, Mich. It would be
all right if the government would
lend money at four per cent to the
farmer, but they would rather loan
money, “ “the liberty bond money,”
to finance the President to fight a
working class government, than to
loan the farmer a little. Therexare
often old countries in which the gov—
ernment runs things, R. R.,' tele-
graph and factories for the benefit
otthe people. They don’t run things
for the benefit of big corporations
like they do in this country. There
is New Zealand, Australia and a few
others. Australia is run by the gov—
ernment and they don"t allow the
people to be hoodooed by big inter-
ests. Last spring in Australia sugar
was only 8c per pound and everything
in accordance. Wages were $3 per
day, except skilled labor, that was
more, but a few of our head ofii-
ci'als let Wall Street run the gov-
ernment. If our constitution was lived
up to we would have good govern—
.ment.

But is is far from it, and just so
long as the old parties dominate,
juSt so long we will have hell on
earth. They have done all they
ever will for the laboring class. There
are not many James A. Garfields or
Abe Lincoln men in the old parties
that are up for office. Too much

uplift of,-the army and navy. They
say wages are good, yes, sure enough,
but it takes all of those wages to pay
rent, buy clothes, and fuel and if
you have much of a family you don’t
have much left it you live in the
city. We are sore when we see lit-
tle Children. who ought to be at
school working long hours in the
cotton mills of this country while
the owners of these same mills are
surrounded in their luxurious homes
with liveried servants who bed down
dogs in silken blankets. And some of
them say a dollar a day is good
enough for a laboring man. If he
can’t live on that let him starve.-—S.
H. 8., Wemed County.

That’s a. pretty strong picture you
have drawn, Sure it is that too much
money is going for the. purposes of war.
Sure it is that too many people have too
much and too many have too little. How
to remedy this condition has been the
problem of the world almost from the
beginning or time. It is one thing to de-
cry the present wage system, It is anoth-
er to offer something better to take its
place. You must not overlook the fact that
for one plutocrat who takes advantage
of the present wage system to enrich
himself at the expense of thOSe who’la-
bar for him there are thousands of small
manufacturers. merchants and farmers.
who under this same system, are earn-
ing only what they are entitled to by
reason of their thrift, ability and trains
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450 ACRE MODERN FARM. 3 HORSES. 21
00W! and heifers. 2 bulls, 11 steers, 6 hogs. 300“
wood, 50 bu. potatoes, 15 bu. wheat. 200 W
0113. 80 tons ensilage. 5 bu. beans and vegetables.
Wazons, cart, sloighs, harnesses, machinery; con-
Veniently located near best markets: 130 acres
tillsble dark loam soil; spring-watered pasture 50
head; vast quantity wood, pulp and timber; 1.000
sugar maples; complete equipment; big orchard
variety fruit; modern iii-room house, 8 base-
ment barns ,big stable, all fine condition With
running water; 125 ton .silo, 5-room tenant.
* house; death in family causes low price of 810,000
easy terms. Details page 8 Strout's Free Illus-
trated Catalog Bargains 33 States. STROUT
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FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE—1,600 ACRES
810 per acre; elegant elevator, lumber, hay. coal
—no opposition; feed barn; 50 farms: sales and
exchanges made everywhere. REED REALTY
00., Carsonvills, Mich.

 

BEAUTIFUL 80 ACRE FARM. FINE BARNS,
garage, granary, brick house, electric light plant.
'1 mile from Carsonville High School. REED
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FOR SALE—160 ACRES DAIRY AND P0-
tato farm, 1 12 miles east of Greenville, good
soil, good buildings, excellent milk market. Deal
direct with owner. BLANDING BROS, Lock
Box 93, Greenville, Mich.

 

FOR SALE—122 ACREs BEST OF SOIL.
All plow land. Very productive; good buildings,
on good road, 40 rods to school. 3 miles from
Lansing. S. W. HEMPY, Owner, Lansing, B 7.

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MAPLE SYRUP WANTED—WANT FIVE
gallons or less of good pure syrup, put up in
gallon cans. In writing state quantity and "price,
Box F, The Business Farmer. Mt. Clemens.

 

BLILCKSMITH SHOP SUITABLE FOR GAR-
nge cheap. Terms. REED REALTY (30.,
Uzu‘sonvillc, Mich.

 

WANT THE CHEAPEST, HANDIEST BELT
power? Then ask me about the LITTLE TVVIST-
Bit l’ower Transmitter for Ford and Dodge cars
FRANK it. WEISBERGER. Selina, Kansas.

 

INCUIATORS‘ AND BROODERS—ORDER
early to insure delivery, don’t pay retail prices,
buy tliru us and save money, any reliable make.
Largest johbcrs in central west. NORMAN
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WANTED—4| BUSHEL OR TWO OF EXTRA
good hickory nuts, write quantity and price, Box
G, The Business Farmer, Mt. Clemens.

 

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FOR SALE—GENERAL STORE,
barn and store rooms, about 1-2 acre of
located at Findley, Michigan.

 

 

    
   

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——-Great Xmas. Rubber Buy——
MEN‘S FOUR BUCKLE ARCTIW
for giving or wearing

Men’s
sizes, 5 $2 95
m 12. ‘pr.
Perfect fir s t
quality goods.
{The regular $5
Women’s four buckle erotics, . ..... $2.95
Child’s one buckle arctics ........... $1.45
Boys' one buckle srctics . ..... $1.66
Men’s one buckle erotics ......... $1.65
Child‘s leggins, knee ............... 95c
Men’s heavy wool socks now ........... 850
Men’s part wool medium socks ....... 45c
Women’s $2 wool sport hose ....... 95c
All sent postpaid S
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BACK TO NORMAL AN’ SICK
E'VE all and sev’ral heard lots

 

of talk about gittin’ ‘back ' to,

normal—to pro-war conditions
an' about reconstructibn an’ a good
many ways has been suggested by
men who are supposed to know what
they’re talkin’ about—we‘ve kinda
expected the gittin’ back would jest
natcherly have to commence some
where an’ we wuz putty dum sure it
wouldn't be big business that would
suffer first—it never is don’t cha

know, an’ it ain’t big business now '

not by a long shot it ain’t.

As is gen’raly the case, the poor
01’ farmer is the first to feel the
pangs, of the git‘tin’ back business
——he’s the first to git it in the neck
so to speak an’ it hits him all over
at once too.

First the bottom falls out. of the
wheat market but bread still sells
at the same 01’ price 12 and 16 cents
a loaf—if wheat’s cheaper why
shouldn’t bread take a drop'too?—
don't they make bread from wheat
or are we still bein’ gouged on that
corn flour stuff which we all loved?
so well during the war. _

Then look where hogs has drop-
ped to an’ yet pork chops sells for
35 an’ 40 cents 3. pounds same as
they did a year ago an' pork chops
an’ hams an'.ba.con are direct de‘
scendants of the hog ain’t they?

Wool ain’t worth much of any-
thing to the farmer but jest the same
about the only cut we’ve seen in

wool clothes is what we’ve seen in“

the papers—they tell of wonderful
cuts in prices but mlgosh! when we
try to buy clothes we find ’bout th
same 01’ price, don't you? ’
Cotton sox that sold one year ago
or two years ago, for 25 cents bring
25 cents today an’ I’ve got to be
shown where’s there’s any reduction
in price an' yet the price of cotton
is less than half what it wuz a year
ago an’ so it goes right along the
line the farmer has to take less than
the cost of raisin’ his stufl but the
consumer sees but little if any dif-
ference in the prices he has to pay.
Now what I’m drivin’ at is this—
who did
more than all others to keep things
goin’ durin’ the war an’ after the
war, he made to stand all the losses
of this rcconstructin’ process? Why
not kinda. divide the thirgyup a lit-
tle an’ let the manufact , f, the job-
bers, the wholesalers, ‘é3l,,-retailers,
the profiteers (let them e Ousted en-
tirely) an’ the poor 01’ ultimate con-
sumer each stand a share——give the
overburdened farmer a chance for
his life even if some of the other
tellers don’t git rich quite so quick
~~surely the farmer an’ the saidul-
timate consumer seems to be miles
an' miles apart—seems like there's.
too darn many hands reachin’ out
an’ grabbin’ all they can after stuff
leaves the growers hands an’ there-
ought to be some way to 'do away
with part if not all of this grabbl‘n’
an’ graftin'—some way so the man
who raises the stuif we live , on
should git weren’t the 25 cents out
of each dollar the consumer pays for
what he eats an’ what he wears.
Take beans for example—-—righ-t
here in Calhoun Co-., farmers are
selling beans for about $3.80 per
hundred. These same beans are sell-
ing out of the stores at from $8.50
to nine dollars a hundred pounds——
the dealers gittln' more for s-ellin’
the beans than the farmer gits for
growin', pullin,’ haulin,’ threshin,’
an’ haulln’ to market. Out here it
cos-ts 20 cents a bushel to thresh
the beans—that Jest for the machine

  

i‘an’ then there's the help, board an'

coal besides. Is there anything fair
about the division in; the bean bus-
iness? ‘

, An’ clover seed, which is one of
our main crops here—~33 to $3.50 for'
threshln’ besides help.an' coal an'
about $8 is all the dealers will pay
an' the seed's got to be good to bring
that much. . .

Now takln ’all these things “ into
consideration is it any wonder farm-
ers are goin’ into the Farmeureau,
Cooperative Associations, the Grange
or Cleaners or any other organiza-
tion that promises. them 1*.er an’

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this winter.

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honest livin' The-_ wonder is that
any farmer‘ stays out, ’speclally out
of the Farm Bureau which seems to
be about the best answer .to'tbelr
problems that I’ve met up with yet
.--'-it acts jest’s if it wuz goin" to git
somewhere purty soon an' it seems
to mean business right "from the
shoulder.

Some little time ago I attended a
meeting of the Lee Township Farm
Bureau of which Chas. Voorheis is
chairman or president or whatever
it is they call the man at’t-he head
of the business, an’ say, he’s a. reg-
ular little hornet for business too—-
why he didn’t let a minute go by but
what there wuz somethin’ beln’
dene—he took orders for coal, twine,
fertilizer, an’ I don’t know what all
an’ in less’n an’ hour the meeting
wds over with an’ everybody ready
to go home. Yes, I’ll say Charles
Voorheis is some humdinger_ to carry
on a meetin’ an’ they say he's jest
as good at taming an' as supervisor
he can’t be beat. .

But I’m gi-ttin away from my sub-
ject or its gittin,’ away from me I
scarsely know which—any way my
advice .to farmers would- be to git
into the Farm Bureau jest as quicq
as possibleerythlng is organizo
agin yew—remember there’s the
grain dealers ass’n, the bean jobbers
ass’n, the hay buyers an’ the wool
buyers, the retail grocers, the butch-
ers an’ bakers, hardwarean’ build-
ers, implement dealers an' druggists,
bankers an’ railroads, politicians an’
profiteers—each an’ several they’re
after the farmers scalp, an’ if you
don’t want to stand all the ”losses of
the present reconstructive period, by
gosh, you’ve got to git together an’
you’ve got to stick together an’ work
together—«it’s the only way I know
an’ if you know any better way write
to M. B. F. an’ tell us what you know.
Cordially—UNG'LE RUBE.

KIND WORDS ARE ALWAYS
WELCOME

I have not much to write but will let
you know that we like your paper very
much, We think it the best farm paper
we ever had. Wish you good luck and a.
merry Xmas and a happy New Year.-—A.
E. T_, Rudyard,

Wouldn’t do without the paper.—J. 8.

