An Independent '_ Farmer’s Weekly, Owned and r'—’7/ CISEMENS, SATURDAY,"DECEMBER 25, 1920. Edited in Michigan $1 PER YEAR ‘Grangers-Balk hat Public-Owned Industries Annual Session at Grand Rapids Marked by\ High Attendance and Keen Interest EATURE‘S 0F the annual meeting of the Michigan State Grange, which was held last week in Grand Rapids, were the election of A. B. Cook, of Owosso as worthy master to suc- ceed John Ketcham; qualified endorsement of the State Constabulary; .temporary rejection of a proposition for municipal or state-owned in- dustries; recommendations for state income tax; for complete reorganization of the state govern- ment and elimination of unnecessary state co-m- ‘ missions; complete publicity on farmers’ profits as a means of gaining the consumers’ sympathy; for temporary restrictions on immigration; against any appropriation for expansion of Uni- versity of Michigan until rural schools are plac- ed on a higher plane. ' ‘ Master’s Recommendations , John C. Ketcham, master of the state grange in his annual message recommended: Reorgan- ization of the stat-e administration upon a de- partmental or cabinet plan; state income tax; funds for road building ‘by direct taxation; cor- rection of defects in primary law; immediate plans for geographical rearrangement as basis cf senatorial and representative district changes; check“ on stock exchange gambling in farm pro- ducts; protection from the dumping of foreign products upon our' markéts; careful considera- tion 0f action relative to state constabulary. A fuller report of Mr. Ketcham’s address will be found in this issue. . ‘ Cook Unopposed Mr. A. B. Cook 'had no active opposition in his candidacy for Worthy Master. The pre- elvection primary had given him a substantial -majority over all other contestants and there. was no disposition to stage a contest at the election. Mr. Cook is an actual farmer, owning, living and doing a good share of the work upon one of the finest farms in Shiawassee county, four miles south of Owosso. The,Cook farm has been handed down through «five generations, but through intelligent crop rotation and the liberal use of fertilizers, it is as productive today as ever, producing annually bumper crops of grain, beans, etc. Mr. Cook was graduated from the M. A. C. in 1893, his father having also graduated from the institution in 1863. A son Albert, and a daughter 'Mary are both attend- ing the college at the present time',’ the former expecting to' graduate in ’23 and the latter’in ’24, whilst back home attending the Owosso ‘high school is still another son, John, who some day expects to finish his education in this ' farmers’ college. And presiding over the home of the new . . r W o r t b y Master is a dime, graci- ous .woman . vwho lov e s .. ‘ the farm and .believes it is 1th 9 i deal . founda t i o n for the Am- 4 . .erican .-home.. . Mr. 'Cook- ‘ .has always been active ,in Gran g e affairs of his i vacancy, ._ n 0x809, , sank ' 1"" 01?- the' 330.3 m. T, ‘ L ' I -| i 7 ‘ lholhdu: Dori A. ' Arlen Jenna“; umtlvomrimlttoo; In”. I.‘ ,3. 6mm. "Inn". . _ " . -v., ' . Scot now. reading min lot: to My mutant. sword: c. H. Bramble. oval-pour W. H. Lovejoy. assistant steward; ‘l'. a. in Grange Policies and Future - A. 3. 000K ~ New Worthy Master of State Grange has been both president and secretary of the State Farmers’ Clubs, and has served his district two terms in the State Senate. In addition he has held minor political offices and taken minor parts in the agricultural affairs of the state. 'At present he is chairman of the Farmers’ Fed- erated Legislative Committee. _ New Officers . Mrs. Allen S. Bennett deserves special men- tion because of the fact that she enjoys the distinction of being the first woman to ever sit upon the executive committee of the Grange. She is a thorough—going farm woman, living with her family upon a fine farm near Lowell. She, too, has been a leader in both local and state Grange affairs, having held nearly all the . new worthy matter; Mrs. E. E. 53mm”.- Pomona; Jennle Buell. :00”; mm. J. O. Woodmanrchaplaln; Mrs. Cora Anderson, Flora 9nd J. c. 'HOM W!"- P- Hull. executive committee: Frank Coward. treasurer: J. A. Thompson. executive oommlt- Further Rec' positions in the Pomona Grange of Kent County. The complete list of the new and re—elected officers follows: I, Worthy Master, A. B. Cook; Overseer, C. H. Bramble; lecturer, Dora H. Stockman; steward, T. E. Niles; assistant steward, W. H. Lovejoy; chaplain, Olivia J. C. Woodman; treasurer, Frank Coward; secretary, Jennie I. Buell; gate- keeper, Peter A. Klies; Ceres, Mrs. I. E. Corless; Pomona, Mrs. E. E. Salsbury; Flora, Mrs. Maud Spaulding; assistant lady steward, Mrs. W. H. Lovejoy; executive committee, (each for term of two years) Mrs. Allen Bennett, Geo. B. Hor- ton, John C. Ketcham, W. F. Taylor. State Constabulary The state consta'bulary question precipitated one of the liveliest debates in the history of the order. A number of resolutions had been pre- sented to the resolutions committee by subor- dinate Granges, some for and others against the Constabulary. Last year the Grange voted for the abolishment of the Constabulary. The res- olutions committee held public hearings on Wednesday afternoon when both friends and opponents were permitted to speak their views. Principal among the supporters were Mr. A. C. Graham, federal prohibition commissioner . for Michigan, who succeeded in convincing the resolutions committee that the co-operation of the state police was necessary in the enforce— ment of the national prohibition law. Although it appeared that the majority of the committee were at first against the constabulary, the evi- dence submitted 'by Mr. Graham and others, caused the committee to draft the following res olution: “Whereas, the legislature of 1919 reorganiz— ed the State Constabulary under Act No. 26 and created the Michigan State Police, appropriating $368,210 annually for their maintenance for the period of two years, and « “Whereas, the presence of this state body is the most effective means of co-ordinance with the United States officials in the enforcement of the 18th amendment of Federal Prohibition laws and, Further, that the State Police has antici- pated and prevented crimes and law violation along all lines. “Be It Resolved, That the Michigan State Grange allies itself with those who would en— force the law and thereby protect life and .prop— erty, and believes that under existing conditions there is a decided need of such an organization. “Further, That it is the sense of the Grange ‘ that Act No. ’ " 26, P. A., of 191 9, ‘A 11 Act to Cre- ate the Mich- igan State Police,” be so amended by the 1921 legislat u r e, tha t t h is body shall serve every S t a te De— partment in the enforce- - m e n t ‘o f quarantine s, f0 '0 d a n d drug, game, fire preven- tion and oth- er laws. “Be It "lies, steward; Peter Kloos, gatekeeper- mme n d e d f-(Courtesy Grand Rapids Press.) 0 ‘ V -. a‘ct‘p v - the resolution were Mr. ' , chairman of the resolutions commit- wto- uw: . , ,. men tbservegin‘theistate “ .Pblica, shall the character and can- with ; proper endorsements - therefore. - _ , r The resolution was presented for , debate shortly before the noon hour Thursday, a dozen or more participat- ing. Those who spoke in behalf of Bodfish, tee, Jas. Nicol, J. N. McBride, W. A... Anderson, a federal prohibition , qofiloer, N. L. Moore of Wayne coun- ty, 2. gehtleman from Osceola coun- - ty: Sen. 0. B. Scully,~member of the legislature which passed the State ' Police act and created more boards and commissions than any other leg- islature of recent times; and several others. The principal ‘ against the resolutions were Geo. B. Horton, former worthy master, Jen- nie I. Buell, secretary of the State Grange, C. H. Bramble, overseer, and Forrest Lord, editor of Tris Bosmsss FARMEB, the latter being present by invitation. A number of delegates also spoke against the po- lice. . The principal arguments in favor ing of retaining the police were that they were necessary to enforce the prohibition laws, that they afforded to the rural communities, that they were self—sustaining because of the large number of fines collected and that the rural communities bore only- about 60 per cent of the cost of maintenance. It was charged against the police that it usurped the duties of the civil police and encouraged them to be lax; that the existence of the state police was an admission that the “1510?? ' spokesman . 'f; ‘ , z 'v ‘ . epic -Were.,only a 3 , , . ~ , , stead of remedy-ing that condition; , that prohibition is a federal measure andxshould‘be' enforced by federal authorities; that the state has got. slung for many years without a state police and can continue )to" survive without it; that the rural districts receive little if any benefit from the police; that it is a needless, expens- ive institution; that the state police is a virtual duplication of theestate militia, and that one or the other should be done away" with. What might have been added which wasn’t was that a large number of arrests, convictions and fines credited to the police would have been secured' by local officers had the state police not been in existence. Minor obiections offered to the police by several farm- ers were that they were inefficient, of doubtful character, inclined to be insolent and overbearing, etc. A halt was finally called to the de- bate and a vote taken. It showed 115 for and 104 against the resolu- tion. This was a total of 219 votes out of 270 cast for the office of Worthy Master. State Industries -The Bay and Genesee county del- egations, brought to the convention a proposition which would authorize municipalities, counties or even the state to engage in industrial pur- suits as a means of combattin-g profit- eerlng and securing to the farmer a larger price for his products. The resolution was presented by Mr. G. C. Leibrand and was a copy of a res- olution adopted by Genesee county Pomona Grange, reading as follbws: (11:1‘lrf-‘ parts were neglected. the soil. - can fertilizer formulas, factory in the past. 10 per cent. of P0 use ready for - your part o ‘ 42'i3r0adway Restore ’ihe Potash During the past few years farmers have been urged to bend every effort to produce mammum crops Without givmg much consideration to the effect on their soils. Estabhshed rotations were broken up and the very best parts of the farm put into the most needed crops, while the poorer In a way it was a return to the pioneer’s method of mining Today is the period of readjustment for the farmer as well as for the merchant and the manufacturer. . The farm labor situation and the uncertainty of future prices are such that prudence demands that the cost of producing a unit of crop be reduced as much as possible. This requires more crop units per acre and _a return to the rotations known to be best for a given locality. The great factor in reducing the cost of crop production is the right method of feeding the crops. The composition of commercial (plant foods has been pro- foundly changed during the perio . . phoric Acid has‘replaced all or a part of the Potash 1n Ameri- while just the oppomte has taken place in Europe, where there was a shortage of phosphates. Now is the tinie to get back to normal again and to return to the fertilizer formulas that were so profitable andsatis- But this cannot be done Without effort on the part of the farmer and without sufficient notice to the manufacturer to prepare for the change. Therefore think the matter over carefully, and If your_ previous experience has shown yet that Potash Pays , notify your dealer that you wish to use fertilizers with 5 to tash and a little more to make up for the drain on the soil during the Potash famine. A dd '1: htawa ,forittakesfimeforthe manufacturertnimportit mild it‘i; onfll‘y fair that he should know what your demands Will be. The price of Passages fallan faster than the pile?ng may asour u can again m“? 'Thye.u-sin t is to insist tha?the right land‘s! fertiliser all be needed. In order to Takeupthe-smwithyourdesler sconce. If we can help yeuwrltetous. son. AND crop SERVICE. rouse SYNDICATE E. A» HUSTON. Manager of Potash famine. Phos- . insure this. prompt action on _ V fNew’York. I opoly and p municipal or governmental competi- tion. For example :“As a remedy for prohibition in coal, same govern: mental subdivision 0"! the state on, nation acquire one or more coal mines, mine the coal, and sell the same at cost of productiOn;.. a rem- edy for profiteering in sugar, the state or some subdivision of it, own one or more sugar factories, paying ' the farmers sumcient for their best: so they can go into the.labor market, hire help to raise beets and still have a reasonable profit, pay good wages to those who make the sugar and sell the same to the public at cost in 100 pound sacks; a textile plant that buys the wool from the farm, manu- facturers it in ‘woolen clothing, same to be sold to the public at cost; a tannery and shoe factory to buy hides from the farmer and sell the shoes to the public at cost; as a.solution to our transportation problem, the government should own and control one of the large trunk lines of the nation with its subordinate branch? es. We believe it unnecessary to adopt the principle of universal gOv- ernment ownership of .any one'given industry in order to overcome exist- ing abuses brought about by mon-' opoly, extortion, and oppression made possible and encouraged by combin- ations of capital.” Milo Campbell jumped on the proposition with .both feet. “I am against it," he said. 5‘It will lead to disaster for the farmer. It would‘ lead to Socialism. The first tenet of Socialism is ownership of land and the moment you open the door to Socialism you endanger the title to your property. When you begin that movement, industry will joinin and then you will have Socialism to full extent. This proposition is the doct- rine of the Soviet of Russia, and, I fear we would make a great mistake to go in for a. thing of this kind now. Lay it by for a while and think over it." To this Mr. Leibrand retorted that the opponents of any scheme nowadays had a habit of frightening people by the cry of “Socialism.” He declared that there was nothing alarming about the proposition, but was simply a means of putting a check on profiteering. He urged the Grange to be progressive and take this forward step. Opposition to the proposal was voiced by Jas. Nicol, N. P. Hull, Jas. N. McBride and Sen. ,Scully, although the latter ventured to remark that he thought the plan might have merit, and should be taken up at a later date. The upshot of the mat- ter was that the resolution was re- ferred to the lecturer with instruc- tions to lay it before the subordinate Granges for discussion during the ensuing year. Ketcham Counsels Grangers In his annual address retiring Worthy Master John C. Ketcham, who is also congressman—elect from the fourth district, touched upon the majority of problems confronting the farmers today. Among other things he urged: For Lower Taxes “Only two ways appear to~ lower taxes. Appropriations must~be cut down or additional property upon which to assess taxes must be found. “First, we must have a reorgan- ization of our state administration upon a cabinet or departmental plan suchas is now working in". some of the states with marked success. “Second, we should adopt a state constitutional amendment ..making‘ possible a state income tax for Mich- igan." ’ Statements said to have been made by legislators leads the master, he said to believe the stateprimary law is threatened with repeal. ’ ‘ "In face of this general sentiment, he went on, “it is well for this body ' to express vigorous sentiment regardy ing its views on either repeal arma- terial change in this law which has been championed by the grange. from the start. . p _,, _. I . ~ .With reference to state police, he ' yea-id: f‘Consideragtions pt endure ’ . 1y ,a working arrangement with the was recommended... “Heavy legend-fleets of new autos in transit. ;,;_ have brought up problems of . maintenance that were unforeseenji' - ‘ModificatiOn of the 3‘ two. years ago. V petition to secure covert roads is a call for a' recommendation to raise the necessary funds for our state roadsbydirecttaxinstead ofissuing "1' V bonds. - . “A one mill tax would raise near- ly $5,000,000 9. year on the present assessed valuation of the state. This sum, 'together with that roceivod from the federal government, would vmake as large an amount as could be expended to advantage by the state highway department for construction work,” he said. Speaking of the rearrangement ct senatorial and legislative districts. Mr. Ketcham said, “'l‘he’state consti- , tution requires" the legislature do! 1923 to arrange the senatorial dis— tricts of the state and apportion tho ' house of representatives to popula- tion as shown by the census of 1920. “It is none too "early to begin the. campaign to arrange the geographi- cal areas that we may avoid com- plete domination of our legislature,” he explained. As to national legislation it was ‘ considered high time to strike a blow at trading in futures in farm pro- ducts. ”It is widely reported the 1920 wheat crop has been sold and resold not less than six times with only and insignificant amount act- ually delivered. Laying aside the moral aspects of the'case it is intol- erable to permit men who have put neither time, money nor brains into the task of producing the crop to have the power to dewn the price to the producer and crowd it to a high point for the consumer,” he said. It was also termed urgent that legislation be enacted which would stop the dumping of .forelgn_-products on our" markets. “If protection is to be" the law of the land, tend to agricultural products," he said. . “Farmers have been astounded at the attitude of the federal reserve board in refusing an extension of credit to carry them over the price slump in wheat. the ruling, the federal reserve board announces the federal reserve act does not countenance the holding of commodities for speculation. ~ “Prices of farm crops must be stab- ilized and steadied, and credits bas- ed upon such safe and fluid secure ity as farm crops would make tins possible. If the federal reserve act is not available to farmers in a crisis like the impending one, it should be ' so amended. - And if this is impos- sible, some other plan must be evolv- ed to provide the assistance needed in such situations as now confront r the farmer. Fight Federal Tax on Land “Our opinions on federal taxation should be vociferously stated. Obli- ‘ gations have been incurred and they must be met. the next few years will be that of side-stepping in the payment of fed- eral taxes. The American farmer gave his sons, his money and his best effort during the war. He does not intend to sidestep in paying his share .of the bills and does not expect any-_ I} one else to done. He will fight vig- orously any attempt to put across ‘a federal tax on land as proposed by '- if the Nolan bill, and will give any its application must exb, In. justification of . ' The great game of g I called sales tax a careful scrutiny. In addition to the action described '0 above the Grange discussed tentativa' Farm Bureau. \ In this discussion’it was declared that the Farm Bureau cannot take the place. of the» Grangef 'as asocial and’educational organi, a ‘ tion. but‘ Would carry on’the’ ma ing end with probably greats at! fact! ‘ fr ‘= “ lr"—— wrvv~uvuv v-‘wr-r‘wr‘v w r "FII""- ‘—_IIW"W'—.Iri.r"l— others who have spent a‘ . bership- mi V RELIMINARY to the discussion P of the topic suggested by the above headline it may' not. be out of, place for the writer of this --_series of articles test-ate in some dé— tail his own. personal views concern- .