Med, 'Fibre,

I like the paper very well and would
not care to get along without it. I re-
main one of your satisfied readers,—W.
K., Petoskey. ‘

Fine paper, Would not like to be with-
out it,-—A. 1"., Rockford. ‘R. ”1.

Send me your M, B, F. for onenyear.
It's the nly paper for the farmers that .
we’ve en.——D. K., Hale.

Am not farming but live on the farm,

so 0, course am somewhat interested.
You ublish a. useful p, r in the in-
terest of the farmers. . J., Livingston
County, -

I likerthc paper_—F. it, Willis.

As we like the paper very much for the
good information and reading we get
from it, am enclosing 82,00 for renewal.
Your friend and well wishcr—J. 8., Stan—
ton, R. 3, .

The M. B. F. is a real farmer paper
and just the kind that a busy farmer
wants for he doesn’t have to read all
night to find out what he wants to know,
Keep up the good work, for ‘with the
farming class behind you, you cannot
help but send out good publication.—
B. D, B., Benton, ’3, bar.

Will say. that I like the paper very
well,—F. B., Hersey,

We could not run our farm without
{finch-Business Farmer.——R. F., Elsie,

c .

Here’s one dollar for your M, B, F.
paper. We all like it very well.—J. 8.,
Saginaw, R, a, _

Could not farm without The Michigan
Business Farmer. The farmer’s share
is getting the small end of the stick this
fall. He worked hard to put in crops
and bought high priced machinery. Now
when the note comes due he has to sell
his potatoes for 60 cents a bushel. Could
not break even at $1~a bushel. It is
certainly hard for him this fall, He
can’t buy what he ought to have—N. R,,
Reed City, R. 2.

We want to keep M. B, F. coming as
it is a. good farm paper.—T, W. A.
Brimley,

The Michigan Business Farmer some-
how ls the first one of the five farm pap-
ers we take, that I want to get hold of
when our weekly budget of mail comes,
It beats them all in getting right to the
point, in slain words that everyone can
understan . I enclose my subscription
herewith, .I wish any of your. readers
wanting to better themselves could ow
what splendid cut-over ’lands we, ‘ Ve’
here in Walker township ‘Cheboygan
County, at only 810 to ‘15 per our
where four or five acres of

 
  
    
 

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taken care of, will pay for an , .
acre farm the first crop. Quiz“, to

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Yo ur' "rivafe’
Cow Docfor

lf cows could tell their feelings, *
many . serious illness would be
reventcd. and constant mill:
cases would he saved. .

Milking cowl, particularly. are
subject to man ailments that (to
first manifesto only in a reduced
milk yield. ,

Such cow ills you can treat
yourself with the aid of Kow—
Kare, the great cow medicine. At.
the first sign of reduced milk flow
try Kow-Kare. ‘ Use it according
to directions and watch the story r
the milk pail tells.

Dairirmen everywhere know
the vs no of Kow-Koro both in
preventing disease. and in treat-
ing ouch ailments as B'arrenneu,
Abortion, Retained Afterbirth. ‘
Scouting, Lost Appetite, Bunches.

No cow barn should be without Kow-
Kare. your private‘cow doctor. Sold in
in 70: and 31.40 packages by feed doll-
ors. general stores and druggisto.

Write for free book, “The Home Cow
Doctor."

. DAIRY ' ASSOCIATION co.
LYNDONVILLB. VT.

 

 

 

 

  

10,000 Heavy Army Wool
elastic rib Union Suits equal in value to
suits selling from $7.60 to $10.00. Snug flt
ting collarette and elastic knit arm cums
and legs that will not gap; closed crotch
that stays closed; flat unbreakable seams;
buttonholes last the life of the garment:
pearl buttons sewed on to stay There-nev-
er has been a. greater value in a. wool
union, suit,

$3.90 a suit. . m
10,000 Medium Weight 90% Wool

jersey ribbed two piece underwear, Shirts
have a. snug fitting collarette and elastic
knit arms. Drawers have a wide, easy
fitting three button sateen waist band
that adds so much to the wearer’s com-
fort. ‘

A wonderful value that cannot be dup-
licated for our price of $3,90 for a two
piece suit. Worth from $7.00 to 810.00.

5,000 All Wool Yarn Knitted Sweaters
equal in every respect to sweaters selling
as high as $14.00, Weight 1 lb. 10 on. V
neck, roll collars and cuffs. Colors:
black with orange collar and ends and
Maroon with purple collar and cuffs. A
beautiful garment that can be worn for
years. Our price $4.90 each,

5,000 Army Slip Overs
of knitted yarn without sleeves. A
wonderful bargain and the only thing for
protection against the storm and cold
weather. Worn under the 0023,
At our price you ca ot afford to ex-
pose yourself. » Price 8 .65 each.

Wool Army Socks

The warmest and best sock made, Uncle
Sam said so. Easily worth $1.00 a. pair.
Our price $1.20 for two pair, No order ac-
cepted for less than the two pair, amount
ing to $1.20. °

All of the above merchandise was con-
tracted for by the Government, but was
left on hand when armistice was signed.
'As an evidence of good faith mail us a
deposit of 81.00 on each item ordered and
we will ship goods balance on delivery.
Be sure to state also desired in each or-
ticle ordered.

KINGSLEY ARMY SHOE C0.

3852 Cotton. Grove Av., Dept. P-zat, Ohio-I0.

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[armor is going to. take his. seat. at
theufirst‘tableg; , '. ‘- ‘

_I’m. not inntavor the thalamus
waiting for the factories to 'shut’
dOWn or go. bankrupt. The old fash-
ioned rules olf.economies"sti1l exist.
Congress has‘not yet been able to
repeal the“law of supply and demand.

Youca‘n’t-de’ny to any classoi‘ peo-
ple their just dues ior'any length of
time. Agriculture is more important
than the League of Nation-s.‘ Agri-
culture will come into its own and
canditions will yet become normal
provided the false prophets and the
politicians don’t -muss things up.

In the, meantime, an understand-

to keep the world from starving any
more than a haberdasher sells cloth-

' naked! . , ~

The agricultural problem must be
settled on a basis of business rather
than sentiment. , ‘

stead of pity. He needs Constructive
assistance rather than altruistic
ideals. Agriculture and industry
must move forward hand in hand.
There must be an understanding and
a sympathetic interest between bus-

him: limousines or
't‘kuoymuch about farmers ‘
unless there is a new species,|

"somewhere that I have been unable '
to"d‘iscover, farmers don’t raise food ,

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American. Sty“

ing between the manufacturers and
another’s _
problem, coupled with constructive
publicitr‘wlil hasten-such an adjust-’

farmers regarding ' one

meat. .

Let’s look ahead—let’s focus our
eyes on the future and forget the

past.

No industry or form of life can
reach its highestfdevelopmentunless
someone has sufficient imagination
to forsee that development. The po-
sition of the ’farmer will be estab-
lished in the new era that will grow

out of existing conditions.

There are progressive young farm-
ers in all parts of the country who
aflord shining examples of what may
be accomplished in the profession of

. agriculture.

Irrespective of, all you may hear
about high salaries in the city, there
are any number of college graduates
who, after spending from four to six
years in expensive engineering and
literary schools, are working in the
drafting room or serving apprentice-

student
courses, at wages that barely keep

ships under the guise of

them in food and Fatimas.

Let’s take a look at the country

lads—not the country lads in fiction
but of real life—not the-farmer boy
of the sixties, but the young farmer
of today. Let's go out into the

country and get. some first hand in
Let’s visit the farm—’
not the .farm in the Mississippi Dei-

formation.

ta nor the ranch of the Santa Clara
Valley, but the average farm of the
average up—to-date prosperous farm-
ing community.

Let's ’visit wyoming coun-ty, Nets

York. Let's spend a few days in the
Texas Pan Handle and return by
way of Stuttgart, Arkansas. Let's
take a motor trip through McLean
county. Illinois, or if you prefer, w
will visit the cotton fields of South
Georgia.

‘1’“ show you any number of farm
being operated by men who have tak-
en short term agricultural courses
and who are making more money
than the expensively trained engin-
eer, lawyer or dentist.

i‘ll show you men——young men,
who will within the next few years
own their own farms as a result of
their personal efforts.

I'll show you men who are well
educatedhmen whorcan intelligent-
ly discuss Just about any subject you
may name whether it relates to ag-
riculture or ragtime music.

I'll show you farmers who have
never worried about the farm labor
shortage except when they read the
magazines and newspapers;

I‘ll show you men who are satis-
fied~and what’s more. I‘ll show you
men who are mane-physically, mor—
ally. mentally, 100 per cent men!!!

But for some reason or other they
are men who don’t get into print so
often as the migratory beliakin va-
riety.

If only one half the amount of
printers ink had been expended in
boosting farm life as has been used
to paint the dreary side of the pict-
ure, we would not at this time be
juggling with famine. ‘

Personally. I don’t know much
about the theory of political econ-

‘ omy or the dangers of currency de-

flation. but I’d rather go around with
a full stomach than a pocket full of
loose change. When you come right

‘down to it, there is more nourish-

ment in a peck at eggs than in a
bushel of dollars.

Unless We all help to popularize
this . business or taming, the great
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iness man and farmer.

influence. The farmer must look
to industry for modern business
methods.

Psychological efficiency is just as
necessary on the farm as in the fact-
ory. Agriculture will in the future
business basis.
Enthusiasm is a vital tangible bus-
iness force—ethat must not be over-

b‘e conducted on a

looked.

If all of us were sufficiently sold
on the future prosperity of agricul-
ture. that day at prosperity would

not be long in coming. ,

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REPORT OF EMMET 00W TEST- ‘

IN G ASSOCIATION

At the annual meeting of the
Emmet County Cow Testing Associ-
ation, held November 10th at the
Bear‘Creek Grange Hall, Paul Hay-
ward, the tester, gave the report of

the Association for the past year.

In this ‘report Mr. Hayward gave

the average record of cows tested:

Number of cows, 237; pounds of'

milk, 5,450; test, 4.2 per cent;
pounds of fat, 232.9; cost of feed,
$90.05; income over cost of feed,
$59,00. Returns from $1 of feed,
$1.65; cost of one pound of fat, 36%;;
cost of 100 pounds of milk, $1.65.

The highest milk production rec-
ord for the association was made by
a grade Holstein owner by Charles
Lempke with a record of 11,945
pounds of milk and 354.1 pounds of
fat. The highest fat productionrrec-
ord was made by a grade Guernsey
owned by Paul Schnelle with a rec-
0rd of 6,706 pounds of milk- and
445.6 pounds of fat. The best herd
record for both milk and buttertat
was the grade Holstein ofVCharles
Lempke, ten in number, that produc-
ed an average or 9,538 pounds of
milk and 317.1 pounds of fat. The
next herd in point of butterfat was
Weed by Paul Schnelle, the herd
numbering 12 grade Holstelns and
, Guernseys, average 6,700 pounds of
milk and 815.1 pounds of fat. There
were other good records but these
were the highest. .

Among the 237 cows, 80 produc-
ed over 250 pounds of fat, 32 produc-
ed over 300 pounds, 11 producod
over 350 pounds and 4 over 400
pounds

Mr. Hayward has been a fine test-
er and every member dislikes very
much to have him leave. Much of
the success of the year’s work has
been due to his thoroughness and in-
terest in the work. This work has
been very successful during the past
year and it would be a backward
step if this work was not continued.