‘ing the proper methods to pursue in legitimatising the Chicago Board of i Trade. To fegitn with, it would be 0 idle for an ne, no matter how wise he may be, to promulgate, off-hand. a marketing system that will take the place of an institution that has been functioning for more than 70 years—— ‘ an institution that has grown up sim- ultaneously with the development of the ‘ eat‘ agricultural areas of this, the 112 st wonderful food-producing nation in the world. It must be ac- knowledged that the wonderful eflic- - iency of many of the current Board of Trade-methods has aided greatly in the handling of the tremendous cereal crops produced in the west dur- ing the last quarter of a century. The market problem is the most import- ant and difficult question that the American natidn has to deal with at the present time and the individual who claims that he can, without the aid of past experience and careful ex- perimentation, suggest a successful solution is either a fool or a knave. Some of the brightest men in this nation are struggling with the prob- lem‘ which the advantageous market- ing of farm products involves and they are tee honest and sincere to suggest a cure-all for a disease, the nature of which they 'do not thor- oughly understand. Many there are, especially among the taming classes, who are in favor of abolishing the Chicago Board of Trade, entirely, but the writer does not care to be count- ed among that number; like many life-time - HE FINAL grain marketing plan of the Farm’ers’ Marketing Committee of seventeen will be built up around the following principles according to a resolution adopted at last week’s meeting of the Committee at Chicago, Dec. 13th to 15th. 1. Farmer owned'elevator com- panies and sales agencies to operate _on. the local and terminal markets of the United States. ' 2. Farmers export companies and sales agencies to operate on foreign “markets for the purpose of market- ing the expel-table surplus.’ I 3. The sale of all grain on the .. basis of ‘co-operative bargaining. . ,_, .i ._N.m,,, ,., 3-. I "SI ‘» ObjectiOHahle Features of- Chicago Bd. of Trade Cash Grain VMarkef‘ing F unction' Advantage to F armers, but Margin Trading Needs Reforming While the committee did not ex- plain just what it meant by “co-op- erative bargaining” it is understood to meanthe establishment of a large farmers' co—operative sales company through which‘the bulk of the grain I . of the United States will, ultimately . be handled. The committee took a further ag- gressive step in'its effort to open the grain exchanges of the countryto the membership of farmers co—op- erative commission companies. At the last meeting of the Committee, v it will. be'_remembered, steps were taken to file a plea with the Federal Trade Commission to order the the com belt to introduce a mini; livestock»? or _ . Grain Exchanges to admit the farm-_" ~ Mateo-operative companies toy-mam- ‘ At last week’s [meeting a. ti :1 was adopted. urging .each 7 “ seems medium: mak- . 8.8 h NESS FARMER 7 , By B. H. MACK studying marketing methods, he is in favor of rigid regulation but not of annihilation. He is in favor of met- ing out severe punishment to traders who resort to illegitimate and dis- honest practices. _ counted in favor of preserving all of the legitimate and useful features of - the present Board of Trade, and of a forcible discontinuance of the flag- rant a‘buses which have made the place notorious as a gambling den; having arrived at the above conclus- ion, the writer feels .po sense of guilt because he is not able'to suggestan adequate remedy, simply, because there are many abler and more ex- perienced men who occupy the same position. Prof. Eugene Davenport, dean of the Universtiy of Illinois, and one of the leading educators of this country, speaking before the A. F. B. F. at Indianapolis the other day, made in substance, the following statement: “The Board/of Trade is a great prob- lem. The losses due to sharp fluctu- ations, brought about by the opera- tions of the bulls and the bears on the Board, are very disastrous to tho. producers of farm products. It is not the money loss, after all, that is the main consideration but rather the fact that many producers are actual- ly put out of business.” When asked if he had any sugges- tions to make, Prof. Davenport said that he had not. Here is one of the brightest men in this nation-«Ia man who hasspent nearly his life in close proximity to Chicago, the great mar ket whirlpool of the world, but who is too modest to even suggest a. rem- edy for existing Board of Trade evils. In the opinion of the writer, the a careful investigation into the ef-‘ \ facts of short selling on grain pric- es unanimously adopted the follow- ing resolution: " "Resolved, that we deem it moral- ly wrong and highly detrimental to the interests of agriculture and the consumers to permit the practice now in vogue of selling grain, cotton and other farm products which the seller or his principal do not ‘own at time of sale. 'This practice is commonly ' known as ‘short selling.’ “Resolved further, that we do hereby petition Congress to enact such legislation as will stop this prac- tice at the earliest possible date.” Dr. E. F. Ladd, United States Sen- ator—elect from North Dakota, went to Washington Tuesday night to con- fer with members of Congress re— garding pending legislation for the relief of farmers. He took the short selling resolution with him for pres- entation to Congress: Some very interesting information from Board of Trade sources re- garding short selling was presented at last week’s meeting of the Com- mittee. The following paragraph is taken from .a letter from one of the oldest and most experienced grain traders in".the United States, a man who at present holds membership in three of the leading grain exchanges of the. country. . ’ . “Short selling is a speculation pure and simple and such” sales are made . with the object ‘of getting, aha-out fro‘mdeclines' in the market at/the lea din most He wishes to be ‘ expenseof others. They'laefiect of- .IE‘ " _s‘is topcause _‘ ‘ ° hen-b it- United States government should as- sume control of the Chicago B ard'of Trade, and also of the N York Stock Exchange; a strong code of rules, for the government of these in- stitutions, should be formulated. A board of governors, composed of men of unquestioned honesty and high moral tone, should be appointed and placed in charge of each of these or- ganizations;’ out of the 1700 members of the Chicago Board of Trade a working majority, that will stand for ' honest methods, can certainly be se- cured. Cash Market vs. Option Deal The cash market on Chicago Board of Trade and in the smaller organiza- tions of other cities, consists in dis- playing inspected samples of differ- ent varieties of grain and offering them for sale at private treaty. The grain is brought to the Board in small paper sacks and prospective buyers are permitted to examine it with a view to making a cash pur- chase, either for milling purposes or for shipment abroad. The functions performed by the cash department are very useful and important be- cause they permit the display of a large number of wheat samples, sim- ultaneously, to interested purchasers, thus saving _owners the trouble and expense of f‘peddling." The cash mar- ket of the Chicago Board of Trade is absolutely legitimate and it should, if possible, be preserved when the final shake-up comes, which it is sure to do sooner or later. More than 300 million bushels of wheat are sold in this department, every year; the ser- vice performed is not only useful but it is well—nigh indispensable to a. country that specializes in the rais- Gommittec 17 Plans Farmers’ (Io-operative Grain Would Trqnsfeerontrol of Grain Marketing from Hands of Speculators to Farmers is strivinghard to hold up and ad- vance, and which would often do so, if it were not for short selling. Short sales aggregate in a year on the grain exchanges in the United States many times more than the actual grain, represented by the crop of grain grown. Such sales do not con- template any real delivery of the grain so sold and in probably not more than one per centof the cases are deliveries ever made. The short seller sells property, or what is sup- posed to represent property that he does not own, which has the effect at least for the time being, of depress- ing the value of the property of an- .other who does own such preperty. Now one has any moral right to sell what he does not min or possess, and if laws were passed and enforc- ed prohibiting this, farmers and the public would -be greatly benefitted. In taking this position against short selling, I do not want to be under- stood as being in favor of prohibit- ing all sales of futures. Selling of futures by those who actually are owners of the grain as represented by sales is legitimate, absolutely nec- essary, is good, and should be per- mitted.” " l The committee decided Wednes- day night to meet again Dec. 27th for a full week’s session. I Considerable attention was given at last week’s meeting to the prob- lem of finding a market for surplus grain from this year's crop. While the committee did not specifically endorse the plans to revive the world financed corporation or to make. a “ @099 ‘ . l . 1920' ing of cereals. The terms “cash” and. “spot” are synonymous in their 'meaning and refer to sales of wheat for immediate delivery. \The storm of protest against Board " of Trade methods centers around the option deal where contracts for wheat are bought and sold for delivery, some time in the future. Transactions for future delivery are all done on “Mar- gins” a term which is used to repre- sent the amount of cash deposited with the broker by the trader as an earnest of his good intentions and willingness to satisfactorily complete the transaction which has been be- gun. When a customer expresses a desire to buy or sell on margins, the broker exacts a deposit of cash that is—insures the safety of the transac- tion for the time being; in other words, the trader is required to keep the deal good by depositing cash whenever his broker calls for it. If the market goes up after the trader has bought or if the market goes down after he has sold, no more cash will be needed to carry forward the transaction; in fact, if the market continues to vindicate the good judge- ment of the trader by going in the direction that he desires to have it go, he will be permitted to withdraw a part or all of his original cash de- posit. It often happens that, a trader is fortunate enough to be able to draw on his broker for a much larger amount than his original deposit, long before the ultimate consumation 'of the deal. The commission salesmen, who op- erate on the Board of Trade, simply dbey the order given by the traders who deal with them and they must have money enough on deposit, at all (Continued on page 7) Sales Companies measures became effective it should be in position to supply grain for export without de-' lay or excessive overhead charges. A ' special subcommittee was creat- ed “to negotiate with government of- ficials and financial interests with a - view to getting emergency action for immediate establishing of machinery ‘ for handling our surplus grain or‘ grain products for shipment to Eurs ope elminating all possible overhead expenses, including terminal costs, commissions, _etc., grain from point of origin to ulti- mate destination in Europe at least possible expense to both producer and consumer.” W. C. Eckhardt of Illinois is chairman of this commit- tee. This same committee will investi- A gate the possibilities of increasing: a the use of Com by the industries, par- ticularly for the manufacture of in— : dustrial alcohol. While in Wash- ington it will also ask'Congress for the immediate embargo on the im- portation of Cuban molasses for al- cohol manufacture. At the present time enough molasses is being im- , ported for this purpose'to replace = 225,000 bushels of corn a day. Before adjourning the committee I " issued the following statement: “We wish to assure the grain pro- ‘ ducers of the country that we keen- ly appreciate the necessity of prompt ; ‘ action and that as quickly as the nec- . essary data can be gathered by our ' experts, .we will perfect and present? 6 plan for marketing grain oo-oper- atively with the cofoperafion_of.itne utm- . .. _ ‘ December-1.25.,- l. and handling , in~ -l~ \ \\\\\.1\I\\\.|vll".‘. ll. -\.. l r i » Local Survey3 and Tests Planned by M. A. ,C., Expected ,to Prove of Great Value to Business-Farmers»... HAT IS the program of the Soils ' - By M. M. McCOOL . ' ‘ Section Of the MiChigan Agrl: , Professor of'Soils, Michigan Agricultrral College cultural College? Is it getting I -_ _ . result commensurate with the funds ' that it receives, or is the State of Michigan justified in supporting this part of the Agricultural College to greater or less extent than at pres- ent? These questions have been raised. They are legitimate and the Bert Gilbert people of the State are entitled to paul Semen. frank and full answers to them. I ' Ch“ Khmer shall reply to these by reviewing the history of the Department and some of the things that have been accom- plished. Farm _ The history of this section since 1 WWW“? its reorganization in 1914 is enlight- Pm] ening. The writer was placed in charge of the Soils work in Michigan, W. C. KempatgfLCOI At the Cass County farm 17 acres 13.33 of land have been set aside for the 23.88 study of soil fertility problems. Here 6.6~’ such questions as the. value of-«g‘dl- phur, different phosphorus carriers;”i lime compounds, the cost and dura- . .. tion'of green manures, top- dressing _‘ and others are being investigated! We have in progress" many field tests that are being conducted ,c’os' operatively by farmers, , ,Tcount‘yf. ‘ agents and representatives ‘of the ' r Corn—Rye .Soils Section, It is proposed to, .,, Rye . continue these at least one round,““, v of a four year rotation and longer 4 .v if practicable. It is recognized that” Rye . _ the value of such increases with the',“ Soybeunggy. . length of time they are continued. Wheat ' ' Results Obtained $2,693" 1L“ In calculating the returns from r . the application of the materials‘a‘pé plied to the soil the following prices were usedz~Wheat $2.00; corn $1.25: oats 60c; rye' $1.50; clover hay. $22;' straw $8; soybeans $5; lime $4; acid phosphate $32; codium nitrate $90; potash $176; rock phosphate $20; sulphate Of'a‘mmonia $100. It should not be overlooked that if. the _ prices of the produce were one-half those used in the calculations and the fertilizers Jvere as high or higher the returns on the investment would- be decidedly less. - A ‘ It may be readily seen «that this-""1 Thos. Moon IThompsonrillo Limo Sand I I I I I I I I I I I Vbn Buren Co.I Hartford i Manure ' . I' Manure I I I l I I I Sand ( 2"" W 30.05 (gross) __ __ _ _._. —A-—- Il Imlay City Schnello i Clarion Manure Rock phosphatel Silt-loam I Rock phosphatel Sandy loam with nitrogen I i and potash I Van Buren Co. I Hartford Rock phosphatrl Sandy loam Farm I I with' Imanure I ‘ I Eau Claire Rock phosphatel Silt loam I with marl I Rock phosphatel Sand with limesoonel 'Rock phosphateI Sand Oats-Wheat Oats-Clover 2 Crops \ F22 ‘ "f ‘Oats-Clover 14.79 . 2 Crops Oats-wheat . __ __._.__ .. ._— _.._ —- __ _.._. —_-— —-22.35 Wheat —-. 84 Bye Bye . | I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Rye i I I I I I I I I i Cassopolis II I I assesses __.__._._—._ Cass Co. farm Oassopolis Soybeans-rye Wheat ‘ 22.20 Rye 12.3] Rye 12.3? Rye ' 8.42 Gail—Wheat 2 5.70 Oats-Wheat 17.83 , Wheat 13.3’ Wheat 21.16 W. C. Kempster Goldwater F. McCartney Morrice / 14.98 28.42 28.39 Wheat Wheat Acid phosphath Silt loam Wheat 16 " VVneat 7.98 Vicksburs comm'l nitrogen (top dressingli light soils Acid phosphate Sodium nitratr Silt loam Acid phosphatrl Sodium nitrath {Omsk I Silt loam Acid phosphatd Silt loam 2-12-2 I try, and in fact excel the majority of them and in some phases they are in advance of any in the United States. Some of the methods devis- ed by members of the staff are em- ployed in soils laboratories in vari- ous institutions. The methods de- vised to investigate the rate of SOI- ubility of soils, temperature rela— tionships and also the classification of the soil moisture are made use of for educational purposes. Research Work The energy expended in research- es or investigations has borne fruit. In pure research work the chief ob- ject is to discover new and funda— mental principles regarding the soil. It is through such that we are en— abled to know and understand the soil. The work of Dr. G. J. Bouy- oucos on the temperature relation- ships of soils are the most extensive and elaborate and enlightening of any in the world. The important, practical contributions of his and others of the section are as follows: Sandy soils owe their earliness to the fact that they become warm earlier in the morning than the heavy soils and, plants are thus enabled to make use of sunlight for growth over a greater number of hours. The chief things that govern the temperature of the soil are the water content and its rate of evaporation from the sur— face. The frostiness of muck and peat lands are due to several things. One_of them is the topographic po- sition, in addition the nature of soils themselves pay a minor part and finally the nutrition of the crop. Where fertilizers are added these are slightly if any more frosty than other lands of the same topographic position. i The investigations on the soil so- lution of field soils are the meet ex- f“tenslve of any reported. The rate ,at'which different soil types liberate “ . ‘fff'material to the soil moisture at dif- ferent seasons of the year,'_'different V wiepths, and under different" sYstems " f I‘manag‘ement and 1 treatments has seen and is‘ sun being" investigated. 4 wants ‘3 rmwoounfins‘ 28 trials comm ’l nitrogen : Basin of~Saginaw Valley and eastern for discrepencies in unproductive soils. Moreover the residuary or the lasting effects of fertilizers on differ- ent soils have been considered. These show that many such release other substances to solution from the soil minerals and have a pronounced res- iduary effect which is usually favor- able rather than detrimental as is believed by many. The results of such studies indicate ways to use fertilizers to the best advantage. Our studies have altered the views of thinking people concerning soil moisture. In fact a different system of classification has been worked out. This system is superior to the one in common use inasmuch as it is based on the characteristic or prop- erties of the soil. They throw new light upon the movement of moisture in soils and account for the negative result-s that are obtained when cer- tain kinds of soils are mulched. The sulphur problem has been un- der investigation. This element is considered by many to have great future possibilities as a soil improv- er. We have found that its addition to some soils results in greater pro- duction of egumes while to others it does not. Moreover even very small quantities facilitates or in- crease the rate of decay of some peat and muck deposits. The extent at which it is removed from soils by‘ leaching or washing has been con- sidered and found to be quite great. The principal soil types of’ ‘the lower peninsula have been-careful- ly sampled and anlyzed for their lime, phosphorus, potassium, sul- phur, nitrogen and humus content. Three hundred samples/ have been analyzed. These analyses afforded us a background or basis of the field or fertility werk.) _ A soil survey has, been Inaugurat—i ed. In 1915 the section was granted ._ $500 with which to take up, the class- iflcation ofthe soils that lie in what is generally known as the Old Lake (top dressingll I I Silt loam I Wheat I I I heavy soils Wheat -—-1.14 plans were interferred with,by the war. A reconnaissance or general soil survey was completed in Au- gust 1920. In brief the heavy soils are remarkably high in nitrogen and humus, do not respond to lime, are only fairly well supplied with phos-' phorus and are high in potassium. The chief fertilizer constituent that brings results is phosphorus. The, deep sands on the other hand are sour, low in phosphorus and are de- ficient in nitrogen and-humus. In addition a similar survey was inaug- urated last fall in Chippewa County and approximately one—third of it was covered. Soils maps have been made of St. Joseph and Branch counties. ’ In June, 1920 a co-operative agree- ment was made with the U. S. De— partment of Agriculture, Bureau of Soils, whereby the soils of the state are to be classified and mapped in detail. The former organization furnishes one man for each one sent out by the state and pays his expens- es and one—half of the livery bill that they incur while in the performance of their duties. Berrien county was covered with the exception of some dozen square miles. It is‘proposed to pursue this work With vigor~—-— provided the financial support is forthcoming. As soon as a county is completed a report on it is publish- ed and placed in the hands of the Ihnd owners. The scope and value of a modern soil survey is dealt with in another report. These «projects are basic to our fertility demonstra- tions and experiments. The soil improvement demonstra- tions and experiments have not been neglected. It should be noted,‘how-, ever, that the available information“ on Michigan soils was very mea re five years ago and that one of file things essential to asuccessf'nl'demA castration is to have "someifacts to 1 demonstrate. - Another . matter ‘ of considerable ‘ importance _ ' wherewith for organization is performing out knotty soil problems and to add to our. present knowledge of this complicated and fundamental agri: cultural science. This is necessary in 'order that other lines may be pQged on firm foundations. (b) The classification and mapping of soil of the state are under is essential to a systematic, and con~ ,. structive soil fertility program and is of utmost importance to all lines" of agriculture. experimental projects are laid out as rapidly as practicable on * the chief soil areas of the state. id) I Extension lectures are delivered‘andx,‘ demonstrations are made on the basis of the knowledge derived, from, the researches and fertility experiéfj merits. Naturally it is not prudent to carry the extension work much in advance of the investigations! phase” es. (e) “The courses ’ offered are maintained at a high standard, due, largely to the efforts of the men «an: , gaged in soil investigations both’in the field and in the laboratories. Short course men come directly into contact with those who are familiar with field conditions. The regular studentsmeet these as well as men-"1‘ employed on research problems“. , The financial situation should be known. Department in the United States accomplishedgas much in the same»; length‘of time and so economicallypifl" as that of the ‘M. A. C. marize .the expenditures for exten- sion‘and fertility work in the'state. since the writer. came to Michigam' This does notinclude salaries. .. ' " ~ ' 19144919 91919 = ’ Extension . . . .2. .none none _';89180 . reruns; ......sasoo 341000333000 s uninformed that 1the Obie if \ periment stat! n 5898363 . goo _ three major lines of work, namely, (a) the I I ,. researches, the object being to wor_k*~~ -~ ' way. * v This , . '(c), On the basis of“. ourknowledge derived from the soil: .survey, It is true that no other Soils: I‘shall stint-7"" . v , ,, 5.. "Delegate to National Sugar Beet Conference WEN, «counties fivere rcpresent- ' H r 9‘1. St. the {State Farm Bureau '4‘ Sugar beet conference at Lans— w,lastiweels, as follows; / ' wayngehugu‘st Bunte;~JOhn Near," .MEtCV-Rmk.zr assume—4mm Moss- ‘i‘heldfer‘, Farwell;- W. J.‘ Hazelwood, Pleasant. . .Gratiot—e—Bert Millen- _-”l_ger,“ Ithaca; Arthur Humphrey, Ith- .»aca;v,R‘j3. Memes—Fred Van Bur- éu’, Carleton, .R '1; Robert Stearns, .Tem'pe'rance, R 1. Tuscola—D.. B. " Pinker-ton ,Vaséar, R 2; C.‘ P. Hoover, Akron, R 1. Barry—Wm. McGhan, wig-lastings, Rb. Clinton—Albert Nich- ' 0113, St. Johns, R 1; Geo. Fiedewah, Str‘Joh-ns, R 3; Lenawee—Otto Wag» been in at -a- ner,_4Rig-a; H; ,F. Knoblauch, Bliss-a. ,' I V ' piifield- Lapeer—John Phelps, Silver- };f"; twood',“-R»2.~; W. B. Wilson, Clifford. ,f~*’“.'.Mlssaukee-—Ahe .Luedtke, Clare; J. ’ ,W. Schaefer, Clare, R 6; W. E. Bowl- ‘er,_Clare,- R 5. Eaton -— Clifford O’Niel, Mulliken, R 1; Pearl Smith, ' .;Mulliken, R 1.1”" Sanilac -‘—- Philip V ,_ ‘ O’Connell, 'McGregor. Saginaw— ' Henry Miller, Saginaw, R 1; Deb'Ter- A Word from Western Leader ‘ ‘ 11E ACCOMPANYING letter has been received from Mr. Albert Dakan, who is chairman of the Research Committee of the Moun- tain Statics Beet Gmwers’ Ass’n,-of Longmont, Colorado, and prob- ably one of the best versed men in the United States in the past hist- ory of the sugar beet industry and the efforts of the sugar trust to secure a throttle hold on the entire sugar industry of the United States. Notice that Mr. Dakan lays great stress upon the need of a strong na- tional federation representing all beet. growers’ organizations. The day before the receipt of this letter the editor enjoyed a visit from Mr. C. G. Patterson, a. militant figure in the fight that has been waged by the growers of Utah against the sugar combine of that ‘ state which is in the hands of the Mormon church. Mr. Patterson had dance at the A. F. ’B. F. convention at Indianapolis, and was largely responsible for the adoption of a resolution asking Pres. Howard to name a national beet growers’ committee on which every state farm bureau and every beet growers’ associatiOn would have rep- resentation. ~ Mr. Patterson attended the Farm Bureau sugar beet con- ference at Lansing last week and discussed the sugar beet situation before the State Grange at Grand Rapids. He also beneves that the time is near when the beet growers must accept dictation at the hands of the manufacturérs or embrace a nation-wide program for confer- ences With manufacturers and a standard contract—Editor. Chesaning. Midland—G. « F. ‘ ‘Histe, Coleman, R 3. Shiawassee—g pr , A.‘ Dennison, Owosso; C. E. Acker-' ,7: man, Durand. Bay—C. R. Oviatt, -‘ ‘ ~ ‘Bay City.’ C. E. Ackerman, president .of the Michigan Beet Gr-owers’ ,Ass'n, was ~ ,_elected as a representative toattend a J-the national federation meeting next .mOnth in company with 'a. member- ? g of the executive committee of the M. 'l ‘ An advisory committee "or five was ~ also elected as follows: 1T. S. Reavy, of Tuscola; L. H. Kirtland, of Mon- . ‘ I roe; T. C. Price", Saginaw; C. S. Her- e, ; riottyClinton; A. G. Smith, St. Clair. ' v» _ t Al‘he following report was submit- e: - ‘ v ‘ s It has been found after careful anal- . ,::.-~.‘ ysis that while a contract making‘the at farm “bureau or any organization the selling agent of the growers for the , p I - ' ensuing year or series of years could - be. written that, unless it contaihed - no provision absolutely binding upon the grower, it hadno value as it would not interfere in any way with V afgrower, who had signed up, execut: ing independently another agreement _ with factories and fulfilling it. * t " There is no question that each one of the 12,000 odd growers in Michi- ~gan has the absolute and unqualified , legal right to refuse to grow sugar beets for any reason he may see fit. He likewise has the absolute and un- qualified— legal right to delegate to I another the sole and exclusive right 1 * '—»toz'represent him in making a con- . I tract, with the. sugar company, and in . * case of their refusal to deal with his duly appointed agent, to refuse to grow a single beet. . ' , But, can these individual rights be exerted collectively and in pursuance of a common understanding, to com- pel the sugar companies not to pay , them any particular or higher price for their product, but merely to com~ pel them‘ to deal with their jointly appointed agent or representative, hand in .case of the companies' refusal to‘ jointly and collectively agree not toraise any sugar beets? ‘ . There are no statutes existing in f ‘Michignn or nationally, that“ clearly ' define collective bargaining. or the "line of demarkation between it and 3,. combination in restraint of trade production or the quantity of‘any ar- ticle or commodity to be raised or produced by mining, manufacture, agriculture or any other branch 'of business or labor, or to enhance, con- trol or regulate the market price thereof, or in any manner to prevent DITOR BUSINESS FARMER —— The 1921 beet contract is receiving attention at the different fact- ,,. Monday, Dec. 6th, growers’ meetings were held in most of the factory his- tricts of Color-ado, local ofl‘icers were elected and arrangements made. to send delegates to the annual conven- tion of the Mountain States Beet Growers’ Association in Denver, Dec. 13th, 1920. The contract terms, of course, are “up in the air.” The Great Western Sugar Co. field men or other agents have been sowing rumors of $8.00 beets next year. But the Beet Grow— ers’ Association has made no. official statement as yet. It’s committee has been at work for some time on a con- tract and will doubtless have a ten— tative contract to submit within two weeks. While the matter of next year’s price is 'problematical in northern Coloradd‘, it is less so in: western Colorado and at the Sugar City fact- ory in southern Colorado. At Delta, last spring the Holly Sugar Company officials sat down at a table with the farmers. committee and worked out a contract for 1920 beets. One par- v i 1 ,. i "I the company officials will again meet the farmers’ committee .to work out the 1921 con-tract. Such a course was also won by the farmers at Sugar City, Colorado. These are the most notable victories in the history of beet growers’ organizations, we be- lieve.‘ The contracts provide a min- imum~ payment at harvest and the balance on a sliding scale agreed to between ‘factdry representatives and farmers' committees. I' was much interested in’your art- or in other words, a ~monOply or icle concerning small sugar factories trust. . by Dr. Townsend. There is 'one The Michigan anti—trust ~ statute thing that is passing strange. Cur ‘ a specifies; that a trust is a, combina— great Federal Department of \Agri_ A 2. _-‘tion‘ of capital, skill or‘ arts by two culture seems unable to. give us def- jor more'persons or associations? of’ mite “information upon that Very persons for the purposes, among oth- vital subject, the small beet sugar _ er things, “to limit or reduce the pro- factory. ,They are *old in Europe. '."du_ction, or increase or —reduce the We. should have photos, and details _+price of merchandise orany‘commodé of operation. Such things are not my; to‘prevent competition in mm secretsexcept to the U. S. beet grow- ,ufacturing, -makin'g, -~ transportationk err soldiers bring back, reports, sale‘or purchase of merchandise, ro- which if true, are ‘of the very great- ' .wduce 01“ any commodity." = * * " ‘ est importanceto the best growers. .- Surely. the interests of our groWers runner; final; at contracts. (gree- ' " V, guildertsnflngs and combine: are enough iimp‘ortanceto justifyna by 15 said 7 between " beet‘sugar industry. Therep'orts we- 9;!!! ' x have , appeal): such as misfit: be * an- I _’ proved bribe emcersfof'..t.he ,Mi’cfii- 7 gain Sggar Go, the Great Western, 01- ‘ ' ny ofthe‘suga d " e s. ory towns all over Colorado. on .agraph of that contract provides that made: angered Into. or know- scientific report upon the European" or restrict free competition in the production or sale of any such arti- cle or commodity, shall be utterly il- legal and void, and every such con- tract, agreement, understanding and combination shall constitute a crim- inal conspiracy.” Western Factories Talking $8 Beets flection at our federal department’s scientific men. They have given us great assistance in their lines of aid in production. The fault lies with the farmers. They have not as yet secured federal aid on the business side of farming in the real business sense. While the farmer produces 95 per cent of the nation’s wealth an- nually he simply produces and lets it go at that. Unorganized, he is “easy meat” for the perfectly organ- ized business forces of the nation. Armour & Co. recently wrote thus to one of that company’s agents: “If that man Blake is making all that fuss, put a muzzle on him. We must keep prices down while we are accumulating these big stocks.” The Sugar TrustPresident wrote to his company 'manager “Go up there and knock out Boutelle and Hoover.” The order was obeyed. ’lhen the gratified sugar magnate wrote: “I thank you for knocking them. out.” Again the sugar king writefrom his office, 117 Wall St... N. Y., to C. S. Moorey of Denver: “I congratulate you for having coralled the town of Sterling, Colorado.” And again: “Have the papers take anoth- er crack at the Farmers’ organiza- tiOn.” Our beet growers’ association has hundreds of the confidential letters of these men and these letters were secured by federal officers raiding the sugar men’s offices in many cit- ies, then admitted by the sugar men under oath to have been written. We have the record of the methods used by these successful business men. In the light of this information, farm- ers are shown how they have been Systemati-cally “muzzled,” “knocked out,” “coralled,” and “cracked at” in the Trust’s press and by the Trust‘s agents. The answer is that every farmer’s organization should units or feder- ate. The Federation should have the backing of the fields. State lines are little known to the great trusts. Farmers must join hands across the state lines and all get back of some conservative; level-headed commit- tee and thus deal collectively accord- ing to the needs of each particular staple crop, as well as for the gen~ eral welfare. Under some such plan they might hope to escape 'wearing the packer’s muzzle, or being knock- ed out- or coralled, by some other equally successful exploiter. -—~ One of our greatest needs is more ’farm’ Journals like the MICHIGAN Busnrnss Fumes through which" the facts may be, given upon which sound ' public cpinion can be formed—AL- . . 3er new. Then another section of this same statute provides that “The provision . of this act shall not apply to agricul- tural: products or live stock while in the hands of the producer or raiser nor to the services of laborers or artisans who are formed in societies or organizations for the benefit and protection of their members.” These last two quoted sections ob- viously are in opposition to each oth- er, making a. correct interpretation of how this law might operate if bind- ing contracts were issued, practically impossible to gauge. An exactly similar provision to the last previous quotation, in the Illin- ois statute, so far as agricultural products are concerned, was held un- constitutional by the U. S. Supreme Court on the ground that it denied the equal protection of the laws, con- trary to the fourteenth amendment to the U. S. Constituion. In view of this set of facts, which make it obviously seriously question- able of the endurance and validity of of any binding contracts which might be issued by the farm bureau or any organization to growers of sugar beets in Michigan and because an at- tempt is being m-ade to have congress enact legislation absolutely defining agricultural collective bargaining, your committee came to the decision that it would be unwise, until a test case might prove growers’ rights to agree to sell and sell as a unit, to recommend issuance of contracts that would undoubtedly be contested by the sugar companies legally if they threatened to accomplish their Specified purpose and probably be ad- judged criminal. A7n unfortunate -lega1 precedent thereby might not on- ly be set for Michigan’s organized agriculture but for the nation’s. Such a precedent »would militate against efforts to establish constitutional legislation covering the subject of collective bargaining. * * * At this time little thought was given the subject of cooperative fac~ tories as there is not. time enough be‘ tween now and the 1921 beet harvest to finance and build such an estab~ lishment. It was agreed, however, that this was a subject that should be exhaustively and completely in- vestigated. While in the opinion of this com- mittee, the problems of the sugar beet growers of Michigan are too many and are too complicated to per- mit of solution within the next year or possibly the next few years, it was agreed that it is time that definite efforts be commenced looking toward the answers to the problems in the beet industry. With this thought in mind, it was the concensus of opin- ion of your committee, after all con- considerations had been carefully weighed, that a big forward step in betterment of sugar beet. producing and marketing conditions may be taken immediately and in harmony with this judgement the following recommendations are submitted for action at the pleasure of this conven- tion: ’* " " 3. That the sugar beet department of the Michigan State Farm Bureau put in circulation in the various sugar beet producing counties of the state, when the advisory board may deem the time appropriate, contracts in the form of power of attorney for individual growers to sign authoriz- ing the Michigan State Farm Bureau to act as selling agent for beets grown by the individual over a period of years; that this solicitation of these individual contracts be made locally in each of tHese several counties un- der the supervision of the sugar beet department of the Michigan State Bureau; that these contracts further include a pledge ‘of the individual, supported by a collateral note for an appropriate sum, to pay to the sugar beet department of the Michigan State Farm Bureau a sum amount- ing to five cents per ton of sugar boots that he may grow for the fin- ancing of this department of the Michigan State Farm Bureau and its development, such moneys to be as- sembled in the various counties for the sugar beet department of‘ the Michigan State Farm Bureau. v (Continued on page 11) , An Item , ' hrmer‘o cw lad Ichl¢on Edited In L SATURDAY, 13mm: 25. 192. x Published "on Saturday b the noun. 