—-——-—-—‘
$180 PER ACRE CROP FROM
$12.50 LAND

Cut over lands of Northeastern
Michigan produce some wonderful
crops, of—times without much atten-
tion On the 'part of the owners, oth-
er than the planting and harvesting.
Marshall Peterson, of Montmorency
county, this year planted 12 acres
or new land to potatoes. Help was '
scarce and thepotato field received
scant care during the summer, but
this‘rall Mr. Peterson harvested 2,-
700 bushels of potatoes, or: a return
or about $180 per acre from land
which sells at 412.50 per acre.

 

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lost without it, for it is so consolidated,
_ tom-point; Mutton and
i. ,1 my New room-9:. ill. 3.. Lawton,

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To avoid conflicting dates we will without
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'or you. Address. lea Stock. Editor. M. B.~
F" Mt. Clemens. .

Jan. 5, Poland Chinas A. A. Feldkamp,
Manchester, Mich. '

Jan. 6, Poland Chinas. Hillcrest Farm.
F. B. Lay, Mgr., Allegan, Mich.

Jan. 10, Holsteins. Harry T. Tubbs, El-
well, Mich.

Jan. 14. Aberdeen—Angus. Michigan Aber~

dean—Angus Ass’n., East Lansing, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

Feb. 1, Poland ~‘Chinaa Witt Bros. Ju-
acr. Mich.
LIVE STOCK AUCTIONEERS

Andy Adams, Litchfleld, Mich.

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

D. L. Perry, Columbus, Ohio.

I. J. Post, Hillsdale, Mich.

J. E. Ruppert, Perry, Mich.

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

 

 

 

 

   

 

HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN

MR. DAIRYMAN!

Are you using a first class herd
sire? .

You can’t afford to use a poor
one.

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

Let us know your needs.

MICHIGAN HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN
ASSOCIATION

H. W. Norton, Jr., Field Secretary

Old State Block, Lansing, Mich.

 

 

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What'We are Doing in
.the'A. R. 0. Testing

We have just finished testing 5 cows one
Senior Yearling has made over 16 lbs. of
butter in 7 days. One Jr. 2' year old has
made over 16 pounds. One Senior 3 your
old has made over 26 lbs. of butter in?
days-and a Jr. 3 yr. oil has made over 20
lbs. Inst bull advertised sold to Mr. John
Gault. All our cows are in‘ the advanced
registry and free from T. B.

1
JOHN BAZLEY
319 Atkinson Ave.

DETROIT MICH.

 

 

 

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M. B. F. Produces Three Buyers
for the last Bull Advertised

Now who wants this one—ready for service—-
sired by Son of King of the Pontiacs, 35.89 lbs.
out of a 16.29 *ib. dam, mostly white and a per-
fect individual. 8200 gets him—money refunded
if not satisfied. Herd under Federal Supervision.

BRAIOOIIHILL FARM

(FORMERLY HILLOREST)
Ortonvlile, Michigan

 

or write

John P. Hehl, 181 Griswold 8L, Detroit. Mich.

FOB SAL REG. HOLSTEIN BULL GALF 4
mos. old, 2-3 white, from 30 lb.

sire and long heavy producing darn at farmer’s

price.
SMITH a season, R 2. Bangor, men.

MR MILK PRODUCER

Your problem is more MILK, more BUTTER.
more PROFIT, per cow. _

A son of Msplrcrest Application Pontiac-—
132352—from our heavy-yearly-milk‘lnl-good-but-
tor-record dam will solve it.

Maplecrest Application Pontiac’s dam made
85,103 lbs. butter in 7 days; 1344.8 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 on application.

R. Bruce McPherson. Howell. Mich.

 

 

 

 

SHOW BULL

Sized by a Pontiac Aazz‘ie Komdyke-Henger-
void DeKol bull from a nearly 19 lb. show
cow. First prize junior calf, Jackson Fair,
1'20. Light in color and good individual
Seven months od. Price. $125 to make
sworn. Hurry'

Herd under'll‘edera] Supervision.

BOARDMAII FARMS

JACKSON. MICH.

Hols-tam Breeders Since 1906

 

 

 

 

Yearling Bull For Sale

Bull born Sept. 28, 1919, evenly
marked and a fine individual. Sir-
ed by my 30 1b. bull and from a
20 1b. 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.

 

 

 

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7. will be zie‘iit en moon.

Mt. Clemens, ’ Michigan-

 

FEDERAL accneolreo Hana

"BULL FOR SALE

old enough for service. His dam‘s 7 day record-
{30.85-th butter. 467.80 lbs. milk 305 day!
,16.281.1 lbs.‘ milk, 654 lbs. butter. Two A.
R. .0. daughters. Ills lire AL24 lb. Knudsen
of (.‘olantha Johann Lad. Price $200_ ~

‘ va’nuou CLOUGH, Parma, Mich.

TWO BULL OALVES I ,,

Registered llulstein-Friesian, sired by 39.8? lb.’
bull and from heavy producing young cows. The"
calves are very nice and will be priced cheap It

”Id mn' ' wees. Elwell. Mich. ‘

HARRY T
GAL BORN MARCH 27. 1920, VERY
BULL nice. straight fin? dwellh norm.
‘red b' a son of Flint I'Iengervm .a w ose wo
ililearest3 dams average over 32 lbs. butter and
735 lbs. milk in 7 days. Dam'is a 20.61 lb.
Jr. 2 year old daughter of Johan IIengerceid Lad
68 A. Ii. 0. daughters. 'Prrce $150. 0. B.
~ Flint. Pedigree on app‘ication.
L C. KETZLER, Flint, Mich.

 

OR SALE—TWO BULL CALVES. A HOL-
tein and Durham about 3 months old. Both

ave heavy milking dams. Not registered. $50

each if taken at once. ~
CHASE. STOCK FARM. Mariette. Mich

FOR SALE

LARGE REGISTERED HOLSTEIN 'COW
five year old, well marked and agreed milker, also
her bull calf born Oct] 27; sired by a son of
Johan Hengcrvcld Lad, one a 2.2 lb. two year
old darn Price $250 for the pair.

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

 

0R. SALE—REGISTERER HOLSTEIN COW.

Three heifer calves. 1 bull calf.
R. J. BANFIELD. Wixgm. Mich

 

 

SHORTHORN

scoTcH squamous

Priced right, also my herd bull.
THEODORE NICK‘LAS, Metamora.

 

5 GOOD BULLS
12 to 15 mos. old

Mich.

Shortliorns at Farmers’ Prices

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

FAIRVIEW FARM
F. E.’ Boyd

HIGHLAND snonrllomls

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

For the next thirty days we are going to ofi'er
the best lot of B Is ever sold in Mich. Prices
rankinz from $20 ,to $500.

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

Michigan

Mich.

“ILKING SHORTHORNS. BULLS FROM COWS
making records. Priced reasonable.

0. M. YORK. Millington, Mich.

lsnoaruonns

ht, at readjustment
JOHN SCHMIDT 0.

FROM. an accneo-
ited herd, that are

'ces_
DEON, Reed City, Mich.

 

HOLSTEIII FRIESIAIIS FOR SALE

, A bull calf ready for service. Combines show
type and production. '
Herd sire, Model Kig Sezis Glista, whose
mnddam is Glista Ernestine, the only cow of
the breed that has six times made hotter than
80 lbs. butter.
GRAND RIVER STOCK FARMS,
‘ Corey J. Spencer, Owner.
Main St. Jackson.

HATOII llEllO

Ypsilanti, Mich.
(In Government Accmdited List.)

offers choice yearling registered cows
from our 34 1b. (average 2 nearest
dams 37 pounds) King Korndyke
Artis Vale bull for $150 to $250

FOR SALE 30 lb. BULL

IV HERD SIRE FLANDERS KING PONTIAC
JOHANNA NO. 238054

His sire is a son of King of the Pontiacs and
from al83 lb. daughter of King segis.

His dam a show cow, Phyllis DeKol Johanna.
80 lb. daughter of Sir Johanna Nig. He is a
fine individual, kind and right in every way, born
November 7, 1917. '

A130 a yearling bull from a 28 lb. cow and
a 31 lb. bull. .Get busy if in need of a good
hull. Price and pedigree for the asking.

GUY WAKEFIELD. Fowlervllie, Mich.

FOR SALE REGISTERED HOLSTEIN BULLS
usarly ready for service from good A. R,‘ 0,
«mg also bull calves Wm. Griffin. Howell, Mich.

111 I. Mich.

 

 

 

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PBIOEO TO SELL '

SIX HEAD REGISTERED HOLSTEINS
Two yearling heifers, bred to grandso of
Price $150 each.

Three heifer mlves, ages 5, 4 and 2 months
old. Price $125 each.

One bull 8 months old. dam has 7 day A. R. 0.
18.77 butter 427.8 milk. Next dam 15.11
387.7 milk. Site's dam 22.48 butter.
Price 8125.

Pedigrees sent promptly on requat.
This stock is all nicely grown.
H. E. BROWN, Broodsvlllo. Mloh.

SOLO AOAIII

Bull calf last advertised sold but have 2
that are mostly white. They are nice
lows, aired by a son 03 King One. One
a 2 yr. old dam and the other In from a
20 lb. Jr.8yr.o ,eheiabyaaonof
Friend Henzervald De Kol Butter Boy. one of
the great bulls.

JAMES HOPSON JR» Owes». Mlch.. R 2.

Howbert Minita Omsby

REGISTERED HOLSTEIN HEIFER.

APRIL 18. 1919 \
well marked, good condition. sired by a 27
pound bull Dam a well bred Ormsby cow. Herd
Tubercuhn tested under State and FederahSup-
ervision.

 

 

BORN .

H. L. EVANS

 

Eau Claire, Mich.

 

wuwe‘mnesrock FARM REPORTS 0009
sales from their herd. We are well pleased with
the calves from our Junior Ilerd Sire “King Pon-
tiac Lunde‘ Korndyke Se " who is a of
”King of the Poutiacs"
tiac Clothilde De K0] 2
sale. W Sprague. R

2. Battle Creek, Mich.

BAT DO YOU WANT! . I represent 41
HRHORTHORN breeders. Camput you in
touch will: beat milk or beef strains. Bulls all.
ages. Some females. . W. Crum. President
Central Michigan Shorthorn Association, Mc-
Brides. Michigan.

 

W. 8 HUBER Gladwln, Mlch., offers for say
a choice‘buil emf, sire, Robert Clay by Washin -
ton Clay. Darn, Charlotte’s Gem by Maplelane
Dan Oxford out of Charlotte B 2nd. .

SHORTIIOIIIIS

I , 4 to 8 met. old. all roans, pail fed.
Dai‘nsbgolzd milkers, the farmers' kind, at farm-

". $.11th PIGGOTT a SON. Fowler. Mich.

HE VAN IUREN CO. SHORTHORN RREED-
ers' A-ociafion have stock for sale. both milk
antiwbieéf tblleedml'ta
e secre ry,
FRANK BAILEY. Hartford. Mlch.

SIIIIIITIIOIIN °°W8. HEIFERs, BULLS‘

offered at attractive prices
before January first. Will trade for good land-
Wm. J. BELL, Rose City, Mich.

ENT COUNTY SHORTHORN . BREEDEfls'
KAss’n are offering bulls and heifers for sale. all
buy a purebre .

th rub and
0 so Caledonia, Mich.

. Sell
“as A E Ran. Soc'v.

aple Ridge Herd of Bates Shorthorns 0f-
Mfers for sale a roan bull calf 9 mos. old. Also 2
younger ones. ’J. E. TANSWELI“ Mason, Mich.

FOR SALE—POLLED DURHAM BULLS AND

D Rams. - ' ’
oxfordJ. «immammo, Muir. Mich.