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The Grange Falls In Line AFTER ONE of the liveliest debates ever staged on the floor of the State Grange, that body adopted a resolution endorsing the State Police at convention last week. The vote was 115 for ‘and 104 against. In the face of the fact that Master John Ketcham indicat- ed his approval of the police in his annual mes- asge; that the federal prohibition commission- er for Michigan positively assured the Grang- ers that the Police were necessary in the en- forcement of the prohibition law; and that several of the strongest Grangers spoke from the floor in behalf of the police, it is not sur- prising that the convention took the action which it did. It is surprising that so many remained unconvinced. It is a tribute to the clever propagandists in the pay of those who for purely selfish reasons desire the Police retained that they have been able to so completely blind the eyes of so many good people to the glaring inconsistency and stupid inefficiency of creating a state body to perform a work which some other public body neglects ‘or refuses to perform. The question of law enforcement dues not enter here. We have sheriffs, deputies and constables for the purpose of enforcing the law. They cost the people of Michigan more than a million and a half dollars per year. If they do not enforce the law or will not enforce the law, it is up to the Governor to remove them from office and up to the people to elect someone in their ” stead who will enforce the law. If that cannot be done then it were better to abolish all civil police officers and put their duties into the hands of an intinerant military police. But common sense ought and increased taxes soon will convince us that either the office of sher- iff or the State Police should be done away. There is no excuse for both these institutions. In recommending that the legislature amend the act creating the police to make them re- sponsible for the enforcement of the game, fish, forest fire, food and drug laws, the State Grange has taken a forward step. It is high time that the legislature took note’ of the in- creasing army of wardens and inspectors in these departments, and entrusted their duties to a single force. This would be a material step toward a complete reorganization of our ~‘c government which ‘many believe must be- undertaken in the name of economy and edic- icncy. So far as the State Police are concerned it is probable that they will be retained tempor- ari y at least. Many*"who agree‘that the Po- lice are merely doing work for which the civil officers are paid do not believe that we can 315—. ford to do away with the Police and try the . experiment of compelling civil ofl‘icers to do ‘ their duty while we are still in the early throes of national prohibition. No one believes more devoutly in rigid law, enforcement " than the, .,~Business Em, and much as it abhors. the “video. of a. State-Police, it. prefers even such an '_ ,'_ -th‘a shears, sworn obligations. ,of’ all police authority within the state should see to it that his subordinates /:are living up to their oath of oflice. Christgnss Without, CAN YOU imzigine areal happy, laughing Christmas without children? Can you imagine a successful Christmas tree just for grown-ups? Think what Santa Claus would say when after barking his shins in a crooked chimney he should drop down in front of a. row of No. 10 footings, with not a single child’s stocking in sight! The first Christmas was for'a little babe in a manger, and all the Christinasses of the past nineteen hundred and nineteen years have been for the children. ' It is the childish curiosity as to what Santa Claus has brought and the pool of joyous laughter when the discovery is made, that repays the older folks for the trouble and expense to which they go at Christmas time. There is nothing like the pulsating happiness of a lit- tle child to drive the blues away and fill one with a. delicious sense of contentment. In homes where there have never been any children Christmas is either wholly forgotten or perfunctorin observed. None know better than the childless the dull longing that tugs away at childless hearts during the Christmas season. But it is in the home where the voice. of the child has been forever silenced by death that grief and misery stalk unmolested at Yale, tide. There are many such homes. always will be such homes. That is the way with God. Why, we do not lmow. But there are two homes in Michigan which stand out distinctly from among all other homes where the family circle has been recently broken. One of them is in the little city of Howell. A bare two months ago a mother and father left their little ones alone for a half hour. But during those thirty minutes that mysterious imp of Satan which preys upon defenseless children entered the home and when the par- ents returned it was a flaming mass and the spirits of their children had departed. A few weeks later a farmer and his wife left their [five children alone while they journeyed twelve miles to St. Ignace to do some Christmas shop- ping. Again the unforseen happened, and during the going and coming of that father and mother, fire enveloped the house and four little lives returned to their Creator. I cannot banish these grief-scarred pareihs from my mind. What greater blow could fall upon a home than this? What greater sorrow could clutch the heart of any parent? To have one ’s children playing happily about the house today, and then before the dawn of 3 tomorrow to see them snatched. away into the great Unknown, appeals to me as the greatest affliction that could fall upon a human heart. I know that my own happiness this Christmas season as I watch my own children at play will be clouded by the desolate picture of those parents sitting alone in dumb agony nurtur- ing a hope that from out of the void the voice of their children will come back to, them once more. Starvation In A World Of Plenty T IS LITERALLY true thht several million people are starving to death upon this great globe of wealth and plenty. In central Europe where war laid the country low en- tire nations are on bread rations which leave the able-bodied hungry and torture the ill and feeble to a lingering death. In some provinc- es of China food is so scarce that only those physically able to wrest it from others are fed. According to the rule that the fittest should survive, the aged, the crippledL the.wea.k and the young are the first to be deprived of food. They are forced to starve to death so that the, ..meagre portion which they; might censume may be spared for sounder bodies. . This sounds" A scarcely, plausible to a people like us who sel- donr‘have to worry where our-Inert: dayvfsmeal upon ’ the; thoeiril police to. Enforce, the law, and that the Governor as the head of There , more favored of v _; world to care for these suffering; g ,. ._ “Money and shiploads'of food and“ clothing ~ bei/ng rushed to the afilicted sections as rapid. _ 131‘ as possible, but despite everyeflort that is; “ n being put forth, tens of thousands of’littloj children will die of starvation. The world is seldomentirely free from hm: ' 1 Since' Joseph filled the, 'ger and ‘privation. granaries of Egypt during the seven years of plenty to provide against the sevenlgan‘ years, we have had our seasons of feasting and our seasons of famine. But it appears warned of God of the approach of famine, so that we must suffer the consequences: At the a» same time' it seems a terrible reproach upon our civilization that with all our wealth, our sources of “information, our rapid means of " transit, etc., there should be a . single soul among the millions who inhabit the earth that should, have to know the pangs of hunger, let alone to die like a dog from starvation. ' The governments of the earth and the well- to-do in every nation need a few lessons in hu-g manitarism t2) inipres upon them the fact that they are their brothers’ keepers. may be a good political policy but it is a poor way to ease our pathway into the Kingdom when it results in millions being crushed by ‘ 'o war or starved to death. a Three Measures of Relief HE FARMER should take courage. Re- , lief is in sight from falling farm prio- es. Both houses of. Congress have adopted a resolution authorizing the revival of the War Finance Corporation. If the president signs it, the mobilized resources of the U. S. govern- ment, backed by a billion dollarsof alien prep- erty security, will once again be available for the purchase of foodstuffs for central Europe. The restoration of this corporation should serve as an immediate stimulus to all grains, particularlnye which is the favorite bread- stuff of Austria and Germany. The hundred million dollar export horpor- ation recently formed in Chicago will also prove of great help in financing foreign pur- chases of American food products. This cor- poration should begin to function about the middle of January. ,But what should prove the greatest boon to American agriculture in its present crisis is ‘ the emergency tariff bill which has just been introduced in the House by Congressman Fordney. Although some opposition has de- veloped to the measure, it is our firm convic- tion that Mr. Fordney has the power .to get It through if he does not weaken as he did last year on the bean tarifi bill. The present meas- ure is designed to increase import duties. on nearly every land of foodstuffs, and incident- ally ‘bring in a revenue of 130 million dollars. The list of articles included in the bill and the amount of duty recommended is as fol- lows: ‘ ‘ Wheat, 30c bu.; ’wheat flour, 20 per cent; com, 150 per bu.; beans, 2c per 1b.; peanuts, un- shelled, 3c per 1b.; peanuts, shelled, 3c per 1b.; ‘ potatoes, 250 per bu.; onions, 40c per bu.; rice, cleaned, 2c per 1b.; rice, uncleaned, 1 1-4c per 1b.; flour, meal and broken rice, 1-2c 1b.; rice, un- hulled, 3-4c per 1b.; lemons, 1 ,1—4c per 1b.; oils, peanut, 26c per gal; oils, cottonseed, 20c per gal.; oils, soy bean, 20¢ per gal: cattle, 30 per cent; sheep, $2 a head; lambs, $1 a head; mutton and lamb, 2 l-Zc per 1b.; wool, unwashed, 15¢ per 1b.;. wool, washed, 30c per 1b.; wool, manufacturesL 01, 45c 1b.; wool, scoured, 45¢ per 1b. The proposed tariff on beans is too lowj ought to be at least three‘cents‘per 1b. But it will help. ' ' . ‘ _ The mere agitation for emergency tar? ifl should have a strengthening effect upon the market. The enactment of this bill our? tainly result in higher prices, and the fear. higher. prices should.- stimulate buying would automaticallymake for higher"'pricos. The farmer has #1 H ' All signs pain “he. that in . ‘. ‘these modern timeswo have no Joseph to be ' v This nation? l alism, this keeping aloof from other nations , ,L‘ It ‘1 ..“ - 1—... ..-.., ‘ ‘.\ E E‘: asssfisssrsfiisrfi.‘ all of the right kind. '1 s then charge '_ .pense. F: l assess? 9 '"WIIHHDQ an UNIVERSITY or minnow _ CANNOT have too‘much ed- ucation, provided it is of the L. . right kind. There are 'stndents there, from nearly. evay ' - state in ‘the union, and from nearly , every .part of the world. What the representatives of the people should do, is to figure out the interest on invested capital it? buildings -and ground, along with the running ex- penses, to find out how much it costs to educate each student a year, and all foreign students enough each year to cover the ex- ' The taxpayers of Michigan --’cannot afford to pay for the educa- tion of the whole world—0; I". 0., ' 'chber‘nflle, Mich. ' Right-0 ! We are very proud of our great university. We do not want to seeX it crippled for lack of funds, At the same time there is a limit to our ability to care for its increasing demands. The majority of foreign students who attend the University are amply able to pay the full cpst of their education, and it is misplaced philanthropy for the people of Michigan to give them their education for less than it costs—Editor. SUGAR FAGI‘OBY BREAKS WORD SAW an article in a recent paper entitled, “Sugar Beet Growers - "Still Undecided on Course for Coming Season,” so I thought I would send in my experience. I did not belong to any beet grow- ers’ association and as quite a few of my neighbors were putting in boots I thought I would try some. I contracted for four acres but it measures up three acres and a half. They came up pretty good and I had every prospect of a fine crop, but the workmen didn’t come near them to block and-thin them until I final- .ly went to the agent and threatened to harrow them up. Then they sent in some Mexicans and blocked them. Then they came back and went through I again or got about half of them done when the agent came along and got me to sign up for their pay for go- ing through them twice and they never finished them. Then the agent came along and said if I took them off myself, besides getting my pay for taking them off I wOuld get a five dollar an acre bonus from the company. I I took the beets off and they sub- tracted the bonus from my beet check. V can get no answer.——F. P., Yale, Mich. \ ‘ 'I supposed the way the manufacturers talked last spring, that a contract was a contract. Possibly it all depends upon the point of views—Editor, FARMERS SHOULD OWN DISTRIB- UTING PLANTS - ‘ AVE BEEN a reader of M. B. F. for some time and am well pleased with it. In the last is— sue I real! that the Milk Commission has cut farmers price to $3. Now this price if continued will put many of us out of the cow business and the scale of the drop between the farm- er and the distributor is so unfair that I feel it is high time that the farmer should own the distributing plants and get the milk direct to the consumer. Am writing to Farm Bu- reau atthis time to see what can be done to~get a move started in the right direction to some of the dairy farmers—If. W. Frey, Pres. of Brown cm; 00-09. 00., Brown City, Mich. R 5. , 0 his stand. As expllggiedo eggwhgle all: tlfis issue, the «Milk Commission was not responsible for the last out in prices. However, no mat- ter who was to blame, the effect is the same, In other dairy one of the country fauners are purchasing or build— ing condensaries and distributing plants, so why‘not in Michiganf—Edltor. " ssonmw seam muss m7 * , morn nonsense LUCKY I SAW IN the Detroit Free' Press an article in very large type stat- ; lag the very generous action or “myaa remission in Detroit. No Over there it is" I wrote them about it-but» ' where Mr. very liberal price for his milk. At any rate the price paid the producer ». in Detroit looks good to me as the Detroit Creamery Co. has been cut- ting“ the price of milk in my territory for the last two months. For the month of December this very generous Detroit Creamery Co. is paying the producer the high price of $1.90 for 100 lbs. delivered at their condensary at Clio, Mich. If the Milk Commission at Detroit thinks the producer is losing on his milk at $3.00 per 100 lbs. how about the-producer here in Saginaw county orin the Clio territory. Understand the producer pays all transportation from his barn to Clio. Can it be pos- sible the Detroit Creamery Co. thinks the producer in a radius of 75 or ‘80 miles of Detroit can feed his cows on. cheaper feed than the producer in the Detroit territory when the headquarters for most all dairy feeds is right at their doors in Detroit and the producers in other territories have high freight to pay and at least one more commission to pay than the Detroit producer. Neverthe- less, we poor mossbacks in the rural districts have this very condi- tion to face. Of course our com- pany tells us, "Well it is up to you. If you do not want to sell the milk at one price, you can dump it in the ‘ditch or do as you like with i ." Well they know that the farmer has always been used to selling his every commodity at less than cost and it looks to me as tho the De- troit Creamery Co. as well as num- erous other companies that are or- ganized proposed to keep the farm- er turning over his products at less than the actual cost to produce them. You never see where any manufacturer is even asked to sell his product without a very liberal profit. Is this giving the farmer a fair deal? Brother farmers are you going to stand for this rotten deal, or are you going to get up and do something for yourself? It is better that all those distributors that cannot afford to pay us the cost of productlbn shut down. You can bet they will never pay to the farmer his share as long as they can make him believe that there is an overproduc— tion of milk and that the people of the country are not drinking as much as they did in past years. ‘ I also see in this same ‘ article Kennedy says his com- pany-has arranged to d tribute their surplus milk to the po people of Detroit at 2 centsper quart, but Mr. Kennedy says it is skimmed milk at 2 cents per, quart, a trifle more per quart than he pays the producers in the territory where I live for whole milk. Mr. Kennedy’s company takes @ch's Editoflel the cream of course—very generous act on the part‘ of Mr. wKennedy’s company.—M. $4., ,Ghesan'ing, Mich. You and I can complain all we want to about dalrying conditions, and it will not do us a. jet of good until the farm- ers own the majority of cheese and but- ter plants, 'condensaries and distributing systems. Then when abnormal times come you can partially control the sit- uation. European demand has resulted in a lot of canned milk piling up which is being placed‘on the market in competition with fluid milk. How much this affects the consumption of fluid milk we do not know, but it serves a mighty handy ex- cuse for the dealers in milk to drop the1r prices to the farmers, Here is one thing I want .you producers who are selling to the Detroit Creamery Co. to note. The prosperity and the profits of a. corporation are always reflected in the standing of its stock on the Exchange. The par value of the Detroit Creamery Company’s stock is $10, This stock has sold for as high as $38.75 per share last year and $3525 per share this year. This is an astounding premium to pay for any stock and there are probably not over half a dozen stocks in the en- tire country which makes a better show- ing than this. The Detroit Creamery Co_ has paid to its stockholders this year, 14 per cent on its capitalization of $1,- 600,000. The demand for the stock and the high prevailing premium shows with- out a doubt that the company is in an exceptionally strong position and that it is making large profits at the expense of the farmers—Editor. "WANTED: A BUCK LAW SUPPOSE that you know that Lake county had a fight to keep the deer 'season closed? Well we sure did, but don't know how it will work next time, so I thot that I would write to you and see what you folks thought about a buck law? If the Gleaners, Grange, Farm Bureauand Farmers' Clubs would get petitions and the farm papers make a big noise we might wake them up at Lansing. Please let me know what you thing about it. If you think that we could do anything, I would be pleased to get all the names around here. We sure should have a buck law. Something must be done if we want to see deer in the woods. I am a deer hunter, have killed 130 deer in my time, and just three docs in all that numberfi—A. P., Lake County. There is,a pretty strong sentiment among sportsmen and others for a buck law, and I expect that the next session of the legislature will be asked to amend the game laws preventing or restricting the future killing of female deer.—Edit- of. s A GOOD TREAT ALL AROUND I am sending you the names of six farmers who do not read the M. B. F. I think your paper is an educator, especially in markets and politics, and should be in every farm home. As I never smoke and seldom buy cigars, I use this method in treating my friends—G. D. 8., Fremont, Mich. TEE FARMERS ARE AWAKENING HE ANNOUNCEMENT that the Michigan Farm Bureau will maintain representatives at Lansing during the coming session of the legislature is proof that the farmers are beginning to recognise the desirability of participating in the state’s business beyond helping to nominate party candidates and depositing the party ticket in the ballot box on election day. They are also learning “that not in all cases do members of their craft who receive legislative honors remain steadfast after having assbciated with the old- .tlmes and the emissaries of the System which has so long directed general legislative enactments in Michigan. ‘ ' No interest in ing «even one-fifth of the population and wealth which is connected with biennial session of the legislature to agriculture thinks of permitting a pass widmut giving attention to every measure which my sheet such 1 detergents. even. remotely. As :a rule EWWfimmr .Iraermmmw the state represent; concerned with what may be the to- tal of the state tax levy, but they are concerned with whatever may be suggested in the way of law that may curtail or otherwise interfere with the existing manner in which their business may be conducted. The farmers, representing so large a percentage of the tax-payers, not only have a vital interest in legisla- tion which may affect their line of activity, but they are also, as citi- zens, seriously affected by the total of demands which are made upon them through appropriations for the varied activities of the state. To es- tablish capable representatives at the State‘Capital for the purpose of keeping them informed as to how they are being treated and how strongly the politicians propose to levy taxes against their earnings is in line with sound business, and the preserve of such representatives should be. e the ei'l'ect to curb extra- vagances as well as to insure respect- ful bearing upon all propositions of interest to immerse-Michigan om- ”fl. ‘ It is true that the falling oi! of ’ ' declining SYDIPATIIY ~FOR MILK PRODUCER - FTER READING the enclosed A clipping I am sure you will not waste 'all of your sympathy on the Detroit Milk Producers. They, no doubt, are entitled to some. but-not all of it. Consumers are still paying 14 cents per quart here—0'. R., Cormma, Mich. The clipping enclosed is of an ad- vertisement by the Detroit Creamery Co., offering to pay Shiawassee pro- ducers $1.90 per hundred for "milk during the month of December, with a differential of 3 cents per point - above or below the 3.5 standard, and a deduction of 30 cents per cwt. for hauling. The Business Farmer knows that the producers inside the Detroit area have been getting a much better deal than the producers outside the area. At the same time we must remember that it costs more to produce milk in that area, and daan is the sole business of many of the farmers. They feel the effects of low prices more than do the farmers who grow grain as their principal cash crops. The reason we have gi-ven so much at- tention to the Detroit producers is be- cause they were supposed to have an ar- rangement by which they could virtually control the price of their milk. It has been the utter failure of the Comm ssion plan to protect the producers in a crisis like this that has been the basis of our discussions. Moreover. the producers of the Detroit area are in a position if they will only act to distribute their own milk in Detroit and the Business Farmer has been in hopes that they would see the light and make the move. A successful distributing venture in the Detroit area would pave the way for other co-opera- tive distributing and manufacturing en- terprises throughout the state—Editor, OBJECTIONABLE FEATURES OF. CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE (Continued from page 3) times, to insure them against losses resulting from violent fluctuations of the market. A list of margins, re- quired for various market transac- tions, is given below: On Corn, 10c per bu. equal to $500 for each 5,000 bu. On Oats, 3c per bu. equal to $150 for each 5,000 bu. On Pork, $1.00 per brl, equal to $250 for each '250 brls.‘ On Lard, 1c per lb, equal to $500 for each 50,000 lbs. On Short Ribs or Other Meats, 1-2c per lb, equal to $250 for each 50,000 lbs. During exeited times when 'prices change rapidly and vary widely, com- mission merchants may find it neces- sary for their protection to require larger margins than above mentioned. These funds or margins so called must be in the hands of commission merchants before orders are executed. and may be sent by express, bank drafts or certified checks, or may be A deposited in any responsible bank in the country, whose cashier will re— celpt for it, and notify the merchant that it has been deposited to his cred- it. In case of an adverse market, and additional margins are called for, as above mentioned, then the mer- chant has the privilege, if immediate notice is not given that the money or security has been deposited, to close the trade. A trader, having selected his com- mission salesmen, simply gives an order to buy or sell the commodity in which he wishes to deal and the month in which his deal is to mature. If he mentions a price his broker will sell at that price if the opportun- ity offers. If no price is mentioned the order will be filled at the market price when the order was given. In a widely fluctuating market, the trader will find it to his interest to watch the market closely and to ‘re- Spond with the utmost promptness to all calls for an increase in funds to keep margins good. If a broker fails to receive a prompt response from his customer for additional margins, he closes the deal at the market, when- ever the margin is exhausted. In Board of Trade parlance parties who have sold for future delivery are. called "shorts" and those who have bought for future delivery are called "longs." Hence the term frequently used on an advancing market, ‘shorts‘ x are covering or buying in, and on a ing, selling out or realizing. . Not less than 1,000 bu. of Grain, 2‘50 brie of Park, 50,000 lbs. of I“, and 50,000 lbs. of Short Bib Sides BM othcrmeatsaretrsdedluasarnle.‘ market “longs” are unload“ . * ll if)“ \ I’ll"! Milli jg HAE’VPINESS HAPPY New Year to each every one! \ c (‘\ 4 girls and young. Would that we might carry some of the kindly spirit that possesses us at the Holiday time all through the year. What a happy old world it might be! If your heart is glad it is easy to smile, if it is sad why smile anyway, it is a harmless deceit and does some _one some good and yOurself a whole It is a topsy—turvy world any- way. The people who carry the heav- The busiest people have the most time and when the hour arrives that we leave ‘ our earthly possessions we take with ‘ us only that which we have cheer- lot. iest loads are the most cheerful. fully given away. Verily, it is more blessed to give than to receive. - May we make that bit of Heaven on earth, our home, a happier, more com- fortable and more attractive place than ever before. Daily purify the atmosphere with fresh out of door air and all the sunshine that manages to get thro our winter sky. Give our hearts to sympathetic companionship and our minds to an understanding of each other’s needs and desires. The only scenery that city dwellers have is that which hangs upon their walls, the same night and morning, alike at all seasons of the year, never disguised by the beauty of the moon- light on the freshly fallen snow nor transformed by the radiant glow of an autumn sunset, while to us— “The river calls and the road calls And oh—the call of the sky!" ‘ - May we open our eyes to the beauty around us and our hearts to the joy _ of giving love, appreciation and hap- piness to those around us. Now is the hour of opportunity. A CREED OF THE OUT-OF-DOORS I believe in the wonder of the out- of—doors, in the inspiration of the stars, and in the allurements of life in the Op'en; amd I believe in the strength of the hills, in the silence of the night, and in the music of the birds and trees. I believe, also, that my body was made for action, that my mind was made for thinking, and that my heart was made for loving in unison with the life in nature. . I believe that to laugh and sing, to swim and walk, to stud-y and play, to eat and be happy, to be kind and free, to grow strong and good, is my right. I believe. too, that to be happy I must be good, that to be worthy I must be kind, that to be loved I must think love. I believe that happiness and lasting peace are mine, as I live in the atmos— phere of kindness so near me in the life of the open world—Rudolph Stall ,4 THE PEASANT KING By R. K. Munkittr'ick NE DAY a certain king grew weary of the luxurious life he ' was leading, for one by one his every pleasure became monotonous. And at last he knew not what to do to make his life endurable. ‘ So he concluded that a sure way out of the trouble would be to find out how other kings had lived before him, and to ascertain what they did to gain happiness and peace of mind. Accordingly, he ordered a courtier ,to‘ collect all the books concerning kings, both in history and fiction, — and to read them aloud to him that; he might collect youthful informai "tion on this subject. ' \ ' The courtier gathered a great number of these books and read .v Lthem aloud to the king, who still 'i7i'sseemed to be at a loss for informa- tion regarding the details of royal happiness. When the king had about . ,giyen up in despair, a courtier came its.” eastern story of a ruler who had found happiness by changing "laces-with a peasant. , - ~ ; That. will-do,“ said .the king: to ' ' urt‘ler-‘r . “I, have tried almost .V - , . _ ,va and Big girls and little girls, Old 6 without success. I shall now try to find some peasant in my realm, who would like to be king. In all my travels I have noticed how contented the peasants are. they are always singing, even at their work, and I would give any» thing to‘ be as happy as a peasant." As the courtier attempted to go on with the story, the king held his hand up for him to stop. ' “Close the book," said he;‘ "I shall follow the example of the king in the story. There may be a peas- ant in my realm who thinks true happiness comes to those in power, and who could be induced to ex- change his position in life for mine.” _The courtier trusted against such an experience, until he thought the safety of his head was involv- ' ed—and then de- sisted. On the fol— lowing day, the king started out behind four white horses, in his best purple and gold e 11 crown, to exchan g 8 places with the happiest man that he could find. On an almost desert- ed road, he espieda lit- tle cabin under some trees that almost screen- ed it from view. As the carriage drew nearer the king saw the occupant of the ealbin digging in a patch. He seemed as happy as the birds that were singing on every limb; and he himself sung, while he pushed the spade into the ground and turned up the soft earth. ’ When the car-g riage stopped, the man dropped his spade, and came to the fence to see . what was wanted. The king step- ped down and asked him someques- tions regarding the ,prospects of good crops in the coultry, and then said: ' . 80 fresh “I should be very well contented . if I were as happy as you are.” “And I," replied the peasant, “should be very happy if I were a king." ' “You are one,” replied the king, as he threw his robe about the man's shoulders, and placed the golden crown upon his head. “That is you carriage and these are your servants, who will bear witness that we have changed places, and that I am the peasant." The joy /of the new-made king knew no bounds. He sat up in the carriage,‘ with all the dignity of an old king. In his heart he fancied that he must be dreaming, and pinch- ed his arm, and asked his attendant to stick pins in him that he might be sure he was awake. He thought of his great power with‘absolute glee and felt supremely happy ,in ‘ the knowledge that he could make the country go to war, and cut off the heads of people. who in any way displeased him. What puzzled him most was the fact that he had never ’ been happy before and he was at a loss to understand it. “Whip up the horses," he said; "I wish to reach the palace before sundown." ‘ ‘ 0 fi O I I: That night he made up his mind' to have a grand banquet, such as a king should have. So he ate , a most inordinate quantity of the rich- est dishes he could thinkpf, and he did not stop until-almost midnight, ,when he retired; He was awakened several times before morning-uwuh nightmare, and passed» a'ni'gh't, that he s... lred sleepy when items t1 ,7 . th 11 ’ '* They seem to lack} ‘ no requirement of earthly happiness; The young New Year, I .0 m! and worked hard year in and year out, he had neVer. known any but nights of refreshing sleep. ' ‘ " But this did not trouble much. He concluded that.he would soon become accustomed to banquets, and thatwouid be the end of sleepless nights. Nofisooner had he disposed of this trouble, than it- occurred to him that he had heard that it was a common thing' for kings ‘to have their food poisoned. Perhaps his food‘had been insuffi—, ciently poisoned the night before. In that case a servant would make sure to put enough in his coffee to kill him at breakfast. This was a terrible reflection, and it harrowed the king’s feelings in a way that they had never been har- rowed before. But he went to his breakfast, deter- mining that he ‘would not touch the coffee. Then he concl u d e d that they ,might deceive him by putting the poison where, he would least finished his breakfast in great alarm. His agita- tion had been so great that it gave him a wor- ried, pale look. “Is your maje s t y. wvell?" asked one of the courtiers. .“Why?” said t h a king. . “Your majesty cer- . tainly looks very ill," , replied the courtier. Then the king, was satisfied that he was poi- soned, so he threw himself upon a lounge, cla‘sped his hands to his fore- head, declared he had. been poisoned. and ordered all his servants to be be- headed if he should die. Shortly after, the was satisfied that nothing serious was the matter, and he went out in the garden to take a breath of fresh air. He hadn’t pro- ceeded far/when he noticed some- one following him. This follower was between him“ and the palace, and he could do nothing but depend upon himself in case 0 an attack. No matter where‘ he walked, this man followed him, so he sat down to see if the straggler wbuld venture nearer. But the man did not ; he stood still and Kwatched. ' The king thought'jhe could never be attacked iffhe allowed his pros- pective assailant to know that he was watched. So he shouted for help, and in an instant a dozen ser- vants were at his side. ' “That man yonder is following me to kill me!” he cried, pointing at the man, who stood near. “No your majestY. he is no ,’3 re-‘ plied the spokesman of the servants. “He is the man who follows you as a guard, to prevent others from kill- ing or molesting you." t, e e . When he returned to the palace, there were hundredsof people waiting to see him, on.-all kinds of business, —-—people to have petitions signed, ministers with schemes of every description, so that the king’s head "\ What thorn: may bruu his tlny not. What Joys may come to "am his on No one can tell, nor you, nor I. spun, and he didn't have time to think. ' ', After he had been aking two ', weeks, he_was secompletelyundone, . physically and mentally, that he, re- gretted the day he. had given up his hovel for 'a palace. I , V, a e \s e e ‘ ‘Ass‘won as the old king had ed his crownonw'the head of " ‘ ft, and‘had seen him- 1: rho—Q ' vanish him ' royal suspect it. When he Was a pea- sant, he never knew ‘ such fear as this. He main ' even}; Worked,_.half an noun-ail the. the math} pains, of which hefcon'ldn’t ri . himself as a king: departed and, ,_ sang as merrily as theblrds in ' trees, and felt- happier every min? .ute. -At dinner he" had such ? appetite that he enjoyed every morsel in a way that he had never done during his entire reign. _ ' That night he slept as he. had never been able to sleep while bur-_ dened wi-th,.t‘he affairs of his 001111-- Jtry. He didn’t toss-about at all, and he did not wake up until the sunwas high. Then he hurried down and; had his breakfast while the birds! 1‘? flocked about the door or sung in the rosebush by the window. ' I am as happy as a king is sup- posed to be," he cried, “and I should be happy to know that the present king, poor fellow, would ever be as contented as I am now." i And the old king worked on “in perfect contentment for days, feel- ing safe from the conspiracies of en- emies, and on the best of terms with his own conscience, so that he,w~as_ indeed a happy man. The garden was progressing fine- ly; and the new occupant grew hap— pier every day, and saw nothing but sunshine. This continual flow of happiness was never disturbed un- til one night when the kinngeas-ant had a terrible nightmare. He awolfia fearfully agitated and in a cold per- spiration. - - He had dreamed that he was a king again! » He hastily arose and lighted, a candle to take a look at the euro, roundings to make sure that he was not in a .palace and was not a king. 9' He was afraid to go to sleep fear the dream might be repeated. That very day, when he was work- ing and singing in the garden, saw a great'dust down the road; and in a few moments, a carriage of the ., " king stopped at the gate. “How is the garden getting 0n?" ' said the new king. “Splendidiy.” for :5“, he “Would you not like to give‘me ' ‘ my hovel back in exchange for your palace and crown?" . “I could not think of it!" said the old ‘king. - . “You must go to someone _who‘ has never been a' king, if you want to make such an exchange. ‘If you go on a little farther' down the road, you mayrflndv some 'man who ‘ would be glad to wear a crown. So the new king drove down the road and asked the‘ first laborer he met, if he would like to bee king. ‘ “No,” replied the laborer; “I was‘ a king for a few days, and thatwas enough for me; I traded of! my crown for this shovel and pick-axe, because the king who had given it to me for a small but requed to trade back." ” The king rode on; and muchto his surprise, every man he met re‘l fused the unhappy monarch’s offer to make him a king, each one stat- ing as his reason that he had already lieden a king fbr a greater or less per- 0 . * ' I" It seems that every .man in the- ' kingdom had worn the crown at one time or another, and that the king. who was trying to exchange places with the humblest being in the realm, , -' was simply the last man in the land to get it. v ' Thus it was that the nation was!" filled with people who found the greatest happiness fin the humbiest,,h~ spheres of life, and. learned ten-be " contented without nursing an am much to be great or powerful. .. -Th'9.7n6asantélr’ing had" to ru_ , his life for no one "would e'x'hange- " 'wirth him..~li‘ And wheelie ' ’N ' and tottering with, age; ' 19 the bridge th ' 319;. . 'l H 1" it“: fléficrfdifs'fi“ :1 * A7411" 5‘- nlisc y. 1'4 _ .‘i5.r.'-."~”'.x“:1<.:i:t. . . {EAR CHILDREN: ' 'Happy New ‘ ,1Year‘ boys and girls. Are you , _ going to make anyresolutions this year. or can't you think of any- thing to resolve to do or not to do? Let’s see! We could decidedto like our- school work better - and study harder and have our lessons better than we have had them during the past year. Or we could make up-our minds to help our mothers and'fathr are more and 'not complain when they ask us to do anything. I’ll not suggest, any more because I am sure youwlll be able to think of many. - things you do or habits you have which are unpleasant to other'peo— ple and- which you need not do if. you only make up your mind not to do them. I received a letter recently from a little boy which read as follows:- “I am a faimer boy nine years old. I have no sisters or brothers, dear ‘Uncle Ned.‘ Don’t you know of some little boy who has no home and would like to come and live with me? I have lots of pets. I have three cats, one dog and about twelve rabbits. We have axnew Pathe talk- ing machine.” 