 

HEREFORDS

 

 

{priced from
E L SALISBURY

7 . HOLSIElN-FRIESIAN BULLS
' . U From a State .5. FederatAccredltcd' Herd, clue by ' .. '
.. _ .. . . WALKER LYONS 174771 _
fl '-1~;w'hos'e twenty'nearest dams have records avenues 30 11. pounds of. butter from 5122 pounds
Hot lk. Tbeae bulls.are from dams with records up to 26.3 '
$190.00 to 8‘00. A86. 9 months '1 2 years.

7‘

as Jr. four year olds and are

assimilation: "as.
' . very low: price,

' and ' oars.

Hamrs‘mas

We camiurnisb registered bulls from 12
‘ ‘ ld r, best of breeding ~an t a
7 months and' o 8%V0h:k°’:lzgn° 911:“- am
-. rd headers e ve‘ ' at m .
Eta registered Hampshire Hogs. Gilts, Sow:
Write us. «use what you ‘wm’tvand get
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4 .ANDVSH‘EEP '_ ;
l‘ I’Write you in regard to help for sick
ambs and sheep, had. 81 lambs and- '
"0‘”. have only-:31 left. They began to
get sick and to so 1 called in a veterin- ‘
ary‘ He called it .white diarrhoea.‘ Later
I called a'second veterinary and on rop-
ening several he found that theyhad fine
red sand in their fourth. stomach and
~intestineS. He stated the cause to 'Jhe
short pasture, but I was positive he was
mistaken there for they had good pass.
ture. But I had to drive them back and
forth all summer to the.woods and ms ‘
ture on the road where the dust was
thick with their mouths open and when ‘
they got there they drank water from a ’
spring and must have washed the dust
or fine dirt down, is-all I can see,
still losing some lambs and old sheep.
The disease seems. to make them thin
and gaunt and they haVe diarrhoea and
. in .a-few days die. Veterinary advised
Eivmg them oil to Work it out of them.
Could you advise me of any remedy?—
B. L, L., Dundee. Mich. '

Owing to the fact that the diarr-
hoea is the first symptom present ,
goes to show the primitative cause,
lies in the digestive tract and in.
my opinion is due to “some infection.
I would advise you to try giving one
half ounce of oil of turpentine in
eight ounces 'of raw linseed oil; this
should be followed up with sulpho-
carb‘olate tablets; I prefer those put
out by the Abbott Alkaloidal Com-
pany; give two to four tablets every
four hours until the faces assume a
normal appearance and odor. Above
doses "are for the average size sheep.
This treatment should ‘be given as ,
soon as the disease makes it appear-
ance before the ailment has progress-
ed too far for medicinal aid to ac-
complish results; great care must be
used in giving the medicine for there
is great danger of pouring a portion
of the drench down the windpipe
into the lungs. A two ounce dose
syringe is the handiest article with
which to give the medicine and .
standing the sheep in a corner is the
best method to pursue; do not hold
the mouth open as this makes swal~
lowing more difficult. All sheep and
lambs affected should be separated
from the well ones to prevent the
further spread of the disease if pos-
sible. -

 

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HAVE HEIFER EXAllflN'ED

- I have a heifer which will be three

years old in March which has not come

in heat yet. She is in fine condition and

of fair size. Please advise me’ 'as to

gar/[hart I had better do.-—P. L, B., LeRoy.
C .

 

Have her» examined by a qualified
veterinarian, one who specializes in
this particular line of work; in my
opinion your heifer has diseases 0v-
aries and will never be useful for
breeding purposes.

 

PERFORM OPERATION NOW
I have just bought a. hull calf 8 months
and would like to know when would
the best time to. castrate? Would
is fall be best or early in the spring?—
J. W. M.. Tawas City, Mich.

  
  
 

This can be safely done any time
of the year; it is always advisable
to place the calves in clean, sanitary"
quarters and see they get exercise.
Also see that the openings are made
sufiiciently large to allow proper
drainage. .. ’

 

CURING PIP
VJhat is the matter with chickens~
when they squawk and act like they were
choking? They have yellow cankers in
their throats, Can you give us a. rem-
edy?——Mrs_ E. W., Isabella County, Mich.

Among poultrymen one often hear!
of “pip” as a disease of fowls, par-
ticularly of chickens. It is one of
those names like “-hollOw horn" of

"‘loss of end” in cattle, which signi-

fies no specific disease or condition,
but merely a symptom of some all-
ment, real or fancied. In some of
these cases, particularly in map and
pox, the nostrils may be closed by the
gathering of a hardened fluid and the
birds compelled to brer‘b through;
the'mouth, and if, as is usually the
at
the same time- there is a tendency} .
for the mouth to become very’ «Ir v
and the lining membrane mayhem/3
and bleed], owing to its dryness, the '
tongue sometimes .b'ecomes stuck; 3o-
to.-spea‘k, and being retained, Lilia 3

term a trap‘sparentfi'beak' or:

   
 

 

 
  

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:2 Open the mouth and you WiII find
the tip of 1119 tongue, and also the

' . borders of the tongue. and often the.

lining ofathe mouth covered by a
- hard, 'dl’y coating. Forcible "removal

‘ . of this hardened lin-in‘g' results in: a

bleeding surface, which may each 111-
cerate, as a~result of infection and
death of the bird is likely to follow;
The hardening and drying of the lin-
, ing of the month may be relieved by
the application, several times daily
ofa mixture of equal parts of glycer—
’ inc and water. If cracks and ulcers
' have formed they should be bathed
in a solution of potassium chlorate
pand water, twenty grains of the
former to the ounce of the latter.
This is best done by dipping the beak
of the bird into a vessel containing
-, this solution, five or six times and re-
peating every hour or two. It‘ pus
has’formed in the ulcers, they may
well be cleaned with a few drops of
hydrogen peroxide before the potas-
sium solution is used.

You have not given a very com-
plete history of this disease, and if
the above symptoms do not corresé
pond and you will write me person-
ally, giving me a more complete his-
tory of the disease as it shows itself,
I will «be glad to answer you direct,
or through the columns‘of our paper.

COW’S TAIL BROKEN

Can you tell me through the columns
of the M. F what is wrong with my
Jersey cow? She has a good appetite
but is very thin She has a plaoo in
her tail Where the hole seems to ho soo-
arated for a couple of inches or more.
It is like a hollow tube, A local veter-
[nary says probably a dog did it. but
we don't think so.——J. H_, Caseville, Mich.

You cow’s tail has been broken
some time-or other and has no affect
on her present condition: give her
the following tonic powders and if
she does not improve have her test-
ed for tuberculosis; Powdered gen—
tian five ounces, powdered nux vom-
ica' two ounces, powdered capsicum.
one ounce and sodium bicarbonate,
eight ounces; mix thoroughly and
give one tablespoonful three times a.
’ day either in-a mash ordissolved in
a little warm water.

 

THE ESSENTIAIAS OF‘ ANIMAL
BREEDING -
Written in simple language for the
person who raises farm animals. a
new Farmers’- Bulletin, just issued
by the United States Department of
Agriculture, tells the basic facts
'about heredity and how live stock
improvement may be brought about.
Under the title “Essentials of Ani-
mal Breeding,” this ' publication
places before farmers and stockmen
information which heretofore has
; been available chiefly in books, many
of them being of technical character.
‘ Topics explained and illustrated by
the new bulletin include: Beginnings
'of life,
termination of sex, inbreeding, cross-
breeding, outcr-ossing, pure breeding.
pedigrees, grading up, and maternal.
impressions. Certain popular but
incorrect ideas about heredity are
discussed. . ~
Several series of pictures show
how good blood “breeds on” and like
wise‘how inferior parents stamp un-
desirable ch-aracteristics on following
generations. ‘The discussions deal
with all the principal classes of do—
mestic animals, and a summary of
basic principles concludes the bulle~
tin which contains 40 pages. Copies
may be obtained free of charge by
application to the Division of Pub-
liCations, United States Department
of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.
' For experienced breeders and for
others who desire more detailed in-
formation than that contained in the
Farmers' Bulletin, the Department
of. Agriculture is preparing another
bulletin entitled “Principles of Live
Stock Breeding," which .goes' more
This liter—.
ature, prepared in connection with
“Better Street—Better Stock"
ampaign. adds to the completeness
‘ the cries Of government publica-

the’department is now pre-
1 _

evolution. Mendel’s law. de—'

ining to livestock raising. ,

gimp a

 

bore at roeclal low rates: all for them.

__ ISPEOIAL ADVERTISING RATES under this Medina Io honest breeders of l ctoc d ul III I
"I“ out what you have to offer. m 11: out It in type. show you a pivot and all oniuwhat 51.3111 atfirvls. 2% $"sz°'l...?.2"°“'
tin of ad. or copy as often as you with. (Jammy.I 1.2" game!” must be received one week before date of Issue.

a»... .1111,
You can change
ay) Bmdon' Auction Sales advertised

BREEOERS' DIRECTORV- THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER. Mt. clement. Mlohlgan.

 

HEBEFOHDS F OR SALE

Fairfax and Disturber DIOod,150 Reg. head in
new $35. 00 reduction on all sires. Choice fe-
males for sale. Write me your needs.

EARL 0. McGARTY. Bad Axe. MIch.

 

IG TYPE POLAND OHINAS. WE ARE OF-

foring at private sale, some choice gilts bred to
grandson of the Clansman for April farrow. Also
fall pigs registered and delivered to your town
for $20. DORUS HOVER, Akron, Mich.

   

SWINE

POLAND CHINA

 

 

REGISTERED HEREFORD OATTLE

King Repeater No. 713941 heads our herd.
A grandson of the Undefeated Grand Champion
Repeater 7th No. 386905. We have some fine
bulls for sale and also- some heifers bred to Re-
eu .1tcr. 'l‘on B. F.0x Proprietor.

HE MARION STOCK FARM. Marlon, Mich.

 

150 HEREFORD HEIFERS. ALSO KNOW
of 10 or 15 loads fancy quality Shortahorns and
Angus steers 5 to 1, 000 lbs_. Owners anxious

 

to sell. Will help buy 50c commission.
0. F. BALL, Fairheld, Iowa
LAKEWOOD HEREFORD $3.33 T115551

young bulls, 12 months old for sale. Also high
class females any age. Inspection invited.
E. J. TAYLOR, Fremont, :.oh

 

 

JERSEYS

 

OF REGISTERED JERSEY CAT-
tle for sale. 7 young cows now
fresh from 2 to 6 yrs. old, 2 yearling heifers, 2
heifer calves, 2 bull calves and 1 yr old bull. All
are descended from Royal Majesty and good pro—

A HEB

ducers,rigl1t in every w.ay Herd on gov’t “11c-
credited l1st " Will sacrifice for $1, lot) for
the 14 head registered and transferred.
Address Box J
GARE, MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER
Mt. Clemens. Michigan.

 

MEADOWVIEW JERSEY FARM, REG. JERSEY
attic for sale.
J. E. MORRIS a. SON, Farmington, Mich.
‘ FROM R. or M. DAMS,
JERSEY BULL $75 to $150 each.

NOTTEN FARM. Grass Lake, Mich.

 

 

Get Your Start in
Registered Jerseys for $500!

to 1 yr. will be sold
Write for breed-

Mich

5 heifers from 5 mos.
at this price if taken at once.
ing and description

FRED HAYWARD, Sootts.

 

/

 

IG TYPE P. c. SOWS OF CHOICE BREED‘
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 & SON. Bvron. Mich.