1 The boy who wrote this letter lives at Evart, Mich., R. 3, and his name ,is Levi P. Gugel. I am not printing his letter to find him a brother be— cause all of my neices and nephews have good homes which they do not . care to leave, but I am printing this in hopes that some of you will write him a letter. This boy is lonesome. ‘There are many others, both girls and boys, who write ,to me who would like to receive letters and make friends. Why not resolve this New Year’s Day that at least once a month during 1921, you will choose a name and address from our page and write the boy or girl whose name you have chosen? It would be. lots of. fun wouldn’t it? And think ‘of the friends yOu would make. Again, happy New Yearl—UNCLE NED. OUR BOYS AND GIRLS ‘ Dear Uncle Ned:-—I have five brothers and one sister. I go to school every day and am in the 4th grade. I am a girl 9 years old, We have five cows and four horses and four calves. I have a pet cat and his name is Bright Eyes—Dorothy Postma, Rudyard, Mich. Dear Uncle Ned:—--My father takes the M. B. F, and likes is real well. I likevthe Children's Hour the best of all. I have three brothers and three sisters. Their names .are Anna, Paul, Josephine, Julia, John and Frank, I wish some of the girls would write to me. For pets I have a little puppy dog and 2 cats—Mary Plis— ka, Pinconning, Mich., R. 3. Dear Uncle Nedz—I am a little. boy 7' years .old. My father has 3 horses, 13 cows. 99 chickens, 4 big pigs and 6 little pigs. I am in the second grade at school. ‘We live on an 80 acre farm. I have two sisters and no brothers, For pets wehave a dog, 6 big rabbits and some little rab- britsri—tErwin Ruff, Bay City, Mich,, R. R. .L o. . - Dear‘Uncle Ned:—~I am very glad that you printed my letter in the M. B. F., and I think that paper is the best paper 1 ever saw, We‘ have 59 scholars in our school. I have three sisters. Their names are Rose, Emma and Stayze. I Wish some boys and girls would write a) 2me.~——Mary ,Charowski, Ruth, Mich., Dear Uncle Ned:—-—I am a boy eight years old and in the third grade in school There are twenty-three boys and seven girls in my school, I walk one mile to school. _We have] a cat that sits on one of our cow's back While the cowis stand— ing up. We also have a small my kit'- ten that does many, funny stunts and so we call it Clown.—Jerhardt Radtke, South Haven, Mich. I Dear Uncle Ned_:———I am 8 years old, I go to school. We have 31 pupils in our '. school. I am, in the 3rd grade, I“ have two brothers. We live on a farm of as acres. our teacher's name is Mr. Fuller. "He' is from the state,of Washington. We‘. .have four pets, We have a pony. a dog, o 4 V and. twocats We have 2 horses. ,M father takes the M, B. F. and likes it yer; ' much. ‘ I like *to read the Childrehs Hour, “ *IMQMP. Coble, Baruogd, R. 2. Mich. 1‘?"unselfish;seas—+1 am just math ' ifimismqmgmwm are: ' ‘ ‘ - "‘ our ' S58, fig-vb mommy . examinations. day. '- Isot 87 g: thmstlc.'~ 10,0 * ‘a .;~‘ . ,. fl.'.. Prather. _ This is her third term as our teacher. For pets I have two big black cats, fine ones too. I help mamma feed the chickens, wash dishes and help in several ways. Wish some of the girls would write me, Will close wishing you a merry Christmas, —-— Ruth . Poindexter, Breckenridge, Mich. ‘ I Dear Uncle Ned:—Well I have writ- ten' so much you will soon be getting tired of me won't you? I wrote to Car— mel Shedell and I wonder if she will answer me. I hope she does. I wish some of the boys and girls would write tome, I hav no brothers or sisters, but quite a fe friends“ Well I will close for this time wishing good luck to you all from,——Caglline Collins, Apple- gate, Mich., R. F. . 2. _ Dear Uncle Ned:—~—We did not have any party for Hallowe’en but we went out. We did not do any mean tricks as you told about. We just soaped win- dows, and scared people. I am a farm- er girl. I live 15 miles east of Grand Rapids. My father takes the M, B, F. and likes it very much, I am 7 years of age and in the 4th grade in school. My, teacher’s name is Miss Porritt. I like her very much—Jennie Richards, Ada, Mich, Dear Uncle Nedz—I have just finished reading the Children’s Hour as it is call- ed and I thought I would like to write, 1 am a girl 13 years old and am in the 7th grade at school. We take the M. B. F. and all of us enjoy reading it. I have two brothers and one sister. We have two miles to go to school and we don’t mind walking for it seems to us only a little ways, We also have 7 head of cattle, 4 horses and 3 colts and 8 pigs,— Eleanor Murray, Decker, Mich., R, Dear Uncle Nedz—Thought I’d write a little letter as I have read many other letters boys and girls- have written. My Wat-J -i-‘- - . 1 :i'l’fl l 1.‘ 337.} .‘j-t -" father takes the M. B, F. and likes it very much. I am a girl ten years old and in the fifth grade, We have only half a mile to go to school. We all en- joy school, We have a wonderful teach- er, We have two farms, both forty ac- res each. We have three horses. nine '_ cattle, two big pigs and sixty chickens. For pets I have three cats, I have three brothers and two sisters, I think I had better calorie as my letter seems to be getting long. 'We always love to read T R, F. D. 3, Box 13, LeRoy, Mich. Dear Uncle Nedz—I am a girl 9 years old. I live on a farm of 120 acres, I was just reading the children’s page and I got so interested when I was reading 'the letters that I thought I would write too. I will tell you what I have for pets. I have a dog and two pigs, and some chickens. It is raining today. I have two sisters and one brother, Their names are Dorothy and Madeline, and my brother is called Max.—Irma Ham- mond, Lake, Mich,, Box 43, R. 2., Dear Uncle Nedz—I am a girl 11 years old and go to school every day. My teacher’s name is Miss Violet Lang. My father takes the M. B, F. and likes it fine, My father owns a 240 acre farm I have one brother, He is going deer hunting today. I have a few pets, One is Shep, my little dog. I have lots‘ of fun playing with him. There is a half a foot of snow on the ground here now. I wish some of the boys and girls would write to me.——Winifred Roberts, New- berry, Mich., Box 46‘, Dear Uncle Ned:—— Where can midis; .j‘ J _ entitled the World’s“ k‘et'r Who pub- lishes the - report, the Snow; Bartlett report and: osenbaum- Ro- view?—C. C. D,, Wheeler, Mich. Dunn la. Bradstreet-or New York City, publish the 'World's Markets- Subscri-ption price, $2 per year. The Goodman report is issued by P. S. Goodman, care Clement, Curtis & 00., Rockery bldg., Chicago, and the Snow report by W. B. Snow, care Bartlett Frazier Co., Western Union bldg-. Chicago. Rosenbaum Review is pub- lished by J. .Ralph Pickell, Chicago. Subscription price is $5 per year.— Editor. CAN SELL SHARE 0F STRAW I worked 40 acres of land on shares and each party to furnish one-half of the seed, twine and threshing. There was no written lease, Can I sell my share of the straw without being liable for dam- ages?—-C. P., McGregor, Mich, You would have the right to sell any portion of your share without be- ing liable for damages unless you have some agreement to the contrary. You may likewise pledge it or mort- gage it as security. Feeding of straw on the premises means that it is not to be disposed of but if not possible to feed on the place it may be fed elsewhere and the manure returned. Otherwise I am of the opinion that it could not be sold or moved—W. E. Brown, legal editor. MICHIGAN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE We would like to know a few things through your paper, How old does a. person have to be before he can attend the Michigan Agricultural College? How much does it cost to take a tractor course? one have? Mus-t a person be a high school graduate? Can girls attend the M. A. C. too?—L, S. and A. W., Shelby, Michigan, One wishing to attend regular cour- ses at the M. A. C. must be at least fifteen years of age arid of good moral character, and a. graduate of an ap- proved high school. There are a first and second farm tractor and truck course. Each one requires four weeks study. Entrance tee far this course to residents of the state is $10. Board and room will cost from $6.50 to $7.50 a week. The student Should bring" work clothes, preferably a one- piece garage suit, an adjustable auto- mobile wrench, a. screw driver and a pair or combination pliers. These courses are among the Winter Courses and the registration days are two, Monday, _ Januaary 31, and Monday, February 28. The tractor courses, being part of the short Winter Cours- es have no educational requirements nor examinations for admission. However, to make the best use of the instructions received a good common school education is necessary. You must be at least sixteen years old to attend Winter Courses. All courses listed are open to both girls and boys. —-Associate Editor. ATTENDING SCHOOL ‘OUT OF OWN DISTRICT We live over two miles from our dis- trict school and have been sending our children to a school in another county which is a. quarterl—ot- a. mile nearer and on a. good dry road while the road to our ‘ school is poor and at some times of the year impassible. We have sent our child- ren to this other school for nine years but now the officers of our school are trying to compel us to send our children to our own school, Can they force us to do this?—A. McG., Spruce, Michigan. I am of the opinion that you com- ply with the law in sending your children to'such public school as you describe and for the reasons stated; and that no complaint will be law- fully entertained against you under the stzytement of facts—W. E. Brown, legal editor. * ' . WILDMAN. RUBBER COMRANY What do you think regarding the Wildman 'Rubber Co., of Bay City, as an investment or speculation? Would it be a safe place to invest money?—— . H. HJ Jackson, Mich. ‘ In, my opinion the purchase of the stock of this concern would be rightly called a "speculation" ’and not-'ran’é-"in- vestment.” -I know nothing concern- ing the men who are backgotthis pron ject. They may be. honest. upright and entirely satisfied that they, can ma“ 8 8° of their preposition. Per- sonally, we doubt it, , particularly at ‘m-‘ior' pa’mphJet; How much of an education must ' ‘ to this other school? this one. {insist made inrthe fjtir‘e, . ago before the slump; . Tir’es are eating on‘ the market. 1.80me off the ’ factories have closed down or “out their production. » They have ample facilities for supplying ‘ the demand _for a number of years to come.“ The Wildman Rubber (Co. ‘may. but chances are against it. not invest in their —Editor. ' TERMS OF CONTRACT GOVERNS , A takes a contract for tomatoes at $16 per ton. A takes in a load and B says they are only good for seed but accepted t em. When A received his check from he reCeived only $8 a. ton for the load B said was only good for seed. can A collect the rest of it or not?—-‘-R.’A.. J' I would Milan, Mich. " , If your contract does not provide for the rejectiozrof the tomatoes for the regular price and allow the pur— chaser to take them for seed then he is liable for the $16 per ton if they were tendered and accepted in fulfilment of the contract. The terms of the contract will govern.— W. E. Brown, legal editor. MUST PAY NOTE I have signed a note for $50, got stock inn company which later I saw wasn’t gomg to amount to much, They wrote me they would send an attorney to col- lect. Am I obliged to pay the note?— Subscriber, Grand Rapids, Mich. Unless you could prove that the note was, obtained from you under false pretenses, it would be collectible I assume that you have received stock in exchange for the note. If so, this would undoubtedly be construed as “value received” in exehange for your note, and you would have to pay it.— Edz’tor. ' COMPELLING CHILDREN TO AT- TEND DIFFERENT SCHOOL We have a. good school and have 31 scholars enrolled but we have no teach- er_ The school board wants us to send our children to another school which has already 40 scholars. We want a teacher at our own school. Can we par- ents be compelled to send our children A man is hired to take the children back and forth to this school.‘ How can we go about it to get a teacher at our own school, I can get 40 signers as nobody thinks of sending their children to this other school—Mrs, F. H., Alpena County, Mich. You do not tell me what kind of a school you have. If you are under the consolidated township unit sys— tem provided by Act 117 of the Pub- lic Acts of 1909 as amended and the township district board or the Town- ship, Board of Education ordered your school discontinued you may ap- peal within 90 days to the Supt. 01' Public Instruction— . legal editor. E. Brown, MICHIGAN GUARANTY CORP. Will you please give me all the infor- mation you can in regard to the Mich Guaranty Corporation of which Wm, den-Smith is at the head. This is a filialfid Rapids company.—-H. J, C., Ionia, c _ This is one of several inquiries we have recived about this concern. The Michigan“ Guaranty Corporation was approved by the Michigan Securities Commission May 28th, 1920, and per- mission given for the sale of $400,000 worth of common stock. The company increased its capital and was again approved "July 22nd for an additional $800,000 worth of common stock. August 12, 1920, an increase of $1,600,- 000 was approved. Sept. 21, 1920, 31,- 800,000 was approved by the commis- sion, covering a total capitalization of $5,000,000. — It appears like the com- pany had growing pains. No stock has been issued fer promotion which is something decidedly in its favor. The presence of Wm. Alden Smith naturally increases thechances or this concern for success and, one’s’ econfl- deuce in the company, although it does not necessarily prove that the com- pany will succeed or ever pay a. penny in dividends. All who contemplate purchasing stock in this_or any other corporation should remember that all .industry ’is passing through a critical stage, that many will fail, and many others will only be able to struggle through by", omitting their dividends. 5 It seemsfto us that now is a poor ' time to purchase stock in a speculj‘afi tive proposition unless the stock be purchased at; a . substantial digs- count-73W“; " ' ' " . ‘ nor has beeps. . that was." ' " succeed ; stock at this time. yrtle Ice. of Boston. and now] get 50. a cw ocnta' worth of “More wonderful, e88 producer, and. you". fl 99. Page FREE write a postcard or letter to E. offer. Don’t send any money. Mr. Reefer the price of just one package, the other age being .free. Bank of Kansas City, Mo., quest. No-risk to you. special free offer. ’ Poultry ‘Raisers Everywhere TeII IS Hans—31° Bet. 360 Hall—1800 Etc. Stone 0! “lion aha-they“ “have bankers I an record. I Wflhwflhsdglmmiflrwu 'taend any. ., in. . coupon. You immediately. two 81.00 packages of “MO EGGS." Paythe upon 3"}- Jbe m packs t -take advan of free ’zl‘ODAYI Rea r6 dampen a mega- s ave en 0 ennui. t ayI E. J. Reefer, Poultry Expert, 480 Rector Blug.. an ‘ description. and “figure tial lorg'groim’o‘t' . or, . a banal and h "gum-aa- .h’ “32'? 0'31: °:v..._....._' a.-- cfishnm'zq..wam§fi .“°e"°.-."-°" 5~marors~sm~~m .35 an...“ 3°... magnum, V N... ‘mili... I I .‘ j ' ’Tonic isaGodsemé; be amazed and delighted with remna' “Mtge: r i If you Jvish to; try this gm: t profit maker, simply J. Reach“? poultry expert, 469 Reefer Bldg, Kansas , Mo., and ask for his special free package, 31$]?l send you two $1.00 packages of "More Eggs." You pay the postman upon delivery only $1.00 . $1 Package FREE "is YOUR 'FOB‘SIALE‘? The Million Dollar Merchants guarantees if you are not absolutely satisfied“ your dollar will be returned at any time Within 80 days—on re- Write today for .this Wonderful Results of .“More .Ew': sail N9. N336? ...—-— .,T. ' ..‘ ‘ «will IllIlIIlII ‘ehow you i pros! and tell you whit ’lreedon,’ Auctldw salon advertised r (OPEOIAL Anita's-rising lures one» um heading to honest DIM." .1 live It will out lot 18. 20 or 52 times. here el epeclei low rates: nil lor them. Write today !) m‘fiii i ii!IIIIIIIilIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIiIlIIIIIIIIIZI You can change size oi ed. or copy so gs fillllilflllilll v stock and poultry will be sent on request. Better still, write out what you have to offer, let us put it In t".- olten as you with. Copy er changes must be received (no Week before date ol Inui- / IREEDERS' DIRECTORY, THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER, Mt. Clemens, Michigan. .iifiinusmnifinniiiiii L IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII O . a“; CLAIM YOUR. rigs? SALE DATE. “To avoid conflicting date; we will without cost, list the date of any live stock sale Ill Michigan“ If you are considering a sale Id- ' Horus-oi. once and we will claim the date ‘ -‘ I '0' You; Address. Live/Stock Editor, M. FE. Mt; Clemens.- Jan. .5, Poland Chinss. Man‘chester, Mich. . , Jan. 6. Poland Chinss. Hillcrest Farm. p ' l“. B. Lay. Mgr., Allegan, Mich. 1. Jan. 10,.Holsteins; Harry '1‘. Tubbs. El- .» ' well. Mich. - ’ Jan. 14. Aberdeen-Angus. Michigan Aber- deen-Angus“ sum. East Lansing, Mich. ‘Feb. .1, PolandChinas. _Witt Bron, Jae; oer. Mich. . A. A. FeldkamD. ‘ , r . , LIVE STOCK AUCTIONEERS . Andy Adams, Litchfleld, Mich. . , Ed. Bowers, South Whitley, 'Ind . 7‘ ‘ Porter ,Colestock, Eaton Rapids, Mich. ‘ John Hoflman, Hudson, Mich. ' D. L. Perry, Columbus, Ohio. - 4~ V, \ J. J. Post, Hillsdale, Mich. ’ "I. v; a . J. E. Ruppert, Perry, Mich. , ' - ; , . Harry Robinson, Plpmouth, Mich. ». . Wm. Waffle, Goldwater, Mich. 7 CATTLE j . 1 ' is . HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN I . 2 ‘ MR. DAIRYMAN'!» ' - ' , , Are you using a first class herd .t sire? I " ‘ You can’t afford to use a poor ‘ ‘ one. ' . N _ , We' have good ones of all ages p listed at reasonable prices. ' Let us know your needs. ' MICHIGAN HOLSTElN-FRIESIAN , ASSOCIATION ' H. w. Norton, Jr., Field Secretary Old State Block, Lansing. Mich. fr... ‘ -' snow BULL Sired by a. Pontiac Aaggie Korndyke-Henger- veld DeKoI bull from a nearly 19 1b. show cow. First prize junior calf, Jackson Fair, 1 92 0. Light in color and good individual Seven months 0d. Price, $125 to make room. llurry! Herd under Federal Supervision. I i i , _ _- BOABDMAH FARMS ‘. JACKSON, MIOH. *- , Holstein Breeders Since 1906 ‘I-IOLSTEIII FIIIESIAIIS FOR SALE A b'ull calf ready for service. Combines Show type and production. llerd sire, Model. Kig Segis Glista, whose .granddnm 'is Glista Ernestine, the only cow of -» r. the breed that has six times made better than ' 30 lbs. butter. . GRAND RIVER STOCK FARMS v r 7 Corey J. Spencer, Owner. 111 E. Main St. Jackson, HATOH HERD ‘ Ypsilanti. Mich. (In Government Accredited List.) I Mich. from our 34 lb. (average 2 nearest dams 37 pounds) King Korndyke Artfi Vale bull for $150 to $250 FOR SALE 30 lb. BULL ' ‘ MY HERD SIRE FLANDERB Kmo r « , W i i.JOI'IANNO:"12010.7238054 O‘NT'AO are on son ng of the Po ' from a‘33 lb. daughter of King seglsjunam End His dam a show cow, Phyllis IleKol John“ to lb. daughter of Sir Johanna Nig. H. 'ia é ,flne individual, kind and right in every way, box-n Novelgnber 7, 111917.b n - ’ A o a year'ng u from a 28 lb. a 31 1b., bull. 0°“ ""1 bull. Price and pedigree for the asking. .._. GUY WAKEFIELD, Fowler-ville, Mich. ’ on use. REGISTERED HOLSTEIN' BULLS nearlyvresdyfor service from good A. Alums also bull calves. ~'Wih. Grimn. Howell, Mlch. l . type and price, I will refund your fare. \ offers choice yearling registered cows ' Get busy if in need of a good ' . Pound bull. Dam a ,well bred Ormsby cow. Herd R. 0LT Vilhat 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.v_.0ne Senior 3 year old has made over 26 lbs. of butter in 7 days and a Jr. 3 yr. old has made over 20 lbs. last bull advertised sold to Mr. John Gsult. All our cows are in the advanced registry and free from T. B. ' JOHN BAZLEY . 81'9 Atkinson Ave. DETROIT MICH. FOR SALE Small Herd of Registered Holsteins . consisting of 8 cows and 4 heifers under 1 year old. Cows nearly all under 4 years of age and bred to freshen eyery month from now on to July. Price for the 12 head immediate sale $2,000. For details write DeFOREST THOMPSON Salem, Mich. BBAIIDOIIHIL'L FARM (FORMERLY HILLCREST) Ortonvliie, Michigan We have just passed our third clean tubercu- lar test. Just think what that means when buy- ing a sire for your herd. Choi‘ce bull calf by 35 lb. son of King of the l’ontiacs. out of 15 lb. m $100 Nine .months old, light colored, same sire, out of 16 lb. dam $200 Nine months old, same sire. Five months old, same sire, 31 lb. dam $650 Come to Brandonhill—oee these calves—if they don’t beat anything you have ever seen for 21 1b dam $350 Your note will do, if you haven’t the cash. ~ JOHN P. HEHL 1205 Griswold Street, Detroit. Michigan MR MILK PRODUCER Your problem is more MILK, more BUTTER, more PROFIT, per cow. A son of Maplrcrest Application Pontiac—- 132852—from our hesvy-yeariy-milking-good-but- tor-record dsmrwill solve it. Maplecresi: Application Pontinc’s dam made €5,103 lbs. butter in 7 days: 1344.3 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.