112 31:31- BRED POLAND chA PIGS 51114
ed by Big Bob Mastodon at the lowest price.
DerTT 0. PIER, Evert. Mich.

 

 

BIG BOB MASTODON as 1111.. his

Sire was champion of the world.
His Dam’s Sire was grand champion
at Iowa State Fair. I have 6 choice

thirteen. for sale
J.

E. MYGRANTS. St. Johns. Mich.

 

. . . OL o‘cumss. spnmo PI 3
spring boar pigs left that W111 make BIG TYPE 2,: £4, sex to, M1,. a. “mug.
herd boars. Will price them at $50 prices. Registered in buyer’s name.

apiece if taken soon. 8211'. Charles. Mich
Bob Mastodon.

C. E. Garnant,

Sired by Big Long
MOSE

Sired by Blg BR08..

 

Eaton Rapids}. (Mich. 1111a: TYPE P. c. SPRma BOARS, MARCH

 

and April far-row. Also one Sept. yearling.
THE THUMB HERD The big bone and big litter kind. For prices and
reeding write
Big Type Poland Chinns. Largest herd in North- E. w LANDENBERGER. Pan-ma. Mlch_

eastern Mich. Boars and gilts for sale.
E. M. ORDWAY, Millingtou, Mich.

‘ HERE'S SOMETHING GOOD

THE LARGEST BIG TYPE P. c. IN MICH.
Get a bigger and better bred boar pig from my
herd, at a reasonable price. Come and see them.
Expenses_ paid if not as represented. These boars
in serv1ce: L’s Big Orange, Lord Clansmnn.
Orange Price and L's Long Prospect.
W. E. LIVINGSTON. Parma. Mloh.

 

BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS
A few choice spring boars and gilts sired by
"Half Ton Lad," a good son of “Smooth Half
'l‘on”(‘l1ampion of Michigan in 1918. Gilts Will
be bred to Jumbos Mastodon 2nd, son of Big
Bob Mastodon for March and April farrow.
HOWLEY BROS., Merrill, Mich.

L. T. P. C.

I hav a fine lot of spring pigs sired by Hart’s
Black rice, 9. good son of Black Price, grand
champion of the world in 1918. Also ve a
litter of 7 pigs 5 sows and boa ars, sired by
Prospect Yank, a son of the 2,340 000 Yankee.
that are sure Humdingers.

F. T. H.ART St." Louis. Mich.

 

 

 

FAHWELL LAKE FAHM

L. ’I‘. P. C. boars all sold. A few spring boars and
some gilts left. Will sell with breeding privilege.
Boers in service: Clansman's Image 2nd, W B.’s
Outpost and Smooth Wonder Visitors welcome.
W. B. RAMSDELL
Hanover, Mich.

 

eonard's B. T. P. 0. See my Exhibit at Mich.
State Fair. All stock double immune. Pub-
lic sale Oct. 28. Get your name on mailing list.

My, Oh My, What an OpportunityI E. R. LEONARD, n 3, St. Louis, Mich.

W“ “e "0" “an“ a I“ Chm“ big ”'9" . T. P. 0. SPRING BOARS, amen av w11..

 

 

Poland China Boers, from Big Smooth Jones, one . .
eys King Bob, out of Grand Daughters of
Egret:eafraegafldbelsiiazitleef’ IIIIIIOrgtmeVEHdzlll-Chfi‘fsfiq Disher’s Giant. All iiumuned with double treat-
don Wonder and HilleI‘est Bob. ‘ ment. John I). Wiley, Schoolcraft. Mich.
th meillcml’t get bettfr breeding. Individuall
ey pease you. ’rice $50. R the 01 sslfied Ads
HILLOREST FARM, Kalamazoo, Mich. ead a

 

IMPROVE YOUR JERSEY HER WITH ONE
ofF our" Majesty bulls.
NK P. NORMINGTON. Mich.
JERSEY

PUREBRED
Tuberculin tested.
Lake Odessa. Mich.

Ionia.

 

0R SALE—THREE
bulls ready for service.
. L. CARTER. R 4.

 

 

ANGUS

 

 

IG TYPE POLANDS. HERD HEADED BY
\V's Sailor Bob. Spring pigs, both sex for sale.
W CALDWELL & SON, Springpori. Mich.

Sale—BRED SOWS———Sale

M. B. F.'s BUSINESS FARMER’S EXCHANGE
Big Bargains are constantly offered

 

 

 

 

ABERDEEN- ANGUS STOCK FOR SALE
Cow—Bonnie of Mariette. 8 yrs. old, register-
‘ Sire King of Duchess 2d. Dani, Bonnie of
Med. Heifer calf 3 Weeks old. Dam, Bonnle
of Mariette. Sire, King of Romeo. Will sell
‘cow and ca‘li' together.

Bull—King 2d of Romeo,
tered, sire, Eric Edwin B.
Mariette. Heifer~—2 yrs. old
istcred. These will be priced

Address—-

FRED BOENING.

1 yr. old. Regis-
Dam, Bonnie of
with calf not reg—
cheap if sold soon.

R3, Romeo, Mich.

 

 

The Most Praia“. Kind l .

of taming, a car load of grade dairy heifers
from LENAWEE COUNTY'S beanesl milk pro-
ducers to include a pure bred ANGUS hull of the
most extreme beef type for combination beef and
deny farming.

Car lfot shipmentsh assembled at GLENWOOD
FARM rr prompt s ipmen

Methods explained in SMITH'S PROFII‘ABLB
STOCK GF‘Elz‘éEDING. 400 pages illustrated.

B. SMITH Addison. Mich.

EN-
BARTLETTS’K‘JESS %'l'i'its‘f.53°§... c.
Swine are right and are priced right. (1. Corr-s

ted and inspection invite
spondenghnwucaianrmr‘r. Lawton. Mich.

 

GUERNSEYS

11511131131151) cuEnnsavs

Fn heifer calves 6 months old—$200.
FIn: bull calves. 6 to 8 menths old—$100.

All papers transferred
J. M. WILLIAMS. North Mich.

GUERNSEY BULL CALVES

From tested and untested, dams.

Satisfaction guaranteed.

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

 

Adam‘:

 

 

AYBSHIRES

 

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

Also some choice

fl NDLAY BROS.. R 5, VM. Mich.

 

 

 

 

liE-DTI’OLLS; ,
Pioneer Northern Mich n Herd. Few bulls
in. viduala and breeding:

Watchman choc. rm 1m. 1111.1...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

40 Wed.
Jan. 5th,
Large 1920
4 Type at farm
‘ Poland "ear
China Man-
_ Chester,
Gills Mich.
F‘s Clansman Grand Champion boar

at Mich. State Fair, 1920.
Smooth Buster first Jr. yearling boar

BEE" I“ at. the Michigan State Fair, 1920.

Sale takes place under cover. All trains will be met a.
sale day. Get a sow bred to one of these boars.
Send for Catalog—Everything immuned.
Col. Ed. Bowers,

Auctioneer.

 

111. of

A. A. FIELDKAMP,
Proprietor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS
HILLCREST FARM OFFICE, KALAMAZOO, MICH.

FARM, ALLEGAN, MICHIGAN.

wm sell THURSDAY, JANUARY 6th

401113.11) Bred Gilts. Fall Yearlings, Tried Sows, Choice Boars
and some Extra Choice 35 pound Young Holstein bulls at the

VFAIR GROUNDS, ALLEGAN, MICH.

Tnere'win be SOME GREAT ATTRACTIONS.
There will be many bargains.

Write Ofliw for Catalogue

DEN BLYKER, BROS. ‘
Allegan, Michigan. .
fl *

 

Don’t miss this
sale.

 

'11. B- LAY,
_ Kalamazoo, Michigan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

     

 


   
  

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here at special low rages: ask for them.

REEDERS'

(snout ADVERTISING RATES coda this heedille h honest M ef live scent and
writsuotwhatvouhavetooffsr.letoopotit In two. show renames“ buyo- what newscast-1'18.”
also of ad. or copy as often as you wish. Goo-Y
Write today!)

DIRECTORY. THE MICHIGAN IUSINESS FARMER.

 

“I"! III} O. “I on

  

met. an... m.
or '2 times. You can chug:

or changes must be received one week before dots of Issue. Men' Auction Gale‘s advert}:

Mt. Old-tine. Michiun.

 

 

GLOSIIIG OUT SALE '

d Big Type Poland China hogs, which represenh
Ole work of 25 years of constructive breedim.
erything goes including our three great herd
rs. Mich. uster by Grant Buster, A. Grant,
utler’s Big Bob. Two of the best yearling
.ospects in Mich. Modern type, high arched
cks. great length, big bone. Come and pick
of what you want. Our prices are right.
NO. 0. BUTLER. Portland. Mich.

WALIIIIT ALLEY ""3 "

C. Boats now

ready for new
homes. Get your order in on fall pigs for I all
going to price them right.

A. D. GREGORY
'Ionia, Mich.

 

 

FOUR CHOICE SPRING AND FALL
boars left. wA few extra nice tilts
left bred for April far!

..0 SWARTZ. OSchoolcrafl, Mich.

IRED sow SALE.
For particulars write
Auousta. Mich.

I‘H ANNUAL P. 0.
March” 13. 1920.
W. J. HAOELSHAW.

Am. Offering Large Type Poland china Cows.
bred to I"s OraOnge at reasonable prices. Also

ll 3. Write call.
" ngYDE FISHOER. as. St. Louis. Mich.

 

BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS

Early fall pigs for sale, either sex. Those are
seal ones Write for breeding and price.
HIMM BROS.. Cheesnlne. Mich.

 

*7

DUROCS

 

Brookwater DUROC

Boers—Ready for Service

Big type, large bone and rugged, with plenty
1 quality. This is your chance to buy high class
ndividusls at reasonable prices.
OPEN GIT/1'8
ef choice breeding and the right type.
Panama Special, the Principal 4th, Orion

Cherry King and Great Orion families.
Now is the line to buy before the dcmend
takes all of the good ones.

Write Us For Prices and Pedigrees

Mail orders a specialty.
Satisfaction guaranteed.

BROOKWATER FARM
Ann Arbor.
H W. Mumford. Owner J.

Michigan
B. Andrews, Mgr.

    

   

Spring pigs by Walt's
Orion. First Sr. Yearling

Detroit, Jackson, Gd. Rapids and Saginaw. 1918
Phllhps Bros, Riga, Mich

AUSTIN STOCK FARM

Service boars and open gilts. $35.00 to $40.00
Eitf‘Il. Mumford and Orion Cherry King blood
These are real hops. At four fairs they won 44
ribbons. 10 Champion, 16 blues and 14 red.
Double immune with pedigree.

satisfaction or money back

Bloomingdale. Mich.

 

 

R SALE—DUROO JERSEYS. IOTH BEX.
Spring and fall pigs. Have several extra good
spring boars ready for service. Write us your

wants.
HARLEY FOOR A SON. R 1. Oladwin. Mich.

REGISTERED DUROO JERSEY

beers, gilts, and fall pigs for sale. Hrde headed
by Brookwater Demonstrator 27th.No.165217.
H. E. LIVERMORE A 80". Romeo. Mich.

 

JERSEYS

7nuno

 

FOR SALE AT FARM-
ejr’s prices.

SON. Ashley.

SPRING BOAR

The big growthy kind

E. DAVIS A Mich.

 

Duroo sows and elite bred to Walt'a King .2949
who has sired more prize winning pigs at the
state fairs in the last 2 years than any other Do-
St. Johns. Mich.

 

roe board. Newton Barn-.hart
11:11:11 HILL FARM-
Spring boar pigs by Peach Hill Orion King,
152489. Satistaction guaranteed. Priced at

‘35 up
INWOOD BROS.. Romeo. Mich.

 

EADOWVIEW FARM 1:56. JERSEY H068.
choice boar pigs foraa Ml h
c .

J. E. MORRIS A SON .Farmington,

 

PLEASANT VIEW DUROOC
iService boars, bred sows, open tilts and Sept-
DES.
W 0. BURLINOAME A SON./Maflhlilp MIGR-

Weanilnq Pics of
Either sex. A111

Mich.

For Sale—Reg. Duroc Jersey
good quality and breeding
oflering spring gilts also

VE.RN N. TOWNS R 6, Eaton Rapids.

'DIIROG

spring boars.
Liberty Defender
want good boars order at once.

G. KEESL‘ER. Cassopoils.

Boers of Last Sept. Farrow,
200 lb big stretchy kind, 4 good
also gilts of same litters sired by
3rd. Cot bred dams, if you
Prices $75 to $35.
Mich.

5 Fall

unocs. ANYTHING YOU WANT FROM A

spring gilt to a herd boar, at prices_you can
afford to pay. Cholera immune Satmfaction guar-
gntced. C. L. POWER Jerome. Mich.

UROC JERSEY BOARS. Boers of the lam:

heary~boned type, at: reasonable prices. Wnte.‘

or better. come 11nd sec. »
R 1.

F. J. DROOT, Monroe. Mich.

AM OFFERING SOME HIGH CLASS

SPRING DUROG BOARS

at reasonable prices A few gilts bled for Sep—
tember fan-ow at bargain prices
' w. c. TAYLOR

Mil‘an. Mich.

GRANDSONS
ready for service. $40.00
$15 00 each. Shipped

Ann Arbor, Mich.

UROC BOARS.‘ GOOD ONES.
of Panama Special,
each. September pigs,

an approval.
E. E. OALKINS.

OAKLAIDS PREMIER cHIEF
Herd Boar—Reference only—No. 129219
1919 Chicago International
4th Prize .Ir. Yearling

BOOKING ORDERS FALL PIGS AT
BAL OTTER
Potterviiie. PMich.

$25

FOR SALE—Jug Duroc Yearling Boar weigh-
ing 600 lbs. A bargain at $75 Spring boars
weighing 200 to 250 at $40 and S50 These are
real boars “e still have spring sows at $40
and 850. Stock double immunized for cholera

F. HEIMS A SON. Davison. Mich.

Brad and open sows
100 head.
Mich,,

Mich.

urocs.- Hill Crest Farms.
and gilts. Bears and spring pigs
rm 4 miles straight S. of Middleton,
Gratiot 00. Newton 8; Blank Perrinton,

DUROC BOARS 130.11 Pnrzm

\\ IN SING STOCK
ready for service. Geo B Smith. Addi-
son, Mich.

on SALE: ONE
Breakwater breeding stock
JOHN GRONENWETT. Carleton.

 

DUROp BOAR FROM
Choice spring pics.
Mich.

osnsev ssnvucc eosns. $50.09
Fine early {all pigs. 1,000 lb. herd
J08. BCHUELLER, Weidxnan, M1ci1.

Fun S‘L DUROC SPRING BOARS. SOWS
and gilts of all ages. Write us
your wants. Entire herd double immune.
JESSE BLISS a SON. Henderson. Mich.

E OFFER A FEW WELL-IRE!) IELEOT-
ed sprint Duroe Boers. also red sows and

G‘lts In 11. Call or write

Mluauo'fi’r'fin a ronovoa. It. Louis. Mich.

”GHIGAIA DUROOS. WE OAI FILL YOUR
, wants. Several lines of breedinl.

The Great Sensation. Batis-

represeuted includinl
faction guaranteed. 0 L. Foster, Pavilion. Mich.

 

boa r.

 

 

 

I. O. IWINE—MY HERO CONTAIN. THE
Hood line's of the most noted herd. Can furnish

 

 

 

you stack at "live and let live” prices.
A. J. GORDEN. Derr. Mich" R 8.
BERKSHIRES
IDEAL TYPE use. eenxsmnss. we or-
fer choice pigs all ages, either sex, best

118. Satisfaction guam

0. H. WHITNEY, Merrill. Mich.

REG BEBKSI‘IIIIES scans READY FOR

immediate service. 8130
PIES. both sex.
RUSSELL BROS-y R 3. MOI'I‘III. MI-Gh

 

 

GREGORY FARM BEBKSHIBES FOR
profit. Choice stock for sale. Write your
wants. W. S. Cores. White Hall, Ill.
BERKSHIBES ARE QUALITY H068.

Weaned pigs of the very
best blood lines of the breed is our specialty. We

guarantee to please or nothing s ti.ring
ARZA A. WEAVER, Ohesaninq. Mich..

 

 

 

CHESTER ’WHITES

.HESTER WHITES FOR 'SALE AT BARGAIN
' prices Will ship ('. O D. and reg. in buyers
name. RALPH COSENS, It 1, Levering, Mich.

REGISTEHE CHESTER wm‘ra swme,

either sex. Boars ready for ser-
vice. Prices right.
LYLE V. JONES. Flint. Mlch.. R. F. D. No. 5

 

 

 

 

HAMPSHIBES

HAMPSHIHES Si:‘i‘.i.§?“£ioi“‘§oit"0531?. 1;;
for bred gilts.
JOHN W. SNYDER. R 4. St. Johns. Mich.

BOAR PIGS $15.00

At 8 Weeks 01d .
W. A. EASTWOOD. 0mm Mich.

 

 

 

'An Opportunity To Buy
Hampshiree Right.

We are offering some g sows and tilts, bred

for March and April Ian-owing. Also a few

choice fall pigs, either sex, Write or call
GUS THOMAS, New Lothl'op, Mich.

SHEEP .4]

Ram Lamb;~ Register-

 

 

Begistered Hampshire Down

ed Shorthorn buil calf. Berkshire pigs of
spring and fail furrow.
PRIMEVAL FARM, 03300, Mich.

 

Put your faith in

BETTER BREEDIIIG STOGK

For the best in Shropshire and Hampshire rams
write or visit
KOPE-KON FARMS. S. L. Win91
Goldwater. Mich.
See our exhibit at the Ohio and Michigan
tate Fairs

HAMPSHIRE SHEEP

A few» good yearling toms and some ram
lambs left to otter. 25 ewes all ages for sale
for fall delivery. Everything guaranteed as
represented.

Prop.

 

CLARKE U. HAIRE. West Branch. Mich.

 

O. I. C.

 

O. .0. and CHESTER WHITE SWINE
Banish choice spring gllts which will be sold

open or bred for March Farrow” to one of my '

good herd boars. Also fall Dill
CLARE V. BOWMAN. SROYOI‘. MIOh
PURE

3 H BRED 0.1. 0 E1068

0 BAD for sale. Service beers and bred

gilts.1J6 head of fall pigs Pa rs furnished free.
VNA

ETTE’N, O "TONI. Mich.

. _- ,_
0. I. C. 3
June pm! July beers and open gilt! each one

a guaranteed breeder. Recorded and express paid

to th 11 xt tbirtyda
in full Fr 0? BeUROESS. Mason. Mich.

I. O. IRED OILTS FOR MARCH AND
oAp rii farrow. Also a few choice service boars.
CLOVER LEAF STOCK FARM. Monroe. Mich.

O.IC.BOARS .

Choice individuals, shipped to you c. o. d. express paid and guaran-

teed right or your money refunded.

name.

J. CARL JEWETT,

All stock registered in buyer’s

MASON, MICH.

 

 

 

Little Live Stock Ads in
M. B. F.
' Do the Trick'

   

 

 

TE. Sale—Bred Hampshire Ewes

BHETLAN‘O PONIEB. 1 YEARLINO. 1 OOL'I’
HA RRV W. OAR MAN. Meadow. Mich.

ANT A BRIEF? Let American Hampshire
Sheep Association send you a dandy booklet

 

with list of breeders. A.
g TYLER. Sec'y. 10 Woodland Ave... Detroit. Mich.

 

on sunorsrmn: swés class T0 LAMB
in March,‘ writes)! mil
anmsrmo ones" n 0:. Fowlarviile. Mich.

 

ERINO RAMS FOR SALE. GOOD DIO-
boned heavy shearers.
HOUBEMAN BROS. R 4. Albion. Mich.

 

R BALI—REGISTERED OXFORD DOWN

Rams and Ewes. Prices to set].
JOE MURRAY I SON. Brown Olty. MIoIL. R_ 2
HAMPSHIRE REGISTERED RAMS AND
ewes all ages. Bred Miright. Prie-

es right. W W. OASLER. 0vid.M1

iP‘ET STOCK 1%

FOR” SALE, FLEMISH GIANT RABBITS. DOES.
breeding age. $6. Three months old pair. $5.
Registered does 812 each. Stock pedigreed. Quai-

ty guaranteed.
Goldwater. Mich.

 

 

E. HIMEBAUGH.

 

 

The Best Breeders

advertise in The Michigan Bus~
iness Farmer. It will be worth ,
your while to read the livestock
advertisements in ’every issue
to keep posted on what they
- have to offer. ‘ 1

 

 

 

U’

applications for money wherew

. issue,

 

pion steers at the BdflaloFst Stock

show wen-t to- Aberdeen-Angus men,

while a load of Herefords was made
girand champion in the earlot divi-
s on

 

~The grand champion Angus steer I;

was shown by Ross K-infie'ld of
Woodstock, Ohio, and was bred‘by
E. M. Wilson of Anderson. Ind. His
sire was Equity Boy.

 

The Portland Cattle Loa—n com?

pany of Oregon has announcedthat
a new issue of $800,000 preferred.
stock has been subscribed, bringing
the capital, undivided profits and re-
serves up to about $2,000,000, as
against $10,500,000 outstanding re-
discounts. The floating of this new
it is stated, was done to pro-
vide necessary resources to‘ take care
of customers' requirements
the present period of credit restric-
tion and price depression, and to en-
able them to get through the winter
and obtain spring calves, lambs and
wool. ,

 

Secretary of Agriculture, E. T.
Meredith announces the appointment
of Harlan Smith as director of in-
formation, to succeed E. B. Reid, who
recently resigned to become editor
of a farm paper.
meted from the position of chief of
the division of publications, in which
capacity he is succeeded by John L.
Cobbs, Jr., who for some time has
been in charge of the information
work of the Forest Service.

Collapse of sheep and lamb trade
last week was partly attributable to
the arrival of the steamer Matatua
at New York'with 139,353 carcasses
of New Z-ealand frozen lamb and
120,003 carcasses of mutton, the
former averaging 31 lbs. the latter
54 lbs. This makes the total import-
ations of frozen lamb and mutton at
Atlantic parts this year, 2,663,045
carcasses, approximating 95,250,000
lbs.

 

In their issue of December '9, the
Chicago Breeders’ Gazette publish-
ed the following:

“Little change is detected in the
wool market, either at the Atlantic
seaboard .or in the interior. Bos-
ton’s weekly set of nominal quota-
tions is getting close to advances
made on western wool stored there,

creating apprehension of necessity
for forced sales. Mild weather has
prevented liquidation of clothing

stocks, much wool machinery is
idle, foreign weeks are landing in
enormous quantities and sentiment
in the textile industry is anything but
optimistic. Congress will be asked
either to place an embargo on for-
eign wools or create a high tariff,
either of which expedients may exert
a remedial effect. Boston traders
are of the opinion that bottom has
been struckywhat growers need is
a movement.
clothing and woolen goods have been
reduced little activity in manufactur-
ing circles can be expected.