- ___‘I Yearling Bull For Sale Bull born Sept. 28, 1919, evenly marked and a fine individual. Sir~ ed by my 30 lb. bull and from a 20 lb. daughter of Johan Heng. Lad, full sister to a 32 lb. cow. Dam will start on yearly test Nov. 15. ' ROY F. FICKIES I Chesaning, Mich. PIIIGED TO SELL SIX HEAD REGISTERED HOLSTEINS Two yearling heifers, bred to grandson Traverse Princess Weg. Price $150 each. Three heifer calves, ages 5, 4 and 2 months of old._ Price $125 each. One bull 8 months old. dam has 7 day A. R. O. 18.77 butter 427.8 milk. Next dam 15.11 butter, 387.7 milk. Sire’s dam 22.43 butter, 503.2 milk. Price $125. Pedigrees sent promptly on request. This~stock is all nicely grown. H. E. BROWN. Breedsvllle, ' SOLD AGAIII Bull calf lsst advertised sold but have 2 more that are mostly white They are nice straight fel- lows, sired by a son 01 King on. One is from a 17 lb. 2'yr. old dam and the other Is from a 20. lb. Jr. 3 yr. old darn, she is by a son of Friend Hengerveld De Koi Butter Boy. one of the great bulls. JAMES HOPSON JR.. Owosso. Mlch.. R 2. Mich. Howbert Minita Ormsby REGISTERED HOLSTEIN HEIFER. BORN APRIL 18. 1919 well , marked, good condition. Sired by a 27 Tubercan tested under State and Federal Sup- ervision. . ' LILL. evens , eeu clam. Mlch. \ ' ‘.l,. __Y_ ‘ ' Fidm some and reamiaeondimlnm. mm 'by , x 1110378174771 . ' ‘ is..." one pounde‘ 11! you old: end 9 vBlIY SHOBTHOBNS ' 'of' registered Hampshire Hogs. Gilts. Saws ‘ and Boats. ” . I OLVERINE STOCK FARM REPORTS GOOlr~ sales from their herd. We are well pleased with the calves from our Junior Herd Sire “King Pon- tiac Lunde Korndyke Segis" who is a son of “King of the Pontiacs" from a daughter of Pon- tisc Clothilde De Kol 2nd. A few bull calves for sale. T. W Sprague, R 2. Battle Creek Mich. BULL and 3 HEIFERS (Federal accredited herd.) 'Bull old enough for service. His dam’s 7 day record 20.85 lbs. butter, 467.80 lbs. milk_ 305 days 16,281.1 lbs. milk, 654 lbs. butter. Two R. 0. daughters. His sire s 24 lb. grandson of Colanths Johnna Lad. - Also 3 heifers .7 months old not related to bulL ALL FOR $500.00 VERNON CLOUGH. Perms. Mich. TWO, BULL OALVES ~ Registered Holstein-Frieslau, sired by 39.87 lb. bull and from heavy producing young cows. These calves are Very nice and will be priced cheap if sold soon. HARRY T. TUBES. Elweil. Mich. BORN MARCH 21, 1920, vény nice, straight and well grown, sired by a son of Flint Hengerveld Lad whose two nearest 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 llengerceld Lad '68 A. R. 0. daughters. Price $150. F. O. B Flint. Pedigree on ap lication. L. C. KETZL R, Flint, Mlch. OR' SALE—TWO BULL GALVES, A HOL- tcin and Durham about 3 months old. Both ave heavy milking dams. Not registered. $00 sch if taken at once. CHASE STOCK FARM, Mariette. Mich FOR SALE LARGE REGISTERED HOLSTEIN COW five year old, well marked and .a good milker, also her bull calf born Octl 27,; sired by a son of Johan Hengcrvcld Lad, one a 22 11). two year old dam Price $250 for the pair. R. H. BARNHART, R 1, St. Charies, Mlch. OR SALE—REGISTERER HOLSTEIN COW. Three heifer calves. 1 bull calf. R. J. BANFIELD. Wlxom, T0 SETTLE AN ESTATE 7 registered Holstein cows, 5 yet to freshen, bred to a 30 lb. bulL $1,200 takes them. BERT SLOCUM, Byron, Mlch. Mich SHORTHORN SDOTOH SHOHTHOIIIIS Priced right, also my herd bull. THEODORE NICKLAS, Metamora, RIOHLAND SHORTHORNS Why buy Bulls that come from Herds you know nothing about? _ For the next thirty days we are going to Ofi'cl‘ the best lot of Bulls ever sold in Mich. Prices ranging from $200 to $500. 0. H. PRESCOTT & SONS Herd at Prescott, Mich. Tawas City, 5 GOOD BULLS 12 to 15 mos. old Mlch. Mich. MILKING SHORTHORNS. BULLS FROM COINS making records. Priced reasonable. 0. M. YORK. Mililngton, Mich. FROM AN ACCRED- itcd hard, that are right, at readjustment prices, ' JOHN SCHMIDT r! SON, Reed City, Mich. HAT DO YOU VVAN'I‘? I represent 4} ‘HORTHORN breeders. Can_ put you in touch wilh best milk or beef strains. Bulls all ages. Some females. . W. ()rum, 'Presldent Central Michigan Shorthorn Association, Mc- Brides, Michigan. W. S HUBER, Glsdwin. Mlch., offers for sale a choice bull caif,, sire, Robert Clay by Washing— ton Clay. Dam, Charlotte’s Gem by Maplelano Dan Oxford out of Charlotte 13 2nd. SHODTHOBIIS old, all roans, pail fed. 5 bulls, 4 to 8 mos. Dams good milkers, the farmers’ kind, at farm- ’ rices. e“ lg. M. PIGGOTT & SON. Fowler. Mlch. HE VAN .BUREN CO. SHORTHORN BREED- ers' Association have stock for sale, both milk and beef breeding. Write the secretary. ' FRANK BAILEY. Hartford. Mlch. COWS, HEIFERS, BULLS offered at attractive prices before January first. Will trade for good land. Wm. J. BELL. Rose City, Mich. ENT COUNTY SHORTHORN BREEDERS' » KAss’n are offering bulls and heifers for sale. all Sell the scrub and buy a purebred. AAB, Sec'y, Qsiedonla, Mich. aple Ridge Herd of Bates Shorthorm 0!- fers for sale a roan bull calf 9 mos. old. Also 2 younger ones. . E. TANSWELL. Mason, Mich. 0R SALE—POLLED DURHAM BULLS AND d D wn Rams. one: J. 0A. DeGARMO. Muir. Mlch. ages. A HEREFORDS 1 RE iiEiisroim emu mm... We can furnish registered bulls from 12 months and older, best of breeding and at a very low price, have also some extra good Herd headers We have also a large line fighting= us, us what you want and got HEBEFOIIDS FOII SALE Fairfax and Disturber blood, 150 Reg. head in herd. 335.00 reduction on all sires. Choice fe- males for sale.‘ Write me your needs. EARL C. MCCARTY, Bad Axe, Mich. REGISTERED HEREFORD OATTLE King Repeater No. 713941 heads our herd. a grandson of the Undefeated Grand Champion epeater 7th No. 386905. We have some fine, bulls for sale and also some heifers bred to Re. ater. 'l‘ony B. Fox, Proprietor. ' HE MARION STOCK FARM. Marion, Mlch. 150 HEREFORD HEIFERS. ALSO KNOW of 10 or 15 loads fancy quality Shortshorns and Angus steers 5 to 1,000 lbs_. Owners anxious to sell. , Will help buy 500 commission. 0 F. BALL, Fair-field. Iowa GOOD TYPE, LAKEWOOD HEBEFOBDS 8...... boned young bulls, 12 months old for sale. Also high class females any age. Inspection invited. ' E J. TAYLOR, Fremont, Mich. JERSEYS SCALES IN FEED ROOM TOO! ‘ We are frequently advised to' “weigh your milk," “know how much your cows are giving.” Yes! This is important but it is equally im- portant to know how much feed she is consuming. So, weigh her food. Many cows in Michigan are not pay— ing for their feed. Others pay only a small profit. How many of this kind have you. Weigh milk. Weigh feed. Find out. Beef them. Put profit. cows in their place. Jerseys are know as profit breed, because they produce economically. Write—- SEC’Y HENDRICKSON of Shelby, Michigan FOR JERSEY FAOTS EADOWV'EW JERSEV FARM. REG; JERSEY tulle fur g3“). J. E. MORRIS & SON, Farmington, Mich. Get Your Start in H Registered Jerseys for $500 5 heifers from 5 mos. to 1 yr. will be sold at this price if taken at once. Write for breed- ing and description to FRED HAYWARD, Scotts, Mich MPROVE YOUR JERSEY HER WITH [ONE of our Majesty hulls. r: K lonla, Mlch. RAN P. NORMINGTON. 0R \SALE—THREE PUREBRED JERSEY bulls ready for service. Tuberculin tested. J. L. CARTER. R 4, Lake Odessa. Mich. ed. Mud. of Mariette. cow and calf together. tered, Mariette. istered. ANGUS ABERDEEN-ANGUS STOCK FOR SALE Cow—Bonnie of Mariette, 8 yrs. old, register- Sire, King of Duchess 2d. Dam, Bonnie of llcifer calf 3 weeks old. -Dam, Bonnie Sire, King of Romeo. Will sell Bull—King 2d of Romeo, 1 yr. old. Regis- sire, Eric Edwin . Dam, Bonnie of Heifer—2 yrs. old with calf not regs These will be priced cheap if sold 80011. Address— R3, Mich. FRED BOENING, Romeo, of farming. a from LENAW ducers to include a pure bred ANGUS hull of the most extreme best type for combination beef and dairy farming. STOCK FEEDING. The Most Profitable Kim! I car load of grade dairy heifers EE COUNTY'S heaviest milk Dro- ‘Car lot shipments assembled at GLENWOOD FARM for prom t shipment. ' Methods expla nod in sm'rn's PROFII‘ABLB 400 pages illustrated. Addison. Mich. GEO. B. SMITH. BARTLETTS’ih’EEs $153.:‘£§3”&E2? Swine are ‘ ht and are pnce right. "0‘ epondenco sorli‘citad and inspection invited. OAR]. BARTLETT. Lawton. Mlch. Ii rmm. Ind. .e.~ . to advertise livestock or poultry in M. B. F.’s . Broeders Directory» . lt Pays Big 'l Iou. c pm! ' _ ' ’ (GPECIM ADVERTISING RATES under "in and tell you what a mu cost A Breeden’ Auction Sales sdvertlsed here at special low rates: ask for them. Write today I) m‘r-al-M V41” Silliillli‘ usisheedinetoinncstbccdersetliseucclcnd for 18. 26-» 52. times. You can chance size of c ilIIIiIiIiiIIiiIliIliIJIlIIiiiiilhlliii‘IlzillilIlIiIliiI ‘ itrywiiihcsonsco Must. Be orccpysecucnssycu wish. Genoa-chem IREEDERS' plascrenv, res memoir nuclease rsnsssn. Mt. Clemens, ma. IIIIEIIIHiiiiiillilIIIiIlIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIilIIIlIliiliiillliililiiililIlilul uni-still writccutlhatcuhuetcl r v "I outing. received one week .bcf GUERNSEYS «REGISTERED curnnsm Fine heifer calves 6 months old—$200. Fine bull calves 6 to 8 months old—3100. All papers transferred. J.' M. WILLIAMS. North Adams. Mich. GUERNSEY BULL CALVES From tested and untested dams. Satisfaction guaranteed. Write torprices and breeding to MORGAN BROS., Allegan, Mich" R1 r—i AYRSHIRES FOR SALE—REGISTERED AYRSHI RE I hulk and calves. heifers and investor calves. some 60 COWS. FINDLAY BROS. R 6. Vassar, Mich. SWINE POLAND CHINA THE'BEST IRED POLAND CHINA PIGS SIR- ed by Big Bob Masmdon at the lowest price. DOWITT C. PIER. Evert. Mich. BIG BOB MASTODON Sire was champion of the world. His dam's sire was grand champion at Iowa State Fair. 8 choice spring ~ gilts bred that are pictures, sired by him. Also some sows bred to him for March and April. Priced low end guaranteed in every way. Get my prices. C. E. Garnant, Eaton Rapids, Mich. HERE'S SOMETHIHG GOOD THE LARGEST BIG TYPE P. 0. IN MIOH. Get a bigger and better bred boar pig from my herd, at a reasonable price. Come and use them. Expenses. paid if not as represented. These hour. In seruce: L‘s Big Orange. Lord Clansman, Orange Price and L’s Long Prospect. -W. . LIVINGSTON. Perms. Mich. ' I THE THUMB HERD 312 Type Poland Chinas. Largest herd in North- eastern Mich. Bears and gilts for sale. E M. GROWAY. Mllllnctcu, Mich. FARYIELL use me L. T. P. C. boars all sold. A few spring boars and some tilts left. Will sell with breeding privilege. Bears in service: Chmsman's image 2nd, W. B.'s Outpost and Smooth Wonder. Visitors welcome. . I. RAMSDELL ' Hanover, Mich. My, Oh My, What an Opportumtyl We are now onering a few choice big type Poland China Boers. from Big Smooth on of the breed's best sires. from Dams by such noted, sires as Grand W. Bfllcrcst Wonder. Masto- don Wonder and Hillcrest Bob. You can't get better breedim. Individual] they will please you. Price $50. HILLCREST FARM. Kalamazoo. Midl- IGc TYPE POLANDS. HERD HEADED BY W's Sailor Bob. Spring pigs. both sex for sale. W_ CALDWELL A SON, Springpon, Mich. . i ARGE TYPE P. 0. SPRING BOARS, MARCH and April farrow. Also one Sept. yearling. The big bone and big litter kind. For prices and reeding write ' , E. W. LANDENBERGEB. Perms. Mich_ L. T. P. C. I have a line lot of spring gigs sired by Hart’s Black Price, a good son of lack Price. mud champion of the world in 1918. Also have I pigs, 5 sows and 2 boars, sired by salt, a son of the $40,000 Yankee. that are sure Humdingers. F. T. HART. St. Louis. Mich. I rues HILL ms- Spflns boar pigs h Peach Hill Orion Kill!- 3:439. Bot:iltaci‘.'lony guaranteed. Priced at up. IRWOOD BR08.. Romeo. Mich. MEADOWVIEW FARM REG. JERSEY HOGS, choice boar pigs for sale. » ' J. E. MORRIS g SON ,Fsrmlniltcn. Mich. BIG TYPE P. 0. SPRING , boars. bred sows and the best lit- ter of "fall pigs in the state. Come and see or write E. R. LEONARD, R 8. St. Louis. Mich. . T. P. 0. SPRING BOARS, SIRED BY WIL- _ey's King Bob. out of Grand Daughters of Disher's Giant. All immuned with double treat- ment. John D. Wiley. Schoolcme Mich. ARGAINS IN BIG TYPE POLAND OHINA bred gilts and older sows. Also (all pigs and young Shorthorn bulls. Robert Neve, Pierson, Mich IG TYPE POLAND CHINAS. WE ARE OF- fcring at private sale. some choice gilts bred to ’ Clams grandson of the n for April furrow. Also fall pigs registered and delivered to your town for $20. DOBUS HQVER. Akron, Mich. IG TYPE P. C. SOWS OF CHOICE BREED- ing, bred to Big Bone Bone Boulder No. 728,- 872 for Sept. furrow. Spring pigs either sex. Healthy and growthy. Prices reasons . L. w. BARNES A SON. Bvron. Mich. POLAND CHINAS WITH QUALITY Nine fall gilts out of litters of eleven and thirteen. for sale. J. E. MYGRANTS. St. Johns. Mich. POLAND CHINAS. SPRING PIGS of both sex for sale at reasonable prices. Registered in buyer’s name. Sired by Big Long Bob. MOSE BROS.. St. Charles. Mich BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS A few choico spring boars and gilts sired by “Half Ton lad," a good son of “Smooth Half Ton” Champion of Michigan in 1918. Gllts be bred to Jumbo's‘ Mastodon 2nd, son of Big Bob Mastodon for March and April'ferrow. HOWLEY BROS., Merrill, Mich. Sale—BRED SOWS—Sal‘e 40 Large Type Poland China Gilts Wed. Jan. 5th, 1920 at farm near Man- chester, Mich. Hill] m l F's (Anneman Grand Champion boar at Mich. State Fair, 1920. Smooth Buster first Jr. yearling boar at the Michigan State Fair, 1920. sale day. Col. Ed. Bowers, ' Auctioneer. Sale takes place under cover. All trains will be met a. m. of Get a sow bred to one of these boars. Send for Catalog—Everything immuned. A. D. Gregory. Fieldmsn for M. B. F. A. A. FELDKAMP, Proprietor. I BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS HILLCREST FARM ' r ’, Michigan. Will sell THURSDAY, JANUARY 6th 40 HEAD Bred Gllts, Fall Yearlin-gs, Tried Sows, Choice Boers and some Extra Choice 35.nound Young Holstein bulls at ‘the FAIR GROUNDS, ALLEGAN, HIGH. There will be SOME GREAT ATTRACTIONS. Don’t miss this ale. There will be many bargains. Write Office for Catalogue - OFFICE, WOO, MICE. FARM, ALLEGAN,‘ MICHIGAN. Baos. ., GLOSIIIG'OUT SALE 01 Big Type Poland China hogs, which represents the work of years of constructive breeding. Everything goes including our three great herd boars, Mich. Buster by Grant Buster. A. Grant, Butler’s Big Bob. 0 of the best yearling prospects in Mich. Modern type. high arched backs, great length. big bone. Come and pick ut what you want. Our prices are right. JNO. C. BUTLER. Portland. Mich. C. Bears now WALNUT ALLE w... homes. Get your order in on tel] pigs for' I am going to price them right. A; D. GREGORY - Ionia, Mich. RIG TYPE P. L c FOUR CHOICE SPRING AND FALL boars left. A few extra nice slits left bred for April (arrow. H. O. SWARTZ. Schoolcraft. Mich. TH ANNUAL P. C. BRED 80W SALE. March 13. 1920. For particulars writs VJ. J. HAGELBHAW. Aucusts. Mich. Am Oflcrlnn Large Type Poland Chins Sows. bred to F's Orange at reasonable prices. Also [all pigs. Write or I. CLYDE FISHER. S. St. Louis. Mich. BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS Early fall pigs for sale, either sex. These as real ones. Write for breeding and price. ‘ HIMM BROS.. Chesanlng. Mich. DURoos' Breakwater lDEllJrlégicrs Boar's—Ready for Service Big type, large bone and rugged. with plenty i quality. This is your chance to buy high class ndividuals at reasonable prices. OPEN GILTS of choice breeding and the «right type. Panama Special, the Principal 4th, Orion Cherry King and Great Orion families. Now is the time to, buy before the demand takes all of the good ones. Write Us For Prices and Pedigrees Mall orders a specialty. Satisfaction guaranteed. BROOKWATER FARM Ann Arbor. Michigan H W. Murniord. Owner J. B. Andrews, Mar. Spring pigs by Wan’s Orlon. First Sr. Yearling Detroit, Jackson, Gd. Rapids and Saginaw- 1919 Phillips Bros, Riga, Mich 0R SALE—DUROO JERSEYS. BOTH SEX. Spring and fall pigs. Have several extra. good spring boars ready for service. Write us your wants. HARLEY‘FOOR A SON. R ‘I. Glsdwln, Mich. REGISTERED DUBOG JERSEY boars. giltf, and {all pigs for sale. Herd headed by Brookwater Demonstrator 27th, No. 155217. H. E. LIVERMORE A SON, Romeo. Mich. 5:“prgg-E AT FARM- The big growthy kind. 0. E. DAVIS A SON. Ashley. Mich. ~spring boars. also gilts of For Sale—Ree. Duroe Jersey chnunc Pigs of good quality and breeding Either sex. Am oflerlng spring tilts also; VERN. N. TOWNS, R S. Eaton Rapids, Mich. 5 Fall Boers of Last Sept. Fm. 200, lb. big stretchy bind, .4 good some litters, BITSG‘ by Liberty Defender 3rd. 00]. bred dams, if you want good boars order at once. Prices $76 to 886. / H. G. KEESLER. Canopolls. Mich. DUROCS. ANYTHING YOU WANT FROM A spring gilt to a herd boar. st prices.you can afford to pay. Cholera immune Satisfaction guar- anteed. C. L. POWER. Jerome, Mich. DUROC JERSEY BOARS. Boers of )th. llI'IOu heavy-boned type, at reasonable prices. Write. or better, come and see. F. J. DRODT, R 1, Monroe, Mich.” AM OFFERING SOME HIGH CLASS SPRING DUIIOG BOAIIS at reasonable prices . A few gilts bred for Sep- tember tsrrow at bargain prices. W. e. TAYLOR Milan. Mich. REGISTERED nunoc JERSEY September pigs for sale. Prices reasonable. E. E. CALKINS, R8. Ann Arbor. Ilich. annulus PREMIER cum Herd Bosh—Reference only—No. 129219 1919 Chicago International . I 4th Prize Jr. Yearling BOOKING ORDERS FALL PIGS AT ‘35 BLANK & POTTER ‘ Petal-ville. Mich. FOR SALE—Ree Duroe Yearling Boar weigh- ing 600 lbs. A bargain at $75. Spring boars weighing 200 to 250 at $40 snd_,850. real boars. We still have spring sows at $40 and 850. Stock double immunized for cholera I-'. HEIMS A SON, Davlson, Mich. urocs. Hill crest Farm. Irdfl and open sows and gilts. Boats and 100 head. sodas piss. _ Farm 4 miles straight S. of Middleton. Mich" Gratiot Co. Mich. Newton A: Blank, Perri‘nton. FROM P B I Z I WINNING STOCK ready for service. Geo. B. Smith. Addi- son. Mich. 0R .SALE: ONE DUROO BOAR FRO" Brookwater breeding stock. Choice spring rin- JOHN GRONENWETT. GIPIGSOII. Illch. Dunno-JERSEY SERVICE BOARS. $50.00 Fine early fall pigs. 1,000 lb. herd boar. Jos. SCHUELLER. Weidman. Mich- s DUROC SPRING BOARS, SOWO and gilts of all ages. Write us Your wants. herd double immune Entire . JESSE BLISS G SON. Henderson, Mich. E OFFER A FEW WELL-IRE!) SELECT” ed spring Dnroe Boers; also bred sows and Gilts in season. Call or write McNAUGHTOR A FORDYOE. Ot- Lculs. Mich. Immun nunocs. we can FILL voun . wants. Several lines of broodinl represented including The Great Senmflon. Batis- tactlon guaranteed. 0. L. Mr. Pavilion. Mich. O. I. 0. O. I. C. and CHESTER WHITE SWINE Some choice spring gilts which wrll be sold open or bred for March Farrow,, to one of my good herd boars. Also fall pigs. CLARE V. DORMAN, Snorer. Mich PURE BRET) 0. I. 0. 5068 30 for sale. Service boars and bred gilts. 18 head of fall pigs. Papers furnished free. J. R VAN ETTEN, Cllflord, Mich. o. 1. as. June and July boars and open gilts each' one a guaranteed breeder. Recorded and express paid in full for the next thirty days. F. O. BURGESS, 'Msscn. Mich. . o I.‘ O. BRED GILTO FOR MARC." AND. April furrow. Also a few choice semoe’boars. CLOVER LEAF STOCK FARM, Monroe, Mich. (o. I. o. swme—uv HERD oou‘nms THE blood tgent“ ttlfutnhl most grin" m0.- furnish Y. m ' s. at cocci“: om. Mlch..-R s. name. a. JEWE’IT, Choice individu/sls; shipped to you c. 0.7a;me paid and guaran- teed rlght or your money refunded. All stock registered in buyer's, f.