 

A

International week did not devel-
op seasonal demandior stock cattle,
yard traders accumulating a burden-
some stock, much of which they
were forced to carry over last week,
when slight improvement occurred,
indicating that low spot for the sea-

son was uncovered during the show 1

period when a lotof light cattle
went out at $4.75 and 36 11nd a' dc.-
cent class of yearlings was bought
at $6.50 and $7. Kansas City was
glutted all last week and other mar-
kets were in little better condition.

This week the bulk of the 500 to'
700 lb. stockers cost anywhere from , ’

$5. 75 to $7. 25, quality .being the
factor, and trades above $7 are now
rare as the country is holding down
initial- cost in striking contrast to
its policy a year ago when feeders“
competed with packers on near-bee
Commission bOuses are deluged with

buy cattle, indicating that-1o“
demon: is due

Grand and reserve: grand- sham— 7

during‘

Mr. Smith is pro-_

Until existing stocks of '

    

   
    
 
  

    
  
  
    

  
   
      
     
      
 
    
  
  
  
   
   
  
    
   
   
 
    
        
    
  
   
  
   
   
   
  
   
  
  
   
 
 
   
   
      
    
   
   
     
   
   
   
  
       
  
  
  
  
      
      
     
   
    
  
  
  
  
  
   
     
       
      
  
   
   
  
 
 
   
  

 

 

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November.

qgome. ' :Not much produce-£01118 to mar-
, [Auction sales,..not’ go in .
.fioorsgggémg cheap and cowsing ry so“ '

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AVERAGE woman: named“
S eciai crop correspondents , ,
pricgs paid to tax-mer- uni-MW“
finding ”ramisauhm'mflnm {5"-
verae .;,- -, >, . .
lowest? him? fig“. m A -
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‘ . vertigo,
Lakeview and Flint, $1.40;
ygan. €231.11? BEANS: Av-
ml. ~cwt... . ; m m m
m' 2:2! nut, $3315: lowest. Cadillac.

. .. $3.50. POTA-

out, , ‘ art. . FRINGERS:
17 1-2c; highest, Goldwater ,

, and Lakerview, 15c. iIE-Ns:
m. 16 1-3c; highest, Goldwater, 21.-
lowest, Traverse City, 12c. Bnm‘
cranes: Average, 6c; highest, Flint,
Sc' lowest, Lakeview, 4c. BEEF COWS:

Av’erag , to; highest, Imlay City, 5c;
lowast, Lakeview, 2c, HOGS’: Average,
dressed, 13c; highest, Ch-e'boygan, 17c;

IOWes-t, Trufant, 10c. .HOGS: Average,
live weight, 8 1-3c; highest, Flint, 8 3—40:
lowest, Lakeview, Sc.

 

GRAND TRAVERSE—Farmers are
getting up wood and hauling corn, Are
aving fine weather at present—C. L. 13,,
Williamsburg, Dec 10, '

MONTCALM —— Farmers have been
plowing until the late freeze-up. Weather
is moderate, _ Soil in good condition.
Farmers are selling mostly potatoes. Hor—
ace San-home is building a new barn and
garage—G. B, W., Lakeview, Dec. 10

’ KALAMAZOO—The farmers are husk-
ing corn, plowing and some are cutting
wood. The weather has been quite rainy
the last few weeks but is turning colder
now. The soil is quite dry and more
rain would be of much benefit—Ii Iii. F.,
Climax, Dec. 7

WEXFORD—Fine weather for this
time of the year. Many are getting their
wood up for the winter. Some think it
Will be an open Winter. Some farmers
are holding their potatoes for a higher
price, Many sold in the fall.-—S. H. 8,,
Harrietta...Dec, 9,

MONTCALM—Farmers are not doing
much of anything but chores. Some are
selling a few potatoes. Weather is some—
what cooler with a light rain followed

by snow, Some farmers are plowing.
Still/lots of sales. On'e sale near here.
Wednesday, Dec. 8. Wheat and oat

straw went at $8 per ton and two cows
fir $85 and $78.—M. C, P., Trufant, Dec.

CHEBOYGAN—The tax-mere are cut-

'ting their Winter's wood and some are

shredding corn: some plowing was done
this Week. The weather is nice and no
snow yet but ground is frozen. Nothing
much being sold here because the prices
are too low. Potatoes dropped to 50
and 60 cents and the farmers are holding
them for higher prices. Fall
lglood and the lground is in goo condition.
'very mg ese is at a standstill-4.
W. B,, Riggsville, Dec. 10. '

BERRIEN, (west)—-—Weather has been
fine; raining at present and threatening
to turn colder. Much rail plowing has
been done. Nothing much doing now
but a little wood buzzing and butchering.
Baroda and vicinity have had a little pic—

. . by the Commer-
oial Bank, a private institution opened
by Albert F. Rick, going co the wall, with
heavy liabilities and about 400 farmer
depositors affected.
a lot of hogs ready for market but there
is no demand for them.-—-0. C, Y, Bar-
.oda. Dec. 10 '

BRANCH (S, E.)—Qulncy
tives ship stock Saturdays and Wednes-
days. Very heavy shipments of all
kinds. of stock on account of the high
taxation. They are even shipping their
young pullets, Some are shredding com.
Have had lots of rain but was warm; two
small snow storms. The chair factory
at Reading burned down; cause unknown
'1here is hardly any sales this fall What
is sold is going very cheap. Stack is
nearly all shi ped through the co-opera-
tives to_Bu alo markets. Hardly any
stelck bovinrg fgg (Lver this winter All
se ing e y or. —- . ' '
Dec_11. W W. 0.. Quincy,

CHEBOYGAN (South *Deemn
‘been a fine month so far. Faring-$1333;
with the usual fall Work of October and

. Some are plowing, honking
corn, cutting wood'and other fall work
Market conditions very poor. No sale
for potatoes and warehouses full Bot-
tom out of bean mamket, Also same for
cattle; only 4 cents offered fer fat cat.
fie, Nothing being sold and -farmers

co-op‘era-

somewhat discouraged with the largest

tax in history staring them'in th
A éiumbeé'nog Silas glare) put up tlfisfafggl
anareeWi eestf'ase—
Wolverine, Dec,-,11. o ensil‘ "W
LAPEER (N, ’E.)—-Farmers are not
very, busy just now. Have their fall
work nearly finished, A lot of fall plow;
ing done; «Corn about all hushed and
beets about all In. Weather has been fav-
orablefor cleaning 'up work this fall. A
little colder at. present-and ground froze

     
  
 
 

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Farmers have quite .

8min: some 01' these -
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milk are“ Wondering why milk has been

reduced to $3.00 f, o. a. Detroit and the

city people still have “way 14¢ per qt.
and 8c per .pt. It costs ‘41:: per cwt.
freight and 400 per cwt. for hauling, so
it is easy to see where the producer gets

oft—(L A, 13., ’Imtay City, Dec. 9.
OSCEOLA-Jamers are cutting and
has confid-

haullng lwood. more ld ,
cubic owing» done eo spell has
p round has not

evented- berth”. work.
frozen entil past 3 days. Farmers
find no sale tor beans; Potatoes have

pped , Butter
[from We to 25¢. Hogs and hooves are
not in much demand only for local mar-
ket. Still high prices continue in other
products. Jacob Niergarth, a highly re
spouted farmer of Osceola townsh . liv-
me on home arm since 1881, die Dec.
gill. and $5 ears.--_~E, A., Evar't, Doc.

GENESEE—Farmers are not doing
lunch right now on account of the bad
Weather; They have been bucking corn,
plowing and doing read work. There is
quite a l of corn that has not been
hushed Yet.
hauled. ‘ Considerable plowing has been
done during the past week or so even tho
the ground was quite wet, Wheat and

e are looking better right along but
he are still quite a ways from being
calred extra. good, Some potatoes are
being sold, but not much of anything
else is moving. lj‘armers are not satis—
‘fl-ed with present prices and are not go-
ing to sell any more than they have to,
on the present market, Auction sales are
quite lentiful and the prices received in
most nstances are low, Quite a few
farmers have sold out during the last
month.-—-C. W. S., Fenton. Dec, 10

WEEKLY MARKETGRAM
(Continued from. page 9)
meal $41, Buffalo and Minneapolis;
86 per cent cottonseed meal $29
Memphis, $37 northeastern markets;
beet pulp $40 Chicago; pure white
hominy $41, yellow hominy $38 de-
livered New York; No. 1 alfalfa meal
$26.50 Kansas City. SEED: Growers
in important millet seed producing
sections receiving per 100 lbs. clean
seed $1.25 to $1.50 golden millet;
750 to $1.25 common millet; 700 to
$1.40 broomcorn millet. 'Seedsmen
not buying and not much millet seed
has moved to date. FRUITS AND
VEGETABLES: Potatoe values con-
tinued to decline slowly. Northern
round white stock lost an additional
10 to 18c at shipping points, closing
$1.30 to $1.35. Chicago carlot mar-

 

ket declined 35c, reaching lowest
point of season at $1.25 to $1.40
sacked. Middle western .jobbing

range down 15 to 35c at $1.50 to $2.
Prices heldiair‘ly well in the east.
Western New York, f. o. b. $1.65. to
$1.70; New York market bulk $2.10
to $2.35. DAIRY PRODUCTS: But;
tor market steady; advanced latter
part of week. Considerable differ-
ence of opinion as to turn markets
will take but feeling is temporarily
better. Further arrivals Danish;
over one million pounds one cargo.
Receivers of Danish making every ef-
fort to move goods promptly. Stop
age butter still slow. Closing prices
92 score fresh; New York 54c; Chi-
cago 49 1-2; Philadelphia 540; Bos-
ton 52c. .These prices 1 to 2c higher
than a_week ago. LIVE STOCK
AND MEATS: Hogs at Chicago de-
clined sharply during the past week.
Under fairly liberal receipts hogs
showed an average net depreciation
of 75c per 100 lbs. and on the 13th
’ scored a new low for the season. All
classes of cattle shared ”downward
movement declines ranging from 75c
on best feeder steers to $1.25 on
cows and heifers. Beef steers lost
50c to $1.25. Veal calves declined
$1.50 per 100 lbs. Under moderate
supplies and. improved demand fat
lambs gained 35c practically of which
was scored on the 13th. Fat ewes
up 50c; feeding lambs unchanged.
Dec. 13 top Chicago prices: Hogs,
$9.55,, yearling-steers, $14.75, good
beet steers $12.50 to $12.75, heifers
.$10.75, Cows $9.25, feeder steers,
$9.25; veal calves $10, fat lambs,
$12.35, feeding lambs $11.25; fat
ewes $5.75.. '

I‘m-ash meat prices chan ed -:onl
slightly. Good boot shows: a. mod{
er'ate decline “at some "’points, ' other
grades practically unchanged.
steady to $1 lower, mutton and pork
loins unchanged: Jam firm to.
per 100 lbs. higher... . December 13
prices on. good grade memf Beet

r. $17 to $22, veal'$1_6“jto $23; lamb

$25 to $28;
Mabel: park
was {>15 to m.

mutton, $11” to $16;.~.

\

Beets are practically 'all

Veal"

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Department. Mt. Clemens.

 

POULTRY

 

MUD-WAY-AUSH-KA FARM
clots young stock and a few mature breeders in
White Chinese Geese, White Runner Ducks and
White Wyandottal. Also 0. I. C. sprint: giltl.
Writs today for prices on what you need.
”I! O. HELLER. Dryden. Mich.

 

MT! ONIIEGI “ESE, ° WHITE PEK IN
' Midis. R. 0. Br. Leghoms. Place omen-neatly.
MR8. CLAUDIA BETTS. HIHmIe. MM.

commons AND mesons
wearer begins a

breeding sto .
CYCLE HATCH!!! COMPANY. 149 Pb". 3M9.
Elmira. N. V.

cane
under this heading It 80 acute per "no, per I'uue.

Write out what you have to one:- and send It In. we will put

to ram return mall. Address The
It in W' W proof “4 quo M lllohlun.

  
 

   

  

 

[RECTORY

Spools!
MIohloan SusI nus Farmer.

 

HITS WYAHDOTTE COOKERELS FISHEL

strain, April hatched. Will offer ’0: short
time at $4.00.

JIIUI ”OVER. R 4. Mich.

’nnopn ISLAND REDS

Williamston,

 

 

 

. WRITTAKER'S R. I. REDS
oocxminns. We are oiled-n; some big bor-
aim in both Bose and Single Combs. Write for
price list. _ _

DAY OLD CHICKS. Reds only. Breedi‘
attic): carefully selected for egg production and
coat.

, EGGS FOB HATCHING by the sitting a
hundred.

Our stock is bred in 79 Michigan counties or!
in nearly 450 Michigan towns. It is the most
popular strain of Reds in the state. Write for
free mtalog. ,

INTERLAKES FARM. Box 4, Lawrence, MIch.

 

 

cooker“: a Hem, Leghorns, MInoroas.‘ Houdena.
Reds, Rocks, Orpiiigtons, Wya-ndottes.
TYRONE POULTRY FARM, Fenton,

BOURBON HEB TUB‘KEYS '

stock not akin if desired. Order early.

Also 8. C. R. I. Had eockerels and Bullets. the
dark red kind and bred to lay.

Our stock will put your poultry on I 9631112

F. HEIMS a SON
Davison, Mich.

 

 

For Sale—White Holland Cookerels, $11 F. o. B.
—-Extm fine. Also one 18 mos. White I’ekin
Drake, a good one for $3. This ad. appears but
once. BERNICE EVENS, Chief, Mich.

 

Michigan. ‘

 

PLYMOUTH ROCKS
SURPLUS OOCKERELI

MED flocKs all sold. Hatch1n1l as

next spring from stock rich in blood of Par
best pedigreed pens.
R. G. KIRBV. R 1, East Lansing. MIoh.

 

HN’S BIG BEAUTIFUL BARRED ROCKS

are hen hatched, grow quick, good layers. Sold

on approval, $4 to $8 each. Circulars. Photos.
JOHN NORTHON, Clare, Mich.

 

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

MRS PERRY s-rsaams, Saranao. Mich.

 

- LEGHORNS

400 S. C. White Leghorn Pallets

6 months old first week in December, now ready
to lay; these Piillets will pay for themselves from
the first. They are pure white, with drooping red
combs indicating maturity; they are highly bred

 

lets for spring. We will send you Catalog and
description, if you wish.
STATE FARMS ASSOCIATION
Kalamazoo, Michlgan

 

OR SALE—SINGLE COMB BROWN AND
Buff Leghorn Cockerels, $2. Croutscr strain.
E. B. HOLLENBECK, Athens, Mich.

 

FOR SALE—Thirty thoroughbred Rose Comb
Brown Leghorn Roosters. L. BACON,
RED. No. 3. Box 109. Davison, Michigan

 

INOLE COMB BUFF COCKERELS. FARM
raised from excellent laying stock. Also Rufus.
lted Belgian Hares.
J W. WEBSTER, Bath, Mich.

 

RABOWSKE S. 0. WHITE LEGHORN COOK-
crels for sale, only $2.50 each and up.
LEO GRABOWSKE, Merrill, Mich" R. 4

 

OR SALE—R. C. B. L. COCKER‘ELS, SIRED
by Madison Sq. winner. Bred for size and
layers, weighing 5 lbs, $2.50 each. Flemish
Giant rabbits.
E. Mich.

HIMEBAUGH. Goldwater,

 

s B. LEGHORN COCKERELS FROM EX-
cellent laying strain. Prize winners at Sag<
inaw Fair, $1.50. A. McKeage, R4, Hemlock, Mich

 

_'

WYANDOTTE

stock. Semi for description and price. All our.
stock is "reliable; we guarantee everything. Day
Old Chicks, all breeds and White Leghorn Pul~

 

Ilvor Laced Golden and White Wyandottoc.
Choice breeding stock our specialty. Let us

furnish your good cockerels.
C.

W. BROWNING, R 2, Portland, Mich.

 

HITE WYANDOTTES.
200 egg liens or better.
$5 to 88. Eggs $2 per 15.
FRANK OELONG. R 3.

COCKERELS FROM
May and June hatch.

Three Rivers. Mlch.

 

ARRED ROCK COOKERELS and a few Pul-
Iets $3.00 apiece.
Mrs. W. A. Eastwood, Chesanlno,

Mlch., R. 2

 

ARRED ROCK COCKERELS, BRED FROI
great layers. Bargain prices now.
W. C. COFFMAN. R 3, Benton, Harbor, Mich.

 

BARBED nocK GOOKEBELS £39,“:

nested pioveii breeding stock, book your chick
and egg orders now. Large illustrated catalogue
25c. Stain for circular.

NORMAN POULTRY PLANT, Chatsworth, III.

 

HITE ROCKS, PULLETS, HENS. COOKER-

uis. Flock culled and approved by E. O. For-
mal]. poultry extension specialist of M. A. C.

ROBT. E. KNIGHT. New Baltlmore, Mich.

 

 

LANGSHAN ‘

DR. SIMPSON'S LANGSHANS OF QUALITY
Bred for type and color since 1912. Winter
laying strain of both Black and “Hills. Han
some cockerels for sale. Eggs in season.
CHAS. W. SIMPSON
Webberville, Mich.

 

 

 

ANCONAS ’

cHOICE SINGLE COMB ANCONA COCKERELS
for sale. Inquire
MRS. EDITH BAUGHAN. R1, Breckenridge, Mich

 

 

 

TURKEYS

 

MICHIGAN'S BEST GIANT BRONZE TURK—
eys. Bred from 18 to 22 lb. hens and 40b.
toms. Large Both utility

and fancy.
N. EVALYN RAMSDELL,

bone splendid color.

IonIa, Mich.

IANT BRONZE TURKEYS. STRONG, VIGOR-
G ous birds. Write at once for fall prices.
MRS. PERRY Mich.

OR SALE_ MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEVS
'te for prices. Forest View Farm.

wnMRS. H. D. HORTON, FiIIon, Mich.

OURBON RED TURKEVS, CHOICE LARGE

.. l' hatched toms and hens.
L“AyRCHIE D. IVES, Rockford,
TURKEY TOMS

BRONZE MAMMOTH $10.00 no...

WILL DILLMAN, R sg‘bowagiao, Mich.
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STEBIINS. Saranac.

Mich.

 

 

ed to January 3lst, 1921.

contest.

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Third Gold Contest Manager,

Mt. Clemens, Michigan. _

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+——there is still time
to win a share in that

$250 IN GOLD ' .

The closing date of M. B. F.’s 3rd Gold Contest has been extend-
This still gives everyone an equal chance
to win one of the 7 prizes. Fill in the coupon and get right in the

THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER,
Enter my name in the Third Gold Contest for $250, which closes
at midnight, January 31, 1921. It is not to cost me a penny and I

am to have as good a chance as anyone to win the prize money.
You can send me order blanks, samples, etc.

lmmo IOIIOOIOOOOIIIODIOIIIOIOOODIOQODOOORe F- D. N0.......

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Architect's Sketch Showing Complete Plant of the.Det1-olt Packlng Company

To the Livestock Growers , of Michigan :,

HILE THE outside appearance of the Plant appeals

to the eye, the INSIDE appeals most to us. We
' have no hesitation in stating that as a completed

and working unit, this Plant of Detroit Packing

Company will be second to none in efficiency, and
, Will be able to show production costs less than 0th
er operating plants, due to full advantage having been
taken of the combined past experience of . others inthe busi-
ness, the practical application of the latest mechanical fea-
tures, with layout and construction permitting of making
large use of gravity in handling meat cuts and products, all
with concentrated buildings and ample area in ground space,
together with excellent railroad trackage, the sum, total mak-
ing for the net result stated. Besides these facilities we also
will have facilities for the proper and adequate handling'of
Live Stock'off either cars, wagons or trucks, together with
slaughtering, dressing, cooling, chilling, freezing, curing, pro
cessing and marketing which applies both to Edible Products

 

 

and By- Products.

ACCOMPLISHMENT comes only by persistent, method-
ical effort coupled with a meritorious undertaking and shaped
along legitimate lines. We have accomplished much so far
and full accomplishment of what was undertaken by Detroit
Packing Company is today a matter of time and detail only,
as all essentials are fundamentally sound, having stood the

‘ test and today our foundations are broad and strOng on which

to build for the future.

Co-operation is the Watchword
With the loyal, full and undivided support of our several

thousand shareholders and the l1ve stock growers of Michigan, {_ .
success is asSured. We feel safe in putting full reliance on such ,
support, as no Company has a more stable and representative ‘ _

list of shareholders than Detroit Packing Company, this Com-

pany having the bone, marrow and sinew of Michigan Live , '
Stock Producers affiliated not only as shareholders but also as j .
“Boosters. ” Their realization is that for ,many years they, ,
have “held the bag” for the other fellowi.’ They are now a l.

x.

DETROI:

. Special Llie- fleet
FLINT [AND YARD}:

EDWARD F. DOLD _.
President and General Manager

power to be reckoned with and areldetermined to secure more
adequate returns on their Live Stock through their affiliation
with Detroit Packing Company. ..

Believe Only' What _You Know! 5’

The acid tes is now being applied to our undertaking We
are under fire y the enemy Insidious propaganda, both.

written and spoken, direct and 1nd1rect is being used per-

sistently against us. If our undertaking was not considered
inimical to what we will term the “Vested Interests” no ser-
ious objections would have been met. HoWever, our oppon-
ents dare not go so far, as the fact that Detroit Packing
Company 1s a going concern lays them Wide open to penalties
they are fearful will be inflicted, when they step over the
dead line of propriety— and their fears are well founded.
Our cause is good and to successfully battle our way. to suc-
cess needs only common sense and aggressiveness on our part.
We have a good thing; let’s push it along and develop it to
the utmost.

Building additions and alterations have been completed at
our main Plant so as to enable us to transfer our activities
from our Bushey Street Plant and this step permits of con-
siderable expansion of our present established business. After
January 1st, we Will be in a position to handle Dressed Hogs,
Beef, Veal and Mutton in addition to manufacturing Saus-
age and Curing and Smoking Pork Products at our main
Plant. No slaughtering can be done until further new build-
ings are erected. We wish to push our building programme
with all possible despatch as We can now do this under very
favorable building conditions and of course we desire to get
on a full production basis so as to insure speedy dividend re-
turns,

‘We, at this end cf the line are not “Miracle Men” but only

honest, sincere and we believe capable and experienced, all

working diligently in our mutual interests. We are proud of-
results achieved to date; We have full confidence 1n the future
and wish only to have all our shareholders, including all the

; livestock growers of Michigan, keep step in the march to

progress and prosperity.
Write us or come iii and see us. We are on the job' here
every day. ’

FRANK L. GIRRIBON
. 7 Vice Prosldont ,