- l I l I l l I I l ma. 3’ x‘ , Ml‘. ' - I , ‘ upon 55 .ghssxsmnisrsntsmt, .... . bo sex. , - . , I , Rossini. 21203.. n ‘8. Mei-flu. Mich GREGORY FARM ERKSKIBES FOB profit.» Choice stock or sale. Write your wants- W. S. Corsa. White Hall, Ill. ARE QUALIT! H008. Wesned Dike of the V817 hedgblood lines of tho breed is our specialty. We guarantee ‘to please .or nothing stirlng. r ARZ A. WEAVER, Chennlng. Mich.. CHESTER mm HESTER WHfl'Es FOR SALE AT BARGAIN prices Will ship C. 0. D. and rec. in buyers name. RALPH COSENS. R 1. Levering, Mich. “BISTERE cuzsran wmrs swms, either sex. Boars ready for ser- vice. Pricesright. . LYLE II. JONES, Film. Mich" R. F.’ D. No. 5 HALIPSHIRES ampsumrs “l;‘.".i:§f"§:.l“$.§i“.ll€i it; for bred gil . JOHN . SNYDER. R 4. St. Johns. Mich. BOAR PIGS $15.00 At 8 Weeks Old - W. A. EASTWOOD. ,Chesanlng, An Opportunity To Buy ’t Hampshires Right. We are ofl'ering some good sows and zilts, bred for March .and April fari‘owing. 130 a few choice fall pigs, either sex, Write or call GUS THOMAS, New Lothrop. Mich. SHEEP 350 BRED EWES 16 OXFORD RAMS LISTEN! WISDOM. . With sky—high prices, UNWISDOM rushes the buying. WISDOM buys intelligently on, a low market. ' No farm product turns so quick as SHEEP. Sheep will never again CHEAP in America. THESE YOUNG EWES, mostly 25 and 3s, Waters 3. Canadian Rams turned with them Nov. 10th. No guesswork when lambs will come. Does that mean anything to you? Delaine combing fleeces averaged over 8 lbs. GOOD SHEARING [W138 with their double 'crops of lambs and wool are the only absolutely farm money-mak- ‘In; proposition in sight. Put that in your pipe and come over and smoke it with me. PRICED TO SELL as I have contracted the use of my barn-room and pastures. WILL ALSO BELL 22 of the only sensible and economical sheep racks made, for hay and min. FARM IN NORTH CITY LIMITS concrete roads to the vest and north. T. F. B. 5013mm Saint Clair. Michigan: Mich. be as latered Hampshire Down Ram Lamb. Register- ed Shorthorn bull calf. caring and fall farrow. . PRIMEVAL FARM. Osseo, Mich. Put your faith in BETTEII- BIIEEIIIIIG STOGK For the best in Shro hir " "it. or “sit ps e and Hampshire rams KOPE~KON FARMS. s. L. Wing. Prop. Coidwuer. Mich. / See our exhibit at the Ohio and Michigan tats Fairs. HAMPSHIRE SHEEP A few good yearling rams and some rain lambs left to. offer. 25 ewes all ages for sale for fall dehvery. Everything guaranteed as represented. ' CLARKE u. HAIRE, “West Branch, Mich. Far Sale--Bred Hampshire Ewes sue-rump PONIES 1 YEARLING 1 con HARRY w. oan’msn. Mention: Mich. ANT‘A SHEEP? Let Amer-lean Hm I Sheep Association send you a dandy bag: with list of breeders. Write COMFORT A TYLE/RhSec'y. 10 Woodland Av... Detroit. sues: R SHROPSHIHE ms IRED Foln March, write oi- mll on, ‘ To LAMB ARMSTRONG 3308., R 8. FOWIOI'YIIIO, Mich. ERINO RAMS FOR SALE. GOOD one. boned, heavy shearers. HOMEMAN BROS. R 4. Albion. Mich, FOR SALE—REGISTERED OXFORD DOWN Rams and Ewes. Prices to sell. JOE MURRAY~£ SON. Brown City. Mich” R 2 Berkshire pigs of. FREE we... mpflepsfisi g: beans and hauling hay, It Is colder and the-ground is frozen. The'Farmers’ El- evator‘i-B‘not buying cream nor eggs now, A .mload of tractors came into Giadwin last week. 1 wish all the readers of the M- B. F. a Merry Christmas—F. A. F,, .Gladwin. Dec, 18, CALHOUN—Farmers are doing chores, (flitting wood and husking corn, The weather has been very stormy the most of this month. It is snowing_now. The soil is in good shape for gram as it is not frozen. There is not much selling now as prices are so low, There are a few hogs moving. No building only where it is necessary.—C_ E, 3,, Battle Creek, Dec. 18. JACKSON (SJ—Ground covered with snow; finding many unprepared for Win- ter, with much unfinished fall work. Not much grain being marketed._ Farmers with plenty of. corn picking up small pigs for spring market. Taxes very high and farmers are doing ,consnderable grumbling, Many are having difficulty to secure money to pay them, On ac- count oi! the high price of coal, farmers are burning wood this winter.——G, C. 8., Hanover, Dec. 17. WEXFORD—Another winter Tuesday; commenced to snow and wound up with a young blizzard. Some places it drift- ed 3 and 4 feet, Plenty of sleighmg, al- though some places it is bare. The Indi- cations are tonight for a day or.so of nice weather. Not uch stuff movmg on account of snow dri ts. The prices of produce are down until the farmer has sold everything, and it is in the hands of the speculator, then things Wlll come up, except wages, they never go into the hands of the speculator,-—-—S. H. S., Har- rietta, Dec, 16. ‘ . MIDLAND—-—Thd' farmers are huskmg corn and hauling same and cutting wood, The weather is a little colder with" a lit— Rye looks tle snow. Ground is frozen. . very good, Not much produce gomg to market; a. little hay is all. The prices are very low. No building is being done. No market for chickens; the prices have been low since fall, Auction sales are plentiful with prices way down.’ Every- thing the farmers have to sell seems to be on the downward slope, except taxes which are climbing the other way—J. H. M., Hemlock, Dec, 16. TUSCOLA—Farmers are all set for winter. There is some corn out yet but we are husking it in the barn. Not much fall plowing done here. Can’t say why as this has been a fine fall to plow, The most of the farmers don’t seem to care Whether they farm much next year or not as they have had a bad deal this tall planting high priced seed and get— ting nothing for their crops, and taxes as high as ever and other things they have to buy. Some say. “what’s the use of working to grow more than we want? Let the other fellow do‘some of the work next year." Farmers are holding some oats to see if they can't get a little more money for them, but letting beans and potatoes go as they don’t look good and taxes must be paid—R. B. C., Caro, Dec, 19 MONTCALM—The farmers are doing chores mostIY, getting wood and doing repair work. Some are doing a little building, such as garages, sheds, etc. Condition is stormy but not very cold, some snow but no sleighing. Roads are bad, almost impassible in places. after nearly a week of rain -and heavy .wind. One large barn blew down and another had the roof blown off. Windows broken, trees and telephone poles blown down and much other damage done. The farmers are not selling much of anything only a. few potatoes, some live stock and poultry, prices being too low. There was an— auction sale Monday: nearly every— thing went low. Mrs E, F_ Bushley, an old pioneer died at her home Thursday night after a long illness—G. WK, Lakeview, Dec. 18, MONTCALM—é—Somc of the farmers are filling their silos with cornstalks. The weather has been cold and real blustery this week; the ground is cov- ered with, snow. Farmers are holding their potatoes till after the holidays,— M. . P., Trufant, Dec. 7. ST, CLAIR—Farmers not doing much just now. The weather has been quite wet and stormy for some time. The soil is slightly frozen at this writ- ing. ‘Farmers not selling much at pres— ent, most farmers holding wheat, and other‘ grain. Not much demand for hay. Very little budiness being done. Ev- erything at a stand—still.-.-—I. .T,, Smiths Creek, Dec, 20. ongsssuan W Value Meal. Price- _ 3 Quality 6 . b Cl Itoinv teth &‘ “ii? esebargams. weec Timothy $8.85 bu‘ Sudan Gross Il-Zc lb. some guano! limited entities. Clover and other Grass ck Fuel Seeds at bur-gas. All sold subject “)8 to or Government Test 9 or on absolute money- mm. We specialize in grass and field seeds. Locatedto save on money and give and: service. We ex higher ces~ now egos ' money Send View our money-es narSeed Guide. explainsaIl-Iroo. Amerlcall Seed Co. Dene. car Chicago, Ill. REGISTERED RAM " “Amps'flfiscwes all ages. Bred .riglft. so right W. W. CASLER, Ovid. Mich. PET STOCK sen-e. name]: sun-r mum. no: use; 86. Three months. old pair, 3:? ma will)” 8.1233011. Btoc k pedigreed. Qual- ,-_.s. ‘eluessuoe. Ooldwsur. Mich. ~ .J . ' The Best Breeders advertise in The Michigan Bus~ iness Farmer. It will be worth your while to read the livestock to keep posted. on what they ‘ have‘to otter. ‘ ‘ ' GLADWIN —- Fanners are tlu‘eel'zrlng1 advertiseménts “in every issue 1 ‘ Pour.er . _ ; _ ..... mom m? m. um I In “permitted and Quote More ins as 80 cents per Iii-o. nor Issue. t yon-hove to olor messed it In. I will m. M Adviertleinc Department, on. Clement. Michllen. Menu The n loci u raiser}. POULTRY MUD-WAY-ADSH-KA FARM _ oflers young stock and a few mature breeders In White Chinese Geese, White Runner Ducks and White Wyandottes. Also 0. I. 0. spring (“‘8- Write today for prices on what you need. DIKE C. MILLER. Dryden. Mich. “RITE CHINESE DEERE, WHITE PEKIN ducks. R. 0. Br. Leghorns. Place orders early. m. CLAUDIA BETTS. Hillcdcio. Mich. ORPINGTONS AND LEGHORNS Two Brest breeds for profit Write today (or free cats of hatching ens. baby chicks and breeding stock. CYCLE HATCHER COMPANY. 149 Phllo Bldg. Elmira. . Y. Houdsm. Michigan. cook-run a Hens. Leghorna. Minorcas. Reds, Rocks. Orpingtons, Wyandoixes. TYRONE POULTRY FARM. Fenton. BOURBON IIEII TIIIIKEYS stock not skin if desired. Order early. Also . C. R. I. Red cockercls and pullets, the dark red kind and bred to lay. Our stock will put your poultry on a DEVI!!! basis. F. HEIMS a SON Devlson, Mich. , LEGHORNS FOR SALE—Thirty thoroughbred Rose Comb Brown Leghorn Roosters. T. L. BACON, RED. N0. 3. Box 109, Davison, Michigan SINGLE COMB BUFF COCKERELS. FARM raised from excellent laying stock. Also Rufus Belgian Hares. J. Red W. WEBSTER, Beth, Mich. A GRABOWSKE S. 0. WHITE LEdHORN COCK- erels for sale, only $2.50 each and up. LEO GRABOWSKE. Merrill, Mlch., R. 4 FOR SALE—R. C. B. L. COCKERELS. SIRED by Madison Sq. winner. Bred for size and layers, weighing 5 lbs, $2.50 each. Flemish Giant rabbits. E. HIMEBAUGH. Goldwater. Mich. s c B. LEGHORN COCKERELS FROM EX- . cellent laying strain. Prize winners at Sag- inaw Fair, $1.50. A. McKesze, R4, Hemlock, Mich C. BUFF COCKERELS. EXCELLENT LAY- ing stock, $3.00 each. WILLARD LINDSEY, Otsego, Mloh. WYANDOTTE liver Laced Golden and White Wyandottes. Choice breeding stock our specialty. Let us furnish your good cockerels. O. W. BROWNING, R 2, Portland. Mich. HITE, WVANDOTTES. 200 egg hens or better. $5 to 38. Eggs $2 per 15. FRANK DELONG. R 3. COCKERELS FROM May and June hatch. Three Rivers. Mich. WYANDOTTES, PURE WHITE, LARGE FINE cockerels. Keeier's strain. $3.00 to $4 each. NICK FLECK, Plymouth, Ind. HITE WYANDOTTE COCK ERELS ‘ FISHEL strain, April hatched. Will offer for short time at $4.00 JESSE MOYER, n 4, Williamston, Mich. PLYMOUTH ROCKS SURPLUS COCKERELS BAHHED BOOK an sold. Hatching eggs next spring from stock rich in blood of Parks best pedigreed pens. R G. KIRBY, R 1, East Lansing, Mien «we mo BEAUTIFUL BARRED Joch are hen hatched, grow quick, good layers. Sold. on approval, 84 to 88 each. Circulars. Photo‘s. JOHN NORTHON. Clare, Mloh. BARRED ROCK COCKERELB FROM MIDI - producing strain. These will make strut breeders next year. $3.00 each. MRS PERRY STEBBINS, Saranao. Mich. BARRED ROCK COCKERELS and a few Pul- lets $3. 00 apiece. Mrs. w. A. Eastwood. Chasanlng. Mich.. R. 2 BARRED ROCK COCKERELS, IRED FRO. great layers. Bargain prices now. w. C. COFFMAN. R 3, Benton, Harbor. Mloll. BARBER aocx cocxrnus 5'33: nested proven breeding‘stock, book your chick and egg orders now. Large illustrated catalogue 250. Stamps for circular. NORMAN POULTRY PLANT. Chatsworth. III. ARRED ROCK LAYING strain. $3.00 each. ARTHUR TEETER, R 2. Soottvllle. Mich. COCKERELS RHODE ISLAND REDS WHITTAKER'S R. I. REDS COCKERELS. We are offering some big bar- gains in both Rose and Single Combs. Write for price list. ‘ DAY OLD CHICKS. Hells only. Breeding shtick carefully fielected for egg production and co or. EGGS FOR HATCHING by the sitting or hundred. Our stock is bred in 79 Mil-higan counties and in nearly 450 Michigan towns. It I the melt popular strain of Reds in the state. Write for, free catalog. . iNTERLAKES FARM, Box 4. Lawrence, Mich. LANGSHAN DR. SIMPSON'S LANGSHANS OF QUALITY Bred for type and color since 1912. Winter laying strain of both Blan and White. Have some cockerels for sale. Eggs in season. CHAS. W. SIMPSON Webberville. Mich. T URKE YS ICHIGAN’S BEST GIANT BRONZE TURK- eys Bred from 18 to 22 lb. hens and 40 lb. toms. Large bone splendid color. Both utility and fancy, N. EVALYN RAMSDELL, lonla. Mich. IANT BRONZE TURKEYS. STRONG, VIGOR- ous birds. Write at once for full prices MRS. PERRY STEBBINS. Sarenac. Mich. MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEY. prices. I“t»l‘(‘5t View Farm. H. D. HORTON. Fillon, Mich. 0R SALE_ \Vrite for MRS. OURBON RED TURKEYS, CHOICE LARGE early hatched toms and hens. ARC HIE D. IVES, Rockford. Mich. 0R SALE—a-THOROUGHBRED BOURBON l‘ed Turkeys, wry large. Write for prices. ‘ M. E. CONDON. Cassopolis, Mich. - WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS WHITE AFRICAN CUINEAS . 80 acres of them. Reference C. H. Burgess, Professor Poultry, Mich. Agricultural College. Form for sale. Whitoomb Turkey Farm. Byron Center. Mich. OR SALE—BOURBON RED TURKEYS. Write for prices. MRS. GEO. HULLIBERGER, Saranac, Mich. Read the Classified Ads __m_._ L M. B. F.’s BUSINESS FARMER’S EXCHANGE Big Bargains are constantly offered “there is $250 IN ed to January 3lst, 1921. to Win one of the 7 prizes. contest. ————-——_——-——-———--——_—_ Third Gold Contest Manager, THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER, Mt. Clemens, Michigan. Entermy 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 '1 am to have as good a chance as anyone to win the prize money. You can send me order blanks, ossesoooeeoooooooooooecoco-oe-s-nouR. F. D. 'NO-eooeeoiv to win a share in that The closing date of M. B. F.’s 3rd Gold Contest has been extend- This still gives everyone an equal chance Fill in the coupon and get right in the still time GOLD —_ ——_-—.—. samples, etc. I’ll try to win. “I Order now With your-new o'rfrenewal s’u‘bsC-riptloi‘i‘ Michigan ~Busini‘essili‘armer at these— specially attractive:- prices. ,Most of America’s leading. publications (and: Michigan’s foremost daily newsbapers are'included. .. « 1 I l InummIumImullmmuluuunuununnmmnlllmllnuummmwlIlium 44‘ No matter when your subscription expires you will be credited fer one full year from the date shown on label. This applies not only to The Business Farmer but to any. other Publication listed here. ‘ " . ./ Dally Newspapers BUSIN7ES§MFARMER Magazine Clubs at AND AN; OF M ~ - I - . FULL YEAR for amount shovvn. FOLLOWING MAGAZINES I . l Detroit “7"” 'i'f BOTH ONE FULL YEAR .. - AT OUR PRICE AS SHOWN Michigan Business Farmer 1 yr $1.00 Good Stories, one year . . . . . . 25, All for v I Today’s Housewife, one year . 1.00 0... ~ —-———- $1.651 i ‘ . ' c c o a c o o o a c o Blade . . . . . . . . . . . . V ; J Nei 's-Bee . . . ,. T0led0 Tug“ . Amerlcan Magazme . . . . . . . . 3.50 3.00 Michigan Business Farmer 1 yr $1.00 _ American Bee Journal . . . . .$2.50 $2.40 People’s Home Journal, 1 yr. . . 1.25 All for , , - Herald Examiner - American Fruit Grower 2.00 1.50 W°mans World, 0‘1" year '50 ChlcaQO Drovers’ Journal . . . ' ’ ,.. ° , American Poultry Advocate 2.00 1.55 Total value . . . . . . . . .$2.70 I lllllIHlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIHllllllllllllllllllllllllflllllllllllllmllfllfl : Grand Rapids i 'Herald Jackson Oitizens' Patriot . . American Boy 3.10 > ‘ Better Fruit » . 2.00 Michigan Business Farmer 1 yr $1.00 5 . B mamas Gazette 2 50’ 2 00 American Poultry Advocate 1 yr 1.00 All for 2 Battle Creek Bn‘lulmr'News - - ' r ’ ' ' ' ' ' ‘ ' ' ' ' ‘ ' McCall’s Magazme, 1 year . . 1.50 Eu . Moon-Journal . . . . - Boys! Magazine I 2.05 \ . . Christian Herald . 225 Total value . . . . . . . . . . .$3.50 saginaw News;Courier . . . . . / lli ’ Week] . . . . . . . . . 3.50 2.75 00' er s y Michigan Business Farmer 1 yr $1.00 Lansing State Journal ' Current Opinion . . . . . . . . . .. 5.00 4.00 Breeders. Gazette, one year. _ 1.50 All to, Delineator‘ . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 3.50 3.00 Everybody’s Poultry Mag 1 yr -60 / _—_ O Kalamazoo Gazette ' ' ‘ ' Dearborn Independent 2.00 1.90 1 Total value “Huunnngo Dairy Farmer (Kimball‘s) . 1.50 1.45 ‘ Fllnt ‘ . . - ‘ Everybodva Magazine . . .. . 3.75 3.25 Michigan Business Farmer yr $1.00 1 - - . . . ” Boys’ Magazine, one year . . . . 2.00 All or Blg Baplds . _ Etude (MuSIc Magazme) .. . 3.00 2.50 Today,s House .[6’ one year . 1.00 2 Everybody’s Poultry Mag. . . 1.60 1.30 . . Port Huron - ' Gleaningsin Bee Culture 2.00 1.90 3.50 3.15 ' Michigan Business Farmer 1 yr $1.00 Emma's l)an - - - - - -v 2-00 '1-75 Modern Priscilla,‘ one year 2.00 All for NOTE: Daily Papers are mailed to R. F 1) ° Hunwr-Trader-Trapper . 3.00 2.55 Today’s Housewife: one year - 1-00 . . . , residents or to points where the daily does not ' Indiana Farmers’ Guide 2.00 1.75 Total value . 34.00 have regular newsboy or carrier service. Our ‘ rates on Michigan dailies apply for the state of InuStra’ted world 4'00 3'10 Michigan only. Little Folks . . . . . 3.00 2.40 Michigan Business Farmer 1 yr $1.00 Christian Jim-aid, one year . . 2.00 A1110! = - . . . .i McCall’s one . F" _ _ '— _ '— ""' '— [with Michigan Farmer . . . . 2.00 1.50 ;-—— with Modem Priscilla 3.00 2.2-5 Total value . . . . . . . . . . . .$4.50 I B ith McCall’seMa azine . . . . . . . . . 2.50 1.75 ‘ l iw g Michigan Business Farmerl yr $1.00 With Munsey‘s Magazme 4°00 3-85 McCall’s Magazine... one year . 1.50 n with Motion Picture Magazine .. 3.50 2'75 godaill’f gousewsfe. 0:16 year - :42): All for r . e0 es ome ourn _ . THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER9 lwith National Stockman & Farmer 2.00 1.50 p ' ’ yr.___._ Mt. Clemens, Mich. . _ , o gmth N. Y. Twme-wWeek World . 2.00 1.75 Total value -. - - - - - . - - “$475 Enclosed fined $ . . . . . . . . . . . .for which credit Power Farming _ _ o . . . O _ . H 2.00 1.60 wi th Poultry Breeder 1.50 1.35 Michigan Business Farmer 1 yr $1.00 ' Collier’s Weekly, one year . . 2.50 All for THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER {With Pictorial Raiew , 3-50 3‘10 People’s Hoine'Journal, 1 yr. 1.25 ~ [with People’s Home Journal 2.25 1.90 ' ‘ ---— Ewith Popular Science Monthly . . . 4.00 3.50 Tom value ' ' - - ' ~ - - - ° - -$4- 5 ' {with Reliable Poultry: Journal . .. 2.00 1.60 I . f - / . _ ‘ . ' O . . Michigan Business Farmer 1 yr $1.00 > H -Witl Renew 0 Renews ’ 500 4 05 Youth’S' Companion, one year. 2.50 .All for” lwith Scribner’s Magazine . . . . .. 5.00, 4.50 Megan’s Magazine, one year . 1.50‘ y ‘ Iwith Successful Farming . . 1.35 1.25 ‘ -———.— [with The Mentor . 5.00 425 Tom Value ° - ‘ ' ' ' ' J *5")? ‘ Today's Housewife . . . . . . . 2.00 1.50 Michigan. Bus'iness Farmer .1 $1.00,. 4 Iwith World’s Work. . . V. . . . . . . . . . 5.00 4.25 Womanm Home Companion 1 yr 2:00 All Vfor r with Woman‘s Home Companion . 8.00 2.50 American Magazine. one year ‘ ’ 2.5‘ [with Youth’s Companion . . . . . . . . 3.50 A 8.00 I ' I Total value . . . .' . . . . . . . 34.00 .Ypsilanti Ypsilantian Press . 3.50 IllllllllllllllHIIllllllllllllllllllllllllIllllllllllllllllll me one full year's subscription to lllllllflllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllfllllllllllllIllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllflllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIllllllllIllllllllllllllllllflllllllllllIlllllllllllllIlllllllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllIllllllllllllIlllllllllllllflllllll Total yalue‘.‘...l.... ‘. r I ’ . . ' - mchig‘, rostrum", rat-mar";:T'"-_iirr.si.ou' - . - I .Send money by check. draft, money-or. mm W‘ one . . g V All 1 I Iv del- orrregi' stored letter. . y; .2503 .~ - - ~ $..+5 i “e 0 a I 'I'_O i ‘07- ‘\.. 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